Sothebys: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. INCLUDING, BOOKS ON NATURAL HISTORY INCLUDING BONAPARTE'S Iconographie despigeons, 1857; JAUME SAINT-HILAIRE'S Plantes de la France, 1808-09; LEVAILLANT'S Oiseaux d'Afiique, , 1972(Eden),

Auction Details

Auction Date
October 23, 1972 - October 23, 1972
Page Size: 544 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 GEORGE IV (King of England) A. L.s. ("George P R") written nine days after his installation as Regent, 1 page, 4to, Carlton House, 14 February 1811, to an unnamed Duchess Carlton House

14 February 1811

GBP - 45.00
402 WILLIAM IV (King of England) ROYAL JEWELLERY. DESIGN FOR A PRESENTATION BRACELET

GBP - 30.00
403 WILLIAM IV (King of England) AUTOGRAPH WRITING BOOK

GBP - 60.00
404 WILLIAM IV (King of England) A.L.s. as Duke of Clarence...

GBP - 28.00
405 VICTORIA (Queen of England) Early Doc.s. ("VR"), granting a licence to a petitioner to engage Sir Frederick Pollock given at Kensington

22 June 1837

GBP - 42.00
406 COMMISSIONS. Collection of Eight Commissions granted to Sir John Morillyon Wilson (1783-1868), Commandant of the Royal Hospital

(1783-1868)

GBP - 55.00
407 PITT (WILLIAM, the younger) A.L.s. 2 pages, 4to, Burton Pynsent, 28 August 1798, to an unnamed lord Burton Pynsent

28 August 1798

GBP - 38.00
408 PRIME MINISTERS. Collection of original letters from Lord NORTH (L.s., 1774, concerning parliamentary patronage)...

GBP - 28.00
409 NOBILITY, Collection of A.Ls.s. mostly addressed to Sir Augustus Foster, plenipotentiary to the United States, by Lords CHESTERFIELD (1783, arguing for support of the Loyalists)...

GBP - 10.00
410 COWELL (ARTHUR H., born in Mannhein at 7.20 a.m. on 26 December 1834, pupil at Eton, Foreign Office official) INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH PRIVATE JOURNAL IN FIVE VOLUMES mainly for the years 1842-1856 (some gaps)

GBP - 90.00
411 LIVERPOOL (JENKINSON, ROBERT BANKS, second Earl of, 1770-1828, statesman, prime minister 1812-27, promoter of the international prohibition of the slave trade) SLAVE TRADE. A. L.s. 3 1/2 pages, 4to, Fife House, 2 February 1815, TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE Fife House

2 February 1815

GBP - 30.00
412 NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) EARLY A.L.S. ("F.N.") and 4 pages of an A.L. (possibly never concluded), 8 pages, 8vo, in all, Matlock, 31 January [1851] and London, 28 February 1851, to Mrs. Colyar Matlock, and London

31 January [1851] 28 February 1851

GBP - 80.00
413 KEBLE (JOHN) A.L.S., 4 pages, 8vo, Hursley Vicarage, 23 June 1864, to the Reverend W. E. Heygate Hursley Vicarage

23 June 1864

GBP - 35.00
414 NAPOLEONIC WAR AT SEA. 15 original casualty lists

GBP - 35.00
415 NELSON (HORATIO) Fine A.L.s. written with his right hand...

GBP - 240.00
416 NELSON (HORATIO, Viscout, admiral) Doc. s., addressed to Rear Admiral (later Admiral Sir) John Duckworth

GBP - 100.00
417 NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, admiral) L.s., 1 page, folio, Palermo, 29 August 1799, to the Senior Naval Officer at Port Mahon (Minorca), ordering him to provide ships if required by Sir James St. Clair Erskine Palermo

29 August 1799

GBP - 85.00
418 NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, admiral) A.L.s., 1 page, 4to, Palermo, 4 September 1799, to the Commanding Officer of H.M. Ships Gibraltar and off Cadiz Palermo

4 September 1799

GBP - 85.00
419 NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, admiral) A.L.s., 4 pages, 4to, Port Mahon (Minorca), 14 October 1799, to Rear-Admiral (later Admiral Sir) John Thomas Duckworth... Port Mahon (Minorca)

14 October 1799

GBP - 160.00
420 NELSON (HORATIO, Viscount, Admiral) A.L.s., 1 page, 4to. Victory, "Janry 17th 1 PM" [1804], to Captain Keats Victory

"Janry 17th 1 PM" [1804]

GBP - 60.00
421 PARKER (Sir WILLIAM, Admiral) ROYAL NAVY. Five A.Ls.s., 17 1/2 pages, 4to and folio, "Prince George" at Gibraltar, Greenwich, Portsmouth and Ham, 17 March 1799-27 October 1802, to Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth...

