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Author, Title, Summary	Subject	Price
Thomas Welsh Autograph letter signed to unknown (part of name torn off) English actor, vocalist and composer (1781-1848). On epage, 4to, creased and chipped with loss only of part of correspondent's name (which ends "...uin"). A significant letter about the Argyll Rooms, the major musical venue of its time. Letter as follows: "If the Licence formerly held by Col....	Music and Theatre	£100.00
Maurice Lyndham Waller (1875-1932), Chairman of the Prison Commission 1921-1928; Prison Commissioner, 1910-1921; Feltham Young Offenders Institution; Captain W. V. Eccles, Governor of Borstal Prison] Nine prints of group photographs of inmates at the first Borstal Prison [at Borstal, near Rochester, Kent] and six of inmates at the second Borstal Prison, at Feltham in Hounslow. With two of a portrait of a prison officer. With the six negatives. All photographic prints and negatives roughly 8.5 x 14.5 cm. Prints all black and white. The collection aged, but in good condition overall. The pictures of inmates all landscape, and the two of the officer portrait. The boys are arranged in three or four rows, with as many as forty present in...	Social history	£250.00
Admiral Sir Arthur Mostyn Field (1855-1950), R.N., hydrographer [Admiralty chart of the Bosphorus, Turkey, surveyed by Ploix and Manen, under Admiral Hamelin; and by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N.] Large 1915 Admiralty chart of 'The Bosporus surveyed by Messrs. Ch. Ploix and Manen 1854.' Printed in black and red on piece of thick paper, 88 cm x 103 cm. In fair condition, lightly-aged. Insert map of the Golden Horn, and three sections (one of 'Mark for clearing Stefano Bank'), together with a table of conversion from 'British Units - Metres'. Printed beneath the title are six '...	Travel and Topography	£320.00
[Coroner's Court Inquisition into "wilful murder"] [An Inquisition "taken" at the sign of the Plough, Welley Rocks, Cheddleton, Staffs, enquiring into the wilful murder of Eliza Hogan Indenture, 55 x 35cm, some damage at folds but mainly good, text clear and complete. It gives information about the court including the people who were to enquire into the murder, all of whom have signed the document. The Coroner was John Cattlow. A person unknown had poisoned some bread with...	History, Law, Social history	£225.00
Gray [John Gray, 15th Lord Gray] Autograph Letter Signed Gray [Lord Gray] to Messr Spottiswoode & Robertson, Solicitors, London, on salmon fisheries in Scotland. Two pages, 8vo, bifolium (second leaf blank), some marking and staining but text clear and complete. I want the following information on Salmon fishers [fisheries?] in Scotland viz Is there any act of Parl[iamen]t which regulates the size of the mesh in nets used in net & coble fishing - If...	Social history	£45.00
Thomas Wright Two Autograph Letters Signed to [Thomas Francis Dillon Croker]. English antiquary and archaeologist (1810-77). The recipient (1831-1912), son of Thomas Crofton Croker, was an Irish antiquary. Both letters one page, 12mo. Both grubby, discoloured and stained. The first with closed tear to one corner. LETTER ONE (dated from postmark on accompanying envelope...	Book Trade History, History, Literature, Social history	£95.00
Thomas Wright [Macdermid], Manchester prison philanthropist Autograph Letter Signed ('Thos. Wright') to a female 'Christian friend'. Three pages, 12mo. A tad aged, with some discoloration and a little glue from previous mounting to the blank verso of the second leaf of the bifolium. He was 'from home' when the note arrived, only returning on Tuesday. 'It will give me great pleasure to be with you on the day when the...		£38.00
Tighe Hopkins Two receipts signed, recipients "Messrs Herbert & Daniel" author. He has received royalties on account of his book "Wards of the State: an unofficial view of prisons and the prisoner" (1913). Two items,	Book Trade History, Social history	£30.00
Timothy Tyrrell, Remembrancer of the City of London. Autograph Letter Sign "T. Tyrrell" to the "Worshipful Committee for Improving the Port of London". Two pages, 4to, dusted and otherwise marked, but text clear and complete. He "begs leave to represent the the State of my account of Fees & Disbursements in obtaining the Act of Parliament 'for rendering more commodious & for better regulating the port of London' which ammounts to...	Social history	£65.00
'Scheme of Determining Bachelors in Oxford (Lent 1805)' [The Clarendon Press, Oxford University] [Printed poster.] Ordo Baccalaureorum Determinantium. In Universitate Oxon. per Quadragesim. Ann. 1805. Collectoribus Dno Mackensie, ex Aede Christi. Dno Hudson, è Coll. Magd. On one side of a piece of laid paper, 55 x 44 cm. Good, on lightly-aged paper. 131-box table giving the tutors (and their colleges) over twelve weeks for each of eleven subjects from 'Nat. Phil.' to 'Ling.' Among the many tutors the following only in capitals: 'Ds HEWITT ex Aede Christi', 'Ds...	Education, Law	£125.00