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G. M'Ardell, printer, Newcastle-street, Strand [the madness of King George III; King George IV; the Prince Regent] Printed on one side of a piece of rough wove paper, approximately 24 x 10.5 cm. Text clear and entire on aged, creased paper. A production in favour of the Prince Regent, with no trace of sarcasm apparent. Consists of six four-line stanzas, each followed by the chorus 'Hearts of Oak, &c.'... |
Literature, Royalty | £120.00 | |
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Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891), Viceroy of India and poet under the pseudonym Owen Meredith On forms printed in red and black, totalling 1p., folio; 40pp., landscape 8vo; 6pp. (of which four in landscape), 12mo. The seven accounts from Messrs. Macmillan & Co., all relating to 'The Ring of Amasis', are on seven sheets, landscape 8vo, dating from between 1889 and 1900. The first... |
£350.00 | ||
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G. Michelmore & Co, dealers. Two Hundred Extraordinarily Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts. 152pp., sm. fol., printed wraps, worn, chipped, slightly creased and somewhat dingy, contents lightly foxed, contents marginally damp-affected, slight hinge strain, numerous plates, some folding, 200 numbered items and descriptions of three major collections - Le Sage, Voltaire, and Fenelon... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 | |
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G. Michelmore & Co., London autograph dealers [Chiswick Press; Oscar Wilde] Octavo: ii + 174 pp. Stitched. In original grey printed wraps. Internally clean and tight, in grubby and worn wraps. A first class catalogue, with excellent entries on items including letters and documents by Byron, Carlyle, Dickens, Disraeli, Edward Fitzgerald, Garibaldi, Pitt the Younger, Sir... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 | |
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G. N. S. Hunt [Geoffrey Hunt] [Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege; Amen Corner; Christ Church, Newgate Street] Typed Letter Signed ('G. N. S. Hunt') to Mrs Steward of Beckenham, Kent. 4to: 1 page. Twenty-one lines of text. Good, on creased and lightly-aged paper. An impressively-considered letter, declining Mrs Steward's manuscript 'I had rather be a Doorkeeper'. 'As you point out, Christ Church, Newgate Street, is a near neighbour of Amen House, and its ruins are a pathetic... |
Book Trade History, Religion | £28.00 |
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[County Borough of Derby Police, traffic officer's notebook, 1941] 15.5 x 7.5 cm notebook, 108 pp (4 pp blank). With 102 pp of manuscript, in the hand of the anonymous police officer, on 53 numbered two-page openings. Stapled. In original brown wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in slightly-worn binding. Manuscript statements relating to around thirty cases in... |
Law, Social history | £150.00 |
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George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011) [Dr Erich Adolph Alport (d.1972), art connoisseur and book collector; Karl Frankl (1898-1968), English conductor, born in Austria] 2pp., 12mo. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. 36 lines. Harewood explains that he 'originally asked Mrs Rankl to think of someone who had known her husband for, at any rate, a portion of his continental career who would be prepared to review his career before he came to this country, and also to... |
£45.00 | ||
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G. W. Bisseneek [Georgs Bisenieks?] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Prime Minister of Latvia. On slip of paper approximately one inch by three inches. In good condition, with one crease, and neatly glued to docketed piece of green card. Signed 'G. W. Bisseneeks". |
£35.00 | ||
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J. L. Smith-Dampier [ Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford; Charterhouse ] [ Charterhouse; book ] Carthusian Worthies. xxiv + 366pp., 8vo. In rough red cloth with lettering in blue. A good copy, lightly aged and worn, in a chipped and worn dustwrapper with closed tears mended with archival tape. Tastefully printed in the firm's robust style. The blurb on the front of the dustwrapper states: 'The aim of the... |
£200.00 | ||
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G.C. Lewis Autograph letter signed (part of) to unknown correspondent. Statesman (1806-1863). Vestiges of its having been laid down in an album. Part of a letter as follows: " . . . chloroform, & with perfect success but she has since suffered much pain. Her recovery, I am happy to say, is . . ." and overleaf the following " . . . & therefore I conclude... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £35.00 |