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[Sunday Graphic/Times] L.G. Carey, Newspaper Reader/ Corrector All items freshly mounted in a photo album, very good condition. The core of the collection is a full series of membership cards for the Association of Correctors of the Press (1949-1965), London Typographical Society (1966), National Graphical Association (1967-1988). With their variant... |
£250.00 | |
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[1841 Census; Public Record Office] Folio, 65 pp. In a number of hands. Clear and complete. Heavily aged, in worn binding with front board and flyleaf detached. Many of the leaves are blindstamped at the head with the royal crest. With stamps of the Public Record Office Library, and withdrawal stamp from 'TNA Library' (The... |
£225.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize. Part of Letter, c.16 x 7cm, good condition. Surviving text: [...] I hope these notes will be useful, but I have no papers or books of reference here. Image on request. |
£30.00 | |
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Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine (1750 -1823) lawyer and Whig politician, Lord High Chancellor 1806-1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, good condition. Docketed on verso re. subject , an Armorial enquiry (presumably a family matter). A difficult hand [??] Our Father had a Griffin & two ostriches but in all the books [ours?] are two ostriches - I find in our Heralds Office that younger Brothers... |
£56.00 | |
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Robert Fitzroy, Captain of The Beagle, meteorologist, etc. [Charles Darwin] Four pages, 12mo, some damage and staining, but text clear apart from the loss of part of a t and e and of one or two other letters. SEE IMAGE. Text: I have the pleasure of being able to express my concurrence with much of Mr. Parry's letter (which I return) and of being also able to assure you... |
£600.00 | |
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The Distin Family, an ensemble of British musicians One page, 18.5 x 22cm, laid down on very slightly larger paper, staining (by glue prob.), but signatures clear. See Image. Note: The Distin family was an ensemble of British musicians in the 19th century who performed on brass instruments, and from 1845 promoted the saxhorn. One of them, Henry... |
£75.00 | |
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John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst [ Lord Lyndhurst ], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain One page, cr. 8vo, residue of tipping in, but text good and complete, as follows: The Chancellor, with his humble duty to your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if your Majesty shall so please, two Warrants for enabling Your Majesty's Justices Serjeants and Counsel and others... |
£65.00 | |
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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. These two trifles have been on my writing table waiting to be 'done up' ever since Xmas. I did wish to have sent them by New Years Day; but daily exigencies that wont [underlined] be post poned, crowh upon one so perpetually, that no choice of... |
£500.00 | |
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H. M. Tomlinson [ Henry Major Tomlinson ] (1873-1958), English journalist and author One page, 8vo, good condition. He begins: No, I don't understand people who regard war - in the light of recent years - as anything but obscene. Your own case is different. The RAMC are not soldiers. Even Quakers served with the ambulances. If you are interested, I think this is about right... |
£100.00 | |
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William Hope-Jones, Eton Maths teacher [Douglas Byng-Stamper, Eton schoolboy; mysterious Railway death] Four neatly written pages, 4to, very good condition. SEE photograph for full text. Hope-Jones (see brief biography below, including his appearance in an M.R. James ghost story) writes a very substantial letter on the character, activities, school influence, etc. of Douglas Byng-Stamper whose... |
£320.00 |
