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Captain Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey (c.1859-1934), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. [R.A.M.C. Delhi Barracks, Tidworth, Wiltshire; Brimstone Bottom] Five poems by Captain H. W. Windsor Aubrey, R.A.M.C.: two holographs (including 'The Yellow Peril. Dedicated to the German Emperor'), one with typed copy, two others typed and one mimeographed; four concerning Delhi Barracks, Tidworth. Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment Militia on 21 April 1875, and resigned his commission three years later. He qualified as a Doctor in 1885 and practiced in Clifton, where he was a keen cricketer and golfer. During the First World War he...	£280.00
[Henry Brougham and Home Popham] Anon. [Manuscript] Droits of Admiralty [A defense of Home Popham, attacked for smuggling Six pages, 4to, bifoliums tied with ribbon. An anonymous supporter of Sir Home Popham outlines Popham's heroic career from Lieutenant on, and his surveying feats, defending him against the renewal of charges that Popham was rewarded by the Admiralty for effectively smuggling goods from India (...	£120.00
[Mayor of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, Lancashire] 'Mayor's Parlour Visitor's Book' [of the Mayor of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, Lancashire], signed by several hundred visitors, in tooled red morocco binding. 43pp., 4to, all but one on the recto of a leaf. In very good condition, in lightly-worn red morocco binding, gilt, with dentelles, and the words 'MAYOR'S PARLOUR \| VISITOR'S BOOK' and crest on front board, and marbled endpapers. The Deputy Mayor of the City of Salford, Peter Ashcroft, JP, signs...	£350.00
[Reiss Brothers, cotton merchants of Manchester and Liverpool, England; textiles industry in Canada and the United States of America; transatlantic trade] Notebook containing a manuscript account of a visit to North America by a cotton broker acting for the Liverpool branch of the Manchester firm Reiss Brothers, with details of mills and merchants, recorded while trying to establish a hedging business. 70pp., 12mo, in ruled notebook, with the main text on 51 rectos, 17 facing pages carrying notes, mostly in pencil, and 2pp. of memoranda at the other end of the notebook. In very good condition, in attractive gilt-tooled red morocco red leather binding, with all edges gilt and marbled endpapers...	£450.00
[E. J. Poynter and Professor Roger Smith, editors, 'Illustrated Hand-books of Art history', Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publishers, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane [Printed booksellers' catalogue.] Illustrated Hand-books of Art included in The Art Prize List of the Science and Art Department Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 8pp., 12mo. Two bifoliums, one loosely inserted in the other. Printed in red. In fair condition, on aged and lightly-stained paper. A tasteful Italianate design, with thick decorative borders containing flowers, birds, a cherub and a monkey. The last page ends with commendatory quotations from...	£45.00
[Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American politician; Marie de Grasse Evans (d.1920), Lady Evans [nee Marie de Grasse Stevens, daughter of Hon. Samuel Stevens of Albany, New York] A pressed flower, picked from the grave of the American politician Daniel Webster by Marie de Grasse Stevens [later Lady Evans]. Small sprig (6cm long), pinned to 8 x 5 cm piece of ruled paper, torn from a notebook. The paper carries the note by Stevens: 'Grave of Daniel Webster \| August 1859.' Placed in a 9.5 x 12 cm envelope, docketted in pencil: 'From Daniel Webster's grave \| M. F. B'. Marie de Grasse Stevens, daughter...	£80.00
[Andrew Lang; Andrew Lang's Books for Children; Fairy Books; Longmans, Green & Co., London publishers] Attractive illustrated handbill in colour halftone by the London publishers Longmans Green & Co. for 'Andrew Lang's Books for Children' and 'Mr Lang's Xmas Book for 1895.' 2pp., 12mo. A single leaf, attractively printed on both sides in vibrant colour halftone. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. One side advertises 'MR LANG'S XMAS BOOK FOR 1895 \| THE RED \| TRUE STORY BOOK \| Edited by Andrew Lang \| ILLUSTRATIONS by HJ. FORD', with a design with in a...	£56.00
G.P.G. Sobhy, editor, Professor of Coptic & Demotic Languages Egyptian University. The book of the Proverbs of Solomon in the Dialect of Upper Egypt pp. 5, 259, 4 p., [2] leaves of plates : facsims. 8vo, stifish card covers, sl. grubby, spine worn, contents good. Numerous typos (e.g. Puplisned by the University of Egypt). INSCRIBED by the ditor With the respects of GPG Sobhy \| Oct.20th 1928, who has added M.D. to his printed name. Three...	£220.00
American Consulate General, Hong Kong, B.C.C. [Mimeograph or similar] Current Background, No. 955 50pp., 8vo, stapled as issued, minor defects, mainly good. Note: Unless otherwise indciated, these materials are full translations of articles appearing in Chinese Communist newspapers or releases emanating from Chinese Communist news agencies.	£56.00
[Coroner's Inquest 1705] Employee of the Deceased (prob.) [Manuscript] Contemporary copy of the Coroner's Inquest on Willam Cherry's Death (Swanscombe, Kent). WITH additional revealing information about expenditure (inc. wine for the jury).. Two pages, folio, stained and foxed, text clear and complete. RECTO: top left list of six names preceded by jur; main text reveals the Coroner in Swanscombe, Kent, as Robert Watson and the deceased as William Cherry, aged 74, lying dead by & upon the oaths of: [fifteen names listed] who have...	£250.00

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