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1949157605Oxford: At the Clarendon Press 1949. VI, 431 Seiten. Gr. 8° (22,5-25 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit goldgpeprägtem Rückentitel sowie mit Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
19261206061926 Editions Payot, Collection d'Etudes, de Documents et de Témoignages pour servir à l'Histoire de notre temps - 1926 - In-8, broché - 297 p.
2006DADAX1903018471Prospect Books 2006-08-08. paperback. New. 7.00x2.00x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Prospect Books paperback
1903184307London: N 1903. dated 6th October 1903 on 20 Cavendish Square W London letterhead headed 'Private' kerning2 saying that 'The 'Times' sets such a good example in this respect that it is perhaps hardly necessary to appeal to you to see that we who take the opposite side in the fiscal controversy should be adequately reported. The circumstances however are exceptional as everyone naturally wants to read Chamberlain more than any other speaker . . .'kerning0 Single sheet 15.2 cm. x 25.2 cm. folded to form four pages written on three with horizontal crease at centre and light tape marks on last page. Herbert Henry Asquith 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 1852endash 1928 British statesman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. kerning2Charles Frederic Moberly Bell 1847endash 1911 British journalist and newspaper editor; Managing Director of 'The Times' late 19th and early 20th centuries; founded the forerunner of the Times Literary Supplement.kerning0. N unknown
112602 March 1875; on letterhead of 2 Norham Gardens Oxford. 4 pp 12mo. Bifolium. 63 lines. Text clear and complete. Good on lightly-aged paper. Difficult hand. He thanks him for 'the Statistical Tables' admitting with 'some shame' that he needs 'an interpreter for part of the tables on page 68'. Describes the problem in detail and discusses 'the sly remark that "the change is being made quite as abruptly as would be safe". . If you mean that the American producers who may plead a kind of vested interest would be let down <> I say nothing: the errors of the byegone generations must be paid for.' His 'American journey' did him 'an incredible quantity of good: how could it be otherwise with all the kindness I received I am always vexed when I think that I said so little of you and Professor Sumner: I hope both of you may give me a better chance in Oxford.' Ends: 'I beg my kind regards to your father - and to those Yale friends who <strewed> kind feeling up me. Don't forget Mrs Sumner.' 2 March 1875; on letterhead of 2 Norham Gardens, Oxford. unknown
54122 January 1919 in fact 1920; Brasenose College Oxford. Two pages 12mo. Very good on lightly aged paper. Begins with three bibliographical points including one about Wagner's edition of Bentley's 'Phalaris' 'that of course we have at the Bodleian. A very useful edition with long bibliography'. 'Thanks about my brother William and Osler. The former I did not see much of of late years. Osler Sir William Osler who died 29 December 1919 and was a Curator as you say is a real loss to the Bodleian.' 2 January 1919 [in fact 1920]; Brasenose College, Oxford. unknown
12347Bolton Lodge Lancaster. 6 January 1842. 2pp. 12mo. 29 lines. Good on lightly-aged paper with minor traces of previous mounting and the annotation '13/19' in a contemporary hand. A significant letter relating to an important collection. Fielding bequeathed his herbarium and botanical library to the University of Oxford where as the Oxford DNB explains they formed for many years 'one of the key resources for the study of botany'. Fielding informs his correspondent that he has been 'lately waited upon by a deputation from the London Royal Botanical Society to whom I have proposed presenting my Botanical Library and very extensive Herbarium'. The deputation have suggested that 'a certain number of Trustees should be appointed four to be named by myself'. Fielding has 'already solicited the same favour and obtained the obliging compliance with my wishes from the Earl of Burlington as President of the University of London Earl Stanhope President of the Medico Botanical Society & Professor Owen of whose talents Lancaster has so much reason to be proud'. He asks the recipient if he will permit Fielding 'to add the name the name of one who has done so much for the advancement of my favourite pursuit'. He will be 'highly flattered' by the recipient's 'compliance'. He refers him to 'Mr. Sowerby the Society's Secretary' who will be 'happy to afford' information. Bolton Lodge, Lancaster. 6 January 1842. unknown
26485Letter: Ravensworth Castle; 2 February 1833. Print: Without date or place. Letter: 4 pp 12mo. Bifolium. 36 lines. Text clear and complete. Very good on lightly-aged paper. He addresses him 'as Provisional Secretary to the Abbotsford Subscription Committee' to inform him that he has instructed his bankers in Newcastle to transmit forty pounds from his account to bankers in the Strand 'to be added to the Abbotsford Fund - being the Amount collected in small sums between 1.£ & 1.s. by Mrs. Liddell in the town of Alnwick & vicinity'. She will forward a book of subscribers' names to the Committee. 'Considerable interest was exhibited by the lower classes in my immediate neighbourhood upon the subject.' Postscript states that he is 'not without hopes of forwarding' Dundas 'a contribution before long from the proceeds of my little volume which perhaps you will do me the honor to purchase & to read'. The 'Ape' cartoon is 21 x 31.5 cm slightly cropped at head only affecting lettering in margin and foot but with none of Liddell's full-length image lacking. A 21 x 3 cm strip at the foot has been folded upwards to the hem of Liddell's gown otherwise good on lightly aged paper. Letter: Ravensworth Castle; 2 February 1833. Print: Without date or place. unknown
