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Edward Hindle Autograph Signature on fragment of Typed Letter to unnamed correspondent. Naturalist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Scientific Director, the Zoological Society. The fragment is approximately two and a half inches by five: paper slightly discoloured. It is mounted on a piece of paper and reads 'With kind regards, | Yours sincerely, | Edw Hindle | (Edward Hindle... |
£10.00 | |
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Emily Paterson, Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund. The Egypt Exploration Fund, now the Egypt Exploration Society, was founded in 1882. 2 pages, 8vo, on the last and first pages of a bifoliate, attached by pin to an envelope which was originally 16mo but has been cut open and is now 8vo. In good condition despite pin holes. 'Gentlemen - | Our... |
£45.00 | |
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Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [?] Dewar. Victorian chemist and politician who presided over a government enquiry into the working of the civil service known as the Playfair Scheme. 2 pages, 8vo, in good condition though creased, and with remains of blank conjugate leaf adhering to large sheet of blank paper. 'My dear Dr Dewar | Many... |
£75.00 | |
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Richard Pigot Autograph Letter Signed to Richard Byham, Secretary [of ?]. Presumably Richard Pigot (1774-1868) who is described in Boase, Modern English Biography, as being a colonel in the dragoon guards at the time of writing and a general from 1851. 2 pages, 8vo. In good condition, but with one margin still adhering to the remains of a stub. 'I enclose you a letter... |
£50.00 | |
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Thomas Sterry-Hunt Autograph Letter Signed in French to the Abbé [François Napoléon-Marie] Moigno (1804-1884). Canadian geologist (1826-92), Fellow of the Royal Society. 2 pages, 8vo, in good condition but with minor loss to one corner resulting in loss of part of one word of text. The recipient Moigno has been described as a mathematician and scientific vulgariser. Sterry-Hunt received Moigno's note the... |
£100.00 | |
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W.M. Thackeray. Unpublished proof of illustration for "Henry Esmond". C. 6 x 4", in envelope, on which a description has been written as follows: "With Mr E.L. Legatts kind regard. 2 proof copies [note: only one present] from an unpublished [underlined] wood block cut by Mr swain being an illustration to Thackary's [sic] "Esmond" shewing the boy being introduced... |
£125.00 | |
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William Ball Four Autograph Letters Signed to Edward Draper. According to Frederic Boase's Modern English Biography William Ball (1785-1869) was the composer of 'hundreds of comic and sentimental songs', the most famous of which, 'Jack's lament for the loss of his tail', being 'one of the most popular songs of the day ever written'. All four letters 16mo... |
£200.00 | |
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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 /... |
£250.00 | |
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Charles Dibdin Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [?] Frazer. Charity administrator (1864-1938). Two pages, 16mo, on letterhead of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. 'This is the latest Chart published. It came out this month. We do not issue a larger copy or I would send it to you.' |
£35.00 | |
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D Squadron Autograph Signatures of several members on printed keepsake. Presumably printed for a Royal Air Force regimental reunion. Card bifoliate, 16mo, with 3 pages printed in green ink and featuring crude vignette of men in action in black ink on recto of first leaf, and with verso of second leaf reserved for autographs. Discoloured but in good condition.... |
£100.00 |
