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Richard Bentley [grandson of Richard Bentley, publisher] Death of the Broad Gauge [Letters to his father about the transition from broad to standard gauge] 18pp., 8vo, marbled boards, cloth spine, label on front, some pages damaged at spine (hinge strain), ow good. This copy if from the archives of Richard Bentley & Son, publishers, and this copy was personalized by rebinding to become Richard Bentley the Younger's own copy. A typed note has... |
£250.00 |
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Richard Bentley, FSA, President of the Meteorological Society, former publisher. [Offprint] The Meteorology of Daily Life Pp.[81-112], 8vo, green paper wraps, sunned at edge, mainly good+. Offprint from the "Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society", vol.xxxii, no.138, April 1906. Presumably one of the author's copies. From the archives of Richard Bentley & Son (and the personal archive of Richard... |
£85.00 | |
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Richard Bentley, FSA, President of the Meteorological Society, former publisher. [Offprint] Weather in Wartime. Pp.[81]-138, 8vo, green paper wraps, sunned at edge, wraps chipped, especially at spine. contents good. Offprint from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol.xxxii, no.142, April 1907. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
£65.00 | |
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Richard Bentley, FSA, President of the Meteorological Society, former publisher. [Offprint] Weather in Wartime. Pp.[81]-138, 8vo, green paper wraps, sunned at edge, mainly good+. Offprint from the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol.xxxii, no.142, April 1907. Presumably one of the author's copies. From the archives of Richard Bentley & Son (and the personal archive of the auhtor... |
£125.00 | |
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Florence Austral, Australian opera soprano. Bold signature and image on detached album leaf. Deatached page from album, 17 x 14cm , good condition, yours sincerely | Florence Austral [underlined], with image of head and shoulders cut from magazine and laid down. |
£56.00 |
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Rear-Admiral C.C. Penrose Fitzgerald [Pamphlet; offprint] Our Food-Supply in Time of War. Reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine. 16pp., printed wraps, good condition. |
£56.00 |
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Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-born violinist and composer AND Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano Bold Signatures on recto and verso of an album leaf. Detached album leaf, c.17 x 14cm, good condition, on one side signed Fritz Kreisler | 2/XI 1922, the other Nellie Melba | 1923. A small image of Kreisler, extracted from a magazine, is below the signature. |
£95.00 |
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Gustav von Falkenberg [Book] Der Fallschirm: seine geschichtliche Entwicklung und sein technisches Problem [192]pp, 8vo, including three pages of advertisements, corners bumped, hinge strain front endpaper, mainly good condition. Ex lib Royal Aeronautical Society (bookplate inside cover) with library shelf marks on half-title and elsewhere. Inscribed by the Author as follows, With the best thanks and... |
£150.00 | |
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[Sir Walter Scott; Archibald Constable; Hurst, Robinson; The Edinburgh Annual Register] [printed pamphlet] The Edinburgh Annual Register from 1808 to 1823 |
£75.00 | |
| [Edinburgh (Scotland). Commissioners of Police]. | £120.00 |
