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Natural History, Science, Sport, Travel
5:00 AM PT - Nov 27th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
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Conway (William Martin, Baron

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Conway (William Martin, Baron Conway of Allington, art historian and mountaineer, 1856-1937) 4 Autograph Letters signed to various people including "Mr. Colles" and "Mr. Alec-Tweedie",
4pp., v.s., Clanricarde Gardens & Hornton Street, 5th December [1894] - 15th October 1929, on various subjects including mountaineering (on Alpine Journal headed notepaper), "I am no longer editor - resigned the other day & am succeeded by G. Yeld of York. I sail for India in March, but this is at present only a private intention. My wife is to go with me & we propose to spend 6 weeks in Kashmir. I shall then go climbing alone for 3 months, rejoin her & winter in the plains", and two new works for publication, "The first is a ghost book on the "First Italian Renaissance" treated in a new way. The 2nd is my Hist of Spitsbergen, which advances apace" etc., folds; and 2 others, an autographed card by Conway and an offprint or proof, Sir William Martin Conway (reprinted from the Bath Herald), v.s., v.d.(6)


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