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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Bernardino de la Trinidad Gónzalez Rivadavia y Rivadavia (1780-1845), first President of Argentina Autograph Signature ('Bernardino Rivadavia'). On piece of paper roughly 5 x 8 cms. The signature is clear and firm, on a piece of lightly discoloured grubby paper, with a spike hole to the right (not affecting any text). Reads '[in another hand] Bernardino Rivadavia \| [signature] Bernardino \| Rivadavia' \| [in another hand, in pencil]...	History	£56.00
Bertha Coolidge Slade [Maria Edgeworth; Constable and Company; Richard Clay and Sons] Prospectus for 'MARIA EDGEWORTH \| 1767-1849 \| A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TRIBUTE \| BY \| BERTHA COOLIDGE \| SLADE \| Demy 8vo. 42s. net.' Stapled and unbound. Octavo: four leaves (eight unpaginated pages). On aged and lightly spotted paper. Vignette on title page. Includes list of plates and 'Specimen Entry' of pages 51-3. Verso of last leaf headed 'from CONSTABLE'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST', comprising 'THE CARTER-POLLARD DISCLOSURES...	Book Trade History, Literature, Women	£30.00
Berthold Auerbach, German Jewish novelist and poet Autograph Note Signed One page, 8vo, 10 lines including bold signature. Not translated. Scan on request.	Literature	£100.00
Bertie Alexander Meyer and Derrick de Marney. Typed Agreement on the production of Christie's "Appointment with Death". Agreement "to be associated in the exploitation of the said Play", 4pp., folio, manuscript correctionsand additions initialled throughout by the above parties, and finally signed by both. WITH: Typed copy of the agreemen,t5 May 1944, between Agatha Mallowan (Christie) and Bertie Alexander Meyer...	Book Trade History, Literature, Music and Theatre	£150.00
Bertram Dobell, bookseller and man of letters (DNB). Autograph Letter Signed "B. Dobell" to [Walter] Jerrold, man of letters. Two pages, 8vo, vestiges of an album page on reverse, good condition. He sent a presentation copy of his "Rosemary & Pansies", somne of which "appeared in the privately printed ed[ition]" he gave him. He also sends a booklet "by one 'Lucian Lambert' - a gentleman who seems to have a good...	Book Trade History, Literature	£50.00
'N. M.' [Naomi Mitchison [Naomi May Margaret Mitchison; née Haldane] (1897-1999); A. P. Herbert (1890-1971)] [Printed broadsheet inscribed by Naomi Mitchison to Robert and Sylvia Lynd.] A Hammersmith Folk-Song \| Discovered by N. M. and dedicated by her to A. P. H. of that ilk \| Pure Grow the Little Ones \| (To the tune of Green Grow the Rushes oh. 2pp., folio. Tastefully printed in old-fashioned style on both sides of a sheet of thick wove 37 x 24.5 cm paper. Aged and worn, with chipping and closed tears to three edges. Inscribed by Mitchison at head of first page: 'Robert & Sylvia Lynd with best wishes from N. M. !' Twelve verses,...		£220.00
Beryl Bainbridge (b.1932), English novelist Autograph Note Signed. On one side of a piece of paper, dimensions 19.5 x 21 cm. Lightly creased. Presumably in response to a request for an autograph. Reads 'Is there a life before Death? \| (slogan chalked on wall in Northern Ireland, 1975) \| Yours sincerely \| [signed] Beryl Bainbridge.' Firm sprawling signature.	Literature, Women	£28.00
Bessie Parkes (1829-1925) [Mrs Bessie Rayner Belloc, née Elizabeth Rayner Parkes], English feminist, and founder in 1866 of the first-ever women's suffrage committee; mother of Hilaire Belloc Autograph Letter Signed ('Bessie R Parkes') to Lady Kay-Shuttleworth. 12mo, 1 p. Ten lines of text. Fair, on aged and lightly-creased paper. She received the cheque the previous night, and is sending 'a prospectus [not present] of the Home to which the Patient was removed'. She thanks her for her 'prompt kindness'. At the time of writing (six years before her...	History, Social history, Women	£56.00
Bickers; Alfred Cooper; W. Downing; T. Gladwell; W. George; Kerr & Richardson; C. Lowe; Uriah Maggs; J. Mathews; J. Neale; Parry & Hales; W. Paterson; Reeves & Turner; J. Roche; H. Sotheran; H. Young Thirty-one secondhand booksellers' catalogues (one a duplicate). all octavo, in worn nineteenth-century binding, with front hinge loose. New endpapers. All items good, on aged paper with occasional foxing. An invaluable collection, providing a snapshot of secondhand bookselling in provincial Victorian England within an extremely short timescale. Several of...	Book Trade History	£750.00
Bide de la Grandville, French military commander Document Signed. In French. One page 8vo, some defects, but text clear and complete, body of letter in secretarial hand. De la Grandville asks the magistrates of the town o Lille to provide 140 "fournitures des lits, et de les faire places a la Citadelle pour cazerner les miliciens engage pour l'armee d'Italie, etant...	French, Military and Naval History	£100.00