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Joanna Baillie, Scottish dramatist and poet (DNB). Subscription only, 11 x 5cm, good condition, with some lines on the verso, probably consituting the majority of the original letter. Subscription: dear Miss Mackenzie | Most truly uors | J. Baillie !! Hampstead | Saturday July 4th. Verso: Dear Miss Mackenzie (slightly clipped] | Mrs Baillie... |
£56.00 | |
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Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano. [Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano.] Autograph Inscription on detached album leaf. Page of album, 20 x 16cm, good condition, signed as follows: Luisa Tetrazzini | Souvenir de la Saison [au?] Covent Garden - 6.12.1907 | London.. On the verso of the album page there are several unconnected signatures, dating 1900-1923. which I didn'feel would repay research.See IMAGE. |
£45.00 | |
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William Burdett-Coutts [(1851 -1921), born William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, American-born British Conservative politician, m. Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (d.1906)] One page, 4to, aged but text clear and complete, as follows: Dear Mr Salaman, | I am sorry not to have answered your letter before but I have been too busy toi attend to my private correspondence. Many of my pictures have been put away but I may be having some of them out again shortly and if so... |
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[Victorian parody of 'The House that Jack Built'] 8vo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. Fair, on thin aged paper, laid down on a sheet of backing. In small type, with the 'old version' of the nursery rhyme, in the left hand column, transformed into a 'new version' of 78 lines of prose in the right-hand column. The first line - 'This is the house... |
£125.00 | |
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Harriet Martineau, pioneering journalist and writer [Harriet Martineau, pioneering journalist and writer] Bold Signature with partial address. Signature and place name on fragment, 9 x 2.5cm, laid down on slightly larger backing. Text: Mrs Harriet Martineau | Ambleside [Mrs as the shortened form of Mistress presumably,] See Image. |
£45.00 | |
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William Cobbett (1763 ? 1835) pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer Address panel from an envelope/letter with Free stamp, 11 x 7cm, aged but good condition and clear wording. See Image. Note: Presumably John Hudson, who was recorded as an Inn Keeper in the Subdeanry of Chichester in 1830, and as an Inn Keeper at the Dolphin in 1832, was proprietor by 1840 at 92... |
£30.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, Austrian-born British sculptor (1834-90). One page, 12mo, fold marks but good condition. .Text: I have begun the sketch of John Knox and shall feel greatly obliged if you would do me the favor to lend me the small engraving of him for a few days. [...] |
£80.00 | |
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T.C. Mendenhall [Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841 ? 1924) American autodidact physicist and meteorologist] One page, 4to, fold marks, minor spotting, good condition. I beg to thank you for the facilities afforded Mr. E.D. Preston [author of The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey: its origin, development, and present status] of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, while engaged in gravity and... |
£90.00 | |
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Robert Southey, Lake Poet [Rafael del Riego y Fl?rez] Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed B Gooch [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title On the Death of Riego. Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines [He?] is gone the life of... |
£1,250.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2pp.,8vo, black-bordered, bifolium, good condition. I am at the present time so tied by public work that I should hesitate to take any fresh engagement, but in addition to this I feel that the times are unsuitable [First World War] for anniversary celebrations for which none of us can have much... |
£95.00 |
