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 21-30 of 40. Previous|1234|Next Lot #21 ADMIRAL (VISCOUNT) SAMUEL HOOD (1724-1816): 1775 (July 26th) ALS from Catherington to Lady Chatham (wife of William Pitt the Elder), "the Lizard frigate has orders to go to Quebec & will sail from Portsmouth in about a week". {The Battle of Bunker Hill had been fought a month before; on July 3 Washington had assumed command of the American Army}. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #22 DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-73, Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"):Two pages of ALS to Robert Moffat, written in the Bechuana country about two years before his great northern journey. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #23 MEDICAL AUTOGRAPHS: Collection with Joseph Lister (1827-1912, pioneer of antiseptic surgery) 3 ALS; Edward Swarbreck Hall (1805-81) 1869 Petition regarding Vaccination Act in Tasmania; St.George Mivart (1827-1900, biologist) ALS; Prof. James Hill (1873-1954, embryologist) ALS; Charles MacLaurin (1872-1925, Surgeon & author) ALS; Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor (1878-1960, pioneer of blood tranfusion) 3 ALS & 2 Xmas Cards; Dr M.G.Candau (1911-83, Director of WHO) 2 LS; and others. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #24 SIR THOMAS MITCHELL (1792-1855, surveyor and explorer of SE Australia): 1836 (21 Nov) ALS from Craigend (NSW) to Captain Phillip Parker King, written just after his return from his Third expedition, with interesting postscript, "PS. I write in haste for the post - but I want to request, in case you should see Sturt - not to let him see my journal which I now send complete". View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot #25 SIR THOMAS MITCHELL (1792-1855, surveyor and explorer of SE Australia): 1844 (2nd Dec) ALS from Sydney to Captain Phillip Parker King, asks about the proposed settlement Northward, and concludes, "I wish I had had a conversation with you on the present prospects of discovery and exploration". View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #26 SIR THOMAS MITCHELL (1792-1855, surveyor and explorer of SE Australia): 1845 (30 Sept) ALS from Surveyor General's Office Sydney to Captain Phillip Parker King RN, mentions final preparations for his fourth expedition into Queensland, including Barometers, two boats in halves under construction, and asks his opinion of A.W.Brignall late Commander of the Revenue Cutter who has offered his services. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #27 SIR THOMAS MITCHELL (1792-1855, surveyor and explorer of SE Australia): 1855 (26 July) ALS from Surveyor General's Office Sydney to Assistant Surveyor Bennett, regarding some Circulars sent to him in error. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #28 SIR THOMAS MITCHELL (1792-1855, surveyor and explorer of SE Australia): ALS from Surveyor General's Office Sydney to Captain Phillip Parker King RN, dated 26 April 1856 (sic), presenting King with a copy of his recently completed map of Port Jackson. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #29 GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE (1761-1809): 1805 (25th October) ALS from the War Office. "... I am directed to acquaint you that the objection to your publishing the precise Stations of the British Forces still subsists in full force". View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #30 LORD HORATIO NELSON (1758-1805): ALS from Lord Nelson to Sir William Hamilton, written from his flag-ship off Naples, and dated 12th December 1798. it is written with his left hand, for his right arm had been amputated about 12 months prior to this. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$3,800StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
