Sales catalogue 623: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/160
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 623: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EE EO ee ON SOCIALISM. 229 WALLACE (ALFRED RUSSEL, born 1823). — Naturalist and Author. President of the Land Nationalisation Society, and anti-Vaccinationist. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO REV. CHARLES GIRDLE- STONE, BIBLICAL COMMENTATOR. 4. pp., 8vo. Godalming, 22nd January, 1888. £1 10s ‘© T never imagined that you wanted to force on Socialism against the will of the majority—but (as you see afterwards) I object quite as much to its being forced on a minority. This you don’t understand, but to me, to prevent me from working for myself and exchange the produce of my work, & force me to work for the com- munity is a gross interference with my personal liberty equivalent to slavery, & as much beyond the proper sphere of government as is the compelling people to have their children vaccinated, to go to Church on Sunday, etc., etc.”? Etc. Or DUTCH INTEREST. 230 WALPOLE (HORATIO, 1st LORD, 1678-1757). Diplomatist. A LENGTHY LETTER SIGNED AND ‘SUBSCRIBED (IN FRENCH) TO MONSIEUR HOP. 3 pp., 4to. Fontainebleu, 12th September, 1720. £1 10s Written whilst British Ambassador to France, concerning differences between Holland and the French Company of the Indies touching the Fort of Arguin and the commerce of Porto d’Arco. 231 WARBURTON (WILLIAM, 1698-1779). Bishop of Gloucester. Friend and Literary Executor of Alexander Pope. Published an Edition of Shakespeare. A VERY LENGTHY LETTER SIGNED, AND SUBSCRIBED, ADDRESSED IN HIS AUTOGRAPH ‘‘ TO MR. WHITFIELD.”’ 30 pp., 4to. Oth December, 1737. £2 2s This voluminous letter is really a clever discourse on the doctrine of Regeneration and New Birth, the writer dissenting in his views from Whitfield. 232 WARD (SETH. 1617-1689). Bishop of Salisbury, also an Astronomer and Mathematician. President of Trinity College, Oxford. Severe against Dissenters. Chancellor of the Garter. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THOMAS, VISCOUNT OSBORNE, LORD HIGH TREASURER. 1 full page, folio. gth July, 1673. £2 10s Written as Chancellor of the Garter; congratulating Viscount Osborne.
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