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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Ada Rehan, actress autograph letter signed to Miss [?] Lewis, Irish-born American actress (1860-1916). 3 pp, 12mo. "I fear a matinée will prevent my coming on July 4th. Some benefit I have promised to play for - but if I come off early enough - & am not too tired I will certainly <?> in & see you / I hope that you and all your delightful...	Music and Theatre	£25.00
Ada Rehan, actress autograph note signed to Miss [?] McCarthy, Irish-born American actress (1860-1916). 2 pp, 8vo. "Can you and your dear Father come and have a little lunch with me on Wed: at 1 o.clock {- just really to say goodbye / drop me a line if you will - With love - but in haste / Ada Rehan". Traces of paper and glue from previous mounting on blank...	Music and Theatre	£20.00
Ada Rehan, actress calling card signed, Irish-born American actress (1860-1916). Calling card 2½ by 3¼ inches, "Miss Rehan. / 164 West 93rd. Street.", with the name crossed out and signed on the reverse "Ada Rehan / 1894."	Music and Theatre, Women	£20.00
Adam Black (1784-1874), Scottish publisher and Liberal politician [William Ewart Gladstone; Thomas Carlyle; Benjamin Disraeli] Autograph Letter Signed ('A Black') to autograph hunter J. H. Hall. 12mo: 1 p. On recto of first leaf of bifolium. Good. Reads 'Sir \| Mr. Gladstone having resigned the Rectorship of the Edinburgh University the Students have today elected Mr. Carlyle as his successor in opposition to Mr. D'Israeli [sic] -'.		£56.00
Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), English geologist Autograph Signature ('A Sedgwick'). On piece of aged paper roughly one inch by one and a half inches wide. Signature, underlined and overlined, less than an inch long.	Science, Medicine and Technology	£15.00
Adam Watson of Dunbar, Scotland [The East Lothian & Merse Whale Fishing Company; Charles Wren of Newcastle; whaling] Autograph Letter Signed from Adam Watson to Charles Wren on the subject of the East Lothian & Merse Whale Fishing Company 4to, 2 pp. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. Addressed, with postmark, on reverse of second leaf. Since Wren's letter of the previous May, 'nothing material has occurred to occasion my troubling you'. Watson announces that at the Company's meeting of that month, 'my friends & I succeeded in...		£300.00
Adelaide Helen Calvert, actress [née Biddles or Bedells] calling card signed, English actress (1837-1921), wife of the actor-manager Charles Calvert (1828-1879) and mother of the actor Louis Calvert (1859-1923). Black-letter calling card, 3½ by 2¼ inches, of "Mrs. Charles Calvert. / 22, York Mansions, / Battersea Park. / S. W. 11." Signed between the signature and the...	Music and Theatre, Women	£15.00
Adelaide Talbot (died 1726), Duchess Dowager of Shrewsbury [Adelhida, daughter of the Marquis Palleotti of Bologna] Printed Exchequer receipt for annuities, with manuscript insertions, signed by the Duchess and a witness. One page, octavo. Good, on aged paper with slight fraying and a few small closed tears at extremities. 'Received by me [Adelaide Dutchess Dowager of Shrewsbury Ass[ign]ee of Wm. Harvey] of the Honourable George Parker Esq; One of the Four Tellers of His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, the Sum of...	Women	£80.00
Adolphe Cattaui Bey [Egyptology; Egyptologist] [book, limited edition] Causeries sur les Hiéroglyphes, et deux Étapes de l'Histoire Ancienne de l'Égypte [Egyptology]. Small 4to, [vi] + 135 pp. Frontispiece and three plates, with illustrations and cartouches in text. Internally tight and sound, on aged paper, in worn and stained brown-cloth half-binding, decorative endpapers, sprung hinges. Number 43 of 400 copies. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and...	History	£125.00
Admiral Charles William Paterson (1756-1841) [Royal Navy] Manuscript letter book containing transcriptions of thirty-three orders, many of them from the Admiralty, received by Paterson relating to his command of HMS Gorgon between 1792 and 1793. Stitched notebook, in original marbled wraps, containing 19 manuscript pages on ten leaves. Leaf dimensions 32.5 x 20.5 cm. On laid paper with Britannia watermark. Good, on aged paper, in worn and creased wraps. Text closely and neatly written, clear and complete. From the Tonyn and Paterson...	Military and Naval History	£800.00