Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/726
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    166 HeERscneEn (Sir J. W.) A. Les pp. 8vo [31 May, 1826], to Dr. Rigby respecting his father’s MS. concerning the phenomena of coloured-shadows, but he does not consider the experi- ments-Sufficiently important to communicate to the Royal Society 167 Desaix (General L. C. A.) LL. s. “Desaix,” 14 pp. large folio, Michaud, Army of the Rhine: When I announced that the Austrians were in the Tréves country they knew that we were masters of this town (Schifferstatt); they have gone there to hinder an invasion on our part. You know me well enough to realise that nothing pleases me better than to advance. Give me orders to advance, etc., etc. Che Property of a Gentleman. 168 STATESMEN, including William Pitt, A. L. s. 14 pp. 4to, Burton m= Pynsent, 1798, reporting the arrival of the French in Ireland at Killalla [szc] and the sending of troops to Ireland ; Lord North (2), Lord Grenville (2), George Canning and others (24 Doe. s., Versailles, 27 Sept., 1784; Marshal le Duc de Bell- isle, L.s. 2 pp. folio, Metz, July, 1750; Cardinal Poliquac, Deeds, 15th-17th Cent. (8) f). 170P Bisnop (Sir H. R.), Huxley, Faraday, Brewster, Humphrey =< Davy, Cardinals Wiseman, Newman and Manning, Pusey, Keble, Benjamin Jowett and others a parcel 171 LivTERARyY, including Edward Lear, A. L. s. 4 pp. 8vo, 1880’; Haliburton, Charles Reade (2), Ainsworth, Pierce Egan, George Colman, Charles Lever and others (12) 172 Cartes II, Doc. s., 1683; Field-Marshal Conway, A. L. s., 1788 ; Admiral Sir John Warren, Commission, signed, 1813 ; George III, Letter of Marque against France, signed by Lord Arden ; William III, Commission for Proroguing Parliament, signed by the Duke of Marlborough, and cthers (14) 173. Conran (Joseph) L. s., ordering books from a catalogue ; Chas. Kingsley, ]ord Macaulay (2), T. Arnold of Rugby, Victor ‘ Hugo, Sir Richard F. Burton, Tom Moore (3), John Ruskin (6), Theodore Hook, Sir Walter Scott, 4p. of MS., and others a parcel
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