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Margaret Baillie-Saunders Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent. Novelist. Four pages, 8vo, good condition. She responds to a question by revealing that she is working on a new novel called "Scarlet Sials" (pub. 1924, BLC) "all about the Isle of Wight and a rather fascinating love intrigue and social tragedy". She says it's "full of the sea . . . (Solent,... |
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Margaret Kennedy. Autograph Letter Signed to R. Gillet, translator. Novelist. Three pages, 8vo, chipped but text complete. She is pleased that his translation of her "A Long Time Ago" is to be printed in the "Revue des Deux Mondes". She is worrieds that her earlier letter enquiring about publication went astray |
£35.00 | |
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Sir Frederick Adam. Autograph Letter, third person, ro Charles Heath, engraver. General, of Blair Adam, M.P., lord lieutenant of Kinross, and "a most eminent orator and Scotch judge" (DNB) One page of text, 4to, with conjugate leaf with Heath's address, postal marks (Blair Adam, etc.), some damage to latter, but text leaf in good condition. "Lord Chief Comr Adam presents... |
£150.00 | |
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William Adam Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed correspondent. Scottish lawyer and politician, friend of Walter Scott (1751-1839). 2pp., 4to, good condition. He is submitting letters to his correspondent for him to "peruse" and plans a discussion of "the matter" in a carriage. A note has been added "Of Sir Walter Scott" ( Scott died 21 Sept. 1832, and Adam... |
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[BARING BROTHERS BANKING HOUSE] John & Charles Baring & Co. Autograph Letter Signed to Charles Grave Hudson of London. John and Charles Baring were the brothers of Sir Francis Baring (1740-1810), Charles being the head of the Exeter branch of the banking house and John, an Exeter merchant, the nominal head of both arms. 1 page, 8vo. Grubby but in good condition. Mounted on larger piece of paper. An... |
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[VINTAGE BICYCLES] 8vo. 4 pages, in original pink printed wraps, discoloured to light blue on the outside. In very good condition, one vertical crease from catalogue being folded on itself, and with negligible rust staining from staple. The sale comprised 'Lady's and Gentleman's Single, Tandem, Roadster and Road... |
£75.00 | |
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Alexander Baring, first Baron Ashburton (1773-1848). Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Merchant and banker (1773-1848). 2 pages, 8vo. Creased, grubby and discoloured. 'The proclamation has been made this morning and the Poll [presumably a parliamentary election, as Baring sat in the Commons from 1806] will open on Thursday next. I request therefore that our counsel may be here... |
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Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr Born 1781, died 1848. Dimensions approximately four inches by five inches. In good condition. Neatly mounted on a larger piece of paper, which is docketed 'Baron Hormayr is still famous for the part he had in the revolt of the Tyrol in 1809. Four lines in closely written gothic scrip, with... |
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Karl Kautsky Die Klassengegensätze von 1789 Zum hundertjährigen Gedenktag der grossen Revolution. One of the best-known theoreticians of the Second International (1854-1938). Subtitled 'Separat-Abdruck aus der "Neuen Zeit", Heft 1-4, 1889.' 79 pages, 8vo. In original grey printed wraps. Paper browning and with some fraying to corners of prelims, but good and tight with last gathering... |
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Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, Bishop of Calcutta 2 Autograph Letters Signed to unnamed male correspondents. Middleton (1769-1822) was consecrated Bishop of Calcutta in 1814. Both letters are 8vo. The first is 1 page, 8vo, and the second, 2 pages, 8vo. Both are creased and with a few closed tears, but in good condition. Letter one is attached along one edge to the remains of a stub. In the first... |
£100.00 |
