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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Khalil Linant [ In French ] Autograph Letter Signed "Khalil Linant" to "Mon cher Bey". Presumably secretary to his father, Linant Bey. One page, 8vo, good condition, text as follows: "Je viens d'apprendre votre nomination au grade de Bey; je vous prie d'agreer toutes mes felicitations les plus sinceres. Je suis heureux de voir le Gouvernement apprecier et recompenser les services...	French, Travel and Topography	£95.00
King Charles II of Great Britain [The Downs Mutiny, 1648; King Charles I; the English Civil War; Oliver Cromwell; Royal Navy] The Declaration Of his Highnesse Prince Charles, To All His Majesties loving Subjects, concerning the grounds and ends of His present Engagement upon the Fleet in the Downs. With His Highnesse Letter to The Lord Major, Aldermen, [...]. Title continues: '[...] Aldermen, and Common Councell of the City of London.' 4to: 8 pp, paginated [ii] + 6. Trimmed (leaf dimensions roughly 165 x 135 mm) causing loss of the last line of text (the publication details beneath the word 'LONDON') on the title. Stitched as issued. Unbound. In poor...	History, Military and Naval History, Royalty	£220.00
[ Félicien Rops (1833-1898), Belgian Symbolist engraver ] [ Félicien Rops, Belgian Symbolist engraver. ] Aquatint engraving of a fashionable couple chatting while serenaded by a lutanist, with a Spanish ball behind them around a plinth on which a sphinx sits while being kissed by the winged head Hypnos. Printed in black ink on one side of a piece of 26.5 x 19 cm paper wove paper. Unsigned and without caption or text, but unmistakably the work of Rops, and with his name written in light pencil in the margin. Apparently a proof. Dimensions of plate 16 x 9 cm, and of the illustration itself 11 x...		£250.00
King Edward VIII as Prince of Wales. Black and white photograph. King Edward VIII (1894-1972), crowned and abdicated in 1936, thereafter Duke of Windsor. Approximately 5 1/2 inches by 8 inches. Shows the Prince in bowler hat mounting a stone jetty with four associates, with three sailors in RNLI boat at bottom left. In the background two sailing boats and two...	Royalty	£45.00
[Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917), author and editor; Samuel Pepys] [Henry Benjamin Wheatley.] Manuscript 'List of Plays seen by Pepys from 1660 to 1669' and other related material. Unattributed, but in Wheatley's hand. The 'List of Plays seen by Pepys from 1660 to 1669' is 5pp., foolscap 8vo, on loose leaves of unwatermarked ruled paper. In fair condition, aged and worn. It is neatly written out in ink, with occasional pencil emendations, giving dates, theatres and titles...		£480.00
Harry Graham [Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (1874?1936)], writer, poet, humourist, journalist, soldier, traveller, inventor of ruthless rhymes. [Annotated typescript; play] Charlotte Corday A Tragedy in One Act (C'est le crime qui fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud, titlepage motto) [50] leaves (rectos numbered only), 4to, stiff boards, good condition, typescript, annotated by the author, additions, corrections, excisions, who has inscribed the recto of the free endpaper Harry Graham. \|\| Royal Court. \| Palace of Westminster. \| London, S.W. \| England. The scene is set in...		£400.00
'Wee Georgie Wood', i.e. George Wood (1894-1979), popular English music hall performer ['Wee Georgie Wood', i.e. George Wood, music hall performer.] Autograph Letter Signed ('George.') to 'C. B.' [impressario C. B. Cochran?], regarding two photographs and a 'cutting from the NY Daily Mirror'. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight rust staining at head from paperclip. Reads: 'Dear C. B/ \| Choice of two photographs with pleasure that you so flatter me as to want one. \| Thought the enclosed cuttings from the NY Daily Mirror would interest you. Dont trouble to retain...		£60.00
Henry Bathurst (1762-1834), 3rd Earl Bathurst [Lord Bathurst], Tory Foreign Secretary, friend and supporter of Pitt the Younger [Lord Wellesley; Duke of Wellington; Apsley House, Piccadilly, Mayfair] [Lord Bathurst, Tory politician.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Bathurst') [to the agent of the Marquis Wellesley, elder brother of the Duke of Wellington], regarding a dispute over the fittings to be left behind on quitting Apsley House. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item dates from 1807, the year in which Bathurst sold the celebrated Apsley House ('No. 1 London') to the Duke of Wellington's brother the Marquis Wellesley, who sold it on to the Duke ten years later. It is now the Wellington Museum. This item casts...	History	£300.00
Kingsway Series, Evans Brothers, Sardinia House [rural schools; twentieth-century British education] Numbers One and Two in 'The Kingsway Series of Work and Time Tables'; number one titled 'Scheme of Work for a Rural School' and number two 'Time-tables for a Rural School. (Complementary to "Scheme of Work for Rural School." ' Both items 4to, 4 pp. Each a bifolium. Text clear and complete on aged, foxed and lightly-creased paper. Both items in small print, the first covering topics from Clay-Modelling to Needlework. Of interest is the section on 'Hygiene (Bare Outline)' which warns against ' "Chewing," harm of "...		£56.00
J.J. Walsh The Flag on the G.P.O. Easter 1917. J[ames]. J[oseph]. Walsh, Handbill poem, one page, 12mo, creased laid paper, mainly good condition. It is headed ‘THE Flag on the G.P.O. \| Easter 1917. \| By J. J. Walsh’, and with ‘J. J. Walsh.’ again at foot. The first of three stanzas reads: Why gather the crowd in O’Connell Street? \| Why...		£225.00