Merwin Clayton Sales Company: CATALOGUE OF A CHOICE COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS TOGETHER WITH AN INTERESTING LOT OF CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM ORIGINAL NEGATIVES MADE DURING THE WAR. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MORNINGS FEBRUARY 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH, 1913. B, 494,

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Auction Date
February 05, 1913 - February 05, 1913
Page Size: 1078 items in 11 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
722 STRAUSS (DAVID F.) The Life of Jesus critically examined. London

1906

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723 STRICKLAND (AGNES) Life of. By her Sister;--Christopher North (Gordon);--Dr. John Brown and his Sister (M'Laren); and 3 ... v. s.

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724 STRUYS (JOHN) Voyages and Travels through Moscovy, Tartary, India, and most of the Eastern World. London

1684

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725 SWEDENBORG (EMANUEL) The Delights of Wisdom concerning Conjugal Love; after which follow the Pleasures of Insanity ... London

1841

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726 SWINBURNE. Sea Song and River Rhyme. London

1887

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727 SWINBURNE. Selected Lyrical Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. New York

1906

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728 SYMONDS (J. A.) Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe. New York

1880

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729 W. H. Lowe TALMUD. The Mishnah on which The Palestinian Talmud Rests. Cambridge

1883

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730 J. H. Wiffen TASSO (TORQUATO). Jerusalem Delivered: an Epic Poem. Translated into English Spenserian verse ... London

1824

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731 TAYLOR (BAYARD) Studies in German Literature;--The Literature of the Georgian Era (Minto);--Folia Litteraria (Hales ... v. s.

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732 TAYLOR (CHARLES) Sayings of the Jewish Fathers. Cambridge

1897

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733 Henry Stevens TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY (THE). Its Location, Features, and Advantages under the La Sere Grant of 1869 ... New York

1869

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734 Henry Van Dyke TENNYSON. The Poetry of. London

1890

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735 TENNYSON. The Princess. Lond: Moxon, 1854;--The same. Bost. 1848;--Becket, 1884; and 2 others.

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736 THACKERAY. Cornhill Magazine. Feb. 1864. London

(1864)

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737 James Grant Wilson THACKERAY. Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6. Including a Record of a Variety of ... London

1903

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738 THAYER (JAMES BRADLEY) Select Cases on Evidence at the Common Law. Cambridge (Massachusetts)

1892

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739 C. F. Nirdlinger THEATRICAL. Masques and Mummers. Essays on the Theatre of Here and Now. New York

1899

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740 THESAURUS; or, English Words and Phrases, by Peter Mark Roget;--Familiar Quotations by J. C. Grocatt ... New York

n. d.

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741 THOMSON (JAMES) Works, with his last corrections and improvements. London

1788

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742 THOREAU. His Life and Aims (Page);--William Morris (Lee);--The Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette ... v. s.

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743 TIBET AND NEPAL. Painted and Described by A. Henry Savage Landor. London

(1905)

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744 TIBET AND NEPAL. Painted and Described by A. Henry Savage Landor.

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745 TIRARD (H. M. and N.) Sketches from a Nile Steamer. Lond. 1891;--With Russian, Japanese and Chunchuse. By E. Brindle, Lond ...

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746 TOLSTOY Leo Tolstoy, His Life and Work. Autobiographical Memoirs, Letters, etc. New York

1906

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747 TOLSTOY. My Religion;--Science and a Future Life (Myers);--A Cluster of Nuts (Hinkson);-- ... v. s.

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748 C. Hindley;--The Henrid (Voltaire);--Mythology of the Pagan World; and others TOM AND JERRY. True History of. v. s.

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749 TRAGI-COMEDY. The Partiall Law. London

1908

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750 Edited by C. Morris and O. H. G. Leigh TRAVELS. With the Worlds' Great Travellers. Chicago

1901

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751 Walter Del Mar TRAVELS. Around the World. Through Japan. London

1904

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752 TRAVELS. A Thousand Miles up the Nile (Edwards);--Rambles Round London;--Michelin Guides, 1908, 2 ...

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753 A. R. Dunton TRIAL. The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Trial. Boston

1882

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754 John T. Morse, Jr. TRIALS (FAMOUS). Boston

1874

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755 TUNIS, KAIROUAN, AND CARTHAGE Described and illustrated with forty-eight paintings (colored), by Graham Petrie. London

1908

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756 Kesnin Bey TURKEY. The Evil of the East; or, Truths about Turkey. London

1888

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757 Walter Thornbury TURNER (J. M. W.). The Life of. London

1904

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758 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (THE). By V. P. Hammer. N. Y. 1911;--The Making of a Nation (Walker), 1896 ...

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759 UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY. Containing sketches of prominent persons of the 19th Century. New York

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760 UNIVERSAL SONGSTER (THE); or, Museum of Mirth. Humorous frontispieces and woodcuts by George and ... London

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761 Richard Polewhere UNSEXED FEMALES (THE). A Poem. New York

1800

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762 UPSON (ARTHUR) Octaves in an Oxford Garden. Minneapolis

1902

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763 VACARESCO (HELENE) Songs of the Valiant Voivode. Collected from Roumanian Peasants. New York

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764 Hopkins (Samuel) VERMONT IMPRINT. A New Edition of Two Discourses. From a copy revised and corrected by the Author.

1793.

