Search Results: Titles starting with H from Hamish Riley-Smith Rare Books

J S Mill's step-daughter and 'chief comfort'
HELEN TAYLOR
[1831-1907] autograph letter signed to Mrs S Woolcott Browne (?) Avignon 12 March 1891
16.5 x 10.5 cm, 3 pages, autograph letter in ink, paper embossed at head HT, a few blemishes and holes to the second leaf where formerly mounted, otherwise in good condition.
£1,100 [plus VAT if applicable]
Helen Taylor, feminist, was the daughter of Harriet Taylor Mill and after her death in 1858 she devoted herself entirely to Mill and became his 'chief comfort'. She took charge of his correspondence and helped him in his work. Together they promoted women's rights. After his death she edited Mill's Autobiography 1873.
Helen Taylor's letters are rarely on the market.
The letter is addressed to 'Dear Madam', which is probably Mrs S Woolcott Browne, Hon Secretary of the Moral Reform Union, who was retiring and to be succeeded by Helen Taylor.
Helen Taylor writes that she is unable to leave Avignon to attend 'the conference of 18th March' as she is… Read More

[MURRAY'S HAND-BOOKS] A Hand-Book for Travellers on the Continent: being a Guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Northern Germany and Along the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland...with an index and map. Second edition, augmented and revised.
London, John Murray 1838
Octavo, original publishers brown blind stamped cloth by Remnant & Edmonds with their printed label, damp stain, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pp.xxxix, + (9) + 511 + 12 adverts dated April 1838, folding engraved map, printed in double columns throughout, contemporary ownership in ink of Charlotte Maria Stradbrooke on inner blank leaf and of Francois Muller, an excellent copy.

[MURRAY'S HAND-BOOKS] A Hand-Book for Travellers in Southern Germany being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c, the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea With map and Plan. Eighth edition, corrected and enlarged edition, a good copy.
London, John Murray 1858
Octavo, original publishers brown blind stamped cloth, damp stain, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, pp.xii, + 574 + 44 adverts, with folding engraved plans of Munich, Würtemberg, and Vienna, folding engraved map, an excellent copy.

[MARMONT DU HAUTCHAMP, Barthélémy]
Histoire des Finances Sous la Minorité de Louis XV. Pendant les années 1719 & 1720. Précedée D'un Abrégé de la Vie du Duc Regent, & du sur Sr.Law. Tome Premier – Tome Sixieme.
La Haye, chez Pierre du Hondt 1739
Twelvemo, 6 volumes bound in 3 volumes, 16.2 x 9.3cm, small octavo, very fine contemporary continental mottled calf, spines richly gilt with fleur-de-lys, red and blue morocco labels lettered gilt, marbled endpapers, leaf edges marbled, original silk page markers, pp. LIV-204 + (2) blank; (2) + 312 + (2) blank; (2) + 208 + (2) blank; (2) + 286 + (4) blank; (14) + 294 + (4) blank; (18) + 246 + (2) blank, complete with 2 folding tables in volume VI of Billets de Banque...faits en consequence des Arréts...1719-1720 printed on both sides, and the engraved plate Admiré la force in volume IV, titles printed in red and black with printers woodcut devices, woodcut decoration to chapter openings and endings, woodcut initials, insignificant scuffing to back… Read More