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Frederick Temple, Headmaster Rugby School [later Archbishop of Canterbury]. Three pages (expansive hand), 12mo, fold mark, good condition. "Ihave decided on offering you our Drawing Mastership. | The salary will be half a guninea for every Boy in the School not on the Foundation up to a maximum of 160 guineas. | The boys have steadily exceeded 320, not on the Foundation... |
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Frances Anne Emily [nee Vane] (1822-1899), Duchess of Marlborough, grandmother of Winston Churchill. One page, 12mo, black-bordered, bifolium, edge sl. turned, remnants of mounts on verso of second leaf, generally good condition. She'll be happy to benamed as a Patroness of the "Bayone[?]" "in favour of the Royal Hospital Belfast but I regret to say I cannot give it any further assistance as I... |
£45.00 | |
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[Rev. William Morris Mousley (b. 1828), son of the Rev. William Mousley, vicar of Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire; 'Tom Thumb'; the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly; 'Wizard' Jacobs, conjuror and ventriloquist] 12mo, 39 pp. Stitched into original coloured wraps decorated with pastel-coloured rainbow stripes. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. The final two pages of the volume contain crude sketches in coloured pencil (figure seated on steps of country cottage, a clump of trees, ships at sea... |
£450.00 | |
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[Irish Cricket Union] [Cyclostyled or similar periodical] Newsletter No. 19 Eleven pages (one side of page only), folio, stapled one corner, fold mark down centre, good condition. Headings as follows: Matches 1969; The Guinness Cup 1968; Northern Cricket Union 1968; Leinster Senior Cricket; Donal Donovan, Report from Munster 1968. No other copy of this periodical has... |
£200.00 | |
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[History of Baseball; in Spanish; Cuba; Esso] Anonymous [Baseball; paper wraps] Guia de Base Ball 160pp., 12mo, pictorial paper wraps, faded, wear and tear at extremities, pages browned. It includes a history of baseball which includes an English game called "stool ball - pelota de taburete" [perhaps meaning rounders?]. Other chapter headings include "Las Ligas Mayores", Las Series Mondiales... |
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New York World's Fair 1939 [Grover A. Whalen (1886-1962); Frank Monaghan; Bayard F. Pope] Attended by 44 million people, the New York World's Fair was an enormous enterprise, with a vast number of exhibits and pavilions from all over the world spread out over 1216 acres of the Flushing Meadows/Corona Park district. The fair's official 'theme' was 'the demonstration of "a happier way... |
£3,000.00 | |
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H.-A. Weddell, Docteur en médecine [Medical Pamphlet; Quinine; Inscribed by Author] Notes sur les Quinquinas. Pamphlet, 75pp., cr. 8vo, original printed green paper wraps, sl. chipped and sunned, wear to spine, contents good, Inscription by author: M. Ado Brouquiart | Hommage affectt de l'auteur. Firsthand observations and descriptions after the author's exploration in the Andes (Peru and Bolivia). |
£100.00 | |
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G. B. O'Neill [George Bernard O'Neill] (1828-1917), Irish painter [G. W. Cooke [George Wingrove Cooke] (1814-1865), lawyer and historian; Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844)] 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. In 1857 O'Neill married Emma Stuart Callcott, granddaughter of the artist Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, from whose house the present letter is addressed. He informs Cooke that he has 'asked Mr. Callcott [probably O'Neill's father-in-law William Hutchins... |
£75.00 | |
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Anonymous 24pp., including title (front wrapper), 8vo, map verso of title, missing back wrapper, some pages partially detached, some pencil lines in margin, some marking, ow fair, signature "Oswald [J.?] Hogarth" top of titlepage. Enclosed, threee pages of notes about Mashonaland. No other copy traced. |
£85.00 | |
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[David Kauffman of East Hempfield township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Dutch; Mennonites of America] For more information on the Kauffman family, see Alexander Harris's 'Biographical History of Lancaster County' (1872), pp.332-335. The family were Mennonites, and originated in Hesse. The most notable member was affluent farmer and bank president Abraham Cassel Kauffman (1799-1886), a member of... |
£1,250.00 |
