English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations - L11404

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English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations

14 July 2011 • London

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Sale Number: L11404

1. Document signed, giving the orders that led to the sack of Cadiz

Estimate: 20,000 – 25,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
2. Two letters signed, to Sir Thomas Holte, Bt.

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
3. Autograph letter signed ("Your most assured and constant frind Charles R"), to Jane Lane

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,500 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
5. A significant group of about 120 18th-century letters to the Earls Cadogan and close family members

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
6. "A Journal of the Proceedings of HM Ship Atalante [and HMS Temeraire] ... Commencing July 28th 1802 and Ending [January 9th 1806] Kept by James Eaton Mid."

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
8. Fine series of sixteen long autograph letters to his family, signed with initials (and "your most affect. brother"; "your most affec. son", etc), being Disraeli's letters home during his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean in the years 1830 and 1831

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
10. The birth of modern football. The earliest rules and historic archive of the world's first football club

Estimate: 800,000 – 1,200,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
11. Collection of papers relating to Ceylon

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
12. Collection of medical drawings

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
15. Journal maintained by G.J. Fiske, with an account of the evacuation of the surviving Russian Imperial family from Yalta in April 1919

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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17. Letter signed ("M.K. Gandhi"), to Edmund Candler

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED
18. Autograph letter signed ("M.K. Gandhi")

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

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