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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909), racist and abolitionist, United States Consul at Buenos Aires, 1861-1866, author of 'The Impending Crisis of the South' (1857) [John Cook Rives (1795-1864), editor] Autograph Letter Signed from the abolitionist Hinton Rowan Helper to John Cook Rives, editor of the Congressional Globe. 1p., landscape 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Helper asks Rives to send, with 'back numbers, from the commencement of the present Session [...] the Congressional Globe (and Appendix) for the thirty-sixth Congress'. He discusses payment and method of delivery.		£120.00
James Ballantine (c.1807-1877), Scottish writer and artist in stained glass Autograph Manuscript Signed, an untitled holograph poem by the Scottish writer and artist James Ballantine, beginning 'Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is Kind'. 1p., landscape 8vo. On the first leaf of a bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Well presented, with the second blank leaf neatly inserted into a windowpane border. The poem is sixteen lines long, arranged in four stanzas, neatly written out on a piece of wove paper. The first stanza...		£500.00
James Bryce (1838-1922), Viscount Bryce, jurist, historian and Liberal politician [Edmond Byrne Hackett (1879-1953), Director of Yale University Press; American Booksellers Association] Typed Letter Signed ('James Bryce') from the historian and Liberal politician James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, to E. Byrne Hackett of Yale University Press, discussing the American Booksellers Association banquet. 1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Bryce writes that he has not forgotten Hackett's 'invitation to the American Booksellers Association's banquet' in New York, but that it is unlikely that he will be able to attend 'seems to be extremely small, so that I must ask you not to announce me as...		£90.00
Anon. [Handbill] Arrests of Male Prisoners under the Military Service Ac Arrests of Male Prisoners under the Military Service Act (date and place not stated [1921]). Mimeographed Handbill, one page, fol., fair condition. It begins: 'Arrests of men (previously interned for their connection with the Easter Rising) as absentees under the Military Services Act', naming...		£320.00
[ Napoleon Bonaparte; A. M. Broadley [ Alexander Meyrick Broadley ] (1847-1916), author and collector; Messrs Hodgson & Co., London auctioneers ] [ The Broadley Napoleon Collection or 'Collectanea Napoleonica'. ] 'A Catalogue of the Extensive and Important Collection of Napoleonic Books, Autographs & Engravings formed by the late A. M. Broadley, Esq., of the Knapp, Bradpole, Dorset'. [4 + 53 + 2] pp., 4to. Frontispiece photograph: 'A group of volumes from the Broadley Napoleon Collection \| Showing the style of binding.' In printed wraps. In fair condition, aged and worn, with rusted staples and slight loss to wraps at foot of spine. Index at rear. The main body of the...		£180.00
'W. Y.' [Miss Alice Bounds, the Bear Lady; human abnormalities; circus entertainers; fairgrounds] [Printed handbill.] Miss Alice Bounds, the Bear Lady. ['Life of Miss Alice Bounds'.] With portrait by Willsons of Leicester.] [4]pp., 12mo. Stapled in original pink printed wraps. Cover has drawing of Bounds by Willsons of Leicester, whose slug is in the bottom left-hand corner of the cover. First page has drophead title 'Life of Miss Alice Bounds', and the piece is signed in type at the end by 'W. Y.' It begins: 'I...		£150.00
[The Free Grammar School of King Edward VI in Berkhamsted; Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), Lord Chancellor; Rev. John Cowper (1694-1756); Rev. Evan Price] Contemporary manuscript volume containing documents concerning the legal action brought in the Court of Chancery by Rev. John Cowper and others against Rev. Evan Price, Headmaster, the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI, Berkhamsted, and others. 123pp., folio. Paginated. In contemporary brown tooled calf, with two metal clasps, and a metal ring at foot of rear board. Internally good and tight, on aged paper, in worn binding. A fair copy, neatly written out in a mid-eighteenth-century chancery hand, with the body of text on each page...		£280.00
James Ogilvy (c.1714-1770), sixth Earl of Findlater and third Earl of Seafield, Scottish peer [William Strahan (1715-1785), M.P. and King's Printer; Arthur Young (1741-1820), agriculturalist] Autograph Letter Signed ('Findlater & Seafield') from James Ogilvy, sixth Earl of Findlater and third Earl of Seafield, to the King's Printer William Strahan, asking him to introduce a 'young Farmer' to the agriculturalist Arthur Young. 1p., 4to. Bifolium. Good, on aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf 'To \| Mr. Strahan \| His Majestys Printer. \| New Street Shoe lane \| Fetter lane'. The Earl writes that the letter will be delivered to Strahan by 'the young Farmer whom I mentioned to you'. He wishes 'that he may put his...		£90.00
Jean Ingelow ['Orris'] (1820-1897), poet and writer [Hannah Oliver (1833-1919), wife of Daniel Oliver (1830-1916), Professor of Botany, University College, London] Autograph Letter Signed from the poet Jean Ingelow to 'Mrs Oliver' [Hannah Oliver, wife of Professor Daniel Oliver]. 4pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Ingelow begins by asking Mrs Oliver to thank 'the Professor' for her. 'I am much interested in his singular reproduction of the curious relics of ornament'. She would like to lunch with the Olivers, but 'We have some cousins coming to stay with us next...		£56.00
Jean Ingelow ['Orris'] (1820-1897), poet and writer [James Robinson Planch Autograph Letter Signed from the poet Jean Ingelow to the playwright James Robinson Planch 3pp., 12mo. Fair, on aged paper with slight wear to extremities. She begins: 'Dear Mr Planch		£56.00