Visitors Book, Signed (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Flat signed by Christopher Simon Sykes on title page. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Signed.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good. Revised. Small stains on front cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed By Author.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good+. Revised. With clear, plastic covers. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed By Author.

Condition: Good. 1953. No edition remarks. 198 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with green cover. Signed by the author with dedication to title page. Contains ex-libris plate. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to title page. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Mild tears to spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Book Three in the Pathfinder series by the acknowledged and beloved author. SIGNED by the author at half-title. Purchased from a dealer who purchased signed first editions directly from the publisher in bulk for resale and/or who sent copies of titles, also in bulk, to authors for signing, a favor for which he paid. Black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Signed by Author.

Condition: Good. 1969. Reprinted. 139 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Signed by the author Alfred Stirling with dedication to title page. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing in a fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a protective and removable mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Minor shelf wear. Inscribed by author on publication page. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Color illustrations. 280 pp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Alastair Fell, dj art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). This Trade Paperback in pictorial wraps is the First Edition of this book. The book has slight wear to the covers ($17.00). First Printing Stated. Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. E.L. Stewart (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by author on titlepage. In plain protective dust wrapper. Signed by Author.

284 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. und Faksimiles des Gästebuches. 8°, illustr. Orig.-Karton. Beiliegend eine Notiz von Dr. R. Stolz an Hans Kinkel bzgl. der Preise der ausgestellten Werke, eigenh. signiert. - Karton etwas berieben und minimal knickspurig. 1050 gr.

Oblong cream coloured card measuring 20cm x 12.5cm in metal frame on black background measuring 28.5cm x 21cm. Dated 15th November 1935. A Certification Card issued after signing the Official Visitors' Book on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Issued to V.G.Brown on the 15th of November 1935, Signed by C. W. Whitford & H. McMartin.

Condition: Very Good. Visitor's book for Little Moor Farm, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk, dated 1958-1962. Thirty-six pages of written and illustrated entries in English and Danish; plus many unused pages. Dimensions 170mm x 150mm. Original publisher's cloth binding in a cheerful red with slim gilt border, gilt fore-edges and bold zebra-striped pastedown and endpapers. Delightful cartoon drawings, sketches and scribbles illustrate happy weekends and relaxed entertaining "Have just eaten so much spaghetti and mince, I am barely able to move, yet alone think of something elegant and witty to adorn this book. Jon Feb 3rd, 1959." Entries and illustrations give a snapshot of a happy family atmosphere including the birth of a child, birthdays and bricklaying, picnic tents and beaches. Loosely included small black-and-white photograph of laying a brick path "next time we hope we'll sit on this.Jimpat 22nd May 1961" and colour postcard of the Royal Guard at Amalienborg Palace, stamped from Copenhagen "Dear little Ann Sofie Happy birthday to you love GranÐGranny." Guests included Ove Arup (7 entries) /Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895Ð1988) founded Arup Group Limited. Arup was the design engineer for the Sydney Opera House, and was considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time. Very good. Signedes.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Unique visitor's book of Miss Julia Spencer of Mohawk, New York, with 19 manuscript entries (primarily poems, one mounted, most signed, some dated) and three stunning, original, hand-colored roses, protected with tissue guards. Unusual and creative record of an ordinary woman's friendships and art of living. 45 leaves (23 blank), small 8vo (7.75 x 6.25 inches), original gilt and blind-tooled decorative red leather (edge-worn), all edges gilt. All the entries are from 1848 to 1857. Very good(-) condition.

