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1990réf. 2328013Dayton Nevada: Tree By the River Publishing 1990. Signed Copy. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Signed by author. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Minor wear to corners. 1990 Soft Cover. 197 pp. Though Americans usually associate Mark Twain with Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River Samuel Clemens actually began his serious writing careers as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise at Virginia City Nevada in 1862. Contrary to Clemens' well told story about his curious pen name "Mark Twain" had nothing to do with his life on the river and more to do with his drinking habits while in Virginia City. Having lost his high paying job as a river boat pilot on the Mississippi due to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 Clemens tags along with his brother Orion to Nevada Territory. For a year Clemens prospects at several mining camps trying to strike it rich. He fails and goes broke at Aurora Nevada. Having contributed a series of humorous letters to the Enterprise editor Joe Goodman offers Clemens a reporting post in the then booming silver mining town of Virginia City. It is Clemens' first full time paying writing job. Four months later Clemens is writing as Mark Twain.--rear cover Tree By the River Publishing paperback books
1785réf. 003743original letter. WILLIAM V PRINCE OF ORANGE 1748-1806 Stadtholder of the United Provinces. Autograph letter signed in French to GEORGE III King of Great Britain recommending Count Michal Kazimierz Oginski 1730-1800 Grand Hetman of Lithuania. 18 December 1785. Single bifolium written on the first and second pages with integral address panel endorsed "Prince d'Orange to the King" and contemporary docketing. Signed in the formal court style "De Votre Majesté le très humble et très obéissant serviteur G. Pr. d'Orange." Old folds light browning small repair at one fold; otherwise sound. Very good. English translation of the letter: "Sire Count Oginski Grand General of Lithuania who has spent several years in this country and who intends to depart for England in the month of June has had the honour of presenting himself to Your Majesty and most humbly to beg that Your Majesty will be pleased to grant him the continuation of your goodwill and assistance in the plans which he may have the honour to submit to you. I cannot refrain from expressing the profound respect with which I am Of Your Majesty The very humble and very obedient servant W. Prince of Orange. 18 December 1785." A formal letter of introduction from William V to George III on behalf of Count Michal Kazimierz Oginski Grand Hetman of Lithuania commending him to the King's continued favour and assistance as he prepared to travel to England. Oginski was one of the senior military and political figures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A former leader of the Bar Confederation and a persistent opponent of Russian dominance he had been defeated by Russian forces in the early 1770s forced into exile and thereafter remained a politically sensitive figure in eastern European affairs. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1785. original letter paperback
1937réf. 98431937 London, Jonathan Cape, 1937, In huit, 318 pp, reliure toilée d'éditeur, bleu nuit, auteur et titre dorés sur dos lisse, tête bleutée, qqs rousseurs,
1969304 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., map, ports. (part col.) 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
19308vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original red cloth, gilt back, uncut, top a little dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition
19548vo., Second Impression, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter browned at backstrip and extremities. Published a year after the first edition.
1823réf. 11828L. G. Michaud 1823 458 pages in8. 1823. reliure editeur plein veau dos orné. 458 pages.
réf. #[60986]British Empire d.d. 1 August 1817. Vellum charter good condition. 60x45 cm. Manuscript text and calligraphy with 4 coloured coats of arms three of the King and the officials and one of Hopton. Original 'signatures' written names and attached wax seals of both officials in decorated wooden spane casings. Encased in a made to fit oblong wooden case with metal closing mechanism and clothed with red linen decorated in gold with GR initials and crowns. This comes with an original letter from George W. Marshall Rouge Croix from the College of Arms dated 1900 and the Royal licence signed by Queen Victoria adressed to Lieutenant-Colonel Hopton for a change of name and arms from John Dutton Hunt to Hopton. This charter explains that William Hopton heretofore William Parsons only surviving son of John Parsons MP of Kemerton Court county Gloucester deceased by Deborah his wife who was the daughter of Richard Hopton of Canon Frome in Hereford and the aunt of Richard Cope Hopton also deceased took the name of Hopton by Royal decree of 11 March 1817 in order to inherit the Canon Frome estate. It also relates to the impressive family history dating several centuries back. The Hoptons had lived at Canon Frome for several generations the succession often being through the female line. The Canon Frome estate was one of the largest in the county and he was a typical squarson'. William Parsons Hopton married twice first to Mary Graves and second to Anna Poole and his eldest grandson by the second marriage Edward married his cousin Clare Ellen Trafford. A soldier who served in the Crimea Indian Mutiny and the Kaffir and Zulu Wars Edward became a General and was knighted in 1900. He and his son Edward after him were Trustees of the Michaelchurch Estate and Eliza Rawson bought them a house at Cagebrook in the parish of Eaton Bishop. It seems that Canon Frome Court is now inhabitated by a rural living community of adults and children. Kemerton Court apparently the ancestral home of the Parsons family still exists and in the village of Kemerton there is a two storey tower still known as "Parsons folly". Unusual is the grant of a crest "out of a Ducal Coronet" "under the peculiar circumstances and the antiquity of the family" but "may not be made a precedent." H96 hardcover
198615 illustrations. 219 pages. Maroon cloth covers. Rubbing to surface of dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped.
