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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
R. L. McCreery, Lieut.-General, G.O.C., Eighth Army [General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery (1898-1967), Commander of the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy, 1944-1945] [Printed handbill.] Special Message from the Army Commander to all Ranks Eighth Army. 1p., foolscap 8vo. 36 lines of text. A frail survival: in fair condition, lightly creased and aged, with short closed tear repaired on reverse with archival tape. Badge design at head of text, with white shield with yellow cross against blue background, and facsimile of McCreery's signature at...		£120.00
Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, British Particular Baptist preacher. [Handbill] A Political Dissenter ["Abridged from the 'Sword and Trowel'"] Two pages, 8vo, minor foxing, ow good condition. Scarce. Three copies listed by COPAC (WordCat duplicates two only).		£80.00
Frank Short [Francis Job Short (1857-1945)], RA, engraver [J. M. W. Turner] Signed mezzotint engraving by Frank Short [Francis Job Short] of the Royal Academy, headed 'Twelve Subjects from the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Etched & Mezzotinted by Frank Short.' Landscape on 16 x 12 cm paper. Dimensions of plate 12.5 x 18.5 cm. In very good condition, lightly-framed. Signed in pencil 'Frank Short' at bottom right outside the plate. The mezzotint itself (a cloudy view of a bay, with shipping in the background) is 5.5 x 10.5 cm., within a 7 x 12 cm...		£120.00
Frederic Wilken, doctor of theology, royal Prussian historiographer, first librarian and professor in the university of Berlin, &c Letter Signed "Dr. Wilken" (text in copperpalte secretarial hand), to an unnamed correspondent (Aylmer Bourke Lambert?), asking for a copy of his book on The Genus Pines One page, 4to, with backing paper, small loss at one corner, faint foxing, small closed tear, sl. ruckled in parts, mainly good, with text complete and legible. "The royal library of Berlin being very complete in the litterature [sic] of botany, wants yet the valuable and beautiful work by which...		£450.00
George Spencer (1739-1817), 4th Duke of Marlborough [George Augustus Frederick (1762-1830), Prince Regent between 1811 and 1820, thereafter King George IV] Autograph Letter in the third person from George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, apologising to the Prince Regent (George Augustus Frederick, later King George IV) for having to decline an invitation. 1p., 4to. In fair condition, on aged and creased laid paper with watermark '1810'. The letter reads: 'The Duke of Marlborough is very sorry it will not be in his power to obey His Royal Highness the Prince Regent's commands on Thursday the 23d of April, which he should have been very happy to...		£120.00
Apartheid in South Africa and the British Foreign Office [Information Research Department; Special Intelligence Service] [Apartheid in South Africa and British Foreign Office] Foreign Office briefing document titled 'The measures which have been taken to establish the policy of APARTHEID in South Africa and its effect on the European, Indian and African communities'. From a batch of Foreign Office documents, including material from the Information Research Department (for whose activities, financed from the budget of the Special Intelligence Service, otherwise MI6, see The Times, 17 August 1995; and also Michael Cullis's obituary of Sir John Peck in the...	History	£150.00
Alfred Henry Forrester (pseud. 'Alfred Crowquill'), illustrator and writer, associated with his brother Charles Robert Forrester (1803-1850) 18 engravings by Pearson, Lee and Mason, from drawings by the Victorian illustrator 'Alfred Crowquill' (Alfred Henry Forrester), including eleven proofs. Ten of the engravings carry Crowquill's name; the other eight can be attributed to him stylistically. In good overall condition, on aged paper, with a few of the eighteen lightly creased or worn, and one bearing traces of previous mounting. Seven of the engravings are proofs of vignettes and...		£600.00
Jack Gaster, communist solicitor and politician. [Pamphlet/handbill] Korea ... I saw the Truth Four pages, 8vo, bifolium. It chronicles a fact-finding mission by a Commission set up by The International Association of Democratic Lawyers, 3-19 March 1952. No copy listed on COPAC, but WorldCat lists copies at three US Libraries.		£56.00
Charles Lamb Kenney (1821-81), author and playwright, son of the Irish dramatist James Kenney (1780-1849) [William Makepeace Thackeray] [Charles Lamb Kenney, author and playwright.] Autograph Letter Signed to his wife, with reference to the 1862 Great Exhibition, and dinner with William Makepeace Thackeray and his daughters. See his entry in the Oxford DNB, which states that he had two children - Charles Horace Kenney and the actress Rosa Kenney - by his marriage to Miss Rosa Stewart at the Paris embassy in 1859. 4pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. On bifolium, with thin strip of tape from mount adhering to...		£75.00
Charles Lever [Charles James Lever] (1806-1872), popular Victorian novelist of Irish extraction [Charles Lever, popular Victorian novelist.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Mlle. de [Schmidt?]’, with regard to an invitation, her daughter, ‘Sydney’, and other matters. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf and small pin holes to one corner. With two folds. Thirty-nine lines of text. The handwriting is a paradox; neat but difficult to decipher....		£150.00