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Author, Title, Summary Price
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (or Llewellyn) (1816 – 1886) illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author.

[Llewellyn Jewitt, engraver] Autograph Letter Signed LL. Jewitt to Mr [Doxey?] mainly about editorial work (subject COINS), partly family.

Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. May I ask whether you have very kindly managed to make the numismatic memoranda for me from the 'Num: Chronicle' of 'Num: Jour.' which I asked in my last letter. I mean the examplesof engraved coins bearing crosses, with the vol: and page where they...

£120.00
G.W. Thornbury [George Walter Thornbury (1828 – 1876), author, first biographer of J. M. W. Turner]

[G.W. Thornbury, author; Dickens as Editor] Autograph Letter Signed [G.W.?] Thornbury to unnamed recipient (an editor) about his current publishing activities (inc. for Charles Dickens).

Two pages, bifolium, good condition despite some dustiong, text clear. I am down here for a short time with my father. Directly I return to town I shall be only too happy to call & see you. I have some fresh adventure 'Rides round Parnassus' which I think would suit your paper.- I should...

£90.00
Charles Hutton (1737 – 1823), mathematician and surveyor.

[Charles Hutton, mathematician, surveyor] Holograph Index (NOT published) to A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (2 vols, 1815 edition). List of plates for vol.1 addressed to Rich[ar]d Murphy Esq | St peters street | Derby.. List of Plate

A. List of plates in 'Vol.Ist', Holograph MS., one page, 4to, small stain, sl.chipped, text complete, addressed to a Richard Murphy of Derby on verso, text columnising No. of Plate, Title/subject, page number; B. List of plates in 'Vol.2nd', Holograph MS., 2pp. fol., bifolium, folded, aged but...

£850.00 Hutton
Laurence Humphreys (1571 – 7 July 1591), English Catholic martyr.

[Laurence Humphries; Catholic Martyr] Commemorative Seal with Printed Encomium.

See image for text of Latin encomium and detail of seal. . Card Base, 14 x 16cm, sl. damage not affecting text, spotting and aging, text legible. Seal sl. damaged. See image.

£80.00 Martyr
Karl Elze [Karl Friedrich Elze (1821 – 1889) was a German scholar and Shakespearean critic].

[Karl Elze, Shakespeare; Globe Theatre; Pamphlet] Eine Auffuhrung im Globus-Theater. Einleitender Vortrag bei der 14. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft am 24. April 1878. Separat-Abdruck aus dem Shakespeare-Jahrbuch Band XIV

Pamphlet, 20pp., 8vo, grey wraps, stained, front wrap detached. WorldCat and COPAC appear to record a 32 page edition (1879, 1879). See image.

£85.00 Elze
The Duke of Buckingham [James Wyld the Elder, English cartographer and geographical publisher].

[James Wyld the Elder; Map Making] Autograph Letter Third Person of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839), to James Wyld the Elder, cartographer about the Ordnance Map.

One page, 12mo, bifolium, stain partially obscuring address, chipped (without loss of text), text clear and complete. The Duke of Buckingham requests Mr Wyld will inform him whether there are not more parts of the Ordnance Map [?] than those which he has sent him, and also whether he has [sent...

£75.00
John Munro and others (G.B. Shaw, May Morrris, Alfred Pollard, etc. etc.)

[Book & ALSs] Frederick James Furnivall. A Volume of Personal Record. WITH: TWO Autograph Letters Signed F.J.F.

Short Biography by John Munro.Frederick James Furnivall A Volume of Personal Record with List of SubscribersRebound, hf-lea, rubbed, endpapers sl. stained, minior spinal damage, contents in good condition.83 preliminary pages and biography, 215 pages, black and white plates, good condition in...

£165.00
Ed. Sylvia Pankhurst

[Sylvia Pankhurst; printed periodical; Suffragettes] The Woman's Dreadnought.

One issue only. Four pages, paginated [241]-244, aged, edges sl. chipped, small closed tear, text clear and complete, folded in two. See image.

£80.00 Pankhurst
Ed. Dr Marion Phillips

[Marion Phillips; Labour; Printed Periodical] The Labour Woman. A Monthly Journal for Working Women

One issue only. Vol. XIV, No. 5, pp.[65]-[79], unbound, some damage and aging not affecting text. It commences with A Parliamentary Chronicle by Ellen Wilkinson. See image

£80.00 Women
[Guglielmo Marconi [Marquis of Marconi] (1874-1937), inventor of radio, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics; his second wife Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scali, their daughter Elettra Giovanelli

[Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio: family correspondence.] 40 items to governess Millicent Goodsir ('Miss Unger') from Marconi's second wife Cristina [née Bezzi Scali], her mother and daughter: letters and cards in English, inscribed photographs.

Forty items, in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with some of the photographs with evidence on reverse of having been mounted. Millicent Goodsir [née Unger] (1885-1983) was governess to Christina Bezzi Scali (1900-1994), daughter of Francesco, Count Bezzi Scali and his wife Anna (1879-1968...

£250.00
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