Name: Auction: Duleep Singh (1838-1893), Maharaja of the Punjab and the Sikh Empire Autograph letter signed
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Lyon &amp; Turnbull are pleased to announce their October 2025 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction, taking place live and online from Edinburgh. The sale will present a carefully curated selection of printed books, manuscripts, maps, autographs and archives that span centuries of intellectual, literary and cultural achievement. &nbsp;Highlights from the autumn sale include fine bindings and library sets from the libraries of the late Earl of Airlie and from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie, signed documents and letters from literary and historical figures ranging from John Ruskin to Duleep Singh, an important collection of Middle Eastern photography documenting the transformation of the region with the discovery of oil, and a large collection of travel narratives from the 18th to the 20th centuries.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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2nd December 1873. Single bifolium (17.6 x 11.4cm), written on all 4 sides, Duleep Singh's embossed gilt crest and Elveden Hall letterhead, to a Mr Drewitt, apparently an estate agent, seeking to purchase a property (Glebe Farm) and expressing irritation at the sale of another property ('Eagles') ‘to a person who I believe is one of those people who buy estates to cut up and sell again’, remnants of mounting tabs to verso

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Duleep Singh (1838-1893), Maharaja of the Punjab and the Sikh Empire

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Duleep Singh (1838-1893), Maharaja of the Punjab and the Sikh Empire

Autograph letter signed

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