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Lionel Arthur Tollemache

Autograph Signature.

English aristocrat (1838-1919), author of 'Safe studies', 'Nuts and chestnuts', etc. etc. Paper dimensions roughly four inches by two inches. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of cream paper. Written in lilac pencil. Reads 'Lionel A Tollemache'. Docketed at foot in pencil...

£18.00
Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), writer

Autograph Signature on piece of paper.

On a piece of wove paper, roughly 5 x 14.5 cm. Rough lower edge. Good, on lightly aged paper. 0.5 cm closed tear at left (not affecting signature). Paper folded once vertically. Good clear signature.

Literature £18.00
Miklos Erdelyi, Hungarian conductor

Autograph Signature.

Good, on leaf of blue paper removed from autograph album, dimensions roughly 12 x 16 cms.

Music and Theatre £18.00
Robert Cornelis Napier (1810-1890), 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, British army officer, Commander-in-Chief in India, 1870-1876.

Autograph Signature ('Napier of Magdala').

On piece of laid paper, dimensions 6 x 11 cm. Good. Clearly complying with a request for an autograph. Reads 'With much pleasure | [signed] Napier of Magdala | March 1884'.

Military and Naval History £18.00
Sheila Kaye-Smith.

Autograph sentiment signed.

Novelist. Piece of paper, c.5 x 3", prob. torn from larger page, attractive sentiment and signature dated: ""With best wishes - / Sheila Kaye-Smith. / Aug. 11. 1931."

Literature £18.00
Sir Edwin Chadwick

Autograph Signature on slip of paper.

English social reformer and essayist (1800-90), Jeremy Bentham's literary assistant. Dimensions of paper roughly three-quarters of an inch by two and a half. Signed 'E Chadwick' over light traces of stamps in red and green, on foxed paper discoloured with age. Small portion at head of 'E'...

Social history £18.00
Sir Joseph Burn [Prudential Assurance Company Ltd]

Printed facsimile of Christmas message on headed paper.

Burn (died 1950) was President of the Institute of Actuaries, and a leading figure in twentieth-century British insurance. Dimensions five inches by eight inches. Folded once. In good condition on good thick wove paper. Headed by company crest with motto, between 'HOLBORN | BARS' and 'CHRISTMAS...

£18.00
Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885), Anglo-German conductor and composer

Autograph Signature ('Jules Benedict').

12mo: 1 p. Very good. Reads 'January 1866 | [signed] Jules Benedict'.

Music and Theatre £18.00
Sir Roger Keyes [Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes] (1872-1945), British naval officer

Autograph Signature ('Roger Keyes').

On a leaf of pink paper (roughly 16 x 20 cm) removed from an autograph album. Firm signature, 6 cm long, with the initial 'R' blotted by Keyes. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The page bearing the signature is headed, in another hand, 'Famous Men Military and Naval'.

Military and Naval History £18.00
Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington

Autograph Frank with address to R. Byham.

Irish administrator and Member of Parliament (1815-62). Consists of the front of the envelope, the dimensions of which are roughly five inches by three. Addressed to 'R. Byham Esq. | Ordnance Office | Pall Mall | London', and signed 'Th Redington'. Two postmarks in red ink: the first, in a...

History £18.00