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Holloway & Son (M. M. Holloway) [autographs; sale catalogues; Thomas Jefferson] Octavo: 53 pp. Stitched and unbound. Complete in itself, in alphabetical order, but lotted 554 to 846. Good, though grubby, and with the outer leaves somewhat creased. Includes letters and documents by Burns, Charles I and II, Maria Edgeworth, Frederick the Great, Garrick, Lady Hamilton, Handel... |
£60.00 | |
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Horace Rayson Venables (b. c.1898) [AUTOGRAPHS; Montgomery of Alamein] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Rayson Venables') to Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Four pages, 12mo. Good, on aged paper with one half-inch closed tear. Claims to be 'compiling an historic book [...] which has been left to the nation', and asks for his contribution. Provides a full-page list from the 'over 500 Autographs'. The collection 'could not be complete without'... |
£40.00 | |
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J. Pearson & Co., dealers. 48pp., 8vo, folding plates (facsimiles), cream printed wraps, title in red and black, wraps showing wear and tear, some foxing, mainly good. The date, 1911, and a limitation to 1000 copies, are indicated in a pencil note inside the from cover. Entries include; Michelangelo, Veronese, Rubens, and... |
£80.00 | |
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J. Pearson & Co., dealers. Autographs of One Hundred Celebrities 1456-1901. 64pp., 8vo, grey printed wraps, title in red and black, edges of wraps sunned, mainly good condition. Highlights include: Aretino, Goldsmith, Handel, Keats, and so on. |
£80.00 | |
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J. Pearson & Co., dealers. 154pp., 4to, folding plates (facsimiles), grey printed wraps, slightly chipped and worn, title in red and black, some foxing, contents mainly good. Note inserted: war-time paper restrictions compel "very brief descriptions" but typewritten full descriptions may be requested. "All the... |
£80.00 | |
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John Gray Bell With a book supplement. Pp.[88].12., 8vo, front wrap missing, some chipping, damage around stitching, one gathering partly detached, and other minor defects, library stamp (Ford Collection, NY Public Library), a few pencil markings throughout. It comprises an 87-page autograph and manuscript... |
£60.00 | |
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Jonathan Mawson Denwood (born c.1853?; died c.1931?), English writer in the dialect of his native Cumbria Autograph Note Signed to unnamed male correspondent. One page, quarto. Good, on lightly aged paper. Some offsetting and smudging from Denwood's folding of letter. Reads '72 Kirkgate | Cockermouth | Aug 8 - 1931 | Jonathan. Mawson. Denwood | Dear Sir, | I send you autograph. I cannot write further At the moment I can scarcely hold a pen.' |
£30.00 | |
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M. M. Holloway, London autograph dealer [autographs; sale catalogues] Octavo: 52 pp. Stitched and unbound. Good, if a tad grubby. In alphabetical order from Queen Adelaide to the Duchess of York, but lotted 236 to 553. Tastefully printed, and including letters of Charles I, Coleridge, Dr Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Rossini, Sir Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne and... |
£60.00 | |
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Maggs Bros, dealers. Pamphlet, 52pp., 8vo, printed wraps, soiled, spine damaged, mainly good condition. "It has for a long time been our wish to give more interesting information about the important Autograph Letters and Documents in our Collection, and consequently we propose to issue from time to time a... |
£80.00 | |
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Maggs Brothers [booksellers' catalogues] [viii] 237 pp., fol.m, original grey and red printed wraps, numerous plates and illustrations in text, some staining of cover around spine, a few pencil markings, top of spine damaged, mainly good condition. It includes Cortes, "Carta de Relacion" (1522), other important Americana, and the first... |
£100.00 |
