Autograph Letters (four) to booksellers.

Scottish miscellaneous writer (1788-1858)(DNB). Total eight pages, 8vo, minor defects. In his two letters addressed to J.H. Bohte Gillies discusses (Feb.1820) his account and lists 21 catalogue brief catalogue entries. Most are German publications. Six are marked with a cross (presumably the bookseller is unable to supply) and eighteen with a tick (the bookseller is able to supply). He makes arrangements for the carriage of the books and reveals that he "had previously corresponded wh. Mr. Herold in Hamburg [Johann Gottlieb Herold, German bookseller] not being aware that German Books were to be had readily in London . . ." Note: Gillies eventually started the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1827. I have included two letters from Gillies to unnamed booksellers, not necessarily Bohte. In one, undated, he requests classical texts. In the other (March 1820), he repeats an order which may have gone astray. Four items,