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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
"John Stoneham, Manager" [Phillip Hill] [Typescript, edited] Christian Israelite Church Mission Tour in Australia 32pp., 4to, typescript (carbon copy), some closed tears, but text complete and clear, minor corrections and additions in manuscript, partly detached from paper binding, itself grubby and with minor damage, rusted staples. A well-written and entertaining account of a Mission to Sydney, describing...	Religion	£350.00
Erasmus Wilson [Sir William James Erasmus Wilson] (1809-1884), dermatologist and philanthropist [Erasmus Wilson.] Autograph Note Signed to Mrs Buchanan, sending new year's greetings. 1p., 12mo. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Reads 'My Dear Mrs. Buchanan, \| Many thanks for kindest New Year's greetings: - \| A Happy New Year to you and yours \| Faithfully yours \| Erasmus Wilson'.	Science, Medicine and Technology	£35.00
'Mrs. Hume-Rothery' [Mary Catherine Hume-Rothery (1824-1885), Swedenborgian campaigner for medical reform] [Abel Heywood, Manchester printer; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism] [Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Doctors: Or Medical Despotism in England. An Essay by Mrs. Hume-Rothery. 16pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, unbound, with only the blank grey back wrap present. The only copy traced at the BL. See the author's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.		£200.00
Field Marshal Fitzroy Somerset [FitzRoy James Henry Somerset], 1st Baron Raglan [Lord Raglan] (1788-1855), British commander in Crimean War [Lt-Col. Robert Bickerstaff (d.1894), 6th Dragoon Guards] [Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Raglan.] Secretarial Letter, signed 'Fitzroy Somerset', informing 'Ensign Bickerstaff' [Robert Bickerstaff] that he may purchase a lieutenancy in the 64th Foot Regiment. 1p., 4to. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. Raglan signs and addresses Bickerstaff at the foot of the letter, otherwise it is in a secretarial hand. It reads: 'Horse Guards \| 18 November 1846 \| Sir, \| I am directed by The Commander in Chief [the Duke of Wellington] to acquaint you, that,...	Military and Naval History	£120.00
Henry Montagu Butler (1833-1918), headmaster of Harrow School, Dean of Gloucester Cathedral, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and Vice-Chancellor of the University [Henry Montagu Butler.] Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Montagu Butler') to 'Mr Maddy', praising choristers [from Gloucester Cathedral] for ministering to the sick at his hospital, and discussing the good works of a nun of All Saints, Margaret Street. 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium on mourning paper. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. 'It was indeed a great happiness to see those young choristers finding part of their Christmas happiness in ministering to the invalid little ones. Your work in the Hospital is, I am sure, a blessed one.' He is...	Education	£56.00
John Lawson Petingale (1897-1965), English artist [Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964), English architect; Ealing Arts Club] [John Lawson Petingale, artist.] Autograph Letter Signed ('J. Lawson Petingale') to the architect Sir Albert Richardson. Together with a copy of the Ealing Arts Club magazine 'Miscellany', inscribed to Richardson. Letter: 2pp., 8vo. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressing his letter to 'Dear Sir Albert', Petingale thanks Richardson for his letter 'arising out of your visit to the Ealing Arts and Crafts Exhibition', which has encouraged Petingale to send him 'the latest number of "...	Art and Architecture	£180.00
Peter Kropotkin [Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin] (1842-1921), Russian polymath and anarchist [Sir James Knowles, editor, 'The Nineteenth Century and After'; Tsarist Russia; communism; anarchism] [Prince Peter Kropotkin.] Proofs of an apparently unpublished article, intended for 'The Nineteenth Century and After', titled 'The White Terror in Russia', with many autograph corrections by him. On ten 8vo leaves, and paginated 1-20. Worn and aged, with closed tear to the first leaf. Gathered with a brass stud. The recto of each leaf carries the printed date 1906, and each verso has as running title the name of the magazine. Pasted at the head of the first page is a green label reading...		£3,500.00
Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope (1781-1855), English aristocrat (until 1816 Lord Mahon), nephew of William Pitt the younger [Vice Admiral William Stanhope Badcock [Lovell] (1788-1859)] [Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, as Lord Mahon.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Mahon') to 'Badcock' [William Stanhope Badcock], discussing the 'disasters' in Holland, his brother's military career, 'the late fraud', his 'African Sheep & Goat'. 3pp., 4to. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. An excellent letter, filled with content. Mahon has received Badcock's letter and is 'glad to find that you have had the company of Lord & Lady Buckingham at Portsmouth'. Following 'the disasters that have taken place in Holland' (the...	Military and Naval History	£130.00
The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, London [Fishermen's Mission], British charitable organisation founded by Ebenezer Joseph Mather in 1881 [Howard Fuller of Hove; Sir Wilfred Grenfell] [The Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.] Album compiled by Howard Fuller of Hove, filled with material (mainly Edwardian) relating to the Fisherman's Mission, including photographs, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles and ephemera. Around 150 items, tipped in or laid down on 88pp. (on 59 leaves) of a 4to album. In good condition, on aged paper, with workmanlike repairs to the spine of the volume. An attractive and informative volume, gathering together material from before the Great War relating to a significant...	Social history	£450.00
William Henry FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton; Eugenia Susannah FitzRoy; Edward St Aubyn; Major Frederick Barclay Chapman; Benjamin Samuel Phillips and Sir John Staples, Lord Mayors of London; China [British 'Property in the Empire of China'.] Two signed manuscript indentures of conveyance on vellum, the first from Mrs E. S. FitzRoy to the Duke of Grafton and Major F. B. Chapman; the second from Chapman to Edward St Aubyn. Both items are in very good condition, with minor signs of age. The first sewn with green ribbon, and both with the customary stamps, seals and other appurtenances. Two interesting and unusual indentures, showing the spread of the nineteenth-century British Empire. ONE: On six sides of two 46 x...	Travel and Topography	£250.00