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Lancelot Speed (1860 – 1931), Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature Signature (and subscription) only from letter, signed Lancelot Speed, book illustrator. Part of letter, 11 x 5cm, good condition, saying, yours try | Lancelot Speed. |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History | £23.00 |
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Oliver Lodge, spiritualist and author 6.5 x 2.5cm, staining from having been laid down in an album (residual glue), but signature clear. |
Miscellaneous, Religion | £23.00 |
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Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, Bt. (1861-1953), Army officer & colonial governor Signature (with another word) F.R. Wingate, Colonial Governor. Paper clipped from letter, c.8 x 2cm, tipped onto larger piece of paper, good condition. |
Travel and Topography | £23.00 |
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Alexander MacLehose & Co.; James MacLehose; publishers [John Gideon Wilson (1876-1963), Scottish bookseller, proprietor of the London firm of Bumpus] Alexander MacLehose: Letter One: 4to, 1 p. Good, on slightly aged and lightly creased paper. He is sending a copy of his catalogue, 'which has reached me from the printers to-day'. He has 'sent a copy also to the firm'. Would like Wilson's 'advice as to whether "Memories of the Months" should... |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £100.00 | |
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James Thomson (1822-1892), Scottish engineer [George Carey Foster (1835-1919), English chemist and physicist] 2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He regrets that 'too much time has elapsed' since her letter to 'our Mary': 'I wished to write sooner but I have missed doing so through great pressure of various urgent engagements'. He is enclosing (not present) 'an introduction to Prof. Carey Foster,... |
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Alexander Peddie (1810-1907), of the Minto House Hospital and Dispensary, Edinburgh [Dr Stanhope Templeman Speer] 12mo, 2 pp. 28 lines of text. Clear and complete. Folded into a packet 5 x 6.5 cm. With envelope addressed by Peddie as 'from | the Minto House Hospital | Edinburgh.' Fair, on aged paper with some short closed tears to the folds. Speer has been an assistant at Minto House since the previous 1... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £56.00 | |
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Alexander Siemens. Electric Transmission of Power (Pamphlet - Offprint. A Paper read before the North of England Institute of Mining and mechanical Engineers. General Meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, December 8th, 1894 (Excerpt from the Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, London and Newcastle, 1895). 26pp., tall 8vo, 2... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £80.00 | |
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G. J. Romanes [ George John Romanes ] (1848-1894), evolutionary biologist, born in Canada, friend and colleague of Charles Darwin [ Arthur Nicols ] 2pp., 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, aged and worn, with the second leaf laid down on part of a leaf cut from an autograph album. He is enclosing 'a Lecture Syllabus from Mr. Nicol, whom you may perhaps remember having seen meet me in the committee room on the day of... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £180.00 |
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4th Duke of Northumberland [Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, naval commander, explorer and Conservative politician.] Two pages, 12mo, black-bordered, bifolium, very good condition. Presuambly an answer to a question about a naval incident in 1810, perhaps for a memoir or similar being prepared by Smyth which his death in 1865 pre-empted. Text: Captain Mundt of HMS Hydra commanded at Gibraltar which was then a... |
£220.00 | ||
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Alexander Strahan Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent (John Tyndall?). Two pages, octavo. Good, apart from damage and loss to one edge caused by removal from mount. Would appear to relate to the controversy between the surgeon Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904) and John Tyndall (1820-1893), held in the pages of Strahan's 'Contemporary Review'. Reads 'I herewith send... |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £65.00 |