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Thomas Gisborne (1758-1846), Prebendary of Durham, theologian and poet, member of the Clapham Sect [Cadell & Davies, booksellers, Strand, London] Autograph Letter Signed ('T: Gisborne.') to Messrs Cadell & Davies. 8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-four lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on aged and lightly-stained paper. An informative letter, casting light on the relation between publisher and author in Georgian England. Gisborne's aim is to give 'information respecting some employment which, if it... |
£150.00 |
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William Parr Greswell (1765-1854), Anglican clergyman and bibliographer [Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. P. Greswell') to an unnamed bookseller [Thomas Thorpe?]. 4to, 2 pp. Thirty lines of text. Clear and complete. On aged and grubby paper. One closed tear and minor traces of mount to extremities. An interesting letter, casting light on the relationship between bookseller and knowledgeable client in Georgian England. He gives the conditions under which... |
£75.00 |
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William Stirling, 'Ancien Assistant au Laboratoire de Police Technique de Lyon' [executions; hanging] Official instructions for the carrying out of an execution at Prisons in a British Colony. 8vo: 4 pp (paginated 3-6). In original light-green printed wraps. Text in English, clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with slight discoloration to wraps. Blind accession stamp of the British crime writer Jonathan Goodman (1931-2008). The following sentence is deleted in pencil: 'The above... |
£56.00 |
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Wyndham Lewis [Tate Gallery, 1956; Sir John Rothenstein] Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism. The Tate Gallery. 6 July - 19 August 1956. 4to: 36 pp + 12 pp of prints on art paper. Stapled. In striking original printed red card wraps. With A4 addendum leaf loosely inserted. Good, with light stain to bottom outer corner. Important two-page introduction by Lewis, reviewing his career, followed by three-page essay by Rothenstein on '... |
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Lewis Carroll' [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] [Alice in Wonderland] On one side of a piece of wove paper roughly 18 x 12 cm. Headed 'ADVERTISEMENT.' and signed in type 'LEWIS CARROLL. | Christmas, 1893.' Twenty-eight lines of text. In good condition on lightly-aged and spotted paper. Begins 'For over 25 years, I have made it my chief object, with regard to my... |
£175.00 |
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William Luboys, an African' [William Bragg; nineteenth century black literature; slavery] Broadside folio (printed on one side of a piece of paper 38 x 24.5 cm). Recently professionally archivally repaired and tipped in on a piece of cream card 41 x 28.5 cm. Text clear and complete. On creased, aged paper with staining at head and closed tears skilfully repaired with archival tape.... |
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[Dr John Brown (1811-1901), i.e. John Taylor Brown] [Bibliomania; bibiography; typography] "Bibliomania." (Reprinted from the North British Review, with Additions.) 16mo, 39 pp. Stitched. In original pink printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged, foxed paper with slightly dogeared corners. Minor chipping to extremities of wraps. Detailed engraving (7.5 x 7 cm) by J. Adam on title-page and front wrap, showing bearded man at lectern in room crammed... |
£175.00 |
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[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] [Roger Casement] Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Portugal . . . Lorenzo Marques (1896). . Pamphlet, stitched as issued, sl. foxed, mainly good condition, 26pp., 8vo. Report for 1896 on Lorenzo Marques compiled by Roger Casement, British consular official. |
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[The Home Colonization Co-operative and Social Home Association.] 12mo: 8 pp. An unopened pamphlet made by folding a leaf twice. Text clear and complete. Good: on aged and slightly-grubby paper. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the London School of Economics and University College London, in whose entries it is dated to the 1870s. |
£150.00 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace; Frederick Smith; William Wilson Saunders (1809-1879); Arthur Adams; G. Mann; Sir W. J. Hooker; Thomas Anderson; M. J. Berkeley, contributors [Linnean Society] 8vo: 56 pp. In original blue printed wraps. Unopened. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in creased and slightly-chipped wraps. The title of Smith's catalogue of Wallace's collection ('Read Jan. 15, 1863') ends '[...] By Frederick Smith, Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum.... |
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