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Georges Hansen, editor [European Broadcasting Union, Technical Centre, Brussels]

[Printed paper.] Report of the E.B.U. Ad-hoc Group on Colour Television.

56pp., foolscap 8vo. Stapled into brown printed wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Includes sections on 'Results of field trials' and 'New developments and proposals'. Two appendices: 'Specifications of the NTSC, SECAM and PAL systems' (pp.46-50) and 'New documents received by the Ad-hoc Group...

£200.00
[THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF COOKS; HAMMOND FAMILY; FARM SCHOOL, BISLEY, SURREY; VICTORIAN LONDON]

Manuscript Account Book, with several documents loosely inserted.

Quarto: three hundred and thirty paginated pages, with index of twenty-four pages. In worn black leather half-binding, with 'LEDGER' on spine. Large label of Field & Tuer, Manufacturing Stationers, on front pastedown. Aged, but in good condition and complete. Detailed accounts of a well-to-...

Social history £250.00
Frank Boott Goodrich (d.1894), author, son of Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) ['Peter Parley'] [Robert R. Corson, Corresponding Secretary, Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon]

Autograph Letter Signed ('F. B. Goodrich') from the American author Frank Boott Goodrich to Robert R. Corson, regarding references in his forthcoming 'Tribute Book' to the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The letter concerns Goodrich's 'The Tribute Book: A Record of the Munificence, Self-sacrifice and Patriotism of the American People during the War for the Union' (1865). He is sending 'proofs of the pages Corson desires to see. 'The first few...

£180.00
[TOBACCO; TABAC; PRINTED]

Arrest de la Cour des Aydes . . . la vente exclusive de Tabac . . .

Two bifoliate leaves, three pages, disbound, some damage to edges and soiling but text clear and complete. [Title continued] "portant qu'en attendant l'Enregistrement des Lettres Patentes sur les Arrests du Conseil des 22. Mars dernier & premier du present mois de Septembre, Pierre le Sueur...

French £300.00
[Townley Searle, bookseller and Gilbert & Sullivan expert].

Collectors' Monograph No. 1 [& No.3 - "The Abyss"]

[8] and 8pp., 4to, original beige decorated wraps, rusty around staples, mainly good condition. Monograph No. 1 contains Beardsleyesque black and white drawing of puppeteer for title and front cover by "Allan Odle", poem "Villanelle of Montparnasse" by "Adolphe Roberts" [perhaps the Walter...

£300.00
[Transformation; hand-coloured gothic book illustrations]

Four lithographic engravings, vividly and skilfully hand-coloured, apparently representing scenes from a gothic novel.

Dimensions of all four items 18 x 14 cm. Two landscape and two portrait. The margins of the plates have been cut away, so that each illustration covers the whole piece of paper. All four items are in good condition, although one has a small patch of the top-left hand corner damaged from removal...

Literature £400.00
[TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE] William Gossip (1704?-72?), 'Library Keeper of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge'

Manuscript Document, Signed by 'John Yorke Deputy Clerk of the Peace of the Said Town [Cambridge]', certifying that Gossip has shown himself to be member of the Church of England and loyal subject of the King.

One page, on laid watermarked paper roughly thirteen inches by eight wide. Good though lightly creased and aged. Begins 'These are to Certifie whome it may concerne that William Gossip A.M. Library Keeper of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge came before his Majestys Justices of the...

£150.00
[Truslove & Hanson, Knightsbridge booksellers; Bowes & Bowes; W. H. Smith & Sons; Rudyard Kipling; Hilaire Belloc; Dick Francis; Edith Sitwell; Dorothy L. Sayers]

Autograph album of the fashionable Knightsbridge booksellers Truslove & Hanson, containing more than three hundred of signatures of authors and literary figures, written over a period of more than sixty years.

8vo landscape album, 21 x 26 cm. Morocco leather binding. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. 'TRUSLOVE & HANSON' stamped on the front board in gilt. Internally good, sound and tight; in fair binding with wear to hinges and corners and minor damp staining. Truslove & Hanson was always a...

Book Trade History £2,500.00
[TURKEY] Auguste Viquesnel (1803-1867), author of "Voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe"

Two Autograph Letters Signed "Augte Viquesnel" to an unnamed correspondent. In French [En Francais]

One page each, 8vo, minor stains and creasing, good condition. (1847) He describes a colleague, a "M. de La Roquette", for some years Secretary to the "Societe de geographie". whom he understands to be working on Turkey. "Je me [?] de lui indiquer un ouvrage Special sur Constantinople, son...

French £120.00
[Unknown Collector] Leon Gautier, literary historian and palaeographer.

Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent, in French.

One page, 8vo, fold mark, good condition. "Je m'empresse de vous adresser épreuve de votre [premier] Eclaircissement . | L'ouvrage sera tiré in folio et ce que je vous envoie est ce qu'on appelle 'une composition perdue' d'apres laquelle on imprimera Le texte definitif en plus grand format. |...

French £60.00