Sir john fleet (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. 1st Edition. f/piece (photo of attrition testing machine)+ v+84+5 plates (photomicrographs) and descriptions+reports list paginated to vii, corners rounded. Internally very good - clean, tight, unmarked & tissue guards on plates; Yellow cloth on boards covers somewhat worn and grubby, esp.bottom sp.& fr., with a square dust-shadow on back. Issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Geological Survey of Great Britain as a 'Memoir of the Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology'. If you want to know whether to lay Enderby porphyry or Sligo gneiss on your drive, this is the book for you (the porphyry looks the better bet to me).…

LXIII/556 pp., binding slightly rubbed, else very good and clean, text in English, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 original hardcover (no dust jacket).

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged. Handwriting practice in a nineteenth-century hand on the blank reverse of the second leaf. He 'must beg to correct' Nichols's 'intended Paragraph' (in the Gentleman's Magazine obituary of Sir Richard Colt Hoare) on the question of 'my Father's Christian names'. He has written 'Hugh Henry', 'which must be reversed to Henry Hugh'. He proceeds to give a transcription of how 'the paragraph will run': 'The Baronetcy devolves on his eldest Half-Brother Henry Hugh Hoare Esqr. the head of the eminent banking house in Fleet St. and the whole of the landed as well as personal property is strictly entailed on the Mae Descendants of the Family'. The text featured as a correction in the 'Minor Correspondence' section of the Gentleman's Magazine, October 1838.…

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Brooks may make whatever use he wishes of Templewood's speech. He agrees generally with 'Selby as to F[oreign]. O[ffice]. reorganisation', but is at present 'conentrating my attention to the points I raised in my speech. Whether we like it or not, we must now assume that public opinion will control our foreign policy. This being so, public opinion must be better instructed than it is at present.'.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with a few light stains from mount. Folded once. Having seen the Times announcement of the birth of Cecil's son the previous Saturday, Jellicoe sends his 'Most hearty congratulations' on the birth of Cecil's son, and is 'so delighted that all is going so satisfactorily & that you can come to see us on the 14th. [.] My wife will be filled with jealousy, I feel sure.' He will send him 'further details as to joining' as soon as he can 'ascertain from the C in C [Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe (1850-1911), to whom Jellicoe had been appointed second-in-command the previous August] his proposed time of arrival at Weymouth. He is at present attending a conference in London [?]'. He ends his 'best wishes for a very speedy recovery for Lady Adelaide', i.e. Colville's wife, born Lady Adelaide Jane Meade. In a postscript he reports: 'I hear rumours of a command for you. If they are correct please accept my very heartiest congratulations'. The child was Colville's second son, the future Commander Sir Richard Colville (1907-1975).…

The four letters are in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Each 1p., 12mo. The first three letters are written to Brooks, as editor of 'Truth'; the fourth is a letter of condolence to Brooks's wife. In the first letter (14 April 1945) he apologises for the delay in sending in a review: 'I have been two months out of the country and nothing could be forwarded.' He adds: 'I wish I saw more of Charles Webster. He is one of my very few surviving friends of Cambridge days.' The second letter (5 July 1945) begins: 'News has been so earthy of the earth lately that I think a good ghost story would thrill your readers'. He is enclosing 'a few lines of Introduction', and suggests that Brooks edits the story down. Postscript: 'Put his signature by all means.' The third letter (6 March 1948) congratulates Brooks on his book, and thanks him 'for Stefan Zweig which I will read & review next week'. The last (7 April 1959) is a letter of condolence to Brooks's wife. 'It recalls to me many visits to the offices of Turth. It was always a pride and a please to contribute to columns edited by Collin Brooks. Quid est veritas? will be his epitaph'. Accompanying the four letters is a Typed Letter Signed from Brooks to Leslie, 14 February 1945, on letterhead of "Truth" Buildings, Carteret Street, Quyeen Anne's Gate, London. (There is nothing to indicate that the letter is a copy.) He apologises for 'a breach of etiquette', sends a book to review ('To "Make the page" in any given week, reviews must reach me not later than the Monday this because we have now to print in the country.') He concludes with an enquiry after 'our common friend, C. K. Webster'.…