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Robert Plumer Ward Autograph Letter Signed to [Thomas] Attree. English novelist and politician (1765-1846). The recipient (c1778-1863) was an influential Brighton solicitor, owner of Queen's Park. One page, octavo. On discoloured and lightly creased paper, with fraying and several small closed tears, but with no loss to text. An affectionate letter inviting... |
Literature | £56.00 | |
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Robert Plumer Ward Autograph Letter to George Hammond of Spring Gardens. English novelist and politician (1765-1846). The recipient (1763-1853) was a diplomat, and joint-editor of the 'Anti-Jacobin'. Three pages, 12mo. On discoloured, lightly-stained paper, with one corner of second leaf of bifoliate (with two words of text) broken off in breaking open letter, and... |
History, Literature | £56.00 | |
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Robert Plumer Ward. Autograph Letter Signed "RPWard" to an unnamed correspondent [publisher, John Murray?]. Novelist and historian (see DNB). One page, 8vo, minor defects, brief annotation by another hand ("author of Tremaine"). He is discussing his progress with "An historical essay on the real character and amount of precedent of the revolution of 1688 / in which the opinions of Mackintosh, Price,... |
Book Trade History, History | £95.00 | |
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Robert R. Hamilton Autograph Letter Signed to Dr Dawson William Turner. Turner (1815-85; DNB) was the son of the noted botanist and autograph collector. 4 pages, 16mo. Creased, stained and grubby. Odd cross between an offer of work and a begging letter. Marked 'Private'. From their 'former relations' Hamilton feels sure Turner will assist him as he did before, when... |
Art and Architecture, Literature | £35.00 | |
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Robert Rae, Secretary, National Temperance League Autograph Letter Signed to Mr [?] Martin. Two pages, small octavo. Good, on slightly ruckled and aged paper. Some glue stains from previous mount adhering to verso of blank second leaf. He is arranging 'a Conference and Public Meeting on Monday 12th. Nov.' The League's committee 'wish you also to favour them with your help by giving a... |
Social history | £38.00 | |
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Robert Ridgeway, 4th Earl of Londonderry (d.1714), Irish aristocrat Autograph Signature ('London=Derry:') on fragment of document. On piece of paper roughly 1.5 x 7.5 cm. Closely cropped underlined signature 'London=Derry:'. |
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A. H. Evans [Arthur Henry Evans (b. 1902)], Anti-Revisionist Maoist Welsh communist and poet, proprietor of David-Goliath Publications [Joseph Needham (1900-1995), biochemist and sinologist] A. H. Evans was born in the village of Aber Clydach, near Talybont on Usk, Breconshire. He gives biographical information in his ‘English Historians and Welsh History’ (1975). See also Needham's entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is excessively scarce: no other copy found on OCLC WorldCat... |
£180.00 | ||
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Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville Autograph Letter Signed to William Smith. Statesman (1771-1851); First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27, after whom Melville Sound was named. Three pages, quarto. Very good if a tad grubby. 'Although it was deemed necessary, when the Revenue Cruisers were placed some years ago under the orders of the Admiralty, strictly to prohibit the... |
Military and Naval History | £135.00 | |
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Robert Sayer of Fleet Street, London printseller [theatrical prints; Comédie Française; Bellecour; Marie Favart, Trial, Clerval; Laurette] Each of the five on a piece of good laid paper, roughly 15 cm square. Wide margins, with indentation of plate 9.5 x 8 cm. All five good, with occasional light creasing to margins. The second and third items more aged that the others, but all good and suitable for framing. Delicately engraved and... |
Music and Theatre | £200.00 |
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Robert Scott (1811-1887), Dean of Rochester, lexicographer [Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon; Richard William Church (1815-1890), Dean of St Paul's] Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Frances Church [née Bennett]. 12mo, 2 pp. Fourteen lines of text. He has put her 'memorandum' with 'the others of a like kind', and does not doubt that he will 'be able to vote for your Orphan Boy -'. The Scotts are 'on the point of escaping to Folkestone', and hopes that Mrs Church is 'going to some place which [will] do... |
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