Autograph Letter Signed John Percy, to E.W.Cooke R.A., responding to an invitation, explaining “I have a volume on hand which I must get published as soon as possible”
PERCY, John. House of Commons, 20 October 1873. "I have brought for you a waterproof cloak which you left. I hoped to have brought also a specimen of Asperium Septentrionale." John Percy (18171889), metallurgist. In 1848 he contributed a paper to the Chemist on a mode of extracting silver from its ores (depending on the solubility of the chloride in sodium thiosulphate), which led to the Von Patera process, used at Joachimsthal, and the Russell process, employed in the western states of America. Percy made the first serious attempt at a survey of iron ore deposits in Britain. They were included in the volume Iron and Steel (1864), part of his great Treatise on Metallurgy, of which the first volume was published in 1861.- $58
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A series of 11 Autograph Letter Signed, to J.Grove Palmer, about the latters submissions to Punch which Shepperson might illustrate, including some rejection letters, sending fees, suggesting subjects.
SHEPPERSON, Claude Allin. !8 Kensington Court Place, 1909-1912. Claude Allin Shepperson (1867 1921), British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing mainly in social scenes and landscapes. Shepperson was not only a painter, a book and magazine illustrator, a cartoonist for Punch, but also a commercial artist, producing images for advertisements.- $58
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Autograph Letter Signed, to the radical politician J.T. Rutt (father-in-law of Serjeant Thomas Noon Talfourd, the judge, playwright and dedicatee of Pickwick), discussing the local parcels delivery company, suggesting Rutt uses a Fleet Street address instead.
AINSWORTH, Harrison. Kensal Lodge, Harrow Road, 15 February 1841. Harrison Ainsworth (1805-82), novelist.- $154
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Original dated inscription and signature: Nil mortalibus arduum est [Nothing is impossible for mankind], Edward Kater.
KATER, Edward. 7 april 1862. Rare. Edward Kater (1816-1866), photographer. He joined the Calotype Club in the 1840s, becoming a vice president of the Photographic Society when it was formed. In 1852 Katers "Proof of the Value of Photography to the Archaeologist" appeared in Notes and Queries.- $193
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Warrant Signed Edward R & I at head, to the Governor of Our Prison at Wandsworth, remitting the remainder of the sentence passed on Ralph Wilfred Croxon, convicted in March 1909 of “housebreaking and larceny and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment”. Countersigned by Herbert Gladstone as Home Secretary.
EDWARD VII. Our Court at St. Jamess, 3 August 1909. A fine Royal Pardon, signed by King Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910).- $482
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Autograph Letter in the third person, to Simon Fraser, Kings Arms Yard, making arrangements for “some conversation”.
PULTENEY, Sir William. Bath House [Piccadilly], 10 September 1782. Sir William Pulteney [formerly Johnstone], fifth baronet (17291805), politician and property developer (Great Pulteney Street). Pulteney's American interests appear to have stemmed from the appointment of his brother George Johnstone as governor of West Florida in 1763 and existing Johnstone family interests in the West Indies. On the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1776 he and his brother George, by then also an MP, became involved in attempts at reconciliation.- $58
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A series of four Autograph Letters Signed by Robinson, to Geo: Harris at Rugby School, acknowledging Drafts of Twenty Pounds, being payments for his Exhibition to Trinity College Cambridge. Together with two certificates of residence at Trinity, also sent as letters, each signed by William Lort Mansel, Bishop of Bristol and Master of Trinity.
CAMBRIDGE. Thomas Robinson, Trinity College. Trinity College Cambridge, 1811-1815. Thomas Robinson (1790-1873), Master of the Temple, and Arabic scholar, was educated at Rugby and at Trinity, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1813 as thirteenth wrangler and second classical medallist. He went out to India as a missionary priest, and there he began the translation of the Old Testament into Persian. He was chaplain to Reginald Heber, and was present at Trichinopoly on 2 April 1826 when Heber was drowned. In 1837 Robinson was appointed lord almoners professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge.- $129
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Manuscript Warrant, signed by five members of the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports, addressed to the Commissioners of His Majestys Navy, appointing “the Royalist frigatt (late under Command of Captaine Coxe) to be employed as a Pacquett boat” between Liverpool and Carrickfergus, “or such other place, in Ireland, as she shall be appointed to, by the Commission for Ireland”, ordering that the ship be fitted and furnished as necessary for that service.
