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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
The Rosenbach Company. "The History of America in Documents". 135pp., printed wraps, soiled and chipped, contents good. It commences with "The Famous Manuscript Account of the Voyages of Columbus Written by Andres Bernaldez . . ."	Book Trade History, History	£75.00
The Rt Rev Bertram Pollock (1863-1943), Bishop of Norwich [Charles Noon (d.1957), senior surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital] Two Autograph Letters Signed ('B Pollock.' and 'B P.') and one unsigned Autograph Letter, all written during his final illness. The three items are good, on aged paper. Letter One: Undated. Signed 'B Pollock'. 4to, 1 p. In pencil. Headed 'please forgive stationery'. On reverse is a cancelled carbon page of autobiographical typescript. He is travelling to London and asks for the addresses of a couple of doctors. 'I have...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
Poultney Bigelow, American journalist and author, school friend of Prince Wilhelm (Wilhelm II). Autograph Letter Signed "Poultney Bigelow" to an unnamed correspondent, about recent activities and his books. Two pages, 12mo, good condition. "Since our talk I have been in America; returned - have been to Berlin on a diplomtic mission & only just touched at my club before sailing once more for New York on Wednesday - All my books, &c. are in storage at this moment & I must therefore wait...		£75.00
The Sickness Accident and Life Association Limited [Friends Provident; life insurance; actuarial science] The Sickness Accident and Life Association Limited. Prospectus. 12mo (leaf dimensions 13 x 9 cm): 62 pp. Folded 'Proposal' tipped in on perforated stub. Sewn into cream wraps, printed in red. Text clear and complete. Internally tight on lightly-aged paper. In worn and grubby wraps with a few ink notes on front. Index on p.ii (reverse of front wrap) gives...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge The first five issues of 'The Saturday Magazine'. The five issues are each eight pages long and octavo. All five issues unbound, and stabbed. All good, though lightly aged and with some wear to extremities. An improving publication, produced 'Under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for...		£165.00
The Staffordshire Sentinel (established 1853) [Gratton Hayes; Challinors and Shaw; Pownall Stubbs] Two printed Advertisement forms, with copies of advertisements to be inserted, one by Gratton Hayes. Both items very good and docketed on reverse. Both advertisements appear to have been placed by Challinors & Shaw, solicitors. ITEM ONE (printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly ten inches by eight wide) is headed 'CIRCULATION OVER 180,000 WEEKLY.' Describes the paper as 'The County...	Book Trade History	£45.00
The State Office of Statistics, Czechoslovakia Typed Letter Signed ('For the President') to 'A. Francis Stenart [sic], 79, Great King Street, Edinburgh'. Two pages, folio. Good, but on discoloured and lightly creased paper, with remains of stub adhering to one edge of verso. In English, with illegible signature. Begins 'The State Office of Statistics appreciating fully the great importance of an exact information of the British publicity of the...	Travel and Topography	£36.00
Kingsley Amis, novelist [J.R. Ackerley] [Kingsley Amis, novelist] Autograph Note Signed Kingsley Amis to a Mr. Braybrooke [?Neville Braybrooke, magazine editor and publisher in his youth, literary critic] One page, 12mo, good condition. Text: Sorry - no letters from poor J.R.A. [J.R.Ackerley, author] You should have had them and welcome if they had existed. See Scan.		£56.00
The Times of London [Michael Faraday; Clifford Webb; Lord Rutherford; General Electric Company; Siemens; Mullard Wireless Service Co.] Faraday Number. Faraday Celebrations 1931 [...] Faraday Centenary Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall [...]. Broadsheet. Twenty-two pages. On browned high-acidity paper, with slight wear and loss to extremities and along central horizontal fold. Attractive full-page illustration cover illustration by Clifford Webb. Articles include 'Telegraphy and telephony. From Morse apparatus to the teleprinter....	Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history	£135.00
The Victorian Silk Trade [Child Labour, Factories' Act]. Printed notice, signed 'AMBROSE MOORE' regarding 'Children in Silk Mills', together with covering manuscript letter, signed 'Grout & Co.', and envelope, addressed to William Wilshere, M.P. Wilshere (1804-67) was M.P. for Great Yarmouth William, MP for Great Yarmouth between 1837 and 1846). The notice: 2 pages, 4to. In very good condition despite minor spotting and two closed tears caused by folding. The letter: 1 page, 8vo. In very good condition. The envelope (addressed to 'W....	Social history	£95.00