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Campbell Dodgson Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Art historian (1867-1948) and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, 1912-32. Four pages, 12mo. Good, but somewhat grubby with a few small stains. Interesting, and characteristically subtle solicitation. He has been examining the book of drawings his correspondent sent the previous... |
£100.00 | |
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Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville [Tobago, the West Indies] Draught copy of Order in Council, with covering copy of minute signed by Greville. Clerk to the Privy Council (1794–1865) and noted diarist. Items clearly disbound from volume, with minute foliated '84'. The Order in Council is three pages, folio, on two leaves of gilt-edged laid paper. Good, though slightly discoloured, dusty at head, and with several closed tears and stab... |
£125.00 | |
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George Kirkley [Royal Academy of Art] Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Dimensions. Paper stained, discoloured and ruckled. Trimmed and mounted on a piece of brown paper. Reads 'Shall feel extreemly [sic] obliged if you will have the goodness to allow the Landscape on Copper sent to be placed on the Walls for the ensuing Exhibition at the Royal Academy has [sic] it... |
£22.00 | |
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House of Commons Five leaves, folio. One page blank. Unbound and stitched as issued. Good, but creased and foxed, with slight wear to extremities. Comprising bill (four pages), schedule, memorandum, arrangement of clauses. |
£22.00 | |
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John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly Autograph Note Signed to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie the younger. English lawyer (1802-74) and Master of the Rolls, 1851-73. The recipient (1817-80) was a noted chemist. Two pages, 16mo. Very good, but sumwhat dusty and grubby. Reads 'My dear Sir Benjamin | I am much oblig'd to you for your kind. [sic] I am not aware of the circumstance, or rather the rule you... |
£30.00 | |
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John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon Part of Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Lord Chancellor of England (1751-1838). Dimensions roughly four and a half inches square. Paper spotted and discoloured. Traces of previous blue-paper mount adhering to blank reverse. Unobtrusive archival-tape repair to closed tear. Reads 'May God support him in the Time of his great Calamity... |
£20.00 | |
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Ralph Griffin, Secretary, Society of Antiquaries of London Typed Letter Signed to W[illiam]. de C[ourcy]. Prideaux. One page, 12mo. Grubby, discoloured, stained and with slight wear to head. Apparently a circular with word 'Dorset' inserted in manuscript. Enquires on behalf of the Council of the Society of Antiquaries 'whether it would be agreeable to you that your name be submitted to the Society for the... |
£30.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Burn [Prudential Assurance Company Ltd] Printed facsimile of Christmas message on headed paper. Burn (died 1950) was President of the Institute of Actuaries, and a leading figure in twentieth-century British insurance. Dimensions five inches by eight inches. Folded once. In good condition on good thick wove paper. Headed by company crest with motto, between 'HOLBORN | BARS' and 'CHRISTMAS... |
£18.00 | |
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Mrs. Manning [The Red Cross Sale at Christie's, 1916] Autograph Letter (signed 'Anon') to unnamed male correspondent. One page, 4to. Good, but creased and with slight damage to reverse from caused by removal from mount. Despite signing 'Anon' the author has written her name and address at the head of the letter. 'Since sending you the two ancient Documents & two Autographs which you courteously acknowledged... |
£28.00 | |
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Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley Autograph Letter in the third person to 'Mr. Amory'. English Chancellor of the Exchequer (1766-1851). One page, 4to. Formal letter in the third person. Very good, with remains of brown-paper stub adhering to the verso of the blank second leaf of the bifoliate. 'Mr. Vansittart presents his Compliments to Mr. Amory, and in acknowledging the favor of... |
£30.00 |
