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Pierre Lapie. Part of Document signed by "Lapie Directeur de Cabinet". Topographer and map-maker, author of "Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, precede d’un abrege de Geographie Physique et Historique" (author = Colonel au Corps Royal d’Etat-Major, Ancien Directeur du Cabinet Topographique du Roi, Chef de la Section Topographique du Ministere de la... |
£200.00 | |
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Richard Edward Dennett [CONGO FREE STATE] Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Editor (1857-1921) of the manuscript newspaper 'Congo Mirror', who 'drew attention to irregularities in Congo Free State, 1886; [...] and accused Congo officials of murders and atrocities; with help he carried on the agitation until the Congo Reform Association was formed; in a series of letters... |
£56.00 | |
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Robert Mushet Autograph Letter Signed to the bookseller [George] Offor. Mushet (died 1828) was an officer of the Mint, and author of 'An Inquiry into the Effects Produced on the National Currency, and Rates of Exchange, by the Bank Restriction Bill' (1810). The recipient (1787-1864) edited Bunyan. One page, octavo. Good, on slightly grubby discoloured paper with one... |
£65.00 | |
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Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti British scientist (1864-1930); patented the Ferranti alternator, 1882; chief electrician to the London Electric Supply Corporation. Both items one page, quarto. Both very good, though dusty; one with small pinholes in one corner. Both bearing the R.S.A. stamp, and one docketed. ITEM ONE: He has... |
£95.00 | |
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Sir Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith [AVIATION] Historian of aviation (1909-81) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Eight items, various formats. Very good. LETTER ONE (two pages, octavo, 14 January 1949, on V & A letterhead): 'As a very new fellow of the Society I hesitate to burden you with reading the enclosed [an article on '... |
£200.00 | |
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Sir David Brewster. Autograph Letter Signed "D Brewster" to "Dr Bostock", Liverpool, medical writer, etc. Natural scientist (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, some damage and marking but text clear and complete. "You will have probably seen from the progres of the Encyclopaedia, that we are now approaching very rapidly to the article Galvinism [underlined] which you were so kind as to undertake. We are... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir John Newenham Summerson Architectural historian (1904-92) and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1945-84. Seven leaves, all very good, though some lightly creased and all with staple holes in top left-hand corner. The first three letters to Mercer and the last three to Samson. Three letters docketed. ITEM ONE (two... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir Richard Church. Part of a substantial autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent. Liberator of Greece (see DNB). Three pages (one cross-written making essentially four pages), 4to, sl. damage with obscuring of a word or two, mainly good condition, apparently missing the first leaf. A gossipy detailed letter covering the following subjects:The Irish famine; mutual friends and... |
£300.00 | |
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Sir William Laird Clowes Autograph Letter Signed, apparently to his publishers Sampson Low & Co. British naval historian (1856-1905), author of a standard history of the Royal Navy (7 vols, 1897-1903). One page, on piece of stiff paper, roughly four and a half inches by three and a half. In poor condition, discoloured and stained, and with one small hole and some fraying to extremities.... |
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St John Ervine [ John St John Greer Ervine ] Northern Irish Author and drama critic, see DNB. Three substantial and characteristic letters, total 8pp., 4to. She has submitted some of her plays for his critical appraisal and he has been plain-spoken. In the first letter, he comments on "The Long Duel" that he appreciates its literary rather... |
£350.00 |
