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[ Cambridge University Air Squadron, 1941 ]

Photograph of Cambridge University Air Squadron, May 1941

Black & White Group Photograph, image 29 x 22cm, white border, sl. stained and worn, border makes it 43 x 36cm. Ninety-six (96) men. Image in good condition. On reverse pencilled notes "First One | Cambridge University Air Squadron | May 1941, || Officers = [L to P.] [W.H. Turing , F.J.A....

£280.00
Leopold Lowenstam [Leopold Henry Lowenstam] (1842-1898), Dutch etcher working in England [Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Rosa Bonheur; Jozef Israels; Robert Dowling]

[Leopold Lowenstam, English-based Dutch etcher.] Business letterbook, containing copies of several hundreds of his letters, over a twenty year period, to 72 individuals and institutions, including patrons and artists at home and abroad.

380pp., 4to. Carbon copies on rectos of numbered leaves. Preceded by an eleven-leaf thumb index (not complete). In original brown leather half-binding, marbled boards and endpapers. Internally sound and tight, in heavily-worn binding lacking spine. At the heart of the correspondence are eight...

£1,500.00
Amelia Sieveking [Wilhelmine Amalie Sieveking; Amelia Wilhelmina Sieveking] (1794-1859), philanthropist and pioneer of nursing reform in Germany [Edward Henry Sieveking (1816-1904), British physician]

Autograph Letter Signed ('Amelia Sieveking'), in English, from Wilhelmine Amalie Sieveking of Hamburgh to her nephew Edward in London, on behalf of 'Miss Lempfert', regarding his assistance in her plans for a boarding school.

2pp., 12mo. 27 lines. E. H. Sieveking was the son of Amalie Sieveking's brother Edward, who in his youth had settled in England as a merchant. In the letter she requests her nephew's assistance in the case of Miss Lempfert, 'as you are her only personal acquaintance in London'. She writes: 'I...

£130.00
V.S. Pritchett.

Autograph Note Signed

Short story writer and essayist (1900-1996). 8vo, to “Mrs Biggs”, appreciating her enjoyment of “the Russian books”, mentioning an error in his review of them, and recommending that she read Leskov about whom he hopes to write.

Literature £25.00
[Thomas Paine; Newspaper Debate with Emmanuel Sièyes [Syèyes]]

Supplément à la Gazette nationale [Thomas Paine's debate with Sièyes]

Disbound, four pages, bifolium, [137]-140, edges sl. frayed and stained, mainly good condition. Sièyes' newspaper debate with Paine on the merits of republicanism and Monarchism, including his reference to La Déclaration des droits de France and d'Amérique and the little difference in America...

Economics, French, History, Law, Social history £650.00 Thomas Paine; Newspaper Debate with Emmanuel Sièyes [Syèyes]]
Valentine Elkins, bookseller of Baker St, Portman Square, London [typography]

Handbill advertisement ornately printed in colours in imitation of an illuminated manuscript, announcing the establishment of a branch of his business in Pimlico, 'in conjunction with Messrs. Dubbins'.

Printed in red, black, blue, gold, orange and green on one side of a piece of paper, dimensions 20 x 12.5 cm. Good, on lightly-aged and spotted paper. Minor traces of stub on blank reverse. Attractive item, with twenty-six lines of rubricated text, surrounded by an ornated decorative border of...

Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Printing History £45.00
Various Authors.

Les Merveilles de l'Exposition de 1889

"Histoire - Construction - Inauguration - Description detaillee des palais, des Annexes et des parcs - Les Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'art de tous les Pays - Les Machines - Les Arts Indystriels - Les Produits Manufactures - Les Exposition Speciales - La Tour Eiffel Ouvrage Redige par des Ecrivains...

Art and Architecture £150.00
Various.

The Fettes Endowment.

A Collection of approximately 40 items, both printed and manuscript from the papers of J. Calder Macphail, Minister and activist, in good conditon, all with fold marks. The printed material includes: "Statement by the Educational Endowments Committee of the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh of their...

History £450.00
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin [Verestchagin] (1842-1904); Vasiliy Vasilyevich Mate [Vasily Mathé] (1856-1917) [Napoleon Bonaparte]

Catalogue of the Verestchagin Exhibition. Napoleon I. 1812. [...] The Woodcuts are by V. Mathé, of St. Petersburg.

12mo (leaf dimensions 16.5 x 12 cm): 96 pp. In original blue printed wraps. Very good and tight, on lightly-aged art paper. Short closed tears at foot of back wrap, and at spine on front wrap and first leaf. Seven full-page engravings by Mate: 'Old Woman from Vologda', 'A Zyrianin', 'Father...

Book Trade History, French, History £100.00
Vernon Steel

autograph letters signed (x 2) to [Thomas] Bass,

The first, 6 October 1911, New Theatre London, 4 pp, 12mo: "I was very pleased to have your letter, and was most interested to read in it something of the inner life of the Manchester working-classes, and to hear the views of one who is in them, but not of them. I think you are quite right to...

Music and Theatre £20.00