Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/691
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 Marie ANTOINETTE, Doc. s. “ Payez Marie Antoinette,” 1 p. large fol. Versailles, 1 Juillet, 1785; An Order to the Trésorier Général to pay certain sums to the Governor of her Pages for their entertainment and food, fine large signature Maris THERESE (Duchesse d’Augouléme) Daughter of Louis. XVI, Fine Doc. s. “ Marie Thérése ” as “* Madame of. France,” with | wax seal, 1 p. double fol. vellum, 26th December, 1814 McCieLtan (Genl. G. B.) Commander of the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War, A. L.s. 1p. 8vo (n. y.), to Mr. Offinsandt respecting an engagement to meet Cowper (William) A. L. s. 4 full pp. large fol. Olney, June 4 and 5, 1786, addressed to Lady Hesketh : He playfully chides her for not coming, she will not find him altered . a cloud perhaps may. cover me now and then for a few hours, but from clouds I never was exempted. He recalls his first meeting with her, describes at dinner at the Throckmorton’s’; is delighted that the ‘“ Task ”’ has so large a share of the approbation of her Suffolk friend. In fine condition, partly unpublished Krptine (Rudyard) A. L.s. 1p. sm. 8vo, Rottingdean, May 17, 1901, to Col. Cooper : He is much obliged to him for the trouble taken in regard to his wolf- boy. When people say that his Mowgli yarns are pure fiction, he can give them chapter and verse for his historical basis. Macauuay (Lord) Interesting A. L.s. 3 pp. 8vo, Albany, Nov. 21, 1854, respecting the Statue of James II erected by himself in the garden of his Palace at Whitehall Napotton I. L.s. “ Buonaparte,”’ $ p. 4to, Antibes le 16 prairial VAn 2d. as General of Artillery of the Army of Italy, to Citoien Berlier, ordering all bomb-fuses to be put at the dis- position of Citoien Sougés without losing an instant, early signature CROMWELL (Richard) Protector. Auto. Receipt signed Rich. Cromwell, 4p. obl. 8vo, Cheshunt, Octr. 2, 1707, for £10 from Thomas Pengelly, Esq. Lavater (Johann Kaspar) Swiss Minister and Physiognomist, Auto. MS.: “ Mélanges de Regles Physiognomiques, Manu- scrit pour des Amis, avec quelques Lignes characteristiques. Jere Centaine Pour le Profit des Pauvres. Respectez la misere et ce qui la soulage 1789,” consisting of title-page, preface, epilogue and 98 pp. (should be 100, nos. 58 and 66 wanting), crown 8vo, a number of pen-and-ink drawings, illustrative of the mouth, eye and nose, are on many pages, each within a wash border, enclosed in temporary solander case covered in leather for Madame de Stael [Add. 16403].
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