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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
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Sir Alfred Jules Ayer; Herbert Dingle

Paper entitled 'DISCUSSION: (I) Philosophy Without Science'.

12 pages, octavo. Unbound. Folded once, down the centre, vertically. Good, though grubby, and with marks from paperclip. Each of the three contributes a section. PRESENTATION COPY, with slip from Samuel, on his notepaper '32, PORCHESTER TERRACE, W.2.' on which is typed 'WITH LORD SAMUEL'S...

£45.00
Herbert Maxwell, author, politican and fisherman

Two Autograph Letters Signed to "[J. Arthur ?Hutton", [of the British Cotton Growing Association?]

Total four pages, 8vo, dusted but text clear and complete. (Sept.) He is sorry to have missed him and has to go to Dumfries the following day "on Territorial Force business". He llooks forward to luncheon during the subsequent week. "If you care to put a fly over Loch Elrig, pray do so, and tell...

£65.00
Herbert Maxwell.

Autograph Letter Signed to Douglas Sladen

Scottish writer, sportsman and naturalist (1845-1937). 4pp., 4to. He gives detailed answers to questions about members of the Douglas family and finally refers Sladen to his book, "The Story of the Tweed".

£30.00
Herbert Mayo

Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions

Boards, worn, damage to spine with loss of half, contents very good. Inscribed by author ("From the Author), and signed by Th[omas] Watson, presumably the distinguished English physician and another.

£50.00