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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
P. Wytsman, science bookseller, Brussels [entomology]

Wytsman's catalogue no. 9, in French, titled 'Entomologie'.

8vo, 8 pp. Unbound. An unopened leaf, folded twice to make four leaves. Text clear and complete. On aged and worn paper.

Natural History £35.00
P.F. Fitzgerald

A Protest against Rationalism. The Rationale or Philosophy of Belief

Brown boards, gilt, bumped and some staining of edge, contents good. INSCRIBED by author: "With the Authoress's love".

£50.00
P.G. Konody.

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent.

Art critic. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He informs his correspondent of his belief that S.H. Sime, illustrator and artist, is still alive [in fact died 1941 re. George Locke]. H e runs obver the main events of Sime's life getting a small fortune, starting life as a coal miner, "fantastic...

Art and Architecture, Literature £95.00
P.G. Konody.

Autograph Letter Signed to Eliott O'Donnell, author ("Werewolves", etc.)

Art Critic and author. Two pages, 8vo, partly laid downm fold mark, good condition. He says he can do nothing "about the pictures" of which O'Donnell had sent a list. "They are not of sufficient interest and, I fear, of little value. Anyway they would not do for the man for whom I am forming a...

Art and Architecture, Literature £35.00
P.G. Wodehouse, novelist

Autograph Note Signed to Miss Terry Smith.

One page, 4to, lightly creased, good condition. The signature is slightly smudged. Text as follows: "Here is the article. I think it is excellent. / I hope it lands the job for you."

Literature £150.00
P.M. Roget.

Autograph Note Signed to an unknown correspondent.

Physician and savant, compiler of the Thesaurus (1779-1869). One page, 8vo,small chip, good. He accepts an offer of two dozen bottles of port and promises to return the same number of bottles.

Science, Medicine and Technology £50.00
P.M. Roget.

Autograph Note, third person, "Dr Roget" to Sir David Brewster, natural philosopher (DNB).

Physician and savant (1779-1869). One page, trimmed,removed from an album, stained but text clear and apparently complete. Roget invites Brewster to dinner. This derives from the album formed by Brewster's daughter-in-law, Annie, and to which Brewster contributed substantially. (See earlier...

Science, Medicine and Technology £60.00
Pa´draic O´ Conaire

No´ra Marcuis Big,agus Sge´alta eile.

64pp., [12mo], original tan wraps restored (formerly detached and badly chipped, and recased in green paper wraps, staining and marking but contents mainly good. Title label on front mispelt (Marcus" for Marcuis"). Very scarce. I have found only one copy recorded (Harvard).

Literature £450.00
Padraic Colum

Studies. Being Number Two of the Tower Press Booklets Second Series

50pp., 12mo, original printed grey wraps, chipped and marked, contents good.

Literature £75.00
Padraic H. Pearse [Padraic mac Piarais; Pha´draig mhic Phiarais]

Scri´bhinni´.

Original green cloth, 268pp, 8vo, corners bumped, covers marked, endpapers yellowed, contents good. First collected works [?]. Scarce: three copies listed by COPAC which also lists an edition (of the same book?) which it dates [1917 ("Dublin: Phoenix").

Literature £250.00