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Imprimerie Protat Frères, Macon, France (Georges Protat & Neveu Srs.) [Commandant Emmanuel Martin]

One Autograph Letter Signed ('<Emile?> Protat) and one letter in a secretarial hand, both to Martin.

Both items 12mo, 1 p. Both in good condition. The secretarial letter (docketed in purple 'Repondre le 1r mars 1914'): The 'cliché Durocher', which appeared 'dans le No d'Avril 1913, page 62, et qui doit passer aussi dans le Dictionnaire [des ex-libris français] Wiggishof [...] a été designé par...

Printing History £85.00
Indian Regiments in the First World War.

Indian Army Corps. Narrative of Events from 20th-30th November 1914.

Printed handbill, 2pp., 8vo, edge attached to card, bottom edge curled but text complete. At the top the words "N.B. This narrative of events is not to be taken into the trenches". Obviously an account of a German atttack dealt with and returned by Indian regiments, issued in this form for...

Military and Naval History £95.00
[Silhouettes; portraiture; eighteenth-century fashion]

Eight original silhouettes of eighteenth-century head and shoulder profiles of fashionable men and women.

On eight pieces of 8vo paper, one of which has ha d a 3 cm horizontal strip cut away at the foot (not affecting the image). On a variety of different paper types, all wove. Good, on aged paper. Attractive images, ranging in height from 7 to 9 cm, of four women and four men, all clearly belonging...

Art and Architecture £85.00 Eight original silhouettes of eighteenth-century head and shoulder profiles
[Atomic/Nuclear War Preparations; Civil Defence]

[Mimeograph or similar; Civil Defence] A Collection of information sheets concerning action in the event of Atomic War

Five items, 1-26pp., folio, most undated, but one 1964, another 1965, staples rusty, minor damage to one with no loss. Item I: 26pp., with diagrams, "Layout of an Emergency Kitchen" with sub-headings Site, Layout of Cookers, Layout of Swill area, General, Food Untensil and Fuel Storage, Food...

History £320.00
Ingrid Granberg

Chromosomes in preinvasive, microinvasive and invasive cervical carcinoma

Offprint from Hereditas [68: 165-218 (1971)], the journal of the Scandinavian Association of Geneticists. Pages 165-218, 8vo, with several figures in text. Contains two pages of 'Literature cited'. In stained and spotted printed light-brown wraps, otherwise in good condition. Inscribed at head...

Science, Medicine and Technology £25.00
George Denholm of Press Castle, near Reston, Berwickshire [ The Denholm Collection of Autographs ]

[ Printed catalogue. ] The Denholm Collection of Autograph Letters and Ancient Curious Documents.

[4] + 74pp., 8vo. In good condition, aged and worn. In worn red cloth binding, with title in gilt on spine and front cover. A brief description of the more than 800 items in the collection, which was arranged in ten volumes. Occasional entries feature quotations. Of interest is Vol. I, item 58...

£120.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph card signed to Walter Wood,

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. Blue "letter card" with printed stamp, addressed in autograph to "Mr Walter Wood / 7 Theresa Terrace / Hammersmith". "Many thanks for your kind invitation for June 29th which I am very sorry to say we are unable to accept...

Music and Theatre, Women £15.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph letter signed to Dorothy [?],

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. 2 pp, 8vo. "Many thanks for your kind note. I shall be delighted to come down on Sunday May 28th. & stay till Monday afternoon. I may be rather a quiet sort of guest as this part is a great tax on me - but a day in the...

Music and Theatre, Women £15.00
Irene Vanbrugh (stage name of Irene Barnes)

autograph letter signed to Mrs [?] Wood,

English actress (1872-1949), made a Dame of the British Empire in 1941. Headed "Wednesday" (no date), one page, 8vo. "Mr Sydney Brooks' address is / 2 Montpelier Square / S. W. / He is the cellist who is going to play at your concert. Yours in haste / Irene Vanbrugh".

Music and Theatre, Women £15.00
Isa Craig Knox (1831-1903), Victorian women's rights activist, social reformer, poet, novelist and journalsit [Alexander Macmillan, publisher]

Autograph Note Signed ('Isa . Craig . Knox') to her publisher Alexander Macmillan (1818-1896).

12mo: 1 p. Good. Since he 'liked the last little thing' she sent for his magazine, she ventures to think that he may approve of the piece she encloses (not present).

Book Trade History, Literature, Women £36.00