Sir Edward Ford Autographs Collection (#5OL) 06/25/2016 7:00 AM AWST - 06/30/2016 4:00 PM AWST Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-10 of 40. Previous|1234|Next Lot #1 LORD GEORGE ANSON (1697-1762, Admiral): 1745 (30th May) vellum Commission appointing Captain Charles Windham Captain of HMS Duke. Signed by the Commissioners of the Navy - Duke Of Bedford, George Grenville (later Prime Minister), Earl of Sandwich, Henry Legge, Tomas Corbett, Lord Anson & another. Paper seal of admiralty affixed. {A year after Anson's voyage around the world}. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #2 AUSTRALIAN AUTOGRAPHS: Collection including Cardinal Gilroy (1896-1977, Archbishop of Sydney, first Australian-born Cardinal) ALS; Robert Lowe (Viscount Sherbrooke, 1811-92, who lived in NSW 1842-50) ALS; H.C."Nugget" Coombs (1906-97, economist) LS; Ada Crossley (1874-1929, Australian singer) ALS. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #3 SIR JOSEPH BANKS (1743-1820, British naturalist who took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage): ALS from Soho Square, London dated Aug.19th 1814. View details Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #4 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1769-1821): Letterhead "Bonaparte 1e Consul De La Republique", dated 22 Fevrier 1801, signed "Bonaparte" to Gaudin, Minister of Finance, and relates to the death of Coneilleur d"Etat Dufrense. Napoleon asks Gaudin to arrange for a bust of Dufrense to be placed in the hall of the Treasury. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot #5 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1769-1821): 1809 document signed by the initial "N" as Emperor, to General Clarke. {Clarke was one of the most influential and charismatic Franco-Irish generals in the French army during the Napoleonic period. As Minister for War, his role in thwarting the British invasion of the Netherlands in the Walcheren Campaign in 1809, lead to the emperor creating him Duke of Feltre}. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot #6 SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-90, explorer & translator of "The Arabian Nights"): Collection including ALS to Sir Henry Thompson on "Athaneum Club, Pall Mall letterhead; plus group of 1875-90 letters & cards from Lady Isabel Burton (11); 1890 holograph invitation to Sir Richard Burton's funeral. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #7 CHARLES X, KING OF FRANCE (1757-1836): Vellum document signed "Charles Phillippe" at Coblence, dated 10th Feb.1792, during the revolution, countersigned by the Duc de Broglie. Signed on behalf of himself, when Comte d"Artois, and of his brother the Comte de Provence, then styled "Monsieur" and afterwards Louis XVIII. Conferring on the Comte de Ste.Marie the rank of Commander of the 4th Brigade in acknowledgement of his "faithful and affectionate service to the King our brother (Louis XVI)". View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #8 JOHN CHURCHILL, 1st DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH (1650-1722, one of Europe's great generals): 1711 (Oct.13) ALS, "My Lord: As we are now settling the Winter Quarters.. The Queen and the States have agreed to put as many troops as conveniently may be on the frontier..". Partly laid down, with engraved portrait. {On Sept 14th 1711 Marlborough invested Bouchain}. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #9 OLIVER CROMWELL (1599-1658): Document signed "Oliver P", being a warrant authorising payment to Lt.-Col. Thomas Kelsey, Governor of Dover Castle for his expenses, given at Whitehall April 30th 1655. On the reverse is Kelsey's receipt, dated 24th May 1655. View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #10 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): [16th Feb.1849] ALS from Down, Farnborough, Kent to Smith, Elder & Co. regarding sales of his Geological Observations on South America; Coral Reefs and Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands. [Darwin Correspondence Project Letter No.1217]. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$8,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
