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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
J. C. Jesse [Weston Styleman Walford; Joel Rowsell; Victorian book trade] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr. Walford' [Weston Styleman Walford, 1802-1879?] 12mo: 2 pp. Good, on lightly browned paper. Writes 'in good haste to save the post', asking for advice. 'Mr. J. Rowsell of the West Strand, Bookseller, has been here all the morning, at the request of Mr. Smith of North St.' Rowsell has 'gone through the books carefully', and offers £140 for...	Book Trade History	£56.00
J. Cooke. (Printed circular) Autograph Note Signed. (1731-1810 - Maxted). Maxted says he was an "Extensive publisher of works in weekly numbers", and refers to DNB, Plomer, Nichols, iii.719, and Timperley. One page, c.7.5 x 4", minor damage, text clear and complete, printed in italic. "Paternoster Row London/ I hereby promise if this Work shall...	Book Trade History	£50.00
J. T. Delane [John Thadeus Delane (1817-1879)], editor of The Times, 1841-1877 [William Forsyth, Conservative politician; Lord Clarendon, Liberal Foreign Secretary] [J. T. Delane [John Thadeus Delane, distinguished editor of The Times.] Autograph Letter Signed, to a brother of the Conservative politician William Forsyth, concerning a meeting proposed by Lord Clarendon. According to Delane’s entry in the Oxford DNB, he settled ‘from about 1847 at 16 Serjeants' Inn, Temple’. The addressee appears to be ‘W. Forsyth Esq’, and is named in the letter as a brother of the Conservative politician William Forsyth (1812-1899), who took silk in 1857, and hence also of the...		£56.00
J. Dupuis [Pierre Dupont (1821-1870), French poet and song writer] Apparently-unpublished manuscript poem, in French, entitled 'Aux Amis de Pierre Dupont'. On one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 27 x 21 cm. Text clear and entire on aged and lightly creased paper. Chipped, with slight loss and closed tears, to extremities. Thirty-lines in Alexandrine couplets, beginning 'L'Ame du chansonnier (si l'ame est immortelle) \| Doit tressaillir pieuse...	French, Literature	£180.00
J. Durnof. Autograph Note Signed to "Monsieur le Directeur du Journal Le Siecle" WITH printed letter to Durnoz from "Un habitant du Creuzot" Pioneer airman / aeronaut. Form googled site: "Mr. Durnof, aeronaut, founder with Nadar and Camille Dartois of the Company of the military francs balloon pilots, and Mrs. Durnof". (Durnof) One page, 4to, referring to a medal he has received and the printed letter whivch accompanies this note,...		£425.00
J. H. Barnes [John H. Barnes] (1850-1925), English actor [The Prince of Wales Theatre, London] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. H. Barnes'), to the leaseholder of the Prince of Wales Theatre, concerning his desire to become a tenant. 4to, 2 pp. Text clear and complete. On aged and lightly-creased paper. 'The nature of my business is a desire to become a tenant of the Prince of Wales Theatre, for a long or short time, and entirely subject to existing arrangements in order to produce a play which good judges (as well as myself...	Music and Theatre	£56.00
R.W. Dale, M.A. [Pamphlet] The Politics of Nonconformity. A Lecture by R.W. Dale, M.A. delivered in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, November 21st, 1871. Pamphlet, [34]pp., 8vo, disbound, library codes in ink on title, front and back a little grubby, mainly good condition. Final page has a advertisement for other nonconformist lectures. No copy on market currently. Multiple copies listed on COPAC.		£75.00
[H. de Marsan, publisher & bookseller; E.A. Sparks, illustrator] [Handbill; verse] Colored Cavalier Handbill, one page, crudely coloured border with images of a black troubadour with banjo[?] , a native American, and a trapper [?], 26 x 17cm, three stanzas each eight lines plus chorus, edges chipped, laid down on a larger page. Commences, "Oh! listen a while., a story I will tell; \| It will...	Social history	£120.00
[Tally Court; Hopton Haynes] [Manuscript] Order for Payments to "the Officers & Clerks of the Tally Court ... the sum of Three Hubdred fifty six pounds Sixteen shillings in reward for Levying Striking and Examining 3568 Tallies [...]" Two pages, 18 x 26cm, trimmed roughly with small loss of text, some damage, small closed tears. One side the Order as partly quoted above. This is followed by the note "Ld Wm Powlet [one of the 4 Tellers] I pray pay this Order Out of Addl. Tonnage for the Civil List 27 May 1718", plus a few...		£165.00
J. Harris, engraver [The Expedition of Africa, 1390; Louis II (1337-1410), Duke de Bourbon] Engraving ('J. Harris Sculpt'), reproducing a mediaeval illustration, titled 'The Expedetion [sic] of Africa, undertaken by the Duke of Bourbon, as General in Chief, with several other English & French Knights, at the entreaty of the Genoese.' On paper 25 x 20 cm. Plate size 14 x 18.5 cm. Uncoloured. Title beneath print and engraver's details beneath bottom right-hand corner. Image and text clear and intact. On aged, creased and foxed paper with wear and slight loss to extremities. The illustration shows a number of galleons at sea...	Travel and Topography	£110.00