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Ed. Dr Marion Phillips

[Marion Phillips; Labour; Printed Periodical] The Labour Woman. A Monthly Journal for Working Women

One issue only. Vol. XIV, No. 5, pp.[65]-[79], unbound, some damage and aging not affecting text. It commences with A Parliamentary Chronicle by Ellen Wilkinson. See image

Women £80.00 Women
Ed. Sylvia Pankhurst

[Sylvia Pankhurst; printed periodical; Suffragettes] The Woman's Dreadnought.

One issue only. Four pages, paginated [241]-244, aged, edges sl. chipped, small closed tear, text clear and complete, folded in two. See image.

Women £80.00 Pankhurst
John Munro and others (G.B. Shaw, May Morrris, Alfred Pollard, etc. etc.)

[Book & ALSs] Frederick James Furnivall. A Volume of Personal Record. WITH: TWO Autograph Letters Signed F.J.F.

Short Biography by John Munro.Frederick James Furnivall A Volume of Personal Record with List of SubscribersRebound, hf-lea, rubbed, endpapers sl. stained, minior spinal damage, contents in good condition.83 preliminary pages and biography, 215 pages, black and white plates, good condition in...

£165.00
Karl Elze [Karl Friedrich Elze (1821 – 1889) was a German scholar and Shakespearean critic].

[Karl Elze, Shakespeare; Globe Theatre; Pamphlet] Eine Auffuhrung im Globus-Theater. Einleitender Vortrag bei der 14. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft am 24. April 1878. Separat-Abdruck aus dem Shakespeare-Jahrbuch Band XIV

Pamphlet, 20pp., 8vo, grey wraps, stained, front wrap detached. WorldCat and COPAC appear to record a 32 page edition (1879, 1879). See image.

Literature £85.00 Elze
Laurence Humphreys (1571 – 7 July 1591), English Catholic martyr.

[Laurence Humphries; Catholic Martyr] Commemorative Seal with Printed Encomium.

See image for text of Latin encomium and detail of seal. . Card Base, 14 x 16cm, sl. damage not affecting text, spotting and aging, text legible. Seal sl. damaged. See image.

Religion £80.00 Martyr
The Duke of Buckingham [James Wyld the Elder, English cartographer and geographical publisher].

[James Wyld the Elder; Map Making] Autograph Letter Third Person of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), to James Wyld the Elder, cartographer about the Ordnance Map.

One page, 12mo, bifolium, stain partially obscuring address, chipped (without loss of text), text clear and complete. The Duke of Buckingham requests Mr Wyld will inform him whether there are not more parts of the Ordnance Map [?] than those which he has sent him, and also whether he has [sent...

£75.00
Charles Hutton (1737 – 1823), mathematician and surveyor.

[Charles Hutton, mathematician, surveyor] Holograph Index (NOT published) to A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (2 vols, 1815 edition). List of plates for vol.1 addressed to Rich[ar]d Murphy Esq | St peters street | Derby.. List of Plate

A. List of plates in 'Vol.Ist', Holograph MS., one page, 4to, small stain, sl.chipped, text complete, addressed to a Richard Murphy of Derby on verso, text columnising No. of Plate, Title/subject, page number; B. List of plates in 'Vol.2nd', Holograph MS., 2pp. fol., bifolium, folded, aged but...

Science, Medicine and Technology £850.00 Hutton
G.W. Thornbury [George Walter Thornbury (1828 – 1876), author, first biographer of J. M. W. Turner]

[G.W. Thornbury, author; Dickens as Editor] Autograph Letter Signed [G.W.?] Thornbury to unnamed recipient (an editor) about his current publishing activities (inc. for Charles Dickens).

Two pages, bifolium, good condition despite some dustiong, text clear. I am down here for a short time with my father. Directly I return to town I shall be only too happy to call & see you. I have some fresh adventure 'Rides round Parnassus' which I think would suit your paper.- I should...

£90.00
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (or Llewellyn) (1816 – 1886) illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author.

[Llewellyn Jewitt, engraver] Autograph Letter Signed LL. Jewitt to Mr [Doxey?] mainly about editorial work (subject COINS), partly family.

Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. May I ask whether you have very kindly managed to make the numismatic memoranda for me from the 'Num: Chronicle' of 'Num: Jour.' which I asked in my last letter. I mean the examplesof engraved coins bearing crosses, with the vol: and page where they...

£120.00
[William Lambard (presumably descendant of the Antiquary); John Amherst (father of the General); Church Wardens; Overseers.

[Legal Settlement in Sevenoaks, Kent; 1709/10] Certificate of legal settlement in the Parish of Sevenoaks, Kent. for Edward Kirkin and his wife, Constant.

Apparently a rare survival but I'd welcome information. One page, folio, fold marks, foxing, some rough edges, but text clear and complete. Headed by Royal Coat-of-Arms (Dieu et Mon Droit). Signed by Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of Sevenoaks (signatures of Thomas Reeeve, John Summers...

History, Law, Social history £380.00 Settlement