Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
22 Nov 2011, starting at 10:30 GMT.
London, New Bond Street

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POTTER (BEATRIX) Autograph letter signed, to Bertha Mahony Miller, 1940

PRYNNE (WILLIAM) A New Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, 1655, bound with 20 other pamphlets in 2 vol. (2)

NAVAL - BATTLE OF CAPE ST VINCENT. Series of seventeen autograph letters signed by Lieutenant Arthur Maxwell, 1782-1798

IRELAND – UPRISING OF 1798. Autograph letter signed ("Hervey deM: Morres") by the United Irishman Hervey Montmorency Morres, 1797

SIMON (RICHARD) Critical Enquiries into the Various Editions of the Bible, 1684; and 6 others (7)

BLACKSTONE (WILLIAM) Autograph letter signed to the pioneering Shakespearean scholar George Steevens, 1780

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) Autograph letter signed, [1845]

BURNEY (FANNY) Autograph letter in the third person, as Madame d'Arblay, 1814

CARLYLE (THOMAS) Autograph letter signed, 1851

FITZGERALD (EDWARD) Five autograph letters signed, to his young friend Horace Basham, 1875-1880

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