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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four closely written pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. She apologises for bothering him but would like him to peruse the accompanying paper which will speak for itself. I was about to write to the New York naturalist to ask if he really had dissected a Chameleo, but thought why... |
£180.00 | |
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Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930 -2017), British photographer; m. Princess Margaret APCS, image entitled [?] The Studio | 22 Launceston Place, W8. Very good condition, a difficlut hand but see Image. Text: My dear Hunter | Thanks for asking me to contribute but sadly I can't as I shall be away - Any way by [......? perhaps reading inclination] is rather heavy &... |
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Hilary Pepler and David Jones [S. Dominic's Press] Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed, sl. turned at edge, and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed.... |
£90.00 | |
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Hilary Pepler and David Jones [S. Dominic's Press] Small 8vo. Pages: viii + 24 + [4 blanks]. Original cream paper wraps: title and price in red and engraving in green on front. Wraps discoloured, rubbed, sl. turned at edge, and stained, with covers loosening and loss at foot of spine. Internally sound and tight, but quite heavily foxed.... |
£90.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), English Conservative politician, signatory of Locarno Treaties, winner of Nobel Peace Prize. Part of Letter, c.16 x 7cm, good condition. Surviving text: [...] I hope these notes will be useful, but I have no papers or books of reference here. Image on request. |
£30.00 | |
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Thomas Erskine, Baron Erskine (1750 -1823) lawyer and Whig politician, Lord High Chancellor 1806-1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. One page, cr. 8vo, fold marks, good condition. Docketed on verso re. subject , an Armorial enquiry (presumably a family matter). A difficult hand [??] Our Father had a Griffin & two ostriches but in all the books [ours?] are two ostriches - I find in our Heralds Office that younger Brothers... |
£56.00 | |
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Robert Fitzroy, Captain of The Beagle, meteorologist, etc. [Charles Darwin] Four pages, 12mo, some damage and staining, but text clear apart from the loss of part of a t and e and of one or two other letters. SEE IMAGE. Text: I have the pleasure of being able to express my concurrence with much of Mr. Parry's letter (which I return) and of being also able to assure you... |
£600.00 | |
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The Distin Family, an ensemble of British musicians One page, 18.5 x 22cm, laid down on very slightly larger paper, staining (by glue prob.), but signatures clear. See Image. Note: The Distin family was an ensemble of British musicians in the 19th century who performed on brass instruments, and from 1845 promoted the saxhorn. One of them, Henry... |
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John Singleton Copley (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst [ Lord Lyndhurst ], Lord Chancellor of Great Britain One page, cr. 8vo, residue of tipping in, but text good and complete, as follows: The Chancellor, with his humble duty to your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty's signature, if your Majesty shall so please, two Warrants for enabling Your Majesty's Justices Serjeants and Counsel and others... |
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Catherine C. Hopley [(1817 ? 1911) pen-name Sarah L. Jones, British author, governess, artist, and naturalist] Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, aged but good condition. These two trifles have been on my writing table waiting to be 'done up' ever since Xmas. I did wish to have sent them by New Years Day; but daily exigencies that wont [underlined] be post poned, crowh upon one so perpetually, that no choice of... |
£500.00 |
