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POPHAM, Sir Home Riggs. SHIP'S BOND. Bond (manuscript completion in ink of a printed form) for the voyage of Popham's ship 'L'Etrusco' between Canton and Ostend, addressed to Messrs Robert Charnock & Co and signed by Popham, Jean-Baptiste Piron and Charles Constant De Rebecque. Creation dat...
JAMES II and VII, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. PEPYS, Samuel. Autograph Letter Signed from James, Duke of York (later James II of England, VII of Scotland), as former Lord High Admiral of the English navy, to Pepys, as Secretary of the Admiralty. Tring Market Auctions sale, 28 Nov 200...
CHARLES II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. Manuscript in Latin on vellum being a Restoration pardon issued by Charles II to Sir Henry Blount, with the Second Great seal of the king appended, together with a manuscript note of costs 'disbursed for Sr Henry Blunt for his pardon'. Creation...
KNIGHTS OF THE BATH. First edition copy of John Pine's 'The procession and ceremonies observed at the time of the installation of the Knights Companions of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath: upon Thursday June, 17, 1725 ...', London, 1730, which contains manuscript material tipped i...
WORLD WAR II - MONTGOMERY AND THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY. Bonhams, 18847, 07 June 2011, Lot 181. Typed papers of the British Public Relations/Information Services Control (PR/ISC) for the British zone of allied occupied Germany immediately after World War II, including: Draft of Field Marshal Mo...
JAMES VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland. Letter signed to Louis XIII of France, referring to a recent journey through France of the Prince of Wales (the future Charles I). Christie's, 3013, 28 Nov 2011, Lot 236. Creation dates: March 1622
HORNE, N. H. Autograph letter signed to Mrs Hey, being an eye witness account of Britain's first aviation meeting (held at Doncaster between 15-26 October 1909), where a Bleriot plane piloted by Delarange, and a plane piloted by the American Samuel Franklin Cody appeared. Creation dates: 18 Oct...
LEWIS, C. S. Autograph letter signed to the poet Rufus Buxton, discussing T. S. Eliot and saying that he feels 'incapable of helping people about this kind of [modern] poetry'. Creation dates: 26 May 1943
EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed to Dr R. L. Worrall, on physics and the perception of reality. Bonhams, 12 Nov 2013, 20753, Lot 317. Creation dates: 18 March 1930
WAGNER, Richard. (1) Barber and perfumer's bill for Wagner, signed (to acknowledge payment) by one Jakob Zeisel; 27 August 1881. (2) Pencil note in an unknown hand to Wagner's father-in-law, Franz Liszt, probably left by the Wagner family at Liszt's address in Rome on finding him not at home. In...