Skip to content

Search Results: Miscellaneous from Sophie Dupre

You searched for:
  • Subject: Miscellaneous from Sophie Dupre
Results 1 - 20 of 209
No image available

2 Typed Letter Signed to A.R.W. Farmer, (Charles Melville McLaren, 1913-2003, President of the Royal Horticultural Society 1961-1984, from 1953 3rd Baron of Bodnant)

by ABERCONWAY

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
about "A Dictionary of Cat Lovers", written by Lord Aberconway's mother Christabel (d. 1974) and inscribed by her to Sir Winston Churchill, and offering £100 (31st January 1985), he apologises for having missed Farmer owing at the last minute to "the Memorial Service to Peter Chance, a great friend... and chairman of Christie's" but praising the book's "excellent condition... no one was able to point out to my mother any lover of cats in history, mythology, literature or... art, which she had not included", together 2 sides folio, 40 Lowndes Street, London, 31st January & 11th February
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

2 on 1 sheet, 'The Mantle of Green' and 'I'm Seventeen Come Sunday',

by BALLADS

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$69.22
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
beginning "As I went a-walking one morning in June... she appeared like a queen... and a mantle of green", she had lost her lover at Waterloo, whom the singer realises was his commanding officer, the second begins "As I walked out one May morning", and ends "Now I am with my soldier lad... A drum and fife is my delight, And a pint of rum in the morning", thin ballad paper, 1 side 10" x 7", Thomas Yapp's Cheap Song Warehouse, 82 Digbeth, Birmingham, date in pen
Item Price
A$69.22
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Apostolic Blessing signed (born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, 1857-1939, Pope from 1922 and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1929)

by PIUS XI

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$1,788.12
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
with a fine round photo by G. Felicif, Roma, at the head showing him seated on his throne giving a blessing, underneath the text is illuminated with gold and red, the blessing is for Joseph Kinsley and his family, there is a faint impression of the papal seal, the photo 6½ inches across and the document 14" x 11", Rome, no date, circa Pius XI will be remembered as the pope who reigned between the two great wars of the 20th century. The onetime librarian and mountain climber, he reorganized the Vatican archives. Pius XI fought the two ascendant ideologies of communism and fascism. His success in fighting them was limited and there is much controversy over the concordats he entered with European regimes to improve the situation of the Catholic Church. At the outset, it was clear that he found communism to be the greater of the two evils but in his later years, there is no doubt that he was repelled by the momentum of Nazi Germany, not only in its opposition to the Catholic Church but… Read More
Item Price
A$1,788.12
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Note Signed to "Colonel John Brown" (Henry Francis, 1892-1955, American Marathon Swimmer)

by SULLIVAN

  • Used
  • first
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$403.77
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
sending a photo, the note says "with best wishes from Henry F. Sullivan, Swan Channel Aug. 5 & 6, 1923", together with the photograph showing him smiling and shaking hands with Colonel Brown, the photo 8½" x 6½", the card 5" x 4", with monogram at the head of the Northamptonshire Regiment, Dover Camp, 15th August He is best known for becoming the third person and the first American to swim across the English Channel, beginning his swim on the afternoon of August 5th 1923, from Dover and finishing 27 hours and 25 minutes later on the evening of August 6th at Calais, France. From the family of Col. John Brown. He started in the territorial army in 1901 as a Lieutenant and retired in 1941 as Director General Territorial Army – as well as running a successful architectural practice. At this time he was a Colonel and commander of the 162nd (East Midland) Infantry Brigade and following that was on the board of the British Legion of which in 1930/34 he… Read More
Item Price
A$403.77
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to "Sis" (Ralph, 1694-1764, Postmaster and Philanthropist, Squire Allworthy of Fielding's 'Tom Jones')

by ALLEN

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$1,095.95
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
annotated in another hand as being Mrs Buckeridge, asking that she "cause the inclosed Letter to be safely deliver'd to Sister... on to Mrs Lewis...", 1 side 4to., Bath, 21st October Ralph Allen was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, who was notable for his reforms to England's postal system. He was born in Cornwall but moved to Bath to work in the post office, becoming the postmaster at the age of 19. He made the system more efficient and took over contracts for the mail system to cover England to the borders of Scotland and into South Wales. He bought local stone mines from his postal profits and had Prior Park built as his house to show off the versatility of the local Bath stone, using the old post office as his town house. With the architect John Wood the Elder, the stone he mined was used in the building work for the development of the Georgian city. However, the mines did not consistently make a profit and Allen subsidised them from his postal profits. He was a close… Read More
Item Price
A$1,095.95
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mrs' Holte, (Brooke Foss, 1825-1901, New Testament Scholar, from 1890 Bishop of Durham)

