Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
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# 101 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents 1654 (29 March) Parliamentary Council of State document order...
£170
# 102 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Adam Baynes 1659 (11 June) military commission on vellum appoi...
£850
# 103 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
£850
# 104 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Sir George Carteret 1662 (August) order for £4,066, 13/4d. for...
£850
# 105 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1665 (25 April) document appointing William C...
£1,800
# 106 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents 1666 (21 Feb.) document headed "My Sord", with complete addre...
£290
# 107 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1667 (June) Navy Office order to pay £343 1/8...
£1,600
# 108 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1668 (5 Feb.) Navy Office document endorsed a...
£1,200
# 109 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1669 (3 Feb.) Navy Office warrant "To ye Cler...
£900
# 110 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1669 (13 Feb.) Navy Office warrant to "The Cl...
£1,600
# 111 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents King Charles II 1669 (19 Aug.) warrant issued at Whitehall to...
£850
# 112 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents 1673-74, two ledgers detailing allowances and salaries to Joh...
£800
# 113 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents John Pepys 1673 (23 March) Navy Office letter with address pan...
£800
# 114 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents 1673 (23 December) document signed by Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st...
£400
# 115 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed Charles II and Samuel Pepys 1674 (7 August) naval warra...
£1,800
# 116 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia 1677 letter signed by Sir John Fre...
£1,500
# 117 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Signed "S Pepys" 1677 (24 Jan.) letter signed from Derby House...
£1,500
# 118 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents Franco-Dutch War Signed "S Pepys"
£850
# 119 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents King James II 1684/5 (8 Jan.) letter signed at Whitehall with...
£850
# 120 - The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents... »
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents 1686 (May-Sept.), a series of five documents issued "By the P...
£800
Australia
AustraliaWorld War I1915 Souvenir tin, without contents, in gilt metal with the arms of Australia centred, inscribed "To the Australian Expeditionary Force from The Australian War Association, London. A Happy New Year to One and All". Uncommon, some scuffing (60x36x10mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Canada
(x) Canada / USAPoetry / Literature1948-1961 Incoming correspondence to the Canadian poet Ray Souster (1921-2012) from: Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American poet and writer, two typed letters (1956) signed "Allen" and one in full, one with an autograph postscript.Henry Miller (1891-1980) 1948 Autograph letter on pictorial notepaper of "Big Sur, California", writing "Sorry but I would not be interested in bringing out a castrated version of 'Cancer'. I could have made a fortune long ago if I had thought it wise to do this."Charles Olson (1910-1970) Typed letter signed commenting on Souster's p...
China
ChinaNavalH.M.S. Eclipse1901- 1904 The log book, journal and photograph album compiled by Mr C.H. Philips, Midshipman aboard HMS Eclipse. The logbook begins in June 1901 with the commissioning of the Cruiser under the command of Captain H.R.S. Stokes. Aside from recording the progress of the ship until December 1902 there are numerous pen and ink and watercolour drawings and sketches, diagrams and maps to the highest standard. Drawings of Singapore Harbour, Malta Chin Kiang Lu, the Yangtse Approaches, Russia's Overland Route to the Far East, a folding hand drawn watercolour map titled "China"...
Collections
CollectionsPassportsAustria, France, Italy, Malta / Paravicini Family1724-1820 Travel documents issued in the name of a Captain in the Swiss Guard and later in his widow's name, beginning with 1722 issued in the name of Louis Auguste de Bourbon, 1741 signed secretarially "Louis". Eight similar documents date to 1722, 1724, 1741, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, 1756. A part printed travel document issued in the name of the King of Prussia (1798), Swiss Confederation (1798), Prussian legation in Warsaw (1799), Malta (1802), Naples to travel to Malta (1804), Swiss Confederation (1809), France in the name...
CollectionsNewspapers1750-1815 A range of issues of The London Chronicle / Universal Evening Post for 29 years, filled with world affairs and other news that provide a great insight into current affairs. An unusual collection with great research potential, approx 360Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
CollectionsPrime Ministers1850 - 1996 Collection of autograph letters by Sir Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston with the original postally used envelope (1850); The Marquis of Salisbury; A.J. Balfour; H.Asquith; Sir Alec Douglas-Home; John Major, signed photograph (7)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
CollectionsGroup of signatures on letters and cards by Lord Roberts, Admiral Beatty, Louis Battenberg referring to Lecture Lanterns (1909) aboard HM Ships, Montgomery of Alamein, Sir Francis de Guingard and General Koenig on a postcard of Cannes, Kipling, William Orpen (ALS 1924), Austen Chamberlain, Edward Carson, Enoch Powell, Massey (Governor General of Canada), Arnold Bennett, Birkenhead, Lonsdale, Derby, Leverhulme (15)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
CollectionsCircus Photographsc1870-1880 Three cabinet cards of Annie Oakley, "Buffalo Bill" and Miss Lillian Smith "The Celebrated California Rifle Shot", with 8 European circus performers showing the Fernandez Troupe, Cinnatus the American Wonder, Miss Jennet, wire walker Madame Conche, Georg Jagendorfer, Equilibrist Kopf, and 8 carte de visite showing the King of Cannon Ball, Ernest Coke the clown, J. Tuizet (inscribed on the reverse), Harry and Tom Gilleno the clowns, Senorita Aragon, Eugenio.A fascinating group in mixed condition (19)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more informa...
CollectionsFootball1950-1951 Autographs of 144 English and Scottish League football teams, signed on individual pages, both sides, removed from a lined notebook, many with added photographs and signed teams ex newspaper cuttings. A remarkable collection, over 72 pages, worthy of viewing, housed in a ring binder.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Collections1970s Jazz/Bridge - Autographs collected in person at Ronnie Scotts' club. Herbie Hancock on an "Upstairs at Ronnie's" programme; Oscar Petersen, Count Basie, Rahsam Roland & Kirk on pieces of paper, with a 1994 bridge tournament programme held in Paris signed by Omar Sharif and Zia Mahmood on the back cover (5)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Philatelic EphemeraGeometric Stamp Designs1860-1910 A collection of stamps of the world laid down on ledger sheets (145x95mm) in various imaginative geometric designs and patterns. An unusual and attractive group not often seen in this quantity and range (100 pages)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Egypt
(x) Egypt1831, 1832 Two letters from Cairo and Alexandria, one incomplete 7pp in total, written by an unknown medical doctor travelling in Egypt, to his father. He comments on the monuments, explains that Pasha Mehmet Ali had carried off the gateway of Denderah and prohibited excavations as his son Ibrahim, his successor, was personally excavating for his own gain. He refers to meeting John Gardner Wilkinson, often referred to as "The Father of British Egyptology". Further comments on a cholera outbreak, and his return to England having recovered from typhus (2)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Pr...
EgyptKing Farouk I1950 Presentation studio photograph of King Farouk I reigned 1936 - 1952, signed and dated in a superb decorative red leather frame with the Royal cypher in gilt at the top (150x105mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
France and Colonies
FranceVictor Hugo (1802-1885)Autograph letter in French initialled V.H. with an accompanying letter in English written by Victor Schoelcher, French writer and journalist, advising that "I did not find any letter signed in full. I told you it is very seldom when Hugo signs in full. The enclosed has the two initials V.H. and is dated from Jersey which gives it an authenticity" (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
France / GermanyWilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)1824 Autograph letter written in French by the Prussian statesman and philologist, with French postal markings, addressed to Monsieur Martin, mentioning Nicaragua in the body of the letter.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
FranceNapoleon IIIc1870 gilt metal block with "N" surmounted by the Imperial Crown of Napoleon III, possibly a printers block (75x85mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) France /JudaicaMarc Chagall (1887-1985)1977 One page autograph letter signed in Yiddish written from St. Paul to David Giladi in Tel Aviv, with the original envelope addressed in English, not accompanied by a translationSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
France and ColoniesGuadeloupe1765 Leave certificate for a soldier in the Infanterie Regiment de Beauvoisis, with attractive black printing and decorative heading and border, a red wax seal affixed at the top. A note on the reverse indicated that he died at sea the following year while aboard the naval ship "St. Anne" (120x85mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
France and ColoniesMartinique1795 Manuscript last will and testament of Benjamin Collard of the Royal Military Artificiers serving at "Martinique in the West Indies" signed with his cross; together with a part printed Bill dated at Martinique in April 1797, issued by Valentine Jones, Commissary General, for £500 drawn on the Lords Commissioners of HM Treasury, London "on account of Extraordinary Expenses of HM Forces in the Windward & Leeward Caribee Islands" (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
France and ColoniesAviation1910 Poster advertising "Grandes Fetes D'Aviation" with various events and flights arriving at "L'Aerodrome de Pont-Hubert", signed to the top left as a souvenir of the last day (95x125mm, lightly laid down to a card along the left margin)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain 15th-18th Century
Great Britainc.15th Century page from a book of prayers with elaborate and appealing hand colouring and gilding to capital letters, both sides of the page as such. Beautiful.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1482 'Polychronicon' printed by William Caxton on two sides of single leaf (c.176x235mm) with marginal annotations. Some paper loss and foxing otherwise fine and rare.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing Edward VI's Privy Council Document, Edward Seymour Somerset as Lord Protector of England1548 (25 June) privy council document addressed to "One of the Kings Majesty's Receivers of the Court of Augmentations" regarding the requisite "dilligence [in] the collection of [rents etc.]", urging the collector to practice greater care and reminding him that "rents to be due at michelmass next, "by hallowtyme or Christmas at the furtherst" an "also to make undelayed payment to the treasurer of all his majesty's treasure as is or in the mean time shall come into your hands" signed "E: S...
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth I1564 (26 June) document signed "Elizabeth r", "By the Queene" at top, addressed to Valentine Browne of Berwick acknowledging that Sir Thomas Dace, late Marshall of "our town" Berwick is owed fees and allowances because of difficulties in payment until the muster might be made and taken and so Elizabeth commands Browne to pay Dacre monies "out of the Treasure in your custody" for the complete period up to Dacre ceased to be Marshall. No amount is mentioned and Dacre acknowledges receipt of "my full entitlement and allowance", signed "Thomas Dacre".Document pasted...
Great BritainElizabethan Privy Council, First French War of Religion (1562-63)1564 (November) warrant addressed to the Treasurer and Chamberlaines of the Exchequer with integral address panel, ordering payment of £50 to "John Awger as the Queen's reward in consideration that a hoye [small sloop] of his being in the late wars [with France] pressed in her highness service to convery victuals unto Hewhaven [Le Havre] was sunk by the French at Colbeck and the said Awger taken prisoner." Signed by Edward Clinton, Sir Edward Rogers, Sir Francil Knollys, William Cecil (Lord Burleigh), Sir William Pet...
Great Britain(Mary, Queen of Scots)Sir Amias Paulet (1532-1588)1572 Legal document signed "A.Paulet" at the foot, advising of the appointment of John Popham of Willington in the County of Somerset, as his lawful attorney, in dealing with "the fourthe parte of the parsonage and Rectory of Carhampton in the said Countie of Somerset". Signed in the "xiiiith yere of the Raigne of our sov(er)aigne Lady Elizabeth by the grace of god Queene of England of France and Ireland Defendour of the fayth &c".Paulet was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey and goaler of Mary Queen of Scots while she was imp...
Great BritainKing Charles I, Gold Weights1633 (20 Dec.) two leaf printed document headed "By the King. A Proclamation concerning Gold-weights.", declaring that Sir Thomas Aylesbury has been tasked with the creation of certain "Blancke Weights, Graines and halfe Graines". Both leaves with old archival tape at top otherwise remarkable fresh and of great interest.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainJudges' Salaries1648 (22 Jan.) Navy Committee document regarding "payment of the yearly sallaries to the Commons for the ... Judges of the Courts" of the Navy and Admiralty. Signed "James Temple", "John Blakiston", "Valentine Walton", "Gregory Clement" and one other obscured signatory, enclosing copies of two further documents on the same matter with filing endorsement on reverse "Order for taking off Judges Salary from the Custom". Some reinforcement otherwise fine and interesting.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Bu...
Great BritainIrelandOliver Cromwell (1599-1658)1657 Letter, one page, written from Whitehall addressed "For Our Right Trustie and Right Welbeloved the Lord Deputy and Councill in Ireland" signed at the foot "yr lovinge freind, Oliver P", the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.Cromwell writes to his son, Henry Cromwell (1628-1674), the Lord Deputy of Ireland at this date, as well as Major General of the Forces and a member of the Irish Council of State.In this formal letter Oliver Cromwell requests a loan of land to one "George Cooke of Boalstowne in our County...
Great BritainKing Charles II1658 (14 June) letter without address, signed "Your affectionate friend, Charles R", given at "Bruxelles", reading "I am soe much informed of your good affection to me, that I cannot doubt of your redynes to addidt me with the loane of fifty pound, wich I will repay to you as soon as I am able, as the acquittance with the Bearer shall give you (who knows the way of returning it to me) shall be your discharge, & oblige me; And I shall take your readines to assist me - herein very well from you, & shall alwaies be.".Some paper reinforcements and residue from previous...
Great BritainKing Charles II Royal Pardon of Lord North of Kirtling1661 (3 Sept.) large Royal Letter Patent in Latin (c.690x870mm.), the portrait and border executed in pen and ink, concerning a pardon to Dudley Lord North of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire: "of all manner of treacheries, crimes, treasons, levyings of war, rebellions, insurrections, conspiracies, misprisons of treasons, murders, assaults, lying-in-wait, homicides, felonies, robberies, house-burnings, depredations, piracies, crimes, evil deeds, transgression (including sodomy and buggery) counselled, directed, attempted, made-perpetra...
