MÉRIMÉE, Prosper.

Autograph note signed ‘Pr. Mérimée’.

[Paris?, undated].

A brief note by Prosper Mérimée, headed...

£125

LIEBIG, Justus von.

Autograph letter, signed, to an unnamed...

Munich, 10 December 1857.

A fine letter from Justus von Liebig to...

£1250

LIEBIG, Justus von.

Autograph letter to the publishers Heinrich...

Darmstadt, 16 September 1847.

Letter from the German chemist Justus von...

£750

KRUGER, (Paul) Stephanus Johannes Paulus.

Printed document signed, granting land...

Pretoria, April 1897 and 5 May 1897.

A printed document signed by Paul Kruger...

£500

JEROME, Jerome Klapka.

Autograph letter, signed, to W. B. Forster...

Brussels, Wiltcher’s Hotel, 11 May 1904.

A very good letter in which Jerome K. Jerome...

£500

HUMBOLDT, Alexander von.

Autograph letter signed ‘Humboldt’,...

[Paris,] ‘Ce samedi’, [no month or...

An excellent, intimate and unpublished...

£2500

HARRIS, James, later first Earl of Malmesbury.

A small group of documents.

[1779–1785].

Harris (1746–1820) was ‘the leading...

£325

HALÉVY, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie.

Autograph musical quotation, signed.

Paris, 15 May 1846.

Fromental Halévy (1799–1862) showed...

£750

EHRLICH, Paul.

Autograph letter, signed, addressed to...

[Frankfurt,] ‘Westendstrasse 62’,...

A brief note by the bacteriologist Paul...

£750

DUMAS, Alexandre.

Autograph letter, signed.

[Paris, not before 1859.]

A short note by the novelist and playwright...

£750

DAVY, Sir Humphry.

Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart,...

‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.

An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses...

£750

CROOKES, William, Sir.

Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.

London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.

The scientist Sir William Crookes writes...

£250

CHERUBINI, Luigi.

Autograph note signed ‘L. Cherubini’...

[Paris,] 19 December 1825.

A short note in which the composer and...

£350

BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias von.

Autograph letter unsigned to the publishers...

[London,] Carlton Terrace, 12 February 1845.

‘Chev[alie]r Bunsen presents his compliments...

£150

BOWMAN, William, Sir.

Autograph letter, signed, to ‘Mr Cooke’.

[London?,] 18 January 1870.

Bowman writes to ‘Mr Cooke’ to postpone...

£200

BONAPARTE, Jerôme-Napoléon.

Letter signed as governor of Les Invalides...

Paris, Hôtel des Invalides, 16 February 1849.

Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (1784–1860)...

£300

BELL, Charles, Sir.

Letter signed to ‘the Treasurer of the...

Soho Square, London, 18 March [probably...

The neurophysiologist Sir Charles Bell...

£375

KEATE, George. 

An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated...

Dublin, Luke White, 1788. 

First Dublin edition of this popular work,...

£650

[JAMIESON, John.] 

Congal and Fenella; A Tale in Two Parts. 

London, C. Dilly, 1791. 

First and only edition of Jamieson’s...

£250

[PAPER TRADE.] 

Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

[Besançon?, 1772?] 

A seemingly unrecorded issue of this decree...

£175