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[Newgate Prison] Disbound, [8]pp., fol., pinholes suggesting previously bound into a collection of similar items, ageing, but text clear so good condition, small remnants of tipping on in corners of p.[8] blank. Copies apparently distributed among members of the Common-Council. It commences, The Committee for... |
£320.00 | |
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[Isaac Asimov and his Publishers] 1. (Asimov's Pebble in the Sky) Memorandum of Agreement , 17 March 1969, between Sidgwick and Jackson and Sphere Books, four pages, folio, signed by Anthony Cheetham [Wikipedia] for Sphere Books. ?300 advance with percentages.2. (Asimov's Pebble in the Sky) Memorandum of Agreement between... |
£320.00 | |
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Prince Albert Edward [later King Edward VII] Three pages (of a bifolium), folio, yellowed and somewhat transparent, crumpled, sellotape repairing split in second leaf, but text clear and complete. Text (secretarial handwriting) outlines at length the aim of recruiting highly qualified Jurors (eminent men) for the French Exhibition of 1878... |
£160.00 | |
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Ramsay MacDonald, sometime Prime Minister Two cards, both 11 x 9cms, One postmarked 1905 retails his movements, returning to London from Lossiemouth, ending Glad to answer anything I can!; the other a thank you for congratulations [on election result(s)] hoping to meet up with her but he does not expect to be in her neighvourhood. See... |
£145.00 | |
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Middle Hill Press [Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet (1792 ?1872), antiquary and book collector] Most items show signs of being disbound, mainly good condition1. Thomas Phillipps, Letter [heading] To the Editor of the Cheltenham Free Press and Gloucestershire Herald, associating Reform with the Re-establishment of Roman Catholics, one page, 12 x 19cms.2. [Verse] Ebenezer Higgins, Complaint... |
£480.00 | |
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John Tyndall (1820-1893), Anglo-Irish physicist, celebrated for his work on diamagnetism and infrared radiation, who discovered the Greenhouse Effect in 1859 [Global warming] [John Tyndall, physicist who discovered the Greenhouse Effect in 1859.] Photograph (Elliott & Fry Photo, 5.5 x 9cms, good condition. According to AI: [The] image shows a portrait of John Tyndall, a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist and mountaineer, taken around 1872 by the photography studio Elliott & Fry. But it hasn't the card backup and printed description and ascription of the... |
£28.00 | |
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Florence Fenwick Miller, journalist, author and social reformer [Women's Suffrage] Four pages, 12mo, , bifolium, minor staing on 'spine', text clear and in good condition. Text: I hope you will not think me an abnormally business-like member of my sex when I tell you that I am absolutely incapable of writing an article without knowing beforehand that I am to be properly... |
£180.00 | |
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Walter Crum, (1796-1867) eminent scientist and industrialist in the field of textiles, friend and correspondent of Liebig [see Notes] One page of text, 12mo, bifolium, some dusting not obscuring text, minor stain, mainly good condition. Text: Having just received a letter from Liebig I have called a meeting of the Committee [of Philosophical Society of Glasgow presumably] for tomorrow in the Andersonian Library at half past... |
£120.00 | |
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Ken Livingstone, sometime Mayor of London. One page, 8vo, very good condition. See Image |
£28.00 | |
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Jennifer Saunders and Absolutely Fabulous BBC2 Publicity Still, 30 x 21cms, very good condition. Inscribed by Saunders: To Hunter | It;s been a joy | love | Jennifer x. See Image. |
£25.00 |
