[FERRARI
(Giovanni Battista of Siena, c.1585-1655, S.J., Orientalist, Horticulturalist and Educator)]
Fine Engraved Title page of his 'Triginta Septem Orationes ...
Novissima Editio ... Pleiades', showing a female figure holding a rose, and leaning on a pedestal bearing the title, 3½" x 1¾" (8.6cm x 4.2cm), [John Redmayne, London,
Item Date:
1668
Stock No:
50820
£35
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FERRIER
(Susan Edmonstone, 1782-1854, Scottish Novelist, author of 'Marriage', 'The Inheritance' and 'Destiny')
AN signed with initials to Miss Hilda Walker,
saying "Lady McNeill sent last night to offer to take tea with me this evening", and asking her "& Connie too" to come "if you possibly can", 1 side 5" x 4½" with diamond folds, no place, no date, c.
Item Date:
1840
Stock No:
51874
£125
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[FEUILLET
(Octave, 1821-1890, French Dramatist)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Nadar
showing him half length, nearly full face, 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
38424
£125
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[FEUILLET
(Octave, 1821-1890, French Dramatist)]
Unsigned Carte de visite portrait Photograph by Charles Reutlinger of Paris, signed within the photographic image
showing him head and shoulders, nearly full face to the viewer's left and signed 'Feuillet' below the image, 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
38428
£125
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FITZGERALD
(Penelope Mary, 1916-2000, Booker Prize Winning Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Biographer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'Penelope' to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer best known for her Pony Books) thanking her for her book which she “took down to Theale this past weekend & left it with Tina & she almost wept, it brought back her pony-owning days so intensely, (but after all she might have one again - there’s a kind of stable at the back of the garden, not belonging to us, but just being used for hens & for fattening calves, & I daresay in time we could get hold of that). If you should have another copy to spare & would sign it for her, she’d love it... It’s hard to put in words the connection between the book, the child & the pony, or the imagined pony I suppose in so many cases. I’ve got the ticket for the PEN outing too & look forward to it. I wonder how much is still there at Knole? - there seemed to be some sort of arrangement by which the Sackville-Wests were allowed to withdraw pictures & items of silver-plated furniture &c, & sell them, so that blanks appeared on the walls & in the rooms, & things had to be hastily re-arranged - but there’s always plenty left I suppose. I’ve never seen the Woolfs house at Rodmell but always wanted to...”, 2 sides 4to., 76 Clifton Hill, London, 6th April
Item Date:
1982
Stock No:
43538
£225
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