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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Society for the Taxation of Land Values, Liverpool [nineteenth-century land reform; Victorian radical socialism] Handbill, with diagram, expounding the aims of the Society, headed 'Meetings along the Line of Docks'. 12mo bifolium (leaf dimensions 22 x 14 cm): 4 pp. Text clear and complete, on lightly-aged and grubby paper with wear to extremities. The first pages includes a section beginning 'Land in Liverpool has been sold at £226 the square yard; £1,093,840 an Acre! \| PAY YOUR RENTS! and YOUR RATES!! \|...		£85.00
Society of British Artists. Illustrated ticket to 'Smoking Evening', addressed in manuscript to 'Mr. W. Dalziel' (the engraver William Dalziel, 1805-1873?). Dimensions roughly 5 1/2 inches by 4 inches. Must predate 1887, when the prefix 'Royal' was added. Amusing modern-looking cartoon-style illustration by 'F C' of furious pipe-smoking pianist jumping up to hammer the keys, with his hair forming into the 'S' of 'Society', with moustachioed cigar-...	Art and Architecture	£45.00
Captain Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey [H. W. Aubrey] (c.1859-1934), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Unpublished Holograph First World War Poem (signed 'H W Aubrey') by English army officer Captain Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey [H. W. Aubrey], titled 'To our offspring - America' ('You're blood of our blood, & bone of our bone'). Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment Militia on 21 April 1875, and resigned his commission three years later. He qualified as a Doctor in 1885 and practiced in Clifton, where he was a keen cricketer and golfer. During the First World War he...		£120.00
Sophie Schroeder [Schröder] autograph note signed, Celebrated German actress (1781-1868), whose acting was regarded as the epitome of romanticism. A signed note in German on the reverse of a carte de visite embossed "Sophie Schroeder". Creased and bearing traces of glue, it is mounted on a fragment of paper, over a cutting from a French...	Music and Theatre	£45.00
Sotheby & Co Catalogue of the Westbury Collection of Cookery Books Wraps, v.g., with prices and buyers' list enclosed. With:(Catalogue) A. Rosenthal Ltd, Catalogue 56, Food and Drink. A private collection formed by a Lady of 16th to 19th Cenbtury Cookery Books in various languages (no date). Two items,		£50.00
Sotheby and Co Catalogue of the well-known collection of Ballooning and Aeronautical Prints and Drawings, the Property of Col. R.L. Preston Printed wraps, illus.., fold mark mainly affecting covers, mainly v.g. NO estimate or price lists	Book Trade History, Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
Sotheby's Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Illuminated Manuscripts, Printed Books and Americana formed by the Late Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Esq. The property of Mrs Gordon Mathias" Wraps, illustrated, 5 June 1961, inscribed by the scholar C.E. Wright who has noted prices and purchasers beside 9 items which interested him. He also notes that Cherry-Garrard originally paid £5000 for a missal. A flick through the pages throws up Back, Bligh, Dalrymple, Scoresby for polar...	Book Trade History, Travel and Topography	£50.00
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh (1805-1861), London auctioneer Autograph Letter Signed ('S Leigh Sotheby') to 'Mrs <Butler?>'. 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium on grey paper. Text clear and complete, on aged, creased paper with 9 cm cut along gutter. Sotheby's hand is particularly difficult, but he appears, on the suggestion of his partner Wilkinson, to be proposing that 'a man shall be up with you on Monday Morning - 1/2 past 9 he...	Book Trade History	£56.00
Spencer Compton, Speaker [Votes of the House of Commons, 1715; the House of Stuart; Hanoverian succession] Votes of the House of Commons. Jovis 28 die Julii, 1715. [Including a report on the passing of a Bill relating to the House of Stuart and the Hanoverian succession.] Printed on both sides of a piece of laid paper roughly 31.5 x 20 cm. Text clear and complete. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-creased paper with slight wear to extremities. Begins: 'AN Ingrossed Bill for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succcession of...	History, Royalty	£56.00
[Peter Pinyon, Victorian physician, Benenden, Kent] Day book of a Victorian provincial physician (Peter Pinyon of Benenden?), 1858-1859 Folio, 205 pp + 24 half-pages. In vellum account book, marbled endpapers, with label of Partridge & Cozens, London. Internally sound, clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Binding worn and aged, with tear and head of spine. Titled in manuscript on spine: 'Day Book. May 1st. 1858....		£1,250.00