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Sir Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith [AVIATION] Historian of aviation (1909-81) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Eight items, various formats. Very good. LETTER ONE (two pages, octavo, 14 January 1949, on V & A letterhead): 'As a very new fellow of the Society I hesitate to burden you with reading the enclosed [an article on '... |
£200.00 | |
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Sir David Brewster. Autograph Letter Signed "D Brewster" to "Dr Bostock", Liverpool, medical writer, etc. Natural scientist (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, some damage and marking but text clear and complete. "You will have probably seen from the progres of the Encyclopaedia, that we are now approaching very rapidly to the article Galvinism [underlined] which you were so kind as to undertake. We are... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir John Newenham Summerson Architectural historian (1904-92) and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1945-84. Seven leaves, all very good, though some lightly creased and all with staple holes in top left-hand corner. The first three letters to Mercer and the last three to Samson. Three letters docketed. ITEM ONE (two... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir Richard Church. Part of a substantial autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent. Liberator of Greece (see DNB). Three pages (one cross-written making essentially four pages), 4to, sl. damage with obscuring of a word or two, mainly good condition, apparently missing the first leaf. A gossipy detailed letter covering the following subjects:The Irish famine; mutual friends and... |
£300.00 | |
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Sir William Laird Clowes Autograph Letter Signed, apparently to his publishers Sampson Low & Co. British naval historian (1856-1905), author of a standard history of the Royal Navy (7 vols, 1897-1903). One page, on piece of stiff paper, roughly four and a half inches by three and a half. In poor condition, discoloured and stained, and with one small hole and some fraying to extremities.... |
£25.00 | |
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St John Ervine [ John St John Greer Ervine ] Northern Irish Author and drama critic, see DNB. Three substantial and characteristic letters, total 8pp., 4to. She has submitted some of her plays for his critical appraisal and he has been plain-spoken. In the first letter, he comments on "The Long Duel" that he appreciates its literary rather... |
£350.00 | |
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T. Fisher Unwin Publishers. Total five pages, 4to, one torn without loss of text, fold marks, creasing, otherwise good condition. (8 June) "I should be pleased to lend you the blocks from Mr. Pennell's 'Lithography', of which you left a list for a fee of 5/- each. The frontispiece of Mr. Pennell by Whistler is... |
£200.00 | |
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The Duchy of Cornwall [ MESSRS COUTTS & CO., BANKERS ] Three manuscript orders authorising payments, and three typewritten orders cancelling payments. 4to and 8vo. Somewhat grubby and creased, but in good condition otherwise. The six items, all addressed to Messrs Coutts & Company, are, in chronological order: ITEM 1, 5 manuscript pages, 4to, headed 'Duchy of Cornwall, | Buckingham Gate, S.W. | 1912. [18 March 1912], from the Receiver... |
£250.00 | |
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Thomas Belsham. Autograph Letter Signed "T. Belsham", to Robert Philips, Esq. Unitarian Divine (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, blank leaf conjoint crudely trimmed with no loss, mainly good condition. He thanks himn for a present of game and discusses health and weather. He then talks about rumours of war and Wellington saying that, as a Spanish grandee, any nation attacking... |
£156.00 | |
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William Blathwayt Letter Signed (poss.. copy) to unnamed male correspondent. English politician (1649?-1717); Secretary to Sir William Temple at the Hague, 1668; on diplomatic missions to Rome, Stockholm and Copenhagen; Secretary of State to William III; Member of Parliament. One page. Dimensions of paper roughly seven inches by eleven. Poor: paper discoloured and with... |
£250.00 |
