Catalogue of the renowned collection of autograph letters and historical manuscripts formed by the late Alfred Morrison, Esq., of Fonthill, and now the property of Mrs. Alfred Morrison, Second Portion ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, the 15th of April, 1918, and four following days
1918
Catalogue of the renowned collection of autograph letters and historical manuscripts formed by the late Alfred Morrison, Esq., of Fonthill, and now the property of Mrs. Alfred Morrison, Second Portion ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Monday, the 15th of April, 1918, and four following days
1918
4 pt. in 1 v., 512 p. : 24 cm Lots numbered 772-1769 Sale code: Augustus Date of sale: Apr. 15-19, 1918 Place of sale: London " ... comprising three holograph letters of Mary Queen of Scots; four letters from John Keats to Fanny Brawne; seventeen letters from Charles Lamb to S.T. Coleridge; and specimens of French rulers, statesmen, artist and authors, including C. Méryon, Mirabeau, Mme. de Montespan, Napoleon I, Mme. de Pompadour, Rabelais, Racine, Robespierre, Mme de Sévigné, Catherine de Médicis, Descartes, Francis I, Voltaire, etc.; British celebreties, including Montrose, Nelson, Matthew Prior, Francis Bacon viscount St. Albans, Sir W. Raliegh, Sterne, Strafford, Swift, Richard Plantagenet duke of York, Burns, Byron, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Defoe, Edward IV, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Falstaff, etc., etc.; men famous in American history, including Emerico Vespucci, G. Washington, General Wolfe, B. Franklin, etc.; great artists, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, etc." Paged comtinuously