The Campden Hill Club was founded in 1907, 'in affectionate memory of Byam Shaw, and as a tribute to his teaching', and comprised, according to the Studio magazine in 1922, 'mainly of past and present students of the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, with which it keeps closely and stimulatingly in touch'. The three items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn bindings. ONE (Visitors Book, 1958-1976): 190pp., 4to. Ruled notebook bound in red cloth, with 'Visitors' stamped in gilt on the front cover. Signed by the visitors to the Club's annual Leighton House exhibitions, from 1958 to 1976. There are occasional pencil notes by invigilators, relating to matters including the sale of pictures and programmes (one signatory is described as 'ex Byam Shaw student from Etheopia [sic]'). Among the mass of names and addresses are those of Duncan Grant (address, 'Firle Lewes', on 24 June 1964), the radio presenter Roy Plomley (several), dancer Derra de Moroda, artists John Vicat Cole and Asphodel Fleischman, Rowland Watson of Strawberry Hill, 'Dorothy Carrington' (possibly the traveller, who was however long settled on Ajaccio at the time of the exhibition) and members of Byam Shaw's family. TWO (Minute Book, 1946-1958): 130pp., 4to. Quarter bound with black leather spine and red cloth covers. In manuscript on front pastedown: 'No. 4 | The Campden Hill Club | Minute Book (4) | January 1946.' Around 70 items inserted (mostly tipped-in), including mimeographed typed annual reports and circulars (the latter on the Club's letterhead), and printed exhibition programmes (with details of paintings exhibited), financial accounts and list of members. As a result of the war, the 'activities of the Club were suspended for five years', and the volume begins on its resumption in 1946, the Club's president Sir George Clausen having died in the interim. Each set of manuscript minutes is preceded by the names of those present and by an 'agenda' (the first, for example, reading: '1. The Minutes. | 2. Election of Officers | 3. To fill vacancies on the Committee, and such other business as may occur.'). Each set of minutes is signed off and dated by Montmorency. The first set is for the annual general meeting, 28 February 1946. The volume ends with the minutes of a committee meeting on 9 May 1957, including suggestions for the Club's new president ('(1) Mr. James Gunn by the Chairman | (2) Sir William Russell Flint by Mr. Fisher | (3) Lord Methuen by Miss Borradaile'). A list of 'Life Meetings' (held at members' studios) runs on the versos. THREE (Day Book, 1956-1972): 68pp., small 4to, on 68 rectos, with further notes in pencil and ink on a number of versos (including the names and dates of 'Members in Charge of the Exhibition'). In ruled notebook with green boards and spine. In a variety of hands (a page of entries from 1961 is headed 'Notes by A. C. Tatham'). Remains of label on front board reads: 'Campden Hill Club | Day Bo | '. Of the nature of a diary, apparently the work of the secretary, recording matter relating to the club (Montmorency features as 'Monty'), including the arranging of exhibitions at Leighton House, preparation of catalogues, and payment of expenses. The first entry dates from 1956, and reads: 'Wrote to Monier-Williams about my expenses being so large £6. 6. 11. for the year, asked him if he could explain it. | Wrote out rough copy of minutes of General Meeting on Jan. 26.' On 2 June 1957: 'Heard from Lord Methuen, saying by his doctor's advice, he has to give up all London engagements & therefore cannot be President of the Club.' The following entry, for 26 June 1957, is long, but the tone is typical: 'Hanging Committee met at Leighton House at 10. John Cole, Mrs. Croft, Mrs. de Montmorency, Stef Fisher, Guy Worsdell, M. de Montmorency (Ex Officio) | There were few enough oils to be hung in one row in the bigger Gallery. The water-colours had to be hung more closely (in two rows usually) in the other Gallery. |.

