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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
George Combe [ born George Comb ] (1788-1858), English phrenologist [ Elisha P. Hurlbut ] [ George Combe, phrenologist. ] Autograph corrected text from his appendix to his edition of Elisha P. Hurlbut's 'Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties'. On 8 x 22 cm piece of paper. In fair condition, aged and creased, and laid down on piece of card. Note in a contemporary hand in red ink in the margin: 'George Combe the Phrenologist \| (Holograph) [sic]'. With five emendations and deletions. Reads: '[...] that in the Standards of no church with...		£135.00
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), Scottish antiquary, artist and collector, and friend of Sir Walter Scott [ Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Scottish antiquary and artist. ] Watercolour drawing of Edinburgh murderer Mrs Mary Mackinnon with a young girl in her condemned cell, attributed to him in a contemporary hand. A watercolour drawing in ink, coloured in yellow, blue and red, against a sepia ground. The drawing is on a 24.5 x 18.5 cm piece of thick white paper, laid down on a 28.5 x 29.5 cm piece of grey paper. In good condition, with light signs of age. In pencil in a contemporary hand on the grey-paper...		£400.00
Robert Lynd reporting firsthand on the Irish situation in 1920 for the "Daily News". [Small archive; Ireland 1920] Robert Lynd & the Daily News, Telegrams & Articles on Ireland, 1920 The items gathered here comprise telegrams of copy sent from Ireland by Robert Lynd to his Fleet Street newspaper, the London Daily News, together with manuscripts of his editors on the paper, and his own collection of newspaper cuttings of his articles, some gathered together with a view of...		£2,800.00
Sir George Courthope (1877-1955), Prime Warden, Goldsmiths' Hall, and Conservative Party politician [ The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, City of London livery company ] [ Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, City of London livery company. ] Printed facsimile 'Report to the Livery' by Prime Warden Sir George Courthope, describing the Company's recent 'good and bad days'. 4pp., folio. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly-aged. With facsimile signature of 'George Courthope'. The document begins: 'Dear Sir, \| The last Report to the Livery was issued in Professor Hutton's Prime Wardenship at Christmas, 1942. I succeeded him in May, 1943, and this Report coincides...		£80.00
Sir Henry Irving [John Henry Brodribb] (1838-1905), English actor-manager [ Walter Herries Pollock, editor of the Saturday Review ] [ Henry Irving, Victorian actor-manager. ] Autograph Note Signed ('Henry') and in his own hand (!) to 'Walter' [his friend Walter Herries Pollock?], regarding sending 'places' to 'Saville', and a reading of 'Macbeth in Birmingham'. 1p., 16mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. The note reads: 'Tuesday \| Dear Walter \| Yes - yes - yes. \| The places I will send to Saville \| Tomorrow I read Macbeth in Birmingham \| Every yours aff \| Henry'.		£80.00
[ James Hamilton Fennell, Victorian antiquary and botanist ] The first two numbers of James Hamilton Fennell's periodical 'The Antiquary', containing extracts from 17th and 18th century newspapers. Both items 4pp., 8vo. Both disbound, and both on aged and worn paper. Number 1 has a closed tear across a horizontal fold to the second leaf, and Number 2 has the two leaves separated, and each with loss to the inner margin. Both items are scarce: COPAC only lists copies at the British Library...		£120.00
[ James Hamilton Fennell, Victorian antiquary and botanist; Mercurius Domesticus.] [ Type facsimile by James Hamilton Fennell. ] Numb. 1. Mercurius Domesticus, Or, Newes both from City and Country, Published to prevent false Reports. Friday, Decemb. 19. 1679. 2pp., 8vo. Handbill. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. This facsimile, one of a number for which Fennell was responsible, is now scarce.		£35.00
'R. S. S. Baden-Powell, Col., Commanding Frontier Force' [Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of Boy Scouts] [The Mafeking Mail, Special Siege Slip, 1899; Second Boer War; F. W. Panzera ] [ Sir Robert Baden-Powell. ] Copy of 'The Mafeking Mail \| Special Siege Slip.' ('Issued Daily, Shells Permitting.') including 'Mafeking Garrison. General Orders' by Major F. W. Panzera, and letter from Baden-Powell and report by C. B. Vyvyan. Printed on one side of a 37.5 x 28 cm piece of aged newsprint. A frail historical survival, archivally preserved, but with slight later loss leaving some holes in the leaf, affecting some of the text. Small oval stamp with unreadable text in purple ink on reverse. In four columns, with first...		£65.00
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), Franco-Romanian 'Theatre of the Absurd' playwright; Donald Watson, translator [ Eugène Ionesco, 'Theatre of the Absurd' playwright. ] Typescripts of two translations of his plays by Donald Watson: the 'original text' of 'The Bald Prima Donna. A Pseudo-Play in one act', and 'The Motor Show'. Watson's translation of 'La Cantatrice Chauve' (1950) was first published in London by Calder in 1958, and his version of 'Le Salon de l'Automobile' (1951) by the same publisher in the fifth volume of Ionesco's plays in 1963. The two scripts typed in uniform style, on rectos of leaves, and...		£300.00
Olivia Rossetti [ Olivia Rossetti Agresti ] (1875–1960), activist, author, editor, and interpreter. member of one of England's most prominent artistic and literary families [ Rossetti ] Autograph Note Signed "Olivia Rossetti" to "Dr Rukes[?]". One page, 12mo, black border, speckled (foxing?) and smudged, text clear although hand difficult. She tahnks him for enquiries and tells him all are "fairly well". She has heard form a Mrs Coben that "Coben is very ill" and encourages him to visit him, giving him directions and expressing...		£150.00