Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 July 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/866
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    129/150 page 97
    4G x eo 10, 586 587 588 589 Roman and Old English, with graceful flourishes, signed on the title-leaf : ‘‘ Anthony Blinkhorn, Scripsit, 1735,” 43 folios, obl. 4to, calf, 1735 “Notes sur la Cosmographie et la Géographie,” 8 pp. 4to, contains references to Africa, America, les terres Australes,” the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson’s and Baffin’s Bays, the Cape of Good Hope, Florida, Davis Straits, the Straits of Magellan, California, Rivers St. Lawrence and Mississippi, Philadelphia, Boston, ete. 1790 Congress, Auto. MS. Autobiography in the form of an A. L. s. 8 pp. 4to, San Francisco, 1 June, 1877, to B. P. Poore 80 pp. sm. folio, half brown morocco (1780-90), including lines written when at Mr. Cossar’s writing school, Auto. First Draft of a paper for the last number of The Mwrror—upon its ‘’ Death,” with auto. corrections ; On the Succession of Minds : John Home, Auto. mentioning Franklin, Akenside, Garrick, etc. (an account edition of Home’s Works) ; Character of Mr. Pitt (Auto.) ; Intro- duction and Conclusion to George Rose’s “Remarks on the History of Great Britain by Mr. Fox” (Auto.) ; Note as to Mr. Logan’s Poetical Works (Auto. signed) Mackenzie’s House at Nairn, 26 July, 1753, endorsed by Henry Mackenzie: ‘‘ Memorandum—Mr. Robert Adam about my father’s House at Nairn—the first private House he ever planned,” together with the plan of the house (coloured) drawn by Adam with his auto. notes, 3 pp. folio, rare 133 Letters and Transcripts, over 500 pp. folio, aly morocco 1560-1589 Medicis, stating that the Sieur de Rostain will give her the account of his journey. Her letters give him such great pleasure and he desires them more frequently. He awaits from day to day some good result of her voyage Archbishop of Aix, relating to the Convocation at Blois—the Convocation met on 16 October and failing to prevail against the Leaguers, Henri III assassinated its leader, Henri de Lorraine, the Duc de Guise H PD Yee
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