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Author, Title, Summary Subject Price
Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B. [ Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham ]

Offprint: 'Bishop Lightfoot and the Early Roman See.'

42pp., 8vo. Paginated 1-42. Disbound. In fair condition, lightly aged. Scarce: no copy on COPAC.

£60.00
Henry Edward Archbishop of Westminster [ Cardinal Henry Edward Manning ]

Printed pamphlet: 'The OEcumenical Council and the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff: A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy &c.

151pp., 8vo. Disbound without covers. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper.

£50.00
Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster [ Cardinal Henry Edward Manning ]

Printed pamphlet: 'The Temporal Power of the Pope in its Political Aspect.'

[2] + 23 + [1]pp., 8vo. Disbound wthout covers. In good condition, lightly aged. 'Notice' on page preceding main text includes the following referemce to the American Civil War: 'If the British Empire can be justified in its sway over the three kingdoms, and its dependencies, or the American...

£50.00
John Clement Fowler, O.S.B. [ Bath, Somerset ]

Printed pamphlet: 'The Benedictines in Bath during a Thousand Years. A Sketch founded upon Authentic Records.

[6] + 86pp., 8vo. Disbound without covers. In good condition, lightly aged, with eight collotypes present as per list of illustrations. Ownership signature in pencil at head of title-page: 'Leslie A. Coke'. Now scarce.

£80.00
John Lambert [ Thomas Joseph Brown, Bishop of Newport and Menevia; Pope Gregory XVI ]

Printed pamphlet: 'Bishop Brown and Pope Gregory XVI. The Bishop's Story.'

4pp., 12mo. With front wrap only, bearing the publication details. Covering the first page is a note signed in type 'JOHN LAMBERT. | November 1890.' The text of 'The Bishop's Story' is on pp.2-4, followed on the last page by a 'Note' signed in type 'J. L. | January, 1891.' Scarce: no copy on...

£50.00
Right Reverend J. C. Hedley, D.D. [ Roger Bede Vaughan, O.S.B., Archbishop of Sydney; Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press, London ]

Printed pamphlet: 'Memoir of the Most Reverend Roger Bede Vaughan, O.S.B., Archbishop of Sydney. By the Right Reverend J. C. Hedley, D.D.

31pp., 8vo. Disbound without covers. In good condition, lightly aged, with stitching cut causing separation of the two signatures. A scarce Chiswick Press item: the only copy on COPAC at the British Library.

£75.00
[ Sir John Edward Harington of Ridlington, 8th Baronet (1760-1831); Joseph Hobbs, planmaker; Berkeley Square, London ]

[ A Grand Regency Town House: Two Architectural Plans of 43 Berkeley Square. ] Two finished manuscript floor plans by Joseph Hobbs of the town house of Sir John Harington, 'In its present state' and 'with proposed Alterations'. With three receipts.

Each of the two plans is on a 46 x 60 cm piece of wove paper. Both have the name of the details of the planmaker at bottom right: 'Joseph Hobbs | 30 Margaret Street'. Two finished and professional floor plans of a grand Town House. Both items are aged, worn and creased, with closed tears, but...

£600.00
Sir A. Cotton, Madras Engineers [ Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (1803-1899); The Clarion Newspaper Company, London ]

Printed 'Clarion Pamphlet, No. 11.': 'Lecture on Agriculture. Read before the Balloon Society of London on February 3rd, 1893.'

32pp., 12mo. In faded green printed wraps with full title and advertisements. Disbound. In good condition, on aged high-acidity paper in brittle slightly-chipped wraps. The first edition was published in 1893 in Dorking by R. J. Clark. This third edition includes new material in seven appendices...

£65.00
W. Sowerby, F.G.S., &c. (Late Professor R.A. College, Cirencester.) [ William Sowerby (1824-1902); The Clarion Newspaper, London ]

Printed 'Clarion Pamphlet, No. 12.': 'The Agricultural Deadlock, and How to overcome it by Rational Means.'

13 + [3]pp., 8vo. In faded green printed wraps with full title and illustrations. Disbound. In fair condition, on aged high-acidity paper. Subtitle: 'Whereby it is shown that the produce of the soil may be increased from five to seven fold by cultivation.' Now scarce.

£60.00
William Jameson [ The Clarion Newspaper Company, London; allotments; Land Nationalisation Society ]

Printed 'Clarion Pamphlet, No. 13': 'The Coming Fight with Famine.' [ 'Can England feed herself?' ]

12pp., 8vo. In faded green printed wraps. Disbound. In good condition, on aged high-acidity paper. Beneath the drophead title on p.1: 'Can England feed herself?' Now scarce.

£75.00