A MANUSCRIPT written in one of the alphabets of the south of India, on strips of the palm-leaf, rolled into the form of rings, and linked together, so as to form a chain of seven links. [12,092.]
AUTOGRAPHS OF ROYAL PERSONAGES of England and Scotland, viz. Warrant to the Keeper of the Wardrobe, signed by Henry VI., no date, on parchment;-Warrant to the Keeper of the Wardrobe, signed by Henry VIII., and countersigned by Wolsey, as Bishop of Lincoln, dat. Eltham, 28 May, 1514, on parchment...
AUTOGRAPHS OF ROYAL PERSONAGEs of France, viz.: Signature of Louis XI. to a warrant addressed to the treasurers of France, in favor of Guyot Duchesnay, Maître d'Hotel to the King, and Keeper of the Petty Seal of Montpelier, on account of services in Roussillon and Sardaigne, dat. Beauvais, 30 Ju...
"COURS de MATHÉMATIQUES à l'usage de la marine et de l'artillerie pat. Bézout," parties ii. et iv., Paris, 1811-12, being the copy used by the Emperor Napoleon in teaching young Bertrand mathmatics, and having a few notes in pencil on the margiins, in the Emperor's handwriting. Inserted at the b...
ROYAL AND OTHER AUTOGRAPHS, Chiefly of the North of Europe,- vi--. Complimentary Verses addressed to Count Algarotti by Frederic II., King of Prussia, dat. Berlin, 15 Sept. IT40; 'holograph, in French ;-Letter from Charles XII. of Sweden to William III., conimmunicating the news of his victory o...
AUTOGRAPHS OF STATESMEN AND NOBBLEMEN, viz. Letter from Thomas Crumwell, Master of the Rolls, (afterwards Earl of Essex,) to the Earl of Cumberland, [Henry Clifford, first earl,] relative to the suppression of riotous assemblages, dat. 18 June, [1536? ]-Letter from Robert [Devereux], Earl of Ess...
AUTOGRAPHS OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND OTHERS, viz.: Order of the Council of State, signed by Oliver Cromwell, as " Præses pro tempore," for the delivery to Sir Oliver Fleming of certain duplicate books out of the Library of St. James, dat. 22 Feb. 1648 ;-Letter from Oliver Cromwell, as Protector, to...
AUTOGRAPHS OF MODERN STATESMEN, etc., viz. : Letter from Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Oxford) to [James Butler] Duke of Ormond, dat. Whitehall, 4 Sept. 1704; attached is a ticket of admission to the Earl's trial in 1717 ;-Letter from the same to the same, dat. Whitehall, 4 March, 170-6/7 ;-...
AUTOGRAPHS OF THE REFORMERS, viz.: Letter from Martin Luther [in the handwriting of Melancthon] to the Emperor Charles V., in his own defence, dat. Wittemberg, 30 Aug. 1520 ; in Latin;-A familiar Letter from Philip Melancthon to John Aless, dat. 18 Aug. -; in Latin; -Letter from John Calvin to G...
AUTOGRAPHS OF DIVINES, etc., viz.: Letter from Æneas Sylvius Piccolomineus, Bishop of Sienna, (afterwards Pope Pius II.,) to the Magistrates of Sienna, dat. Rome, 1 March, 1456; in Latin ;-Letter of compliment from Cardinal Stefano de Augustini to [King Charles ll.?], dat. Rome, 8 Dec. 1682 ; en...