Signatures of the declaration of independence
List signatures of the declaration of independence
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Oxfam shop magdelen street old bleach size one size multi-coloured pure irish linen tea towel, this retro " signatures of the declaration of independence" screen print tea towel was produced from a reproduction supplied by olwen caradoc evans, north walessize: width 19" length 29" material: linen 100% machine wash 30 see oxfam website for delivery information read moremade in irelandit's unused, part of a very large collection and is as new
9 €
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750 piece puzzle the declaration of independence nib 18”x24” us history
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A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the declaration of independence and continued to own human propertyoxfam shop dumfries in this unique biography of thomas jefferson, leading journalist and social critic christopher hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our founding father--a man conflicted by power who wrote the declaration of independence and acted as ambassador to france yet yearned for a quieter career in the virginia legislaturewith intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent eraa masterly writer, jefferson was an awkward public speakersee oxfam website for delivery information read morea reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy
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Framed declaration of independence, frame is not up to much so would need new one, i know nothing about this item i was given it over 20 years ago and it’s been stored away since, size is 25x20 any questions please ask
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Great for school age kid studying the declaration
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Cuba, havana, impressive document of spanish colonial history, 4 sheets, 8 pages, prints and manuscript with signatures (bishop of havana, magistrates and military authorities), stamps (14 stamps of alfonso xiii, 5 cents, blue, used as tax stamps, edifil number 126, clear) and marks of institutions of the island of cubaare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimaría salomé valdés, from santa clara, cuba72 and his wife, mrscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available(spanish american usa war colonial, colony, philippines, puerto rico, soldier, battle, army, policy, stamped paper, vignette stamp, cuban file, cuban spain, spanish postal mail)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepascual doria y santatiesta, born in the town of el grado, huesca, of the 3rdmarriage record and military license of the spanish lieutenant, dbattalion of the alfonso xiii infantry regiment nothe document also references the instruction of the holy inquisition of augustplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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The plate bears the signatures of three fighter pilots: air chief marshal sir christopher foxley-norris, air commodore alan deere, wing commander geoffrey page buyer to collect but could postthis handsome plate depicts spitfires and hurricanes taking off to contest air supremacy with the enemyit is as new condition and comes complete with a wall plate hanger, the certificate and a battle of britain 50th anniversary colour brochure and a brief history of coalportit was purchased new in and in excellent conditionthis coalport fine bone china eleven-inch collectors plate is number in a limited edition ofit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the battle of britain
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The haunting story opens during the turbulent final years of british rule in india as rioting and violence herald the granting of independencecommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodesdirectors commentary on episode 4special featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1see oxfam website for delivery information read morea tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigueoxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novels
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The declaration of war with germany has made the capital a dark, uncertain place, rife with fear and suspicionor someone closer to home? see oxfam website for delivery information read morebut when a body is discovered in wormwood scrubs the day after cardew's rally, a white feather placed in its mouth, quinn finds himself unable to take a back seat in the investigationwas the murderer really a foreign spyunfortunately, it ends in humiliation for felix simpkins when he receives a dreaded white feather - the ultimate sign of cowardicemeanwhile, di silas quinn returns to new scotland yard after his recent sick leave to find the special crimes department has been closed and his team absorbed into cidas the pressure on young men to enlist grows stronger, pastor cardew holds a rally at his churchoxfam bookshop cheltenham war has been declared, and detective inspector silas quinn finds himself drawn into a disturbing murder case where the only clue is a mysterious white feather
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Designs: 5p, signing of the declaration of arbroathgb stamps mnh set - sg - diff annivs see description1sh6p mayflower leaving plymouth9p, florence nightingale and soldiers in scutari hospitalissued: april 1st76 p&p combined postage on multiple purchases read moremnh condition £01sh9p, sir william herschel, francis bailey, sir john herschel and telescope1sh, earl grey, great britain; charles robert, france; victor bohmert, germany; de keussler, russia, and document in 4 languages
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A bridge too far by cornelius ryanthe story of one of the most fascinating yet terrible battles of all times1 bestseller an enthralling, magnificent account of the battle of arnhem to follow the longest day & the last battle here is the best of cornelius ryans three books about world war llplease contact me for further detailsa brilliant book in good conditiondiary of a red devil - which is a signed 1st edition (hardback & paperback)wwii battle of arnhem paperback the world-wide noi also have another account of the battle of arnhem for sale
