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[EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBENTURE] Edward Hayman, J Jekyll, E Jekyll, Charles Cocks, Mary Cocks Part of a Debenture bearing five signatures. 2 pages, dimensions roughly five inches square. Grubby and discoloured. The heading 'Debentur -' is followed by six short lines of abbreviated Latin ("Annuitat", etc.) and 'Add Tow ye Civil List since Michas 1715 | Ex Recordr. 4o. Aug 1716.' Verso reads 'Augt 1716 | full Contents of this... |
History | £100.00 | |
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[EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LOTTERY; LOTTERIES] Twenty-two leaves, stitched (last leaf loose), in original marbled wraps. 12mo (roughly ten centimeters by fifteen centimetres). Written in a small, neat hand, over columns ruled in red. In good condition although worn and dogeared, except for the loose leaf which is discoloured, frayed and worn... |
History | £450.00 | |
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[Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935), Irish satirical writer] One page, in two 62-line columns. Octavo leaf with blank reverse. Good, on lightly aged paper with slight nicking and creasing to edges. Satirical account of 'simple soul' Michael James's dealings with his hypocritical neighbour Susan Elizabeth, who hands him a white feather when he refuses to... |
Literature | £85.00 |
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[Ejército Argentino. Dirección General del Instituto Geográfico Militar; General San Martin; Argentina; Argentinian; South America] Landscape. Unbound. On thirteen pieces of paper, each 17 x 23 cm. Each leaf with two punch holes at head, and all held together by a piece of blue string. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The calendar has been printed on the reverses of old coloured maps. Covering leaf (illustrating the "Antartida... |
Travel and Topography | £100.00 |
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[ELECTRICAL ILLUMINATION VIA BALLOONS] Charles Dubos, French inventor or scientist Projet d'application de la lumiere electriqu[e] a l'eclairage des villes Four pages, folio, chipped with small loss of text. IN FRENCH. He begins: "Les nombreuses experiences que j'ai fait sur la lumiere electriquee l'appareil que j'ai confectionne me mettant en meme de pouvoir l'appliquer a l'eclairage des villes avec avantage et economie sur tout autre systeme". He... |
French | £350.00 | |
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[English woodblock engraving; woodcuts; Georgian fine printing] On one side each of two leaves of thin laid paper (quality of tissue). Both leaves are good: lightly creased and spotted on aged paper. The first leaf (roughly 19 x 18 cm) carries six illustrations, arranged 2 x 3, and with the captions reading: 'Price 2s/6d | a way of purifying sea water'; '... |
Printing History | £850.00 |
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[Father] Ignatius [ Joseph Leycester Lyne] Autograph Letter Signed "Ignatius OSB" to "Mr Palmer". 3pp., 8vo, bifolium, grubby, creased, ink-smudge, part of second leaf cut off, cride repairs but text clear and complete, but in a difficult (hasty?) hand. As far as I can tell he says: "My dear Mr Palmer | I have been dining here with Mr [Sturd], I told him that I was writing a tale, which wd... |
Book Trade History | £220.00 | |
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[FETTES SCHOOL] James Stuart Macdonald, Moderator, on behalf of the Educational Endowments Committee of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh 4to bifoliate pamphlet; four paginated pages. Creasing to corners and with recto of first leaf grubby and with some wear not affecting text, otherwise in good condition. Sir William Fettes died in 1836, and the school endowed by him opened in 1870. 'The Committee are decidedly of opinion that... |
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Brazil (1896). No.1874. Pamphlet, stitched as issued, dusted and foxed, ow condition, 39pp., 8vo, reporting for the year 1896. |
£35.00 | ||
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. China [Three Items, nos. 1889, 1907, 1929]] Three pamphlets, stitched as issued, good condition, 8, 19, 9pp. respectively, reporting for the year 1896 on the Trade of the following districts: Hangchow, Foochow, Wuhu. |
£125.00 |