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'Gary Hart talks politics' [9/7/1987] and 'Bush savors N.H. triumph, targets Dixie' [2/17/1988]; proofs of two articles written for the San Francisco Examiner, 1987-88, one with HST's edits
by Thompson, Hunter S.
- Condition
- Used - Very good condition, in a large envelope sent from the San Francisco Examiner offices and addressed to Frannie Ness
- Published
- 1988
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- 4to
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$250.00
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San Francisco Examiner, 1988. 4to. Very good condition, in a large envelope sent from the San Francisco Examiner offices and addressed to Frannie Ness. 4to. Two final drafts and the print copies of articles by Thompson. This collection came from Frannie Ness of Waiting For Godot Books in Cambridge, MA., who was friends with Hunter S. Thomson for… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
Manuscript contract in Latin
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- Used - Old folds and creases from being rolled and folded. "12568" at head of verso in later black ink. Some wear and rubbing at edges,
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- 1487
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- 1 roll of vellum measuring 225x560 mm. Written in Latin in brown ink on one side with date and content annotations at head on ve
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$700.00
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1487. 1 roll of vellum measuring 225x560 mm. Written in Latin in brown ink on one side with date and content annotations at head on verso in Italian. Old folds and creases from being rolled and folded. "12568" at head of verso in later black ink. Some wear and rubbing at edges, small loss of text due to past… Read more about this item Item Price
$700.00
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Two Autograph Letters by Milton Glaser to Children's Book Author Alvin Tresselt Concerning their Collaboration on 'THE SMALLEST ELEPHANT IN THE WORLD,' including an original ink sketch by Glaser
by Glaser, Milton
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- Used - Some light tears and creasing from storage but nothing bad; overall a near fine letter with a wonderful association
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- 1958
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- Two manuscript leaves
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,500.00
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Rome, 1958. Two manuscript leaves. Some light tears and creasing from storage but nothing bad; overall a near fine letter with a wonderful association. Two manuscript leaves. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY MILTON GLASER, TO CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR ALVIN TRESSELT, INCLUDING AN ORIGINAL INK SKETCH BY GLASER. Milton Glaser, American artist and graphic designer (b.1929 - d.2020) is… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
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Christmas Card and A.L.S. signed "Svetlana Alliluyeva
by (Sventlana Alliluyeva) Alliluyeva, Svetlana
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- Used - Near fine collection of materials documenting a significant time in the life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
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- 1970
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- Envelope with 3 manuscript leaves; single manuscript leaf in the hand of Svetlana Alliluyeva; an envelope containing 3 photocopi
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$3,750.00
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Princeton, New Jersey, 1970. Envelope with 3 manuscript leaves; single manuscript leaf in the hand of Svetlana Alliluyeva; an envelope containing 3 photocopied leaves stapled at top left, as well as a single typescript letter; an envelope with a Christmas card written in the hand of Svetlana Alliluyeva on the outside of the envelope and inside the card. Near… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,750.00
A.L.S. and T.L.S. letters from Laura Z. Hobson to Saxe Commins, and a letter to Dorothy Commins
by (Laura Z. Hobson)
- Condition
- Used - A fine collection of letters and a wonderful literary association
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- 1958
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- 5 typescript leaves [all manuscript signed], 1 manuscript letter, and two envelopes postmarked 1953 and 1958 respectively
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,250.00
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1958. 5 typescript leaves [all manuscript signed], 1 manuscript letter, and two envelopes postmarked 1953 and 1958 respectively. A fine collection of letters and a wonderful literary association. 5 typescript leaves [all manuscript signed], 1 manuscript letter, and two envelopes postmarked 1953 and 1958 respectively. A collection of letters from Laura Z. Hobson to editor Saxe Commins. Saxe… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
Account of William Perrott, bailiff of Ashprington, Devon, 1558-59
by Perrott, William
- Condition
- Used - Ink on parchment, old folds, some darkening on recto, pencil notes on recto, one small paper label on verso reading "371
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- 1558
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- One folded parchment leaf 215 x 545 mm
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$750.00
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Ashprington, Devon, 1558. One folded parchment leaf 215 x 545 mm. Ink on parchment, old folds, some darkening on recto, pencil notes on recto, one small paper label on verso reading "371. One folded parchment leaf 215 x 545 mm. Tudor local administration in action. Pencil notes on verso read "Elizabeth" and "Ashpryngton" next to the corresponding words… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
J.J. Lankes Card Collection
by Lankes, J[ulius] J[ohn]
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- Used - All cards near fine; three of fifteen have manuscript writing but the rest are clean and bright. Ten cards are signed by Lankes
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- 1930
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- 15 woodcut cards with envelopes; 1 book; 3 pamphlets [with manuscript correspondence]
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,500.00