by WESTCOTT

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
(he jokes that Holte's letter was addressed to 'Mrs' Westcott), about reviewing some memorial essays, remarking that "a schoolmaster lives from day to day in an atmosphere which is supposed to inspire the affectation of universal knowledge. At best he gives judgment on everything with a readiness and confidence on w[hich] it is alarming to reflect", but on this occasion he will have "the satisfaction of recalling R. Dundas for whom I had a true affection... it will be a pleasure to me to do anything which would have gratified him", and asking for "(if possible and lawful) a specimen of the usual critique", 3 sides 8vo., Harrow, 24th March At Harrow School, where he taught from 1852 to 1869, Westcott wrote some of his most influential works, followed at Cambridge by important Commentaries on individual books of the N.T., and collaborating with his former pupil Hort on his famous Greek Text. At Durham, Westcott influenced every part of church life and… Read More
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter to Rev. Phillip Bracebridge from his sister (probably Anne) (Rev. Phillip, c. 1714-1762, DD by Diploma 1749, Rector of Fenny Drayton in Leicestershire)

by BRACEBRIDGE

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$634.49
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
saying that "Your letter to Pappa about standing for a Fellowship at All Souls I have sent to him in London but I don't see how he can do anything in it till you send a list of the Fellows of that College; and inform yourself in particular who has the most Interest in the elections and how they may be applyed to; which I wonder you did not acquaint him with in your last. You may put the list in a Cover and direct to William Taylor Esq Member of Parliament in the Inner Temple London. I have transcribed an old list of the Fellows of All Souls in 1719 when Brother Thom. stood for a Fellowship there, which is so long since that I fear it will be of no other Service to you than to put you in a method of getting a new one after the same manner...", 1 side folio, no place, no date, circa Phillip was at Oxford in 1731, BA 1735, DD by diploma in 1749 and then became Rector of Drayton. He was the son of Samuel BRACEBRIDGE (1673-1735) of Lindley Hall and Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire was an MP… Read More
Item Price
A$634.49
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph letter signed to 'Dear Sir', (William, 1749-1832, Canal and Dock Engineer)

by CHAPMAN

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
pleased at "everything appearing perfect in the New Dock after the Admission of Water - I trust the Works will prove perfect after the most severe trial... which would be the laying Dock dry, of which there will probably be no need - I shall be glad to hear of the admission of Ships, and of the Revenue of the Docks recompensing the Subscribers", 1 side 10" x 8", Newcastle, 19th December some light creasing at blank edges without loss
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to (Sir) Charles Henry Cave, 1861-1932, from 1922 2nd Bart., (Henry, 8th Duke, 1824-1899, Sportsman)

by BEAUFORT

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
apologizing for "stupidity in leaving my cigar case", commiserating over his father (Charles Daniel Cave, from 1896 1st Bart.), "unfortunately such an attack... takes some days to subside. No doubt all comes from Liver" and recommending a "Powne plaister", once the attack is gone "the jolting of riding keeps it off more than anything", he reports from the hunting field, because of a meeting in Cheltenham he will "only get out, after half a day tomorrow, on Friday and Saturday", 4 sides 8vo., Badminton, 16th November
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph letter signed, to the Revd A.P. Moor, M.A., F.R.G.S., (Revd John, Chaplain of St. Mary's Hopital, Ilford 1869-1882)

by RICHARDSON

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
saying "Mr Murray", the publisher, "duly forwarded your letter to my house", explaining that he has been away, but thanking him "for your kindness in pointing out... certain errors & misprints in my Manual of Modern Geography", he is glad to say that he had discovered most, but "the two which had alluded [sic] all my vigilance" will be corrected in the new edition "with cordial thanks for your friendly interest", 2 sides 8vo, Ilford, Essex, 21st May John - I suppose it definitely isn't by the one it was attributed to - 1787-1865? Pity!
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Note Signed "with... compliments" (George, 1802-1865, Treasury Official)

by ARBUTHNOT

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$46.15
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
to the Revd. E. Neale at Barbourne Lodge, Worcester, with envelope front and flap bearing Treasury seal, franked 'O.M.S.' with crowned 'Paid' stamp, 1 side 8vo., Treasury, 26th January Arbuthnot served as auditor of the Civil List and Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and to Sir Robert Peel.
Item Price
A$46.15
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph note in the third person to Mrs. C. Lucas, (Mr., of Camberwell)

by WOODS

  • Used
  • Signed
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$57.68
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
accepting "her kind invitation for the 12th Inst", 1 side 8vo black-edged, Grove Hill, Camberwell, 'Wednesday' no date, with a letter from the same address to C. Lucas, Esq., signed T.F. O'Donnell, explaining that Mr Woods had been getting over an attack of bronchitis, "till Wednesday he felt certain he would be able to go but yesterday the Doctor absolutely forbad his leaving the house", but sending Mr Woods' "kind remembrances to your brother" and New Year wishes, 2 sides 8vo black-edged, Camberwell, 'Friday Evg.' no date, both circa
Item Price
A$57.68
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Young, (Anne, wife of George William Fox, 1807-1878, K.T., Agriculturalist and improver of labourers' conditions, 9th Baron)

by KINNAIRD

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$92.29
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
sending autographs [not present] of "Mr Moncrieff, late Lord Advocate for Scotland... Sir Robert Inglis... & Sir Robert Peel", the note "from Gladstone has just arrived" is "interesting as being connected with the Irish Church Debate", 2 sides 8vo., 1 Pall Mall East, 1st May
Item Price
A$92.29
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner, 1787-1849, the portrait painter, (Charles Noel Noel, b. 1781, from 1823 3rd Baron Barham, from 1841 1st Earl)

