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Robin Chapman, English novelist and screenwriter; Laurence Harbottle (1924-2015) [ Joao Bethencourt [ João Estevão Weiner Bethencourt] (1924-2006), Hungarian/Brazilian playwright; Jill Booty ] Typescript: 132pp., folio. Each page on a separate leaf, all of which are attached with metal clasps in a grey card folder, with the label of the International Copyright Bureau Ltd, London, on the front cover (as well as on the title page). In fair condition, lightly-aged and worn, with title... |
£180.00 | |
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Lord William Pitt Lennox (1799-1881), British Army officer and author [ Hurst & Blackett, London publishers ] 1p., 12mo. In good condition. The subject of the letter is probably Lennox's Fifty Years' Biographical Reminiscences', published by Hurst and Blackett in 1863. Lennox is 'extremely flattered' at the contents of the recipient's letter, but has 'disposed of the copy right to Messrs Hurst and... |
£80.00 | |
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Anthony Ashley Cooper (1801-1885), 7th Earl of Shaftesbury [ Lord Shaftesbury ] , British politician, philanthropist and social reformer 2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. He assures de Boinville that he 'much regrets his want of leisure to peruse the MS. that M de Boinville has been so good as to send him'. He concludes with the complaint that he is 'really so occupied that heh has not time for the discharge... |
£45.00 | |
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Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810-1870), Comte de Montalembert [ Abraham Hayward; John Wilson Croker ] Both in fair condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: He thanks him for offering to translate his book ('The Political Future of England'), but considers his knowledge of English law too shaky to permit him to give any encouragement. He suggests that the recipient come to an arrangement with 'Mr.... |
£180.00 | |
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Edward Law (1790-1871), 1st Earl of Ellenborough, Tory politician and Governor-General of India, 1842-1844 On 7 x 12 cm. panel cut from front of envelope. In good condition, lightly-aged. All in Ellenborough's hand, it reads 'Algernon Greville Esq | Apsley House | Ellenborough'.. As required with a frank, Ellenborough's signature is between two horizontal lines, in the bottom left-hand corner. |
£23.00 | |
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Albie Sachs [ Albert Louis Sachs ] (b.1935), African National Congress activist and former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa 113pp., 8vo. On 57 leaves, stapled together, with white card backing. No title-page. Worn and aged, with first leaf detached, but in fair condition overall. In 1988, in Maputo, Mozambique, where Sachs was exiled as an ANC activist, he lost an arm and his sight in one eye when a bomb was placed... |
£250.00 | |
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Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian writer, revolutionary and poet [ Ugo Foscolo] Small part of letter, the subscription, signed "Ugo Foscolo" Part of a letter, the subscription, c.10 x 2cm, sl. stained but text clear, from album leaf. Text in hasty hand, as follows: "Adieu in [?] - your grateful |with all my soul - Ugo Foscolo", Perhaps to be read "Adieu in [?] with all my soul your grateful Ugo Foscolo." |
£45.00 | |
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Sir James Robert George Graham (1792-1861), 2nd Baronet, Whig politician On 8 x 18.5 cm panel cut from front of envelope. In fair condition, lightly-aged and worn. All in Graham's hand, it reads 'His Grace | The Duke of Wellington | K. G. | Apsley House | J. R. G. Graham'. As is customary, Graham's signature is between two horizontal lines, in the bottom left-hand... |
£22.00 | |
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William Roby, non-conformist minister (Lancashire Independence Association). [ Non-conformist minister ] Autograph Letter , Third Person, to "Dr Chenie" (Evangelical Alliance). One page, sl. chipped and stained, texxt clear and complete. "Mr. Roby presents his best respects to Dr. Chenie, & requests him to permit Drinan and Rolan to spend to-morrow & Monday in Manchester. | They might go to St Clements with Mr. Cjhaplin to-morrow forenoon, & then dine 7c... |
£80.00 | |
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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke [printed item; Library of author, Charles W. Dilke] The Present Position of European Politics [62]pp., sm. folio, full leather in poor condition, dec. eps, hinge strain, contents mainly good (cheap paper). Presumably bound specially for a Library, this volume being one of several with a provenance in Dilke's Library (items by him, inscribed to him etc). This binding has the same gilt... |
£80.00 |
