English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations - L09773

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English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations

14 July 2009 • London

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Sale Number: L09773

1. Autograph letter signed ("Anna R") at the head, to Sir John Digby

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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3. An important archive on the seventeenth-century remaking of the East Anglian landscape through the construction of the Old Bedford River by Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and on related projects in the Great Level, about 156 items in four folders, comprising:

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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4. A wide-ranging collection of letters from leading scientists, writers and public figures of the turn of the nineteenth century, to the Irish educational writer, inventor and engineer Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Estimate: 12,000 – 15,000 GBP

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5. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. For W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776

Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 GBP

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6. His personal and official papers as East India Company factor at Basra, Resident at Baghdad and minister plenipotentiary to the Persian court, comprising over 3100 items and providing intricately detailed insights into trade and diplomacy in the Middle East from 1783 to 1811, and defensive networks raised against the Napoleonic threat

Estimate: 150,000 – 200,000 GBP

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9. Autograph manuscript, "Original Poetry by Princess Olive"

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

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10. The Heart of the Antarctic [together with The Antarctic Book]. Heinemann, 1909

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP

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12. The papers of the traveller, civil servant, art and theatre lover Eric Allden, comprising:

Estimate: 5,000 – 8,000 GBP

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13. [Poblacht Na H Eireann. The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic to the People of Ireland.] [Dublin: Christopher Brady, Michael Molloy and Liam O'Brien, 23 April, 1916]

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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14. Three autograph letters signed, to Maulana Abdul Bari, in Urdu

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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15. A piece of khadi cloth signed by Gandhi and said to have been woven by him

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

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16. Two autograph postcards signed ("Mo.K. Gandhi"), to Hamid Ullah Afsar, in Urdu

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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