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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
John Gibb (1776-1850), Scottish civil engineer, deputy to Thomas Telford, founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, great-grandfather of Sir Alexander Gibb (1872-1958); Sir Hugh Beaver Thirteen files of typed and manuscript material relating to construction projects (including Aberdeen Harbour) by the Scottish civil engineer John Gibb, deputy to Thomas Telford, compiled by his great-grandson Sir Alexander Gibb. Thirteen files, on the following works by John Gibb: Kelvin Aqueduct; Broomielaw Bridge; Cullen Harbour; Boat O'Brig Bridge; Bonar Bridge; Cartlands Crag Bridge; Almond Viaduct; Northern Lighthouses; Victoria Railway Bridge over the River Wear; Stonehaven Harbour; Aberdeen Harbour; Don Bridge. (...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£1,450.00
[Printed handbill.] A few Tingling Rhymes On Much Wenlock Chimes. 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged pink wove paper. Within fancy border. Beneath the title a four-line epigram by 'Cook', beginning 'The School-boy remembers his holiday ramble'. The poem proper, of twenty lines, is signed in type at the end 'J. H.' It begins: 'Oh! Wenlock Chimes, the dear old...		£120.00
Matthew Stevenson [Sheila Stratton, illustrator; Canterbury College of Art] [Pamphlet produced at the Canterbury College of Art.] The Measure of the Year. Being extracts from The Twelve Moneths by Matthew Stevenson with four decorations by Sheila Stratton. 12mo, 10 pp. Stitched. In original red wraps, with title and illustrations printed on the front in red. Good, on lightly-aged paper. An attractive pamphlet, with the illustrations accompanying sections entitled Summer and Winter. At end: 'The text was set in 12 pt. Bodoni by A. File and A....	Literature	£95.00
Rene Hummerstone [Canterbury College of Art] [Pamphlet printed at Canterbury College of Art.] The story of the children who live at Willow Green told and illustrated by Rene Hummerstone. 8vo, 17 pp. Stitched. In original grey wraps, printed in black red and dark and light green. Good, on lightly aged paper. A children's book, with attractive illustrations of children playing, either in red or green. Colophon reads: 'Compositors: D. Beech and J. Baker \| Pressmen: G. V. Jones and...	Literature	£75.00
Ellis Silas (1883-1972), Anglo-Australian artist, official war artist with ANZAC forces in the First World War [British poster art] Five coloured posters by Australian artist Ellis Silas, each in the style of a frieze or panorama, depicting eleven 'British' explorers, from the Cabot brothers to Captain Oates, before scenic backgrounds. The five posters, presumably produced for the classroom, are scarce, with no reference to them on the internet or elsewhere. They are attractively painted in a bold and vivid panoramic frieze style. Each carries a single illustration showing two (counting the Cabot brothers as one) explorers in...	Art and Architecture	£250.00
Royal Mint and Goldsmiths' Company. Manuscript accounts relating to the Trial of the Pyx, 2 July to 29 December 1681 1. Physical Description: 8vo, 20 pp. Ten loose leaves of watermarked laid paper. Aged, and with chipping to extremities causing occasional minor loss to text. In a neat, close Chancery hand. The leaves would appear to be sequential, with no evidence that any are lacking from the series....	Economics, History	£1,500.00
[Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824)] [Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (1748-1812), Scottish Tory political hostess] [Printed handbill.] Sonnet on the late Dutchess of Gordon. [By Sir Brooke Boothby.] Printed on one side of a 4to leaf, to which a black mourning border has been given by hand. Well printed on wove paper. Fair, on lightly-aged and ruckled paper. The author's name is not given, and the title reads 'SONNET \| ON THE LATE \| DUTCHESS [sic] OF GORDON.' The poem begins: 'IS then the...	Literature, Women	£280.00
P. S. Green [Peter Shaw Green] (1920-2009), Keeper of the Herbarium and Deputy Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, author of account of Lord Howe Island and Norforlk Island in the Flora of Australia [Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Australia.] Two box files of scholarly material assembled by the botanist P. S. Green of Kew Gardens during a Royal Society and Percy Sladen Expedition, including botanical lists, offprints and correspondence. According to his obituary in the 'Kew Bulletin' (2010), Green worked '[a]lmost singlehandedly' on the account of the two islands for the 'Flora of Australia'. This collection of around 100 items contains material relating to that work, largely assembled on the spot during a Royal Society and...	Natural History	£950.00
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), Scottish poet [Rudolph Ackermann; Woodburn] Autograph Letter Signed ('Tho: Campbell'), in Italian, from the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, to unnamed 'Carissimi Amici' [Dear Friends]. 4to, 1 p. Twenty-lines. Text clear and complete. He has found 'il Barone' and is going to see 'Der Freishutz'. Monico is 'una gran bella citta', where he has seen 'molte belle cose'. He finds the Madonna of Rafael 'Divina'. A postscript concerns the print-seller Ackermann, as well as the art...	Literature	£150.00
Captain Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883), Irish-American novelist Corrected Autograph Manuscript of part of Captain Thomas Mayne Reid's 1866 novel 'Afloat in the Forest'. 1 p, folio. On grey paper. Fair, on aged paper, with slight spotting and chipping to extremities affecting a few words of text. A whole page of the manuscript, numbered '9' and written entirely in Reid's hand, with a few minor emendations by him, from Chapter XXVI, 'Treed by an Alligator'....		£450.00