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For A-Maze-Meant and For Amusement. 'Tis no hard task to find the gate / By which you enter in; / But if you don't continue right, You'll end where you begin...
Printed & sold by William Jeffrey 7 Geo: Yard, Lombard Street.
A very rare coloured lithograph. Printed area 260 x 200mm, 10¼ x 8". Small tear.
[Ref: 13803] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Printed & sold by William Jeffrey 7 Geo: Yard, Lombard Street.
A very rare coloured lithograph. Printed area 260 x 200mm, 10¼ x 8". Small tear.
[Ref: 13803] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Théatre Militaire No. 1 Barrack. Addiscombe Under the immediate patronage of the Gentlemen Corporals. This Evening (Saturday Spetember 30th 1854) will be represented The Grand Comic Drama entitled Only A Clod [...]
Printed by H.L. Jones [1854].
Letterpress, 405 x 170mm. 16 x 6¾". Glued to album sheet at top, one horizontal fold.
A theatre bill for a performance at the Addiscombe military theatre, with full cast and crew lists.
[Ref: 11124] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Printed by H.L. Jones [1854].
Letterpress, 405 x 170mm. 16 x 6¾". Glued to album sheet at top, one horizontal fold.
A theatre bill for a performance at the Addiscombe military theatre, with full cast and crew lists.
[Ref: 11124] £160.00 (£188.00 incl.VAT)
Funeral of Viscount Palmerston. Admission Ticket for Choir. Westminster Abbey, Friday, October 27th, 1865. The Ceremony commences at One o'Clock precisely. ["South Door" added in ink mss.]
Letterpress on black-bordered card, with wax seal.
Henry John Temple (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal.
Against his wishes he was buried at Westminster Abbey, the third non-royal to be granted a state funeral.
[Ref: 7001] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
Letterpress on black-bordered card, with wax seal.
Henry John Temple (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and concluding it as a Liberal.
Against his wishes he was buried at Westminster Abbey, the third non-royal to be granted a state funeral.
[Ref: 7001] £80.00 (£94.00 incl.VAT)
Admit one Person at the West Door of the Cathedral, on Thursday, the 4th of June 1835, when a Sermon will be preached by The Right Reverend Robert James, Lord Bishop of Worcester.
Wood engraved scrap. Image 105 x 180mm. Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Robert James Carr (1774-1841). Carr was the prelate who attended George IV during his last illness.
[Ref: 7002] £60.00 (£70.50 incl.VAT)
Wood engraved scrap. Image 105 x 180mm. Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Robert James Carr (1774-1841). Carr was the prelate who attended George IV during his last illness.
[Ref: 7002] £60.00 (£70.50 incl.VAT)
These are to Certify that Mr. Francis Cole recv'd as an Hospital Mate in my Department from the 12th Day of December 1812 to the 4th of March 1813.... [words of commendation follow].
Given under my Hand at the Royal Hospital Haslam this 14th Day of March 1813 J Stephenson[?] MD Surgeon.
Diploma, ADS on laid watermarked paper, sheet 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
The Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire, began as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has a long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel in peacetime and in war. In 1902 the hospital became known as the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, and in the 1940s, RNH Haslar set up the country's first 'blood bank' to help treat wounded soldiers from the Second World War. The Royal Hospital Haslar officially closed as the last military hospital in the UK in 2007, and is now used by the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust to treat both military and civilian patients.
[Ref: 7948] £95.00
Given under my Hand at the Royal Hospital Haslam this 14th Day of March 1813 J Stephenson[?] MD Surgeon.
Diploma, ADS on laid watermarked paper, sheet 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
The Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire, began as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has a long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel in peacetime and in war. In 1902 the hospital became known as the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, and in the 1940s, RNH Haslar set up the country's first 'blood bank' to help treat wounded soldiers from the Second World War. The Royal Hospital Haslar officially closed as the last military hospital in the UK in 2007, and is now used by the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust to treat both military and civilian patients.
