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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Joseph Parker Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr Gorton' of the Globe newspaper. Oxford bookseller (c.1774-1850), described by the bibliographer Dibdin as 'the Corinthian pillar of Bibliopolism at Oxford'. Written in the year of his retirement in favour of his nephew John Henry Parker. The Globe was a London newspaper, founded in 1803. 1 page, 8vo. In good condition,...	Book Trade History	£50.00
Joseph Parker (1830-1902), English nonconformist divine, preacher, theologian and miscellaneous writer Two Letters Signed, the first in a secretarial hand and the second in Autograph, to Rev. Joseph Lucas. Both items one page, octavo, and on aged and creased paper. Regarding Lucas's selection from Parker's works, 'Detached links; extracts from the Writings and Discourses of Joseph Parker' (Richard D. Dickinson, 1873). LETTER ONE: Thanks Lucas for his 'kind note', but does not 'see how the...		£80.00
Joseph Pollio Bibliographie anecdotique et critique des oeuvres de Jacques Casanova. Edition limited to 680 copies. 8vo: 235 pages. Uncut. With numerous portraits and facsimiles. In original printed wraps with loss and splitting at head of spine. Internally a good tight copy on paper discoloured with age.	Literature	£40.00
Joseph Ritson. Autograph Note in his hand (NOT signed). "Alexander Ross", written top right above the note, appears to be the addressee. Antiquary (DNB). Piece of paper, c. 4 x 4", discoloured byt text clear, bottom edge rough from tearing. Text: See another song by this author in Johnson's 'Scots Musical Museum'. If 'The Rock and the wee pickle tour' were written before the publication of Ramsay's 'Tea-table miscellany' (1724),...	History, Literature	£185.00
Joseph Romilly Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Cambridge divine (1791-1864) who arranged and catalogued all the University's papers. Two pages, 16mo, very good. 'Pray accept my best thanks for all your kindness with regard to that poor flighty creature Mrs Stone. I am very sorry to hear that Mrs Stoughton Money Kyrle [wife of James Stoughton...		£23.00
Joseph Rowntree Autograph letters signed (x 3) to the Secretary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, The elder. Quaker grocer and philanthropist (1801-1859). The letters provide an amusing insight into nature of customer relations on the British railway system. The first, 4 pp, 12mo. "I left Middlesboro' on the 1st of 8mo at 6.40am. for Leeds only Booked to Preston Junction - when waiting in...	Social history	£150.00
Joseph Rowntree Autograph letters signed (x 2) [, to his solicitor?], The Elder. Quaker grocer and philanthropist (1801-1859). The first letter, 4 pp, 8vo. "I want thee to help me in Sarah Sanderson's affairs which seem to require some little arrangement. The poor woman died, or rather was burned to death at New castle". As one of the trustees of her property,...		£80.00
Joseph Rowntree two letters signed to E. S. Gibb, The younger. Quaker cocoa manufacturer and philanthropist (1836-1925). Both letters one page, 4to, and written by an amanuensis. The letters deal with a "proposed new siding", for which "Mr Copperthwaite & my Clerk of Works" think it will be necessary to "take down the bridge which connects...		£80.00
Joseph Sabin (1821-1881), Anglo-American bookseller [J. Sabin and Sons, booksellers, New York and London] Engraved illustrated trade card of the booksellers J. Sabin and Sons. Printed on one side of a piece of thick wove paper, roughly 11.5 x 9 cm. Dimensions of image 9.5 x 6.5 cm. A little grubby, but good. An attractive production, with a mediaeval-style illustration of two flying fish flanking a tree on the branch of which is hung a shield with the words 'Books...	Book Trade History	£35.00
Joseph Sadlier [William Patrick O'Reilly, Major in the Pope's Brigade, and Assistant Commissioner of the Board of Intermediate Education in Ireland; Garibaldi; General de Lamoricière] Broadside handbill street-ballad entitled 'A New Song on the Glorious Victory of the Popes Brigade at Peruga' [sic, for 'Perugia'] Crudely printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 27 x 8 cm. Spotted and creased, but with no loss to text. Sixty lines of verse, beginning: 'Rejoice you sons of Erin's Isle, \| Attention pay now for a while, \| Those lines we'll surely make you smile, \| Our brave brigade isvictorious...	Military and Naval History	£150.00