Catalogue of the important collection of manuscripts, from Stowe. Which will be sold by auction, by messrs. S. Leigh Sotheby & co., 11th June, 1849, and 7 following days1849 |
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... bound in morocco , and contains 300 pages . The following memorandum in Roger de Waltham's hand is on the 6th leaf : " Hunc librum liberavit ad gratiam hic Rogerus de Wal- " tham , nuper custos Garderobe Regis Edwardi , filii regis " Ed ...
... bound in morocco , and contains 300 pages . The following memorandum in Roger de Waltham's hand is on the 6th leaf : " Hunc librum liberavit ad gratiam hic Rogerus de Wal- " tham , nuper custos Garderobe Regis Edwardi , filii regis " Ed ...
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... bound in gold , enamelled in black , and furnished with two small gold rings , by which it might have been suspended round the waist of its possessor . In one of the Tracts on Miscellaneous Antiquities , printed by Horace Walpole , at ...
... bound in gold , enamelled in black , and furnished with two small gold rings , by which it might have been suspended round the waist of its possessor . In one of the Tracts on Miscellaneous Antiquities , printed by Horace Walpole , at ...
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... bound in russia . Press V , No. 52 The written pages are 899 ; the writing is of the reign of James I , and the contents are extremely numerous and in- teresting . Parliamentary Records , & c . 182 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS , 40 THE ...
... bound in russia . Press V , No. 52 The written pages are 899 ; the writing is of the reign of James I , and the contents are extremely numerous and in- teresting . Parliamentary Records , & c . 182 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS , 40 THE ...
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... bound in vellum . Press V , No. 61 It contains a great variety of very interesting historical papers . 191 A COLLECTION OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO ECCLE- SIASTICAL MATTERS , FROM THE 25TH OF HENRY VIII , TO THE 33RD OF GEORGE II ...
... bound in vellum . Press V , No. 61 It contains a great variety of very interesting historical papers . 191 A COLLECTION OF ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO ECCLE- SIASTICAL MATTERS , FROM THE 25TH OF HENRY VIII , TO THE 33RD OF GEORGE II ...
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... bound in oak . Press III , No. 37 The style of these Drawings is rude ; they are probably of the fifteenth century . The subjects are taken from the Old and New Testament . The first represents the Temptation and Fall of Man . This ...
... bound in oak . Press III , No. 37 The style of these Drawings is rude ; they are probably of the fifteenth century . The subjects are taken from the Old and New Testament . The first represents the Temptation and Fall of Man . This ...
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Page 158 - Tis but the funeral of the former year. Let joy or ease, let affluence or content, And the gay conscience of a life well spent, Calm every thought, inspirit every grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face Let day improve on day, and year on year, Without a pain, a trouble, or a fear...
Page 157 - Adieu, dear Patty, and believe me to be one of your truest friends and humblest servants ; and that, since I can never live in England, my greatest happiness would be to have you and Mr. Pope condemned, during my life, to live in Ireland, he at the deanery, and you, for...
Page 158 - for if anything under Paradise could set me beyond all " earthly cogitations, Stowe might do it. It is much more " beautiful this year, than when I saw it before, and much
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Page 142 - Turks, has displayed all the excellencies that narration can admit. His style, though somewhat obscured by time, and sometimes vitiated by false wit, is pure, nervous, elevated, and clear.