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James C. Pilling, Ethnologist (here Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian] Letter Signed "James C. Pilling", to E.S. Cox, State Geologist, Indianapolis, Ind. One page, 4to, body of letter secretarial, fold marks, fair condition, complete and legible: Our Library is minus the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th annual report of teh geological survey of your State, nor have we anything later than the 10th. I am directed by Maj. Powell [Director] to ask if you... |
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Leo H. Thebaud, later Rear-Admiral, Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944-5. Autograph Letter Signed "L.H. Thebaud" to [H. Beresford] Hope, British diplomat (Washiongton etc). Four pages, 8vo, conjoint, good condition. Thebaud is a schoolboy and about to "take Harvard examinations" he informs Hope). The parental home in Madison NJ is shut up, but he is "sponging" off an uncle. He hopes Hope will visit New York so that they can "see Broadway by night together". He had... |
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Luigi Villari, Italian historian, traveller and diplomat Autograph Letter Signed to [Harold Beresford] Hope, diplomat (Washington, etc.). Two pages, conjoined, slightly damaged but text complete and clear. "I heard the other day from the British Consul here, Mr Powell, that you are at the British Embassy in Washington. I am glad of the news & hope we may meet some time or other, either here or in Washington. | I have been in... |
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[Sir William Huggins, President of the Royal Society; Conversazione, 1903] 8vo, 24 pp. Stitched as issued. Well printed on good laid paper. Creased and aged. A programme, describing, often in detail, the forty-six exhibits, in the various rooms, from 'Photographs illustrative of the Coronation Naval Review, 1902' by Dr W. J. S. Lockyer, to 'Examples illustrating the... |
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Auguste Guinnard, French traveller, who wrote an account of his three-years' captivity in Patagonia [Jules Verne; Pierre Kalfon; Benard] Autograph Letter Signed ('A Guinnard'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent. 8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-two lines of text. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper. It is only now that he is able to thank him for the 'bon accueil que m'a fait Monsieur Benard grâce à votre Gracieuse recommendation'. Benard has lent him 'quelques ouvrages',... |
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Sir Philip Gibbs [Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs] (1877-1962), writer and journalist [G. K. Chesterton; Glasgow University] 8vo: 2 pp. Fifty lines. Text clear and complete, on two pieces of aged and spotted paper, with rust spots from paperclip. Untitled. Begins: 'I should like to see Chesterton as Lord Rector of a university which stands for Liberal thought. Some people, limited in imagination and hostile to... |
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Sir Austen Chamberlain [Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain] (1863-1937), English politician, Rector of the University of Glasgow On one side of a foolscap (32.5 x 20 cm) page. Eighteen lines. On aged and foxed paper with chipping at head and foot. Chamberlain was Rector between 1925 and 1928. Begins: 'Amidst the preoccupations which assail the delegate of one Nation in an Assembly of nearly forty-seven, my thoughts turn... |
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John Hogg, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature [John Lee (ne Fiott) (1783-1866), of Hartwell House] 8vo: [ii] + 18 pp. In worn original buff wraps with white printed label on front. Clear and complete. On aged, damp-stained paper. Presentation copy, with note on title-page: 'To John Lee Esqre. L.L.D. | with the Author's kind regards.' Ownership inscription of 'J. Lee. Hartwell. 3 May 1856.'... |
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Puttick and Simpson, London auctioneers [auction catalogues; bookplates; ex-libris] Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Book-Plates, (Ex-Libris.) 8vo: 21 pp. Stitched and unbound. Tastefully printed on good watermarked laid paper. Aged, and with the covers grubby. Priced and named to lot 113, and with a few of the other lots priced in pencil. A slip, dimensions 2.5 x 15.5 cm, has been cut away from the beginning of the sale (pp.3-4),... |
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Littleton C. Powys [John Cowper Powys; Llewelyn Powys; Theodore Powys] 12mo: 27 pp. Stapled. In original brown printed wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper with rusted staples. Divided into five sections: 'Our Ancestry', 'Our Father', 'Our Mother', 'Montacute' and 'The Children'. A scarce item, the only copies on COPAC being at the British Library, Cardiff and St... |
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