HUSKISSON
(William, 1770-1830, Pioneer of Free Trade, Killed by Locomotive at opening of L. & M. Railway)
Signature on part of a free front addressed to Edward Lucas at the Board of Trade in London,
with a stamp "To Pay 1d only", 4½" x 3", Kendal, 6th September
Item Date:
1829
Stock No:
41081
£25
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APOLLO 15 MOONWALKER
IRWIN
(James 'Jim', 1930-1991, American Astronaut, 8th Man to walk on the Moon, Apollo 15)
Official NASA photo signed and inscribed
"Hi, Love from the Moon", showing him full length in his space suit, on the surface of the moon saluting the United States flag at the Hadley-Apennine Landing site, 10" x 8", no place, no date,
former damp staining on the verso
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41478
£325
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JAMAICA -
1703
Extract from an Act for ascertaining Her Majesty's Quit Rents,
passed in Jamaica in 1703, due to the "uncertainties and disputes in the Payment ... by reason of the words Manured and Planted ... Her Majesty hath been and now is graciously pleased, that whatsoever shall arise from the Quit Rents shall be applied towards the Support of the Government and defraying the contingent charges of this Island ..." giving the rates per acre to be paid, 2 sides folio, Jamaica c.
Item Date:
1703
Stock No:
1412
£45
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JAMAICA -
1804
Two receipts signed by H. Lyle Carmichael,
the first for £136.10s sterling for his "pay as Brigadier Genl upon the staff of this Island ..." and the other for £50 sterling for his "Lodging Money as Brigadier General upon the staff of this Island ..." 1 side oblong sm. 4to each with contemporary annotations on the verso, Jamaica, 30th June and 31st March
Item Date:
1804
Stock No:
1413
£50
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KINGSLEY
(Mary Henrietta, 1860-1901, Traveller, Ethnologist and Author)
Splendid collection of 27 Autograph Letters Signed
(5 of them lacking a side or two at the beginning or end), written on her return from her second West African journey till shortly before she went out as a nurse to South Africa, the greater number to George William NEVILLE in Putney, (d. 1929, formerly with Elder Dempster, and the first Lagos manager of the Bank of British West Africa), and Mrs Neville, those to Mr Neville include an important discussion about 'Nana' (Nanna OLOMU, deposed as 'indirect rule' governor of what is now most of the Delta State of Nigeria), in social and economic terms, suggesting Nanna might be amenable to building a new town for himself and his people and provide labour for Mr Swanzy's mines, she bares her heart over the alcohol question, missionaries, amateur officials, her feelings about native Africans, always with deep knowledge and her unconventional brand of common sense, other letters deal with interviews, lectures and articles, on one of which her uncle William Bailey suggests she "emigrate not later than the 25th", others again with the calls on her energy by relations, all written in Mary's inimitable humorous style even under the most trying conditions, and with her remarkable ability to 'network', with a press cutting of the memorial, 1901, to her at Eversley, and a letter identifying the recipient of two of the letters as Grant Reid, editor of the Aberdeen 'Northern Figaro', Mary's letters 54 sides 8vo., 100 Addison Road and 32 St. Mary Abbots Terrace, Kensington, 11th October 1895 - 20th September
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
51955
£5750
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