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1. MANUSCRIPT FRAGMENTS, in Latin and German, most recovered from use in bindings. 12-15th centuries. 2. 12 DEEDS with 14 SEALS. Latin, mid-13th century to 1570s. Creation dates: 12th to 16th centuries.
1. DE VERE ESTATES (East Anglia). Accounts of WILLIAM SYDNEY, deputy of William Waldegrave, receiver of the Estates of the late John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. 1526. 2. YORK MINSTER AND NORFOLK. Decorated certificate issued by George Meriton, Dean of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Sai...
JONSON, Ben. Jonson's copy of Pausanias, signed by Jonson on the titlepage and bearing his autograph motto 'Tanquam Explorator', also his autograph annotations in Greek and Latin. Sotheby's, 15 Dec 1988, Lot 9 Creation dates: 1613
Draft of letters, etc, of Sir Joseph Banks. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 March 1966, lot 174; calendared in W R Dawson, The Banks Letters, 1958, pp. xxxviii, etc Creation dates: Undated (1794-1807)
William Hack, Atlas of harbours, rivers, ports etc of South America. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 June 1966, lot 87. See also Sloane MS 44; Harl MS 4034 Creation dates: Circa 1686