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[Ministry of Reconstruction. Women's Advisory Committee (London)]

[Pamphlet; women's education] Interim Report of the Sub-committee on the Co-ordination of the Vocational Training of Women.

8pp., foolscap 8vo. Stapled. Heavily worn. Three copies on COPAC.

 £35.00
[Le Conseil de Perfectionnement des Etudes de l'Ecole Alsacienne]

[Pamphlet; education] Un Enseignement nouveau. Esquisse d'une instruction pratique et d'une éducation libérale, répondant aux exigences de la vie moderne.

31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. The only copies on OCLC WorldCat at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Stanford.

 £45.00
[International Federation of University Women (London)]

[Pamphlet; women's education] International Federation of University Women. Bulletin No. 1. Report of the First Conference, July, 1920.

88pp., 12mo. Printed front cover on blue paper, loose. In poor condition, worn and aged, with damage from rusty staple. No copy on COPAC.

 £35.00
[Court Clerk]

[Manuscript] The Notes of a Court Clerk of cases heard at the Easter Sessions probably at Devizes Magistrates Court (Wiltshire), given that Devizes House of Correction is the prison of choice..

24 pp, folio, some leaves detached, interleaved with blotting paper, not bound, fair condition; a scrawl of a handwriting, difficult to read. It starts with the date, 9 April 1823, Easter Sessions, two names of people who "qualified as magistrates", "The Revd R.P.B. took the oaths as rector of...

£580.00
[Board of Education (London)]

[Pamphlet; education] The Teaching of Infant Care and Management to School Girls. 1925. Board of Education. Circular 1353.

14pp., 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled, good condition. The only copy on COPAC at Leeds.

 £35.00
[Association of German Governesses in England]

[Pamphlet] [Association of German Governesses in England, 16 Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, London, W.] - Twentieth Annual Report. 1896

. No publication details. 11pp., 12mo. Stapled. Good condition No copy on COPAC.

 £50.00
W. Durnford, Principal; S. S. F. Fletcher, Vice-Principal [Cambridge University Training College for Schoolmasters]

[Printed item.] Past Students of the Cambridge University Training College for Schoolmasters, with the Schools in which they are now serving.

4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper with slight wear to extremities. Shelfmarks, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. A chronological list, in small type, covering the period 1898 to 1911. Divided into five columns: Name of Student; College; Year...

£100.00
John Birkbeck Nevins (1818-1903), surgeon and zoologist, Consulting Physician to the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool [Charles Darwin; Darwinism; theory of evolution]

[John Birkbeck Nevins, Consulting Physician to the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, and anti-Darwinian.] Three autograph chapters presenting the teleological argument, with reference to meteorology, botany and surgery, with emendations and illustrations.

Nevins was a passionate opponent of Darwinism, and the present item, composed any time after 1854 (the latest date of the various works referred to in the text), reflects the crisis of faith in the period leading up to the publication of the 'Origin of Species'. Nevins would set out his position...

£1,500.00
James Edward Nightingale (1817-1892), FSA, of the Mount, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire

[James Edward Nightingale of the Mount, Wilton, English antiquary.] Autograph paper 'On some ancient Customs connected with Salisbury being an address delivered in the Salisbury, South Wilts & Blackmore Museum'.

21pp., 4to. On 21 leaves held together with a brass stud. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. Neatly written out with a few autograph emendations. Nightingale begins: 'I have been asked to make some observations this evening on the contents of the mediaeval part of this museum....

£220.00
Brigadier K. A. Garrett (1894-1966), M.C., Punjab Frontier Force [Brigadier Hector Campbell (1877-1972), Colonel Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides (Cavalry and Infantry), Fifth Battalion; India]

[Brigadier K. A. Garrett, M.C., Punjab Frontier Force.] Two typed letters signed ('K. A. Garrett') to Brigadier Hector Campbell, regarding the status of Queen Victoria's Own Corp of Guides in the face of 'possible reductions in the Indian Army'

ONE: 4pp., foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. In reply to two letters from Campbell, Garrett is giving 'definite information'. He begins: 'With regard to possible reductions in the Indian Army, the three Indian Cavalry Regts you mention have been warned for mechanization...

£150.00
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