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. Admiralty Order for the Royalist Frigate to be Packet Boat, 1646. Westminster, 25 August 1646. Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC (1599-1680), statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642. Denis Bond (15881658), merchant and politician. John Rolle (1598-1648), Parliamentarian, Cornish M.P. Alexander Bence (born c.1590), merchant and politician; in 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of the Navy.- $1,094
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Autograph Letter Signed, to G.D.Tomlinson, explaining that Richardson has not taken a Pupil for four years, and can no longer make such arrangements.
RICHARDSON, Thomas Miles. 12 Porchester Terrace, Hyde Park, 16 November 1863. Thomas Miles Richardson Jr. (1813-1890), painter. He moved to London in 1846, having been elected as an associate of the old Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1843. He was elected a member in 1851. He made extensive tours of Highland scenes and views in the Swiss and Italian Alps were amongst his favourite subjects.- $58
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Autograph Testimonial Signed Lister, for Dr. W.Bullock, head of the Serum Department, suggesting that one of the Grocers Scholarships would be well bestowed on Bullock, who “is now engaged in a research which has already yielded important results and promises to be of high value”.
LISTER, Joseph. 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, 26 April 1900. Joseph Lister (1827-1912), surgeon, whose work introduced the antiseptic system into modern surgery, and who developed a commercial serum therapy against diptheria. The subject of Listers testimonial is Dr W. Bullock, head of the Serum Department at the British (Jenner, and later Lister) Institute of Preventive Medicine (founded by Lister and others), and subsequently Professor of Bacteriology at the London Hospital Medical School.- $354
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Original Christmas Card, inscribed to Lady Bute, signed Edward P, incorporating a photo of the Prince.
EDWARD VIII. 1922-1923. "To Lady Bute, Thank you so much for your card. Hope you are having good sport. From Edward P." King Edward VIII (reigned from 20 January 1936,abdicated, taking the title Duke of Windsor) (1894-1972). From the royal correspondence retained by the Marchioness of Bute at Cardiff Castle.- $579
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Autograph Letter Signed J.C.Horsley, to “My dear Maclise” about “the frame of my largest picture (entitled Rent day at Haddon Hall)”, its exact position in the exhibition, with his criticisms of the methods employed by the “hangers”.
HORSLEY, John Callcott. Willesey, Staplehurst, 10 April 1868. John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903), painter, treasurer of the Academy 1882-1897. He was a painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and the designer of the first Christmas card.- $58
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Autograph Letter Signed, to John Hamilton, about books, mentioning Glubbs book Course of Empire, and the lessons of history.
GLUBB PASHA. Mayfield, 16 September 1965. Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), known as Glubb Pasha and Abu Hunaik by the Jordanians, was a British soldier, scholar, and author, who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general. John Almeric de Courcy Hamilton (1896-1973), soldier and colonial officer.- $97
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Original Letter Signed as Bishop of Orleans, requesting from his correspondent, on behalf of the King, an exact copy of his letters of appointment to his priorship.
ORLEANS. Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère, Bishop. Versailles, 26 January 1763. Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère (1706-1788), Bishop of Orleans from 1757. "Well liked in court, he was appointed Minister of Profit Sheets and was responsible for distributing the revenues of the various abbeys, churches and their farmland from 1757 to 1771. During this period, 75 bishoprics and 337 abbeys are attributed, which alludes to the importance of this very coveted and lucrative position. The solicitors crowd around him. . Finding church life mundane, he frequented salons earning a good living. Jarente was the victim of numerous pamphlets accusing him of having had for his mistress Guimard". Thus, at the end of the 1770s, Mlle. Guimard, who was in need of money, had the idea - which may have been suggested to him - to open an "income bureau", offering to forward Jarente requests from clergy for salary increases, these claims with varying bribes depending on the size of the claim." Jarente was dismissed by Louis XVI in 1771, [Wikipedia entry]- $84
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Autograph Envelope, signed lower left with initials AE [Albert Edward], addressed to the Earl Russell K.G. at Chesham Place.
EDWARD VII. Undated. King Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910). The envelope is addressed to the 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), known as Lord John Russell, statesman, Prime Minister (1846-52, 1865-66).- $97
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Original Autograph Inscription from Horace, “sed tamen in pretio, signed and dated Thos. J.Pettigrew beneath an Egyptian hieroglyph.
