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1864réf. BOOKS061937ILondon: William Tegg 1864. HC. good original green cloth hardcover light edgewear. B&W illustrations. Volume I 427pp; and Volume II 430pp. William Tegg unknown
réf. 0903162199.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 10492Without date or place. On piece of blotting-paper 14 x 13 cm; folded horizontally to make two rectangular leaves each 7 x 13 cm with the signature presented in the centre of the first leaf and with the back leaf laid down neatly on a piece of cream card 14.5 x 17 cm with caption at foot of card: 'ORIGINAL BLOTTING-PAPER IMPRESSION OF SIGNATURE OF EDWARD VII.' Being the result of blotting the impression is a mirror image of the original with the firm signature 6 cm long with a 7.5 cm underlining. On mottled paper with neat vertical fold on left-hand side crossing the underlining of the signature one centimeter from the left. Without date or place. unknown
réf. 10494Caption gives date as 14 December 1910. On piece of blotting-paper 13.5 cm square; folded horizontally to make a two rectangles with the signature centred on the front leaf and with the back leaf laid down neatly on a piece of cream card 15 x 18 cm with caption in ink at foot: 'ORIGINAL BLOTTING-PAPER IMPRESSION OF SIGNATURE OF GEORGE V DATED 14 . 12. 1910.' Being the result of blotting the impression is a mirror image of the original with the firm signature 4.5 cm long with 6.5 cm underlining. On aged paper with neat vertical fold line in centre crossing the underlining half a centimetre from the right. Caption gives date as 14 December 1910. unknown
1987réf. 224364London: Irish Information Partnership 1987. Two unpaginated hardcover volumes 8.25x11.5 inches very good. Includes descriptions of incidents involving security forces and many pages of statistical charts. Irish Information Partnership unknown
1790réf. 102182Uncolored engraved map center fold small plain title cartouche decent margins 8" x 9 1/2". Some aging foxing and soiling some minor tears in lower margin; otherwise about very good with a crisp impression. This is a very busy and detailed map of Ireland that shows the key regions and counties. The map appears to have been engraved by John Russell who did work for several prominent mapmakers during this period.
réf. 177679 Upper Fitzroy Street Fitzroy Square London . 18 May 1858. 1p. 16mo. In fair condition on aged paper laid down on damaged leaf from album. At head in another hand: 'for Saturday'. Reads: 'My dear Sir: I shd. feel greatly obliged if you could without inconvenience to yr interest give me a box any night this week to see King Lear.' At head is note in another hand see below: 'for Saturday'. From the collection of Macqueen-Pope who has written at the foot of the leaf on which the letter is mounted: 'To Chas Kean Princess's Theatre Note at top either by CK or Massingham the boxoffice manager.' 9 Upper Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square [ London ]. 18 May 1858. unknown
réf. 22698'Thursday' no date or place but written from London while performing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. 1p 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged with traces of grey-paper mount on blank reverse and minor discolouration at one edge from glue used. The actor Henry Leigh Murray 1820-1870 is identified in pencil as the recipient. The letter begins: 'My dear Sir You are quite welcome to a Private. Box if there is one to spare'. He asks him to 'call or send to Mr. Massingham at the Box Office at 1/2 past 4 o'clock who has received instructions to attend to your wishes if all the Boxes are not let by that time'. Massingham was for upwards of forty years from the 1790s to the 1830s the door keeper at Drury Lane. The letter is accompanied by a cutting of a magazine article by Henry J. Byron 'Charles Kean and the Utility Gentleman. A Reminiscence'. 'Thursday' [no date or place, but written from London, while performing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]. unknown
réf. 17676Date and place not stated. On rectangle of laid paper roughly 4 x 7 cm. In good condition lightly-aged paper with one vertical fold. Good firm signatures wih Rochester's above Ernle's. Writing on reverse relates to Sir Thomas Vernon and the payment of an order. Date and place not stated. unknown
réf. 21987Chelsea Royal Hospital Chelsea. 16 January 1863. 2pp 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged with strip of paper from mount adhering at foot of reverse. The recipient's name is not decipherable but he appears to have been a royal equerry. Blakeney hopes that he 'got safe home last night' and thanks him 'for giving me the pleasure of your Company'. He is enclosing a letter from Sir John Wilson 1780-1856 'who is forwarding an application from Mr Ferrier the Quarter Master of this Establishment in favour of an application to obtain admission into the Cambridge '. He asks if he 'might take an opportunity of showing it to His Royal Highness'. He ends by describing Ferrier as 'an excellent man' who 'can be fully depended upon in the opinion he has given'. Chelsea [Royal Hospital, Chelsea]. 16 January 1863. unknown
