RAMSEY ALF: (1920-1999) English football player and manager of the England national team 1963-74, during which time he guided them to victory in t...

HILL ROWLAND: (1795-1879) English teacher, inventor and social reformer who campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system and is cred...

FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: Miscellaneous selection of signed pieces and album pages etc., by a variety of famous men and women, including Arthur Miller, ...

COROT JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1796-1875) French Painter. A.L.S., `C. Corot´, one page, 8vo, Paris, 12th February 1859, to Mr. Cuvelier in Calais, in Frenc...

One of the very few known letters of Gauguin to his early champion Albert Aurier, the critic who also praised van Gogh and was the first to decla...

DUFY RAOUL: (1877-1953) French Fauvist painter. A brief T.L.S., Raoul Dufy, one page, 4to, Domaine de Rozes, 11th October 1947, to a gentleman, in...

SEGONZAC ANDRE DUNOYER DE: (1884-1974) French painter and graphic artist. A.L.S., A. Dunoyer de Segonzac, one page, 12mo (folding Carte Pneumatiqu...

LOWRY L. S.: (1887-1976) English artist. Autograph envelope signed, addressed in Lowry's hand to Mr. G. B. Cotton at Kingsley Road, Swinton, Manch...

SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French novelist, memoirist and journalist. A.L.S., George, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Monsieur Duteil, on Sand's blind...

MAUPASSANT GUY DE: (1850-1893) French Writer. A good A.L.S., Guy de Maupassant, two pages, 12mo, Paris, n.d., on his personal printed stationery c...

MANKELL HENNING: (1948-2015) Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, the creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander. Collection of four id...

PALACIO VALDES ARMANDO: (1853-1938) Spanish novelist and critic. A.L.S., A. Palacio Valdes, two pages, 8vo, Capbreton, Landes, 29th July 1923, to ...

SEUSS DR: (1904-1991) Theodor Seuss Geisel. American children's author and cartoonist. Signed First Day Cover commemorating Christmas and featurin...

PREVERT JACQUES: (1900-1977) French poet and screenwriter. A large (11.5 x 9"; 29 x 22.5 cm) autograph envelope signed by the poet, addressed in h...

GRASS GUNTER: (1927-2015) German novelist, poet & playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1999. Collection of ten identical printed 8vo pag...

TERESA MOTHER: (1910-1997) Albanian Roman Catholic nun, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1979. Signed First Day Cover by Mother Teresa featuring four dif...

[MINERALOGY]: A manuscript D.S. Maximinus Fuxius, in the third person, by the Benedictine monk Maximin Fluxus, director of Natural History at St. ...

LELEWEL JOACHIM: (1786-1861) Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer and politician. D.S., Lelewel, one page, oblong 8vo, Brussels, 29th July ...

ALDRIN BUZZ: (1930-    ) American astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo XI (1969). The second man to walk on the moon. Signed and inscribed colo...

LOVELL JAMES: (1928-     ) American astronaut, commander of the Apollo XIII lunar mission, 1970. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph, the official NAS...

WALLENBERG RAOUL: (1912-1945) Swedish architect, diplomat and humanitarian who served as Sweden's special envoy in Budapest from July - December 1...

ALFONSO XIII: (1886-1941) King of Spain 1886-1931. A good A.L.S., `Alfonso R´, two pages, mourning oblong 5 x 3.5 card, n.p., n.d., to Pilar, in S...

JUAN CARLOS I: (1938-  ) King of Spain 1975-2014. D.S., J.Carlos Borbon R, one page, folio, Madrid, 6th March 2001, to President Hugo Banzer Suare...

ANNE OF AUSTRIA: (1601-1666) Infanta of Spain and Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France 1615-43 as the wife of King Louis XIII. A.L.S., Anne, on...

CLERY JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1759-1809) Personal Valet to King Louis XVI. A fine A.L.S., `Cléry´, two pages, 4to, Vienne, n.d., to Madame Crewe, Lower Gr...

MARIE LOUISE DUCHESS OF PARMA: (1791-1847) Austrian Archduchess, the second wife of Napoleon I. Empress of the French 1810-14. A fine A.L.S., Loui...

BONAPARTE JOSEPH: (1768-1844) French statesman, lawyer and diplomat, the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. During the Napoleonic Wars Joseph Bo...

VICTORIA, PRINCESS ROYAL: (1840-1901) German Empress and Queen of Prussia March-June 1888 as the wife of German Emperor Frederick III. The eldest ...

UMBERTO I: (1844-1900) King of Italy 1878-1900. Assassinated. D.S., Umberto, one page, folio, Roma, 28th June 1894, in Italian. The partially prin...

GEORGE I OF GREECE: (1845-1913) King of Greece 1863-1913. Assassinated. Rare L.S., `George´, two pages, mourning paper, 4to, Athens, 31st May 1906...

GRAND DUCHESS OLGA CONSTANTINOVNA: (1851-1926) Grand Duchess of Russia, wife of King George I of Greece. Queen Consort of the Hellenes 1867-1913 a...

ASPASIA OF GREECE AND DENMARK: (1896-1972) Greek aristocrat whose secret marriage to King Alexander I of Greece caused controversy resulting in As...

FERDINAND I OF BULGARIA: (1861-1948) Tsar of Bulgaria 1908-18. T.L.S., `Ferdinand´, in pencil, one page, 4to, mourning paper, Svaty-Antal, 14th Se...

‘I obey with pleasure’ STALIN JOSEPH: (1878-1953) Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924-53 as General Secretary o...

GRANT JULIA: (1826-1902) American First Lady of the United States 1869-77, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant. A.L.S., Julia D Grant, four pages, ...

DIAZ ORDAZ GUSTAVO: (1911-1979) Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico 1964-70. T.L.S., Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, one page, 4to, National ...

SOMOZA ANASTASIO: (1896-1956) Nicaraguan dictator who served as President of Nicaragua 1937-47, 1950-56. Assassinated. An official diplomatic L.S....

VARGAS GETULIO: (1882-1954) Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil 1930-45, 1951-54. Signed First Day of Issue envelope by Vargas,...

LATIN AMERICA: An unusual selection of plain envelopes, each bearing different postage stamps, individually signed by various leaders of Latin Ame...

‘remember that the body is not immortal and therefore we should not be too attached to it’ GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian political and spiri...