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Maxwell Ashby Armfield

Two Autograph Letters Signed to 'Mr. Perry'[, Secretary?, Royal Society of Arts].

British stage designer (died 1971), painter, writer and lecturer. Both items one page, octavo, and very good, though lightly creased. Both signed 'Maxwell Armfield'. LETTER ONE (docketed and bearing R.S.A. stamp): He has read the lecture by 'Mr. Davis', 'with great interest [...] our opinions on...

£150.00
Medici Society [Cobden-Sanderson]

Typed message (to departing employee?), on printed letterhead, with thirty-eight signatures (of work-colleagues?).

Company founded in 1908 by Philip Lee Warner and Eustace Gurney, 'to bring artists' work to the appreciation of a wider public'. One page, quarto. Folded twice. Good, but slightly foxed and lightly creased. The typed message reads ' "The best of Prophets of the future is the Past" | With the...

£100.00 Medici Society
Michel Chevalier.

Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent. En Francais.

Political Economist. One page, 12mo, good condition. Difficult to read but he talsk of submitting a "tirage" [printing; proof?] to his correspondet's attention (or vetting), mentioning sending [?] a title and "''indication que [?] extrait du journal d'agriculture".

£56.00
Nancy Astor and Margaret Wintringham

The signatures of the above.

Piece of paper, laid down on detached album leaf, c.4" x 3", with signatures only of Nancy Astor and Margaret Wintringham, the first and second women MPs, withe note giving that information.

£80.00
Nicholas Francois, Count Mollien.

Letter signed "Mollien" to "Monsieur le Courte", Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies

French financier (1758-1850). Offical letter, two pages, folio, text in secretarial hand, signed by Mollien, some defects but mainly good condition. "Monsieur le Courte, je prie Votre Exc ellence de vouloir bien presente le plus promptement possible a Sa Majeste, le Budget Speculatif de recetter...

£450.00
Octave Feuillet

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. En francais.

Dramatist and novelist. One page, 8vo, good condition. In a difficult hand, he says that he has heard from [M. Rey?] that he hasn't concluded his engagement in Brussels and has no interest in the role mapped out except in a few days. He goes on to talk of the work involved in corrections which...

£36.00
Oliver Lodge.

Autograph Letter Signed "Oliver Lodge" to the officers and members of the Guild of Undergraduates.

1851-1940, scientist and first principal of Birmingham University (DNB). Three pages, 8vo, one page stiffened by remains of card (for laying down), good condition.He wishes to thank the officers and members of the Guild of Undrgraduates "for their valuable assiistance as Stewards at the Degree...

£56.00
Paul Meyer.

Autograph Letter Signed "Meyer" to an unnamed correspondent (a German scholar?).

Philologist (1840-1917)("ranked as the chief authority on the French language of his era". In French, written the age of 20. Three pages, 8vo, good condition. "En meme temps que cette lettre, vous recevez les epreuves d'un article qi parait actuellement dans la Bibliotheque de l'ecole des...

£400.00
Pierre Lapie.

Part of Document signed by "Lapie Directeur de Cabinet".

Topographer and map-maker, author of "Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, precede d’un abrege de Geographie Physique et Historique" (author = Colonel au Corps Royal d’Etat-Major, Ancien Directeur du Cabinet Topographique du Roi, Chef de la Section Topographique du Ministere de la...

£200.00
Rev. G.R. Gleig.

Autograph Note Signed to [Richard Bentley, publishers, prob.].

Later chaplain-general of the forces, author (DNB). One page, 4to, slight remnants of laying down process, fold marks but letter in good condition. "I heard today that Allan Breck [pubd by Bentley in 1834] was in circulation in several book clubs in this neighbourhood. If it be so, your people...

£66.00
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