Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Peace with the Allied Powers at the critical period of January,
1814--Christina of Sweden, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine and
other of the House of Medici, Diane de France, John sans Peur,
1410, Jeanne d'Albret, Louise de Savoie, Marguerite d'Autriche,
Margaret Daughter of Francis I., Sovereign Princes of the House of
Nassau, &c. Amongst the Ecclesiastics may be named a Holograph
letter of Pope Clement VIII., the Père Joseph, Janssenius, Martin
Luther (about Purgatory), Père la Chaise, Cardinal Mazarin, St.
Francis de Sales, St. Vincent de Paul, &c. The Autographs of
Literary Men include P. Aretino, Lord Bacon (two), Boileau,
Conrart, Fontenelle, Thomas Lord Fairfax, his Autograph
Translation of "Mercurius Trismagistus Pimander"--Kepler,
Lafontaine, Molière (unique), Mirabeau, Marmontel, Malherbe,
Newton, Peiresc, J. J. Rousseau, Scaliger, Salmasius, Sannazarus,
Thuanus, B. Tasso, Visconti, Voltaire, Vespucius, Winckelmann, &c.
Amongst the Artists are Ph. de Champagne, Perrault, Poussin,
Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael d'Urbino, P. Veronese, Sir C. Wren
(about building the Monument). To this very imperfect sketch of
the contents of this important Collection may be added Autographs
of Calas, Clairon, Sir F. Drake (papers relative to his descent
upon the Spaniards), Richard Hakluyt, Robert Devereux Earl of
Essex (Letter supplicating his Life), La Noue, "Bras de Fer," Duke
of Monmouth (Letter supplicating his Life), Caesar, Nostradamus,
Sir W. Raleigh, the Chancellor Seguier, Duke of Sully, the
Sforzas, Edmund de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk and his brother
Richard (both unique), Turenne, Sir H. Vane, &c.
Catalogues are preparing, and will be sent on application.
The Catalogue Raisonné is now ready, and will be sent on
application, if in the country, on receipt of six stamps.
Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New
Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride in the City of London, and
published by GEORGE BELL of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.
Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet
Street aforesaid.--Saturday, July 19, 1851.
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