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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Joseph Cordier (1775-1849), French engineer, in charge of work on the Simplon Pass in 1800

Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Cor<dier>'), 'A Monsieur <Jukeur?> opticien - rue de Conde Paris'.

12mo bifolium: 1 p. 11 lines of text. Address and docketing on second leaf. Good, but with 1 cm hole in first leaf of bifolium, possibly caused by breaking open of blue wafer, which still adheres. Hole causing loss to two words, including latter part of signature. Asks the recipient 'de remettre...

French, Science, Medicine and Technology £45.00
Joseph Cottle, bookseller and publisher (of "Lyrical Ballads", etc)

Two Autograph Letters, one "Anonymous" the other signed, to the Bovey Coal Pottery Company

One page and two pages, both 8vo, bifolia, some staining but text clear and complete. In the first letter to which (as he explains in the second letter) he didn't add his name, he says that he visited "your Bovey Coal Pits" as a geologist (!), made observations and concluded that it was a "real...

Literature, Science, Medicine and Technology £250.00
Joseph Durham

Autograph Letter Signed and Autograph Note Signed to F.W. Fairholt, engraver, art critic

Sculptor (1814-1877). 2pp. & one page, 8vo. He initially discusses the "distresses" of someone called Hone, presumably an artist, how £50 would enable him to provide for himself and his family. Advertisements about Hone's situation have been placed and presumably they hope for contributions...

Art and Architecture £45.00
Joseph Durham

Autograph letter signed to the engraver and antiquary [Frederick William] Fairholt (1814-1866),

2 pp, 12mo. "Dear Fairholt / I could not get down to you last evening, tho' I tried very much - / I will correct any circulars you may be good enough to write for Hone and get it printed and sent out can you furnish a list of archaeological assns. members & institute & the address of the...

Art and Architecture £75.00
Joseph Edwards of Liverpool [Edward Bellamy; Tom Mann; William Morris; Leo Tolstoy; Alfred Russell Wallace]

Prospectus, with sample pages carrying a complete calendar, for 'The Labour Annual Calendar: 1896. Edited by Joseph Edwards. [...] Portraits of Nine Prominent Living Socialists [...]'.

The calendar proper (clear and complete on aged paper) consists of 12 unpaginated 8vo pages, with photographs and some facsimiles of handwriting on the rectos and the calendar itself, with memorable radical dates, on the versos. Photographs of Edward Bellamy, 'Principal Writers of "The Clarion...

Book Trade History, History £85.00
Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr

Autograph Note Signed.

Born 1781, died 1848. Dimensions approximately four inches by five inches. In good condition. Neatly mounted on a larger piece of paper, which is docketed 'Baron Hormayr is still famous for the part he had in the revolt of the Tyrol in 1809. Four lines in closely written gothic scrip, with...

Military and Naval History £100.00
Joseph Gulston (1744/5-1786), British book collector and connoisseur

Autograph Signature.

On a piece of paper cut from a letter, roughly 3.5 x 9.5 cm. On lightly aged and slightly grubby paper. Good firm signature, beneath which, in a contemporary hand, 'I knew his daughter Stepny'. Gulston's wife Bridgetta (1749/50–1780) was the second daughter of Sir Thomas Stepney.

Book Trade History £20.00
Joseph Gurney Barclay (1816-98), Victorian astronomer [Stockton & Darlington Railway Company]

Two Autograph Letters Signed, the first to the Stockton & Darlington Railway Company, and the second to Thomas Mackay.

LETTER ONE: One page, 12mo. Good, with several creases from folding. Concerns the repayment of a bond of £2500. 'I shall be glad to receive the money for it through Messrs Barclay & Co who will present the Bond duly receipted on your informing them where the Bond will be paid off.' Signed 'J...

Science, Medicine and Technology £120.00
Joseph Harris [St Ives, Cornwall; printed ephemera; handbill]

Handbill headed 'An Account of a Grand Fete at St. Ives, On 23rd of April, 1702, in honor of Queen Anne's Coronation; Taken from a Manuscript Book compiled by Edmund Pettis, at the time.'

On one side of a piece of wove paper, dimensions roughly 365 x 255 mm. Laid down on a larger leaf. Lightly creased and a little spotted, but good overall, and with the text entirely legible. The upper part of the item consists of the quotation from Pettis's manuscript book, consisting of...

Social history £150.00
Joseph Hatton

Autograph Signature.

Piece of grey card, dimensions roughly 5 1/2 inches by 4 inches. In poor condition: grubby and discoloured, and crudely mounted on a piece of card. Novelist and journalist (1841-1907). Clearly in reply to a request for an autograph, Hatton has written, in a large hand, 'With pleasure - | Yours...

Literature £20.00