Condition: Very Good. Large folio. 73pp. Full maroon leather with gilt titles, edging and dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Covers with slight wear and marks, later rebacked. Guest Book for the visitors to the Hydrotherapy centre between 1890 - 1896 (Charles Darwin was treated here in 1859) Thick card pages with signatures, dates and photographs. Page edges have slight fading and foxing. The names below are signed and repeated throughout the album, people returned often and with different family members. Not every name is listed here, and in italics are the names that are difficult to read. Initial research shows interesting families of the time, many with photographs as well as signatures. Examples are listed of names with signatures and photographs. 1890 ALEX MACALISTER( with signature and photograph) , E. J. ROSE (with signature and photograph) JULIA APTHORP(signature and photograph), G. WHARTON MARRIOT(signature and photograph) JOHN H. GIFFORD, FRANK A. POSH(signature and photograph), ALEX MACALISTER (signature and photograph), NANDIN PLOTINYI, C.D. ROSE, CECILIA M. PEARSE, GODFREY H. PEARSE, CHU SLOANE STANLEY, EDIE CHESEBROUGH, BASIL E. PETO, LOUISE LYMAN, H. LYMAN, EDITH LYMAN, DOROTHY LYMAN.IDA WEST, LILY ROSE, EDITH CLARKE, A.D. CLARKE, W.F. COLVILLE, MARIQUITA CUMMING, JACK CUMMING, CECIL A. GRENFELL. DAVID BLUAURIY, H. SEYMOUR TROWER (Collector of Japanese art. Born Hornsey, Middlesex. Educated at Eton. Married Juliet Rosetta Salomons (q.v.) on 1 November 1871. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Navy League/ autographs and photographs of both) , JULIET SEYMOUR TROWER, C. RIVERS HILton, EDITH BIBLER, J. DEL. C. CLARKE, AMELIE PEARCE-SEROELD, EJLLA AYNESWORTH, FREDERICK GREEN WILKINSON, ANNIE GREEN WILKINSON, FRANCES SLOANE STANLEY, ANNE CHARLOTTE STEPHEN. R. I. WELBY, HORACE WEST, JUNE WHATELEY, H. LAURENCE MATILY, MARIA JACOBSON, COLIN ROMAIN, JOHN H. GIFFARD, RANDOLPH S. APTHORP, E. H. BURT, GEO. STEPHEN, H. S. NORTHCOTE (Henry Stafford Northcote Governer Bombay,Governer General Australia with photograph), , ALICE S. NORTHCOTE (Alice S. Northcote, Baroness Northcote, wife of the third Governor-General of Australia), ANNIE CHARLOTTE STEPHEN, MARION CREALOCK, SIBYL A. GOVETT(wife), EVELYN GOVETT(DAUGHTER), CARA CATALINA GOVETT(daughter), A. E. BONTINE, EDITH CLARKE, J. A. GORSTT. GODFREY PEARSE, CECILIA ROSE, ERNEST ROSE, ARTHUR CECIL BLUNT(ENGLISH ACTOR COMEDIAN / WITH PHOTO), F. L. GOVETT(Frederick Leonard Govett was born circa 1857, at birth place. Frederick married Sibyl Augusta Govett circa 1882, at age 25.stock and share broker) . EDITH B. GRAY, ERNEST A. GRAY, MARY J. STEEPLE CLARKE, MILLICENT BESSIE CLARKE, BERTIE CLARKE, ELLEN TEMPLE EMMET, MARY TEMPLE EMMET, 1891 H. CHARLOTTE BALDWIN, MARY LOYD, I. T. LOYD, RAOUL B. BEDINGFIELD, BALDWIN FLEMING, MARY FLEMING, HECTOR TOLER, ALICE TOLER, LILY COLISLLE & BOBBY, F. L. GOVETT, ED. LANEFIELD AOUSTOY, JEAN C. BRYDGES, F. H. BRYDGES, SUSAN ST. JOHN- MILDMAY, J. A. PAKENHAM, ISOBEL FORBES, E.S, PAKENHAM, FRED J. HOHLER, C. M. HOWARD, AUGUSTA FANE, CECIL FANE, MARIE JACOBSON, ARTHUR H. EWEN, THE GREEN-WILKINSONS, ALICE GRAHAM-TOLER, PHOEBE HOUSTOUN BOSWALL (autograph and photograph)AND GEORGE( Sir George L. Houstoun- Boswall of Blackadder House autograph and photograph/George in background), BOSWELL FISHER, MARY OAKES, MAXWELL S. HEMMING, WILLIAM AND MAUDE HIGGINS, ALEX MACALISTER, M. DOLORES FITZGIBBON, C.R. ROWLEY, EDMUND T. BOWER, IDA AND ETHEL FIRMAN, J. F. BURN MURDOCH, RIVERS WILSON, CHARLES C. CUMMING, HUBERT HAMILTON, ALICE STRAIGHT, COVENTRY WILLIAMS, HARRY BLUNDELL, JANETTE STEER, EDWIN L. LUTYENS (english architect no photograph) , 1892/ 1893 BARBARA C. GRAHAM, CECIL B. SIMONDS, MARY CADOGAN, ARTHUR CADOGAN, CONSTANCE M. LEVITA, C.B. VAUDELEUR, ISOBEL FORBES, CATHERINE MILLER MUNDY, , THE ALEXANDERS, WILMOT VAUGHN, VERA CHRISTIE, PERCY H. DERBYSHIRE, LILLIAN B DUNCOMBE AND WILLIAM, W. GROSVENOR HARDING, GEORGE AND INA GUNNIS, MADELEINE SURTEES, 1894/1895 MAU.

Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. Visitors Book with notable signatures from Prime Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors and film stars of the 1960's. (illustrator). Visitors Book. Twelvemo, [100pp]. Bound by "Leathersmith" of England in full pigskin, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. This guestbook began at the French Film Festival in Birmingham, England in 1957, but it is unclear where it was held afterwards. This work includes the signatures of the following Prime Ministers: Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Prime Minister Anthony Eden (and Lady Eden), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (and Lady Dorothy Macmillan), and Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home (and Elizabeth Home). Foreign Secretaries: Yugoslav Ambassador Ivo Vejvoda, German Ambassador Hans von Herwarth, Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik, Gen. Cortland V.R. Schuyler (Chief of Staff, SHAPE), and Chief Minister of Gujarat, Jivraj Narayan Mehta. This book is also signed by the Honorable Richard Attenborough in 1960. Other notable entries include French and English actors Maurice Ronet, Jean Marais, Nicole Berger, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Vera Lynn, Dick Emery and Cricketer Peter May. The following British dignitaries also signed the book: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Reginald Maulding; Major The Right Honorable, The Lord Ilford; Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone; Foreign Secretary George Brown. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Small 4to. 18 by 25 cms. Attractive beige linen backed plain book with marbled covers. 108 pages with about 1000 signatures (quite a few repeat visitors) to his apartments at Palazzo Albrrizzi in Venice between 1982 - 1993. Signatures include: Serge Lifar, Stephen Spender, Bianca Pignatelli, Duchess Mathilde of Argyle,Frank Giles, Raymond Carr, Susan Sontag, Joseph Brodsky, Brian Gysin, Erica Jong, John Berendt, Tim, Alex and Jessica Sainsbury, Humphrey Burton, James Lees Milne, Duke of Bedford, Thomas and Valerie Pakenham, John Julius Norwich, Duke of Albemarle, Edward St Aubyn (with Nicola Shulman) Edmund White, James Fox, David Wynne, Mubarak Al-Sabah, David Hicks, Lord Thorneycroft, John Richardson, Alfred Beit, Irving Wallace, Vikram Seth, Rupert Forbes Adams, Prince Frederick von Saxe-Altenburg, Regular signing guests included George Dix, Stuart Preston Christina Franchetti (Cuban aristocrat) Lady Rose Keppel , Peter and Rose Lauritzen, Desmond Guinness, Joan, Carmina and Penelope Guinness, Alexandra Queen Yugoslavia , John Malcolm Brinnin et cetera. Also some occasional doodles and remarks 'I love Johhny' ' Fabulous Party' ' Blessings on you' 'See you in Hong Kong'+ 'Bellissima' ' What a view' 'Best apartment in Venice!'' I love being a member of this Dial -a- Party' 'What a great guide you are' + Full page drawing by Roger Banks Pie and Ronald Gurney of a view from the apartment. An obituary partly reads :'John Douglas Hohnsbeen (1926 - 2007) socialite, art dealer. In 1950, he and the modernist architect Philip Johnson met at the Buchholz Gallery and were lovers for a decade; they stayed friends through Johnson's life. Born in Oklahoma (he claimed to be part Native American) attended Columbia University, where he was friends with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and studied with Martha Graham in New York. he spent much of his life in Europe, in Paris, Rome, Positano, and most famously, at Palazzo Guggenheim in Venice in the later years of Peggy Guggenheim's life, attempting to maintain and curate her art collection. He loved art, music, luxury and acquaintances with titles, power and/or money, but he also remained singularly loyal to his oldest friends, many of whom were not rich, titled, or powerful, through his entire life. His life was, in some ways, distinctly charmed and he was often charming, although his penchant for trouble-making was widely known and deeply respected: a butterfly with a sting. He was greatly loved and his opinionated, educated voice will be sorely missed.' Very good indeed. Signedes.

