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Books & Documents Sale on Tuesday 5th February 2008 |
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161-192 of 481 |
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PARISH LIBRARIES: Act for the Better Preservation of Parochial Libraries in that part of Great Britain called England, 6pp folio, 1709. Black letter. Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcombe, printers to The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 1709. This Act is thought to be the origination of Public Libraries in England. In sound condition. £30-£50. | Nil |
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| 162 | SALVATION ARMY: Pair of superb coloured chromolithographed portraits of Gen William Booth an his wife Catherine, framed and glazed in velvet sided Victorian frames C1890, 30 x 40 inches. £80-£120. | Nil |
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| 163 | TRACTS: Cheap Repository Tracts, new edition, 3 vols 8vo, 1803. Some Tracts with woodcut illustrations. Full calf binding, gilt stamped. Bindings slightly worn, otherwise in sound condition. (3) £60-£80. | Nil |
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| 164 | TRACTS: Sherwood's Stories, 2 vols 8vo Wellington 1825-26. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Full calf binding, gilt stamped. Bindings slightly worn otherwise in sound condition. (2) £40-£60. | Nil |
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| 165 | TUCKER, Josiah: Religious intolerance no part of the general plan either of the Mosaic, or Christian dispensation, probed by Scriptural inferences and deductions, after a method entirely new. By Josiah Tucker, D D Dean of Glocester: printed by R Raikes. And sold in London by J Rivington; T Cadel; and J Walter, 1774. Disbound. (1) £60-£80. | Nil |
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| 166 | COCHRANE, Captain Charles Stuart: A series of 9 autograph letters from 49 King Street and York Hotel, King Street, Manchester, to F B Robinson, (his solicitor) at 26 Essex Street, Strand, between 8 June and 13 July 1831. 18pp, 4to. In very good condition. Captain Charles Stuart Cochrane, the second son of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane. He was born on HMS Thetis. After fighting the Napoleonic wars he left the navy and set off on a journey up the Magdalena River into Columbia with the idea of mining copper. The venture proved unprofitable and after travelling through Europe he landed back in England in 1828. He spent the next year wandering about the country with a guitar, claiming to be a Spanish troubadour and was known also as "Senor Jean de Vega". In Edinburgh where he finally revealed himself he was described as "a little cracked". In 1830, however, he proved himself perfectly sound of mind and astute when he took out a patent in France on a machine for spinning Cashmere, a wool new to the Western world. In Glasgow he built a mill for his machines. These developments proved to be considerably profitable for the mills of Manchester and Yorkshire. The present series of letters, written at Manchester, concern the perfecting of his patent, with much detail about wording etc. and his successful attempt to interest the industrialists, Holdworths of Ardwick Green, Manchester in acquiring and financing the scheme. "Excuse a ad pen and a shaking hand - but these damned cotton spinners make me drink so hard that I am nearly done up...Messrs Holdsworth and Co...are inclined to bite. They think the Cashmere perfect...The Merino Patent will be excellent if no one has done the same thing before, and there is only one house near Halifax that is suspected of producing something like it. This will be known in day or two. I have written to send me down immediately a copy of the specification of the Merino Patent I hope you have not forgotten to forward the specification and drawings of the Cashmere Patent for Scotland - you still have time. The Holdsworths are very rich - and good people, if they enter into this business they will do it on a grand scale...You will hardly believe it but these Cotton Boys actually aped Gentlemen during a whole week and were very hospitable - What a language they talk. I shall have to go to school again if I am ever to settle in this smoky hole...I am very much pleased with my new partners they seem to be such thorough men of business and the nephew Mr Henry Holdsworth tells me that the Cotton trade is so bad, that if mine succeeds, his house will turn all their attention to it, and will invest more than £100,000...(Quantity) £150-£250. | Nil |
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| 167 | COOPER (A, Distiller): 'The Complete Distiller'...London, J Hamilton, 1797. Reprint of original 1757 edition. 8vo, nr. contemp. quarter calf, rubbed, hinges cracked and strained, backstrip chipped with some loss to two compartments. Folding plate and title browned. Lacks A5-6 (1) £100-£200. | Nil |
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| 168 | CULPEPER (Nicholas, 1616-1654): "Culpeper's School of Physick, or The Experimental Practice of the Whole Art"...London, N Brook, 1659. Sm 8vo, contemporary calf, crude tape repairs to spine. Lacks frontis, sold w.a.f. | Nil |
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| 169 | FIRE PREVENTION: Albums of TLs laid down 1890s, bit grubby (1) £20-£30. | Nil |