[Ref: 7948] £95.00
This is to Certify that Mr. Francis Cole has diligently attended two courses of my Lectures upon Pharmaceutic Chemistry -
Westminster Hospital November 1st 1811. John Ayrton Paris. MD. &c
Diploma, ADS on one half of folded sheet with red wax seal, page 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994.
From the hand of and signed by John Ayrton Paris, M.D. (1785 - 1856). He had been elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 30 Sept. 1814, and from 1819 to 1826 lectured there on materia medica. He attained considerable practice as a physician, and was famous for his resource in treatment and skill in prescribing. In making out what was the matter, he trusted much to the patient's general appearance, asked only a few questions, and made no very minute physical examination. His prescriptions were remarkable for their efficiency, and for the minute care with which they were drawn up. His ‘Pharmacologia’ published in 1812, and revised by him up to the ninth edition in 1843, was a general treatise on materia medica and therapeutics. It was long the standard book on its subject, and he made five thousand guineas by its sale. He published in 1823 a book on ‘Medical Jurisprudence,’ which still continues to be the only English work on the subject with any pretensions to literary value. His portrait, by Skottowe, has been engraved by Bellin, and hangs in the dining-room of the College of Physicians of London. His bust, by Jackson, is at Falmouth, in the hall of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.
Paper watermarked 1807.
[Ref: 7949] £140.00
Westminster Hospital November 1st 1811. John Ayrton Paris. MD. &c
Diploma, ADS on one half of folded sheet with red wax seal, page 225 x 185mm. Creases from folds, as normal.
Westminster Hospital was founded in 1719, following a meeting in a coffee house, where four men met to discuss a 'charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy and other distressed persons”. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. Westminster Hospital moved from Marsham Street to become Chelsea and Westminster Hospital at the old St Stephen's Hospital site in 1994.
From the hand of and signed by John Ayrton Paris, M.D. (1785 - 1856). He had been elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 30 Sept. 1814, and from 1819 to 1826 lectured there on materia medica. He attained considerable practice as a physician, and was famous for his resource in treatment and skill in prescribing. In making out what was the matter, he trusted much to the patient's general appearance, asked only a few questions, and made no very minute physical examination. His prescriptions were remarkable for their efficiency, and for the minute care with which they were drawn up. His ‘Pharmacologia’ published in 1812, and revised by him up to the ninth edition in 1843, was a general treatise on materia medica and therapeutics. It was long the standard book on its subject, and he made five thousand guineas by its sale. He published in 1823 a book on ‘Medical Jurisprudence,’ which still continues to be the only English work on the subject with any pretensions to literary value. His portrait, by Skottowe, has been engraved by Bellin, and hangs in the dining-room of the College of Physicians of London. His bust, by Jackson, is at Falmouth, in the hall of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.
Paper watermarked 1807.
[Ref: 7949] £140.00
Albion Sea-Water, Warm Shower, Vapour, and Baths en-douche, on the Terrace, Broadstairs, Established Twenty-Six Years, by Mrs Crampton.
Keble, Printer, Margate. [n.d., c.1860.]
Engraved advert on card. Sheet 115 x 75mm, 4½ x 3". Some spotting.
Thomas Crampton (1816-88) founded both the Broadstairs Gasworks and the Broadstairs Water Company, improving the water supply to the town with the Crampton Water Tower. It seems that his wife Louisa ran this bath house, which benefited from Thomas's improvements.
Charles Dickens, a friend of the Cramptons, wrote to his daughters in 1859 that the sea being too cold he found solace in the warm showers at the Crampton Bath House.
[Ref: 15095] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
Keble, Printer, Margate. [n.d., c.1860.]
Engraved advert on card. Sheet 115 x 75mm, 4½ x 3". Some spotting.
Thomas Crampton (1816-88) founded both the Broadstairs Gasworks and the Broadstairs Water Company, improving the water supply to the town with the Crampton Water Tower. It seems that his wife Louisa ran this bath house, which benefited from Thomas's improvements.
Charles Dickens, a friend of the Cramptons, wrote to his daughters in 1859 that the sea being too cold he found solace in the warm showers at the Crampton Bath House.
