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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Francis Darwin [ H.W.Crosskey, geologist ]

[ Francis Darwin; Printed ] Questionnaire from the Birmingham Philosophical Society, printed., with Darwin's responses in holograph to two only of the four questions and with signature Francis Darwin with date.

Questionnaire, partly filled in by Darwin, from, Translation of Scientific Memoirs' Committee, 2pp, 4to, minor sunning, good condition. NOT including the Printed Letter, p.[1], from H.W. Crosskey, explaining what the questionnaire is for (Action for the Translation and Publication of Foreign...

£650.00
[City of Cardiff Education Week, 1932] [Cardiff Juvenile Welfare Council] [Wales; Welsh schools]

[City of Cardiff Education Week, 1932.] Printed programme ('Cardiff Juvenile Welfare Council') of the 'Hobbies Exhibition'; and 'Educational Handbook for Citizens and Parents'.

Both items in good condition (see separate descriptions). ONE: 'City of Cardiff Education Week. Cardiff Juvenile Welfare Council. Hobbies Exhibition and Demonstration of Voluntary Juvenile Organisations' Activities. Programme of Demonstrations and Displays, and Handbook of Stalls and...

£95.00
[Council for Organising British Engineering Industry, Manchester]

[Printed pamphlet.] Council for Organising British Engineering Industry. Report of the Committee on Engineering Education and Research.

27pp., 8vo. Stapled. Without wraps. In fair condition, on aged paper, with staple hole through all the leaves. From the Board of Education Library, and with its pencil shelfmark at the head of the first page. No copy in the British Library, or on COPAC.

£60.00
Alexander Hume-Campbell (1708-1760), Member of Parliament and Lord Clerk Register from 1756 to 1760 [Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont]

Six Autograph Letters Signed by Hume-Campbell (all 'A: Hume-Campbell') to his 'Couzin' (a member of the Tonyn family).

All six letters in quarto; good, on aged paper; and with text neatly-written, clear and entire. Letter One: 3 May 1759. 2 pp. 40 lines of text. Giving advice regarding a will to be drawn up by a Mrs Robertson. 'As to the place where Mrs. Robertson makes the Disposition it is absolutely...

History £150.00
Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907), Scottish journalist, novelist and military historian

Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Smith'.

12mo bifolium: 3 pp. Good, though lightly creased. Tipped in on the blank verso of the second leaf, to a green paper folder on which an eight-line biographical entry of Shand has been laid down. He has left the packet containing the letters which Mrs Smith 'values' so 'highly' at the Reform Club...

History, Military and Naval History £35.00
Alexander Joseph Finberg [THE WALPOLE SOCIETY]

Two Autograph Letters Signed to Sir Henry T[rueman]. Wood, [Secretary,] Royal Society of Arts.

British art historian (1866-1939) whose papers are now in the Courtauld Institute, London; Turner specialist and founder of the Walpole Society. Both items one page, quarto, very good. Both docketed and bearing the Society's stamp, and signed 'A. J. Finberg'. First letter enquires whether 'a...

Art and Architecture £85.00
Alexander Kerensky.

Abbreviated signature ("A.Ky") with date.

Sometime Russian Head of Government. Bold abbreviated signature on page, 8vo

History £150.00
Alexander Knox

Statement of Account

Journalist and police magistrate (1818-1891). 2pp., 8vo. Statement of Account for contributions to the "Miscellany", countersigned by Know three times. "Wellesley" attributes the articles listed in these statements to John Hamilton Reynolds, Keats's friend.

Literature £45.00
Lancelot Speed (1860 – 1931), Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature

Signature (and subscription) only from letter, signed Lancelot Speed, book illustrator.

Part of letter, 11 x 5cm, good condition, saying, yours try | Lancelot Speed.

Art and Architecture, Book Trade History £23.00 Lancelot Speed
Oliver Lodge, spiritualist and author

Bold Signature only.

6.5 x 2.5cm, staining from having been laid down in an album (residual glue), but signature clear.

Miscellaneous, Religion £23.00 Oliver Lodge, spiritualist and author