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[Slave Trade]

[Printed] Denmark Slave Treaty. A Bill entituled An Act for carrying into effect the Treaty with the King of the French and the King of Denmark for suppressing the Slave Trade

Disbound, 20pp., sm. folio, good condition.

 £56.00 Denmark Slave Treaty. A Bill
[Police Act 1757]

[Printed] An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled, An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables . . . [cont.]

[cont.] for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster; and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to present [sic] Nusances and other Offences within the said City and Liberty. Disbound, pp.[625]-638, two leaves detached, otherwise good condition.

 £65.00 Denmark Slave Treaty. A Bill
Jack Pritchard, British furniture designer (1899–1992).

Autograph Letter Signed Jack Pritchard, furniture designer, to Molly [Rosemary (Molly) Cooke], his future wife, a sprightly letter with eccentric presentation about a book she apparently published anonymously .

Two pages, 8vo, four pages of bifolium used as if two, grubby at folds, a little text obscured but readable, with corrections and crossings out. Dear Molly. Well what have you women been doing? | I have just got your book | 'Sunshine & Shadow' A book of Cambridge Womens Verse! | Just as well...

£125.00 Autograph Letter Signed Jack Pritchard, furniture designer
[Michael Balcon, film producer, 1896-1977

A large collection of assorted Christmas Cards (c.1200) addressed by all and sundry to Michael Balcon and his wife

Approximately 1200 cards sent by people in Michael Balcon's acqquaintance, many from the film and theatrical worlds. Most are signed with simply the first names creating a difficulty of identification. Even if they could be identified they may well come from the farther reaches of the film world...

£600.00
[Large paper Folder of Photographs; Birth of Greek Tourist Industry]

[Photographs] Window Displays arranged by FCB [Foote Cone and Belding Ltd, public relations company] on behalf of the National Tourist Organisation of Greece [c.1951]. With Report.

Large beige paper folder, elephant folio size, containing 26 PR photographs, 22 x 16, 25x 20cm or thereabouts, with typed descriptions below each one, of Shop Window displays advertising holidays in Greece, including Thomas Cook's in London, Allegri Sports and Zweidlers in Berne (with images of...

£600.00 Birth of Greek Tourist Industry
William Healey Dall, American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska.

Autograph Letter Signed Wm. H. Dall, naturalist and explorer, to Mrs Geo. R. Parks [née Elizabeth Robins, author], 24 Iverna Gardens, Kensington, W [London] about Mrs Pennell and the Yukon.

Two pages, 4to, fold mark, good cvondition, saying: ... It is true that I was misled by a paragraph in the N.Y. Times into the supposition that Mrs. Pennell, whose literary work I have greatly enjoyed, was the same as the author of the powerful and thrilling story of the 'Magnetic North'; but Mr...

£750.00 Autograph Letter Signed Wm. H. Dall, naturalist and explorer
[Legh Richmond]

[Pamphlet] The History of a Poor Black Widow; shewing How she grieved for the death of her Child, and the consequences of her doing so.

8pp., 12mo, light blue paper, sewn as issed, some marking, some slight chipping, mainly good, numbered 42 on title and 49 on last page in MS. COPAC lists a number of copies with various guesses at publishing date. One copy listed on Bookselling sites, with four pages (?).

 £125.00 The History of a Poor Black Widow;
Anon.

[Pamphlet] The Gospel in Paris. Miss de Broen's Mission to the Communists at Belleville.

8pp., 12mo, beige printed paper wraps, some foxing, mainly good condition. No copy on COPAC or WorldCat. Note: In 1871, residents of the incorporated neighborhood of Belleville were some of the strongest supporters of the Paris Commune. When the Versailles Army came to reconquer Paris in May of...

£125.00 Miss de Broen's Mission to the Communists at Belleville.
Sir Francis Head, known as Galloping Head, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837 (1793– 1875) [Francis Bond Head].

Autograph Note, third person [Francis Bond Head, soldier] instructing Bank to stop subscription to Library.

One page, 12mo, faint stains, mainly very good: Sir Francis Head has this day directed Messrs. Praed Co. to discontinue to pay, on the 2d of May £2 to the London Library.

 £38.00 Sir Francis Head, known as Galloping Head,
Anon.

[Pamphlet] Facts and Opinions in Favour of legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister

Eight pages, disbound, faint foxing, mainly good condition. Note: Marriage Law Reform Association was established in 1851 to try to change public and parliamentary opinion. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat.

 £125.00 Opinions in Favour of legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister
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