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765 Finlay Dun VETERINARY MEDICINES; their Actions and Uses. New York

1886

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766 H. C. Lahee VIOLINISTS (FAMOUS). Boston and New York

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767 VIOLIN MAKING. As it was and is. Second edition carefully revised by E. Heron-Allen. London

1885

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768 VIRGIL. The Works of Virgil. Englished by Robert Andrews. Birmingham

1766

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769 R. C. Singleton VIRGIL. The Works of. London

1855

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770 Henry T. Finck WAGNER [RICHARD] and his Works. New York

1893

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771 WAGNER [RICHARD] and his Works. Richard to Minna Wagner. Letters to his first Wife. London

1909

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772 WALLACE (LEW) Ben Hur. New York

1892

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773 Edited by L. B. Seeley WALPOLE. Horace Walpole;--Fanny Burney. London

1895

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774 WALPOLE AND HIS WORLD;--Fanny Burney and Her Friends, 2 vols. Edited by L. B. Seeley. Portraits ...

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775 WALTON (ISAAC) The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, Dr. Robert ... York

1796

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776 C. Philipon and L. Huart WANDERING JEW. The Parody of the. London

1846

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777 WARE (WILLIAM) Julian; or, Scenes in Judea. Boston

1895

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778 WARREN (SAMUEL) Ten Thousand a Year. Boston

1889

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779 WASHINGTON AND HIS GENERALS. Phila. 1859;--Washington and his Masonic Compeers (Hayden). N. Y. 1867 ...

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780 WATSON (WILLIAM) Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII. London

1902

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781 WATSON (WILLIAM) Excursions in Criticism. London

1893

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782 WATSON (WILLIAM) The Father of the Forest and other Poems. Chicago

1895

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783 WATSON (WILLIAM) New Poems, 1909;--Poems, 1892;--The Year of Shame, 1897;--For England, 1903;--The Hope of the World ... v. s.

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784 WEDGWOOD (ETHEL) The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville. A New English Version. London

1906

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785 Sir W. Fraser WELLINGTON. Words on. London

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786 WENZELL (A. B.) The Passing Show. New York

1893

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787 WENZELL (A. B.) The Passing Show. New York

1893

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788 Fountain (Paul) WEST. The Eleven Eaglets of the West. London

1906

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789 Fountain (Paul) WEST. The Eleven Eaglets of the West. London

1906

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790 WHARTON (EDITH) The Valley of Decision. New York

1902

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791 WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER (Caskoden);--Oriole's Daughter (Fothergill);--Desperate Remedies ( ... v. s.

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792 WHISTLE-BINKIE; A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle. Glasgow

1890

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793 WHISTLE-BINKIE; A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle. Glasgow

1890

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794 WHITMAN (WALT) Specimen Days and Collect. Philadelphia

1882-83

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795 Havelock Ellis WHITMAN (WALT). The New Spirit. London

1890

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796 T. Donaldson WHITMAN (WALT). Walt Whitman the Man. New York

1896

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797 WHITMAN (WALT) Leaves of Grass, Phila. 1882;--Complete Works, Phila. 1897.

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798 WHITTIER (JOHN G.) The Tent on the Beach, 1868;--Eothen (Kinglake);--Love Songs and other Poems (Innsly);--Anthology of ... v. s.

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799 Henry Johnson WIGGINS (JOSEPH). The Life and Voyages of Joseph Wiggins, modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to ... London

1907

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800 C. 3. 3. WILDE (OSCAR). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London

1899

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801 C. 3. 3. WILDE (OSCAR). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London

1899

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802 WILDE (OSCAR) Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young. London

1903

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803 WILDE (OSCAR) Salome. Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Boston

1906

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804 WILDE (OSCAR) The Duchess of Padua. New York

1906

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805 WILDE (OSCAR) De Profundis. New York

1907

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806 WILDE (OSCAR) Intentions (2 copies);--A House of Pomegranates;--Poems in Prose;--Epigrams. Photogravure ... London

1907

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807 WILLIAMS (SIR CHARLES H.) A Collection of Poems, principally consisting of the most celebrated pieces of C. H. Williams. London

1763

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808 T. M. Brewer WILSON (ALEXANDER). Wilson's American Ornithology, with Notes by Jardine: to which is added a ... New York

1852

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809 Shirley Brooks WIT AND HUMOUR. v. s.

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810 WIT AND WISDOM OF SYDNEY SMITH;--Tin Trumpet (Smith);--Are you a Bromide, etc. v. s.

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811 WITCH STORIES (Linton);--Lockhart's Life of Robert Burns (Douglas), 1882;--Literary Men (Gilfillan ... v. s.

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812 Fyvie (John) WOMEN. Some Famous Women of Wit and Beauty. A Georgian Galaxy. London

1905

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813 WOOD (J. G.) Animate Creation: Popular Edition of Our Living World, a Natural History. Revised and adapted to ... New York

(1898)

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814 WOOD WORKING;--METAL WORKING. Hundreds of illustrations of Tools, Designs, etc. N. p.

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815 Thomas Hutchinson WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). Poems. Edited, with a note on the Wordsworthian Sonnet. London

1897

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816 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM) The Poetical Wonks of. Glasgow

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817 WORLD'S FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES. Numerous photogravure plates on Japan paper and colored plates. New York

(1900)

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818 WORLD'S GREAT CLASSICS (THE). Hebrew Literature (Wilson);--Froissart's Chronicles, 2 vols. New York

(1901)

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819 WORLD'S GREAT CLASSICS (THE). Library Committee. Timothy Dwight, Justin McCarthy, R. H. Stoddart and ... New York

(1900)

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820 WYLLIE (W. L. and M. A.) London to the Nore. London

1905

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821 Clark (Arthur H.) YACHTING. The History of Yachting. 1600-1815. New York

1903

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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.