by GAINSBOROUGH

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$103.83
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
saying that when he returns to town he "will have the pleasure of calling to see the Picture of Sir J. Thomson", 1 side 4to. black-edged, address on conjugate leaf, 1 Upper Harley Street, London, 21st May
Item Price
A$103.83
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to Brindley (Rt. Rev. Edmund Courtenay, 1870-1935, Inaugural Bishop of Derby from 1927)

by PEARCE

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
sending him "just a lie of thanks for you kind letter of congratulation..", 1 side 8vo., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge headed paper, 29th September His brother Ernest was the Bishop of Worcester from 1919 to 1930. Pearce was ordained in 1899. His career began with a curacy at St James, Muswell Hill. He was then Vicar of St Bene't's, Cambridge, Dean then Master of his old college Corpus Christi, Cambridge from 1914 and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate) Vice-Chancellor of the University. He died while taking a confirmation service near Glossop.
Item Price
A$173.04
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph letter signed to Mrs John B Weston, (Sir Michael Arthur Bass, 1837-1909, brewer and M.P., from 1886 1st Baron)

by BURTON

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$57.68
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
sending with "pleasure... one guinea in aid of your dinner", 1 side 8vo, Rangemore, Burton on Trent, 29th December
Item Price
A$57.68
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to William Smith, of Morley, Yorkshire, (Revd. Dr. Henry, 1818-1892, President of the Congregational Union and editor of the British Quarterly Review)

by ALLON

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$92.29
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
thanking him for his "sumptuous book... Every Englishman who can call Yorkshire his native county is proud to do so. - I will... ask your acceptance of a small volume of sermons", with a magazine portrait of Allon, the letter 2 sides 8vo., 10 St. Mary's Road, Canonbury, N., 1st December item trimmed without loss, portrait laid down
Item Price
A$92.29
A$15.06 shipping to USA
No image available

Autograph Letter Signed to Canon Robinson Duckworth, (1834-1911, (Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1825-1899, K.G., Master of the Horse and noted owner, from 1874 1st Duke)

by WESTMINSTER

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Rural Dean of Marylebone, Canon and Sub-Dean of Westminster, associate of Lewis Carroll), saying his name "is vy much at yr. service" for the principle of "a park at Paddington", but he is "in entire ignorance" of "any particular scheme", embossed crowned 'W', 2 sides 8vo., Cannes, 27th November
Item Price
A$80.75
A$15.06 shipping to USA
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Vaughan, (Sir Harold Idris, 1879-1967, Papyrologist & Scholar...

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. Vaughan, (Sir Harold Idris, 1879-1967, Papyrologist & Scholar of Welsh Literature, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum)

by BELL

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$103.83
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
saying "It is indeed a thing to worry over that so many famous & beautiful cities & buildings are in danger of destruction in these sad days", and suggesting he offer his photographs of Kairuan in Tunisia to Dr. Henry Thomas, Deputy Keeper of Printed Books, who "tells me his Department often takes photographs and would be glad of them", he is "very glad you enjoyed the Dafydd ap Gwilym" (edited with Idris Bell's son David in an edition of 50 copies), "the Society is going to reprint the volume... It is gratifying... that it apparently met a need", 2 sides 7" x 4½", British Museum, London, 15th January one blank corner defective, later identification at foot of second side
Item Price
A$103.83
A$15.06 shipping to USA
Autograph letter signed to his partner  Samuel Sandbach  (Charles Stewart, 1771-1828,...

Autograph letter signed to his partner  Samuel Sandbach  (Charles Stewart, 1771-1828, Partner in McInroy Parker & Co., Trading into Demarara)

by PARKER

  • Used
Condition
Used
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Calne, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$2,018.85
A$15.06 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
(1769-1851, Mayor of Liverpool 1831-1832), replying on behalf of Mr McInroy, who is on Jury service, saying they will "take the copper on from Messrs Borradailes" at 18p per lb., he is "pleased with the sale of my Cotton altho' it would appear the price is rather declining", paying off Mr Porter "would be a bad precedent to come to anything like a final Settlement with Him without doing the same with every other person... we recommend you to send him about £600... which will leave something in our hands for after clap - Conceiving Lace to be an article much easier to procure with you than here, I would recommend your sending it from Liverpool", also urging him "to state to Mr Porter... that we shall look to him in case of need to refund the whole or any part of the money... a friendly accommodation which we have granted to no one besides himself", and asking "Have you any word of the William Heathcote?", with a P.S. "there are no negro… Read More
Item Price
A$2,018.85
A$15.06 shipping to USA
Add to Want List

Didn’t find what you’re looking for?

Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we’ll send you an email. Best of all, it’s free.

Add to Want List
Book lovers can save on books by joining our Bibliophiles club

Are you a frequent reader or book collector?

Join the Bibliophile's Club and save 10% on every purchase, every day — up to $20 savings per order!

Biblio is a socially responsible company

Social Responsibility

Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?