1732 Naval Manuscripts – Mediterranean Salute – Admiral Wager + Duke Newcastle
It is dated Kensington, 20 October 1732, and includes an integral blank leaf. Date: 1732. Naval saluting was a matter of considerable importance in the eighteenth century. Originating in the Royal Navy, the practice of firing guns harmlessly to sea signalled peaceful intent and mutual respect.
1723 Robert Walpole Manuscript – See Video – Signed Expense Bill Prime Minister
An exceptionally well-preserved administrative relic linking Walpole, Halifax, and the machinery of Hanoverian governance—material of this nature is seldom encountered outside institutional archives.
1723 Robert Walpole Manuscript – See Video – Signed Expense Bill Prime Minister
An exceptionally well-preserved administrative relic linking Walpole, Halifax, and the machinery of Hanoverian governance—material of this nature is seldom encountered outside institutional archives.
CHINA 1776 rare original hand-coloured etching OLEANDER Pierre Buchoz botany
BUC’HOZ · CHINESE BOTANY · OLEANDER IN BLOOM · HAND-COLOURED ETCHING · PARIS 1776 · PLATE NO. 1. A striking and decorative botanical plate from Buc’hoz’s important and highly distinctive work on Chinese plants, first published in Paris in 1776.
CHINA 1776 rare original hand-coloured etching OLEANDER Pierre Buchoz botany
BUC’HOZ · CHINESE BOTANY · OLEANDER IN BLOOM · HAND-COLOURED ETCHING · PARIS 1776 · PLATE NO. 1. A striking and decorative botanical plate from Buc’hoz’s important and highly distinctive work on Chinese plants, first published in Paris in 1776.
1670 KING Charles II manuscript speech – see video – rare contemporary copy
Provenance: Contemporary docket to verso: “King’s speech 24. Oct. 1670”. Date: 24 October 1670. Restoration England · Political Manuscript · Secretarial Hand · Treaty of Dover Context · “Nothing were in my heart…”.
FRENCH India 1757 manuscript – SEE VIDEO – soldier’s death certificate wax seal
Pondicherry (India), 28 May 1757. Two pages. Text in French. Headed in large flourished letters. Certified copy of the death certificate of Gaspard Compoint, signed in Pondicherry, India, 1757. CERTIFIED DEATH CERTIFICATE OF A FRENCH SOLDIER · RARE OFFICIAL RED WAX SEAL.
1669–70 Edmund Custis Manuscripts Wreck Salvage Contract Charles II Duke of York
, likely in another hand. Docketed on the reverse “Copy of Mr Custis MS letter about Fyn Fishing,” the recipient is most plausibly Sir William Temple, then English ambassador at The Hague. Edmund Custis Manuscripts · Fishing & Wreck Salvage Contracts · 1669–1670.
FRENCH East India Company – manuscript archive from 1747-1800 – Compagnie Indes
[1] Quittance Deed – 1747. [2] Financial Receipt – 1783. Date Range: 1747–circa 1800. maître des requêtes (a senior administrative official within the French royal bureaucracy). Good to Fair overall condition.
New Year’s Keepsake a happy 1961 from esther & leonard baskin / 1st Edition
Author: BASKIN, Leonard. One sheet of handmade paper folded once, printed on front page only. Publication: [Northampton, Massachusetts: The Gehenna Press], 1961.