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Sir Lyon Playfair. Scientist, 1818-1898 (DNB).Two pages, 8vo, affixed by margin of verso to mount), accepting an invitation and explaining his delay in replying. "I have this moment arrived from Edinburgh where I have been canvassing for the Chair of Chemistry. This therefore must be my apology for not having... |
£85.00 | |
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John Reginald Homer Weaver [DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY] Autograph Letter Signed to [Osbert Guy Stanhope] Crawford. One of the editors of the Dictionary of National Biography (born 1882). The recipient (1886-1957) was a noted archaeologist. Two pages, 12mo. In poor condition: creased, grubby, worn, stained and repaired. Weaver has just been reading Crawford's 'extremely interesting autobiography with its most... |
£35.00 | |
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[ATHENAEUM] Charles Wentworth Dilke Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. One page, 12mo. Very good. Neatly mounted on piece of orange paper. In Dilke's difficult hand. Concerns a 'Report': 'The only specific fact is that the misprints <?> cost to each of one shilling. [...] The enormous cost of about £12 per draft is to the Fund. How much the <?>... |
£56.00 | |
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Anna Maria Hall Autograph Signature on fragment of document. Irish-born author (1800-81; nee Fielding), wife of Samuel Carter Hall. On slip of paper roughly 14 centimeters by 2 centimeters. In good condition, although paper discoloured and with traces of glue from previous mounting on reverse. Apparently the foot of a page of printed accounts, with '... |
£25.00 | |
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John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney Autograph Signature as front of franked envelope addressed to Sir James Kempt. Lords of the Admiralty, the Treasury and of the Bedchamber under George III (1764-1831). On front of envelope, cut down to roughly 11 centimeters by 7 1/2 centimeters. Very good, if slightly grubby, and with traces of mount adhering to blank reverse. Kempt (1764-1854) was Governor-General of... |
£35.00 | |
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Diana Holman-Hunt. Latin among Lions: Alvaro Guevara. Very good in dustjacket. INSCRIBED by author "Diana Holman-Hunt". She has also added the words "especially you" to her printed expression of gratitude to anyone who helped. |
£50.00 | |
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Rev. Peter Inchbald [GEORGE STREET LIBRARY, SHEFFIELD; DONCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY; PETERLOO MASSACRE] Autograph Letter Signed to T[homas]. A[sline]. Ward, Park House, Sheffield. Inchbald ran a 'gentleman's boarding academy'. The recipient Ward (1781-1871) was a master cutler and diarist, and one of the founders in 1822 of the Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society. Three pages, 4to. Dusty but in very good condition, with small piece of second leaf of bifoliate cut... |
£100.00 | |
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Richard Horton Smith [Cardinal John Henry Newman] Horton Smith is described on the title as 'K.C., M.A., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge'. Attractively printed 12mo bifoliate on good quality paper, but with the blank verso of the second leaf still adhering to piece of the paper on which it was mounted. Newman's poem of 1833 and... |
£65.00 | |
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Sir Henry (Harry) Ernest Brittain British journalist and Conservative politician (1873-1974). The typed text is entirely legible, but the collection is in extremely poor condition - badly damp-damaged and frayed, and with much of the menu consumed by insects. ITEM ONE: TLS, 4 May 1944, 'KIRKLANDS, | HEADLEY, HANTS.', on... |
£50.00 | |
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Slavomir Rawicz. Good+. Dustjacket (not price-clipped)with one-inch tear, sl. bumped and sl. worn in parts, mainly vg. INSCRIBED by autho on title-page: "To Dagmar Jenkin: Slavomir Rawitz / 6th June 1956." Also inscription on front free endpaper by former owner, "Ian" [Jenkin] (also dated 6 June 1956). |
£250.00 |
