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York Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Todmorton, Manchester On one side of a piece of paper roughly 22 x 14 cms. Good, apart from some repaired damage at head from scorching, resulting in loss to two lines of text. Title followed by the eight rules of the Society over twenty-one lines of text. At foot names of the sixteen members of the Committee (eight... |
£45.00 | |
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General Reibell [French soldier] Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed. On piece of grey paper roughly 10.5 x 13.5 cms. Creased and with some evidence of previous mounting on reverse. Docketed 'From general Reibell commanding in the Haut Rhein - who cut his way into the Tuilleries, & saved Louis Philippe & his Queen; commanded the Cavalry in Paris afterwards... |
£38.00 | |
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John Lothrop Motley (1814-77), American historian, author of 'The Rise of the Dutch Republic' (1856). Autograph Letter Signed ('J L Motley') to the English historian James Anthony Froude (1818-94). Three pages, octavo. Very good on lightly aged paper. Interesting communication from one of the nineteenth-century's leading historians to another, with an evaluation of Froude's work by Motley. He is disappointed that Froude's visit to London precedes his own. He has been in Brussels since... |
£85.00 | |
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[Francis Marshall; Edward Nickson; The British Stage] Seven pages, octavo. Disbound, and with the four leaves detached from one another and neatly laid down on a paper mount. Very good. From (according to the title-page) the edition in 'LONDON. Printed for EDW. NICKSON. Januar. 24. 1643.' Republished as a supplement to the 'British Stage'. Only two... |
£150.00 | |
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William Galignani, publisher, 1798–1882. Autograph Letter Signed "W. Galignani" to "Monsieur le Baron" [not named]. In French. Two pages, 8vo, fold marks but good condition. He apologises for not returning a book he had borrowed from the Baron ("L'almanack Medical"). He had taken it to the country "pour en lire quelques passages a mon frere" and forgot to bring it back. He plans the eventual return. "L'etat de la sante... |
£180.00 | |
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Charles Baron Clarke (1832-1906), British botanist [William Ewart Gladstone] A Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone upon a Land Scheme for Ireland. Octavo: twenty pages. Unbound and stitched. Good, but with outer leaves a little grubby and creased. The word 'rack-rent' on page six has been underlined and three exclamation marks placed beside it in ink. As well as important botanical works, Clarke numbered political economy and education... |
£56.00 | |
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[John Nicholson Inglefield] [Shipwrecks; The Centaur; Naval; Maritime; The Royal Navy] Loss of The Centaur Man-of-War, In the year 1782. (Written by Capt. Inglefield.) Eight 16mo leaves ['A4' at foot of recto of first leaf]. Sixteen unpaginated pages. Unbound, in contemporary marble wraps. Aged and slightly stained, but good overall. Dramatic fold-out handcoloured engraving of distressed men in rowboat in turbulent sea, roughly four and a half inches by five... |
£100.00 | |
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Josiah Clement Wedgwood (1872-1943), 1st Baron Wedgwood, British Liberal and Labour politician Arranging the three in what appears to be chronological order, the first (good, roughly four inches by two and three-quarters wide) has 'Josiah C. Wedgwood' in copperplate beneath a straightforward Victorian armorial design, with shield, coronet and motto 'OBSTANTIA DISCINDO'. The second (three... |
£80.00 | |
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Reading Lodge of Union No. 414 [Freemasons; Freemasonry; Masonic] Octavo, 16 pages. In original cream wraps, tied with blue ribbon, and with the insignia of the Lodge printed on the front. Good, if a little aged. Creased where folded in half. With the signatures of seven of the Lodge's members in pencil on front wrap (Bob Bradley, P. H. Crozier, Herbert L.... |
£85.00 | |
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Sir Richard Burton of Sacketts Hill House, Isle of Thanet, Kent On piece of paper roughly three and a half inches by three wide. Good, lightly aged with a little creasing to one corner. Pleasant armorial design within floral arrangement. Motto 'VIGILANS' on scroll above 'Sir Richard Burton' in copperplate at foot. Indentation of plate around edge. |
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