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Jeremiah Joyce. Autograph letter signed to Calder[?]. Compiler and educational writer, including "Scientific Dialogues" (1764-1816). One page, 8vo, sl. grubby and frayed but text clear and complete. "I enclose you what I drew up for the M{onthly] Magazine" asking for it to be returned as it is his only copy. He refers to the ill health of Mrs... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 | |
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Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1800-1885), English traveller and writer [Sir John Philippart (c.1784-1875), editor of the United Services Gazette Three Autograph Letters Signed (all 'J. H. Stocqueler') to Philippart. Letter One (November 1848; folio, 1 p; on discoloured, creased and worn paper): Availing himself of Philippart's 'kind permission to contribute to the U. S. Magazine', Stocqueler is sending 'the commencement of a Historical Sketch' he has 'long meditated writing'. 'A note in this month's Dublin... |
Travel and Topography | £180.00 | |
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Joan Hassall (1906-1988), English wood-engraver Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Disspain'. 12mo: 1 p. Eight lines of text. Good, though creased. Letterhead printed with the words 'Joan Hassall' and a 5 cm short rule decorated with a tiny dove. She apologises for the delay in sending 'this signature': 'I lost your nice little piece of paper, and then I broke my pen.' Disspain's '... |
Art and Architecture | £56.00 |
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Lieut-Col. Arthur Campbell Yate (1853-1929) of Beckbury Hall, Shifnal, traveller, soldier, author, and Honorary Secretary, Central Asian Society [ Sir Henry Trueman Wood; Royal Society of Arts ] According to his long obituary in The Times, 13 June 1929 ('Central Asian Politics'), Yates's 'studies of the affairs of the Indian borderland, Central Asia, and the Middle East were probably excelled by few retired officers of the Indian Army in wealth of detail and personal knowledge of events... |
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Joel Tyler Headley (1813-1897), American clergyman and author, Secretary of State of New York [George R. Graham (1813-1894), Philadelphia publisher] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. T. Headley') to George R. Graham, editor of Graham's Magazine. 4to, 1 p. Bifolium. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf. Good, on aged paper. In a hurried hand, with numerous corrections. Relating to the publication of 'articles of poetry from a lady'. |
Literature | £125.00 | |
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Johann Carl Haag (1820-1915), Bavarian watercolour painter who settled in England and became a leading orientalist Autograph Letter Signed ('Carl Haag') to Mrs Grant Morris. 8vo, 1 p, 8 lines. Folded twice. Good, on lightly discoloured paper. Informing the Morrises of 'our safe arrival', and thanking them for 'the very amiable hospitality we have enjoyed'. 'Mrs. Haag in this moment feels a little the fatigue of the journey but will ere long use a leisure hour to... |
Art and Architecture | £38.00 | |
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Johann Ott, editor Catalog der Flora Bohmens nach weiland Professor Friedrich Ignaz Tausch's Herbarium Florae Bohemicae 60pp., sm. fol., foed throughout, hinge strain, covers worn, contents complete and mainly good, interleaved throughout with pages used for some annotation, with a form of bookmark throughout (finger index(?)), some annotation (correction/addition) to the text. |
Natural History | £100.00 | |
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Johannes Gutenberg, German printer; Peter Stent (fl.1643-67), London printseller; Richard Gaywood (fl.1644-68), English engraver Engraved portrait of Gutenberg by Gaywood, mounted on piece of paper with painted decorations. Good clean image of a seventeenth-century engraving, from an earlier idealised portrait of the putative 'father of printing'. It is of irregular shape, the background having been carefully cut away. Neatly mounted on piece of beige paper, illustrated with a brown pseudo-frame with decorative... |
Book Trade History | £100.00 |
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John Abel Smith Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. British banker and politician (1801-71). Four pages, 12mo. Good, but dusty and on discoloured paper, with traces of stub adhering to verso of second leaf. Docketed with date. 'The object of your Association has all my sympathy but my time is so closely occupied by other matters just now that I... |
Economics | £36.00 | |
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John Adams-Acton Autograph Letter Signed to "Mr Marks". Or John Adams Acton (DNB). Sculptor. Three pages, 8vo, some staining but mainly good condition. "Your note relating to the Terra Cotta Bust of your Good Father has just been brought under my notice, I should have been pleased to send for the Bust; but to my surprize and disgust the Earls Court... |
Art and Architecture | £85.00 |