Catalogue of the interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters, manuscripts & historical documents, of the late John Dillon, Esq. : including English and foreign royal personages, nobility & gentry ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Thursday, the 10th day of June, 1869, and four following days ..
1869
Catalogue of the interesting and valuable collection of autograph letters, manuscripts & historical documents, of the late John Dillon, Esq. : including English and foreign royal personages, nobility & gentry ... : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts, at their house, no. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C. on Thursday, the 10th day of June, 1869, and four following days ..
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, auctioneer
1869
156 pages ; 29 cm " ... reformers, martyrs & dignitaries of the church, military and naval commanders, and remarkable persons in public life, historians, philosophers, authors, poets, dramatists, actors, and men of eminence in science and art, among which may be mentioned a remarkable collection relating to the poet Burns, original autograph poems of Lord Byron; three remarkable holograph letters of Oliver Cromwell; Queen Elizabeth's correspondence with Dr. Dale on the Anjou marriage; Ebelyn's Life of Mrs. Godophin, in the original manuscript; Johnson's original manuscript of The Life of Pope, and a highly interesting collection relating to him; original manuscripts & music of Tom Moore, and important collections relating to Lord Nelson, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strattford, &c. &c." Date of sale: June 10-14, 1869 Place of sale: London Not in: Knoedler Library. Complete title index of 26,000 volumes of sales, exhibitions, and salons in the Knoedler Library on microfiche