1767réf. 751631767. London: Printed by Mark & Robert Baskett 1767. London: Printed by Mark & Robert Baskett 1767. Regulation in Response to the "Turnpike Boom" Highways. Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Septimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The Nineteenth Day of May Anno Domini 1761 In the First Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God Of Great Britain France And Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And from thence Continued by Several Prorogations to the Eleventh Day of November 1766 Being the Sixth Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. ii 5-125 1 62 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few very minor nicks and scratches to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front joint just starting at head corners bumped and lightly worn hinges starting early ink annotation to rear pastedown. Light toning negligible light foxing to a few pages internally clean. $750. Two acts of Parliament consolidating and regulating turnpike trusts in the wake of the "turnpike boom" of the late eighteenth century. Turnpike trusts established by individual acts of Parliament had the power to collect tolls that would be used for road maintenance. Before the widespread use of these trusts local parishes were responsible for raising revenue via taxation and repairing highways and often found the task difficult. The first act the Turnpike Act of 1766 established basic rules for drivers and provided for the erection of milestones to indicate the distance between towns. The second act the Highways Act 1766 expanded on provisions and standards for road repair. The volume includes a thorough 62 pp. index to both acts. The ESTC lists a 64 pp. index and an additional act from 1768. Our 62 pp. index appears complete and we have seen another copy without this additional act. As in the ESTC record our copy lacks leaf A1 which may have been blank or unissued. OCLC and the ESTC locate 2 copies of this title British Library Cardiff University. See English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC T2259. unknown books
1767réf. 751631767. London: Printed by Mark & Robert Baskett 1767. London: Printed by Mark & Robert Baskett 1767. Regulation in Response to the "Turnpike Boom" Highways. Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Septimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The Nineteenth Day of May Anno Domini 1761 In the First Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God Of Great Britain France And Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And from thence Continued by Several Prorogations to the Eleventh Day of November 1766 Being the Sixth Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Mark Baskett and by the assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. ii 5-125 1 62 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2". Contemporary calf blind rules to boards blind fillets along joints raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few very minor nicks and scratches to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front joint just starting at head corners bumped and lightly worn hinges starting early ink annotation to rear pastedown. Light toning negligible light foxing to a few pages internally clean. $750. Two acts of Parliament consolidating and regulating turnpike trusts in the wake of the "turnpike boom" of the late eighteenth century. Turnpike trusts established by individual acts of Parliament had the power to collect tolls that would be used for road maintenance. Before the widespread use of these trusts local parishes were responsible for raising revenue via taxation and repairing highways and often found the task difficult. The first act the Turnpike Act of 1766 established basic rules for drivers and provided for the erection of milestones to indicate the distance between towns. The second act the Highways Act 1766 expanded on provisions and standards for road repair. The volume includes a thorough 62 pp. index to both acts. The ESTC lists a 64 pp. index and an additional act from 1768. Our 62 pp. index appears complete and we have seen another copy without this additional act. As in the ESTC record our copy lacks leaf A1 which may have been blank or unissued. OCLC and the ESTC locate 2 copies of this title British Library Cardiff University. See English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC T2259. unknown
19988vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, pictorial endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1808réf. 6591London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1808. Unbound. Good. 1 leaf. Extracted from Acts of Parliament 48th George III chapter 23. Trade protections for Great Britain from competitive goods made in Canada and the Caribbean. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
