Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera

GREETINGS CARDS. A collection of Victorian greetings cards, bookmarks and scraps.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of cartes-de-visite and cabinet-size photographs in an album and loose, the majority portraits and artworks, including a cabinet-size photograph of Tsar Nicholas II published by W. & D. Downey and a cabinet-size photograph identified as Mr Hall a Crimean Veteran.

EPHEMERA. A collection of ephemera, including an album containing approximately 42 mounted photographs of the Lake District, album leaves 245 x 365mm., together with a group of mounted and loose photographs, 2 posters advertising 'The Footpath' Journal 1895 and 'Zig Zag' Illustrated Newspaper 1872 and 2 Latin manuscript documents on vellum, one with a wax seal.

EPHEMERA. A collection of ephemera, including an autograph letter signed by George Campbell 6th Duke Argyll addressed to [Beau] Brummell, concluding 'adieu I have no scandal or news to tell you', paper watermarked 1816, 120 x 185mm., a vellum-bound manuscript inventory of household goods dating 1792-1793, a small scrap book containing mounted prints and manuscript verse, a leather-bound account book circa 1853-1870, a manuscript prompt copy of 'Paul Pry' dated 1825, an indenture dated 1778 between George O'Brein, Earl of Egremont and Joseph Barwick of Bushgill head in the Parish of Wigton, manuscript journal fragment dated 14 November 1853, New York, manuscript leaves titled 'On the Dreadful Hurricane which happened in Kent on the 19th of Augt. 1763', a papal bull dated 1705 and a manuscript leaf relating to a recipe for 'An infallible cure for the bite of a mad-dog brought from Tonquin by Sir George Cobb Bart'.

EPHEMERA, SHIPPING. A collection of ephemera relating to the Cunard Line, including luggage labels, The Ocean Times, programmes, leaflets, passenger lists, accommodation guides, race cards, headed paper for R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and R.M.S. Queen Mary, pens, tie clips, combs, a souvenir spoon, road maps of New York and Long Island and an album containing approximately 82 postcards, the majority relating to New York.

PHOTOGRAPHS. Three leather-bound albums containing approximately 124 cartes-de-visite and 18 cabinet-size photographs, the majority family portraits, together with a leather-bound album of small-format family photographs.

EPHEMERA, THEATRICAL. A collection of theatre programmes and pamphlets mounted and annotated in 3 scrap albums, featuring Fred Astaire, Ivor Novello, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, Alec Guinness, Rex Harrison, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde and others, together with a small group of loose theatrical programmes, circa 1921-1952.

EPHEMERA, ALBUMS. A collection of 9 albums and sketchbooks of women's personal collections of verse, mounted prints and sketches, the majority mid-19th century.

PRINTING EPHEMERA. A large quantity of invoices, receipts and letterheads for British firms, including invoices issued by 'Maple & Co.', 'Curtiss & Sons, Depositories, Portsmouth & Ryde, for Warehousing Furniture Luggage &c.', 'Taylor's Depository, Pimlico', 'Smith & Brown, Plumbers, Painters & Decorators, Upper Norwood', 'Edward Chambers, Coach Builder, Lowestoft' and 'Thomas Rowley & Son, Optical, Philosophical, Mathematical and Meteorological Instrument Makers, Brighton', circa 1840-1937, majority late 19th to early 20th century.

EPHEMERA, SHARES. A collection of approximately 241 share certificates, debentures, bonds and investment related ephemera, including a prospectus and share certificate for 'The Hit or Miss Proprietary Gold Mines Limited' dated 24 September 1897, a printed advertisement for shares to be sold by sealed tender for 'Tin Bounds in Wendron' dated 10 May 1827, bond No. 300 for the United States Car Company with 35 coupons, circa 1894, 3 share certificates for 'Netherlands Land Enclosure Company' with dividend coupons, circa 1855, 4 share certificates for 'The Royal Swedish Railway Company' with interest warrant coupons, circa 1855, all other certificates lacking coupons, companies include 'The Gold Fields of Eastern Akim', 'Doornplatz Gold Mining Syndicate Limited', 'The United Mercury Mines of Granada', 'The Premier Sunrise (New Zealand) Gold Mining Company', 'The Sapphire and Ruby Company of Montana', 'The Central Railway Company of Venezuela', The Alabama Portland Cement Company', 'The Australian Trans-Continental Railway Syndicate', 'The Rhodesia Goldfields Limited', 'The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company', 'The Beaumont (Texas) Petroleum & Liquid Fuel Co.', 'The North Sheba Gold & Exploration Limited', 'British & Brazilian Rubber Planters & Manufacturers' and 'Oriental Bank Corporation'.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of photographs in five albums and loose, the majority foreign topographical views, including an album of photographs relating to R.M.S. Oronsay, circa 1927, and an album containing small-format photographs of a cruise of the 'Orient', including Alexandria, Jerusalem, Istanbul and Athens and Pompeii, circa 1931.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A large collection of photographs, the majority family portraits, social history and military interest, including small-format, postcard-size, cabinet-size and large-format photographs, circa 1890-1960.

EPHEMERA. A collection of photographs and ephemera, including two leather-bound albums containing approximately 70 cartes-de-visite and cabinet-size photographs, five albums containing mounted small-format family photographs, a collection of loose photographs, genealogical ephemera and typed proof of 'The Personnel of Fairyland' by K.M. Briggs.

EPHEMERA, MUSIC. A collection of music concert programmes and promotional flyers, including an 'Isle of Wight Festival Programme, August 1970', 'Beach Boys in Concert 1969' programme and ephemera relating to acts including Little Richard, The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Brenda Lee, Tom Paxton, Hollies and many featuring Cliff Richard and The Shadows, together with a small collection of ephemera and signed photograph of The Ventures.

EPHEMERA, MUSIC. A collection of 'Pop Weekly' magazines from 1962-1964, 'Story of Pop', 'Elvis Monthly' and 'Pop 10 Monthly' magazines, together with a small group of related books.

EPHEMERA. A collection of ephemera including three scrap albums containing mounted theatre programmes, a group of loose theatre programmes, an issue of 'Startling Stories, May, featuring The Prisoner of Mars a Complete Book-Length Novel of a War Between Worlds by Edmond Hamilton' and collection of cooking pamphlets and recipe books.

EPHEMERA, SCRAP ALBUMS. A collection of 12 scrap albums containing bookplates, sketches, prints, chromolithographed scraps and greetings cards, together with a collection of loose scraps, clipped letterheads and other ephemera.

EPHEMERA. A collection of mixed ephemera, including a lottery advertisement dated 1805, a manuscript note relating to Thomas Topham the 'Strong Man of Islington' recording his lift of 1836 pounds in Moor Fields in 1741, sketches, prints, printed advertisements, manuscript document fragments, discharge letters, probate documents and an album advertising B.V.C. Central Vacuum Cleaning Systems.

EPHEMERA, BRIGHTON. A collection of ephemera relating to Brighton property and land, including a sale notice and 'Particulars and Conditions of Sale, of Several Valuable Pieces of Land… at Brighton… On Wednesday, the 21st of June, 1797' with marginalia detailing realised prices, an autograph letter dated 1821 relating to intended houses on Edward Street with pen and ink elevation, an annotated hand-coloured sketch of 'a Plan for a New Street in Brighthelmstone' circa 1820, a manuscript volume titled 'Memoranda relative to, or descriptive of, the Real Estates of William or Sarah Dillwyn, and their respective Titles thereto' and approximately 22 legal documents relating to No. 4 and No. 5 Cannon Place, Brighton.