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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Andrew James Symington [CARL CHRISTIAN RAFN; GLASGOW] Handbill printed poem 'THE DREAM HARP', together with Two Autograph Letters Signed to Miss Christiana Rafn of Copenhagen. Symington (1825-98), a minor Scottish poet, traveller and author, spent a year in America and edited a selection of President Garfield's speeches, and thus was accorded an entry in Appleton's Cyclopaedia. The poem (four pages, 12mo, on bifoliate, very good with light spotting and staining) is...	Literature, Travel and Topography	£100.00
Andrew Lang ALS to an unnamed correspondent One page, 8vo.Vestiges of hinges. He discusses his book "Old Friends" and the encounter it includes between "the wanderer with the allegorical walking stick" with Allen Quartermain. He is critical of the work ("allegory absurd and the conduct of the story idiotic") and finds the "description of...	Literature	£50.00
Andrew Lang Autograph Letter Signed to 'Freshfield'. Scottish scholar, folklorist, poet and man of letters (1844-1912). Four pages, 12mo. Good, but the last page in particular grubby and stained. Shaky hand indicating old age. He wishes his correspondent (presumably a member of the noted firm of solicitors), 'or some other discreet and learned...	Literature	£35.00
Andrew Lang Autograph note signed to "Mr. Nutt" presumably the publisher Man of Letters (1844-1912). One page, 8vo. He asks Nutt to make an effort to find a book he wants and expresses the wish that someone "would write 'The Heathen Year' out of Ovid and other sources".	Book Trade History, Literature, Printing History	£30.00
Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Scottish man of letters Autograph Letter Signed ('A Lang') to unnamed male correspondent. 12mo: 3 pp. Bifolium. 27 lines, written in a shaky hand. On creased, discoloured paper, and with some damage to the second leaf caused by careless removal from mount. Two irregularly-shaped closed tears on the second leaf, one to the left of the signature, have been neatly repaired on the...	Literature	£45.00
Andrew Preston Peabody Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. American Unitarian clergyman (1811-93) and editor and proprietor of the North American Review; Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, 1860-81. One page, octavo. Good but on discoloured paper with slight spotting. 'It is my invariable rule not to send proof to any writer for the North American...		£56.00
Andrew Reed (1787-1862), Congregational minister [Francis Barnett (b.1785)] A Letter to the Editor of the British Review, occasioned by the notice of "No Fiction," and "Martha," in the last number of that work. [Annotated copy of Francis Barnett (the 'Lefevre' of Reed's 'No Fiction') bound up with a review of the two books.] Excessively scarce, with no copy in the British Library and the only copy on COPAC at Cambridge, where it is tentatively dated to 1823. 8vo: 80 pp. Followed by five leaves (pp.373-382) from 'The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle' for 1839, in which an anonymous review of Reed's two...	Literature	£850.00
Andrew Robertson, Dominic Paul Colnaghi, Martin Henry Colnaghi, Rudolph Ackermann, [C] Turner, Samuel Woodin Autograph Signatures on fragment of letter. On a piece of aged, creased paper roughly five inches square, with some fraying to extremities. Reads '<...> an artist. & his case as one <...> \| Andrew Robertson \| D Colnaghi \| M. H. Colnaghi \| R Ackermann \| CTurner \| John \| Saml Woodin'. Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834),...	Art and Architecture	£85.00
Andrew Spottiswoode . Autograph Letter Signed to J.T.J. Hewlett, author of "Peter Priggins" and other books. Andrew Spottiswoode ( Boase), of the printers and publishers (BBTI as printers only), proprietor of Hood's Magazine from early 1844 (see Jane Hood #3138). Hewlett has obviously followed Hurst's suggestion (above) that he contact Spottiswoode about the editorship of the Pictorial Times and...	Book Trade History, Literature, Printing History	£120.00
Andrew Stuart. Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Sheffield, statesman and friend of Gibbon, Scottish lawyer and politician (-1801)(DNB). 2pp., 4to, good. He is forwarding for Sheffield’s attention a copy of a memorial prepared by him in 1780 when at the Board of Trade concerning disputes between England and Ireland “on the subject of the equalising duty on sugar”. His recommendations...	History, Travel and Topography	£60.00