A rich document of empire, pageantry, and elite education in British Egypt, bearing some 150 dated signatures of leading political, military, and cultural figures from the first half of the 20th century. Among them are successive British High Commissioners - McMahon, Wingate, and Allenby - alongside royalty, senior officials, diplomats, and figures from commerce and the press, reflecting Victoria College's status as a focal point of imperial authority and social power. Founded in 1902 with the backing of Sir Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer, Victoria College educated the sons of the Anglo-Egyptian elite and staged annual speech days that became ritualized displays of British rule. Before the Second World War, when British influence was at its height, the college was regularly visited by high commissioners and their entourages, even during wartime. Early entries include Sultan Hussein Kamal's visit of June 1916, followed by Sir Henry McMahon and senior military and diplomatic figures connected to Kitchener and the Cairo administration. McMahon's successor, Reginald Wingate, contributed a full-page endorsement of the school in 1917, and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, visited in 1918 during Allenby's Egyptian campaign. In the interwar years, Victoria remained a symbol of British cultural power despite Egypt's formal independence. Edmund Allenby signed repeatedly between 1919 and 1922, later joined by his successors George Lloyd and Percy Loraine, often alongside Egyptian ministers. The book also records visits connected to major political developments, including members of the Milner Mission in 1920, Gilbert Clayton, Sultan Fuad I, and George Antonius, a former pupil and later a key Arab nationalist intellectual. Other signatories range from the Sultan of Zanzibar to senior churchmen, naval officers, journalists, artists, publishers, and statesmen, underscoring the college's place at the intersection of British and Middle Eastern elites. The final entries chart the end of the imperial era. A 1949 inscription by Said Taha Bey, marked "Visit of the Hero of Faluja", poignantly closes this compendium - a compact, first-hand chronicle of shifting power, personalities, and allegiances in modern Middle Eastern history. Samir Raafat, "Victoria College - Educating the Elite, 1902-1956", Egyptian Mail, 30 March 1996, available online Quarto. Original brown buckram ledger, spine and covers ruled in black, grey-green endpapers, joints lined with green linen tape as issued, marbled and rounded edges, pages with printed blue rules, approximately 65 pages with one or more signatures (nearly all in ink), remaining pages blank. Binding sturdy, boards and contents soiled in places, leaves with light foxing and browning, signatures well preserved: an excellent example.

