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[W.B. Yeats; King Alfred School, Highgate; Sylvia Lynd] Four pages, 4to, fold marks, staining (part foxing), text clear and complete. Programme comprises: Page 1 the basic information about the play (characters etc); Page 2 a poetic prologue by E.R.; pp.3 & 4 school song, class songs and Call-over Songs. From the Papers of Sylvia Lynd, nee... |
£120.00 | |
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[Astronomer] Leland E. Cunningham, American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. A. 13 August 1952, text: I have recently hired for the summer session several new computers, who will probably continue through the first semester as well. It is doubtful that I will have sufficient funds to add another before the second semester, and... |
£50.00 | |
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[Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore] [Admiralty; Mutiny; The Nore; newspaper] The London Gazette Extraordinary, Wednesday, June 7, 1797 Four pages, bifolium, edges marginally damaged without affecting text, minor ink spray, aged, closed tear at halfway fold mark repaired. Statement concerning the mutiny on the Nore by HMS Sandwich etc with names of naval dignitaries (Given under our Hands, etc) and finally adding Evan Nepean's... |
£220.00 | |
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Thomas Hughes QC (1822 ? 1896), author of 'Tom Brown's School Days, lawyer, judge, politician and author. One page, 8vo, minor defects, mainly good condition. Text: I hope your kind present of your lately published Vol has not been lying here without acknowledgment for many days. The fact is that I only found it here on my return home late last night - I shall read it with much interest & am... |
£56.00 | |
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Pattee Byng, 2nd Viscount Torrington (1699 ? 1747), Army officer and politician,sometime Paymaster-General of Ireland Part of a Receipt, 13 x 11.5cm, an ancient smear on the verso, ow good condition. Receipt filled in in MS, "Received then of [Lord Onslow, one of the four tellers of his Majesty's Exchequer] the Sum of [Twenty one thousand three hundred Eighty Seven pounds] in further part of an Order, Dated the... |
£50.00 | |
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Patrick Moore, amateur astronopmer and broadcaster A. TLS, one page, 4to, to Kevin, 17 May [no year given], good conditiopn, text; He has signed some papers, then apologises for the lateness of his TV programme. There isn't much I can do about this, alas. But I hope you enjoy them when you do get the chance to watch.Last weeks', with Carl Sgan,... |
£60.00 | |
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Kingsley Amis, novelist [J.R. Ackerley] One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan. |
£56.00 | |
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Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 ? 1923) American educator, author and composer. Paper, 12 x 7cm, remnants on verso indicating tipped on another surface previously. Text: 'God bless the brick house that was; God bless the brick house that is to be! | Kate Douglas Wiggin | From Rebecca'. See Scan. |
£56.00 | |
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John Guise (1682 or 1683 ? 1765), Army officer and art collector. One page, 15.5 x 20cm, left edge repaired, fair condition with text sl. faded. Text (secretarial) My Lord & Gentlemen | the Powder last Deliver'd for the Duty and Exercise of is Majesty's First Regim[en]t of Foot Guards being now expended ([ten barr[e]ls?] part of the allowance Due to the... |
£250.00 | |
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George Pitt-Rivers [George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890 ? 1966) anthropologist and eugenicist AND Anti-Semite. One page, 4to, bottom edge stained, aged, ow good. Before his letter appears the printed statement, YOUR HOME IS THREATENED | RATEPLAYERS - DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS!. Text: Dear Mr Williamson | You may feel inclined to get into touch with me. I am trying desperately hard to get together a united... |
£250.00 |
