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[Aswan Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme; Gamel Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt; Dipl. Eng. Abdel Moety Abdel Wahab Amer, Assistant Under Secretary of State and President of Hydro-Electric Power Department] Printed pamphlet for the '30th. Executive Meeting' of the 'International Commission on Large Dams U.A.R. Committee', containing tables, plans, photographs and a paper relating to the 'Aswan Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme'. 48pp., landscape 8vo, comprising [ii] + 28pp. of text, followed by 12pp. of tables and plans, and 6 photographs, two of them fold-outs. Stapled, in original card wraps. In fair condition, on aged high-acidity paper. The first page carries a photograph of a smiling Nasser, with the quotations '...	£180.00
[Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures] Circular Letter. To the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England To the Right Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England ([1917]). Circular Letter, mimeographed, awaiting a signature, one page, 4to, good condition.It commences, We, the undersigned Irish Artists and Writers venture to appeal ... The circumstances surrounding the disposition of Hugh...	£225.00
[Arthur Griffith, subject] [Pamphlet] Arthur Griffith. A Study of the Founder of Sinn Fein Arthur Griffith. A Study of the Founder of Sinn Fein [drophead title, p.1: 'A Study of the Originator of the Sinn Fein Movement. Arthur Griffith'] (Dublin: Cahill & Co. Ltd., no date [1917?]). Pamphlet, 24pp, 8vo, printed wraps, with portrait of Griffith on front, fair condition.NLI...	£75.00
[Gardening for Women] Prospectus. Irish School of Gardening for Women Irish School of Gardening for Women. Meanee, Kimmage Road, Terenure, Dublin (The Powell Press, 22 Parliament Street, Dublin, September 1917). Prospectus, 4pp., 8vo, good condition.Note added in unknown hand, If you know any girl desiring to become healthy wealthy & wise give her this...	£100.00
Admiral Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), KCB, RN, from 1875 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria Last part of Autograph Letter Signed ('John Corbett') from Admiral Sir John Corbett, Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, written as a young man to an unnamed recipient, declaring his impatience to return to sea: 'Shore is a stupid place I think'. 2pp., 12mo. 31 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Begins abruptly: '<...> rather wait a little & get it without its having made a great favour.' He declares that he is 'perfectly ready however to go to sea tomorrow & have no wish to remain on shore, the reverse in fact, I would...	£45.00
Admiral Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), KCB, RN, from 1875 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria [Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce (1792-1863)] Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'John Corbett') from Admiral Sir John Corbett, Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, to 'Miss Bruce', daughter of 'the Commodore' [ Admiral Sir Henry William Bruce]. One: 3pp., 16mo. 42 lines. Fair, on aged paper. A marvellously melodramatic communication, worthy of a Victorian romantic novel, as the commencement indicates: 'I thank you most sincerely for your very kind answer to to [sic] a note that perhaps I ought never to have written - I could not at...	£95.00
Admiral Sir John Corbett (1822-1893), KCB, RN, from 1875 Naval aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria [Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones (1797-1895)] Autograph Letter Signed ('John Corbett') from Admiral Sir John Corbett to 'Mrs. Alexander', describing his activities and plans following his marriage, including his appointment as Captain of HMS Hastings, flagship to Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones. 6pp., 12mo. Earlier in 1864, as Captain John Corbett, he had married Georgina Grace, eldest daughter of G. J. Holmes of Brooke Hall, Norfolk. He begins by explaining that he could not answer her note, as he received it 'at Spithead just before sailing for Sheerness': 'As I explained to your...	£75.00
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), English Poet Laureate, 1850-1892 [Valentine Augustus Browne (1825-1905), 4th Earl of Kenmare, Lord Chamberlain] Autograph Note in the third person from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Kenmare, declining an invitation. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. On the first leaf of a bifolium, with the second blank leaf carrying traces of glue from mount. The note reads: 'May /85 \| Lord Tennyson begs to thank the Lord Chamberlain for the honour of the invitation on June 6th. He regrets that he is...	£300.00
Buzzacott & Co., London estate agents [1911 Coronation Procession of King George V] Printed leaflet advertising 'SEATS TO VIEW . . . \| THE CORONATION PROCESSION' of King George V in 1911, with a pricing scale for the floors and roof of 41 King William Street, 'FINEST VIEWS ON THE ROUTE.' 2pp., 12mo; with the reverse folding out to make 1p., landscape 8vo, with the words 'CORONATION, 1911.' printed in red. The text begins on the first page beneath the firms letterhead: 'HOUSES LET OR SOLD. \| RENTS COLLECTED IN ANY DISTRICT. \| WEEKLY PROPERTIES MANAGED. \| REPAIRS ECONOMICALLY...	£60.00
Charles Merivale (1808-1893), Dean of Ely Cathedral, author of 'A History of the Romans under the Empire' (1850-1862) Autograph Letter Signed ('C Merivale') from the historian Charles Merivale, Dean of Ely Cathedral, to Rev. A. Williams. 2pp., 12mo. 15 lines. In very good condition. He begins by apologising for not being able to assist Williams. 'I do not know of any book on the subject of the Teachers of the Apostolical age - of course very little indeed can be known about them. The ecclesiastical historians such as and of...	£35.00

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