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Édouard Lockroy (1838-1913), French left-wing politician; secretary to Ernest Renan; fought with Garibaldi; signed the proclamation for the election of the Paris Commune 12mo: 1 p. Text clear and entire, on aged and lightly-stained paper. Reads 'Cher ami. | Je vous envois une demande d'admission dans notre société, avec pièces à l'appui que je recommendre à tous vos soins. | Votre bien devoue. | [signed] E Lockroy'. Although attributed to Lockroy in a... |
French, History | £28.00 | |
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Edouard Servan de Sugny. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Author/translator of "La Muse ottomane ou chefs-d'oeuvre de la poésie turque" (Paris, 1853). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He thanks his correspondent for a copy of "l'Anthologie arabe de M. Grangeret de Lagrange" [first published 1828]. He explains his great interest in the book and the... |
French, History, Travel and Topography | £150.00 | |
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Edvard Hambro [Edvard Isak Hambro] (1911-1977), 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly The collection in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with each item carrying a punch-hole in top left-hand corner of first page. Letter One: in manuscript; to Cross; 3 September 1949; on 'Edvard Hambro' letterhead; 8vo, 2 pp. Affectionate letter on Cross's retirement from the Registry of the... |
History, Law | £165.00 | |
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Edvige Pesce Gorini, Italian poet, editor of the 'Giornale dei Poeti' [Violet Bonham Carter (1887-1969); Mark Raymond Bonham Carter (1922-1994), Baron Bonham-Carter, Liberal politician] Text of all three items clear and complete. All three on lightly aged paper, creased and with some wear to extremities. Letter One (8vo, 1 p; 20 lines of text): She thanks Bonham Carter for her 'kind and appreciative letter' and 'will see that through the English Embassy' she receives 'a copy of... |
History, Travel and Topography | £120.00 |
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Edward Alexander Cazalet [Anglo-Russian Literary Society] Autograph Postcard Signed to [George Kenneth] Menzies, [Secretary, Royal Society of Arts]. English linguist and traveller (died 1923), founder (in 1893) and president of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society. One page, 16mo. Very good. Bearing the Society's stamp. 'I thank you for your kind invitation for the 28th Inst, of which I will be pleased to avail myself, if able to go to London... |
Literature, Travel and Topography | £26.00 | |
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Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton Typed Letter Signed to Sir Hilary Blood of the Royal Society of Arts. British geographer and Labour politician (1911-94), son of the antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. One page, quarto. Very good. Folded three times. Docketed in red ink. He must decline the invitation to become a Fellow of the Society. 'It is certainly an honour and I would have liked to... |
Travel and Topography | £36.00 | |
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Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester, 6th Marquis of Donegall Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Irish peer (1903-75) and war correspondent. Two pages, octavo. On blue paper. Very good. Docketed and stamped and with staple holes to one corner. 'In reply to your letter of March 4th. I write to say that Art being one of my chief interests in life. I would appreciate very much being elected to... |
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Edward Askew Sothern Autograph note signed to unnamed male correspondent, One page, 12mo, written in purple ink on grey paper. "My dear Sir / Could you lunch with me at 2. on Tuesday at my rooms in Midland Hotel St. Pancras? / Yrs always / E. A. Sothern". With traces of previous mounting to the reverse. |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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Edward Askew Sothern photograph, autograph letter signed, autograph note signed, and 2 fragments signed, English actor (1826-81). A tiny studio photograph (an inch by three-quarters of an inch) of Sothern in the role with which he is forever associated, that of Lord Dundreary in Tom Taylor's 'Our American Cousin' (1858). Head and shoulders, looking slightly to the left, sporting a monocle and a... |
Music and Theatre | £45.00 | |
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Edward Askew Sothern (1826-1881), English actor Autograph Letter Signed ('E. A. Sothern') to 'Davis'. 12mo, 2 pp. On bifolium. 12 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Part of the leaf to which the item was attached in an autograph album adhering to blank part of reverse of second leaf. 'Miss Cross' has written to him again, 'desiring me to use my influence in obtaining an... |
Music and Theatre | £56.00 |