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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
F.D. Maurice, (1805-1872), English theologian and Christian Socialist. Autograph Note Signed F D Maurice, theologian, to Mr [Southey?]. One page, 12mo, creased and slightly chipped, text clear and complete: I thank you very much for your very liberal & kind present to our projected Girls Home. It is particularly pleasant to me to have the sympathy of you & your [sister?] in it. See...	Social history	£56.00
Anon. [Pamphlet] Facts and Opinions in Favour of legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Eight pages, disbound, faint foxing, mainly good condition. Note: Marriage Law Reform Association was established in 1851 to try to change public and parliamentary opinion. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat.	Law, Social history, Women	£125.00
Captain C. E. Dance, R.E.R., Surveyor to the Board [Metropolitan Asylums Board; Leavesden Asylum] Lithographed document entitled 'Estimate For the Erection of Proposed New Isolation Hospital at Leavesden Asylum, near Watford, Herts, for the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District.' Unbound and stapled. Sixty-four pages. Dimensions of leaf roughly thirteen inches by eight wide. Lithographed facsimile handwriting throughout. Aged and with some wear to extremities, but text clear and entire. 'Clerk of Writ Copy' in red ink manuscript at head of first page. An interesting and...	Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history	£100.00
Captain Charles B. H. Ross of HMS Northumberland; Joseph Sidney Woollett (d.1877), Roman Catholic Bishop of Jamaica [Napoleon Bonaparte; Major J. H. Prenderville of the St Helena Artillery] Manuscript Copy by Prenderville of letter by Ross to William James Hall of Kingston, Jamaica, giving account of his conveyance of Napoleon to St Helena on HMS Northumberland, with covering Autograph Letter Signed by Woollett ('J. Sidney Woollett'). Both items (previously pinned together) in good condition, with text clear and entire, on aged paper. Woollett's letter (one page, 12mo, 'Reading, Bay') places at Prenderville's disposal the letter 'which you have seen in the Library here from Captn. Ross of the Northumberland when conveying...	History	£85.00
Captain Charles Dickson Inglis, R.N. 40 Autograph Letters Signed to him from various "old shipmates", mostly senior naval figures; with 9 portrait photographs, a photograph of the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert and the seal in red wax of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. Captain Charles Dickson Inglis, R.N. (born c.1835; fl. 1898), is best known for his offer in 1887 to buy South Georgia in the Falkland Islands for the purposes of sheep-farming. This collection of his correspondence is neatly bound in a crude octavo volume, and is preceded by a manuscript...	History, Military and Naval History, Royalty	£450.00
Captain Charles Edgar Gibson, of the 49th Regiment of Foot [Crimean War; Sebastopol] Two Autograph Letters Signed ('Charles Gibson' and 'Charles E. Gibson') by Gibson, as Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 49th, written to his 'Aunt Kate' from Sebastopol during the Crimean War, including a description of horse races during the armistice. Letter One: 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. 75 lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Expresses regret at 'Morten Edens melancholy death, so young & so clever as he was'. 'There is great talk of Peace. We hardly know if to believe it - few will be sorry should the news prove...	History, Military and Naval History	£750.00
Captain George John Whyte-Melville (DNB), novelist and poet ALS, 1p, 16mo, to "My dear Harry" "No Bye day!" He saw Charles Payne the day before. "It is freezing here with Arctic severity & I tremble for Friday and Saturday". Signed "J W Melville". Mounted on a piece of card.	Literature	£35.00
Captain John Laurence Pritchard [The Royal Aeronautical Society] Twenty-one Typed Letters Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Novelist and writer on aeronautics (1885-1968). All items one page, quarto. As a whole good, though grubby, but some items with pin holes, closed tears, etc. Most bearing the R.S.A. stamp and some docketed. Three items with enclosures. The items are dry communications relating to the arranging...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£100.00
Captain P. H. Robbs [Allied Aerial Propaganda Leaflets; World War II] Allied Aerial Propaganda Leaflets. Chronicle and summary of those disseminated from British bases in World War II. 12mo: 7 pp (unpaginated) on two loose bifoliums. Good, on aged paper with a little rust spotting. In small type. Small illustration on front page of the cover of 'Le Courrier de l'Air Illustre'. Valuable scholarly article giving date, type and number for series of leaflets, grouped into...	Military and Naval History	£100.00
Captain Robert Hall (1817-1882), The Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, London [Commander Paterson, RN; Victorian inventions] Printed letter, with autograph additions and signature, from Hall to Paterson, concerning his 'plan for the quick application of mats for stopping leaks in Iron Vessels'. Foolscap bifolium (leaf dimensions 33 x 20.5 cm). Good, on aged and lightly creased paper. The letter, the printed text of which invites the recipient to 'forward to this Office a clear description' of his invention, is on the recto of the first leaf. Particularising details and signature by...	History, Military and Naval History	£85.00