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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
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
Johann Karl Burckhardt [Bureau des Longitudes, Paris]

Tables astronomiques publiées par le Bureau des Longitudes de France. Tables de la lune, par M. Burckhardt.

Burckhardt (1773-1825) was a German astronomer, who first computed the orbits of a number of comets. First and only edition. Quarto. Pages: viii + 88. A rare survival, but in very poor condition: grubby, creased, stained and frayed at edges. In remains of makeshift wraps. Text perfectly legible...

French, Science, Medicine and Technology £200.00
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
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 Gutenberg
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
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
John Aislabie (1670-1742), English Chancellor of the Exchequer, best-known for his involvement in the South Sea Bubble

Autograph Signature ('J. Aislabie') on fragment of letter.

On piece of paper roughly 3.5 x 5.5 cm. Good firm signature, on lightly discoloured paper. Reads '<...> date hereof. | [signed] J. Aislabie'. Lightly docketed in pencil 'of South Sea notoriety'.

Economics £28.00
John Alexander Milne [Henry Stone & Son; the Medici Society; Royal Society of Arts]

Twenty-eight Typed Letters Signed, seventeen Autograph Letters Signed, etc, to K. W. Luckhurst, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, and others.

British businessman (1872-1955), chairman of the Medici Society Ltd, chairman and managing director of Henry Stone & Son Ltd, printers. Very good. Mostly octavo, with a few quarto and 12mo. Some bearing the Society's stamp and others docketed. Occasional rust marks from paperclips. Mainly...

Printing History £200.00
John Allen Harker

Autograph Letter Signed to Sir H[enry]. T[rueman]. Wood, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Inventor and engineer (1870-1923), whose papers are held by the Royal Society. During the war Harker was in the Inventions Department of the Ministry of Munitions. One page, 12mo. Good, if slightly grubby. Docketed in pencil and bearing the Society's stamp. Reads 'I send herewith a short...

Science, Medicine and Technology £28.00