Great BritainEssex1677 distance table map (12.5x11.8cm) of Essex, engraved by Jacob Van Langeren 1635-80. Discreet, small repair along vertical fold at foot on reverse, not detracting from what is a charming map.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing Charles II's Wardrobe1677 (27 March) letter signed "Bath" "To the Right Honorable Ralph Montagu Master of his Majesty's Great Wardrobe Or to his Deputy there" regarding an order "delivered unto Mrs. Dorothy Chiffinch his Mats Seamstress: Eighteen Day Shirts, Eighteen Night Shirts, Eighted Half Shirts, Ffour Fozed of Sockett Handkercheifes, Six Laced Night Capps, Three Poynt Bandes & Six pairs of Point Cuffes, Six Indian Neckclothes, Seventy yardes of Muslin to renew the Cravattes and Cuffesm Half a piece of fine Cambricke to make Cuffes" etc.Filing endorsement on the reverse...
Great BritainKing Charles II Royal Pardon of Rowland St. John1679 (18 Dec.) large Royal Letter Patent (c530x72mm.) with printed portrait and border being a pardon to Rowland St. John for the "folonious death and killing of one Michael Style", re-instating thereon several grants. Noted at foot "By Writt of Privy Seale. Pigott". Fine and unusualSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainLondonRent Roll1689 Rent Roll comprising eight vellum pages, each 800mm long, listing the names of individuals and the rent due per annum, from St Martin's Lane, Dukes Court, White Hart Court, Green Street North and South Side, Cranbourne Street, Bedfordbury, Hop Garden, New Street, Chandois Street, Round Court, Charing Cross beginning at South end of St. Martin's Lane, Hedge Lane, Suffolke Street, The Market, all in the same hand, with the first page signed by 19 individuals, above which is written "In all 53785".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information pleas...
Great Britain1690 Payment order from the Office of Ordnance requesting Mr Bertie to pay two debentures totalling £45 10/- signed by Sir Thomas Littleton, Treasurer of the Navy, and Sir Job Charlton, both later Speakers of the House of Commons.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1695-1800s, a superb collection of printed Acts of Parliament (c.60+), many with coin, banknote and or regional interest; specific details include coin forgeries, clipping, coin machinery exported to Russia, suspension of minting. A wonderful lot.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing William III1695 (26 Feb.) warrant signed at top "William R", "To the Commissioners of Our Treaty" with integral panel reading King's Warrt For Selling Wood in Dean Forrest to sayle the Sum of £1604, 4/10d." permitting Phillip Ryles "Surveyour Generall of Our Woods on the South Side Trent" to recoup costs incurred in "Workes and Repairacons ... in Hyde Park, Parkes at Hampton Court, Falconors Lodge at Newmarket, St. James' Parke" by the "Sale of Old Hawthornes in Our Forrest of Deanes"; countersigned "Godolphin" and two other signatories. Some paper reinforcement and reverse...
Great Britain1703 Royal pay warrant signed at Windsor by Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne, in his position as Lord High Admiral of England and Generalissimo of all Her Majesty's Forces. Addressed to "Edward Nicholas Esq, Treasurer and Receiver General of My Household and Revenue" ordering him to pay any bills received for horses brought for my use". The Royal seal at the top left corner.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Anne1710 (10 Nov.) warrant signed at top "Anne R", "To the Commissioners of Our Treasury" regarding payment to John Robinson, Doctor in Divinity and Bishop of Bristol, "and who was lately Our Envoy Extraordinary to Our good Brother the King of Sweden" with three counter signatures.Some minor paper loss and stains from old mounting, owner's handstamp on reverse, otherwise fine and a rare signature.provenance:Albert E. Grimshaw Jr.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1714 Warrant dated at Whitehall Treasury Chambers instructing Lord Charles Lord Halifax, Auditor of His Majestie's Exchequer to pay John Clubb Clark or his assigns the sum of £20 to defray the cost of his passage to Pennsylvania as Chaplain. The order is signed by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford. Rev. Clubb was a Welshman with connections to Radnor. Multiple references to him in "Old St. David's Radnor, 1700-1906"Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainLeeds1715 Autograph letter written by John Sturt (1658-1750), engraver, (and the illustrator of "The Pilgrims's Progress), to Ralph Thoresby at Leeds, with an address panel and bishop marks. Thoresby is acknowledged as the first historian of Leeds and was a renowned antiquarian. The letter concerns pages and plates for publication. In 1715 he published the Topographical Survey of the Parish of Leeds."Sir, You are desired to send up the Pages of the two Prospects of the Churches, also that of Thoresby's Monument and the Statue of the Queen. The map of twenty miles round about Leed...
Great BritainKing George I1715 (30 Dec.) warrant signed at top "George R" "To the Commissioners of Our Treasury" regarding payment to "Jane Warburton who was one of the Maids of Honour to our late Royal Sister Queen Anne [of] £3,000". Countersigned " R Walpole" alongside two other signatories. With integral filing endorsement on reverse. Fine and a rare pair of signatures.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1781-1862 Indentures (5) relating to leases in Phillimore Gardens, Kensington (2), York, Articles of Partnership of Mortimer & Allen with related documents; An Inventory of Fixtures of Elvetham House (1792) and a list of tenants, various receipts relating to the property and Park (8)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainJohn Flaxman RA (1755-1826)1790 Three page autograph letter written from the renowned sculptor in Rome to William Hayley at Chichester, postally used. Flaxman refers to the pursuit of his studies. "I am desirous to employ my time in filling my mind with ideas of the beautiful and great and in endeavouring to express them in my Art". He refers to Cassas "a French architect (who) resides here to finish the drawings he made in lower Egypt..." There are references to the Vatican Library and great treasures he has seen. He asks for his respects to be sent to Mr Romney. An important l...
Great BritainKing George III1797 King George III printed Act of Parliament over twenty-three pages headed "An Act to enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to purchase certain Houses and Ground contiguous to the Bank of England"; a very early compulsory purchase order.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain 19th Century
Great BritainJohn Ruskin (1819-1900)Two parts of an autograph letter to an unknown correspondent, written by Ruskin, the last page signed by him with pen sketches requesting "a clean little wood drawing of No.6, the breadth of my letter page". The top half of the first page refers to "woodcuts...which were admirably made out and admirably done, only a little too fine, the elevation at least. All my woodcuts are for reference." On the reverse of each page are pencil sketches, one of a Fern case, with detailed notes. There is a note at the top of the first page in another hand referring to Smith...
Great BritainKing George III1804 (8 November) Military commission signed "George R" at top appointing Charles Robinson "Lieutenant to that Company where of Charles Grigan is Captain in Our Twenty-fourth ... Warwickshire Regiment of Foot", given at St. James' Palace. Complete with wafer seal and tax stamp. Fine and scarce.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainNaval1811 Printed warrant signed by John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty and three others, addressed to Lieut Gordon, Commanding His Majesty's Cutter Dwarf, regarding Prest Money; with a manuscript document headed "Victory in Portsmouth Harbour 28th February1859" to Capt Gordon, HMS Hannibal, signed by Admiral Seymour, expressing his appreciation upon Seymour leaving the Command at Portsmouth (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainJudaicaSir Moses Montefiore Family1812-1864 Group of documents relating to the financial affairs of the family and associates of the financier, banker and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885).1812 "Settlement on the Intended Marriage of Solomon Sebag, Esq and Miss Sarah Montefiore" on large vellum, folded, signed by both, witnessed and signed by Moses Montefiore (brother), M. Mocotta, Benjamin Gompertz and Rachel Montefiore with their red wax seals. Sebag signs in Hebrew letters too. The document is registered at "10 Heneage Lane, Bevis Marks" per a filing endorsement....
Great Britain1818 Masonic document from the Caledonian Lodge, Edinburgh admitting Edmund Meysey Wigley as a Master Mason, with the original seal, cracked but intact in the metal skippetSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainJohn Barrow (1764-1848)1821 2pp autograph letter written by the 2nd Secretary to the Admiralty, naturalist and geographer, to James MacQueen (1778-1870) "I am much obliged for the copy of your work on the Central parts of Northern Africa and the course of the Niger, and though I cannot subscribe to your notions respecting that river, nor give any credit to many of the authorities you quote, yet as far as the occupation of Fernando Po goes I am most cordially with you..."Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainSir Robert Peel (1788-1850)1830 Letter signed, written from Whitehall as Home Secretary and by the future Prime Minister to Richard Wyatt of Stroud, advising "that I will present the Petition...to the House of Commons".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing William IV1831 (13 July) royal pardon signed "William R" at top, issued to David Holmes, Martin Brookes, Samuel Bartram and Owen Hardingham of Norfolk who were previously tried and convicted of "Riot and Machine Breaking" with wafer seal intact. Fine and scarce.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Victoria1834 - c1870 Signature of Victoria Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria, on a slip of paper dated at Tunbridge Wells, 4th October 1834 (framed and glazed 300x200mm), a mourning envelope front with back flap, addressed in the hand of Queen Victoria in French to the King of the Belgians, and a sheet of Balmoral mourning notepaper, trimmed at the foot, with a pencil note in the hand of the Queen "For the collection of papers, letters respecting HRH the Prince Consort". A well known facsimile of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee letter to the Women of Great Britain...
Great BritainRoyalty1834 Presentation inscription in a copy of "Hints For Reflection" (published by Hatchards 1833) in the hand of the Duchess of Kent (1786-1861), mother of the future Queen Victoria "To Lady Conroy, from Her very sincere friend, Victoria 1834". Lady Conroy was married to Sir John Conroy, the controversial and unpopular Comptroller to the Duchess of Kent (65x105mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAdmiralty1837-1855 Group of 33 Admiralty Droits, issued at Falmouth. One of the wrecks mentioned is the Russian ship "Hesperus", which may relate to the famous poem by Longfellow. The purpose of these droits allowed the Admiralty to claim property and goods from certain wrecks lost or jettisoned at sea (with research notes) (33)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainThe Accession of Queen Victoria1837 (June 16-20) Five autograph letters written by the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne to Sir Herbert Taylor, Private Secretary to King William IV, who died on 20 June and was immediately succeeded by Princess Victoria.16 June - Lord Melbourne summonses a Council to agree a form of prayer to read in the Churches and Chapels on Sunday next for His Majesty's recovery19 June - The state of the King's health and a reference to Queen Adelaide 20 June - Lord Melbourne acknowledges receipt of a letter communicating the death of the King and refers to the yo...
(x) Great BritainQueen Victoriac1840 Front of an envelope with a slight black mourning border addressed in the hand of Queen Victoria to her mother "Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Kent" (1786-1861), signed to the lower left "The Queen" by Queen Victoria, as was her custom.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainCharles Kean (1811-1868)1843 Autograph letter written by the Irish born English actor and theatre manager advising that Mrs Kean would accompany him to Brighton "on a professional visit" and "we are at your service for five nights...I have this day concluded with the Dublin manager to commence on Saturday 25 November and you will oblige me by your early reply".Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1846 - 1865 Collection mounted in a soft covered album. Queen Adelaide, religious verse initialled; pencil ALS by the romantic poet, Felicia Hemans; Maria Edgworth ALS, Sir W.Hooker; Mary Mitford; the Duke of Wellington ALS with postally used envelope (laid down); John Ruskin ALS (2); Wallich, Danish Botanist; Sir Walter Scott printed facsimile; Sir F. Palgrave; G.A. Arnott, Scottish botanist ALS; Queen Victoria signed "The Queen" on a docket to Lord Palmerston; Rowland Hill, postal reformer signature at the end of a cut letter (30)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more...
Great BritainHull Constabulary1849-1858 The official notebook of Police Constable John Kilburn, Hull Constabulary, appointed in 1847. The contents detail many incidents - 1852 Walker convicted at York for stealing cash and sentenced to being transported and three women sentenced to 12 months hard labour for stealing. PC Kilburn was a colourful character who was punished for being drunk on duty, or found in a Public House, and asleep when he should've been on his beat. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1858. A fascinating item of social history (80x55mm, with a brass clasp)Subject to...
Great BritainRoyal Navyc1850-1900 Scrap Album with linen pages titled in ink "Ships in H.M. Royal Navy 1887", including 13 engravings from a publication and cut signatures of Admirals Fisher, Ogle, Kelly, Bruce, Brigge, Codrington; the Duke of Cambridge, Amherst, military signatures, Randolph Churchill, Prince Alfred, An ALS by Sir Edward Parry, signed envelopes by Prince George of Wales (later King George V), Rosebery, a short ALS by William Redmond (80)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainLord Alfred Spencer Churchill (1824-1893)1856 Indenture relating to a plot of land on the Hackney Estate signed at the foot by Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill, son of the 6th Duke of Marlborough and MP for WoodstockSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainCarte de Visite Albumc1860-1880 Album with a range of cartes de visite including literary figures, royalty and prominent individuals in many walks of life. Sheridan Knowles, Thackeray, Longfellow, Lord Charles Beauclark, Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, Prince and Princess of Wales (1863), Napoleon III, Paul Bedford, W. Macready, Fechter, D. Maclise RA, A. Egg RA, Martin Tupper, Florence Nightingale, Sir Francis Grant, Pickersgill and others (70) Provenance: Dr James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871). His daughter's initial's M.M. (Mabel Muspratt) embossed in gilt letters on th...