réf. 17603'Wimpole near Arrington' Cambridgeshire . 17 January 1810. 3pp. 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition on lightly-aged paper with small stain at head of first page. Docketed on reverse of second leaf. The letter concerns Hardwicke's direction that Harry Court Amiel son of 'Captain Amiel Hounslow Barracks Hounslow' be nominated 'for a Cavalry Cadetship in Bengal'. Amiel has been 'a Cornet in the 7th Regt of Dragoons or Hussars as they are called' for a year and 'bears a very good character from his Commanding Officer'. He asks McLeay to 'take the proper means for procuring from one of the Gentlemen who is indebted to me a nomination' asking that 'the other Cadetship . stand over to the next Season'. 'Wimpole near Arrington' [ Cambridgeshire ]. 17 January 1810. unknown
réf. 21280Without place or date. On 4 x 5.5 cm piece of paper. In good condition laid down on square of paper cut from leaf removed from album. An uncommon signature and an unusual one consisting of a single line in a series of up and down strokes diminishing in height tapering off to the right before returning for the underlining. Without place or date. unknown
réf. 21436'Given at the Court at Kensington this 23d. Day of June 1732. In the Sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign.'. The Oxford DNB explains the context of the document: 'During his four absences in Hanover in 1729 1732 1735 and 1736–7 George II left her as regent entrusted with “all domestic matters”. Foreign affairs were dealt with by the king and the secretaries of state one of whom accompanied him to Germany but other affairs were left “entirely to the Queen with the advice of the Lords of the Council”'. 2pp foolscap 8vo. On bifolium the verso of the second leaf of which is endorsed: 'Warrant for placing upon Half Pay Captain Stanhope Yarborough'. In good condition lightly aged and worn with short closed cut at head of first leaf and thin strip of paper from mount adhering at edge of second leaf and four crease lines from the folding of the document into a packet. The thirty-nine lines of the document's text are in a secretarial hand with the queen's signature 'Carolina R. C. R.' written boldly beneath the heading: 'By Her Majesty the Queen Guardian of the Kingdom &c.' The warrant instructs the Paymaster General Henry Pelham to place 'Captain Stanhope Yarborough and Captain Claude de Lavabre Two Reduc'd Officers of the Irish Establishment' on half pay of five shillings a day each 'which is the amount of the Half Pay of a Lieutent. Colonel of Dragoons' it having been 'humbly represented unto Us' that the half pay of 'Brigadier General John Moyle the Reduced Lieutenant Colonel of Brigadier General Newton's late Regiment of Dragoons' is 'equal to that of Two Reduced Captains of Foot'. From the distinguished autograph collection of Richard Hunter son of Ida Macalpine whose collection of 7000 books relating to psychiatry is in Cambridge University Library. Macalpine and Hunter had a particular interest in the illness of King George III and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' 1969 suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. 'Given at the Court at Kensington this 23d. Day of June 1732. In the Sixth Year of His Majesty's Reign.' unknown
réf. 20825No date printed address in Irish. One page 4to edges sl chipped. mainly good condition complete. He follows his best wishes see above with information about the formal political positions he has occupied from President giving dates of inauguration and retirement ; place of birth Wellington St Dublin; when elected to the Dublin Council and Parliament; when Minister for Local Government; and for Finance; when Deputy Prime Minister; current residence at Roundwood Park. Overleaf his name and title President in another hand. From a collection of letters addressed to an autograph hunter David Dean who asked at least one other "victim" for details of his career an Admiral. See image on website. No date, printed address in Irish. unknown
réf. 19831'Itchen Stoke'. 15 August 1840. 4pp. 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged with closed tears along the fold between the two leaves of the bifolium. Trench's publishers were 'John W. Parker & Son West Strand'. The letter begins: 'I heartily wish that I could go to the press at once with the 3rd. Edition of the Parables. 'Notes on the Parables of Our Lord' first published in 1841 I have been however working hard at them & they are nearly ready. Before however they are quite ready I shall be so close upon my last Hulsean Lectures which as yet are for the most part unwritten that I shall be obliged to defer actual printing till those are prepared as they will claim all my time - & instead of being ready for publication at the end of October all that I can expect is to be about that time going to the press'. He continues with reference to 'the Cambridge Lectures & the Kings College appointment' and 'The Miracles' 'Notes on the Miracles' which would appear in 1846. He expresses sadness at the news of the recipient's father's ill health with reference to 'Mr. Donne' and a 'school Roman History'. He ends: 'I think Mr. Parker is missing something in not availing himself at once of the offer of one who is so immeasurably superior to those who commonly propose themselves to do bookseller's work.' In a postscript he proposes to 'call at the West Strand' during the next week. 'Itchen Stoke'. 15 August 1840. unknown
réf. 19089Her Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer London. 20 December 1714. On 15 x 12 cm. piece of paper cut from a printed document completed in manuscript. In fair condition on aged and worn paper laid down on square of plain paper. Payment of an annuity 'for carrying on the War and other Her Majesty's Occasions'. Her Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, London. 20 December 1714. unknown