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Glasgow [COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITIONS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY GLASGOW]

Various titles (see below).

An extremely informative and illuminating collection of twenty-nine scarce ephemeral items in the field of socio-economic local history. All 8vo unless otherwise stated. All in very good condition, but requiring rebinding or disbinding, as the binding is in poor repair, with the spine lacking....

History £450.00
[CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF FRANCE] Count J.F.A. Dejean

[Manuscript] Document Signed "Cte Dejean", "Amendement presente par le Comte Dejean".

Three pages, 4to, fragile and damaged with small loss of text. According to staff at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the signature is Dejean's but the body of the document is in another hand. Dejean lists the principles of the new "Chambre des Pairs" (House of Peers or Lords French-style...

French £1,450.00
[Consumption Hospital]

Hospital for Consuption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton

Pamphlet, light green paper, dusted and rusted along edges, mainly good. Unpaginated, [8pp], inc. wraps, 8vo, sewn, wraps have views of the Hospital and the "new" extension [built 1882}. It includes details of patrons and staff, an appeal for funds, "Privileges of Governors and Subscribers", a "...

Science, Medicine and Technology £25.00
[CRICKET]

Two copies of 'The Birmingham Public Parks Cricket Association | Founded 1893 | RULES AND HANDBOOK'.

Both 40 pages, 16mo. The first in original orange printed wraps and the second In original green printed wraps. Both in good condition, but with some spotting and discoloration to the wraps. Both include statistics and reports on the previous seasons. Club fixtures and some results filled in in...

£35.00
[CRICKET] Courtenay Edmund Boyle

Autograph Letter Signed to John Maxwell, publisher

English cricketer (1845-1901), wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman who played for Oxford University and M.C.C. 1 page, 16mo. Grubby and discoloured, with some fading, but no loss of text. The context raises the interesting possibility that a pseudonymous article might be identified as Boyle's...

£50.00
[CROYDON, SURREY, ENGLAND]

15 'INK-PHOTO' engravings.

These illustrations are marvellously evocative of the period before Croydon was ruined architecturally. Suitable for framing. They are photographic, in black and white, and approximately 7 inches by 9 1/2 inches, on sheets of paper approximately 10 1/2 inches by 13. Dusty and with a little...

£225.00
[Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), Bishop of Calcutta (as vicar of St Mary's, Islington)]

The Third Book of the Chronicles of the Town of Hillhausen. [handbill satire on Wilson]

Folio, 1 p. Double column. Text clear and complete. On aged paper, with wear to edges and repair on reverse to short closed tear. Thirty verses of biblical parody, sub-Chaldee MS (Blackwoods), the first reading 'AND it came to pass, that when Silkee-Dan, the chief priest of HILLHAUSEN, had read...

£180.00
John Stuart (1744-1814), 1st Marquess of Bute (as John, Lord Cardiff) [ Louis Dutens (1730-1812), French author; David George Jacmar (d.1896) of the Auditor's Office; Thomas Shafto of Witton Gilbert ]

[ John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute. ] Manuscript indenture, signed by 'Cardiff' (with his seal), Dutens and Jacmar: 'Escoffment of a Cottage at Collierly in the County of Durham | The Right Honourable John Lord Cardiff to Mr. John Smith.'

3pp., folio. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Laid out in the customary fashion, with two tax stamps, one embossed and the other in black ink. Signed 'Cardiff' beside a good impression of his seal in red wax. Witnessed by 'L. Dutens' and 'D G Jacmar'. The indenture is 'Between...

£150.00
[DICTIONARIES AND GRAMMARS, LEXICOGRAPHY] Maggs Brothers booksellers' catalogue

DICTIONARIES and GRAMMARS Catalogue 891 [500 Books on Linguistics and the Diversity of Tongues].

8vo. Pages: [2 +] 142. Frontispiece and fourteen full-page plates on art paper at rear. In good condition, in original green printed wraps, worn and torn and with closed tear at head of spine. A few marks in soft pencil. An invaluable scholarly production.

Book Trade History £45.00
[Direct Commissions Examination; British Army; Victorian England]

Manuscript headed 'Regulations for Direct Commissions Examination'.

12mo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), 2 pp. Forty-one lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, with part of the leaf from the album in which the item was mounted still adhering to the blank part of the reverse of the leaf. Divided into six sections, the first reading 'Exam: quarterly or oftener if necessary in...

Military and Naval History £75.00