AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING
ORMEROD
(George Wareing, 1810-1891, Geologist)
Amusing Autograph Letter Signed to the 'Revd. Treasurer Hawker',
saying that "two classes of people want my Autograph, my Creditors to the foot of a Cheque, & my Debtors to a Receipt, the first do not value it so greatly as to retain it, & I get the document back at the end of the year", the latter "frequently ask to have it by return of post", he sends a returned cheque commenting on the confidence of the payees in not presenting it for a fortnight, "I never keep Cheques so long", 2 sides black-edged, Brookbank, Teignmouth, 9th August
Item Date:
1873
Stock No:
18657
£35
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OWEN
(Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and inventor of the name ‘Dinosaur’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Owen,
saying that “if the bearer, Mr R. Ruthven, a Designer of Patterns &c by profession should wish for any special facility for inspecting parts of your museum I should be glad if you could kindly afford him the favor. He is a son of a worthy collector of fossils at Kendal, much esteemed by Prof. Sedgwick and myself...”, 2 sides 8vo., British Museum, 31st May
Item Date:
1861
Stock No:
42832
£175
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OWEN
(Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and inventor of the name ‘Dinosaur’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he “does not know this species of Indian Bat (they are extremely numerous)... Dr Carpenter states that the hair came, which he figues on the book you mention. The subject you have taken up, if given with good figures & well ascertained species, will be extremely acceptable...”, 1 side 8vo., British Museum, 4th November
Item Date:
1867
Stock No:
41914
£275
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OWEN
(Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and inventor of the name 'Dinosaur')
Long Scientific Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
telling him that he has "had the good fortune to find here, collected in one house - filling more than one room, the choicest prints of the research during many years for fossils from the Pill and Gravel beds of this part of Essex and the neighbouring coast. Among the Rhinoceros remains, a beautiful calvarium with part of the bony wall of the nose giving the character of Tichorrhine, Hippopotamus, Irish Elk so called, two good species of Bas, the small short-horned, also occurring in under-bog gravel in Ireland, and the gigantic Urus, one core is 20 inches circumference at the base: Goat, but , most abundantly the Mammoth. Teeth of all ages, some of them very singularly exemplifying the power of the crushing forces to which the Pill has been subject. One great strong molar ... split vertically, another is crushed and squeezed, so that all the plates are pounded together in a conglomerate with the bits of cracked enamel sticking out just like the glass fragments from the plaster on the top of a garden wall, so defended. Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus with Gryphaea incurva & other ... fossils have also been gathered from the Pill at Walton, washed, somehow, out of ... neighbouring ... I suspect that some Rhinoceros-like teeth are of Acerotherium, but a comparison with Dr Kamp's figures when get home will determine this. The whole presents a strange picture of the Mammalian population of the antiglacial period. The singularly fractured state of both bones & teeth, without any water-wearing, clearly indicates the operation of solids in producing this effect ..." with a postscript that "A few marine shells are mixed with the fresh-water shells of the Pill ...", 4 sides 8vo., near Colchester, 14th October
Item Date:
1842
Stock No:
39777
£975
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OWEN
(Sir Richard, 1804-1892, anatomist and zoologist, creator of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington and inventor of the name 'Dinosaur')
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Mr Blunt"
saying that he is "very glad to find that my engagement to Fowler will not preclude, as my wife thought, my availing myself of your very kind one for the 19th so please to expect ...", 1 side 8vo., Sheen Lodge headed paper, Richmond Park, Saturday night, no date, circa
bottom left hand corner unevenly torn without loss
Item Date:
1860
Stock No:
41091
£275
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