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[HMS Arethusa, 46 gun fifth-rate Royal Navy ship, launched in 1817] [HMS Arethusa, ship's log, 1837.] Manuscript log of HMS Arethusa, while stationed in 'Passa D'Arcos Bay' [Paço d'Arcos, Portugal] and travelling from Cadiz to Lisbon. With 'Remarks' including a death and burial at sea, and punishment by lashing. HMS Arethusa, the fourth of nine Royal Navy ships to bear the name, was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1817. (Fifth-rate ships served as fast scouts or independent cruisers. Owing to their combination of manoeuvrability and firepower, they were often assigned to interdict enemy shipping.) She...	£500.00
[Anonymous] [British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, 1960; Hong Kong Chinese Training Unit; Hong Kong Military Service Corps] [Printed pamphlet, produced for the Hong Kong Chinese Training Unit] "Meet Private Chan". An account of Chinese Soldiers in Hong Kong. [With illustrations and advertisements.] 24pp., 12mo. In printed red card wraps. Title and badge of the Hong Kong Chinese Training Unit on cover, and 7pp. of advertisements (including 'San Miguel The Finest Beer in Hong Kong'; Watson's, 'The Leading Soft Drink Specialists in Hong Kong'; Tai Wo Leather Ware) on boards and pp.2 and 22-24...	£120.00
'H. D. O'N.' [Harry Duncan O'Neill (1867-1946), Secretary of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society] [Arthur Digby Besant (1869-1960)] [Harry Duncan O'Neill, Secretary of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society.] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. D. O'Neill') to 'Hay', with copy of his privately printed 'Clerical Verses. 1889-1910. By H. D. O'N.', containing 28 inserts. For more about O'Neill (son of the Victorian artist George Bernard O'Neill) see his obituary in The Times, 15 June 1946. LETTER: 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Begins: 'My dear Hay, \| Will you honour the humble author by accepting the enclosed copy of "Clerical...	£320.00
'Gwen John' [Gladys Jones], sister of the suffragette Winifred Jones [Harold Frederick Rubinstein (1891-1975), playwright; Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), publisher; Millicent Fawcett] ['Gwen John' [Gladys Jones], dramatist.] Two Autograph Letters Signed (both 'Gwen John') and three corrected copies of her published play 'The Prince'; Typed Letter Signed from Victor Gollancz to H. F. Rubinstein, copies of two letters by Rubinstein. Gladys Jones ('Gwen John') lived with her sister the suffragette Winifred Jones in Lincoln's Inn. Her play 'The Prince' - three corrected copies of which are in the present collection as Items Three to Five - was retitled 'Gloriana' [= Elizabeth I] when performed at the Adelphi Theatre in London...	£450.00
Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) of Middle Hill, Welsh collector of manuscripts; Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857), auctioneer, of 93 Pall Mall, London [Craven Ord (1756-1832)] [Sir Thomas Phillipps, collector of manuscripts.] The manuscripts section of the printed auction catalogue of Craven Ord's library, priced and named in one hand, and annotated by Phillipps with a running total of his substantial purchases. The last eight leaves only of a printed catalogue (no. 260 in M. V. de Chantilly's 'Robert Harding Evans of Pall Mall \| auction catalogues 1812-1846 \| a provisional list' (2002)). Stitched and unbound. On aged and worn paper, with slight damp staining to margins. Paginated 23-37 + [1], with the...	£850.00
Frank Marcham (c.1887-1944), English bookseller [Robert Harding Evans (1778-1857), auctioneer and bookseller] [Frank Marcham.] Two typewritten drafts of an annotated list of nearly 500 'Auction Sales made by Robert Harding Evans'; with autograph notes on Evans and on his own collection, with typescript titled 'Literary History and local topography'. Robert Harding Evans has been described as 'the greatest of all auctioneers of literary property'. In a career spanning three decades he oversaw the dispersal of many of the finest libraries ever assembled, from the great Roxburghe sale of 1812 to that of the Duke of Sussex in 1845, as well as...	£1,800.00
Frank Marcham (c.1887-1944), English bookseller [Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), German-born London bookseller; Thomas Hodge, senior partner at Sotheby's auction house] [Frank Marcham, English bookseller.] Autograph manuscript discussing his 'collection of catalogues' and 'the "Knock-out" system' (i.e. the ringing of auctions), with reference to Bernard Quaritch and Sotheby's. 15pp., 8vo. On twelve leaves torn from an album. With minor emendations, and an essay in another hand on some reverses. Unpublished. The piece begins: 'My collection of catalogues has grown much in the same way as other collections of books. At times I have got rid of many I missed later on and...	£500.00
William Scott Cameron (c.1843-1914), editor of the Leeds Mercury [George Bell] [William Scott Cameron, editor of the Leeds Mercury.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W S Cameron') to George Bell, giving his reasons for decling his 'verses'. 1p., 12mo. On aged and worn paper. Cameron writes: 'Dear Sir, \| I regret that the enclosed verses would occupy too much room for our space, but I return them with our thanks to you for bringing them under our notice'. The recipient is not the London publisher, who died in 1890.	£45.00
William Howley (1766-1848), successively Bishop of London (1813-1828) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1828-1848) [theatres in Georgian London; sabbatarianism; Sunday observance; censorship] [William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W. London') as Bishop of London, to an unnamed male recipient, regarding possible action 'to prevent gross abuses at the Theatre' and 'profane amusement encroaching on the sabbath' 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with slight loss at the head of the second leaf affecting a couple of words of text. The letter begins: My dear Sir, \| I have on different occasions interfered to prevent gross abuses at the Theatre to which you call my attention,...	£70.00
William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron Mount-Temple (1811-1888), British Liberal politician, nephew of Lord Melbourne and probably the illegitimate son of Lord Palmerston [William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron Mount-Temple, Liberal politician.] Autograph Letter Signed ('W Cowper') to an unnamed male recipient, regarding a meeting in London of the members of the 'Site Committee'. 2pp., 12mo. He writes with aristocratic hauteur: 'Sir. \| I shall return to London on or before the 20th & I shall be ready to meet the other members of the Site Committee any day after that date & It is quite indifferent to me whether we meet at the Society of Arts or in Pall Mall \|...	£30.00

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