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# 47164

William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington (later Duke of Cleveland) (1766-1842)

[STOCKTON & DARLINGTON RAILWAY] 3rd Earl of Darlington : autograph letter, signed. Raby Castle, 13 September 1825.

Manuscript in ink, written on the first two sides of a bifolium of watermarked wove paper, 180 x 110 mm; headed ‘Raby Castle, Sepber. 13 1825’, the letter is addressed simply ‘Dear Sir’, and is signed at the foot ‘your very obedt. Servant, Darlington’; original folds, extremely well preserved, the last side with some paper …

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# 47214

FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845)

[PRISON REFORM] Elizabeth Fry, Quaker, reformer and philanthropist: autograph letter, signed. Upton (Ramsgate), July 1838.

Manuscript in ink, 1 1/2 pp., written on the first two sides of an octavo bifolium of wove notepaper (180 x 110 mm); headed ‘Upton, 7/18 1838’, and addressed simply ‘My dear Friend’, the note is written entirely in the hand of Elizabeth Fry and is signed by her at the foot ‘Affectionately & gratefully …

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# 45783

WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)

An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.

Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and …

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# 2766

ALMQVIST, Carl Jonas Love, 1793-1866

[UTOPIAS] Parjumouf : saga ifrån Nya Holland.

THE FIRST WORK OF FICTION WRITTEN IN SWEDISH TO HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN SETTING. Stockholm : Gadelius, 1817. First edition. Duodecimo, modern half green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering (sunned), modern marbled endpapers, original printed upper wrapper bound in (but lacking the lower wrapper), 98 pp; a crisp, clean copy …

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# 41889

TOLLET, Casimir (1828-1899)

De l’assistance publique et des hôpitaux jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Plan d’un Hotel-Dieu attribué a Philibert Delorme. (With the author’s manuscript for the second edition)

Par C. Tollet, ingénieur. Paris : chez l’auteur, 49, rue d’Amsterdam, 1889. Large quarto (325 x 260 mm), later cloth binding (boards a little flecked), spine with printed title label; original wrappers bound in (darkened and lightly marked); pp. x, 104, with 32 plates and numerous in-text illustrations; text in French; fore- and bottom edges …

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# 47235

LASINIO, Carlo (1759-1838)

La caduta degli Angeli ribelli. La Chûte des Anges ribelles

[Affreschi celebri del XIV e XV secolo]. Engraving, 390 x 445 mm. Published in Florence, 1821. A strong impression on wove paper, faint stain to upper third of the print, a short tear to upper edge and minor edge creases. The central image in Lasinio‘s engraving is St Michael the Archangel and the army of angels battling the …

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# 47111

ESCHER, M. C.

M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.

With an introduction by J. L. Locher, former Director of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Baarn [The Netherlands] : The Escher Foundation, 2008. Sixteen museum quality giclee reproduction prints of some of Escher’s most iconic images, printed on 310 gsm. handmade and acid-free German Etching paper from Hahnemühle, each 650 x 550 mm, accompanied by a …

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# 47054

MICHNIEWICZ, Onufry et al.

Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: ‘Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et …

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# 47037

[ADAMS, Marcus]

Queen Elizabeth II : signed photograph (“Elizabeth R”), also signed by Prince Philip. 1955.

Gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, on its original plain card mount signed in fountain pen in the bottom margin by both Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth R) and Prince Philip (Philip) with the date 1955 in between the two signatures; the photograph is in fine condition; the royal signatures are both strong and …

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# 17466

AMATI, Scipione; HENDSCHEL, Tobias (translator); [SOTELO, Luis, 1574-1624]

Relation und gründtlicher Bericht von dess Königreichs Voxu im Japonischen Keyserthumb

gottseliger Bekehrung und dessentwegen außgefertigter Ambasciada : an Päbst. Heil. gen Rom Paulum den fünfften, und an die Cathol. May. Philip. den dritten König in Hispania etc. Anno 1615. durch Ludovicum Sotelum S. Francisci Ordens … und … Don: Rocuyemon Faxecura … … Ingolstadt: in der Ederischen Truckerey, bey Elisabeth Angermayrin, Wittib, 1617. Small quarto, recent …

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# 46388

TASSO, Torquato [1544 - 1595]

Jerusalem delivered : an heroic poem (large paper edition)

Translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoyle. London : printed by T. Bentley for J. Johnson [and others], 1803. Eighth edition. Two volumes, octavo, finely bound in full straight grained red Morocco, elaborate gilt tooled floral borders, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt (slightly faded), edges a …

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# 46800

AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)

Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929

[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …

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# 46285

TROTSKY, Leon (1879-1940), et al.

Leon Trotsky : a group of ephemeral publications, 1930s-40s.

I. Trotsky, Leon. Stalinism and Bolshevism : concerning the historical and theoretical roots of the Fourth International. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, 29, [1] pp; a fine copy. II. Trotsky, Leon. In defense of the Soviet Union : a compilation 1927-1937. New York : Pioneer Publishers, 1937. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled, …

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# 46720

GOTT, Ted et al.

Napoleon : revolution to empire

Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …

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# 45779

LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)

Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.

Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …

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# 46287

BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

[HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

[=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

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