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David Roberts, C.L. Eastlake and Henry Moseley, artists 18.5 x 8.5cm, sl. chipped and stained, but text clear. Signatures of Roberts, C.L. Eastlake and Henry Moseley, adding their addresses in holograph (Eastlake and Roberts both at 7 Fitzroy Square, and Moseley at 52 Upper Charlotte Street), probably clipped from an appeal to the Artists'... |
Art and Architecture | £65.00 |
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Algernon Borthwick Autograph Letter Signed to “Yates”. Ist Baron Glenesk, newspaper proprietor (1830-1908), 4pp., 8vo, stained but not obscuring text, giving his reason for not seeing Yates’s “representation”, and planning a pre-luncheon conversation about Napoleon, Palmerston and the like. He is pleased to be given a place in Yates’s “Gallery”. |
History | £30.00 | |
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[Oliver Cromwell, Protector] Oliver P. [Contemporary MS copy; electoral problems] "Mandamus from Oliver Cromwell to Major Haynes" One page, 13 x 19cm,small chip at base losing the "o" of "for", mainly good condition. Text printed in Strutt's "The History and Descryption of Colchester", pp.9-10 [Googlebook "Major Haynes Colchester"], and other material relating to the history of Colchester (Thomas Cromwell etc), with minor... |
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Dr Henry Macnaughton Jones (d.1918), Irish consulting surgeon and writer; Professor of Midwifery, Queen's College, Cork; President of the British Gynaecological Society 12mo, 2 pp. Twenty-six lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Having examined Mrs Damon in her bed, he now finds her 'up & down stairs', and requests Coffin to 'kindly give her a look up & control her & force her to be an invalid for a few days'. Ends with the news that... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 |
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Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland Autograph Note Signed, 2pp., 8vo, to Cuthbert Sharp, antiquary. Statesman and antiquarian (1792-1865). He thanks Sharp for "Works on Antiquarian subjects". |
History, Royalty | £15.00 | |
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Alice Law (born 1886), English poet Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Lees'. Two pages, 12mo. Very good on aged paper, with small closed tear at head not affecting text. Appears to concern an exhibition of women painters. Wants to 'personally thank' her for 'the privilege of having seen the International & in particular, your charming pictures. 'Early Morning' has... |
Literature, Women | £25.00 | |
| [Daniel Maclise; William Maginn; John Nichols; Theodore Hook; William Jerdan; Percival Bankes; Count D'Orsay; David Moir; James Fraser] | Art and Architecture, Literature | £450.00 |
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Alice Stopford Green, historian. Loyalty and Disloyalty. What it Means in Ireland Pamphlet, original geen wraps, badly chipped, dusted, 14pp., 8vo, with additional publisher's list (2pp. inc. inside back cover). With obscured pencil inscription on front cover, perhaps to "Riobard ua Flynn" [Robert Lynd] and from his library.Scarce: COPAC lists copies at Oxford, LSE, BL, NLW... |
History, Travel and Topography, Women | £36.00 | |
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Ernst Pauer (1826-1905), Austrian pianist who settled in London in 1851, principal piano professor at the Royal College of Music In fair condition, lightly aged and creased, laid down on part of page from album. Folded for postage. Neatly written. Reads: ‘6 Oct 1867 / Mr Pauer begs to inform Mrs Paget that the Austrian Piano maker will attend to her Piano tomorrow or Wednesday / In haste.’ |
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Allan Cunningham Autograph letter signed to undeciphered addressee. Scottish author (1784-1842). One page, 12mo, remnants of laying down, chipped, without loss of text. He is having to return a book which he had intended to review in an "Oxford Literary Journal" which "died a <> death some days ago". |
Literature | £45.00 |