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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and shall undertake nothing else until it is completed. The first I painted was Beat1ie's Minstrel, then a moonlight, a sunset, the flight of Florimel from Spencer, Dante's Beatrice, a single figure, Jeremiah dictating 10 Baruch the Scribe, Saul and the witch of Indor, Miriam the Prophetess, etc. $I000 French Revolution. DS, 4to, 1729. Order of arrest issued by Committee of Surveillance. Signed by Merlin, Montant and Sage. With seal. $3.5 Jules III. Pope of Rome. President of the Council of Trent. Official order, St. Peter at Rome, 4to, vellum, 1 553. $4 Verdi, Guiseppi. Italian Composer. Auto. MS, 2pp. Containing his name. A contract with the Directors of the Opera, in regard to composing an opera on a libretto of Scribe. Very fine. $10.00 Forain, Louis. French caricaturist. A portrait in pen and ink of Victor Roger, 8vo, 1278. Signed L. F. D'apres nature. $2.50 Leverett, John. President Harvard College. ALS, fol, Cambridge, 1702. To Judge Addington, conveying messages for Gov. Dudley. Very fine. $ 10.00 H00ker, Rev. Thomas. Founder of Hartford, Conn. Auto. MS, 3pp, 4to. A Latin poem. $25.00 Rogers, Capt. Robert. Famous in Indian wars, and Tory in Revolution. DS, fol, 1776. War papers. Very rare. $10.00 Tryon, Sir William. British Gov. of New York during trie Revolution. DS, New York, 1776. $5.00 Coutbon, Georges. French Revolutionist. DS, fol, 1793. Fine seal. $5.00 Turenne. The Great Marshal of France. DS, 4to, 1663. Fine seal. $5.00 Wordsworth, William. British poet. ALS, 2pp,4to, Rydal Mount, 1831. $12.50 Siddons, Sarah. The greatest actress. ALS, 8vo, Jan. 24. To Reynolds. $15.00 Watt, James. Inventor of the steam engine. ALS, 8vo, 1818. Sto.oo Motley, John Lothrop. Historian. AL, 2pp, 8vo, 1873. Fine letter regarding his health, and personal matters....
