Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/78
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    713 CAPELLO (BIANCA, 1542-1587). Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Cruel Venetian Adventuress. LETTER SIGNED (IN ITALIAN) TO RAFFAELLO MEDICI. I page, 4to. Pratolino, 6th June, 1587. £7 10s (Trans.) :—‘‘ We were pleased at what passed between you and Tmola touching the question of the Ambassador of Ferrara, and if a remedy is not there provided, the Ambassador must complain on his own account, should one thing or another occur to displease him.”’ Ete. 714 [CARLOS (DON, 1545-1568).] Son of Philip II of Spain. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE . TO>S9HE INPAR Gi CARLOS AS HEIR APPARENT TO THE THRONE OF SPAIN. 3 pps, folio.” C. 1550. 10s 6d 715 CARLYLE (JANE WELSH, 1801-1866). Wife of Thomas Carlyle, the Essayist and Historian. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MR. FAME. 3 pp., 8vo. Cheyne Row, 12th February, N.y. £7 10s A very fine and amusing letter from Mrs. Carlyle on the adulteration of milk. “. 6.) )6~ What would you think of a Dairyman? That combines the pastoral which is favourable to virtue, with the profitable which helps to a house, a wife and all other desiderata. ‘ No mortal could believe without having tried it’ as our milk-boy told my maid—‘ all the profit that lies in one pitcher of milk’! (with a pump to fall back cn of course). You should have my custom to begin with, not only from personal friendship, but that the individual who has supplied me for ten years has got into the way of selling a milk which consists two thirds of Thames water and a pink coloured powder, at the same time calling on ‘ his Maker’ in one of whose dissenting churches he is an elder, to strike him dead if it be not precisely as it comes from the cow!’ ’”’ Ete. 716 CARLYLE (THOMAS, 1795-1881). Essayist and Historian. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 24 pp., 8vo. Chelsea, 25th April, 1845. £12 10s ‘‘T am happy to apprise you the Schiller Portrait has arrived at last: an excellent Copy in Pencil from the best (and as appears the only good) Portrait there is of him in Germany. I have an autograph also, and a Medal and a Medallion :—in that the tendencies of a proper likeness are here; and I will beg of you to take pains and get a right artist to manage the engraving (for the credit of the country); and with all the despatch that is possible too.’? Ete.
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