Sales catalogues: Puttick and Simpson

Date:
6th June 1859
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/16/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Puttick and Simpson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the originals of those edited by the Rev. J. Mitford, and printed by the late Mr. Pickering. » Letters relating to Mr. Richard Heber (No. 227), the eminent scholar and Book collector. Dr. Samuel Henley’s Correspondence (No. 229), with its letters of Sir Joseph Banks, Peter and Wn. Beckford, Jacob Bryant, President Jefferson, Michacl Lort, and many other distinguished men of his time. Dr. Macro’s Correspondence (No. 286), including letters of Boerhaave, Dr. Ph. Doddyidge, Thomas Hearne, Bp. Hurd, Dr. N. Lardner, the artists Hayman, Goupy, Tillemans, etc. Correspondence of T. J. Mathias (No. 303) —of the fev. Norton Nichols, correspondent of Gray the poet (No. 329)—of the Rev. Simon Ochley (No. 358), all containing letters of men eminently distinguished in the various walks of literature and science. The Cor- respondence of J. Pinkerton (No. 385), though in part printed, presents much unpublished matter amongst the very numerous letters of Bp. Percy, Dr. Beattie, Horace Walpole, and others, which it contains. A volume of Letters of the accomplished Anna Maria a@ Schurmann (No. 415) will excite admiration not less by the extreme beauty of their caligraphy, than the surprising versatility and extent of the acquirements of the writer which they display. Three important volumes will be found in Sir Henry Spelman’s Correspondence (No. 442), including amongst the writers, Abp. Sancroft, Bp. Sanderson, Abp. Usher, President Bradshaw, Peiresc, ete. The Rev. John Strype’s Correspondence (No. 462), and that of Ralph Thoresby (No. 478), should also be noticed as containing letters of very many of the learned scholars, theologians, and others of their day. As connected with times more immediately our own, may be named the Correspondence of Mr. William Upcott (No. 509), comprising some seven hundred letters, which the autograph collector, at least, will regard with interesty as being the productions of, for the most part, Collectors, and in reference to their collec- tions ; though, as presenting a vast mass of literary notitia and anecdote, they have much additional claim for con-