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J. Pearson & Co. (Booksellers: London)

Two hundred books from the libraries of the world's greatest book collectors : Grolier (1479-1565) to Beckford (1759-1844)

vi, 126 p., 1 l : plates (partly fold.) facsim, covers worn and soiled, weat and tear to the deckle-edges, hinge strain, contents complete and clear. Printed by the Chiswick Press. From the Reference Library of (Albert) Winifred Myers, autograph-dealer, note by a company hand inserted with basic...

£100.00
[Elizabeth Sara Sheppard] [Joseph Joachim; Felix Mendelsohn; Jenny Lind]

Charles Auchester. By the Author of "My First Season," "Counterparts," etc.

Octavo: 415 pp. In contemporary red cloth binding, with title and owner's initials (K.D.F.) in gilt on spine. Internally tight, on aged paper; binding worn, faded and lightly stained. No half-title. Inscribed on title-page 'To my chum, the youngest of the Vixens, on striking twenty - by name...

£56.00
Claud Muirhead, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.

The causes of death among the assured in the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society from 1874 to 1894 inclusive.

4to. Pages: viii + 103. Appendix consisting of nine detailed actuarial tables. Tight copy, in grubby, stained and worn printed paper boards. From the library of the librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson, and with the Society's oval stamp on the verso of the title. Small...

£50.00
Clifford Dobell.

Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek And His "Little Animals" Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Diciplines

FIRST U.K. EDITION, pp.[viii].435,plates, very good in original white cloth, sl. soiled, INSCRIBED by historian of science, Douglas McKie (see Dictionary of National Biography).

£45.00
E.J. Chapman

A Drama of Two Lives. The Snake-Witch. A Canadian Summer-Night and other Poems

Orig. bds, worn and stained, foxing on eps, contents g-vg. Inscribed "With the author's compliments

£35.00
Eberhard Wortmann [Hermann Hesse; Sacred Geometry; Neoplatonism]

Corrected Typescript of 'Der Pyramidenbauer'; Corrected Typescript of German lecture; photocopy of Manuscript article 'Der Kanon des Kosmos', with English translation; two pages of German manuscript notes; 56 printed cosmological diagrams.

Wortmann - whose 'Das Gesetz Des Kosmos' (1965) is considered a cosmological masterpiece - corresponded with Hermann Hesse, and was the only modern author to be described by him as a master of the Glass Bead Game. The Sacred Science Institute in America is presently working with Wortmann's...

£450.00
Sir William Osler

The evolution of modern medicine | A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

For Osler (1849-1919) see the Dictionary of National Biography. 4to. Pages: xv + 243. 107 figures in text. Good, tight copy, with minor spotting. In worn and stained green cloth binding, with lettering entirely faded from spine. Attractive bookplate of Irving S. Cutter, medical author, and a...

£56.00
Walter de la Mare

The Wind Blows Over

Edition ltd to 75 copies, signed by author (no. 52), some sunning and marking of cover, mainly v.g.

£75.00
Clive Arden (pseud. of Lily Clive Nutt), English novelist

Autograph Letter Signed ('(Miss) "Clive Arden" | (L. Clive Nutt).') to the editor of the Daily Graphic.

4to: 2 pp. 26 lines. On lightly discoloured and spotted paper. She will be happy 'to send you word occasionally of any work or other matter concerning myself which might interest your readers'. Her 'new book', 'Enticement', 'has just been published by Leonard Parsons. At present I have not...

£38.00
F. Gigault d'Olincourt, Ingenieur Civil [Lithographie, Imprimerie et Librairie]

Autograph Letter Signed ('F. d'Olincourt.') to 'Monsieur Bance, aine, Editeur & Proprietaire, rue Saint-Denis, No. 271, a Paris.' In French.

4to: 2 pp. Eleven lines. Good, on lightly creased and discoloured paper. Column of printed advertisements in left-hand margin of first page, which is headed by a printed description of d'Olincourt's qualifications, enclosed in an engraving of a jumble of disparate items including a book-press,...

£100.00
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