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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Richard Ford, traveller in Spain. Subscription of letter Signed "Rich Ford". Part of letter, 11 x 4cm, faint staining, text illegible but clear, as follows: "I [amyrobedtSt \| Rich Ford\|\|".	Literature, Travel and Topography	£28.00
Richard Frederick Littledale, Anglican controversialist (DNB) Autograph Letter Signed "R.F. Littledale" to an unnamed correspondent. Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, good condition. Colonel Hardy, Secretary of the English Church Union, has assured him that his correspondent can help in the matter in hand. Nameky, Dr Von Dollinger has informed him that "Padre Curci" [Jesuit, sometime ed. "The Catholic Civilisation"] "has been reduced...		£50.00
Richard Garnett (1835-1906), Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, 1890-1899 [Stanley Lane-Poole (1854-1931), British orientalist and archaeologist] Autograph Note Signed ('R. Garnett') to 'Poole'. 12mo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper with remains of stub from mounting adhering to one edge. Reads 'We shall be very glad to accord Miss Rosamund hospitality on Saturday'. From a small archive of Lane-Poole material.	Literature	£28.00
Richard Garnett. Autograph Note Signed to N. Shearing. Librarian and author. "I shall be very happy to conduct the members of hte South Place Ethical Society over the Library, at any time that may be mutually arranged."	Literature	£35.00
Eric Kennington [Eric Henri Kennington] (1888-1960), artist and sculptor who illustrated T. E. Lawrence’s ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ [Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd (1892-1973), Lord Mayor of London] [Eric Kennington, artist and sculptor.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, Lord Mayor of London, concerning a commission for an oil painting. With carbons of three replies including one from Vice-Admiral T. B. Drew. See Kennington’s entry in the Oxford DNB. All six items in good condition, lightly aged. Previously pinned together, with Kennington’s letters folded for postage, and all three are 1p, 8vo, and signed ‘Eric Kennington’. ONE: Kennington ALS, 11 June 1956. Having conferred with Ackroyd’s clerk ‘Mr...		£500.00
Richard Graves the elder ('the antiquary', 1677-1729), of Mickleton Manor, Gloucestershire [George Vertue] Engraved portrait by Vertue captioned 'RICHARDUS GRAVES \| de Michleton in Com[itatis] Gloucestriae Armiger \| Obiit: 1731, A[nn]o. Aetat[is]: 51.' On good-quality thick wove paper, roughly fifteen inches by eleven wide. Dimensions of plate roughly eleven inches by six and a half wide. Good, clean impression, with blank borders a tad grubby. Attractive portrait of a handsomely dressed Graves, a bookcase behind him, leaning between two...		£55.00
Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1869-1923) [William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore (1885-1964), 4th Baron Harlech; The Parliament Act, 1911] Typed Letter Signed ('Willoughby de Broke') and Autograph Letter Signed ('W. de B.') to Ormsby-Gore, concerning his desire to 'write a history of the Die-Hard affair'. Text of both letters clear and complete, on aged, grubby paper. The 'Diehards' were a group of right-wing Conservative peers who attempted unsuccessfully to thwart Liberal legislation to limit the right of veto of the House of Lords over Commons legislation. (See G. D. Phillips, 'The Diehards:...	History	£150.00
Richard Grosvenor (1795-1869), 2nd Marquess of Westminster [Grosvenor Estate Office; Mayfair; Richard Jones] Printed Receipt, with Manuscript Insertions, Signed by the 2nd Marquess, for rent on two Mayfair properties. One page. Roughly nine inches by four. Aged and creased, with one small closed tear and one spike hole (neither affecting text, which is clear and complete). An attractive document, embossed with a government one shilling stamp, and bearing the Westminster coat of arms, supported by two dogs,...		£45.00
James Hall (1793-1868), American judge and man of letters [J. S. Armstrong, President, Commercial Bank of Cincinnati; Bank of Kentucky] Autograph Letter Signed to J. S. Armstrong, President, Commercial Bank of Cincinnati, announcing that the Bank of Kentucky have resolved 'to commence paying Specie'. 1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He sends 'by the Genl. Pike a package contg P31.563. of our notes for Crt of the Bank of Kenty. \| That Bank resolved this morning to commence paying Specie on the 13th Inst'. Hall would himself be President of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati from 1853 to...		£80.00
[Japan in the 1960s; Japanese culture; English expatriate; unpublished typescript of novel] [A young Englishman in 1960s Japan.] Typescript of an untitled novel by an unnamed individual, regarding the cultural and personal adventures in Japan of character Christopher Peter Butterworth, with numerous emendations, additions and corrections. The present item - presumably autobiographical and definitely unpublished - is in a disordered state, and certainly not in the best of condition, with some parts apparently missing; but it is certainly worthy of attention, as a well-written production over which the author has taken some pains...		£450.00