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Portolano de Venezia, or navigator's guide. 56 folios (1-58, missing 6 and 7). Article 2 corresponds fairly closely with Vat cod lat chart 5300. The other items differ from the printed editions and MSS in Konrad Kretschmer, Die italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters, 1909. Formerly owned by Ab...
Letter of Sir Joseph Banks to Evan Nepean about the salary due to William Wiles, the head gardener who accompanied Captain Bligh in the Providence, Soho Square. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 3-4 March 1969, lot 369 Creation dates: April 1794
Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702): draft of part of his projected life of James, 1st Duke of Ormonde, circa 1702, with a letter in another hand, endorsed by Southwell, rebutting charges against Ormonde, before 1667. Part of Phillipps MS 15626. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1666 Creation dates: Be...
2 letters of John Romney to William Hayley giving detailed information for the latter's wife of George Romney . Sotheby's sale 9 October, lot 330 Creation dates: 1808, 1809
2 letters of Thomas Carlyle to --, and to Edward Fitzgerald, poet & translator. Sotheby sale catalogue 17 December 1973, lots 266, 282 Creation dates: 1860, 1845