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Thomas Crofton Croker, ed. [Maria Edgeworth; Felicia Hemans; William Blackwood; Charles Whittingham, the Chiswick Press] The Christmas Box; An Annual Present for Young Persons. Small 8vo: [ii] + viii + 240 + i. Many illustrations in text. In original cream boards, cream endpapers, with leather label. Binder's ticket of 'F. Westley, | BINDER, | Friar Street, | - NEAR - | Doctors Commons'. All edges gilt. Tight, with spotting to endpapers, prelims and last few leaves.... |
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Alfred Hands [J. W. Gray & Son, Lightning Conductor Experts] 8vo: ii + 14 pp. Unbound. Stapled and in original brown printed wraps. Very good on art paper. Six photographic illustrations, including 'Clothing of a man struck by lightning' and 'Farm-house at Whaddon, near Stamford, struck and practically wrecked by lightning.' Hands is described as 'Member... |
£28.00 | |
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Alfred Riehl; William Frederick Mohr, Electric Lamp Merchants; William Edwin Page [the Boran Lamp; Edwardian inventions, patents] On three pages of a foolscap bifolium, supplied by J. Warner & Co., Law Stationer of New Oxford Street, ruled and with red borders. Good, on lightly stained paper. On 25 July 1912 Mohr and Friedrich Hansen 'made an application for a Patent for an improvement in the process of the manufacture... |
£75.00 | |
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B. Reynell [Victorian, Edwardian illustration; railway locomotives; steam engines] Detailed pencil illustrations of nine steam engines [locomotives]. Landscape sketchbook of twelve leaves. Dimensions of each leaf roughly 26.5 x 38 cm. Unbound and stitched. In original brown patterned wraps. Good, on lightly discoloured and spotted drawing paper, with some wear to extremities, heavy wear at head of spine, and in heavily-worn wraps. The first... |
£200.00 | |
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Alfred Picard (1844-1913), Vice-Président du Conseil d'État [Exposition Universelle de 1889; Paris Exhibition] 8vo: 3 pp. Bifolium. Very good. Written in French. After an 'etude attentive de rapport de M.M. de Lacretelle et Millas et des autres documents en ma possession' on the Exposition's foreign returns he finds 'certaines lacunes et certains points douteux' concerning which he hopes Berger can... |
£150.00 | |
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Anne Benson Procter (1799-1888, née Skepper), wife of the poet Bryan Waller Procter ('Barry Cornwall') (1787-1874), and mother of the poet Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) Autograph Letter Signed ('Anne B. Procter') to 'My dear Mr Rathbone'. 12mo: 1 p. Very good. 14 closely-written lines. 'A friend of mine was asked by our dear old kind friend Chorley to assist in procuring for a Protege of his a musical education. I think the young person was originally introduced to him by Lady Devonshire. A sum was promised for two years, and the... |
£35.00 | |
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Georges Bernard Depping [Georg Bernhard Depping] (1784-1853), Franco-German historian and geographer Autograph Letter Signed ('Depping') to Mathieu Guillaume Therese de Villenave (1762-1846). 12mo: 4 pp. 78 lines. Very good. A highly interesting letter, addressed by Depping to his collaborator on an edition of the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (8 vols, 1817) praised by Brunet as the most complete that had yet appeared. Written in French. Such is the strength of Depping's feeling... |
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Robert Benton Seeley (1798-1886; DNB), English publisher and author Autograph Letter Signed ('R Seeley') to [John Lucas] Tupper. 12mo: 2 pp. Very good. Relates to the photographic series 'English Artists of the present day', published by Seeley with accompanying essays 'by J. B. Atkinson, S. Colvin, F. G. Stephens, T. Taylor, and J. L. Tupper'. He is sending 'a copy of No. 3. The other we count as a presentation copy.' '... |
£56.00 | |
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Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), English civil servant and author Autograph ('A Helps') on order for copies of his 'Life of Las Casas' (1868). 12mo: 1 p. Good, with four fold lines. Helps held the post of Clerk of the Privy Council from 1860 until his death. In large letters beneath the oval blue Privy Council crest reads 'Life of | Las Casas | 2 copies for | [signature] A Helps'. The handwriting is bold and the signature is underlined... |
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Sir John Murray (1884-1967, 'the fifth'), member of a notable London firm of publishers Autograph Note Signed ('John Murray') to 'my dear Williams'. 8vo: 1 p. Good, with creasing towards right-hand margin. 'Very many thanks, my dear Williams, for your most kind congratulations. I feel that my honour is some recognition of the publishing trade & I take it as such'. Murray was created KCVO in 1932, following his publication of the ninth... |
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