A Visitors' Book containing approx. 2000 autographs 1956-196...

Hammer

£440

A Visitors' Book containing approx. 2000 autographs 1956-1967, many of politicians, diplomats, civil service, foreign office, military, Indian politicians, musicians, plus several of other notable persons, probably from a British governmental embassy, consulate or diplomatic mission, 126 pages of manuscript entries of signatures and addresses, these divided into sections headed Calcutta (1956-57), Colombo (1957-1962), Kingston (Jamaica) (1962-65) & Budapest (1965-67) signatures include Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883-1981), signed "Alice Mary", Fitzroy Maclean (1911-1996) British army office, writer and politician, author of 'Eastern Approaches', Olave Baden-Powell (1889-1977), Duncan Sandys (1908-1987), Clement Attlee (1883-1967), Violet Attlee (1895-1964), Hugh Gaitskell (1906-1963), Morrice James, Baron Saint Brides (1916-1989), John Strachey (1901-1963), Admiral Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone (1901-1978), Barbara Castle (1910-2002), Valentine Britten (1903-1986), Molly, Lady Huggins (1907-1981), Lady Dorothy Macmillan (1900-1966), Irene Kohler (1909-1996), concert pianist, Boyd Tollinton (1903-1978), Dr Rafiuddin Ahmed (1890-1965), Gilbert Laithwaite (1894-1986), Desmond Voig (1921-1983), Godfrey Lloyd (1902-1984), Renuka Ray (1904-1997) freedom fighter, activist & Indian politician, Maharaja & Maharani Mayurbhanj, Vera Benenson, pianist, Richard Bartram Boyd Tollinton (1903-1978), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890-1977), Kenneth East (1921-2014), Nicholas Attygalle (1894-1970), Conyta Attygalle, a few English cricketers including Peter May (1929-1994), Tom Graveney (1927-2015) etc, Dermot Boyle (1904-1993), Herbert Andrew (1910-1985), Hector Wynter (1926-2002), Jamaican educator, politician, Allan Adair (1897-1988), Robert Speaight (1904-1976), actor & writer, Raymond Priestley (1886-1974), Geologist and early Antarctic explorer, Charles Maclean (1916-1990), Duart Castle, Isle of Mull, Escott Reid (1905-1999), Sardon Jubir (1917-1985), Robert Mayer (1879-1985), etc etc, contemporary calf gilt (24 x 20cm), no ownership name/inscription