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Stratford Canning. The Treaty of Vienna. Part of an Autograph Letter, missing signature page, to "Wellesley", prob. a Richard Wellesley. Four pages, 4to, incomplete, fold marks, some tears on folds, complete and legible, as follows: "It is perfectly true. I am indeed, my dear Wellesley, the most faithless of correspondents. And towards you too! You, who deserved so different a treatment at my hands. . . . My time has passed away... |
History | £850.00 | |
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Carrie Portelly (1893-1966), V.A.D., of Buckfast, Devon [Voluntary Aid Detachment; field nurse; nursing] [Printed pamphlet.] Poems from the Diary of a V. A. D. By Carrie Portelly. [1] + 38pp., 12mo. Stapled into brown printed wraps, with the title and printer's slug on the cover, which also carries the price of two shillings and sixpence. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Introductory note reads: 'These few pages refer to war-time troubles at home and in hospital... |
Literature | £150.00 | |
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Stuart Knill, Lord Mayor of London [The Ward of Queenhithe in the City of London; livery companies; tax; economic history] On the recto of the first leaf of a folio bifolium (leaf dimensions 42.5 x 27.5 cm). On grey watermarked laid paper. Good, with slight offsetting from the ten red wafers placed beside the signatures. Headed 'LONDON. To the ALDERMEN, DEPUTY, and COMMON-COUNCIL of the Ward of [Queenhithe]'. Fifty-... |
History | £150.00 |
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Sir John Sinclair, , Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture. One page, 16mo, good condition. "With Sir John Sinclair's best respects - He thought that the Duke of Atholl would like to see the copy of so interesting a letter from so respectable a countryman, as General Stewart of Garth." |
£40.00 | ||
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Winifred Rathbone, Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, etc. [Lady Mayoress of Liverpool] Autograph Note Signed 'Winifred Rathbone' to "Mr Abraham". One page, 12mo, good condition. She thanks him for the trouble he's taken over the "Teddy Bear material". Some items sent ('patterns'?) are the cheapest found so far. |
£32.00 | ||
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Sudbury Municipal Election, 1877 [Suffolk; East Anglia; English council elections; county councillors in Victorian England] Two handbills relating to the Sudbury Municipal Election of 1877. Both items printed on one side of a piece of cheap wove paper. Both items aged and lightly creased, but with text clear and entire. Item One (23 x 12.5 cm): Headed 'Sudbury Election. | 1877.' Twenty lines of text, arranged in six paragraphs each commencing with a rhetorical question: 'What has... |
£56.00 |
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[The Prussian Army (Königlich Preußische Armee), 1810] Landscape folio leaf (32.5 x 40.5 cm), 1 p. On paper watermarked 'JOHN HALL | 1810'. Neatly ruled to make a complex, detailed table, in three columns of 31 rows each. The table has a central vertical fold, with the left hand side of the reverse mounted on a leaf removed from an autograph album.... |
Military and Naval History | £325.00 |
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Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925), English novelist See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p., 12mo. On aged and worn paper. She has pinned a short newspaper cutting regarding Major Matthew Nathan at the head, and drawn a hand pointing to it. A dinner invitation, concluding 'You had better begin to look out for second hand copies of ""' From the... |
£40.00 | ||
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[ Editor: V. Berezin ] [ Russian Propaganda post-War ] New Times. A Weekly Journal, Nos. 1, 2 & 15 Three issues, printed paper wraps, 4to, some staining and rusted staples, mainly good+. "An interesting perspective on world affairs and Cold War issues". As far as I can trell from COPAC and WorldCat, no British or US library hold any issues. |
£120.00 | ||
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[Oxford Legal Circuit, c.1938] [Broadsheet; list] Counsel on the Oxford Circuit Broadsheet, c. 42 x 52cm, fold marks, punch-holes (minor textual loss), some foxing in margins, 3 " closed tear (no textual loss), three columns of names inc. R. Stafford Cripps, six women, total more than 50 names, plus officers (e.g. Clerk of Assize, C.F. Lloyd). |
£120.00 |