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[The Champ de Mars Massacre], July 1791

[Reports in 2 issues of the French Revolutionary] Gazette Nationale ou Le Moniteur Universel, nos. 200 and 201.

Pp.[159]-164 and [165]-172, reports and debates on the "massacre" on pp.163-4 and 166-8. On the 17 July the Assembly decided that Louis XVI could continue as King. Republicans led by Danton held a protest meeting on the Champs de Mars and were in the end fired upon by Lafayette's National Guard...

£125.00
[Alexander W. Williamson, Chemist, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science]

[Pamphlet] Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President

27pp., 8vo, sewn as issued, good condition. Scarce. COPAC lists six copies, while WorldCat lists the Glasgow and Edinburgh copies but no American.

 £95.00 Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President
[Louis Capet (Louis XVI]

Decret[s] de la Convention Nationale [two decrees relating to Louis XVI]

A. Décret de la Convention Nationale du Août 1793 . . . Relatif aux Créanciers de la Liste civile, & aux Dettes contractées par Louis Capet No.1410/No.1220, 2; [2 blank], bifolium, edges frayed, some staining, text clear and complete. B. Décret de la Convention Nationale du 19e. jour de...

£180.00 Decret[s] de la Convention Nationale [two decrees relating to Louis XVI]
[Funeral of Voltaire]

[Account of the elaborate arrangements made for Voltaire's funeral by the French Revolutionaries in the] Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, no.194.

Disbound, pp.[101]-108, some staining mainly good condition, account of funeral pp.107-108.

 £56.00 Account of the elaborate arrangements made for Voltaire's funeral
Llewellyn Powys, author

[Booklet] Honey and Gall (Studies in Mystic Materialism)

64pp., c.8.5 x 12.5cm, fair condition, covers faded to beige rather than blue. Inscribed (slightly faded) on front cover Gertrude M. Powys | Easter 1945 | from Alyse. Alyse Gregory, American suffragist and writer, wife of Llewellyn Powys. Gertrude Powys, artist sister of the Powys brothers. The...

£120.00 Honey and Gall (Studies in Mystic Materialism)
[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
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