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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[A schoolboy correspondent] Colonel Arthur John Leahy (c.1916-2004), OBE, Commando Signals [Bradfield College, Berks; Seaford House preparatory school, Littlehampton; English public school education] Seventy-three Autograph Letters Signed from Arthur John Leahy to his mother Margaret Leahy, almost exclusively written as a schoolboy at Bradfield College, Berks, 1928-30, painting a vivid picture of the English public school education of the period. The collection is in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with all texts clear and complete. Totaling 223 pp in 4to (67 letters) and 30 pp in 12mo (6 letters). Twelve of the letters (4to, 30 pp; 12mo, 4 pp) date from 1928; thirty-two (4to, 93 pp; 12mo, 14 pp) from 1929; and twenty-nine (4to,...		£950.00
John Hawkins. Two autograph letters signed, both one page, 4to, to an unnamed correspondent. Miscellaneous writer and traveller in Greece and the Far East (1758?-1841), DNB. Two autograph letters signed, edges discoloured, texts clear and complete. (7 March) "Sir/ I yesterday received your new Catalogue in which I find two articles which I am desirous of having No 2634. Belon (Pierre)...	Travel and Topography	£120.00
John Henry Bernard Autograph Letter Signed to [?] Brougham. Irish churchman and philosopher (1860-1927). Four pages, 12mo. Good, though grubby and a tad spotted, and with remains of previous mount adhering to lower-half of verso of second leaf of bifoliate (not affecting text). Begins 'My dear Brougham \| I have read over the article in the Gazette on SPG...	Religion	£38.00
John Henry Foley (1818-1874), Irish sculptor best known for his statues of General Andrew 'Stonewall' Jackson and of Prince Albert in the Albert Memorial Autograph Letter Signed ('J. H. Foley') to [L. W.] Field. Two pages, 12mo. Very good on lightly aged paper, and with the blank second leaf of the bifolium laid down on part of a leaf detached from an autograph album. Thanks him 'for the votes [of election to the Royal Academy?] which through your kindness I received to-day'. He is glad Field has been...	Art and Architecture	£86.00
[Robert Raikes (1765-1837) of Welton House, banker; The Hull and Selby Railway Bill, 1836] Two printed documents, 'In the Matter of the Hull and Selby Railway': 'In the House of Lords. [...] Copy of the Petition of Robert Raikes, Esq. in Opposition to the Bill' and 'Objections against the Bill, on the Part of Robert Raikes, Esq.' The two items are uniform in layout, on folio bifoliums, with the text covering the whole of the recto of the first leaf, and the details printed lengthwise on the reverse of the second. Both in good condition, and folded into the customary packets. An early example of nimbyism, rather rich...		£120.00
John Henry Gurney (1819-1819), banker and ornithologist Autograph Note Signed ('J H Gurney') to Messrs Hertslet & Scott, No 31 Norfolk Street, Strand, London. 4to, 1 p. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged and worn paper. With 1 cm vertical closed tear at foot of each leaf. Addressed, with postmarks, on the reverse of the second leaf, which is docketed '31. July 1840. \| Gurney & Co. that Mrs E. Lofty resides at Hethersett near Norwich -'. Reads '...	Economics	£28.00
John Henry Pepper and Sir David Brewster Autograph Signature of Pepper and part of Autograph Signature of Brewster. Pepper (1821-1800) was an illusionist and educationist, famous for 'Pepper's Ghost', his 'spectral optical illusion' exhibited in 1862, illustrating Charles Dickens's 'Haunted Man'. Brewster (1781-1868) was a natural philosopher and academic administrator. On a clean, lightly-creased piece of...	Music and Theatre	£80.00
Captain George Lamb (1869-1911), M.D., I.M.S. [Printed paper] Snake-Venoms in relation to Haemolysis. By Captain George Lamb, M.D., I.M.S. 4to, ii + 15 pp. In original printed boards. Text complete and clear. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the British...		£28.00
John Hogg, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature [John Lee (ne Fiott) (1783-1866), of Hartwell House] Offprint from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature: 'On Two Events which occurred in the Life of King Canute the Dane.' 8vo: [ii] + 18 pp. In worn original buff wraps with white printed label on front. Clear and complete. On aged, damp-stained paper. Presentation copy, with note on title-page: 'To John Lee Esqre. L.L.D. \| with the Author's kind regards.' Ownership inscription of 'J. Lee. Hartwell. 3 May 1856.'...	Literature	£75.00
John Hopkinson (1844-1919), English geologist [Alfred Reginald Pryor (1839-1881); Royal Geological Society] Autograph Letter Signed to Pryor's mother. 12mo: 3 pp. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Concerns Pryor's posthumous 'Flora of Hertfordshire' (1887), which contained an introduction co-written by Hopkinson. Four copies of the book are being presented to Mrs Pryor 'by our Society'. 'This is partly the cause of the delay in sending them to you...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£56.00