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[Unknown author] [Manuscript] A Genealogical table of the Royal Family of Scotland from Malcolm 2 to Robert 2. 40 x 30cm, manuscript worked over and/or added to judging by ink colour, worn, fold marks, small closed tears, some faint notes in pencil. The table begins with 83 Malcolm K. of Scots D1040 but also with the statement The Scots pretend that Malcolm 2d was the 83 K. of Scots from Fergus 1. It... |
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House of Commons Select Committee report on police of the metropolis [London policing], 1822 Folio, 140 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Repaginated in a contemporary hand 91 to 226. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The report covers the first ten pages, with the following 84 pp giving of minutes of evidence from sixteen individuals, including Sir Richard Birnie, Francis Smedley and... |
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Captain George Lamb (1869-1911), M.D., I.M.S. [Printed paper] Snake-Venoms in relation to Haemolysis. By Captain George Lamb, M.D., I.M.S. 4to, ii + 15 pp. In original printed boards. Text complete and clear. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC at the British... |
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[Thomas Paine; Newspaper Debate with Emmanuel Sièyes [Syèyes]] Supplément à la Gazette nationale [Thomas Paine's debate with Sièyes] Disbound, four pages, bifolium, [137]-140, edges sl. frayed and stained, mainly good condition. Sièyes' newspaper debate with Paine on the merits of republicanism and Monarchism, including his reference to La Déclaration des droits de France and d'Amérique and the little difference in America... |
£650.00 |
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House of Commons Select Committee report into the Cold Bath Fields Meeting [Calthorpe Street Riot, London], 1833 Folio, 213 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound, with rear free endpaper of volume still present, and repaginated in a contemporary hand 589 to 801. Fair, with slight wear to extremities. The riot took place on 13 May 1833, after the government issued a proclamation declaring a meeting 'to... |
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House of Commons Select Committee report on the nightly watch and police of the metropolis [London policing], 1812 Folio, 41 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Repaginated in a contemporary hand 95 to 135. Fair, on lightly-aged paper. The report covers the first eight pages, the remainder carries nine appendices, including 'No 6. - Division of Districts by Police Officers' and 'No 7. - Details of a... |
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House of Commons Select Committee report into Metropolis Police Offices [London policing], 1838 Folio, 40 + 224 + 38 pp [i.e. a total of 302 pp]. Disbound; repaginated in a contemporary hand 321 to 622. The central 224 pp are taken up with the minutes, which include the evidence of Sir Peter Laurie, twice Lord Mayor of London, and parodied by Dickens in 'The Chimes' as 'Alderman Cute'.... |
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House of Commons Select Committee Report on Metropolitan Police, 1833 [Printed House of Commons report, 1833.] Report from the Select Committee on Metropolitan Police. Folio, 6 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound, and repaginated in a contemporary hand 401 to 405. Fair, on aged paper, with slight wear to extremities. The Committee 'consider themselves called upon to close their proceedings for the present Session: they regret that they cannot submit to the... |
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Captain F. W. Cragg [Francis William Cragg (1882-1924)], M.B., I.M.S. 4to, [ii] + 3 + 56 pp + 4 plates, each with facing page of explanatory text. In original printed boards. Complete and clear. Bookplate of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow, and light stamp of same on front board. Good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and spotted boards... |
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William Blades, Bibliographer and Printer [Ashburnham; William Caxton] Two pages, 12mo, chipped and with small closed tears, with loss of half a line of text and some letters, bottom edge turned up. I beg to offer you according to your reque[st] a list of books printed by Caxton, in the library at Ashburnham House with their imperfections and sizes. | I have taken... |
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