POLE-CAREW
(Sir Reginald, 1849-1924, Lieutenant-General, M.P. for Bodmin 1910-1916) and his wife, 1901, Lady BEATRICE (1876-1952, née Butler, daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Ormonde)
Bold Signatures each on a card
2¼" x 3½", with a striking magazine full page photograph of him as Brigadier-General, showing him full length, full face, arms folded and feet astride, in military jacket, boots and riding breeches, on a leaf from 'With the Flag to Pretoria' for 7th March 1900 (p. 533, map of the advance on Bloemfontein and text on verso), 12½" x 8¾", and with a magazine full page photograph by Richard N. Speaight of Lady Beatrice, showing her seated full length, three quarter face, in an elegant day dress and hat, a garden basket on her lap, next to her eldest daughter and second child Marye Frances (b. 19th April 1903), on the opening leaf from 'Country Life' for 30th January 1904 (Vol. XV, no. 369), 14" x 9", together 4 items, the signatures
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
54892
£125
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PONSONBY
(Sir Henry, 1825-1895, Major-General, from 1870 Private Secretary to Queen Victoria)
Autograph Letter Signed to the Editor of Lodge's Peerage,
saying "I shal1 be ready to do my best to obtain corrections for the sheets relating to the Royal Family", with a fine large Photograph by Walery, Photographer to the Queen, seated full length, working at a small carved table, 9¾" x 7¼", on a lithographed mount, 12¾" x 8½", the letter 1 side 8vo., Buckingham Palace, 6th September
fold and tiny tear in one plain corner of mount
Item Date:
1884
Stock No:
50092
£65
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PORTAL
(Charles Frederick, 1st Viscount of Hungerford, 1893-1971, Chief of Bomber Command & Air Staff in 1940)
Photograph laid down on card with his signature and the date
showing him in uniform, half length, seated at his desk, smoking his pipe and smiling, 5½" x 4¼", no place
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
41483
£375
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PRINGLE
(Thomas, c. 1740-1803, Vice-Admiral)
Part Document signed as Rear-Admiral,
to the Masters of HMS Sceptre, Vindictive, Chichester & Hope, 7½" x 5", Tremendous, Table Bay, 25th November
traces of laying down on verso, top and one margin trimmed
Item Date:
1797
Stock No:
50172
£45
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QUINCÉ
(Joachim, Count of Quincé, also of the Holy Roman Empire, French General)
Autograph letter signed, in French with translation,
to Monsieur Marquadet, "citizen of Paris at the Golden Lion opposite the Quai des Vieux Augustins near the Bronze Horse", saying he hopes soon at Court to meet "His Eminence", Cardinal Mazarin, Louis XIV's chief minister, "and offer my services for the glorious journey" (to the Pyrenees), Mazarin has already "told Marshal Villeroi", (1598-1685, the king's former governor) "that he would be delighted to see me ... as you know the end of the whole matter is to be the King's marriage", accordingly he asks Marquadet to send him 12 out of the 16 dinner sets he is looking after for him, to advise "your son-in-law to send me my little service in the manner of honest folk", to unwrap a package and pick out six livery jackets ('casaques') "and a small one for a page", which the bearer "the Captain of my garrison at Narbonne" will take, the dinner services should weigh 210 pounds with carriage at 2 sous a pound, finally sending his "infinite thanks for having given shelter to my hoard of belongings", with much underlining of the detailed instructions, 3 sides small folio, address and notes on 4th side, Orléans, 30th June
Item Date:
1659
Stock No:
25662
£350
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