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Lieutenant Albert Smith (1844-1928), RN [Royal Navy; Naval and Maritime; Collision of HMS Victoria with HMS Camperdown, 1893] Diaries of Lieutenant Albert Smith, RN, 1867-1897 and 1914 to 1919, describing tours of East Africa and the Mediterranean, and giving a first-hand account of the sinking of HMS Victoria following its collision with HMS Camperdown, 1893. Ten notebooks, nine of them 4to and the other folio, totalling in excess of a thousand pages. Not uniform. In original worn bindings, five with marbled boards and the others in full cloth. Internally all ten volumes are sound, with their texts neatly-written, clear and complete. Numbered 2 to 18...		£950.00
William Alexander and Robert Montgomery [David and Alexander Allan, Merchants in Glasgow, versus The Provost and Bailies of Rutherglen, in the House of Lords, 1801.] In the House of Lords. David and Alexander Allan, Merchants in Glasgow, Appellants. The Provost and Bailies of Rutherglen, and other Persons, Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Burgh of Rutherglen, Respondents. The Respondents' Case. Folio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper watermarked with the date 1800. Worn and aged, with small closed tear to second leaf, but with text clear and complete. Ownership inscription on first page of 'Thos. Adam Esqr \| Alnwick Northumberland'. The respondents' case, signed in type by William...	History, Law	£85.00
Father Ignatius of Jesus, O.S.B. [Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837-1908)], Anglican Benedictine monk in Norwich and south Wales [Father Ignatius of Jesus, O.S.B. [Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne], Anglican Benedictine monk.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘old & faithful a spiritual Child’, thanking her for her ‘kind offer of hospitality’. See the entry for this ‘charismatic preacher and flamboyant individual’ (referred to several times in Kilvert’s diary) in the Oxford DNB, which states that, having been dispossessed out of his property and forced to dissolve his monastery in Norwich, in 1869 he was able, with the support of a...		£120.00
Viscount Palmerston, sometime Foreign Minister and Prime Minister Part of a Document Signed boldly "Palmerston", with subscription,addressed to 'Lieut.Col. F. Cockburn/ Care of/Sir G. Cockburn G.C.B./Admiralty' Part of a page, 20 x 12cm, foxed, mainly good condition. Surviving text as follows: "I have the honor to be \| Sir, \| Your most obedient Servant \| Palmerston". Subscription probably secretarial.	History	£28.00
Sir Philip Sassoon [Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon] (1888-1939), politician, art collector and socialite at Port Lympne and Trent Park, cousin of Siegfried Sassoon, friend of Noel Coward [Sir Philip Sassoon of Port Lympne: described by Noel Coward as ‘a phenomenon that would never recur’.] Autograph Signature (‘Philip Sassoon.) and autograph compliments slip. Considered by his friend Noël Coward as ‘a phenomenon that would never recur’. See his entry by Osbert Sitwell in the Oxford DNB and the biography by Damian Collins, ‘Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon’ (2016). Clearly sent in response to a request for an autograph. The...	Social history	£50.00
[Arne Bruun Rasmussen Kunstauktioner, Hans Christian Andersen, Eiler H?eg] [Auction; Hans Christian Andersen] Dr. med. Eiler Hoeg's H. C. Andersen samling auktion tirsdag den 26. maj Paper covers, llus by Portrait of Andersen, and facsimile signature, 40 pp., 8vo, good condition, illus. plates, facsimile letter, etc. A comprehensive collection of H.C. Andersen material (more than a thousand entries). Copies in Leiden and Berlin (WorldCat), nobe in the British Isles (re....		£120.00
[M.R. James] University of Cambridge [Signed by M.R. James, Ghost Story Writer, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge] HONOUR CERTIFICATE [for female student] (Printed with Manuscript additions). Honour Certificate, folio, 39 x 28cms, fold marks, small closed tear on fold, minor foxing, small closed tears right edge, aging, somewhat fragile and best kept in plastic, (explaining why survival low), clear and complete. Marginal damage to the signature of M.R. James [Montague Rhodes James,...	Education, Women	£850.00
Bowyer Nichols [John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols] (1859-1939), English artist and author [his aunt Emily Mary Nichols (nee Ade), wife of Robert Cradock Nichols, son of John Bowyer Nichols] Fifteen Autograph Letters Signed from artist and poet Bowyer Nichols to his aunt Emily Mary Nichols, daughter-in-law of John Bowyer Nichols, with dozens of sketches and caricatures in letters and on 24 pieces of paper. All items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The letters total 49pp, 16mo and 8vo.. All are complete except the last, which lacks the last part. They are liberally adorned with sketches. Mostly addressed to 'My dear Aunty' and signed in a variety of ways, from 'J. Bowyer B. Nichols' to '...	Art and Architecture	£500.00
[Robert Buchanan, Edinburgh Bookseller] [Printed Prospectus for] A Catalogue of above 5000 Volumes of Books, (Chiefly Second Hand) ...[subjects] ... The whole of which are now on sale at very reduced prices, for Ready Money Only, by Robert Buchanan, 48 George Street, Edinburgh 4pp., 8vo, disbound, edges sl. frayed, mainly good. It has a selective list from the Catalogue, commences by offering Price 1s. 6d. allowed on First Purchase, giving selling and discounted price (R.B.'s Price) for c.150 titles. COPAC records the NLS copy.	Book Trade History	£28.00
[The British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC] A small collection of mainly printed ephemera and photographs left behind by a BBC employee, Miss E.S. MacGregor, spanning 1942-1981. 17 items, as follows: three photographs, 10 x 9, 16 x 11, 22 x 16cm (i. 14 members of staff captioned News and Newsreel, 40s?; ii. circa 30 people who attended the BBC Staff Dance in 1942; iii. Photo. with stain, Studio view from above, cameras , gantry, sets, and schoolboys posturing in front...	Social history	£225.00