No Binding. Photograph, with printed signature "Inflessibilmente, Mussolini" with the Italian Fascist leader looking sternly at the camera. Photograph by V. Laviosa, Roma. Small 1" loss to lower left corner. Mounted on dark background and glazed. framed in gilt frame. Full size 36.5cm x 29cm. More
1831. No Binding. Signed address label. Address to Michael Burke Esq in France written in Peel's hand and signed at bottom. Red date stamp, 24 March 1831. 6 x 11 cm. Sir Robert Peel was British Prime Minister who subsequently served two terms as Premier. More
1821. No Binding. Signature (Geo. Canning) and handwritten address to 'Miss Sparrow, 47 Marine Parade, Brighton'. 7.5 x 12 cm. Dated September 27th 1821. Overstamped with red crown-type date stamp. Canning (1770-1827) entered parliament in 1794, became Prime Minister in April 1827 but died in office in September of that..... More
1850. No Binding. ALS from (Lord) Carlisle, dated Mar 1, 1850, London. Carlisle (1802-1864) had a substantial career in British politics, and in 1850 was serving in the Russell and Palmerston administrations. He writes to a Mr Williams, stating that he had pleasure in presenting a petition from Huddersfield. Carlisle..... More
No Binding. 4 page letter hand-written by Benjamin Disraeli and signed by himself and seven other Parliamentarians petitioning that the Parliamentary Record, which had ceased to be published, be reconsidered.Other signatures include Lord Claud Hamilton, Viscount Arthur Hill Trevor, Lord Henry Lennox, Thomas Bateson and Mervyn Edward Archdall, and possibly..... More
1859. No Binding. ALS from the Duke of Argyll. Dated Dec 23/59. The 8th Duke was this year Lord Privy Seal in the second Palmerston administration, continuing a varied career of politics and natural history, particularly ornithology, glaciation and as an opponent of Darwin, promoting theistic evolution. The addressee of..... More
No Binding. Signed slip "B Franklin" , 4 x 1.5 cm, pasted on later card 6 x 8.5 cm. Franklin (1706-1790) was the great polymath - scientist, revolutionary politician, writer and philosopher, and signer of the American Declaration of Independence. This is the less formal signature used by Franklin in..... More
1877. No Binding. ALS to "Caro Gillami" from "Caprera, 17 maggio 1879". Signed "Vostro G. Garibaldi. Single side of folded sheet (21 x 13.5 cm). Four folds. The Italian patriot (1807-1882) played a major role in unifying the Italian states. After a lifetime of campaigns and revolutionary and military action..... More
No Binding. Paper slip 8 x 6 cm, "Believe me, yours truly, Ida Dalhousie." Ida Dalhousie (1857-1887), was wife of John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, the British naval commander and politician. Lady Ida died at 30 from peritonitis, and her husband retired to bed that night, never to wake..... More
1919. No Binding. Notepaper slip with blindstamped parliamentary crest and signature "A.Bonar Law". Also separate compliments slip from 11 Downing St dated 21st October, 1919. Bonar Law (1858-1923) served as British Prime Minister from October 1922 until he resigned for health reasons in May 1923. He entered parliament in 1900..... More
1883. No Binding. ALS (2) from the Marquis of Lorne, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise. Headed Eastwell Place, Ashford, Kent, Jan. 14, 1884 (1) and Kensington, Aug. 24, 1883 (2). He was Governor General of Canada 1878-1883, and married Queen Victoria's 4th daughter Louise. In the first..... More
1891. No Binding. ALS, letter dated March 27, 1891, single page 21 x 13 cm. Some foxing.Addressed from Cannes to Wolf Harris Esq., declining an invitation, saying that his doctor sent him out to Cannes for a little rest. McCarthy (1830-1912) was an Irish politician, novelist and historian. He worked..... More
1877. No Binding. Handwritten note on blindstamped House of Commons letterhead to Mr Ross of the Press Gallery - "Dear Mr Ross, I send you my papers as you kindly desired me always to do. Please be very careful to return all of them as I have no copies. Yours..... More
No Binding. Single side, 20.5 x 5 cm. Signed slip dating from 1870-1872 when Moorhouse was Secretary of Lands. Moorhouse (1825-1881) had a long and varied political, legal and business career, largely based in the Christchurch, Lyttleton and Akaroa districts. More
No Binding. Single side, 20.5 x 5 cm. Signed slip dating from 1870-1872 when Moorhouse was Secretary of Lands. Moorhouse (1825-1881) had a long and varied political, legal and business career, largely based in the Christchurch, Lyttleton and Akaroa districts. More
1858. No Binding. Printed annotated request (2 folds, 19 x 11.5 cm) from the Reporters' Gallery of the House of Commons (from Charles Ross of The Times) for a copy of a "Dispatch present to the House by his Lordship." Palmerston has written on a folded up corner "I have..... More
No Binding. Signature "Ranfurly" on paper slip 80 x 50 cm. Lord Ranfurly (1856-1933) was Governor General of New Zealand 1897-1904. More
No Binding. Handwritten note on blindstamped House of Commons letterhead to Mr Ross of the Press Gallery - "Dear Mr Ross, Sir ___ ____ will follow W.Bright. I hope you will be able to give him a good report. He will not be long. Yours, W.H. Smith". One side of..... More
1877. No Binding. Handwritten note on blindstamped House of Commons letterhead to Mr Ross of the Press Gallery - "Dear Mr Ross, Is this what you want? Yours ____ W.H. Smith, April 17.77". Single side of folded sheet (18 x 11.5 cm). Smith (1825-1891) was a bookseller with his family..... More
1860. No Binding. ALS to C.B. Ellison Esq. "War Office Pall Mall, 9th July 1860. Dear Sir, I have every reason to believe that nothing will cause my absence from London during the whole of this week, nor for the Monday or Tuesday following: indeed until the afternoon of Wednesday..... More
