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1940064694.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
22552No date Newmarket. Portion of letter valediction only 10.5 x 8cm fold mark some staining but text clear. Apparently a scarce autograph No date (Newmarket). unknown
1990210918075Thomas Nelson Publishers 1990-01-01. Leather Bound. New. 9x6x1. Thomas Nelson Publishers hardcover
23652Circa 1820. She is jointed at the knees and if suspended by a cotton thread she can be dangled and give the impression of dancing. Height overall 10 inches. Some of the foil decoration lacking. Her right hand detached at her wrist but not loose A charming item in generally excellent condition.Circa 1820. A rare survival. Circa 1820. unknown
26439Petition dated from London February 1833. Despite a recent book by Miles Macnair supporting Serre's claims the case for her imposture is overwhelming as her entry in the Oxford DNB demonstrates. See also the various reports of the matter for example Ryves v. Duke of Wellington Law Times 31 October 1846. 23pp. foolscap 8vo. On six loose bifoliums of laid paper with 1833 Britannia watermark of Gilling & Alllford. Good on lightly aged and worn paper. Folded into the customary packet and docketed on reverse of last leaf 'Copy Letter to the King from the Princess Olive'. Note that this is not how such a document would have been described had the recipient been a royal representative. Clearly a draft with a number of lacunae and a few emendations in another hand in pencil. The document and its ‘signature’ do not appear to be in Serres’ autograph: they do not resemble other examples consulted for example the manuscript offered for sale at Sotheby’s in London in July 2009. The few pencil annotations are in another hand and although more like are still not likely to be in her hand. Written in the year before Serres' death and apparently unpublished. The first page is headed 'A letter to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty' and begins; 'Sire The high opinion I wish to Cherish that your Majesty when truth claims your attention will do no wrong induces this public appeal to your justice for the consideration and redress of my unprecedented wrongs which I have from Year to yr patiently & degradingly submitted to rather than lay open to the English Nation the true Cause of the desertion and neglect of my late Royal Parents Relatives'. The document ends with the petition pp.21-23 headed: 'To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The dutiful and humble petition of Olive Princess of Cumberland - London Feby 1833.' It begins: 'Sheweth That your Petr altho she is the legitimate Daughter & Sole Heir of his late Royal Highness Henry Frederick Duke off Cumberland by her Royal Highness Olive his first and lawful Wife is disposed of all her Birthrights except her rank & name of her late Royal Parents'. The petition claims that she 'lawfully proved in the prerogative Court in the month of June 1822' a 'Bequest of his late Majesty George. the 3rd of £15000'. Petition dated from London, February 1833. unknown
26706White Hall & Whitehall Court & Whitehall Chappel sic Stairs No.11 27 May 1785 and 3 Nov. 1785. LETTER A. Autograph Letter Signed "Mary O'Brien" to "Michael Bourke" in another letter a connection of Bourke with the possible influence/support of Arthur Murphy author and playwright one page 4to no date one small hole not affecting text bifolium aged but legible as follows: " I can with truth affirm though not the first to condole the late losses you sustainedI am equally concerned at the event any Loss or misfortune to a Gentleman of your Benevolent mind is not confined to himself - for many are thereby affected and Involved in the consequences: I need not remind a Gentleman of your religious principles that fortitude is the best eradicate sic for the accidents and vicissitudes every Mortal is liable to meet with in this life this doctrine I am convinced is imprinted on your Mind and supported by a Manly sense of the Instability of human hapiness sic: Mr O'Brien joins me in requesting the Honor of your company on Wednesday Evening next to tea & coffee .". Addressed to Michael Bourke Esq Garrard Street Soho. LETTER B. Autograph Letter Signed "P O'Brien" Husband Patrick O'Brien 27 May 1785 one page 4to aged but good condition also to Michael Bourke Burkeas follows: "Your being so kind as promise your interest with Your Friends in the disposal of Mrs O'Brien's Poem Presumably "The Pious Incendiaries" She has taken the Liberty to order 50 to be left at your House being the Number you was sic pleased first to mention to me: nor doubting from the friendships you have already shewn but you will do what you conveniently Can - She joins in best Compliment & thanks". He adds a note in less of a copperplate: "Mr. Hooper See Note A below Mrs O'Brien's Book Seller receives what ever the Books may Sell - for the Price for those she charges 3:s 6d Each". LETTER C. Third Person but in Patrick O'Brien's handwriting one page 4to bifolium aged but good condition 3 Nov. 1785 as follows: "Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien's Compliments Wait on Mr. Bourke hoping he is willing As Mr. Bourke was so kind as promise to procure the friendship of Mr Arthur Murphy in support of the Play unidentified committed to his protection Mrs O'Brien requests the favor of Mr Burke sic to inform him what she may depend upon in that respect - The Season is now far Advanced and Mrs. O'Brien wishes to know the fate of that first Attempt of hers in the Dramatic Line - Mr. O'Brien called Several times at Will's Coffee House on purpose to pay his Complements to Mr. Burke after his return to Town but was not fortunate enough to meet him.