[Ref: 15095] £75.00 (£88.13 incl.VAT)
1864. London And Clavering Association, For Promoting and Rewarding Industry and Good Conduct amongst the Labouring Population. The Following Prizes For Stock Will Be Awarded At the Annual Meeting of the above Society, to be held on the 14th October next, at London.
Printed At The Mercury Office, Norwich. [1864.]
Letterpress poster advertisement, broadside, 500 x 325mm. 19¾ x 12¾". Soiled, creased and stained, with several holes; very fragile.
Advertisement for an agricultural show organised by a Victorian benevolent society, listing prize money available for each category of livestock, and for certain vegetables. Also soliciting for subscribers to the prize find.
[Ref: 10756] £160.00
Printed At The Mercury Office, Norwich. [1864.]
Letterpress poster advertisement, broadside, 500 x 325mm. 19¾ x 12¾". Soiled, creased and stained, with several holes; very fragile.
Advertisement for an agricultural show organised by a Victorian benevolent society, listing prize money available for each category of livestock, and for certain vegetables. Also soliciting for subscribers to the prize find.
[Ref: 10756] £160.00
Fac-Simile Of The Alexandrian Manuscript. Proposals For Publishing By Subscription Pentateuchus Graecus E Codice Ms. Alexandrino, Qui Londini In Bibliotheca Musei Britannici Asservatur, Typis Ad Similitudinem Ipsius Codicis Scripturae Fideliter Descriptus Cura Et Labore Henrici Herveii Baber, A.M. Musei Britannici Bibliothecarii. [Details of the publication and how would-be subscribers can obtain copies, as well as price, follow.]
British Museum, October, 1812. Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, London.
Printed letterpress advertisement, broadside, 327 x 202mm. Tatty lower edge.
Subscribers are solicited for Henry Hervey Baber's edition of the Old Testament portion of the Codex Alexandrinus, ‘Vetus Testamentum Græcum e Codice MS. Alexandrino ¼ typis ad similitudinem ipsius codicis Scripturæ fideliter descriptum cura et labore H. H. Baber,’ in 3 vols. It was published eventually in 1816-21. Baber (1775 - 1869), philologist, entered the service of the British Museum in 1807, and in 1812 was promoted to the office of keeper of the printed books, in the general duties of which post, and in work upon the catalogue of books in the collection, he was actively engaged for twenty-five years. Besides his keepership, Baber also held the rectory of Stretham in Cambridgeshire, to which he was appointed in 1827. In the year 1837 he resigned his post at the British Museum, and retired to his rectory. His resignation was partly made in consequence of a recommendation of a parliamentary committee in 1836, that officials of the museum should not hold any other situation conferring emoluments or entailing duties.
Pentateuch ('five rolls or cases') is the Greek name for the Torah, the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible: the name is derived from two Greek words: pente, meaning 'five', and teuxos which roughly means 'case', a reference to the cases containing the five scrolls of the Laws of Moses. In Christianity, these books are found in the Old Testament.
The Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Septuagint and the New Testament. Along with the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It derives its name from Alexandria where it resided for a number of years before given to the British in the 17th century. The manuscript's original provenance is unknown. A 13th or 14th century Arabic note on folio 1 reads: 'Bound to the Patriarchal Cell in the Fortress of Alexandria. Whoever removes it thence shall be excommunicated and cut off. Written by Athanasius the humble.' A 17th century Latin note on a flyleaf (from binding in a royal library) states that the manuscript was given to a patriarchate of Alexandria in 1098, although this may well be 'merely an inaccurate attempt at deciphering the Arabic note by Athanasius.' The codex was brought to Constantinople in 1621 by Cyril Lucar (first a patriarch of Alexandria, then later a patriarch of Constantinople) who then presented it to Charles I of England in 1627, thus becoming part of the Royal Library, British Museum and now the British Library. It was saved from the fire at Ashburnam House (the Cotton library) on 23 October 1731, by the librarian, Dr Bentley.
[Ref: 7618] £230.00
British Museum, October, 1812. Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, London.
