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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed 6.5 x 9.5 photographs and slightly smaller (some vintage) by various British Prime Ministers comprising Anthony Eden, Alec Douglas-Home (both photographs by Vivienne), Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. Together with a small selection of official Christmas greetings cards, each bearing fascimile signatures or unsigned, from Anthony Eden, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and John Major. Two of the photographs are slightly irregularly trimmed, some foxing and age wear, FR to G, 8 £100 - 150
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THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90 & DENIS (1915-2003) British Businessman, husband of Margaret Thatcher. Signed Christmas Greetings card by both Margaret and Denis Thatcher individually, the stiff 8vo white folding card featuring a colour image of the Prime Minister and her husband to the front cover, depicting them standing in full length poses together in the entrance hall of 10 Downing Street. Signed (‘Margaret Thatcher’) in blue fountain pen ink by Margaret Thatcher and signed (‘Denis and’) by Denis Thatcher, also in blue fountain pen ink, beneath a printed greeting. About EX £80 - 100
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THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Signed and inscribed 4 x 6.5 photograph of Thatcher seated in a three quarter length pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink to the lower white border. About EX £80 - 100
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THATCHER MARGARET: (1925-2013) British Prime Minister 1979-90. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Thatcher in a head and shoulders pose. Signed (‘Margaret Thatcher’) in bold black ink with her name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. EX £100 - 120
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed clipped pieces by various British Prime Ministers comprising Lord North, Duke of Newcastle, Earl Grey, Duke of Portland, Lord John Russell, Marquis of Salisbury, Arthur James Balfour and Stanley Baldwin (‘Baldwin of Bewdley’). Neatly laid down (3) and with some light overall age wear, G to about VG, 8 £100 - 150
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Selection of signed Free Front envelope panels by various British Prime Ministers comprising George Canning, Earl Liverpool, Duke of Wellington (unsigned), Viscount Sidmouth, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell (complete envelope post marked at San Remo, Italy, 22nd February 1870) and Earl of Derby (signed E G Stanley). Some light overall age wear, G to about VG, 8 £100 - 120
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A good, small selection of individually signed First Day Covers by various British Prime Ministers of the 20th century comprising Anthony Eden (signed in both forms, ‘Avon (Anthony Eden)’), Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. All are signed in bold inks to clear areas and each of the covers feature different attractive designs, images and postage stamps commemorating Winston S. Churchill. VG to EX, 4 £100 - 120
Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953.
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HENRY II: (1503-1555) King of Navarre 1517-55. L.S., Henry, one page, folio, 15th July 1552. The untranslated manuscript letter comprises seven lines of elegantly penned text and is signed by the King with a fine example of his signature at the foot. Neatly inlaid, otherwise VG £400 - 600
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FESCH JOSEPH: (1763-1839) French Cardinal and Diplomat, the uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte. Prince of France. L.S., G. Cardinal Fesch, with holograph subscription (‘Your much obliged servant’), one page, 4to, Rome, 24th December 1805, to Cardinal [Cesare] Brancadoro (‘Reverend Eminence, My Very Obsequious Lord’), in Italian. Fesch expresses his appreciation of the goodness and welcome greetings his correspondent has ‘deigned to honour me with the Christmas approaching’, sending his thanks and remarking ‘I would like to show to Your Excellency my gratitude and reverence committing myself in the execution of your venerable commands, and in the meantime with respectful esteem I most humbly kiss your hands’. A letter of interesting association. Some extremely minor, light age wear to the left edge and left upper corner, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG £100 - 150
Cesare Brancadoro (1755-1837) Italian Cardinal who refused to be present at the marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte and was deported to Reims in 1809. As a result, Brancadoro was named one of the ‘black Cardinals’ whom were forbidden by Napoleon to wear the red robes of a Cardinal.
