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Sir William Russell Flint.

Autograph Letters Signed to Malcolm Mackenzie.

Printed address, headed notepaper. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. Russell Flint is responding to a letter from Mackenzie (attached, copy Typed Letter, one page, 4to, 26 April 1949- saying that he (Mackenzie) has circularised friends in the Press asking them to urge readers to buy water-colours...

£150.00
Thomas Campbell.

Autograph Letter Signed "T. Campbell" to Dr David Brewster, scientist and editor of the "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia" (DNB).

Scottish poet and editor (1777-1844). The letter has been trimmed, with the loss of the address and date, part of which survives on the address side (verso), now one, page, c.6 x 6", some staining and fold marks but text clear and substance of the letter complete as follows: "My dear Friend /...

£200.00
William Behnes; George Robins

Autograph Signatures on fragment of document.

Behnes (died 1864) was a sculptor, and Robins (1778-1847) a flamboyant auctioneer. Very good, on piece of paper roughly two inches by three and a half. From a collection of Autograph Signatures cut from petitions to the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Blank reverse.

£25.00
William E. Baxter.

Autograph Letters Signed (x 4) to (Charles) Buxton

Traveller in Spain and elsewhere, and author. 2-4pp., 8vo. He discusses extensively his work on "a Handbook on Russia & Great Britain in Central Asia", giving a resume of chapters and asking for copies to be sent to various places. "No question is more important at present". FOUR ITEMS,

£250.00
William Ewart Gladstone [W. Burton]

Etched portrait, by W (?) Burton

A clean copy, on good thick paper, of an engraving, three versions of which are in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG D8332, NPG D8333, NPG D8334), where they are dated 1889, and described as being etched 'after a photograph originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette 'Grand Old Man' extra'....

£20.00
A.M. Brown, M.D.

The Animal Alkaloids, cadaveric and vital.

"Or the ptomaines chemically physiologically and pathologically considered in relation to scientific medicine". Introduction by Professor Armand Gautier. Pp.xxv.252 plus 4pp. press opinions and advts of Brown's other books, original cloth gt, good to very good condition. Ex lib "Medical Society...

£40.00
A[rthur]. Blok

Some Personal Recollections of Sir Ambrose Fleming. The Third Fleming Memorial Leture.

Communications and Television pioneer. Pamphlet, 12pp., 4to, somewhat soiled and chipped, small tear at fold mark. INSCRIBED by the author "With Kind Regards / A.B. [Arthur Blok]".

£28.00
An Experienced Physician.

The Medical Guide; containing plain and simple directions for the treatment of the more common diseases.

Disbound, 24 pages, 12mo, partly unopened, sl. damaged but no loss of text. Penny chapbook.

£15.00
Anna Freud

Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen.

FIRST EDITION. 207 pages, octavo. Bound up with the front and back wraps laid onto the boards. Lacks half-title. Worn copy on spotted and discoloured paper.

£85.00
Douglas McKie.

A collection of 10 offprints, etc. of Douglas McKie's publications

Historian of Science (see Dictionary of National Biography). 1. "Wohler's 'Synthetic' Urea and the Rejection of Vitalism: A Chemical Legend" (Reprinted from "Nature", 20 May 1944, 8pp.; 2. "The Scientific Periodical from 1665 to 1798" (From the Philosophical Magazine Commemoration Number, , July...

£45.00
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