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Florence Austral, Australian opera soprano.

Bold signature and image on detached album leaf.

Deatached page from album, 17 x 14cm , good condition, yours sincerely | Florence Austral [underlined], with image of head and shoulders cut from magazine and laid down.

 £56.00 Florence Austral, Australian opera soprano.
Rear-Admiral C.C. Penrose Fitzgerald

[Pamphlet; offprint] Our Food-Supply in Time of War.

Reprinted from Blackwood's Magazine. 16pp., printed wraps, good condition.

 £56.00 Our Food-Supply in Time of War.
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-born violinist and composer AND Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano

Bold Signatures on recto and verso of an album leaf.

Detached album leaf, c.17 x 14cm, good condition, on one side signed Fritz Kreisler | 2/XI 1922, the other Nellie Melba | 1923. A small image of Kreisler, extracted from a magazine, is below the signature.

 £95.00 Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-born violinist and composer AND Nellie Melba
Gustav von Falkenberg

[Book] Der Fallschirm: seine geschichtliche Entwicklung und sein technisches Problem

[192]pp, 8vo, including three pages of advertisements, corners bumped, hinge strain front endpaper, mainly good condition. Ex lib Royal Aeronautical Society (bookplate inside cover) with library shelf marks on half-title and elsewhere. Inscribed by the Author as follows, With the best thanks and...

£150.00
[Sir Walter Scott; Archibald Constable; Hurst, Robinson; The Edinburgh Annual Register]

[printed pamphlet] The Edinburgh Annual Register from 1808 to 1823

£75.00
[Edinburgh (Scotland). Commissioners of Police].

Instructions, orders, regulations, and bye-laws, given, made and passed by the General Commissioners of Police for the City of Edinburgh, July 1822.

£120.00
Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne (b.1861), author, daughter of John Ireland Blackburne (1817-1893), M.P. for South-West Lancashire, 1875-1885 [James Payne; Charlotte Yonge; Richard Monckton Milnes]

Autograph Letter Signed from the Victorian author Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne ('Gertrude M Ireland Blackburne'), to 'Mr. Parker', concerning autographs, including those of Charlotte Yonge and James Payne.

£85.00 Letter Signed from the Victorian author Gertrude Mary Ireland Blackburne
Stephen Manton [Stephen Manton Bradbury] (1908-1970), operatic tenor, director of the Intimate Opera Company from 1944 [British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC]

Archive of material, mainly comprising 150 Typed Letters addressed to the English operatic tenor Stephen Manton [Stephen Manton Bradbury], from the British Broadcasting Corporation, between 1944 and 1952, and concerning his work for the BBC.

£350.00
[An album of strikingly original illustrations of teddy bears]

Anonymous album containing 29 quarto pages of superior ink drawings of teddy bears and other stuffed toys in cartoonish and anthropomorphic style.

4to album, with the 29 pages of drawings on 28 leaves (on the rectos, except on one leaf, where they are on both sides). The album gives evidence of having been re-used, but gives no evidence as to the identity of the artist. While the covers of the album are worn, with the spine becoming...

£250.00 An album of strikingly original illustrations of teddy bears
[The Westbury Charities] [J. E. Severne, Chairman; R. D. Bromley, Vice-Chairman; W. R. Croft, Clerk; of the Parish Council of Westbury]

[Printed pamphlet.] Catalogue of the Westbury Charities. 1896.

12mo, 8 pp. Stapled. In original grey printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged paper and in spotted wraps. Printed on the inside of the front wrap is the following: 'A Catalogue and description of the Charities belonging to the Parish of Westbury, in the County of Salop, compiled by order...

£75.00 Catalogue of the Westbury Charities
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