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Author, Title, Summary Price
John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1770–1859), peer, landowner and collector of art works.

[Northwick; Crimea] Autograph Letter Signed "Northwick", art collector, to the Rev. A. Boyd, offering support for his "most humane & Patriotic views".

Four pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. He's jsu reeive notification of a meeting held recently "for the purpose of raisinhg a Subscription for the indigent Families of the Soldiers & Sailors whose lives have been sacrificed for their countries [sic] Glory in the disastrous Warfare in...

£56.00
Rev. Edward Dalton, Rector of Tramore, sometime Secretary to the Protestant Association.

[Booklet; inscribed by author] The Literary Beauties of the Bible: A Lecture delivered to the Waterford Young Men's Christian Institute

32pp., 8vo, pale blue printed wraps, partly detached at spine, some foxing, mainly good. Inscribed, front wrap, "With the Author's Christian love". Several copies listed on WorldCat including main British Libraries. No other copy currently on the market.

£85.00
F. J. Newbery [Francis James Newbery (b.1881)], sometime with the Golden Cockerel Press and director and manager of the Chiswick Press, here Publisher as "Francis James Publishoing Co.

[Private Press; Manuscript] Francis James Publishing Co. | Purchases Book AND "Dissection Book".

All in Francis James Newbery's hand. Two volumes, sm. folio, good condition. [Purchases Book] c.32pp. used; [Dissection Book] c.14pp. used. A. PURCHASES BOOK: Sources of various items (usually multiple) with costs include: George Bell & Sons (permit to use illustration); Craske, Vaus &...

£950.00
[Thomas Mosher, Private Press Publisher]

[Pamphlet] The Mosher Books. A List of Books in Belles Lettres issued in Choice and Limited Editions MDCCCXCI | MDCCCCVIII

71 [1]pp., 8vo, printed paper wraps, foxed, back wrap chipped, final page faintly foxed, contenst mainly good.

£50.00
C.J. Stewart [Charles James Stewart], Bookseller (theological)

[Booksellers Stock 1880-1] A General Catalogue of the Stock of C.J. Stewart. 1880[1881]

584pp., 8vo, utilitarian cloth binding, sl. hinge strain, for the sections as they were published (A-Calvin, Calvin-Fulke,Fulke-Zaccaria), with original wraps of the three original parts bound in, in good+ condition. Small stamp on spine "Trin.Coll. Camb.."His stock has a theological bent, for...

£280.00
[Friendly Society] [Loyal Cambridge Lodge Manchester Unity of Independent Order of Odd Fellows (M.U.I.O.O.F.)

[Manuscript; Friendly Society] Balance Sheets from June Quarter 1865 [TO December Quarter 1872] Loyal Cambridge Lodge. M.U.I.O.O.F.

78pp. used, fol., hf. lea. worn, hinge strain, some pages partially detached, text clear and complete. Main headings: Sick and Funeral Fund; Incidental Expenses Fund; Cash on a/c of Members of other Lodges. Sub-headins include: Contributions, goods & postage, fines, levies, surgeon's fees,...

£250.00
[Bohemian Club Authors; Grabhorn Press]

[Grabhorn Press; Bohemian Club Authors] A brief Catalog of the published works of Bohemian Club Authors

[51]pp., 8vo, stiff paper wraps, dulled minor wear and tear (small closed tears, for example), contents good. No other copy currently on the market, 6 copies listed on WordldCat (BL and five US/Canadian).

£280.00
[A. Donnadieu, Collector, Autograph Letters]

[Donnadieu, Autograph Collector; Auction Catalogue] Catalogue of Highly Interesting and Valuable Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts, Being the Well Known Collection of Mons. A Donnadieu

[6], 166 pp. , 8vo, many blank pages interspersed for notes (unused), catalogue crudely bound into beige boards, title handwritten on spine, damaged at spine and grubby, contents preserving the front paper wrap only, pages sl. soiled, annotated throughout with prices (many items, not all by any...

£160.00
Thomas Lipton, self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman

[ Thomas Lipton ] Typed Note Signed to a "Miss Brumfit" [ Ethel Brumfit (d.1961), New Zealand soprano (as 'Ethel Goode'), playwright and composer ] about her not sailing.

One page, cr. 8vo, good condition. "Your very kind note of the 17th is to hand and I too am very disappointed about 'Shamrock's' accident and the fact that your Mother and self will not be able to sail this season. I hope, however, this is only a pleasure deferred. [...]"

£35.00
Fritz Schnabel, Publisher for the League of Nations.

[League of Nations Publications] Typed Letter Signed "Fritz Schnabel" to J.G. Wilson, Messrs J & E Bumpus Ltd, booksellers.

One page, sm. folio, chipped, small closed tear, slightly marked. fold mark, text clear and complete. He thanks him for a booklet which he has started reading. He regrets that Wilson won't be going to the "Forewign Meetings" buthopes to see him oin London. "I should like to see you because you...

£38.00
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