GBP - 50.00
422 KING, LEWIS JOHN, drummer. First Battalion First Foot Guards WATERLOO CAMPAIGN. semi-literate A.L.s., 3 pages, folio, Camp before Paris, 27 July 1815, to his mother Camp before Paris

27 July 1815

GBP - 70.00
423 BRACEURIDGE (CHARLES HOLTE, d. 1872, of Atherstone Hall near Coventry, friend and companion of Florence Nightingale at Scutari and Balaclava) CRIMEAN WAR. Two A.Ls.s., 8 pages, 8vo, Scutari, 7 and 28 January 1855, to Mrs. Colyar at Pisa Scutari

7 and 28 January 1855

GBP - 65.00
424 STANLEY (Sir HENRY MORTON, explorer) Splendidly indignant A.L.s., 3 1/2 pages, 8vo, 46 Fleet Street, London, 25 August 1872, written in the year of his return from Africa, to an unnamed correspondent Fleet Street, London

25 August 1872

GBP - 220.00
425 LIVINGSTONE (DAVID) Conclusion of an A.L.s., 1 page, 8vo, hoping that God will prolong his correspondent's life and usefulness

GBP - Not Sold
426 RECIPES. Attractive mid-seventeenth century recipe book in four sections: (1) "Physicall Receites"...

GBP - 38.00
427 RICHARDSON (RICHARD, 1663-1741, botanist and antiquary) Indignant A.L. (signature missing) 3 pages, small 8vo, University College, Oxford, 20 April, 1711, to his father Dr. Richardson ("ye best friend I have") University College, Oxford

20 April, 1711

GBP - 22.00
428 YOUNG (ARTHUR, 1741-1820, agriculturalist and author of "Travels in France") L.s., 1 page, 4to, Bradfield Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, 9 August 1814, to his publisher Bradfield Hall, Bury St. Edmunds

9 August 1814

GBP - 8.00
429 CALLIGRAPHY. William Toovey's autograph arithmetical rule and exercise book with an elaborately penned title-page and fine pen work on almost every leaf

1725/6

GBP - 30.00
430 CABBALA. "Beschreibung einiger Wissenschaften"

1802

GBP - 40.00
431 "GNOMONICA Fundamentalis et Me[c]hanica", a treatise on the gnomon or sundial

[late eighteenth century]

GBP - 50.00
432 GREGORY (Dr. JAMES, 1753-1821, professor of medicine at Edinburgh University) MEDICAL. 2 A.Ls.s., a long autograph paper of medical observations and directions signed, and autograph prescriptions signed with initials St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh

7 March 1802

GBP - 50.00
433 LAWSON (HENRY, F.R.S., astronomer) [ROBERTS (RICHARD, engineer and inventor, 1789-1864)] A.L.s., 2 pages, 4to, Hereford, 6 October 1840, to Richard Roberts Hereford

6 October 1840

GBP - 60.00
434 SHARP (GRANVILLE, 1735-1813) Revised draft of part of his On the Law of Nature (published 1777) written and revised in the same scribal hand

late eighteenth-century

GBP - 6.00
435 MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPT entitled "A New and Comprehensive System of Algebra

[late eighteenth or early nineteenth century]

GBP - 25.00
436 DARWIN (CHARLES) A.L.S., 3 pages, 8vo, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 5 May 1880, to a cousin (possibly Hensleigh Wedgewood, 1803-1891, philologist) Down, Beckenham, Kent

5 May 1880

GBP - 130.00
437 STEVENSON (ROBERT, 1772-1850, civil engineer, engineer to the Scottish Lighthouse Board) HIGHLY IMPORTANT A.L.S. ABOUT HIS MOST CELEBRATED PROJECT, THE BELL ROCK TOWER

GBP - 300.00
438 SCIENTISTS. A.LS.S. by MICHAEL FARADAY (1861, thanking Mrs. Walter Fawcett for her gift of Japanese candles)

GBP - 45.00
439 ROYCE (Sir FREDERICK HENRY, 1863-1933, engineer) Collection of 30 items comprising 10 A.Ls.s. (some integral sketches), 9 typed Ls.s. (1 imperfect)...

