Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Letters from Mathew Hutton to the Duke of Somerset, describing the Three
Daughters of Lord Winchelsea, enigmatically, as Three Books. Dated August,
1725.
Letters from Beau Nash as to Ladies C. and H. Finch. Dated August and
September, 1725.
Letter from W. Edwards to Mathew Hutton. Dated Burly, December 11th, 1725.
Letters containing A Proposal of Marriage from the Duke of Somerset to Lady
C. Finch. Dated 1725.
Letter from the Duke of Somerset to the Earl of Winchelsea on the same
subject.
Letters between Lord Granville and the Duke of Somerset, as to Titles on
the Death of the Duke's Grandson. Dated November and December, 1744.
Autograph Notes from George III. to Charles, Earl of Egremont, on Public
Business. Dated 1762 and 1763.
Letter of Lord Lyttleton to the Earl of Egremont, inclosing Complimentary
Verses to Lady Egremont. Dated January 1st, 1761.
A Particular of the Duchess of Somerset's Debts. Dated October 7th, 1697.
Holograph Letter from Charles II. to the Countess of Northumberland,
proposing the Marriage of his son George with her Grand-daughter, the Percy
Heiress.
Letter from Lord Hertford to his Father, consenting to marry.
The Commencement of a Letter of Lord Nelson's, &c. &c.
Any information relative to the above will be thankfully received and a
liberal Reward paid on restoration of the Papers.
Apply to MESSRS. RYMER, A. MURRAY, & RYMER, No. 5. Whitehall, London.
* * * * *
This Day is published,
A CATALOGUE of a very Choice and Valuable Collection of Books, Ancient and
Modern, in the English and Foreign Languages, and Books of Prints, in very
fine condition, also some beautifully Illuminated Manuscripts upon Vellum,
including a most splendid Vellum MS. of the Latin Bible, in two very large
volumes folio, written circa 1380; also a richly Illuminated Copy of
Ferdosi's Shah Nameh, in Persian, with Thirty-seven beautiful
Paintings:--principally bound by the best Binders, Derome, Bozerian,
Kalthoeber, Walther, Lewis, Clarke, Bedford, Riviere, Aitken, &c.: selected
from the Libraries of the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, Provost of Eton; Very Rev. Dr.
Butler, Dean of Peterborough, formerly Head Master of Harrow; Right Hon.
Warren Hastings, formerly Governor-General of India; Rev. R. J. Coates,
Sopworth House, Gloucestershire, collected by him during the last sixty
years, with great taste and judgment, regardless of expense; S. Freeman,
Esq., Fawley Court (built by Inigo Jones), Henley-on-Thames; John Miller,
Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; and various other Libraries sold in London and the
Country, with some private purchases. Now on sale at the prices affixed, by
JOSEPH LILLY, 19. King Street, Covent Garden, London.
This Valuable Catalogue will be forwarded to any gentleman inclosing Two
Postage Stamps to prepay it. It may also be seen attached to the
"Gentleman's Magazine" for November.
*** Such a Catalogue of Rare, Valuable and Choice Books, in fine condition,
has not been published for some years.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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