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Rev. H. Phillpotts The first edition was anonymous. Disbound, pp.[i]-viii.[9]-44, good condition. Inscribed by Byron's friend, Henry Drury on title as follows: "Given me by my friend the author when he dined with me April 1821. | Henry Drury. Harrow". Note 1: Phillpotts "issued, on 30 June, an anonymous pamphlet... |
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Henry Mitchell "Viscount Ferdinand de Lesseps" American hydrographer and engineer (1830-1902). Wraps, detached and chipped, pp.370-385, contents good. Inscribed by the author to George Davidson (1825-1911) geodesist and geographer AND ANNOTATED extensively throughout by Davidson, marking passages with underlining, expressing doubts about... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £200.00 | |
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Henry Montagu Butler Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. [?] Sparrow. Headmaster of Harrow School and Master of Trinity College Cambridge (1835-1918). 2 pages, 16mo, bifoliate with mourning border. In good condition but with crease to one corner. He sends five (corrected from eight) letters of introduction, 'with the hope that they may prove of some little use. |... |
Education | £25.00 | |
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[Household Expenses, 1880s; Brockhurst House, Gosport, Hampshire] 106pp., 4to, black limp cloth, worn, remnants of paper on which is written a biblical passage in Greek on back, hinge strain, but contents clear and complete, text in an extraordinarily small neat hand, sometimes (amazingly) hard to read. The author has used a double entry system, recording... |
Economics, Social history | £380.00 |
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Henry Napier. Autograph Note Signed to Edward Webber (editor?). Naval officer and historian (1789-1853). One page, 8vo, fold marks and discoloration, text clear and complete. "Sir/ In reply to your note of yesterday I beg to say that my portrait would be misplaced amongst the "Portraits and Memoires [sic] of Eminent Naval & Military Personages" [title... |
Military and Naval History | £45.00 | |
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Henry Neville [Thomas Henry Gartside Neville] Autograph letter signed to [Mary H.] Folkard, English actor-manager (1837-1910). 4 pp, 12mo. Interesting letter in which he declines a play. "Its an awful shame to have kept your mss. so long, but I think I told you, I was too deep in promises &c. to give immediate attention! / If domestic Drama were popular now, I should not hesitate... |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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Henry Neville [Thomas Henry Gartside Neville] Autograph letter signed to [Mary H.] Tennyson, English actor-manager (1837-1910). "Dear Miss Tennyson, / "Reading a play" is very actable, and would suit an actor like Chas. Collett, & important & voluble, & there are several who would make a success of it. But I'm afraid I am not one of them. Sorry to have kept the MS. so long... |
Music and Theatre | £25.00 | |
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Henry Neville [Thomas Henry Gartside Neville] Autograph letter signed to Henri Weiss, English actor-manager (1837-1910). Interesting letter exemplifying the importance of dentistry to the acting profession. 3 pp, 12mo, on mourning paper. "You know I've been away, on Tour with the "Lions" and after that, I took a jaunt to Tronville & Rouen, just returned with a broken tooth... |
Music and Theatre | £15.00 | |
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Henry Neville [Thomas Henry Gartside Neville] Autograph letter signed to the actress Mary H. Tennyson, English actor-manager (1837-1910). One page, 12mo, in stamped envelope adressed in autograph. "Dear Miss Tennyson. / There are no vacancies at present at the Adelphi. I shall be happy to remember you when opportunity affords - With congratulations on your progress. / Yours very truly / Henry G.... |
Music and Theatre | £20.00 | |
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Henry Neville [Thomas Henry Gartside Neville] English actor-manager (1837-1910). Note, undated, Studio, 524 Oxford Street, Marble Arch, 2 pp, 12mo, somewhat grubby. He suggests a time for him to see her the following day. Letter, "Friday" (no date), on letterhead of the Olympic Theatre, 2 pp, 12mo. "Would you mind letting me hear your voice... |
Music and Theatre | £45.00 |