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Alessandro Maffei, Italian Minister to Austria, 1859-67, and Ambassador to the United States, 1867-71

Autograph Quotation Signed ('A. Maffei').

On one side of a piece of laid paper, 11 x 18 cm. Laid down on a slightly larger piece of paper. Good: lightly aged with three neat vertical folds. Reads 'Oh! land of beauty - sun-lit Italy! How often do I fondly think of thee, | And of the days gone by . . . . . ! | [signature] A. Maffei |...

History, Royalty, Travel and Topography £56.00
Alex. Riddell,

The Ulster Calendar of Persons and Events. By Alex. Riddell. 1911.

8vo, 76 + [i] + [iii]. Rebound in attractive green paper wraps, including surviving front wrap (back wrap missing), damaged but reinforced, staples rusty. Final page a Calendar for 1911, followed by three pages blank but for heading 'MEMORANDA'. Verso of front wrap carries an advertisement, with...

History, Travel and Topography £100.00
‘The Cartoonist’, short-lived British periodical, founded by Steve Way and Sir John Sorrell; Newell and Sorrell; Ed McLachlan; David Austin; Lowry; David Haldane; Kipper Williams; Chris Riddle

[‘The Cartoonist’, short-lived British periodical, founded by Steve Way and Sir John Sorrell.] The first number, published on April Fool’s Day.

Fortnightly publication, founded after the closure of Punch by Sir John Sorrell and the Punch cartoon editor Steve Way. It only lasted for eight months, and this and the second number are said to be scarce. (The only copies listed on JISC are at the deposit libraries.) A 28-page broadsheet....

£180.00
Alexander Bain, Scottish psychologist and educationalist

ALS to P.P. Alexander

2pp., 8vo. Compliments Alexander's "polemic with Mill on the question of 'Liberty and Necessity'"" and promises a review ("some public form").

Science, Medicine and Technology £100.00
Alexander Baring, first Baron Ashburton (1773-1848).

Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent.

Merchant and banker (1773-1848). 2 pages, 8vo. Creased, grubby and discoloured. 'The proclamation has been made this morning and the Poll [presumably a parliamentary election, as Baring sat in the Commons from 1806] will open on Thursday next. I request therefore that our counsel may be here...

History, Social history £50.00
Alexander Brown, nineteenth-century bookseller in the Strand, London [Smith and Guscotte, Solicitors, 19 Essex Street, Strand]

Manuscript Indenture (counterpart of Lease of Brown's premises at no. 342 Strand), on parchment, signed by Brown.

Fifty-two long lines of text, on one side of a single piece of parchment, roughly inches by. '[...] Between John Guscotte of No. 19 Essex Street Strand [...] and Alexander Brown of No. 342 Strand in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Book Seller'. A ten-year lease for a consideration of sixty...

Book Trade History, Printing History, Social history, Travel and Topography £125.00
Alexander Campbell Fraser.

Autograph Letter Signed "A C Fraser" to an unnamed correspondent.

Philosopher (see DNB). Two pages, 8vo, some spotting, mainly good condition. "I thank you for the profound & yet widely entertaining & [?] volume on "Moral Sensation" which you were so good as to send to me some weeks ago. I have read it with much asent to its main doctrine, &...

Science, Medicine and Technology £75.00
Alexander Cockburn.

Autograph Note Signed to M. de Struve.

Diplomat (1776-1852)(Boase). One page, 4to, in French, with added notes in another hand about Cockburn ("Envoye Britanique [sic] a hambourg"), thanking his correspondent for a prompt reply, adding "J'ai l'honneur de vous remettre [cy jointe?] . . ."

French, History, Travel and Topography £35.00
Alexander D[avid]. Ross (1883-1966).

Recent Earthquakes and their Investigation. [Offprint from the 'Proceedings' of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.]

8vo: 14 pp. One plate and two diagrams in text. Stapled and unbound. In original grey printed wraps. Dogeared and grubby, with central vertical crease. Presentation copy. Ross is described as 'Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.' He was Lecturer in...

Science, Medicine and Technology £45.00
Alexander Denham and Co. [Charles Whittingham; Chiswick Press; autographs; booksellers' catalogues]

Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Drawings.

Quarto: 65 pp. Numerous plates. In original grey printed wraps. Internally good, with a little spotting and creasing to the ruckled edges; wraps worn and stained. A beautifully printed item, on thick laid paper. Among the printed matter are books of hours, breviaries, psalters, and letters (with...

Book Trade History, Literature, Printing History £75.00