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David A. Quaid, Solicitor Robert Emmet: His Birth-Place and Burial. Pp.[vi].98, 8vo, frontis., plates, original green printed wraps, sunned at edges, wear to spine, contents good. Scarce. |
History, Travel and Topography | £150.00 | |
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Daniel Terry. Autograph letter signed to J.H. Burn, Bookseller, King Street, Covent Garden, London. One page, 4to, fold marks, text clear and complete. "Not receiving yours till the evening I had it not in time to reply by return- I fear I must have you fill up the bill for 3[inderline] months - as claims from a supposition (a most hasty and distressing one, alas) that I am, in the common... |
Book Trade History, Music and Theatre, Printing History | £150.00 | |
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Desire Raoul-Rochette. French archaeologist. One page, 4to, minor defects, text clear and complete. He gives details of the academy's "Seance Publique annuelle", asking for her attandedance at an event at which "une Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de feu Mr. Cherubini sera lue". Places have been reserved... |
French, Science, Medicine and Technology | £150.00 | |
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E. Nesbit [Edith Nesbit; Edith Bland] and 'Caris Brooke' [Saretta Nesbit] Easter-Tide. Poems by E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke. 8vo (dimensions roughly 21 x 16.5 cm): 24 pp. In original coloured illustrated card wraps. The whole bound with black thread. All edges silvered. Aged, worn and lightly spotted, but tight and in reasonable condition overall. Two small wormholes in back wrap, affecting the verso of the last leaf... |
Literature, Women | £150.00 |
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E. Steinle. Pamphlet, disbound, pp. 16, 8o, sl. chipped and discoloured but complete and clear. |
History | £150.00 | |
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East India Company [St Helena; Charter of 1833] Manuscript account of 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter', including reference to St Helena. On one side of a piece of laid watermarked paper, 14 x 8 cm. On aged and creased paper. The accounts are brief, and neatly written in an unidentified hand. At foot '1845'. Headed 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter', and featuring a total of £17,936,217 against itemised charges of £18,... |
Economics, History, Travel and Topography | £150.00 | |
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Edouard Servan de Sugny. Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent. Author/translator of "La Muse ottomane ou chefs-d'oeuvre de la poésie turque" (Paris, 1853). Three pages, 8vo, good condition. He thanks his correspondent for a copy of "l'Anthologie arabe de M. Grangeret de Lagrange" [first published 1828]. He explains his great interest in the book and the... |
French, History, Travel and Topography | £150.00 | |
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Edward I'Anson (1775-1853), surveyor and architect [Robert Abraham (1775-1850), architect] Autograph Letter Signed, a reference for Robert Abraham. 4to, 1 p, 7 lines. Text clear and entire on lightly aged and discoloured paper. Nicely connecting two notable nineteenth-century London architects. I'Anson has 'great pleasure in stating from long and intimate personal acquaintance with Mr Robert Abraham that his experience Talent and integrity... |
Art and Architecture | £150.00 | |
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Edward L. Stone (inscription). Collector (see Cannon, "American Book Collectors" (1941), pp.198-9, referring to Stone's typographical collection which went to the Alderman Library, University of Virginia in 1938, after his death). Printed Pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, rust around staples, mainly good. INSCRIBED by Stone: "Book Label... |
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Edward R. Pease Autograph Letters Signed (x3 )and one Typed Letter Signed to C.H. Grinling, labour activist Founder-member of the Fabian Society (1857-1955). 12pp. total, 8vo (3) & 4to (1), (1891) He asks Grinling to work with Henry Snell (M.P. for Woolwich) on preparing a Fabian Tract, suggesting a draft could be shown to the S.E. Committee, outlining what they should say. He also wants a leaflet... |
History | £150.00 |