GBP - 650.00
440 LONDON. Charming autograph journal by Anne Walter (nee Wheadon) from Bar in Somerset of her visit to London in 1768

GBP - 35.00
441 CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY. DOC. (Indenture) signed by Richard Dyer

GBP - 100.00
442 ARCHITECTS. COCKERELL (C. R.) A.L.S....

GBP - 5.00
443 RUSKIN (JOHN) ARTISTS. Early A.L.s. (defective), 2 1/4 pages, 8vo, [March 1851], to a publisher...

GBP - 22.00
444 BESANT (WALTER, novelist) Two A.Ls.s., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Hampstead and Piccadilly, 1890-8: in one he agrees to show his correspondent the autograph manuscript of one of his works, although he is surprised that any one should be interested Hampstead and Piccadilly

1890-8

GBP - 5.00
445 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) A.L.S., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Grosvenor Gate, 29 July 1860, to the Rev. W. M. Triess Grosvenor Gate

29 July 1860

GBP - 18.00
446 GASKELL (Mrs. E. C.) A.L.s., 2 pages, 8vo, 84 Plymouth Grove, "Dec. 31", to Mr. Ireland 84 Plymouth Grove

"Dec. 31"

GBP - 12.00
447 HERSCHEL (Sir JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, astronomer) A.L.s., 2 1/4pages, 8vo, 32 Harley Street, 21 September 1853, to J. Buckley of Exeter 32 Harley Street

21 September 1853

GBP - 18.00
448 HUXLEY (THOMAS HENRY, scientist) Trenchant A.L.s., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Eastbourne, 7 July 1892, to Dr. Hyde Clarke Eastbourne

7 July 1892

GBP - 25.00
449 LEAR (EDWARD) FINE ILLUSTRATED A.L.S., 4 pages, 8vo, Grand Hotel du Louvre, No. 185, [Paris], 27 June 1869, to Lady Goldsmid Grand Hotel du Louvre, No. 185, [Paris]

27 June 1869

GBP - 150.00
450 WHISTLER (JAMES MCNEILL, artist) A.L.s., 1 1/2 pages, 4to, 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 19 February 1878, to Mr. Blott 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

19 February 1878

GBP - 42.00
451 ART. Collection of A.Ls.s. by Auguste Rodin, Sir John Millais, David Roberts

GBP - 20.00
452 ARTISTS, Collection of 8 A.Ls.s., 12 pages, 4to and 8vo, 1784-1851, by various artists including John Gibson (". . . I shall be at the Glass Fountain in the Crystal P . . .")

1784-1851

GBP - 12.00
453 AIKIN (LUCY, author) A.L.s., 14 pages, 8vo, Hampstead, 16 August [1858], thanking a gentleman for a pretty paper-knife... Hampstead

16 August [1858]

GBP - 22.00
454 ARCHITECTS. A.LS.S. by Sir Charles Barry (1822, to the architect and author Joseph Woods, agreeing with his adverse criticism of St. Peter's in Rome)

GBP - 15.00
455 ARTISTS. A.Ls.s. (some to the critic J. B. Atkinson) by the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner (1865)...

GBP - 12.00
456 BRUNEL (ISAMBARD KINGDOM, engineer) Two A.Ls.s., 9 pages, 4to, and 8vo, 18 Duke Street, Westminster, 1837-54: in the first, to the Haigh Foundry... 18 Duke Street, Westminster

1837-54

GBP - 50.00
457 BRUNEL (Sir MARC ISAMBARD, engineer) A.L.s., 1/2 page, 8vo, 31 March 1840, enquiring "what aggregate length I returned on the 19th of february"

31 March 1840

GBP - 22.00
458 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) A.L.S., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Hughenden Manor, 24 August 1873, to the Conservative politician Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler Hughenden Manor

24 August 1873

GBP - 18.00
459 LITERARY, ETC. A.LS.S. by the poet James Montgomery...

GBP - 40.00
460 LIVERPOOL. WELLINGTON (ARTHUR, Ist Duke of) A.L.s., 2 pages, 4to, Whersiead (Suffolk), 1 January 1821, to Sir John Gladstone (Liverpool merchant and father of the Prime Minister)...

