Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    777 STAEL (MADAME DE, 1766-1817). The famous French Writer. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF A PORTION OF A DRAFT OF AN ESSAYION @1DEES (PROVERDIALS Ss }-page, 4to. £1 1s 778 STANHOPE (LADY HESTER LUCY, 1776-1839).- The Eccentric Niece of William Pitt. Lived as an Oriental in Syria from 1812 till her death. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 8 pages,.4to. 3rd September, 1815. — a £5 5s A long letter regarding Arab cures for certain illnesses. Andina postscript referring to the capture of Bonaparte. ‘‘T have just heard of Bonaparte being captured and sent to England. Are the English mad? Will the French army ever be quiet while he exists? and if we take upon ourselves to try bad kings, we shall have enough to do. What will become of the King of Spain and that restored Tom Fool the King of Naples ?’’ 779 STANHOPE (LADY HESTER LUCY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 9 pages, folio. Dated from the Convent on Mount Lebanon which was ceded to her by the Pasha of Acre. 18th May, 1814. £5 5s A very interesting letter regarding her terrible illness, and giving her correspondent particulars of her researches. She has with great trouble and expense procured the recipe for making the serpent stone which she thinks might be useful in the plague, which is, at the time of writing, in every town in Syria and in many of the villages, only the interior of Lebanon excepted. She has experimented with the stone on a young boy victim, and he is completely cured. Also regard- ing some remarkable fish which render the water dangerous for any man to drink, for he becomes positively mad for women, and referring to the difficulty of obtaining specimens. . ‘She, herself, has secured three, as she is upon such good terms with everybody that she does just as she pleases. uc
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