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Lord Eldon [The Roman Catholic Relief Bill, 1829; Anti-Catholic]

Handbill entitled 'Warning to Her Majesty's Ministers. Lord Eldon's predictions in 1829, on the third reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.'

On both sides of a piece of paper roughly eight and a half inches by five and a half. Both sides of text enclosed within decorative border. A scare survival, in poor condition, worn and spotted with frayed edges and several closed tears. Text clearly legible. Headed 'FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION...

£23.00
Marie Krebs [Marie Krebs-Brenning] (1851-1900), German pianist

Autograph Signature on fragment of letter.

Dimensions of paper 3 x 8 cm. Good, firm signature, on lightly aged and spotted paper. The flourish beneath the signature (paraph) has been cropped.

Music and Theatre £23.00
Olinthus Gilbert Gregory (1774–1841), English mathematician

Autograph Signature.

Good firm signature on slip of paper roughly 2.5 x 10 cm. Laid down on slightly larger rectangle of grey paper cut down from leaf of autograph album. A little ruckled, otherwise very good.

Science, Medicine and Technology £23.00
Percy Richard Morley Horder (1870-1944), English architect

Typed Letter Signed ('P. Morley Horder') to W. Perry, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

One page, 12mo. Very good; lightly creased with staple holes to one corner. 'I beg you to publish the letter which I have addressed to the Journal. There is no point in withholding it.' Horder, who designed Lloyd George's house, as well as Mallory Court and Greys, is, according to one authority...

Art and Architecture £23.00
Prince Hoare (1755-1834), English Painter and dramatist; son of William Hoare

Autograph Signature ('P. Hoare') on fragment of letter.

On a piece of wove paper roughly 4.5 x 9 cm. Good, clear signature on lightly aged paper. Reads 'my dear Sir, | Yrs always truly | [signed] P. Hoare'. Reverse reads '<...> am at a loss how to answe<...> | <...>ing the progress of the Anna<...> | <...>- opportunity...

Art and Architecture, Music and Theatre, Social history £23.00
Rampant Lions Press [Denis Tegetmeier; Samuel Johnson]

Prospectus for an edition of Johnson's 'THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES', with sample illustration by Tegetmeier.

Unbound. Large Octavo bifolium on grey wove paper. Good only, with creasing to corners (that would carefully iron out), and some marking to front cover. Title in large gold letters on front, details of edition on versos of both leaves, and specimen page on recto of second leaf. Illustration ('...

Literature £23.00
Robert Mortimer Wheeler (d.1936), journalist, father of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), English archaeologist [Sir Jacob Behrens; Fred Behrens; Bradford Observer; Yorkshire Observer]

Autograph Letter Signed ('Mortimer Wheeler') to Fred Behrens, editor of the Bradford Observer.

12mo: 1 p. Twenty-one lines. Clear and complete. Fair: on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. He 'turned up at the Executive this afternoon rather in the hope of seeing you than in the expectation of being useful'. He had 'intended amongst other things supporting a meeting of the Committee sometime...

Science, Medicine and Technology £23.00
Robert Waithman (1764-1833), Lord Mayor of London, 1823

Autograph Letter Signed ('R Waithman') to 'Mr Dillon'.

12mo, 1 p. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Gives the date of a dinner with 'Mr. & Mrs. Thompson & family', to which he invites Dillon and his wife.

£23.00
Seiji Ozawa (born 1935), Japanese conductor

Autograph Signature.

Good, in felt-tip pen on piece of blue paper, roughly 8 x 13 cms, with the slightest discoloration at extremities.

Music and Theatre £23.00
Shula Doniach, pianist, author and composer

Signed publicity leaflet with photographic portrait.

Octavo bifolium on shiny art paper. A bit grubby, with two horizontal fold lines across photograph of Miss Doniach's head and shoulders in profile. Signed beneath photograph in blue ink. Central section contains twelve press opinions, ranging from Ernest Newman in the Sunday Times to the...

Music and Theatre £23.00