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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Frank Rutter (187-1937), art critic of the Sunday Times. Autograph Letter Signed "Frank Rutter", art critic, to Robert Lynd, essayist. ALS, on letterhead of the City Art Gallery, Leeds; 10 March 1916. He offers to review 'Rebecca West's forthcoming little book on "Henry James"', being 'particularly interested in both author & subject'. Asks for contact details of a relative of Walter Riddall's: 'I lent him before his death...		£45.00
[Éire: The Irish Nation] Issue of the newspaper Éire: The Irish Nation for 20 January 1923 Issue of the newspaper Éire: The Irish Nation for 20 January 1923, with front page headline: 'DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF DAIL EIREANN. \| First Parliament of the Irish Republic, 21st January, 1919.' Dublin: The Irish Nation Committee. Newspaper, 8pp, 4to, a few closed tears fair condition.		£250.00
[John Clowes; Manchester New Jerusalem Church Tract Society] [Tract 'No. 42' by the Manchester New Jerusalem Church Tract Society.] The Golden Wedding Ring; or, A Conversation between a Father and his two Children, on Marriage. [By John Clowes.] 28pp., 12mo. Disbound. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. A dialogue between Paternus and his son Eugenio and daughter Miranda. Ends with two prayers and a poem titled 'Lines on Wedded Love'. Drophead title, with '[No. 42.' in top left-hand corner above it: the details of publication were...		£38.00
[Messrs. Otard Dupuy & Co, French cognac house founded in 1795 by Jean-Baptiste Antoine Otard [later with Léon and Jean Dupuy], based in the Château des Valois (Château de Cognac), Cognac, Charente] Ten manuscript business letters, seven in English and two in French, from six different British wine merchants, to the French cognac house Messrs. Otard Dupuy & Co., placing orders, reporting news of the Brandy trade in Britain and shipping. The ten items total 19pp., 4to. Each is a bifolium, with the address and postmarks on the reverse of the second leaf. Each is docketed by Otard Dupuy. All ten are in excellent condition, on lightly-aged paper. The six firms are: Bevan & Smith, Liverpool, two letters (both 1850); Christopher...		£250.00
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC (1799–1869), statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Two Autograph Letters Signed "Derby" to John Abraham, Bold Street, Liverpool (envelope present), head of the Dispensing Department of the Liverpool Apothecaries Company, 1838-1845, later of Clay & Abraham, pharmaceutical chemists, about Poisons Bill. Two pages and one page, 12mo, good condition. A. "I have received the Petition of the Liverpool Chemists' Association against some of the provisions of the Sale of Poisons Bill, and will present it without loss of time. As the Bill has been referred to a Select Committee to consider its...		£150.00
Emmerson W. Manning [Emmerson Wain Manning], Manning National Detective Institute [Printed book.] Practical Instruction for Detectives. A Complete Course in Secret Service Study. By Emmerson W. Manning, Manning National Detective Institute. 94 + [i] pp. In original green cloth with title in black on front cover. Good, lightly-aged in lightly-worn and spotted binding. Ownership signature ('') in pencil on title-page, with pencil annotations throughout translating passages into French. Chapters on 'Shadowing', 'Burglaries', '...	Law	£50.00
A. F. Shand [Alexander Faulkner Shand] (1858-1936), pioneer psychologist, author and barrister, founding member of the British Psychological Society [A. F. Shand [Alexander Faulkner Shand], pioneering psychologist.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to ‘Burdett' Shand is great-grandfather of Queen Camilla. His best-known work is 'The Foundations of Character' (1914). ONE: 18 November 1907. 4pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Thirty-five lines. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Shand - who is weakened by ‘fever & cough’, and ‘too tired to think...		£120.00
John Herman Merivale (1779-1844), poet, lawyer, author and literary scholar, friend of Lord Byron [John Herman Merivale, poet and friend of Lord Byron.] Signature for autograph hunter: ‘John Herman Merivale’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On 16 x 10 cm rectangle cut from leaf of an autograph album. In good condition, on wove paper, lightly aged and creased. Nothing on the leaf apart from the signature ‘John Herman Merivale’, with the helpful addition ‘(Dead)’ in a near-contemporary hand beside it...		£30.00
George Sholto Douglas (1789-1858), 17th Earl of Morton [Representative Peers of Scotland in the House of Lords, Westminster] Four Autograph Drafts by George Sholto Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, of letters by him soliciting the votes of his fellow Scottish peers in elections of Scottish Representative Peers in the House of Lords in 1828, 1841 and 1852. Two signed 'Morton'. 1828: 2pp., 4to. 'Dalmahoy nr Edinburgh \| March 3d 1828'. Signed 'Morton'. In fair condition, lightly-aged and with a short closed tear along one fold. The draft begins: 'I had the honor a short time agao of announcing to your Lordship my intention of offering myself as a candidate for the high...	History	£220.00
[Masonic poem; nineteenth-century American Freemasonry] Copy of Victorian manuscript Masonic poem, apparently unpublished, divided into 'Opening' ('Hail, Thou from whom all light is shed', '1st. Degree' ('Lo, here we meet in brotherhood') and '2nd. Degree' ('Brother, thou upon whose eyes'). 2pp., folio. On two leaves of yellow paper, with 'PATENT' lion and unicorn watermark. Text enclosed within faint blue vertical lines. Good, on lightly aged and worn paper. No record found of the publication of this item, the first page of which is headed 'Opening: -', with the last section...		£350.00