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American Academy of Arts and Sciences [James Bowdoin, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Benjamin Lincoln, Joseph Willard, Mannaseh Cutler, Caleb Gannett, Eli Forbes, Edward Wigglesworth, Jeremy Belknap et al.] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: To the End of the Year M,DCC,LXXXIII [1783]. Volume I. 4to: xxxii + 568 pp. Very good, on lightly spotted and discoloured paper. In heavily-worn original boards, consisting of quarter-binding with grey boards and cream spine, with slight staining at head of spine. Foxed endpapers. Lacking plates. Fifty-four papers, by James Bowdoin, Edward Augustus...		£120.00
American Autograph Collecting [New York; the Declaration of Independence] A collection of twenty cuttings from American newspapers mostly relating to autograph collecting. Varying in size from a few lines to a column nineteen inches in length, and on aged high-acidity paper. In good condition, though frail, and with a few closed tears. Texts clear and complete. In the remains of a stamped envelope (postmarked Philadelphia, 21 February 1912), addressed to E. H....		£150.00
Ammunition Factory Institute, Dum Dum, Calcutta Ammunition Factory Institute. Dum Dum. Grocery Department. Price List. Established January 1907. 4to, 12 pp. Stapled pamphlet. In original green printed wraps. Text clear and complete. On aged, creased and spotted paper, with rusted staples. Giving the prices ('Rs. As. P') of items ranging from 'Asparagus French tin' to 'Zymale tooth paste'. The last page lists prices for cigars, cigarettes...	Military and Naval History, Travel and Topography	£125.00
Amy Mayhew [daughter of the journalist Henry Mayhew (1812-87)] Autograph Letter Signed to Fanny [Brough]. Three pages, 12mo. Very good. The letterhead, in red, carries Mayhew's crest, with his initials 'HM' and motto 'LABOR VINCIT'. An insight into doings within the Mayhew family. As her correspondent has 'not been here', she is concerned that she 'must have offended you in some way or another'. 'I...	Social history, Women	£28.00
An Experienced Physician. The Medical Guide; containing plain and simple directions for the treatment of the more common diseases. Disbound, 24 pages, 12mo, partly unopened, sl. damaged but no loss of text. Penny chapbook.	History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£15.00
Dorothea Beale (1831-1906), headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College and prominent suffragist; Rev. Dr John R. Magrath; I. T. Meade [Eric Gill and his brother MacDonald Gill; Sir Edward Poynter] [Dorothea Beale, headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies' College.] Three items of printed ephemera: two statements (second with accounts) by J. R. Magrath on the ‘Dorothea Beale Memorial’; and magazine article by I. T. Meade on Cheltenham College. The first two items are scarce pieces of unpublished ephemera, neither showing up on JISC. See her entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items in good condition, on discoloured and lightly-worn paper. The first two items are written by Rev. John R. Magrath, D.D., Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford...		£150.00
Daniel Hack Tuke (1827-1895), physician and expert on mental illness [Heinrich Obersteiner (1847-1922), Austrian neurologist] [Daniel Hack Tuke, physician and expert on mental illness.] Autograph Card Signed ('Hack Tuke') to the Austrian neurologist Professor Heinrich Obersteiner, regarding a work he has sent him for review. On one side of a small plain card, the other side being addressed, with postmarks, to 'Prof: H: Obersteiner \| Wien – Döblin \| Austria'. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'I have received your magnum opus über [?] for the Journal of Mental Science for which I thank you and will place it in...		£250.00
Edgar Philip Loftus Brook (d.1895), FSA, FRIBA, Hon. Secretary of the British Archaeological Association [Rev. John Gunn (1801-1890), Norwich geologist and antiquary; Walter de Gray Birch (1842-1924)] Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'E P Loftus Brook') from Edgar Philip Loftus Brook, FSA, FRIBA, Hon. Sec. of the British Archaeological Association, to Norwich geologist and antiquary John Gunn, regarding membership and contributions of papers. Both letters 2pp., 12mo, on bifoliums. Both good, on lightly-aged paper. On both letterheads Brook has cancelled the printed address and the name of the Association's president. ONE: Regarding the renewal of Gunn's membership, 'the guinea entrance fee' being unnecessary in his case. 'I have also...		£80.00
And. Dan. Lizell and Eric Arvid Lidell [Pamphlet] Dissertatio Physica de Natura et Origine Presteris [Waterspouts] Disbound, 27pp., cr. 8vo, plus one page of illustrations (four varieties of waterspouts (oceanic phenomenon like tornadoes), minor defects but mainly good condition. The text is mainly in Latin but one substantial footnote is a quotation from an English periodical, and the dedication and another...	Natural History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Travel and Topography	£220.00
[British nineteen-twenties ice cream manufacture; the dairy industry; agriculture; milk] Nine glass slides of photographs of British nineteen-twenties ice cream manufacture. All nine slides bound in 8 cm glass squares, with the black and white images themselves in good condition and unfaded. The slides, apparently from a newspaper library, all carry labels with captions and the shelf-mark 'M74 Box 286 637.1'. Evocative and instructive images, apparently all dating...		£180.00