BREWSTER
(Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dr GLADSTONE
(John Hall, 1827-1902, Chemist, President of the Physical Society, collaborator with Brewster) saying that he is "very anxious to have a few minutes conversation with you, on the subject of my ...? affair, at time time it may be convenient for you ...", 1 side 8vo., Athenaeum, 31st May
Item Date:
1862
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39636
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BREWSTER
(Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he has "received your note on my road to England. I enclose 2/6 the only way in which it can be sent. I have not received ... your book, but it is probably at my home ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
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BREWSTER
(Sir David, 1781-1868, Physicist, Inventor of the Kaleidoscope in 1816)
Fine signature,
Melrose
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£35
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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
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14865
£95
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