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Robert Main [The Reverend Robert Main (1808 ? 1878) astronomer.] One page, cr.8vo, fold marks, aged, text clear and complete as follows: Dear Sir | I had much pleasure in accompanying your friend, who appears to be a very intelligent person, round the Ob[servator]y. Mr Airy wished me just to mention that as a matter of form he would wish any application in... |
£56.00 | |
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Noel Coward, playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer. Note, part typed, part autograph, one page, 12mo, some staining, fold marks but text clear, as follows: [MS] My dear [Merton?] | [Typescript] Thank you so very much for your telegram and your welcome good wishes for 'Sigh No More'. | We had a wonderful audience and I must say it looks like a... |
£180.00 | |
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Lord Lytton, sometime Viceroy of India [Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831 ? 1891), statesman] [Lord Lytton, sometime Viceroy of India] Cabinet Photograph: Maull & Fox of Lord Lyttton. Cabinet photograph, 11 x 17cm, aging but essentially good condition. See scan. |
£120.00 | |
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George Bain [George Bain (1881?1968), artist and art teacher] [George Bain, artist; Celtic; Proof?] Lucky Horseshoe (Design for Christmas Card) 18 x 17cm, bifolium, paper (NOT card), minor aging, good condition. Pages 2 & 4 blank, A Merry Christmas in English and Gaelic (presumably) p.3. SEE IMAGE. Note: George Bain enjoyed creating new card designs that were then printed by W LacLennan Ltd of Glasgow. They are all based on Celtic... |
£100.00 | |
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Ellen Wilkinson [Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (1891 ? 1947) Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death] One page, 12mo, text clear but minoir staining and small holes were a pin had been employed. Text: Thanks for his congratulations. I am sorry that you did not get back for the Election: nearly everybody seems to have got in. | By all means, ring up my Secretary and let us fix a day for lunch: it... |
£75.00 | |
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General Sir Hussey Vivian [Waterloo; Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian (1775 ? 1842), known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828.] Address panel, 11 x 7cm, faded but most still legible, staining (effect of glue?), laid down on sl. larger paper with attribution to Hussey. [Address etc] Hussey Vivian [underlined] See Image |
£50.00 | |
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B.W. Noel [Reverend The Honourable Baptist Wriothesley Noel (1798 ? 1873) Baptist minister] One page, 12mo, staining on verso from previous laying down, text clear and presented as if he thought the recipient would want to frame it. Text: Dear Madam | I much regret that I have so long delayed complying with yr request according to which I now send you my autograph and beg to subscribe... |
£56.00 | |
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[W.E. Gladstone, sometime Prime Minister] One page 4to, some chipping and staining, text clear and complete, laid down on card with part of other ephemera on verso. Only one other copy traced, at the Bodleian, Oxford, described on WorldCat/COPAC as 1 unnumbered leaf | [London] : [publisher not identified] [1898]. See Image. |
£380.00 | |
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Alfred E. Turner [Major-General Sir Alfred Edward Turner (1842 ? 1918) British Army officer who served in administrative posts in Ireland] Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, aging, damage to second leaf without affecting the text and signs of having been tipped onto another surface. Text: I am dsired by his Excellency Lord Spencer to aknowledge the receipt of your letter, and of the copy of the Hand book on Irish Lace [see note... |
£200.00 | |
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[Photograph: Foundation of The International Court of Justice] Photograph, 24 x 18cm, verso sl. spotted, photo good and clear. See Image. On verson stamped Fotodienst de Arbeiderspers Amsterdam, with pencil notes Inaugural Meeting [?] 18April 1946 and my note about the Foudation in 1945. |
£80.00 |