1761réf. 729481761. Public and Private Acts of Parliament 1761-1762 Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Secundo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The Ninth Day of May Anno Dom. 1761 In the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And from thence Continued by Several Prorogations to the Third Day of November Following; Being the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1761 i.e. 1762. 670 681-786 805-1026 16 pp. Lacking Acts XVIII and XXII and general title page of Act II. Same general title page preceding each act Acts VII-XXXVII dated 1762. Bound With An Abstract of the Publick Acts Passed in the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain And in the Second Year of the Reign of Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Third. London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1762. 139 1 pp. With two folding tables. Folio 12" x 7-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf gilt royal arms to boards rebacked and recornered in period style with raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges edges rouged. Light rubbing to boards a few scuffs nicks and scratches moderate rubbing and light wear to board edges corners bumped hinges cracked single horizontal crease to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior light foxing in a few places. An appealing copy. $650. A collection of 86 acts passed in the first session of the tenth Parliament of Great Britain with tables listing the titles of the public acts including acts XXIX-LXXXVII which were not printed and summaries of 69 private acts. Some of the more interesting acts include several acts to do with commercial taxes and "An Act for Naturalizing Such Foreign Protestants as have Served or Shall Serve in His Majesty's Royal American Regiment Or as Engineers in America." Appended is the separately-issued volume of abstracts. Acts XVIII the Longitude Act of 1762 and XXII are lacking in full but present in the abstract volume; the first extended an act establishing a prize for the invention of a successful marine chronometer and th. unknown books
1770réf. 735651770. Includes the First Exception to the Currency Acts Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Decimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Tenth Day of May Anno Domini 1768 In the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And From Thence Continued By Several Prorogations To the Ninth Day of January 1770. Being the Third Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1770. 204 217-220 209-668 677-744 753-874 20 pp. Pp. 205-208 3F lacking pp. 217-220 3I repeated due to binder error. Text of Acts XXXIV and XLIV lacking along with general title page to Act X. Same general title page preceding each act Acts LIII-XCIV not printed but listed in table. Folio 12-1/4" x 7-1/2". Contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf with raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine edges rouged. Light rubbing to boards more moderate rubbing and light wear to board edges corners bumped hinges cracked. Moderate toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places. $1000. A collection of 51 acts passed in the second session of the twelfth Parliament of Great Britain with tables listing the titles of the public acts and summaries of 96 private acts. Some of the more interesting acts include several acts regulating trade in America and an act allowing New York to pass an act "for the creating and issuing upon Loan Paper Bills of Credit to a certain Amount; and to make the same a Legal Tender." The right to issue paper money had been heavily restricted by the Currency Acts of 1751 and 1764 but after New York's government argued that these acts hindered full compliance with the Quartering Act Parliament relented and allowed New York to issue paper currency for public but not private debts. This concession was extended to the other colonies in 1773. Acts XXXIV dealing with the attempts to develop a successful marine chronometer and XLIV regulating mercantile fraud and hackney coaches are not present in our volume. English Short-Title Catalogue N57155. unknown books
1770réf. 735651770. Includes the First Exception to the Currency Acts Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Decimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster the Tenth Day of May Anno Domini 1768 In the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And From Thence Continued By Several Prorogations To the Ninth Day of January 1770. Being the Third Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1770. 204 217-220 209-668 677-744 753-874 20 pp. Pp. 205-208 3F lacking pp. 217-220 3I repeated due to binder error. Text of Acts XXXIV and XLIV lacking along with general title page to Act X. Same general title page preceding each act Acts LIII-XCIV not printed but listed in table. Folio 12-1/4" x 7-1/2". Contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf with raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine edges rouged. Light rubbing to boards more moderate rubbing and light wear to board edges corners bumped hinges cracked. Moderate toning to interior light foxing and soiling in a few places. $1000. A collection of 51 acts passed in the second session of the twelfth Parliament of Great Britain with tables listing the titles of the public acts and summaries of 96 private acts. Some of the more interesting acts include several acts regulating trade in America and an act allowing New York to pass an act "for the creating and issuing upon Loan Paper Bills of Credit to a certain Amount; and to make the same a Legal Tender." The right to issue paper money had been heavily restricted by the Currency Acts of 1751 and 1764 but after New York's government argued that these acts hindered full compliance with the Quartering Act Parliament relented and allowed New York to issue paper currency for public but not private debts. This concession was extended to the other colonies in 1773. Acts XXXIV dealing with the attempts to develop a successful marine chronometer and XLIV regulating mercantile fraud and hackney coaches are not present in our volume. English Short-Title Catalogue N57155. unknown
