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 walesmade in irelandit's unused, part of a very large collection and is as newsize: width 19" length 29" material: linen 100% machine wash 30 see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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 legislaturea masterly writer, jefferson was an awkward public speakersee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent eraa 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
40 €
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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 cubamarriage record and military license of the spanish lieutenant, dcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website(spanish american usa war colonial, colony, philippines, puerto rico, soldier, battle, army, policy, stamped paper, vignette stamp, cuban file, cuban spain, spanish postal mail)the document also references the instruction of the holy inquisition of augustour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storebattalion of the alfonso xiii infantry regiment no72 and his wife, mrsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikimaría salomé valdés, from santa clara, cubapascual doria y santatiesta, born in the town of el grado, huesca, of the 3rd
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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 postit 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 coalportthis coalport fine bone china eleven-inch collectors plate is number in a limited edition ofit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the battle of britainit was purchased new in and in excellent conditionthis handsome plate depicts spitfires and hurricanes taking off to contest air supremacy with the enemy
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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 independencespecial featurescommentary with art malik and tim pigott-smith on episode 1see oxfam website for delivery information read moredirectors commentary on episode 4oxfam books & music romsey the jewel in the crown is the epic award winning drama based on the booker prize winning classic novelsa tale of passion ensues as questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intriguecommentary with geraldine james and charles dance on episodes
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The declaration of war with germany has made the capital a dark, uncertain place, rife with fear and suspicionas the pressure on young men to enlist grows stronger, pastor cardew holds a rally at his churchor someone closer to home? see oxfam website for delivery information read moremeanwhile, 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 cidoxfam 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 featherwas the murderer really a foreign spyunfortunately, it ends in humiliation for felix simpkins when he receives a dreaded white feather - the ultimate sign of cowardicebut 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 investigation
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Designs: 5p, signing of the declaration of arbroathissued: april 1st1sh6p mayflower leaving plymouth1sh, earl grey, great britain; charles robert, france; victor bohmert, germany; de keussler, russia, and document in 4 languagesmnh condition £076 p&p combined postage on multiple purchases read more1sh9p, sir william herschel, francis bailey, sir john herschel and telescopegb stamps mnh set - sg - diff annivs see description9p, florence nightingale and soldiers in scutari hospital
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A bridge too far by cornelius ryanthe story of one of the most fascinating yet terrible battles of all timeswwii battle of arnhem paperback the world-wide nodiary of a red devil - which is a signed 1st edition (hardback & paperback)1 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 detailsi also have another account of the battle of arnhem for salea brilliant book in good condition
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They have been in circulation; condition as per the photos – happy to sell individuallythe second coin was released to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of britainthis date signifies when the royal warrant for the creation of the medal was signed by queen victoria at buckingham palacethere have been three different versions for the obverses of this coin releasedthe first coin was released to mark the 150th anniversary of the introduction of the victoria crossthe date 29 jan is part of the design of the cointhe reverse design, by claire aldridge, shows the front and back of the medalthis is the version of the coin that has the portrait of her majesty by jody clark and has the 50 pence denomination
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 whole opera is portrayed relating to memory and different interpretations of the same series of eventsfor 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 reviewsthe studded skull was aztec in appearancethis production has an interesting glass cage japanese style cage, and the costumes are extravagant and extremely colourfulpdf copy of the mask of orpheus english national opera programme london coliseum, elegant and stylish programme for autumn seasonboth 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 scan is an accurate electronic copy of the complete programme cover to cover, including all adverts etchas photos and relevant informed articles about the current production and the music and history of this contemporary birtwistle opera
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"part of the fun of being in the brownie organization is trying to collect badges by achieving efficiency in a number of categoriesto collect a badge of the revealed category, the player must answer a trivia question relating to the categoryoxfam shop great dunmow this is a rare opportunity to buy a vintage board game, in very good conditionall parts included, with origal instructions, dice and shaker"players try to collect five badges and be the first to collect the trefoil badgethe object of this game is just the sameif 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)when 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 gamebadges 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 homeupon landing on an interest badge space, they must choose one of the tiles from a face down selectionthe game can end prematurely if too many brown owl spaces are landed onsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreplayers roll a dice to move around the boardplayers have to collect interest badges by successfully answering questions on the subjects chosendesigned in conjunction with the girl guides associationmost of the tiles represent brownie badges in several categories, a few are hazardous events, and one shows the trefoil, crucial to winning the gameplayers can steal badges from brownies who trespass on another player's campsitebonus badges can be won by landing on toadstool spaces and answering a general knowledge questionif it is answered incorrectly, the tile is turned face down again
19 €
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The card covers have slight damage and some pages of have been annotated lightly in pencilthe booklet is 24cm x 15cmsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 walesthe four maps each unfold to 70cm x 90cmthe 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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Drawing upon a number of contributors, edited by hugh mcclintock, a lecturer in the institute of planning studies at the university of nottinghamsee 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 countriesin very good condition, with a few marks around the edge of the cover and a little bit of yellowing to the edge of the pagesoxfam bookshop lower petergate an academic study of the impact of planning, and provision for, cycling in urban areas
19 €
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See oxfam website for delivery information read morein good condition, there are a number of small tears to the edge of the dust jacket, and some discolouration to the edges of the pageswritten 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 eventstranslated by john spragens jr, with an afterword by cora weiss and don luceoxfam bookshop lower petergate a personal account of the spring offensive of that culminated in the capture of saigon and the end of the vietnam war
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In 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 todaysimon winchester's chronicle of the destruction of the indonesian island of krakatoa in charts the birth of our modern worldhe 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 geology
