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'Le Jeu d'Échecs' [anonymous French nineteenth-century handbill poem on the game of chess] Anonymous French nineteenth-century handbill poem, containing precepts on the game of chess, entitled 'Le Jeu d'Échecs.' 4 pp, 16mo. Paginated [1] to 4. On a bifolium of wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with thin strip of previous mount adhering to inner margin of first page. A 96-line poem, written in rhyming alexandrine couplets, beginning 'Du noble jeu d'échecs la tactique savante \| Bannit...	£650.00
'B. B.' [Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824)?] [Dryburgh Abbey, property of David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan] [Printed handbill poem by 'B. B.'] On a favourite Dog, interred in the Grounds of Dryburgh Abbey, MDCCCXIV. [With Victorian photograph of a dog.] Poem: On one side of a piece of 12mo paper. Fair, lightly-aged and a little ruckled, with traces of gum from previous mounting on the blank reverse. The 12-line poem is written in heroic couplets, and begins 'POOR, faithful animal, adieu! - \| To Nature's kind affection true, \| For fourteen years...	£400.00
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794–1865), Clerk to the Privy Council, and political diarist Autograph Letter Signed ('F Greville') from the diarist Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville to an unnamed male correspondent. 1 p, 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper, and still tipped-in onto leaf removed from album. Arranging a time at which to call on him. According to the Oxford DNB Greville moved from Grosvenor Place to Lord Granville's house in Bruton Street in 1849.	£56.00
'L. N.' [French nineteenth-century handbill poem on the game of whist] French nineteenth-century handbill poem by 'L. N.' on the game of whist, titled 'Le Whist.' 2 pp, 12mo. On the first leaf of a bifolium of wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Signed 'L. N.' in type at end. A 114-line poem, in rhyming alexandrine couplets, beginning 'Messieurs, au jeu du whist adoptez constamment \| L'air grave britannique et le flegme allemand. \| Au-delà du détroit...	£350.00
[Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824)] [Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (1748-1812), Scottish Tory political hostess] [Printed handbill.] Sonnet on the late Dutchess of Gordon. [By Sir Brooke Boothby.] Printed on one side of a 4to leaf, to which a black mourning border has been given by hand. Well printed on wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. The author's name is not given, and the title reads 'SONNET \| ON THE LATE \| DUTCHESS [sic] OF GORDON.' The poem begins: 'IS then the...	£280.00
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), Whig Politician. Autograph Letter Signed "Vassall Holland", Whig politician, to Francis Palgrave, historian, father of the anthologist, concerning his project to publish National Records. Four pages, cr. 8vo, good conditon. "I have to thank you for your letter & enclosure. You give me too much credit for knowledge & research when you imagine that any opinion of mine on such subjects as those your outline embraces, would carry any authority with it - I have however no...	£250.00
Selwyn Image (1849-1930), Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University [Rev. Percy Mordaunt Barnard (1868-1941) of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, antiquarian bookseller] Two Autograph Letters Signed from the Oxford Professor of Fine Arts, Selwyn Image, to 'My dear Barnard' [Rev. P. M. Barnard?], regarding funghi and moths. Both items good, on aged paper. Written in Image's distinctive calligraphic hand. Letter One (12 August 1908): 1 p, 12mo. The 'Galatheas' arrived the previous evening 'quite safe'. 'Fancy your being at The Warren as well as at Deal! The Warren [Folkestone] is famous for being stocked with good...	£175.00
William Melmoth the Younger (c.1710-1799), translator of Pliny and Cicero, and author of 'Fitzosborne's Letters' (1748, 1749) Autograph Letter Signed ('Wm. Melmoth') from the writer William Melmoth the Younger to the attorney Joseph Sharpe 1 p, 4to. Nine lines, in a neat and close hand. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, and still tipped-in onto a leaf from an autograph album. Addressed, with two postmarks, on reverse of second leaf of bifolium, to 'Mr. Jos. Sharpe, \| at his chambers in \| Lincolns Inn \| London'. He wrote to Sharpe five...	£180.00
John Howard Payne (1791-1852), American actor and playwright, best-known for his song 'Home, Sweet Home' Autograph Manuscript of the American actor and poet John Howard Payne, either an original poem or a translation, entitled 'Ode the Sixteenth. \| The Herb Rue'. 2 pp, 4to. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight wear to extremities. On one leaf, with both sides ruled with red borders. In Payne's neat and distinctive hand, and attributed to him in pencil at head. The poem is in ten four-line stanzas, with the first stanza...	£165.00
Jane Hood [née Jane Reynolds], (1791-1846), wife of the poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845) Autograph Letter Signed from Jane Hood, wife of the poet Thomas Hood, to 'Mrs Elliot', wife of the family doctor, Robert Elliot of Camberwell, containing news of the poet and his work, money troubles and family affairs, at the end of their lives. 4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium. 73 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Hood returned to England from Ostend in 1840, moving into Devonshire Lodge after trying other lodgings. A fine letter, informative, energetic and moving. Jane begins by thanking Mrs Elliot for the 'kind present to my...	£280.00

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