A wartime visitor's book, including the signatures of Winston Churchill and around 750 others, including Douglas Haig, H. G. Wells, and Hilaire Belloc, giving a fascinating record of the movement of British military and other persons through Paris during the conflict. The book belonged to Maurice Brett (1882-1934), Provost Marshal in Paris during the First World War. Brett was the younger son of Lord Esher (the Esher bookplate is on the front pastedown) and was the husband of the stage actor Zena Dare. Brett often adds a note of purpose of travel to the signatories, who in most cases state their place of residence and their rank where applicable. Winston Churchill signs alongside his cousin Ivor Spencer-Churchill on 28 May 1917. Churchill, then suffering a period in the political wilderness following Gallipoli, had travelled to meet with Ferdinand Foch, Douglas Haig, Sir Henry Wilson, and others, including Lord Esher. After the meeting, Esher wrote to Haig of Churchill's "clever but unbalanced mind" and "temperament. of wax and quicksilver", recommending that he "remain outside of Government" (Gilbert, p. 21). Esher's advice was not heeded, and Churchill was shortly after appointed Minister of Munitions. As expected, the majority of the entries are from military or political personnel: Leslie Haden Guest, Robert Cecil, Lancelot Storr, Robert Vansittart, Maurice de Rothschild, Douglas Haig, Leo Amery, George Warrender, and Arthur Asquith among them. There are also a handful of literary figures - Hilaire Belloc, E. V. Lucas, John Masefield, Roy Horniman, and H. G. Wells. There are a couple, such as Geoffrey Keynes and Shane Leslie, both with the Royal Army Medical Corps, who can claim both military and literary credentials. Other entries include Prince Victor Duleep Singh, George Reresby Sitwell, the photographer Ernest Brooks, and Horace de Vere Cole (who perpetrated the Dreadnought Hoax, and whose business with Brett is listed as "Police case"), the war artist William Orpen, and the modernist dancer Loie Fuller. Martin Gilbert, World in Torment: Winston S. Churchill, 1916-1922, 1990. Quarto (220 x 186 mm). Manuscript in various inks on ruled paper, stamp of "Gouvernement Militaire de Paris, Intelligence Anglaise" to initial blank. Mid-20th-century red cloth, spine lettered in gilt ("M.V.B. Provost Marshal in Paris - 1914-1918"). Spine a little sunned, endpapers spotted, paper slightly toned throughout. In very good condition.

Hardcover book. The Wood family guest book & "Chit Book". These were records maintained by Minnie Wood, wife of the U.S. military attaché in Tokyo during the Russo / Japanese war. The "Chit Book" which records the date and description of items received at the residence, either signed or stamped by the deliverer. The pair of items read like a Who's Who of Japanese royalty and military figures, all of whom signed in Japanese script, annotated in English, adding their rank and position. Western notables are listed below. There are 117 autographs throughout the guest book, recording 51 Japanese, 47 American, 12 Australian and foreign, and 7 war correspondents. There are also four carte-de-visite photos. Minnie has titled her guest book on the first page- "Minnie W. N. Wood Tokyo Japan 1904 Autographs". Autographs include: The Japanese field Marshal Iwao Oyama and his family including the son Takashi, who sadly died in an explosion a few years later; Norton Ellsworth Wood 2nd lieutenant, Artillery corps; Viscount Kitajima, the Minister of Imperial Household of the HM t;he Empress of Japan; Nabeshima Naohiro the 11th (and final) daimyo of Saga Domain; Michinosi Nagasaki the director of supply to the Royal Household Dated July 12th 1904; Y. Nakano whose son was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, WW2, commanding Japanese ground forces in the Southwest Pacific during the closing months of the war; Ito Hirobumi, original name Toshisuke, Prime Minister of Japan; Major Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet (16 December 1871 - 10 March 1934) was a pioneer British military aviator; T. Yamaguchi (presumably the father of Tamon who served during the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Pacific War during World War II; Lieut. Col. W.J.N. Oldershaw, 1st. Australian Infantry Reg. and captain of the Australian rifle team; Mrs. Pershing, (signed in person) wife of General John Pershing; Mrs. MacArthur, mother of Douglas MacArthur; Viscount Aoki; H.E. Count Matsukata; HE. Marquis Ito; Lady Mac Donald; Col. Hoad; George Kennan and wife, cousin of the grandfather and perhaps namesake of George Frost Kennan, the