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HENRY OF PRUSSIA: (1726-1802) Prince of Prussia, the younger brother of Frederick the Great. A Statesman and General, Prince Henry served in the Seven Years’ War (never losing a battle) and was also suggested as a candidate for a monarch for the United States of America. A.L.S., Henri, one page, 4to, n.p., October 1794, to a gentleman, in French. Prince Henry informs his correspondent of when he will be returning to Rheinsberg and invites him and his son to join him there. With blank integral leaf. About EX £100 - 150
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WILHELM II: (1859-1941) German Emperor & King of Prussia 1888-1918. A good, large vintage signed 11 x 14 Imperial Cabinet photograph, the image depicting the Kaiser in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform and medals. Photograph by Russell & Sons of Windsor. Signed (‘William F.M.’) in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer’s mount and dated 26th July 1899 in his hand. Some light staining and age wear to the edges of the photographer’s mount, evidently caused by previous framing, otherwise about VG £200 - 300
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GUSTAV III: (1746-1792) King of Sweden 1771-92. The last absolute ruler of Sweden, the King was assassinated at a Masked Ball at the Opera House in Stockholm. D.S., Gustav, as King, two pages, folio, Stockholm, 11th December 1776. The manuscript document is a military commission appointing Baron Hermann Flemming to be a Second Adjutant of the Life Dragoon Royal Regiment. Signed by the King at the conclusion immediately above a blind embossed paper seal. With blank integral leaf. A light circular stain appears to the first page, evidently caused by the seal, only very slightly affecting the text (which remains perfectly legible), otherwise VG £100 - 150
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OLAV V: (1903-1991) King of Norway 1957-91. Vintage signed 7.5 x 11 photograph, a formal study of the King in a head and shoulders pose wearing a ceremonial uniform, cap and medals. Signed (‘Olav R’) in blue fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. Neatly mounted within the original photographer’s presentation folder. About EX £100 - 120
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EMMA OF HAWAII: (1836-1885) Queen Consort of the Hawaiian Islands 1856-63. Scarce, dark ink signature (‘Emma R’) as Queen, and date, 26th September 1865, in her hand, on a slightly irregularly clipped oblong 12mo piece bearing the printed address of Upper Gore Lodge, Kensington Gore (London). Accompanied by a vintage unsigned sepia carte-de-visite photograph of the Queen standing in a full length pose. Photograph by John & Charles Watkins of London. Some light, minor overall age wear to the signed piece, G to VG, 2 £100 - 150
At the time of the present signature Queen Emma was in London in order to solicit funds for an Anglican cathedral and a school for girls in Hawaii. She raised a significant amount of money for both projects and Queen Victoria remarked of the Hawaiian Queen, ‘Nothing could be nicer or more dignified than her manner’.
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PETER I: (1672-1725) Peter the Great. Emperor of Russia 1721-25. A fine D.S., Peter, in Cyrillic, as Emperor, one page, small 4to, Saint Petersburg, 10th May 1723. The boldly penned manuscript document, in Cyrillic, is an Edict to the College of War (numbered 41) and is an order to pay the salary of General Prince Golitsyn who is appointed to the campaign, instructing that the salary is ‘to be paid according to the ordinance, without deducting a quarter, for his campaign’. With blank integral leaf. VG £4000 - 6000
Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1675-1730) Russian Prince and Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the occupation forces in Finland during the Great Northern War 1714-21.
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PAUL I: (1754-1801) Emperor of Russia 1796-1801. L.S., Pavel, in Cyrillic, one page, 4to, 1796, to Lieutenant General Svechin, Commandant of Saint Petersburg, in Cyrillic. The manuscript letter states, in full, ‘Your diligent and firm fulfilment of the duty has drawn Our attention, and as a sign of Our Monarchal benevolence We most graciously appoint you holder of the second class order of Saint Anna, and forward the insignia which We order you to carry’. With blank integral leaf. VG £800 - 1000
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FEODOROVNA MARIA: (1759-1828) Empress Consort of Russia 1796-1801, the second wife of Emperor Paul I of Russia. Ink signature (‘Marie’) and one line of holograph text in French (‘Votre….me fait toujours le meme plaisir’) on an oblong 8vo piece removed from the conclusion of a L.S., St. Petersburg, 20th November 1826. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG £100 - 150
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NICHOLAS II: (1868-1918) Emperor of Russia 1894-1917. A.L.S., Nicholas, in Cyrillic, as Emperor, two pages, 8vo, Anichkov Palace, Saint Petersburg, to Apran, on mourning stationery, in Cyrillic. The Tsar announces ‘Better late than never: I send you the money I owed you for the lampshades’ and continues ‘With great sorrow I followed the run of the disease of the poor little Orlova. What a terrible misfortune! I feel sorry with all my heart for the wretched husband.’ With blank integral leaf. VG £1000 - 1200
