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MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF ENGLISH WOMAN'S CONTINENTAL TOUR BEGINNING IN WALSGRAVE NEAR COVENTRY (1863-4).
by 19th Century Woman Traveller
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- 1863
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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Florence: Unpublished, 1863. A comprehensive manuscript journal of an independent and adventurous English woman's Continental tour, including lengthy stays in Florence and Rome before continuing to Slovenia, Vienna and Prague. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Quarto format, full black roan, single blind ruling to boards. Boards with gentle edgewear. All edges marbled; cream endpapers, darkened by binder's glue, front inner hinge starting,… Read more about this item Item Price
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MANUSCRIPT HAMPSHIRE PRIVATE LIBRARY CATALOGUE.
by Anonymous
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- 1850
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Hampshire: Unpublished, 1850. Manuscript catalogue of a mid-nineteenth century private Hampshire library, featuring Cambridge University titles, Shakespeare in different editions and William Wilberforce. Octavo format, quarter bound calf over brown-marbled boards. Boards rubbed, losses to paper and calf, corners worn and rounded. Single gilt ruling and lettering to spine, spine sunned, 'Hants' struck through in black; all edges… Read more about this item Item Price
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LETTERS & PERSONAL PAPERS RELATING TO CHRONICLES OF ANCIENT SUNLIGHT & TARKA THE OTTER
by Henry Williamson
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- 1940s onwards
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UK: Unpublished, 1940s onwards. A substantial archive - c600 items - of Henry Williamson's incoming letters and his replies in the form of notes, typescripts and annotated letters relating to his creative work in the 1950s and 1960s, in particular his extended sequence of novels about his experience in the First World War. Among the collection is a fan… Read more about this item Item Price
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'Beasts Sold', Sowings Made: A Manuscript 'Day Book 1793' by a Lincolnshire Land Owner
by Christopher Byron
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- 1793
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Tathwell, Lincolnshire: Unpublished, 1793. Most attractive and engaging Day Book kept between 1793 and 1817 by Christopher Byron of the village of Tathwell near Louth in Lincolnshire. Original vellum binding with title in ink to the upper cover; Britannia watermark to paper stock and the author's inscription to first leaf: 'Christ'r Byron Tathwell 1793' Every one of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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ILLUSTRATED Log Book of the Proceedings on Board the Barque Wellington from the Port of London to Madras
by Henry Borrer, Midshipman
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- 1839
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A$3,766.23
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London: Charles Wilson, 1839. Extensively illustrated Midshipman's log book of a return voyage from England to Madras with drawings of an albatross-shoot, whale-ships burning oil, a mirage at sea and a sequence of coastal views including St Helena and Tristan da Cunha. Folio-sized manuscript which has been copied by its author from the original document into a printed skeleton… Read more about this item Item Price
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NAPOLEONIC WARS LOG of the Proceedings of The HMSS Malabar Kept by W B Boddy
by W B Boddy
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- 1814
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Mediterranean, 1814. Napoleonic War manuscript ship's log for a British warship in the Mediterranean that would be used shortly afterwards to transport convicts to New South Wales (1819) and Van Diemen's Land (1821) in Australia. The folio-sized ship's log comprises two disbound sections of a notebook of a junior British naval officer's training logbook from 1814. Manuscript title… Read more about this item Item Price
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EARLY MANUSCRIPT COPY Le Diable Amoureux - The Devil in Love
by Jacques Cazotte
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- 1800
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England?: N/A, 1800. Early manuscript copy - apparently English in origin - of a French novel of diabolic seduction that has inspired everyone from Jacques Lacan to Jonny Depp. Small quarto (16.5x20.5cm) bound in (likely) English full sheep, rubbed with some loss close to outer hinges but boards remain well attached. No decoration apart from a gilt roll to… Read more about this item Item Price
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CELEBRATING A WINTER WEDDING IN PARIS Lines Presented to Mrs Croft with a White Rose on her Wedding Day by her affectionate Cousin Robert Charles Dallas
by Robert Charles Dallas
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- 1823
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1823. Beautiful presentation volume by an infatuated Oxford undergraduate (shortly afterwards President of the Union) following his cousin's winter wedding at the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris. Small oblong volume with matching slipcase (13.5x11.5cm) The manuscript book has olive green printed paper overlay, the upper cover with a hand-coloured floral design; the backstrip is missing but the integrity of… Read more about this item Item Price
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SCOTLAND'S 7TH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Nobel Prize Lecture & Personal Papers
by Sir Alexander Todd
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- 1927
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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Glasgow, Cambridge & London: Various, 1927. Alexander Todd's personal archive including school prizes from Glasgow schooldays, his Nobel Prize lecture and dozens of retained copies of his papers and speeches. Alexander R Todd (1907-1997) was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the synthesis of nucleotides - the groundwork for Watson and Crick's elucidation of… Read more about this item Item Price
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OPERA SINGER JESSIE ROSE'S BOOK OF LOVE POEMS - Written by a Lovelorn Suitor
by Charles Sydney Buxton
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- 1908
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Chalfont St Peter: Unpublished, 1908. A volume of love poetry written by a young Liberal politician who had fallen head over heels with the glamorous, newly single opera singer, renowned for her performances in Gilbert and Sullivan operas. A note laid into the volume reveals that it featured on BBC Antiques Road Show in February 2007. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Beautiful,… Read more about this item Item Price
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'I AM RECKON'D A SCHISMATICK' - Spiritual Diary, Poems and Letters of a Dissenting Cornishman
by Bernard Rowse
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- 1686