(x) Great BritainCharles Dickens (1812-1870)1863 Carte de visite of Dickens, his head turned to his right, photograph by John & Charles Watkins, London, signed and dated "Charles Dickens / Christmas 1863". Signed photographs of Dickens are of the utmost rarity. From the collection of Dr. James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871), Irish born research chemist, who lived in Liverpool, where his father had an industrial chemical company. He organised a visit to Liverpool by Dickens's amateur theatre company in 1847.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Great BritainCharles Dickens (1812-1870)1865 Carte de visite of Dickens, his head turned to his right, photograph by John & Charles Watkins, London, signed and inscribed, and dated "Charles Dickens / To Dr. Muspratt / January 1865". Together with a signed carte de visite of the recipient, Dr Muspratt. A remarkable pair with signed photographs of Charles Dickens being of the utmost rarity (2) Dr James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871), Irish born research chemist, lived in Liverpool where his father had an industrial chemical company. He organised a visit to Liverpool by Dickens's amateur...
(x) Great BritainW.E. Gladstone (1809-1898)c1865 Carte de visite by Mayall, London, signed W.E. Gladstone (1809-1898), four term Prime Minister and Statesman. Signed photographs, especially this early are surprisingly elusive.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Great BritainCarlo Marochetti (1805-1867)1867 Carte de visite of Marochetti, Italian born French sculptor, responsible for many well known public sculptures including those of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore; signed on the face and inscribed on the reverse "To Dr. Muspratt, with M.Marochetti's / best regards, May 2nd 1867".Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainCharles Dickens1868 "THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL WALKING-MATCH". Printed horizontal broadsheet with a gilt bordered surround, giving the Articles and Sporting Narrative of an event to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, to include Charles Dickens, whose facsimile signature appears on the agreement as "The Gad's Hill Gasper" (225x150mm, folded into a quarter)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAbyssinia Field Force1868 (17 Jan.) handwritten receipt written by Major M.J.J. Mignon at Camp Adegerat for five thousand dollars. Also 1868 (17 Feb.) a receipt for one thousand dollars signed by Lieut. Tweedy, the Political Secretary and unused Distribution Return of the Cavalry Brigade of the Abyssinian Field Force printed on blue paper. A good groupSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainMilitaryAbyssinia Campaign1868 Sir Clements Markham (1830-1916), official geographer to the expedition, later President of the Royal Geographical Society and promoter of Antarctic exploration.4pp autograph letter written from Antalo Camp en route to the mountain fortress at Magdala, headquarters of the Abyssinian Emperor, Tewodros, against whom the British were at war.Markham writes to "Lady Campbell" and reports on the expedition, Sir Robert Napier being "decidedly slow", discusses supplies, cash, his military colleagues and the difficulties en route, his opinion of the Empe...
(x) Great BritainSir Richard Owen (1804-1892)c1870 Carte de visite by Maull & Polyblank, London, of the renowned English biologist, anatomist and palaeontologist, known for coining the term dinosaur. An outspoken critic of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Signed "Rd. Owen" on the foot of the cdv and ""Richard Owen" on the reverse.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Great BritainCharles Dickens / George Cruickshankc1870 Three carte de visite of Charles Dickens by Thrupp, John Watkins, and Mason and Co. with two of George Cruickshank (1792-1878), the caricaturist and illustrator for Dickens, one signed in ink, the other a facsimile signature (5)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainJoseph Lister (1827-1912)1871 University of Edinburgh printed card admitting Mr Frederic Neild to lectures on Clinical Surgery, signed "J. Lister", with a printed two page certificate signed "Joseph Lister" as Professor of Clinical Surgery certifying that Mr Neild had attended all his lectures from May - July that year. Laid down on an album page (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainW. Oswell Livingstone (1851-1892)1873 Autograph letter written by the second son of the explorer, Dr David Livingstone, born along the River Zouga, Bechuanaland and who died in Trinidad, where he practiced medicine. The 2pp letter is written to Horace Waller, the English anti slavery campaigner, writer on Africa and close associate of Dr Livingstone two months after his death. He arranges to meet him at the RGS, London where he was due to meet Mr Oswell too, the noted African explorer, who had accompanied Dr Livingstone on his discovery of Lake Ngami in 1849. Fascinating juxt...
(x) Great Britain(Dr Livingstone)1877 4pp autograph letter written by Donald Macleod, editor of "Good Words", a monthly journal, to Edward Young R.N. (1831-1896), who accompanied Dr Livingstone on the 1862-64 expedition and commanded the Pioneer along the Zambezi and Shire Rivers. In 1875 he founded the Livingstonia settlement. Macleod requests Young to use his journal as the first to publish details of his expedition to Livingstonia, as did Drs Cameron and Livingstone on earlier occasions. Repaired tear across the centre, with no loss of textSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 2...
(x) Great BritainExplorationc1880 Two autograph letters signed by W.Verney Cameron (1844-1894), the English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross Equatorial Africa from coast to coast in 1875. In the longer letter he refers to writing to Dr (John) Kirk, Livingstone's companion and British administrator in Zanzibar, and suggests "people are working from the E.Coast and your brother in law very likely will make up with one of them". This is addressed to "Mr Henriques" . The second refers to "reserved seats" possibly for one of his lectures. Cameron had reached Ujiji on L...
(x) Great BritainMilitaryTalbot correspondence1882-1904 Seven letters, one with envelope, addressed to Sir Reginald Talbot (1841-1929), Army officer and MP, who served in Egypt and Sudan and his wife, written by various personalities, mentioning the successful conclusion of the 1882 Egypt campaign and Wolseley; Coleridge Grove discussing the second Anglo Boer War; St John Broderick regarding the award of a KCB to Talbot; Lord Milner to Lady Talbot and Eldon Gorst, diplomat, to Lady Talbot in 1904 after Sir Reginald was appointed Governor of Victoria (7)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in add...
Great BritainBalloon Flight1882 Decorative advertising card for Blackburn's Hats and Overcoats dropped by a Mr. Williams on 5 June from a balloon that should have been piloted by Col. Fred Burnaby on "The Channel Balloon Voyage". Burnaby, a well known Army Officer and adventurer had been called up for active service in Egypt, and his friend, Mr. Williams made the flight. Together with a label produced by Goddard inscribed "J.F. Goddard Aeronaut" (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPassport1895 Linen backed passport folded into a leather case issued in the name of Charles Carr Ashley, travelling to the Continent with his Servant, signed by Ashley to the lower left and the facsimile signature of the Marquess of Salisbury as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.Ashley was a major benefactor of the RNLI and left a bequest for the maintenance of five Ashley lifeboats and assistance to the families of lost crews (80x110 folded) Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Victoria1896 Cabinet photograph of the future Queen Mary, signed "Victoria Mary 1896" as Duchess of York, by the renowned studio photographer Alice Hughes (160x105mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainWalter Besant (1836-1901) Novelist and Historian1897-1899 Correspondence to H.A. Kennedy comprising 6 autograph and 7 typed letters signed, four on notepaper of Adams and Charles Black Publishers, dealing with reviews of his work, proofs, mentioning "The Rise of Empire", and notes regarding suggested pamphlets with printing numbers on the subject "The Empire of the Anglo Saxon" (13)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainCricket1897 "THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET" by K.S. Ranjitsinhji, in an edition of 350 printed on hand-made paper, this being number 12, signed in ink by Ranjitsinhji, who has also signed his photograph opposite the title page. The book is further signed on their photographs by F.W.Marlow (4x), Arthur Mold, (2x), J.R.Mason (2x), W.L.Murdoch, T. Richardson, Frederick Martin, Prince Ranjitsinhji (page 136), Lord Hawke. Slight loosening along the inner boards, otherwise a fine volumeSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers...
Great Britain 20th Century
Great BritainPostal History - Essex1907-1932 Official Post Office reports and supporting documents relating to the Clacton-on-Sea Post Office concerning despatches between rural post offices, establishment of a TSO at West Clacton, Sub office at Bockings Elm, extension of Sunday delivery, Frinton-on-Sea revision of outdoor force and additional postmen, vacancy at Great Holland, Mail Cart driver's services dispensed with at Walton on the Naze, 1915 "Norwegian mailbag washed up by the sea at Walton on the Naze / The packets of which the addresses cannot be deciphered and of which the contents ar...
Great BritainRoyal Pardons1908-1935 Royal Pardons.1908 signed by King Edward VII addressed to the Governor of the Prison at St. Albans remitting the sentence of "Elizabeth Cook ... convicted of obtaining goods by false pretences and sentenced to six weeks imprisonment", countersigned by Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary (with marginal paper adhesion not affecting the signatures): 1926 signed by King George V to the Governor of Wandsworth Prison remitting the sentence of Albert Ebdon "convicted of impeding transport contrary to the Emergency Regulations" at the time of the National Strike, coun...
Great BritainWorld War IAutograph book1909-1921 Album kept by the Port Captain at Cape Town Docks, with autographs, verses and sketches over 123 pages. Highlights are passengers aboard TSS Wahehe; signatures of Australian and NZ troops returning from Gallipoli, including Capt. J.E. Newland VC; the Western Province Cricket team , three of whom were killed in action; MCC team 1913 including J.B. Hobbs; postcard of the TSS Demosthenes surrounded by signatures and further autographs worthy of research.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for...
Great BritainDr. Bertrand Dawson, Physician to King George V1910-1925 Two Warrants of Appointment of Dr Bertrand Dawson, later Lord Dawson of Penn (1864-1945), Physician Extraordinary to King George V, who brought the King's life to a premature end on 20 January 1936. The Warrants dated 1910 and 1914, issued by the Lord Chamberlain's Office are signed by Lords Althorp and Sandhurst, with an Official Paid mourning envelope posted in January 1911. Together with a framed and glazed certificate from the American College of Surgeons admitting Lord Dawson as a Fellow in October 1925 (135x110mm) (3)...
Great BritainGibraltar / Royalty1910 Printed Commission with black edges (mourning for King Edward VII) signed "George R.I." at the head by King George V appointing General Sir Archibald Hunter KCB, DSO, as Governor and Commander in Chief of the City and Garrison of Gibraltar. Countersigned by the Marquess of Crewe, Secretary of State for the Colonies.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing George V's 1911 CoronationTwo examples of bronze medals in their original fitted case with the cypher of King George V in gilt, commemorating the Coronation of the King and Queen Mary (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainEdward, Prince of Wales1912 Pair of superbly bound leather books, titled "Game Book" with the initial "A" surmounted by a coronet, in gilt, and a presentation inscription in one from the Prince of Wales to his brother, Prince Albert "For dear Bertie, from David, Christmas 1912" . These were the family names used by the future Kings Edward VIII and George VI. Neither book was used (300x190mm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrincess Mary's Christmas Fund1914 Princess Mary's Christmas Fund khaki canvas gift intended for non smokers, complete and with a notebook, envelopes, and pencil. The royal cypher "coronet/M" in red on the upper flap. Seldom seen as compared to the smokers tin that appears frequently (70x45x100mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainAirship R341919, a group of documents relating to the double crossing of the Atlantic by the British airship R34 which travelled from East Fortune - Rathlin - New York - Clifden - Pulham, items include $1 bill inscribed "Carried by air from New York to London on R34, R.F. Durrant, Lieut." with letter of confirmation signed by of Flight Lieutenant Reginald F. Durrant.. images of the airship taken by crew member J. Reid at Pulham with his inscriptions on the reverse, pictoral sheet with hand drawn map signed by twelve crew members, typed account of the event with an identified crew...
Great BritainField Marshal Douglas Haig1921 Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928), Commander British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915-1918, and Commander during the Battles of the Somme, Arras and Ypres. Superb full length portrait in uniform signed and dated Haig / Pretoria 1921 during a visit to South Africa (11x14cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainLiterature1923-1934 Letters to Mrs Barrett of the Canadian Author's Association signed by Edward Blunden, John Drinkwater, John Galsworthy, John Masefield, W.S. Maugham (2) and an ALS by Charles Kingsley to Prof. Blackie arranging for him to visit (7)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainSir Winston Churchill1924-1929 Sheet of notepaper with blind embossed " Chancellor of the Exchequer / Treasury Chambers, Whitehall SW" signed in ink Winston S. Churchill, the upper part affixed to an album page (13x20cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainWalter de la Mere (1873-1956)1925-1938 Correspondence from the renowned poet and novelist to Mrs. Barrett regarding lectures, subject choice, signing copies of his books, all involving the Canadian Author's Association, receiving visitors at Hill House, Taplow and general pleasantries. Comprising 16 TLS and 2 ALS (18)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainKing George VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH1937/1947 Pair of presentation photographs by Dorothy Wilding of the King in uniform and the Queen bejewelled (245x320mm; 280x250mm) in superb condition (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainKing George VI1938/1946 Pair of presentation studio photographs of the King by Soper of Park Lane (21x29cm) and Hugh Cecil, London (18x25cm) in superb condition (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainThe Royal Family1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose photographed by Marcus Adams, who has signed and dated both images; in the original studio folders. These images became world famous as the future of the Royal Family was secured following the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 (21x29cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1939 Queen Elizabeth photographed by Cecil Beaton, with his signature to the lower right on the image. The Queen is dressed in Hartnell crinoline and wears the diamond fringe tiara made in 1830 from jewels that had belonged to George III. The diamond necklaces belonged to Queen Victoria. An uncommon presentation photograph that was not much distributed due to the outbreak of war in September 1939 (25x32cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWorld War IIMay 1944 Three "Skyline Sketches from Victoria O.P." (Observation Post), showing scenes titled from "St. Paul's to Tower Bridge, View facing North East; Wandsworth to Buckingham Palace, View facing West; and L.C.C. Fire Station to Battersea Park, View facing South". Each with a pencil legend at the top identifying key positions, public buildings and monuments. On stout cream paper (260x190mm) (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainWorld War IIc1945 Portraits of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin "Published by the Imperial Fine Art Corporation Limited, 6 Fitzroy Square, W1, Printed in England", with two other personalities, each signed in pencil by the artist H.J. Bard (250x300mm) (5)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II (1926-2023)1947 November 27, Typed letter on Buckingham Palace notepaper signed " Yours sincerely, Elizabeth" to the Countess of Dudley (1915-1990), thanking her for "sending me such a charming wedding present" of an "old Chinese ivory Model of a Junk". The marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh took place on 20 November at Westminster Abbey (120x190mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainThe Duke & Duchess of Gloucester1948/1952 Studio photograph of the family by Baron signed Alice Henry 1948 and a 1952 Christmas card signed by the Duke and Duchess and their sons William and Richard (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)1948 Glass plate negative of a seldom seen formal photograph of Princess Elizabeth by Mountstewart William Elphinstone (1871-1957), brother of the 16th Lord Elphinstone who had married the sister of Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), Lady Mary Bowes Lyon. A recognised photographer, he clearly had access to the Royal Family through the family connection. In its original Kodak box (160x120mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainLord Dawson of Penn (1864-1945)A Biography by Francis Watson, published 1950. File of letters to Watson regarding his writing of the biography of the doctor to King George V, who is alleged to have ended the King's life prematurely. Watson's correspondents include J. G. Lockhart, Dean Alan Don, the Dean of Lichfield, Nurse Catherine Black, Osbert Sitwell, Viscount Samuel, Lord Addison, BMA, Royal archives, Sir Alan Lascelles writing from Buckingham Palace, suggesting amendments after King George VI had read a draft version, with a copy of the published biography (approx 125 lett...