American diplomat and historian known for his successful advocacy of a "containment policy" to oppose Soviet expansionism and Pulitzer Prize winning author. Their signatures include photographs of their cottage Breton Cottage in Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia; F. Brinkley, the author of the photographically illustrated "Japan. Described and Illustrated By the Japanese", also signed by his wife Yasu Brinkley; Captain Tanaka of Imperial Headquarters & Captain Goydaka (?) War Department; Major General Sir John Hoad, Chief of staff attached by Australia to the Japanese Army; Richard H. Leute of the Chicago Daily News and "sometimes with the Russian Army", with a note at the bottom, "Russian Prisoners"; Florence Gardiner Hall, decorated by the Queen of Belgium for work with the Y.M.C.A. during World War I & correspondent with Gen. John Pershing in 1935; Herbert H.D. Peirce, who was named by Theodore Roosevelt to be Third Assistant Secretary of State and in this capacity, made arrangements for the 1905 conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan at the end of the Russo-Japanese War that resulted in the Treaty of Portsmouth. There are also seven autographs of the Press correspondents who where in Tokyo covering the War including Reginald Glossor of the Yorkshire Post & Grant Wallace, San Francisco Bulletin & Booklovers Magazine with pen and ink caricature of him " watching the Taming of the BEAR". (WITH) Chit Book, with "Mrs O.E. Wood No. 3. Aoicho, Tokyo." tooled in gold on the cover. The first entry is for July 2nd, 1904, and extends through April 27th, 1905. 63 lined pages of names of people who have sent something to the residence. The entries are mostly in the hand of Mrs. Wood with the date first, the person's name, followed by a number & type of items delivered then either a signature of the deliverer or stamp. Stamps include US Legation, AOB, The Imperial Hotel, etc. and mostly the red wood block stamps by Japanese agents of their employer. Minnie classified items as "Notes, Letters, Packages, Photographs & Books. 7 1/2 x 8 3/4 inch leather bound, 150pp, interleaved with pink blotting paper, 63 pages of names of people who have delivered an item to the Wood residence. Oliver Ellsworth Wood (1844-1910) enlisted as a Private in the Cavalry in 1862, and after serving one year was appointed to the United States Military Academy. Upon graduation in 1867 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. In 1904, he was sent to the Tokyo Embassy, where he served four years as Military Attaché. He retired from the army as a Brigadier General. He was sent to the Tokyo Embassy, where he served four years as Military Attaché. He was the author of several books, including "The West Point Scrap Book: A Collection of Stories, Songs, and Legends of the United States Military Academy" and "From the Yalu to Port Arthur : an epitome of the first period of the Russo-Japanese war". Small 4to, approx. 200 pages, more than half filled with autographs, rounded corners, all edges gilt. Nicely respined in brown quarter leather, gilt title label with the original speckled boards, autographs with 4 photos (2 of Nova Scotia, a street market scene in Japan and an island taken from shipboard), very good condition (with) the "Chit Book", 8vo album, 150pp, full brown leather binding with gilt title and border on front board, quite rubbed at extremes. A fascinating pair of records of the U.S. presence in Japan at the time of the Russo-Japanese war.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A plain sheet, approx. 8 x 7 , some time extracted from a bound volume and paginated in red at upper outer corners, signed clearly in black ink by all four explorers at different dates, minor soiling and with slight smudge to Nansen's signature, unrelated signature to verso, otherwise in very good condition. This extraordinary sheet contains the names of some of the foremost figures in exploration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry Morton Stanley, famed for finding David Livingtone in Africa, subsequently crossed the continent. Fridtjof Nansen attained the highest north latitude aboard his purpose-built ship Fram. Sven Hedin is known for his explorations of Central Asia in a series of expeditions that brought him renown - he was the last Swede to be ennobled. Richard E. Byrd undertook Polar expeditions north and south, reaching the Poles by plane. The signatures are dated "New York Dec 2d 1886" (Stanley), "New York Jan 24 98" (Nansen), "April 23d 1923" (Hedin) and "New York June 26, 1926" (Byrd) respectively. Signed by Author(s).