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TROTSKY LEON: (1879-1940) Russian Marxist Revolutionary & Theorist, the founding leader of the Red Army. T.L.S., L. Trotsky, one page, 4to, Constantinople, 26th October 1929, to Mr. Rosenthal, in French. Trotsky states that, after months of trying, he has been unable to make any progress with the publishers Rieder, and continues to outline his concerns in five numbered paragraphs, in part, ‘1. You found out by happy coincidence of the poor translation of my autobiography. Since then I agreed with Rieder that the translator be changed and it was agreed he would send me three chapters of the new translation so I could judge the value of it. Despite his formal promise, Rieder has not sent them to me. I have told him twice that I wished the publication of my book to be absolutely out of the question until I have assured myself of the value of the translation. But it is possible that Rieder wishes to publish the book as it is, perhaps even in its first translation. If he were to do so it would mean a rupture of our contract and legal proceedings. 2. Another conflict, less important, has occurred concerning the autobiography. Rieder, contrary to my proposition, has chosen the sub-title….I in no way accept the sub-title: Memoires which, along with the title: Half a Century, implies that I write of anything that possibly happened during that half-century and not about my life, which would mislead the reader. 3. The most important question is about my book on the International Communist. Despite my insistence, reminding him for months and months he does not deliver the text to be translated and tells me nothing precise regarding the publishing date of my book, which is of the upmost importance to me. I intend to check the translation myself and to make annotations, which this delay is rendering twice as necessary. 4. I wish to receive precise communications regarding Rieder’s drafts with the foreign publishers concerning the publishing of my works. 5. My agreement with Rieder is between Mme. Madeleine Marx, to whom I delegated my powers, and himself. Not wanting to impose any further on Mme. Marx, I wrote to Rieder inviting him to make another agreement again between him and myself’, further stating ‘As it was already agreed between Rieder and I for this new agreement, my book about the Red Army is to be excluded, as the autobiography is composed of two volumes, because the agreement must only concern three books: ‘The Disfigured Revolution’, the autobiography and The International Communist’. Trotsky concludes by asking Rosenthal to make the necessary arrangements to settle his concerns. A letter of interesting content. VG £1500 - 2000
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KHRUSHCHEV NIKITA: (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union 1958-64 & First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1953-64. An excellent vintage signed 8.5 x 11 photograph, the image depicting Khrushchev in a formal head and shoulders pose. Signed in bold black fountain pen ink to the lower white border and dated 1964 in his hand. Signed portraits of the Soviet Premier are extremely rare. Very slightly neatly trimmed to the right edge and with a few minor surface and corner creases, otherwise VG £800 - 1000
‘The Burnside disaster is recoiling in the Country with fearful effect’
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GARFIELD JAMES: (1831-1881) American President March-September 1881. Assassinated. A.L.S., J. A. Garfield, two pages, 4to, Washington, 22nd December 1862, to ‘My dear Colonel’. Garfield states that he was glad to hear from his correspondent and sends his congratulations on the Colonel securing a place equal to his merits, continuing ‘I am delighted with the prospect of having your regiment with me and shall do everything in my power to secure such a result’. Garfield also confesses ‘I have been so long kept in this court that my impatience has sometimes amounted at most to despair of getting into the field at all - but I hope we are drawing toward the close of our long siege’ and further discusses the formation of Brigades and the intention for Garfield to be given a Division, also remarking ‘The Burnside disaster is recoiling in the Country with fearful effect. The Cabinet seems to be going to pieces and this world of Washington is in such a ferment as has not been seen for many a long day. The war must be a long one - The rebellion cannot be ended till we strike, strike, strike - and strike again - tough bloody blows that cost us….but that at last will break the strength of the South. We have not yet found the General to lead us all. When we find him we shall make swift work’. With blank integral leaf. A letter of excellent content written during the American Civil War. The text is a little light, although perfectly legible. A few slight traces of former mounting, largely to the integral leaf and only very slightly affecting a few words of text, but not the signature. About VG £200 - 300
Garfield served as a Major General during the American Civil War 1861-65 and was first elected to Congress in 1862, the year of the present letter, to represent Ohio’s 19th District.
The ‘Burnside disaster’ which Garfield writes of in the present letter evidently refers to General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, which led to a humiliating and costly Union defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg on 13th December 1862, less than ten days before the present letter was written.