Great BritainKing George VI1950 Official photograph of the King by Dorothy Wilding, signed and dated George R. 1950 in superb condition. Formal photographs of the King in Army uniform were usually presented by him to his regiments. Framed and glazed (180x240mm).Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainSir Winston Churchill1951 Typed letter written from Downing Street to "my dear Moore", signed "Yours sincerely, Winston S. Churchill" thanking Lieut. Col Sir Thomas Moore for "presenting me with such a beautifully bound copy of the Fourth volume of my War Memoirs. I am very glad to have such a fine edition for my library and it will always be of great value". Punch hole top left, not detractingSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainDuke and Duchess of Windsor1951-1961 Group of letters and photographs sent to the 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894-1969), a close friend to Edward as Prince of Wales, King and later as Duke of Windsor.Three typed letters signed "Edward" from Paris (2) and Waldorf Astoria Towers.May 1951 the Duke refers to being "out of circulation until my book was published...I've had GP Putnam Sons forward you a copy, but you don't have to read it". He refers to the Duchess undergoing an operation; "the MacArthur incident that has exposed the bungling of the Far Eastern situation...Aneurin Bevan's res...
Great BritainPrincess Margaret1951 Set of six studio photographs of Princess Margaret, taken by Cecil Beaton in Buckingham Palace on the occasion of her 21st birthday, signed by him on the mount using coloured pencil. All within cream folders, Beaton studio rubber stamps and negative numbers on the reverse of each. A very rare set of royal images (25x35cm) (6)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1952 Accession photograph by Dorothy Wilding signed and dated Elizabeth R 1952 on the mount. One of the most iconic images of the Queen at the start of her 70 year long reign, some dusting to the mount and a surface scratch not detracting (26x34cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRoyaltyQueen Elizabeth II1952 Accession photograph by Dorothy Wilding of the Queen, with the studio stamp on the reverse. An iconic image of the young Queen at the start of her 70 year long reign (21x29cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1955 Studio portrait photograph of the Queen by Cecil Beaton with his two line rubber stamp on the reverse. The Queen wears her Royal Family orders and the George IV diadem seen often for the State Opening of Parliament. (18x25cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1957 Pair of formal studio photographs of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, hand signed on the mount Elizabeth R 1957 and Philip 1957. The Queen wears the Grand Duchess Vladimir tiara with the Cambridge emeralds, and the Duke is in naval uniform. A rare pair (18x25cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrincess Margaret1958 Formal photograph by Cecil Beaton, signed by him in pencil on the mount, and inscribed by Princess Margaret Much love from Margaret 1958 . Taken in Clarence House with Princess Margaret wearing part of a turquoise parure given to her mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, by King George V as a wedding present in 1923. A rare image (29x36cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime Ministers1973 GB First Day Cover commemorating the Parliamentary Conference signed by nine British Prime Ministers, Alec Douglas-Home, Wilson of Rievaulx, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David CameronSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II1974 Folding Christmas card signed "Elizabeth R / Philip" by autopen, with a photograph alongside of the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, Princes Andrew and Edward atop a carriage, Prince Philip holding the reins (250x185mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainRobert Maxwell (1923-1991)1987 and 1991 Cheques drawn on National Westminster Bank, London. The first dated 2 September 1987, issued by BPCC PLC (British Printing and Communication Corporation) in favour of Hollis PLS, for £25 million, with two signatories and numerous endorsements on the reverse. The second dated 28 June 1991 in favour of Maxwell Communication Corporation PLC for £180 million was never presented, signed on behalf of the Maxwell Group PLC (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainPrime Ministers1987 Colour photograph, signed and dated by Margaret Thatcher, showing her official welcome by President Ronald Reagan at the White House (100x80mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002)1988-2002 Menu cards with the royal cypher "ER/crown" embossed in gold at the top. All handwritten, those in blue ink in the hand of the Head Chef, Michael Sealey. The menu card for HM's 101st birthday lunch on 4 August 2001 is present, with another in the week preceding Christmas 1996, with Christmas pudding and hot mince pies served. A fascinating culinary history (12)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002)1996-1997 Three notes in the hand of the Queen Mother written on scraps of paper, one the part text of a speech made on the presentation of Colours, another on the 20th anniversary of the opening of Spencer House. "Would you ask the Chef to let me see one of the asparagus that he has for lunch", with the menu card for that day; "I would like to see the menu book", "Mrs Rhodes to lunch today". Margaret Rhodes was the Queen Mother's niece and Lady in Waiting (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms...
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II / Prime Ministers2002 Colour photograph, laid down on a white mount, of the Queen with her current and past Prime Ministers, taken at Downing Street to celebrate her Golden Jubilee in May 2002. Signed on the mount (L-R) by Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, John Major (100x80mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Greece
Greece / RoumaniaQueen Elisabeth of Greece (1894-1956)1952-1954 A wide ranging archive of incoming correspondence addressed either to Queen Elisabeth or to Marc Favrat, with whom she had a relationship and adopted just before her death.The letters, telegrams and documents are mostly in French and relate to her personal banking affairs, social and charitable involvement and the occasional letter from the Belgian Court. Housed in 90 sleeves, with a typed listing, worthy of further researchSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
India
(x) IndiaMilitaryc1853 Printed proof with corrections of a series of letters between Lieut-General Sir William Napier and Lieut-Colonel Niel Campbell that were published in the Naval and Military Gazette. These refer to a controversy over bad conditions offered by boats to both British soldiers and sepoys when they boarded ships. Repaired tear to the lower part (110x400mm)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
IndiaThe Maharajah of Cooch Behar1900-1902 HH Nripendra Narayan (1862-1911) and Miss Nellie Seymour, an English actress on the London stage. A personal correspondence of 88 autograph letters, many with original envelopes, written on engraved notepaper, with the Maharajah's personal cypher from within the UK and from Cooch, including telegrams sent to Miss Seymour. The Maharajah was infatuated by Nellie Seymour and wishes her to join him in India. The affair ended in 1902 when a letter from her to him was intercepted and read by the Maharani.The Maharajah signs himself "Peach" and Seymour is ad...
(x) IndiaMahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)1933-1940 Three autograph letters written in Gujarati to members of the Dr P.J. Mehta family by Gandhi, who was a close personal friend; together with objects relating to his stay with Dr. Mehta in Burma on three occasions in 1902, 1915 and 1929.6 March 1933 one page, written on both sides, with a filing and punch hole not affecting the text. Gandhi writes to Mr Ratilal Mehta and Mrs Champa R. Mehta, son and daughter in law of the late Dr P.J. Mehta, concerning the estate and a fair and equal division of the assets. Written from Yervada Mandir he proffers ad...
India / PakistanSir Sultan Mohammed ShahThe Aga Khan III (1877-1957)1945 Visit to South Africa. Printed elaborate invitation to a reception at the City Hall, Pretoria, with mailing envelope and press cutting, and an unrelated letter on hotel notepaper signed "Autograph AK" forwarded by the Private secretary to His Highness the Aga Khan. With a photograph of him pencilled on the reverse "Kenya late 50's" alighting from an aircraft.1957 Printed invitation, car park ticket and programme for the Enthronement of the Aga Khan IV (10)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please...
India / South AfricaM.K. Gandhi1948 March "Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Number" published in South Africa by "INDIAN OPINION", a newspaper started in 1903 by Gandhi and the Natal Indian Congress in its fight against racial discrimination in that country.This 58 page tribute with many photo plates is in English and Gujarati, with a front cover printed in silver depicting Gandhi walking into the distance. A rare publication.Togther with a government Blue Book titled "Further Correspondence Relating to Legislation Affecting Asiatics in the Transvaal", published in 1908, with numerous references to G...
(x) India / South AfricaCharles Tennyson Dickens MBE (1900-1985)Grandson of the celebrated author, who became Deputy Postmaster General, Superintendent of Post offices Kangra Division and at Quetta, retired to Natal, South Africa in 1947. Two ledgers and one lever arch file covering his life.Correspondence deals with his official duties, the work after the Quetta earthquake during which his wife was injured and his five year old daughter killed. Numerous financial and personal information, press articles, a printed ledger for the Indo-European Telegraph Department with various entries relating...
Italy
Italy1419-1583 Group of letters and documents, not translated, one (1583) reporting on an attack by armed bandits in Milan, together with two printed documents headed "A(woodblock)Qe" concerning taxes. Worthy of further research (7)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
ItalyLuigi Cherubini (1760-1842)1839 Letter in French signed in a shaky hand by the Italian composer, on printed headed notepaper of the Conservatoire de Musique et de Declamation, Paris. Worn along the right margin, not affecting the signature.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Malta
Malta1930-1932 Two photograph albums, one titled "H.M.S. Glorious" showing the Flycatcher aeroplane in action at Malta, with photographs of crashes, flight formations, aerial views, Imperial Airways "Horsa", the "City of Arundel" all round trip England to Malta non stop, aircraft carriers and the Prince of Wales visiting H.M.S. Glorious. First album fully captioned (49 images). The second showing aerial views and further crash scenes (21). Seventy photographs in total.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
JamaicaMilitary1779 Sept. 12, Printed broadsheet headed "Head-Quarters, Spanish Town" detailing "A State of the Arrangements and Disposition of such Part of the Force of the Island as was collected together on the late Alarm, with it's Divisions into Brigades and detached Corps, the different Officers commanding each, and the General Officers of the several Districts in which they were quartered..." Issued in the name of the two Deputy Adjutants General (330mm x 400mm, framed and glazed)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Morocco
(x) Morocco1924 Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934), the first French Resident-General in Morocco. A 4pp autograph letter in French signed to a friend on his personal stationery, concerning a tense situation involving the rebel leader Abd-el-Krim, who rose up against Spanish forces, while France maintained friendly relations with him. Lyautey mentions that he no longer trusts him. An important letterSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Nepal
NepalPhotographsc1910-1920 Photographs mounted on cards individually captioned "Nepalese Girl, Mother, Hill Girls Morning Coiffure, Hillman, Nepalese Woman", no indication of the photographer, but professional quality (120x170mm each card, with bevelled edges) (5)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
New Zealand
New Zealand1919 Pair of Ministerial appointments on vellum, signed "Liverpool" by Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1870-1941), first Governor General of New Zealand, appointing William Herbert Herries as Minister of Customs and Minister of Marine simultaneously. An official seal affixed to the left on pink paper (220mm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Norway
(x) NorwayWhaling1957-1958 Manuscript notebook (16pp) compiled by a whaler onboard the "Balaena" whaling factory ship in the Antarctic. He records notes on whale biology, catch statistics with seven relevant sketches. The ship was one of the best equipped of its time, had two seagoing aircraft aboard for spotting whales, served as a floating factory and was owned by the Anglo-Norwegian company, United Whalers Ltd. A fascinating record (240x350mm in slightly worn card covers)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Poland
Poland / PrussiaFinance1806 - 1807 Four part printed receipts in the name of Grafin Bielinski, issued by the Konigl. Kammerey-Kasse Warschau, signed by two officials with details of the relevant entries in the cash books. .This was a turbulent time in European history. In October 1806 Prussian armies were routed and by the Treaty of Tilsit in July 1807 Napoleon had created a new Polish state, the Duchy of Warsaw (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
PolandPadarewski1918 Studio photograph of I. J. Paderewski (1860-1941), Polish born pianist, composer and statesman, Prime Minister of Poland in 1919. Inscribed on the mount "To Major C. Kennedy Craufurd Stuart, with very kindest regards of I.J. Paderewski, 19/XI/1918. Photograph by Hartsook S.F-L.A. (190x240mm, mount 340x250mm) Lieut. Colonel Charles Kennedy-Craufurd-Stuart (1879-1942) had a distinguished military career. From 1918-1919 he was private secretary to Lord Reading, British Ambassador to the United States, when he received this photographSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. Fo...
