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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
The Recruiting Officer' [evangelical Christianity; handbills; Salvation Army; George Brimmer, London printer; G. and I. Offer, booksellers; ephemera] Handbill entitled 'The Recruiting Officer's Speech.' On one side of a piece of unwatermarked wove paper, 32 x 25 cm. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Attractively produced within a decorative border, with the title in gothic script and the text beginning in a single column before splitting into two. Printer's and publishers' details at...		£150.00
[ Oliver Goldsmith ] Documents: Subject: Statue in London A correspondence with Clement Shorter concerning the placing of a statue of Oliver Goldsmith (a replica of Foley's in Dublin) somewhere in London. Shorter had suggested this in "The Sphere", etc. The collection comprises ten letters and three related newspaper clippings, dating 7 June 1912 to 27...	Literature	£150.00
[ Robert Cruikshank ] The Spirit of the public journals for the year M.DCCC.XXIII: Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits ... Illustrated by [George] Cruikshank, pp.[xviii].556, 8vo, hf.lea., apparently rebacked (inc. corners), front board detached, contemporary marbled boards and endpapers, covers bumped, contents sound and clean.	Literature	£150.00
[?] Baker; the Bolton Guardian [Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; William Ewart Gladstone; Victorian anti-semitism; nineteenth-century judaism] Offprint entitled 'Two Remarkable Letters to Lord Beaconsfield on Trade and Peace.' ['Lord Beaconsfield and Trade' by 'JEW', and 'Lord Beaconsfield and Peace' by 'RABBI'.] In three columns of small type on one side of a piece of unwatermarked wove paper, dimensions 39.5 x 29 cm. Text clear and complete, on aged and lightly creased paper. Four short closed tears at the extremities of folds. An unusual production, docketed in pencil in a contemporary hand at the...	History	£150.00
[Charles Baron Clarke] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. On first looking over the list of books recommended to candidates for honors "Printed for Private Distribution Only 25pp., 8vo, printed pamphlet, plain green paper wraps,closed tear not penetrating text, which attacks Carey's "Political Economy" which he was "surprised to find in the Tripos. COPAC lists only one copy (ULRLS ), WorldCat the Yale and Wisconsin copies.		£150.00
[Boston; The Christian Review; <T Nayland? or Wayland?>; Sir E. F. Bromhead; nineteenth century economics; economic history] An Article on the Debts of the States from the Christian Review for March, 1844. 8vo: 24 pp. Unbound and stitched. With printed grey front wrap, inscribed to 'Sir E. F. Bromhead \| Bassingham \| Lincolnshire \| from the author \| '. On aged paper, grubby at extremities and a little dogeared, but tight and with text clear and entire. 'The general fact has been long before the...	History	£150.00
[Foreign Office. 1897. Annual Series] Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance. Spain. [Six Items, nos. 1862, 1885, 1898, 1932, 1936, 2179] Six pamphlets, stitched as issued, good condition, 23, 3635, 15, 33, 26pp. respectively, the last in blue wraps (Finances)Reporting for the year 1896 on the Trade of the following consular districts: Barcelona, Bilbao, Corunna, Philippine Islands, Malaga. The final pamphlet concerns the "...		£150.00
[Francis Marshall; Edward Nickson; The British Stage] The Actors' Remonstrance, or Complaint, For the silencing of their Profession, and Banishment from their severall Playhouses. Seven pages, octavo. Disbound, and with the four leaves detached from one another and neatly laid down on a paper mount. Very good. From (according to the title-page) the edition in 'LONDON. Printed for EDW. NICKSON. Januar. 24. 1643.' Republished as a supplement to the 'British Stage'. Only two...	Music and Theatre	£150.00
[Gregory, Sir Richard Arman] R.A. Gregory, sometime Editor of "Nature" Two Autograph Letters Signed and two Typed Letters Signed, to "Mr Epps", writing on behalf of the "S.E. Union" (natural history society?). Total 7pp., 8vo, some sunning, creasing, but texts clear and complete. (1945) Epps has alerted him to the "position of the S.E. Union in relation to teh proposal to make Pagham Harbour . . . a Nature Reserve". He explains his position and involvement (a reluctant "leader") and what was happening...	Natural History	£150.00
[John Butler (1717-1802), Bishop of Hereford] Some Account of the Character of the late Right Honourable Henry Bilson Legge (DNB, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Irish Secretary, etc) 4to, 20 pp. The last page carries advertisements for the publisher Almon. Unbound; stitched. Good, with first and last leaves somewhat aged and chipped. Central vertical fold. A relatively uncommon item, with most of the entries on COPAC turning out to be for a microfilm reproduction.	History	£150.00