Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTSCOMPRISINGThe Property of the Royal college of PhysiciansThe property of the Artists' SocietyThe Property of the Rt. Hon. Discount EmlynThe Property of H. S. Hudson, Esq.The Property of Major S. N. C. WebbThe Property of Dr. S. E. L. Morris, B. Sr., M.B.The Property of the late C. K. Ogden, Esq., WILSON,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
Page Size: 654 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
568 Maria Theresia Autograph memorandum

USD - Not Sold
569 Frederick I, Frederick II Docs and Ls.s.

USD - Not Sold
570 Alexander von Humboldt Interesting A.L.s. Bayreuth

22 February, 1797

 USD - 67.20
571 Andreas Hofer Docs. Innsbruck

30 September 1809

 USD - Not Sold
572 J. C. Friedrich von Schiller A.L.s. Jena

26 January 1798

 USD - 252.00
573 Wilhelm Carl Grimm A.L.s. Cassel

30 August 1819

 USD - 42.00
574 Otto von Bismark A.L.s. Varzin

22 September 1872

 USD - Not Sold
575 Adolf Hitler Small collection comprising: autograph doc.s.

USD - 322.00
576 Sir Edmund Gosse Interesting Series of 11 A.Ls.s. (including a postcard and two lettercards)

USD - 39.20
577 Thomas J. Wise Interesting Series of 29 letters

USD - 392.00
578 T. J. Wise A Browning Library

1929

 USD - 42.00
579 George Gordon Byron One leaf

USD - 95.20
580 William Wordsworth A.L.s.

16 May, 1836

 USD - 28.00
581 Charlotte Bronte Fine A.L.s. Haworth

17 December [1849]

 USD - 252.00
582 Charles Dickens Fine A.L.s. Devonshire Terrace

6 March, 1841

 USD - 420.00
583 Charles Dickens Interesting A.L.s. Devonshire Terrace

19 July, 1842

 USD - 210.00
584 Charles Dickens A.L.s. (initials) Devonshire Terrace

13 January, 1844

 USD - 308.00
585 Charles Dickens Characteristic A.L.s. Gad's Hill Place

2 August, 1857

 USD - 252.00
586 Charles Dickens Characteristic A.L.s.

26 October, 1869

 USD - 168.00
587 Charles Darwin A.L.s.

USD - 14.00
588 Thomas Carlyle Characteristic A.L.s. Chelsea

23 March, 1844

 USD - 98.00
589 Thomas Carlyle A.L.s. Chelsea

6 June, 1859

 USD - 39.20
590 W. M. Thackeray Characteristic A.L. (in his sloping hand) Jermyn St.

11 March, [1844]

 USD - 196.00
591 W. S. Landor A.L.s Warwick Crescent

20 Dec, 1864

 USD - 67.20
592 H. W. Longfellow A.L.s. Cambridge

3 July, 1876

 USD - 106.40
593 Hablot K. Browne Watercolour Drawing of a fat and elderly lady on the beach running from the tide

USD - 16.80
594 W. E. Gladstone Fine A.L.s. Colonial Office

8 January, 1846

 USD - 33.60
595 David Livingstone A.L.s.

10 December, 1863

 USD - 78.40
596 Charles George Gordon Fine Series of 15 A.Ls.s. (in French)

USD - 560.00
597 Michael Faraday Fine A.L.s.

6 September, 1832

 USD - 78.40
598 Charles Darwin Two A.Ls.s

USD - 98.00
599 Sir Charles Lyell 2 A.Ls.s.

1837

 USD - 44.80
600 Scientists

USD - 140.00
601 Explorers

USD - 56.00
602 Historical

USD - 50.40
603 Artists

USD - 70.00
604 Literary

USD - 252.00
605 Sir Walter Scott Collection of A.L s.s. from Sir Walter Scott

USD - 140.00
606 Garibaldi Collection of A.Ls.s. from Garibaldi

USD - 308.00
607 Miscellaneous

USD - 16.80
608 Literary

USD - 168.00
609 Musicians

USD - 33.60
610 Cartulary of the Kay family of Woodsom England

USD - 182.00
611 Robert Davenport Pollicy without Piety too subtle to be sound

[circa 1642]

 USD - 840.00
612 Jamaica

USD - 168.00
613 John Kay Autograph Manuscript Commonplace Book containing original verse interspersed with accounts and memoranda concerning the management of his household and estate

USD - 672.00
614 Sir John Kay Seven manuscript poems in English addressed to him

[circa 1640-1662]

 USD - 182.00
615 John Kay A Garden Posey of the herbe tyme

[circa 1580]

 USD - 504.00
616 Medical Recipe Book England (Nottinghamshire)

circa 1630-1

 USD - 210.00
617 Thomas Percy Fine Series of 5 A.Ls.s.

USD - 238.00
618 Poem

USD - 44.80
619 Poetical

USD - 336.00
620 Poetical

USD - 616.00
621 Edward Wright Certain Errors of Navigation

[circa 1610]

 USD - 126.00
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