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'The Chinese Miners of the F.M.S. [Federated Malay States]' [Charles Ingle Robinson, Senior Inspector of Mines, F.M.S.; Malaysia; Malaya] Printed in blue on one side of a piece of white paper roughly 60 x 40 cm. Good: lightly-aged and creased. The text is enclosed within an ornate decorative border, and is headed 'Charles Ingle Robinson Esqr., | B. Sc. (Lond.), Associate R. S. M., | M. I. C. E., M. I. M. M., | Senior Inspector of... |
£85.00 | ||
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Anon. Typescript, 12pp., 4to, cover/title spotted, contents good. |
Literature, Social history | £50.00 | |
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Anon. [Thomas Twining?] Poss. Thomas Twining, divine, musician, linguist and translator of Aristotle, 1735-1804, DNB. Scrap of paper, 7 x 2", some marks, spike-hole, text clear and apparently complete. "Paley's natural Theology/ in good plain binding./for Mr Twining./ Nov 20. 1802." Twining nor Paley (save pos. ref.)... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £25.00 | |
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Anon. The History of Valentine and Orson 12mo, unopened, unbound, g+ |
Literature | £100.00 | |
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Anon. [Anne Marsh (later Anne Marsh-Caldwell) (1791-1874)] Castle Avon. By the author of "Emilia Wyndham," "Mordaunt Hall," etc. etc. 12mo, 352 pp. In contemporary brown calf half-binding, with marbled boards and grey endpapers. Loose and foxed in worn binding. |
Literature, Printing History, Women | £56.00 | |
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Anon. [James Ballantine] [Sir James Ranken Fergusson (1835-1924)] The Gaberlunzie's Wallet. With numerous illustrations on steel and wood. INSCRIBED to 'James R. Fergusson Esq with the kind regards of James Ballantine | Edin[burg]h 16th May 1870'. With Fergusson's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. 8vo: 311 pp. Plates throughout (not listed) and numerous illustrations in text. In original printed grey boards with grotesque... |
Literature, Printing History | £75.00 |
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[Ten printed Schedules of Contract for work for the service of the War Department, in the South-West and Sussex District; W. H. Dudley; Robert Stratton; George Wheeler; Isle of Wight; Hurst Castle] The collection is of great interest, providing a mass of information regarding the Victorian building trade. The owner of the volume, W. H. Dudley, would appear to be a War Office official, and, as described at the end of this entry, it contains manuscript details of two contracts. The ten... |
£850.00 | ||
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Anon. [T.Charlton Smith] Belfegor [Narrative Poem based on Niccolo Machiavelli's "Novella di Belfegor".] 134pp., 8vo, in modern blue leather gt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, staining throughout affecting c.25% of each page, pages trimmed, but text clear and complete, with no loss of text except the very top of the letters written in the author's inscription. INSCRIPTION (titlepage): W.J. Mercer... |
Literature | £250.00 | |
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Henry Williamson (1895-1977), English novelist, naturalist and ruralist, best-known for his book ‘Tarka the Otter’ [A. J. Dennis, Devon architect] From the Williamson family papers. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The material is in fair condition, lightly aged and creased. In a card folder on which is written by Williamson’s son Richard ‘PLANS for House for Ox’s Cross - DENNIS (builder) 1973 / Plans of Cottage. / See Schwabe’s original... |
£320.00 | ||
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Anthony Hope Valuation of the literary properties of Anthony Hope, deceased. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (d.1933)(DNB) From the archives of literary agents, A.P. Watt, letters, copy letters, listings of publishers, titles of books (inc. Zenda, etc) and contributions, royalties and valuations inc. literary estate, payments to Lady Hawkins c. 18 pages, 8vo and folio, most in... |
Book Trade History, Literature | £150.00 |