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Clarkson Stanfield, Michael Meredith Autograph Signatures on fragment of a document. Stanfield was a marine and landscape painter (1793-1867); Meredith was employed by the auctioneers Machin and Debenham of King Street. Paper dimensions roughly five and a half inches by four inches. Folded twice. Grubby and lightly creased, with dog-eared corners. Reads '[signed] Michael... |
Art and Architecture | £26.00 | |
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claud cockburn A collection of contracts and related material Memorandum of Agreemen (Cockburn and Sidgwick & Jackson)t, 3 Dec. 1971, for "The Devil's Decade", 4pp., fol., signed by Cockburn. Memorandum of Agreement (Penguin), "Bestseller", photocopy, 6pp., unsigned. Memorandum of Agreement (Sidgwick & Jackson and Penguin), "Bestseller", 5pp., not... |
Literature | £150.00 | |
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Claud Muirhead, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. 4to. Pages: viii + 103. Appendix consisting of nine detailed actuarial tables. Tight copy, in grubby, stained and worn printed paper boards. From the library of the librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson, and with the Society's oval stamp on the verso of the title. Small... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £50.00 | |
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Claude Carloman de Rulhiere [Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia; Russian eighteenth-century history; revolution of 1762] 8vo: [ii] + xxiv + 178 + [ii] pp. With half-title, and final leaf containing two pages of 'New Publications printed for T. N. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row.' Frontispiece, becoming detached, of 'Catherine II. Empress of Russia, Taken from an Original Bust.' Tight copy, on aged and lightly... |
History, Women | £180.00 | |
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Claude Genest [editor, 'La Revue du XIXème siècle'] Autograph Letter Signed ('C. Genest'), in French, to unnamed male recipient. 12mo, 1 p. 20 lines of text. Clear and complete. On aged paper and lightly-creased paper. Writing to ask how the recipient wishes to deal with 'traités de Botanique et de Chimie' in his reviews. Written during the first of several incarnations of the 'Revue', this one beginning around 1836. |
French, Literature | £38.00 |
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David Melvill, 6th Earl of Leven, Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons 1759-61; Dep. Gov., Bank of Scotland; a Lord of Police 1772-82; High Commissioner, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. One page, 8vo, edges sunned, mainly good condition. "My LOrd, Having retired tot her Country after dissolving the General Assembly [of the Church of Scotland], I only had yesterday the Honour of receiving your Grace's Letter of the 7th, informing me of His Majesty's Gracious Acception of their... |
£220.00 | ||
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Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier, dit Chapelle (1626-1686), French poet and author On a piece of paper 24 x 15.5 cm. Dimensions of image roughly 6.5 x 6 cm. Paper heavily foxed and creased at foot. Image clear and uncreased. Titled 'CHAPELLE.' Head-and-shoulders engraving of a tousle-haired Chapelle, with open white shirt, waistcoat and cloak hanging off shoulders. |
Literature | £28.00 | |
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Major-General G. Sterling Ryerson [ George Sterling Ansel Ryerson ] (1855-1925), Canadian physician and politician LETTER: 3pp., 8vo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, with the Society's stamps and annotations. He apologises for being 'behind in my annual dues', explaining that he has 'suffered severely from the war, financially & personally - my wife went down in the Lusitania - and have... |
£120.00 | ||
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[ Victorian valentine card, engraved and hand-coloured ] [ Royal Mail; Post Office; women's fashion ] On one side of a piece of 14 x 9 cm paper, with embossed design to the scalloped edges. Hand-coloured in yellow, pink, red, purple, grey and plum. A smiling young girl, blonde-haird and rosy cheeks, in gentleman's hat, muffler, plum velvet jacket, purple shorts and red tights, stands on the... |
£65.00 | ||
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John Rutherford Gordon (1890-1974), editor of London 'Sunday Express' [ Lord Northcliffe [ Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865-1922), 1st Viscount Northcliffe ], press baron, owner of Daily Mail ] 21pp., fourteen of them in 4to, and the other seven pages cut down. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Stapled together, with the first leaf detached. The article is complete but untitled. It is unattributed, but comes from the J. R. Gordon papers. A well-written and incisive piece,... |
£350.00 |