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Eberhard Wortmann [Hermann Hesse; Sacred Geometry; Neoplatonism] Wortmann - whose 'Das Gesetz Des Kosmos' (1965) is considered a cosmological masterpiece - corresponded with Hermann Hesse, and was the only modern author to be described by him as a master of the Glass Bead Game. The Sacred Science Institute in America is presently working with Wortmann's... |
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[Payment to Queen Anne; Tellers of the Exchequer] One page, cr 8vo, bifolium, bottom edge trimmed with some (small) loss of text, aged, a bit battered, but (except very bottom) text complete and clear. See Image. Signed boldly by Henry Cartwright, presumably a Teller, with two other signatories (J Miller and another). Text: Received the 22... |
£180.00 |
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Clara Novello Davies, Welsh singer, teacher, composer, and conductor, mother of Ivor Novello. Signature on verso of detached album leaf, 20 x 16.5cm, one edge frayed, aging but good condition. Other signatures on the recto, but not deciphered. See Image. |
£50.00 |
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[Ernest Marples, sometime Minister of Transport AND Harold Macmillan, sometime Prime Minister.] Banners, paper, 50 x 10cm, fold marks, good condition. Perhaps intended to put in one's window unlike the brazen Marples Must Go that decorated a bridge on the MI in living memory, objecting to his policies (including the Beeching Railway butchery). Harold Macmillan had reached his sell-by date... |
£100.00 |
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Lydia Becker, suffragette and scientist Final lines and signature ONLY clipped from Autograph Letter, 11 x 6cm, good condition. Text: We beg that you will favour us with your presence and support on the occasion | I am| Yours faithfully | Lydia E Becker | Secretary. Note: In February 1867, she became secretary of the Manchester... |
£56.00 | |
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Hilaire Belloc [Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren? Belloc] (1870-1953), Anglo-French author and poet. One page. 8vo, fold mark, sl.dulled but clear and complete. Text: By some error the enclosed [no longer] cheque for 5 guineas has been sent me in payment for my article in last Sunday's Weekly Despatch. There can, of course, be no question of my accepting remuneration in that scale. Perhaps you... |
£80.00 | |
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Dorothy Macmillan, wife of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister (1957-63) One page, 12mo, very good condition, docketed (by Stanton prob.) Letter from [D] M. Macmillan. Text: I am so sorry that your most kind letter to me of the 11th of October has not been answered before this, but I feel sure that you will understand how very occupied my days have been during these... |
£65.00 | |
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Bryan .B.W. Proctor (Barry Cornwall), Poet Two pages, 16mo, bifolium (2nd leaf blank apart from address as above), good condition. Mr. Proctor will be obliged by knowing from Mr Hogarth whether he has received back the print of Mr Macready [William Macready, actor] as Werner, after a picture of Mr. Maclise. | As Mr Proctor never [... |
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[The Death of Prince Albert] R.R.R. [author unidentified] [The Death of Prince Albert; PRINTED LEAFLET] The Prince Consort One printed page, 12mo, the first page of four in a greyish bifolium, fold marks, minor staining of fourth page, good condition. Verse, 5.5 x 11cm on Page 11 x 18cm. First two lines: There's silence fallen on the land, | Unwonted dread; [...]. Last two lines: And leaving on the dead its trace... |
£200.00 |
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Ronald Storrs [Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (1881 -1955) official in British Foreign Office, Oriental Secretary (Cairo), Military Governor (Jerusalem), Governor (Cyprus), Governor (N.Rhodesia)] One page, 12mo, right edge frayed and stained, not affecting text, mainly good condition. Text: I am no less proud than touched by your letter about Orientations [underlined]. Exactly the sort of praise that encourages most. It was also very good of you to send me the book which once belonged to... |
£120.00 |