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| 170 | FUR DYING: Sample cards ICI produced 1929. Housed in case in sound condition. | Nil |
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| 171 | KENNEDY DEAD: Evening News. Black and red billboard, Night Special 1963, approx 30 x 24 inches (1) £40-£60. | Nil |
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| 172 | LINOTYPE MATRIX: Vol II Nos 1-31 (lacks 11), 1948-1959 (30) £20-£30. | Nil |
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| 173 | LOUIS BONIJOL: Scientific Experiments, galvanometers "journal d'experiences sur L'Electricite galvanique 1829", 8vo, 40p, illustrated, covers battered (1) £100-£200. | Nil |
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| 174 | MEDICAL: Album relating to Joseph Ager MD c1797-1860 ms and printed ephemera. Letters from doctors and much to do with Agers Ear Trumpet with illustrations and letters of recommendations c50 items. Worthy of further research. (1) £150-£250. | Nil |
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| 175 | MEDICAL, BERI-BERI: Two long als from W. Leonard Braddon (1861-1936) to Martin an unidentified correspondent about his cure for Beri-Beri together with three pamphlets, two by Braddon and one by Jansen and Donath about its cure. Letters from Malaya where Braddon formulated his cure 1910/11. £80-£120. | Nil |
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| 176 | MEDICAL PAMPHLETS: Dame Harriette Chick, Nutritionist, approx. 40 items, sound condition (Quantity) £20-£40. | Nil |
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| 177 | MEDICAL BOOKS: The Microscope (Beale), Coote on Joint Diseases, A History of Immunization (Parish) and 17 others, some signed by authors, sound condition (20) £30-£50. | Nil |
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| 178 | SCHAUPLATZ: Philosophischer, 400pp + illustrations. Regensburg 1770. Modern boards £40-£60. | Nil |
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| 181 | AIRLINE BROCHURES: C30 1950/60s items from various lines. Good condition. (Quantity) £40-£60. | Nil |
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| 182 | AMY JOHNSON: Fine bound luncheon in honour of Miss Amy Johnson August 6 1930 Savoy, 4to, silk lined with signatures of Amy Johnson, Woulf Barnato and others. Small mark to front cover, otherwise find (1) £200-£300. | Nil |
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| 183 | BRITISH RAILWAY EPHEMERA: Collection C200 items from various railway companies mainly 19th century. In modern album generally sound. (1) £120-£150. | Nil |
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| 184 | CAMPBELL (SIR MALCOLM) 1885-1948. Racing Motorist. 2pp, 8vo. Thierry's Imperial Hotel, Tenby, Wales, 22/09/24 to Mrs Dort Phillips "I have come down to attack world records with my big car, and shall be down at Pendine making all necessary arrangements...I shall be going out for the records on Wednesday next". (In 1925 in a Sunbeam he was the first man to travel at over 150 miles an hour. In 1928 Campbell beat the record of Sir H Segrave for land speed at Daytona Beach, Florida, going at over 200 m.p.h.). A fine early Campbell item (1) £150-£200. | Nil |
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| 185 | COACHING 1785: Ms "short minits of my journey to Scotland in Aug 85 (1785)" Geo. Wing, Geo. Pearson both of the City of Durham, A4 12 detailed description of trials and tribulations of coach transport (1) £80-£100. | Nil |
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| 186 | EDWARD VIII (as Prince of Wales - Edward P) on photo of landing of Handley Page "City" Class at Croydon May 4th 1926, with letter to Captain O Jones from Edward's secretary 1951, having signed the photo retrospectively as "Edward P". Proving all is not what it looks! Copy of Imperial Airway Bulletin June 1926. Fine item in sound condition (3) £150-£200. | Nil |
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| 187 | IRISH NAVIGATION: Report on the navigation of the River Shannon by William Chapman, Limerick imprint 1791, disbound (1) £50-£70. | Nil |
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| 188 | MOTORING: A carton of mainly mid C20 motoring related material including manuals, handbooks etc, plus other miscellaneous items (A box). | Nil |
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| 189 | MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINES: A large box of "Motorcycle Scooter & Three-Wheeler Mechanics" magazines, 1950s to early 1970s. (A box) £20-£30. | Nil |
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| 190 | TRANSPORT MISCELLANY: Two cartons of mainly transport related books, pamphlets and guides, including a small quantity of military material, chiefly mid to earlier C20. Includes railway publications from GWR, LMS & SR, timetables, APCs etc. Approx 70 items (2 cartons) £70-£100. | Nil |
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| 191 | ANGLING: A Concise Treatise on The Art of Angling...Thomas Berk, 4th edition, London, B Crosby 1798, 8vo, 156pp, illustrated, calf label. (1) £200-£300. | Nil |
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| 192 | ANGLING: The Art of Angling and Complete Fly-Fishing...;Charles Bowlker of Ludlow. Swinney, Birmingham 1796. 8vo 120pp, illustrated, calf boards, label with attractive contemporary trade label of John Higginbotham, Fish Rod Maker, Golden Fish Strand pasted inside front board (1) £200-£300. | Nil |
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