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American Artist Group, 1930. 15 woodcut cards with envelopes; 1 book; 3 pamphlets [with manuscript correspondence]. All cards near fine; three of fifteen have manuscript writing but the rest are clean and bright. Ten cards are signed by Lankes beneath image. 15 woodcut cards with envelopes; 1 book; 3 pamphlets [with manuscript correspondence]. A Collection of J.J. Lankes… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
![Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods, including books, maps, and engravings sent from France to New York and from the United States back to France [Transatlantic Inventory]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/620/895/1496895620.0.m.jpg)
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Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods, including books, maps, and engravings sent from France to New York and from the United States back to France [Transatlantic Inventory]
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- Used - Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges marbled. Slight wear to outer joints. Composed in a clear, clean hand. Occasional m
- Published
- 1840
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- [26] leaves plus forty-eight blank leaves. 12mo
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$2,500.00
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France & the United States, 1840. [26] leaves plus forty-eight blank leaves. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges marbled. Slight wear to outer joints. Composed in a clear, clean hand. Occasional minute soiling. Very good. [26] leaves plus forty-eight blank leaves. 12mo. Inventory of a household moving from France to America. A detailed manuscript inventory listing personal… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00
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Group of letters to Andrew Wylie
by Bunting, Basil
- Condition
- Used - Generally very good to fine (some wrinkles and folds)
- Published
- 1972
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- 4to and 8vo
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$5,500.00
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Goleta, California; Northumberland, 1972. 4to and 8vo. Generally very good to fine (some wrinkles and folds). 4to and 8vo. Letters to a Young Poet. Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was close with Pound and was associated with Zukovsky and the Objectivist poets. Attention to his work flagged in the post-war years until the publication in 1966 of his long poem,… Read more about this item Item Price
$5,500.00
Autograph manuscript, signed ("Jean Ingelow"), a fair copy of his poem "The Warbling of Blackbirds
by Ingelow (1820-1897), Jean
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- Used - First stanza and second line of second stanza were detached from mount, have been reaffixed; some toning and a few spots of soil
- Published
- 1890
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- 13 x 8 1/4 inches, matted on paper
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$400.00
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1890. 13 x 8 1/4 inches, matted on paper. First stanza and second line of second stanza were detached from mount, have been reaffixed; some toning and a few spots of soiling. 13 x 8 1/4 inches, matted on paper. From her collection "Songs of the Voices of Birds" printed in her Poems, Second Series (Longmans, 1874).
"The… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
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Typescript entitled "The Street in the Forest
by Kesey, Ken
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1955
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- 30pp. with minor pencil corrections, with pages 1-22, another set of pages 15-20 of a slightly different iteration (of these pag
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$15,000.00
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1493 3/4 Allison [Ave.], Los Angeles 26, 1955. 30pp. with minor pencil corrections, with pages 1-22, another set of pages 15-20 of a slightly different iteration (of these page 19 appears twice), and an unrelated page 23, seemingly from a different story. 4to. Fine. 30pp. with minor pencil corrections, with pages 1-22, another set of pages 15-20 of… Read more about this item Item Price
$15,000.00
Counterblast
by McLuhan, Marshall
- Condition
- Used - Staple bound pale blue paper wrappers with title in black on recto. Some creasing and small inner tear to bottom corner with lig
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- 18 unpaginated leaves. 4to
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$2,000.00
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Toronto: McLuhan, 1954. First edition. 18 unpaginated leaves. 4to. Staple bound pale blue paper wrappers with title in black on recto. Some creasing and small inner tear to bottom corner with light soiling to wraps. Previous owner's name written in black ink on first page but overall a very good copy. First edition. 18 unpaginated leaves. 4to. Original… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,000.00
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John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. Illustrated
by Muir, John
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- Used - Tan cloth, spine and upper cover printed in red and blue. A near fine copy in near fine pictorial dust jacket (light wear and ta
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- First edition, signed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe on the half-t
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- 1938
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- Frontispiece and seven other full-page plates; single sheet manuscript leaf, measuring 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches, folded once, tippe
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$3,500.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1938. First edition, signed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe on the half-title page, signed by Wanda Muir Hanna on the dedication page, and with an eight-line holograph manuscript leaf in ink of John Muir, tipped in at the dedication page. Frontispiece and seven other full-page plates; single sheet manuscript leaf, measuring… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00
The Autograph Manuscript of Chapter 5, "Concerning Autographs
by Joline, Adrian H.[offman] (1850-1912)
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- Used - Stab hole in top left corners, else fine. In blue cloth slipcase and chemise
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- 18 pages, signed at the end "Adrian H. Joline". 1 vols. 12mo
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,250.00
