* Historical Autographs. A collection of approx. 36 autograph letters and 6 further manuscript documents, c. 1640/1829, the oldest a document signed by John Bysse (c. 1602/1680), recorder of Dublin, concerning the examination before him of Margaret Floyd and Francis Banes, wives of servants of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland [Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford], concerning the violent attack on Mary, the wife of Randall Udall, 2 January 1639/40, some fraying to upper margin with paper repairs to verso, one page, folio; articles of agreement for Thomas Pedler the younger to serve for four years as an indentured servant on William Gordon’s plantation, called Paisley Estate in the parish of St. James, Jamaica, 10 November 1788, a receipt written and signed by William Sancroft (1617-1693), Dean of St. Pauls, 6 November 1668; two letters from William Wilberforce (1759-1833), politician and anti-slavery campaigner, the first letter from Lowestoft, 31 August 1816, to an unidentified correspondent (name cut away at foot), regretting he cannot help in connection with colonel Burgess ‘of whom I entertain a very high opinion’, a second from Bath 14 October 1820, to his close friend John Scandrett Harvard (1785-1866), philanthropist and abolitionist, address leaf only on the end of the letter with a postscript relating to Wilberforce’s ill-health, one page, 4to; plus letters from Sir John Comyns (c. 1667-1740), judge, John Jeffreys (1706-1766), MP for Dartmouth, Watkin Williams (?1742-1808), MP for Montgomeryshire, Granville Sharp (1735-1813), anti-slavery campaigner, Samuel Parr (1747-1825), Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), MP, topographer and author, John Way (d. 1804), philanthropist, Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859), Superintendent of Indian Trade, Lady Fenn Eleenor (1744-1813), educationist and children’s author, Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869), principal librarian of the British Museum, Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838), antiquary, archaeologist and historian, John Cole (1792-1848), bookseller and antiquary, and others, some occasional browning or fraying and small tears, mostly one or two pages, 4to/8voQTY: (approx. 36)