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David Gentleman (b.1930), English illustrator taught by Edward Bawden and John Nash [Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University; Oxford University Press] Printed on one side of a 75 x 56 cm piece of thick wove paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with short closed tearing to edges and two light vertical fold lines. The lower part of the page carries the almanack, flanked on the right by a list of the 'University Officers', and on the... |
£180.00 | |
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C. J. Traviès [Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers] (1804-1859), Swiss-born French artist, lithographer and caricaturist On one side of a 38 x 24 cm piece of wove paper with watermarked date 1828. In fair condition, lightly worn and creased. The engraving is roughly 21 cm square, and shows three figures gathered around a table, their arms tangled as they reach forward to sign a document. No doubt caricatures of... |
£220.00 | |
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James Paget, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons [ Offprint; Nutrition etc.] Lectures on Nutrition, Hypertrophy, and Atrophy "Reported by William S. Kirkes, M.D. [...] From the London Medical Gazette", 50pp., 8vo, remnants of being bound in, gatherings detached, aged. Scarce: no other copy of this original edition currently on the market; several copies listed on WorldCat. |
£85.00 | |
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Eleanor F. Rathbone (1872-1946), independent M.P. and long-term campaigner for family allowance and for women's rights Letter, 2pp., 12mo, some aging and a fold mark, but mainly good; Typescript, 6pp., 4to, fold mark, good condition. In the letter she writes, in a hurried difficult hand, that she has made a "few corrections" and thinks the author/interviewer has done her best to give interest with sparse... |
£250.00 | |
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Anonymous [ Polar Exploration ] 64pp., 12mo, soft cover, beige, sl. marked, mainly very good condition. Small square school library stamp on title and inside back cover. Scarce. No other copy currently on the Market (viaLibri).Only one copy recorded, at Birmingham University, whose entry in COPAC suggests a publication date of... |
£250.00 | |
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Philip Hofer (1898-1984), book collector and founder of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the Houghton Library of Harvard University [Stephen Harrison; Edward Lear] See Hofer's obituary in the New York Times, 12 October 1984, in which it is stated that 'Mr. Hofer, who was secretary of the Fogg Museum at Harvard for 12 years, was a recognized book collector focusing on 18th-century German, Iberian and Italian publications. Mr. Hofer put together an Italian... |
£100.00 | |
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Richard Bentley (1794-1871), London publisher for whom Charles Dickens edited 'Bentley's Miscellany' [Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825-1867), dramatist and author] 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'Leicester Buckingham Esq'. Bentley writes that the matter of Buckingham's life of Mary Queen of Scots is 'just now brought to [his] attention'. 'If you are passing this way any day between 12 and 2 o'C you will be sure to find me, or my... |
£80.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm [Sir J. Edgar Boehm] (1834-1890), Austrian sculptor and medallist who settled in Britain [Edward Charles Chepmell (1820-1885), society homeopathist] 1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He gives a 'Thousand thanks' for Chepmell's 'kind letter - all the more welcome from a real kind friend whom I have so much to thank that I am at a loss to know how I ever can show it. I blush when I think that my work keeps me a slave to my studio... |
£80.00 | |
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Sir Joseph Prestwich (1812-1896), geologist [Alexander Henry Green (1832-1896), Prestwich's successor as Oxford Professor of Geology] The previous year Green had succeeded Prestwich in the Chair of Geology at Oxford. In the same year the second volume of Prestwich's 'Geology' was published for the University by the Clarendon Press, the first volume having appeared in 1886. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged... |
£220.00 | |
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Tania Long [Tania Long Daniell] (1913-1998), American journalist and war correspondent [E. V. Knox [Edmund George Valpy Knox] (1881-1971, 'Evoe'), editor of Punch] Long's obituary in the New York Times, 6 September 1998, describes her as 'war correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times who covered the London blitz and the Nuremburg trials' and 'one of only a few women who were correspondents in World War II'. She had joined the New... |
£250.00 |
