The Christmas Library Auction - To Include Harry Potter & An Important Collection of Autograph Letters

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1981], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], and signed, "Wi...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1982], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], and signed, "Lo...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1983], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], and signed, "Wi...

HM King Charles III [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1984], inscribed by ...

HM King Charles III [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1985], inscribed by ...

HM King Charles III [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1986], inscribed by ...

HM King Charles III [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1987], inscribed by ...

HM King Charles III [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1988], inscribed by ...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1989], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], and signed "fro...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1990], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], signed "With lo...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1991], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], signed "From th...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1992], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], signed "Love fr...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1993], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], signed "Love fr...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph Christmas & New Year card, [1994], inscribed by Diana for "Bill" [Pashley], signed "From, D...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph letter signed by Diana in bold blue ink on two sides of one sheet, 17 Chesham Mews letterhe...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). An autograph letter signed by Diana in bold blue ink on two sides of one sheet, Balmoral Castle letterhe...

HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). Three original photographs of a 16-year-old Diana as bridesmaid at her sister Jane's wedding on 20 April...

HM King Charles I [as Prince of Wales] & HRH Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997). Royal Wedding, 1981. An original invitation card for William "B...

Harold Wilson (1916-1995) & Mary Wilson (1916-2018). A collection of 14 hand-signed Christmas cards for Bill Pashley from Harold & Mary Wilson; ei...

A mixed collection of autographs & other material addressed to Bill Pashley, fashion designer, to include a Christmas card signed by Andrew & Sara...

HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021). A signed & dated Christmas card, 1953 [coronation year], i...

HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021). A pair of photographic portraits by Dorothy Wilding, indiv...

HM Queen Elizabeth II & HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The Commonwealth Tour, 1953-54. An archive of memorabilia, photographs, correspondence and ephe...

HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) & HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021). Autographs on a 1953 calendar depicting The "Thermopylae", i...

HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Autograph on British Army commission for Sir Henry Hugh Clifford VC KCMG CB (1826-1883), recipient of the Victoria ...

HM Queen Victoria (1819-1901). Autograph, signed in bold black ink on sepia photographic portrait, approx. 34 x 24cm, box-mounted, framed & glazed...

Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Autograph. A typed letter signed by Churchill to French-American sculptor Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962), on Churchi...

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). Autograph in black ink on laid paper, signed "Nelson & Bronte" beneath a neatly clerk-written subscription, this being...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Manuscript letter dictated & signed by Napoleon, addressed to General Clarke, Minister of War, 28 November 1813. T...

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Autograph letter signed, "Wellington Prince de Waterloo", to M. Stoel, counsellor to the Duke of...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Autograph note signed on Penny Post cover, from Rydal Mount [Wordsworth's family home], 26 August 182-, confirming...

William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Autograph note signed, Rydal Mount [Wordsworth's family home], 24 Oct 1830, in which Wordsworth quotes Shakespeare...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Autograph note signed on addressed leaf, 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate Regents Park, 1 March 1843, approx. 8.5 x 10...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Autograph note signed to Coutts bank, instructing them to sell £500 Exchange Bills from his account [for the stewards...

H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Autograph in black ink on sepia photographic portrait, signed & inscribed, "For Dr. Carl Heymann [noted chemist], all goo...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Autograph in black ink on portrait postcard, 12 x 8.5cm, presented with three Indian gouache paintings on postal cove...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934). Autograph with manuscript musical quotation, "The skies were fairer, the shores were firmer, from Sea Pictures," dated F...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Autograph on cabinet card photographic portrait, 19 December 1882, 17 x 11cm, framed & glazed ...[more]

Gilbert & Sullivan. Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900), autograph note with manuscript musical quotation, "When the wicked cease from troubling", signed ...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Autograph featuring manuscript musical quotation from Madama Butterfly, signed & dated at Torre Del Lago, March 1908,...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Autograph on topographical postcard, signed & dated 1917, 8 x 13cm, presented with suitably chosen prints, framed & g...

Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997). Autograph on NASA card depicting Pluto, inscribed & signed, "Discovery of the 9th planet, Pluto, Clyde W. Tombaugh, Fe...

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Autograph in black ink on Smithsonian document, "Register of Patrons of Smithsonian Scientific Series to be Deposited...

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). Autograph thumb-print on magazine page [Radio Times], 20 January 2016, counter-signed & inscribed by witnesses "Georg...

Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), Michael Collins (1930-2021), autographs on First Day Covers, 21 July 19...

Apollo Moon Landing. Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), Michael Collins (1930-2021). Autographs on three Individual NASA portrait ...

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012). Autograph, signed in black ink on the verso of the Order of Service for his Conferment of the Freedom of the Burgh of ...

Michael Collins (1930-2021). Autograph note signed in bold black ink, "Many thanks for Aircraft Seventy One. (The Spitfire looks better than the C...

Michael Collins (1930-2021). Typed letter signed in blue ink on National Air & Space Museum letterhead, 27 Sep 1971, in which Collins refers to hi...

An original b&w photograph of the total solar eclipse, 29 June 1927, taken by John Jackson under direction of Sir Frank Watson Dyson, Astronomer R...

Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) & Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986). Autographs, signed individually on a numismatic First Day Cover commemorating the 25th An...

Eric Morecambe (1926-1984) & Ernie Wise (1925-1999). A single-page comedy script for Harold Wilson to use on the 1978 Morecambe & Wise Christmas S...

M*A*S*H*. Autographs. A b&w photographic group portrait signed by the following seven cast members in different coloured inks: Bill Christopher, J...

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). Autograph, signed in vibrant turquoise ink on vintage album page bearing an amateur sketch of the actor, dated 1952, ...

The Rolling Stones. Autographs on vintage album page recording a performance at the "Hippodrome, 19th October" [Brighton Hippodrome, 19 Oct 1964],...

Elvis Presley (1935-1977). Autograph on publicity postcard, c. 1960s, the photographic portrait signed in pale blue ink, 14 x 9.5cm, framed & glaz...

Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) & Paul Anka (b. 1941). My Way. Autographs on photographic portraits, Sinatra's image signed in black ink, Anka's signatu...

Walt Disney (1901-1966). Autograph in blue ink, inscribed & signed, "With all best wishes, Walt Disney", 6.5 x 13cm, presented with a modern portr...

Walt Disney. Deer & Fawn Awakening, original hand-painted colour animation cel used in the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Autograph on colour postcard depicting Picasso's Femme ivre se fatigue [Drunk Woman is Tired, 1902], signed & dated at ...