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Rt Hon. James Abercromby [CALTHORPE STREET RIOT, COLD BATH FIELDS MEETING] Autograph Signature to House of Commons order. Politician (1776-1858; DNB), later Speaker of the Commons, later 1st Baron Dunfermline. The Committee investigated the riot which took place behind Cold Bath Fields Prison in London on 15 May 1833, during which three policemen were stabbed, one of them fatally. 1 page, 8vo. Not in the best of...	History	£85.00
[Cambridge University, General Election, 1868; Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope (1820-1887)] Printed Voting Paper on behalf of the parliamentary candidate Alexander Beresford Hope, in the 'Cambridge University Election, 1868'. Complete with the perforated stub. Printed on one side of a piece of green paper, 28 x 21.5 cm, with vertical perforated line 6.5 cm in from the left-hand margin, dividing the paper into stub (28 x 6.5 cm) and paper (28 x 15 cm). Clear and complete. Fair, on lightly-aged and creased paper, with slight wear to extremities. Part of...	History	£45.00
[CAMBRIDGE] [Hodson & Brown, printers (add to BBTI on James Hodson 1830 and previous Hodsons).] Invoice, headed, part manuscript, and manuscript stamped receipt. for "Mr Cruso". Invoice, trimmed, 7.5 x 3.5, printed heading "Messrs. Hodson & Brown, Printers of the Cambridge Chronicle." It is for "Printing 400 Catalogues of Henley's Guns, Shells &c" and advertising. Receipt is conventional size.	Printing History	£45.00
[Henry Lytton Bulwer [(William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer (1801 -1872), Liberal politician, diplomat and writer.] [Henry Lytton-Bulwer, diplomat; Ottoman Empire; Corfu; Greece] Incomplete Autograph Letter (missing signature page) from [Henry Lytton Bulwer?] to [H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, C-in-C], about military/naval situation in the Greek Islands (Corfu). Incomplete (missing signature page at least), leaving 4pp., 4to, remnants of tipping on to something, minor stains around address, small hole causing minor loss, text clear, as follows: Sir, \| beg your Royal Highness to accept my best thanks for the able, succinct & lucid memorandum which I...	History	£350.00
[Conservative Party; Liberal Party; Free Trade; British General Election, 1910; political caricature] Striking original large coloured Conservative Party anti-Free Trade election poster, captioned 'Watchman, What Of The Night?', showing Uncle Sam, a Chinaman and a Russian removing 'British Capital' from a factory while the watchman John Bull sleeps. Lithograph. Landscape, 51 x 76 cm. In fair condition and worthy of framing, although aged and with a few small holes. John Bull, in a watchman's hut with a flag on his knees, dozes before the fire of Free Trade, while Uncle Sam and a jolly Chinaman remove a stretcher bearing a heavy load of '...	Economics, History	£350.00
[Charles Alfred Ashburton; Ashburton's History of England; Joseph Saunders, engraver; W. & J. Statford, Print Sellers, High Holborn, London] Proof ('Saunders sculp.'), 'Engraved for Ashburton's History of England', of 'Henry II after having his Son crowned King serving the first dish to his Table'. On wove paper, with watermark '179< >'. Dimensions roughly 22.5 x 39 cm. Very good on lightly aged paper. One small unobtrusive spot of foxing. The illustration is within an oval roughly 21.5 cm wide, enclosed in a decorative box of dimensions 18 x 27.5 cm. A couple of bishops with...	History	£28.00
[Charles Baron Clarke] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. On first looking over the list of books recommended to candidates for honors "Printed for Private Distribution Only 25pp., 8vo, printed pamphlet, plain green paper wraps,closed tear not penetrating text, which attacks Carey's "Political Economy" which he was "surprised to find in the Tripos. COPAC lists only one copy (ULRLS ), WorldCat the Yale and Wisconsin copies.		£150.00
[Charles Baron Clarke] C.B. Clarke, eminent botanist but also writer on politics and economics. The Landlord's Budget Addressed to the Right Hon. The Earl of Rosebery Printed pamphlet, 8pp., 8vo, unbound, some candle-wax droppings, otherwise good. Clarke dissents from Rosebery's proposal "to spend one-and-a-half-million of National income in paying half agricultural rates". No copy found listed on COPAC or WorldCat.	History	£56.00
'Colonel Ingersoll, The Great American Orator' [ Colonel R. G. Ingersoll; Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), 'The Great Agnostic' ] [ Robinson's Opera House, Cincinnati ] [ Printed pamphlet. ] The Flight of the Shadows. A Discourse delivered by Colonel Ingersoll, the Great American Orator. 18pp., 8vo. Disbound. With pink front wrap, carrying an engraved portrait of 'Colonel Ingersoll. The Great American Orator and Wit.'. In good condition, lightly aged. A report of a speech at Robinson's Opera House, Cincinnati. A prefatory note, titled 'Eloquence of Ingersoll', quotes from Samuel...		£50.00
Frances Lloyd George, née Stevenson, Countess Lloyd-George, mistress, personal secretary, confidante and second wife of someime British Prime Minister David Lloyd George Typed Letter Signed Frances Lloyd George, wife of sometime PM Lloyd George, to J. W. Robertson Scott, author and editor of The countryman Magazine, . on Lloyd George's smoking habits and other matters. One page, 12mo, good condition, except rust mark from paperclip (not present).. With regard to your enquiry about my husband's smoking, it is quite true that he has practically given it up now. The only thing he has now is an occasional pipe, but this is getting less and less frequent. \| I have...		£65.00