Admirals, generals, colonial administrators, travellers, scientists, philanthropists Large including: Garibaldi, Giuseppe (Italian general, patriot and revolutionary, 1807-1882). Autograph letter signed to 'Mio caro Cowen', London, 20 April 1864, concerning a visit to Newcastle, on blue paper, 1 p., signed 'G. Garibaldi', mounted, together with a clipped signature, 'G. Garibaldi'; Northesk, William Carnegie, 7th Earl of (British admiral, third-in-command at Trafalgar, 1756-1831). Clipped sentiment signed ('Northesk'); Munro, Sir Thomas (East India Company army officer and governor of Madras, 1761-1827). Autograph letter signed, Ballari [Ballary], India, 22 February 1802, warrant for payment ('I will thank you to send me a bill on Madras for the amount on my private account, yours truly, Thos Munro', 1 p., mounted; Banks, Sir Joseph (naturalist and patron of science, 1743-1820). Clipped sentiment signed, 'believe me dear sir, your faithfull servant, Jos: Banks', dated 1782 in a contemporary hand; Nightingale, Florence (pioneer of nursing, 1820-1910). Clipped sentiment signed, '& oblige your obedt servt Florence Nightingale'. Together with: approx. 30 clipped signatures, signed envelopes and free fronts from admirals, generals and colonial administrators including John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735-1823), Stapleton Cotton 1st Viscount Combermere (1773-1865; 2 items, envelope and free front, both signed 'Combermere'), Sir Henry Pottinger (first governor of Hong Kong, 1789-1856, clipped sentiment signed, Sir John Barrow (second secretary to the Admiralty and traveller in China, 1764-1848), Sir Miles Nightingall, Hugh Childers, Edward Cardwell, Sir Henry Smith, Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir Charles Adam, Sir William Parker (signature clipped from order 'given on board the Hibernia at Malta, 28 October 1845'), Hugh Gough 1st Viscount Gough, Sir Robert and Lady Florentia Sale (dated 1844), Sir Herbert Taylor, governors-general of India (Hardinge, Ellenborough, Dalhousie); and similar. And approx. 30 further autograph letters and other signed pieces from scientists and other figures including: George Combe (phrenologist, 1788-1858), autograph letter signed concerning phrenology, 1836, 1 p.; Austen Henry Layard (archaeologist, 1817-1894), autograph letter signed, to 'My dear [?]Murray', undated, confirming a meeting; Elihu Burritt (American diplomat and philanthropist, 1810-1879), autograph letter signed, Birmingham, 1857, declining an invitation to lecture, 2 pp.; Sir Oliver Lodge (physicist, 1851-1940), typed letter signed, 1 p.; Thomas Graham (chemist, 1805-1869), autograph letter signed on peat products, 1849, 4 pp.; Sir Henry Thompson (surgeon, 1820-1904), autograph letter signed, 1 p.; D. Tagore [identified in pencilled annotation as Dwarkanath Tagore, i.e. the Indian industrialist and grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, 1798-1846], autograph letter signed, 1845, 1 p.; and similar. Most items on 19th-century album leaves each with identifying annotation (approx. 65 items in 1 folder)