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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Thomas Baring [THE ORDER OF THE BATH] Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent. Banker and politician (1799-1873). 2 pages, 8vo. In good condition although somewhat creased and with some loss to one edge, affecting three words of text, and to one corner, not affecting text. The letter can be dated because Baring became a partner in the bank in 1828 and Lord Northesk died in...	History	£50.00
Thomas Bell "Description of a new Species of Agama, brought from the Columbia River by Mr. Douglass (Dentist and natural historian).Vol.xvi, pp.105-107, plate, sm. fol., sewn in blue wraps. INSCRIBED by the author: "J.G. Children Esqre [see DNB] with the Author's king regards". Perhaps never bound in to its volume. (Bell has also written the name of Children on the fr. cover.)	Natural History	£50.00
'Scriblerus Redivivus' [Edward Caswall (1814-1878) of Brasenose College, Oxford; Anglican clergyman and hymn writer who converted to Roman Catholicism] [Joseph Vincent, Oxford bookseller and printer] [Printed pamphlet.] A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, being A Treatise after the Fashion of Aristotle; Writ for the Use of Students in the Universities. To which is added, A Synopsis of Drinking. By Scriblerus Redivivus. 12mo: viii + 40pp. As a fold-out tipped-in onto p.23 is 'A Synopsis of Drinking, formed according to the Categories of Aristotle' (1p., folio); and following the text is a four-page catalogue of 'Books published by J. Vincent, Oxford; Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall; and Sherwood,...		£120.00
Thomas Belsham. Autograph Letter Signed "T. Belsham", to Robert Philips, Esq. Unitarian Divine (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, blank leaf conjoint crudely trimmed with no loss, mainly good condition. He thanks himn for a present of game and discusses health and weather. He then talks about rumours of war and Wellington saying that, as a Spanish grandee, any nation attacking...	History, Military and Naval History	£156.00
Thomas Bernard. A Letter to the . . .Lord Bishop of Durham . . . on the Principle and Detail of the Measures now under consideration of Parliament for promoting and encouraging Industry and for the Relief and regulation of the Poor. See DNB for Bernard's activites on behalf of the Poor. Half-title, blank, titlepage, imprint, pp. [1]-62, 8vo. Disbound, poor condition, frayed, soiled, worm-holed in parts, some pages detached or semi-detached, but text clear and complete. INSCRIBED "Geo. Vansittart Esq. from the author" i.e....	Social history	£250.00
Bernard Tauchnitz, Leipzig publisher [Bret Harte; E. Nesbit; Lady West; James Payn] ['Specimen Copy' of first issue of magazine, with 'Tauchnitz Edition' catalogue bound in.] The Tauchnitz Magazine. An English Monthly Miscellany for Continental Readers. [With contributions by Bret Harte, E. Nesbit, Lady West and James Payn.] Magazine: [8] + 80pp. In blue printed illustrated wraps. Internally in good condition, on aged paper, with unopened signatures, in worn and chipped wraps. Stamped in red at head of front cover: 'SPECIMEN COPY.' Announcement at foot of front cover: 'This magazine is not to be introduced into...		£320.00
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey of Bulkeley, Autograph letter signed to [?] Young, Politician and maritime administrator (1836-1918). 3pp,12mo. "If you could postpone the date for a week, it would afford me the greatest pleasure to present the testimonial to Canon Simpson. Kindly send me list of a few leading subscriptions as a guide, addressed to Chapel Wood / Nutley /...	History, Military and Naval History	£45.00
Thomas Butter, bookseller, "near St Martins lane in Exon [Exeter]" Advertisement. c.3.5 x 2.5", verso blank, manually trimmed hence irregular, minor defects. He also advertises his sale of "Mathematical and Sea Instruments, several sorts of Physical Medicines [Dr Daffy's, Stoughton's, "Spirit of Scurvy Grass Golden or Plain"] . . . Also the famous Cephalick or Liquid-snuff...	Book Trade History	£150.00
Thomas Campbell. Autograph Letter Signed "T. Campbell" to Dr David Brewster, scientist and editor of the "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia" (DNB). Scottish poet and editor (1777-1844). The letter has been trimmed, with the loss of the address and date, part of which survives on the address side (verso), now one, page, c.6 x 6", some staining and fold marks but text clear and substance of the letter complete as follows: "My dear Friend /...	Book Trade History, History, Literature	£200.00
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale Four Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, and one Autograph Note Signed, to (successively) Menzies, Perry and Luckhurst, Secretaries, Royal Society of Arts. English painter (1880-1952) and member of the International Socialist Organization. All items in good condition, though variously grubby or discoloured with age, lightly creased or with pin holes to corners. All items signed either 'T C Dugdale' or 'T. C. Dugdale'. Several items docketed and/or...	Art and Architecture	£120.00