Rhodesia
RhodesiaCecil John Rhodes (1854-1902)1897 Two autograph letters signed "C.J.Rhodes" written to J.W. Roussouw, a magistrate in the Cape Colony. The first dated April 25/ 1897 refers to the Second Matabele Rebellion that followed soon after the ill fated Jameson Raid in which Rhodes was implicated. "Thanks for greeting me again on my return. I think time will heal all troubles but I shall always remember with gratitude your kind letter to me in Matabeleland when the clouds looked very heavy". The second undated letter reads - "It is always a pleasure to hear from you for you have been consistent...
Robin Hunt - Ephemera
The Robin Hunt CollectionThe London GazetteRoyal Events1684 -1760, group of newspapers, including the London Gazette (9), Warwick and Staffordshire Journal, Norwich Gazette reporting on Royal events, from Coronations, births and deaths, together with a memorial engraving of George I (17)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1760-1821 Silk ribbons with a repeating design for King George III and Queen Charlotte (their initials above a crown); two commemorating the coronation of King George IV in cream and light blue; and a decorative hexagonal coloured cloth souvenir commemorating the marriage of Princess Charlotte of Wales to Leopold Prince of Saxe Coburg May 2, 1816 (framed and glazed 150x120mm) (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing George III1812 Black printing on gold silk titled THE REIGN OF GEORGE III from his Accession to the Throne to the PRESENT PERIOD with an intricate circular dial detailing events year by year from 1760, and portrait vignettes in each corner of Nelson, Wellington, Fox and Pitt. The royal arms and crown centrally placed along each border. A minor split along the lower right professionally conserved, not detracting from a dramatic item. "Engraved by Rymer & Son, No 53 Great Windmill Street, Haymarket..." (34x35cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more infor...
The Robin Hunt CollectionPrincess Charlotte1817 Coloured engraving titled "THE FUNERAL OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES AND SAXE COBURG / In St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the 19th of November 1817". published by W.H. Payne, engraved by T. Sutherland (275x170mm), in a mountSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing William IV and Queen Adelaidec1830 Allegorical scene with portraits of the King and Queen, printed in brown on cream silk with the Orders of Bath, St Patrick, Garter and Thistle illustrated along the border (35x30cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1830 Wooden puzzle showing the monarchs from William I to William IV, with a key in watercolours (130x170mm), all pieces presentSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing William IV and Queen Adelaide1831 Bound copy with the Royal Arms on both the front and back covers, of the Ceremonial and Proceedings of the Coronation, all printed in blue lettering on cream silk and published by R.G. Clarke, Cannon- Row, Westminster, 15 pages. An accompanying letter signed by Sir George Naylor, Garter, from the Earl Marshal's Office is addressed to Sir Benjamin Stephenson (1766-1839), Courtier and government official. "Permit me to request your acceptance of one of the Copies of the Ceremonies of the Coronation printed for the Ministers, and al...
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing William IV and Queen Adelaide1831 State Procession From St. James's Palace to the West Door of Westminster Abbey on the day of Their Majesties' Coronation . Printed on cream silk with a red decorative border, cream fringe along the edge and attached to a wooden support at the top (52x14cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1837 "Grand Annual Revel / The Bachelors of Windsor and their Friends, intend to Celebrate Her Most Gracious Majesty's Accession to the Throne ... with a variety of Rural Sports.. to conclude with a superb display of FIREWORKS", printed in black on cream silk by R. Oxley, Express Office, Windsor, in a mount (80x125mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoria1838-1901 Collection of items on silk including an "Anthem in Honor of the Coronation", Chester, June 1838; a souvenir "Struck at the Victoria Press, Coronation Fair, Hyde Park"; numerous portraits, bookmarks, ribbons with repeat designs; a souvenir of the International Exhibition, London 1862; Railway menu at the Castle Station, Lancaster 1867 for the Queen's stopover; souvenir programme celebrating the Queen's birthday at Bedford that coincided with the Relief of Mafeking 24 May 1900; items commemorating her death in January 1901. With three pieces of...
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoriac1838 God Save Victoria Queen and
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1838 Puzzle comprising 30 pieces (all present) in a decorative wooden box with a sliding lid and a printed example of the scene titled "The Grand Coronation of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838" (60x75x15mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoria1838 State Procession From the Queen's Palace to the Western Door of Westminster Abbey on the 28th day of June 1838, the Day of Her Majesty's Coronation . Printed on cream silk by J, Hartnell, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, with a blue fringe border, professionally conserved (54x13cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1838 "Musical Gem for 1838" A combination of musical bars, words and a vignette of "Sheba (The Queen) With her Elders / Inscribed to Vist. Melbourne and Lord Palmerston" designed and written by C.L.L. Brighton Xmas 1837-8, printed in brown on golden silk (170x190mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionPrince Albert1840-1861 Collection of items printed on silk including portraits, a Ceremonial on the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the "Albert Wing" of the Licensed Victualler's Asylum, Old Kent Road (1858), two commemorating the Great Exhibition of 1851 and ten on the death of the Prince Consort (19)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1847 "The Loyal and Dutiful ADDRESS of the INHABITANTS of FLEETWOOD to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen" on the occasion of her visit to the Duchy of Lancaster. Printed in gold lettering on deep blue silk with a decorative border, within a mount (21x155mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionGreat Exhibition 1851Portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert surmounted by the Royal Arms, with a decorative border and the wording DESIGNED FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION / 1851 / LONDON at the foot. Woven on cream silk by J.Wilde & Sons, T.Riseley, Macclesfield (at the lower right) (30x40cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt Collection1851 Great ExhibitionSouvenir printed on blue linen with a central vignette titled VIEW OF THE BUILDING IN HYDE PARK FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION 1851, with four corner portraits of Prince Albert, all printed in black with central marginal allegorical central scenes; minor loss to the linen and professionally conserved (29x26cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1851 "Sale's Plan and Description of the Route of Her Majesty Queen Victoria through Manchester and Salford on Friday, Oct. 10th 1851". Black printing on cream silk, with a dark blue fringe, and a central vignette of the head of Queen Victoria by Wyon (200x170mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1851 "In Commemoration of Her Majesty's Visit to Her Loyal Subjects in the County of Lancaster October 1851". Printing in red on cloth incorporating the national anthem, a portrait of Queen Victoria and scenes of the local population gathered together (210x145mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionThe Duke of Wellington1852 In Memory of Arthur Duke of Wellington / Funeral Programme by Authority of The Earl Marshal published by Mr Mitchell, Print-Seller to Her Majesty, 33 Old Bond Street, printed in black on cream silk with the Duke's Arms, portrait and a decorative border incorporating battles from Alost to Waterloo in 1815. With a fringe attached to the top and bottom (23x17cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1855 Half length portraits of Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon III titled "May God Bless the Alliance / Que Dieu Benisse l'Alliance" woven in black on dark cream silk by James Hart, framed and glazed (70x105mm; 120x160 framed)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1860-1892 Silk items relating to the children of Queen Victoria and a memorial cotton handkerchief on the death of Prince Albert Victor, the heir presumptive in 1892. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred as a naval officer, Princesses Alice, Louise, Helena, Princess Henry of Battenberg (16)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionThe Prince of Wales Marriage1863 Collection of silk items relating to the marriage of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, including the South Eastern Railway North Kent Line Timetable for the Royal Special Train from Gravesend to Bricklayer's Arms Station, London, on the arrival of Princess Alexandra in England, including verses on the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales at Southampton; verses and bookmarks commemorating the Royal Wedding, (18)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for B...
The Robin Hunt CollectionPrince of Wales1863 Rejoicings in the Town of Wrexham in Celebration of the 1863 Marriage of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Lengthy scroll printed on cream silk detailing the events, processions, illuminations and fireworks and "a magnificent bonfire in the Rope-Walk Field". printed by Potter and Snape, Steam Press, Wrexham. Professionally conserved with a central join as issued (78x17cm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionTheatre1872-1899 Theatre programmes printed on silk with elaborate designs and typesetting; 1872 Regent Hall, Great Yarmouth in the presence of the Prince of Wales; 1879 Theatre Royal, Great Yarmouth; 1891 Windsor Castle; 1897 Windsor Castle with "Cinematographie Pictures"; 1897 The Tivoli, Strand Diamond Jubilee Matinee (2); 1899 Visit of the Queen to Bristol - Entertainment at Stapleton Workhouse; 1874 Globe Theatre, Strand on the day of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh in St Petersburg with the accompanying Address to be spoken at the end of the performance (9...
The Robin Hunt CollectionIndia Royal Visit1875 Menu printed on cream silk with a gilt fringe and a vignette of the cross channel steamer the "Castalia" that conveyed Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales from London to Calais on 11 October at the start of his Visit to India. The menu has the Royal Arms at the top surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers and his initials "AE" in the top corners. Although undated it seems reasonable to assume that this was the occasion for which the ornate menu was printed (75x100mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Ter...
The Robin Hunt CollectionChildren of Queen VictoriaPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught1879 Collection of illuminated and manuscript addresses on his marriage to Princess Luise Margaret of Prussia, from the Royal Cinque Yacht Club, City of Bath, Borough of South Shields, Queens College Belfast, Boroughs of Jarrow, Glastonbury, City of Dublin "Her Majesty's Irish Subjects", City of Edinburgh, Justices for Peace Middlesex, Borough of King's Lynn, Aston, Borough of Great Yarmouth, Queensborough, City of York, Canterbury, all with signatures of prominent men of the time (15)Subject to 20% VAT on Bu...
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing Edward VII1879-1910 Collection of items on silk with an emphasis on the 1902 Coronation. Including an 1879 programme for the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Hospital for Consumption Diseases, Brompton; a piece of "Silk (that) formed part of the Stole worn by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII. On completion of the Stole the loom was immediately destroyed by Royal Command"; with souvenir bookmarks, stevengraphs, portraits and a menu and programme from the 1903 visit to Paris (54)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Pre...
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoria Golden Jubilee1887 Collection of commemorative items printed on silk, including a large portrait (165x200mm); gold on red silk handkerchief (250x200mm), linen souvenir with portraits of the Queen surrounded by the names of the Colonies (250x230mm); a programme for the opening of the Juvenile & Industrial Exhibition, Geelong, Australia; bookmarks, stevengrams, souvenirs from Wakefield, Kingston-Upon-Hull and Ipswich (39)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionIndia1887-1937 A range of items including 1887 - Address printed on silk in purple letters, with a decorative border, to "Her Most Gracious Imperial Majesty Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland & Empress of India" from Hafiz Sheikh Abdul Kareem, Khan Bahadur, dated at Meerut 16th February 1887, (295x510mm), copy telegram from the Political Agent, Raikot District to Bombay on the death of Queen Victoria, mourning in Gondal, condolences of the Ruling Chiefs of Kathiawad, death of King Edward V11 as announced in the Holkar Sirkar Gazette, death of King...
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1891-1911 Decorative Programmes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and for the Royal Italian Opera, all printed on silk, commemorating the State Visit of the German Emperor and Empress (1891), the Marriage of the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck (1893), Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897), visits of the President of France (1903 and 1908), and the State Performance in Honour of the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary (1911), (6)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing George V and Queen Mary1893-1935 Range of commemorative items printed or woven on silk from the Royal wedding of 1893 (2), as Prince and Princess of Wales (3), the 1911 Coronation including ""A piece of the Carpet on which King George V and Queen Mary actually stood at their Coronation"; items relating to the Silver Jubilee of 1935 including six material samples of the coats worn by the Queen, Duchess of York, Princess Mary and Princess Helena Victoria (55)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoria1897 Diamond Jubilee Superb woven silk commemorative depicting the Queen central to the design, surrounded by an Indian scene, Windsor Castle, an elephant and tiger, with the Houses of Parliament and the Royal Arms at the foot, by St. Etienne (75x130, framed and glazed 120x170mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Victoria Diamond Jubilee1897 Collection of bookmarks and souvenirs all woven in silk, including "The Jubilee Album of the Queen and Leading British Statesmen" published by W.H. Grant, Coventry and New York, with silk portraits the Queen, Salisbury, Gladstone, Lord Randolph Churchill, the Late Earl of Beaconsfield (19)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionRoyalty1919-1958 Seven bound scrapbooks of Frank O.Salisbury (1874-1962), English artist, portrait painter and famous for his large canvases of historical, national and ceremonial events. The contents reference his correspondence with Royal courtiers, Private Secretaries and leading personalities regarding his work.ROYAL LETTERS - 1919-1958. Autograph memorandum from Queen Mary re the name of a sculptor, with envelope; the proofs and pencil used by her to sign the Message to the Nation following the death of King George V, pencil sketches re a memorial to the King; co...
The Robin Hunt CollectionKing Edward VIII & King George VI1937 Coronation. Collection of items woven and printed on silk commemorating the event, for which the date was not changed following the abdication of Edward VIII. Bookmarks, portraits, and souvenirs including 8 material swatches, two labelled "Colour for HM King George VI" and "Garter Blue material for sash etc", and a "Brocade and fringe (that) formed part of the decoration of Westminster Abbey at the Coronation of Their Majesties / presented by Viscount Lee of Fareham Nov 11 1937" per an attached label. Further three pieces on a sepa...
