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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Michel Panaieff (1913-1982), Russian dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and teacher of ballet in America [ Michel Panaieff, Russian ballet dancer. ] Autograph Signature ('Mischa Paniaieff') on photograph. Black and white photograph of Panaieff in costume and dance pose, cut from a magazine. 15 x 10 cm, with border. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Good firm flourishing signature across the image, reading: 'Mischa Paniaieff \| Lancks [sic] \| 1936'.		£28.00
Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano. [Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano.] Autograph Inscription on detached album leaf. Page of album, 20 x 16cm, good condition, signed as follows: Luisa Tetrazzini \| Souvenir de la Saison [au?] Covent Garden - 6.12.1907 \| London.. On the verso of the album page there are several unconnected signatures, dating 1900-1923. which I didn'feel would repay research.See IMAGE.		£45.00
Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855), author and playwright, best known for her collection of sketches, ?Our Village? [ Mary Russell Mitford, author of ?Our Village?.] Bold Signature with her address and a date, M.R. Mitford \| Three Mile Cross \| Easter Sunday 1843.~Three Mile Cross \| Easter Sunday 1843~Signature, address and date on paper,14 x 11cm, itself laid down on s Three pages (plus address page), bifolium, aged with remnants of the page it was tipped on, text clear as follows: Seeing by the Standard [newspaper] of tonight that measures are taking for filling up the vacancy in the representation of Huddersfield, I cannot resist the desire I fell to point...		£180.00
W.R. Grove [Sir William Robert Grove, (1811 – 1896), Welsh judge and physical scientist. [Fuel Cell Technology] [W.R. Grove, Welsh Judge and Scientist; [Father of] Fuel Cell Technology] Two Autograph Notes Signed WRGrove, one to an undeciphered name, with references to distinguished colleagues, the other to an unnamed correspondent. A. Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, some foxing and wear, text clear and complete, but scrawled. For the last two years or more in consequence of suffering severely from [undeciphered illness - see image of pp.1 &3] I have been obliged to give up all [evening?] visiting - [Were it not [?] it...	Law, Science, Medicine and Technology	£180.00
National Women's Total Abstinence Union \| Bitterne Park Branch [Manuscript] National Women's Total Abstinence Union \| Bitterne Park Branch Minute Book Title above on printed label on front cover, printed except for place Bitterne Park, a suburb of Southampton, hence Minute Book, 4to, with records (minutes) of meetings, 96pp. (monthly and committee meetings, 12pp. (annual meetings). The meetings end with prayers. Subjects include: a resignation...		£280.00
Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock (1792–1870), civil servant in India and a Conservative MP. [ Thomas Herbert Maddock ] Autograph Letter Signed "T H Maddock" to "Gladstone", presumably John Gladstone, merchant, politician, father of W.E. Gladstone. Four pages, 12mo, good condition. "I have just received from Ceylon a formal evaluation of my coffee property. The sums stated ampount to £8471 & as there is upwards of 800 acres of uncleared forest which is valued at £2 peracre the whole amount will be upwards of £10,000. I send the paper...		£220.00
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, peer, courtier and Whig politician Autograph Note, third person, tp "[Mr Ward?]", about a box at Drury Lane and busines involving his agent. One page, cr.8vo, faint staining (foxing?) but text clear and complete. "the Duke of Devonshire has only today received Mr Wards letter cponcerning the box at Drury Lane. Mr Heaton [his agent] Old Burlington St will transact the business with the committee upon this letter being shown to him."...		£45.00
[Mrs Craik] The Popular Family Tales of Mrs. Craik 430pp., 8vo, “Biographical Sketch,” unsigned, p. 5–6,bookplate (Presentation), bokseller's label (both inside front cover), very dark red smooth cloth, spine blocked in gold., sl. worn, corners bumped wear to edges of spine, eps foxed, pages stained (mainly sides), ow good. Copy in Parish...		£350.00
John M. Anderson, Governor, County Prison, Warwick [ Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931) of Ridlington, 12th Baronet ] [ John M. Anderson, Governor of Warwick County Prison. ] Long Autograph Letter Signed ('Jno. M. Anderson \| Esq.') to Richard Harington, regarding his 'circular as to the treatment of prisoners'. 9pp., 4to. On grey laid paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, on nine leaves held together with a pin. He begins by discussing Harington's 'first motion, viz, "that all persons who are in custody for the purpose of detention merely and not in execution of a penal Sentence for an...		£400.00
[The Siege of Acre [Siege of St Jean D'Acre], 1799; Napoleon Bonaparte; Sir Sidney Smith (1764-1840)] Contemporary coloured 'Sketch of the Situation of the TOWN of ST. JEAN D'ACRE, with the position of the FRENCH besieging ARMY under the command of General BONAPARTE and the BRITISH SQUADRON co-operating with GEZZAR AHMET PASHA in its Defence [...]'. A fine plan, so neatly and delicately drawn that it could easily pass for an engraving. The title concludes: '[...] its Defence under the Command of SIR SIDNEY SMITH. Kt. &ca. &ca. &ca. - on the 2nd: day of May 1799.' In landscape on one side of a piece of laid paper, 29 x 42cm, with...		£450.00