LONDON 13 DECEMBER 2016 DECEMBER 13 LONDON HISTORY, CHILDREN’S CHILDREN’S HISTORY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, ENGLISH LITERATURE, BOOKS AND BOOKS ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 13 DECEMBER 2016 L16408 ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FRONT COVER LOT 67 (DETAIL) BACK COVER LOT 317 THIS PAGE LOT 30 (DETAIL) ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATIONS AUCTION IN LONDON 13 DECEMBER 2016 SALE L16408 SESSION ONE: 10 AM SESSION TWO: 2.30 PM EXHIBITION Friday 9 December 9 am-4.30 pm Saturday 10 December 12 noon-5 pm Sunday 11 December 12 noon-5 pm Monday 12 December 9 am-7 pm 34-35 New Bond Street London, W1A 2AA +44 (0)20 7293 5000 sothebys.com THIS PAGE LOT 101 (DETAIL) SPECIALISTS AND AUCTION ENQUIRIES For further information on lots in this auction please contact any of the specialists listed below. 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They chiefly relate to the life and during the Commonwealth and a member of the Sealed Knot. this Kings actions, since his comeing to the Throne, I mean his careers of two contemporaries: Henry Hyde, Viscount He here attempts to secure the prosecution of John Thurloe triumphant victory at the Boyne, by which it seemed once as if (1616-68), who had run the Commonwealth’s formidable he had entirely conquer’d that Kingdome and established the Cornbury (1710-73), and Thomas Villiers (1709-86), intelligence network. In the end Thurloe was not exempted rest...”), 12 numbered pages, folio, dated New Park, 12 April created successively Baron Hyde of Hindon (1756) and from the Act of Indemnity, allegedly as he threatened to 1691, stab stitched in paper wrappers publish his “black book” that named Cavaliers who had Earl of Clarendon (1776). Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester (1642-1711), was the informed for the Commonwealth. second son of Edward, Earl of Clarendon. His loyalty to the Cornbury was the last heir to the Earldom of Church of England led to his falling out with James II before the £ 500-700 € 600-800 Clarendon that had been created for the statesman # Glorious Revolution, but as a high churchman he increasingly and historian Edward Hyde (1609-1674). Cornbury had associated himself with the Tory party after 1688. In 1665 Hyde married Henrietta Boyle, daughter of Richard, Earl of Jacobite sympathies but was MP for the University 2 Burlington. She died on 12 April 1686 (the date of the first of of Oxford – with which his family had powerful these manuscript meditations). CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF 4 connections – from 1732 until 1751. He became # £ 2,000-3,000 € 2,250-3,350 disillusioned with politics in the later 1740s and spent A Collection of Proceedings in the House of Commons about impeaching the Earl of Clarendon his final years in France. Cornbury counted Pope late Lord Chancellor with the debates and speeches 5 and Swift amongst his friends, and was himself the 3 concerning that Matter; As also severall Arguments author of pamphlets and at least two plays (see lots concerning the Nature of Treason by Mr John CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF SPAIN—KEENE, SIR BENJAMIN 6 and 7). He died, unmarried, in Paris in 1753. Most Vaughan, Serjeant Maynard &c, Three bundles of contemporary copies of letters The Life of Edwarde Earle of Clarendon, scribal of Cornbury’s property was inherited by his niece, scribal manuscript in a single hand, recording a series of and papers relating to Keene’s mission as envoy- manuscript Charlotte (née Capel). Thomas Villiers, second son debates from 26 October to 18 December 1667, with red ruled extraordinary to the Spanish court margins and contemporary pagination, 270 pages, folio, vellum in a single hand, the text divided into seven parts, dated at the of the Earl of Jersey, was her husband. Villiers had boards gilt, c.1670s beginning and at the end of each part, Montpellier, 23 July 1669 including correspondence between Keene and the Foreign minister, Thomas, Duke of Newcastle, and between Keene spent the 1730s and ‘40s as a diplomat mostly in These debates in the Commons enjoyed circulation in [sic, for 1668] to 1 August 1670, red-ruled margins, paginated, in and the Spanish Secretary of State Sebastian de la Cuadra, manuscript in the years after Clarendon’s banishment, and 58 stab-stitched fascicules, 1407 pages, plus blanks, folio (325 the German-speaking world (none of his diplomatic petitions and memorials by British merchants in the Americas, were printed in 1700 from a text similar to this scribal copy. x 200mm, Maid of Dort “Pro Patria” watermark), eighteenth papers are included in this offering) and, following his century, severe damp damage to the final fascicule and the last letters of British prisoners of the Spanish in Havana and elsewhere (“...the place we are in is 130 foot long, and about # £ 1,200-1,500 € 1,350-1,700 few fascicule somewhat affected by damp retirement from the diplomatic service, he entered 30 foot broad and 300 and odd slaves with Iron on and Clarendon wrote this account of his life after settling in government in the 1760s. As Chancellor of the Duchy Chaines and as full of vermine as you can think...”), minutes Montpellier after being exiled from Britain by Charles II.