Bibliotheca Phillippica New Series : Twelfth Part. Catalogue of English Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Charters from the Celebrated Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872). [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 26 June, 1974]

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 1974. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 154 pp, numerous ills and plates. Lots 2830-3085. Among the highlights noted were the following: Charters or Other Documents Relating to Berkshire, Cheshire, Dover, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Yorkshire, and Large Collections from Shropshire and Warwickshire Inventories of Richard II's Plate and Valuables, 1378, and of Simon de Burley's Possessions, 1387; Accounts of Queen Joan's Household, 1422; and an Illuminated Genealogical Roll of the Roper Family; Account Books of Sir William St. Loe, of Chatsworth, 1560, and of the Savile Family of Thornhill, Yorks., 1629-34; “Bess of Hardwick's” Autograph Lists of Her Jewels and Plate; Letters of John Clarke, Founder of Rhode Island, and Other Early Baptists to Col. Robert Bennet; a Corrected Draft of Lord Chief Justice Coke's Treatise Championing the Common Law; Seventeenth-Century Diplomatic Correspondences; and an Extensive Correspondence from William Blathwayt's Papers; Admiral Lawson's Journal During the First Dutch War, and Fine Series of Letters of Admirals Hood and Rodney; Journals of Travels in Europe, Asia Minor, and Persia; Papers Concerning General William Shirley's Conduct of the War in America, 1755-6, and a Long Unpublished Account of the Baitle of Lake St. George; Autograph Letters of Thomas Henshaw, F.R.S., “Le Grand Arnauld”, Sir William Dugdale, Thomas Hearne, George Crabbe, Mrs. Siddons, Lafayetre, William Roxburgh, the Earl of Sandwich and the Earl of Guilford, and a Brief Autograph Ms. of Robert Hooke; Latin Poetry of Matthew Cudner; Sir Edward Dering's Diary and Commonplace Book, with an Unrecorded Variant of a Poem by John Donne; and the Poetical Commonplace Book of Thomas Manne, of Christ Church, Oxford, with Poems by Henry King, Richard Corbett, Thomas Carew and Others. Backstrip sunned, otherwise Very Good.