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Joseph Parker (1830-1902), English nonconformist divine, preacher, theologian and miscellaneous writer

Autograph Note Signed to Rev. R. Best?], concerning takings from his lectures.

One page, thirteen lines, 8vo, small closed tears, text clear and complete. "As I cannot continue my lectures on [? see scan], for some time to come I return a proportion of the balance of money collected in various towns. I have not taken one penny for my labours, but I propose to retain about...

£56.00 Joseph Parker (1830-1902), English nonconformist divine
Charles Keene [Charles S. Keene; Charles Samuel Keene] (1823-1891), English illustrator, known for his work for 'Punch' [Frank Walton (1840-1928), artist]

Autograph Note Signed from the Punch illustrator Charles Keene ('Charles S. Keene') to fellow-artist Frank Walton.

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper folded twice. He has 'no idea where the Graphotype Company "hail from" & cannot find out', despite making enquiries.

 £45.00 Autograph Note Signed from the Punch illustrator Charles Keene
Edward Le Bas (1904-1966), English painter and collector [Jean Winifred Inglis (1884-1959), artist]

Two Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Le Bas to 'Miss Inglis'.

Letter One: 12mo, 2 pp. Good on lightly-aged paper. The 'delightful drawing' she left for him is a 'wonderful surprise'. He has been 'trying some life drawing direct with the brush' and is surprised that she was able 'to put it down like that!' Letter Two: 4to, 2 pp. Fair, on lightly-aged and...

£180.00 Two Autograph Letters Signed from Edward Le Bas
Mark Antony Lower (1813-1876), English antiquary and local historian, founder member of the Sussex Archaeological Society [John Wickham Flower (1807-1873), Croydon geologist and archaeologist]

Two Autograph Letters signed from the Sussex antiquary Mark Antony Lower (both signed 'M: A: Lower') to John Wickham Flower.

Both items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Letter One (27 April 1865): 12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Seventeen lines. He is sorry not to have been able to accept Flower's hospitality: 'Let us hope to meet about Whitsuntide for the pilgrimage to Firle'. He is eager for information for his '...

£125.00 Two Autograph Letters signed from the Sussex antiquary Mark Antony Lower
Sir John Bernard Burke (1814-1892), English genealogist, editor of 'Burke's Peerage'

Autograph Letter Signed by the English genealogist John Bernard Burke, editor of 'Burke's Peerage', to one of his 'Earliest Supporters', regarding his 'St. James's Magazine'.

12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Twenty lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Because of the 'Very great outlay attending the production of the work at the onset', asks for a year's advance subscription of £1 10s 0d. Gives the publication date, adding 'from the distinguished literary aid I...

£65.00 Two Autograph Letters signed from the Sussex antiquary Mark Antony Lower
George Hands, director, Grotrian Steinweg Ltd, pianofortes and player-pianofortes [Professor Willibald Richter (1860-1929)]

Typed Letter Signed from George Hands, director, Grotrian Steinweg Ltd, to the pianist and teacher Professor Willibald Richter.

4to, 1 p. Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper. He has been 'asked by the firm in Braunschweig' to give his opinion on two questions relating to 'Concave Sharps'. He puts the questions to Richter, adding that the Sharps are 'a special patent of Grotrian Steinweg', adding that...

£56.00 Typed Letter Signed from George Hands, director, Grotrian Steinweg Ltd
[From the papers of Montgomery Meigs, Jr, son of The Union Army's Quarter-Master-General] Anon.

[Pamphlet] General Basis of Estimates for Labor and Material, as prepared by the United States Light-House Establishment.

Pamphlet, 'Published for the Information of Officers of the Quartermaster's Department', 9pp.,12mo, original grey printed wraps, good, on aged paper, in worn and stained wraps, tiny cross shape neatly punched through the leaves in bottom outer corner.

 £250.00 United States Light-House Establishment
[Silhouettes; portraiture; eighteenth-century fashion]

Eight original silhouettes of eighteenth-century head and shoulder profiles of fashionable men and women.

On eight pieces of 8vo paper, one of which has ha d a 3 cm horizontal strip cut away at the foot (not affecting the image). On a variety of different paper types, all wove. Good, on aged paper. Attractive images, ranging in height from 7 to 9 cm, of four women and four men, all clearly belonging...

£85.00 Eight original silhouettes of eighteenth-century head and shoulder profiles
S. C. Pinney, American authority on George Washington Genealogy.

The Pinney archive of material relating to the English branch of the family of George Washington

Large archive of material relating to the English branch of the Washington family, assembled by American authority S. C. Pinney, comprising manuscripts, typescripts, printed extracts and offprints, photographic and other illustration, and a small batch of letters to Pinney from the English...

£2,250.00
[Christopher Sykes; Kingston-upon-Hull; M. C. Peck and Son; George Falkner and Sons, Manchester

[Printed illustrated handbill advertisement] A Graunde Fantesie Fayre schal be holden in a Marketynge Plaice in Ye Halles of Assemblie, or Jarratt Streete Roomes, situate in ye pleasaunte toune of Kyngeston-upon-Hull.

4to, 4 pp. Bifolium. Printed in brown on watermarked laid paper. Fair, on aged paper. An exercise in Wardour Street English, foreshadowing in some respects the Leadenhall Press with its mish-mash of fonts and point sizes, and its antiquated decorative rules. The fair will be opened by 'Maister...

£38.00 Hull: A Graunde Fantesie Fayre
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