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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956), English journalist and historian, nicknamed 'Stickum'

Typed Letter Signed ('Wickham Steed') to Rev. E. J. F. Davies.

One page, 12mo. Very good. 'Absence abroad has prevented me hitherto from complying with your request. I have pleasure in enclosing herewith a specimen of my signature.'

History £10.00
Henry William Brougham, Dean of Lismore [Henry Brougham; Canon W. W. Flemyng]

Autograph Letters Signed to Brougham from Canon Flemyng; and Autograph Card Signed to Brougham from his grandson Henry Brougham.

Flemyng was a noted authority in the field of Irish lepidoptery, and published a number of papers on the subject between 1877 and 1919. Both items concern the Latin saying 'ne sutor ultra crepidam' or 'sutor ne supra crepidam judicaret'. HENRY BROUGHAM'S CARD: one page, five and a half inches by...

£56.00
Henry William Pickersgill

Autograph Note Signed to Sir Martin [Archer Shee (1769-1850; DNB), President of the Royal Academy].

English portrait painter (1782-1875). In good condition. Dimensions approximately 4 1/2 inches square, cropped and with some loss of text after signature. Attached to larger piece of grey paper. Reads 'My dear Sir Martin | I accept with great pleasure your kind invitation for Wednesday the 29...

Art and Architecture £25.00
[Maison des Magasins Réunis, Parisian department store, founded in 1866; 'Fabien Fabiano' [pen name of Jules Coup de Fréjac (1883-1962)]

[Printed 'Agenda Buvard de la Maison des Magasins Réunis' (Parisian department store), filled with photographs, advertisements and illustrations, including twelve stylish full-page colour representations of the seasons by 'Fabiano'.]

4to. In red cloth binding, gilt, with the department store's logo on the front board and endpapers. In very good condition, on aged paper, with empty wallet on rear pastedown. Green cloth bookmark with printed advertisement 'pour la Toilette des Dames'. An attractively-designed volume, with a...

Art and Architecture, French £450.00
Henry William Pickersgill; Thomas Uwins

Autograph Signatures on fragment of document.

Pickersgill (1782-1875) and Uwins (1782-1857) were both English artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy. Very good, on a piece of grey paper roughly two inches by four. From a collection of Autograph Signatures cut from petitions to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Blank reverse.

Art and Architecture £18.00
Henry Woods.

Autograph Postcard Signed to Holman Hunt (DNB).

Painter. He accepts an invitation to lunch.

Art and Architecture £25.00 Autograph Postcard Signed to Holman Hunt
Henry Wyatt (1794-1840), English artist, pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence

[Henry Wyatt] Three sketches, two in pencil and one in charcoal.

ITEM ONE: pencil sketch (roughly three inches square) of pensive woman in full dress seated on chair beside table with vase. Good. On reverse of part of envelope addressed to 'H. Wyatt Esqre. | Newman Street | Oxford Street' and postmarked in red ink oval '2 . A NOON . 2 | MY 4 | 1833'. Another...

Art and Architecture £285.00 Wyatt
Herbert Cecil Ferraby [ADVERTISING; POSTER ART]

Typed Note Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Naval author and journalist (died 1942). One page, quarto. Discoloured with age and with a few closed tears but in good condition overall. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. 'I should be obliged if you could let me have copies of any promotion matter which you have put out in recent years...

Art and Architecture £28.00
Herbert G. Sotheby

Autograph Letter Signed [to his bankers].

Son of Admiral Sir Edward Southwell Sotheby (for whom see DNB). 1 page, 16mo. In good condition. 'Gentlemen | I beg to inform you that for the future I shall draw my own cheques instead of my brother Mr. Alfred Sotheby.' Docketed in red ink along both long edges.

Economics £20.00
Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963), 1st Viscount Samuel [GOLF; GOLFING]

Autograph Letter Signed ('Herbert Samuel') to unnamed male correspondent.

Two pages, 12mo. On aged and somewhat grubby paper, with a few closed tears to extremities. Text clear and entire. The recipients 'account for clubs' supplied to Samuel in June 1896 'has not been presented between that date and now'. Samuel thinks he paid the amount at the time'. '[O]n my return...

History £56.00