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Some Members of a Common Room' [the University of Oxford; Green Philosophical Prize] Nugae Sacrae et Philosophicae by Some Members of a Common Room. 12mo, 27 pp. Pamphlet stitched with red ribbon. In original wraps, with title printed in red on front cover. Title-page in red and black. Lord Rosebery's unobtrusive ownership blindstamp in top right-hand corner of title. Good tight copy, in grubby and lightly-spotted covers. Containing three... |
£125.00 | |
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Captain Charles Edgar Gibson, of the 49th Regiment of Foot [Crimean War; Sebastopol] Letter One: 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. 75 lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Expresses regret at 'Morten Edens melancholy death, so young & so clever as he was'. 'There is great talk of Peace. We hardly know if to believe it - few will be sorry should the news prove... |
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Ammunition Factory Institute, Dum Dum, Calcutta Ammunition Factory Institute. Dum Dum. Grocery Department. Price List. Established January 1907. 4to, 12 pp. Stapled pamphlet. In original green printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged, creased and spotted paper, with rusted staples. Giving the prices ('Rs. As. P') of items ranging from 'Asparagus French tin' to 'Zymale tooth paste'. The last page lists prices for cigars, cigarettes... |
£125.00 | |
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Philip Kent, Domestic Agent, British and Foreign Bible Society [John Baker; Miss Marshall of Axminster] Autograph Letter Signed to John Baker. 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Giving his 'testimony in contradiction of the Statement made in the document which you read to me in reference to the late Miss Marshall of Axminster being kept by you as her professional adviser with little money at her disposal'. States... |
£28.00 | |
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Sir James Donnet [Sir James John Louis Donnet] (1816-1905), inspector-general of hospitals and fleets [autograph collecting] Autograph Letter Signed ('James Donnet') to Mrs Hollingworth, discussing autograph collecting. 12mo, 4 pp. Text clear and complete. Very good on lightly-aged paper, with thin strip from stub still adhering. Thanking her for 'sending me the acceptable autographs you have. Though seemingly scraps of paper they possess for the initiated a value, for I believe every individual to be possessed... |
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Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931), British orientalist and archaeologist Autograph Letter Signed ('S. Lane Poole') to Mrs. Hollingworth. 12mo, 4 pp. In bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. He has forgotten which letters he has sent her for her autograph collection, 'but I daresay some of the list written at the back of this are new to you'. He will send any she wants. Asks for any duplicates she may have to spare. The list... |
£38.00 | |
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Printing and Allied Trades' Amateur Boxing Club [stereotype printing; trades unions; pugilism] The flong is 31.5 x 19 cm. Stamped on reverse 'LIGHT'S - "IDEAL" | HAND CASTING | DRY STEREO FLONG'. Small triangle missing from the top left-hand corner, causing the loss of the first letter of the first line (the 'P' in 'PRINTERS'); apart from that text clear and complete. Top right-hand... |
£125.00 | |
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Rear Admiral Ernst Batsch (1879-1948) of the Imperial German Navy [Sir Graham Bower KCMG [Sir Graham John Bower] (1848-1933)] An interesting correspondence, from one maritime expert to another, casting light on German naval attitudes in the period following the Great War. Batsch's father, Admiral Karl Ferdinand Batsch (1831-1898), is regarded as one of the founders of the German navy. Bower, who served for twenty years... |
£280.00 |
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[Author's Collection] Abel Heywood, Jun, of Abel Heywood & Son, Manchester, publishers and printers "Papers read on Various Occasions", Periodical Publications, bound into one volume. Hf.lea, worn, raised bands, red lea., gt spine, title as above, some foxing and damage in parts, mainly good. Contents (listed on front endpaper in Abel Heywood's hand): "Four Days in Iceland"*, "A mountain walk in Norway"*, Scandanavian Stories about Huldre"*, " Notes on Japan and the Japanese... |
£250.00 | |
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] Six pamphlets, stitched as issued, good condition, 23, 3635, 15, 33, 26pp. respectively, the last in blue wraps (Finances)Reporting for the year 1896 on the Trade of the following consular districts: Barcelona, Bilbao, Corunna, Philippine Islands, Malaga. The final pamphlet concerns the "... |
£150.00 |
