[ESTERHÁZY
(Ferdinand Walsin, 1847-1923, French Spy for Germany)]
Unsigned Carte-de-visite sized Portrait Photograph,
showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face, in uniform as a Major in the 74th Infantry regiment, 3½" x 2¼", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
54424
£225
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EVANS
(Josette, née Arbuthnot, wife, 1834, of Sir George de Lacy Evans, 1787-1870, General and M.P.)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Hussey,
(Elizabeth, née Ley, wife of Robert Hussey, 1801-1856, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford), saying "My poor husband has gone through a great deal & I am most thankful he is far remov'd from that cold, comfortless Crimea, my last letters from him were from Malta dated the 4th and 2nd - he waited there for the English Packet from Alexandria to take him to Marseilles when I am to hear again and shall then go down to Folkestone where he wishes to pass a little time", in London she thinks "the excitement might be too much for him", his resignation, and Lord Raglan's "handsome acceptance" of it, she is "to shew ... to his Friends", so she has had them lithographed and sends a copy to Mrs Hussey [not present], "pray excuse this hasty scrawl, I have a good many notes to enquiring Friends ... the few days he had to pass at Malta had I am happy to say improv'd his health, the climate is so fine there", 4 sides 8vo, Bryanston Square, "Thursday Morng", no date but
a few tiny closed splits in horizontal fold without loss
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
56317
£125
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[FAILLY
(Pierre Louis Charles Achille, 1810-1892, French General, Comte de)]
Report in French with translation, by the General, unsigned, probably in an ADC's hand,
stating that "This march with fixed bayonets ... cost us only two wounded, and produced such an impression on the Garibaldians that they retired in a compact mass. The three companies of the right were deployed and straightway fired at will ... on the Garibaldians massed in disorder on the highway that goes up to Monte Rotondo", N.E. of Rome, "The papal army, responsible for the main attack, suffered more considerable losses", by comparison "those of the Garibaldians are enormous ... The number of dead recovered from the field of battle exceeds 600, with wounded in proportion, and the number of prisoners comes to 1600", 2 sides 4to., no place, 8th November
trace of tipping in on left margin of verso
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
12424
£40
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FALMOUTH
(Evelyn Edward Thomas Boscawen, 1847-1918, from 1889 7th Viscount)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar,
(1843-1923, Lord Mayor), accepting for luncheon on 10th May, 1 side 8vo black-edged, Tregothnan, Truro, 25th April
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
17127
£15
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FALMOUTH
(2nd Viscount, Hugh Boscawen, 1707-1782, General)
Autograph Letter Signed to Marquis of GRANBY
(John Manners, 1721-1770, Lieutenant General) asking him to appoint "Richard Pearce the younger of the 28th Regimt of foot Storekeeper of the Ordnance at Pendennis Castle in the place of Richard Pearce the elder ...", l side oblong 4to., no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
5523
£40
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