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Emile Augier French playwright. One page, 8vo, minor defects, text clear and complete, in French as follows: "M. Seuferd [?] me fait le plaisir de dejeuner avec moi; vous seriez fort aimable de venir prendre votre part de ce frugal [?meal of some sort] et cette conversation litteraire." Postscript: "La cene... |
£28.00 | |
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Bulkeley Bandinel [THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD] Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed male bookseller. English cleric (1781-1861) and Bodley's Librarian, 1813-60. Three pages, 12mo. Good, on slightly grubby paper. He is feeling 'a little anxious at not having had a line [...] respecting the Books you were so kind as to purchase for us at Moule's Sale [Sotheby's, 11 March 1852] | Sotheby has been... |
£48.00 | |
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Francis Edward Paget Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd Thomas Helmore. Divine and author (1806-82). The recipient (1811-90) was a musical writer and composer, and the priest-ordinary of the Chapel Royal, St James's. Three pages. Poor: creased, dogeared, frayed, and with traces of previous mount adhering to blank verso of second leaf of bifoliate. He received the... |
£65.00 | |
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John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley Autograph Letter Signed to 'Aunt Emily'. English aristocrat (1835-95), poet, numismatist, archaeologist, writer on natural history, etc. Two pages, 12mo. Good, but with blank verso of second leaf of bifoliate adhering to docketed remains of leaf from autograph album. Had he not been 'so busy that I hardly knew where to turn' he would... |
£75.00 | |
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Philip Bliss Autograph Signature on slip of paper. Antiquary (1787-1857) and Keeper of the Archives at Oxford, 1826-57. On slip of grey paper roughly two and three-quarter inches by three-quarters of an inch, neatly mounted on larger slip of thicker paper. Reads, in Bliss's distinctive and disciplined hand, 'a true Copy | Philip Bliss.'... |
£45.00 | |
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Sir Douglas Straight Autograph Card Signed to [Sir Clarmont Percival] Skrine. Journalist (1844-1914) and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. The recipient was a British diplomat in Asia and travel writer. Good, but a tad grubby with rust marks from paperclip. 'You may do us 1600 words on Tibet and in preparing the mss put it in a form that will bear reduction'. Signature '... |
£125.00 | |
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Edmond Xavier Kapp Autograph Note Signed to 'Mr. Wilson' [the bookseller John Gideon Wilson of Bumpus?]. English artist (1890-1978). His wife, Yvonne Kapp, published four novels under the pseudonym Yvonne Cloud. One page, octavo. Very good, though a little creased and with dogeared corners. Reads 'Dear Mr. Wilson, | It is good of you to have taken so much trouble - I am greatly obliged to you. The... |
£75.00 | |
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George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover Autograph Letter to Paul Colnaghi. English author and politician (1797-1833), whose efforts resulted in the formation of the National Gallery. Colnaghi (1751-1833) was the leading printseller of the period. One page, quarto. Good, on slightly discoloured paper with traces of previous mount adhering to reverse. A formal letter in... |
£45.00 | |
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Harry Furniss [Punch, or the London Charivari] Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male publishers. Anglo-Irish journalist and caricaturist (1854-1925), best known for his work for Punch. Three pages, 12mo. Very good, but with slight wear and discoloration to recto of first leaf of bifoliate. Asks to 'know the fate of Miss Lyster's M.S.' 'You will recollect I called & saw you about it some... |
£45.00 | |
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J. Blundell [DAWSON TURNER] Autograph Letter Signed to Dawson Turner. Three pages, 12mo. Grubby, and with one corner of second leaf of bifoliate dogeared. Neat strip of stub along edge of verso of second leaf of bifoliate. The recipient (1775-1858) was a botanist, antiquary and collector of autographs. An interesting letter, revealing Blundell's involvement in the... |
£56.00 |
