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[William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal prime minister; Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (1810-1885), judge and Liberal MP]

Typescript transcription of a 'Poem written by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone MP Christmas 1869 for contribution to The Coppice Courant which had however expired in January 1867.'

Typescript (folio, 2 pp), with a couple of manuscript corrections. Fair, on aged paper, with light marks from a paperclip at head. Thirty-six line poem, in heroic couplets, with 'W E G. Christmas 1869' at end, beginning 'Happy the gamester, on whose earliest throw, | Grim Fortune frowns, and...

£125.00
James Spence [American Civil War; Confederate States of America]

[Printed pamphlet.] On the Recognition of the Southern Confederation. Second Edition.

8vo, 48 pp. In original buff printed wraps with brown cloth spine. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Spence is described on the title-page as 'Author of "The American Union," and the Letters to "The Times" on American affairs.' The first sentence sets the tone: 'The time has...

£135.00 On the Recognition of the Southern Confederation
J. J. Williamson [John Jacob Williamson], Founder-President, the Society of Metaphysicians Ltd, Hastings, Sussex [Nuclear proliferation; Cold War; Atomic Bomb]

[Printed pamphlet.] Cataclysm Has Begun! [With covering Typed Letter Signed from Williamson to George H. Brook.]

4to, vii + 21 pp. Stapled pamphlet, on two different paper stocks (white and grey), front cover detached Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with crease to one corner of title-leaf. Title leaf printed, the rest mimeographed. Pp. v-vii consist of an appendix at the rear of the volume....

£250.00  Cataclysm Has Begun!
Editor: Prof. A. Nahon, Founder-President, Association Mondialiste Interplanetaire.

[Periodical] Le Courrier Interplanetaire [( British Edition)

Unbound Issue described as First Year Nos.7-33, but is paginated 82, 83, 84, no page no., no page no., 69, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96. 97, 94-96 (duplicated) 101, 104. Printed wraps, 8vo, reproduced from typescript. Perhaps extracts from the continental edition, with an involuntary duplication...

£125.00  Le Courrier Interplanetaire
[Popish Plot]

[Pamphlet] The Debates in the House of Commons Assembled at Oxford The Twenty-first of March, 1680

20 pp. fol., disbound, pages partly detached, foxing and staining especially outer leaves.

£56.00
[Charles II]

[Pamphlet] His Majesties Declaration to All His loving Subjects, December 26, 1662.

14pp., fol,disbound, staining and foxing, mainly outer leaves, front page partly detached, some chipping not affecting text. He outlines his proposed measures to mend the country.

£250.00
[Dame Peggy Ashcroft [Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft] (1907-1991); Jill Balcon [Jill Angela Henriette Balcon] (1925-2009), actress]

Photograph of Dame Peggy Ashcroft at her country home Vine Cottage, from the collection of Jill Balcon (taken by her?), with an inscription by Balcon.

Colour photograph in grey card wallet frame. Dimensions of photograph 13 x 18 cm. Dimensions of frame 18 x 23 cm. In good condition. A head and shoulders shot of a smiling old Ashcroft in overcoat outdoors in the countryside. Captioned by Balcon on frame at foot of photograph 'Peggy Ashcroft at...

£45.00 Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Mark Gerson (b.1921), photographer [Jill Balcon [Jill Angela Henriette Balcon] (1925-2009), actress]

Signed bromide print of photograph by Mark Gerson of the actress Jill Balcon with bust of Cecil Day-Lewis.

Black and white matt bromide print photograph in card frame with covering flap. Dimensions of photograph 20 x 25 cm. Dimensions of frame 25.5 x 32 cm. A head and shoulders shot of Balcon, staring across the photograph from the right, left hand at right shoulder, with the bust of Day-Lewis facing...

£75.00 Jill Balcon with bust of Cecil Day-Lewis
William Fergusson, Scottish surgeon

Autograph Letter Signed "Wm. Fergusson", Scottish surgeon, to "A[rthur] Wyatt", consultant at St Bartholomew's prob..

2.5pp., 12mo, bifolium (loss of presumed blank part of second leaf), one or two marks, mainly good. He has been consulted by Wyatt's patient, H.E. Webb, andf thought it would be best to write to him. "The quantity & colours of the urine leads one to suspect diabetes, but my close chemiical...

£65.00 William Fergusson, Scottish surgeon
[Ernest Wm Moir] E.W. Moir, Comptroller of Munitions Inventions

Two Typed Letters Signed "E.W. Moir", Comptroller of Munitions Inventions, to The Secretary, Royal Society of Arts

Total 3pp., folio, fold marks, good condition. He asks the Scretary of the RSA to "draw the attention" of members to "to the fact that the Munitions Inventions Department, which ... was recently constituted by the Minister of Munitions for the purpose of dealing with ideas, suggestions and...

£125.00
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