…". Notes: A. "Very little is known about the personal life of Mary O'Brien except that she was the wife of Patrick O'Brien Esq. as she wrote both under her name and as Mrs Patrick O'Brien. She was in favour of Irish economic independence and an independent Irish parliament as well as being a supporter of Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. She believed that George III should be replaced by a Regent while he was unwell. O'Brien hoped that this would also remove William Pitt from his position. Her work was considered satyrical and political. She wrote poetry and plays." B. "The pious incendiaries: or fanaticism display'd. A poem. By a lady"; London : Printed for the author and sold by S. Hooper No. 212 High Holborn facing Bloomsbury Square; Stockdale Piccadilly Messrs. Edgertons Charing Cross; and Richardson under the Royal Exchange MDCCLXXXV. 1785". White Hall & Whitehall Court & Whitehall Chappel [sic] Stairs (No.11), 27 May 1785 and 3 Nov. 1785. unknown
22357Letter: 'Weddnesday sic Morg.' 2 June 1819; from 8 Upper John Street Golden Square. Translations without date or place. Tabeeb was a fêted 'exotic' visitor to England at the end of the Regency period. In March 1819 the Asiatic Journal reported his presence in London and on 6 June four days after the present letter he breakfasted with the Irish poet Thomas Moore who reported in his diary that he was 'to take a Diploma of Doctor at Oxford this month'. In April 1820 a fine engraving of Tabeeb after a painting by John James Hall was published. In September 1820 the London magazine La Belle Assemblee printed a letter describing the English in complimentary terms written by 'Meerza Jiafer Tabeeb Persian physician who had been sent by his Royal Highness the Prince Abbas Mirza Bey Prince of Persia to this country to study the practice of physic and who has now returned to his own country'. Three items from an album compiled by Lady Ann Cullum 1807-1875 wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum 1777-1855 of Hardwick House. In the letter and calling card Tabeeb's name has a macron over the 'a' of 'Jiafer' LETTER: 1p 12mo. In fair condition lightly aged with wear at one corner and water staining at head with traces of mount adhering to reverse. The letter reads: 'Meerza Jiafer Tabeeb presents his respectful Compliments to Lady Cullum and is very sorry to say that he is obliged to attend Mr. Brande's lecture the celebrated chemist William Thomas Brande 1788-1866 at Royal Institution tomorrow morning at Nine Oclock therefore he begs to put off his breakfasting for some other morning.' TRANSLATIONS: 1p landscape 8vo. In fair condition aged with water staining to one corner. Folded three times. Addressed on reverse 'To Lady Cullum.' The only other writing on that side preceded by a small heart is 'Seeing Friends gives Brillany sic to the Eye'. The first of the quotations is preceded by an asterisk and the second by a cross suggesting that the Persian original may have originally accompanied them. The first reads: 'I saw my moon-like love in the garden: she was gathering roses. The thorn of the rose wounder her hands but she only laughed. I asked her the cause of her laughter: she replied “the rose cannot bear to see any thing superior to itself.' The second reads: 'O Beloved of my heart I cannot say whether you are the sea or the moon. Is it your face or a rose which I see: is it light which dazzles me or is it your neck.' CALLING CARD. 3.75 x 7.5 cm. Laid down on the last item beneath the second quotation. In fair condition with vertical fold line. The name 'Meerza Jiafer Tabeeb' engraved in copperplate and centred on the card. Beneath this at bottom left Tabeeb has written his signature in Persian script and at bottom-right he writes the address '30 Golden Sqr.' Letter: 'Weddnesday [sic] Morg.' [2 June 1819]; from 8 Upper John Street, Golden Square. Translations without date or place. unknown
1986342<p>Good condition some scuffing and creasing to covers. Signet 1986. Paperback. 220 pp. <br /><br /></p> Signet paperback
1988343<p>Good condition some scuffing and creasing to covers. Pageant Books 1988. Paperback. 274 pp. Regency Romantic Intrigue. <br /><br /></p> Pageant Books paperback
123625Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1828. . 24mo 12.5 x 7.5 cm; MS notes in pen and pencil to endpapers bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary straight-grained green morocco covers panelled in gilt with an ovoid-design gilt spine in 3 compartments all edges gilt minor wear near fine.<br /> An excellent example of a pocket-edition King James Bible in a contemporary Regency binding of straight-grained green morocco tooled in gilt to an ovoid design.<br /><br />With provenance for the antiquary Matthew Gregson 1749-1824 who amassed a library at his house on St Anne's Street Liverpool. He was elected a member of the Society of the Arts in 1801 and was in 1803 awarded a gold medal '"for his very great attention to render useful the articles remaining after public fires". He had shown that paint varnish and printers' ink could be produced from burnt grain and sugar'. ODNB.<br /> Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1828. unknown
