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No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original engraved portrait with signature printed underneath. Very attractive. Mounted and ready to frame. A excellent opportunity to purchase a splendid original antique portrait of a distinguished personage. Engraved By J.C. Wilson (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book in virtually mint condition with very good DJ except for clean cut down front of wrapper (tape mark of old repair) leaving light mark on front board, overall very good +. Many old photographs and colourful maps of operations.…

Loose as Issued. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 28 & 32 pages respectively and tinted wrappers to each. Both produced by the same group of fabianist left leaning writers. Original pale blue and tan tinted wrappers, small edge piece lost from the base of one magazine. Each measures approx 32 x 21 cm. **Notes: the writers and editorial include Sidney Webb, Lt-Col Samuel Hoare, The Hon Sydney Peel, Commander Hylton Young, etc with articles on Public Finance, Economic and Social Conditions, Industry and Commerce, Transport and Communication, Agriculture & Food Supplies, Labour Conditions and Organisations, The Political Review is made up of 14 nations Press notices inc German, Hungarian, Italian, Belgian, Finnish, etc. (Basically a review of the Foreign Press at this time). The covers have an advert for the 2nd issue mainly by Winston Churchill. (2 magazines selling as 1 here).…

See Beckett's entry in the History of Parliament, according to which he held the position of Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs from 1806 to 1817. 1p, foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased at the foot, with strip of discoloration at the head. Folded twice into a packet. Addressed to 'Colonel Torrens'. (Torrens was a British Army officer, economist, editor of the Globe newspaper and an influential figure in the colonization of Australia.) Reads: 'Sir, / Your Letter to Mr Peel [the future Tory prime minister Sir Robert Peel, then Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies] of the 24th. Instant having been referred to this Office and laid before Mr Secretary Ryder, [i.e. Home Secretary Richard Ryder] I am directed to acquaint you, that as Mr Ryder has in no instance granted a Cartel Passage to aliens going to France since the Regulation was established confining them to certain Cases connected with the Public Service, He is induced to hope that H: R: H The Commander in Chief [Prince Frederick, Duke of York] will wave his recommendation in favor of Mr Sonnenberg / I am &c / J Beckett'. …