1761réf. 729481761. Public and Private Acts of Parliament 1761-1762 Great Britain. George III 1738-1820 King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Secundo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The Ninth Day of May Anno Dom. 1761 In the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And from thence Continued by Several Prorogations to the Third Day of November Following; Being the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1761 i.e. 1762. 670 681-786 805-1026 16 pp. Lacking Acts XVIII and XXII and general title page of Act II. Same general title page preceding each act Acts VII-XXXVII dated 1762. Bound With An Abstract of the Publick Acts Passed in the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain And in the Second Year of the Reign of Our Most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Third. London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1762. 139 1 pp. With two folding tables. Folio 12" x 7-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf gilt royal arms to boards rebacked and recornered in period style with raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine blind tooling to board edges edges rouged. Light rubbing to boards a few scuffs nicks and scratches moderate rubbing and light wear to board edges corners bumped hinges cracked single horizontal crease to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior light foxing in a few places. An appealing copy. $650. A collection of 86 acts passed in the first session of the tenth Parliament of Great Britain with tables listing the titles of the public acts including acts XXIX-LXXXVII which were not printed and summaries of 69 private acts. Some of the more interesting acts include several acts to do with commercial taxes and "An Act for Naturalizing Such Foreign Protestants as have Served or Shall Serve in His Majesty's Royal American Regiment Or as Engineers in America." Appended is the separately-issued volume of abstracts. Acts XVIII the Longitude Act of 1762 and XXII are lacking in full but present in the abstract volume; the first extended an act establishing a prize for the invention of a successful marine chronometer and th. unknown
1773réf. 1912270013London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2 volumes bound as one. Bound in full contemporary leather. Joints cracked. 131 17; 104 14 pages ; 19 cm. Public General Acts. 1772-1773. 13 Geo. III.c.78. Turnpike Road Act 13 Geo. III Cap. lxxxiv An act to explain amend and reduce into one act of Parliament the general laws now in being for regulating the Turnpike Roads in that part of Great Britain called England and for other purposes. London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty hardcover
1803réf. 56968Windsor. May 12 1803. King George III Admits War with Napoleon "seems now so certain" A royal letter of profound import written entirely in the hand of King George III and signed "George R." Here the British King writes hastily to Lord Hawkesbury his Secretary of State outlining the lack of recent communications from his emissaries in Paris who were conducting peacetime negotiations with Napoleon after the failure of the Treaty of Amiens the year before. King George III mentions receiving dispatches from Lord Whitworth who was serving as the King's ambassador to France at the time; interestingly it was Whitworth to whom Napoleon threatened war if Great Britain did not evacuate Malta just a few months earlier in February 1803. Whitworth himself evacuated France the day after the present letter was written in full knowledge that peace negotiations were over. The King also relates the failure of French General Jacques Lauriston to arrive in London presumably for last-minute peace talks to prevent conflict. The King states that Lauriston's activities were likely intended to buy time for French negotiators. King George III then writes portentously beginning the second and final paragraph: "War seems now so certain that Lord Hawkesbury cannot too soon form the negotiations between this country and France into a Manifesto and state the conduct of the latter fully since the conclusion of the Peace as the cause of the steps we have been obliged to take." In other words the King is ordering his Secretary of State Lord Hawkesbury to state Great Britain's case for war with France. This is very likely the first admission by the King himself of the reality of impending war with France. Six days after the present letter was written Great Britain declared war on France sparking the long series of armed conflicts known as the Napoleonic Wars which would culminate a dozen years later at the Battle of Waterloo. Important letters signed by King George III are rarely offered in the market. Rarer still are letters composed entirely in his hand and signed by him as in the present example. Cheffin's Auctions in England sold a follow-up to the present letter also to Lord Hawkesbury and dated two days later on May 14 for £11430 in January 2019. That letter was bought for £55 in 1966. By comparison the present earlier letter was bought by H. Richard Dietrich for $92 at Parke Bernet's Fitzgerald sale on November 6 1963. It has remained part of the Dietrich American Foundation collection since then. A momentous political and diplomatic communication from the King of England to his Secretary of State resigned to the fact that war with Napoleon is at hand. 1p. on an 8¾ x 6¾-inch sheet. Left margin reinforced with thicker paper old folds. Mostly minor losses along left margin just touching first letters of several words. Very good. unknown books
