{"title":"MANUSCRIPTS","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand-written manuscript items in English and Continental languages from the 17th to 19th centuries of collectable or scholarly interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"manuscript-correspondence-concerning-the-operations-of-the-liverpool-apothecaries-company","title":"[Manuscript Correspondence Concerning The Operations Of the Liverpool Apothecaries Company]..","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn interesting Collection of manuscript letters, accounts, reports and printed ephemera relating to the Liverpool Apothecaries Company and manager, John Abraham.   John Abraham - seven MS letters - dated 1838, to his Father mentioning opening of the Apothecaries Hall and enquiring after his health; dated 1839, letter to Company requesting salary increase dated 1843, report to company about a staff member; dated 1843, to the company after a decline in his offering to resign; dated 1843, to Company about attendance; dated 1843, about attendance; dated 1843; to Company stating he unable to comply with their request about attendance.   From the Liverpool Apothecaries Company to John Abraham - two ms letters \u0026amp; one memorandum - dated 1841, salary offer of £120 per annum and lists expected duties; dated Dec 1843 accepting Abraham's resignation; undated memorandum of expected duties of the various shop staff members - Mr Davies, Mr Shaw, Mr Dean, and an apprentice, detailing their hours and breaks.   Printed \u0026amp; MS items relating to the Liverpool Apothecary Company Structure - Printed letter \u0026amp; annual report for 1844; printed letter of discussing attempts to wind up the company thwarted by the owners, undated but [1844]; ms minutes of a Liverpool Apothecary company meeting dated January 1844 with resolutions.  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Original half-balck morocco \u0026amp; dark grey cloth covered boards (modern brown cloth rebacked with new endpapers; corners worn; lower board corner cloth damp marked), loosely inserted blank billhead of Albert Barker Limited. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlbert Barker started his working life working for the silversmiths William Thornhill. He eventually became a partner before starting his own business c.1886 in New Bond Street. The business quickly gained royal patronage and a royal warrant as silversmith to the Queen and Prince of Wales and became limited in 1893. Offered here is an extensive company silversmiths design pattern book of some four hundred and fifty engraved heraldic devices \u0026amp; initials; presentation inscriptions, and decorative cartouches produced by the firm. Devices include those for the Shah of Persia; Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar; various British military devices; the 1889 Ascott Cup Aylesbury Steeplechase; sheild commemorating the 50th year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and a considerable many more. 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Sacristis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[England?] [17th c.?].\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8vo, 17cm, 552 p.(wanting p.543-6). Contemporary vellum (small circular loss to upper hinge \u0026amp; along lower edge and scattered spotting to upper board), leather ties (lacking upper tie), recased with 18th century printers waste sewing flaps.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA curious item that formed part of Lot 639 in the May 2007 Lyon \u0026amp; Turnbull Robert O.Lenkiewicz. Lenkiewicz, an eccentric artist and lifelong bibliophile amassed a large collection of antiquarian occult books that were dispersed in sales at Sotheby’s in 2003 and Lyon \u0026amp; Turnbull in Edinburgh 2007. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis work, although continuously paginated, is a fair copy of two works. The first, a disputation on the idea of the unified god is complete and the more significant of the two and the one probably of most interest to Lenkiewicz as it includes sections on predestination, sensory knowledge of god, religious visions and spiritual invocation. The second work, lacking three pages, is a standard bible commentary with reference to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Miles Coverdale and others. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Ref: 1460]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alastor Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696270315692,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0862\/4934\/files\/20230815_165836.jpg?v=1692115606"},{"product_id":"manuscript-cathcart-robert-a-scottish-insurance-agent-in-ayrshire","title":"[MANUSCRIPT]. 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Original blind-stamped light purple cloth (some spine lightening; small piece of cloth lifted on upper board), upper board decorative titled “Scrap Album” in blind within double rule border rectangular panel and single rule outer border, single blind rule border to lower board.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA very well preserved Victorian album of some 48 different pressed samples of dried grasses. Arranged two to a page, with accompanying common name caption. Grasses include common \u0026amp; Italian Rye grasses; Meadow, Sheep’s \u0026amp; Barren Fescue; White, Brown \u0026amp; Spreading Silky Bent Grass; Tufted \u0026amp; Wavy Mountain Hair Grass and more. 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[Hand-drawn Garden Plan with Manuscript Note For An English Regency Cottage Garden].","description":"[England]: [Watermarked 1828]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingle sheet, 230x190mm, paper tipped onto thin card, watermarked “Streets \u0026amp; Co. 1828.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn attractive hand-drawn contemporary garden plan from a Mr Maitland to his Aunt showing strawberry bed, flower bed, kitchen garden and lawn in a wider diagram. 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