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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
J. Cicest. Autograph Note Signed to "Rev. Dr. Williams, Rotherham, Yorkshire" (Yorkshire editor). One page, 4to, fold marks, good condition. "Rd. Sir,/ In the high esteem I hold Dr. Doddridge's writings, I very readily become a subscriber to another edition of them; but being already in possession of his family expositor in 8[v]o (& indeed, of several of his other pieces) I can only put...	Literature	£45.00
J. Cooke. (Printed circular) Autograph Note Signed. (1731-1810 - Maxted). Maxted says he was an "Extensive publisher of works in weekly numbers", and refers to DNB, Plomer, Nichols, iii.719, and Timperley. One page, c.7.5 x 4", minor damage, text clear and complete, printed in italic. "Paternoster Row London/ I hereby promise if this Work shall...	Book Trade History	£50.00
J. Corbett Turnbull, Cheltenham College [Henry Highton (1816-1874)] Printed letter 'To the Proprietors, Parents & Guardians of Pupils of Cheltenham College.' Regarding the controversy surrounding the resignation of Highton as headmaster. 4to, 3 pp. Bifolium. On grey paper. Text clear and complete. Good, lightly creased and aged, with part of stub adhering. Highton's entry in the Oxford DNB makes no mention of the controversy surrounding his administration at Cheltenham, where he was headmaster from 1859 to 1862. Turnbull ('Head...	Education	£75.00
J. Coupland, Southampton printer [Captain J. H. Knight; steam packet boats; naval and maritime; the Medina; the Earl of Malmesbury] Advertisement card for 'Southampton, Cowes, and Portsmouth Steam Packets. The Earl of Malmesbury, J. H. Knight, Jun. Commander, [...] His Majesty's Post Office Packet Medina, J. H. Knight, Commander'. Printed on both sides of a piece of card roughly 11 x 7.5 cm, good, with text and illustration clear and entire, on grubby and lightly stained paper. The same engraving of a steam packet at sea at head of both sides of each card. Attractively printed, and giving times and fares. 'CAPTAIN KNIGHT...	Military and Naval History	£40.00
J. Dupuis [Pierre Dupont (1821-1870), French poet and song writer] Apparently-unpublished manuscript poem, in French, entitled 'Aux Amis de Pierre Dupont'. On one side of a piece of laid paper roughly 27 x 21 cm. Text clear and entire on aged and lightly creased paper. Chipped, with slight loss and closed tears, to extremities. Thirty-lines in Alexandrine couplets, beginning 'L'Ame du chansonnier (si l'ame est immortelle) \| Doit tressaillir pieuse...	French, Literature	£180.00
J. Durnof. Autograph Note Signed to "Monsieur le Directeur du Journal Le Siecle" WITH printed letter to Durnoz from "Un habitant du Creuzot" Pioneer airman / aeronaut. Form googled site: "Mr. Durnof, aeronaut, founder with Nadar and Camille Dartois of the Company of the military francs balloon pilots, and Mrs. Durnof". (Durnof) One page, 4to, referring to a medal he has received and the printed letter whivch accompanies this note,...		£425.00
[The Liverpool Collegiate Institution; the Liverpool Mail; Messrs Miller and Richard, Typefounders, Edinburgh; typography; printing] [Miniature book, printed 'with the Smallest Type Ever Manufactured'.] A Sketch Of the Origin and Progress Of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution. The dimensions of the book are 4 x 5 cm. 48 pp. In brown card binding, yellow endpapers. Tight copy, in good condition on aged paper, in good binding with slight discoloration to endpapers. 'This Little Book, one of the least ever published, and certainly printed with the Smallest Type, is...	Book Trade History	£650.00
J. H. Barnes [John H. Barnes] (1850-1925), English actor [The Prince of Wales Theatre, London] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. H. Barnes'), to the leaseholder of the Prince of Wales Theatre, concerning his desire to become a tenant. 4to, 2 pp. Text clear and complete. On aged and lightly-creased paper. 'The nature of my business is a desire to become a tenant of the Prince of Wales Theatre, for a long or short time, and entirely subject to existing arrangements in order to produce a play which good judges (as well as myself...	Music and Theatre	£56.00
James Hibbert, editor [Free Public Libraries] Notes on Free Public Libraries and Museums Edited by James Hibbert. "Privately Printed for Distribution". Pamphlet, xiii.110pp., 8vo, with detached folding plan (described below), disbound, library marks and some foxing on title page, good condition. Label on verso of title "Presented by James Hibbert Alderman of the Borough of Preston"; Preface (the origins and...		£180.00
R.W. Dale, M.A. [Pamphlet] The Politics of Nonconformity. A Lecture by R.W. Dale, M.A. delivered in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, November 21st, 1871. Pamphlet, [34]pp., 8vo, disbound, library codes in ink on title, front and back a little grubby, mainly good condition. Final page has a advertisement for other nonconformist lectures. No copy on market currently. Multiple copies listed on COPAC.		£75.00