BAKER, Sir Samuel White. AFRICA. Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, discussing preparations for Baker's expedition to the Equatorial Nile basin, Alexandria. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 May 2008, Lot 149. Creation dates: July 1869
PASHA, Emin (SCHNITZER, Eduard). AFRICA. 3 Autograph Letters Signed, written as governor of the Sudanese province of Equatoria, to the naturalist and political agent Sir John Kirk, discussing the Mahdiyah, the fall of Khartoum, and political events in neighbouring states. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 Ma...
STANHOPE, Lady Hester. LEBANON. Autograph Letter Signed to an unidentified correspondent (addressed as 'Dear Sir' and also as 'the constant friend of humanity') about the plague in Lebanon and her own experience there, Lebanon. Sotheby's, LO8401, 8 May 2008, Lot 122. Creation dates: May 1814
ASHBOURNE HOURS. BOOKS OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, containing a rare set of Hours, that of the Hours of 'One's Guardian Angel', and a single miniature, that of the Crucifixion, probably commissioned for a female patron (Johanne). The arms are those of Sir John Ashbourne of Worces...
GILDON, Charles. Manuscript, being a copy of a 5-act play 'Restoration Defeated: the loves of Titus and Teraminta, a tragedy', with corrections and revisions possibly in the author's hand, being the banned original text of a late restoration political play, [England]. Sotheby's, LO8400, 13 Mar 2...
TONYN, Patrick. AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. Some papers of Patrick Tonyn, Governor of East Florida from 1774-1785, including: 6 Autograph Letters Signed to his mother, dated 1754-1793, and 2 Autograph Letters Signed to his brother Charles, dated 1759 and 1779, on subjects including the affai...
CARTER, Howard. PETRIE, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders. 2 Autograph Letters Signed from Carter to his patron Lord Amherst, and Autograph Letter Signed from Carter to Lady Amherst, reporting on the progress of his own and others' excavations, including his uncovering of an XIth Dynasty necropolis...
ROBSON, Elizabeth. Manuscript journal of the Quaker Minister Elizabeth Robson, describing meetings she spoke at and the trials of travelling extensively in America with her husband Thomas Robson. Creation dates: May 1839 - Dec 1841