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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp [later 3rd Earl Spencer] frank to John Browning English Whig statesman, relation of Princess Diana and of Prince William. The envelope is in very frail condition, torn, frayed and discoloured, with some loss. Addressed 'Leamington Oct twenty six \| 1834 \| John Browning Esq \| Viscount Althorp \| Downing Street \| London \| Althorp'. The postmark...		£35.00
John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp and 3rd Earl Spencer Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Whig politician (1782-1845). 2 pages, 16mo. Dusty but in good condition. 'Dear Sir, \| I have stated to Mr. Grant your desire for a for your son. But I could not express myself to him so as to make the appointment a favour to myself because I had before applied to him to give such an appointment...	History	£45.00
John Charles Spencer.: Signature only ("Althorp") with slight remains of Treasury document. Viscount Althorp and third Earl Spencer 1782-1845. Signatures of Althorp, W. Wickham (see DNB) and J. , as Treasury officials, remains of documents (slight) indicate the grant of a pension to "Anne Thompson".	Economics	£45.00
John Chaundy, printseller and picture dealer [Ye Olde Picture Shoppe, 49 Broad Street, Oxford] Catalogue of Engravings, Etchings by the Best Masters, Including Mezzotint and Other Portraits [...] Views of Oxford by Loggan, Vertue, Burke and Turner. 12mo, 61 pp. In original brown printed wraps. Engraving of Sheldonian Theatre on front, otherwise the item is not illustrated. 2864 items, ranging from '1 AARON, Rev. born 1695, engraved by Vertue. 5s 6d' to '2864 Zonelli (Anton. Maria) after Joan. Anton. Faldoni, Man blowing Horn, with hounds....	Book Trade History	£300.00
John Clayton, junior (1780-1865), Minister of Poultry Chapel, London Autograph Letter Signed to Joseph Procter. Four pages, 12mo. Very good, with strip of brown paper adhering at the head. Text clear and entire. A long letter, casting light on the effects on the English middle classes of the financial crisis of 1825. Clayton begins by thanking Procter for the 'card case'. He 'will gladly do any thing that...	Religion	£56.00
John Clunie (1784-1858), Principal of Leaf Square and Seedley Grove Academies, 1812 to 1837 Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Clunie') to an unnamed male autograph collector. One page, on piece of lightly aged paper, roughly six and a half inches by seven. Strip neatly torn away at head (not affecting text, but perhaps bearing recipient's address). Good, with a little damage from breaking of wafer and slight evidence of previous mounting on revese. Thirteen lines. He...	Education	£50.00
John Cockburn; George Lee; Sir Charles Hardy; John Phillipson; Thomas Corbett [Portugal; Portuguese; Belem Castle, Lisbon; Royal Navy; Admiralty; eighteenth-century naval; maritime] Manuscript copy of Admiralty order 'To the Commanders of all Ships or Vessels of His Majesty's, that may put into the Port of Lisbon.' One page on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium of laid watermarked paper. Leaf dimensions 32 x 20 cm. Text clear and entire on aged and lightly-spotted paper. Begins 'Whereas His Portuguese Majesty, in consideration of a Cannon Ball having lately fallen in the Gardens of Bellem Castle,...	Military and Naval History	£180.00
John Coghlan Handbook for the Study and Discussion of Political Popery Manuscript, 356pp, 8vo, hf. lea. worn, a very substantial anddetailed precis of an unpublished book, a comprehensive discussion from the Anti-Catholic (papist) standpoint from social, political and religious aspects. The background is probably the Tractarian Movement and Newman's activities on...	Religion	£350.00
Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, (1789–1849), Irish Society Hostess, Author (DNB) Autograph Letter Signed "Marguerite Blessington", Irish Society hostess and author, to [LEGOUVÉ, Ernest Wilfrid (1807-1903] about his book, "Histoire Morale des Femmes", just published. Two pages, 4to, fold marks, some marking, good condition, text clear and complete, as follows: "Permit me to thank you for one of the most acceptable gifts I have ever received, the 'Histoire Morale des Femmes", and for the aimable [underlined] note that accompanied it. Let me thank you also in...	Literature, Women	£850.00
John Couch Adams On new tables of the moon's parallax, to be substituted for those of Burckhardt. English astronomer (1819-92) whose mathematical prediction of the existence of Neptune anticipated Le Verrier's discovery of that planet. Octavo. Unbound. Ten leaves and one blank. Paginated [35]-53. Very good. Five pages of text (35-9), four tables (pp.40-3) and a set of 'Tables containing the...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£105.00