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Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker [Chang and Eng], the 'Siamese Twins', Victorian circus freaks [William James Smith] Pencil note by one of the 'Siamese Twins', with attesting note by Smith. On a slip of laid paper (watermarked 'SMIT'), approximately 7 x 18 cm. Good, on lightly-aged and spotted paper. The writing by one of the twins, is in pencil, in a large, childish hand, and reads 'London England'. Beneath this, in a neat contemporary hand: 'The above two words, were written in... |
£150.00 |
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Colonel G. G. A. Egerton [Granville George Algernon Egerton (1859-1951)], C.B., Yorkshire Regiment. [British Army, Aldershot Barracks] Some Notes and Remarks on Moore's Corunna Campaign up to the retreat from Sahagun. Folio bifolium (leaf dimensions 34 x 21.5 cm): 4 pp. Unbound bifolium. Text clear and complete on lightly-aged and creased paper. One correction to text in red pencil. In small type. Begins: 'The special period for the approaching examination for promotion being the campaign under Sir John Moore... |
£56.00 |
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Dorothea Beale (1831-1906), suffragette, founder of St Hilda's Hall [later St Hilda's College], Oxford, and first Headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College Autograph Note Signed ('Dorothea Beale') to 'Mrs Barrow'. 12mo, 1 p. Fair, on lightly-aged, slightly-grubby paper with small dogears to a couple of corners. Reads 'June 13th. | Dear Mrs Barrow, | It is very kind of you to meet me. I shall hope to arrive punctually. | Yours sincerely | [signed] Dorothea Beale'. |
£28.00 |
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George Canning (1770-1827), English Tory Prime Minister Autograph Signature ('George Canning.'), cut from letter. Good, firm signature, boldly underlined, on piece of paper roughly 4 x 11.5 cm. Thin strip of glue from previous mounting to the right of the signature, and further traces on the reverse. Evidently collected by an autograph hunter. Simply reads 'George Canning.' |
£25.00 |
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Gilbert Murray [George Gilbert Aimé Murray] (1866-1957), English classical scholar and intellectual, the 'Adolphus Cusins' of Shaw's 'Major Barbara' Typed Letter Signed ('Gilbert Murray') to K. W. Luckhurst, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Landscape 12mo (12.5 x 20.5 cm), 2 pp. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with pinhole to one top corner. Concerning a meeting at the Society, Murray is 'so glad to hear that His Excellency, the Greek Minister has consented to take the Chair'. 'My lecture on Hellenism will be practically... |
£28.00 |
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J. Arthur Thomson [Sir John Arthur Thomson] (1861-1933), Scottish naturalist and author whose writings sought to reconcile science and religion Autograph Signature ('J Arthur Thomson'). On slip of paper, roughly 2.5 x 10 cm, cut from a letter for an autograph hunter. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Reads 'Yours sincerely | J Arthur Thomson'. |
£18.00 |
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John Dillon (1851-1927), Irish politian, Parnellite Member of Parliament for County Tipperary, Home Rule activist and land reform agitator Autograph Signature ('John Dillon'). On piece of paper roughly 5.5 x 11.5 cm. Cut away from a letter for an autograph hunter. Laid down on a piece of paper removed from an album. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Reads '<...> | Yours sincerely | John Dillon'. |
£23.00 |
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Jules Auguste Armand Marie, Prince de Polignac (1780-1847), French Prime Minister under Charles X. Autograph Signature ('Jules de Polignac') on part of letter to 'mon cher Baron'. On rectangle of paper roughly 9 x 17 cm. Cut from the head of a letter for an autograph hunter. Fair, on aged paper, with traces of previous mount on the reverse. Above the signature a florid five-line valediction in the best courtly style. Date and beginning of letter on reverse. |
£28.00 |
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Madame Cottin [Whittingham Press, Chiswick] Elizabeth: or, The Exiles of Siberia. Translated from the French of Madame Cottin. 12mo: 123 + [iv] pp. Engraved title (dated 'Octr. 1823') featuring engraving Heath from design by Corbould. Four pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. In contemporary green leather binding with decorative gilt spine and pattern to edges of boards, marbled endpapers and marbling to edges.... |
£180.00 |
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Richard Brierley, Clerk [The Newton-in-Mackerfield Improvement Commissioners, Warrington, Lancashire; small pox; typhus; typhoid; cholera; infectious disease] Single column (23 x 6 cm) on one side of piece of paper 34 x 21.5 cm. 72 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged, creased paper. Small closed tear to central horizontal fold. Lists the infectious diseases of which notification is required ('Small Pox, Cholera, Diptheria,... |
£35.00 |
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