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A. Webley, bookseller, at the Bible and Crown in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane Advertisement leaf containing list of architectural books. Dimensions roughly eight inches by five and a half. Very good on aged paper. All but top edge rough. One page, blank reverse. Announces that Webley sells 'BOOKS in all FACULTIES and SCIENCES, Containing upwards of Twelve Thousand Volumes, in Various Languages, and in every Branch of Literature,... |
£200.00 | |
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Ben Abramson, American bookseller and publisher (1898-1955). Typed Letter Signed to Eimar O'Duffy, Irish author. One page, 4to, good condition. He gives belated thanks for writing to them "and sending us your contribution for our catalogue." They delayed so that thanks would accompany a copy of the catalogue. They have sent the catalogue under separate cover and "hope you will find it enertaining. Too, we... |
£60.00 | |
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Bertha Coolidge Slade [Maria Edgeworth; Constable and Company; Richard Clay and Sons] Stapled and unbound. Octavo: four leaves (eight unpaginated pages). On aged and lightly spotted paper. Vignette on title page. Includes list of plates and 'Specimen Entry' of pages 51-3. Verso of last leaf headed 'from CONSTABLE'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST', comprising 'THE CARTER-POLLARD DISCLOSURES... |
£30.00 | |
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Bertram Dobell, bookseller and man of letters (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed "B. Dobell" to [Walter] Jerrold, man of letters. Two pages, 8vo, vestiges of an album page on reverse, good condition. He sent a presentation copy of his "Rosemary & Pansies", somne of which "appeared in the privately printed ed[ition]" he gave him. He also sends a booklet "by one 'Lucian Lambert' - a gentleman who seems to have a good... |
£50.00 | |
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Bickers; Alfred Cooper; W. Downing; T. Gladwell; W. George; Kerr & Richardson; C. Lowe; Uriah Maggs; J. Mathews; J. Neale; Parry & Hales; W. Paterson; Reeves & Turner; J. Roche; H. Sotheran; H. Young Thirty-one secondhand booksellers' catalogues (one a duplicate). all octavo, in worn nineteenth-century binding, with front hinge loose, lacking spine. New endpapers. All items good, on aged paper with occasional foxing. An invaluable collection, providing a snapshot of secondhand bookselling in provincial Victorian England within an extremely short timescale... |
£450.00 | |
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Budd & Calkin, booksellers, stationers (add bookbinding and "To their Royal Highnesses The Prince Regent & Duke of Kent" Invoice, printed heading, account of Lord Glenbervie. One page, 8vo, defects but text clear and complete. "State Trials" and "Cobbett's Register". |
£30.00 | |
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C. A. Stonehill, Inc., booksellers of New Haven, Connecticut [Charles Archibald Stonehill] Coloured advertisement featuring cartoon by P. Webb. Dimensions roughly nine inches by three and a half wide. Creased and somewhat aged, with traces of previous blue paper mount on reverse. The cartoon, which occupies just under the top half, shows three hillbillies watching a fourth chalk crosses onto a farmyard wall, with the caption 'Somebody... |
£45.00 | |
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Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Dickinson & Higham] Octavo, 216 pages. One of 'only fifty copies printed, on thick paper'. Title-page in red and black. Aged and a little stained, in recent half-leather rebinding. 9670 items listed, 'for the most part second-hand'. Preceded by 'ADVERTISEMENT' in which Higham 'trusts [...] that this modest... |
£450.00 | |
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Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Hodder & Stoughton] Autograph Note to Messrs Hodder & Stoughton, publishers. One page. Dimensions of slip roughly four inches by five and a quarter wide. Somewhat aged, but entirely legible. Reads 'British Quarterly Review | Can you tell me what was the last part of this issued, if it is possible to get a title-page and index to vol 83. My last part is 166 April 1886'.... |
£35.00 | |
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Charles Rochussen (1814-94), Dutch painter; Johannes de Mare, Dutch engraver; J. F. Brugman, Dutch printer Paper dimensions roughly ten and a half inches by eleven and a half; print dimensions eight and a half inches by ten and a half. Aged and with three inch strip, roughly half an inch wide, torn away from surface of print in top left-hand corner. Depicts a crowded and rather grand hall, containing... |
£75.00 |
