Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/246
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    LoT 616—continued. (6) A full-dress Naval Button taken from Captain Cook’s uniform, and a Tusk from the necklace of a South Sea Islander brought from Polynesia by Captain Cook. (7) Part of one of Captain Cook’s printed Charts, mutilated remains of Commissions, Table of Logarithms belonging to Captain Cook, book-plate of Admiral Smyth (one of Cook’s officers), two early French Maps found amongst Cook’s papers, two books, one presented by Cook’s widow, the other with a copy of the Register of his birth, and photographs (11) of several of the above relics. (8) A small occasional folding teak table about the size of a card table when open, with straight taper legs and club-shaped feet. This table formed part of the cabin furniture of Captain J. Cook during all three of his voyages. It is very heavy for its size, and has on one side (when folded) several bolt holes apparently for securing it to the cabin wall when necessary. QUARTO. 617 Froissart. Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart, selected from the MS. in the Bibliothéque Royale, Paris, the British Museum, and from other sources, with Descriptive Text, 2 vol. morocco gilt, g.e. | W. Smith, 1845 618 ARpDEN oF FaversHamM. Tue | LAMENTABLE | AND TRUE TRAGEDY | OF Master ARDEN OF | FeversHAM IN Kent: | who was most wickedly murdered | by the meanes of his disloyall and wanton | wife, who, for the love she bare to one Mosley, | hired two desperate Ruffins, Blacke-Will, | and Shakebag, to kill him | ete. (36 I. including title, sigs. A-I), a PerFect anp Sounp Copy; russia by H. Faulkner, sm. 4to. Printed by E. Allde dwelling neere Christs-Church 1633 ** ‘THe EXCEEDINGLY RARE THIRD QUARTO EDITION of this interesting play which has been attributed to Shakespeare, and in which he was probably partly concerned. There is a full-page cut of the Murder of Arden, while playing backgammon, on reverse of title. The two earlier editions of the play are practically unobtainable. 619 Brsanr (Str W.) The Chaplain of the Fleet, THz COMPLETE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND TITLE ENTIRELY IN THE AUTHOR'S HANDWRITING, in a solander case *,.* Probably Besant’s best and most popular novel. 620 Harte (Bret) THE Boom or THE CALAVERAS CLARION, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of 5200 words on thirteen quarto pages, signed in full “ Brer Harte” [June 1898] 621 Harte (Bret) A TREASURE OF THE ReD WoOoDs, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of 6340 words on sixteen quarto pages, signed and dated in full “ Brev Harte, Aprit 24, ’97.” 622 Harrr (Bret) THREE PARTNERS, THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, on one hundred and twelve quarto pages, of this well-known story, signed and dated in full “ Brer Harte, ArrorD Housr, HEaAp.ey, Hants, 19TH May, ’96.”
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