Bibliotheca Phillippica New Series : Ninth Part. Catalogue of French, Spanish and Greek Manuscripts and English Charters from the Celebrated Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872). [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale dates: 25 and 26 June, 1973]

Sotheby & Co., London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th June, 1973. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. 181 pp, numerous ills. Lots 1906-2221. Among the highlights noted were the following: Galen on the Pulse, Copied by Camillus Venetus; and the Commonplace Book of John Mavrocordato, Constantinople c. 1676-80, Containing Unrecorded Demotic Poetry, History and Drama; French Medieval and Later Documents, including Fine Collections Relating to Aquitaine, Normandy and Arras; a Sixteenth-Century Map of the Region of Chateaudun; Letters of Louis XI, Catherine des Medicis, Cardinal de Lorraine, Constable Anne de Montmorency, Henri III, Louise de Lorraine, Henri IV, Colbert, Turenne, Duc de Gesvres, Pierre Jurieu and Charles, Duke of Schomberg; Naval and Diplomatic Letters from Louis XIV and Louis XV to Members of the D'Estrees Family; and an Archive of Letters from Pontchartrain and Other Ministers to the Marechal D'Estrees, 1682-97; Charters Relating to Essex, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norwich, Oxford, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire; a Thirteenth-Century Copy of a Charter of Henry II Witnessed by Thomas a Becket; and a Document Concerning a Proposed Marriage Between Edward II and Philippa of Flanders; Collections of the Poetry of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Conde de Salinas; Fine Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetical Miscellanies; the Unique Copy of Damasio de Fr'as, Lidamarte de Armenia, an Unpublished Romance of Chivalry; a Fine Autograph Minute of Philip II; Letters of Olivares, the Duke of Osuna, Don Juan of Austria the Younger, Oropesa and Philip IV; and a Long and Important Series from Philip LV and the Queen-Regent Mariana to the Viceroy of Naples 1664-6 the Papers of Jose Carrillo de Albornoz, Duke of Montemar (1671-1747), Relating to the Invasion of Sicily 1718, the Capture of Oran 1732, the 'War of Jenkins' Ear' 1739-40, and the Highly Important Archive of His Papers As Spanish Commander-In-Chief in Italy 1733-7 and 1741-2. Near Very Good.