PETTIGREW, Thomas Saville Row, 26 February 1844. Uncommon. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew FRS (1791 1865), sometimes known as "Mummy" Pettigrew, was a surgeon and antiquarian who became an expert on Ancient Egyptian mummies. He became well known in London social circles for his private parties in which he unrolled and autopsied mummies for the entertainment of his guests. The phrase "sed tamen in pretio" is in Latin. It translates to "but still valuable" or "yet of worth." It conveys the idea that something may have a cost or price, but it remains valuable or significant. In life, there are often things that hold intrinsic worth beyond their monetary value.- $257
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Autograph Letter Signed, to Edward Magrath, soliciting his vote for Burnett, making him aware of a cabal intent on hostility to Burnetts election
PRIOR, Sir James. Somerset House (Medical Department), 16 April 1833. Sir James Prior (c.17901869), Irish naval surgeon and writer. He entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon, and sailed from Plymouth in the frigate HMS Nisus on 22 June 1810. His ship was stationed at Mauritius from November 1810 to April 1811, when he had charge of the wounded; and, after visiting the Seychelles Islands, Madras, Mauritius, Java (at the reduction of which by the British in September 1811 he was present), and Batavia, returned to the Cape of Good Hope. His next expedition, also in the Nisus, was to Table Bay (February 1812), St. Helena (January 1813), Rio de Janeiro (October 1813), and Pernambuco (December 1813). By 1815 he was on the coast of La Vendée, and was present at the surrender of Napoleon on 15 July. His works included Voyage in the Indian Seas in the Nisus frigate during 1810 and 1811, published by Sir Richard Phillips in 1820, and included in the first volume of a collection of New Voyages and Travels, and Voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa (1819), included in the second volume of Phillips's Voyages. Prior's major works were biographies of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith. Edward Magrath (1799-1856), Secretary of the Athenaeum Club.- $84
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Autograph Letter Signed Palmerston, to Sir H.Seymour, referring to stories about Queen Isabella.
PALMERSTON, Lord. C.G. [Carlton Gardens], 20 March 1849. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), Prime Minister (1855-58, 1859-65). "The lady is amorous no doubt but I daresay her legs are not so black as they are described ." Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1797-1880) was minister plenipotentiary to Portugal (1847-1851), residing in Lisbon. It is likely that the clean tears along the edges are disinfection slits.- $97
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Autograph Letter Signed, forwarding the two drawings of the Royal Yacht for his correspondents approval.
SCHETKY, John Christian. Royal Naval College [dated 1819 in a later collectors hand]. John Christian Schetky (17781874), Scottish marine painter. Schetky studied art under Alexander Nasmyth. After travelling on the continent, he settled in Oxford, where he taught for six years as a drawing-master. In 1808 he obtained a post in the Royal Military College at Great Marlow; and three years later he was appointed professor of drawing in the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, where he had ample opportunities for the study of his favourite marine subjects. Following the abolition of the Naval College, he held a similar professorship from 1836 to 1855 at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey, where the cadets nicknamed him "Sepia Jack". A memoir by his daughter, entitled Ninety Years of Work and Play, was published in 1877.- $58
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An original Consular Commission, signed Elizabeth R upper right, appointing Ronald Luther Cook to be Consul in Tehran. Countersigned by Selwyn Lloyd.
ELIZABETH II. Given at Our Court at Saint Jamess, 31 January 1958. An early signature of Queen Elizabeth II on a document in pristine condition.- $611
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Autograph Letter Signed John Hobhouse, to Thomas Collins, about the return of a miniature portrait.
HOBHOUSE, John Cam. 44 Berkeley Square, 12 March 1846. John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), Radical statesman and friend of Byron, author of Journey through Albania with Lord Byron (1813). "I wish to repeat what I said in August that you would oblige me exceedingly by dropping all thoughts of the Memoir."- $58
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Autograph Letter Signed “With a thousand thanks, yours very sincerely, Elizabeth Lyon”, to Pandelli Ralli, thanking him for the beautiful fan with which “I am simply enchanted”.
ELIZABETH, Queen, the Queen Mother. St Pauls Walden Bury, Welwyn, 24 March 1923. Queen Elizabeth (1900-2002) was to marry Albert, Duke of York, on 26 April 1923.- $579
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Autograph Letter Signed, forwarding material about M.Jumen, latinist and hellenist, and recommending other named academics.
LANGLES, Louis-Mathieu. Paris, 20 February 1809. Louis-Mathieu Langlès (1763 1824), French philologist, linguist, translator, author, librarian and orientalist. He was the conservator of the oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Impériale. Langlès corresponded with William Jones in Calcutta; and he was responsible for including the history and bibliography of the early publications of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the third volume of the Magasin Encyclopédique. The 1811 edition of Jean Chardin's Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient), was edited by Langlès. His published works included Monuments anciens et modernes de lHindoustan; Alphabet Mantchou; and Instituts Politiques et Militaires de Tamerlan.- $58
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