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Samuel Sugden Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. English chemist (1892-1950), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Birkbeck College, London, 1932–1937, and Professor of Chemistry, University College London, 1937–1950. One page, 12mo. Good, but with pin holes to top left-hand corner. Stamped as answered 8 July. He accepts the invitation to become a... |
£36.00 | |
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Sir Ambrose Heal [Heal's Department Store] Two Typed Letters Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Art historian, designer and founder of department store (1872-1959). Both items very good though somewhat dusty. One docketed and both bearing the Society's stamp. ITEM ONE (one page, quarto, 7 October 1918). He encloses (not present) a letter he has received from a woman named Evelyn James. 'I... |
£75.00 | |
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Sir Arthur Isaac Durrant [Royal Society of Arts] English civil servant (1864-1939). The recipient was an educationalist and authority on Edmund Burke. One page, quarto. Very good on slightly discoloured paper. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. 'On behalf of Sir Alfred Mond [Committee Chairman], I hasten to assure you and the Committee... |
£36.00 | |
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The State Office of Statistics, Czechoslovakia Two pages, folio. Good, but on discoloured and lightly creased paper, with remains of stub adhering to one edge of verso. In English, with illegible signature. Begins 'The State Office of Statistics appreciating fully the great importance of an exact information of the British publicity of the... |
£36.00 | |
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[ Thomas Bowen, Justice of the Peace ] Manuscript document headed "Bristol Memorandum".[Americana] Manuscript, one page, folio, chipped and other minor defects, text clear and complete. "That on the Eight day of April on ye Seenth . . . . . . Personally appeared be fore Thomas Bowen Esq one of His Majesties Justice of ye Peace for ye County of Bristol --- Benjamin Slack of Attleborough in ye... |
£250.00 | |
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John Singleton Copley [BATTLE OF JERSEY] Engraving by H. Bond of 'THE DEATH OF MAJOR PIERSON.' Major Francis Pierson died driving the French from the Market Place of Saint Helier in the Island of Jersey, 6 January 1781. Dimensions of paper roughly ten inches by eight. Dimensions of print roughly six inches by four and a half. Surrounded by six tiny vignettes: two of soldiers and four of... |
£25.00 | |
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The Channel Islands (Guernsey and Jersey) ITEM ONE: engraving of 'CASTLE CORNET, GUERNSEY. | Prinnted for S. Hooper 25 June 1777. | Sparrow Sculpt.' Landscape octavo. Dimensions of print roughly nine and a half inches by six and a half. Very good. Mounted on leaf of ruled paper. ITEM TWO: copy of the first two octavo leaves of the... |
£145.00 | |
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Florence A. Keynes Autograph Letter Signed to [Morley] Stuart, editor of the Cambridge Daily News. Mother of John Maynard Keynes, sometime Mayor of Cambridge. One page, 4to, minor defects, text clear and complete, as follows: You are really too kind in what you say in this evening's paper - but I do greatly appreciate your good will, & the support you have invariably given me during my... |
£60.00 | |
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Leo Chiozza Money Two Typed Notes Signed to [C.H. Grinling, socialist, editor of the Woolwich "Pioneer" Member of Parliament, economist, etc. Two pages each, 8vo, good condition, one docketed with writer's name, etc. in another hand [Grinling's?]. [14-11-05] He tells Grinling that his "Riches and Poverty" is the right response to the latter's "first paragraph", and the point is dealt with at... |
£120.00 | |
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Leo Chiozza Money Typed Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Member of Parliament, economist, etc. One page, 4to, minor defects, mainly good condition, text as follows: "I should like to become a fellow of your society but before deciding should like to know how the society is to be carried on if it is not asssured of a definite annual income." |
£26.00 |
