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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... valuable Library of Manuscripts should be offered on certain terms therein specified , to the Marquess of Buckingham , and he further directed that in the event of such offer being declined , the same opportunity of purchasing it should ...
... valuable Library of Manuscripts should be offered on certain terms therein specified , to the Marquess of Buckingham , and he further directed that in the event of such offer being declined , the same opportunity of purchasing it should ...
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... valuable addition to the Historical literature of his native Country ; the work was printed at Buckingham , at their sole expense , and intended only for gratuitous distribution among the principal libraries of Europe , and their ...
... valuable addition to the Historical literature of his native Country ; the work was printed at Buckingham , at their sole expense , and intended only for gratuitous distribution among the principal libraries of Europe , and their ...
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... valuable information . This work , in two volumes quarto , was also printed at Buckingham in 1818 and 1819 , for private dis- tribution only , at the sole expense of the late Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , and as the impression was ...
... valuable information . This work , in two volumes quarto , was also printed at Buckingham in 1818 and 1819 , for private dis- tribution only , at the sole expense of the late Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , and as the impression was ...
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... valuable Saxon Manuscripts . ELSTOB , William and Elizabeth . Fac - simile Transcript of parts of the original Textus Roffensis . 951 831 159. 160 ELIZABETH , Queen . Original Letters , & c . ELIZABETH . Original Inventories of Queen ...
... valuable Saxon Manuscripts . ELSTOB , William and Elizabeth . Fac - simile Transcript of parts of the original Textus Roffensis . 951 831 159. 160 ELIZABETH , Queen . Original Letters , & c . ELIZABETH . Original Inventories of Queen ...
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... valuable Collection of Patents and Grants of Arms , from the time of Glover and Camden to Sir John Vanbrugh , Clarencieux in 1715. The writing is chiefly in hands of the last century . ORIGINAL LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS , CHIEFLY FOREIGN ...
... valuable Collection of Patents and Grants of Arms , from the time of Glover and Camden to Sir John Vanbrugh , Clarencieux in 1715. The writing is chiefly in hands of the last century . ORIGINAL LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS , CHIEFLY FOREIGN ...
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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...
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