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[James Young Simpson; chloroform as anaesthetic] Autograph Note Signed J Y Simpson to unnnamed [medical] correspondent (Dear Dr.) about meeting.

Author: 
J.Y. Simpson [Sir James Young Simpson, (1811 – 1870), Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine (chloroform)].
Publication details: 
1/2 past 4, no year but an address features in the message. See Image.
£100.00

One page, c.11 x 13cm, apparently trimmed, staining (perhaps glue from previous laying down?), text clear and apparently complete. Text: please call here (12[ ...?]) - as I cannot escape at present. See Image.

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[‘W. G. Hooper [William George Hooper], Ph. D. / World Traveller, Lecturer and Author’.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear Fellow Pilgrim’, describing his plan of a course of lessons on the relations of soul and body.

Author: 
‘W. G. Hooper [William George Hooper], Ph. D. / World Traveller, Lecturer and Author’, Hampshire author of works on spiritualism, the universe, ether and angels
Publication details: 
On his letterhead (‘‘W. G. Hooper, Ph. D. / World Traveller, Lecturer and Author’), Cranemoor, Highcliffe-on-sea, Hants, England.
£120.00

Hooper’s various titles, published between 1903 and 1941, are remarkably well represented on JISC, with holdings from the Warburg Institute to the University of Strathclyde. A precious artefact from a spiritual leader. 1p, 4to. On brittle and lightly-creased paper, aged and discoloured, with closed tears and slight loss at one corner and repair with archival tape. The handwriting is hurried and hard to decipher.

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[Pamphlet] Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President

Author: 
[Alexander W. Williamson, Chemist, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science]
Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President
Publication details: 
[1873]
£95.00
Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President

27pp., 8vo, sewn as issued, good condition. Scarce. COPAC lists six copies, while WorldCat lists the Glasgow and Edinburgh copies but no American.

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Autograph Letter Signed "Oliver Lodge" to the officers and members of the Guild of Undergraduates.

Author: 
Oliver Lodge.
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The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, 23 Oct. 1909.
£56.00

1851-1940, scientist and first principal of Birmingham University (DNB). Three pages, 8vo, one page stiffened by remains of card (for laying down), good condition.He wishes to thank the officers and members of the Guild of Undrgraduates "for their valuable assiistance as Stewards at the Degree Celebration on Wednesday last." Honorary graduates wanted hm to pass on their appreciation, the ceremony being, "in the judgment of many of large experience (Mr. Balfour among others), the best that they have attended at any University.

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