11484Heydon Essex. 16 December 1813. 1p. 4to. Good on lightly-aged paper. Fifteen lines of closely and neatly written text with a slip of paper carrying an unsigned six-line note by Horseman neatly laid down at the foot of the text. The letter deals with personal matters acknowledging the receipt of £23 13s 6d thanking Brewster for his 'kind attentions' asking him to send whatever he may receive for 'the few old books which you sent to Stockton's' to Mary Dixon enquiring after family news giving his own 'I enjoy the best possible health. My brother was here lately; & as hearty as ever.'. The note written in the third person concerns books 'the letter to the goal sic chaplain' and 'the illness of James Smith'. Heydon [Essex]. 16 December 1813. unknown
1096319 October 1858; 32 Dover Street London. Draft of Wilberforce note dated 21 October 1858. 12mo 3 pp. Regarding the 'assigning of an income to the Regius Professor of Medicine out of the Ewelme Charity': 'I trouble you with a line to say that I have recommended the allowance of £250 a year and that when the revenues of the Charity shall reach £1000 a year it shall be submitted to the Court to increase the amount to £300 or £350'. Asks if there is 'any other matter connected with my office upon which you would wish for information before I seek a week or two's repose of which I have had none not even for an hour since I came into office.'. The note to Acland on the reverse of the second leaf of the bifolium is addressed to him at Lavington Petworth and signed 'Samuel Oxon': 'My dear Acland will you send me this back with a line saying if there is anything touching Ewelme you would have me express'. Written up one side of the letter Wilberforce has written 'When do you come' 19 October 1858; 32 Dover Street, London. Draft of Wilberforce note dated 21 October 1858. unknown
921210 October 1986; on letterhead of the National Radiological Protection Board. 8vo 1 p. Fair on lightly-aged paper with a couple of punch holes to the left margin one through a word of text. Thanking him for his 'k<in>d letter of appreciation of my work as chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution'. He now has 'another public duty concerned with the same field'. 10 October 1986; on letterhead of the National Radiological Protection Board. unknown
13501On letterhead of the Bodleian Library Oxford. 27 October 1922. 1p. 12mo. In fair condition on aged and creased paper unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Signed 'S. Gibson Secretary'. He explains that as the 'beginning of the Michaelmas Term is an unusually busy time' he has 'only been able just recently to find time to study your very interesting contribution to the history of the R-printer'. He is going to insert Aldrich's article 'in our copy of the Speculum Doctrinale'. On letterhead of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 27 October 1922. unknown
109762 August 1862; 338 Oxford Street London. 12mo 2 pp. Fifteen lines. Text clear and complete. Thanking Wyld for his 'Support on Thursday in the House of Commons agreeing with the Lords' Amendment for the exemption of Pharmaceutical Chemists serving on Juries'. He hopes that the exemption will prove 'a Stimulus to Pharmaceutical education and thereby be of great service and increased safety to the Public'. Hills was Mayor of Cambridge from 1894 to 1895. 2 August 1862; 338 Oxford Street, London. unknown
130317 Holly Place Hampstead. 21 June 1853. 3pp. 12mo. Bifolium. Good on lightly-aged paper with traces of mount adhering to the blank reverse of the second leaf. He thinks that Rickards 'could answer the question in the enclosed letter with much more authority exactness and detail than I could.' If Rickards has 'anything to say on the subject' Mozley asks him to 'send it at once to my brother at Oxford as he is in the last crisis of an article on the Manuscript Commission'. He continues with news of 'Grace' 'now home for the holidays' and of his health. 7 Holly Place, Hampstead. 21 June 1853. unknown
13193Place not stated. 1 July 1800s. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium with the blank second leaf laid down on page removed from album which bears on the reverse a biography of Windham in a nineteenth-century hand. The letter begins: 'Dear Robert I have seen the Pr. of Wales & have written to the D. of Clarence as well as to some others - It just occurs to me that you shd get at University the address of Simpson formerly Tutor there who has a living somewhere in Dorsetshire & endeavour to learn whether he is likely to be affected by the <> question. Some of those on the spot will perhaps write & explain why I have not. Dr Hughes will probably know his direction & perhaps write'. He ends the body of the letter by sending his 'respects to the President' and in a postscript enquires whether 'the All Souls men go unanimously with their member' Should they not do so Windham knows '& may get as many of them'. He ends by suggesting that the recipient ask Dr Hughes 'whether Bishop Bangor can do anything'. Windham was at University College Oxford between 1767 and 1771. Place not stated. 1 July [1800s?]. unknown
16399To "My dear Sir" "I return you by this post your Book with many thanks for all the interesting occupation it has afforded me. I think I have seen a long time since that Book of Drexelius which you mention and perhaps at some future time I should be glad to avail myself of your kind offer to let me see it again but just at present I happen to have a good deal on hand."etc. Stinchcombe March 17th 1847. Identified on last page in an early hand "Divine & Poet Isaac Williams". Mounting stub on margin of last blank. Very good. An uncommon autograph. unknown
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10611 Dec. wm. 1821. Professor of Geometry Oxford researcher in optics and radiation 1796-1860. He mentions his enclosure of his article involvinhg a continuation of "remarks on light & heat" previously published. He looks forward to early publication. He also encloses "an abstract of his paper on terrestrial light & heat" which he believes will be read before the Royal Society. He had sent one part some time before and the second part to "Mr Herschel" recently. Note: Apparently he had advanced views of evolution. 11 Dec. [wm. 1821]. unknown
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