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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin

Sotheby's, London

Date of the auction: 11.07.2017

Lot number 1
HERALDIC MANUSCRIPT, WITH THE ARMS OF ENGLISH NOBILITY, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

red ruled triple margins, front free endpapers with a few notes in an late-16th or early-17th...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,500 - £3,000
ca. US$3,214 - US$3,857
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 2
HERALDIC MANUSCRIPT--RYLEY AND DETHICK, VISITATION OF MIDDLESEX...

containing 95 genealogies of armigerous families, including descriptions of their arms, some with...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$1,928 - US$2,571
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 3
GAINSBOROUGH, TWO RECEIPTS SIGNED, 1768

each acknowledging receipt of ten Guineas from Sir John Sebright for half payment for a...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 4
IRELAND--LAW], A REVIEW OF THE REVENUE LAWS OF IRELAND, MANUSCRIPT, C.1750S

Manuscript in English, in a single scribal hand with scattered marginal notes probably by the First...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£700 - £1,000
ca. US$900 - US$1,285
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 5
FIRST EARL OF CLONMELL, MANUSCRIPT COURT NOTEBOOKS, 1772-1796 (7 VOL.)

recording in detail hundreds of legal cases overseen by him, noting details of cases, arguments...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$7,715 - US$10,287
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 6
FIRST EARL OF CLONMELL, PERSONAL JOURNAL, 1777-97

containing miscellaneous personal notes and memoranda, including "experimental Observations upon the...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,571 - US$3,857
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 7
MATTHEWS, SHIPS'S JOURNALS AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE AFRICAN SLAVE...

i) "Journal of my particular proceedings when detach'd from or acting seperate [sic] from my...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,288 - US$25,717
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 8
BOUGAINVILLE, VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, 1772 (1 VOL.)

4to, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, five folding maps and one engraved plate, contemporary mottled calf...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,285 - US$1,928
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 9
BLIGH, A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOUNTY, 1790...

4to, FIRST EDITION, folding map bound as frontispiece, 2 folding maps at end, one folding plan ("A...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£12,000 - £15,000
ca. US$15,430 - US$19,288
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 10
NELSON, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO RICHARD CREED, 26 AUGUST 1801

informing him that he has signed papers allowing Mr Fellows to take "your report as to the...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,571 - US$3,857
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 11
NELSON, LOCK OF HIS HAIR, IN A LOCKET

sandy colour, tied with gold thread, housed behind glass in a circular silver locket (30mm...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 12
TRAFALGAR CAMPAIGN, COLLECTION OF SEA CHARTS (1 VOL.)

large folio (approximately 615 x 540mm.), 16 double-page charts, loosely inserted manuscript "Plan...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£5,000 - £7,000
ca. US$6,429 - US$9,001
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 13
ACKERMANN, A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OXFORD, 1814 (2 VOL.)

2 volumes, 4to, half-titles, complete 115 coloured plates, the plates mixed first and second states...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$1,928 - US$2,571
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 14
PYNE, HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCES, 1819 (3 VOL.)

3 volumes, 4to, FIRST EDITION, later (uncoloured) issue, volume titles and seven section titles...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$1,928 - US$2,571
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 15
WYNFIELD, 19 PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF VICTORIAN ARTISTS

Sir John Everett Millais, Frederick R. Pickersgill, Richard Ansdell, P.H. Calderon, Sir Frederic...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£7,000 - £9,000
ca. US$9,001 - US$11,572
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 16
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS], COLLECTION OF 29 SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHS IN AN ALBUM

4to (280 x 230mm.), 29 albumen print photographs, comprising 24 mounted on card (103 x 76mm.), 2...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,571 - US$3,857
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 17
SMITH, JOURNAL OF THE CONVICT SHIP "BELGRAVIA", 1866

blank printed journal with daily manuscript entries, including a full list of 282 convicts embarked...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$3,857 - US$6,429
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 18
QUEEN VICTORIA], A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS, IN BOX

two cream silk stockings, each monogrammed with a crown above the initials "VR", band at top edge of...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$642 - US$900
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 19
QUEEN VICTORIA], A CHEMISE AND A PAIR OF BLOOMERS

i) a pair of fine white cotton bloomers, waist approximately 54 inches, drawstring fastening...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£5,000 - £7,000
ca. US$6,429 - US$9,001
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 20
SIMPSON, AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, TO EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, 1935

"WE do remember last March 12th[.] I hope these will never be the 'missing links'.", 1 page, 8vo...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,571 - US$3,857
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 21
CHURCHILL, THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1948-1954, C.C. WOOD'S ANNOTATED COPIES (6...

6 volumes, 8vo, FIRST BRITISH EDITIONS, volume one the Baylis printing (signed with numbers...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£7,000 - £10,000
ca. US$9,001 - US$12,858
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 22
IRELAND, EASTER RISING, "HALF PROCLAMATION", HANDBILLS, AND OTHER RARE...

Map of the City of Dublin and Its Environs. Dublin: A Thom & Co., [n.d.], 760 x 835 mm, with a note...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£15,000 - £20,000
ca. US$19,288 - US$25,717
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 23
IRISH PROCLAMATION], "POBLACHT NA H EIREANN", HALF SHEET WITH THE SECOND...

HALF SHEET OF THE ORIGINAL PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC (text from "The Irish...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$7,715 - US$10,287
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 24
AMSHEWITZ, PENCIL PORTRAIT OF GANDHI, SIGNED BY GANDHI, 1931

full length, depicting him seated on the floor and writing, pencil, signed, dated, and titled by the...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$10,287 - US$15,430
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 25
GANDHI, TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO BIVABATI BOSE ('DEAR SISTER'), 4...

the first assuring her of his continued good wishes ("...political differences do not alter...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$7,715 - US$10,287
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 26
GANDHI, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO AMIYA NATH BOSE, ON THE PROVISION OF...

encouraging him to develop further his ambitious plans for the provision of electricity in rural...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£5,000 - £7,000
ca. US$6,429 - US$9,001
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 27
GANDHI, THREE LETTERS TO SARAT CHANDRA BOSE, ON PARTITION, 1947

on the proposed partition of Bengal during negotiations for Independence, discussing Bose's proposal...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£12,000 - £18,000
ca. US$15,430 - US$23,145
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 28
MAO ZEDONG, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTES, 9 PAGES, 1975, WITH RELATED NOTES...

including the titles or first lines of poems by Li Bai ('Difficulty of the Shu Road') and Du Fu...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£60,000 - £80,000
ca. US$77,152 - US$102,870
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 29
HOBBES, LEVIATHAN, 1651 (1 VOL.)

folio, FIRST EDITION, first issue with "Head" ornament on title page, additional engraved...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$12,858 - US$19,288
Price realised:
n. a.
Lot number 30
MILTON, FOUR EDITIONS OF 'PRO POPULO ANGLICANO DEFENSIO', AND A...

i) Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio. William Dugard, 1651, 4to (182 x 142mm.), FIRST EDITION, third...

Sotheby's, 11 Jul 2017
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,000
ca. US$1,928 - US$2,571
Price realised:
n. a.
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