Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/123
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1727 WILLIAM IV (1765-1837). King of Great Britain. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ‘‘ WILLIAM ” AS DUKE OF CLARENCE. 7 pp., 4to. Bushy House. £2 2s i assure you that higher rank is not requisite for a Captain of the Fleet as in Lord St. Vincent’s Squadroh, Troubridge is appointed to that situation; you are in the next promotion to him and even by the rule of the late Lord Sandwich your standing on the list entitles you to a ship of the Line. 1728 WILLIAMS (JOHN, 1796-1839). Celebrated Missionary to the South Seas. killed and eaten by Cannibals at Erromanga. i AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. I page, 4to. 11th January, 1838. 18s Soliciting contributions for the building of a Missionary Ship, with’ printed list of donations. 1729 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM, 1770-1850). Poet. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ‘‘ MY DEAR SIR AUBREY (DE” VERE YE: O pp., 8vo. Rydal Mount, 31st March, 1842. £12 12s A remarkakly long letter referring to his own writings. ‘You have gratified me far beyond my deserts, defaulter as I am both in respect to your self, and my most valued friend, your son, by sending me your inaugural address to the Society at Limerick. After a very careful perusal of it I can say that it is worthy of yourself and the important occasion upon which it was pronounced. . . . The evidence you have given upon this occasion of the value you set upon my writings could not but be highly acceptable to me... . ‘¢ Pray be so kind ag to thank Mr. De Vere for the pains he took in pointing out pieces trom my poems which he thought most adapted for selection in a volume of extracts from my works to be circulated at a low price.’’ Ete. 1730 WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM). mae bOGR ADORE T PERI StGNED TOS.) BLE VCHER: 2 pages, 4to. Rydal Mount, 12th April, 1827. £8 &s A very interesting letter in which Wordsworth compares the scenery of different parts of the Continent. Se Ake I wish you had been a little more particular upon the scenery of the Appennines about which there is much disagreement of opinion. ‘“In alpine Switzerland I think there is a good deal of sameness . . . . and in thinking of the Alps one should always bear in mind both their Helvetian and Italian features, otherwise great injustice is done to that, region which is the pride, not of Europe only, but of the globe. . . . T have heard the bold coast, and deep inlets of Norway praised as the finest things in Europe. Sir Humphrey Davy was particularly lavish in extolling them.’ Ete.