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18 pages, signed at the end "Adrian H. Joline". 1 vols. 12mo. Stab hole in top left corners, else fine. In blue cloth slipcase and chemise. 18 pages, signed at the end "Adrian H. Joline". 1 vols. 12mo. Joline was the pre-eminent collector and writer on autograph collecting at the turn of the century. HIS MANUSCRIPTS ARE RARE.… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
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Oeuvre de Jehan Foucquet. Heures de Maistre Estienne Chevalier. Texte restitué par M. L'Abbé Delaunay
by Delaunay, Henri, editor
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- Used - Full crushed red morocco by Curmer, green silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fine
- Edition
- No. 292 of 550 copies printed
- Published
- 1866
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- Chromolithographic portrait of Pius IX, engraved figure by Fossey, 58 miniatures in gold and colors chromolithographed by Lemerc
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,500.00
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Paris: Curmer, 1866. No. 292 of 550 copies printed. Chromolithographic portrait of Pius IX, engraved figure by Fossey, 58 miniatures in gold and colors chromolithographed by Lemercier, illustrations. Text variegated in colored and gilt borders. 2 vols. 4to. Full crushed red morocco by Curmer, green silk endpapers, a.e.g. Fine. No. 292 of 550 copies printed. Chromolithographic portrait of… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,500.00
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Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant photographer during the Civil War
by (Photography) Gubelman, Theodore (1841-1916)
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- Used - Contemporary flexible leather covers. Binding worn
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- 1916
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- Manuscript throughout. 61pp., neatly written in ink on ruled paper. Inscribed on the first page "To my only daughter Josie" and
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$3,500.00
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Jersey City, NJ, 1916. Manuscript throughout. 61pp., neatly written in ink on ruled paper. Inscribed on the first page "To my only daughter Josie" and signed and dated on the final page. 12mo. Contemporary flexible leather covers. Binding worn. Manuscript throughout. 61pp., neatly written in ink on ruled paper. Inscribed on the first page "To my only daughter… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00
![A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester Volume I. Numbers 1 to 183. Letterpress. [with:] Volume II. Plates](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/258/828/1397828258.0.m.jpg)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester Volume I. Numbers 1 to 183. Letterpress. [with:] Volume II. Plates
by James, Montague Rhodes
- Condition
- Used - Crimson cloth. Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1921
- Binding
- Xxvii, 328 pp. With Atlas of 8 pp. of text, 187 phototype facsimiles. 2 vols. Large 4to
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New York, New York, USA
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$400.00
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Manchester: at the University Press, 1921. First edition. xxvii, 328 pp. With Atlas of 8 pp. of text, 187 phototype facsimiles. 2 vols. Large 4to. Crimson cloth. Very good. First edition. xxvii, 328 pp. With Atlas of 8 pp. of text, 187 phototype facsimiles. 2 vols. Large 4to. Rogers 212 Item Price
$400.00
![[Manuscript commonplace book of poetry kept by a young woman practicing her penmanship and calligraphy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/009/012/1388012009.0.m.jpg)
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[Manuscript commonplace book of poetry kept by a young woman practicing her penmanship and calligraphy]
by Smith, Anna
- Condition
- Used - Contemporary marbled paper wrappers, with label on upper cover signed "Anna Smith
- Published
- 1841
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- Manuscript throughout in a neat calligraphic hand. 11pp. plus several blanks and 6 additional pages of poetry accomplished at a
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New York, New York, USA
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$750.00
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Np, 1841. Manuscript throughout in a neat calligraphic hand. 11pp. plus several blanks and 6 additional pages of poetry accomplished at a later date. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers, with label on upper cover signed "Anna Smith. Manuscript throughout in a neat calligraphic hand. 11pp. plus several blanks and 6 additional pages of poetry accomplished at a later date.… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Latin manuscript leaves
by (Ruhnken, David (1723-1798))
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- Used - Thick paper, reinforced at folds, written in brown-black ink with outer margins sporting occasional contemporary annotations
- Published
- late 18th century
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- Two leaves folded to make eight pages, unpaginated. 8vo
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- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$300.00
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late 18th century. Two leaves folded to make eight pages, unpaginated. 8vo. Thick paper, reinforced at folds, written in brown-black ink with outer margins sporting occasional contemporary annotations. Two leaves folded to make eight pages, unpaginated. 8vo. This Latin letter by an unidentified writer comments on the state of education and learning with regards to classical Latin and… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Manuscript indenture of demise from John Fetyplace, gentleman of Beselslight to Henry Towpott of Appleton
by Fetyplace, John and Henry Towpott
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- Used - Ink on parchment, old folds, parchment hang tag lacking wax seal
- Published
- 1572
- Binding
- 585 x 325 mm
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$500.00
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Appleton, England, 1572. 585 x 325 mm. Ink on parchment, old folds, parchment hang tag lacking wax seal. 585 x 325 mm. Berkshire 300 year indenture. Signed by John Fetyplace on bottom right edge. Annotated in brown ink and pencil on verso, with paper label reading C 319.
This manuscript is on a distinctively fuzzy English… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
