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Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate Autograph Card Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. British colonial administrator and politician (1849-1940). Dimensions of card four and a half inches by three and a half inches. Bearing postmark and stamp. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. Good, but with creasing and closed tears along foot of card, affecting signature. Reads 'May I... |
History, Travel and Topography | £25.00 | |
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Colonel Sir Henry Knollys (1840-1930), wrote on life in Japan and China; commanded the Royal Artillery in South Africa, 1889-1891; later Private Secretary to Queen Maud of Norway [Walter Haydon] Both letters lightly creased and spotted, but good overall. Letter One (8vo, 8 pp): In stamped, addressed envelope. Begins by asking whether Haydon would consider acting as co-executor to his estate with his wife Flora. Outlines his financial situation and discusses the executor's duties. Turns... |
History, Military and Naval History, Travel and Topography | £80.00 |
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Colonial Office Report on British Guiana, 1951 [Colonial Reports, British Guiana 1951.] Colonial Office Report on British Guiana for the Year 1951. 8vo: 129 pp + 3 pp of advertisements at end, followed by fold-out map in black, red and blue, 'Published by Directorate of Colonial Surveys'. Four pages of plates at centre, consisting of eight photographs. In original buff printed wraps. The book very good on discoloured high-acidity paper,... |
History, Travel and Topography | £56.00 | |
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Coloured postcard photographs of Edwardian Dublin [Irish International Exhibition, 1907] Six leaves, each 35 x 28 cm, in original red printed wraps. The first four leaves consists of eight coloured postcards, each 8.5 x 13.5 cm, with perforations between them for ease of removal. The last two leaves each carry full-page landscape photographs, the first of Blackrock and the second of... |
Travel and Topography | £300.00 | |
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Commander George Yeats Paterson (fl. 1896) 4to: 6 pp. Unbound. Leaf dimensions 26 x 19.5 cm. A bifolium, with a third leaf attached. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. With a few manuscript emendations by Paterson. One page is taken up with a copy of a letter, originally dated from Brockhurst House, Gosport, Hants, 1st May, 1860... |
Military and Naval History | £200.00 |
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Commander James Liddell, Royal Navy, of Bodmin, Cornwall [thunder and lightning; thunderstorms; natural phenomena; meteorology; the weather] Scrapbook entitled 'Lightning and other Records.' Small quarto of around forty pages, covered in easily in excess of a hundred press cuttings, primarily relating to lightning strikes, thunder storms and other natural phenomena. Internally loose but in reasonable condition, but externally in need of attention: the heavily worn original quarter-... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £225.00 | |
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Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson (1880-1954), Conservative MP for North Huntingdonshire (1910-22) and Handsworth (1922-45) [Hands Off Britain "Clear out the Reds" Campaign; communism; anti-communist] Typed Letter Signed ('O Locker Lampson') to unnamed female correspondent. 4to, 1 p, 9 lines. On behalf of his 'Committee' acknowledging his correspondent's 'kind letter with its generous contribution to the funds of our Campaign', adding 'a message of individual thanks from myself to you for your mostt encouraging support'. 'Our Campaign is prospering, and we hope... |
History, Military and Naval History | £56.00 | |
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Commander Richard Longfield Davies, R.N., of Reddinick House, Penzance [R. Hedges Davies; Nelson; Hardy; St Vincent; Trowbridge; Autograph Collecting] Signed Covering Document for the sale of papers signed by Nelson, Hardy, St Vincent and Trowbridge. On piece of paper five inches by six and a half. Good, with slight smudging to a couple of lines and a strip of archival tape on blank reverse. The four lines of text, in a different hand from the signature, were presumably written out by the purchaser, in order to indemnify himself in case of... |
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Commercial Cable Company, Madeira. A collection of photographs and other ephemera. More than 60 photographs of various sizes from 2 x 2" to 10 x 8", of the staff and cable station (interior, inclduing equipment, and exterior) at Fayal on Madeira. One photograph is dated 1903. WITH: related ephemera (non-telegraphic). The collection, |
Science, Medicine and Technology, Travel and Topography | £350.00 | |
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Commission of Inquiry into the Preservation of the Gaeltacht [General Richard James Mulcahy, Chairman] Coimisiún na Gaeltachta [Commission of Inquiry into the Preservation of the Gaeltacht]. Report. Folio, iv + 133 pp. One fold-out map, roughly 86 x 61 cm, titled 'Map No. 3. [the other two maps being issued separately] Coimisiún na Gaeltachta. Map of Ireland showing the Irish speaking districts [in pink] and the partly Irish speaking districts [in yellow] as defined by the Commission.'... |
Travel and Topography | £450.00 |