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Cyrus Redding, journalist and editor (DNB) Autograph Note Signed to Thomas Hood, journalist, editor and poet. One page, 8vo, corners frayed, one spot, text clear and complete. "I feared the objection you mentioned in your note, but I was willing to try 'The Spanish Page' [Velasco [or memoirs of a page, 3 vols, 1846?], as has been sometimes done, piecemeal, for it will be a long time before I shall be... |
£100.00 | |
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Elisabeth [Elizabeth] Ludovika of Bavaria (1801-1873), Princess of Bavaria and later Queen consort of Prussia as wife of King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795-1861) Autograph Note Signed ('Elisabeth') in English to unnamed male correspondent. 16mo (roughly 11 x 8 cm), 1 p. Creased and ruckled, and with slight discolouration from previous mounting, and with a piece of the mount adhering to the blank reverse. Reads 'My dear Sir | I thank you for your letter and the information it contained. I write to Paris to have PP' book as soon as... |
£125.00 | |
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Ernest Lacan, sometime Secretaire de la Redaction du journal La Lumière, writing on behalf of Niepce, pioneer photographer. Autograph Letter Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed woman. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. Text as follows (accents not on my keyboard!): M. Niepce est venue hier, un peu inquiet, me dire qu'on venait de lui apprendre que l'organisation militaire des chateaux inferieurs etait a peu pres decidee. N'ayant rien aucune nouvelle en ce qui le concerne, il... |
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Eugene Scribe, playwright and librettist Autograph Note Signed "E. Scribe" to an unnamed friend and collaborator One page, c.10 x 13cm, creased and dulled but text clear and complete. "Mon cher ami/ Voila tout ce wue j'ai et prenez garde d'egarer ce scenario du second acte - je n'en ai pas d'autre copie et s'il la perdait, je ne pourrai jamais me rappeler un seul mot du contiens.- / Mille [?] tendres... |
£200.00 | |
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F. L. Crilly [Justin McCarthy; Ireland; Irish; Eire; Fenian Movement] The Irish Library. 1908-9. Vol. 2. The Fenian Movement: The Story of the Manchester Martyrs. 8vo, 94 + ii pp. Stapled and in original green and white printed wraps. Advertisements on wraps, prelims and final leaf. Frontispiece portrait of Justin McCarthy (with transcription of a letter by him to Ouseley facing it) and double-sided plate (between pp. 32 and 33) carrying seven... |
£150.00 | |
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Francis Brett Young, novelist. Both letters, two pages, 8vo, stained and marked, but texts clear and complete. The Postcard is grubby (view of Marrakesh on front). Subjects and features: (1928) questioning Mitchell Kennerley of the auction-house, Anderson Galleries about books owned by Paynter; passing on Kennerley's opinions... |
£220.00 | |
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François Barry, French artist {Note/Billet} One page, c.16 x 11cm, some marking but text clear and complete, but partly illegible as follows: "Il faudrait . . . fut . . . merci un . . . je te ferais alors un bien joli tableau / FBarry/" This note has been soake away from a larger piece of paper in poor condition. at the foot... |
£300.00 | |
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Henri-Jérôme-Marie Fournel (1799-1876), French civil engineer, geologist and disciple of Saint-Simon [Algeria] Autograph Letter Signed ('h. f.') to 'Madame [Eliza] Thomas'. 8vo bifolium, 3 pp. 57 lines of text. Addressed on verso of second leaf of bifolium, with circular postmark in black ink, to 'Madame Thomas, chateau de marville, près et par St. Denis (Banlieue de Paris).' Good, on lightly creased and aged paper, with slight damage to second leaf from breaking... |
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Henry Warren (1794-1879), English painter of Biblical and oriental themes Autograph Letter Signed to the Birmingham inventor Samuel Timings (active between 1853 and 1869). 12mo, 4 pp. Good, on aged paper with a little light staining at head. A significant letter, in which Warren gives information of those of Warren's 'poor works' which have been engraved: 'they have been chiefly for book illustration and are spread through many publishers'. Begins by describing... |
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J. Atkinson, [radical poet]. One page, folio, closely written, chipped with some loss of text, creases and small closed tears. Obviously close (he calls him "Jockie"), Atkinson touches on various radical matters and people in a relaxed, allusive and witty fashion. He initially discusses a poem he is putting togther which "... |
£280.00 |