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Elizabeth II1947-2000 Collection of bookmarks, portraits and souvenirs all woven or printed on silk relating to the 1947 Royal wedding, 1953 Coronation, a bound booklet produced by Stephen Walters who manufactured the lining for the Queen's coronation robe, with a sample inserted; a piece of the fabric that lined the royal box on coronation day (110x80mm), commemoratives for the marriages of Princess Anne, the Prince of Wales and Prince Andrew; four souvenir programmes of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on the Queen's 60th birthday (2), the 80th birthday...
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Elizabeth II1947 Envelope with a note on the reverse "Part of piece of silk woven for Princess Elizabeth's wedding train. Silk spun from s/worms bred at Lady Hart Dyke's farm at Lullingstone" (450x300mm), with a woven bookmark commemorating the marriage at Westminster Abbey, and conjoined portraits celebrating the silver wedding of the Queen and Prince Philip (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Hunt CollectionQueen Elizabeth IIc1953 Large piece of velvet with the cypher of Queen Elizabeth II embroidered in gold thread EIIR surmounted by St Edward's crown heavily embroidered on the dark blue velvet (185x160mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Russia
Russia(Tsar Paul I)1801 Autograph letter written by Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman, Louis XVIII's representative to Russia, discussing the impact of the murder of Tsar Paul I on European relations. Following the Tsar's "unexpected death" Carman suggests that the character of Tsar Alexander I might affect current events and in particular relations between Russia and France. He suggests that the new Tsar may not be able to resist Napoleon's moves towards central Europe. He refers to the English fleet being at the gates of Copenhagen. Admiral Nelson had just defeated the Danes.Written...
RussiaPassport1822 Passport issued in the name of Tsar Alexander I, with a superb printed design incorporating the Imperial eagle, completed in manuscript, and an impression of an official seal with endorsements on the reverse (450x370mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
RussiaPassports / Consular Service1869 British passport issued in the name of Elizabeth Berzants "proceeding to the Empire of Russia", with the official stamps of the Imperial Russian Vice Consulate at Hull and endorsements on the reverse.Together with a part typed / manuscript legal document in English regarding an inheritance, signed and dated in Petrograd, with British Consular Service stamps and Russian revenue stamps, registered at the British Consulate, Petrograd, and later at the British Consulate, Christiana, Norway. Drawn up at a time of great turbulence in Russia. (Both framed and gl...
RussiaCup of Sorrows1896 CoronationA pair of enamel beakers with the joint cyphers of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, the Imperial eagle on the reverse, surrounded by a geometric pattern. Manufactured as a gift to those gathered on the Khodynka Field in Moscow on 18/30 May 1896 following the coronation of the Tsar and Tsarina. A stampede resulted in the deaths of over a thousand and the beaker was forever known as the "Cup of Sorrows". These examples with some wear to the gilding (100mm in height, 90mm in diameter) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please...
Russia(Rasputin)1917 (January 2) Autograph letter written in Russian to Prince Felix Yussoupoff (1887-1967), involved in the assassination of Gregori Rasputin the month prior to this being written. His correspondent is his paternal aunt, Alexandra Feliksovna Sumarakova-Elston. She refers to the deteriorating situation in Petrograd, and whatever the Imperial Family may think of the murder, many in Court circles approved. She mentions the exile of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich for his opposition to the rule of Tsar Nicholas II and exclaims "God, when will this madness end, and to what horror...
Russia(Mathilde Kschessinska)1917 (August1) Autograph letter written by Joseph Kschessinskii (1868-1942), brother of the prima ballerina who was mistress to the future Nicholas II. Written in Russian from Belsk, and incomplete (as per his request to destroy it), he refers to the "horror of the general situation...I am tormented with sadness and melancholy for Russia. Robbery, dissolute behaviour, fratricidal...It is complete anarchy, monsters and scoundrels are reigning instead of Tsars, it is hard to say what will happen to Russia" A dramatic 4pp letter with an English translation.Subject to...
RussiaPrince Yusupov (1856-1928)1918 (February-December) Autograph letters written in Russian at the height of the civil war, by Count Sumarov-Elston, Felix Felixovich, Prince Yusupov, from the Crimea to his mistress Zinaida Grigorievna (1880-1965). Following the murder of Rasputin in which his son was implicated, he left Saint Petersburg for his Kursk estate.Touching and loving messages written on notepaper, two postcards and a pictorial lettercard, he expresses his concern for Grigorievna. In April 1919 Count Sumarov-Elston left Russia on HMS Marlborough and in 1920 succeeded in rescuing his...
RussiaMikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)1986 "M.S. Gorbachev / General Secretary of the CPSU and Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR / Speeches & Writings / Introduction by Robert Maxwell", published by the Pergamon Press. Lengthy inscription in Russian by Gorbachev to Maxwell, with a typed translation accompanied by the calling card of Ambassador Popov. "Esteemed Mr. Robert Maxwell, I am grateful to you for your good wishes and for your activities which promote mutual understanding between our peoples. Yours sincerely. M. Gorbachev". With the original dustjacket, slightly sun...
Senegal
(x) Senegal1747 Pair of autograph letters written in French from Galant, one headed at Fort Saint Joseph, by Du Liron, an employee of the Compagnie du Senegal or its successor, the Compagnie Mississippi de Paris. The Fort, on the Senegal River, was an important point for commerce and the slave trade. In the earlier letter Du Liron requests permission to return to France, and refers to the Niger River, thought incorrectly to be linked to the Senegal River. He relates an adventure that he had. The later letter written to a cousin refers to sending it via England, and advises of his appointment a...
(x) Senegal1866 4pp Autograph letter from a French soldier, Peyri, to his parents in France. Writing from Goree en route to Gabon, he reports that he was working at the local hospital. He further describes the country's hunting opportunities, travelling up the Senegal River towards the city of Podor, shooting species of birds and hares and seeing alligators and monkeys.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) Somalia1844 or 1849 Letter written in an Arabic script by Muhammad ibn al-Marhum al-Jarrad to Sharmarke bin Ali Salih, Governor of Zeyla. Comprising two independent but connected texts, it informs about the good state of health of the writer and family, that Zayla and the region are peaceful and quiet; confirms the arrival of guns and mentions finances and the shipment of goods. Sharmarke Ali Saleh was a 19th century Somali leader, captain and wealthy merchant. The explorer Richard Burton was his guest in 1855 and described him vividly. A powerful leader, he signed a commercial treaty with...
South Africa
South AfricaBoer WarCollection comprising two ink signatures of President Kruger cut from documents, dated 1889, 1892, with a cabinet photograph and facsimile signature; 1878 signature of Shepstone, Administrator of the Transvaal; signatures of President MW Pretorius, General PJJ Joubert, and a cabinet photograph of General PA Cronje with printed signature. Signed portrait postcard of President M.T. Steyn with an autograph postcard written by him from Amsterdam in 1904 referring to stamps from the Orange Free State; and a Programme printed on yellow and cream silk "For the Solemn Interment of...
South AfricaBoer War1899 Souvenir Programme printed on silk "Presented by Mrs. Langtry on the Occasion of the 100th Performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre" incorporating Rudyard Kipling's "A gentleman in kharki" and his autograph text of "The Absent-minded Beggar", cloth commemorative handkerchiefs of this poem (staining), a cloth map of the Transvaal with portraits of President Kruger and Joseph Chamberlain and a silk handkerchief detailing the "Engagements of XVIII Hussars, South Africa", all folded (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view...
South AfricaBoer War1899-1900 Programme printed on silk "Presented by Mrs. Langtry on the occasion of the 100th performance of the 'Degenerates' at the Garrick Theatre", incorporating the verses of the Absent-minded Beggar and an image of "A gentleman in kharki" by R. Caton Woodville; a presentation chocolate tin from Queen Victoria to the troops for new year 1900, and a red silk ribbon commemorating the Relief of Ladysmith, 2nd Batt. (D.C.O.) Middlesex (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
South AfricaBoer War1899 October 3, Press Telegram dated a week prior to the war beginning on 10 October, sent to the Echo London on a ZAR telegraph form, with 1/4d in stamps cancelled at Pretoria, advising from Bloemfontein that "artillery left yesterday for Van Reenens Pass, other detachments for Bethulie, Boshof or Kimberley...All able bodied men called out". A dramatic opening page to a collection of Anglo Boer War materialSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
South AfricaBoer War1900-1901 Document in Dutch signed by General P.J. Joubert as Commandant General of the ZAR at Upper Tugela, witnessing an oath of loyalty by P.J. Cloete on his appointment as a Veld Cornet in the District Ermelo. With printed Standing Orders regarding entry or exit issued by the Provost Marshal at Lydenburg in March 1901 (mounted on card with annotated photographs on the reverse), three manuscript receipts issued at Badfontein re provisions for Boer families, one to be "taken under a flag of truce" to their farms, and a letter from a Boer POW at Green :Point to the OC Badf...
South AfricaGeneral J.C. Smuts 1870-1950Field Marshal, Prime Minister and Statesman. Collection comprising three signed photographs, one a formal studio image, a signed postcard photograph of Mrs "Ouma" Smuts, with two unsigned images; WW1 photograph on horseback; a censored 1917 cover from Denys Reitz (author of "Commando") signed to the lower left to "Mrs General J.C.Smuts, Doornkloof, Irene"; a commemorative booklet on the unveiling of the Louis Botha monument in Pretoria, 1946, signed by Smuts; funeral service programme, Pretoria; Dedication programme of Smuts House, Johannesburg; pictori...
South Africa1927 "The Flag and Good Faith" 59pp booklet inscribed by the author Sir J.Percy FitzPatrick marked "Private" dealing with the controversial debate surrounding the SA National Flag; together with an extract from Hansard and three other relevant publications (6)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) South AfricaGeneral J.C. Smuts1945 Pen and pencil sketch initialled "B", signed in his characteristic blue ink "J.C.Smuts" below his portrait. Accompanied by a copy letter on United Nations notepaper written during the San Francisco conference, during which Smuts was instrumental in drafting the UNO charter, returning the signed sketch to E. Maurice Bloch in New York (195x265mm)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
South AfricaDr D.F. Malan 1874-1959First National Party Prime Minister in 1948. Collection comprising studio photograph of a young Malan inscribed on the reverse in Afrikaans; 1951 dinner menu signed by leading National Party politicians including Malan, Verwoerd, Schoeman, Naude, Erasmus, Louw and Sauer; Unveiling programme of the Kruger Monument in Pretoria, signed by Malan opposite the title page, with further menu and Christmas card, unsigned (7)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
South AfricaJ. H. Pierneef 1886-19571953 Catalogue of a Retrospective Exhibition of the Paintings of Hendrik Pierneef, renowned landscape artist, held at the Potchefstroom University, signed and dated by him with a pen and ink portrait below.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
South AfricaC.R. Swart & Dr H.F. Verwoerd1960-1966 The first State President and Prime Minister of the Republic of SA. Signed photographs of Swart (2), signed cards and an inauguration programme (7). Two typed letters signed by Verwoerd. 1960 a response to good wishes sent by the National Youth League on the declaration of a Republic, the other acknowledging birthday greetings in 1965. Photograph with accompanying letter from Mrs Verwoerd in 1970 sending his autograph cut from a bank slip; the State Funeral programme and two tickets following his assassination in 1966, with a memorium progr...
South AfricaNelson Mandela (1918-2013)1994 Exceptional pair of newspaper scrapbooks privately assembled covering the first "one man one vote" general election that saw Nelson Mandela leading the ANC to victory and his inauguration as the country's first Black President. Both scrapbooks signed and dated N. Mandela 3.8.2001 by him on the front cover and inside first page. A remarkable compilation (17x12cm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
South AfricaNelson Mandela (1918-2013)1997 Political Report of the 50th National Conference of the African National Congress signed N Mandela 16.12.97 on the title page, with a copy of the Programme and Conference Information signed on the front cover by Andrew Young, American politician, diplomat and activist, Jeremy Cronin, South African writer and Peter Mokaba, President of the ANC Youth Wing. With a 1991 copy of SPEAK signed on the inside by Winnie Mandela and Chris Hani. An historic group of items relating to the leaders of the liberation struggle in South Africa (3)Subject to 20% VAT o...
South AfricaZululand"King Cetshwayo kaMpande", 34pp publication by the Kwazulu Monuments Council (1980), signed on the first page by HM King Goodwill Zwelithini (1948-2021) and Prince Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi (b.1928), traditional Prime Minister to the Zulu Royal Family, signatures dated 20 August 1983; also by the co-author Prof. John Laband. With a nine page pamphlet dated at Pretoria 17 January 1994 titled "Representation by his Majesty the King of the Zulus to the State President of South Africa...on the inalienable right of a Zulu King to rule over his Father's people..." (2)Subject...
Spain
(x) SpainPicasso (1881-1973)1947 Soft covered book titled "A Pablo Picasso" by Paul Eluard, published by Martin Secker and Warburg, London, signed by Eluard and Picasso (in pencil) on the title pageSubject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
(x) SpainWhalingc1970s Photograph album with 34 photographs laid down, showing the activities and crew of the whaling ship "Lobeiro", depicted in colour on page 31 Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Sudan
SudanH.H. Kitchener1893 two autograph letters signed by Kitchener as Sirdar, written to Burn-Murdoch offering him the rank of Lt Col in the Egyptian Army in command of 8 Squadron, with details of his contract. 1896 ALS from Burn-Murdoch to Col Leslie Rundle regarding "refugees" and confusion relating to boats approaching Fereig. A response by Rundle is written at the conclusion with a further pencil explanation relating to this incident (3)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Sudan / Great BritainMilitaryGeneral Sir Archibald Hunter (1856-1933)1897 Autograph letter from Berber to General Knowles, OC British Forces in Egypt, marked "Private" referring to the current state of Sudan, writing in his capacity as Governor of Omdurman. He mentions Osman Digna, eventually captured by the British in 1900; and Mahmoud Wad Ahmad, nephew of the Khalifa "Our gunboats have bombarded him twice but he laughs at them". An important letter mentioning the railways, trade, local conditions and underfunding from the government. Together with a UK letter plus cover dated 1901 where Hu...