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This date signifies when the royal warrant for the creation of the medal was signed by queen victoria at buckingham palacethis is the version of the coin that has the portrait of her majesty by jody clark and has the 50 pence denominationthe reverse design, by claire aldridge, shows the front and back of the medalthere have been three different versions for the obverses of this coin releasedthe second coin was released to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of britainthe date 29 jan is part of the design of the cointhe first coin was released to mark the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the victoria crossthey have been in circulation; condition as per the photos – happy to sell individually
3 €
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The photos above are from the original programme, which has been sold, although the scans are scanned from the programme in colourthe scan is an accurate electronic copy of the complete programme cover to cover, including all adverts etcfor a contemporary production, this was much more effective than the earlier two orpheus performances of orpheus & eurydice and orpheus in the underworld, both of which received extremely mixed reviewshas photos and relevant informed articles about the current production and the music and history of this contemporary birtwistle operapdf copy of the mask of orpheus english national opera programme london coliseum, elegant and stylish programme for autumn seasonthis production has an interesting glass cage japanese style cage, and the costumes are extravagant and extremely colourfulthe whole opera is portrayed relating to memory and different interpretations of the same series of eventsboth the production and the music was a cacophony of colour, photo montage background, fabulous costumes and sound and electronic effectswill send by cd by post or email attachment as requestedthe studded skull was aztec in appearance
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Oxfam shop great dunmow this is a rare opportunity to buy a vintage board game, in very good conditionthe object of this game is just the sameplayers have to collect interest badges by successfully answering questions on the subjects chosenmost of the tiles represent brownie badges in several categories, a few are hazardous events, and one shows the trefoil, crucial to winning the gameif it is answered incorrectly, the tile is turned face down againthe game can end prematurely if too many brown owl spaces are landed onplayers roll a dice to move around the boardall parts included, with origal instructions, dice and shaker"part of the fun of being in the brownie organization is trying to collect badges by achieving efficiency in a number of categoriesif the question is answered correctly, the badge tile is placed on the player's arm card (representing the badge being sewn onto the player's shirt sleeve)bonus badges can be won by landing on toadstool spaces and answering a general knowledge questiondesigned in conjunction with the girl guides associationupon landing on an interest badge space, they must choose one of the tiles from a face down selectionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen a player has collected five badges on her arm card, she must try to find the trefoil badge from the face down selection in order to win the gameplayers can steal badges from brownies who trespass on another player's campsite"players try to collect five badges and be the first to collect the trefoil badgebadges are available in the following categories:animal lover; artist; book lover; brownie friendship; cook; collector; conservation; craft; discoverer; first aid; house orderly; music lover; pony rider; rambler; safety in the hometo collect a badge of the revealed category, the player must answer a trivia question relating to the category
19 €
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The four maps each unfold to 70cm x 90cmthe booklet is 24cm x 15cmoxfam shop abergavenny an opportunity to own this rare set of 4 linen-backed, 2 miles to one inch maps and accompanying booklet, south wales and the border in the fourteenth century by william rees, professor of the history of walessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe card covers have slight damage and some pages of have been annotated lightly in pencilthe maps, which have the stamp of the history department of the university of southampton, have been drawing-pinned to a board at some stage and one has a minor tear to one edge but otherwise all are in very good condition
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Oxfam bookshop lower petergate an academic study of the impact of planning, and provision for, cycling in urban areasdrawing upon a number of contributors, edited by hugh mcclintock, a lecturer in the institute of planning studies at the university of nottinghamin very good condition, with a few marks around the edge of the cover and a little bit of yellowing to the edge of the pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is a signature from a previous owner on the inside coverwith chapters on the theory and principles of planning for cycling, and detailed case studies of schemes across different countries
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Oxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam warwritten by general van tien dung, chief of staff in the vietnam people's army and the officer in charge of the offensive, the narrative offers valuable insight into the vietnamese side of these historic eventssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretranslated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don lucein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pages
9 €
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He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat darwin to the discovery of evolution; of samuel mose, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of alfred wegener, the german explorer and father of geologysimon winchester's chronicle of the destruction of the indonesian island of krakatoa in charts the birth of our modern worldin detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt today
