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[Dublin Tract Repository, Dublin, Ireland; Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, London; W. Porteous, Dublin printer; West Indies] [Printed handbill.] The Converted Negress in a Storm. 2pp., 12mo, on single leaf. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The first paragraph sets the scene: 'Some few years since a minister was preaching at Plymouth, when a request was sent to the pulpit, to this effect: - "The thanksgiving of this congregation is desired to Almighty God,...	£60.00
Rev. H. Phillpotts [Pamphlet; Inscription] Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Grey, on Certain Charges advanced by his Lordship in his Speech at the late County Meeting in Northumberland, against the Clergy of the County of Durham. The first edition was anonymous. Disbound, pp.[i]-viii.[9]-44, good condition. Inscribed by Byron's friend, Henry Drury on title as follows: "Given me by my friend the author when he dined with me April 1821. \| Henry Drury. Harrow". Note 1: Phillpotts "issued, on 30 June, an anonymous pamphlet...	£120.00
Captain John Williamson, 25th Regiment, later of Dollar Mains, Alloa & Lawhill, Clackmannanshire. [MS. Accounts; military papers] A Collection of c.50 MS. letters and other material relating mainly to the financial life of Captain John Williamson of the 25th Regiment The collection contains the following:1. To John Williamson, 25th Regt: 5 Autograph Letters Signed "Alex[ander] Adair" Army Agent with 'extensive business' (of Pall Mall, London, and Flixton Hall; obit. Gent.Mag. 1834, 1794-5, total 10pp., 4to, concerning Williamson's financial affairs.2....	£600.00
[Eduard Gerhard] Edwardus Gerhardius [Pamphlet; Greek] Maximu philosophu peri katarchon recensuit et cum annotationibus ed. Eduardus Gerhardius. Disbound pamphlet,[i-ii] title; [1]-35pp.; [36]colophon, foxing. ow good. Eight copies (or so) on WorldCat; BL copy on COPAC. This work was originally in a volume from the Library of Henry Drury, friend of Byron, on the front endpaper of which is inscribed by Drury "coll.perf. \| H.Drury. Harrow...	£100.00
Adam Neale, M.D. [Medical Pamphlet] A Letter to a Professor of Medicine, in the University of Edinburgh respecting the Nature and properties of the MIneral Waters of Cheltenham Disbound,[iii]-viii; 9-40, presumably lacking hf-title in binding, minor foxing, good condition. WITH: A Statement by a Charles Crump about the manufacturing process (using oil of vitriol etc) and sale procedure for "Salts in Mr Henry Thompson's Manufactory of Salts at Cheltenham", witnessed by...	£130.00
Major K. G. A. Barlow [Kenneth Green Armitage Barlow], Royal Army Medical Corps [blood transfusion in the British Army of the Second World War] [Royal Army Medical Corps printed Second World War circular.] Subject: Blood Transfusion Arrangements. 1p., foolscap 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Headed: 'Subject: Blood Transfusion Arrangements. Ref: 1BTU/S/108/45. \| To: ALL GENERAL HOSPITALS. \| CCSs. \| Transfusion Officers. \| Pathologists. \| Officers i/c Blood Banks.' Facsimile at foot of the signature of 'KGA Barlow Major,...	£45.00
Major-Gen. Sir J. W. D. Megaw, K.C.I.E., D.Sc., M.B., B.Ch., B.A., I.M.S. (Retired), Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India [The British Indian Army] [Printed item for the British Indian Army.] Hints on Health in India and other Tropical Countries. By Major-Gen. Sir J. W. D. Megaw, K.C.I.E., D.Sc., M.B., B.Ch., B.A., I.M.S. (Retired), Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India. 28pp., 12mo. Stapled pamphlet. Headings: Factors on which Health and Disease depend; The Maintenance of Fitness; Climate; Clothing; Bed-Clothes; Housing; Exercise; Diet; Alcohol ('After taking a few pegs the diffident and self-conscious person finds himself released from his feelings of...	£100.00
L. Jenkinson of the War Office [Regular Army Reserve of Officers (RARO); Royal Army Medical Corps; Royal Army Dental Corps] [British Army printed circular.] Appointment of Women Officers as Voluntary Members of the Regular Army Reserve of Officers. [With application form and covering Typed Letter Signed to Dr D. M. E. Kayton from L. Jenkinson of the War Office.] The three items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper, pinned together. ONE: Duplicated typescript titled 'Appointment of Women Officers as voluntary Members of the Regular Army Reserve of Officers'. 3pp., two of them foolscap 8vo, the other landscape 12mo. Divided into 18 sections under...	£120.00
Dr D. M. E. Kayton [Daphne Masuda Elnalene Kayton] of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Goodwin, Specialist Anaesthetist, 106 General Hospital, BAOR [British Army of the Rhine]] [Dr Daphne Kayton of the Royal Army Medical Corps.] Autograph 'Record of Surgical Operations Performed' (as deputy anaesthetist, 106 General Hospital, British Army of the Rhine) by 'Capt (Miss) Kayton', in government-issue 'Army Book'. 44pp., landscape 8vo. In book in columns and title on cover, on which Kayton has written 'CAPT (MISS) KAYTON'. 308 operations are listed by Kayton, the first 298 being numbered. After no. 264 (18 March 1946), in another hand: '29th March 1946 \| This is to certify that Capt Miss D. Kayton has...	£280.00
Auguste Arthur de la Rive (1801-1873), Professor of Physics at the Geneva Academy, Swiss physicist and pioneer in the field of electricity [Édouard Sarasin (1843-1917), Swiss physicist] [Presentation copy of offprint.] De l'Action du Magnétisme sur les Gaz traversées par des Décharges Électriques par MM. A. de la Rive et E. Sarasin 22pp., 8vo. Stitched and in brown printed wraps. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, in chipped and damaged wraps with shelfmark. Unopened. In manuscript at head of front wrap: 'de la part des auteurs'. Scarce: no copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, and only three copies on OCLC WorldCat...	£150.00

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