Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/123
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON SOCIALISM. 1336 ALBERT (PRINCE, 1819-1861). Consort of Queen Victoria. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO LORD BROUGHAM. 2pp., 4to. Buckingham Palace, 15th June, 1848. With addressed envelope. £5 5s Concerning the appointment of a Commission to enquire into the theory of socialism. Mentioning Robert Owen the socialist. 4 I commit neither Her Majesty nor myself to any expression of opinion apon the subject: matter. “T think . . . it is hardly by the appointment of a Commission to en- quire into the Theory of Socialism that we can hope to arrive at a satisfactory result, but that the nature of its principles could alone be tested by their practical adaptation. Such practical experiments have unfortunately hitherto been found to be exceedingly expensive to the Nation which tried them.’’ Etc. 1337 ALLINGHAM (WILLIAM, 1824-1889). Poet. AUTOGRAPHO); MANUSCRIPT’) SIGNED OP SA SPOEM ENTITLE DIYS REIOU REN OR THEE ORESA Consisting of 3 verses of Io lines each on I page, 8vo. Paris, 7th October, 1858. £1 10s The last line of this delightful poem reads :— ‘Waking eyes have nowhere seen Her that would beguile thee,— Draw thee on, till death of day, Through the dusk woods, far away.’’ 1338 ALOPAEUS (DAVID, '1769-1831). Finland Diplomatist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED UN FRENCH): 2 pp., 4to. Cassel, goth November, 1800. 7s 6d 13390 AMERICA. GEORGIA (1793). FIVE * DOCUMENTS SIGNED “BY ioe Ot Doha ee THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA. 10 pp., 4to and folio. 11th May, 17093. With Seal of the State of Georgia attached to each document. £21 Granting a thousand acres of land in Washington County, Georgia, to Israel Robinson. Edward Telfair was Colonial Governor of the State of ect He was a member of the Continental Congress and also a signer of the Articles of Confederation.
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