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William Beckford [ William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), novelist, art collector and patron of works of decorative art, etc] One page, 12mo, bifolium, grubby, fold marks, all text legible, in variable, hasty hand. Addressed on final page of bifolium to "Mr H G Bohn | York St". The letter starts with titles added after the letter was finished, "omitted Paradoxes [underlined] | Bede | Anthologia Gr". The main body of... |
£900.00 | |
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West of England and South Wales International Arbitration Association, Bristol [ Edmund Tolson Wedmore (1847-1920), Quaker pacifist; Walter Sturge; Allen Greenwell; Rev. Henry Richard; Peace Society ] Around 70 items laid down on 36pp. of an 8vo. exercise book with ruled grey-paper pages, in quarter-binding with marbled boards with green cloth spine. With around eight more items loosely inserted. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. The present collection consists of various handbills... |
£1,150.00 | |
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Sir Ronald Harwood (born South Africa, 1934 as Ronald Horwitz), Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter [ Peter Saville (1930-2016), British film director; Nelson Mandela ] Typed screenplay, 103pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Paginated to 99, but with the pagination heavily disrupted by the addition and removal of a large number of pages of revisions on pink or blue paper, each amended leaf dated at the head. Held together with two metal studs,... |
£220.00 | |
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James Brooke [ Rajah Brooke ] (1803-1868). Two pages, 12mo, good condition. "I am very anxious to have the pleasure of seeing Lady Harriet and yourself, before I leave England for Siam where I shall prbably be engaged til May of June of next year. Should it be quite convenient I would propose a visit to Aldbury [Park ] during the next... |
£280.00 | |
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Fanny Higginson, daughter of Lt-Gen. George Powell Higginson (1788-1866) of the Grenadier Guards, and sister of Gen. Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson (1826-1927) The present item is highly unusual from the point of view of women's education, being in large part a description by a young English upper-middle-class girl of the 1840s of the rigorous course of education she is undergoing. Written at a time – several years before the establishment of Queen’s... |
£1,250.00 | |
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William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818-1885), Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum, antiquary 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with slight creasing along inner edge. As promised he is sending 'Rawlinson's Autograph - I send you also those of Gordon Cumming and of a man who has just been Attorney General at Hong Kong'. He concludes: 'I will look through my papers & and [... |
£35.00 | |
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William Roupell (1831-1909), forger and fraudster, Member of Parliament for Lambeth, 1857-1862, ruined in the Roupell Case 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, on aged and worn paper. Possibly produced in court, as docketed at head: 'facsimile | printed 1st & 3rd' (the present item is not a facsimile). The male recipient is not identified. He wishes to reiterate his thanks 'for the... |
£120.00 | |
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William Roscoe (1753–1831) of Liverpool, historian, patron of the arts, and leading abolitionist 2pp., 4to. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper with spike hole. The recipient is unidentified. He asks him to 'forward the few books which Mr. Clark & I laid out when we had the pleasure of calling on you in London, with my Account including Mr. Clarkes, when I will remit you the... |
£300.00 | |
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William Kirtland (1786-1864), Under Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, employed by Sir Thomas Phillipps as an amanuensis [ Charles Roach Smith (1806-1890), antiquary ] 2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with tape stain at head from mount. The Keeper 'Mr. Duncan' (Philip Duncan) being absent from Oxford, Kirtland is forwarding to Smith 'that portion of the Ashmolean Catalogue which relates to Alfreds Jewell [sic] comprizing all the facts and... |
£180.00 | |
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William Gilpin (1724-1804), writer on art and headmaster of Cheam School, Surrey [[ Thomas Cadell and William Davies, London booksellers ] On a slip of paper, with two embossed tax stamps. Worn, aged and damp stains. Entirely in Gilpin's autograph, and reading: 'To Messrs. Cadell, Davies booksellers in ye Strand London | Please to pay to Mrs. Mary , or her order five days after date one hundred pds for | Yr. humble Servt. | Will:... |
£220.00 |
