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Herbert Sammons [D. Napier & Son] Typed Letter Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Scottish engineer (died 1967), noted for his innovative design of a gas turbine engine. One page, 12mo. Very good. Pinholes to one corner and bearing a date stamp. He is honoured to be nominated as a fellow of the Society, and encloses the proposal and a cheque (neither present), thanking the... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £35.00 | |
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Herbert Samuel [Herbert Lewis, 1st Viscount Samuel] Two Typed Letters Signed to Myer Jack Landa. English Liberal politician (1870-1963). Both letters are 1 page, 8vo. Both are dusty but otherwise in good condition. In the first letter he says he has 'only now had time to read the proofs of your book on Palestine, and have read them with interest and pleasure.' He says he will be 'glad to... |
History | £75.00 | |
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Herbert Strang [pseudonym of George Herbert Ely and C. J. L'Estrange] Octavo. 243 pages. Frontispiece illustration. In original red cloth embossed binding. Poor copy: rear endpapers split, binding grubby, pages foxed. Presentation inscription on verso of flyleaf dated October 1914. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £20.00 | |
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Herbert Trench typed letter signed to M[ary]. Tennyson, with stamped addressed envelope addressed in autograph, One page, 4to. He thanks her for her "criticisms as to the hands and the lighting [...] Your appreciation was of the kind that I specially value. / On re-reading your One Act play, I think it needs alteration. The first ten or twelver [sic] pages are very good, but I am not at all sure that the... |
Music and Theatre | £12.00 | |
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Herbert Trench. Autograph Letter Signed to [Walter] Jerrold. Poet and playwright. Three pages, 8vo, good condition. H has realised that Jerrold is publishing in his "Anthology" two popems which are about to appear in Trench's "New Poems", to be published by Methuen the following day. He requests what he believes in Methuen's customary charge of a guinea a... |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Herbert Waring one autograph note signed to [?] Croker, English actor (1857-1932). One page, 12mo, on mourning paper. "Many thanks for your kind congratulations and the enclosed "notice". With our united regards." |
Music and Theatre | £15.00 | |
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Herbert Williamson (d.1924), Physician Accoucheur to St Bartholomew's Hospital [Charles Noon (d.1957), senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital] 4to, 1 p. Nine lines of text. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with punch hole to top left-hand corner. Explaining why it is impossible for him to accept the invitation of the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £38.00 | |
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Hereson de Brecksel [bookplate] Large engraved armorial bookplate of Hereson de Brecksel. On one side of a piece of wove paper 19 x 14.5 cm, and with the image extending almost to the edges. Lightly aged and creased, but good overall. An usual design, with the coat of arms within a fleece held up by two figures of Hercules, both on pedestals, the one of the left marked 'HUMUS' and... |
Book Trade History | £50.00 |
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Herman Charles Merivale (1839-1906), English playwright and novelist [victorian publisher Samuel French, of 89 The Strand, London; James Robinson Planché] Letter: 12mo, 1 p. Grubby and stained. He 'did not mention the Planché-affair' in his letter of the day before. Asks for his name to be put down 'for a copy of the book' [French's edition of Planché's 'Extravaganzas']. The subscription form (12mo, 1 p), heavily worn and with loss to the... |
Music and Theatre | £56.00 | |
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Herman Hesse Der Blütenzweig | Eine Auswahl aus den Gedichten von Herman Hesse. 80 pages. 16mo. In grubby decorated boards with white paper printed label on front. Corners bumped. Internally sound and tight, with a few pencil notes on front pastedown. |
Literature | £22.00 |