DUSE ELEONORA: (1858-1924) Italian stage actress. D.S., E Duse, two pages, slim 4to, n.p. (Marseille?), n.d. (c. December 1903), in French. The ma...

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...

PAISIELLO GIOVANNI: (1740-1816) Italian Composer. One of the most popular opera composers of the late 1700s. He spent eight years in Saint Petersb...

LISZT FRANZ: (1811-1886) Austrian-Hungarian Composer. A.L.S., `F. Liszt´, two pages, 8vo, Szekszard, 13th August 1870, to an unidentified lady, in...

LISZT FRANZ: (1811-1886) Austrian-Hungarian composer. Rare Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed, F. Liszt, one page, oblong 8vo manuscript paper, n...

MIRO JOAN: (1893-1983) Spanish painter. Autograph envelope signed ('Miro') in the return address to the verso, the recto addressed in bold black f...

LOWRY L. S.: (1887-1976) English artist. A good signed colour 6.5 x 4.5 postcard, the image being a reproduction of the artist's painting Coming o...

[HUGO VICTOR]: (1802-1885) French novelist, poet and dramatist. BERTHELOT MARCELLIN: (1827-1907) French chemist and politician. A.L.S., M Berthelo...

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...

ANNUNZIO GABRIELE D´: (1863-1938) Prince of Montenevoso. Italian Writer, Poet and WWI Soldier. Known as ''The Prophet''. A.L.S., `Gabriele d´Annun...

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

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: A good multiple signed First Day of Issue cover honouring the Mayo Brothers and featuring their images and with a postage sta...

FOREL AUGUSTE: (1848-1931) Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and eugenicist, noted for his investigations into the structure of th...

BORROMEO CHARLES: (1538-1584) Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Milan 1564-84 and was a leading figure of the Co...

SLAVERY: CESPEDES DEL CASTILLO CARLOS MANUEL (1819-1874) Cuban Revolutionary. Known as the ''Father of the Motherland'', Cespedes is considered a ...

[DREYFUS AFFAIR]: LABORI FERNAND: (1860-1917) French attorney who defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases of his day. A...

MIRABEAU COMTE DE: (1749-1791) Honore Gabriel Riqueti. French nobleman and orator, a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. A.L.S., ...

PALLOY PIERRE-FRANCOIS: (1755-1835) French entrepreneurial building contractor, remembered for the demolition of the Bastille following the stormi...

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...

COLBERT JEAN BAPTISTE: (1619-1683) French Politician. Known as ''Le Grand Colbert'' (''The Great Colbert'') For more than twenty years Minister of...

WLADYSLAW IV VASA: (1595-1648) King of Poland 1632-48. A renowned Patron of the Arts. Wladyslaw gained fame when he defeated the Ottoman Empire an...

GEORGE IV: (1762-1830) King of the United Kingdom 1820-30. D.S., George R, as King of Hanover, at the foot, one page, folio, Carlton House, 2nd Ju...

MIKLAS WILHELM: (1872-1956) Austrian politician who served as President of Austria 1928-38. D.S., Miklas, two pages, folio, Vienna, 6th September ...

DERBY EARL OF: (1799-1869) British Prime Minister 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68. A.L.S., Derby, one page, 4to, St. James's Square, 13th February 1863, to...

ROSEBERY EARL OF: (1847-1929) British Prime Minister 1894-95. L.S., Rosebery, one page, 8vo, Berkeley Square, London, 11th November 1907, to a gen...

SOUBLETTE CARLOS: (1789-1870) President of Venezuela 1837-39, 1843-47, a hero of the Venezuelan War of Independence. D.S., Carlos Soublette, one p...

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTS: Prudente Jose de Morais e Barros (1841-1902) Third President of Brazil 1894-98 and the first civilian President to be electe...

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

‘your dear Papa was his worse and only enemy’ GRANT JULIA: (1826-1902) American First Lady of the United States 1869-77, wife of President Ulysses...

HUSSEIN SADDAM: (1937-2006) President of Iraq 1979-2003. A.L.S., in Arabic, one page, 8vo, n.p. (Republican Palace, Baghdad?), 2nd March 1986, to ...