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George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers [ Lord Rivers ] (1721-1803), Tory politician and diplomat [ John Keyse Sherwin (1751-1790), engraver and history painter ]

[ George Pitt, 1st Baron Rivers [ Lord Rivers ]. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Rivers') to the engraver John Keyse Sherwin, regarding assistance he may be able to give him in a 'Business' concerning the King's engraver.

2pp., 8vo. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Addressed to 'Dear Sherwin'. He assures him of his desire to 'assist in seconding [his] wishes', explaining regarding the circumstances: 'I suppose ye honest Gentleman whom the Advertisement concerns, must have been the King's...

£180.00
[George Cumming, ed.; William Hay] [Edinburgh Morayshire Society]

The Lintie o' Moray, being a Collection of Poems, chiefly composed for and sung at the Anniversary of the Edinburgh Morayshire Society. From 1829 to 1841.

8vo: iv + 82 pp. Erratum slip. In original embossed green cloth, gilt. Rebacked and with new endpapers. Tight copy on aged paper with minor wear to extremities. Inscribed on flyleaf 'To Mrs Wane with The Editor's best regards. April 1858.' Minor manuscript changes (by editor?) to p.2 ('our...

Literature £180.00
Anon.

[Pamphlet] Spiritual and secular interests compared and reconciled : a discourse addressed to those who exalt the one at the expense of the other.

Pamphlet, [3 = title]-20pp., 8vo, disbound, good condition. Two copies listed on COPAC (CUL and Lambeth Palace).

£75.00
[George Wickins for George & William Nicol, publishers and booksellers (BBTI)

Manuscript invoice/receipt Signed to Lord Glenbervie.

One page, c.8 x 6", minor defects, mainly good condition. 17s 6d received in payment of an invoice for "Philosophical Transactions" for 1814.

Book Trade History £45.00
[GOLD MINING IN GUYANA]

Anonymous part of long autograph letter regarding the setting up of a syndicate to be named 'Guiana Rivers Ltd', addressed to 'My dear Joan'.

10 pages on 5 8vo leaves. In good condition, but with a few large blots. The first part of a letter by a writer who appears to be English. Straight out of B. Traven. The author wants Joan to join him and Gwen in partnership with Hamerly. 'Hamerly is down here from one of his expeditions & we...

Travel and Topography £120.00
[Gregory, Sir Richard Arman] R.A. Gregory, sometime Editor of "Nature"

Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Typed Letters Signed, to "Mr Epps", writing on behalf of the "S.E. Union" (natural history society?).

Total 7pp., 8vo, some sunning, creasing, but texts clear and complete. (1945) Epps has alerted him to the "position of the S.E. Union in relation to teh proposal to make Pagham Harbour . . . a Nature Reserve". He explains his position and involvement (a reluctant "leader") and what was happening...

Natural History £150.00
[H.] Ferdinand Bompois

[ Manuscript ] Lettre a Mr Adrien de Longperier (Membre de l'Institut sur une Medaille Incertain d'Argent du Cabinet de Feu Mr Badeigts de Laborde. IN FRENCH.

Manuscript, 18 (dix-huit) pages, 4to (21 x 27cms), pages held togther by string, sl. chippping with loss of very little from the first page, mainly good condition.A very detailed discussion of a coin in a major collection presumably in Bompois' hand and with some textual changes to main body of...

French £200.00
[H] Evans Darby [Peace campiagner]

Letter Signed to Chevalier Dr Karl de Scherzen

(Peace Society (1893)). 2pp., 8vo, H.(?) Evans Darby to the Chevalier Dr Karl de Scherzer, He informs his correspondent that the last “universal Peace Congress” in Chicago decided to invite eminent jurists “to form a Committee for thepurpose of considering the question of an International Court...

Social history £45.00
[Hall the Printer Ltd, 3A Queen Street, Oxford; Witney Police Station]

Handbill printed notice of a "£1 REWARD" for the return of 'A Lady's Gold Wrist-Watch & Bracelet, Engraved on the back, P.E.B., Dec. 28, 1921.'

On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 220 x 280 mm. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper, with a few short closed tears to extremities. Cheaply but effectively printed in a variety of point sizes. Reads '£1 REWARD | LOST, on Monday Evening, December 16, either on the Motor-bus between...

Printing History £65.00
[Harry Carter; Double Crown Club; Corpus Christi College; John Fell types]

Double Crown Club Anecdote No. 1. Peter de Walpergen against the Executors of John Fell 1687-88.

12mo (leaf dimensions): 20 [+ 1] pp. Stitched, and in original grey printed wraps. Internally tight and clean, in creased, worn and spotted wraps with chipping to extremities. Uncommon: the only copies on COPAC at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge and the V...

Printing History £85.00