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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 £120.00
Arthur Thomas Walmisley, President of the Society of Engineers [College for Civil Engineers and of General Scientific and Practical Education]

[Inscribed pamphlet.] The Society of Engineers. Inaugural Address of the President, Arthur Thomas Walmisley, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; Fellow of King's College, London. Delivered at the Town Hall, Westminster, 6th February, 1888.

8vo, 40 pp. In original grey printed wraps. Unopened. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight wear to wraps and negligible worming to margins. Presentation copy from the author. At head of front cover: 'With the Author's compliments.' According to Walmisley (p.3), the...

Science, Medicine and Technology £125.00 Arthur Thomas Walmisley,
[Roman Catholic cardinals; Popes Pius X and Benedict XV; Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum]

[Cardinals of the Roman Catholic church.] Signatures of twenty-five Roman Catholic cardinals under Popes Pius X and Benedict XV, on parts of twenty-six official documents, many addressed to Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum.

The signatures of twenty-five Roman Catholic cardinals (one having two examples) on 26 strips of paper, cut from official documents, many of them addressed to Cardinal Willem Marinus van Rossum (1854-1932), Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. The collection is in good...

£420.00
[FETTES SCHOOL] James Stuart Macdonald, Moderator, on behalf of the Educational Endowments Committee of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh

STATEMENT BY The Educational Endowments Committee of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh of their objections to the Draft Scheme for the administration of the Fettes Endowment [...]

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...

£25.00
[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
[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
[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series]

Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Ecuador (1896). No.1879.

Pamphlet, stitched as issued, sl. dusted and foxed, good condition, 8pp., 8vo, reporting for the year 1896.

£28.00
[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series]

Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Peru (1896). No.1866.

Pamphlet, stitched as issued, minor foxing, good condition, 25pp. 8vo, reporting for the year 1896.

£28.00
[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series]

Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Spain. [Six Items, nos. 1862, 1885, 1898, 1932, 1936, 2179]

Six pamphlets, stitched as issued, good condition, 23, 3635, 15, 33, 26pp. respectively, the last in blue wraps (Finances)Reporting for the year 1896 on the Trade of the following consular districts: Barcelona, Bilbao, Corunna, Philippine Islands, Malaga. The final pamphlet concerns the "...

£150.00
[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series]

Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Venezuela (1896). No. 1933.

Pamphlet, stitched as issued, sl. dusted and foxed, good condition, 14pp., 8vo, reporting for the year 1896.

£28.00