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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Alexander J. Murray, solicitor, 1 Clement's Inn, London [Hanbury; Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841-1922), editor of the London society magazine 'Vanity Fair', founded by him in 1868] Itemised manuscript account of 'Mr. Alexr. J. Murray's Charges in relation to the Sale to Mr. Hanbury of 1/18th. Share in "Vanity Fair"'. 5pp., foolscap 8vo. Attached with green ribbon. The sale was a protracted affair, and the detailed nature of these accounts may be due to Murray's desire to justify his charges of £22 1s 6d. The first entry reads: '1881 \| Novr. 1st. Attending Mr. Bowles on his calling and receiving his...		£600.00
Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841-1922), editor of the London society magazine 'Vanity Fair', founded by him in 1868 [Masson & Lewis, Accountants, 27 Leadenhall Street, London] Three financial documents from 1880 on 'Vanity Fair': holograph 'Report' by the editor Thomas Gibson Bowles, accompanying 'Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account' and 'Comparative Statement of Income and Expenditure' by accountants Masson & Lewis. The three items, all in manuscript, are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. All three are folded into the usual packets, with the two items by the accountants each titled in manuscript on the outside. Item One (Gibson's report): 'Report to accompany the Accounts of "Vanity Fair" for the...	Economics	£450.00
Michel Panaieff (1913-1982), Russian dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and teacher of ballet in America [ Michel Panaieff, Russian ballet dancer. ] Autograph Signature ('Mischa Paniaieff') on photograph. Black and white photograph of Panaieff in costume and dance pose, cut from a magazine. 15 x 10 cm, with border. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Good firm flourishing signature across the image, reading: 'Mischa Paniaieff \| Lancks [sic] \| 1936'.		£28.00
Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano. [Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian coloratura soprano.] Autograph Inscription on detached album leaf. Page of album, 20 x 16cm, good condition, signed as follows: Luisa Tetrazzini \| Souvenir de la Saison [au?] Covent Garden - 6.12.1907 \| London.. On the verso of the album page there are several unconnected signatures, dating 1900-1923. which I didn'feel would repay research.See IMAGE.		£45.00
Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855), author and playwright, best known for her collection of sketches, ?Our Village? [ Mary Russell Mitford, author of ?Our Village?.] Bold Signature with her address and a date, M.R. Mitford \| Three Mile Cross \| Easter Sunday 1843.~Three Mile Cross \| Easter Sunday 1843~Signature, address and date on paper,14 x 11cm, itself laid down on s Three pages (plus address page), bifolium, aged with remnants of the page it was tipped on, text clear as follows: Seeing by the Standard [newspaper] of tonight that measures are taking for filling up the vacancy in the representation of Huddersfield, I cannot resist the desire I fell to point...		£180.00
W.R. Grove [Sir William Robert Grove, (1811 – 1896), Welsh judge and physical scientist. [Fuel Cell Technology] [W.R. Grove, Welsh Judge and Scientist; [Father of] Fuel Cell Technology] Two Autograph Notes Signed WRGrove, one to an undeciphered name, with references to distinguished colleagues, the other to an unnamed correspondent. A. Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, some foxing and wear, text clear and complete, but scrawled. For the last two years or more in consequence of suffering severely from [undeciphered illness - see image of pp.1 &3] I have been obliged to give up all [evening?] visiting - [Were it not [?] it...	Law, Science, Medicine and Technology	£180.00
[Victorian stained glass window; Charles de Steuben (1788-1856); Victor Hugo (1802-1885), author of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1831)] Two Victorian stained glass windows, each with a central panel relief in white glass paste and grisaille, each with an image from Steuben depicting Esmeralda, from Victor Hugo's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', dancing with, and nursing, her goat. Each wIndow is 22 x 20 cm, with a central 16 x 14 cm panel of white glass, surrounded by a border made up of eight pieces (2 x 2cm corner squares with stars in orange glass, connected by 2 x 14cm rectangular purple panels). Each window has a set of two metal loops at head, for hanging. Metal...		£300.00
National Women's Total Abstinence Union \| Bitterne Park Branch [Manuscript] National Women's Total Abstinence Union \| Bitterne Park Branch Minute Book Title above on printed label on front cover, printed except for place Bitterne Park, a suburb of Southampton, hence Minute Book, 4to, with records (minutes) of meetings, 96pp. (monthly and committee meetings, 12pp. (annual meetings). The meetings end with prayers. Subjects include: a resignation...		£280.00
Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock (1792–1870), civil servant in India and a Conservative MP. [ Thomas Herbert Maddock ] Autograph Letter Signed "T H Maddock" to "Gladstone", presumably John Gladstone, merchant, politician, father of W.E. Gladstone. Four pages, 12mo, good condition. "I have just received from Ceylon a formal evaluation of my coffee property. The sums stated ampount to £8471 & as there is upwards of 800 acres of uncleared forest which is valued at £2 peracre the whole amount will be upwards of £10,000. I send the paper...		£220.00
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, peer, courtier and Whig politician Autograph Note, third person, tp "[Mr Ward?]", about a box at Drury Lane and busines involving his agent. One page, cr.8vo, faint staining (foxing?) but text clear and complete. "the Duke of Devonshire has only today received Mr Wards letter cponcerning the box at Drury Lane. Mr Heaton [his agent] Old Burlington St will transact the business with the committee upon this letter being shown to him."...		£45.00