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Edmund Yates. Autograph Notes Signed to “Fred” (Peake) and to an unknown correspondent. Novelist, dramatist and journalist (1831-1894). One page each, 8vo, good. In the first, he is sorry that “Fred” has been bothered in a particular“matter”. In the second, he says simply “Here is the Valentine you askfor”.	Literature, Music and Theatre	£50.00
Edna Lyall (Ada Ellen Bayly) Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. English novelist (1857-1903). Paper dimensions roughly four and a quarter inches by two and a quarter inches. Very good, but grubby and with a few light glue stains. From autograph album and mounted on larger piece of light blue paper. Reads '[...] \| it will save confidencce. \| In gt. haste \|...	Literature, Women	£18.00
Edna Lyall. Signature. Paper, c.4 x 3.5", good condition, at the top of which the authoress has signed her real name and her pseudonym "Ada Ellen Bayly. / Edna Lyall."	Literature, Women	£20.00
Edouard Champion, Paris bookseller, publisher and autograph dealer, 'Seul Agent (France, Belgique, Suisse) du British Museum' Typed Letter Signed, in English, to R. W. C. Vail of the Roosevelt House Library and Museum, with typed invoice. Both items fair, on lightly-aged paper. Both with list of Champion's publications down the left-hand margin, and with the list continuing in the letter to the blank second page. Letter: 4to, 1 p. He is sending 'a few documents which I have so far collected' relating to the Marquis de Chamilly. '...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£125.00
Édouard Lockroy (1838-1913), French left-wing politician; secretary to Ernest Renan; fought with Garibaldi; signed the proclamation for the election of the Paris Commune Autograph Letter Signed ('Edouard Lockroy \| député \| 21 Rue de Clichy'), in French, to an unnamed female correspondent. 12mo: 1 p. Fifteen lines of text. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed in a contemporary hand at head. Headed 'Madame'. Asking whether she would be willing to lend her 'admirable talent à une oeuvre d'instruction populaire', a matinée by 'Les membres de la bibliothèque du 17: arrondissement'....	French, History	£65.00
Édouard Lockroy (1838-1913), French left-wing politician; secretary to Ernest Renan; fought with Garibaldi; signed the proclamation for the election of the Paris Commune Note with Signature ('E Lockroy'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent, probably written by a secretary. 12mo: 1 p. Text clear and entire, on aged and lightly-stained paper. Reads 'Cher ami. \| Je vous envois une demande d'admission dans notre société, avec pièces à l'appui que je recommendre à tous vos soins. \| Votre bien devoue. \| [signed] E Lockroy'. Although attributed to Lockroy in a...	French, History	£28.00
Edouard Servan de Sugny. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Author/translator of "La Muse ottomane ou chefs-d'oeuvre de la poésie turque" (Paris, 1853). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He thanks his correspondent for a copy of "l'Anthologie arabe de M. Grangeret de Lagrange" [first published 1828]. He explains his great interest in the book and the...	French, History, Travel and Topography	£150.00
Edvard Hambro [Edvard Isak Hambro] (1911-1977), 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly One Autograph Letter Signed and one Typed Letter Signed to Stanley T. Cross, of the Registry of the International Court of Justice, the Hague; and four Typed Letters Signed to Cross's widow (all signatures 'E Hambro'). The collection in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with each item carrying a punch-hole in top left-hand corner of first page. Letter One: in manuscript; to Cross; 3 September 1949; on 'Edvard Hambro' letterhead; 8vo, 2 pp. Affectionate letter on Cross's retirement from the Registry of the...	History, Law	£165.00
Edvige Pesce Gorini, Italian poet, editor of the 'Giornale dei Poeti' [Violet Bonham Carter (1887-1969); Mark Raymond Bonham Carter (1922-1994), Baron Bonham-Carter, Liberal politician] Three Typed Letters Signed (the first two in full and the third 'E P Gorini') the first two to Violet Bonham Carter and the last to her son Mark, the first in English and the last two in Italian. Text of all three items clear and complete. All three on lightly aged paper, creased and with some wear to extremities. Letter One (8vo, 1 p; 20 lines of text): She thanks Bonham Carter for her 'kind and appreciative letter' and 'will see that through the English Embassy' she receives 'a copy of...	History, Travel and Topography	£120.00
Edward Alexander Cazalet [Anglo-Russian Literary Society] Autograph Postcard Signed to [George Kenneth] Menzies, [Secretary, Royal Society of Arts]. English linguist and traveller (died 1923), founder (in 1893) and president of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society. One page, 16mo. Very good. Bearing the Society's stamp. 'I thank you for your kind invitation for the 28th Inst, of which I will be pleased to avail myself, if able to go to London...	Literature, Travel and Topography	£26.00