Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
18 November 1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/823
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    239 240 242 243 244 245 35 SIZES MIXED [Watpor (Horace) | Two Letters, third person, in a secretary’s hand, to Mr. Gough; and Two A. I..s. from George Hardinge to Walpole (4) Warpote (H.) A superb A. L. s. 6 pp. 4to, Strawberry Hill, Oct. 27, 1783 [to Governor Thomas Pownall], thanking him for the pamphlet On the Character and Privileges of Sir Robert Walpole. A most interesting letter, wherein Walpole attempts to vindicate his father’s character WaLpoue (H.) A. L. s. 24 pp. 4to, Feb. 24, 1762, to Dr. Ducarel : ... I have not said that real Lions were originally Leopards—I have said that Lions in arms, that is painted Lions, were Leopards, and it is a fact and no inaccuracy. Paint a Leopard yellow and he becomes a Lion I am much annoyed at Vertue’s blunders about my marriage of Henry 7th. His account is a heap of ridiculous contradictions. {Wauro.e (H.)| Ten Auto. Notes by Dr. Ducarel, concerning Wal- pole’s Anecdotes of Painting.—KirGaTE (F.) A. 1. s. Strawberry Hill, 1790, correcting a statement in Bib. Top. Brit. that Walpole wishes to be corrected (11) WESTMINSTER. An interesting Collection of Printed Papers and MSS. connected with the City of Westminster and neighbourhood, arranged in a 4to album, hal bound WHITEFIELD (GEoRGE) A VERY FINE A. L.s. “G. W.” wRITTEN FROM AMERICA, Charles-Town, Sept. 4, 1738, to Mr. Woodruff, at Savannah. An exhortation to repent and seek Salvation Wuiraeirr (John) Archbishop of Canterbury. A. L. s. 1 p. folio, Lambeth, April. 1602, to John Boys, Dean of Canterbury, com- plaining of the conduct of the Mayor; with Eight A. L. s. of the same, concerning butchers killing flesh in Lent ; Appointments in the County of Kent ; ete. (9) END OF SALE.
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