Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
30 July-01 August 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/582
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    Lor 641—continued. Ruskin in praise of Gothic architecture, Wm. Bewick, F. Liszt, G. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, and numerous others, in a 4to album 642 Dickens (Charles) A.L.s. 1p. 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, May 26th (21840), to Sir George Cayley : If the Fates will keep themselves to themselves, until and on Mon- day the thirty First, Pll dine with you on that day. with fine signature; also franked envelope (2) 643 LAFAYETTE (Marquis de) Served in America, A. L. s.in English, 1 p. 4to, Aprzl, 1829, to the Due d’Allas, referring to the candidature of M. de Murat for an impending election 644 Rupert (Prince) Signed Commission on vellum, 1645, appoint- ing Thomas Preston to be Colonel of Foot, folio, with seal 645 LITERARY, etc., including Samuel Rogers, J. L. Lockhart, Mary Berry, Dean Sydney Smith, Amelia Opie, and others (27) ; and three black penny stamps, 1840, four blue 2d. and five red penny stamps, and a Newcastle under Lyme Bank Note, 1824 a parcel 646 Hunt (Leigh) “Look to your Morals,” an Afterpiece in two Acts [1842], a transcript of the final version of the play, containing title-page, dramatis persone, and numerous additions and corrections in the hand of Leigh Hunt, 54 pp. 4to 647 GorrnHe (J. W. von) A.L.s. “G” 1 p. 4to, Berne, 16 Oct. 1829 (to Privy Councillor Schultz), giving an interesting descrip- tion of his tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke of Weimar, laid down © 648 | NIGHTINGALE (Florence) Two A.L.s. 10 pp. 8vo, Hampstead, ie July—Sept. 1863, to Sir Robert Christison, the famous R 7 toxicologist, important letters dealing with Indian sanitary reform (2) 649 SUBMARINE Boat. A Series of Seventeen A. L.s., 1817-18, from “Captain” Thomas Johnson, a notorious smuggler and prison breaker, addressed to Lord Melville and others, relative to his claim for £25,000 for inventing a submarine vessel, with out-spoken comments by Lord Melville on the claim, letters of Sir Henry Torrens and others concerning Johnson a parcel 650 Wevuincron (Duke of) Correspondence. <A large Collection of Letters, Official Papers, etce., including a Memorandum 34 pp. folio, Horse Guards, August 28th, 1815, attached to a-MS. List of Officers recommended for honours after Waterloo, extending to 103 pp. folio; with numerous other Letters, Warrants, Accounts, during the Peninsular cam- paign, with Letters concerning the Tower of London, Dover
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