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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Robert Henriques [Pierre Saville] JOYEUX NOËL \| HAPPY CHRISTMAS \| La philosophie de Pierre Saville, traduite en langue anglaise par Robert Henriques. A Christmas keepsake. Eight pages, 12mo. Unbound. Grubby but in good condition. INSCRIBED at head of title 'Having got through the Valley - R. H.' The usual French cynicism: 'Nothing can be such a bore \| As: a locked door; \| Or a banquet, without the least appetite for food; \| Or a woman whom...	French	£36.00
Robert Hichens [Robert Smythe Hichens] (1864-1950) Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mrs. Carson', discussing his novel 'The Garden of Allah' (1905). 12mo, 2 pp. Twenty lines. Text clear and complete. On lightly aged paper with a 2 cm across both leaves of the bifolium (not affecting text). He did not 'draw Domini and Hermione from special people', but believes that 'there are women quite as sincere as they are'. On the subject of 'Hermione's...	Literature	£56.00
Robert Howard Signature from document Dramatist, historian and poet (1626-1698). Signature cut from a document (Howard was an auditor of the Exchequer) with above date and a few words from the text, laid down.	History, Literature	£125.00
Robert John Aylwin Wallace Lever, Government Entomologist at Fiji [Fiji Defence Force; New Zealand Expeditionary Force; Second World War; military training; standing orders] A collection of forty-three typewritten documents, with maps, diagrams and some manuscript material, relating to military training, assembled by Lieut. R. A. Lever of the Fiji Defence Force. The majority of the material is on leaves of foolscap paper. The collection is in good condition: lightly aged and with some wear to extremities. Assembled by Lever during the course of his training as an officer in the Fiji Defence Force, it gives a valuable insight into colonial military...	Military and Naval History, Travel and Topography	£350.00
Robert Keeley Photograph and two autograph fragments signed, English actor (1793-1869). A small oval photograph, 2 inches high, of an aged Keeley seated at a table with papers before him. Glued to a thin piece of card beneath which is a fragment cut from a letter, "Believe me / yours very truly / R. Keeley / Lovell Reeve Esq." Evidently cut from an...	Music and Theatre	£20.00
Robert M. Young Ulster in '98. Episodes and Anecdotes 96pp., 8vo, 4pp. advertisements, a fragile book with damage to paper covers and the first two pages (no loss of text), and minor staining throughout, has been attractively rebound in green paper wraps with label on front.	History	£100.00
Robert Martin, Edinburgh printer [Freemasonry; the Craft; broadsides; street ballads; handbills] Broadside titled 'King Crispin. The ancient and modern history of King Crispin, with a particular account of the plan and order of the grand procession, time of meeting, &c.' Printed on one side of wove paper roughly 41.5 x 17 cm. Text clear and complete. On aged, creased and grubby paper. In two columns, headed by the title and royal crest. Begins 'Bannatyne's Key to the Almanack gives the following account of Sts Crispin and Crispianus, brothers, [...]'. Concludes...	History, Literature	£175.00
Robert Maxwell 2 Typed Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Unsigned to Mary Delane, and a collection related material. Politician, publisher and one of the greatest crooks of the twentieth century (1923-91). The recipient, Mary Delane, is described as 'sometime woman's editor for The Times'. A collection of drafts and letters mainly relating to negotiations for the publication by Maxwell's Pergamon Press of a...	Book Trade History, History	£200.00
[Police Act 1757] [Printed] An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled, An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables . . . [cont.] [cont.] for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster; and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to present [sic] Nusances and other Offences within the said City and Liberty. Disbound, pp.[625]-638, two leaves detached, otherwise good condition.	History, Law	£65.00
Robert Mortimer Wheeler (d.1936), journalist, father of Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), English archaeologist [Sir Jacob Behrens; Fred Behrens; Bradford Observer; Yorkshire Observer] Autograph Letter Signed ('Mortimer Wheeler') to Fred Behrens, editor of the Bradford Observer. 12mo: 1 p. Twenty-one lines. Clear and complete. Fair: on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. He 'turned up at the Executive this afternoon rather in the hope of seeing you than in the expectation of being useful'. He had 'intended amongst other things supporting a meeting of the Committee sometime...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£23.00