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Benjamin Franklin [Scottish Chapbook] Unbound, on six loose leaves folded to make bifoliums. Good, though grubby and with rough edges (particularly the head). Text clear and entire. 12mo, 24 pages. Cover features woodcut of eighteenth-century gentleman (Franklin?) leaning on stick. Sections on 'Swimming like a dog', 'To beat the... |
£350.00 |
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Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901), novelist and historian of London [Alice Westlake (nee Hare); Adam and Charles Black, publishers; The Survey of London; Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; Frognal] Typed Letter Signed ('Walter Besant') to Mrs [Alice] Westlake. 12mo, 2 pp. Seventeen lines of text. On lightly aged and creased paper. Attractive arts and crafts letterhead. Sending his 'mosts profound sympathy in the danger which threatens Chelsea'. He will sign 'the paper [...] with the greatest of pleasure', although he anticipates 'very little good as a... |
£45.00 | |
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Arnold Bennett, novelst. One page, 4to, slightly chipped and with folds at corners, good condition, text clear and complete. " . . . I am not a brilliant orator, nor even an orator; but neither am I the sort of person to refuse your request to orate, & therefore I will speak for the guests. I wish you would let me... |
£220.00 | |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps, engineer (Suez Canal). Autograph Sentiment Signed (Sentiment [proverbe] Autographe signe) A half-sheet of writing paper, c. 11.5 x 11cm, good condition, text, a French proverb, as follows: "fais ce que dois | advienne que pourra. | ferd. de lesseps | edimbourg - 18 Avril 1884. ||" |
£200.00 | |
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[Charles Baron Clarke] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. The Landlord's Budget Addressed to the Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery Printed pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, unbound, some candle-wax droppings, otherwise good. Clarke dissents from Rosebery's proposal "to spend one-and-a-half-million of National income in paying half agricultural rates". No copy found listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
£56.00 | |
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C.T. Courtney Lewis From the Library of Percy Muir, bookseller and author. Red cloth, faded bumped and with some wear and tear, contents with foxing and marking. With occasional notes on the text and additions and corrections in Muir's hand. And with 2 ALSs, one by Edward D. Mason, 2pp., 8vo, 9 March 1922,... |
£100.00 | |
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Charles Francis Adams Lee's Centennial. An Address by Charles Francis Adams . . . no title or publisher, 76pp., 8vo, wraps, chipped and worn, part of sp. detached, contents good. Address given on invitation of Washington and Lee University. INSCRIBED by Adams (see Amer. DNB, 1835-1915, cavalry officer during Civil War): "To Mr Cobden-Sanderson/With regards of/Charles F. Adams... |
£50.00 | |
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Charles Robertson Manning. A List of the Monumental Brasses remaining in England arranged according to Counties. Published anonymously (i.e I derive the author's name from BLC). Bound up with: "Report presented to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society at its second general meeting, May 13, 1842" (Cambridge, 1842) and T.E. Tomlins, ed. and translator, "Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century, as... |
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Colin Campbell and Miles Clifford. A small archive, items one page folio (unless ow stated) comprising: (1952) appointment of J.E. Briscoe to be Deputy of officer administering the Colony, royal stamp, signed by Colin Campbell (Colonial Secretary) ND Briscoe; (Jan. 1953) appointment of Briscoe to be "the Deputy for the Officer... |
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Robert Duncan "Evolution in Naval Architecture during the Reign of Queen Victoria" Watt Anniversary Lecture, 14 January 1887, in honour of the birthday of James Watt (Papers of the Greenock Philosophical Society - no.8). Printed wraps,, sl. chipped, 27pp., 8vo. INSCRIBED by the author, "Henry Dyer Esqre/with R.D.'s Compts". |
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