A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Royal Agricultural Society's Show Yard, at Bristol. July 14th 1842.
[c.1842.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, crease reinforced. Damaged bottom left, but very rare.
Gentlemen farmers in the yard, with horses and sheep, before a cast-iron building.
[Ref: 62278] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
[c.1842.]
Lithograph. Sheet 265 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image on three sides, crease reinforced. Damaged bottom left, but very rare.
Gentlemen farmers in the yard, with horses and sheep, before a cast-iron building.
[Ref: 62278] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Electric Telegraph.
J.B. Roberts 18th Feburary 1849. [signed in ink]
Watercolour and ink mss. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). on Whatman paper dated 1846. Top corners snipped, some staining.
An illustration of the Electric Telegraph Company's 'double-needle' Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, designed for use in Devon, with a guide to the reading of the messages. The Cooke and Wheatstone system had been installed on the Great Western Railway in 1838, but the Electric Telegraph Company was the world's first public telegraph company, founded 1846.
See: Ref: 2844
[Ref: 62451] £480.00
J.B. Roberts 18th Feburary 1849. [signed in ink]
Watercolour and ink mss. Sheet 260 x 200mm (10¼ x 8"). on Whatman paper dated 1846. Top corners snipped, some staining.
An illustration of the Electric Telegraph Company's 'double-needle' Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, designed for use in Devon, with a guide to the reading of the messages. The Cooke and Wheatstone system had been installed on the Great Western Railway in 1838, but the Electric Telegraph Company was the world's first public telegraph company, founded 1846.
See: Ref: 2844
[Ref: 62451] £480.00
![[Phenology] Lord Suffield's Remarks on Mr. Marsham's Indications of Spring.](jpegs/62567.jpg)
[Phenology] Lord Suffield's Remarks on Mr. Marsham's Indications of Spring.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress with wood-engraved border. Top right signature of ... Martineau ink mss. ownership inscription dated 1804.; Sheet 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Splits in folds taped, some spotting.
A phenological table giving the earliest and latest recorded dates of the first appearences each spring of 27 species over a period of up to 60 years. Robert Marsham F.R.S. (1707-97) of Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, first published his Indications of Spring in 1789 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 62567] £360.00
[n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress with wood-engraved border. Top right signature of ... Martineau ink mss. ownership inscription dated 1804.; Sheet 350 x 475mm (13¾ x 18¾"). Splits in folds taped, some spotting.
A phenological table giving the earliest and latest recorded dates of the first appearences each spring of 27 species over a period of up to 60 years. Robert Marsham F.R.S. (1707-97) of Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, first published his Indications of Spring in 1789 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
[Ref: 62567] £360.00