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J. W. Gray & Son, Limited. 'Lightning Conductor Experts. Electrical Engineers. Steeplejacks. Chimney Shaft Builders & Repairers. Church Steeple Restorers. Flagstaff Makers & Erectors.'

Collection of six items, including publicity material, invoice and receipt, some relating to an order for a house in East Sheen, Surrey.

The collection of six items, with an envelope, is in good condition. An interesting sidelight into 1930s business practice, and an insight into an unusual business concern. First, copy of letter, 14 November 1930 (4to: 1 p), to the firm from Percy L. Young of Messrs H. Young & Co....

Science, Medicine and Technology £85.00
J. W. Whymper.

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent.

Wood-engraver. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. "I have just received yr last two drawings. / I will have these drawn I think, for photography gives a coat to the wood and when you think your tints are too light - you find them too dark. / With regard to the Beach cut I am persuaded that in...

Art and Architecture, Book Trade History £125.00
J. Wolfe Barry,

Autograph Note Signed to (Sir Frederick) Bramwell, engineer

Engineer. One page, 8vo. He asks him to use his influence in Belfast to get a job for a former pupil of his.

Science, Medicine and Technology £35.00
J. Würtz [Commission Scientifique pour l'exploration des Antiquités Américaines, Paris]

Autograph Letter Signed ('J Würtz'), in French, to 'mon cher Martin'

8vo, 3 pp. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. In a difficult hand. Apparently relating to a proposed meeting and dinner for 'tous les trois' (including ''). It is curiously difficult to discover anything, either about Würtz or about the Commission.

French, History £45.00
J.A. Lawson.

The Wandering Naturalists. A Story of Adventure.

Advert. leaf, Title-page, pp.[1]-302, sl. shaken, hinge strain, corners bumped, some marking, but still a goodlooking book. The first thrust of the plot isan expedition, plant-hunting in Northern India and the Himalayas which they cross to Seksura on the River Arun in Nepal(possibly invented...

Natural History, Travel and Topography £100.00
J.B. Arbuthnot,under pseud. "Sassenach"

Arms and the Irishman.

128pp., 8vo. Foxing, covers marked, pictorial dj damaged (protected with plastic, sound. INSCRIBED by the author who published the book pseudonymously as "Sassenach": "With best wishes from the Author / JB Arbuthnot / Dec 8th 1932".

History £100.00
J.B. Buckstone

Autograph letter signed to unnamed male correspondent,

English comic actor and dramatist (1802-79). 2 pp, 12mo. Concerning the staging of a new play. "Yates has the first & 2d acts complete - It must be in 4 parts / I am now on the 4th.: when can I have the sheets & illustrations of the entire romance?" Details of the first two acts follow...

Music and Theatre £50.00
J.B. Buckstone.

Autograph letter, third person, to the Editor of "The Advertiser".

Actor and dramatist (1802-1879). Three pages, 8vo, some marking but good condition. He asks for a mention of his Benefit. It is his last night at the Haymarket before he joins Madame Vestris at the Lyceum. He names the play, "The Beaux Startagem", adds that "Mr John Reeve son of the late...

Music and Theatre £50.00
David P. Thomson, M.D., &c., Hon. Secretary to the Executive Committee [Liverpool Royal Institution]

[Printed handbill.] Programme of the Soirée at the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street, top of Bold-street, [...] On Thursday, the 22nd of April, 1852. Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq., F.S.A., M.R.G.S., F.P.S., President.

4to, 1 p. Dimensions 20.5 x 25 cm. 42 lines of text, in a variety of point sizes. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper. A varied bill, more entertainment than instruction, beginning 'The Museum will be thrown open at six o'clock', with references to 'the electric...

Science, Medicine and Technology £225.00 Programme of the Soirée at the Royal Institution
J.C. Squire.

Typed Letter Signed to De V. Payen-Payne.

Poet and man of letters (1884-1958). One page, 4to, fold marks, sl. wear, text readable. " . . . I think the occasion for using that poem by Collins would be the next occasion on which we mention - as we are bound to mention - the Artist's Rifles [last work in ms.]/ It will go in very nicely if...

Literature £45.00