Leavitt & Co.: CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE PRIVATE LIBRARY, COMPRISING AN EXTENSIVE AND SELECT COLLECTION OF CHOICE BOOKS, IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, Embracing Fine London Editions of the Best Standard Works, and an immense number of Rare, Curious, and Recherche Boo, 18590516,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 16, 1859 - May 16, 1859
Page Size: 5010 items in 51 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4090 Drake (Dr. Nathan) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare and his times Lond.

1817

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4091 Fairholt (F. W.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Stories of Shakspeare N. Y.

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4092 Fletcher (Geo.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Dramatic studies of Shakspeare Lond.

1854

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4093 Griffith (Mrs.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Morality of Shakspeare's drama Dub.

1777

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4094 SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Ireland's Shakspeare papers Lond.

1796

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4095 Jackson (Z.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare's genius justified Lond.

1819

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4096 Knight (Charles) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Studies of Shakspeare Lond.

1851

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4097 Knight (Charles) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare, a Biography Lond.

1851

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4098 Miss and Charles Lamb. SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Lamb's Tales from Shakspeare

1850

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4099 Montagu (Mrs. Elizabeth) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Essay on the writings and genius of Shakspeare Lond.

1777

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4100 Price (T.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Wisdom and genius of Shakspeare Philad.

1889

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4101 SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Religious and moral sentences culled from the works of Shakspeare compared with sacred passages drawn from Holy Writ Lond.

1843

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4102 SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Richardson's Philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakspeare's remarkable characters Philad.

1788

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4103 Seymour's (E. H.) SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Remarks, critical and explanatory, upon the plays of Shakspeare, from a collection of the early copies

1805

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4104 SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Shakspeare's library: a collection of the romances Lond.

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4105 SHAKSPEARIANA (see also STRATFORD):--Upton's Critical observations on Shakspeare Lond.

1746

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4106 Blacklock (A.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--On sheep N. Y.

1841

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4107 Morell (L. A.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--The American shepherd N. Y.

1846

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4108 SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Randall's Sheep husbandry Philad.

1848

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4109 Spooner (W. C.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--On diseases of sheep, &c. Lond.

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4110 SHELLEY'S (P. B.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Poetical works, essays, and letters Lond.

1847

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4111 SHELLEY'S (P. B.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Poems Lond.

1839

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4112 SHELLEY'S (P. B.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY'S (P. B.) Essays, letters, &c. Lond.

1845

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4112a SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHELLEY, Genius of Lond.

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4113 SHELLEY (Mrs.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Falkner, a novel N.Y.

1857

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4114 SHELLEY (Mrs.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--Lodore Brussels

1835

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4115 SHENSTONE (W.) SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHENSTONE (W.), Works in verse and prose Lond.

1765

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4117 SHEEP (see also AGRICULTURE):--SHEPPARD LEE, a novel N. Y.

1836

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4118 Lefanu (A.) SHERIDAN:--Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, her mother, and also of Rt. Hon. Richard B. Sheridan Lond.

1824

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4119 Moore (Thos.) SHERIDAN:--Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Lond.

1825

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4120 SHERWOOD (Mrs.) SHERIDAN:--SHERWOOD (Mrs.), Works of N. Y.

1855

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4121 SHERWOOD (Mrs.) SHERIDAN:--SHERWOOD (Mrs.), Life of Lond.

1856

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4122 SHERWOOD (Mrs.) SHERIDAN:--The De Cliffords Lond.

1838

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4123 Henry Watson SHIP-BUILDING:--Euler's (L.) Complete theory of the construction of vessels, with conclusions for the management of ships Lond.

1790

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4124 Moat (T.) SHORT-HAND:--Short-hand standard Lond.

1833

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4125 SHORT-HAND:--SHOEMAKERS, Lives of distinguished

1849

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4126 SIAM:--Neal's residence in Siam Lond.

1850

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4127 Atkinson (T. W.) SIBERIA:--Oriental and Western Siberia N. Y.

1858

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4128 Bartlett (W. H.) SICILY:--Pictures from Sicily Lond.

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4129 Smyth (W. H.) SICILY:--Memoir descriptive of the resources Lond.

1824

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4130 SIDNEY'S (Sir Philip) SICILY:--Works: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Lond.

1674

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4131 Dandolo (Count) SILKWORMS:--Art of rearing silkworms Lond.

1825

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4132 Vernon (W. H.) SILKWORMS:--On the mulberry-tree and silkworms Bost.

1828

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4133 SILKWORMS:--SIEGFRIED, The dragon-slayer Lond.

1848

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4134 SILLIMAN (Benj.) SILKWORMS:--Remarks made on a tour between Hartford and Quebec in the autumn of 1819 New Haven

1820

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4135 SILLIMAN (Aug.) SILKWORMS:--A gallop among American scenery, or sketches of scenes and adventures N. Y.

1848

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4136 SIMMS (W. G.) SILKWORMS:--Richard Hurdis Phil.

1838

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4137 SIMMS (W. G.) SILKWORMS:--Calavar, or the knight of the conquest Philad.

