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Stourbridge Shakespearean Celebration [Henry Irving; Herbert Beerbohm Tree; J. Forbes Robertson; Sidney Lee; Frank R. Benson] Menu and programme for the 'Stourbridge Shakespearean Celebration. First Annual Dinner.' 12mo: 20 pp. On art paper. Attached with yellow string in decorative printed card wraps. Good: lightly foxed in dusty wraps, with minor staining to blank inside wrap. The wraps, printed in red, blue and gold, feature a photo of Shakespeare's funerary bust within an embossed decorative border.... |
History, Literature | £100.00 |
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Charlotte Yonge [ Charlotte Mary Yonge ] (1823-1902), Victorian novelist 1p., 12mo. On grey paper with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged and ruckled. She is 'much obliged for the Catalogue', and hopes 'to make good use of it, when I have had a consultation with my brother and a neighbour or two who may like to combine in a parcel'. |
£50.00 | ||
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Stratford Canning Autograph Letter Signed to James Finn. Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British diplomat (1786-1880; DNB), for many years Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. The recipient, James Finn (died 1872), was British consul at Jerusalem from 1849–1858. 2 pages, 16mo. In good condition. He has sent his correspondent's 'memorandum respecting... |
History, Military and Naval History | £85.00 | |
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Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880), English diplomat Autograph Signature ('Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe'), written for autograph hunter J. H. Hall. On piece of paper, 11 x 17.5 cm. Lightly creased, and with a little spotting at head. Reads 'Autograph | of | Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe | given to Mr J. H. Hall | at his request.' It is curious that Canning should have thought it necessary to emphasize that the autograph was not... |
History | £28.00 | |
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Stratford Canning. The Treaty of Vienna. Part of an Autograph Letter, missing signature page, to "Wellesley", prob. a Richard Wellesley. Four pages, 4to, incomplete, fold marks, some tears on folds, complete and legible, as follows: "It is perfectly true. I am indeed, my dear Wellesley, the most faithless of correspondents. And towards you too! You, who deserved so different a treatment at my hands. . . . My time has passed away... |
History | £850.00 | |
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Carrie Portelly (1893-1966), V.A.D., of Buckfast, Devon [Voluntary Aid Detachment; field nurse; nursing] [Printed pamphlet.] Poems from the Diary of a V. A. D. By Carrie Portelly. [1] + 38pp., 12mo. Stapled into brown printed wraps, with the title and printer's slug on the cover, which also carries the price of two shillings and sixpence. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Introductory note reads: 'These few pages refer to war-time troubles at home and in hospital... |
Literature | £150.00 | |
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Stuart Knill, Lord Mayor of London [The Ward of Queenhithe in the City of London; livery companies; tax; economic history] On the recto of the first leaf of a folio bifolium (leaf dimensions 42.5 x 27.5 cm). On grey watermarked laid paper. Good, with slight offsetting from the ten red wafers placed beside the signatures. Headed 'LONDON. To the ALDERMEN, DEPUTY, and COMMON-COUNCIL of the Ward of [Queenhithe]'. Fifty-... |
History | £150.00 |
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Sir John Sinclair, , Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture. One page, 16mo, good condition. "With Sir John Sinclair's best respects - He thought that the Duke of Atholl would like to see the copy of so interesting a letter from so respectable a countryman, as General Stewart of Garth." |
£40.00 | ||
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Winifred Rathbone, Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, etc. [Lady Mayoress of Liverpool] Autograph Note Signed 'Winifred Rathbone' to "Mr Abraham". One page, 12mo, good condition. She thanks him for the trouble he's taken over the "Teddy Bear material". Some items sent ('patterns'?) are the cheapest found so far. |
£32.00 | ||
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Sudbury Municipal Election, 1877 [Suffolk; East Anglia; English council elections; county councillors in Victorian England] Two handbills relating to the Sudbury Municipal Election of 1877. Both items printed on one side of a piece of cheap wove paper. Both items aged and lightly creased, but with text clear and entire. Item One (23 x 12.5 cm): Headed 'Sudbury Election. | 1877.' Twenty lines of text, arranged in six paragraphs each commencing with a rhetorical question: 'What has... |
£56.00 |
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