SudanKarl Neufeld (1856-1918)1898 Letter with cover partly laid down on a card, written by the wife of Karl Neufeld from Isolation Hospital, Northwich to a lady in Manchester. "I thank God for my husband's rescue. I would go to meet him on his return. I am a poor woman and cannot see how it is to be managed." Neufeld was taken prisoner by the Khalifa in 1887, held in chains and subject of enormous media interest. He was freed in September 1898 after the fall of Khartoum and published an account of his imprisonment. Together with a press cutting announcing his release, mentioning his wife, and...
SudanBritish Military Campaign1898 Photograph album with 31 original photographs showing scenes during the war, all captioned, showing prisoners at Halfa, gunboats, awaiting a dervish attack, the fort, field scenes, a camel in the battlefield, reference to Macdonald's Brigade, dervish prisoners, fugitives from Omdurman, the wall around the Khalifa's house, Khartoum, hoisting the flag at Gordon's Palace Sept 4th, railways at Fort Atbara, with later photographs in England identifying Colonel East of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information ple...
SudanMilitaryRudolph von Slatin (Slatin Pasha) (1857-1932)1899 Autograph letter to Mr Rodd from Cairo in both English and German, about visiting England, signed "R. Slatin"; with a signature on piece "Rudolph von Slatin" and a rare studio photograph by G. Lekegian & Co, of Cairo, showing him in full uniform with medals, orders and decorations, inscribed in German, signed "R.von Slatin" and dated 13 August 1903.A fascinating group of items relating to an influential character who was kept prisoner of the Mahdi and his successor for eleven years, fought at Omdurman ending his career as Inspecto...
SudanMilitaryGeneral Sir Reginald Wingate (1861-1953)1901-1949 Autograph letter dated 1901 arranging a meeting in Dunbar at the "Raj"; end of a letter signed; 1919 autograph letter giving a reference to the organiser of the Welsh Band in Egypt, signed by Wingate as "High Commissioner for Egypt"; a photograph inscribed on the reverse dated 1949; and a power of attorney signed by Lady Wingate, with recent colour photographs showing his home and grave.An autograph note accompanies a copy of the "last photo taken of Lord Kitchener 5.6.1916" on board HMS Iron Duke at Scapa Flow before Kitchener em...
(Sudan)Rudolph C. Slatin, Pasha (1857-1832)1908 Autograph letter signed R. Slatin with the original envelope posted from Vienna to England (stamps torn off), written in English to Major Wheatley discussing the death of a mutual friend, "Phippy" Pownell. He discusses his recent operation, and expresses his love for England, "your country will never be again to me what it was".Slatin, an Austrian Colonel, Governor of Darfur, had been a prisoner of the Mahdi and escaped in 1895 after years of captivity. Framed and glazed (220x155mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information ple...
The Marion Crawford Collection of Royal Cards
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022)c1930s "Two Christmas Cards, both made and coloured by P.E.". This pencil note is attached to the reverse (with sellotape) to one card, both with an ink inscription by Princess Elizabeth "For Crawfie / From Lilibet". The future Queen has drawn a Christmas tree and horseshoe on one, the other is coloured on the outside, and may be earlier with a more juvenile handwriting (130x100mm, 95x80mm). Rare (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022)c1930s Printed and coloured scenic card "A Happy Christmas to you", with an ink inscription within "Crawfie / from / Lilibet", from the future Queen Elizabeth to her governess. Together with a studio photograph signed in pencil by Marcus Adams of Princess Elizabeth, inside a card, dating to 1928 (115x85mm, 85x140mm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022)c1930s Pair of printed Christmas greetings laid on card (a calendar may have been attached to the reverse of each, no longer present), with a pencil note taped on one "Both painted by P.E.". Presented by the future Queen Elizabeth to her governess, hand coloured by her and signed individually "Lilibet" and "Elizabeth" (210x160mm, 210x175mm). Rare (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022)c1930s Card with a printed message " A MERRY CHRISTMAS" within and a horse on the front that has been coloured most likely by the sender, the future Queen Elizabeth, who has written to her governess in ink "To Crawfie / from Lilibet" . The Queen had a life long love for horses, manifested in this charming card (removal of tape has left a mark at the top, not detracting from the image 125x100mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022) & Princess Margaret (1930-2002)1930s Gift tag inscribed "Crawfie from /Lilibet & Margaret", sent by the Princesses to their governess, taped to paper annotated "Label on a present from P.E. & P.M. to Crawfie". With a photograph of the Royal family in 1939 and a pencil note on the reverse "Taken on board S.S. Empress of Britain on arrival in England after the Royal Tour of Canada. (Crawfie is seen behind with her hand touching her hat)." (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Con...
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022) & Princess Margaret (1930-2002)1940 Folded card with an autograph message from the Princesses to their governess "To Crawfie / With every good wish for / Christmas and the NewYear /1941 / From : Lilibet and Margaret" The iconic photograph within the card, surrounded by festive drawings is explained in a pencil note alongside "Decorations painted by P.E. Photograph is of P.E. making her first broadcast, which was done at Windsor Castle during the War. (At the end of the broadcast she called P.M. to come to the microphone and...
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022) & Princess Margaret (1930-2002)1940s Christmas card by Tuck with Scottish Terriers in a basket on the cover, dedicated to their governess within, in the hand of Princess Elizabeth "To Crawfie / from Lilibet & Margaret" and signed by both (140x110mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022) & Princess Margaret (1930-2002)1940s Christmas card with a reproduction of a painting on the cover, a printed message within and a dedication in the hand of Princess Elizabeth to their governess "To Crawfie / from Lilibet & Margaret", signed by both (200x150mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Margaret (1930-2002)late 1930s Pair of Christmas cards, with cover designs by Mabel Lucie Attwell and Rene Cloke, dedicated by Princess Margaret to her governess "To Crawfie / from Margaret" and "To Crawfie / From Margaret, your very grateful pupil Margaret" (160x190mm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Margaret (1930-2002)1930s Two Christmas cards from Princess Margaret to her governess. One with a photograph of a Scottish Terrier "Margaret to Crawfie". The other with a printed coloured cover "A very very merry Xmas and New Year! /To Crawfie / From Margaret" (sellotape along the interior fold, not affecting the handwriting) (125x100mm) (2)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth (1926-2022) & Princess Margaret (1930-2002)c1946 Christmas card with the initials "E" and "M" on the cover, inscribed in the hand of Princess Elizabeth "To Crawfie / from Elizabeth & Margaret", signed, opposite a photograph of both with Princess Margaret holding a favourite Corgi (150x130mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionDuke and Duchess of York1935 Christmas card with a photograph of The Royal Lodge opposite seasonal greetings signed "Elizabeth" "Albert", dated for the coming year 1936 in the hand of the Duke of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. A few blemishes on the cover, slight splitting along the lower fold (155x195mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1936 Christmas card with a studio photograph by Marcus Adams of the Royal Family signed below "George R.I." "Elizabeth R". The first of the reign following the abdication of King Edward VIII in December 1936. The printed message opposite reads "With all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year, 1937". An iconic and important item, with the original blue tassel securing the card (170x130mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1941 Christmas card with a photograph of the Royal Family outside Crathie Church in August 1941, dedicated in the hand of Queen Elizabeth "To Miss Crawford", governess to the Princesses, and signed "George R.I" "Elizabeth R" by the King and Queen. The only card from Their Majesties personalised (160x160mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1944 Christmas card with a photograph of the Royal Family, the King in uniform, signed opposite "George R.I. " Elizabeth R" by the King and Queen, who has written "from" in her hand (175x145mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1945 Christmas card with the iconic photograph of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace captioned "V.E.- DAY Tuesday May 8th 1945." Alongside are the signatures of the King and Queen "George R.I." "Elizabeth R" and the Queen has written "from" in her hand (175x150mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1946 Christmas card with a photograph of the Royal Family around the piano, Princess Margaret at the keyboard, signed "George R.I." "Elizabeth R", and dated in the hand of the King (175x150mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1947 Christmas card with a photograph of the Royal Family aboard HMS Vanguard sailing out of Cape Town harbour, with Table Mountain as a backdrop, following their tour of Southern Africa. Signed "George R." "Elizabeth R" and dated in the King's hand. One of the only cards sent by the Royal Family photographed from the back (175x150mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionKing George VI & Queen Elizabeth1948 Christmas card with a photograph of the King and Queen in an open carriage on their Silver Wedding after a service at St. Paul's Cathedral. Signed "George R." "Elizabeth R" and dated in the hand of the King (150x175mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth & Prince Philip1948 Christmas card with a reproduction of Hearne's painting of "Edinburgh From Arthur's Seat", inscribed and signed "to you both from Elizabeth & Philip / Xmas 1948" as Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh (200x160mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionPrincess Elizabeth & Prince Philip1949 Christmas card with a coloured photograph of Clarence House, signed "Elizabeth & Philip" as Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh (210x175mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMarion Crawford CollectionQueen Mary (1867-1953)1949-50 Christmas card signed "from Mary R." and dated in her hand, with some spotting to the cover (160x220mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainIrelandJustin McCarthy (1859-1936) Author and Politician1901-1903 Ten typed letters signed to Howard A. Kennedy regarding McCarthy's book "The Story of Ireland". He suggests chapter titles and writes in detail about his approach to Cromwell and the action in Drogheda and Wexford. With two further typed letters (1932/3) to a Mrs Barrett regarding meeting the Canadian Author's Association on their visit to London (12)Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Great BritainPrime Ministers1902-1970 Collection of signatures and cards signed by Prime Ministers Balfour, Asquith, Lloyd George, Baldwin, Macmillan (signed reproduction of a portrait painting), Douglas-Home, Heath and Wilson, (8)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainHoratio Herbert Kitchener1902 (12 April) ALS on Belgrave Square headed letter paper to Sir Archibald Hunter reading "The King has alas stopped my going to Buchanan ... [though I will] look you up and have a chat before I am off to India". Signed "Kitchener". Some traces of previous mounting otherwise fine and scarce.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainMilitary1906 Manuscript draft document titled "A Scheme for the Organisation of the British Army upon Japanese Lines", 21 pages signed by Lieutenant Colonel W.H. Birkbeck (1863-1929), together with an Appendix, a typescript and an autograph letter on Inspector General of the Forces notepaper from Robert Baden Powell to Birkbeck writing "I am fully in agreement with your principle though some of the detail may still be open to discussion" and adding his comments regarding various proposals.In 1905 Birkbeck was attached to the Japanese Army in Manchuria for a year, resulting in thi...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1654 (29 March) Parliamentary Council of State document ordering Thomas Fauconberg ("Receiver General of the Public Revenue") to pay Thomas Smithsby the sum of "Threescore and ten pounds, thirteene shillings and two pence" for "emptions [purchases] and disbursements about the House & Gardens at Hampton Court"; signed by Henry Lawrence, Edward Montagu, Philip Lisle, Anthony Ashley Copper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Philip Jones, Francis Rous and John Rushworth with signed receipt on reverse. Document with wafer seal intact, a few a...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsAdam Baynes1659 (11 June) military commission on vellum appointing Adam Baynes as Captain of a Troop of Horses in the Regiment of Major General John Lambert; "Signed in the Name of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England", "Wm [William] Lenthall, Speaker". A scarce signature.Offered together with 1660 (8 June) related document issued in his Majesty's court in Breda pardoning the same Adam Bayness on behalf of the newly formed Rump Parliament. Signed by Adam Baynes and "Har: [Harbottle] Grimston, Speaker of the House of...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsGeorge Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle1662-68, three letters or documents signed; 1662 with integral address panel "For the right ho[nora]ble Andrew Lord Retorfort Governor of Dunkirke" regarding a commission for two Irish Regiments to go for Tangier and to go with Sir Robert Harley's regiment; 1667 given at Whitehall to Lord Ashley regarding payment of goods received at Hull, also signed by Anglesey and Lauderdale (these two documents both 'silked') and 1668 letter also regarding payment (filing tear just clear of signature). A...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSir George Carteret1662 (August) order for £4,066, 13/4d. for "wages ... for 8000 men at Sea eight months and also for the wear & tear of the Shipps", signed "G: Carteret"; document with some paper loss and repairs though text and signature in tact and perfectly legible. A very rare signature.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1665 (25 April) document appointing William Crossboard as Boatwswain of H.M.S. "Little Unicorne" detailing wages and duties, signed "Jo: Mennes", "Will Batten", "Brouncker" and "S Pepys", given at Woolwich; some paper loss along left-hand edge where removed from folio otherwise very fine and a superb example of this signature.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1666 (21 Feb.) document headed "My Sord", with complete address panel to Dudley North, Baron North demanding poll tax of £20.1s for himself, and 1s for his wife under the act of "raiseing Moneyes by a Poll & otherwise towards ye mainteynance of ye presente Warr" to be paid to John Clutterbuck. Signed by Edward Montagu, Charles Howard, John Egerton, John Belasyse, Richard Sterne, Arthur Annesley, Francis Newport and Charles Gerard. A wonderful selection of signatures.Notes: The 1666 Poll issued by Charles II raised funds for...