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Charles M'Arthur, M.D., Surgeon, Royal Navy. [Title continued] "...Observations on some of the accidents and diseases to which seamen are more peculiarly liable; and directions for preserving the health and promoting the comfort of merchant seamen." Second edition, Title, pp.[1]-76[8=advts], 8vo, original purple cloth gt, corners rubbed,... |
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George Markham Tweddell, author of Shakspear: His Times and Contemporaries [Pamphlets; part issues] The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham, pt I & II (of 12) Parts I & II (of 12 = Series 1), pp.40[6 advts]; 76[6 advts], original blue wraps, frayed and spotted, one wrap dulled, one corner of pages turned, pencil annotation on front covers (inc. library no.), library stamps (withdrawn from Newcastle University Library), |
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John Tweedy, FRCS, Hunterian orator. [Pamphlet] Lecture on the Aetiology of Constitutional Diseases of the Eye Reprinted from The Lancet of Jan. 8, 1887, 11pp., 12mo, original grey/brown wraps, frayed and edges sunned, INSCRIBED With the Author's kind regards |
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J. Robertson [James Robertson, MA, Vicar in Wellingborough, sometime member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science] Four pages, 4to, fold marks, closed tear, mainly good. He's taking advantage of a trip by one of his parishioners to deliver a letter thanking in fulsome and inventive terms Mrs Foster for sending Professor Sedgwick's Discourse. He says of it, Of the talent and temper of the orator only one... |
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Frederick Bentley & Co. (Late Thomas Harrild.) Printers, Engravers, Designers and Lithographers, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London [trade cards; printing] Landscape card, 7.5 x 11.5 cm. Designed to show off the firm's capabilities, and printed on one side in purple, green, light brown and gold, with fancy lettering within florally-decorated body and border, around a small central illustration of three men working a press. Printers' details in... |
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Henry Southgate (1818-1888), London auctioneer with premises in the Strand, and anthologist; his son Walter Venning Southgate (b. 1844, fl. 1884) Folio, 110 pp, comprising [i] + 68 + [ii] + 39 pp. Handsome volume in slipcase, tight and internally in very good condition, on lightly-aged thick Whatman paper. Well bound in black leather morocco, all edges gilt. Binding blind-tooled and with 'Early Days' and 'W. V. S.' in gilt on spine and... |
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Mary Bell, Victorian novelist, author of 'By Northern Seas' (1897) A Book of Counsels for Girls. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee. 12mo, 96 pp, followed by four-page SPCK catalogue (with first page listing works by the Rev. F. Bourdillon). Text clear and complete. In original olive cloth binding, gilt, stained with damp. Damp damage at rear leaving light staining to corners of last few leaves and catalogue, together with... |
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Albert Coates (1882-1953), English classical conductor and composer, born in St Petersburg Autograph Signature of the English classical conductor and composer Albert Coates. On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Albert Coates | 1929'. |
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Ania Dorfmann (1899-1964), pianist, born in Odessa (Imperial Russia, now Ukraine), educated in France, and latterly on the faculty of New York's Juilliard School Landscape 12mo, on a page of pink paper removed from an autograph album., with one set of rounded corners. In good condition. Signature, written diagonally across the page, reads 'Ania Dorfmann | 25th Novembere [sic] 1929'. Laid down in bottom right-hand corner is a contemporary newspaper... |
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Charles Coborn [Charles Whitton McCallum] (1852-1945), Anglo-Scottish musical hall star Black and white studio photograph, postcard format (13 x 8.5 cm). On leaf removed from autograph album. Good, on shiny photographic paper, with margin making dimensions of image 12 x 8 cm, captioned in bottom right-hand corner 'PHOTO | LAIRD | ABERDEEN'. Showing a kindly-looking Coborn seated in... |
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