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ref. A9781912971138Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. 1333602340.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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ref. 78471860 Truro: Printed by James R. Netherton 7 Lemon Street. 'Third Edition. - Price Sixpence.'. 12mo: 26 pp paginated 101-126. Stitched. In original worn creased and grubby green printed wraps. Internally clean except for the first two leaves both of which are grubby with loss to the first leaf affecting two lines of text. 'Farmer Brown's Blunders' is a dialect poem with explanatory footnotes; the other item is a spoof letter by 'Hannibal Hollow'. There are no records of first or second editions of this item or of any other edition in which the two pieces are printed together. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC dated to 1860 at the British Library. [1860] Truro: Printed by James R. Netherton, 7, Lemon Street. ['Third Edition. - Price Sixpence.'] paperback
1978ref. mon0002919116Generic 1978-01-01. Paperback. Good. . Generic paperback
1857ref. 284596United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall 1857. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback octavo red cloth lettered and blocked with a design in gilt all edges gilt. Rubbed at the head and foot of the spine the binding remains tight the text unmarked but with some sporadic foxing Engraving by the Brothers Dalziel xii 403pp. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
ref. 0882703048.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 228527 June-1 Nov. 1894. Painter. 4 ALSs 2-3pp. 8vo good. He asks for payment for a picture so that he can pay rent arrears reports of his progress with his pictures “the two Dartmoor streams”. He later talks of other pictures in which Roberts has an interest “Mermaid” “Kennack Bay” “Cadgwith Cove” and others and his constant need for money. 4 items 27 June-1 Nov. 1894. unknown
1844ref. 31953London: Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co. Paternaster Row 1844. Very Good. London: Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co. Paternaster Row 1844. Early edition with the Meadows illustrations. Three quarto volumes. Full engraved plates throughout with numerous in-text illustrations. Bound in full contemporary brown morocco; five raised bands; gilt decoration to front rear and spine; all edges gilt; maroon endpapers. Light wear and minor scuffing to boards; corners bumped. Bindings sound. Contemporary gift inscription to an Isabella Downer dated 1847 to volume I preliminaries; "Western Supply Co." stamps to preliminaries of each volume; light spotting and smudging; interiors else unmarked. A Very Good and attractive set notable for the appearance Kenny Meadows' illustrations. Though his Shakespeare work received mixed reviews in England it was much lauded in Germany in particular his depiction of Falstaff. Everitt Graham. "English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century." pp. 356-361. Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co., Paternaster Row unknown
ref. 25473No date or place. An interesting letter dealings with the practicalities of the artist’s profession in late Victorian/Edwardian England. Hemy was regarded as the leading English marine artist of his generation with his paintings often selling for in excess of a thousand pounds. With the proceeds he built a grand house which he named Churchfield in Falmouth. 2pp 16mo. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. The recipient - presumably his agent - is not named and there is no salutation. Signed ‘C. Napier Hemy.’ Begins: ‘Thanks for cheque enclosed. for which I send over page formal receipt. not present I am sorry that you did not sell the misty weather. I thought one or other of the men who wanted it would have bought it. The first man spent £106 . 15 . 0 at Bartons I think he would have done better out of the gallery.’ He asks for the pictures to be ‘sent up all right to the house’ and offers the services of his ‘man Gillet’. Postscript: ‘I have been very ill for 3 weeks & unable to work but hope to get better & be back in a fortnight. Mrs Hemy is with me tell Mr Ingram.’ No date or place. unknown
ref. 2565317 September 1937. On embossed letterhead of Higher Faugan Newlyn Cornwall. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged and folded once for postage. The male recipient is not named and the letter is signed ‘Stanhope A. Forbes’ with slight smudging to the ‘o’ of ‘Forbes’. As he is obliged to him for his letter ‘& the kind things you are good enough to say about my work’ he is happy ‘to accede to your request to append my signature’. 17 September 1937. On embossed letterhead of Higher Faugan, Newlyn, Cornwall. unknown
2010ref. 15107Ashgate 2010. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ashgate 2010. 1st Edition . Near Fine/Near Fine. Book in NF condition in a NF jacket now in a removable protective sleeve. Internally clean. 254pp. Ashgate hardcover
