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[Garden City movement] 3pp., folio, with enclosed printed letter from William Yule, Interim Secretary, one page, fol., and blank forms for prospective shareholders and stockholders, one page, fol. Top edge dusted and chipped, small closed tears on right edge, punch-holes (extracted from file of Easton Gibb material on... |
£400.00 |
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William E. Appleby [ZETA nuclear fusion device; Harwell; U.K. Atomic Energy Authority; Museum of Model Engineering & Science, Westcliffe-on-Sea] The collection is laid down on the rectos of 43 leaves of a 4to folder, on pages printed with borders and headed with the name of the Museum. Items in good condition, with the usual aging to newspaper cuttings, in worn folder. Folder in original buff wraps with, printed on front wrap, 'Compiled... |
£350.00 |
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Lancelot Speed (1860 – 1931), Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature Signature (and subscription) only from letter, signed Lancelot Speed, book illustrator. Part of letter, 11 x 5cm, good condition, saying, yours try | Lancelot Speed. |
£23.00 |
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Oliver Lodge, spiritualist and author 6.5 x 2.5cm, staining from having been laid down in an album (residual glue), but signature clear. |
£23.00 |
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Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, Bt. (1861-1953), Army officer & colonial governor Signature (with another word) F.R. Wingate, Colonial Governor. Paper clipped from letter, c.8 x 2cm, tipped onto larger piece of paper, good condition. |
£23.00 |
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William Benjamin Carpenter MD CB FRS 813–1885), English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. Signature and subscription from Autograph Letter, signed W.B. Carpenter, zoologist etc. Paper, 11 x 5cm, faint traces on reverse of its origin in an album, 99 in bottom corner in another hand (number in collection), mainly good. Believe me to be, Dr Sir, yours most sincerely WB Carpenter. |
£25.00 |
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J.B. Owen, chemist Part of Autograph Note Signed,JB Owen, chemist, to unnamed correspondent. Paper, 9 x 12cm, small closed tear, good condition, marked at top No. 296 in a collection, saying I wish you success in this & on this & every other [?] that you undertake. |
£23.00 |
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Henry Barraud (1811-1874), English portrait, subject and animal painter Signature only, cut from letter, "Yrs truly | Henry Barraud", artist. Paper, 11 x 3cm, formerly laid down in an album, some remnants of process on reverse, otherwise good condition. |
£23.00 |
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Caesar (or Cæsar) Henry Hawkins FRS (1798–1884), British surgeon. Part of Autograph Letter Signed Caesar Hawkins, surgeon, to unknown correspondent. Part of letter, 11 x 7cm, fold marks, slightly obscuring a letter or two, marked No. 100 in a collection. The item comprises to subscription and signature, as well, on the reverse, some text, I meant to have said that she might leave off both the [?Steel] & the alkaline drops, but if the... |
£32.00 |
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Dr Edouard Fournié xvi.566pp., half-lea. worn and damaged but intact, contents good condition. Inscribed by author: "Mr le rev. W.B. Bailey D.D.| Hommage de l'auteur | Dr Edouard Fournié". With tipped in ALS, "Edouard Fournié", presumably to Bailey, [printed heading name and address], Paris 16 Juin 1877, saying... |
£95.00 |
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