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 31-40 of 40. Previous|1234|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 31 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910, the founder of modern nursing): 1856 (Dec 14) 6-page ALS giving details of the work done by the Nuns in the Crimean War. It also has an amusing reference to begging letters. Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold View details 32 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910, the founder of modern nursing): 1861 (July 22) 3-page ALS from 30 Old Burlington Street to General Sir William Codrington, notes that due to ill health "I have not quitted these walls for 7 months, and of late have been confined to my bed", and is glad her present to his Soldier's Reading Room has afforded them pleasure. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold View details 33 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910, the founder of modern nursing): c1865 part ALS (pages 2-3 of 3) to MP J.S.Mill regarding work "very near my heart - the India Sanitary Service". {John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was a philosopher, political economist and social reformer. He was the first MP to call for women to be given the right to vote}. Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$850StatusSold View details 34 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910, the founder of modern nursing): Carte-de-visite photograph of Florence Nightingale c1860. On reverse "By Appointment, Mr Kilburn, 222 Regent Street. H.Lenthall, Successor". {Nightingale had a principled objection to having photographs taken or her portrait painted}. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 35 SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703, famous diarist, Secretary to the Admiralty): A document regarding a contract for the sale of canvas to the Navy dated October 1665. It is signed by Samuel Pepys and the Lords of the Admiralty - Lord Brouncker, Sir John Mennes, Sir William Batten & Sir William Penn. The actual contact is on reverse, signed by Pepys and John Harbin. Together with an engraving of Samuel Pepys. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 36 PRIVY COUNCIL: 1739 (15th June) Document re the establishment of press gangs, to George Dodington, Custos Rotulorum of Somerset, "His Majesty's Service doth at this time require a speedy supply of Able Seamen and Seafaring Men... to Mann His Majesty's Fleet". signed by the members of the Privy Council -John Potter (Archbishop of Canterbury), Spencer Compton (Britain's 2nd Prime Minister), 7th Earl of Abercorn, Earl FitzWalter, Viscount Torrington, Sir Charles Wager & Arthur Onslow. Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 37 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950, Irish playwright): 1947 (9 July) ALS (card) to Malcolm Morley, The Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, giving permission to do his play "Overruled", and providing notes on casting the characters. Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$900StatusSold View details 38 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (1759-1833, English politician, leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade). 1812 (Aug.20th) signed letter from Sandgate, W.Folkestone to Rd Conyers Esq. Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 39 "The Bishoprick and Citie of Durham" by John Speed [London, c1612-76], engraved map with later hand-colouring, framed & glazed, overall 54x42cm. Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold View details 40 "Cornwall. Described by the travills of John Nordern augmented and published by J.Speed" by John Speed [London, c1612-76], engraved map with later hand-colouring, framed & glazed, overall 54x42cm. Estimate$1,000 - $1,200StatusUnsold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next
