B. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, lined with fragments of a 16th cent. English text headed, `The one and twentieth [sic] Booke of Sleidanes Commentaries’. 180 x 190 x 80 mm.
C. Black paper over wooden boards, hinged lid, leather tie, lined with sheets of a 17th cent. English text headed, `God and the King’. 285 x 200 x 85 mm.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI. Letters and documents of the following (title A-H): 1-3. Three letters from George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle to John Evelyn; 1665-1666. In the hand of an amanuensis, signed, last jointly with Prince Rupert. These supplement the sequence in Add. MS 78320, when Evely...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXI, DXII. `Original Letters: Nobility 1544-1704’. (title on spine). With preliminary lists of contents in Upcott’s hand. Lot 235 in Evans’ sale of William Upcott’s collections, 22 Jun 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 1/1-2. Two volumes. Matching bindings of embossed brown leather, early 19th cent. 330 x 240mm.
UPCOTT’S COLLECTIONS 78678-78693. EVELYN PAPERS. Albums containing autograph letters and other manuscript items, 16th-19th cent., collected and assembled by Wiliam Upcott (1779-1845), with a few loose items also collected by him, early 19th cent. For Upcott and the Evelyn family, see also Add. MSS 78577-78584 and 78641-78642 above. The documents are arranged in sets of albums by the status or occupation of the writers, and within each album alphabetically by the writer’s name, or chrono...
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William Upcott, antiquary and autograph collector: Albums of letters and portraits, 16th-19th cent. assembled by William Upcott: early 19th cent.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXII. Letters and documents of the following (titles I-Z). 1. Sir John Knevit to [John Evelyn or Sir Richard Browne?]; 1663. French. 2. Order from Sir Marmaduke Langdale, afterwards 1st Baron Langdale, to the aldermen of Leeds; 1639. Signed. 3. Order from Ludovic Stuart...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. DXIII. `Collectors of Books. Vol. I. 1824’. Letters and documents of the following: 1, 2. Sir Thomas Bodley; 28 July 1595. With a facsimile. 3. Sir Robert Cotton (facsimile) 4. John, Lord Lumley; 15 July 1578. 5-7. Dr John Cosin, Dean of Peterborough, Bishop of Durham,...
Evelyn Papers. Vols. dxiii-dxv. `Original Letters collected by William Upcott of the London Institution: Collectors of Books’. Lot 513 in Evans’ sale of Upcott’s collections, 22 June 1846 (Add. MS 78584 B). Formerly Evelyn MSS 2/1-3. Three volumes. Matching bindings of brown leather. 340 x 250mm.