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[TURKEY] Auguste Viquesnel (1803-1867), author of "Voyage dans la Turquie d'Europe" Two Autograph Letters Signed "Augte Viquesnel" to an unnamed correspondent. In French [En Francais] One page each, 8vo, minor stains and creasing, good condition. (1847) He describes a colleague, a "M. de La Roquette", for some years Secretary to the "Societe de geographie". whom he understands to be working on Turkey. "Je me [?] de lui indiquer un ouvrage Special sur Constantinople, son... |
French | £120.00 | |
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[Unknown Collector] Leon Gautier, literary historian and palaeographer. Autograph Note Signed to an unnamed correspondent, in French. One page, 8vo, fold mark, good condition. "Je m'empresse de vous adresser épreuve de votre [premier] Eclaircissement . | L'ouvrage sera tiré in folio et ce que je vous envoie est ce qu'on appelle 'une composition perdue' d'apres laquelle on imprimera Le texte definitif en plus grand format. |... |
French | £60.00 | |
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[Victorian London street ballad; broadsheet; handbill; death] Illustrated handbill poem, a street ballad entitled 'A New Song, entitled, Dear Peggy.' Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 230 x 90 mm. On pitted, aged paper. Text complete. Approximate 30 x 50 mm piece torn away from top right-hand corner, causing loss to small illustration at head, which appears to be a crude woodcut of a woman lying in a coffin. The poem... |
Literature | £38.00 |
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[Victorian political satire; Liberal Party; John Bright; Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, MP for Cambridge 1847-1852, 1854-1857; Sir Hugh Edward Adair of Flixton Hall, MP for Ipswich 1847-74] Two pages, printed on the recto of the first leaf and verso of the second of a yellow wove-paper bifolium. Leaf dimensions 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Grubby and creased, but with text clear and complete. The first poem, 'A New W[h]ig Song', begins 'In our town there's a street, with a chapel and shop, |... |
History | £180.00 |
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[Victorian street ballad; broadsheet; handbill; death; nineteenth-century folk song] Illustrated poem, a street ballad entitled 'The Wheel of Fortune'. On one side of a piece of thin wove paper, roughly 260 x 95 mm. Aged and creased, with internal 25 mm closed tear affecting four words of text (all of which can be completed from the context) repaired on blank reverse with archival tape. Otherwise text and illustration clear and entire. Small (... |
Literature | £56.00 |
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[Victorian street ballad; handbill poem; street ballad; broadsheet; nineteenth-century folk song] Illustrated Victorian handbill poem, a street ballad entitled 'The Golden Glove.' Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 280 x 95 mm. Aged, creased and spotted, with chipping to extremities, but with text and illustration clear and entire. Curious small (roughly 40 x 65 mm) crude illustration at head, showing dove with olive branch and acorn. Forty-line poem... |
Literature | £56.00 |
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[VINTAGE BICYCLES] 8vo. 4 pages, in original pink printed wraps, discoloured to light blue on the outside. In very good condition, one vertical crease from catalogue being folded on itself, and with negligible rust staining from staple. The sale comprised 'Lady's and Gentleman's Single, Tandem, Roadster and Road... |
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[W?.] Parsons. Invoice to Jeffery, bookseller. One page, c.6 x 4", trimmed or part of page, edges discoloured, spike-hole, but text clear, possibly incomplete. "Mr Jeffery willl please to pay for the following Books Viz./ Plutarch's Lives £1-2/ Grose's[?] Ethics --6[s]/ F[?]uller's Thinking 4[s]/ ,Sketches?> -2[s]/ Bi[e?]ntons[sic]... |
Book Trade History | £45.00 | |
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[Walter] Brandon Thomas English actor, playwright, songwriter (1856-1914). One page, 12mo. "Dear Mrs. Merivale, / I enclose two stalls & hope you will enjoy a good laugh that is all I can you. / So glad to see you & Mr. Merivale looking so well today". Attached by blank verso to blank second leaf, which bears... |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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[White, Cochrane and Co. , booksellers [BBTI 1812; Maxted 1812-1816], publishers [see BLC] One page, 4to, good condition. The printed circular is a request for the "early settlement" of an outstanding bill, adding that "A Catalogue of the whole of the extensive and valuable Stock of the late Partnership, is now published; and each article will be sold, for ready money, with a Discount... |
Book Trade History | £120.00 |