Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume relating to the history of the order of the Bath
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Fifth of 5 folio volumes, consisting of collections in manuscript and print, made by and chiefly in the writing of Mrs. Sarah Sophia Banks, relating to the history of the order of the Bath. 1. Original letter from William Fauquier to Sir Joseph Banks K.B. summoning him to attend the investiture...
Four indigenous Australians of Western Australia, drawing attributed to Jane King
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Signed: ‘J. King’ (lower centre). Provenance note on f. 44 verso: ‘sketch by Mrs J. King in 1843’. Correspondence between I. M. Crawford, Western Australian Museum, Perth, to Vincent Megaw, 7 July 1980, pasted into preliminary pages of the volume (Add MS 7085), describes the drawing and states...