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Author, Title, Summary | Subject | Price | |
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Anon. [Thomas Twining?] Poss. Thomas Twining, divine, musician, linguist and translator of Aristotle, 1735-1804, DNB. Scrap of paper, 7 x 2", some marks, spike-hole, text clear and apparently complete. "Paley's natural Theology/ in good plain binding./for Mr Twining./ Nov 20. 1802." Twining nor Paley (save pos. ref.)... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £25.00 | |
Anon. The History of Valentine and Orson 12mo, unopened, unbound, g+ |
Literature | £100.00 | |
Anon. [Anne Marsh (later Anne Marsh-Caldwell) (1791-1874)] Castle Avon. By the author of "Emilia Wyndham," "Mordaunt Hall," etc. etc. 12mo, 352 pp. In contemporary brown calf half-binding, with marbled boards and grey endpapers. Loose and foxed in worn binding. |
Literature, Printing History, Women | £56.00 | |
Anon. [James Ballantine] [Sir James Ranken Fergusson (1835-1924)] The Gaberlunzie's Wallet. With numerous illustrations on steel and wood. INSCRIBED to 'James R. Fergusson Esq with the kind regards of James Ballantine | Edin[burg]h 16th May 1870'. With Fergusson's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. 8vo: 311 pp. Plates throughout (not listed) and numerous illustrations in text. In original printed grey boards with grotesque... |
Literature, Printing History | £75.00 |
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Anon. [T.Charlton Smith] Belfegor [Narrative Poem based on Niccolo Machiavelli's "Novella di Belfegor".] 134pp., 8vo, in modern blue leather gt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, staining throughout affecting c.25% of each page, pages trimmed, but text clear and complete, with no loss of text except the very top of the letters written in the author's inscription. INSCRIPTION (titlepage): W.J. Mercer... |
Literature | £250.00 | |
Anthony Hope Valuation of the literary properties of Anthony Hope, deceased. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (d.1933)(DNB) From the archives of literary agents, A.P. Watt, letters, copy letters, listings of publishers, titles of books (inc. Zenda, etc) and contributions, royalties and valuations inc. literary estate, payments to Lady Hawkins c. 18 pages, 8vo and folio, most in... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £150.00 | |
Anthony Panizzi. Autograph Note, third person, to the Lord Mayor of London and wife. Chief Librarian, British Museum (1797-1879). One page, 8vo, bifoliate, sl. marked, fold marks, text clear and complete. "Mr Panizzi presents his compliments to the Lord Mayor . . . and regrets very much that a previous engagement will prevent him from having the honour . . ." |
Book Trade History, History, Literature | £45.00 | |
Anthony Wimmer; William Dickson [nineteenth-century salmon fishing; angling; field sports; the Coquet River] Both items with text clear and entire. Item One: offprint, on one side of a piece of wove paper 25 x 18.5 cm. Good, on lightly-aged paper with some wear to extremities. Headed 'AQUAECULTURE, And the Artificial Propogation [sic] of the Danube Salmon in Bavaria, BY DR. WIMMER. | Re-printed from... |
£56.00 | ||
Antonio Iraizoz 178 pages, 8vo. Poor: foxed and stained in worn and damaged boards. INSCRIBED by Iraizoz ('22 Agosto 1964') to his 'amigo y companero' Jose de la Luz Leon. A few unobtrusive annotations. |
Book Trade History, Literature | £45.00 | |
Antonio Visentini (Venice, 1688-1782), Italian (Venetian) engraver Engraved bookplate headed 'LA FELICITA' DELLE LETTERE'. Dimensions of plate roughly four and a half inches by six and a half wide. Dimensions of paper roughly five inches by seven wide. Clear image on stained, grubby laid paper. Shows mythological figure with helmet and shield holding up a book, within a monumental border with coins, ivy, statuary,... |
Art and Architecture, Book Trade History, Literature | £180.00 |