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SOME STIRRING RELICS OF ENGLISH HISTORY : - Lady Jane Grey announces her accession to the Throne of England (1553) - Sir Philip Sidney’s last letter (1586) - Signature of Guy Fawkes under torture (1605) - Charles I informs his sister of the birth of a son and heir (1630) - Cromwell’s report on the battle of Nasby (1645) - A prophecy by John Churchill, Ist Duke of Malborough (1709) - Nelson’s unfinished letter (1805) - The Duke of Wellington informs a french genral of the victory of Waterloo (1815) - Naoleon’s appeal to England (1815)

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rel. en simili vélin, plat décoré d’un blason avec la devise « Pleno syder plenæ », 9 reproductions de Fac-similés de lettres manuscrites, contre-collés et hors-texte, (qq. rousseurs), bon état Recueil de Fac-similés de reliques, de valeur inestimable, de l’histoire du Royaume-Uni. « THERE can be no more moving appeal to the imagination than that of a collection of autographs. Whereas the printed page, with its cold formality, masks the author’s individuality, his handwriting in almost a part of himself. It is an instrument equalled only by the voice in its power to reveal the strongest emotions and most secret thoughts. Mementoes of a glorious or tragic past, such documents, reflecting with the truthfulness of a mirror relics of priceless worth, call up before our wondering eyes the mighty pageants of history. »

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