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The State Office of Statistics, Czechoslovakia Two pages, folio. Good, but on discoloured and lightly creased paper, with remains of stub adhering to one edge of verso. In English, with illegible signature. Begins 'The State Office of Statistics appreciating fully the great importance of an exact information of the British publicity of the... |
Travel and Topography | £36.00 | |
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[James I; Francis Bacon] One page, sm. folio, sl. crumpled and stained, C17th hand. Another copy (BL Sloane MS. 3562, f.99, to Spedding, the "best copy") is reproduced in Spedding, ed., 'The Works of Francis Bacon', vol. XIII, p.144, with the suggestion that, though James was capable, Bacon himself could have written it... |
History, Royalty | £600.00 | |
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The Times of London [Michael Faraday; Clifford Webb; Lord Rutherford; General Electric Company; Siemens; Mullard Wireless Service Co.] Broadsheet. Twenty-two pages. On browned high-acidity paper, with slight wear and loss to extremities and along central horizontal fold. Attractive full-page illustration cover illustration by Clifford Webb. Articles include 'Telegraphy and telephony. From Morse apparatus to the teleprinter.... |
Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history | £135.00 | |
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The Victorian Silk Trade [Child Labour, Factories' Act]. Wilshere (1804-67) was M.P. for Great Yarmouth William, MP for Great Yarmouth between 1837 and 1846). The notice: 2 pages, 4to. In very good condition despite minor spotting and two closed tears caused by folding. The letter: 1 page, 8vo. In very good condition. The envelope (addressed to 'W.... |
Social history | £95.00 | |
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The Walpole Printing Office, in New Rochelle, N.Y. [Peter Beilenson; Edmund B. Thompson; Peter Pauper Press; Herb Roth; American fine printing; typography; T. S. Eliot] Printed in black and sepia on both sides of a leaf of watermarked wove paper, 45 x 30 cm. On lightly-aged paper with one vertical and two horizontal fold lines. The seven sample pages feature a total of six illustrations, in a variety of styles, two by Herb Roth. The arrangement is as follows.... |
Printing History | £120.00 |
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The wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. 7 original photographs by Gerald Guttman. The pictures, which vary in size from 3 inches by 5 inches to 3 inches square, are crudely pasted to a piece of grey card, beneath a heading made up of three pieces apparently cut out of newspapers or magazines and reading 'Royal Wedding Day | 23 July | Andrew & Sarah 1986'. All seven... |
Royalty | £150.00 | |
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The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. A List of the Wardens Assistants and Livery of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London. 12mo. In original worn red morocco binding, gilt, with loose front free endpaper. Good, with EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Eight blank leaves bound in front and back, on which are laid down forty-nine illustrations of arms of London livery companies, each approximately one and... |
History | £180.00 | |
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The Worshipful Company of Stationers [Stationers' Company; paper doily] On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 23.5 x 19 cm. A delicate and scarce piece of ephemera, in a remarkably good state of repair. Possibly a proof, as a thin blank strip along one of the vertical edges, intended to be detached and discarded, still adheres. The menu itself is crisply... |
Book Trade History, History | £65.00 |
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Thea Stein-Lewinson (1907-2000), German graphologist Presentation copy of offprint of article: 'Die Handschrift des Chronischen Arthritikers'. 8vo: 14 pp, paginated 114-127. Presentation copy, inscribed on first page 'With the compliments of the author.' First page stamped 'DIE SCHRIFT | III J. 3 NR. | VERLAG RUDOLF M. ROHRER, BRUNN.' On browned, high-acidity paper, with chipping and flaking to extremities of first leaf. Four... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 |
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[Etienne Rochette; Asthma] [Asthma; pamphlet] Nos Maladies par Etienne Rochette. Fascicule No. 1. L'Asthme 24pp., 12mo, disbound, spine slightly damaged, some staining, text clear and complete. No other copy traced. |
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