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William Ewart Gladstone Autograph card signed to W. A. Dowding, Liberal Prime Minister (1809-98). One page, 12mo, the verso, with printed stamp, addressed in autograph to "Mr W. A. Dowding / 47 Mary Street / Bristol". "With compliments & best wishes, as well as thanks. W E Gladstone / Ap. 19. 80". Gladstone had just concluded his celebrated... |
£70.00 | |
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John Murray, 2nd Earl of Dunmore (1685-1752); [Horatio?] Walpole. Manuscript Pay Warrant and Receipt, with Autograph Signature. Two pages. Dimensions of paper fourteen and a half inches by nine inches. Aged and stained, with fraying to extremities and some loss to one corner (not affecting text). Order to 'deliver and pay of such his Majesty's Treasure as remains in your Charge unto John Earl of Dunmore or his Assigns... |
£56.00 | |
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Moses Montefiore, Jewish Philanthropist Envelope frank (signature), addressed to "George Cadenhead". Envelope front panel, black border, c.4 x 2", addressed to George Cadenhead, apparently in Montefiore's hand (illegible street name follows) and Montefiore has signed it in the bottom left. |
£75.00 | |
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Mrs Craik [Dinah Mulock; Mrs George Lillie Craik], author Invitation card "Mrs George Lillie Craik. | At Home") to "Mrs Mackinlay". Printed Card, c.4 x 2.5", with manuscript additions in Mrs Craik's hand. She gives the day and month, and time, then adds details about trains and Cabs. |
£56.00 | |
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Benjamin Franklin [Scottish Chapbook] Unbound, on six loose leaves folded to make bifoliums. Good, though grubby and with rough edges (particularly the head). Text clear and entire. 12mo, 24 pages. Cover features woodcut of eighteenth-century gentleman (Franklin?) leaning on stick. Sections on 'Swimming like a dog', 'To beat the... |
£850.00 | |
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Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), novelist and historian of London [Alice Westlake (nee Hare); Adam and Charles Black, publishers; The Survey of London; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; Frognal] Typed Letter Signed ('Walter Besant') to Mrs [Alice] Westlake. 12mo, 2 pp. Seventeen lines of text. On lightly aged and creased paper. Attractive arts and crafts letterhead. Sending his 'mosts profound sympathy in the danger which threatens Chelsea'. He will sign 'the paper [...] with the greatest of pleasure', although he anticipates 'very little good as a... |
£45.00 | |
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Arnold Bennett, novelst. One page, 4to, slightly chipped and with folds at corners, good condition, text clear and complete. " . . . I am not a brilliant orator, nor even an orator; but neither am I the sort of person to refuse your request to orate, & therefore I will speak for the guests. I wish you would let me... |
£220.00 | |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, engineer (Suez Canal). Autograph Sentiment Signed (Sentiment [proverbe] Autographe signe) A half-sheet of writing paper, c. 11.5 x 11cm, good condition, text, a French proverb, as follows: "fais ce que dois | advienne que pourra. | ferd. de lesseps | edimbourg - 18 Avril 1884. ||" |
£250.00 | |
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[Charles Baron Clarke; Pitcairn] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. MS. lecture or draft for an article on the workings of capitalism on an island (Pitcairn used) ], 12pp., [12mo], incomplete or not completed (since p.12 has only a few lines), additions and corrections. He commennces: "Let us picture to ourselves an island in the North Temperate Zone, as Pitcairn Island, with a small community entirely cut off from the rest of the world. We will begin by... |
£120.00 | |
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[Charles Baron Clarke] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. The Landlord's Budget Addressed to the Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery Printed pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, unbound, some candle-wax droppings, otherwise good. Clarke dissents from Rosebery's proposal "to spend one-and-a-half-million of National income in paying half agricultural rates". No copy found listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
£56.00 |
