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Violet Vanbrugh (stage name of Violet Augusta Mary Bourchier, née Barnes) photograph signed to [?] Sarker, English actress (1867-1942). A portrait photograph, 5¾ inches by 4 inches, from the studio of Ellis & Walery, 54a Baker Street. Inscribed "To Mr Sarker - / with every good wish / Violet Vanbrugh". She looks slightly to the left, apparently in costume, with short hair, earings, pearls, and an... |
Music and Theatre | £25.00 | |
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Virginia Frazer Boyle, American Science Fiction writer, novelist. Autograph Subscription signed. Scrap of paper,3.5 x 1", with the words, in Boyle's hand, "you and believe me / with sincere regard, / Your friend / Virginia Frazer Boyle". Paper partly laid down on card, unevenly and crudely cut, staining, corners have remnants of a laying down, and another hand has added "Author of 'Devil... |
Literature | £120.00 | |
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Virginia Schneider. Typed Letter Signed to "Mr Monaghan", autograph collector. Assistant to Albert Schweitzer. Two pages, folio, minor defects, text clear if slightly faded, some pen markings to clarify text. She is finding it difficult to secure Schweitzer's signature because he is busy or tired. She has tried on a Sunday when he writes letters and receives visitors but... |
£50.00 | ||
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Viscount Palmerston Document signed, "Palmerston", addressed to "E. Biscoe Eyre" War Office Circular No. 121. One page, fol. Printed with manuscript additions. The document refers to "certain Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures" which should be remitted to the Bank of England and placed to the account of "the Agent-Genral for the Local Militia". The addressee (Eyre) is to levy... |
History, Military and Naval History | £100.00 | |
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[British Parliamentary report into the naval defence of Australia and New Zealand, 1908] [HMSO] Folio, iv + 56 pp. Stitched. In original blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Internally good, on lightly-aged high-acidity paper. Wraps worn and a little chipped, with a few closed tears. Wraps carrying Hull University withdrawal stamps. |
£75.00 | ||
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Viscount Sidmouth, statesman (DNB), here "Home Secretary". Letter Signed "Sidmouth" to an unnamed correspondent. Two pages, 4to, copperplate text by secretary, fold marks, marks of sellotape (half inch square at most) at edge, small chip bottom corner,m text cleqar and complete. Sidmouth, who has received a letter in favour of the condemned John Vartie, forger, informs his correspondent that "the Case of... |
History, Social history | £120.00 | |
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Viscountess Lee of Fareham (see husband's DNB entry) on Chequers, the British Prime Ministers' country house ALS, 1p, 4to to Clement Shorter, editor of the Sphere newspaper Says that Chequers has been "thoroughly photographed twice since our alterations" (1910 and 1917), but that she would be glad to allow Shorter to have other photographs taken. Country Life does not give the Lees copies of these photographs, but does sometimes allow other newspapers to reproduce... |
History, Social history, Women | £45.00 | |
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[Sir Walter Scott; Edinburgh Select Club] Cardc.10 x 14cm, prob. whiet or cream originally but discoloured now, printed text clear and complte, on the recto a list of members from 1803 Sir James Hall to [1827] William Murray, giving as shown the year of admission (mainly 1803). On the verso, the dates for the Friday Club dinners Jan.... |
Literature | £265.00 |
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W. A. Day, printer, of 25 South John Street, Liverpool. [Victorian printing; zincography] A scarce piece of Liverpool printing ephemera. Dimensions approximately 63 x 51 cm. Both sides printed in light blue. Text and illustrations complete. In need of expert cleaning and repair: grubby and stained, with chipping to extremities and some closed tears. At the head of the one side is the... |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £150.00 |
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W. B. Jemmett (d.1925), British miniature-painter and dandy [Sharif Muhammad Amin; H.H. Amir 'Ali Haidar Pasha, Grand Sharif and Amir of Mecca; Biarritz; Saudi Arabia; Arabic; Arabian; Arab] On a piece of grey paper roughly 25 x 22 cm, with card backing. The backing is rough-edged, the picture having been removed from its mount, but the edges of the print itself are undamaged. A little grubby, and with minor spotting and staining. Depicts the moustachioed sitter's head in profile,... |
£50.00 |