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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. English conservative politician (1810-61), friend and supporter of Florence Nightingale. Good, but with one small closed tear and with the verso of the second leaf of the bifoliate attached to paper mount. He is 'going to town' for three days from Wednesday, and then returns for a fortnight or...	History	£26.00
Sidney Herbert, statesman, sponsor of Florence Nightingale (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed to "Monsignor Patterson". Two pages, 8vo, remains of glue from tipping in, text clear and complete. He has been talking to the Duke of Argyll on a matter with which he might help. "Mr Hayes Fisher who is standing in the Conservative Interest at Fulham has told me that he is meeting with considerable opposition there from...	History	£56.00
Sidney John Duly Two Autograph Letters Signed and Two Typed Letters Signed to Perry (1), Luckhurst (2) and Menzies (1), Secretaries, Royal Society of Arts. English traveller, writer and Governor of City of London College (1891-1991). First and last letters, two pages quarto; middle two letters, one page quarto. All in good condition and either docketed or bearing the Society's stamp. In first letter, further to a conversation, Duly asks if he can...	Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
Sidney Ronald Campion (1891-1978), O.B.E., F.R.S.A., English sculptor, painter and author [Edward Cecil Baker (1902-), M.B.E., Post Office Librarian [Archivist?]] Archive of thirty-four Autograph Letters Signed and fifty-two Typed Letters Signed, to Baker, with two Autograph Letters Signed from Campion's wife, and drafts of three of Baker letters (two autograph and one typed), exhibition catalogue, etc. The archive is in very good condition, with very slight creasing and aging, and with all items entirely legible. Most items quarto, and most of two pages or more (one running to seven pages). One letter has the head and first paragraph cut away. All but the first two items, which date from 1953...	Art and Architecture	£250.00
Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), Irish writer who visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Autograph Note. One page, 12mo. On aged, creased and spotted paper, with remains of paper and glue and paper from mount adhering to both sides. Reads 'With S.. R.. Lysaght's compliments - \| 16. viii. 07.' From the collection of the Rev. E. J. F. Davies.	Literature	£10.00
Siemens Bros & Co. London The Mackay-Bennett Atlantic Cable Charts and other material A large collection of charts,over 70 (seventy), mainly 38 x 27", relating to the routes of submarine cables across the Atlantic, mainly to the cables laid by the Mackay-Bennett (of Titanic fame) between 1884 and 1901, but also drawing in other cables going back to 1866. The routes appear as...	Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£1,500.00
Simon Marks, 1st Baron Marks (1888-1964), co-founder, with Thomas Spencer, of the retailers Marks & Spencer Typed Letter Signed ('Simon Marks') to John Cohen. 8vo, 1 page. Somewhat grubby; laid down on leaf removed from autograph album. Thanks him for his letter respecting the Goethe Centenary Festival. 'I shall be very glad to see you about March 11th. I am going away tomorrow for a short cruise, and will not be back until about that time. If you...	Social history	£56.00
Simon Nowell-Smith. Autograph Notes Signed (2) to J.G. Wilson, Chairman of Bumpus's. Scholar and collector (1909-1996). Total 3pp., 8vo, good condition. (1931) "many thanks for your note enclosing cheque for "Farrago" [?]. I wish all my debtors were as prompt." Wilson or a member of his staff has put a pencilled line diagonally through the page. ([1932]) He asks to see "the...	Book Trade History, Literature	£50.00
Simon's Town [Simonstown; Simonstad], Cape Town, South Africa [photograph; panorama]. Victorian panoramic sepia photograph of the bay at Simon's Town. Made up of four sepia photographs, each roughly 7 cm square, laid down overlapping each other to make a strip of 7 x 27 cm. Somewhat faded (especially to the right of the image) and with one small stain, and a one cm closed tear to the left. The paper on which the panorama is laid down, which is...	Travel and Topography	£400.00
Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Anglo-Scottish novelist Autograph Letter Signed ('Compton Mackenzie') to R. G. Pertwee [Roland Pertwee (1885-1963)?]. 8vo: 1 p. Good, on lightly discoloured paper creased at head. 'Mr: Leckie is certainly entitled to ask for a fee, and it is usual in these cases for the publisher to obtain permission from the other publisher. The author's permission is also needed of course, but you had mine, and so that is...	Book Trade History, Literature	£32.00