English Literature, History, Children's Books, Illustrations and Photographs
Catalog Information: 496 lots | 271 with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: AMERICA, CANADA AND THE STAMP ACT.
Group of eighteenth-century official papers, comprising:Condition Note:i) "Hints relative to the Division of Government of the Conquered, & newly acquired Countries in America", an official survey drawn up in a professional secretarial hand, concerni [...more]
Lot 2: BACON, SIR FRANCIS.
Document signed as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal ("Fr[ancis] B[acon] C[ustos] S[igilli]")Condition Note: being a petition written in a minute petitionary hand to Bacon as Keeper of the Great Seal by Robert Heath of the Inner Temple, who with Thomas W [...more]
Lot 3: CHARLES I AND HENRIETTA MARIA.
Two letters:Condition Note:i) Letter signed by Charles I ("Charles R" at head) during the Civil War, the text in the hand of his secretary of state Sir Edward Nicholas, to Henry Jermyn, Colonel of the Guards of Queen Henrietta Maria, informing him th [...more]
Lot 4: COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS
including:Condition Note:i) An autograph letter signed by arthur massinger (father of the playwright Philip Massinger), to John Gwyn of Gwidor, concerning financial matters, with reference to Mr Lesueur, receiver of the Queen's fines, 1 page, 4to, in [...more]
Lot 5: f - CROMWELL, OLIVER.
Early document signed ("Oliver Cromwell")Condition Note: being a deed of obligation in which is rehearsed, in English, the earlier grant by George, Bishop of London, to Robert Cooke the right to collect tithes and subsidies of the clergy throughout L [...more]
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