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The Hausa Association [George Taubman-Goldie; John Owen Murray] Handbill, listing the Association's officers, describing its aims, and appealing for funds. Quarto: 4 pp. Bifolium. Unbound. Creased and grubby. Half-page map ('Sketch to show position of Hausa-land'). Headed in red ink 'Funds are urgently needed both to secure the results already obtained and to carry forward the work.' 'The Hausa Association, For Promoting the Study of the Hausa... |
History | £25.00 | |
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Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman Autograph Letter Signed to Edward Frederick Lecks[, Secretary, St Ann's Society]. Judge (1779-1854) and Lord Chief Justice of England. 'I must not defend one neglect by another; but I fear that other applications of the same kind as that from yourself respecting the St Ann's Schools remain also unanswered. My well known engagements will form some apology but I regret to add... |
Social history | £25.00 | |
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Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe Two Autograph Signatures on fragments of letters. Conservative politician (1798-1890). Both stained by glue from mounting, and with traces of mount adhering to reverse. The first, on paper roughly two inches by half an inch, reads 'Thos. F. Fremantle'. The second, on paper roughly four and a half inches by one inch and a quarter, reads ' |... |
History | £25.00 | |
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Thomas Macknight Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Hamilton, President of Queen's University, Belfast. Political writer (1829-99), and editor of Burke. One page, 12mo, in very good condition. Reads 'My dear President, | I regret that I shall not be able to be at your meeting in the Library tomorrow afternoon. I expect some visitors here at the very time appointed - four oclock. | I hope, however... |
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Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott Autograph Note Signed to Mrs <Swanthwaite?>. British naval officer and inventor (1853-1924; DNB). 1 page, 16mo. In good condition. Attached to larger piece of card, docketed with a brief biography. 'I shall be delighted to come tomorrow at 4. pm. | Yours sincerely | Percy Scott'. |
Military and Naval History | £25.00 | |
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Victor Meunier (1817-1903), French author and journalist; editor of 'Cosmos', the 'Revue Synthétique', and 'L’Ami des Sciences' Secretarial Letter Signed ('Victor Meunier') to an unnamed male correspondent. 12mo, 1 p. Five lines of text. Very good on lightly aged paper. Good firm signature. He is sending the first issue of the 'Revue Synthétique' and proposes an exchange of that magazine for the one that the recipient edits. |
French | £25.00 | |
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V.S. Pritchett. Short story writer and essayist (1900-1996). 8vo, to “Mrs Biggs”, appreciating her enjoyment of “the Russian books”, mentioning an error in his review of them, and recommending that she read Leskov about whom he hopes to write. |
Literature | £25.00 | |
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Violet Vanbrugh (stage name of Violet Augusta Mary Bourchier, née Barnes) photograph signed to [?] Sarker, English actress (1867-1942). A portrait photograph, 5¾ inches by 4 inches, from the studio of Ellis & Walery, 54a Baker Street. Inscribed "To Mr Sarker - / with every good wish / Violet Vanbrugh". She looks slightly to the left, apparently in costume, with short hair, earings, pearls, and an... |
Music and Theatre | £25.00 | |
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W. Pett Ridge Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp., 8vo, to Ernest Carr Novelist (1864-1930). He announces the birth of his first child, with comment on its colour. |
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W. R. Aykroyd (Beit Memorial Research Fellow; formerly House Surgeon at the General Hospital, St John's Newfoundland), Beriberi and other food-deficiency diseases in Newfoundland and Labrador. Offprint. (From the Journal of Hygiene, vol.xxx no.3, 29 August 1930, pp.357-86). 'Author's Presentation Copy.' For other pamphlets on beri-beri from the Library of Harriette Chick (as this) nutritionist, see above and below #s2653 ff. or request a full list. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £25.00 |