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David Hume [David Hume, Baron Hume of Ninewells (1757?1838) Scottish advocate, judge and legal scholar; nephew of the philosopher] [David Hume, Advocate, nephew of philosopher] Part of Autograph Letter Signed David Hume to his friend from university days, James Currie, physician [see note below] Incomplete (probably missing initial bifolium of four pages!), Two Pages, 4to, bifolium, damage around removed seal area, fold marks aged, small closed tears, but clear text as follows: to make any complaints. Mrs H and myfour children (two boys and two girls) are also upon the whole in good...	£220.00
Charles Keene [Charles S. Keene; Charles Samuel Keene] (1823-1891), English illustrator, known for his work for 'Punch' [Frank Walton (1840-1928), artist] [Punch illustrator Charles Keene ('Charles S. Keene') to Burgess. 12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper folded twice. I'm awfully busy this week but I'll try to come on Friday. You don't say the hour - is it 7. I'll understand it so, that you need not trouble to write again, if that will do.	£45.00
Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith [Ordre de Temple; French Freemasonry; President of the Knights Liberators of the Slaves of Africa] [Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith; Ordre de Temple; Slavery; French Freemason] Two Manuscripts, one Holograph, relating to Admiral William Sidney Smith's involvement with the (French) Ordre de Temple (see Notes).. See John Barrow, The LIfe and Correpondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, Chapter XIII, pp.406-424 (Knights Templars etc.). ITEM 1: Holograph, one page, 18 x 23cms, aged but good condition double column, some additions and corrections, apparently a draft for a formal document giving...	£500.00
Macleod Yearsley [ Percival Macleod Yearsley ] (1867-1951), surgeon, author, folklorist and eugenicist [ The Thinker's Library, published by Watts & Co. for the Rationalist Press Association, London ] [ Macleod Yearsley and the Thinker's Library. ] Copy of Yearsley's book 'The Folklore of Fairy-Tale' with extensive autograph emendations (two notes initialled 'M. Y.') and two proof specimens for intended republication in the Thinker's Library. The item provides an interesting insight into the editing process of the Thinker's Library, 140 volumes of which Watts & Co. published for the Rationalist Association between 1929 and 1951. The book is xiii + 240pp., 8vo, in red cloth binding, gilt. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper,...	£380.00
Victor Caillat and Alfred Lance [Marshall Sisson, RA (1897-1978), British architect; George Pymm, London bookbinder] [Libraries; bibliotheques] 69 engravings, mostly of libraries, from 'Encyclop?die d'Architecture' of Victor Caillat & Alfred Lance, bound by George Pymm in a volume with 'BIBLIOTHEQUES' on the spine. From the collection of English architect Marshall Sisson.. 69 engravings, in brown 4to quarter-binding, with 'BIBLIO- \| THEQUES' in gilt at head of spine, and 'PARIS \| 1855' at foot. In fair condition, on aged paper, in binding worn at hinges. All engravings in 4to, with 12 double-page and 57...	£350.00
C. K. Jaeger [Cyril Karel Stuart Jaeger] (1912-2008), fantasy and children's writer under the name 'Karel Jaeger', friend and landlord of Fitzrovia writer Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) [C. K. Jaeger ('Karel Jaeger'), fantasy writer.] Unpublished typescripts of two fantasy novels, 'The Autobiography of a Flea or A Kind of Memoir' and 'Letters from an Oyster Bed'.~Both composed in Elmer, West Sussex, in 1955.~The colourful life of the 'de	£0.00
Robin Wallace, artist (Westmoreland). [ British Artist Archive ]The papers of Robin Wallace (1897-1952), twentieth-century Westmoreland landscape painter Robin Wallace (1897-1952) was a well-known British painter in oils and watercolours, particularly noted for his landscapes. He was born in Kendal, Westmoreland, descended from a long line of hand-loom weavers. After working for local nurserymen, he served in the Royal Marines in the First World...	£600.00
Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt, M.A. [Richard St John Tyrwhitt (1827-1895), English art critic, cleric and supporter of John Ruskin] [Richard St John Tyrwhitt, art critic.] Autograph Letter Signed ('R St John Tyrwhitt') to 'Miss Bosworth', presenting a copy of his 'A Handbook of Pictorial Art' to her. WITH inscribed copy of the book. Letter: 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Attached by the blank second leaf of the bifolium to the reverse of the front free endpaper of the book. Envelope addressed by Tyrwhitt to 'Miss Bosworth \| Parks Town' tipped-in beside the letter. He is not sure whether she has a...	£150.00
C. K. Jaeger [Cyril Karel Stuart Jaeger] (1912-2008), fantasy and children's writer under the name 'Karel Jaeger', friend and landlord of Fitzrovia writer Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) [C. K. Jaeger ('Karel Jaeger'), fantasy writer.] Unpublished typescripts of two fantasy novels, 'The Autobiography of a Flea or A Kind of Memoir' and 'Letters from an Oyster Bed'.~Both composed in Elmer, West Sussex, in 1955.~The colourful life of the 'de C. K. Jaeger [Cyril Karel Stuart Jaeger] (1912-2008), fantasy and children's writer under the name 'Karel Jaeger', friend and landlord of Fitzrovia writer Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) [C. K. Jaeger ('Karel Jaeger'), fantasy writer.] Unpublished...	£450.00
Pier Antonio Gariazzo, artist and filmmaker [ Gariazzo; lithographs ] Tribal peoples of three continents: Eighty (80)1930s illustrations by Pier Antonio Gariazzo 80 lithographic prints, mostly hand-coloured, of drawings of indigenous peoples and tribal groups, made on a voyage to South America, Africa and Asia in 1933 by the Italian painter and film director Pier Antonio Gariazzo. With accompanying French letterpress. This collection of accomplished and...	£1,800.00

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