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Constantine Tischendorf 8vo: 120 pp. Unbound. In original grey printed wraps. Lightly foxed, with wraps grubby and creased. Ownership inscription at head of front wrap. 'Published under arrangement with the Author', with a six-page preface by the translator, dated October 1866. The Codex Sinaiticus, now in the British... |
£45.00 | |
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[Cambridge University, General Election, 1868; Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope (1820-1887)] Printed on one side of a piece of green paper, 28 x 21.5 cm, with vertical perforated line 6.5 cm in from the left-hand margin, dividing the paper into stub (28 x 6.5 cm) and paper (28 x 15 cm). Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with slight wear to extremities. Part of... |
£45.00 | |
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[William Done Bushell (1838-1917) of St John's College, Cambridge University; later assistant master and honorary chaplain at Harrow School; Victorian mountaineering From Bushell's own collection, and possibly in his hand. On both sides of a piece of light-blue paper, 27 x 22 cm. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with four labels from previous mounting (one with small closed tear) on the reverse. A delightful item, casting light on the social... |
£65.00 | |
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Examination of Naval Cadets, Admiralty, 1865 [Royal Navy] Regulations for the Entry and Examination of Naval Cadets. Printed on one side of a piece of grey paper, 22.5 x 16 cm. Text clear and complete. In fair condition: lightly-aged and with remains of stub adhering to the blank reverse, on which a clean closed tear has been unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Nine regulations are listed, from 'I. No... |
£35.00 | |
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George Dorrington, Victorian lithographic artist and printer ('The Cheapest Establishment in London for Wood Engravings') Printed in double column on both sides of a wove piece of paper, 44 x 28.5 cm. Clear and complete. Very good, on slightly-aged and grubby paper. In a variety of types and font sizes, but mostly in small print. The whole clearly laid out for folding as a packet. Includes a description of... |
£85.00 | |
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John Nichols, printer, The Milton Press, Strand [The Metropolitan Advertiser] First issue of 'John Nichols's Metropolitan Advertiser'. 4to, 4 pp. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged and grubby paper. Engraving of beehive, with motto, beneath title. Given away 'GRATIS'. Begins with a prospectus for what is described as 'a new medium of communicating with the public', concluding, 'for the inconsiderable sum of 5s. an... |
£225.00 | |
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Liberal Prime Minister Autograph Signature, removed from letter. On piece of paper roughly 2.5 x 7.5 cm. Mounted on piece of 7.5 x 13 cm card. In fair condition, with both card and paper aged and slightly discoloured. Good firm underlined signature ('W E Gladstone'). The card carries the following caption, in a contemporary hand: 'Autograph of | The Right... |
£25.00 | |
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Liberal Prime Minister [Roundell Palmer (1812-1895), Earl of Selborne] Fragment of Autograph Letter to Palmer, with signature ('W E Gladstone') on frank. Part of a letter, cut away for an autograph collector, roughly 5.5 x 10.5 cm. The recto carries the franked address, trimmed close, reading 'London July twenty 1835. | Roundell Palmer Esq | Mixbury | Birmingham [corrected in another hand to 'Magdalen Colle | Oxford'], signed in bottom left-hand... |
£30.00 | |
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General Post Office, London; Air Mail ,1927 [airmail; British postal history] Large 8vo (33 x 21 cm), 6 pp. Four-leaf pamphlet, with the final leaf blank. Clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and worn paper, with minor rust marks from removed staples. On the first page are twelve sections under the headings 'Letter Air Mails' and 'Parcel Air Mails'. The following... |
£125.00 | |
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A. Clarke [Anthony Clarke, ne Anthony Jacques Cheeper (1837-1918); Sir J. Noel Paton; the National Shakespeare; Bacon Controversy] Clarke is a forgotten Shakespeare editor, there being no reference to him (nor any copy of this item) on the COPAC or the Folger online catalogue. A bankrupt and bigamist (he was 'married' five times), he fathered 33 or 34 children, and worked in the booktrade as a commerical traveller and... |
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