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FitzRoy Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan [Lord FitzRoy Somerset; Lord Raglan; General Rowland Hill (1772-1842), 1st Viscount Hill of Almaraz; 60th Regiment of Foot (King's Royal Rifle Corps)]

Secretarial Letter Signed ('FitzRoy Somerset') from Lord FitzRoy Somerset [later 1st Baron Raglan] to Lieutenant [Christopher Bernard] Martin, 60th Regiment of Foot.

Folio, 1 p. On bifolium. Docketed on reverse of second leaf. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Martin having written to him on 16 September, 'renewing [his] application to be permitted to retire with the Rank and Half pay of Captain', Somerset is 'directed by the General Commanding in Chief [Rowland...

£95.00 Secretarial Letter Signed ('FitzRoy Somerset') from Lord FitzRoy Somerset
Mark Pattison, author, vicar, and sometime Rector of Lincoln.

Autograph Letter Signed 'Mark Pattison' to [John T. Baron, Blackburn poet]. With original addesssed envelope..

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium (second leaf blank), very good condition. "There is a book of mine 'On Academical Organisation' but it is hardly likely to be interesting to any but university persons. | Also in 'Report on Elementary education in Germany' but I believe out of print. | Editons of...

£125.00 Mark Pattison, author, vicar, and sometime Rector of Lincoln.
[Warings [Waring & Gillow Ltd]

[Printed Catalogue] Italian Furniture and Pictures by Italian Artists [Waring's Exhibition of Itlian Art 1909].

96pp., 8vo, illustrated paper wraps, illustrated throughout, slightly ruckled, one small spot, mainly good+ The "Exhibition" includesFurniture, Tapestries, Marbles, Bronzes, Embroideries, Lace. No copy listed on COPAC. WordlCat lists three copies in the US.

£95.00  [Waring's Exhibition of Itlian Art 1909].
[Senussi Campaign]

Colonel H. M. W. Souter and the Battle of Agagia (Senussi Campaign), 1916: some papers

Colonel Hugh Maurice Wellesley Souter was born in India in 1872. He joined the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers from the Manchester Regiment in 1896, and served in the Tibetan Campaign of 1903-4, being mentioned in dispatches, and also on the frontier. In the First World War he was in France, Belgium,...

£750.00
Lieutenant R. G. Th<ouy?>er [Catherine Booth-Clibborn] (1858-1955), daughter of founder William Booth, called 'la Maréchale'; Geneva Corps; Swiss Expedition, 1882-1883; Switzerland; Charles Wyssa]

Manuscript journal of a Lieutenant of the Geneva Corps of the Salvation Army, written during the 'Swiss Expedition' of William Booth's daughter Catherine ('la Maréchale'), including an account of her arrest following the funeral of Charles Wyssa.

In English. 12mo, 344 pp. Nineteen lines to the page. In original binding, covered with modern imitation red watered silk. Original green endpapers. Text clear and complete, in pen and pencil. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Written entirely in English, except for the first page: '...

£1,250.00
W.S. Gilbert [William Schwenk Gilbert], librettist

Autograph Note Signed "W S Gilbert" to the Blackburn poet J.T. Baron [John Thomas Baron ('Jack O'Anns')]

One page, 12mo, slightly marked but text cleear and complete. "I must refer you to the publisher, Messrs Routledge, Broadway, London, for a reply to your question." Suitable for framing.

£400.00
[London Commercial Deposit Permanent Building Society and Deposit Bank; W. Hurran, Chairman]

Manuscript minute book of board meetings of the London Commercial Deposit Permanent Building Society and Deposit Bank, 1882 to 1888. With signatures of the various directors.

More information about this Society (founded in 1863 and incorporated in 1875) is to be found in the report in The Times, 20 September 1892 ('Suspension Of Another Building Society'), of the announcement of its dissolution 'in consequence of the commercial panic'. See also 'The Stoppage Of...

£550.00
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), et al

[Folding plate] A Table exhibiting the chemical Nomenclature Proposed by Messieurs De Morveau, Lavoisier, Berthollet, and De Fourcroy in May 1787.

One page, 40 x 60cm, from unidentified edition (Instruction top right of page, 'To face Page 598'), fold marks, mainly good. First published in Lavoisier et al, "Méthode de nomenclature chimique" (1787). Paris 1787 Proposée par MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, Bertholet, & de Fourcroy.

£180.00
Coventry Patmore (1823-96), poet

Autograph Letter Signed C. Patmore, with addressed envelope, to the Blackburn poet John Thomas Baron ('Jack O'Anns')

One page, 12mo, bifolium, fold marks, good condition. Tamarton [sic for Tamerton] Church Tower & other Poems are now included in a volume called 'Amelia and other Poems.' It is published by Geo. Bell & Co. York Stret, Covent Garden. I do not know Mr Palgarve's address, but a letter to...

£120.00
William Hogarth; Machell Stace, bookseller, 5 Middle Scotland Yard

Engraving titled 'The Modern Orpheus', 'Etch'd by D Smith' and 'Design'd by W. Hogarth', 'From an Original Sketch in the possession of the Marquis of Bute', as part of a fake advertisement for a spoof book entitled 'The Art of Playing upon People'.

On one side of a piece of wove paper, roughly 400 x 250 mm. Dimensions of engraving roughly 130 x 180 mm. Good, on heavily-foxed and lightly-creased paper. The sketch shows a well-dressed flautist playing his instrument in a market square, with money, clothes and food drawn to him from onlookers...

£175.00
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