BELLASIS
(Edward, 1852-1922, Lancaster Herald, 1882, and Registrar of the College of Arms 1894-1899)
Autograph Letter Signed to G. Bouvier,
saying as he has "some lantern views of Cluny Abbey church, would it be feasible to have the lantern? It helps the affair of 'talk' ", 1 side 8vo., College of Arms, London E.C., 2nd January
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
16721
£20
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BELLEW
(Revd. John Chippendale Montesquieu, 1823-1874, Popular Preacher and Writer)
Autograph letter to 'My dear Mr Gye',
thanking him "for the Stalls", adding "I am close to you here: & always on the spot on a Saturday or Monday -- When the afternoon is over, & your letting done, - put me down among those ... who you can easily send to: I will always be delighted - not intruding - to enjoy the treat", with a contemporary unsigned photograph showing him full length in surplice and stole, 3½" x 2¼", the letter 2 sides 8vo, Bedford Chapel (on the corner of Bloomsbury Street and New Oxford Street, London), 'Saturday' no date, circa
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
53819
£75
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BELLEW
(John Montesquieu, 1823-1874, Author, Preacher & Public Reader)
Autograph Letter Signed to Calvert,
saying he "cannot come ... to the Mountain for the same reason that Mahomet cannot come to the mountain. I am working night by night ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, Albert Hall Day,
Item Date:
1871
Stock No:
5021
£15
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BENEDICT XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, 1675-1758, from 1740 Pope)
Engaging Autograph Note, unsigned, in his fine clear hand, in Italian
with transcription and translation, to his French friend of forty years and privy chamberlain, Prior Jean Bouget, (1692, Saumur-1775, Rome), sending “the enclosed letter” [not present], in which the writer “threatens” (Benedict XIV’s word!) to send a poem that “has taken twelve years of continuous toil”, when it arrives Benedict would like Bouget to “consider and examine it”, but for the moment no reply is needed, old identification in the margin, 1 side folio, no place, 11th October
small defect in blank portion of horizontal fold
Item Date:
1753
Stock No:
42226
£1225
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BENEDICT XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, 1675-1758, from 1740 Pope)
Engaging Autograph Note, unsigned, in his fine clear hand, in Italian
with transcription and translation, to his French friend of forty years and privy chamberlain, Prior Jean Bouget, (1692, Saumur-1775, Rome), sending “the enclosed letter” [not present] from “Chevalier Cogollin”, (Joseph de Cuers-Cogolin, 1702-1760, of Cogolin in Provence, translator of Vergil’s Georgics and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedium Amoris), “who has written a little Poem against the materialists, and has sent it to us. So will you send a courteous answer, thanking him for it, and say that as we have with Us a sublime French poet, called Monsieur Bouget, we will pass the Work to him to read and examine, and to come back to Us about it”, and ending “Which is all [for the moment] etc.”, old identification in the margin, 1 side folio, no place, 6th November
small defect in blank left margin
Item Date:
1755
Stock No:
42227
£1275
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