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[Rev] Francis Skurray [Skurray, Francis] Autograph Letter Signed to [William] Miller, publisher Three pages, cr. 8vo, foxed and grubby, but text clear and complete. The subject is his book, Bidcombe Hill, with other rural poems published by William Miller whose Albemarle Street premises were taken over by John Murray I in 1812. He says that the friend who collected the "drawing of the... |
Book Trade History | £180.00 |
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Ethel Henry Bird (d.1942), soprano, pianist and teacher at the Trinity College of Music, London 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged, with unobtrusive grease stain stain to one blank corner. Folded twice. Good bold hand with large signature. ‘My dear Miss Atkins - / How very kind of you to return me my old book. It was very valuable to me, & I was wondering where it was - so I am... |
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Henry Clifford (1821-1905), telegraph engineer on Atlantic cable expeditions, who designed machinery used on the Great Eastern [Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), telegraph engineer] Clifford was introduced to the laying of Atlantic telegraph cables by Sir Charles Bright, whose wife was his cousin. He served as an engineer on all the Atlantic cable expeditions from 1857 to 1866, designing the paying-out machinery used on the Great Eastern in 1865 and 1866. He worked at... |
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[Roake & Varty] A.B. Lechmere, Gent. ADD "York House" to BBTI. And "Publisher. And Worcester bookseller. Four pages, minor defects, text complete and clear. He requests his account for "Stationery & Consitutional Tracts" and asks how much "it would cost to purchase the whole of the Tracts published by you from the commencement... |
Book Trade History | £75.00 | |
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[Robert King] "Collected by Robert King, brought to one standard by J.G. Jewels, and drawn by F. Austin Childs", one of 120 copies, [69]pp. inc. colophon, 12mo, Original buckram-backed marbled boards with paper label to spine, somewaht battered (sp. label chipped), sl. hinge strain, foxing. INSCRIBED by "... |
Literature | £100.00 | |
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[Robert Triphook, London bookseller (d.1868); Belvoir Hunt; hunting; printing] Landscape 8vo, 1 p. On aged and discoloured paper, with four spike holes. Neatly written out, in a contemporary hand. Addressed on reverse to 'Mr. R. Triphook'. Pencil annotations on both sides. Headed 'The following is the entry of the Hunting Journal of 1816. 17 -'. First item (of six): '... |
Book Trade History | £56.00 | |
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[Roger Casement] Original grey printed wraps (spine lost), hinge strain, pages browning, ow good condition. From the Library of Robert Lynd, nationalist and old friend of Casement's. |
£100.00 | ||
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[Royal Naval College, Portsmouth; Royal Navy; naval and maritime; the Admiralty] Folio bifolium (dimensions of leaf roughly 32 x 20 cm): one page, with the reverse of the leaf and the whole of the second leaf of the bifolium blank. Unbound. Good, on lightly aged and creased laid paper with a Britannia watermark. Eighteen lines of text, mostly taken up with comments on the... |
Military and Naval History | £150.00 | |
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[Royal proclamation of the accession of King Edward VII to the throne on the death of his mother Queen Victoria] Printed on one side of a piece of vellum-style paper, dimensions roughly 270 x 205 mm. Ruckled and heavily discoloured: now light-brown in colour. Traces of previous paper mount adhering to blank reverse. Small triangle (edges shorter than 1 cm) chipped away, and repaired with archival tape.... |
Royalty | £180.00 | |
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[Samuel Lewis & Co., publishers [BBTI}. Two printed (italic) invoices with receipts, part manuscript part printed, for Alfred Simpson. Invoices, one page each, 4to, good condition. Receipts of conventional size, both signed "R. Toley" [not in BBTI]. The subjects are subscruiption editions of Lewis's Topographical Dictionaries of England and Wales (1845), Scotland and Ireland (1847), with prices, including "colouring Atlas[es... |
Book Trade History | £35.00 |