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[ J.R. Tutin, compiler; John Ramsden Tutin; illustrations from watercolours by Ernest H.R. 9Collings ] [Printed volume of poems; authorial inscription] Sappho The Queen of Song A collection of poems by various authors, arranged by J.R. Tutin. [84]pp., 8vo, 8 illustrations inc. frontispiece, buckram quarter binding, design embossed in gilt of wax cream paper covers. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper (recto)("Wm Lampton Doughty [...] 15.viii.19". INSCRIBED BY... |
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William Sprott, Procurator Fiscal of the City of Edinburgh [ Robert Park (d.1797), Writer, Glasgow; the Attorney Tax Law, Scotland, 1786 ] 3pp., folio. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper. Docketed on reverse of second leaf and addressed to 'Mr. Robert Park | Writer in | Glasgow', with postmark in red ink. The first page is headed 'Edinburgh within John's Coffee House the fifteenth day of December One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty... |
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The William Gates Collection of material relating to Mexico and Central America; The American Art Association, Inc., New York Medium-sized unpaginated 8vo. With frontispiece, one plate, and reproductions in text. Stitched, in printed card wraps. Internally in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper, in grubby, aged and worn wraps with slight loss to one corner of back cover. Subtitle reads: 'With special... |
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The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, London; Charles Whittingham & Co., The Chiswick Press, London Medium-length unpaginated volume, 16mo. With ten fold-out plates (Perugino, Raphael, Giulio Clovio, Paolo Veronese, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Jean Marc Nattier, Thomas Gainsborough, Raeburn, Francois Millet). In printed wraps. On aged and worn paper, in heavily worn wraps. 118 items, well... |
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The Anderson Galleries (Mitchell Kennerley, President), New York [2] + 130pp., 8vo. Frontispiece facsimile of the first page of the 'draft of contract for Woodrow Wilson's History of the United States - to be sold with six letters relating thereto, each signed by him'. In printed wraps. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. 949 lots, from a 1758 letter... |
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James Dixon Goy (b.1842), Dentist, of Ramsgate, Louth, Lincolnshire xi + 67pp., 12mo. Disbound and without covers. The preface to the first edition is dated from 'Liverpool, 1869', and that to the second from 'Lincoln, 1871'. In the latter Goy writes that he is in 'failing health', but that 'the whole has been thoroughly revised, and much additional matter... |
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Rollo G. Silver (1909-1989), American book collector and historian of American printing [ The American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts ] [1] + 28pp, 8vo. Paginated 135-162. Stapled pamphlet, in printed green wraps. In good conditon, lightly aged and worn. Inscribed at head of title-page: 'For Dr. S. H. Steinberg with all good wishes from Rollo G. Silver'. Contains an eleven and a half page appendix of 'Abstracts from Some... |
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Lady Lucy Cavendish [ Lady Lucy Caroline Frederick Cavendish, n 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Recipient not named: addressed to 'Dear Sir'. She is sending 'one line' to tell him 'how greatly all of us like the window, which was put up in the Church according to your promise before Easter Day'. She... |
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George Jacob Holyoake [ John Stuart Mill ] 29pp., 12mo. Disbound and without wraps. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Attributed at end to 'G. J. H. | 20, COCKSPUR STREET, | LONDON, S.E.' Now uncommon. |
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George Eden (1784-1849), 1st Earl of Auckland, English Whig politician 1p., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed: '20 August 1835 | Lord Auckland to R L'. Reads 'Lord Auckland would be much obliged to Mr Lambert if he would call here tomorrow soon after two o'clock -'. |
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