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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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[Operation Overlord (Battle of Normandy), 1944] 'AQMG (Ops) EASTERN COMMAND' [i.e. Lieut.-Col. Colin Thornton-Kernsley (1903-1977)] Sir Colin Thornton-Kernsley is identified as author from the first of the pamphlet's seven appendices ('Eastern Command | List of officers principally concerned with plans for the mounting of Overlord'), where he is described as: 'Chairman: AQMG(Ops) Lt. Col. C. N. Thornton Kernsley MP-RA'. See... |
£600.00 | ||
Catherine Hutton (1756-1846), English novelist and miscellaneous writer [AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING] Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Thompson of Liverpool. Two pages, quarto. Well preserved, on good lightly-aged paper, but with the original piece of paper (which was roughly nine inches by seven and a half wide) now neatly cut into three strips (the top and bottom of which are two and three-quarter inches high, and the middle three and a half inches... |
Literature, Women | £600.00 | |
Charles Duke Yonge. Eleven (11) Autograph Letters Signed to Swan Sonnenschein, publishers. Historian (DNB). Total thirty (30) pages, 8vo (10) and 4to (1). The subject is his book "Our Great Naval Commanders" published by his correspondents, Swan Sonnenschein, in 1884, from its inception to the proof stage. He begins (16 Dec. 1882) "It is not quite easy to decide whom it would be best... |
Book Trade History, History, Military and Naval History, Printing History, Royalty | £600.00 | |
[ Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde(1792 – 1863), British Army officer (Napoleonic, Opium War, Crimea, Indian Mutiny etc).] One page, folio, fold mark, strip of album leaf at left margin, details filled in, presumably by someone secretarial (copperplate). [TOP HALF] Printed Headings: Corps and Head Quarters | Quarters of Troops or Companies | No. of Troops etc | Rank and File [several sub-sections including Sick] |... |
£600.00 | ||
[Large paper Folder of Photographs; Birth of Greek Tourist Industry] Large beige paper folder, elephant folio size, containing 26 PR photographs, 22 x 16, 25x 20cm or thereabouts, with typed descriptions below each one, of Shop Window displays advertising holidays in Greece, including Thomas Cook's in London, Allegri Sports and Zweidlers in Berne (with images of... |
Social history, Travel and Topography | £600.00 | |
George III, King of England Two pages. Paper dimensions approximately seven and a half inches by twelve. An important and highly dramatic document, relating to the Prince's treatment of his wife Caroline of Brunswick in the period following the birth of their only child Princess Charlotte Augusta, with reference to the... |
Royalty | £600.00 | |
Captain John Williamson, 25th Regiment, later of Dollar Mains, Alloa & Lawhill, Clackmannanshire. The collection contains the following:1. To John Williamson, 25th Regt: 5 Autograph Letters Signed "Alex[ander] Adair" Army Agent with 'extensive business' (of Pall Mall, London, and Flixton Hall; obit. Gent.Mag. 1834, 1794-5, total 10pp., 4to, concerning Williamson's financial affairs.2.... |
£600.00 | ||
Antony Brett-James (1920-1984), 5th Indian Division Royal Signals, military historian and Sandhurst lecturer A feature of Brett-James's well-received war memoir 'Report My Signals' (1948) was the fifteen reproductions of his pencil drawings of Indian men who served under him, the originals of which are present here, together with a further fifty. These indicate Brett-James's skill at conveying... |
£600.00 | ||
‘An Irish Democrat’ [Henry L. Glasgow of Cookstown] [Untitled mimeographed report]. Untitled mimeographed report (place and date not stated [1916]). Document, 7 pp, fol., good condition. ‘The Irish constitutional problem is centuries old, but its terms are ever changing. The present factors in the problem may be set out as follows: –’. Dated from references to ‘An Act [...] to... |
£600.00 | ||
Glyn Philpot [Glyn Warren Philpot] (1884-1937), painter and sculptor [Ernest Frederick Gye (1879-1955), diplomat] The seven items in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper and with the last two with wear to extremities. ONE: 15 June 1929; on letterhead of Lansdowne House, Lansdowne Road, Holland Park. 1 p, 4to. Accepting a dinner invitiation. 'I wish we did not meet so seldom, and after this long gap I hope... |
Art and Architecture | £600.00 |