ROBERTSON
(Sir William Robert, 1860-1933, Field Marshal, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the First World War)
Fine photograph by S. Langfier, signed and inscribed in white ink
"Yours very sincerely," and dated, showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 8" x 6" in mount 10½" x 8½", no place, 22nd September
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
38569
£275
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ROBERTSON
(Sir William Robert, 1860-1933, Field Marshal, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the First World War)
Fine signature with his rank 'General' and the date
on a piece of headed notepaper, 1 side 8vo., 50 Pall Mall, 24th May
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
41329
£75
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[ROBINSON
(William Leefe, 1895-1918, V.C., Airman)]
Unsigned Portrait Postcard Photograph, by the Daily Mirror,
showing him half length, full face with a wonderful smile, in Royal Flying Corps uniform, printed title below "the intrepid airman who, on 3rd Sept. 1916, attacked an enemy Zeppelin (L.21) in mid-air, bringing it down to the earth in flames", published by J. Beagles & Co., London, 5½" x 3½", no place, no date, circa
trifling crease across blank bottom right corner
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
54889
£150
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ROCHAMBEAU
(Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, 1725-1809, French Marshal, Comte, General in the American Revolution)
Autograph letter signed to Antoine-François de FOURCROY,
(1755-1809), as "Director General of Public Instruction" (from 1802), addressed to him at the "Jardin des Plantes" where he was Professor of Chemistry, in French with translation, recommending "Monsieur Thibault, professor at the Lycée of Bourges" as "Professor of Belles Lettres presently vacant at the said Lycée", whom he knew "in this capacity at the former École Centrale at Vendôme", signing himself "the old octogenarian Rochambeau, late Marshal of France, Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur", with a note signed 'F' by Fourcroy, "Has he been put forward for this place?", short notes in other hands, 1 side 4to, autograph address and postmark on conjugate leaf, Rochambeau, near Vendôme, 30th Frimaire Year 13 [21st December
With a collector's label from "Collectione Conradi Adolphi Baronis de Malzen"
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
17793
£950
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ROCHESTER
(Laurence Hyde, 1641-1711, 1st Earl, brother-in-law of James II), DERING (Sir Edward, 1625-1684, 2nd Bt.), and GODOLPHIN (Sidney, 1645-1712, 1st Earl, Queen Anne's Lord High Treasurer),
Document signed by all three as Lords of the Treasury,
ordering the repayment of £51 19s 11d with interest to Aldermen Gardiner and Osborne of Norwich, for quartering "severall of Captaine George Littletons Soldiers in the Regiment of his Highness the Duke of Yorke ... for Severall days ... deducted out of their pay", to be taken from the £296462 17s 3d voted "for Paying off, and Disbanding the Forces Raised since the 29th September 1677", with an attractive 18th century engraving, 11½" x 7¾", of Godolphin's funeral monument erected by his daughter-in-law Henrietta Churchill, from 1722 Duchess of Marlborough in her own right, the document printed with manuscript additions, 1 side folio, Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 7th July
narrow piece torn from right hand margin to cancel the document (not touching the signatures), with loss of about 8 letters (easily supplied), tiny tear in horizontal fold of engraving
Item Date:
1679
Stock No:
19334
£225
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