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NORMAN, George Warde.
Papers on various subjects.
[London] Printed for private circulation by T. & W. Boone, 1869.
A nice association copy of this collection of fifty-two essays, letters and petitions by the financial writer and merchant banker George Warde Norman (1793-1882), from the library of Edward Strutt, first Baron Belper (1801-1880). The pieces collected here, many of which originally appeared in The Spectator,...
£175
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BARANTE, Amable-Guillaume-Prosper Brugière, baron de (1782-1866), French statesman and historian.
Two autograph letters signed...
Paris, 14 January [no year] and [n.p.] 4 May 1861.
Two autograph letters from the French peer and historian Barante. The first, addressed to Monsieur Bajot, editor of the Annales Maritimes, asks him to send numbers he is missing for this year. The second, written to an unidentified ‘monsieur et honoré confrère’ on the encouragement of Monsieur...
£50
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BENTHAM, William, barrister and numismatist.
Autograph letter to the bookseller Lackington.
Upper Gower Street [London], 25 August 1819.
Writing in the third person, Bentham requests that he be sent the ‘Supplemt of Mr Ruding’s Coins intended for the purchasers of the quarto edn’. Rogers Ruding (1751-1820) published his Annals of the Coinage, a chronological account of English coinage, in four quarto volumes in 1817. It sold out...
£100
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GROTE, George (1794-1871), historian and politician.
Autograph letter signed (‘Geo Grote’) to John Murray.
12 Savile Row [London], 21 March [no year].
From the author of one of the political histories which shaped early American political thought, to one of the most important publishers of his age. Grote writes to the publisher John Murray (1808-1892) to say that he and Mrs Grote will be dining with Mr Ord and so cannot accept Murray’s invitation....
£50
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GUIZOT, François Pierre Guillaume (1787-1874), statesman and historian.
Autograph letter signed (‘Guizot’) to ‘My dear Sir’,...
Brompton, 21 Pelham Crescent [London], 15 June 1848.
A short but interesting letter written by Guizot from Pelham Crescent where he lived in exile following the 1848 revolution in France. Guizot, who served Louis Philippe as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, asks the unnamed recipient to pass some pages to ‘Mistriss Austin’, promising that the remainder...
£150
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HUSKISSON, William (1770-1830), politician.
Autograph letter signed (‘W Huskisson’) to an unnamed ‘Dear Sir’.
18 Hertford Street [London], 21 December, 1810.
Huskisson was a leading exponent of strict adherence to the Gold standard and an opponent of the perceived over-issue of bank notes in the early nineteenth century. This letter was written only a few months after Huskisson had published his important pamphlet, The question concerning the depreciation...
£150
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MEADE, James Edward (1907-1995), economist.
Autograph manuscript page and accompanying black and white passport photograph.
[c. 1977].
A leaf of autograph manuscript, presumably sent at the request of a collector, giving part of the text of Meade’s Nobel Memorial Lecture, ‘The meaning of “internal balance”’, which he delivered in December 1977. Meade writes: ‘To treat the whole of macro-economic control as a single subject...
£150
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PERRY, Ralph Barton (1876-1957), American philosopher.
Two autograph letters signed and one typed letter signed (‘Ralph Barton...
Cambridge (Mass.), 1945-1946.
Perry, who became a leading realist philosopher, had intended to train for the ministry and viewed the academic career he achieved as a vocation. He was active within Harvard and the wider field of the American Philosophical Association and campaigned on a variety of causes. These letters are written...
£500
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SCHUMACHER, H., Professor.
Autograph letter signed (‘H. Schumacher’) to a colleague.
Bonn, den Coblenzerstrasse 83, 10 February 1915.
Schumacher’s spirited response to a colleague who had asked for Schumacher’s opinion on a letter he intended to publish in an American newspaper. Schumacher charges him with completely misunderstanding both the political situation and public opinion in the USA. He criticises the German attitude towards...
£150
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SCOTT, Sir Walter.
Copy of a letter to Colin Mackenzie.
Abbotsford, 26 July [1827].