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Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe collection will be sent via poste italiane with registered mail with trackingunificato catalogue value: €austria - advanced collection form to , including values mostly used with some mintthe collection is in very good condition and there are many interesting cancellationsthe collection includes values of ordinary post, stamps for newspapers, postage due stamps for newspapers, postage due and telegraphic stampsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe 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 stamp
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Practical 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 slangfor it will have two voices, one calling from the valley of despair, the other from a safer, calmer new placepart 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 centurysee oxfam website for delivery information read morealongside 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 frivolousfor 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 quicker you dive down to see your sorry state, the better for you in lifethe flakes whirl around like motes in the water around your personal shipwreckthis unique book offers it'depression is internal snowthe suffering depressive needs help from outside his or her own consciousness, a radical new perspective that makes life possible againoxfam bookshop cheltenham 101 ways to climb out of the slough of despond - a literary guide (part memoir, part companion) to coming through depression
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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 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 dayssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreabundant 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 consideredoxfam 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 engineeringsome of the earliest proposals for the use of radio waves to detect objects at a distance are first dealt withpublished, as volume 6 in the 'iee history of technology series'the study, while underlining the significance of the cavity magnetron, purposely restricts itself to the pre-cavity magnetron era of radarthis 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 s
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Rome 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 experiencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam 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 poetsa brand new book from the bloodaxe "contemporary french poets" serieshis 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 translationtranslation by keith bosely - a bilingual editionhis work is structured by a sense of quest, which gives it its labyrinthine patterns, underground tensions and fractured, inventive forms
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He was made the head of the office and designed the first outside cylinder locomotive for use in indiabeing a short but complete description of the duties of the young engineer in preliminary and location surveys, and in constructionin he founded the journal engineering and remained an editor for the rest of his lifecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website[with the signature on the front endpaper of william henry maw, ()he was president of the civil and mechanical engineers' society, the institution of mechanical engineers and the institution of civil engineers] a rare book, and in remarkably good conditionthe title concludes:- "page 49 has been neatly annotated (see illustration)maw was a british civil engineer and astronomerour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeborn 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 draughtsmanare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki" 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 coverhe left the railway and became a consulting engineer; his many works include printing presses for several newspapers and magazines
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30 €
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Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitespine with raised bands, gilt fillets, and gilt lettering to green leather title labelink mark to tail page edgeex-library copypencil ownership inscription of ‘wsmall tears to some margins, affecting text on p1 to mechanise the creation of mathematical tablesrebound quarter brown leather binding over green marbled boards, in excellent conditionpencil notes on the last pageour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storetitle-page repairedtables throughoutwe are delighted to present a fourth impression copy of this book of logarithms by charles babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical ‘computer’however, 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 tablesrather, the proofs were checked against his previous tables, finding only 9 errors which were then corrected in the second edition ()are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiashdown’ to head of title-pagecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableitem is as picturedoverall, 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 sciencecharles babbage (), the english polymath considered to be the father of computing, designed his difference engine nocircular stamp to title-page and last page, ink accession note to verso title-pagebabbage therefore did not attempt to compute new tables
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76 €
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News of the discovery of the ice man and his age, which was put at over years old, fascinated the worldoxfam 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 italyin europe there are only sevensykes has named them ursula, xenia, helena, velda, tara, katrine and jasminesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut 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 todayafter plotting thousands of dna sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groupsin 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 todayhow 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 spaceit is a book that presents the story of our evolution, striking right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identitythe 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 eve
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Richard 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 knowledgesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit also considers the neglect of useful research that does not fit the current intellectual fashion in scienceoxfam bookshop cheltenham this volume examines the ways in which science is influenced by cultureit highlights the misleading images that have distorted people's view of the history of lifethe history of science, daniel kevles recounts the the strange story of resistance to the idea that viruses can cause cancerstephen jay gould gives a summary of his critique of conventional "progressive" pictures of evolutionary change, using trees, ladders and conesoliver sacks offers tour of scientific roads not taken, or taken too lateit explores areas of darkness and forgetting in scientific research, and the use of inappropriate mechanistic metaphors in the understanding of biological systems
3 €
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Oct/nov pages) - dec /jan pages) all the magazines show slight signs of rubbing along their edgesthe other copy of this issues is in excellent conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreone of the copies of the june/july issue is very lightly soiled on the front and back cover and the back cover is lightly wrinkledone 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 coveraug/sept pages) - 2 copies of this issuethe other copy of this issue is in excellent conditionoxfam shop cotham hill 4 issues of pathescope gazette magazines fromotherwise, inside, the pages are clean and the magazines are intact and overall in excellent conditionthe issues are: - june/july pages) - 2 copies of this issue
(England)
13 €
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Edward whymper: amongst the alps in the yearcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitelayard: discoveries in the ruins of nineveh and babyloncaptain sir richard fdu chaillu: explorations & adventures in equatorial africadavid livingstone: missionary travels and researches in south africageorge barrington: an account of a voyage to new south walesbrowne: a year amongst the persianscarl bock: the head-hunters of borneothe fifteen books are reprints made insir ernest shackleton: south the story of shackleton's last exprdition chenry savage landor: in the forbidden land an account of a journey in tibetour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefrederick courteney selous: travel and adventure in south-east africapeary: the north poleare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikilaurence oliphant: a journey to katmanduburton: first footsteps in east africa or an exploration of harar two volumesspeke: journal of the discovery of the source of the nile mdccclxii
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