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Sir Alfred Egerton [Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton] (1886-1959), chemist [Professor Herbert Dingle (1890-1978), physicist and President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1951-1953] All three items fair, on aged and creased paper. Slight rust-spotting at head of note, and short closed tear to leaf of calculations. Note (12mo, 1 p): He is enclosing 'a few figures' and hopes they are what Dingle wants. The calculations (4to, 2 pp) begin with working out of the 'Annual coal... |
Social history | £100.00 |
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Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow English engineer and naval architect (1842-1932). One page, 4to. Good, but lightly creased and slightly discoloured at foot. Bears the stamp of the Royal Society of Arts, of which Wood was the Secretary. Thanks Wood for his 'kind telegram of congratulation' (presumably on his knighthood). 'I... |
Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology | £30.00 | |
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Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson (1880-1958), President of the Royal Society of Medicine and surgeon to Queen Mary [Charles Noon (d.1957), senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital] Autograph Letter Signed ('Alfd Webb-Johnson') to Noon. 12mo, 2 pp. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with slight smudging in a couple of places. Thanking Noon for his 'generous gift to the Restoration Fund'. Describing the 'response' and urging Noon to 'interest patients & friends, particularly grateful medicos'. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 | |
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Sir Ambrose Heal [Heal's Department Store] Two Typed Letters Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Art historian, designer and founder of department store (1872-1959). Both items very good though somewhat dusty. One docketed and both bearing the Society's stamp. ITEM ONE (one page, quarto, 7 October 1918). He encloses (not present) a letter he has received from a woman named Evelyn James. 'I... |
Art and Architecture | £75.00 | |
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[Kenan; Keinan] Amos Keynan "One of Israel's Left-Wingers". [Pamphlet] An Open Letter to all the Do-Gooders Fidel Castro Jean Paul Sartre Bertrand Russell Printed wraps, [12]pp., 12mo.good cpondition. [End of text] "This letter originally appeared in Israel on March 22nd 1968, in 'Yediot Ahronot'". No copy on COPAC. WorldCat lists the title but doesn't cite a library. |
£125.00 | ||
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[Sir Hugh Lane’s Pictures] To the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England. Circular Letter, mimeographed, awaiting a signature, one page, 4to, good condition. It commences, We, the undersigned Irish Artists and Writers venture to appeal ... The circumstances surrounding the disposition of Hugh Lane’s Pictures are retailed, and an appeal for the codicil by which they... |
£225.00 | ||
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Sir Archibald Denny Scottish naval architect (1860-1936) and shipbuilder, President of the Institute of Marine Engineers. Seventeen items, various formats. In good condition though dusty and creased. Several items docketed and bearing the R.S.A. stamp. Correspondence indicates Denny's involvement in the R.S.A.... |
Military and Naval History | £200.00 | |
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Sir Archibald Denny (1860-1936), Scottish shipbuilder who chaired a 1912 British committee to investigate the Titanic sinking [Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (Incorporated)] On the Drawing Office. Received 13th March, 1895; Read 26th March, 1895. Thirteen pages, octavo, and fold-out 'PLATE XXI' (eight and a half inches by twenty-two and a half wide), with nine illustrations, headed 'THE DRAWING OFFICE BY MR. ARCHIBALD DENNY.', by Robert Gardner & Co., Engineering Lithographers, Glasgow. Unbound and stapled. Good, on aged and lightly... |
Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology | £85.00 | |
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Sir Archibald Hunter Autograph note signed to Mrs [?] Younghusband, British General (1856-1936). One page, 12mo. Cryptic, very. "There are many examples of dates in french in the paper. I fear Mrs Mary is very ill, very very ill indeed. / Yours v. sincerely / A Hunter". Slight "offsetting" from another letter over text of letter. |
Military and Naval History | £30.00 | |
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Sir Arthur Bryant 6 Typed Letters Signed to Mrs Theodora Roscoe. English historian and biographer of Pepys (1899-1985). All six letters are 1 page, 8vo. In poor condition: creased, frayed and discoloured, with ruststains from a paperclip. All six are signed 'Arthur Bryant' and three are addressed to Mrs Cecil Roscoe, presumably the recipient's husband's name... |
History, Literature, Military and Naval History, Women | £50.00 |