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Auction 1801. "Sale of the Effects of Mrs Headon / Wansworth / Decembr 11th 1801(manuscript). Auctioneer's Record of "Mrs Headon's Sale / December 11th 1801". 15pp., 8vo, in primitive wraps (sewn) created from a shet of paper on which survives a proof (apparently) of a decorative advertisement (the size of a business card) for "James Graves / Tea Dealer & Grocer, / Putney / Surry /... |
Book Trade History, Social history, Women | £250.00 | |
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August Dupré [August Dupre] autograph letter signed to [?] Turner English chemist. States that he will be happy to sign his correspondent's nephew's application for the Fellowship of the Chemical Society. '[F]rom personal knowledge I have no doubt that my friend Mr Hake [Thomas Gordon Hake, 1809-95, DNB] will do the same.' Docketed by recipient on otherwise... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £35.00 | |
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August von Kotzebue [G. M. Kraus, artist] 12mo (leaf and plate dimensions 115 x 80 mm): [ii] + 247 pp + 6 hand-coloured engravings. Good, on lightly aged and spotted paper, in heavily worn original boards, with ink stain on back board. The plays included are: [1] Das Urtheil des Paris; [2] Die Tochter Pharaonis; [3] Ruebezahl; [4]... |
Literature | £200.00 | |
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Augusta Katherine one autograph fragment signed, (died 1904), wife of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Second daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Gordon. One page, 12mo. "<...> so unhappy / Y. most sincerely / Augusta K Saxe Weimar / May 6th / 83". Docketted beneath this "Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Two grease... |
Royalty, Women | £25.00 | |
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Augusta Noel (nee Keppel) Two Autograph Letters Signed to [the Hon.] Mrs [Alicia Margaret Tyssen] Amherst. English author (1838-1902). The recipient was later Baroness Rockley. Both items are very good. They can be dated from the reference to the Noel's mother (nee Susan trotter, died 1885) and the mourning border. ITEM ONE (three pages, 12mo): 'I send you a very rough little story, for the Children'... |
Literature, Women | £45.00 | |
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[Ernest Wm Moir] E.W. Moir, Comptroller of Munitions Inventions Total 3pp., folio, fold marks, good condition. He asks the Scretary of the RSA to "draw the attention" of members to "to the fact that the Munitions Inventions Department, which ... was recently constituted by the Minister of Munitions for the purpose of dealing with ideas, suggestions and... |
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Augusta Zelia Fraser (Alice Spinner), Scottish writer of West Indian stories ANS, 1p, 16mo, to unnamed correspondent "There is only one way to live - for today and Eternity, for today at least gives us plenty to do & before the thought of Eternity our own troubles seem so infinitesimal". |
Literature, Women | £20.00 | |
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Auguste Forel [Auguste-Henri Forel] (1848-1931), Swiss entomologist and psychiatrist; Edward Clodd (1840-1930), English anthropologist; Paolo Celesia (1872-1916), Italian biologist [Jamaica; racism] The three letters are addressed to the translator of Forel's book, the surgeon and free-thinker Percival Macleod Yearsley (1867-1951). Forel's letter: 4to, 1 p. Twenty lines. In French. Text clear and complete. On browned and chipped high-acidity paper. Laid down on the front pastedown. In the... |
Natural History | £450.00 | |
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Auguste Guinnard, French traveller, who wrote an account of his three-years' captivity in Patagonia [Jules Verne; Pierre Kalfon; Benard] Autograph Letter Signed ('A Guinnard'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent. 8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-two lines of text. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper. It is only now that he is able to thank him for the 'bon accueil que m'a fait Monsieur Benard grâce à votre Gracieuse recommendation'. Benard has lent him 'quelques ouvrages',... |
French, Travel and Topography | £100.00 |
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Augustin Haguette, de Saint-Denis, Départment de la Seine [Didot le jeune, Paris printer] 4to: viii + 47 pp. Disbound. On foxed paper with occasional light staining. On the title-page Haguette is described as 'Bachelier-ès-lettres; ex-Officier de santé des armées; ancien Elève de l'Ecole pratique et des hôpitaux civils de Paris.' 'No. 9.' in manuscript at head of the title-page.... |
French, Science, Medicine and Technology | £40.00 |