English Literature & History Books
Catalogue Information: 594 lots | 297 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: ELIZABETH I--DETHICK, WILLIAM.
PRESENTATION MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATED WITH THE ARMS OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER CREATED BY EDWARD IVLatin dedication to Queen Elizabeth I ("Cum Sacratissimae et Serenissimae vestrae Maiestatis splendor (Regina Augustissima) per remotissimas Orbis terr [...more]
Lot 2: PENN,
WILLIAM. LAND DOCUMENT SIGNED (''WILL PENN''), BETWEEN PENN AND WILLIAM WIGANbeing an indenture for the sale to William Wigan, Milliner of St Martin's in the Field, Middlesex, of 500 acres of land "within the Province of Pensilvania" for the sum of f [...more]
Lot 3: CHARLES II
AND SAMUEL PEPYS. DOCUMENT SIGNED ("CHARLES R") AND COUNTERSIGNED BY PEPYS ("S PEPYS"),ordering Captain Anthony Crow, "Commander of Our yacht the Kitchin", to transport Captain Brett's "foot Company of Soldiers belonging to the Earle of Crauens Regim [...more]
Lot 4: CLIVE, ROBERT, OF INDIA
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("CLIVE") TO SIR GEORGE COLEBROOK, CHAIRMAN OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY,observing that Colebrook will not be surprised that Clive receives "numerous Applications for Appointment, through you, in the Company's service", and assur [...more]
Lot 5: [NELSON, HORATIO
LORD ]--VIRGIL. OPERA INTERPRETATIONE & NOTIS ILLUSTRAVIT CAROLUS RUAEUS, LONDON: H. KNAPLOCK ET AL., 1740 signed six times by horatio nelson when a schoolboy, also signed by other members of the Nelson family, and with annotations in ink and pen [...more]
