WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY 25 & 26 July 2020

41 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 25 & 26 JULY 2020 46 1816 (September 6) Letters Patent signed by George IV as Prince Regent. Appointing Richard Neave Esq. to be Deputy Paymaster General “with the salary of One thousand pounds per annum”. Condition: Very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 46 47 Napoleon in Exile, by Barry E. O’Meara, his surgeon. Two volumes, octavo, Third edition, London 1822, quarter morocco, marbled boards. Condition: Very good. Based in part on the previously published Exposition Of Some Of The Transactions, That Have Taken Place At St. Helena, Since The Appointment Of Sir Hudson Lowe As Governor Of That Island (1819). The work created a sensation and soon reached a fifth edition. “Its most valuable feature was an account of Napoleon’s outspoken conversations with O’Meara; but the chapters that chiefly rendered it popular were those that pitilessly denounced the treatment meted out to Napoleon by Lowe and the government.”O’Meara was equally attacked and defended in the press. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 47 48 1822 (January to April) archive relating to The Rathvilly Gang, three of whomwere hanged. Includes manuscript letters and affidavits etc. relating to “the barbarous conduct of A gang of Robbers” from Rev. Frederick Trench, Kellistown, and Father FM Doyle, Clonegal, also an original newspaper, The Carlow Morning Post offering £700 reward. Fascinating chapter in Carlow history. Condition: Slight faults, mainly very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 48