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Catherine Douglas (née Hyde), Duchess of Queensberry and Dover (1701-1777), aristocratic beauty and literary patron [Jonathan Shipley (1713-1788), Bishop of St Asaph] 4to: 3 pp. Bifolium. On neatly-repaired aged paper, with archival paper covering the two inner pages. Fifty-four lines of text, all clear and entire. Remains of black wax seal, with crest, on verso of second leaf, which carries the address and is docketed 'Maragna Mohammed'. A long letter in two... |
History, Women | £750.00 | |
Ed. Elke Sadeghi and others. Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vols. I-IV Four vols, simply bound in variant colours, good condition. Ex lib (Public Library) but latterly from the Reference Library of Peter Eaton (Booksellers) Ltd, library stamp, and number on spine. The periodiocal which best informed booksellers and collecvors from its institution. |
Book Trade History, Printing History | £750.00 | |
James Smith [Horatio Smith], author ("Rejected Addresses" et al). Two pages, bifolium, 4to, fold marks and minor faint staining, good condition. An earlier draft of the satirical piece printed first in "Comic Miscellanies" (1840)(no other publication listed by LION, though one has to suspect an earlier periodical publication). Comparison with samples of... |
Literature | £750.00 | |
James F. Mallinckrodt ['Unity'] [Ira David Sankey, Methodist evangelical gospel singer and composer; Dwight Lyman Moody] 12mo, iv + 8 pp. Stitched. In original blue printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with minor foxing. In original worn blue wraps, with closed tear to the spinal crease. Title leaf followed by printed limitation leaf: 'No. 4a | This Copy is Inscribed to Prof John... |
Religion, Social history | £750.00 | |
William Le Queux, novelist [Autograph Manuscript] A Little Romance of 'P.W.' ['P.W.' = Pearson's Weekly] 10pp., cr. 8vo, text written on rectos, good condition. At the top of the first page he writes Proof to William Le Queux. 89 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, and he signs the last page. There are corrections and additions. This is Le Queux's contribution to the thousandth number of Pearson's Weekly in... |
Literature, Travel and Topography | £750.00 | |
William Healey Dall, American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. Two pages, 4to, fold mark, good cvondition, saying: ... It is true that I was misled by a paragraph in the N.Y. Times into the supposition that Mrs. Pennell, whose literary work I have greatly enjoyed, was the same as the author of the powerful and thrilling story of the 'Magnetic North'; but Mr... |
Natural History | £750.00 | |
John Abraham (1813-1881) of Clay & Abraham, pharmaceutical chemists [The Lyceum, Bold Street, Liverpool; Liverpool Library] The subscription Liverpool Library within the Lyceum, founded in 1757, is believed to have been the first circulating or lending library in Europe, and the first two of these items provide a valuable insight into its status at the time when the advent of the public library system was undermining... |
Book Trade History, History, Social history, Travel and Topography | £750.00 | |
Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley (1895-1978), 1st Baron Chorley [Lord Chorley], legal scholar and Labour politician [The Old Brewery Stables, Great Stanmore; Hendon Rural District Council] As Chorley is described in his entry in the Oxford DNB as a 'conservationist' with a 'deep attachment to and lifelong concern for the English countryside', it is a surprise that no mention is made of the matter to which this collection relates, which created some public interest at the time and... |
£750.00 | ||
Tom Taylor (1817-1880), playwright and comic writer, author of 'The Ticket of Leave Man' (1863) and editor of 'Punch [Augustus W. Dubourg] 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The first page headed 'Act III', and the whole tightly-written and filled with deletions, interpolations and marginal notes, providing a valuable insight into the creative process of one of Victorian England's most successful dramatists. The... |
£750.00 | ||
Amos Perry (1812-1899) of Providence, US Consul at Tunis to the Barbary States, 1862-1867, and author [William Whitwell Greenough (1818-1899), Boston merchant, co-founder of American Oriental Society] The first and third items good, on lightly-aged paper; the second letter brittle, on high-acidity paper, with slight loss to the corner of one leaf, affecting a few words, but not the sense, and a few repairs with archival tape. Letter One: 2pp., 12mo. 31 lines of text. Perry begins by asking... |
£750.00 |