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CLEVELAND GROVER: (1837-1908) American President 1885-89, 1893-97. Fountain pen ink signature (‘Grover Cleveland’) and date, 5th March 1889, in his hand on a slim oblong 8vo piece. Also signed by Frances Cleveland (1864-1947) First Lady of the United States 1886-89, 1893-97, with her name alone in fountain pen ink. Some light central vertical and horizontal folds, VG £100 - 120
The present signatures were signed just one day after Cleveland left the office of United States President for the first time on 4th March 1889.
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WILSON WOODROW: (1856-1924) American President 1913-21. T.L.S., Woodrow Wilson, one page, 4to, New Jersey, 4th April 1911, to Richard C. Maclaurin, on the printed stationery of the State of New Jersey Executive Department. Wilson informs his correspondent that he would have gladly accepted an invitation, but is ‘bound by a score of imperative engagements and cannot stir abroad at the time of your meeting and banquet’. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a slight tear to the centre, professionally repaired to the verso, only very slightly affecting a couple of words to text and not the signature, otherwise about VG £100 - 150
Richard Maclaurin (1870-1920) Scottish-born American Educator and Mathematical Physicist, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1909-20.
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OBAMA BARACK: (1961- ) American President 2009 - . Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2009. A colour printed 11 x 17 poster issued for Obama Pride, signed by Obama in bold black ink with his name alone at the centre of the circular rainbow logo. VG £100 - 150
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HISTORICAL: Selection of A.Ls.S. and T.Ls.S. by various British political figures etc., of the 1920s onwards, including Kingsley Wood, George Saintsbury (5), Francis, Viscount Curzon (3), Philip Snowden, John Simon (3), Admiral Jellicoe etc. Several of the letters are quite lengthy and most are written to Sir Courtenay Mansel. Some age wear, generally G, 28 £100 - 120
Sir Courtenay Mansel (1880-1933) Welsh Landowner and Farmer, Barrister and Liberal Party Politician who later joined the Conservatives.
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UNITED NATIONS: A good, unusual collection of individually signed oblong 12mo cards by 46 representatives of the 51 members of the General Assembly of the United Nations who met for their first session at Central Hall, London, on 10th January 1946, including Jan Masaryk (Czechoslovakia), Gabriel Lafayette Dennis (Liberia), Alberto Ulloa Sotomayor (Peru), Manuel Bianchi (Chile), Cyro de Freitas Valle (Brazil), Lucio Moreno Quintana (Argentina), Joseph Bech (Luxembourg), Tiburcio Carias Andino (Honduras), Fares al-Khoury (Syria), James F. Byrnes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward Stettinius Jr. (USA), Joseph Paul-Boncour (France), Andrey Gromyko (Russia), Gladwyn Jebb (Acting Secretary-General), Norman Makin (Australia), Ibrahim Hakimi (Iran), Roberto Picon Lares (Venezuela), Peng-chun Chang (China), Hasan Saka, Saffet Arikan (Turkey), Trygve Lie (Secretary-General), L. Dana Wilgress, Escott Reid, John E. Read, Stanley Knowles (Canada), Peter Fraser (New Zealand), Ernest Bevin (Great Britain) etc. All are neatly mounted to six oblong folio pages removed from an album, G to generally VG £250 - 350
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WORLD POLITICS: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, a few signed cards and pieces etc., by various political leaders, including Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Archbishop Makarios, David Lloyd George, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Harold Wilson, Robert Kennedy (small signed piece, neatly laid down), Edward Kennedy, Ian Douglas Smith, John Wrathall, Desmond Lardner-Burke etc. G to generally VG, 18 £100 - 120
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DAYAN MOSHE: (1915-1981) Israeli Military Leader and Politician. Signed 3.5 x 5 photograph of Dayan in a head and shoulders pose. Signed, in Hebrew, with his name alone in black ink to a clear area at the base of the image. About EX £80 - 100
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KAI-SHEK CHIANG: (1887-1975) Chinese President 1948-49, 1950-75. Signed postcard photograph, the official portrait depicting Chiang in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Hu Chung Hsien. Signed, in Chinese characters, with his name alone in black fountain pen ink to a clear area of the image. One very slight, extremely minor corner crease, VG £200 - 300
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JAMESON LEANDER STARR: (1853-1917) British Colonial Politician, known for his involvement in the Jameson Raid. A.L.S., L. S. Jameson, two pages, 8vo, London, 14th December 1894, to Sir William Broadbent, on the printed stationery of the Burlington Hotel. Jameson informs his correspondent that there is ‘practically no doubt’ that he shall be able to dine with him on the 20th and will leave London later, adding ‘I should hear tomorrow from the Cape if I have to go sooner & wd. let you know by a telegram at once’. In concluding he writes ‘As to your kind suggestion of friends to meet - Pepper and Phillips are amongst my oldest and would give me the greatest pleasure’. Some very light, uniform age toning to the final page and a thin strip of light dust staining to the right edge of the first page, otherwise VG £100 - 150
William Broadbent (1835-1907) English Neurologist, Physician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.
