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Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton Typed Letter Signed to Sir Hilary Blood of the Royal Society of Arts. British geographer and Labour politician (1911-94), son of the antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. One page, quarto. Very good. Folded three times. Docketed in red ink. He must decline the invitation to become a Fellow of the Society. 'It is certainly an honour and I would have liked to... |
£36.00 | |
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GEORGE BOOTH HEMING [Goldsmiths' Company; Daily Graphic] Autograph Letter Signed, Autograph Note, and newspaper article. Mayor of Westminster (1858-1938), and prominent member of the Goldsmiths' Company, for whom he established an annual competition for craftsmen and schools in London. All items very good. Both manuscript items bearing the Society's stamp and the note also docketed. THE LETTER (one page, 12mo): 'I... |
£28.00 | |
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Leonard Darwin Typed Letter Signed to [Mary] Scharlieb, 149 Harley Street. Soldier, policitician, economist, eugenicist (1850-1943) and son of Charles Darwin. The recipient Dame Mary Scharlieb (1845-1931) was an early woman doctor. Two pages, quarto. Good, but on slightly discoloured and lightly creased paper, with staple stains to both top left-hand corners. An... |
£120.00 | |
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Sir Ambrose Heal [Heal's Department Store] Two Typed Letters Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Art historian, designer and founder of department store (1872-1959). Both items very good though somewhat dusty. One docketed and both bearing the Society's stamp. ITEM ONE (one page, quarto, 7 October 1918). He encloses (not present) a letter he has received from a woman named Evelyn James. 'I... |
£75.00 | |
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Sir Arthur Isaac Durrant [Royal Society of Arts] English civil servant (1864-1939). The recipient was an educationalist and authority on Edmund Burke. One page, quarto. Very good on slightly discoloured paper. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. 'On behalf of Sir Alfred Mond [Committee Chairman], I hasten to assure you and the Committee... |
£36.00 | |
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The State Office of Statistics, Czechoslovakia Two pages, folio. Good, but on discoloured and lightly creased paper, with remains of stub adhering to one edge of verso. In English, with illegible signature. Begins 'The State Office of Statistics appreciating fully the great importance of an exact information of the British publicity of the... |
£36.00 | |
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[ Thomas Bowen, Justice of the Peace ] Manuscript document headed "Bristol Memorandum".[Americana] Manuscript, one page, folio, chipped and other minor defects, text clear and complete. "That on the Eight day of April on ye Seenth . . . . . . Personally appeared be fore Thomas Bowen Esq one of His Majesties Justice of ye Peace for ye County of Bristol --- Benjamin Slack of Attleborough in ye... |
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John Singleton Copley [BATTLE OF JERSEY] Engraving by H. Bond of 'THE DEATH OF MAJOR PIERSON.' Major Francis Pierson died driving the French from the Market Place of Saint Helier in the Island of Jersey, 6 January 1781. Dimensions of paper roughly ten inches by eight. Dimensions of print roughly six inches by four and a half. Surrounded by six tiny vignettes: two of soldiers and four of... |
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Leo Chiozza Money Two Typed Notes Signed to [C.H. Grinling, socialist, editor of the Woolwich "Pioneer" Member of Parliament, economist, etc. Two pages each, 8vo, good condition, one docketed with writer's name, etc. in another hand [Grinling's?]. [14-11-05] He tells Grinling that his "Riches and Poverty" is the right response to the latter's "first paragraph", and the point is dealt with at... |
£120.00 | |
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Leo Chiozza Money Typed Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Member of Parliament, economist, etc. One page, 4to, minor defects, mainly good condition, text as follows: "I should like to become a fellow of your society but before deciding should like to know how the society is to be carried on if it is not asssured of a definite annual income." |
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