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Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington Printed Receipt Signed, with Manuscript Additions in another hand, for Royal Navy [annual?] budget. (1699-1747). One leaf, dimensions roughly eight inches by ten. Printed text with manuscript additions on recto; docketed on verso 'Right Hon Pattee Byng afterwards Earl of Torrington Treasurer of the Navy 1729- Brother of the unfortunate Admiral John Byng'. Good, but grubby, and with slight loss... |
£500.00 | |
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Randolph Schwabe. Draughtsman and printmaker. One page each, 8vo, in his normal calligraphic hand, some peripheral damage but mainly good condition. (1927) He acknowledges receipt of a cheque and the return of a parcel of prints - thanks. (1942) He informs Fletcher that "The lithograph Enrico Cecchetti was... |
£125.00 | |
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Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville Autograph Letter Signed to William Smith. Statesman (1771-1851); First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27, after whom Melville Sound was named. Three pages, quarto. Very good if a tad grubby. 'Although it was deemed necessary, when the Revenue Cruisers were placed some years ago under the orders of the Admiralty, strictly to prohibit the... |
£135.00 | |
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Sir David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore Printed Receipt Signed, with Manuscript Additions in another hand, for money lent to Queen Anne. General (c.1656-1730) and Governor of Gibraltar, married to Catherine Sedley, mistress of James II (see item# ). One leaf, dimensions roughly seven inches by ten and a half. Printed text with manuscript additions on recto; docketed on verso. Good, but grubby, and with slight repair to head.... |
£150.00 | |
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Spencer Cowper [Sir William Cowper] Judge (1669-1728), and Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales on the accession of George I. Grandfather of the poet William Cowper, and brother of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665-1723), Lord Chancellor of England. One of the defendants, in 1699, in the celebrated trial for the murder of... |
£180.00 | |
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Victor Noir (pseudonym for Yvan Salmon) Autograph Note Signed. In French. Journalist (1848-1870), killed 1870 in duel by Prince Pierre Buonaparte. The note is one page, 12mo, as follows: "La Gazette de Java, se recommande a l'Avenir Nationale / Victor Noir". The conjoint leaf has the following information, possibly in the same hand but more formal: "La Gazette de Java... |
£1,500.00 | |
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William Michael Rossetti Autograph Letter Signed [to Walter Besant?]. English writer and critic (1829-1919), brother of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the poet Christina Rossetti. The letter is docketed as to '(Besant)', presumably the writer Walter Besant (1836-1901). Four pages, 12mo. On a piece of grubby, discoloured paper, torn in half and neatly... |
£95.00 | |
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[Henry Longueville Mansel, Dean of St Pauls; University of Oxford; J. Vincent, publisher] Scenes from an unfinished drama, entitled Phrontisterion, or, Oxford in the 19th century. English philosopher (1820-71). 24 pages, 12mo. Very good, neatly bound in brown cloth binding. Bound in are the original grey printed wraps, affected with foxing, and with very slight damage from glue to front wrap. The rear wrap carries an advertisement of 'BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED | BY J.... |
£100.00 | |
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[NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE] S[olomon] Hodgson, Printer, bookseller, stationer, print seller, newspaper proprietor (BBTI 1785-1800), also publisher of Bewick. One page, 4to, somewhat grubby and worn at the edge, but text clear and complete. Account total £7.16.11 paid in cash. Twenty two items listed with prices, multiple copies from "6 Hist of All Nations" to 200 Maclaurin's Spelling", subjects including educational (as above) and children's ("Mother... |
£350.00 | |
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[PROVINCIAL PRINTING, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE] Rev. John Hodgson 4to. Pages: [4] + 30. Uncut and in large part unopened, in original plain grey wraps. Stabbed as issued, but with thread worn away and signatures loose within wraps. Grubby and with some offsetting, but overall a very good survival of a scarce and fragile item. A handsome production which does... |
£125.00 |
