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Dr P. Zaccarian (RAT) and C. B. B. Wood (BBC); Georges Hansen, editor [European Broadcasting Union, Technical Centre, Brussels]

[Printed paper.] Video player and recording systems for home use.

31 + [1] pp., foolscap 8vo. Describes the features of Ampex Instavideo; AVCO Cartrivision; EVR Partnership EVR; Nordmende Colorvision; Philips VCR; Sony Videocassette; Teldec Videodisc; Vidicord; and other proposed systems. Illustrations and table in text. Stapled into brown printed wraps. Good...

£200.00
Georges Hansen, editor [European Broadcasting Union, Technical Centre, Brussels]

[Printed paper.] Colour motion-picture film materials especially suited to presentation by colour television.

11 + [1] pp., foolscap 8vo. Figure and two tables in text. Stapled into brown printed wraps. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Uncommon: OCLC WorldCat lists copies at the British Library, Library of Congress, Hanover and the German National Library. From the Pat Hawker archive.

£160.00
Kedroff Quartet [vocal quartet]

Signatures on detached album leaf of members of the Kedroff Quartet.

Page detached from album, 17 x 14cm, good condition, headed Kedroff Quartet, with signatures, as far as I can make out, T. Kasakoff, Const Kedroff, J.. Denisoff, N. Kedroff, dated 19.1.1926.

Music and Theatre £125.00 Kedroff Quartet [vocal quartet]
Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano.

Autograph Inscription on detached album leaf.

Page of album, 17 x 14, good condition, signed as follows: Souvenir from | Luisa Tetrazzini | Stoke on Trent 9th Dec. 1921 [underlined]. On the same page, the signature Ivor Newton [pianist] who accompanied her.

Music and Theatre, Women £85.00 Luisa Tetrazzini,  Italian coloratura soprano.
[Winston Churchill; Winston Spencer Churchill] W.S. Churchill

[Periodical] [Note in] Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc.

Single issue, Ninth Series, no. 55, Saturday, January 14, 1899, paginated 21-38, with printed wraps (advertisements and title), as issued, front wrap partially sunned, marked on back wrap, other very minor defects, mainly good condition. Note, p.31, 11 lines, commencing "Mr. Dallas will find...

£400.00
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex

Autograph Signature on fragment of military document.

Uncle (1773-1843) of Queen Victoria, notable book collector. Paper dimensions approximately 1 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches. In good condition. Florid signature 'Augustus Frederick' above printed word '(Rank)' beside 'Lieutt. Coll. Com.' in manuscript, which in turn is above printed word '(Corps)'...

Military and Naval History, Royalty £30.00
Augustus Mayhew

autograph letter signed to [Edward] Draper,

Author (1826-1875). 2 pp, 12mo. "[...] You got me into a d - d mess with Nicholson but I promised him to say nothing about it so Mum's the word / Yours in expectation of a True Hoodian morceau". Traces of mount stuck to reverse.

Literature £20.00
Austin Brereton

autograph note signed to Clement Shorter

Stage historian. One page, 8vo.He thanks Shorter for the loan of some books and asks for another.

Literature £25.00
Austin Clarke

Night and Morning. Poems by Austin Clarke. Being Number One of the Tower Press Booklets. Third Series.

Original beige wrap, sunned and dusted, worn and chipped edges and spine, small closed tear at top front wrap, contents slightly foxed, mainly good. Enclosure (loose): Blank Order Form for this pamphlet including statement of limitation (300 printed). Scarce.

Literature £150.00
Australian Northern Territory Land Orders, 1870 ballot

Northern Territory Land Orders. Ballot for Order of Choice, held at Adelaide, on the 10th & 11th May, 1870. Reprinted and forwarded by the Agent-General for the information of Land Order Holders in England.

3 pp, in a bifolium. Leaf dimensions 33.5 x 21 cm. Clear and complete. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Each page divided into four columns of small type, each column headed 'LONDON REGISTER' and containing numbers under three heads: the first being 'No. of Land Order', and the other...

Travel and Topography £150.00