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C.M. Ingleby Autograph Letter Signed to "Allen" Shakespearian critic and author (1823-1886). 2pp., 8vo. He declines an invitation from the Lord Mayor of London on the grounds of ill health, and announces that he is off to Holkham Hall to visit the Napiers. "We must have a special no of the Reporter for reports of all the speeches". He would... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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C.P. Scott. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Newspaper editor (1846-1932). One page, 8vo, acknowledging good wishes for his 70th birthday. |
Literature, Social history | £20.00 | |
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C.T. Courtney Lewis From the Library of Percy Muir, bookseller and author. Red cloth, faded bumped and with some wear and tear, contents with foxing and marking. With occasional notes on the text and additions and corrections in Muir's hand. And with 2 ALSs, one by Edward D. Mason, 2pp., 8vo, 9 March 1922,... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Printing History | £100.00 | |
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C.V. Wedgwood Two typed notes signed to Mrs Roscoe, secretary of the Society of Women Journalists. Historian. She suggests that her talk to the Society could include "some funny stories about the very early journalism in the infancy of newspapers", and, in the later note, she accepts an invitation to a Society function. Two items, |
History, Women | £45.00 | |
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C.W. Wilson and some important papers [CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON], Major-General. Director of the Topographical Department at the War Office (1836-1905)(see DNB). Two pages, 8vo, fold marks but good condition. "I send you today the remainder of the plans you left with me; and a translation of the letter press on those of the environs of Vienna. The plans of the defences of... |
History, Military and Naval History | £450.00 | |
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Cambridge University [Victorian degrees; nineteenth-century education] Printed on one side of a 4to leaf (dimensions roughly 24.5 x 21.5 cm). A frail survival among university ephemera: aged and lightly foxed and creased, with a couple of central vertical 5 cm closed tears. Beneath the heading are the names of the two Moderators (Frost and Hayward of St John's) and... |
Education | £75.00 |
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Cambridge University, 1861 to 1865 [Fitzwilliam Museum; William Done Bushell] The collection assembled by William Done Bushell (see Item Nine), later a senior master at Harrow School. All nine items clear and complete. On aged paper, discoloured by the glue used in mounting. The first eight are printed, and the last is in manuscript. ITEM ONE: 'Classical Tripos. | 1861.'... |
Education | £450.00 | |
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Campbell Dodgson Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Art historian (1867-1948) and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, 1912-32. Four pages, 12mo. Good, but somewhat grubby with a few small stains. Interesting, and characteristically subtle solicitation. He has been examining the book of drawings his correspondent sent the previous... |
Art and Architecture, Education | £100.00 | |
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Canada Copyright Act, 1875 [British Act of Parliament, 1875, respecting Canadian copyright] 8vo, 9 pp. Disbound. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Headed with the royal crest. The last seven pages carry the 'Schedule'. The British legislature had refused to ratify the 1872 Dominion of Canada bill that enshrined a fixed-royalty principle for Canadian publishers to re-print British... |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £75.00 | |
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Captain Basil Rupert Willett [MARCONI; RADAR] Willett (died 1966) and C. E. Horton were the two Royal Navy representatives to whom, in the autumn of 1940, it was demonstrated that the 10cm ground-based, experimental radar equipment could track ships. LETTER (one page, octavo, creased and grubby, with staple holes to one corner, stamped and... |
Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology | £65.00 |