Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/70
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    merits and services, as I am sure, they deserve. I have at the same time been under some difficulty on the subject of including him in the Promotion of Post Captains, as well as entertained some doubts (as he must come in youngest) whether a separate advancement would not be full as honourable to him. I am however strongly impressed with the circumstances you state for his early advancement,”’ Ete. Wife of Ferdinand I (the Grand Duke, formerly a Cardinal). | LETTER SIGNED €INSITALIAN) TO -ARCHD UR LEO- POLED OF AUST RIAs I page, 4to. 5th May, 1621. With Seal. £2 10s Introducing her nephew Giulio de Medicis, Chamberlain to the Grand Duke, who is coming as her ambassador and representative to- gether with the Archduchess, her new daughter. BATTLE OF JOHANNESBURG. famous Statesman. Prominent in connection with the Great War. Served as Correspondent for the ‘‘ Morning Post ”’ in the Boer, War. AUTOGRAPH ‘MANUSCRIPT SIGNED OF HIS Fike SENT*:TO) (THE “*MORNING POST)’ DESCRIBING. Contained on 23 pp., 4to, and dated from Johannesburg, June Ist (1900). £10 10s Written in Churchill’s characteristic graphic and very brilliant style, descriptive of the Battle of Johannesburg fought on 29th May, Igoo, the British under Generals Ian Hamilton and French. The narrative commences : — ‘“ On the 24th May Ian Hamilton’s force, marching west from’ Lindley struck the railway and joined Lord Robert’s main column. The long marches unbroken by a day’s rest, the short rations to which the troops had been restricted, and the increasing exhaustion of horses and transport animals seemed to demand a halt. But a more imperious voice cried * Forward ’; and at daylight the march- stained Brigades set forth, boots worn to tatters, gun horses dying at the wheel, convoys struggling after in vain pursuit, ‘ Forward to the Vaal.’ ’’ Etc., et. The whole account is most entrancing reading; it concludes with a strong recommendation of the bayonet as a weapon of warfare. ‘‘ The bayonet is the most powerful weapon we possess out here. Fire-arms kill many enemy, but it is the white weapon that makes them run away. Rifles - can inflict the loss, but victory depends, for us at least, upon the bayonet.’’
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