Search Results: Letters from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981 1st ed. 407pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj [dj = few edge tears; else G+] Highlights from the Journals of James Boswell (1740-95).

Emmaus, PA: The Rodale Press Miniature Books, 1954 1st ed. (printed in England). 58pp. illus. hardback sm 8vo: near Very Good/no dj. A small volume of letters from the victor of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), to Mrs. Margaret Charlotte Jones of Pantglas written during the last two years of his life. Mrs. Jones was nearly 60 years younger than the old Duke at the time. Her daughter made this selection in 1889. A charming little volume of British history.

London: Fourth Estate, 2001 1st ed. 381pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good in a Fine dj [text is age browned with some top edge foxing; last two pp. are nicked @ the fore edge; else a clean, complete & tight copy] 124 surviving letters from Galileo’s daughter in a wonderful, annotated edition.