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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
G. M'Ardell, printer, Newcastle-street, Strand [the madness of King George III; King George IV; the Prince Regent] Handbill poem, entitled 'The Regency, A New Song in Honour of His Majesty and the Prince of Wales. Tune - "Hearts of Oak." ' Printed on one side of a piece of rough wove paper, approximately 24 x 10.5 cm. Text clear and entire on aged, creased paper. A production in favour of the Prince Regent, with no trace of sarcasm apparent. Consists of six four-line stanzas, each followed by the chorus 'Hearts of Oak, &c.'...	Literature, Royalty	£120.00
G. Manville Fenn. Autograph Letter Signed to W.A. Moncrieff, literary agent[?]. Novelist (DNB). Two pages, 8vo, very good condition. He heads his letter "Re. Ward & Downey" [publishers - bankrupted in [1893?]] and says that he will be free to attend a meeting (presumably on the subject of Ward and Downey) later on the following day.	Book Trade History, Literature	£45.00
G. Michelmore & Co, dealers. Two Hundred Extraordinarily Important Books, Autographs and Manuscripts. 152pp., sm. fol., printed wraps, worn, chipped, slightly creased and somewhat dingy, contents lightly foxed, contents marginally damp-affected, slight hinge strain, numerous plates, some folding, 200 numbered items and descriptions of three major collections - Le Sage, Voltaire, and Fenelon...	Book Trade History	£100.00
G. Michelmore & Co., London autograph dealers [Chiswick Press; Oscar Wilde] No. 3. Important and Precious Autographs and Authors' Original MSS. from Froissart (1338 to 1404) to Clemenceau. Over five Centuries. Octavo: ii + 174 pp. Stitched. In original grey printed wraps. Internally clean and tight, in grubby and worn wraps. A first class catalogue, with excellent entries on items including letters and documents by Byron, Carlyle, Dickens, Disraeli, Edward Fitzgerald, Garibaldi, Pitt the Younger, Sir...	Book Trade History	£100.00
G. N. S. Hunt [Geoffrey Hunt] [Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege; Amen Corner; Christ Church, Newgate Street] Typed Letter Signed ('G. N. S. Hunt') to Mrs Steward of Beckenham, Kent. 4to: 1 page. Twenty-one lines of text. Good, on creased and lightly-aged paper. An impressively-considered letter, declining Mrs Steward's manuscript 'I had rather be a Doorkeeper'. 'As you point out, Christ Church, Newgate Street, is a near neighbour of Amen House, and its ruins are a pathetic...	Book Trade History, Religion	£28.00
[County Borough of Derby Police, traffic officer's notebook, 1941] County Borough of Derby Police traffic officer's note book, compiled in 1941, and filled with manuscript signed statements relating to traffic offences. 15.5 x 7.5 cm notebook, 108 pp (4 pp blank). With 102 pp of manuscript, in the hand of the anonymous police officer, on 53 numbered two-page openings. Stapled. In original brown wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in slightly-worn binding. Manuscript statements relating to around thirty cases in...	Law, Social history	£150.00
George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923-2011) [Dr Erich Adolph Alport (d.1972), art connoisseur and book collector; Karl Frankl (1898-1968), English conductor, born in Austria] Typed Letter Signed ('Harewood') from George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, as editor of 'Opera' magazine, to Dr Erich Adolph Alport, regarding a 'muddle' over an article on Karl Rankl, caused by a letter from the conductor's wife. 2pp., 12mo. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. 36 lines. Harewood explains that he 'originally asked Mrs Rankl to think of someone who had known her husband for, at any rate, a portion of his continental career who would be prepared to review his career before he came to this country, and also to...		£45.00
G. Udny Yule. On the distribution of deaths with age when the causes of death act cumulatively, and similar frequency distributions Offprint. (From the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, vol.LXXIII pt 1, 15 January 1910, 'printed for private circulation', 13pp.) Presentation copy, in grubby condition, with ALS from Yule to Chick, 10 December 1909, on letterhead of the City and Guilds of London Institute, discussing a...	Science, Medicine and Technology	£45.00
G. W's. Transparencies' [the Thames Tunnel; Marc Isambard Brunel; Isambard Kingdom Brunel; transparency] Coloured lithographic print, for display in a light box, captioned 'G. W's. Transparencies. Thames Tunnel.' Dimensions of print roughly 12.5 x 18 cm. On original white paper windowpane mount (23 x 28.5 cm). Engraved label (3 x 9.5 cm), with text printed in gilt on navy blue paper. Bright, clean impression, on discoloured mount with creased label. Depicts fashionably dressed pedestrians proceeding...	Art and Architecture, Science, Medicine and Technology	£300.00
G. W. Bisseneek [Georgs Bisenieks?] Autograph Signature on fragment of letter. Prime Minister of Latvia. On slip of paper approximately one inch by three inches. In good condition, with one crease, and neatly glued to docketed piece of green card. Signed 'G. W. Bisseneeks".		£35.00