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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), English animal painter and sculptor of the lions in Trafalgar Square [Sir Edward Kerrison and his wife Lady Caroline Kerrison, daughter of the Earl of Ilchester] [Sir Edwin Landseer.] Seven Autograph Letters Signed (all 'E Landseer'), six to Lady Caroline Kerrison and one to her husband Sir Edward Kerrison, with news of the highlands and country houses, shooting parties, dogs, and his 'mild shipwreck'. Totalling 14pp., 12mo, and 7pp., 16mo. On seven bifoliums. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. The Kinrara letter, the only one addressed to Sir Edward Kerrison, has as letterhead a vignette captioned 'BOULOGNE \| Laitières Milkwomen'; the Stoke Park letter on cream paper, the others on...	Art and Architecture	£500.00
Sir Hubert Gough [Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough] (1870-1963) [Ralph David Blumenfeld ('R. D. B.') (1864-1948), Daily Express editor, 1902-1932; Inter-Allied Mission, Finland; White Russians; Bolsheviks] [Sir Hubert Gough, as head of Inter-Allied Mission, Finland.] Autograph Letter Signed ('H P Gough') to Daily Express editor R. D. Blumenfeld, describing 'situation' and complaining of failure of War Office to send munitions for White Russian forces. 2pp., 12mo. In very good condition: lightly-aged and creased. Writing to 'My dear Blumenfeld', Gough begins with a few lines on 'your correspondent, Muir' (with reference to Blumenfeld's 'Yankee' origins -which also included strong anti-Communist sentiment), before giving a general analysis. '...	Military and Naval History	£400.00
Timothy Hackworth (1786-1850) of Shildon, County Durham, locomotive pioneer; his son-in-law Robert Young (1860-1932) [Timothy Hackworth, locomotive pioneer.] Corrected manuscript and typescript of Robert Young's biography of his father-in-law: 'Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive', with typescripts of two lectures by Young and a copy of the book. Timothy Hackworth is, as his entry in the Oxford DNB states, 'one of the great pioneers of the steam locomotive'. It was the view of the eminent railway engineer D. K. Clark, writing in 1855, that no single individual had, up to the year 1830, done so much for the improvement of the locomotive....	Science, Medicine and Technology	£1,250.00
[Simla and Waziristan in 1917] [General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (1860-1929), 1st Baronet of Bearcrofts; Afghanistan; India; Pakistan; the Raj; the Waziristan Field Force] [Simla and Waziristan.] Album containing 34 original black and white photographs, taken in 1917 and at the time of the Waziristan Campaign and Field Force, including images of Sir Charles Monro's residence at Simla. Most of the photographs are 7.5 x 10.5cm in size, with the smallest 4.5 x 6.5cm and the largest 10.5 x 15cm. Loosely inserted in a 16mo album bound in green moire cloth. Both photographs and binding are in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with the occasional photograph with a dog-eared...	History	£280.00
Peggy Drower [Mrs Margaret Hackforth Jones] (1911-2012), Egyptologist and Dame Freya Stark's last assistant at the Ikwan-al-Hurriayah in Cairo [Jane Fletcher Geniesse; Caroline Moorhead] [Dame Freya Stark and Peggy Drower.] 15 items from the papers of Stark's assistant Peggy Drower, including two letters to her from Stark's biographer Jane F. Geniesse, with a copy the book, an Autograph Card Signed from Caroline Moorhead. The material is loosely inserted in a copy of 'Passionate Nomad. The Life of Freya Stark' by Jane Fletcher Geniesse (New York: Random House, 1999). xxvi + 402 + [2]pp., 8vo. Very good, in like price-clipped dustwrapper, and inscribed to Drower by her daughter. Drower is described on p.296 as '...	History, Travel and Topography, Women	£195.00
[Canal History] [Canals; printed report] To the Company of Proprietors of the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal Navigation. Four pages, bifolium, folio, 1" tears on fold marks, staining, loss of small amount of margin, text complete and clear. It includes: a statement of the Company's affairs "to the 27th of April, 1825 (expenditure, payments, debts, salaries etc.); "Abstract Account of Tonnage and Rent [...]" (...	Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history, Travel and Topography	£75.00
Anon. [Chapbook] The Prince of the Assassins; or, The Cruel Saracens. [ii].[1]-48 pp., 12mo, disbound, staining and other defects, but complete, text clear. Illegible ownership signature [?] on title. This includes the duel between Richard I and Saladin. BL copy recorded on COPAC only.		£125.00
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), Scottish Romantic poet and author [Richard Twining (1772-1857), tea merchant] [Allan Cunningham, Scottish Romantic poet.] Two Autograph Letters Signed, one to the tea merchant Richard Twining, recommending 'Mr Hopkins' of the Blue Coat School, and the other to Mrs Twining Both letters signed 'Allan Cunningham'. ONE: Addressed to 'Mrs. Twining'. 1p., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper. He is 'well enough to accept' her invitation, and will pay his respects 'in Bedford Place at the time mentioned. I am glad that my excellent friend Mrs. Hughes is to be with you...	Literature	£90.00
Baron Carlo Marochetti of Vaux (1805-67), sculptor. [Marochetti] Autograph Letter Signed "Marochetti", sculptor, to a friend , quoting his letter to "Lord H." [perhaps Lord Herbert [Sidney Herbert]], concerning his bronxe statue of Richard Coeur-de-Lion in Old Palace Yard (Parliament)) Four pages, 12mo, fairly closely-written. "Mon cher ami, \| Vous avez profondement [raison?]! Voici ce que j'ai ecrit a Ld H. \| " I am most grateful for the great interest you are so kind as to take in the execution of my statue of R.C. de L. I certainly will do every thing I can to make your...	Art and Architecture	£280.00
Chandos Leigh (1791-1850), 1st Baron Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, minor poet, cousin of Jane Austen and friend of Byron and Leigh Hunt [Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Leigh') to 'Mr. Brodie', regarding a 'rather singular letter' he has received from one of his parishoners, offering his services as a shoemaker at a prison. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. The recipient presumably held a living near Leigh's Warwickshire mansion Stoneleigh Abbey (said to be the model for Sotherton Court in his cousin Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park'). Leigh apologises troubling Brodie 'with the enclosed rather...	Literature, Social history	£150.00