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Thomas Hookham, bookseller, bookbinder, stationer, librarian/owner of circulating library, publisher (BBTI) Two Invoices Unsigned and one receipt signed "T Hookham", for "Mrs Greville". Total three pages, various formats, minor defects. Items include stationery, pens, plays, poetry, periodicals, history |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £150.00 | |
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Thomas Payne, London eighteenth-century bookseller. On thin laid paper roughly two and three-quarter inches by three and three-quarter inches wide. Good clean image, on aged paper with slight wear in bottom left-hand corner. Enclosed by a border. Reads, in a variety of hands, 'Thomas Payne | BOOKSELLER, | Near the South Sea House | BISHOPSGATE-... |
Book Trade History | £150.00 | |
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Thomas Tegg. Autograph Note Signed to unnamed correspondent. Bookseller (see DNB). One page, 8vo, conjoint blank laid down on backing paper. Text clear and complete, as follows:"I have just learned that the assignees of Sherwood & Co [publishers] are within a month to make a final dividend in that Estate & write this note to inform you of that... |
Book Trade History | £150.00 | |
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Various Authors. Les Merveilles de l'Exposition de 1889 "Histoire - Construction - Inauguration - Description detaillee des palais, des Annexes et des parcs - Les Chefs d'Oeuvre de l'art de tous les Pays - Les Machines - Les Arts Indystriels - Les Produits Manufactures - Les Exposition Speciales - La Tour Eiffel Ouvrage Redige par des Ecrivains... |
Art and Architecture | £150.00 | |
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Victorian notebook filled with humorous anecdotes [A. S. S. Sidney, Wobaston House, Wolverhampton; nineteenth-century English social history; jokes; humour] Quarto (leaf dimensions roughly 19.5 x 15.5 cm). Ruled with twenty-eight lines to the page. Written in a close, neat hand, covering the first ninety-one pages of the notebook. Loosely inserted are twelve pages containing a further thirty stories, on three bifoliums each headed 'Anecdotes &c... |
Literature | £150.00 |
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W.B. Sprague, American Congregational clergyman, autograph collector, biographer. Autograph Letter Signed to "Mrs Shelly". Two pages, 8vo, good condition. A good deal of politeness and circumlocution surround his statement of gratitude for the gift of some autographs. |
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William Hone, Radical bookseller and publisher (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed "W. Hone" to an unnamed male correspondent. One page, minor staining not affecting text, laid down on grey coarse paper. "Here is the Cape Shipping List [perhaps including slavers?]. It's business-like details of murders by wholesale tell the cold blooded tales of horror more effectually than eloquent language. They [leave?] & lead... |
History, Social history | £150.00 | |
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William Spooner, printseller, 377 Strand [diorama; dioramic print; King William IV; St George's Chapel, Windsor] Dimensions of print roughly 17.5 x 13.5 cm. On original grey paper windowpane mount (28 x 23 cm). Engraved label (2.5 x 11 cm) beneath the print, with a couple of remarque-style illustrations. The print itself is good, although a little aged and spotted; the margins and mount being rather more... |
Art and Architecture, Royalty | £150.00 |
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William Thomas Brande Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Archer. [Humphry Davy]. English chemist (1788-1866) who succeeded Sir Humphrey Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1813). Two pages, octavo. Very good, though lightly creased and with remains of previous mount adhering to one edge. Begins 'I have no doubt that much fraud is committed by the... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £150.00 | |
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William Windham of Felbrigg Autograph letter signed to an unnamed correspondent, Politician (1750-1810), a favoured friend of Samuel Johnson in his last years, and a pall bearer at his funeral. 3 pp, 8vo. He apologises for misapprehending his correspondent's letter. "One circumstance which helped to mislead me was of a sort which it is not for me to reproach you with, though... |
£150.00 |