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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Luigi Villari, Italian historian, traveller and diplomat Autograph Letter Signed to [Harold Beresford] Hope, diplomat (Washington, etc.). Two pages, conjoined, slightly damaged but text complete and clear. "I heard the other day from the British Consul here, Mr Powell, that you are at the British Embassy in Washington. I am glad of the news & hope we may meet some time or other, either here or in Washington. \| I have been in...	Travel and Topography	£56.00
Luis S. Crespo, Sub-Director de Estadistica y Estudios Geográficos del Ministerio [Ministerio de Colonización y Agricultura, Sección de Immigración, Bolivia] Indicaciones Sumarias para el Immigrante á Bolivia 8vo, viii + 160 pp. Fold-out map at rear, and five maps (one of them fold-out) as five of the seven plates, with the other two plates photographic portraits of Doctor Ismael Montes and of Manuel V. Ballivián. In original printed wraps, with title on front. In poor condition, on brittle, aged...	Travel and Topography	£95.00
[Charles Daman, clergyman, tutor in Classics at Oxford University] [Pamphlet] Six Dialogues touching the Nature of Man 34pp., 8vo, disbound, small closed tears on title (= first page), mainly good condition. P.[19] half-title "Two other dialogues touching the nature of man". Ownership inscription, illegible name, "University Coll". Preface signed "B.A." Ascribed to Charles Daman ihn COPAC entry for Bristol and...	Religion	£225.00
lW. J. Cummins, Colour Printer, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham [printing ephemera] Colour booklet of 'Labels. Their Origin and Present Day Uses. With the Compliments of W. J. Cummins, Colour Printer, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Representatives in - London, Lancashire, Midlands, and North East. India, British West Indies.' 4to: 22 pp. Leaf dimensions roughly 280 x 210 mm. Ring binder in original card wraps printed in red. Very good in lightly-spotted wraps. Ring binding slightly rusted. Features ten pages of bright, striking and attractive label designs. The first page shows four 'Colours of Design Separated' for...	Book Trade History	£225.00
Lydia Howard Sigourney (1791-1865), American popular writer called 'the sweet singer of Hartford' [Lydia Howard Sigourney] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. On paper roughly three and a half inches by three quarters of an inch. Neatly cut but lightly foxed and slightly discoloured with age. Reads 'with the love of her friend, \| L. H. Sigourney.'	Music and Theatre	£20.00
Lynedoch Gardiner Autograph letter signed to Donald Currie, shipowner. Groom in Waiting and Equerry to Queen Victoria (d.1897). Gardiner says that Currie's arrangments for the King of the Belgians cannot be bettered. He will order the carriages for 11 and meet at Westminster Bridge. Currie has added a list of names, English and Belgian, presumably of people...	Royalty	£35.00
Lynton Harold Lamb (1907-1977), British painter, book illustrator and designer Autograph Card Signed ('Lamb') to Ian Treg. Jenkyn, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Postcard with painting of Rialto Bridge by Canaletto. Postmarked 1970. Ruckled with damp but entirely legible. An amusing communication, beginning 'Thought I would let you know that we were not involved in the great tornado that sunk a voporetto [sic] on Lirica 4, and that the Hotel alla Fava is...	Art and Architecture, Literature	£85.00
Lynton Lamb. A Country Calendar 1978 Soft-covered, c.12 x 17", sl. soiling, fold marks in one corner, o/w very good. INSCRIBED: "With best wishes for Xmas & the New Year from Biddy Lamb".	Art and Architecture, Natural History	£50.00
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [?] Dewar. Victorian chemist and politician who presided over a government enquiry into the working of the civil service known as the Playfair Scheme. 2 pages, 8vo, in good condition though creased, and with remains of blank conjugate leaf adhering to large sheet of blank paper. 'My dear Dr Dewar \| Many...	History	£75.00
M. A. Mallet; M. F. Delmas; Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France [Civil Engineering] Inauguration du Nouvel Hotel de la Societe; le 14 Janvier 1897. Octavo: 27 pages. A rather nice production, with nine double-page plates, frontispiece and double-page table. Unbound. In original grey printed wraps, with gold foil seal of the society laid down as part of cover design. Good, in lightly aged wraps. Some tissue guards. Two essays: 'La Societe...	French, Science, Medicine and Technology	£90.00