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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
'John Bull' [James Asperne (1757-1820), London bookseller and publisher; Sir Robert Wilson (1777-1849), English general; William Wittman; Napoleon Bonaparte] [Printed handbill against Napoleon Bonaparte.] Another Confirmation of the Tender Mercies of Bonaparte in Egypt! Selected by his old friend John Bull. Large 8vo, 1 p. Thirty-eight lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. '43.' in manuscript in top right-hand corner. Begins: 'As a Proof of the Veracity of Sir Robert Wilson's Account of the tremendously inhuman MURDERS perpetrated at JAFFA by Order of that most sanguinary Monster,...	French, History	£145.00
House of Commons Select Committee Report on Metropolitan Police, 1833 [Printed House of Commons report, 1833.] Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Police. Folio, 6 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound, and repaginated in a contemporary hand 401 to 405. Fair, on aged paper, with slight wear to extremities. The Committee 'consider themselves called upon to close their proceedings for the present Session: they regret that they cannot submit to the...		£56.00
W. J. Evelyn [William John Evelyn; William Evelyn] (1822-1908) of Wotton House, Dorking, Conservative Member of Parliament for Deptford, philanthropist, and descendant of the diarist John Evelyn Autograph Letter Signed from the politician and philanthropist William John Evelyn ['W. J. Evelyn.'] to Frank Walton. 12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium. 13 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Giving details of a proposed trip to London, to be made 'if the weather be such as in my state of health will allow me with safety to leave home', on which he hopes to call on Walton 'in order to see your...	Social history	£35.00
Captain Charles Inge Gardiner, author, under the pseudonym 'Charles Inge', of six books between 1905 ('A North Sea Agony') and 1920 ('Flashes of London') [J. B. Pinker [James Brand Pinker] (1863-1922 47 Autograph Letters Signed, 3 Typed Letters Signed and 3 Autograph Cards Signed, from the author 'Charles Inge' [Captain Charles Inge Gardiner] to his literary agent An interesting correspondence by an author about whom little is known. The 54 items (including one TLS to Gardiner from Methuen & Co Ltd) are in fair condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Four letters are signed 'Chas. Inge' and the others 'Chas. I . Gardiner'. The earliest items (1904...		£350.00
Carlotta Patti ['Carlotta Patty'] and her sister Adelina Patti (1843-1919), Italian opera singers Autograph Signatures of the opera singers Carlotta Patti ['Carlotta Patty'] and her sister Adelina Patty. On a rectangle of paper cut from the bottom of a letter. Fair, on aged and creased paper. Reads 'We are \| Sir \| Yours obediently \| [signed] Adelina Patti \| Carlotta Patty [sic]'.	Music and Theatre	£165.00
Charles Keene [Charles S. Keene; Charles Samuel Keene] (1823-1891), English illustrator, known for his work for 'Punch' [Frank Walton (1840-1928), artist] Autograph Note Signed from the Punch illustrator Charles Keene ('Charles S. Keene') to fellow-artist Frank Walton. 12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper folded twice. He has 'no idea where the Graphotype Company "hail from" & cannot find out', despite making enquiries.	Literature	£45.00
Charlotte Yonge [Charlotte Mary Yonge] (1823-1901), English Victorian novelist Autograph Signature of the Victorian novelist Charlotte Yonge ('C M Yonge') on part of letter. On both sides of a leaf of 16mo laid grey paper, with the lower part of the leaf torn away. Fair, on aged and creased paper. The last part of a letter, with the recto reading '<...> paper which one of the Embassy to America gave a doctor there - just like blotting paper, I daresay you know...	Literature	£25.00
Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-born violinist and composer AND Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano Bold Signatures on recto and verso of an album leaf. Detached album leaf, c.17 x 14cm, good condition, on one side signed Fritz Kreisler \| 2/XI 1922, the other Nellie Melba \| 1923. A small image of Kreisler, extracted from a magazine, is below the signature.	Music and Theatre	£95.00
Gustav von Falkenberg [Book] Der Fallschirm: seine geschichtliche Entwicklung und sein technisches Problem [192]pp, 8vo, including three pages of advertisements, corners bumped, hinge strain front endpaper, mainly good condition. Ex lib Royal Aeronautical Society (bookplate inside cover) with library shelf marks on half-title and elsewhere. Inscribed by the Author as follows, With the best thanks and...	History, Military and Naval History	£150.00
Captain F. W. Cragg [Francis William Cragg (1882-1924)], M.B., I.M.S. [Printed paper] Studies on the Mouth Parts and Sucking Apparatus of the Blood-Sucking Diptera. No. 4. The Comparative Anatomy of the Proboscis in the Blood-Sucking Muscidae. By Captain F. W. Cragg, M.D., I.M.S., King Institute of Preventive Medicine. 4to, [ii] + 3 + 56 pp + 4 plates, each with facing page of explanatory text. In original printed boards. Complete and clear. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards...		£28.00