Nashville, Battery Press, 1950. A unique copy, containing signed testimonials to the 7th Infantry Division from four two-star and three one-star US generals, including the five Commanding Generals from August 1941 to September 1945. These are Major-General Charles H. White; Major-General Albert Eger Brown; Major-General Charles H. Corlett; Major-General Archibald..... More
A most felicitous pairing at every level. Herschel and Babbage 'met while undergraduates at Cambridge where they both studied mathematics. They remained lifelong friends. Herschel supported Babbage through personal encouragement, service on the Royal Society committees specially convened to advise on the utility of the engines [mechanical computing engines, or..... More
Beecham toured Australia in 1940, and this portrait was presumably produced and signed then. Sir Thomas Beecham, the son of a wealthy industrialist, 'made his debut in 1905. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra and in 1910 initiated a series of opera seasons at Covent Garden. The following..... More
In this very engaging and open letter, Brewster discusses his current travel plans with his daughter to the wedding of a relative, an impending visit to Hurstbourne Park to re-examine the papers of Sir Isaac Newton (on whom he wrote an authoritative life), and the completion of his latest book..... More
The archive includes: (A) Five documents (foolscap folio, each one a bifolium, dated 1864, 1871, 1878, 1885 and 1897, with the florid printed introduction: 'Vi Christian den Niende, af Guds Naade Konge til Danmark ...') completed in a secretarial hand and signed 'Christian R' (Christian IX, King of Denmark from..... More
Patsy Cline 'is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and was one of the first country music artists to successfully crossover into pop music' (Wikipedia). She died at the age of 30 in a private plane crash. More
The lower portion of the image contains a caption in Czech: 'Alexander Dubcek, První Tajemník ÚV KSC' (First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia). Dubcek became 'Slovak Communist Party leader in 1963 and was Czechoslovak party leader 1967-69. After student riots in Prague in 1968..... More
The program is from Ellington's first Australian tour in February 1970. He has signed the front cover with 'Good luck' above his signature. The members of his orchestra who have signed the program are Booty Wood (trombone) and Cat Anderson (trumpet), both in pencil on the front cover; Harry Carney..... More
A friendly, chatty letter from Gibbes, thanking the recipient, one Mitch Evans, for a cheque, 'but too much, so am returning $15.00'. The payment would have been for a copy of his autobiography, 'You Live But Once', self-published in 1994. He mentions some of his current health issues: 'my big..... More
Not having time to offer a full critique of a manuscript Vogel has sent him, Gorki writes that he will limit himself to a brief sketch of his own conception of religion, which is entirely contrary to Vogel's. 'La religion surgit de la sensation de la liaison entre l'homme et..... More
Gounod is desolate as he was hoping to be part 'du jury de Chant' on the Friday, but he has just received a dispatch obliging him to leave on Thursday. More
The eight-line poem is written on the verso and recto of consecutive leaves in the small autograph book; it is apparently unpublished. 'They've raised the fares by ten percent. | It leaves us in consequence, short of rent. | But if we raise the legal tender, | Be off to..... More
London, Cassell and Company Limited, 1938. The front flyleaf is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from "The Captain" 1938'. Higginson & Williams A47a. Provenance: Margaret Russell (née Reed), nanny to Jenny, the first child of Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson, then lifelong friend of Robert Graves; by..... More
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. This copy contains corrections and alterations to the text in the author's hand on 30 pages. Most of them (on 24 pages) are minor typos or changes from double to single inverted commas. However, in six instances (pages 4, 24, 26, 55, 60 and 82)..... More
London, Hogarth Press, 1942. The front flyleaf is inscribed by Robert Graves to 'Margaret with love from The Captain 1942'. Volume VI in The New Hogarth Library. 'These three small books are published under a single cover, for economy and friendship'; pages 43-64 are contributed by Robert Graves. Higginson &..... More
The illustrations, accompanying the poems 'The Intro', 'Doreen', and 'Hitched' in the book, are each drawn within a pencil border (approximately 130 × 100 mm) on larger sheets of paper. The title is written immediately below the image; at the foot of each sheet of paper the artist has written..... More
Undated, but perhaps the 'Thanks and greetings from H. Hesse' were called for after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Humboldt remembers with gratitude the assistance rendered by le Duc to himself and his friends and collaborators, [Louis Joseph] Gay-Lussac and [Christian Leopold von] Buch. He hopes that M. Brongniart, 'l'homme célèbre', who wishes to visit Vesuvius and the lava flows of Ischia [a volcanic island near Naples], will be..... More
Three Lords Commissioners to the Admiralty have also signed this exemption 'from being impressed into His Majesty's Service': Lord Charles Spencer, Admiral Sir Francis Holburne, and a very young The Honourable Charles Fox (1749-1806). Foolscap folio, printed recto only with manuscript insertions; creased where folded; in excellent condition. More
![A typed letter signed by Amy Johnson to the Mayor of 'Narracoorte, Q'ld' [sic]. Amy JOHNSON](/pictures/thumb/116854_00.jpg?v=1576541654)
The letter was written while Amy Johnson was touring Australia after she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. It is a more-or-less routine thank-you to the Mayor for 'your kind telegram of congratulations which I received in Longreach, and for your invitation to visit your..... More
Banksmeadow, Renniks, 2008 (first edition). Number 2 of only 50 copies signed by the author on a large card mounted on the front flyleaf. The card is printed with small colour portraits of Keith Payne VC and Cross of Valour recipient Timothy Britten; small cards with their signatures (and place..... More
One of several portraits of Kitchener taken by Alexander Bassano. Kitchener's decorations indicate that this one was taken after the Sudan campaign but before the Boer War. Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. More
Louis Philippe instructs the Ambassador to Russia to attend the opening of the new session of Parliament in Paris after the fall of the second Thiers administration. The document is countersigned by the Garde des Sceaux, Alexandre-François Vivien. Offered with a small pen-and-ink botanical drawing (200 × 125 mm) by..... More
First, an autograph letter signed by Yaltah Menuhin (1921-2001): quarto, 2 pages, Los Angeles, 15 September 1948; creased where folded for posting; in excellent condition. This is a deeply-felt letter to Paul Morawetz, Hephzibah's lover at the time. 'I wish you and Hephzibah to find the peace of mind you..... More
The program comes from the first Australian tour of the Dudley Moore Trio in January 1971. The signatures are on the front cover; Moore has written 'love from Dudley Moore'. More