GBP - 15.00
461 MACDONALD (GEORGE, poet and novelist, 1824-1905) Two A.Ls.s., 3 pages, 8vo, 12 Earles Terrace, Kensington, and Hastings, 7 March 1874 and undated: to J. B. Atkinson 12 Earles Terrace, Kensington, and Hastings

7 March 1874 and undated

GBP - 12.00
462 MORE (HANNAH) A.L.S., 3 1/2 pages, 4to, Barley Wood, 17 April 1816, to Mrs. Dawson Barley Wood

17 April 1816

GBP - 35.00
463 NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) A.L.S., 4 pages, 8vo, 27 Norfolk Street, 23 January 1865, to Miss Waterhouse 27 Norfolk Street

23 January 1865

GBP - 35.00
464 SEWARD (ANNA, the "Swan of Lichfield", friend of Dr. Johnson) A.L.s., 4 pages, 4to, Lichfield, 15 July 1778, to her friend Miss Peggy Bower Lichfield

15 July 1778

GBP - 70.00
465 WALPOLE (Sir ROBERT, Ist Earl of Orford) Docs, as Prime Minister, approving payment for many journeys made by Edward Jenkins, a King's Messenger

GBP - 15.00
466 RAY (JOHN) A collection of English proverbs Cambridge

1670

GBP - 180.00
467 EVELYN (JOHN, diarist) Autograph inscription on the flyleaf from an octavo book: "Cataloga inscriptus Evelyni Meliora Retinete"

GBP - 6.00
468 WALPOLE (HORACE) A.L.S., 1 page, 8vo, in French, to a French friend, telling him that he has been staying with the Duke of Richmond, and is disappointed to find that his correspondent has left London for France

GBP - 80.00
469 ALBUM containing letters etc., by various correspondents including John Ruskin

GBP - 15.00
470 AUTHORS, ETC....

GBP - 8.00
471 BARHAM (R. H.) A.L.S....

GBP - 18.00
472 BROWNING (ROBERT) A.L.S., 1 page, 8vo, 19, Warwick Cresent, W., 3 June 1883, to Lady Lyttleton 19, Warwick Cresent, W.

3 June 1883

GBP - 40.00
473 [BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, Lord, poet)] ALBRIZZI (Countess ISABELLA TEOTOCHI) A.L.S., 3 pages, 4to, Padua, 14 july 1819, in French, to her friend Miss Elizabeth Ingram (in Switzerland but recently in Venice) Padua

14 july 1819

GBP - 55.00
474 [BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, Lord)] ERSKINE (THOMAS 1750-1823, first Baron Erskine, lord chancellor) A.L.s., 1 page, 4to, Buchan Hall, Sussex, 28 April 1823, TO LORD BYRON Buchan Hall, Sussex

28 April 1823

GBP - 75.00
475 CARLYLE (THOMAS) Early A.L.s., 4 pages, 8vo, Chelsea, 27 November 1846, to his friend the novelist Miss Jewsbury ("Dear Geraldine") Chelsea

27 November 1846

GBP - 150.00
476 CARLYLE (Mrs. JANE WELSH) A.L.S., 4 pages, 8vo, 5 Cheyne Row, "23d Nov [1864, to C. T. Ramage]... 5 Cheyne Row

"23d Nov [1864]

GBP - 90.00
477 DICKENS (CHARLES) A.L.S., 1 page, 8vo, Gad's Hill Place, 14 August 1867, to William Smith Gad's Hill Place

14 August 1867

GBP - 32.00
478 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) A.L.S., 2 pages, 8vo, Bradenham, 16 November 1844, to Richard Lucas Bradenham

16 November 1844

GBP - 25.00
479 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) A.L. (third person), 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, Hughenden Manor, 12 December 1864, to C. T. Ramage Hughenden Manor

12 December 1864

GBP - 5.00
480 DISRAELI (BENJAMIN) Series of three A.Ls.s. (two signed "D", one "Disraeli"), 11 pages, 8vo, Hughenden Manor, 1868-70, to James Foote Hughenden Manor

1868-70

GBP - 28.00
481 HOOD (THOMAS, 1835-74, the younger, humorist) Two A.Ls.s., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, War Office, 1 March 1865, and n.d., to Mrs. Medhurst War Office

1 March 1865, and n.d.

GBP - 20.00
482 LEWES (GEORGE HENRY) Series of 14 A.Ls.s., 24 pages, 8vo and 12mo, 2 Camden Hill Terrace, 26 Bedford Place, 3 Pembroke Square and Darlarton Hall, 5 December 1846 and incompletely dated [1843-9, as shown by recipient's endorsements], to William Edward Hickson...

