Photographs, Autographs & Historical Documents, British Royalty & World Leaders

* Lord Kitchener's Mission to Japan. Group of Lord Kitchener's Mission to Japan to attend the Imperial Grand Japanese Manoeuvres. Taken in the gro...

* Second Boer War. A series of 23 photographs from the Simonstown area, 1899-1900, gelatin silver prints, images 15.5 x 21.5 cm, window-mounted in...

* World War One. A group of 50 diapositive magic lantern slides of scenes from the First World War, 1914-18, many with negative number and letter ...

Royal Ceremonies. A sammelband of pamphlets & orders of service etc. relating to royal ceremonies and ceremonials, 1685-1986, 24 works bound in on...

* Harley (Robert, 1661-1724). 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, British statesman and Lord High Treasurer, 1711-1714. Document Signed, ‘Oxford...

* Compton (Spencer, c. 1674-1743). 1st Earl of Wilmington, British politician, Prime Minister, 1742-1743 & Pelham-Holles (Thomas, 1693-1768), 1st ...

* Cavendish (William, 1720-1764). 4th Duke of Devonshire, British Prime Minister, 1756-1757. Autograph Signature, ‘Devonshire’, c. 1761, a fine bo...

* Stuart (John, 1713-1792). 3rd Earl of Bute, British Prime Minister, 1762-1763. Autograph Signature, ‘Bute’, 1761, in dark ink on an envelope add...

* Napoleon I (1769-1821). Emperor of France, 1804-14, 1815. Document signed, 'Bonaparte', as first consul, Paris, as the French republican calenda...

* Perceval (Spencer, 1762-1812). British statesman, barrister and Prime Minister 1809-1812. Autograph Letter in the third person, Downing Street, ...

* George IV (1762-1830). King of the United Kingdom, 18250-1830. Document Signed, 'George P R', as Prince Regent, Carlton House, 9 September 1813,...

* Cambridge (George William Frederick, 1819-1904). Prince, second duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal. A collection of approximately 48 Letters Signe...

* Victoria (1819-1901). Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, 1837-1901. Document signed, ‘Victoria RI’, St James's, 30 November 1899, being a pre-pri...

* Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945 ...

* George VI (1895-1952). King of Great Britain and Ireland; & Elizabeth (1900-2002), Queen Consort. A pair of photographs of King George VI and Qu...

* Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain, & others). A visitors' book [for Ritchie & Co., Forfar], 1942-1958, with autographs on 32 leaves, includin...

* Philip (1921-2021). Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of Queen Elizabeth II. Photograph Signed, 'Philip', c. 1963, vintage gelatin silver print ...

* Battle of Bergen-op-Zoom. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Berkeley Drummond, Ensign 3rd Regt of Foot Guards (Scots Guards)’, to his mother, Hogerheyde...

* Battle of Nivelle. A Good Autograph Letter Signed from Patrick Bain, ensign 38th Regiment, Guetry, 3 miles from Bayonne, 21 November 1813, neatl...

* Napoleonic Wars – Eygpt. Five Autograph Letters Signed, from Charles Lewis Parker, surgeon to the 25th Foot, 'Camp before Alexandria', 18 July-9...

* Napoleonic Wars. A Rough Manuscript Journal kept by a British Soldier named Frederick Shaw, probably a junior N.C.O., serving in the allied colu...

* Nelson (Horatio, 1758-1805). British Admiral during the Napoleonic Wars, the victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. Autograph Letter Signed, '...

* Oxfordshire Light Infantry. A manuscript account of a meeting of the Officers of the 43rd Regiment in Vale Castle, Guernsey, 1 July 1801, at whi...

* Peninsular War. A long campaign letter from William Wingfield, 36th (Herefordshire) Foot, Camp near Valladolid, 27 October 1812, to his mother i...

* Peninsular War. A collection of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘S. Briscall’, the Duke of Wellington's chaplain, written from the Peninsula betwee...

* Peninsular War. A rare illustrated Autograph Letter Signed from Corporal Daniel Sanders, 95th Regiment, no date, (watermarked R. Barnard, [18]11...

* Peninsular War. A Series of 10 Autograph Letters Signed by Captain John Massey, King's Own Dragoons, Portugal & Spain, August 1811 to September ...

* Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed from 'James Carrigan, Band 95th Regiment', Campo Miore, [Portugal], 7 November 1809, to his brother Jame...

* Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed with initials 'H.C.' [Henry Cadogan], Merida, (Spain), 28 May 1812, to Lieut. Col. the Lord Blantyre, gi...

* Peninsular War. A series of 33 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Scrope Hutchinson’, surgeon of the 52nd Regiment, 4 May to 24 December 1808, to his wi...

* Peninsular War. Two important campaign letters from Alexander Steele describing the actions at El Boden (1811) and Salamanca (1812), in his firs...

Regimental Return. Returns of His Majesty's Land Forces, 1st April 1802, manuscript title and contents leaves followed by 43 pre-printed double-pa...

* Waterloo. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Berkeley Drummond, 3rd Regt. of Foot Guards’, St. Jean, [Waterloo], 19 June 1815, written the day following ...

* Waterloo. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Lieutenant Joseph Greaves, 1st Dragoon Guards’, 13th July 1815, addressed to his father in Kendal, describin...

* Waterloo. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Henry Murray', near Waterloo, Monday morning, 19 June [1815], to his wife Emily, giving details of a skirmis...

Waterloo. The London Gazette Extraordinary, Thursday, June 22, 1815, original issue giving a printed account of the Battle of Waterloo in the form...

* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Arthur Wellesley', Corunna, 21 July 1808, to Mr Hunter, the com...

Crimean War. ‘Log of the proceedings of Her Majesty's steam Frigate Sidon, George Goldsmith Esq., Captain, kept by George Tate Medd [1838-1907], m...

* Hassall (John, 1868-1948). 'Yours to Command', c. 1910, pen and ink and watercolour drawing of four young boy scouts standing to attention in th...

* Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking. A collection of printed and other ephemera relating to Lieutenant-Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell, and the S...

* Greenhill (Alfred George, 1847-1927). British mathematician. A long Autograph Letter Signed, 'A.G. Greenhill', 1 Staple Inn, WC, 20 December 190...

* Houdini (Harry, 1874-1926). Hungarian-American escape artist, magic man and stunt performer. Signed Calling Card, 'Harry Houdini', c. 1920, a sm...

Montgomery (Bernard Law, 1887-1976). British Field Marshal of War War II. Personal message from the Army Commander (to be read out to all troops) ...

* Scott (Robert Falcon, 1868-1912). Antarctic explorer. Autograph Signature, ‘Robt. F Scott’ / ‘Discovery’’, [1904], inscribed on a large album pa...

[Dissolution of Parliament]. By the King, a Proclamation, for Dissolving this present Parliament, and Declaring the Speedy Calling another ... Giv...

* American Civil War. A group of 3 Autograph Letters, Plattsburgh, 1861-64, the first two written and signed by Hannah S. Trigg, in a semi-literat...

* Harvard University and the Vietnam War. A group of 16 handmade posters for protests at Harvard University, 1969, mostly stencil-printed original...

* Lawrence (Thomas Edward, 1888-1935, attributed to). British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. A ...

* Maritime Archive. A voluminous archive of autograph letters and associated material from Colin Campbell Watson, serving on various steamships an...

* Murder Broadside. The Manchester Four-Fold Murder, Giving an Account of the Horrible Assassination Committed by W.R. Taylor, of Mr Evan Mellor, ...

Outbreak of World War I. Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, Extra-Blatt, Sonnabend, 1 August 1914, a special issue single sheet of the Berliner Lokal-Anzeig...

* Persecution of Huguenots. A Letter from a Person who was an Eye-witness of the Martyrdom of the Rev'd M. Rochette, and the three Noblemen that w...

* Aviation postcards. A collection of 88 mostly real photo postcards of early aviation interest, early 20th century, including photographs at Hend...

* Aviation Postcards. A group of 57 mostly real photo postcards of Royal Flying Corps interest,early 20th century, some postally used, preserved i...

* World War Two Scrap Album. Scrap album belonging to Aubrey R Davies of Willenhall, Staffordshire, 1941-1942, compiled circa 1946, numerous mount...