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Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, British Particular Baptist preacher. [Handbill] A Political Dissenter ["Abridged from the 'Sword and Trowel'"] Two pages, 8vo, minor foxing, ow good condition. Scarce. Three copies listed by COPAC (WordCat duplicates two only). |
£80.00 | |
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Peter Everett and John Rety, eds [Oliver Bernard; Anthony Carson; John Deakin; John Heath-Stubbs; John Larkman; Doris Lessing; Alun Owen; Alan Riddel; Murray Sayle; Elizabeth Smart; Richard Weber] Both issues 8pp., folio. Both in fair condition, on lightly-aged newspaper, with minor creasing and wear to edges. No. 2 has an on the cover a 'Photograph by John Deakin' of a black man, illustrating a symposium on apartheid titled 'The Man Beside You'; also the short story 'Wine' by Doris... |
£400.00 | |
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R. L. McCreery, Lieut.-General, G.O.C., Eighth Army [General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery (1898-1967), Commander of the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy, 1944-1945] [Printed handbill.] Special Message from the Army Commander to all Ranks Eighth Army. 1p., foolscap 8vo. 36 lines of text. A frail survival: in fair condition, lightly creased and aged, with short closed tear repaired on reverse with archival tape. Badge design at head of text, with white shield with yellow cross against blue background, and facsimile of McCreery's signature at... |
£120.00 | |
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Dr Gabriel Leven 126pp., cr. 8vo, paper wraps, unopened, sunned, minor damage, inc. bibliography. Inscribed to "Jolly" by "Leven" on front cover,. Donated by Jolly to the "Histologie College de France" whose stamp and shelf-mark appears on the front cover. No copy on COPAC/WorldCat, one in BnF. |
£200.00 | |
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F. H. W. Migeod [Frederick William Hugh Migeod (1872-1952)], FRGS, of Worthing, Sussex; leader of British Museum East Africa expedition [Lamarckian evolution; Charles Darwin] 195pp, 4to. On rectos only, with numerous slips of revised typed text laid down and manuscript corrections by Migeod. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn brown-paper wraps with white typed label on front. Migeod has paginated the main text 1-191 in red pencil, with four appendices... |
£20,000.00 | |
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Charles Wager (1646-1743), Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty between 1733 and 1742 One page, 15 x 19cm, corners missing at base with loss of part of first letter of witness signature, "John Eden". Payment of "six months Annuity" payable under a certain Act (duty on Wrought Plate, money arising from sale of forfeited estates, etc. |
£180.00 | |
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B. L. Montgomery, General, G.O.C.-in-C., Eighth Army [Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; British Eighth Army] 1p., 4to. A frail survival: In good condition, on aged high-acidity paper, with closed tear repaired with archival tape on reverse. A stirring message, divided into four sections, the first reading: '1. The leading units of Eighth Army are now only about 200 miles from TRIPOLI. The enemy is... |
£120.00 | |
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B. L. Montgomery, General, G.O.C.-in-C., Eighth Army [Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; British Eighth Army] 1p., 4to. A scarce survival: good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Divided into 5 points, with the first reading: '1. The Eighth Army has turned the enemy out of the famous AGHEILA position and is now advancing into TRIPOLITANIA. It is wonderful what has been achieved since the 23rd October,... |
£135.00 | |
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B. L. Montgomery, General, Eighth Army [Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; British Eighth Army] 1p., 4to. 25 lines of text. A frail survival. In good condition, on lightly aged and creased paper. Signed with facsimile of signature of 'B. L. Montgomery.' Divided into six points, the text begins: '1. The time has now come to carry the war into Italy, and into the Continent of Europe. The... |
£120.00 | |
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Anne Isabella Noel Byron (1792-1860), 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron [Lady Byron], wife of poet George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale [Lord Byron]; John Edwards; Joseph Knight On two skins, with the usual seals and tax stamps, and further text and signatures on the reverse of the first skin, including a witnessed receipt for £450 from Knight; also a memorandum, 2 August 1853, 'Exparte The right Honorable Anne Isabella Baroness Noel Byron Widow', 'Before me | Wm.... |
£200.00 |
