JAMES VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland. Manuscript address formulary, probably prepared for King James I of England, being modes of address to 67 of his fellow monarchs and heads of church and state in continental Europe, North Africa and Asia. Creation dates: [1613]
DANFORD, Beatrice. Manuscript diaries in 14 volumes covering the years 1885, 1902-03, 1905, 1906, 1914-18, 1928-30, and 1933, with observations about her social life and world events, including meeting Winston Churchill in Egypt. Creation dates: 1885 - 1933
HOGG, James (bap. 1770, d.1835). Autograph Manuscript Poem entitled "Robins Awa'", in four verses, signed and dated at foot 'James Hogg, Mount Annan, January 31st 1822'. Creation dates: 31 Jan 1822
MEDICINE. Collection of primarily plant-based medical remidies in English, circa 1630, in a single secretary hand, with a few entries and a title - 'Vade mecum. Sive catalogus medicamentorum praestantissimorum morborum quodcumq genus' - in Latin, dated 1624, in another hand, that of a physician ...
BELL, V G. WORLD WAR I. Sketch album by a First World War soldier V G Bell, containing pencil drawings with explanatory captions of the war on the Western Front. Creation dates: 1915 - 1916
HARRIS, James (died 1839). TRAVEL. Autograph Letter Signed from the traveller and missionary James Harris to Mr and Mrs H Waters [and Miss Butler], Tahiti. Creation dates: Sep 1839
DALRYMPLE, Alexander. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. MAPS AND PLANS. Manuscript map in the hand of Dalrymple, entitled 'Chart of that Part of Papua Visited by M. Bougainville in 1768'. Creation dates: [1772]
KINGSMILL, Sir Robert Brice (1730-1805). Letterbook of orders relating to the West Indies and Ireland, received or issued by Robert Brice during his career as a naval commander, Dec 1760 - Sep 1762 and April - May 1796. Bonhams, 16811, 23 June 2009, Lot 59. Creation dates: Dec 1760 - May 1796
CRIPPEN, Hawley Harvey. Correspondence between Crippen and Samuel Cox, one of his patients, including 4 Typed Letters Signed and an initialled prescription sent to Cox, along with printed forms and newspaper cuttings relating to Crippen and his employers, and to the murder case involving him. Bo...
SHAW, George Bernard. WAGNER, Richard. Author's presentation copy of the 1898 first edition of Shaw's 'The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs', with manuscript signed inscription to 'My dear Glover' which goes on to discuss Wagner and conducting; inscription dated Nov 19...