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe collection includes values of ordinary post, stamps for newspapers, postage due stamps for newspapers, postage due and telegraphic stampsthe photos are an integral part of the description of the lot, and they clearly represent the condition of the item; please review them carefully in order to get a proper idea of the lot and the condition of every stampthe collection will be sent via poste italiane with registered mail with trackingunificato catalogue value: €the collection is in very good condition and there are many interesting cancellationsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeaustria - advanced collection form to , including values mostly used with some mintplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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This unique book offers itfor above you, if only you can reach it without getting the bends, are sunshine, laughter on a yacht, the clink of plates as a lunch of steaming fish is handed roundthe flakes whirl around like motes in the water around your personal shipwreckfor it will have two voices, one calling from the valley of despair, the other from a safer, calmer new placepractical hints on how to get better (diet, read hello!, helpful pieces of music) are alongside striking quotations, ranging from sentences on crisp packets, to prayers, from russian orthodox writings on silence to collections of slangsee oxfam website for delivery information read more'depression is internal snowthe quicker you dive down to see your sorry state, the better for you in lifeoxfam bookshop cheltenham 101 ways to climb out of the slough of despond - a literary guide (part memoir, part companion) to coming through depressionthe suffering depressive needs help from outside his or her own consciousness, a radical new perspective that makes life possible againalongside a paragraph about the proper relationship between the ego, the mind and the emotions nestles a passage on the therapeutic value of nail varnish' whilst the overall structure of sunbathing in the rain moves from dark to light, telling the story of lewis's recovery, its different strands allow a variety of tones and subjects to be explored, from the profound to the frivolouspart memoir - drawing on her own experiences, both adverse and encouraging, as a depressive and an alcoholic - and part guide or companion, this book brings burton's anatomy of melancholy into the twenty-first century
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This book is the first general history of radar to be published, and one which covers the independent but more or less simultaneous emergence of radar in several countries in the ssome of the earliest proposals for the use of radio waves to detect objects at a distance are first dealt withthe narrative ranges from the concepts of nikola tesla in and the experiments of christian hulsmeyer in right through, in chronological order, to the commercially sponsored experiments of the prewar daysoxfam shop fulwood road radar has become an essential factor in air and sea travel, has affected all areas of military science and, most important of all perhaps, has considerably influenced the progress of electronic engineeringsee oxfam website for delivery information read morepublished, as volume 6 in the 'iee history of technology series'the book also sets out to explain the basic principles of radar and, where applicable, historical aspects of the evolution of these principles are dealt withabundant references, which could facilitate further research, are giventhe historical events and the military influences, which shaped the ultimate development of radar in each country, are then consideredthe study, while underlining the significance of the cavity magnetron, purposely restricts itself to the pre-cavity magnetron era of radar
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A brand new book from the bloodaxe "contemporary french poets" seriestranslation by keith bosely - a bilingual editionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis work is structured by a sense of quest, which gives it its labyrinthine patterns, underground tensions and fractured, inventive formshis poetry has an epic and tragic dimension: spurred by an urge for transcendence, it refuses false paradises, arrivals and notions of reconciliationpoetry book society recommended translationrome the sorceress () is frenaud's richest and most disturbing confrontation with the hidden life of myths and the sacred, probing the themes of time, inheritance, revolt, illusions of divinity, father-?gures, mother-?gures, and the insatiable monuments of language which pretend to grapple with this weight of experienceoxfam bookshop hexham first known for his war-time poems written from a german labour camp - notably his sombre reworkings of the myth of the magi - andre frenaud () is one of the most searching of french poets
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Being a short but complete description of the duties of the young engineer in preliminary and location surveys, and in constructionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe title concludes:- "[with the signature on the front endpaper of william henry maw, ()catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehe was made the head of the office and designed the first outside cylinder locomotive for use in indiapage 49 has been neatly annotated (see illustration)] a rare book, and in remarkably good conditionin he founded the journal engineering and remained an editor for the rest of his lifeborn into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, maw was taken into the workshops of the eastern counties railway as an assistant before progressing to the design office as a draughtsmanhe was president of the civil and mechanical engineers' society, the institution of mechanical engineers and the institution of civil engineersour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storemaw was a british civil engineer and astronomerhe left the railway and became a consulting engineer; his many works include printing presses for several newspapers and magazinesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website" small thin octavo, pp (ii), 75, with the errata slip loosely attached after the title page, with blank pages at the rear for notes (unused), original green cloth, the corners very slightly worn, a very faint mark on the upper cover
