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Annie S. Swan [Annie Shepherd Swan Burnett-Smith] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. novelist (1859-1943). Paper dimensions roughly four and a half inches by two inches. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of pink paper. Reads 'Yrs sincerely | Annie S. Swan.' |
Literature, Women | £18.00 | |
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Annie S. Swan, novelist Autograph Letter Signed "A Bennett Smith / Annie S. Swan" to an unnamed male correspondent. Two pages, 8vo, punch-holes (with loss of one or two letters), closed tear and a small hole in the corner (with some rust marks), but text clear and complete. "In my opinion it is impossible to over estimate the value and importance of the work being done for the troops at home and abroad by the... |
Literature, Women | £75.00 | |
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The Refectory Club, Mayfair, London; David Mallett, Secretary [Walter James Macqueen-Pope, theatre historian; Anna Zinkeisen (1901-1976), Scottish painter] From the Macqueen-Pope papers. (See his entry in the Oxford DNB.) Interesting London ephemera: the plans for the Refectory Club were clearly ambitious, but there is little to be gleaned about it, and it is unclear whether it even opened. Zinkeisen and her sister Dora are the subject of a 2022... |
£180.00 | ||
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Anon. 12 pages, folio, disbound (as issued), fold marks some wear and tear, text clear and complete, a few pencilled annotations. With: (printed) "Memorandum for the Game-Keepers. The LAWS relative to preserving and taking of Salmon are as follow: ......", four pages, two of which are blank, torn into... |
£100.00 | ||
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ANON. A Mother's Historical Chart, or an Outline of the History of the World . . . [Title continued] . . . Divided into Centuries and Millennial Periods, from the Creation to the Present Time., Broadsheet, 32 x 41cms, some marking, nicks tears at folds, text complete and clear comprising approximate dates and events during six millennia, during three "Dispensations" - the "... |
History, Women | £125.00 | |
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Anon. Typescript, 12pp., 4to, cover/title spotted, contents good. |
Literature, Social history | £50.00 | |
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Anon. [Thomas Twining?] Poss. Thomas Twining, divine, musician, linguist and translator of Aristotle, 1735-1804, DNB. Scrap of paper, 7 x 2", some marks, spike-hole, text clear and apparently complete. "Paley's natural Theology/ in good plain binding./for Mr Twining./ Nov 20. 1802." Twining nor Paley (save pos. ref.)... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £25.00 | |
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Anthony Panizzi. Autograph Note, third person, to the Lord Mayor of London and wife. Chief Librarian, British Museum (1797-1879). One page, 8vo, bifoliate, sl. marked, fold marks, text clear and complete. "Mr Panizzi presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor . . . and regrets very much that a previous engagement will prevent him from having the honour . . ." |
Book Trade History, History, Literature | £45.00 | |
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Anthony Wimmer; William Dickson [nineteenth-century salmon fishing; angling; field sports; the Coquet River] Both items with text clear and entire. Item One: offprint, on one side of a piece of wove paper 25 x 18.5 cm. Good, on lightly-aged paper with some wear to extremities. Headed 'AQUAECULTURE, And the Artificial Propogation [sic] of the Danube Salmon in Bavaria, BY DR. WIMMER. | Re-printed from... |
£56.00 | ||
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Antonio Visentini (Venice, 1688-1782), Italian (Venetian) engraver Engraved bookplate headed 'LA FELICITA' DELLE LETTERE'. Dimensions of plate roughly four and a half inches by six and a half wide. Dimensions of paper roughly five inches by seven wide. Clear image on stained, grubby laid paper. Shows mythological figure with helmet and shield holding up a book, within a monumental border with coins, ivy, statuary,... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Literature | £180.00 |