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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] [Hawaiian Islands; HAWAII] Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Trade of the Hawaiian Islands (1896). No. 1900. Pamphlet, stitched as issued, 14pp., 8vo, sl. foxed and dusted, mainly good condition. Report for 1896. |
£35.00 | |
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series][TAHITI] Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. France [Tahiti] (1896). No.1931. Pamphlet, stitched as issued, sl. foxed and dusted, mainly good condition, 10pp. , 8vo. Report for 1896. |
£30.00 | |
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series][TONGA] Western Pacific. Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Trade of Tonga (1896). No. 2174 Pamphlet, stitched as issued, blue wraps, 8pp., stained wraps, mainly good condition. Report for 1896. |
£30.00 | |
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George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), author, wroter on books, etc Autograph Letter Signed ('Holbrook Jackson') to 'Mr. Bennett'. 8vo: 1 p. Good on lightly-aged paper. Small closed tear at head, and traces of glue and grey paper from previous mounting on reverse. He is sorry to say that he will be 'away at the seaside' when Bennett is in London. If he is 'in town again shortly' Jackson will be glad to meet him. 'I am to be... |
£45.00 |
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by the Author [i.e. Charles Povey] of An Inquiry into the Miscarriages of the Last Four Years Reign' [Queen Anne; Jacobite; House of Stuart] 12mo: 44 pp. Unbound. Text clear and complete on aged paper. Ten paragraphs on pp.7-10 have terse, sardonic phrases added at the end, apparently by a Jacobite sympathiser. For example, 'by <?> the old cause' added to one ending 'a Country brought to Ruin, or in a fair way to it.'; 'in this... |
£450.00 |
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Twelve manuscript eighteenth-century British Army Lists [Hanoverian; military history] Stitched 4to notebook, in original brown calf half-binding, with grey paper boards. 71 pp of text, with a further 19 pp blank, across 45 leaves of watermarked laid paper. Leaf dimensions roughly 19 x 15 cm. In good condition: internally clean and tight, on lightly aged paper. In worn boards.... |
£850.00 | |
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[Schoolmaster Cameron, 2/4th Battalion the East York Regiment] [the Raj; British Army; Victorian photography; Bermuda] 170 photographs, on forty-one pages of a fifty-page album with leaf dimensions of 26 x 35.5 cm. The album is half-bound, with black leather corners and spine, and green faux-leather boards, aged and with loose leaves and worn binding. The photographs are often slightly faded, but are for the... |
£950.00 |
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Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936), British novelist and suffragette [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.] Autograph Letter Signed [to the publishers Messrs George Routledge & Sons]. Two pages, 12mo. Good, with minor effects of damp. Text clear and entire. Twenty-five lines. Harraden has found an old acquaintance, Mrs Charles Routledge ('the widow of the son of Colonel Robert Warne Routledge'), in 'very distressing circumstances; she had been very ill from blood poisoning in... |
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lW. J. Cummins, Colour Printer, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham [printing ephemera] 4to: 22 pp. Leaf dimensions roughly 280 x 210 mm. Ring binder in original card wraps printed in red. Very good in lightly-spotted wraps. Ring binding slightly rusted. Features ten pages of bright, striking and attractive label designs. The first page shows four 'Colours of Design Separated' for... |
£225.00 |
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[anon.] [Bath, Somerset; provincial printing; pasigraphy; linguistics; universal language] 4to: 48 + [3] pp of letterpress, with additional leaf after title of 'Errata of Letter Press' and 'Errata in Plates'. Twenty numbered plates (the first two transposed), including one fold-out, and a final seventeen full-page unnumbered plates ('Examples'). Apparently complete. In original brown... |
£450.00 |
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