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Frederic Villiers, war artist and war correspondent [Frederic Villiers] Autograph Note Signed 'Frederic Villiers' to an unnamed male correspondent. One page, 12mo, edges sunned, some spotting and darkening, text clear and complete. "Thanks for the 'Hermit' which I hope to peruse at my leisure. If possible, I may hand you a small subject in return but am now very busy indeed." |
£38.00 | ||
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Hon. Henry Bilson-Legge (1708-1764), Treasurer of the Navy, 1749-1754 Autograph Signature ('H Legge') on fragment of document. Dimensions of paper roughly 4 x 6.5 cm. Good, although with slight wear at left and small part of loop at beginning of signature crossing over a printed vertical line. Docketed in pencil 'Lord Treasurer'. |
Military and Naval History | £25.00 | |
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Hon. Russell Benedict, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York [The American Art Association] Octavo: 261 unpaginated pages. In original printed wraps. Internally sound and clean, in stained and creased wraps. Unobtrusive ownership mark of Myers & Co. of London on front wrap. Fifty full-page facsimiles of title-pages, etc. Foreword by Benedict, followed by Resume, beginning, 'The... |
Law | £60.00 | |
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Honoré Delongueil [De Longueil], Graveur, Medailles, Bouton de Livrée, Cartes de Visite, Rue Royale Sainte Honore 6, Paris Signed Receipt ('<Tre?> Delongueil | 8 rue de la Concorde'). On one side of piece of discoloured paper, roughly 13 x 22 cm. Delongueil's circular engraved device (3 cm diameter) in top left-hand corner. Charges for striking a medal in bronze and silver of Olivier de Serres. |
Printing History | £45.00 | |
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Honourable Josiah Wedgwood Managing Director of the famous pottery business ('saviour of the firm') and the fifth in the family to bear the name (1899-1968), Member of Parliament. All six items in good condition, though grubby, and with the first three bearing pin holes in one corner (not affecting text), the hole in the... |
Art and Architecture | £250.00 | |
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Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955), English novelist and playwright The letter: one page, 12mo. Good, but with removal from mount having thinned the paper in places, and with traces of brown paper mount still adhering. He is sending the autographs of 'Henry Seton Merriman (Hugh Scott); Gertrude Atherton; Miss Fowler; and Douglas Sladen. Also a photo from Ted (... |
Literature | £30.00 | |
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Horace Annesley Vachell. Autograph Letter Signed to "Bill", (Wynyard, soldier and cricketer[?]) Novelist (1861-1955). 3pp. ea., 8vo, good. He cannot accept Bill’s invitation because he has arranged to play in a cricket match. He has been accumulating material for a book on Brittany(“By ‘serious’, I mean not a novel!), and reports on the success of The Face of Clay (published 1906). |
Literature | £25.00 | |
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Horace Boardman Wright (1888-1915), English artist from Beckenham, Kent [Royal College of Art; Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers] Landscape sketchbook of eighteen leaves. Leaf dimensions roughly 17.5 x 13 cm. One leaf loose. A further leaf has been removed. Drawings on twenty-five pages and the rear pastedown. Bound in rough grey cloth with printed design on front board. Printed stationer's ticket (label) on front... |
Art and Architecture | £325.00 | |
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Horace Rayson Venables (b. c.1898) [AUTOGRAPHS; Montgomery of Alamein] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Rayson Venables') to Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Four pages, 12mo. Good, on aged paper with one half-inch closed tear. Claims to be 'compiling an historic book [...] which has been left to the nation', and asks for his contribution. Provides a full-page list from the 'over 500 Autographs'. The collection 'could not be complete without'... |
Military and Naval History | £40.00 | |
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Horace St John. Autograph Letter Signed to Edward Draper, lawyer and writer. Journalist and author (see Dictionary of National Biography and Allibone). One page, 8vo, some soiling but text clear and complete, difficult hand, saying: "There has been no [perhaps word (underlined) meaning retraction?] in Punch [underlined]. I am prepared to sustain all I said to you upon... |
Law | £45.00 |