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Author, Title, Summary Price
Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), painter and illustrator; Edmund Evans (1826-1905), wood-engraver and printer [Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria, 'birth' place of Quakerism]

Three proof wood-engravings of the 'birthplace of Quakerism' Swarthmoor Hall by Edmund Evans, two from drawings by Birket Foster, with an Autograph Letter Signed by Foster, and a copy of a letter by Evans, to John Abraham and his wife Maria.

ONE. Birket Foster's letter to John Abraham: 12mo, 2 pp. 26 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with one dog-eared corner. Docketed 'Birket Foster re Sketches'. A letter of Abraham's has been forwarded to him 'relating to the illustrations which I did for the late Wm. Benson (to...

£450.00 Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), painter and illustrator;
Nathan Mercer, Hon Sec., Liverpool Chemists' Association [John Abraham; Later Liverpool Chemists' Association and the Liverpool and District Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain]

[Printed handbill.] Liverpool Chemists' Association. Conversazione and Opening of the Museum of Materia Medica and Chemistry, Belonging to the Association, on Thursday, December 18, 1856. John Abraham, Esq., President of the Association, in the Chair

Folio, 1 p. Dimensions 21 x 33 cm. 51 lines of text, in a variety of types and point sizes, both single and double column. Text clear and complete. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with one short marginal closed tear. The 'Programme for the Evening', including 'Photographs of Saturn, the Moon...

£300.00 Liverpool Chemists' Association. Conversazione
Norman G. Brett James [Mill Hill School; J. R. Magrath, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford]

The History of Mill Hill School 1807-1907. [Inscribed by the author Norman George Brett James to his mother, and with four pieces of ephemera.]

8vo: xii + 416 pp. Fair, tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, in worn contemporary brown leather binding with the school's arms in gilt on both boards, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on flyleaf: 'To my very dear Mother from her loving son Norman. August 10. 1909.' Loosely inserted are two newspaper...

£180.00
Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

Autograph Letter Signed "A C Swinburne" to his brother, Edward, with envelope, including reference to "Yanks", relaxing into a sense of humour..

Three pages, 8vo, bifiolium, final page laid down on card, as is the envelope addressed in his hand, text legible and complete: "Your protégé & Mr Cowen's has not tracked me iinto the wilds of Oxfordshire where I am staying for ten days or so on a visit to Jowett [Master of Balliol] - and as...

£850.00 Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic (DNB)

[Autograph Manuscript] The Decision of Horgeir, a story of the Conversion of Iceland

Notebook, 34pp., 8vo (alternate pages used), first page dulled, minor marking, text clear and complete, in the hand of Sabine Baring-Gould, lightly annotated by B.-G. Words added by B.-G. top right of first page, "from | S. Baring-Gould | [Horbury Wakefiled -excised] | Dalton | Thirsk. And to...

£1,250.00 Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic (DNB)
[Jon R. Forest aka J.R. Forest, John R. Forrest [né Redhead], radical]

A small archive of printed ephemera and manuscript material expressing Jon R. Forest's (of Winooski, Vt) views on the Civil War and radical views on the U.S. monetary system, 'equal suffrage'. agrarian reform, etc.

The collection comprises: A. 6 Autograph Letters, one signed John R. Forrest , 3 ending Farewell and 2 possibly incomplete or simply unsigned, to John Abraham of Liverpool, England, addressed as cousin, druggist, 1847-1879, various formats, total 27 (twenty-seven) pages, some lines faint, good...

£700.00
[[Women's Royal Air Force]

[Illustrated Pamphlet] Women's Work for the Royal Air Forces

Pamphlet, [16]pp., 12mo, very good condition, illustrated front cover, illustrated with photographs throughout revealing their various duties (on the ground of course). No copy recorded. The RAF was formally established on 1 April 1918, a month before the publication of this pamphlet.

 £180.00 Women's Work for the Royal Air Forces
[Sir Walter Scott; Edinburgh Select Club]

[Printed Card] Members of the Friday Club Instituted in June 1803 (members including Scott, Francis Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn)

Cardc.10 x 14cm, prob. whiet or cream originally but discoloured now, printed text clear and complte, on the recto a list of members from 1803 Sir James Hall to [1827] William Murray, giving as shown the year of admission (mainly 1803). On the verso, the dates for the Friday Club dinners Jan....

£265.00 Members of the Friday Club
[Oxford Ornithological Society; Fraser Darling; Ludwig Koch; Eric Ennion; Seton Gordon; Tinbergen; Landsborough Thomson]

Manuscript Minute Book of the Oxford Ornithological Society, with signatures, covering the period between 1943 and 1948, and with a number of attractive handbills and other items of ephemera (printed at the Oxford University Press) tipped in.

4to, 180 pp. In original 'Emberlin & Son' ledger, with red leather half-binding, black cloth, marbled endpapers. Text clear and complete. In fair condition, on aged paper, in worn binding. Minutes signed by G. H. Spray, B. W. Tucker, W. B. Alexander, J. B. E. Say, William G. Dyson, Alan...

£650.00
[Sunday School Library, Kent]

A quantity of books from Christ Church, Kilndown, Library, c.1875

60 items, characterised by grey-brown amateur wrapper, usually grubby, with: A label on the front usually stating, 'CHRIST CHURCH, KILNDOWN | LIBRARY. | No. [...] | Please keep clean. | Can be exchanged on EVERY FRIDAY on application to Rev. H. HARRISON. | October, 1875', And a label on reverse...

£1,200.00
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