BREWSTER
(Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816)
Fine signature with the place and date,
on 1 side 8vo., Allerly, 12th January
Item Date:
1863
Stock No:
30677
£50
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BRINDLEY
(Harold Hulme, F.S.A., 1865-1944, Zoologist and Antiquarian)
2 Typed Letters signed, to 'My dear Alan',
commenting that "the Glasgow University Court seems to be able to depart from their Calendar in a fashion not possible to us", they have brought forward their Science and Medicine exams a week, "so I go north to-morrow" but as a result will be back for the 'Old Boys' Feast' at St. John's College, turning to "the miniature of K. Edward ii & Q. Isabel arriving at Dover", according to "Mrs Ashdown's excellent 'British Costume' ... the apparently heart-shaped dress worn by the Queen" might well have been "temp. Hen vi ... as well as temp. Edw. iv ... but then the horned h[ead] d[ress] ... lasted for 40 years after 1420 ... there are so many differently attired people in the ship", he refers to various hats and bonnets, but since "all this is too vague as between 1460 and 1480" he is writing to de la Roncière "to ask the date they ascribe to this MS. at the B[ibliothèque] N[ationale]. I think that all the miniatures to Froissart (1338-1410) were done ... say 50 years, after his day ... here we have people who lived in 1307 dressed for 1470", he spells out the family's plans for the Norfolk Broads, "It is excellent that you are going to Cley ... So of course you must come and sail in TERN" (9 June 1932), "I hope that de la Roncière tells you what you want to know ... the B.N. is the only place where they know about" the date of the M.S., "looking up 'Phylactère' ... I see in this MS. application it is [French] 'a little piece of parchment', 'strip bearing an inscription, found on medieval and Renaissance monuments'. Yes, we will give Norman a chance of handling 'Tern' " (20th June 1932), together 4 sides 4to., 25 Madingley Road, Cambridge, 9th-20th June
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
14865
£95
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BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, F.L.S., Editor of the Journal of Botany for almost 45 Years)
Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Morton MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S.,
(1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), saying that he sees "that Murray in the big dictionary says that brazell was Caesalpinia Sappan (E. Indies) originally ... He quotes the Ascham passage, and an earlier one from Prompt[uarium] Parv[ulorum] (1440)", together with a printed notice of the 'Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists', 1893, in all 2 sides 8vo., British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S.W., 3rd December
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
13905
£40
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BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, F.L.S., Editor of the Journal of Botany for almost 45 Years)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sir', ( Robert Morton MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S.,
1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), writing "in haste - not only to thank you for the pretty little Astragalus, which arrived in first-rate condition ... I much want Gymnadenia albida, Listera cordata, Corallorrhiza, Goodyera, &c - Any rare Scotch plants will be very acceptable. Did I tell you that a tin box can be forwarded pr sample post for two or three stamps? ... it is a fresh specimen of each Orchid that I require ... I enclose you Radiola, a favourite little plant of mine", 2 sides 8vo., High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, 5th July
Item Date:
1869
Stock No:
13902
£75
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BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, F.L.S., Editor of the Journal of Botany for almost 45 Years)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir', ( Robert Morton MIDDLETON , jr., F.L.S., F.Z.S.,
1846-1909, English shipbroker and botanist), telling him that "Our Museum cabinets are of mahogany, and cost about £7 each ... 'made to order' ... I should doubt the efficacy of camphor ... and yet [insects] certainly have existed here, and do not now, and we use nothing but camphor! Many thanks for the names, some of which were quite new to me, and all very acceptable ...", 2 facing sides 8vo., British Museum, 22nd September
Item Date:
1875
Stock No:
13903
£45
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