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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
[Alexander W. Williamson, Chemist, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science] [Pamphlet] Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President 27pp., 8vo, sewn as issued, good condition. Scarce. COPAC lists six copies, while WorldCat lists the Glasgow and Edinburgh copies but no American.	Science, Medicine and Technology	£95.00
[Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), 'The Prince of Preachers'; British Particular Baptists; Metropolitan Tabernacle, Elephant and Castle] [Printed pamphlet.] How Mr. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was converted to God. 16mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged and lightly-spotted paper. Begins 'MR. SPURGEON, whose name and sermons are well known wherever the English language is spoken, was born at Kelvedon, in Essex, on June 19th, 1834.' Recounts how Spurgeon was, 'From about eleven years of...	Religion	£85.00
[Legh Richmond] [Pamphlet] The History of a Poor Black Widow; shewing How she grieved for the death of her Child, and the consequences of her doing so. 8pp., 12mo, light blue paper, sewn as issed, some marking, some slight chipping, mainly good, numbered 42 on title and 49 on last page in MS. COPAC lists a number of copies with various guesses at publishing date. One copy listed on Bookselling sites, with four pages (?).	History, Social history, Women	£125.00
Admiral George Bridges Rodney (1718-1792); William Pagett [Admiral Charles William Paterson (c.1756-1841); Battle of the Saintes, 1782; the Saints; Dominica] Warrant (commission), signed by Rodney ('G B Rodney') and his secretary Paget ('Willm Pagett.'), appointing Paterson 'Master & Commander of His Majesty's Fire Ship the Blast'. On one side of a piece of vellum, dimensions 24.5 x 31 cm. Neatly folded to make six rectangles. Entirely legible on discoloured vellum, with one small hole (not affecting text) caused by wear at one fold. The body of the document is printed over nine lines, with the specific information added...	Military and Naval History	£850.00
[ Jersey, Channel Islands; the Jersey Archery Club ] [ Childhood in Victorian Jersey. ] Album containing a set of humorous captioned illustrations by a middle-class Jersey girl, depicting musical events, a trip to Le Gouffre, etc; poems (one on the Jersey Archery Club); and book lists. 75pp., 12mo. Internally in good condition, on lightly aged paper with 1860 watermark, and some leaves torn out. In worn red leather half-binding, marbled boards, with damage and loss to spine and front free endpaper torn away. The illustrations cover 19pp in the middle of the volume. Those on...		£220.00
[Funeral of Voltaire] [Account of the elaborate arrangements made for Voltaire's funeral by the French Revolutionaries in the] Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, no.194. Disbound, pp.[101]-108, some staining mainly good condition, account of funeral pp.107-108.	French, Literature	£56.00
Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, G.C.B. (1771-1846), 3rd son of the 5th Duke of St Albans Autograph Signature ('Admiral Lord Ams. Beauclerk'). On piece of card roughly 3.5 x 7 cm. Good, though slightly discoloured. Reads '[signed] Admiral \| Lord Ams. Beauclerk', beneath which, in a contemporary hand, 'Port Admiral \| of Plymouth'.	Military and Naval History	£23.00
Admiral Lord George Paulet, CB (1803-1879) Autograph Letter Signed ('Geo. Paulet') to Smith, former Gunnery Officer on H.M.S. Carysfort. 12mo, 4 pp, 40 lines. On slightly grubby and creased paper, with a couple of tiny closed tears. Paulet writes that he has been 'saying much in [Smith's] favor' to 'Sir W. Gage' [Admiral Sir William Hall Gage (1777-1864), a member of the Board of Admiralty]. Gage considers the certificate Paulet...	Military and Naval History	£56.00
[British Prisoners of War in Japan or Japanese-Occupied Territory] [Printed HMSO pamphlet.] A Handbook for the information of Relatives and Friends of Prisoners of War and Civilians in Japanese or Japanese-Occupied Territory. [With stamped printed slip from the War Office.] 16pp., 12mo. Stapled. In printed pink wraps, with map on inside back cover showing 'The Prisoner of War (Far East) Enquiry Centre' at Curzon St House in Mayfair. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper in worn wraps with creasing to one corner. Divided into 14 sections: Government...		£150.00
[Professor Willibald Richter, pianist, founder of Leicester and County College of Music] Archive of material relating to the pianist and music teacher Professor Willibald Richter The German-born Richter (1860-1929) studied under Liszt, Haupt, Lebert, Mischalek, Oskar and Joachim, the last of whose protégé he became. He came to England in the 1880s, and was based from 1887 in Leicester, where he founded the Leicester and County College of Music, and where 'Herr Richter's...	Music and Theatre	£550.00