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Annie Besant [ Charles Bradlaugh ] [ Printed pamphlet. ] The Natural History of the Christian Devil. 8pp., 12mo. Disbound without wraps. Drophead title only. In good condition, on aged paper. |
£35.00 | ||
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C. Bradlaugh [ Charles Bradlaugh; Annie Besant ] [ Printed pamphlet. ] New Life of Jacob. 8pp., 12mo. Disbound without wraps. Drophead title only. In good condition, on aged paper. Originally published in 1861 under the pseudonym 'Iconoclast'. |
£35.00 | ||
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Sir Algernon Borthwick [ Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk ] (1830-1908), Conservative Party politician and owner of the Morning Post newspaper 2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight smudging to second page. Annotated by the recipient 'read & burn'. He explains that he is 'just off to Eastbourne', and asks her to send on her letter 'to The Editor [of the Morning Post]', adding that it is 'a risk to send to... |
£35.00 | ||
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Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), etcher and surgeon 1p., landscape 12mo. On aged, worn and creased paper. Written in a shaky hand. Reads: '9th. | This was just going out as your Letter came in yesterday. So thought it better too keep back till I had mastered the contents of yours which was most satisfactory and told me all I wanted to know - | A... |
£35.00 | ||
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John Orde [Messrs Erskine & Curle, Writers [solicitors], Melrose, Scotland; Scot & Turner] 2pp., 4to. On bifolium. Addressed by Orde on reverse of second leaf, with docketting and faint postmark. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Orde writes: 'I received yours of the 27- stating Messr Scot & Turners determination not to allow the sum claimed by me for drains - If Messrs Scot &... |
Miscellaneous | £35.00 | |
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Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Boyd (1710-1794), British Army officer, three-times Governor of Gibraltar (1776-1777, 1790 and 1790-1794) On 3 x 9.5 cm strip of laid paper. In fair condition, with light signs of age. In another hand on the reverse: '1791 | Governor of Gibraltar'. Presumably cut from a letter in response to a request for an autograph. |
£35.00 | ||
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William Stephen Sanders [ Printed First World War pamphlet. ] Those German Peace Offers. 20pp., in printed covers. Dimensions 13.5 x 10.5 cm. Stapled. In good condition, with light signs of age. Refers to a speech in the Reichstag on 24 June 1918, and thus published between then and the end of the war. Headings: 'Allies' Terms in Detail', 'The One Formal Offer', 'No Annexations and... |
£35.00 | ||
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[ Eton College, Windsor ] Victorian bookplate or label of 'ETON COLLEGE.' 6 x 9 cm. Printed in black ink. Laid down on part of a leaf, carrying on the reverse a part of an inscription in French from 'votre affectionée Eugénie'. Lightly-aged, and discoloured from the glue used in mounting. Within a decorative border characteristic of the period depicts a distant... |
£35.00 | ||
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Lieutenant-General Archibald Robertson (1745-1813) of Lawers, Perthshire [Adam Rolland] 2pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Docketted on reverse of second leaf, including the information that this is the second recording (the first being made at the time of the document in 1814). The extract ('Sexto') concerns the payment of an 'Annuity of Eleven... |
Law | £35.00 | |
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), physician and suffragette On 4.5 x 11 cm. slip of paper, cut from the end of a letter. In fair condition, lightly aged and ruckled. Good firm signature. Reads: 'Ever yours lovingly | E G Anderson'. At bottom right in another hand: '1874'. Fragment of letter on reverse: '[...] much better for his holyday [sic] & he... |
£35.00 |