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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Stuart Knill, Lord Mayor of London [The Ward of Queenhithe in the City of London; livery companies; tax; economic history] Printed authority completed in manuscript, 'To the Aldermen, Deputy, and Common-Council of the Ward of Queenhithe', signed by the City of London Commission of Lieutenancy, authorising the collection of a tax to pay the expenses of the City militia. On the recto of the first leaf of a folio bifolium (leaf dimensions 42.5 x 27.5 cm). On grey watermarked laid paper. Good, with slight offsetting from the ten red wafers placed beside the signatures. Headed 'LONDON. To the ALDERMEN, DEPUTY, and COMMON-COUNCIL of the Ward of [Queenhithe]'. Fifty-...	History	£150.00
Sir John Sinclair, , Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture. [Sir John Sinclair] Autograph Note, third person, to the Duke of Atholl, providing the copy of an interesting letter. One page, 16mo, good condition. "With Sir John Sinclair's best respects - He thought that the Duke of Atholl would like to see the copy of so interesting a letter from so respectable a countryman, as General Stewart of Garth."		£40.00
Winifred Rathbone, Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, etc. [Lady Mayoress of Liverpool] Autograph Note Signed 'Winifred Rathbone' to "Mr Abraham". One page, 12mo, good condition. She thanks him for the trouble he's taken over the "Teddy Bear material". Some items sent ('patterns'?) are the cheapest found so far.		£32.00
Sudbury Municipal Election, 1877 [Suffolk; East Anglia; English council elections; county councillors in Victorian England] Two handbills relating to the Sudbury Municipal Election of 1877. Both items printed on one side of a piece of cheap wove paper. Both items aged and lightly creased, but with text clear and entire. Item One (23 x 12.5 cm): Headed 'Sudbury Election. \| 1877.' Twenty lines of text, arranged in six paragraphs each commencing with a rhetorical question: 'What has...		£56.00
[The Prussian Army (Königlich Preußische Armee), 1810] Manuscript, on paper watermarked 1810, a detailed table titled 'Present <Stat>ement of His Majesty the King of Prussia's Army'. Landscape folio leaf (32.5 x 40.5 cm), 1 p. On paper watermarked 'JOHN HALL \| 1810'. Neatly ruled to make a complex, detailed table, in three columns of 31 rows each. The table has a central vertical fold, with the left hand side of the reverse mounted on a leaf removed from an autograph album....	Military and Naval History	£325.00
[Richard Assheton Cross, M.P.] [women's suffrage; Victorian female factory labour] [Female factory labour.] Printed pamphlet beginning 'To the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, M.P., Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Respectful Memorial of the Undersigned Women, being Factory Workers and Others, Sheweth [...]' 4pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In poor condition, chipped and with leaves separated, disbound. Two copies on COPAC, and one copy on OCLC WorldCat.		£50.00
[Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] [Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, Victoria Press, London; printed pamphlet.] How shall I educate my Daughter? ['Tract No. 1' in the series 'Tracts for Parents and Daughters'.] 12pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copies on COPAC, surrogates on WorldCat.		£250.00
[John Maynard Keynes, economist] [Programme for a Congregation at the University of Cambridge conferring an Honorary Degree on Keynes and others.] Eight pages, 4to, stapled, as issued, light foxing throughout, fold at middle, good condition. First page (title) contains a brief list of recipients, including Alan Brooke, Keynes to become "Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa)", each recipient being the subject of a one page encomium in Latin....		£75.00
[Oxford Legal Circuit, c.1938] [Broadsheet; list] Counsel on the Oxford Circuit Broadsheet, c. 42 x 52cm, fold marks, punch-holes (minor textual loss), some foxing in margins, 3 " closed tear (no textual loss), three columns of names inc. R. Stafford Cripps, six women, total more than 50 names, plus officers (e.g. Clerk of Assize, C.F. Lloyd).		£120.00
Sybil Thorndike Autograph note signed, English actress (1882-1976), Dame of the British Empire (1931), Companion of Honour (1970). Written on an empty 12mo envelope. "Please come round & see me when the matinee is over. / Sybil Thorndike".	Music and Theatre	£12.00