BADEN-POWELL
(Sir George Smyth, 1847-1898, Author & Politician)
Autograph Letter Signed to H. Sulivan,
thanking him for a copy of "your valuable paper before the Royal United Service Institution ... No doubt you are aware that the various phases of the question ... were prominently discussed many years ago ... organising the defence forces of the Empire on some common foundation ...", 4 sides 8vo., 114 Eaton Square, 2nd April
first page yellowed
Item Date:
1895
Stock No:
4806
£35
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PRINTER'S DEVICE
BAGLIONE
(Paolo II, Venetian Printer, Publisher and Bookseller)
Fine Woodcut Device of the family's 'Black Eagle',
double-headed and crowned, clasping bunches of apples, with the monogram PB on its breast, 3" x 4" (7.8cm x 10cm), old pencilled note on verso with date
Item Date:
1740
Stock No:
50827
£35
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BAGNOLD
(Enid, Lady Jones, 1889-1981, Novelist & Playwright, wife of Sir G. Roderick Jones)
Fine Autograph Note Signed to Roger Thornton , "With best wishes from"
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
9568
£12
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BAILEY
(Philip James, 1816-1902, Poet and Botanist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Alfred William BENNETT ,
(1833-1902, Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College and St. Thomas' Hospital), asking him to "accept my thanks for the Specimen No. just received of your interesting series of portraits ... as soon as I visit London ... not before October ... I will take the opportunity of calling upon you", 2 sides 8vo., with conjugate blank, Inisfail Cottage, St. Peter's Valley, Jersey, 10th April
trace of mounting at foot of conjugate blank verso
Item Date:
1864
Stock No:
13878
£35
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BAILLIE
(Joanna, 1762-1851, Poet & Dramatist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed addressed to Mrs Merivale
(wife of John Herman Merivale, 1779-1844, Barrister and Man of Letters) saying that her “sister and myself have been very much gratified by your kind note of taking leave at a time when you must have had so many things upon your mind. To be reckoned by you among the friends valued by him who was so dear to you and is beloved & esteemed by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance, is indeed very pleasing to us. We feel it in our hearts very truly. The cheerful sweetness of his character was so engaging that, setting aside his genius of talents which we admired, we felt it a privilege to be among those to whom he sometimes spared an hour of his society. We look back upon those hours not with a melancholy pleasure, and shall do so as long as it shall please God to spare our lives and the power of clear recollection which in the course of nature cannot now be long. You say well & truly when you suppose that we shall take an interest in you & your family for his sake, but we shall take an interest in you also as deserving to have belonged to him. How much you have contributed to his happiness in the course of his life will be a great consolation to your after years. May God bless you and yours... wherever you are! and often your first sad impressions in returning to your Devon home. We trust you and your dear Children will be happier there than you would be anywhere else. Your friends here will still look to the pleasure of seeing you some times in this part of the World. Modern travelling has made the distance small. My sister who. joins me most heartily in all I am saying, would have written herself but she is fatigued & languid from a little exertion that she has been obliged to make for a few days past, and not very able to use her pen...”, 4 sides 8vo., Hampstead, 29th June
Item Date:
1844
Stock No:
43733
£375
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