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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Sir James Drogmole Linton, R.A.

Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Manook.

British artist (1840-1916). One page, 12mo. Folded twice. Very good, on somewhat discoloured paper with crease to one corner. Reads 'I return you the cards signed. I regret I cannot do a sketch as it has rained requests of a similar nature this Xmas & I am now obliged to refuse with many...

Art and Architecture £35.00
Sir James Emerson Tennent [the Board of Trade, Whitehall]

Autograph Letter Signed to Messrs. W. Ewart & Son, Belfast.

Irish traveller, politician and author (1804-69; DNB). 1 page, 4to, on blue paper, with printed address for 'further communication' in top left-hand corner. Docketed with date of reply on verso of second leaf of bifoliate, with has remains of mounts in four corners. Creased with slight spotting...

£80.00
Sir James Eyre

Fragment signed,

Judge (1734-99). One page, 12mo. "<...> George Murley / Sarah Martin / Given under my Hand the 10th. day of August 1780 pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided. / [signed] James Eyre". Paper slightly discoloured.

£35.00
Sir James Fortescue Flannery, 1st Baronet

Seven Typed Letters Signed and one Autograph Letter Signed to G. K. Menzies, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Ulster unionist politician and civil engineer (1851-1943). The collection is in very good condition. The seven typed letters are quarto and the autograph letter 12mo. All signed 'J. Fortescue Flannery', mostly docketed and carrying the Society's stamp. Mainly concerns the delivery and...

Science, Medicine and Technology £150.00
Sir James Graham [Sir James Robert George Graham] (1792-1861), Tory politician, Home Secretary in Sir Robert Peel's last administration

Autograph Letter Signed ('J R G Graham') to 'My dear Baron'.

12mo, 2 pp. Headed private. Good, on lightly aged and stained paper. Headed 'Private'. He thanks him for sending a 'Copy of a letter from he Prince to the late Duke of Wellington'. He will make 'limited and careful use' of the copy he has preserved with the recipient's permission. He considers...

Royalty £28.00
Sir James Kempt.

Autograph Note Signed to R. Byham, Ordnance Office

General. One page, 8vo. He describes his enclosure of a banker's order to pay the rent on a property he is about to occupy.

Military and Naval History £25.00
Sir James Knowles [Sir James Thomas Knowles] (1831-1908), architect and editor of 'The Contemporary Review' and 'The Nineteenth Century' [Henry Hewett; the Metaphysical Society; William George Pedder]

Autograph Letter Signed ('James Knowles') to his friend and sister Emmeline's husband Henry Hewett.

12mo, 2 pp. In poor condition, creased and with frayed edges and a closed tear to the second leaf of the bifolium, to which there is also slight loss. Text clear and entire, apart from one word. Addressed to 'Dear old Boy' and 'old fellow', from 'Your <?> Brother'. Knowles had become...

Art and Architecture, Literature, Social history £35.00
Sir James Knowles [Sir James Thomas Knowles] (1831-1908), architect and editor of 'The Nineteenth Century' [Sir Archibald Hurd (1869-1959), writer on naval matters]

Five Autograph Letters Signed [all 'James Knowles'] to Hurd.

All five items are 12mo, 1 p, and in good condition, with the text entirely legible, but with slight discoloration to the extremities and to the blank second leaves of four of the letters. Letter One (17 May 1898): Concerns a letter by Sir William White, regarding which Knowles has not written...

History, Military and Naval History, Social history £145.00
Sir James Knowles [Sir James Thomas Knowles] (1831-1908), architect and editor of 'The Nineteenth Century' [Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe (1786-1880), British diplomat]

Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'James Knowles') to 'Lord Stratford de Redcliffe'.

Both letters good, on lightly aged paper. Both items concern Canning's article on 'International Relations' in the October 1877 issue of 'The Nineteenth Century'. Letter One (12mo, 4 pages, bifolium with mourning border). Knowles hopes Canning has received the proof of the article from the...

Book Trade History, History, Literature £80.00
Sir James Lewis Caw

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir H[enry]. Trueman Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Scottish art critic and engineer (1864-1950). One page, octavo. Very good. Bearing the Society's stamp. 'It is very good of the Council of the Royal Society of Arts to ask me to become a member, but, while thanking them, I regret that I do not see my [^ way,] at present, to join any more...

Science, Medicine and Technology £23.00