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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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George Sanderson (c.1835-1814), English mathematician [Wilson Lowry (1762-1824), engraver] Autograph Letter Signed ('Geo Sanderson') to Lowry. 8vo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper, with chipping to extremities. Thin strip of stub adhering to reverse, which carries the address in Sanderson's hand: 'Mr: Lowry | No: 57 | Tichfield St:'. He asks him to 'send the Books by the Bearer. | I find my self better & am... |
Book Trade History, Science, Medicine and Technology | £225.00 | |
[1841 Census; Public Record Office] Folio, 65 pp. In a number of hands. Clear and complete. Heavily aged, in worn binding with front board and flyleaf detached. Many of the leaves are blindstamped at the head with the royal crest. With stamps of the Public Record Office Library, and withdrawal stamp from 'TNA Library' (The... |
£225.00 | ||
(Mrs) F.S. van B. Stafford [British Guiana; Guyana] One page, folio, fold marks, good condition. She has approached Dingwall as someone who could help make conditions in British Guiana better known in England. She refers to the enclosure of "Resolutions" from public meetings, identifying herself as the wife of a King's Counsel "who has acted as a... |
Social history, Women | £225.00 | |
Joseph Lyons & Co., Japanese and Chinese Importers, Reproducers of Old English Staffordshire China [trade catalogues; porcelain figurines] Catalogue: 8vo, 32 pp. Stapled. In remains of original plain red wraps. All illustrations clear and complete. In poor condition: on aged, worn paper, with several leaves and the wraps as separate leaves. Slight loss at head of first leaf. The covering letter (4to, 1 p, undated, on worn and aged... |
Miscellaneous | £225.00 | |
[Netherlands] 4pp., [pp.1-4], disbound, twoo leaves almost detached from eachother, edges chipped and stained, some other marking, text clear and complete. |
History, Royalty | £225.00 | |
[The British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC] 17 items, as follows: three photographs, 10 x 9, 16 x 11, 22 x 16cm (i. 14 members of staff captioned News and Newsreel, 40s?; ii. circa 30 people who attended the BBC Staff Dance in 1942; iii. Photo. with stain, Studio view from above, cameras , gantry, sets, and schoolboys posturing in front... |
Social history | £225.00 | |
[Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA); China] 68pp., printed wraps, comb binding. The programme for the Congress, with photographs of speakers, and synopses of their subjects, and other introductory matter. The discussions (or some of them?) were apparently later published but COPAC records only two publications. This item is not listed on... |
Economics, History | £225.00 | |
[Charles Daman, clergyman, tutor in Classics at Oxford University] [Pamphlet] Six Dialogues touching the Nature of Man 34pp., 8vo, disbound, small closed tears on title (= first page), mainly good condition. P.[19] half-title "Two other dialogues touching the nature of man". Ownership inscription, illegible name, "University Coll". Preface signed "B.A." Ascribed to Charles Daman ihn COPAC entry for Bristol and... |
Religion | £225.00 | |
Pablo Casals, cellist, Jacques Thibaud, violinist, and Alfred Cortot, pianist [the trio] Signatures of Jacques Thibaud, A[lfred] Cortot and Pablo Casals. Signatures, with place and date, on one page extracted from an autograph album, left edge rough (detached), minor faint staining but signatures clear. Note: Thibaud was noted not only for his work as a soloist, but also for his performances of chamber music, particularly in a piano trio with the... |
Music and Theatre | £225.00 | |
David P. Thomson, M.D., &c., Hon. Secretary to the Executive Committee [Liverpool Royal Institution] 4to, 1 p. Dimensions 20.5 x 25 cm. 42 lines of text, in a variety of point sizes. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper. A varied bill, more entertainment than instruction, beginning 'The Museum will be thrown open at six o'clock', with references to 'the electric... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £225.00 |