Twining, Louisa.

Workhouses and Pauperism. And Women’s Work in the Administration of the Poor Law.

[First Edition]. London, Methuen & Co., 1898. 17 x 12 cm. x, 276 pages plus 40 pages publishers list. Original red cloth with black title on front board. Gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Three small stamps (‘Public Service / Local Government Board Whitehall’), otherwise internally clean. A nice copy.

Anon.

Souvenir of the Michie Hospital 1916-1917. 242 Westminster V.A.D. 179 – 184 & 193 Quenn’s Gate – S.W.7. Opened by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra March 15th 1916.

[London], No publishing Information, 1917. 23 x 18 cm. 29, (2), Losely inserted ‘Donation Form’. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Original oversized stiff paper wrappers. Colour image tipped to front cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean.

Anon.

Programme of the “Good Samaritan” Performance Promoted by Madame Sarah Bernhardt. In Aid of the French Hospital in London, and of Lord Lonsdale’s special Appeal for Funds for the Charing Cross Hospital, held at the London Coliseum Saturday Evening, October 11th, 1913. Under the most gracious Patronage of their Majesties the King & Queen & Members of the Royal Family.

[London], No publishing information, [1913]. 27 x 20 cm. 48 unnumbered pages, printed on heavy textured paper. With many tipped in photographs in B&W. Gilt decorations. Silk covered boards with gilt crest on front bopard. Hand cover. Text block held place by silk string. Gilt dentelles Good condition. Voards worn and dust dulled. Silk covers torn at the edges (see images). Internally dust dulled, otherwise in very good clean condition.

Macray, William Dunn.

A Manual of British Historians to A.D. 1600. Containing a chronological Account of the early Chroniclers and Monkish Writers their printed Works and unpublished MSS.

First Edition. London, William Pickering, 1845. 21 x 13 cm. xxiii, 109 pages. Decorated Initials. Half calf over marbled boards. Speckled edges. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Sound binding. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

Pitt, William.

Speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, Thursday, January 31, 1799. On offering tho the House the Resolution which he proposed as the Basis of an Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

[First Edition]. London, Printed for J. Wright, 1799. 20 x 12 cm. 95 pages plus one page publishers list. Recent paper covered boards with gilt title on front board. Hard covers. Very good condition. New and sound binding. Half title page losely inserted and shows some paper losses. Rest of the book in very good clean condition with some pages professionally repaired.

Various Authors.

Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service – Vol.1 – No.1 – 1915 – FACSIMILE

Facsimile Edition. 102 Pages. With B&W Illustrations. Stiff paper wrappers. Very good Condition. Bright and clean.

Anon.

The Nursing Mirror and Midwives’ Journal. Golden Jubilee Number. Commemorating Fifty Years of Service to Nursing. 1888 – 1938.

First Edition. Vol. LXVIII, No. 1753. London, The Nursing Mirror, 1938. 26 x 19 cm. xlii (Ads), Pages numbered 131 to 182, Pages numbered xliii – lxii. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Original paper warppers. Soft Cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. A little age darkened throughout, but otherwise clean.

Jackson, G.S.

Operations of the Eighth Corps. Normandy to the Rhine. Field-Marshal Alanbrooke’s Copy. Account of Operations from Normany to the River Rhine.

First Edition. London, St. Clements Press, [1948] 24 x 15 cm. (4), 171 pages. With a frontispiece, few illustrations in text and threee coloured folding maps in rear pocket. Original grey cloth with red title on front board and spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.Edges and end papers age darkened. Occassional mild foxing. Dust jacket with some edge wear and mild fraying to spine ends. Short closed tear to the back of the DJ. Now in archival jacket. With a tipped in printed card to ‘Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke… with the Compliments of the Members of the Officer’ Association H.Q.8-Corps’.

Dame Gwen Lucy Ffrangcon-Davies.

Autograph card and Letter.

Very good condition.

Lindsay, Martin & Johnston, M.E. (Text) / Harris, N.B. (Photographs), Montgomery (Foreword).

History of 7th Armoured Division. June 1943 – July 1945.

First Edition. Germany, British Army of the Rhine, [1945]. 23 x 15 cm. (4), 171 pages with B&W photographs. Pocket on rear paste down contains a set of 11 folded maps, showing various battles and movements of the division during the second world war. Specially prepared grey textured cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. ‘Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke’ in gilt on front board. Yellow textured end papers and rear map pocket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Small material loss to head of spine. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally as new.