COOMBE-TENNANT, Winifred. SPIRITUALISM. Samples from the Winifred Coombe Tennant archive including: Black and white photographs of Winifred Coombe Tennant, Gerald Balfour, and the young Henry Coombe Tennant. Autograph Letters from Winifred to Balfour, circa 1911-1920. Autograph Letters from Ba...
NORDEN, John. Autograph accounts sheet of expenditure on the rebuilding of Sandsfoot Castle near Weymouth, authorised at the foot by Robert Cecil, the Lord Treasurer, who adds a further order for payment for work on Anne of Denmark's new garden at Greenwich. Creation dates: July 1610
GOSPEL LECTIONARY. Gospel lectionary on vellum for use at Mass, with script and decoration placing it amongst the earliest examples of Portuguese protogothic manuscripts produced in the monastic scriptorium of Lorvao, Portugal. Creation dates: Mid or 3rd quarter of 12th century
FARREN, Ellen. Manuscript volume in ink entitled 'Book of Tastes', a sort of autograph book kept by the music-hall actress in the form of questionnaires completed by various theatrical celebrities, dated on the title page 'November 31st 1864'. Creation dates: Circa 1864-1865
AUSTEN, Elizabeth Motley. Account books from the family of Elizabeth Austen, distant relative of Jane, listing bills both for Elizabeth's household and for her personal requirements. Creation dates: 1772 - [1782]
ELIZABETH I. Second Great Seal of Elizabeth I on a manuscript Pardon of Alienation from the Queen to Anthony Mapowder of Venn Ottery. Bonhams, 16204, 04 Nov 2008, Lot 388. Creation dates: Nov [1597]
MAUDUIT, Israel. Printed copy of 'A Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, ... compiled ... by Richard Walter, M. A.', London, 1748, with a 3 1/2 page tipped-in manuscript in Maudit's hand discussing the true authorship of the book (probably Colonel Benjamin...
COKE, Thomas (1747-1814). METHODISM. Autograph Letter Signed, 'To the Conference', including a postscript to Jabez Bunting, written while sailing to establish the first Methodist mission in Asia, giving an account of his voyage so far and his plans on arrival. Bonhams, 16204, 04 Nov 2008, Lot 43...
PEPYS, Samuel. Letter Signed as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, to the 'Masters Attend[an]t, M[aste]r Shippwr[igh]t, Clerks of ye Checq, Stores & Survey at Chatham', requiring them, on the orders of the Lord High Admiral James Duke of York, to commandeer the Duke of Richmond's yacht in ...
ARNOLD, Thomas (1795-1842). Autograph Letter Signed to F C Blackstone, describing his impressions of Rugby School a month after taking over as headmaster. Creation dates: Sep 1828