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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Percy Fitzgerald [Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald] (1834-1925), Anglo-Irish author, critic, sculptor and artist Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Keith Murray, bearing an extraordinarily florid signature. 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. He has been 'hunting among papers, & found a great quantity of notable letters from notable people but they are mostly confidential - or dealing with some private matters'. He would have liked to gratify her wishes 'in a more liberal fashion, 'but I...	Art and Architecture, Literature	£56.00
Percy Frankland and Mrs Percy Frankland. Micro-Organisms in Water; Their Significance, Identification and Removal . . .Together with an Account of the Bacteriological Methods Employed in their Investigation Especially Designed for the Use of Those Connected with the Sanitary Aspects of Water Supply". First edition, original dark green cloth gilt, very good condition, black paper endpapers, 2 plates,...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£56.00
Percy J. Dobell, bookseller. Two Autograph Notes Signed "P.J. Dobell" to C.J. Windle. 4to, good condition. Dobell describes a defective "tract" ("A Precious Apple") and speculates on its authorship (Lady Eleanor Douglas). He will send it to be examined. Another hand (presumably Windle) has added pencil notes on the reference works which do not list the item and speculating "...	Book Trade History, Literature	£50.00
[Maria Anna Zachary; Shepherd] [Vellum indenture.] Grant of the Custody of the person and management of the real and personal Estate of Maria Anna Zachary Spinster a Lunatic unto Charles Claridge Gentleman'. Striking vellum document, 60 x 75 cm. Docketed on reverse. 32 lines of text, ruled with red lines, with ornate engraved decorative border along three sides, headed in large letters 'Victoria by the Grace of God', and depicting the young Queen, the royal crest, a crown held by a cherub, blind...	History, Law, Religion, Women	£250.00
Percy Macquoid (1852-1925), illustrator [The Graphic; Oxford and Cambridge boat race; punting; rowing] Large original wood engraving, in black and blue, titled 'OXFORD \| AQUATICS AT THE UNIVERSITIES \| CAMBRIDGE', containing eight images of rowing and punting. Printed on one side of a piece of cream wove paper, roughly 41.5 x 60 cm. Central vertical crease. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. A little grubby, with a few closed tears and slight creasing to extremities. Consists of two rectangles (each 29 x 22.5 cm) in black ink, each containing four...	Printing History, Social history	£125.00
Percy Macquoid. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Shirley Slocombe, artist, and related material. Furniture Historian. Two letters SIGNED by Macquoid,one by amanuensis (he apologises for this - unwell). 3 pages, 4to, and 4 pages 8vo, good condition. He discusses matters which relate to their work on "A History of English Furniture" for which Slocombe provided illustrations - progress on a...	Art and Architecture	£250.00
Percy Richard Morley Horder (1870-1944), English architect Typed Letter Signed ('P. Morley Horder') to W. Perry, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. One page, 12mo. Very good; lightly creased with staple holes to one corner. 'I beg you to publish the letter which I have addressed to the Journal. There is no point in withholding it.' Horder, who designed Lloyd George's house, as well as Mallory Court and Greys, is, according to one authority...	Art and Architecture	£23.00
[Trinitarian Order] [Printed] Déclaration de l'empereur, concernant l'Emploi des Biens des Couvens supprimés des Trinitaires, & les Confréries établies aux Pays-Bas pour la redemption des Captifs Disbound, four pages, folio, aged but good, paginated [1]-4, but also numbered in MS. 95-98. The Trinitarian Order was created in France in the C12th to raise funds to ransom crusader and other Christians held by barbarians. This edict from Emperor Joseph II of Austria orders the suppression of...	French, History, Law, Religion	£95.00
Henry Carey Baird [Pamphlet] The Eastern and Western Questions. Turkey and the United States: How they travel a common road to ruin. Addressed by way of warning to President Hayes. 16pp., 8vo, disbound, frayed spine, staining of last page, otherwise good. COPAC and WorldCat lists several copies.	Economics, History	£95.00
Perry Belmont [Eric Underwood; German Nazism; fascism; the Teutonic Order; Freemasonry] Fascists and Nazis. By Perry Belmont, Commander of the Narragansett Bay Chapter of the Military Order of the World War. Stapled pamphlet. 8vo, 27 pp, including full-page photograph of Mussolini embracing a man in Nazi uniform (Himmler?). Fair: internally clean and tight; some marking and wear to covers. Inscribed on title-page to 'Eric Underwood Esq with the sincere regards of Perry Belmont'. (Underwood is...	History, Military and Naval History	£150.00