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E[dward]. Newbery, Bookseller, Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, London Printed Advertisement Leaf advertising Mavor's 'Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries'. Two pages, on leaf roughly eight and a half inches by five. Very good, with three stab holes along one margin. Headed 'NEW COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, [...] This Day is published'. On the reverse is a long and florid 'ADDRESS' beginning 'As we have now closed our labours, it is natural to...	Book Trade History, Printing History	£60.00
E´nri´ Ua Muirgheasa [Irish proverbs]. Seanfhocla Uladh First edition, xvi, 319 p. ; 8vo, soft-covered (green cloth), slightly worn, slight hinge strain, mainly good. Scarce.		£350.00
Earl Marchmont, Thomas [ Secker ] Archbishop of Canterbury, Beversham Filmer, J. Stephens. Document signed by these four parties, part printed, part manuscript. One page, 4to, one small tear, staining, pinholes, text clear and complete. The four parties acknowledge receipt of £62.10 in their office aas "executors of Sarah late Duchess of Marlborough assignee of John Rudghe as per margin. In the margin, in manuscript is a list of years 1828-1838 with a...	History, Royalty	£250.00
Earl of Carnarvon autograph letter signed to Major William Owen Lanyon, C.M.G. [later Sir William Owen Lanyon, Administrator of the Transvaal] Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, British statesman who made Canada a confederation but failed to create a federation of South Africa; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Interesting matter relating to South African affairs. He encloses (not present) a passage of Lanyon's from the...	History, Military and Naval History, Travel and Topography	£100.00
Earl of Dalkeith [FIELD SPORTS, FOX HUNTING] Printed bank instructions, with autograph additions and signature. Dimensions: 5 inches by 7 inches. Somewhat grubby and with ink stain at foot. Headed 'THE MASTERS OF FOX HOUNDS ASSOCIATION, \| TATTERSALLS, ALBERT GATE, LONDON.' Standing order to Dalkeith's bank, Coutts & Co of 59 Strand, to make an annual payment on 1 May to the Herries Farquhar branch...		£35.00
Canon Lewis Hensley (1824-1905), Vicar of Hichin [Slough, Berkshire; Upton Royal] Printed handbill reproducing a letter from Hensley, headed '(From "THE TIMES," October 17, 1888.) \| SLOUGH AND M. ARAGO. \| TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.', deploring the proposed change of the name of the twon from Slough to Upton Royal. On one side of a piece of wove paper, 32 x 24 cm. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with slight wear to extremities. Headed '(From "THE TIMES," October 17, 1888.) SLOUGH AND M. ARAGO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.' The letter is thirteen lines long, ephatically...	History	£75.00
East India Company [St Helena; Charter of 1833] Manuscript account of 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter', including reference to St Helena. On one side of a piece of laid watermarked paper, 14 x 8 cm. On aged and creased paper. The accounts are brief, and neatly written in an unidentified hand. At foot '1845'. Headed 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter', and featuring a total of £17,936,217 against itemised charges of £18,...	Economics, History, Travel and Topography	£150.00
Ebenezer Prout Autograph letter signed to Mr [Otto] Haas, dealer in musical autographs?] Musical composer, organist and theorist (1835-1909). Two pages, 8vo, minor defects fold mark (notoiceable fold marks on blank last page, one or two faint spots, white paper, black ink, original, mainly very good condition. In answer to a novel enquiry. "In reply to your letter I write to say...	Book Trade History, Music and Theatre, Printing History	£75.00
Eberhard Wortmann [Hermann Hesse; Sacred Geometry; Neoplatonism] Corrected Typescript of 'Der Pyramidenbauer'; Corrected Typescript of German lecture; photocopy of Manuscript article 'Der Kanon des Kosmos', with English translation; two pages of German manuscript notes; 56 printed cosmological diagrams. Wortmann - whose 'Das Gesetz Des Kosmos' (1965) is considered a cosmological masterpiece - corresponded with Hermann Hesse, and was the only modern author to be described by him as a master of the Glass Bead Game. The Sacred Science Institute in America is presently working with Wortmann's...	Education, Religion, Science, Medicine and Technology	£450.00
Ed. André [Édouard François André (1840-1911)], editor [entomology; book catalogues] Catalogues 1, 2, 5 and 16 of the 'Bibliothèque Entomologique'. All four catalogues are stitched and unbound. All four are 8vo, with nos. 1 and 5 of 32 pp, no. 2 of 64 pp, and no 16 of 40 pp. The last leaf of catalogue 2, carrying advertisements is torn with some loss, otherwise the texts are clear and complete, on aged and spotted paper. Providing valuable...	Book Trade History, French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£125.00