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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Francis Willughby [Willoughby]; Ornithology, 1678; bird watching; pigeon fanciers] Folder containing 'Pigeon Excerpt with Plates' from the 'Ornithology' of Francis Willughby [Willoughby], comprising three leaves of text and four plates from the original work of 1678. With printed label discussing Restoration 'English fanciers'. The extract from Willughby's 1678 comprise three folio leaves paginated 179-184, containing the text of 'CHAP. XIV. \| Of Doves or Pigeons in general.'; with plates xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv and xxxvi, with representations of twenty doves or pigeons. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Loosely inserted in a...	Natural History	£180.00
[Seventeenth-century manuscript financial accounts of the army of King Charles II in Stuart Scotland] Detailed manuscript accounts titled 'The Establishment of his Maties: Forces, officers and souldiers, hors and Foot Intertained in his Maties: Kingdome of Scotland as they are now to be paied, from 1st. October 1667, and after.' Foolscap bifolium (leaf dimensions 33 x 22.5 cm), 3 pp. On laid paper, with watermark of a horn on a crowned shield, from which dangles a number '4' and the monogram 'WR'. Ink faded, but text clear and complete, on grubby aged paper with some wear to extremities. Written in a neat seventeenth-...	Economics, History	£450.00
[Workman's Compensation Act, 1906] [Printed] Draft Scheme of Compensation in Case of Injury to Workmen in Government Establishments. (Government Scheme Under Sec. 3.) Four pages, folio, chips and tears, loss of a few letters, poor condition. Not listed on COPAC.	Economics, History	£32.00
Albert Campbell (1862-1954), Irish physicist, one of the circle of Sir Richard Glazebrook at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington [Cambridge Instrument Company] Four items, including blueprint and papers, regarding the 'Campbell Capacitance Bridge' of Albert Campbell of the British National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. With Autograph Postcard Signed ('A.C.') from Campbell to Prof. R. H. Jones. All items with texts clear and complete. The collection fair, on aged paper. ITEM ONE: Postcard, 6 April 1927; Culmora, Girton Rd, Cambs. Nine lines. The equation is not exact, but is probably 'a close enough approximation'. He has 'mislaid the working out, but probably made a slip in it.' ITEM...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£280.00
Ascher Horowitz; T. Holpern [Jewish tales; Judaism; Hebrew; Jerusalem; Israel; Palestine] Mimeographed typescript, in German and English, of 'Jewish Tales from Jerusalem', including stories told by Ascher Horowitz and T. Holpern, and an English translation of 'King Artus'. 4to, 71 pp, with one 12mo page at end. In poor condition, damp damaged and detached from green cloth covers, but with texts legible and complete. Manuscript table of contents on recto of first leaf describes nine tales in German, told by Ascher Horowitz and T. Holpern, on first 51 pp: 'Jewish...	Literature	£650.00
Cook, engraver [J. Wheble, printseller, Warwick Square, London; Lord's Cricket Ground, Marylebone, 1793; Hambledon Cricket Club] Original engraving, from 1793, by Cook for J. Wheble of London, showing the 'Grand Cricket Match, played in Lord's Ground Mary-le-bone, on June 20 & following day between the Earl's of Winchelsea & Darnley for 1000 Guineas.' On watermarked paper roughly 13 x 20.5 cm. Dimensions of image 9 x 13 cm. With plate mark. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. Loosely attached to brown mount. Rare eighteenth-century cricket print from the June 1793 issue of the 'Sporting Magazine'. Cardus & Arlott state, in their 'Noblest Game' (...	Social history	£165.00
Mary Ellen Parker (1836-1921), daughter of Sir James Parker (1803-1852), Vice Chancellor of the High Court, and his wife Mary Babington [the Darroch family of Cheltenham] Original unpublished autograph poem illustrated and illuminated in colours by Mary Ellen Parker [later Mary Ellen Rose], daughter of the Victorian judge Sir James Parker, a spoof on Sir Walter Scott entitled 'The Lady of the Lake-Coloured Baton.' 12mo, 55 pp. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Most pages ruled with red lines. Texts of poem and preface, in a number of different-coloured inks, on right-hand side, with the facing reverses carrying corresponding notes and half a dozen charming vignettes (woman at writing desk, cabman dying of...	Literature	£780.00
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), illustrators [Punch, or the London Charivari; Fenians; revolutionary plots] Engraving by John Tenniel, from 'Punch' for 1867, titled 'Check to King Mob'. With caption referring to 'the London mob of would-be conspirators and sympathisers with revolutionary plots' and the attempt by the Fenians to blow up Clerkenwell Prison. On paper roughly 33 x 25.5 cm. The illustration itself is clear and complete on lightly-aged paper. Creasing around extremities and to left of caption. Tenniel's monogram, with number 61, in bottom left-hand corner. Britannia grips King Mob by the throat, while a paper crown (with 'MOB LAW'...	History, Literature	£75.00
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), illustrators [Punch, or the London Charivari; Fenians; Trade Unions; revolutionary plots] Original engraving by John Tenniel, for 'Punch, or the London Charivari', October 1867, titled 'The Order of the Day; or, Unions and Fenians.' On paper 52 x 33 cm. Tenniel's monogram, with number 58, in bottom left-hand corner. An giant female figure, with black mask, blazing torch and sash on which is written 'MURDER', directs an assemblage of Fenians and Sheffield trade unionists. The caption reads 'Fenian conspiracies and outrages...	History, Literature	£95.00
Abraham Whitehead, campaigner against child labour etc. [Booklet] The Money Maker; being an Exposé of the tremendous Evils arising from our Mongrel Currency, and shewing how it has produced the present National Distress Continuation of title: "... Also, shewing how and quantity of Money may be made upon entirely new principles, so as to form a safe and useful Currency, and how the National Debt may be rapidly and honestly liquidated, at the rate of Compound Interest, without imposing fresh Burdens on the People...	Economics	£180.00