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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, FRS [the supernatural] [Earl Stanhope; Crystal Ball; clairvoyance etc] Autograph Letter Signed Stanhope to a Mr Slater, about an inferior quality crystal ball defining a good one.. Two pages, 8vo, bifolium, second leaf tipped onto slightly larger paper, minor staining but text clear and complete. Sir I am sorry to inform you that the Crystal which you sent to Mrs Royce has not answered its purpose, & is, as she assures me, of a very inferior quality, for its Spirit...		£280.00
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
Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (1787-1880) Autograph Letters Signed Kilmorey (x2) [2nd Earl of Kilmorey] and K to Williams [C.R. Williams}.. With ALS from his successor to same, and two related items. Total 12pp., 8vo, remnants of laying down obscuring some letters, mainly clear and legible. Subjects: [1874] Gratitude to correspondent and a woman; two bad falls; Lady Newry setting fire to herself; compliments on his sketches; their fruit continues to abound; notes on happinesss then a cause...	History	£180.00
Joseph Craven of the Middle Temple, and of the North-Eastern Circuit Barrister-at-Law. A Handbook for High Bailiffs & Bailiffs of County Courts pp.xviii, 102, red cloth gt, minor rubbing, staining of endpapers, mainly good condition+ COPAC lists copies at Oxford and the NLS.	Law	£56.00
Albert Coates (1882-1953), English classical conductor and composer, born in St Petersburg Autograph Signature of the English classical conductor and composer Albert Coates. On rectangle removed from autograph album. In good condition. Reads 'Albert Coates \| 1929'.		£12.00
B.L. Farjeon, novelist Autograph Note Signed "B/L/ Farjeon", novelist, to A. Williams of the "Liverpool Mercury". One page, 12mo, good condition, saying that illness and the consequences of an accident have prevented him responding courteously to the "notice of my Xmas story in Liverpool Mercury".		£35.00
Charles Coborn [Charles Whitton McCallum] (1852-1945), Anglo-Scottish musical hall star Signed photograph of the musical hall artiste Charles Coborn, best-known for the songs 'Two Lovely Black Eyes' and 'The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo'. Black and white studio photograph, postcard format (13 x 8.5 cm). On leaf removed from autograph album. Good, on shiny photographic paper, with margin making dimensions of image 12 x 8 cm, captioned in bottom right-hand corner 'PHOTO \| LAIRD \| ABERDEEN'. Showing a kindly-looking Coborn seated in...		£25.00
Dame Anna Neagle (1904-1986), English singer and stage and screen actress Autograph Signature of the English actress Anna Neagle. On rectangle of paper, laid down on leaf removed from autograph album. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads 'Good wishes \| Anna Neagle.' With two newspaper cuttings carrying photographic portraits, one loose and one laid down to the left of the signature.		£15.00