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NORTHNAGEL

1914

Manuscript translation of the diary of German Lieutenant Northnagel serving at Duala, Togoland, Africa (Jul-Sep 1914); German maps of Togoland (1902) and German East Africa (1903).

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MACMURRAY, J

1919

1 sheet of 9th Trench Mortar Brigade unit diary (Jan 1919); Map of Stadt Ohligs (nd); Map of Cologne (nd); Map of Bonn (nd); Map of Europe (1919); Panoramic illustration of the Rhine published by the ...

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WILLETT, JAMES CECIL HUBERT

1919

German banknotes (nd); 2 photographs (1919, nd); Typed transcript of the trial of 8 Germans accused of a conspiracy to cause mutiny and sedition among the Allied Forces in occupied Germany, 12 June 19...

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MAPS

1899-1918

Item 1. Map of Clermont-Ferrand (donor BL Mills). Item 2. French map of the Western Front including Ste Menehould region, with letter (donor Robin Greaves). Item 3. 2 French postcards (1918). It...

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CARNEY, J

1914-1918

Manuscript fragment 'Lord Roberts' Message to the Troops' (25 Aug 1914); Poster 'The Great Anti-Northcliffe Mail' (1917); German leaflet 'A Parting Word', in English [1918]; Manuscript map (nd); Photo...

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CUMMINGS, RANDOLPH

1915-1923

2 letters from Hindhaughs relating to cigarettes and demobilization (May 1918, Dec 1918); 'Friesenpalast' winelist (nd); Typescript humerous essays 'Skit', 'The Lost Cord' and 'Hints for Young Housewi...

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MAPS

1911-1921

28 maps of the Egypt/Palestine region, including Little Bitter Lake, Ismalia, Tripoli, Wadi En-Natrun, Beirut, Haifa, Tiberias, Beersheba, Cairo, Faiyûm, Homs, Jerusalem, Ashmun, Alexandretta, Ladiki...

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CHAPMAN, E F G

1914-1920

Photograph album, mainly of Pforzheim (1918); Manuscript notebook 'Pforzheim Bulletin', with transcripts of official German news (16 July-30 Aug 1918); 2 press cuttings (nd); Field survey map (9 Jan ...

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MAPS

1915-1918

Item 1. Trench map No 503, Arras-Lens area, Jan 1917; General Army Staff Map of Arras-Cambrai & St Quentin areas, 1916; Map of French-Belgian border showing Armentieres-Ypres line, 7 July 1918; Trench...

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Catalogue of valuable printed books : comprising a selected portion of the library at Powderham Castle, Devonshire; early English books and early science... many with the Courtenay arms, the property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Devon, The historie of the damnable life and deserved death of Doctor John Faustus, 1622, the only copy known of this edition: not in STC, the property of Douglas Davidson, Esq.; the first (suppressed) edition of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865; a group of Norman Douglas first editions with inscriptions by the author; early atlases and maps ... sporting and botanical books with coloured plates and a series of water-colour drawings of birds, a Baskerville Prayer book bound by Edward[s] of Halifax and a fine German Renaissance gilt binding for Johann Fugger, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Cotteloe ... the Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Loraine ... R.O. Whalley ... Brigadier J.E. Stirling ... early Italian literature and books on the fine arts, the property of the late Charles Loeser, removed from Torre Gattaia, Florence, twenty-three original drawings by Thomas Bewick for his History of British birds and his History of quadrupeds, and the Julia Boyd collection of 423 engraved woodblocks from Thomas Bewick's workshop, as used for her Bewick gleanings, 1866, the property of Mrs. Hester Haig, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... on Monday, the 15th February, 1960 and the following day

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

1960

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MISCELLANEOUS

c 1914-c 1920

Item 1: Two telegrams out of Petrograd at the time of the Mar 1917 Revolution. Donor: Dr H Maingay (son of recipient). Item 2: Letter from Sister E G Evans , British Red Cross Unit in Odessa 23rd ...

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