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Louis Heren (1919-1995), foreign correspondent with The Times of London

[ Louis Heren, foreign correspondent with The Times of London. ] Typed Letter Signed to Lady de Freitas, regarding two books he has borrowed from her for research for a book he is writing.

1p., small 4to. He refers to 'lunch with the Bells' and 'Tattie', and apologizes for keeping the books for so long: 'They were a great help, especially Rory Fitzpatrick's God's Frontiersmen'. He ends with the news that he is revising his manuscript, 'and would like to send you a copy when it is...

£35.00
Messrs. Spelman, auctioneers, Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lowestoft [ Mrs. Wickes of 'The Belt', Aylsham, Norfolk; the 'Norwich Mercury' Steam Works ]

[ Auction catalogue, priced in pencil. ] "The Belt," Aylsham. Norfolk. Catalogue of the Superior Furniture for Entertaining & Sleeping Rooms, [...] Books, Engravings, 100 Dozens of Wine, [...] In and About the Late Residence of Mrs. Wickes, Dec.

32pp., 12mo. Stapled. In blue wraps with '"The Belt." | Aylsham.' printed on front cover. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with central vertical fold. In manuscript on front cover: 'Items marked X the property of Mrs. Wickes Exors'. Some ink emendations, and a large number of lots...

£65.00
John Yeats, LL.D. [ The Society of Arts, London ]

[ Printed pamphlet with signed inscription by the author. ] "Gilds and their Functions." A Paper read before the Society of Arts, January 29th, 1873. Thos. Webster, Q.C., F.R.S., in the chair.

34pp., 12mo. Drophead title, with subtitle: 'A Paper read before the Society of Arts, January 29th, 1873. Thos. Webster, Q.C., F.R.S., in the chair. For details of the discussion, &c., see Journal of the Society, No. 1054, Vol. xxi.' Disbound and without covers. In good condition, on lightly...

£75.00
George Jacob Holyoake [ North of England Co-operative Printing Society, Manchester ]

[Printed pamphlet.] The Logic of Co-operation.

16pp., 12mo. Disbound and without covers. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Now uncommon.

 £56.00
George Jacob Holyoake [ North of England Co-operative Printing Society, Manchester; Co-operative Movement in Victorian England ]

[Printed pamphlet.] The Policy of Commercial Co-operation as respects including the Consumer.

16pp., 12mo. Disbound and without wraps. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Now uncommon.

 £56.00
Henry Lemon (1822-1902), English engraver [ Messrs E. Gambert & Co., London publishers ]

[ Henry Lemon, English engraver. ] Three Autograph Letters Signed to his publishers of Messrs. E. Gambert & Co., the first two regarding his engraving 'The Miller's Daughter', and the last proposing to engrave 'The Saviour in the Temple'.

The three items in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. ONE: 4 April 1858. 2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Addressed to 'Mr. H Moore | Messrs. Gambert & Co.' Regarding the financial arrangement surrounding his engraving 'The Miller's Daughter'. On the subject of 'the two repayment bills',...

£80.00
F. Kornman, Book and Printseller, 168 High Holborn, London, W.C.

[ Victorian bookseller's catalogue. ] Catalogue of Books & Portraits, comprising Miscellaneous, Theatrical, Old Newspapers, Views of Theatres, London, Trials, Collections, &c. &c.

8pp., 12mo. Stapled. Heavily aged and worn. A trim little catalogue, with 158 books described on the first seven pages, and the last page devoted to prints. Beneath the drophead title: 'Post Office Orders to be made payable at High Holborn. | No books or prints sent on approval. | Theatrical and...

£65.00
F. S. Boas [ Frederick Samuel Boas (1862-1957) ], English literary critic and scholar of the drama [ Leopold Edward Berman (1877-1946), proprietor of the Royalty Theatre, Lonndon ]

[ Frederick Samuel Boas, scholar of the drama. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('F. S. Boas') to L. E. Berman, proprietor of the Royalty Theatre, regarding 'the two versions of Faust produced by Charles Kean & Samuel Phelps'.

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition. In stamped envelope addressed to Boas at the Royalty Theatre, Dean Street. He thanks Berman for drawing his attention to the two versions of the play, adding: 'I feel that in this Goethe Centenary year, when the Urfaust is so rightly being performed, some...

£35.00
Antony Brett-James (1920-1984), 5th Indian Division Royal Signals, military historian and Sandhurst lecturer

Sixty-five black-and-white pencil portraits by Antony Brett-James, 5th Indian Division Royal Signals, of Indian soldiers who served under him and his fellow English officers, including the fifteen reproduced in his book 'Report My Signals' (1948).

A feature of Brett-James's well-received war memoir 'Report My Signals' (1948) was the fifteen reproductions of his pencil drawings of Indian men who served under him, the originals of which are present here, together with a further fifty. These indicate Brett-James's skill at conveying...

£600.00
[ J. G. Macvicar, LL.D., D.D., Minister of Moffat ]

[Printed pamphlet providing an 'exposition' of Macvicar's work.] Science Based on Religion. A Sketch of a Philosophy. From "The Annandale Herald" of February 13, 1875, with further exposition by the author.

16pp., 12mo. Disbound and without covers. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. This item is an anonymous review of Macvicar's work, not the work itself, the author writing: 'what is proposed here is not a critique or an estimate of our author's philosophy, but a simple view of it as short...

£65.00
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