Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/171
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    163 NEWTON (SIR ISAAC). Method how to use the Tincture of Sol, about 600 words on 3 pages; A medicine to clear the eye sight; To extract the tincture of Coral; To extract fixed salt of Amber. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. About 600 words on 2 pages. Also other recipes (not in Newton’s hand). £31 10s 164 NEWTON (SIR ISAAC). Notes on sublimation: the stone, the tincture, etc. (in Latin). AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. About 1500 words on 6 pages. Sm. 4to. &25 165 NEWTON (SIR ISAAC). PETITION OF THE SEVEN BISHOPS. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 1 page, folio. £10 10s 166 NEWTON (SIR ISAAC). “ROSARIO MAGNO” (Notes and Abstracts). AUTOGRAPH MANU- SCRIPT. About 750 words on 13 pages. £10 10s 167 [NEWTON (ISAAC) ]. HAWES (NATHANIEL). Treasurer of Christ’s Hospital. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ISAAC NEWTON. 4 page, folio. Christ’s Hospital, 29th May, 1694. £8 10s In 1694 Newton drew up a reformed method of mathematical study for Christ’s Hospital, and this letter thanks Newton for the great benefit he has bestowed on the hospital. ‘* Your letters and paper, both by the Carrier and post are safe come to hand, wherin you have taken soe great paines & care, and expressed soe great kindnes withal, as could not have bin expected from anybody of les candour & ingenuity than Mr. Newton, nor could anything les than soe great an advantage to our house and the publique as your advisor wil amount to have animated you wth. soe much courage & patience. . . . ‘“Tho this Il”. is of very smal & inconsiderable accompt, if compared with the satisfaction of your owne mind to have soe greatly contributed to soe useful & beneficial a science, or with the thanks that are due, and wil most assuredly be render’d you by our General Court soe soone as an opportunity shal be offer’d.”’ 168 NEY (MICHEL, Duc d'Elchingen, 1769-1815). Famous Napoleonic Marshal. Executed for Treason. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 14 ‘pp., folio.. Erfurt, 23rd. April,.1613. &7 10s Requesting a Government post for a protégé. (Trans.):—‘‘ I have received the letter which you were good enough to write me on March 16th, relating to the demand for a surveyor’s scheme in the collective rights which I begged you to obtain for M. Simenard, a former officer on my staff. Although I do not know up to what point of severity the rule of advancement, of which your Excellency speaks, must be followed, I hope that distinguished services performed before my eyes, & known talents may merit an exception in favour of the person that I again recommend to you.” Ete.
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