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1667 (June) Navy Office order to pay £343 1/8d. to Garvis Maplesden for an itemised quantity of supplies delivered the previous month to naval stores in Chatham. Signed "Brouncker", "Jo: Mennes", "Will: Batten", "Will: Penn" and "S Pepys", with filing endorsement on reverse. Wonderfully preserved and a superb example of this rare signature.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1668 (5 Feb.) Navy Office document endorsed at foot "Stores Purvy & Checke at Chatham" requesting details on payment for bills raised in November of the previous year for supplies delivered to the stores at Chatham. Signed "Your Very Loving Friends" "Brouncker", "Jo: Memmes", "J: Tippetts" and "S Pepys". Some foxing otherwise fine and a good example.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1669 (3 Feb.) Navy Office warrant "To ye Clerks of ye Cheque & Stores of his Majesy's Yard at Chatcham" requesting "out of his Majesty's Stores under your charge such provisions as shall from time to time be demanded by the Masters Attendant or Master Shippwright and Clerk of ye Survey for fitting his Majesty's shipp ye Orange for ye Streights as a ffireshipp". Signed "Bruncker", "Jo Mennes" and "S Pepys". Some foxing though a fine example.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please vie...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1669 (13 Feb.) Navy Office warrant to "The Clerk of ye Cheque of his Majesty's yard at Chatham" requiring "You to enter upon his Majesy's shipp the Orange fireship soe soone as you shall understand from the Masters Attendant her readiness for it such seamen as shall from time to time be sent to you by ourselves or her Comander untill the number at present belonging to her be compleated ffourty, which is the complement allowed her for this present voyage." Signed "Jo: Mennes", "T. Middleton" and "S Pepys". Fin...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsKing Charles II1669 (19 Aug.) warrant issued at Whitehall to the Duke of Albemarle, Anthony Ashley, Thomas Clifford, Sir William Coudntree(?), Sir John Duncombe to pay £3,957 8/3d. to the "Severall Officers of the ... Companies of our Regiment of Foot Guards ... under the Command of the Lord Wansworth ... & unto William Sanders" detailing amounts to be paid to "Capt. Thomas Stradling", "Capt. Barker", "Capt. John Walter", "Major John Cary", "Coll Mathew Wise", "Philip Paramord", "Capt. Ralph Sudenham", "Anthony Thorold", "Cap...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1673-74, two ledgers detailing allowances and salaries to John Pepys, Sam Pepys and Thomas Hayter as Clerks of the acts, both with filing endorsements on the reverse. A fascination duo.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsJohn Pepys1673 (23 March) Navy Office letter with address panel made out to Captain Richard Brereton "Cleark of the Cheque of his Majesty's Yard at Woolich" requesting "Muster Books of those shipps [Yarmought and Leopard] tomorrow that His Magesty may not loose the benefit of them at ye pay". Signed "Your very loveing friends Brunkcer, J. Ernle, J. Tippetts, T. Hayter & J. Pepys". Small ink stain at lower right otherwise fine and a rare signature.Notes: John Pepys, Samuel Pepys' brother succeeded him as joint Clerk of the Ac...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1673 (23 December) document signed by Sir Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of Danby (after Viscount Latimer), James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Henry Coventry, Sir John Duncombe and Sir Robert Southwell, addressed to the Sub-Commissioners of Prizes at Portsmouth reading "Whereas it appeares unto us by Decree of the High Court of Admiralty ... that the Shipp Endracht, Hance Johnson master, with her apparell and furniture and all the singular the Goods, wares and merchandises in her, were tryed and discharged as appertaining unto Herm...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned Charles II and Samuel Pepys1674 (7 August) naval warrant to "The Principall Officers and Com[res] of our navy", signed "Charles R" at head assigning John Perry as "Major Cooke" on "Our Ship the Revenge", "together with such allowances of wages and victualls for himselfe and servant as is proper and usual.". Countersigned "By His Ma[ts] Command, S Pepys". Foxed and laid on card though a superb combination of signaturesSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyer...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsBacon's Rebellion, Virginia1677 letter signed by Sir John Fredereck swearing service of the ship "Rebecca" as a man of war from the 23 August 1676 to 13 February 1677, detailing crew, arms and provisions: "That there was by this shipps Company & Soldrs expended the time she was in his Mas service four barrells of Powder with shott proporionable. That the shipp's small armes were commanded ashore by the Governor and left in Virginia with the Soldgers, which we Six Musquetts, Six Swords & Two Postoles. Thomas Larremar, Edward A...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned "S Pepys"1677 (24 Jan.) letter signed from Derby Housed to "Doctor Hews at Albrough [Aldeburgh]" regarding Mr. Wyndham whose petition to the King has found favour, requesting that Dr. Hews "enable mee to give his Majty and my Lords of ye Admiralty a free state of the matter of Fact, touching the Wrack mentioned therein". Signed "S Pepys". Foxed, with some paper loss at left and hinged along same edge to card. Superb.Notes: "Mr. Wyndham" is perhaps Colonel Edmund Wyndham, husband of Christabella Wyndham, governess to t...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsFranco-Dutch WarSigned "S Pepys"1679 (24 Jan.) letter signed regarding preparations for naval operations in Flanders and France reading "The Sooner the Dunkirke be dispatched to Portsmath the better, his Ma[jes]tie being grately desirous of increasing the Squadron there, as you will find more fully soe soone as the fetching over of the Force from Flanders will allow ye sending of them thither ... hastening over all the Ships and vessells you can, and Even the Oxford & Dover to Capt. Wetwang who otherwise I feare will be in gr...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsKing James II1684/5 (8 Jan.) letter signed at Whitehall with integral address panel "For the Duke of Ormond" reading "Being informed that advantage may be taken of ye absence of Charles Playdell my Sollicitor at Law in Ireland, in a certaine Tryall to be had there next Terme on ye case herewith sent you, and his attendance here at this time being very necessary to my service, I desire that if it appeare he may in Law be discharged yt. you will Recomend him to the Just favour of the Judged of the Kings Bench where the Tryall i...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1686 (May-Sept.), a series of five documents issued "By the Principall Officers & Commissioners for Manageing the affaires of his Majesty's Navy" to "the Storekeeper & Clerk of the Ropeyard at Woolwich" ordering supplies: "Old Rope of 3. 4 & 5 inches", "Hempe, tarr ... thirty gallons", "Norway Masts & Sparrs", "Iron Thowles". Signatories include "A. Deane", "Jno Berry", "Jo Godwin", "Wm. Hewer", "B. St. Michel", "Will. Booth", "John Narborough". A fine and a fascinating group.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more i...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsSigned James II and Samuel Pepys1688 (24 May) military commission on vellum appointing Thomas Lagg second lieutenant of the "Mary"; signed at top by King James II as "King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.", countersigned "S Pepys". Some typical foxing otherwise fine and a superb combination.Notes: Pepys signs here as secretary of the Admiralty towards the end of his career, he would be forced out in the following year after the Revolution.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more infor...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsPrince RupertUndated (23 April) letter signed "Rupert" to Captain Sir John Kempthorne instructing him to receive on board and make a cabin available to David Whitford "who is to serve me in this present expedition in ye Quality of my Chaplaine". Fine and rare.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1655-97, a group of naval documents (8) including 1655 from Richard Creed regarding conduct of officers (ex Alfred Morrison Collection); 1664 document signed by Thomas Townsend regarding expenses; 1667 Navy Office document signed Brouncker and Middleton; 1669 order to Chatham signed Brouncker, Mennes, Middleton and Tippett; 1686 Navy Office document regarding an order for "Straight and Compass oak timber greatly wanted there for the Kent and Albemarle" signed Deane, Narborough, Berry and Godwin"; 1697 Navy Board receipt signe...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsA small selection of letters signed and autograph letters signed including 1662 letter signed by Edward Montagu to "Sir Edward Griffin in his Majesties Chambers" regarding payments to the landlords of properties in which the Royal Harbingers are lodging; 1666 ALS with integral address panel from Thomas Wriothesley to the Commissioners of the County of Sussex regarding payment of taxes; 1675 ALS from William Coventry to Sir Robert Clayton, 1688 ALS from 2nd Earl, Lord Peterborough, undated ALS from 2nd Earl Nottingham, piece w...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related Documents1650-1701, a collection of financial documents and warrants including 1650 warrant from Sir Henry Vane to Thomas Fauconberg; 1664, two ALS from Sir Robert Long to "Mr. Burges" giving instructions for payments to Sir Phillip Warwick, both with address panels; 1671 and 1676 signed receipts (cut) "Arlington" and "Howard" with "Ashely" on reverse; 1675 payment order signed "Danby"; 1675 itemised bill drawn up by John Pelling (apothecary to Pepys), issued to Mr. Southwell; 1677 warrant signed Brouncker; Warrant signed Robert Vyner...
The Robin Gain Collection of Samuel Pepys and Pepys Related DocumentsShorthand"Zeiglographia. or A New art of Short-writing never before published. More easie, exact, short and speedie then any here tofore. Inverted and composed by Thomas Shelton Author and teacher of ye said art Allowed by Authoritie", "London Printed by S.S. Next door to the Golden Lion in Aldersgate Streete 1672", bound together with "Tachygraohy. The Most Exact and Compendious Method of Short and Swizt Writing, that hath ever yet been Published by any." by the same author, 1674; also 1853 (15 Feb.) ALS from Lord Baybrooke...
Trinidad
TrinidadNaval1846 Red silk ensign with an embroidered inscription "Presented to Captain Sturdee and the Officers of the City of Glasgow by the Ladies of Trinidad, January 1846". The steamship "City of Glasgow" sailed from Liverpool on 1 March 1854, heading for Philadelphia but was never seen again, lost with 480 passengers and crew aboard. An evocative souvenir from an earlier voyage (690x360mm, some wear but in good condition)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Turkey
Turkey / GBPostal History1872 Post Office Notice regarding "Mails for Constantinople via Austria", announcing the commencement of the Winter Service via "Czernowitz, Roman and Bucharest every Saturday evening" and "Via Trieste, every Tuesday morning" (380x420mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
United States of America
(x) United States of AmericaWhaling1827 Insurance policy (part printed, part manuscript) for the whaling sloop "INDIA" for an expedition to the Pacific. The value of the ship and stores were insured for $7500, the premium paid was $562.50 (7.5%). Under the command of Captain Isaac X. Maxfield, the ship sailed from New Bedford on 21 December 1827 and returned without incident on 17 July 1830, with 2561 barrells of sperm whale in her hold.The policy, issued by the New England Marine Insurance Company, is postally used from Boston to William Rotch and Co, Nantucket and New Bedford whalers (220x2...
United States of AmericaSlavery1851-1856 Three receipts regarding slaves as part of an estate and the sale of a bed, division of property and a receipt for $25 for board and clothing for a boy; with a bill issued at Camden, Wilcox County, State of Alabama, for the hire of a slave girl for $36 signed in the presence of the County Sheriff (4)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
United States of AmericaThe Mouse Trap1899 Autograph letter written by William Dean Howells, playwright, (1837-1920), from New York to Miss (Nona) Stewart, authorising her to put on his play 'The Mouse Trap' for charity, asking she apply for permission from his Edinburgh publishers. His farce never quite achieved the popularity of Agatha Christie's book and play of the same name. Two pages, mounting on the reverse.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
United States of AmericaRoosevelt Familyc1900 Gilt metal printers block (?) with the arms in reverse of the Roosevelt Family, their surname at the base and their family motto "Qui Plantavit Curabit" - "He who has Planted will Preserve" above. In Dutch, Roosevelt translates as "Field of Roses". The coat of arms represents a rose bush in a green field (75x60mm)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) United States of AmericaAlbert Einstein (1879-1955)1954 Typed letter addressed to Dr Albert Einstein at Princeton University, written by a Canadian student in Montreal, asking about Einstein's "failure in your first attempt to enter the Polytechnic Institute in Switzerland" and enquiring as to the reasons why. A pencil notation at the foot of the letter initialled "E." in Einstein's handwriting provides the answer "I was trying this entrance examination without any preparation in the special fields required." With the original mailing envelope from Princeton to the writer, with a typed ad...
United States of AmericaErnest Hemingway (1899-1961)1959 Four privately taken photographs of Hemingway at Pamplona with English visitors Olive and Doreen Mills, and a further two showing Antonio Ordenoz, the famous Spanish bullfighter, both inscribed and dated at Pamplona on the reverse "Ernesto Hemingway"", with an inscribed signed photograph of Ordenoz. A rare form of Hemingway's signature (5)Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) United States of AmericaOrson Welles (1915-1985)1963 Commemorative edition of The Mercury Theatre's radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells science fiction classic "War of the Worlds". Welles commissioned a private edition of twenty six copies of the script / radio play, each numbered and signed by him and one or more members of the cast or production. This being number Y of the edition, further signed by assistant producer Joseph Cotton, and the author of the original radio play, Howard Koch. Their signatures are repeated on the final page, with the signature of Koch's co-writer, Ann Froelick....
United States of AmericaWoody Allen (b1935)1971 Typed letter signed "Woody Allen" by the acclaimed filmmaker, actor and comedian, on his personal, notepaper, referring to an article for Playboy and "a copy of the Jock piece, which I will enclose if we can find it". He refers to his movie "BANANAS" released later that year, and encloses "a copy of my play 'PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM'", released as a comedy film in 1972.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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