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C.P. Scott. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Newspaper editor (1846-1932). One page, 8vo, acknowledging good wishes for his 70th birthday. |
£20.00 | |
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Daniel Berkeley Updike. Typed letter signed to his brother or cousin, Alfred. Printer. Three pages, 8vo. "I write to tell you that the [memorial] tablet [for Wilkins Updike] is completed and in place at St. Paul's Church, Wickford, and I enclose herwith a small photograph of it which you might like to see (ENCLOSED]. He doesn't feel a memorial service is appropriate, buyt... |
£150.00 | |
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Edward Burnaby Greene, trans. The Pythean, Nemean and Isthmian Odes of Pindar Full lea., rebacked, raised bands, gt.dec., corners and edges bumped and worn, some foxing of mainly endpapers, contents g-vg. INSCRIBED by the author to Hans Sloane , physician and collector (collections formed basis of British Museum). |
£120.00 | |
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Edward Sabine Autograph letter signed to John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty (1788-1883) Arctic explorer, soldier, astronomer and magnetic surveyor. Three pages, 8vo, good condition, date "1825" written in pencil. Text as follows: "Copies of my book have been ordered by the Board of Longitude to be sent to Members of the Board, and to Institutions, in different parts of... |
£250.00 | |
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Frank E. Smedley Autograph Letter Signed, to unnamed correspondent [George Cruikshank]. "Frank Fairleigh". Novelist (1818-1864). Three pages, 8vo, bifoliate, sl. dusted, mainly good. "Mr. Austen seems to have written word for word what you wished said abt. Tobacco, but if there is to be much attraction abt. the article, your clever pencil must put it in, for, as it stands it is... |
£100.00 | |
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George Dalziel Autograph Note Signed to (J. Saddler) Wood engraver2pp., 8vo. Staining not obscuring the text. He promises to go to his house to "sign the Return you speak of" and announces a recent change of address. |
£50.00 | |
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Harry Furniss Original pencilled cartoon of an old lady drinking champagne, c.1.75" x 3.25". It is unsigned but is drawn on the back of a place card (for a dinner) with Harry Furniss's name on the front. It has, at some time, been separated from a group of such cards (so states a substantial description... |
£100.00 | |
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Harvard University Catalogus Senatus Academici . . . in Universitate Harvardiana Disbound, poor condition. SIGNED by George Bancroft (American historian and politician, 1800-1891). Bancroft is listed as an alumnus in this book. |
£80.00 | |
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Henri de Montherlant One Autograph Letter Signed and one Autograph Postcard Signed to J.F. Scanlon, writer (?) Novelist, essayist and dramatist, both in French, signed "Montherlant. ALS, in original envelope, 2pp., 4to. In the letter, he is sorry to have missed him and includes him among the few people he does want to see again. "Je pense rester en Afrique jusque vers mai". A "Mr Bradley left for New... |
£150.00 | |
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Henry William Pickersgill; Thomas Uwins Autograph Signatures on fragment of document. Pickersgill (1782-1875) and Uwins (1782-1857) were both English artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy. Very good, on a piece of grey paper roughly two inches by four. From a collection of Autograph Signatures cut from petitions to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Blank reverse. |
£18.00 |
