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Oliver Lodge. Autograph Letter Signed "Oliver Lodge" to the officers and members of the Guild of Undergraduates. 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... |
£56.00 | |
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Paul Meyer. Autograph Letter Signed "Meyer" to an unnamed correspondent (a German scholar?). Philologist (1840-1917)("ranked as the chief authority on the French language of his era". In French, written the age of 20. Three pages, 8vo, good condition. "En meme temps que cette lettre, vous recevez les epreuves d'un article qi parait actuellement dans la Bibliotheque de l'ecole des... |
£400.00 | |
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Pierre Lapie. Part of Document signed by "Lapie Directeur de Cabinet". Topographer and map-maker, author of "Atlas Universel de Geographie Ancienne et Moderne, precede d’un abrege de Geographie Physique et Historique" (author = Colonel au Corps Royal d’Etat-Major, Ancien Directeur du Cabinet Topographique du Roi, Chef de la Section Topographique du Ministere de la... |
£200.00 | |
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Richard Edward Dennett [CONGO FREE STATE] Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Editor (1857-1921) of the manuscript newspaper 'Congo Mirror', who 'drew attention to irregularities in Congo Free State, 1886; [...] and accused Congo officials of murders and atrocities; with help he carried on the agitation until the Congo Reform Association was formed; in a series of letters... |
£56.00 | |
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Robert Mushet Autograph Letter Signed to the bookseller [George] Offor. Mushet (died 1828) was an officer of the Mint, and author of 'An Inquiry into the Effects Produced on the National Currency, and Rates of Exchange, by the Bank Restriction Bill' (1810). The recipient (1787-1864) edited Bunyan. One page, octavo. Good, on slightly grubby discoloured paper with one... |
£65.00 | |
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Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti British scientist (1864-1930); patented the Ferranti alternator, 1882; chief electrician to the London Electric Supply Corporation. Both items one page, quarto. Both very good, though dusty; one with small pinholes in one corner. Both bearing the R.S.A. stamp, and one docketed. ITEM ONE: He has... |
£95.00 | |
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Sir Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith [AVIATION] Historian of aviation (1909-81) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Eight items, various formats. Very good. LETTER ONE (two pages, octavo, 14 January 1949, on V & A letterhead): 'As a very new fellow of the Society I hesitate to burden you with reading the enclosed [an article on '... |
£200.00 | |
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Sir David Brewster. Autograph Letter Signed "D Brewster" to "Dr Bostock", Liverpool, medical writer, etc. Natural scientist (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, some damage and marking but text clear and complete. "You will have probably seen from the progres of the Encyclopaedia, that we are now approaching very rapidly to the article Galvinism [underlined] which you were so kind as to undertake. We are... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir John Newenham Summerson Architectural historian (1904-92) and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, 1945-84. Seven leaves, all very good, though some lightly creased and all with staple holes in top left-hand corner. The first three letters to Mercer and the last three to Samson. Three letters docketed. ITEM ONE (two... |
£150.00 | |
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Sir Richard Church. Part of a substantial autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent. Liberator of Greece (see DNB). Three pages (one cross-written making essentially four pages), 4to, sl. damage with obscuring of a word or two, mainly good condition, apparently missing the first leaf. A gossipy detailed letter covering the following subjects:The Irish famine; mutual friends and... |
£300.00 |