réf. 0483275670.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1818réf. 65380Eyre & Strahan London 1818. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 729-744pp. String-bound. Previous owner's signature in ink. Slightly chipped at margins. Creasing to page corners. Covers marked. Original Act of Parliament. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Britain/UK; 19th century; History. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 65380. . Eyre & Strahan paperback
1797réf. 5392London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1797. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp 5-150 Act of Parliament and pp 3-85 Rules and Articles produced in smaller format in original marbled wrappers. In very good condition rubbed wrappers and thumbed corners but with crisp clean pages a little foxing to edges and extremities. Ownership inscription to title page of Townsend Ince of Chrisleton Hall. The second section includes rules for British Troops raised in America and the East Indies. Very Good 1797 George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown
1786réf. 5393London: C Eyre and the Executors of W Strahan 1786. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp 58 index Act of Parliament produced in smaller format in original marbled wrappers. In very good condition rubbed wrappers thumbed corner and browned edges but with crisp clean pages. Very Good 1786 C Eyre and the Executors of W Strahan unknown
1771réf. ZB517827London: Charles Eyre & William Strahan 1771. tall quarto 46 pp. general title leaf pp. 1271-1314 complete in itself but part of a series two pieces of clear tape on extraction mark at left margin else very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. London: Charles Eyre & William Strahan unknown
1803réf. 56968Windsor. May 12 1803. King George III Admits War with Napoleon "seems now so certain" A royal letter of profound import written entirely in the hand of King George III and signed "George R." Here the British King writes hastily to Lord Hawkesbury his Secretary of State outlining the lack of recent communications from his emissaries in Paris who were conducting peacetime negotiations with Napoleon after the failure of the Treaty of Amiens the year before. King George III mentions receiving dispatches from Lord Whitworth who was serving as the King's ambassador to France at the time; interestingly it was Whitworth to whom Napoleon threatened war if Great Britain did not evacuate Malta just a few months earlier in February 1803. Whitworth himself evacuated France the day after the present letter was written in full knowledge that peace negotiations were over. The King also relates the failure of French General Jacques Lauriston to arrive in London presumably for last-minute peace talks to prevent conflict. The King states that Lauriston's activities were likely intended to buy time for French negotiators. King George III then writes portentously beginning the second and final paragraph: "War seems now so certain that Lord Hawkesbury cannot too soon form the negotiations between this country and France into a Manifesto and state the conduct of the latter fully since the conclusion of the Peace as the cause of the steps we have been obliged to take." In other words the King is ordering his Secretary of State Lord Hawkesbury to state Great Britain's case for war with France. This is very likely the first admission by the King himself of the reality of impending war with France. Six days after the present letter was written Great Britain declared war on France sparking the long series of armed conflicts known as the Napoleonic Wars which would culminate a dozen years later at the Battle of Waterloo. Important letters signed by King George III are rarely offered in the market. Rarer still are letters composed entirely in his hand and signed by him as in the present example. Cheffin's Auctions in England sold a follow-up to the present letter also to Lord Hawkesbury and dated two days later on May 14 for £11430 in January 2019. That letter was bought for £55 in 1966. By comparison the present earlier letter was bought by H. Richard Dietrich for $92 at Parke Bernet's Fitzgerald sale on November 6 1963. It has remained part of the Dietrich American Foundation collection since then. A momentous political and diplomatic communication from the King of England to his Secretary of State resigned to the fact that war with Napoleon is at hand. 1p. on an 8¾ x 6¾-inch sheet. Left margin reinforced with thicker paper old folds. Mostly minor losses along left margin just touching first letters of several words. Very good. unknown