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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Cornwall, England: Unpublished, 1686. A remarkable manuscript (c200,000 words) that begins in London just before the 1688 Revolution and charts its author's return to his Cornish village where he pleads for the right to remain in communion with both 'Episcopal and Presbiterial' congregations. Over 300 pages the manuscript plots Rowse's efforts to assuage both conscience and Cornish neighbours. Shot… Read more about this item Item Price
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DEDICATED TO CHARLES II Le Savory du Ciel ou Meditation sur le pseaume Cent un par Jean Rivet
by Jean Rivet & Andrew Rivet [Charles II]
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- 1664
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France: Unpublished, 1664. Rededicated - and perhaps presented - to King Charles II by the author's nephew, a manuscript meditation on Psalm 101, unpublished in this form and written as an antidote against the plague. Small quarto (horizontal chainlines & foolscap watermark) bound in contemporary calf with raised bands to the spine and gilt decoration. Three blank endpapers precede… Read more about this item Item Price
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GAS IN WARFARE - Second World War Manuscript of the Dangers Britain Faced from Nazi Gas Attack
by A F Wilson
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- 1942
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Coventry: Unpublished, 1942. Second World War Midlands-based study of the history of gas in warfare and the best ways to counter and deal with its renewed use over Britain. Small notebook (10x16cm) bound in grey cloth covered card, contained within an anonymous black folder. Author's signature on the front pastedown: 'A F Wilson 8 Stychedale Ave, Coventry'. Opposite an… Read more about this item Item Price
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UNPUBLISHED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SWISS PHYSICS - A Compendium of the Aristotelian: & Cartesian Physics [Compendium Physicae Aristotelico-Cartesianae]
by John Roberts - Johann Heinrich Schweitzer
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- 1701
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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A$8,208.45
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England, 1701. Manuscript translation by an English lawyer determined to inject his enthusiasm for Lucretius into this work by a 17th century Swiss natural philosopher - completing his English makeover with marginal references to Milton's Paradise Lost. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Quarto in modern half tan calf over marbled boards; an eighteenth century presentation inscription from the actor/ playwright George… Read more about this item Item Price
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MANUSCRIPT 1820s PICARESQUE MEDWAY JOURNEY TO A CONCERT IN CHATHAM - Inconsideration on a trip to an Oratorio on 27th November 1829
by John S Featherstone [Henry Senior]
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- 1829
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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Kent: Unpublished Manuscript, 1829. Mock epic narrative poem describing an ill-fated journey by boat, stage-coach and on foot from Sheerness to a concert in Chatham and the 'inconsideration' that blighted their return journey. Thin, maroon-coloured roan covered wrappers, rubbing to spine and corners; white tape reinforcement along gutter to verso of wrapper. 18 pages of text, 21 lines per… Read more about this item Item Price
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Like a Mantle the Sea [Shetland Island Manuscript & Archive]
by Stella Shepherd - Dennis Shepherd - John Betjeman
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- 1971
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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A$2,221.11
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London: G Bell & Sons, 1971. Autograph manuscript, typescript, corrected proofs and supportive letters from Sir John Betjeman to the author of this memoir of Papa Stour who met her during a visit to the island and helped see the book through to publication. Stella Shepherd and her husband Dennis who illustrated her book moved to Papa Stour in… Read more about this item Item Price
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MANUSCRIPT LETTER-BOOK, Autograph Letters and Photographs
by David Gascoyne [Surrealist Poet]
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- 1980
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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England: Unpublished, 1980. Substantial bound manuscript by the poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) together with an archive of photographs, letters from Gascoyne and his wife Judy Gascoyne and from Alan Clodd of the Enitharmon Press and many others. This collection which dates from David Gascoyne's later years was acquired by his friend the society photographer Pamela Chandler (1928-1993) who seems… Read more about this item Item Price
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TIBETAN 'SHERPA' ART Collected by a 1960 Mount Makulu Expedition Member, Possibly George Lowe
by Tibetan Sherpa Artist [George Lowe]
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- 1960
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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1960. Remarkable collection of Tibetan Sherpa art collected, and possibly commissioned, by a member of Sir Edward Hillary's 'Silver Hut' expedition to Mount Makulu in the Himalayas, including an image of the mountaineers scaling the peak. This collection is introduced by its owner, an unidentified member of Hillary's 1960 expedition (possibly George Lowe), in a two page pencilled text… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nomads: the Producer's Comprehensive Production Archive
by Elliott Kastner, John McTiernan, Jane Fonda, Nina Foch, Bill Conti, Ted Nugent, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro etc
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- 1986
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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A$1,641.69
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Los Angeles & London: Unpublished, 1986. Remarkably extensive Eliott Kastner archive of the production of Pierce Brosnan's first leading role in which he played a French anthropologist in New York who discovers a group of urban nomads who are not who they seem. The pile of documents sits 10 inches thick and comprises, in brief: Production - Central Files… Read more about this item Item Price
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IRISH COLLEGE MANUSCRIPT Pars Secunda Physicae. Seu Physica Specialis
by Patrick Mortimore - Patricio Mortimorer [Isaac Newton]
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- 1772
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, GBR
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A$3,379.95
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France [country of origin] Ireland: Unpublished, 1772. A document of the Irish diaspora: a physics manuscript, with strong Newtonian content, written by an Irishman obliged to attend university - the Irish College - in France in the 1770s. Bound in dyed Irish green vellum with the remnants of an inscription in black ink to the upper cover and an… Read more about this item Item Price
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