Search results

Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Sir Alfred Booth, Chairman, The Cunard Steam Ship Company, Limited] [Printed 1921 prospectus.] The Cunard Steam Ship Company, Limited. Offer for Sale of £4,000,000 Seven per cent. Mortgage Debenture Stock at the price of £90 per cent. [With separate application form.] Folio, 3 pp; 8vo, 1 p. Bifolium. With the title lengthwise on reverse of second leaf, which also carries a table of 'The Fleets of the Cunard Company and of its Allied Lines' (both of vessels 'in commission' and 'building'). In small type. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Detailed...	Economics, History	£85.00
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America [James Hopwood Senior (1745 or 1754 to 1819), engraver] Original hand-coloured engraved portrait of 'Dr. Benjamin Franklin' by James Hopwood Senior, 'from an original Picture in the possession of the late General Washington'. Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of a bare-headed Franklin, roughly 8 x 6 cm. Well coloured. Good clear impression, on aged paper with some spotting. On paper 16.5 x 10.5 cm, laid down on leaf from autograph album.	History	£85.00
Ernest Dunlop Swinton, soldier, inventor and historian of the First World War, etc. [Corrected Galley Proofs] Twenty Years After - The Minor Pleasures of War Corrected Galleys, five pages. c.67 x 16cm, some marking, mainly good condition, corrected relatively lightly in MS. possibly by two hands, presumably including the author, and in ink and pencil, some corrections qualitative. Corrections include omissions of words (the word "very" is excised on...	History, Military and Naval History	£135.00
[Popish Plot] [Pamphlet] The Debates in the House of Commons Assembled at Oxford The Twenty-first of March, 1680 20 pp. fol., disbound, pages partly detached, foxing and staining especially outer leaves.	History	£56.00
James Cameron Ewing (b. 1871), Librarian, Baillie's Institution, Glasgow [Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge; Robert Burns] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. C. Ewing.') from James Cameron Ewing, Librarian, Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, to the London auctioneers Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, discussing an edition of Burns's poems. 12mo, 3 pp. 28 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. He does not understand how they can have 'a record of a second edition [of Burns's poems] dated 1786, for the book was not published until April 1787'. He describes the two issues of the second edition ('a stinking or a skinking...	Book Trade History, Literature	£85.00
Jan Both [Jan Dirksz Both] (c. 1614-1652), Dutch engraver and painter, brother of Andries Both (c. 1612-1642) Original seventeenth-century Dutch etching of man vomiting while onlookers hold their noses, attributed to Jan Both after his brother Andries Both, with caption beginning 'Seecker dat is geen Roy, wat mach dat varcken drinckien'. On a piece of watermarked laid paper, roughly 26.5 x 20 cm. Dimensions of image 18 x 13.5 cm. The image and text are clear and complete. Fair, on foxed and aged paper, with fraying to margin at edges. Complete text reads 'Seecker dat is geen Roy, wat mach dat varcken drincken \| Die Reuck is niet...	Art and Architecture, Social history	£125.00
[Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; National Debt] [Small card, part-printed part manuscript] An Account shewing what has been Redeemed of the National Debt, the Land Tax, and Imperial Loan to the Ist Novr 1807 Card, c.11 x 7cm, [RECTO] date "Ist Novr 1807" in manuscript as are the figures in acolumn after categorisation as follows: "Redeemed by Annual Million &c [£] 66.968.173 \| Do.[corrected in ms. to] on acct of Loans 61.622.815 \| Do. by Land Tax 22.942.813 \| Do. by £1. pr. Ct. pr. Ann . on Imp...	Economics, History	£225.00
[Leonard Courtney, Secretary, and J. M. Longley, Treasurer, The Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution (Inst. 1849] [Printed pamphlet.] The Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution, for the Relief of Aged and Necessitous Members and Widows of Members. Instituted 1849. 12mo, 10 pp. Text clear and complete. On aged and worn paper, with pin holes and a spike hole. Includes list of the 'Board of Management for 1907', accounts, 'Statement of Accounts, December 21st, 1901, to December 20th, 1906. Compiled by Mr. J. M. Longley, Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance...	Economics	£38.00
Billy Woods, boxer [ boxing booth ] [ Boxing Booth; printed ] Business card of Billy Wood, sometime Scoittish featherweight champion. Business Card, 9 x 6cm, a little grubby. On one side, "The largest travelling Boxing Show \| BILLY WOOD \| International Boxing Academy \| Clean British Sport\| 7, Cuttings Avenue \|Fulkwood\| Sutton-in-Ashfield \| Notts. " On the reverse, a faint representation of his elaborate travelling booth, with...		£28.00
Richard Sutton Cheek, printer and bookseller, Witham, Essex Original sepia lithograph engraving, titled 'Newland Street, Witham', and showing the offices of the printing office and bookshop of the print's publisher R. S. Cheek. On piece of paper roughly 29.5 x 44 cm. The image itself is 30 cm wide, with an arched top 18 cm high at sides and 22 cm at the highest point. The image is clear and complete, on dusty spotted paper with fraying and loss to top edge especially. A charming image, showing Victorian middle-class...	Printing History, Travel and Topography	£125.00