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John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst [ Lord Lyndhurst ], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain One page, cr. 8vo, residue of tipping in, but text good and complete, as follows: The Chancellor, with his humble duty to your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if your Majesty shall so please, two Warrants for enabling Your Majesty's Justices Serjeants and Counsel and others... |
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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. These two trifles have been on my writing table waiting to be 'done up' ever since Xmas. I did wish to have sent them by New Years Day; but daily exigencies that wont [underlined] be post poned, crowh upon one so perpetually, that no choice of... |
£500.00 | |
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H. M. Tomlinson [ Henry Major Tomlinson ] (1873-1958), English journalist and author One page, 8vo, good condition. He begins: No, I don't understand people who regard war - in the light of recent years - as anything but obscene. Your own case is different. The RAMC are not soldiers. Even Quakers served with the ambulances. If you are interested, I think this is about right... |
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William Hope-Jones, Eton Maths teacher [Douglas Byng-Stamper, Eton schoolboy; mysterious Railway death] Four neatly written pages, 4to, very good condition. SEE photograph for full text. Hope-Jones (see brief biography below, including his appearance in an M.R. James ghost story) writes a very substantial letter on the character, activities, school influence, etc. of Douglas Byng-Stamper whose... |
£320.00 | |
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Sir Francis Workman MacNaghten, Anglo-Irish judge in India One page, 4to, bifolium, letter page aged but in good condition, minor closed tear, but verso of second leaf, address page, is grubby, with substantial closed tear, with added annotations (brief biography of Nacnaghtan, etc.). Text: I have been here for some days but by a letter from Roepark I... |
£80.00 | |
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Sir Edward Clarke (1841-1931), English barrister and MP for Southwark, Solicitor-General from 1886-1892, lawyer for Oscar Wilde's action against Queensberry,. 2pp., 12mo, bifolium, fold mark, good condition. Text: Forgive my not answering your note sooner. I should be delighted to help you to the appointment you speak, & fel sure you would make an excellent magistrate, but the competition for these places is enormous, & I fear that actual... |
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Sigismond Thalberg (1812 ? 21871) Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists. [Sigismond Thalberg, Austrian composer and virtuoso pianists.] Autograph Signature S. Thalberg. Bold Signature on paper, 11.5 x 6cm, laid down on slightly larger pink paper, some glue staining marginally affecting the S.. See Image. |
£35.00 | |
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Roger Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet, later Lord Keyes, senior Royal Navy officer [Admiral of the Fleet Lord KeyesAutograph Signature with date, Roger Keyes A.F. | 28th Aptil 1940. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. One page extracted from an autograph album, hence one rough edge, 14 x 11cms, good condition. The Keyes is on the verso. On the recto is the signature of bandleader Charles Shadwell, his signature preceded by Sincerely Yours Images on request. |
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John Simon, sanitary reformer and pathologist One page, 12mo, formerly leaf in a bifolium but the second leaf has been roughly torn away (with small loss to first leaf not affecting main text), two closed tears not affecting text, clear but aged On the remnants of the second leaf someone has noted in pencil Medical Officer of board of... |
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Evelyn Waugh, novelist 44[3]pp., 4to (25.3cm), in three 8-leaf gatherings, not bound, browning of the edges of several pages, commencing with half-title and concluding with printing information and number of copies (this not numbered!) ([3v] and a blank ([3r]). Preface by Christopher Sykes and Postscript by... |
£580.00 |