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30 €
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Ex-library copyare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikitables throughoutrebound quarter brown leather binding over green marbled boards, in excellent conditionitem is as picturedrather, the proofs were checked against his previous tables, finding only 9 errors which were then corrected in the second edition ()1 to mechanise the creation of mathematical tablescircular stamp to title-page and last page, ink accession note to verso title-pagewe are delighted to present a fourth impression copy of this book of logarithms by charles babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical ‘computer’pencil ownership inscription of ‘wink mark to tail page edgehowever, he did not have a working portion until , several years after his first table was published, and that was insufficient computing power to produce the mathematical tablesashdown’ to head of title-pagetitle-page repairedspine with raised bands, gilt fillets, and gilt lettering to green leather title labelour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeoverall, this book is a collectable work by the babbage, the originator of the concept of the digital programmable computer, a fascinating artefact in the history of mathematics and sciencecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebabbage therefore did not attempt to compute new tablescharles babbage (), the english polymath considered to be the father of computing, designed his difference engine nopencil notes on the last pagesmall tears to some margins, affecting text on pplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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In europe there are only sevenoxfam bookshop cheltenham in professor brian sykes, a leading world authority on dna and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern italyhow was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago?;in this work, sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and spaceafter plotting thousands of dna sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groupsnews of the discovery of the ice man and his age, which was put at over years old, fascinated the worldit is a book that presents the story of our evolution, striking right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced; how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived; what their lives were like; and how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our dna which has survived and prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us todaybut what made the story particularly extraordinary was that professor sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the ice man, a woman living in britain todaythe conclusions: amost everyone of native european descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the seven daughters of evesykes has named them ursula, xenia, helena, velda, tara, katrine and jasmine
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The history of science, daniel kevles recounts the the strange story of resistance to the idea that viruses can cause canceroliver sacks offers tour of scientific roads not taken, or taken too lateit highlights the misleading images that have distorted people's view of the history of lifestephen jay gould gives a summary of his critique of conventional "progressive" pictures of evolutionary change, using trees, ladders and conessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham this volume examines the ways in which science is influenced by cultureit explores areas of darkness and forgetting in scientific research, and the use of inappropriate mechanistic metaphors in the understanding of biological systemsit also considers the neglect of useful research that does not fit the current intellectual fashion in sciencerichard lewontin rejects the attempt to reduce the complexity of living things to the simplicity of physicsjonathan miller, with typical wit and insight, shows how the discredited panacea of hypnotism could have helped to reveal a non-freudian view of the unconscious - an unconscious that is not simply the dark underside of the mind, but a powerfully enabling form of knowledge
3 €
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Oxfam shop cotham hill 4 issues of pathescope gazette magazines fromaug/sept pages) - 2 copies of this issuethe other copy of this issue is in excellent conditionotherwise, inside, the pages are clean and the magazines are intact and overall in excellent conditionone of the copies of the aug/sept issue is slightly soiled along the top and spine edges of the front cover and on the back coverthe other copy of this issues is in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe issues are: - june/july pages) - 2 copies of this issueone of the copies of the june/july issue is very lightly soiled on the front and back cover and the back cover is lightly wrinkledoct/nov pages) - dec /jan pages) all the magazines show slight signs of rubbing along their edges
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13 €
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Speke: journal of the discovery of the source of the nile mdccclxiilaurence oliphant: a journey to katmandubrowne: a year amongst the persiansdu chaillu: explorations & adventures in equatorial africaare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicaptain sir richard fpeary: the north poleburton: first footsteps in east africa or an exploration of harar two volumesthe fifteen books are reprints made incatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesir ernest shackleton: south the story of shackleton's last exprdition cour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storegeorge barrington: an account of a voyage to new south waleslayard: discoveries in the ruins of nineveh and babylonfrederick courteney selous: travel and adventure in south-east africacarl bock: the head-hunters of borneohenry savage landor: in the forbidden land an account of a journey in tibetedward whymper: amongst the alps in the yeardavid livingstone: missionary travels and researches in south africaplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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