Printed letterpress advertisement, broadside, 327 x 202mm. Tatty lower edge.
Subscribers are solicited for Henry Hervey Baber's edition of the Old Testament portion of the Codex Alexandrinus, ‘Vetus Testamentum Græcum e Codice MS. Alexandrino ¼ typis ad similitudinem ipsius codicis Scripturæ fideliter descriptum cura et labore H. H. Baber,’ in 3 vols. It was published eventually in 1816-21. Baber (1775 - 1869), philologist, entered the service of the British Museum in 1807, and in 1812 was promoted to the office of keeper of the printed books, in the general duties of which post, and in work upon the catalogue of books in the collection, he was actively engaged for twenty-five years. Besides his keepership, Baber also held the rectory of Stretham in Cambridgeshire, to which he was appointed in 1827. In the year 1837 he resigned his post at the British Museum, and retired to his rectory. His resignation was partly made in consequence of a recommendation of a parliamentary committee in 1836, that officials of the museum should not hold any other situation conferring emoluments or entailing duties.
Pentateuch ('five rolls or cases') is the Greek name for the Torah, the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible: the name is derived from two Greek words: pente, meaning 'five', and teuxos which roughly means 'case', a reference to the cases containing the five scrolls of the Laws of Moses. In Christianity, these books are found in the Old Testament.
The Codex Alexandrinus is a 5th century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Septuagint and the New Testament. Along with the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. It derives its name from Alexandria where it resided for a number of years before given to the British in the 17th century. The manuscript's original provenance is unknown. A 13th or 14th century Arabic note on folio 1 reads: 'Bound to the Patriarchal Cell in the Fortress of Alexandria. Whoever removes it thence shall be excommunicated and cut off. Written by Athanasius the humble.' A 17th century Latin note on a flyleaf (from binding in a royal library) states that the manuscript was given to a patriarchate of Alexandria in 1098, although this may well be 'merely an inaccurate attempt at deciphering the Arabic note by Athanasius.' The codex was brought to Constantinople in 1621 by Cyril Lucar (first a patriarch of Alexandria, then later a patriarch of Constantinople) who then presented it to Charles I of England in 1627, thus becoming part of the Royal Library, British Museum and now the British Library. It was saved from the fire at Ashburnam House (the Cotton library) on 23 October 1731, by the librarian, Dr Bentley.
[Ref: 7618] £230.00
Almanac 1883.
From T.J. Sawyerr, 162, Rawdon Street, Freetown.
A.J. White, Limited, 21, Farringdon Road, London, E.C.
Printed pamphlet wrapper, chromolithograph, and one disbound sheet. 12vo, 150 x 95mm, 6 x 3¾".
An Almanac printed for the British settlement at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. The printed text within, including verso side of disbound sheet, is overwritten by hand in ink in a non-European script.
The recto of the sheet ( numbered '5') lists significant historical events for the month of February, and is illustrated with a monk looking at his fishy catch to signify Pisces. Below is a recommendation for 'Seigel's Curative Syrup' by one Joseph Woods, Chemist. According to a pencil note offered with this item, the ink manuscript is a local charm, to be recited for the purpose of curing the sick.
A truly unique piece of ephemera.
[Ref: 9319] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
From T.J. Sawyerr, 162, Rawdon Street, Freetown.
A.J. White, Limited, 21, Farringdon Road, London, E.C.
Printed pamphlet wrapper, chromolithograph, and one disbound sheet. 12vo, 150 x 95mm, 6 x 3¾".
An Almanac printed for the British settlement at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. The printed text within, including verso side of disbound sheet, is overwritten by hand in ink in a non-European script.
The recto of the sheet ( numbered '5') lists significant historical events for the month of February, and is illustrated with a monk looking at his fishy catch to signify Pisces. Below is a recommendation for 'Seigel's Curative Syrup' by one Joseph Woods, Chemist. According to a pencil note offered with this item, the ink manuscript is a local charm, to be recited for the purpose of curing the sick.
A truly unique piece of ephemera.
[Ref: 9319] £120.00 (£141.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item