Sales catalogue 601: Maggs Bros

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/140
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 601: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    656 BEGBIE (HAROLD, born 1871). Author, Poet and Journalist. AUTOGRAPH POEM ‘‘ THE BUILDER.”’’ Comprising 5 verses of 8 lines each, on 3 pp., 4to. With auto- graph signature and address indorsed. £1 5s Written at the time of the Boer war; it is addressed to the spirit of Sir Walter Raleigh as the builder of England’s world-greatness. The last verse reads :— ‘Thy wall is builded to the crest; Sleep mighty spirit, take thy rest; O rushing will O passionate hands, be still; There, where thou laboured for the imperial race, The last huge stone swings slowly in its place; So sleep till each man stands Within that house not built with hands.’’ 657 BEIMELBURGH (Also BOINEBURG, CURT VON), called ‘‘ Der Kleine Hesse.’’ Commander of the Imperial Armies in the Italian, Turkish and Schmalkaldic Wars. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 3-page, folio. Sunday trynytatis, 1515. £14 14s A fine letter entirely in the great Soldier’s own hand. Acknow- ledging his correspondent’s letter, and informing him that he sent it on to his Gracious Master of Fulda. He asks him to write and send the safe conduct for Jorge von Bischoffsrode. 658 BEITH (JOHN HAY, ‘‘ JAN HAY,’’ born 1876). Novelist and Playwright. ‘* THE RIGHT STUFF. SOME EPISODES IN THE CAREER OF A NORTH BRITON.’ THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANU- SCRIPT SIGNED. Extending to 382 pages, folio. APSO Carle Pion Nolan) LAN SiO Diberee lO. LAB MARCHIONESS OF READING CONCERNING THE ABOVE MANU- SCRIPT 1 page, folio. Berkeley Square, 8th May, 1933. £7 10s
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