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 11-20 of 40. Previous|1234|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 11 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): 8th [August 1850] ALS from Down, Farnborough, Kent to Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell regarding not completing his description of Loricula; wants permission to take his specimen to be drawn by Mr James De C. Sowerby; does he have any other fossil Cirripedia. [Darwin Correspondence Project Letter No.1267]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$9,500StatusSold View details 12 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): Jan.23rd [1861?] ALS from Down, Bromley, Kent with thanks for memoir "on the most interesting scientific point which has occurred for many years". [Darwin Correspondence Project Letter No.13873]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold View details 13 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): [22nd July 1864] ALS from Down, Bromley, Kent to Daniel Oliver asking "perhaps you will observe this one point - whether a leaf with a pitcher has ever fairly and closely wound round a stick or support". [Darwin Correspondence Project Letter No.4566]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$11,000StatusSold View details 14 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): 1870 (Nov.11) ALS from Down, Beckenham, Kent to Philip Sclater regarding the correction of proofs for Descent. Mentions "Mr Hudson's paper is very interesting & it pleases me to see so staunch a hater of evolution a little staggered at the end of his paper". [Darwin Correspondence Project Letter No.7366]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$16,000StatusSold View details 15 CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82): Signature on lower left corner of 1868 (June 15) cover front addressed to "D.Hooker FRS, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London". Together with two illustrations of Charles Darwin. Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 16 CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70, most popular English writer of the Victorian era): 1849 (19th Oct) ALS from Devonshire Terrace to James Gilbert, accepting an invitation to preside at the first public dinner of the Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institute. Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$1,500StatusSold View details 17 ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930, british writer most noted for creating fictional detective Sherlock Holmes): Signature on piece, laid down on page with his calling card, answering the question of whether Joseph Bell was Sherlock Holmes. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$3,000StatusSold View details 18 EDWARD JOHN EYRE (1815-1901. explorer in Australia & controversial Governor of Jamaica): ALS from Adderley Hall, Market Drayton dated 1st Dec.1866. Letter states "As yet I am quite ignorant of what the so called Jamaica Committee are doing or intend doing - tho doubtless they will give me all the trouble and annoyance they can". Together with carte-de-visite photograph of Eyre. Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 19 SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZROY (1796-1858, 10th Governor of NSW), signature on 1847 "New South Wales - Absolute Pardon" document for Alfred Toogood, with seal of Colony of NSW. Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 20 KING GEORGE II (1683-1760, King of Great Britain from 1727 until his death), document signed, Kensington, 18th July 1759, Warrant for funds augmentation for Coldstream Guards, signed 'George R' at head of document, and with paper seal. Fair condition. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next
