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![[PEEL ROBERT]: (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46. MURRAY JOHN (1778-1843) Scottish Publisher, son of t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0420788b-cb7c-49a3-ab49-a4fe01233117/2d4f2896-6d14-4474-90f6-5e9c7f988c79/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1173
[PEEL ROBERT]: (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46. MURRAY JOHN (1778-1843) Scottish Publisher, son of the founder of the John Murray publishing house. An intriguing A.L.S., John Murray, two pages, 8vo, Albemarle Street, 20th February 1839, to Sir Robert Peel ('Dear Sir'). Murray proclaims 'Trusting that you will acceed to the 3 following conditions I That no other person but yourself is allowed to see them. II That you do not communicate to any other person that you have seen them - and III That you return them to me as soon as read. I confide to you the interesting pages which I now enclose' (no longer present). The publisher further writes 'I have brought within your reach a man who may be made invaluable at the expense of only one tame elephant' and in a postscript instructs Peel 'Be so kind as not to insert your name on the cover wch you address to me & to direct the servant to leave the packet at the private door - without saying where it comes from - I leave this myself'. With blank integral leaf. VG. £100-150
Lot 802
DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père. (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., A. Dumas, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Madame Porcher, in French. Dumas writes to her correspondent `If you can, complete the 5, we will manage with that…´ referring to tickets entrances, and further asks `How is Porcher?´ With integral address leaf. Overall age wear, with creases to discoloured edges, and large tear to the second leave, none affecting the text or signature. F to G. £150-200 Jean Baptiste Porcher (1792-1864) and Alix Renique Porcher (1807-1887), French former theater employees who created an agency which used to buy copyrights and tickets passes to their authors and reselling them later at the theater entrance door.
Lot 198
An Edwardian set of door furniture comprising finger plate, key plate, knob handle and domed roundel, all decorated with hand painted floral sprays and gilt foliate scrolls together with a late 20th Century set decorated with transfer applied fruit and flowers, all contained in a 1937 Palethorpe Sausage cardboard box
Lot 1730
A Georgian Oak Bureau having plain top over the cleated edge fall with ornate brass escutcheon, opening to reveal five pigeonholes, six waterfall pigeonholes and a central small moulded panel door flanked by two false pillar fronted compartments. The frieze having manual lopers and a drawer over three lower long graduated drawers, all with Oak linings, front to back bases, cock beaded edges and brass handles, on bracket feet, 36'' wide x 42'' high x 22'' deep
Lot 1738
A good quality reproduction Queen Anne style double Wardrobe of small proportion, having ornate carved arch top with foliage and moulding. The pair of opposing arch top cross banded and moulded doors having well figured burr Walnut quarter veneered single full length panels, opening to reveal full length hanging space to one side and four shelves over two rebated drawers to the other, a long mirror to the inside of the door, on lower moulding with carved shoulder cabriole legs. Ornate pierced brass plate drop handles. 40'' wide x 75'' high x 25 1/2'' deep
Lot 1755
An early 1900's Ship's Dentist's full height Cabinet having a funnel-filled cistern to the top behind an angle-adjustable bevelled oval mirror and feeding a hinged drop-down basin via a nickel finished tap flanked by two soap racks, the ceramic basin being emptied by closing the unit, the waste draining to a metal waste water receptacle at the base. The unit also incorporates a drop-down writing surface, a double-doored cabinet with glass and jug recesses as well as a lockable medicine safe (key present) and two smaller doored compartments below. The unit incorporates carved and pierced Maltese cross details and has high quality nickel and brass fittings and most likely originated from a vessel of some antiquity, which plied the Mediterranean. 72'' high, overall, 22'' wide, 12'' max. depth. Sold together with the ''Ship's Dentist'' brass door name plate.
Lot 1759
A very good art nouveau Oak mirror backed Sideboard, having moulded cornice on turned and fluted supports terminating in single shaped shelves on corbel type supports, flanking central shaped bevel plated mirror and carved raised and fielded panels with figures and foliage and two small bevel plated mirrors. The rectangular top having moulded edge, and the base having frieze drawer over single twin carved panel door next to an open compartment with fret cut surround over lower flight of two drawers. Ornate brass handles and hinges throughout. On lower frieze and bun feet. 66'' wide x 83 1/2'' high x 22'' deep
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