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L. Gm Perreaux [Louis Guillaume Perreaux], French engineer and prolific inventor [motorbike etc] Autograph Note Signed "Perreaux" TO [J.B. Delestre, French artist and art historian]. One page, creasing and sunning but text clear and complete, as follows: Cher Monsieur/ Demain ou apres, je doit recevoir chez moi un grand amateur de livres manuscripts, seriez vous assez bon pour remettre au porteur les deux livres Arabes que je vous ai remis il y a quelques temps." Note: A... |
£400.00 | |
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Le Carpentier [L'Hospice des Vieillards, Paris]. [Autograph?] Letter signed "Le Carpentier" to the "Citoyen Ministre de l'interieur". One page, folio, foxed, clipped with some minor loss, but text clear. A request on behalf of "La Citoyenne Nicolle Guiot de St Amand" to be granted a place in L'Hospice des Vieilards ("fauxbourg St Martin"). "Elle a ete jusqu'a present a la charge de ses parens, que les circonstances presentes... |
£56.00 | |
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Louis Renault, jurist (1842-1918). Business Card or Carte de Visite Printed card, 10 x 6cm, printed "Louis Renault . Membre de l'Institut / Professeur de la Faculté de Droit" with address as above. He has added in purple ink, autograph, "Ses sincères sentiments et compliments". |
£25.00 | |
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Noel de la Morinière, L'Inspecteur des Pêches Maritimes, author of socientific books on Fish and Fishing. One page each, 4to, good condition. Subjects: his "Observations" (presumably published in the Annales); candidacy for the Academie des Sciences; addressing an extract from a Spanish periodical to Villenard; something he wishes to insert into the Annales; instruction on communicating with him... |
£200.00 | |
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Stéphane Flachat, Ingénieur, Engineer. One page, minor damage not affecting text, as follows: "D'apres a que vous avez bien voulu dire a mon frère [the eminent engineer Eugène Flachat], je viens vous demander a quelle heure, je poussais avoir l'honneur de vous voir demain dimanche; j'ai toute ma matinée a votre disposition, jusqu'à... |
£95.00 | |
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Chief Jonathan M. Moshoesh [Moshesh, Moshoeshoe, Mshweshwe] , of modernday Lesotho [Basutoland] Dimensions roughly 2.3 x 11.5 cms. On paper with three vertical rules. Reads 'chief Jonathan M. Moshoesh'. Neatly laid down on larger piece of grey paper (roughly 6 x 12 cms), docketed in a contemporary hand 'Basuto chief called Jonathan. He is the biggest chief in Basutoland after "Letsia", the... |
£100.00 | |
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Florrie Cockle and Albert ('Birt') Cockle [Willie Iggulden; Boer War; South Africa] Very good, on aged and lightly creased paper. Six long letters to family in England written during a turbulent period in South African history. Affectionate, chatty, and written from a lower-middle-class point of view (Florrie: 'we always have an h[ou]r., when I change my dress for the afternoon... |
£150.00 | |
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Patagonia Long cutting from unnamed newspaper headed 'THE PATAGONIAN MISSION'. The piece relates to 'the death by starvation of Commander A. Gardiner and the whole of the party sent out by the Patagonian Missionary Society in September 1850, to Picton Island, the southern extremity of America'. '3 columns, each 13½ inches by 2¾, attached to a piece of grey paper, and a... |
£35.00 | |
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Sir John H. Harris [SLAVERY] Campaigner against slavery and colonial exploitation in Africa (1874-1940) and Liberal MP for North Hackney, 1923-24. All four items one page, quarto. All in good condition, though on somewhat discoloured paper. Two items docketed in pencil and two bearing the Society's stamp. ITEM ONE: He hopes... |
£85.00 | |
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The Hausa Association [George Taubman-Goldie; John Owen Murray] Handbill, listing the Association's officers, describing its aims, and appealing for funds. Quarto: 4 pp. Bifolium. Unbound. Creased and grubby. Half-page map ('Sketch to show position of Hausa-land'). Headed in red ink 'Funds are urgently needed both to secure the results already obtained and to carry forward the work.' 'The Hausa Association, For Promoting the Study of the Hausa... |
£25.00 |