1834

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4138 SIMMS (W. G.) SILKWORMS:--SIMMS (W. G.), Novels, various N. Y.

1853

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4139 SIMMS (W. G.) SILKWORMS:--Views and reviews, &c.

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4140 SLAVERY:--Pro-slavery argument, containing essays by Chancellor Harper, Gov. Hammond, and Professor Den Bost.

1852

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4141 SLAVERY:--Substance of the report delivered by the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company in 1794 Philad.

1795

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4142 Thompson (Geo.) SLAVERY:--Reception of, in Great Britain Bost.

1836

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4143 Thompson (G.) SLAVERY:--Lectures on slavery Bost.

1836

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4143a Binns (E.) SLEEP:--Anatomy of sleep Lond.

1845

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4144 Philip (Dr. Wilson) SLEEP:--Inquiry into the nature of sleep and death Lond.

1834

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4145 SLEEP:--SMALL books on great subjects

1840

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4146 SMART'S (C.) SLEEP:--SMART'S (C.) Poems Reading

1791

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4147 SMITH'S (Charlotte) SLEEP:--Elegiac sonnets and other poems Lond.

1792

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4148 SMITH (C.) SLEEP:--Emeline, the orphan of the castle Lond.

1788

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4149 SMITH (C.) SLEEP:--Idem Lond.

1845

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4150 SMITH (Horace) SLEEP:--Zillah, a tale of the Holy Land Lond.

1839

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4151 SMITH (Horace and James) SLEEP:--Memoirs, letters, and comic miscellanies, prose and verse Philad.

1841

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4152 SMITH (Lady) SLEEP:--Memoir and correspondence of the late Sir Jas. Ed. Smith Lond.

1832

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4153 SLEEP:--SMITH'S Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology, and antiquities

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4154 SMITH (C. J.) SLEEP:--Historical and literary curiosities Lond.

1840

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4155 SLEEP:--SMITHSONIAN Institution, Reports of

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4156 SLEEP:--SMOLLETT'S works: Roderick Random, Humphrey Clinker, Peregrine Pickle, Launcelot Greaves, Count Fathom, Adventures of an atom, Travels, Plays, &c.

1845

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4157 SLEEP:--SMOLLETT'S works: Humphrey Clinker Lond.

1851

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4158 SMYTH (W.) SLEEP:--Lectures on modern history Bost.

1855

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4159 SOMERS'S (Lord) SLEEP:--Collection of scarce and valuable tracts on the most interesting subjects

1748

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4160 SOMERVILLE (Mrs.) SLEEP:--Connection of the physical sciences Lond.

1837

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4161 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Book of British ballads Lond.

1842

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4162 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Boyd's book of German ballads (in English verse) Lond.

1846

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4163 Coxe (A. C.) SONGS AND BALLADS:--Christian ballads N. Y.

1847

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4164 Cunningham's (Allan) SONGS AND BALLADS:--Songs of Scotland, ancient and modern Lond.

1825

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4165 SONGS AND BALLADS:--English Songs: book of Lond.

1850

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4166 P. P. Cooke SONGS AND BALLADS:--Froissart, Ballads of, and poems Phila.

1847

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4167 SONGS AND BALLADS:--German songs, book of Lond.

1856

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4168 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Horne's Ballad romances Lond.

1846

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4169 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Lockart's Ancient Spanish ballads Lond.

1856

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4170 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Mulchinock's Ballads and songs N.Y.

1851

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4172 SONGS AND BALLADS:--National song books Phila.

1842

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4173 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry Phila.

1856

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4174 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Pictorial book of ballads, traditional and romantic Lond.

1850

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4176 John Payne Collier, editor SONGS AND BALLADS:--Roxburghe ballads Lond.

1847

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4177 Richards (A.) SONGS AND BALLADS:--Minstrelsy of war Lond.

1854

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4178 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Skylark, The; being an elegant collection of the best and newest songs in the English language Lond.

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4179 Watts (J.) SONGS AND BALLADS:--Divine and moral songs, for the use of children Lond.

1850

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4180 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Clarke on the immortality of the soul

1778

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4181 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Controversy concerning the intermediate state and separate existence of the soul

1765

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4182 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Second thoughts concerning the human soul Lond.

1702

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4183 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Two treatises on bodies and the discovery of the immortality of the soul Lond.

1665

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4184 SONGS AND BALLADS:--Vindicie mentis Lond.

1712

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4185 Bordone (Benedetto) SOUTH AMERICA:--Libro di nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'Isole del mondo Vinegia

1528

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4186 Brown's (C.) SOUTH AMERICA:--Narrative of the expedition to South America in 1817 Lond.

1819

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4187 SOUTH AMERICA:--Caldcleugh, Travels in South America

1825

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4188 Coatinho (Bp. of Pernambuco) SOUTH AMERICA:--Essay on the commerce and products of the Portuguese colonies in South America Lond.

1808

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4189 Cockburn (John) SOUTH AMERICA:--Distresses and adventures of Lond.

1773

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4190 Coulter's (Dr. J.) SOUTH AMERICA:--Adventures on the Western Coast of South America and interior of California Lond.

1847

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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.