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Margaret Jones [ Tyst Cymreig, Liverpool ] 56pp., 12mo. Disbound pamphlet without wraps. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. A series of seventeen letters, written from Jerusalem in 1865. The author was the daughter of Owen Jones, and these letters are edited with a preface by Owen Jones. The book went to at least seven editions.... |
£60.00 | |
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Major-General Thompson [ Thomas Perronet Thompson (1783-1869) ], M.P. for Bradford, Author of the "Catechism on the Corn Laws." 28pp., 8vo. A side-stitched pamphlet, issued without wraps. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. At the head of the title-page is an engraving of the dove bringing the olive branch to Noah's Ark on the top of Mount Ararat. At foot of title-page: 'This publication having been reduced to its... |
£60.00 | |
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Lord Riddell [ George Allardice Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell ] (1865-1934), Fleet Street press baron, proprietor of the News of the World [ eugenics ] 31 + [1]pp., 8vo. Stapled without wraps. Drophead title. (Offprint from Transactions of the Medico-Legal Society.) In fair condition, lightly aged, central vertical fold, rusted staples. 'No reasonable person', Riddell writes, 'suggests the wholesale sterilisation of masses of lunatics and... |
£120.00 | |
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Journal du Department des Bouches de la Meuse, la Haye [ Dagblad van het Departement der Monden van de Maas, den Haag ] [ Napoleonic Wars; French occupation of Holland ] 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. With two tax stamps. Laid out in double column, with the Dutch text on the right, and a French translation on the left. Begins with official announcements ('Administration. | Renovation.' and 'Contribution Fonciere sur les... |
£150.00 | |
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John Luffman, London printseller [ Georgian methodism ] Printed in black ink on a 9 x 16.5 cm. piece of paper. A scarce piece of ephemera. Grubby, aged and worn. Laid down on part of a page from an album. A pastiche of a Georgian banknote, the main body of the text reading: 'No. 24 . . . . | Promise to pay to Ignorance, Hypocrisy & Fanaticism,... |
£120.00 | |
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J. Rhys Morgan, (Lleurwg,) Aberafon [ Cholera epidemic in Wales ] 64pp., 12mo. Disbound pamphlet without wraps. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Two poems, the first on a biblical topic and the second on an outbreak of cholera. Three copies on COPAC: at the National Library of Wales, Cardiff, and the British Library. Now extremely scarce. |
£100.00 | |
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Honble. Sydney Holland, Chairman, London Hospital [ Sydney Holland, Viscount Knutsford (1855-1931) ] Two items bound together. 40pp., 8vo, and [2] + 31pp., 8vo. Stapled into black printed wraps, with title in white on cover: 'Two Talks to the Nurses of the London Hospital, Dec. 1897, Dec. 1905.' The first talk (1897) is titled: 'A Talk to the Nurses of the London Hospital'. Holland states: 'I... |
£150.00 | |
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G. P. R. James [ George Payne Rainsford James ] (1799-1860), English novelist and historical writer and diplomat, Historiographer Royal to William IV [ Rear Admiral Andrew Atkins Vincent (1781-1862) ] The recipient is Rear Admiral Andrew Atkins Vincent (1781-1862), who, as 'Captain Vincent, R.N., of Walmer Beach, features in S. M. Ellis's 1927 biography of James, 'The Solitary Horseman'. 3pp., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight staining to second leaf around area of signature... |
£50.00 | |
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Francis Bacon, Barwn Verulam, Is-Iarll St. Alban, Ac Arglwydd Uchel Ganghellydd Lloegr; Richard Williams, Trallwm [ Richard Williams (1835-1906) of Welshpool, antiquary and lawyer ] The first translation into Welsh of Bacon's 'Essays'. 160pp., 12mo. Disbound pamphlet without wraps. Title-leaf loose, otherwise in fair condition, on lightly aged paper. The volume contains the fifty-eight essays, the fragment of an essay 'Of Fame' and 'The Praise of Knowledge', together with... |
£75.00 | |
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Evan Breece. (Ieuan Cadfan.) [ Evan Breece (1798-1855), also Evan Brees, Evan Breeze ] A collection of carols for 'Plygain' services at Christmas, plus memorial 'Englynion' by Breece, who was also a local preacher with the Wesleyans. 36pp., 12mo. Disbound pamphlet without wraps. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Beneath the 'Rhagymadrodd' in Welsh by 'E. B. | Llangadfan... |
£50.00 |
