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Dr James Burgess Archaeological surveyor of India. 2pp., 8vo. He discusses the personnel of the Survey, the senior position to be filled, and what he would do if he were in charge. (He was Director General from 1886 to 1889.) |
£100.00 | |
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George Wroughton of Wilcott, Wiltshire [Bengal; the East India Company] 4to bifolium: 2 pp. Good. Soliciting Adams's 'Vote and Interest' when he is 'enabled to proceed to a ballot', having 'lately presumed to offer myself to the Proprietors of East-India Stock, as a Candidate for a Seat in their Direction, upon some future vacancy'. (Feeling 'that their suffrages... |
£125.00 | |
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George Wyndham (Wyndham) Statesman and man of letters, at the time of this letter Chief Secretary fo Ireland (see DNB). Three pages, 4to, good condition, draft with much working over. He appreciates being given detailed grounds for a proposal that Sir Anthony Macdonnell [MacDonnell, Antony Patrick, Baron... |
£500.00 | |
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Byam Shaw, artist and illustrator Autograph Note Signed to [J.C.] Dollman, artist [Artist's General Benevolent Fund etc] Two pages (but large handwriting), 8vo, conjoined leaves, good condition. "I write to thank you most sincerely, for your kind letter about my picture. I think it was very kind indeed to trouble to write. I appreciate it very much." |
£56.00 | |
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Cambridge University, 1861 to 1865 [Fitzwilliam Museum; William Done Bushell] The collection assembled by William Done Bushell (see Item Nine), later a senior master at Harrow School. All nine items clear and complete. On aged paper, discoloured by the glue used in mounting. The first eight are printed, and the last is in manuscript. ITEM ONE: 'Classical Tripos. | 1861.'... |
£450.00 | |
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Constantine Tischendorf 8vo: 120 pp. Unbound. In original grey printed wraps. Lightly foxed, with wraps grubby and creased. Ownership inscription at head of front wrap. 'Published under arrangement with the Author', with a six-page preface by the translator, dated October 1866. The Codex Sinaiticus, now in the British... |
£45.00 | |
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[Cambridge University, General Election, 1868; Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope (1820-1887)] Printed on one side of a piece of green paper, 28 x 21.5 cm, with vertical perforated line 6.5 cm in from the left-hand margin, dividing the paper into stub (28 x 6.5 cm) and paper (28 x 15 cm). Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with slight wear to extremities. Part of... |
£45.00 | |
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Examination of Naval Cadets, Admiralty, 1865 [Royal Navy] Regulations for the Entry and Examination of Naval Cadets. Printed on one side of a piece of grey paper, 22.5 x 16 cm. Text clear and complete. In fair condition: lightly-aged and with remains of stub adhering to the blank reverse, on which a clean closed tear has been unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Nine regulations are listed, from 'I. No... |
£35.00 | |
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John Nichols, printer, The Milton Press, Strand [The Metropolitan Advertiser] First issue of 'John Nichols's Metropolitan Advertiser'. 4to, 4 pp. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged and grubby paper. Engraving of beehive, with motto, beneath title. Given away 'GRATIS'. Begins with a prospectus for what is described as 'a new medium of communicating with the public', concluding, 'for the inconsiderable sum of 5s. an... |
£225.00 | |
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Liberal Prime Minister Autograph Signature, removed from letter. On piece of paper roughly 2.5 x 7.5 cm. Mounted on piece of 7.5 x 13 cm card. In fair condition, with both card and paper aged and slightly discoloured. Good firm underlined signature ('W E Gladstone'). The card carries the following caption, in a contemporary hand: 'Autograph of | The Right... |
£25.00 |
