Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 163
163. Coal Mining.- se c t i o n o f mi n e s at Bl o x w i c h [n e a r wa l s a l l],
and additional drawings: “Patent Water Mill By Whitelaw and
Stirrat Paisley” and “Birmingham & Warwick Junction Canal
Section of Canal & Breakwater close to the Riber Rea”, pen and ink
drawings, some hand-colouring, together 25pp., some browning,
loose or working loose, original half morocco, worn, paper label
on upper cover: “H. Smith”, oblong 4to, [late nineteenth century].
£200 - £300
164. Simms (Rupert, bookseller and Staffordshire antiquary,
1853-1937) sc r a p B o o k o f c o r r e s p o n d e n c e to si m m s r e l at i n g to t h e
c o m p i l at i o n a n d p u B l i c at i o n o f h i s “Bi B l i o t h e c a sta f f o r d i e n s i s”,
including with: The Johnson’s Head Printers, Lichfield, c. 90
pieces of correspondence, envelopes pasted down, browned, ff.
loose, original cloth scrapbook, gilt decoration, v.s., 1892.
£200 - £300
165. Boyle (Alice Eva, b. 1874) au t o g r a p h a l B u m, including:
Br a m st o k e r, Joseph li s t e r, Daisy, Countess of Warwick, Lord
Curzon, Baden-Powell, Hall Caine, Anthony Asquith, Marie
Correlli, Charles Beresford, Prince Alexander of Teck, Baroness
Burdett Coutts, Wilfred Pickles etc., c. 100 cut signatures, pasted
down, foxed and browned, original morocco album, worn, spine
worn with loss, sm. 4to, 1893. £200 - £300
Lot 166
166. Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan, author, 1859-1930) au t o g r a p h
le t t e r s i g n e d to Jam e s pay n , 4pp., 8vo, Maloja Hotel, Maloja,
[Switzerland], 1st August 1895, commenting on Maloja where
they had gone for his wife’s health, “it is a very charming
place”, enquiring about Payn’s health and g i v i n g d e ta i l s a B o u t
h i s f o rt h c o m i n g n o v e l, “ro d n e y sto n e” w h i c h h e is c u r r e n t ly
writing, “I have been very busy on the buck and prize fighter book
of which, I think, I said something to you. I think it will work out
fairly well, but I dare not be too sanguine. I remember that you
were disposed to think that I was dealing with an unsavoury subject
in the prize ring - and [?Fletcher] Robinson took the same view
very strongly, but I hope that it may justify itself. I think I have
done it in such a way that it is picturesque and not offensive, though
I have two big fights in the book. It has never yet been done, as far
as I know, and yet the ring is the one typical Anglo Saxon sport
which has never existed outside English speaking countries, and
which has now, I believe, a very deep hold of the people - in spite of
the unspeakable state to which it has been reduced”, playing golf in
Majola, “as the grass is very thick & long the game gives you a lot
of fresh air with very little exertion, for at your first drive you lose
your ball, and then you spend your day, with intervals for meals,
in walking round in circles and looking for it”, and building their
house named Undershaw at Hindhead, Surrey, “we hope to have
our house built by the end of next summer and to settle once more.
I bought the land, but the Tyndalls now claim that there is a right of
way through it”, folds, slightly browned, loosely inserted in a first
edition of Doyle’s Rodney Stone, 8vo, 1896 (2). £400 - £600
167. Shaw (George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950) au t o g r a p h
po s t c a r d s i g n e d to au r é l i a n lu g n é-po e, 6th November 1896,
Miss Newcomb told me that you play Peer Gynt? This is well
worth a trip to Paris. Would you be kind enough to tell me when...
Miss Newcomb didn’t know. £100 - £150
168. Baden-Powell (Robert, army officer and founder of the Boy
Scouts and Girl Guides, first Baron Baden-Powell, 1857-1941)
au t o g r a p h le t t e r s i g n e d to co l o n e l mo r g a n, 2pp., 8vo, South
African Constabulary, 20th March 1901, in his capacity as the
founder of the South African Constabulary, “Major Ryan ASC asks
me if I could put in a word with you with a view to putting him
high on the list for going home... he was sent out here to organise
matters... before the war began and has been hard at it ever since. He
had all the strain of the siege of Mafeking - but has kept his health,
and his spirits, and has worked most loyally and indefatigably”,
folds, browned. £150 - £200
169. Edward VII (King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1841-
1910) au t h o r i s i n g t h e go v e r n m e n t o f cu B a’s c o m m i s s i o n to
wi l l i a m ee r n e s t wh e at ly, to B e c o m e t h e i r c o n s u l in sh e f f i e l d,
D.s. “Edward R & I” & “E. Grey” (Sir Edward Grey, Foreign
Secretary), printed document with manuscript insertions, 310 x
390mm., together with a photograph of Edward VII, framed and
glazed, 1st October 1906. £150 - £200