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Captain Charles Dickson Inglis, R.N.

40 Autograph Letters Signed to him from various "old shipmates", mostly senior naval figures; with 9 portrait photographs, a photograph of the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert and the seal in red wax of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.

Captain Charles Dickson Inglis, R.N. (born c.1835; fl. 1898), is best known for his offer in 1887 to buy South Georgia in the Falkland Islands for the purposes of sheep-farming. This collection of his correspondence is neatly bound in a crude octavo volume, and is preceded by a manuscript...

History, Military and Naval History, Royalty £450.00
Charles Higham (1846-1920), London theological bookseller [Dickinson & Higham]

A Priced Catalogue of the whole stock of Theological Books, [...], of the late firm of Dickinson & Higham, together with the additions thereto made during the printing of the catalogue by the firm's junior partner and successor, Charles Higham.

Octavo, 216 pages. One of 'only fifty copies printed, on thick paper'. Title-page in red and black. Aged and a little stained, in recent half-leather rebinding. 9670 items listed, 'for the most part second-hand'. Preceded by 'ADVERTISEMENT' in which Higham 'trusts [...] that this modest...

Book Trade History, Printing History, Religion £450.00
Charles W. Furse.

"GHOULS JAN 25": Image (probably photographic, of a pen and ink drawing) of ghouls surrounded by skulls and bones holding a tombstone

The title "Ghouls Jan 25" appears at the bottom and Furse's name and a date in the 1920s appears in the right-hand margin. Size circa 21 x 35cms, small tear on left, some creasing, mainly good condition, laid down on same-size paper. On the tombstone (blank in the middle until written in), the...

Art and Architecture £450.00
Daniel Rogers, Gentleman and Scholar, elder brother of Samuel Rogers, the poet.

Autograph Letter Signed "D. Rogers" with poem initialled "D.R." to "Bromley"

Three pages, 8vo, fold marks, chipped, pinholes and spikehole in centre, but mainly good with text clear and complete. He apologises for not writing sooner and discusses a book he has sent, firstly the binding, then the content in which the lives and deaths of the debauched Callistus and the...

Literature £450.00
Eberhard Wortmann [Hermann Hesse; Sacred Geometry; Neoplatonism]

Corrected Typescript of 'Der Pyramidenbauer'; Corrected Typescript of German lecture; photocopy of Manuscript article 'Der Kanon des Kosmos', with English translation; two pages of German manuscript notes; 56 printed cosmological diagrams.

Wortmann - whose 'Das Gesetz Des Kosmos' (1965) is considered a cosmological masterpiece - corresponded with Hermann Hesse, and was the only modern author to be described by him as a master of the Glass Bead Game. The Sacred Science Institute in America is presently working with Wortmann's...

Education, Religion, Science, Medicine and Technology £450.00
Elbert Hubbard [Elbert Green Hubbard] (1856-1915), American writer, publisher, artist, associated with the Arts and Crafts movement [Roycroft Press]

Two printed texts, each illuminated by hand in colours.

Each item is on a sheet of laid paper, 39 x 29 cm, and each with the Roycroft watermark. Both items are grubby, with wear and creasing to extremities, but with the design and much of the margin entirely undamaged. Both have an identical block of printed text (roughly 13.5 x 9 cm) at the centre...

£450.00
From the Publisher's Archive [ N.M. Penzer, editor.]

Album of Press Cuttings, contemporary articles and autograph letters from the publisher's archive re. the publication of "The Ocean of Story", Translated by C.H. Tawney ]

(The Ocean of Story) Album of Press Cuttings and Letters relating to the First Publication of The Ocean of Story; Being C.H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara, Edited by N.M. Penzer, as published by Charles J. Sawyer, London, 1924-1928, as follows: 4to., 75pp., of press...

Book Trade History £450.00
Geoffrey Clifford Tyndale [Divorce Law; Legal History; Reading Lists; The Times of London]

Two Manuscript Diaries, covering the years 1916 and 1917.

Two 8vo diaries, by Charles Letts, the first 'improved' and the second 'self-opening'. Both in heavily worn covers, lacking spines, but internally clean, on aged paper, and with the text entirely legible. Both diaries end with a brief set of accounts. The diaries are filled with details of the...

Law £450.00
George Hazlehurst (1867-1941); Millwall Dock Company; Manchester Ship Canal Company

Archive of papers relating to his employment.

20 items. Various formats (see below). Showing signs of age, and with some foxing, fraying and creasing, but in very good condition overall. Collection indicates that Hazlehurst, who was born in Grappenhall, Lancashire, to an illiterate mother, was a capable individual entrusted with responsible...

Military and Naval History £450.00
H.D. MacWilliam.

A homemade bibliography mainly of books of Scottish interest

MacWilliam was the author of several books concerning the Black Watch, and a book-collector. On the front cover the label "H.D. MACWILL[IAM]" is laid down. 230pp., 4to, notebook, soft-covered, front detached, poor condition. In time-honoured fashion, the collector has extracted printed...

Book Trade History £450.00