COOK
(Frank Henry, b. 1862, C.I.E., of Thos. Cook and Sons, Travel Agents)
Typed Letter Signed to his firm's representatives,
introducing "Mr William Baker, who has succeeded the late Dr Barnardo in ... the great charitable institution ... Mr Baker is visiting the centres of similar work on the Continent, and I should be glad if you would ... do anything you can to assist him", 2 sides 8vo., Ludgate Circus, London, E.C., 30th July
Item Date:
1906
Stock No:
19623
£25
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CRIPPEN
(Robert L., b. 1937, American Astronaut who served as pilot on the first U.S. space shuttle orbital flight)
Fine coloured NASA photo, signed & inscribed
"To Trevor Dell, Best wishes", showing him three quarters length in his space suit, 10" x 8", no place, no date, the photo printed
Item Date:
1980
Stock No:
41459
£175
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CUNNINGHAM
(John, b. 1917, RAF Group Captain, Test Pilot and Executive Director of British Aerospace)
Fine signature with newspaper cutting, 11th November
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
7228
£20
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CURWEN
(Eliot Cecil, Sussex Archaeologist)
Receipt for £80 from Mr. E.A. Broadbent
"in respect of Morris Car no. CG 2456", with a note in another hand on verso "£75. Austin 7. 1933. Overhauled. New tyres & petrol pump. Re-plated battery. Reliable", the receipt 1 St. Aubyns, Hove, 13th September
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
14639
£25
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DOLLFUS
(Charles, 1893-1981, Balloonist, the first Frenchman to cross the Atlantic both ways)
Autograph Letter Signed, 'Charles Dollfus aéronaute', in French with translation,
to 'My dear friend', thanking him for "your books", the first confirms that "Charles Dollfus was on friendly terms with George Sand. He was actually my great-uncle ... and a close friend of Renan. I have not had this work of his and will derive all the more pleasure from it", he has not come across "the other little volume - with the balloon ... It is a curious document on the state of ultra-patriotic fervour at the time of Boulangism, and the author, to read him, was not easy to get on with, unless he was simply a placid bourgeois in a state of mental excitement", he was just telephoning Gallimard's "to reserve the Restif for you, when they told me you were in the building", saying that when he gets back he will "be delighted to see your collection" and to show him "some boxes and shelves of books at my place", and asking if he knows "this splendid writing paper", fine large pictorial heading of a 19th c. balloon with the balloonist and five passengers, one holding the French flag, 2 sides folio, Paris 16e., 30th March
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
52781
£375
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