Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16-18 February 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    ZO 3594)Dpp (John) An important Alchemical Manuscript, written nn in English and Latin, treating on the transmutation of metals, the search for the Elixir of Life, etc. and entitled “Practica et Accurtaciones Georgii Ryplay et Raimundi (Lullii),” signed four times with the initials “J.D.” extending to over 100 pp. (the last few evidently written at a later date), sm. 4to, bound in the leaves of an early printed book ENGLISH, XVI CENT. ** Probably in the hand of John Dee, both portions of the | Manuscript, though in a somewhat different script, bear very distinct resemblances to the varied handwriting of ee: 360 Hupson’s Bay. Transactions between England and France relating to Hudson’s Bay, 1687. An Official MS. of 85 pp. folio, vellum, with arms of the Hudson Bay Company on sides, 18th Cent. 361 Rocu (Hieron) His Journal of some Remarkable Voyages and Adventures at Sea in the years 1665-7, 188 pp. 8vo, describ- ing the grand Engagements or Fights between the English and Hollanders with some petit skirmishes between ye English and French which happened in those tymes, etc., with a number of water-colour sketches of ships, 8vo, calf ail 362 Dr Quincey (Thomas) A. L.s. 3 pp. 8vo, near Lasswade, Dec. 24, n. y.: . at Bath I learned every fraction of such classical knowledge as I possessed in my youthful days, and laid the foundations of any subsequent attainments which I made at Oxford . 363 FRENCH MARSHALS, GENERALS, ETC., including Bourienne, Macdonald, Dupont, Moreaux, Custine, Pille, and numerous others (about 86) 364 NAVAL, including Admirals Calder, Pococke, Parker, Hotham, Parry, Hardy, Pye, Pakenham, Byng, etc. (50) /o 365] MEDICAL, including Charles Taylor, W. H. Wollaston, J. L. a Caspar, G. St. Hilliare, ete. (18) | RP ARS EXPLORERS, a collection of 12; Inventors (10); ARTISTS (26) en eS (48) 367 Lirerary. Wordsworth (W.) A. L. (signature cut away) ; Talfourd (Francis), J. S. Mill, A. A. Watts, H. de Vere ; o 7 Stacpoole, and others a parcel a 368 | Speke (J. H.) African Explorer, Discoverer of the sources of TTT the Nile, Pen any ink sketch map of the River Kingani, signed, iMoney Lidin. by 143 in.—Leipnitz(G. W.) A. lL. s. 2 pp. 4to, 1712 eee five ese (7) a. 369 | Livinasronrk (David) A. L. s. 4 pp. 8vo, Camberlee, Nile, a 30 Octr. 1865, to Captain Lucas referring to transport diffi- culties
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