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NOVELLO, (Joseph) Alfred
1824-1896
Financial documents relating to Novello & Co. and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways, business contracts, designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat, sketches and desi...
Mar, 1998, Copenhagen
Feb 1997 - Mar 1998
Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Time and Class" with reference to the 'welfare state' on 29 April 1998 for the Sociology Department at the Danish Cultural Inst...
Apr, 1999, Stockholm
May 1998 - Apr 1999
Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a seminar on the topic of "Time" as part of a seminar series in April 1999.
May, 2007, Berlin
Apr 2007 - May 2007
Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture and contribution to a panel discussion on "The City and the other" at the "Time/Space dynamics in urban settings". (Centre for Metropol...
Designs
1862-1883
Designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat alongside a number of sketches and designs for a 24 hour clock face by (Joseph) Alfred Novello dating from around 1883. He argued that the increase in r...
Pocket watch
c. 1800
A Barraud gold pocket watch that belonged to Vincent Novello, in a cotton cover with a handwritten Italian inscription which gives the date 2 May 1898 and records that the external case was missing. T...
Pocket watch
c. 1800
Gold pocket watch with an engraved and enamelled face and an engraved back. The winding key is attached with string. It was packed in a paper banking envelope, inscribed on the reverse with 'M.S. Nove...
Gold watch chain
c. 1830
A gold watch chain with engraved gem seal having belonged to Charles Cowden Clarke. The gem is engraved with the Latin 'Placidam sub Libertate quietem' which translates as: 'By the sword we seek peace...
Sketches towards a design for a 24 hour clock face
c. 1883
Six sketches on one sheet of folded paper towards a design for a 24 hour clock face, by (Joseph) Alfred Novello.
Circular on the 24 hour clock
Aug 1862
Printed circular by (Joseph) Alfred Novello titled '24 o'clock; a distinct name for each hour of the day', arguing for benefits for the railways and postal service and reduction in printing costs. The...
Lilii Gregorii Gyraldi De annis et mensibus, cæterisque temporum partibus, difficili hactenus & impedita materia, dissertatio facilis & expedita. Ejusdem calendarium & romanum & græcum, gentis utriusque solennia, ac rerum insigniter gestarum tempora complectens, magno tum historiis, tum ceteris autoribus cognoscendis usui futurum
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (1479-1552)
1541
Includes index.