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Henry Chappell, the "Bath Railway Poet". One page each, note and poem, creased, chipped, small closed tears, texts clear and complete. Letter: "Many thanks for your favour of the 12th inst. I have pleasure in enclosing the lines I undertook to send you & hope you will like them. If you will kindly let me know approximate date of... |
£120.00 | ||
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Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (1764-1840), British maritime hero of whom Napoleon exclaimed 'That man made me miss my destiny' One page, folio, good condition, laid down on part of an album page (verso has a newspaper clipping about Wilson, the Pedestrian c.1815 - possibly some indication of when the Copy Letter was made). Text: My dear Aunt, | The recollection of my Situation must occasionally present itself to my... |
Military and Naval History | £500.00 |
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Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (1890 – 1963), Ukrainian-born British pianist. [ Moiseiwitsch ] Bold Signature with date on page extracted from an album. Album page, c. 18 x 11cm, white, one edge rough (from extraction), good condition, signature and date slanting, small photograph of Moiseivitch cut from newspaper. |
£25.00 | ||
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Evelyn Waugh, novelist 44[3]pp., 4to (25.3cm), in three 8-leaf gatherings, not bound, browning of the edges of several pages, commencing with half-title and concluding with printing information and number of copies (this not numbered!) ([3v] and a blank ([3r]). Preface by Christopher Sykes and Postscript by... |
Literature | £580.00 | |
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John Simon, sanitary reformer and pathologist One page, 12mo, formerly leaf in a bifolium but the second leaf has been roughly torn away (with small loss to first leaf not affecting main text), two closed tears not affecting text, clear but aged On the remnants of the second leaf someone has noted in pencil Medical Officer of board of... |
£80.00 | ||
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Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet, later Lord Keyes, senior Royal Navy officer [Admiral of the Fleet Lord KeyesAutograph Signature with date, Roger Keyes A.F. | 28th Aptil 1940. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. One page extracted from an autograph album, hence one rough edge, 14 x 11cms, good condition. The Keyes is on the verso. On the recto is the signature of bandleader Charles Shadwell, his signature preceded by Sincerely Yours Images on request. |
£30.00 | ||
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Sigismond Thalberg (1812 ? 21871) Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists. [Sigismond Thalberg, Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists.] Autograph Signature S. Thalberg. Bold Signature on paper, 11.5 x 6cm, laid down on slightly larger pink paper, some glue staining marginally affecting the S.. See Image. |
£35.00 | ||
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Sir Edward Clarke (1841-1931), English barrister and MP for Southwark, Solicitor-General from 1886-1892, lawyer for Oscar Wilde's action against Queensberry,. 2pp., 12mo, bifolium, fold mark, good condition. Text: Forgive my not answering your note sooner. I should be delighted to help you to the appointment you speak, & fel sure you would make an excellent magistrate, but the competition for these places is enormous, & I fear that actual... |
£55.00 | ||
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Sir Francis Workman MacNaghten, Anglo-Irish judge in India One page, 4to, bifolium, letter page aged but in good condition, minor closed tear, but verso of second leaf, address page, is grubby, with substantial closed tear, with added annotations (brief biography of Nacnaghtan, etc.). Text: I have been here for some days but by a letter from Roepark I... |
£80.00 | ||
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George Cruikshank (1792-1878), 'the modern Hogarth', nineteenth-century British caricaturist and illustrator, associated with Charles Dickens The six items - all from Cruikshank’s ‘Comic Almanac’ for 1845 - are in fair condition, lightly aged, and have all been trimmed, with diagonals cut from the corners resulting in minor loss. The last has a small amount of loss to the bottom left-hand corner from removal from a mount. All six are... |
£60.00 |