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John Murray V. Autograph Note initialled, and Typed Note, initialled, to J.G. Wilson, Chairman, J & E. Bumpus's. Publisher. Both letters one page, 4to, good condition. (1931) He asks if an American scholar whose stay in London and studies of Coleridge have been affected by illness can have a look at a relevant book belonging to Murrays, but in a Bumpus Exhibition. He thinks the Exhibition successful and... |
Book Trade History | £150.00 | |
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John Thomas Hope. Autograph Letter Signed to J.H. Burn, bookseller and ephemerist. "Mr Burne/ 20 King Street/ Covent Garden".Two pages, c.10 x 7", chipped, part torn off, small hole, text clear. "Sir/ I return you the Catalogue of Periodicals filled up with all I now have in my Possession being above 600 Volumes in above 400 different Works./ I will give your young man half a... |
Book Trade History | £150.00 | |
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John Thomas Johnson, Assistant Curator of the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, India [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Mary, Countess of Minto] The collection in good condition, with all but one of the six items carrying ring-binder punch holes. Item One, Articles of Agreement: Foolscap bifolium, 3 pp. Dated 16 September 1904. Printed seventeen-point agreement in the form of a manuscript facsimile. Signed by Johnson, Sir John Edge and... |
Natural History | £150.00 |
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John Weiss (1818-1879), Unitarian Minister, author, "second generation transcendentalist" Autograph Letter Signed "J Weiss" to "Morse"[Sidney H. Morse, editor of "The Radical"] Four pages, 8vo, grubby and with fold marks but text clear and complete. Weiss is writing about an untimate contribution to "The Radical" and another article. "I don't know that it is a matter of much consequence, but I rather want to have my "Dangers" [Dangers of Our Political Machinery,... |
Book Trade History, History, Religion | £150.00 |
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John Wilson Croker [James Heywood Markland] Autograph Letter Signed to James Heywood Markland, with autograph draft of Markland's reply. Politician and essayist (1780-1857). The recipient (1788-1864) was an antiquary and member of the Roxburghe Club. Four pages, 12mo. In very good condition, although rather grubby and with traces of stub adhering to one edge. He finds 'a letter of Pope to Beau Nash transmitting him an inscription... |
History, Literature, Military and Naval History | £150.00 | |
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Joseph Harris [St Ives, Cornwall; printed ephemera; handbill] On one side of a piece of wove paper, dimensions roughly 365 x 255 mm. Laid down on a larger leaf. Lightly creased and a little spotted, but good overall, and with the text entirely legible. The upper part of the item consists of the quotation from Pettis's manuscript book, consisting of... |
Social history | £150.00 | |
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Julia Pardoe. Autograph Letter Signed to George Glenny, horticultural writer and editor (DNB). Travel-writer and novelist (DNB). One page, 8vo, sl. marked, trimmed but text complete and clear, with partially detached conjugate leaf, verso of which has name "For George Glenny Esqre". "I have extracted all critiques on the Bouquet and R.L.M. [Royal Lady's Magazine and St. James's Archive]... |
Literature, Travel and Topography, Women | £150.00 | |
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Karl Kautsky Die Klassengegensätze von 1789 Zum hundertjährigen Gedenktag der grossen Revolution. One of the best-known theoreticians of the Second International (1854-1938). Subtitled 'Separat-Abdruck aus der "Neuen Zeit", Heft 1-4, 1889.' 79 pages, 8vo. In original grey printed wraps. Paper browning and with some fraying to corners of prelims, but good and tight with last gathering... |
History | £150.00 | |
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Laetitia Matilda Hawkins [Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins] (1759-1835), English novelist from Twickenham; daughter of Sir John Hawkins, biographer of Dr Johnson [Richard Twining (1749-1824), tea merchant] 4to, 3 pp. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. Thirty-nine lines of text. Good impression of red wax seal depicting Alexander Pope. In breaking open letter a 7 cm closed tear made to second leaf, and a small part of leaf torn away, and now under seal, with loss to three words of valediction. Slight... |
Literature, Women | £150.00 |
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Lauchlan Macquarie Stewart The Last of the Gaels. Translations from the Gaelic of the bard Ghosolon. Original brown wraps, mainly unopened, 52pp., 8vo, wraps frayed and sunned, mark on front cover obscuring two letters, foxing at beginning and end, contents mainly in good condition. Scarce: COPAC lists three copies (NLS, Bodleian, BL). |
Literature | £150.00 |