2003ref. 80240McLean VA: JASON The MITRE Corporation 2003. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 116 pages per the Report Documentation Page. Tables. Figures some color. Acronyms. References. When originally issued this report was limited to the U.S. Government and their authorized contractors. Given the passage of time advances in technology and dissemination of related information into the public domain. Among the contributors are: Paul Dimotakis Sidney Drell and Freeman Dyson. John Michael Cornwall born 19 August 1934 is an American theoretical physicist who is known for the Pinch Technique. Cornwall invented the Pinch Technique for calculating gauge-invariant off-shell Green's functions for QCD and other Yang-Mills theories showing how a dynamical gauge-invariant mass arises for QCD gluons and how such gluons lead to confinement and other non-perturbative phenomena. He has also written some 40 papers on space plasmas such as the magnetospheric ring current leading among other things to a detailed understanding of the dynamical role of electromagnetic cyclotron instabilities in the magnetosphere. Cornwall published with Richard E. Norton in 1973 one of the earliest papers on dynamic symmetry breaking in Yang-Mills theories. He was an advisor to the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria as well as to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. He was a member of the Defense Science Board. He is a long-term member of the JASON Advisory Group. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society 2005 the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The JASON study was informed by 'The Lincoln Labs" study which also posed challenges due to limitation on its use. Missile defense systems are a type of missile defense intended to shield a country against incoming missiles such as intercontinental ballistic missile ICBMs or other ballistic missiles. The United States Russia Taiwan India France Israel Italy United Kingdom and China have all developed missile defense systems. The term "Missile defense system" broadly means a system that provides any defense against any missile type conventional or nuclear by any country. Any mechanism which can detect and then destroy a missile before it can cause any harm is called a missile defense system MDS. The role of defense against nuclear missiles has been a heated military and political topic for several decades. However missile defense is no longer limited to interception of strategic nuclear weapons. The gradual development and proliferation of missile technology has blurred the line between the technologies for the interception of tactical missiles usually short to intermediate range with non-nuclear payloads and the interception of strategic missiles usually long ranged with nuclear payloads. High-performance tactical ballistic missiles carrying non-nuclear payloads now have the ability to affect strategic balance in conflict zones. Likewise high-performance tactical missile defense systems can now influence force deployment strategies. Defending against an attack by a cruise missile is similar to tackling low-flying manned aircraft and hence most methods of aircraft defence can be used for a cruise missile defense system. JASON, The MITRE Corporation paperback
ref. 045160668X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1870ref. 1757London: Bell & Daldy 1870. Second edition. Leather Bound. Very Good/near fine. xl and 284 pages. Original red leather with four bands - school presentation binding with prize inscription of London School Schola Civitatis Londinensis` School of the City of London crest in gilt to front leather board ruled in gilt at edges. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Pen inscription "Midsummer 1876 Beanfay Medal and book awarded to L Jacob from Cuthbertson LLD. late fellow 0f Corps. chi coll fam Head Mathematical Master CLS and owner name in blue pencil Celia S morytho dated 1870 "Preface to the present edition - 1856 preface to the first ed. 1832" the first edition was titled English Songs and Other small Poems by Barry Cornwall reads : " A new impression of these poems having been required I have thought it well to add a few pieces of verse; some of which have alredy appeared in print. The additions thus made constitute ' Part the First ' of the present Edition ." Bell & Daldy hardcover
2016ref. Manohar-9781783607655Zed Books 2016. Paperback. New. Zed Books paperback
2016ref. Manohar-9781783607655Zed Books 2016. Paperback. New. Zed Books paperback
2011ref. 004030Salt Spring Island BC Canada: Mother Tongue Publishing 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean tight unmarked; absolute minimal wear; Curt Lang was Vancouver's Renaissance man of the 1970s oozing creativity and energy in all the myriad things he elected to do. His photographs are a testament to his eye to Vancouver and to the magic of photography. Lang was a pivotal member of Vancouver's beat generation the hipsters writers and artists who set themselves against the comfortable pieties of post-war consumer society. Mother Tongue Publishing paperback
