MORE
(Hannah, 1745-1833, Evangelical Writer)
Copy of "Percy, A Tragedy" signed on the front by the author
"by Miss Hannah More", a Tragedy in five acts, "as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden", 87 pages 8vo., London, printed by T. Cadell in the Strand,
disbound
Item Date:
1778
Stock No:
39780
£225
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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 G. T. DOO
(George Thomas, 1800-1886, Engraver) telling him that the "proof of your excellent engraving of Pickersgill's Cuvier reached me in safety and I have just received it from the frame-maker. Having been acquainted with Cuvier about the period when the likeness which you have perpetuated and diffused was taken I contemplate it with peculiar satisfaction. I am sure that the President & Council would consider your proposed donation a valuable accession to the series of prints of eminent anatomists & medical men already in the Institution. Will you inform me how I may remit you that which I am indebted to you for my impression ...", 2 sides 8vo., 6 Park Cottages, Village East, Regents Park, 11th March
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
39778
£375
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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 William
telling him that "on the other leaf is an extract of a letter, date May 9th/57, from George Bennett, Esq N.L.S of Sydney, N.S.W. The specimens referred to have safely reached me and will be delivered to any messenger you may, at your convenience, send here for them, They are packed in a basket, handy for carriage ...", 1 side 8vo., British Museum, 15th October
Item Date:
1857
Stock No:
39779
£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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PENGELLY
(William, 1812-1894, Geologist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Slade,
saying that his "order and cheque are duly to hand, and I havehis moment sent the necessary instructions to the ... Printers. You will, no doubt, receive the publications in a day or two ...", Torquay, 21st November
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
39762
£75
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