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F. Carruthers Gould. Autograph letter signed to "Jim" (J. T? Molony). Cartoonist (1844-1925). Two pages, 8vo, fold marks but text good and clear. "My dear Jim,/ Broken out in a new place, have you? Well, I'll see what I can do to help. Just at present I am entirely out of my book plate, and as the block has been damaged I shall have either to get a new one made or... |
Art and Architecture | £45.00 | |
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F. Carruthers Gould. Autograph Letter Signed to A. Edmund Spender. Cartoonist. Four pages, 8vo, good condition. He is enthusiastic about the idea of a "Press visit to Devon" but thinks that the sort of journalist he calls the "boozy bounder" should not go. He names people who would help, including aristocrats and literary figures. |
Art and Architecture | £45.00 | |
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F. Gigault d'Olincourt, Ingenieur Civil [Lithographie, Imprimerie et Librairie] 4to: 2 pp. Eleven lines. Good, on lightly creased and discoloured paper. Column of printed advertisements in left-hand margin of first page, which is headed by a printed description of d'Olincourt's qualifications, enclosed in an engraving of a jumble of disparate items including a book-press,... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £100.00 | |
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F. Head. Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent (Longmans, publisher). Father of Catherine Head, the author of work. Two pages, 4to, fold marks, good condition. "Sir,/ I have reeived safely the copies of the 2d. Vol of the Messiah, and am very much pleased with their appearance, the printing and paper are both excellent, & the work seems in every way carefully... |
Literature, Religion | £50.00 | |
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F. J. Gruggen, Scholar of Saint John's College, Cambridge Octavo. 84 pages. A disbound pamphlet from the Churchill Babington collection. Very good with light foxing to prelims. 'Amongst all the institutions which contribute to strengthen the bonds of society, by establishing and confirming that mutual trust and confidence among men which is necessary... |
Law | £100.00 | |
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F. L. Crilly [Justin McCarthy; Ireland; Irish; Eire; Fenian Movement] The Irish Library. 1908-9. Vol. 2. The Fenian Movement: The Story of the Manchester Martyrs. 8vo, 94 + ii pp. Stapled and in original green and white printed wraps. Advertisements on wraps, prelims and final leaf. Frontispiece portrait of Justin McCarthy (with transcription of a letter by him to Ouseley facing it) and double-sided plate (between pp. 32 and 33) carrying seven... |
History | £150.00 | |
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N.H.D. Spicer and John Spicer, with illustrations by D.J. Avery. 31pp., 12mo, illustrated blue wraps (a warrior), contents crudely joined to wraps with sellotape, wraps sl. chipped and worn, contents mainly good. No copy listed on COPAC; four copies listed on WorldCat (3 in South Africa, and Texas). |
Literature | £125.00 | |
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F. Yeats Brown Autograph Letter Signed to "Marrot" (presumably of Elkin Mathews and Marrot, publishers). Author of "The Bengal Lancer". One page, obl.8vo, very good condition. "Our mutual friend Mr E.F. Benson suggested I should write to say when I expected to have the book ready which you have so kindly consented to read. / At present I can only give the ends of the week to revision, but I hope to... |
Book Trade History | £50.00 | |
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F.C. Burnand, comic writer, sometime editor of "Punch" Four ALSs and one Typed Note Signed to Harry Furniss, caricaturist and illustrator. Total thirteen pages, mainly 8vo, fair to good condition, texts clear and complete. Jocular, often obscurely, and in a difficult hand, subjects include: an invitation to ride; Furniss missing the Cardinal; trip to Calais; Paris trip for "Mr Punch"; "night gatherings of clubs"; Lord Rosebery;... |
Literature | £120.00 | |
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Thomas Thorpe, London coachmaker [William Atherton (1742-1803) of Prescot Hall, St Helens, Lancashire, slave trader and owner of plantations in Jamaica] An indication of how slavers spent the fruits of their slaves’ labours. With the advent of slavery studies William Atherton has been the subject of a deal of interest, reflected on his Wikipedia page. Thorpe and Lee are listed as coachmakers at 210 Holborn in 1791; in 1803 the firm is named as... |
£280.00 |