Scott here discusses Scottishness with his long-term correspondent Colin Mackenzie. He discusses the gradual loss of the Scottish accent amongst the educated classes of Scotland, who are sent to England for their education, remarking, ‘It is repugnant to my feelings to destroy what seems one of [the]...
£100
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SIMIAND, François (1873-1935), French sociologist and economist.
A collection of six autograph letters signed (‘François Simiand’...
Paris, Fontainebleau and unspecified, 1907, 1924, 1925 and undated.
A collection of letters addressed by Simiand to his ‘cher ami’, identifiable from the contents as the bibliographer, historian, and expert on Saint-Simon, Alfred Pereire (1879-1957), giving an insight into their relationship.
£100
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SINCLAIR, Sir John (1754-1835), agricultural improver and politician.
Two letters, signed ‘John Sinclair’, to Sir William Hamilton...
Whitehall, 10 February 1795; Hendersons Hotel, 14 September 1810.
Two interesting letters written by Sinclair as president of the Board of Agriculture and during his campaign against the 1810 report of the bullion committee.
£1100
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TAINE, Hippolyte-Adolphe (1828-1893), French critic and historian.
A collection of eleven autograph letters, signed, regarding...
Various places, 1860s to 1880s.
An interesting group of letters by Taine, written following his return to teaching in 1863. Discriminatory treatment from the authorities of the Second Empire led to his withdrawal from teaching from 1852 to 1863, when he was appointed an examiner at Saint-Cyr. The following year he became a lecturer...
£850
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THIERS, Adolphe (1797–1877), French politician and historian.
Three autograph letters signed (‘A Thiers’) to Nassau Senior.
Paris, 22 December 1852, 11 July 1854, 18 June 1855.
A set of interesting letters from Thiers to the English economist Nassau Senior. Thiers was a French politician and historian who served as prime minister under Louis Phillipe. Following the overthrow of the Second Empire he again came to prominence as the French leader who suppressed the revolutionary...
£200
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THORNTON, William Thomas (1813-1880), economist and civil servant.
Autograph letter signed (‘W. T. Thornton’) in French to...
8 Marlborough Hill, St John’s Wood, 17 June 1853.
Thornton here replies to Guillaumin’s request for information about him, giving his place and date of birth, stating that he has worked for the East India Company in London since 1836, and listing his publications as Overpopulation and its remedy (1846) and A plea for peasant proprietors (1848).
£250
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FREEMAN, Arthur.
Julia Alpinula, Pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia: How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth.
London, The Author, 2015.
Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets – including an infatuated Byron – over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published...
£15
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[BALLAD.]
RUSTY DUSTY MILLER (The). A New Song.
[London, c.1780]
Another unrecorded ballad, even cruder than the last and so execrably printed as to verge on nonsense: ‘It’s did you never hear of a Rusty Dusty Miller …’ Said miller promises a young maiden that he will ‘grind your grits so free, and welcome your desire’. On her way to the mill,
£600
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CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of.
Lettres ecrites par le tres-honorable … Comte de Chesterfield, a son Fils, Philippe...
A Paris, chez Panckoucke [but probably printed in London]. 1775.
First edition in French of Chesterfield’s famous Letters to his Son (1774). Although not recognized as such by Gulick (and not listed in ESTC), this is almost certainly an English production; press figures appear throughout all five volumes, the typography and disposition is generally English...
£950
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DAY, Thomas.
The History of Sandford and Merton; a Work intended for the Use of Children …
London: Printed for B. Crosby … Darton and Harvey … and T. Ostell … 1803.
First edition thus of Thomas Day’s wildly popular story for children, here in ‘a more reduced form’ as ‘the price of the original work may be incommodious to … young readers’. This was was not the same text as the ‘Abridged’ version first published by Wallis and Newbery (and by Darton...
£150
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HOLCROFT, Thomas.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor …
London: Printed for Shepperson and Reynolds 1794 [Vols. 4-6: London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson … 1797].
First edition of one of the cardinal novels of the Godwinian school, by an author equal to Godwin ‘in influencing young intellectuals ...’ (Gary Kelly, The English Jacobin Novel 1780-1805, 1976, p. 167).
£1000