GBP - 240.00
483 LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS. Collection mostly of A.Ls.s. by Bulwer Lytton...

GBP - 55.00
484 MARTINEAU (HARRIET) A.L.s., 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, Ambleside, 31 December 1856, to the educationist and editor William Edward Hickson Ambleside

31 December 1856

GBP - 30.00
485 MILNES (RICHARD MONCKTON, 1st Baron Houghton, poet and politician, 1809-85) Early A.L.s., 3 1/2 pages, 8vo, Ischl, [1834], to Miss Ingram... Ischl

[1834]

GBP - 18.00
486 MORRIS (WILLIAN) AUTOGRAPH POETICAL MANUSCRIPT containing two revised drafts for parts of poems

GBP - 18.00
487 MULLER (MAX, 1823-1900, British Philologist) Series of 11 A.Ls.s. and the conclusion of another, 16 pages, 8vo, Parks End, Oxford, no years given

GBP - 35.00
488 READE (CHARLES, 1814-84, novelist and dramatist) Three A.Ls.s. and an autograph admission ticket signed, 7 pages, 4to and 8vO, 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge, and Adelphi Theatre [?1864 and 1867] to Mr. Whittman, Mr. Scott, the hall keeper at the Adelphi and the editor of the Graphic 2 Albert Terrace, Knightsbridge, and Adelphi Theatre

[?1864 and 1867]

GBP - 55.00
489 READE (CHARLES) A.L.S., 2 pages, oblong 8vo, Ipsden, "March 16" [1881], to Miss Hurry Ipsden

"March 16" [1881]

GBP - 22.00
490 ROSSETTI (D. G.) A.L.s., 1 page, 8vo, Kemlscott, 13 June 1873, TO RICHARD HENGIST HORNE Kemlscott

13 June 1873

GBP - 22.00
491 THACKERAY (W. M.) TWO A.LS.S. (one in his sloping, the other in his upright script), 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, 1 without address, the other from Kensington "Monday" (envelope postmarked Kensington, 19 April 1840), to Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett

GBP - 35.00
492 BUCKSTONE (JOHN BALDWIN, 1802-79, actor and dramatist) THEATRE. Manuscript copy of his play "The Wreck Ashore! or, a Bridegroom from the Sea"

5 March 1831

GBP - 12.00
493 TROLLOPE (ANTHONY) A.L.s., 1 page, 8vo, Waltham House, Waltham Cross, 22 August 1867, to Mr. Smith Waltham House, Waltham Cross

22 August 1867

GBP - 28.00
494 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) Quill pen contained in a contemporary paper wrapper inscribed by the writer Charles Boner (1815-70)

(1815-70)

GBP - 52.00
495 ZOLA (EMILE) Autograph card signed; HUGO (VICTOR) conclusion and signature cut from an A.L.s.; CLARETTE (JULES) A.L.S.

GBP - 18.00
496 COWDEN-CLARKE (CHARLES, Shakespearean scholar friend of Keats) Two A.Ls.s., 5 1/2 pages, 8vo, Dean Street and Villa Novello, Genoa, 11 July 1856-11 October 1869, to Mr. and Mrs. Ackroyd... Dean Street and Villa Novello, Genoa

11 July 1856-11 October 1869

GBP - 8.00
497 DICKENS (CHARLES) Early A.L.s., 1 page, 8vo, 15 Furnival's Inn, 30 January 1837, to James Winston 15 Furnival's Inn

30 January 1837

GBP - 60.00
498 ELLIOTT (EBENEZER, poet, called "the Corn-Law Rhymer", 1781-1849) Fine A.L.s., 2 1/4 1pages, 4to, Great Houghton, 9 May 1849, to Abraham Weldman of Bradford Great Houghton

9 May 1849

GBP - 22.00
499 LANDOR (WALTER SAVAGE) A.L.s., 2 pages, 8vo, "Sunday May 15", to Lady Blessington

GBP - 38.00
500 LITERARY, ETC. KINGSLEY (CHARLES) A.L.S....

GBP - 30.00
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