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WARREN HASTINGS (1732-1818); HONORE DE BALZAC (1799-1850) & OTHER 19TH & EARLY 20TH CENTURY CELEBRITIES
Autograph letter signed ("Warren Hastings") to Major Watson, one page, 4to, July 1794, proposing to send him a horse in recognition of his service (spotted, creased).
Autograph letter signed ("de Balzac") to Monsieur [?Hippolyte Souverain], one page, 8vo, [n.p., circa 1848], asking how much he owes for books from the Delahaye sale.
With approximately 200 autograph letters, notes, covers and signatures by Arthur James Balfour, Sarah Bernhardt, Ford Madox Brown, Samuel Clemens, Wilkie Collins, Benjamin Constant, Alexander Dumas fils, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Mrs. Gaskell, Edmond de Goncourt, General Gordon of Khartoum, Charles Gounod, Henry Irving, Henry James, Jean Jaures, Alphonse de Lamartine, Edwin Henry Landseer, Andrew Lang, Jules Lefebvre (3), Maurice Maeterlinck, Jules Massenet, Giuseppe Mazzini, Jacques Offenbach, Adelina Patti, Robert Peel (2), Augustus Welby Pugin, Adelaide Ristori, Victor Sardou, John Singer Sargeant (3), Lawrence Alma Tadema, Ellen Terry, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, James McNeil Whistler and others, all in a folio vellum album.
Autograph letter signed ("Warren Hastings") to Major Watson, one page, 4to, July 1794, proposing to send him a horse in recognition of his service (spotted, creased).
Autograph letter signed ("de Balzac") to Monsieur [?Hippolyte Souverain], one page, 8vo, [n.p., circa 1848], asking how much he owes for books from the Delahaye sale.
With approximately 200 autograph letters, notes, covers and signatures by Arthur James Balfour, Sarah Bernhardt, Ford Madox Brown, Samuel Clemens, Wilkie Collins, Benjamin Constant, Alexander Dumas fils, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Mrs. Gaskell, Edmond de Goncourt, General Gordon of Khartoum, Charles Gounod, Henry Irving, Henry James, Jean Jaures, Alphonse de Lamartine, Edwin Henry Landseer, Andrew Lang, Jules Lefebvre (3), Maurice Maeterlinck, Jules Massenet, Giuseppe Mazzini, Jacques Offenbach, Adelina Patti, Robert Peel (2), Augustus Welby Pugin, Adelaide Ristori, Victor Sardou, John Singer Sargeant (3), Lawrence Alma Tadema, Ellen Terry, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, James McNeil Whistler and others, all in a folio vellum album.