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BOTHA LOUIS: (1862-1919) Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910-19. T.L.S., Louis Botha, one page, 4to, Hotel Cecil, London, 18th April 1907, to Major Marker. Botha thanks his correspondent for their letter of congratulations and adds that he hopes that he will have the pleasure of seeing him personally in London, further remarking ‘I am having a frightfully busy time, and the people here have overwhelmed us with kindness’. VG £80 - 100
Botha had been made Prime Minister of the Transvaal just a few months before writing the present letter and in the spring of the same year he took part in the Conference of Colonial Premiers held in London. During his visit to England on this occasion Botha declared the whole-hearted adhesion of the Transvaal to the British Empire.
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MANDELA NELSON: (1918-2013) South African President 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. A red cricket ball signed (‘N Mandela’) by Mandela in black ink and dated 31st July 1996 in his hand. Professionally mounted to a grey and black cubic plinth (4 x 4 x 4) and with an engraved plaque attached to the front bearing the logo of P G Bison and the words Nelson Mandela President of S.A. for S.A. U/15 Cricket. Unusual in this form. VG £400 - 500
P G Bison, manufacturers of wood-based panel products based in South Africa, sponsored an Under-15 Cricket Week in South Africa from 1993/94 to 2008/09.
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GANDHI INDIRA: (1917-1984) Indian Prime Minister 1966-77, 1980-84. Signed postcard photograph of Gandhi in a head and shoulders pose. Signed (‘Indira Gandhi’) with her name alone in black ink to a clear area at the base of the image. VG £80 - 100
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GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian Political and Spiritual Leader during the Indian Independence Movement. Book signed, a hardback edition of Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, published by G. A. Natesan & Co., Madras, May 1922 (third edition). Signed (‘M K Gandhi’) in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone to the front free endpaper. Bound in the publisher’s brown cloth boards with extensive printed black text and title. Contained in a handsome custom made box. Rare. Some light age wear, largely to the spine, otherwise VG £2000 - 3000
The present book was signed for Donald Coats Gates when he met Gandhi in Madras. Indeed, direct reference can be found in the Gandhi Archive to the Indian leader having signed the present book, where it is noted that a letter from Gates was received by Gandhi on 8th April 1928, in which Gates wrote of ‘recollections of his first meeting in Madras and Gandhiji’s autographing a copy of his writings’.
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GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian Political and Spiritual Leader during the Indian Independence Movement. L.S., M K Gandhi, with one holograph correction, on a blank postcard, The Ashram, Sabarmati, 4th May 1928, to Donald Coats Gates (‘Dear Friend’). Gandhi writes, in full, ‘I thank you for your letter. I have also Dr. Kellogs Cabots book. I am keeping it on my desk in the hope of at least glancing through its pages’. Together with two identical carbon typed copies of letters from Gates to the Very Rev. Edwin J. Van Etten of The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston, Massachusetts, dated 11th February 1948, expressing his appreciation of the memorial service to Gandhi (‘It was without doubt the most impressive and soul stirring tribute I have ever witnessed’) , adding that ‘In 1926 I wrote a psychograph on Gandhi for Dr. Richard Cabot in his department of Social Ethics at Harvard’, recounting a meeting with Gandhi in Madras and asking if the messages of the three speakers at the memorial service are going to be published. Also including a T.L.S. by Edwin J. Van Etten, one page, 4to, Boston, Massachusetts, 13th February 1948, to Donald Gates, replying to his letter and commenting ‘I had in mind the very thing of which you spoke, namely, the publishing of the addresses….Unfortunately, I did not speak of the matter ahead of time, and in any case, all the speakers had very short notice….When I turned to them afterward, the answer was that they had only a few notes and could not really reproduce what they said.’ VG, 4 £2000 - 3000
Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939) American Physician who advanced clinical hematology, was an innovator in teaching methods and a pioneer in social work.
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