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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... |
Art and Architecture, French | £300.00 | |
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Howard Keel [stage name of Harold Clifford Keel] (1919-2004), American actor, star of stage, screen and television, and singer noted for his rich baritone voice A brown-tinged print (not sepia), on 16 x 21 cm matt card, with 0.75 cm border. In fair condition, very lightly creased and worn. A full length shot of a smiling and clean-shaven Keel, in cowboy getup with ponyskin chaps and his cowboy hat in his left hand, opening what is clearly a stage-prop... |
Music and Theatre | £45.00 |
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Frank Brangwyn Autograph Letter Signed to "[Wingman?]", fellow-artist. Artist and illustrator. Two pages, minor defects, mainly good. He thanks him for a letter and cheque for thirty guneas. "I shall be most delighted to see your Morocco sketches, they must be most interesting." He'll call by the next week and appreciates his kindness in offering one of the... |
Art and Architecture | £65.00 | |
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James Wilson. Three volumes, 8vo, xii.476 plus four page Index and folding map (discreetly repaired); 564 plus 7-page Index; 696 plus eight page index, rebound in workmanlike but pleasant green cloth, sp. gt with Royal Institution insignia, by the Royal Institution Library from which they were purchased by Dr... |
£350.00 | ||
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Frank Carr, Director of the National Maritime Museum, to Admiral Sir Sydney Freemantle, regarding the clipper ship the Cutty Sark 4 pp, 8vo. A long letter discussing the restoration of the ship. "[...] I have always appreciated (and envied) your personal experience of sail in days when seamanship in the old sense really meant something. [...] No one is better qualified to speak with authority on the restoration of a... |
Military and Naval History | £150.00 | |
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Frank Clowes (1848-1923), Principal, University College Nottingham, and Professor of Chemistry and Metallurgy Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. One page, 12mo. Good. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. Concerns 'Sir Alexander Redler's being brought up by Crookes for election to the Athenaeum by the Committee under Rule II [...] you [...] intimated that you knew Redler & that I need not descant on his virtues: he is a most... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £23.00 | |
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Frank Cundall (1858-1937), English author, Secretary and Librarian to the Institute of Jamaica Autograph Letter Signed to Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. 4to: 2 pp. Sixteen lines. Good, on lightly aged paper. Thanking Wood for his 'kindly notice of "Historic Jamaica"'. He hopes 'the good people of Jamaica will appreciate the book in time - I spoilt my 1914 holiday to produce it'. Wishes Wood could 'come out to Jamaica in these days of motor cars... |
Travel and Topography | £38.00 | |
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Frank E. Smedley Autograph Letter Signed, to unnamed correspondent [George Cruikshank]. "Frank Fairleigh". Novelist (1818-1864). Three pages, 8vo, bifoliate, sl. dusted, mainly good. "Mr. Austen seems to have written word for word what you wished said abt. Tobacco, but if there is to be much attraction abt. the article, your clever pencil must put it in, for, as it stands it is... |
Literature | £200.00 | |
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Frank H Wedgwood [ Francis Hamilton Wedgwood; Josiah Wedgwood ] Chairman of the famous pottery firm Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Ltd (1867-1930), and High Sheriff of Staffordshire. All items are very good, if somewhat grubby. The typed letters are one page, quarto and the autograph, one page, octavo. All are signed 'Frank H Wedgwood', and most are stamped and... |
£250.00 | ||
| Lord Dawson of Penn [Lloyd George group visits Hitler's Germany, 1936} | £0.00 |