DE BONO
(Emilio, 1866-1944, Italian Fascist Politician & General, one of the four founders of Fascism and commander of the invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, executed after voting against Mussolini in the Fascist Supreme Council)
Brief Autograph Postcard Signed to “Soldato Gilio Rubboli”
addressed to him in the “34th Infantry, 5th Company, Cherasco, Cuneo” (Piedemonte) inscribed in Italian with translation “With our thanks and affectionate greetings in return...”, the picture side of the card shows the 2nd Field Hospital Section during the war in Eritrea, and has a printed dedication “to the glory and the fallen of the 2nd Division, Eritrea”, 1 side postcard, postmarked Rome 13th April
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
43788
£175
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DE MORGAN IS GRATEFUL FOR PRAISE FOR HIS WRITING
DE MORGAN
(William Frend, 1839-1917, Artist, Inventor and Author)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
thanking him for his letter and “its expression of approval of my books - My own feeling about the way they have been received is one of surprise and gratitude. Thank you also for so kindly copying for me the most interesting extracts from Bishop Westcott. The problems they touch on simply frighten me in my old age - In my youth I settled them off hand - of course! But I find on looking back that I have settled them in several different ways at different times and now I am simply waiting for an illumination which it appears to me must come - or else blank nothingness, which is to me inconceivable. I have however got one fixed idea - that when I catch myself appealing to a thing called Necessity, to help me out of the Insoluble, my finiteness has got the bit in its teeth and run away with me. I daresay Peggy’s ideas have varied too since those days - She was younger...”, 4 sides 8vo., 1 The Vale, King’s Road, Chelsea, 12th August
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
43784
£475
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DENCH
(Dame Judith Olivia, born 1934, Actress)
Fine Coloured original Photograph Signed and inscribed
“For Nicholas” showing her head and shoulders as a young woman, 5¾” x 3¾”, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1965
Stock No:
43787
£35
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DEVONSHIRE
(7th Duke, Sir William Cavendish, 1808-1891, Chancellor of London University, Liberal benefactor of Scientific & Industrial enterprise)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Devonshire’ to “His Worship the Mayor of Brighton”
replying to his letter that he will “be happy to have my name placed on the Committee for inviting the Social Science Congress to meet in Brighton next year...”, 1 side 8vo., Holker Hall, Carnforth headed paper 29th September
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
43792
£55
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ILLUSTRATED AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY DICKEN’S GRANDSON
DICKENS
(Sir Gerald Charles, 1879-1962, Admiral, Grandson of Charles Dickens)
Charming Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed to Doctor ALLCHIN
(William Henry, 1846–1912, Physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine at Westminster Hospital) apologising for his “tardy answer to your very kind letter. I was to have started Friday but at the last minute the date of sailing was put off... I thought it most likely that you would have been busy or out of town... otherwise I would have acknowledged your letter personally. It was very kind of you remembering me & I was very much touched. We get into Gib. tomorrow & Malta Monday or Tuesday where I join my ship. It is good to be afloat again after these months of Shore. I am very well & very jolly. Hope you will read in the paper soon that H.M.S. Griffon has been ordered to China - am afraid it’s unlikely. The mate would hardly appreciate it if it came to pass. It’s getting hot at last...” after his signature he has drawn a little picture of an officer pursuing a Chinaman - holding on to his pigtail titled “The Only Way of settling the China Question - send ot The Griffon”, 4 sides 8vo., “P & O SS Sumatra, off C. Trafalgar”, 13th July no year but
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
43790
£245
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