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Miscellaneous manuscripts, late 18th c and later, comprising merchant shipping: Captain David Hey (b. 1880; previously MiD), Merchant Navy, his ships' log book, dated December 1945 to August 1950, during his captaincy of Alfred Holt & Co of Liverpool's MV "Rhexenor" and MV "Denbighshire", approx. 94pp of printed leaves inscribed with manuscript, recording sailing data and remarks as they cross the world, supplied by The Liverpool Printing and Stationery Company Limited, original calf over green moiré boards, illuminated and lettered paper label to upper-cover, oblong folio (24.5 x 38.5cm); four similar accounts, including SS "Elk", various masters and their hands, dated May 1960 to February 1961; MV "Moose", October 1966 to August 1967, loosely-inserted b/w photograph of the vessel, some ephemera and research; and two deck log books for MV "William" of Singapore, dated June to September 1977 & April to July 1985, mixed original bindings, mixed sizes; Shipping and Trade: D. Albers, care of M. T.A. Droop, to Joseph Leigh Esq. of Liverpool [rope maker and Russian Consul], addressed and dated London, 24th January, 1827, ALS, 2pp, soliciting Leigh for a position, postal history franking, traces of red wax seal; another letter to the aforementioned Leigh of Orford Street, Duke's Dock, from Thomas Arden, addressed and dated Wheelock Mills [Cheshire], 15th August, 1827, 1pp, viz. enclosed cash and further money transactions; five further letters &/copies, dated Liverpool, 1831, viz. the dissolution of a partnership; Account Sale of a Cargo of 450 Tons of Common Salt [...], Liverpool, 1812, 2pp, ink manuscript on paper; Americana: Agreement made between Wm North & John Loughery of the City of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] of the one part, and *** Thorp & Sons of Reddish Mills in the Co:y of Lancaster [Lancashire], 14 September 1875, 3pp; and two miscellaneous MS accounts, dated 1782 & 1788; Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG (1801-1885), the 'Poor Man's Earl', a late Victorian memorial album, n.d. [1885], [48]ff principally of pasted notices of his life and funeral, obituaries, eulogies, etc., recto &/or verson, taken from newspapers and periodicals of the day, some of which are illustrated with portraits or named-views of St Giles House, Dorset, but also printed and manuscript ephemera, including the Order of Service from Westminster Abbey, letterpress poem printed within a black mourning border, [4]pp National Memorial of Lord Shaftesbury composition, [2]pp autograph poem by Georgina Cowper-Temple, Lady Mount Temple (née Tollemache; 1822-1901), a sepia photographic print of St Giles, letterpress poem on the anniversary of his birthday, dated Castle Wemyss, 1878, 1881 Guildhall proceedings, Old Scholars of the Ragged Schools address, Religious Tract Society poster, etc., disbound, 4to; an Edwardian memorial album, compiled by Lilian A. Bridges, in memoriam of Thomas Bridges, dated July 1905, only [14]ff of contents, being a commonplace-scrap book, inscribed and illustrated with manuscript, autograph letters, ephemera and scraps from TB's life and times, including an ALS of 2pp from Henry Peter Hansell (1863-1935), tutor to the three eldest sons of George V, two of whom would be kings themselves, on York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk writing paper, dated November 20th, 1905, and thanking TB for sending copy of his Punctuation Simplified for the education of his royal charges, accompanied by two b/w postcards of royal residences, another ALS of thanks for the pamphlet, from Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), the playwright and novelist, etc., 5 loosely-inserted b/w albumen prints of British India, another of Scottish Freemasons, contemporary mottled calf gilt, the detached upper-cover monogrammed: E.C.B., all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, oblong 4to; & an unassociated collection of early 19th c and later newspaper and periodical clippings, of both antiquarian and general interest, the contemporary folder black roan over