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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Sir Robert Harry Inglis

Autograph Letter Signed to [Anne,] Lady Brodie.

British Tory politician (1786-1855). The recipient was the wife of the noted surgeon Sir Benjamin Brodie the elder (1783-1862). He thanks her for 'the valuable present which you have conveyed to me through Lady Inglis. The subject is one of the deepest interest; and your honoured father ['...

History £28.00
[T.M. Healy]

Irish Prison Atrocities. What about the Belfast Inquiry?

[T. M. Healy]Handbill, 4pp, 12mo, bifolium, fair condition. NLI copy attributed to Healy and dated to 1918. No copies on COPAC (but note similar item by John J. Clancy).

£100.00
Camilla Toulmin, author [Samuel Rogers, poet].

Autograph Letter Signed, "Camilla Toulmin", to Samuel Rogers, poet, expressing her admiration and discussing her writings.

Four pages, 12mo, small closed tear, darkened edges, text clear and complete. She apologises for bothering him with "the accompanying little volume" ["Poems" published this year, 1846] , explaining that Rogers was a friend of her "dear & lamented" father's youth. "I have written so much -...

£80.00
Sir Robert Peel

Autograph Signature.

English Tory prime minister (1750-1830). On creased and grubby slip of paper, dimensions approximately 1 1/2 inches by 4 1/2, with three small glue stains from mounting on reverse. Reads 'Very faithfully yours | Robert Peel'.

History £30.00
Arthur E. Guinness (1840-1915) and Jonathan Pim (prob.1806-1885)

[Arthur Guinness] Clipped signatures from letter signed Arthur E. Guinness and Jonathan Pim

Piece of paper, 10 x 4, black border one side, edges sl. ragged, mounts on reverse (formerly in album), text clear as follows: We remain Dr Sir | Yours very truly | Arthur E. Guinness | Jonathan Pim".

£56.00
[ Yoshida Shigeru (1878-1967), Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1936-8; Sir Robert Henry Clive (1877-1948), British Ambassador to Japan, 1935-7; Ichiro Hatoyama (1883-1959) ]

[Siege of Nanking and Second Sino-Japanese War.] Typed Memorandum and Manuscript Notes by British diplomat, of meeting between Sir Robert Clive and Japanese Ambassador Yoshida and Ichiro Hatoyama, and meeting with Manchukuo adviser A. H. F. Edwardes

Despite the fair amount of attention bestowed on the 'Anglo-Japanese Conversation' - the secret negotiations between the British government and the Japanese ambassador at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War - it is only with the discovery of these two documents that it can be established...

£1,200.00
Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), Tory prime minister

Autograph fragment signed to an unnamed correspondent,

A piece of laid paper, 4 inches by 2. "<...> humble Servant / Robert Peel". Grubby and with minor discoloration from previous mounting.

History £25.00
Sir Robert Peel [restoration of the Gold Standard, 1821]

Anonymous printed petition to one of the Houses of Parliament.

4 pages, 8vo. Pagination: [1] 2-3 [4]. A frail survival: paper grubby, discoloured and dogeared, with a few closed tears and some fraying to extremities, but the text clear and legible. A space at the beginning of the document for the insertion of the petitioner's name in manuscript has been...

£50.00
Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet

Autograph fragment signed to an unnamed correspondent,

Politician (1822-95), son of the Tory prime minister Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850). A biofoliate letter which has been cut into an irregular shape by an autograph collector. The first leaf, 1½ inches by 4½: recto, "Drayton Manor / Oct. 31. 1862 <...>"; verso, "<...> to the stopping of...

History £40.00
Sir Robert Rawlinson

Autograph note signed to John Kinahan,

Civil engineer (1810-98). One page, 12mo. Dear Sir / I return the papers as you desire. / Having so many calls near home I fail to see how I am expected to support your . / I am / Yours truly / Robert Rawlinson".

Science, Medicine and Technology £40.00