Catalogue of an Important & Valuable Collection of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. [ Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auction catalogue, sale date: 16-17 December 1890 ].
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge.
Published by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th and 17th December 1890, 1890
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Disbound from a collected volume (original wrappers - if any - not retained), top edge gilt, 8vo, 35 pp. 340 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: fine examples of letters or manuscripts of "Addison, Alfieri, Duc de Biron, Bolingbroke, the Bonapartes, E. B. Browning, Bruce, Bullinger, Burke, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Congreve, Dickens, Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth, Goldsmith, Archbishop Grindal, Lamb, Locke, Louis XIII, Robespierre, Richardson, Shelley, Sterne, Charles Edward Stuart, Simon Vouet, Edmund Waller; a fine series of letters of Bossuet to Mademoiselle de Luynes; some most important musical manuscripts & letters, comprising fine examples of Bach, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Moore, &c., an unpublished manuscript of Thackeray; a series of letters from Percy Earl of Northumberland to James I; a portion of the correspondence of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst; five letters of Lord Nelson, and fine specimens of other British and French Admirals; and an important collection of letters and manuscripts written by and relating to Joanna Southcott." Disbound from a collected volume, neatly priced in ink. Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-58930
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Title: Catalogue of an Important & Valuable ...
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th and 17th December 1890
Publication Date: 1890
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
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