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*Australia; penal transportation. Four letters from convict William Henry Kerslake to his family at Tiverton, Devon, written from Chatham Prison a...

Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). The Second World War, 6 volumes written out in manuscript longhand into 2 large day books and a ledger, by...

*Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). A group of thirty-nine good quality gelatin silver print photographs of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill an...

*Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). A plaster maquette for Head of Sir Winston Churchill [?by Oscar Nemon, 1906-1985], brown patination, 15c...

*Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). One of Winston Churchill's partly-smoked cigars, kept by Chief Steward Petty Officer Leslie Anderson (190...

*Cigarette Cards. An extensive collection of cigarette cards, including approximately 120 complete sets, comprising Lambert & Butler Aviation (25)...

*Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg. An archive of autographs, documents and photographs relating to the Saxe-Altenburg family, circa 1870-96, including pho...

*East India Company. Autograph letter signed from Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738-1805) as governor-general of India to George B...

*East India Company. Six autograph letters signed from Colonel Henry Watson (1732-1786), chief engineer, Bengal, to Warren Hastings as governor-ge...

*East India Company. Manuscript report on the secret alliance between Tipu Sultan and the nawabs of the Carnatic, signed by the author N. B. Edmon...

Gilbert (Geoffrey). 'Treatise on the Law of Evidence', 1749, manuscript on paper, title-page + 177 + [26] pp. index + numerous blanks, text in two...

*Gilpin (William, 1724-1804). A group of eight autograph letters signed, 'Will: Gilpin', and one initialled 'W.G.', the earliest at Cheam, the oth...

*Historical autographs. Autographs, documents and ephemera, mostly 19th & 20th century, signatures include Lawrence Durrell, Maurice Bowra, T.B. ...

*Historical Autographs. A group of 22 historical autographs and documents, various dates, including Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792, 'inventor' of th...

*Kitchener (Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 1850-1916). Two Autograph Letters Signed ('Kitchener'), Whitehall Court and Balmoral Castle, 20 August and ...

*Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll). A series of 20 Autograph Letters Signed, from Dorndon, Tunbridge Wells, ...

McGonagall (William Topaz). Beautiful Crieff. A New Poem, Edinburgh: No. 21 Lothian Street, April, 1899, single broadside printed recto only, sign...

McGonagall (William Topaz). Two New Poems. Beautiful Comrie and its Surroundings. Beautiful North Berwick and its Surroundings, Edinburgh: Union B...

*Military documents. A group of 29 Letters etc., 19th & 20th century, including Field Marshal Montgomery (ALS, 16 December 1960, referring to an ...

*Montgomery (Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1976). A series of twenty-one Autograph Letters Signed ('Montgomery of Alamein'...

*Motoring History. A group of 26 Typewritten Letters Signed & Autograph Letters Signed to William Ed. Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes (1894-1964, motor v...

*Motoring History. An archive of the correspondence of Charles Stewart Rolls (1877-1910, motor car promoter and aviator), with F. Howard Mercer, p...

*Orientalists. Autograph letter signed from Alexander Hamilton (1762-1824) to Francis Horner (1778-1817), Hertford College, Oxford, 6 September 18...

*Railways. A large collection of approximately 3,500 postcard-size photographs of mostly British railway interest, all modern gelatin silver prin...

*Railways. A large collection of approximately 3,500 postcard-size photographs of mostly British railway interest, all modern gelatin silver prin...

Severn (Walter, 1830-1904). Good Night & Good Morning, words by R.M. Milnes Esq[ui]re M.P., with illuminations and etchings by Walter Severn, circ...

St Helena. Local Laws of the Island of St. Helena. Comprising the various Ordinances, Orders in Council, and Proclamations, remaining in force on ...

*Tyndall (John, 1820-1893). Autograph letter signed, 'John Tyndall', 2 April 1880, to R.H. Blades, noting that his 'approaching lectures on light ...

*Valentine cards. An album of Victorian Valentine cards, 39 large single leaf printed Valentines, mostly hand-coloured and illuminated, many embo...

Valentine cards. Five Victorian Valentine cards, circa 1855-1858, all with collage detail, one with embossed border and verse written in contempo...

Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke, 1769-1852). Autograph letter in the third person unsigned, London, June 23d, 1829, agreeing to see a Mr. S...