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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Eugenio Rignano, Jewish Italian philosopher, sometime editor of the journal 'Scientia'. [Eugenio Rignano] Autograph Letter Signed to Prof. W.B. Crow, W.B. Crow, author of "Contributions to the Principles of Morphology ", giving reasons for declining an article. 2pp., 8vo, bifolium, some creasing, small closed tear, text clear and complete. He has just been able to read Crow's article 'the primitive forms of life' which he found interesting. But he declines to publish it because the length does not conform to their standard of 10 pages (being 20 pages...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£80.00
[Irish Prisoners] List of around 170 'Prisoners in English and Scotch and Six County Jails' List of around 170 'Prisoners in English and Scotch and Six County Jails' and third pages with names and addresses. The first entry is 'Bell, Patk. Maidstone \| 17 Pound St., Belfast (arrested June '22) \| 3 yr. \| Arms', and the fourth 'Conway, Thos. \| Coranmore, Cranagh, Plumbridge, Tyrone \| 5...		£450.00
[Irish Texts Society] [Printed] Prospectus Prospectus, 4pp., 4to, English and Irish texts, bifolium, minor foxing, good condition.The Officers, Vice-Presidents, Executive Council and Consultative Committee are listed. They announce and justify the undertaking of a new dictionary of Modern Irish, saying that the plates of the first such...		£80.00
Frederic G. Mather (1844-1925) [Rev. Robert Ellis Thompson (1844-1924), author] Autograph Note Signed from the historian Frederic G. Mather to R. E. Thompson, regarding his article on 'Buffalo' in the 'Encyclopaedia Americana'. 8vo, 1 p. Good, on lightly-aged paper. A covering letter for 'the supplementary article on Buffalo' (in the 'Encyclopaedia Americana' supplements to 'Encyclopaedia Britannica', 1883-1885, the first two volumes of which Thompson was editor).	History, Literature	£56.00
Frederick Mather (1833-1900), author, editor of the Chicago 'Field' and Superintendent of the New York and United States Fish Commissions [Henry William Herbert ('Frank Forester'), 1807-1858)] Autograph Card from Frederick Maher to J. Charles Davis of Proctor's Theatre, New York, regarding his acquaintance with the author 'Frank Forester' (Henry William Herbert). 13 x 7.5 card. Fair, on aged paper, with minor creasing to one corner. Stamped and addressed on one side to 'Mr. J. Charles Davis \| Proctor's Theatre \| New York'. The unsigned card (with the words 'and United States' deleted from the heading) has partly printed text. Mather completes it in...	History, Literature	£75.00
[Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs, Report on the Social, Health and Economic Conditions of Urban Natives, 1942] [South African; apartheid] Union of South Africa. Department of Native Affairs. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Social, Health and Economic Conditions of Urban Natives. Folio, 30 pp. In original blue printed wraps. Stapled. Text clear and complete. On discoloured, frayed and creased paper. Ownership inscription of A. Copeman, Cambridge. Only copies on COPAC at the British Library and University of London SOAS.	History, Social history	£125.00
Alan Gray, composer [Rupert Brooke; booklet] 1914 by Rupert Brooke set to music for Chorus and Organ, or Orchestra 24pp., cr. 8vo, grey printed paper wraps, partially detached, creased and and worn, with two stains on front cover, largest 3/4"dia, contents aged but good. Tow copies listed on COPAC/WorldCat (both BL), i.e. very scarce.	Literature, Music and Theatre	£180.00
Charles Monck [Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck], landowner and architect Five Autograph Letters Signed "Charles Monck", landowner and architect, to William Dickson, Clerk of the Peace of the County of Northumberland, containing extensive discussion of legal matters., showing great awareness of legal history Total 22 (twenty-two) pages, 12mo, good condition. Subjects: [Oct. 1850] receipt of Tynemouth Commission of the Peace; to continue the Tynemouth House of Correction; usefulneess of what he had been sent (Commission); all the Commissions should be in "Burns' justice books"; function of the...	Law	£250.00
[Corporal J. P. Murray, Royal Air Force Signals Detachment; North West Frontier Province, British India; Bajaur; Utman Khel; Pashtun Tribes; Afghanistan; Second Mohmand Campaign, 1935.] [North West Frontier Province on eve of Second Mohmand Campaign, 1935] Typed secret British RAF Signals report titled 'Tribal Reconnaissance. Northern Area - Bajaur, Utman Khel, & Mohmand Country.' Describing territory from Shabkadr to Abazai Fort. 14pp., foolscap 8vo. Carbon copy of typescript, consisting of a covering page and the report itself, paginated 1-13. With a few minor manuscript emendations. In good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. In brown paper 1937 OHMS envelope ('S.E.6.'), stamped 'SECRET' twice, with red wax...		£400.00
Frances Mary Peard (1835-c.1923), Victorian author [Robert Cole, FSA, London solicitor and autograph collector; Madame Sineo-Benaducci] Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'F M Peard') from the Victorian author Frances Mary Peard to the wife of the London solicitor Robert Cole, FSA, regarding the physical condition and situation of 'the Signora', 'Mme Sineo [Sineo-Benaducci?]'. Both items in good condition on aged paper. A dramatic, almost novelistic correspondence, regarding 'the Signora' (named in the second letter as 'Mme Sineo', who is staying at her house in Torquay and is apparently too frail to return to her London house. Letter One: Docketed 'No 1'. 12mo, 4 pp...	Literature, Women	£180.00