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[J.] Ducros, ingénieur One page each, 4to, sl. chipped. (avril)He requests an audience with a Cardinal and concludes with a statement about himself: "Ingénieur en chef au Corps impérial des Ponts et Chausées; ingénieur en chef de la Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Rome à Ceprano." (octobre) requesting another (?0... |
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[John Edward Walsh], Ireland Ninety Years Ago Being a New and Revised Edition of Ireland Sixty Years Ago. 172pp, 8vo. This copy has stains throughout, from minimal (foxing) to extensive on back cover, and damage to the half-title, but it's been rebound in attractive green wraps with a label on the front. The original wraps have ben bound in. Scarce: No copy listed on AddAll. COPAC lists copies at BL... |
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[John Mitchel] Original printed brown wraps (portrait of Mitchel in centre), stained and soiled with some wear, top edge of all pages stained, a sound copy. From the library of Robert Lynd, author and nationalist. Scarce: COPAC lists copies at NLS, Oxford, Cambridge, BL. |
£56.00 | |
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[Onésiphore Pecqueur (1792-1852), inventor of the differential gear for automobiles] Sorel, French civil engineer [locomotives; steam engines] Autograph Letter Signed ('Sorel') to 'Monsieur Philippe mécanicien | rue Chateau Landon. | a Paris'. 8vo bifolium, 1 p. 9 lines of text. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Addressed, with two circular postmarks in black ink, on verso of second leaf. On the letterhead Sorel's achievements are given as '1837 Prix de Mécanique, Monthyon, A l'Académie des Sciences, Médaille d'Or' and '1839,... |
£120.00 | |
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[TURKEY] Auguste Viquesnel (1803-1867), author of "Voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe" Two Autograph Letters Signed "Augte Viquesnel" to an unnamed correspondent. In French [En Francais] One page each, 8vo, minor stains and creasing, good condition. (1847) He describes a colleague, a "M. de La Roquette", for some years Secretary to the "Societe de geographie". whom he understands to be working on Turkey. "Je me [?] de lui indiquer un ouvrage Special sur Constantinople, son... |
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{Birthday Celebration of Napoléon François Joseph Charles, King of Rome, b.1811] One page, sm. folio, good condition. "Monsieur / J'ai L'honneur de vous adresser, M. Le Comte, copie conforme de l'acte de seance du conseil municipal en date 18 du courant, parle quel 3000 Francs ont été mis a ma disposition pour célebrer la fête de la naissance de S.M. Le Roy de Rome et je... |
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A.R. Orage, editor and journalist An Englishman Talks It Out with an Irishman With a Preface by John Eglinton. Pamphlet, 31pp., 8vo, original grey wraps, stained at edges, contents good. From the library of Robert Lynd, author and nationalist. Scarce: COPAC lists copies at BL, LSE, NLS, Oxford. |
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Alan Faraday Campbell Pollard (1877-1948) of Imperial College, Vice-President of the Society for International Bibliography; Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933), process engraver and typographer Pollard's eleven letters: one 12mo (1 p); the other ten 4to (eight 1 p and two 2 pp). The first has a small spike hole affecting one word, otherwise the collection is in good condition. Four docketed and seven bearing the Society's stamp. Pollard was 'Professor of Instrument Design (Mechanical... |
£250.00 | |
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Alex. Riddell, The Ulster Calendar of Persons and Events. By Alex. Riddell. 1911. 8vo, 76 + [i] + [iii]. Rebound in attractive green paper wraps, including surviving front wrap (back wrap missing), damaged but reinforced, staples rusty. Final page a Calendar for 1911, followed by three pages blank but for heading 'MEMORANDA'. Verso of front wrap carries an advertisement, with... |
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Alice Stopford Green, historian. Loyalty and Disloyalty. What it Means in Ireland Pamphlet, original geen wraps, badly chipped, dusted, 14pp., 8vo, with additional publisher's list (2pp. inc. inside back cover). With obscured pencil inscription on front cover, perhaps to "Riobard ua Flynn" [Robert Lynd] and from his library.Scarce: COPAC lists copies at Oxford, LSE, BL, NLW... |
£36.00 |
