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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![761 762 763 764 765 766 767 WHISTLER (J. A. McNeill) A Note, with butterfly signature, 1 p. 8vo, to Walter Sickert : Try and give sittings to Madame Renoy’s little boy—Capital head for your class—Send him on to Prof. Ford Brown—and please me. with envelope and signed note “ For Madame Renoy, wishing to return to her people in England ” (3) Other Properties. FERDINAND V of Aragon; Patron of Columbus. Doc. s. 30 Augt. 1492, 4 p. large folio, on paper, in Spanish, with very fine impression of the great seal TANNEGUY DU CHASTEL, Warrior, companion of St. Joan of Arc. Doc. s. “ Tanguy,” oblong folio, vellum 1448 Napotton I. L. s. “ Bonaparte,” 1 p. grd. folio, An V | [20 Sep. 1797], as Commander of the Army of Italy, to Chef de Brigade Moreau, praising him for his courage and ability in command of the Grenadiers. With a superb vignette at the head, after Appiani. A small portion of the document has been replaced in lower left margin, damaging one letter of the text Newtson (Horatio) L. s. ‘“ Horatio Nelson, Vanguard Sept. 7th, 1798,” 1 p. 4to, in Italian, sending a list of the French vessels taken or destroyed at the Battle of the Nile on the Ist of August, and asking his excellency to be good enough to forward a letter to the first English man-of-war which reaches Syracuse James I. L. s. as King of Scotland, 1 p. grd. folio, with fine seal, 10th day of October, 1585, countersigned by James Stewart, the Laird of Gray and Dryburgh : Understanding that our lovitt Johnne Bresbaine of Bischoptoun is well past the age of three score and ten yere is corpulent and subiect to divers deseases and infirmities of body and unable to endure the travail and paines requisite in ower affaires without appareand dangear to his life, etc., he is excused from military service. CLINTON (Sir Henry) Commander-in-Chief in North America 1778. Plan, in water-colours, for the attack on Bunker’s Hill, June 17th, 1775, endorsed “ For final Report,” and signed “ H. Clinton, Maj.-Gen.,” with a similar plan of Fort No. 37, measuring 7iin. by 9in., and 5fin. by 82in. respectively, with a stipple portrait of Clinton by Bartolozzi after Smart, 1780. . The three items mounted in one frame, glazed—Cooper (The Revd. T.) History of North and South America, 2 vols, with illustrations of the Battle of Bunker’s Hill and other incidents in the war, 12mo, calf, 1789](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31645501_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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