ref. 13522Without place or date. Little Petherick Cornwall; 1830s. 2pp. 4to. 50 lines of text. On a single leaf of wove paper. Good: lightly worn on aged paper with slight damage to two words. A delightful exchange with May's reply to the offer of a glass of rum beginning: 'Thanky Maister tis a nice dram. Ive agot the rousy cum stoundrums in my ears with the could. I pute a man to smoke perbacky in mun and I rousted a Tryan and squeery cum squaten in till I sweat again with the hett and pain'. To the question 'How old are you' May replies: 'Sixty I bleve if they tell true in the recumgister: when I was twelve years ould I weighed feefty pounds zactly and Faither said I was too little for a man and too big for a monkey there was his galloping 'xpression'. And to the question 'Do you ever cut your hair': 'No I do pute the Maidens to singe ut off wi the gandle and I ne'r got any trouble for the be very willing to do't. I must hett my hat and wheel trucky away but I must count ten first to be lucky and when I be driving my Negers the wiffery cum jiffles do come in my head and I do bust out a laughing and nowbudy wi muh.' The account does not appear to have been published. Without place or date. [Little Petherick, Cornwall; 1830s?] unknown
ref. 2671713 Upper Harley Street 31 August 1852. Two pages 16mo bifolium 2nd leaf blank apart from address as above good condition. "Mr. Proctor will be obliged by knowing from Mr Hogarth whether he has received back the print of Mr Macready William Macready actor as Werner after a picture of Mr. Maclise. As Mr Proctor never underlined ordered this this sic - as he had told Mr. Hogarth so personally - & as he subsequently a fortnight ago phrase interpolated later sent back this print which Mr. Hogarth failed to send for according to his promise Mr. Proctor has been exceedingly surprized at receiving a bill underlined for this print containing a charge of £5.5 wihtin these 2 days. Mr. Proctor will be glad to receive a note from Mr Hogarth by the bearer phrase underlined." Note: "Joseph Hogarth 1801-18 was a British fine art print publisher print seller frame maker and art restorer" Wikipedia 13 Upper Harley Street, 31 August 1852. unknown
ref. 9978Downing Street 4 May 1855. Four pages 12mo bifolium small closed tear on fold mainly good condition. "It has been represented to me that the Bill of which you have given notice for Tuesday the 8th is of a nature to affect the rights of the Crown in connexion with the Duchy of Lancaster. I have consulted the speaker on the subject & he thinks that from the title it appears to be a private bill which must by introduced and not upon motion - Will you have the kindness to give me some information on the object of it." Note: although Ricardo took an active interest in the railways and telegraph this probably refers to his initiatives for Free Trade judging by other letters which came up in the same auctiion lot. Downing Street, 4 May 1855. unknown
ref. 766821 January 1884; Penzance. 12mo leaf dimensions 18 x 11 cm: 2 pp. Twenty-one lines of text complete and legible. On aged paper with some wear at head. Casting interesting light on the workings of the provincial Victorian booktrade. Kinsman states: 'I will have much pleasure in helping you all that I can in the Bibliography of your County: and as a start to begin with I send you 2 dozen of my Catalogues in which there must be many Staffordshire natives as Authors.' He offers to collate books for Simms or to 'send the Books themselves for your inspection or purchase that is such as may be still on hand you returning them at once when collated.' He asks for the catalogues to be returned once finished with as 'Of some of my Catalogues not sent I have not a single copy left and of some sent I have only these copies.' Simms lost both hands in childhood and learnt to write with a contraption attached to one of the stumps. His 'Bibliotheca Staffordiensis' was published in a limited edition in 1894. 21 January 1884; Penzance. unknown
ref. 8144Date and place not stated London; circa 1820. On upper half of a piece of quarto paper unevenly torn to make a piece roughly 11 x 18.5 cm. Fair: on aged paper. Part of address from previous letter to 'W. Jerdan <.> 267 Strand <.>' on reverse which is docketed 'Procter Miss Proby Cornwalls poems'. Reads 'I inclose you a note left here for you George says he will review the book for you next week - in the meantime give a flourish in your notice - 'The time does not admit of doing just to the vol. &c &c We are all a Party in this success -'. Jerdan acquired the premises at 267 Strand with his purchase of 'The Satirist' from George Manners and retained them during the early days of his editorship of the 'Literary Gazette' beginning circa 1819. Date and place not stated [London; circa 1820?]. unknown
