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Rampant Lions Press [Denis Tegetmeier; Samuel Johnson] Unbound. Large Octavo bifolium on grey wove paper. Good only, with creasing to corners (that would carefully iron out), and some marking to front cover. Title in large gold letters on front, details of edition on versos of both leaves, and specimen page on recto of second leaf. Illustration ('... |
£23.00 | |
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The Financial Times [Railway; Railways] Thirty-six broadsheet pages. On aged paper, with chipping to extremities and first and last leaves detached, but with text clear and entire. Articles on 'The Four New Railways', with photographs, by Sir Herbert Walker, Felix J. C. Pole, Arthur Watson and R. L. Wedgwood. Other articles include '... |
£56.00 | |
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Richard Graves the elder ('the antiquary', 1677-1729), of Mickleton Manor, Gloucestershire [George Vertue] On good-quality thick wove paper, roughly fifteen inches by eleven wide. Dimensions of plate roughly eleven inches by six and a half wide. Good, clean impression, with blank borders a tad grubby. Attractive portrait of a handsomely dressed Graves, a bookcase behind him, leaning between two... |
£55.00 | |
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Sir Thomas Spencer Wells [Hampstead Heath; Golder's Hill House; London topography] Two unbound bifoliums stapled together. Eight pages, on four leaves each roughly seventeen inches by eleven wide. A corrected proof, stamped at head of first page 'PROOF NO.' A frail survival of a significant document in London topographical history. Aged and worn, with several closed tears. A... |
£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... |
£350.00 | |
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Charles Anthony, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh [THE ROYAL MINT; NUMISMATICS] Typewritten 'List of chief and under gravers to the Mint', signed in autograph. Four pages, on four A4 leaves. Entirely legible, though dogeared and with some wear to extremities. Rust staining from paperclip. Complete from 1066 to 1937, beginning with the Cuneators and giving dates of Chief and Under Gravers together with Remarks on each individual. Dated and signed by... |
£67.00 | |
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Edward William Cooke (1811-80), marine painter; Charles George Lewis (1808-80), engraver Engraving by Lewis, after Cooke, of 'CALAIS PIER'. On India paper roughly three and a half inches by six and a half wide, mounted on a thick piece of wove paper ten inches by fourteen and a half. Cooke's name is engraved on the illustration, and printed on the mount are the title, Lewis's name and a double ruled border. Good clear impression.... |
£265.00 | |
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Ellen Wright (nee Poplar) (1912-2004), second wife and widow of the American author Richard Wright (1908-60) The Memorandum is a four-page folio (leaf size roughly fourteen inches by nine and a half) bifolium. In very good condition, lightly creased and folded. It details Mrs Wright's royalties (as 'proprietor'), advance and percentages. The paperback rights agreement consists of four typewritten pages... |
£56.00 | |
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George Thompson Brown Davis [John Wilbur Chapman; Charles McCallon Alexander] American evangelist (1873-1967), founder of the Pocket Testament League and the Million Testaments Campaign. One page damp-affected but text clear, some creasing. The letter from Davis is mounted on a leaf from an autograph album, and the two leaves of the other item are both glued along one... |
£50.00 | |
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Laura Honey [nee Young] ['Mrs Honey'] Autograph Letter Signed to <J. J. Dolone>, and Hand-coloured Engraved Portrait. Letter, docketed 'Mrs Honey', addressed to ' Esqre | York - Leeds - or Hull | Theatre Royal'. Three pages, quarto. Good, though aged and creased, and with small section cut away on breaking seal. Text clear and complete. Small strip of mount adhering to one edge. Interesting and intriguing... |
£156.00 |
