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Charles Baron Clarke (1832-1906), British botanist [William Ewart Gladstone] A Letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone upon a Land Scheme for Ireland. Octavo: twenty pages. Unbound and stitched. Good, but with outer leaves a little grubby and creased. The word 'rack-rent' on page six has been underlined and three exclamation marks placed beside it in ink. As well as important botanical works, Clarke numbered political economy and education... |
£56.00 | |
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[John Nicholson Inglefield] [Shipwrecks; The Centaur; Naval; Maritime; The Royal Navy] Loss of The Centaur Man-of-War, In the year 1782. (Written by Capt. Inglefield.) Eight 16mo leaves ['A4' at foot of recto of first leaf]. Sixteen unpaginated pages. Unbound, in contemporary marble wraps. Aged and slightly stained, but good overall. Dramatic fold-out handcoloured engraving of distressed men in rowboat in turbulent sea, roughly four and a half inches by five... |
£100.00 | |
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Josiah Clement Wedgwood (1872-1943), 1st Baron Wedgwood, British Liberal and Labour politician Arranging the three in what appears to be chronological order, the first (good, roughly four inches by two and three-quarters wide) has 'Josiah C. Wedgwood' in copperplate beneath a straightforward Victorian armorial design, with shield, coronet and motto 'OBSTANTIA DISCINDO'. The second (three... |
£80.00 | |
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Reading Lodge of Union No. 414 [Freemasons; Freemasonry; Masonic] Octavo, 16 pages. In original cream wraps, tied with blue ribbon, and with the insignia of the Lodge printed on the front. Good, if a little aged. Creased where folded in half. With the signatures of seven of the Lodge's members in pencil on front wrap (Bob Bradley, P. H. Crozier, Herbert L.... |
£85.00 | |
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Sir Richard Burton of Sacketts Hill House, Isle of Thanet, Kent On piece of paper roughly three and a half inches by three wide. Good, lightly aged with a little creasing to one corner. Pleasant armorial design within floral arrangement. Motto 'VIGILANS' on scroll above 'Sir Richard Burton' in copperplate at foot. Indentation of plate around edge. |
£10.00 | |
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William Roscoe (1753-1831), English historian of the Renaissance Autograph Fragment of essay, initialed 'W. R.' Dimensions roughly four and a quarter inches by eight wide. Good on lightly aged paper, and with traces of previous grey-paper mount adhering to reverse, which is docketed, in a nineteenth-century hand, 'Handwriting of the Author of Lorenzo de Medici'. Also docketed in left-hand margin of recto... |
£56.00 | |
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W. Loftus Hare [William Caxton; William H. Robinson Ltd, booksellers] Quarto, twelve pages. Unbound. In original grey printed wraps, with facsimile portrait of Caxton laid down on front cover as part of design. Stitched. Lightly aged and worn, and a little loose. A handsome production, with five full-page facsimiles of pages from the book, and three other... |
£45.00 | |
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Ian Rogerson [Albert Rutherston (1881-1953), artist and illustrator; Sir William Rothenstein] Quarto: ix + 21 pages. Stapled. In original cream wraps, with colour cover illustration by Helen Taylor. Full-page reproduction of drawing of Rutherston by his brother Sir William Rothenstein. Introduction places Rutherston in the tradition of Edward Gordon Craig and Claud Lovat Fraser. Copies... |
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Edward Unwin Junior [Unwin Brothers Ltd; The Gresham Press] Chairman of Unwin Brothers (born 1870). One page, quarto. Good, but discoloured and lightly creased, and with staple stain at head. Docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. He is sorry not to have answered sooner, but 'some very important business has engaged my attention during the last few... |
£35.00 | |
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Henry Stanley Newman [THE ORPHANS' PRINTING PRESS] Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed 'Friend'. Newman established the Orphans' Printing Press in 1873 to enable orphans to earn money and learn a trade. One page, 8vo. Folded twice. Good only: paper slightly discoloured with some closed tears and creasing. 'Dear Friend/ | We should be much pleased if you will come & lodge with us at our... |
£85.00 |
