DOVE
(Heinrich Wilhelm, 1803-1879, Pioneer Meteorologist and Climatologist, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Berlin)
Autograph Letter Signed in English and French to Dr George Phillips, 1804-1892,
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, saying that the proposed "honorary Degree ... at the approaching Installation of the new Chancellor the Duke of Cambridge [really Devonshire] is the greatest honor", recalling his "former visits to Cambridge 17 years ago ... I could not believe, that a new [kindness] could be given to me", he continues in French, explaining that, as Dean of the Faculty, "it was only after overcoming a great many difficulties that I was able to come here for four or five weeks", his son Richard, is Professor at Tübingen, and must return there the day after "his marriage to the daughter of one of my Friends at Berlin on the 11th June ... it is with the greatest regret that the duties of the father of a family deprive me thus of an honour, which would all my life be the finest recompense for what I have tried to do in the field of science", 3 sides 8vo., 14 Brompton Crescent, London, 27th May
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
50061
£275
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DYER
(Thomas Henry, 1804-1888, Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
accepting an invitation to dine and asking him to visit when he has Mr Long staying, " a scholar of the old stamp and very unpretending. I shall be happy to meet Mr Harvey. His question about the catacombs might puzzle a good many, for I don't think that their origin has ever been very satisfactorily ascertained ...", and then he gives his opinion, 2 sides 8vo, 18 Buckingham Road, 14th August
Item Date:
1874
Stock No:
6109
£12
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[EDISON
(Thomas Alva, 1847-1931, American Inventor of the Phonograph), Alexander Graham BELL (1847-1922, Scots-born American Inventor of the Telephone) & Sir Joseph Wilson SWAN (1828-1914, English Physicist, invented an electric lamp which anticipated Edison's and later produced the incandescent lamp)
Excellent vintage unsigned group photo
showing the three scientists in a group standing and seated at a table with a telephone (?) on it, annotated on the verso with the names and place, 6½" x 5" in mount 10" x 8", Mento Laboraties, no date, c.
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
29971
£500
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EDISON
(Thomas Alva, 1847-1931, American Inventor of the Phonograph)
Fine typed letter signed to Mr Casson
(Herbert Newton, 1869-1951, Canadian journalist and author who wrote primarily about technology and business)thanking him for his letter and saying that it "gives me great pleasure after 50 years of labor to know that my Ediphone has made more effective the effors of so useful a man as yourself ..." and hoping that when he is next in "this Country you will come out and see me ...", 1 side A4, headed "From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Orange, NJ", 29th June
Item Date:
1927
Stock No:
38056
£2250
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EIFFEL
(Gustaf, 1832-1923, engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower)
Fine woodburytype photo by Walery,
showing him, three quarter length, sitting crossed legged in a chair, with facsimile signature, accompanied by a printed biography, 16½" x 12", no place, no date,
library stamp in top left hand corner
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
25688
£375
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