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Percy Richard Morley Horder (1870-1944), English architect Typed Letter Signed ('P. Morley Horder') to W. Perry, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. One page, 12mo. Very good; lightly creased with staple holes to one corner. 'I beg you to publish the letter which I have addressed to the Journal. There is no point in withholding it.' Horder, who designed Lloyd George's house, as well as Mallory Court and Greys, is, according to one authority... |
Art and Architecture | £23.00 | |
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[Trinitarian Order] Disbound, four pages, folio, aged but good, paginated [1]-4, but also numbered in MS. 95-98. The Trinitarian Order was created in France in the C12th to raise funds to ransom crusader and other Christians held by barbarians. This edict from Emperor Joseph II of Austria orders the suppression of... |
French, History, Law, Religion | £95.00 |
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Jack Warner [Horace John Waters] (1895-1981), English actor who played PC George Dixon in film ‘The Blue Lamp’ and TV series ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ [W. J. Macqueen-Pope (1888-1960), theatre historian] See the entries for Warner and Macqueen-Pope in the Oxford DNB. Such was the popularity of Warner’s portrayal of George Dixon, that the Queen told him it had become part of ‘the British way of life’, and he was carried to his grave by six real officers from Paddington Green Police Station.... |
Music and Theatre | £60.00 |
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Perry Belmont [Eric Underwood; German Nazism; fascism; the Teutonic Order; Freemasonry] Stapled pamphlet. 8vo, 27 pp, including full-page photograph of Mussolini embracing a man in Nazi uniform (Himmler?). Fair: internally clean and tight; some marking and wear to covers. Inscribed on title-page to 'Eric Underwood Esq with the sincere regards of Perry Belmont'. (Underwood is... |
History, Military and Naval History | £150.00 |
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'Les Redacteurs (A.M.P., W.R.W., P.E.R.)' and 'les garcons de 3R' 2pp., foolscap 8vo. Good on two leaves of lightly-aged paper attached with rusty staple. Opening note reads 'Voici la première édition de ce journal. Là-dedans les garçons de 3R ont écrit pour vous beaucoup de choses interessantes. Le titre EPATANT! signifie "smashing"! Esperons que vous le... |
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Peter Clare, Secretary, The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester [John Dalton; John James Tayler; Eaton Hodgkinson; John Eddowes Bowman] Autograph Letter Signed ('Peter Clare, Secretary.') to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo, 1 p, 10 lines. Forwarding a copy of a resolution passed by a meeting of the Society's Council on 17 September. The five line transcription of the resolution reads: 'Resolved That the following Gentlemen form the Printing Committee for the present year. Dr. Dalton [John Dalton (1766-1844),... |
Natural History, Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 | |
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Peter Coxe. Autograph letter signed to John Graham Lough, sculptor (DNB). Poet and auctioneer (d.1844). Four pages, 4to, with many changes in his hand, especially on first page (draft?), good condition. He argues that the poem he is sending Lough, "Social Day" [which he published in 1823] contains no rhymes about Lough's sculptures because he couldn't do them justice... |
Art and Architecture | £100.00 | |
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Peter Dee [Peter Rogers Dee] (1939-1999), New York playwright and poet Viking with a Loose Shelailleigh. Tales from Irish America. [playscript] Photocopy of word processor typed print-out. 8vo, [ii] + 53 pp. Good. In plastic binder. Title carries Dee's address. Second page lists the twelve sections of the play. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of a long review, with photograph, from the East Hampton Star, 26 March 1992, of 'a dramatic... |
Literature, Music and Theatre | £100.00 |
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Peter Goldsmith Medd, theologian, one of the founders of Keble College, Oxford (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed "P. Goldsmith Medd" to "Cummings", collector. 2pp., c.12 x 14cms,remnants of laying down process obscuring af ew words. "I am not much in the habit of corresponding with great people, but I enclose you a few autographs." He then discusses a curacy and a pupil. |
£40.00 | ||
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Peter Kropotkin. Envelope, c. 4.5 x 3.5", foxed with small tears, but address, in pencil, clear,in Kropotkin's hand as follows: Peter Kropotkin / Viola / Bromley // Kent". |
History | £75.00 |