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KRUGER, (Paul) Stephanus Johannes Paulus.
Printed document signed, granting land in the town of Volksrust to Gideon Jacobus Johannes...
Pretoria, April 1897 and 5 May 1897.
A printed document signed by Paul Kruger as president of South Africa.
£500
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JEROME, Jerome Klapka.
Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster Bovill.
Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.
A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome expresses his great admiration for the South African novelist and suffragist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920).
£500
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HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.
Autograph letter signed ‘Humboldt’, to an unnamed female recipient.
[Paris,] ‘Ce samedi’, [no month or year but not after 1827].
An excellent, intimate and unpublished letter in which Humboldt excuses himself for his reclusiveness, explaining that he had been tormented by pleurisy all winter.
£2500
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HARRIS, James, later first Earl of Malmesbury.
A small group of documents.
[1779–1785].
Harris (1746–1820) was ‘the leading British diplomatist of the final quarter of the eighteenth century’, noted for his skills as a linguist, and his popularity and easy social skills.
£325
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HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.
Autograph musical quotation, signed.
Paris, 15 May 1846.
Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed musical promise at an early age and entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1810, becoming a pupil of Cherubini for composition the following year. In 1827 he became professor of harmony and accompaniment there, in 1833 of counterpoint and fugue, and in 1840 of composition....
£750
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EHRLICH, Paul.
Autograph letter, signed, addressed to ‘herr hospitalmeister’.
[Frankfurt,] ‘Westendstrasse 62’, [no date].
A brief note by the bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), pioneer of haematology and discoverer of salvarsan, to a local hospital director, regarding notes on the bulletin board.
£750
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DUMAS, Alexandre.
Autograph letter, signed.
[Paris, not before 1859.]
A short note by the novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) sending a theatre ticket and arranging to meet the unknown recipient at the Comédie-française (‘theatre francais’) at midday the following day. He says that he will do whatever he can to obtain a small box at the Théâtre...
£750
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DISRAELI, Benjamin.
Autograph envelope signed.
[Probably London, c. 1874–1880.]
An envelope probably dating from Disraeli’s second premiership (1874–1880). Lady Emily Peel (1836–1924) was the seventh daughter of the eighth marquess of Tweeddale. Lady Emily Hay, as she then was, married the politician Sir Robert Peel, third baronet, on 13 January 1856, but she left her husband...
£100
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DAVY, Sir Humphry.
Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, discussing the unrolling of papyri...
‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.
An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses his examination of papyri entrusted to him in Paris by Sir Charles Stuart, then British Ambassador to France.
£750
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CROOKES, William, Sir.
Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.
London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.
The scientist Sir William Crookes writes to congratulate the archaeologist and geologist John Evans on his imminent knighthood: ‘I must take this opportunity – the last perhaps in which I can call you “Mr” – to offer you my sincere congratulations on the honour which I see is to be conferred...
£250
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MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, Duke of.
Document, signed ‘Marlborough’, appointing a gunner at the Canadian settlement...
[London,] Office of Ordnance, 24 December 1714.
A commission appointing the intended recipient (never filled in) ‘to be one of the Gunners belonging to his Ma.ties Guarrison of Annapolis Royall, you are therefore Carefully and Diligently to Discharge the Duty of a Gunner in the said service by doing performing all manner of things thereunto belonging...
£950
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CHERUBINI, Luigi.
Autograph note signed ‘L. Cherubini’ regarding the cellist Auguste Franchomme.
[Paris,] 19 December 1825.
A short note in which the composer and director of the Conservatoire de Paris Luigi Cherubini records that ‘Mr. Franchomme’ has been admitted into the class of ‘Mr. Seuriot’ and that he will begin there on 22 December 1825.
£350
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BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias von.
Autograph letter unsigned to the publishers Longman & Co.
[London,] Carlton Terrace, 12 February 1845.
‘Chev[alie]r Bunsen presents his compliments to Messrs. Longman & Co. and begs to state in answer to their note of this day, that he has written the answer under the enclosed paper from Paris.’
£150
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BOWMAN, William, Sir.
Autograph letter, signed, to ‘Mr Cooke’.
[London?,] 18 January 1870.
Bowman writes to ‘Mr Cooke’ to postpone a visit, having heard from ‘Mr Webb’ that he is to give evidence at a trial. ‘Mr Webb proposes Thursday week the 27th on which day we could be with you at the hour previously arranged for, supposing the day quite suits you.’
£200
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BONAPARTE, Jerôme-Napoléon.
Letter signed as governor of Les Invalides to the members of the Conseil d’administration de la...
Paris, Hôtel des Invalides, 16 February 1849.
Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (1784–1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I, King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1813. He became governor of Les Invalides when his nephew Prince Louis Napoleon became president of the second French Republic in 1848.
£300
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BELL, Charles, Sir.
Letter signed to ‘the Treasurer of the Committee for Mr Macleay’s Portrait’.
Soho Square, London, 18 March [probably 1824 or 1825].
The neurophysiologist Sir Charles Bell (1774–1842) ‘begs the Committee will put his name down as a subscriber for the Portrait of Alexander Macleay Esq.’. The portrait in question is doubtless the one painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence in 1825 and now in the Linnean Society.
£375
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BEAUMONT, Gustave-Auguste de la Bonninière de.
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustave de Beaumont’) to Sarah Austin.
Birmingham, 27 June [1835].
A warm and personal autograph documenting the relationship between Beaumont (1802–1866), prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville, and one of the most accomplished contemporary catalysts of philosophical exchange, the translator Sarah Austin.
£350
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BALFOUR, Arthur James, first Earl of Balfour.
Letter, signed, to ‘Sir John’.
London, 10 Downing Street, 28 June 1901.
A letter from Arthur Balfour, as first lord of the Treasury, concerning what would become perhaps his greatest achievement, the Education Act of 1902.
£300
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LISTER, Joseph.
Three autograph letters, signed, to Sir John Evans.
London, 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, 19 April 1896 and 18 February 1898, and Bath, York House Hotel, 20 November 1898.
Three letters by the great surgeon Joseph Lister to the archaeologist and geologist Sir John Evans (1823–1908), who was treasurer of the Royal Society during Lister’s presidency.
£750
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PIUS II (Nicolaus von WYLE, editor).
Epistolae familiares.
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July 1486.
Second Koberger edition of the Epistolae familiares of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (1405–1464), the great Renaissance humanist who became Pope Pius II in 1458, a handsome copy enhanced with manuscript additions comprising epistolary models, a German-Latin wordlist, and medical recipes.
£7500