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Author, Title, Summary Price
'Robert Todd, Comber' and 'M'Cullough's Mule, Coroner, Glassmoss' [John Shaw Brown of Edenderry and Tordeevra, linen manufacturer; County Down, Northern Ireland]

Irish Orange Order political handbill poem, ostensibly by 'Robert Todd, Comber', ridiculing Liberal candidate in North Down John Shaw Brown on his defeat in the General Election of 1885, titled 'The Burial of the Radical Cause in the Glassmoss'.

1p., 12mo. Cheaply printed in small print. A frail survival: aged and worn. In the 1885 General Election Brown was soundly defeated in the North Down constituency by the Conservative candidate Thomas Waring. The present item is headed 'The Burial of the Radical Cause in the Glassmoss. (By Robert...

£250.00
Trelawney Saunders

[Pamphlet; Palestine] A Brief Geographical Account of the Survey of Western Palestine

Pamphlet, 19pp., 8vo, disbound, library marks on title page. "Read before the Geographical Section of the British Association at York in 1881." The survey included the territory of modern-day Israel. No copy on the market currently (except PODs). Seven copies recorded on COPAC/WorldCat: Glasgow...

£220.00
Rev. John Yonge

[Pamphlet] John Wycliffe and his Lessons for our Times: A Lecture delivered in Wycliffe Hall, Warrington, Februaruy 25th, 1878.

Pamphlet, 31pp., 8vo, pink front cover only, disbound, library shelfmark base of front cover, some staining, mainly good condition. No other copy traced. None on COPAC/WorldCat.

 £120.00
Rev. J.A. Macfadyen, M.A.

[Pamphlet; Lancashire] Lancashire Congregational Union. The Past and Future of Lancashire Congregationalism. An Address delivered by the Rev. J.A. Macfadyen, M.A., Chairman of the Union, April 9th, 1879.

Pamphlet, 16pp., 8vo, disbound, edges sunned, mainly good condition. Copies at copyright libraries listed on COPAC.

 £100.00
R.W. Dale, M.A.

[Pamphlet] The Politics of Nonconformity. A Lecture by R.W. Dale, M.A. delivered in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, November 21st, 1871.

Pamphlet, [34]pp., 8vo, disbound, library codes in ink on title, front and back a little grubby, mainly good condition. Final page has a advertisement for other nonconformist lectures. No copy on market currently. Multiple copies listed on COPAC.

 £75.00
James Hibbert, editor

[Free Public Libraries] Notes on Free Public Libraries and Museums Edited by James Hibbert.

"Privately Printed for Distribution". Pamphlet, xiii.110pp., 8vo, with detached folding plan (described below), disbound, library marks and some foxing on title page, good condition. Label on verso of title "Presented by James Hibbert Alderman of the Borough of Preston"; Preface (the origins and...

£180.00
H.T. Humphreys

[Pamphlet] Mr. Latimer Clark, C.E.

Pamphlet, 11pp., 8vo, disbound, library marks on titlepage, fold mark, good condition. "Reprinted by permission of the Editor. from Celebrities of the Day for December, 1881". No copy currently on market, four copies on COPAC (not BL), one USA.

 £45.00
Anon.

[Pamphlet] Spiritual and secular interests compared and reconciled : a discourse addressed to those who exalt the one at the expense of the other.

Pamphlet, [3 = title]-20pp., 8vo, disbound, good condition. Two copies listed on COPAC (CUL and Lambeth Palace).

 £75.00
[Rev. Henry Allon, Nonconformist divine]

[Pamphlet; Non-Conformist] Speech of the Rev. Henry Allon, D.D., at a Public Meeting of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State-Patronage and Control at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, June 11, 1880.

Pamphlet, 12pp., 8vo, disbound, library marks on title, some marking but mainly good condition. No copy on market currently, three copies recorded on COPAC, not in BL.

 £90.00
Walter William Ouless (1848-1933), RA, British portrait painter from Jersey [John Forbes White of Aberdeen?; Herbert Stacy Marks (1829-1898); Sir Alexander Matheson (1805-1886)]

[Walter William Ouless, portrait painter.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. W. Ouless') to 'Mr. White' [John Forbes White?], regarding the contribution of paintings to an exhibition in Aberdeen.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly aged paper. Ouless regrets that he has 'nothing available' for 'the Aberdeen Exhibition this year', 'unless it be Marks' portrait [Henry Stacy Marks, artist] which is my property & now at Manchester, but as it was painted 12 years ago I do...

£65.00
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