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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Cecil Lawson [ Cecil Gordon Lawson ] (1849-1882), English landscape painter [ Charles William Deschamps (1848-1908), London art dealer ] [ Cecil Lawson, landscape painter. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Cecil Lawson') to London art dealer C. W. Deschamps, regarding the Melbourne International Exhibition. 1p., 16mo. In fair condition, on aged paper with traces of mount adhering to reverse. Reads: 'Dear Sir \| Will you kindly let me know the latest date for sending pictures to the Melbourne International Exhibition and Oblige \| Yours very sincerely \| Cecil Lawson.'		£45.00
Rev. William Yorick Smythies (1816-1910), husband of the Victorian novelist Mrs Gordon Smythies [née Harriette Maria Gordon] (1813-1883) [Richard Twining (1749-1824), tea and coffee merchant] Autograph Letter Signed ('Y. Smythies') to Twining, including two translations of 'Bishop Lowth's Maria's Elegy'. 4to, 3pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with slight loss to second leaf caused by opening of red wax seal (part of which still adheres), and minor nicking to edges. Begins: 'The task you set me was a task indeed [...] my first attempt at translation'. He comments on...	History, Literature	£95.00
Reverend Doctor T. Newton, Wesleyan Minister, on the administration of the poor law Two Autograph Letters Signed to Charles B. Walker of Thirsk. A newspaper cutting attached to the white paper folder in which these items are placed carries a short obituary of Newton, who died 30 April [1854]. The first letter is 1 page, 4to, addressed on reverse, and the second 1 page, 12mo, with address on reverse of second leaf of bifolium. Both grubby...	Social history	£50.00
Reverend George Hartley (Methodist preacher?) [George Woolcott (English architect?); acoustic; acoustics] Autograph Letter Signed ('Geo. Hartley') to 'G. Woolcott Esqre'. 4to, 4 pp. Very good on lightly aged paper. Hartley has 'attentively considered' Woolcott's 'plans for your New Church with reference to an opinion of their merits as being calculated to assist the Human Voice in Rhetorical delivery'. He is 'so little of an Architect as to be unable to assist my...		£95.00
Richard “Conversation” Sharp. Autograph Note Signed to Lady Holland, society hostess. Politician and critic (1759-1835). One page, 12mo, good. He regretfully declines her invitation claiming a prior engagement.	Literature	£50.00
Richard Adams (born 1920), English novelist, best-known for 'Watership Down' (1972) Two Autograph Signature on slip of paper. On strip of paper roughly two inches by eight wide. Good. Two bold signature reads 'Yours sincerely \| Richard Adams'. Presumably the collector was expected to cut the autographs off individually - for wgatever purpose.	Literature	£30.00
Richard Allen, editor [almanack; almanacks; ephemerides; ephemeris] Poor Richard's Almanack, for the year 1848. Leap Year. Containing, in addition to all that is requisite in an Almanack, A list of all the fairs in England and Wales, and advertisements for three hundred and thirty-two Heirs-at-Law. 12mo, 32 pp. In original pink printed wraps. Unbound and stitched. Text clear and entire. Tight, but grubby and dogeared, and with closed tear and creasing at head of recto of front wrap. Densely printed in a variety of point sizes, with frontispiece and twelve wood-cuts (one for each month)....	History, Literature	£100.00
Richard Battley (1770-1856), English chemist; William Yarrell (1784-1856), English zoologist; John Frost (1803-40), founder of the Medico-Botanical Society. Certificate in favor of R. Battley \| Elected a Fellow 9 Nov 1827', signed by Frost, Yarrell and William Newman One page, roughly eleven inches by eight. On aged paper, with fraying to extremites affecting one word of text. 'Richard Battley Esqre. of Fore Street Cripplegate a Gentleman very conversant in several branches of science particularly Vegetable Chemistry and Pharmacy being desirous of becoming a...	Natural History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£85.00
Paul Robeson, African American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor AND Lawrence Brown, pianist and arranger. Bold signatures of Paul Robeson and his accompanist and arranger, Lawrence Brown, on detached album leaf. Page detached from an album, 17 x 14cm, slightly foxed, mainly good condition, inscribed Every good wish \| Paul Robeson \| [Mar?] 1930 \| Lawrence Brown. Note from wikipedia: Robeson and his accompanist and arranger Lawrence Brown were the first to bring spirituals to the concert stage; their...	Music and Theatre	£100.00
Richard Brierley, Clerk [The Newton-in-Mackerfield Improvement Commissioners, Warrington, Lancashire; small pox; typhus; typhoid; cholera; infectious disease] Printed notice on the subject of 'Notification of Infectious Disease by Private Persons', headed 'The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. 52 and 53 Vict., c.72.' Single column (23 x 6 cm) on one side of piece of paper 34 x 21.5 cm. 72 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged, creased paper. Small closed tear to central horizontal fold. Lists the infectious diseases of which notification is required ('Small Pox, Cholera, Diptheria,...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£35.00