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Rev. S. R. Maitland [Samuel Roffey Maitland; J. G. F. & J. Rivington, London booksellers] Six More Letters on Fox's Acts and Monuments, originally published in the British Magazine, in the Years 1837 & 1838. 8vo: [iv] + [70] + [i] pp. The body of the text is paginated 75-144, with the six letters numbered seven to twelve. At the end of the volume are an index to the whole work, and a title-page for Maitland's 'Twelve Letters on Fox's Acts and Monument' (Rivingtons, 1841). In original buff wraps,...		£95.00
Rev. Thomas Wiltshire (1826-1902), Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at King's College London; Master of the Honorable Company of Clothworkers; Honorary Secretary of the Palaeontographical and Ray S Collection of MS. material inc. correspondence. Collection of manuscript material relating to him, including a section of one of his scientific manuscripts, an unpublished biography of him by his son Ernest W. Wiltshire with associated letters, family and other correspondence, a family portrait, offprint, newspaper cuttings.A valuable...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£350.00
Rev. William Henry Hoare. The Harmony of the Apocalypse with other Prophecies of Holy Scripture. With Notes, and an outline of the various interpretations. WITH MS. material. [228] pp., cr. 8vo, modern cloth binding, good condition. THE AUTHORIAL COPY, with extensive manuscript corrections and additions, with manuscript enclosures, interleaved (bound in) and with extensive manuscript additions and corrections obviously for a new edition (not published), including a...		£850.00
Rev. William Yorick Smythies (1816-1910), husband of the Victorian novelist Mrs Gordon Smythies [née Harriette Maria Gordon] (1813-1883) [Richard Twining (1749-1824), tea and coffee merchant] Autograph Letter Signed ('Y. Smythies') to Twining, including two translations of 'Bishop Lowth's Maria's Elegy'. 4to, 3pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight loss to second leaf caused by opening of red wax seal (part of which still adheres), and minor nicking to edges. Begins: 'The task you set me was a task indeed [...] my first attempt at translation'. He comments on...	History, Literature	£95.00
Reverend Archibald Henry Sayce Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. British Assyriologist (1845-1933). Paper dimensions roughly four inches by three inches. Very good. From autograph album. Mounted on larger piece of pink paper. Reads '[...] 1.30. I shall be here till the middle of next week, but my afternoons are being terribly wasted by the meetings of w[hic]h...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£25.00
Reverend Doctor T. Newton, Wesleyan Minister, on the administration of the poor law Two Autograph Letters Signed to Charles B. Walker of Thirsk. A newspaper cutting attached to the white paper folder in which these items are placed carries a short obituary of Newton, who died 30 April [1854]. The first letter is 1 page, 4to, addressed on reverse, and the second 1 page, 12mo, with address on reverse of second leaf of bifolium. Both grubby...	Social history	£50.00
Reverend George Hartley (Methodist preacher?) [George Woolcott (English architect?); acoustic; acoustics] Autograph Letter Signed ('Geo. Hartley') to 'G. Woolcott Esqre'. 4to, 4 pp. Very good on lightly aged paper. Hartley has 'attentively considered' Woolcott's 'plans for your New Church with reference to an opinion of their merits as being calculated to assist the Human Voice in Rhetorical delivery'. He is 'so little of an Architect as to be unable to assist my...		£95.00
Richard “Conversation” Sharp. Autograph Note Signed to Lady Holland, society hostess. Politician and critic (1759-1835). One page, 12mo, good. He regretfully declines her invitation claiming a prior engagement.	Literature	£50.00
Richard Adams (born 1920), English novelist, best-known for 'Watership Down' (1972) Two Autograph Signature on slip of paper. On strip of paper roughly two inches by eight wide. Good. Two bold signature reads 'Yours sincerely \| Richard Adams'. Presumably the collector was expected to cut the autographs off individually - for wgatever purpose.	Literature	£30.00
Richard Allen, editor [almanack; almanacks; ephemerides; ephemeris] Poor Richard's Almanack, for the year 1848. Leap Year. Containing, in addition to all that is requisite in an Almanack, A list of all the fairs in England and Wales, and advertisements for three hundred and thirty-two Heirs-at-Law. 12mo, 32 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Unbound and stitched. Text clear and entire. Tight, but grubby and dogeared, and with closed tear and creasing at head of recto of front wrap. Densely printed in a variety of point sizes, with frontispiece and twelve wood-cuts (one for each month)....	History, Literature	£100.00