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William Le Queux, novelist [Autograph Manuscript] A Little Romance of 'P.W.' ['P.W.' = Pearson's Weekly] 10pp., cr. 8vo, text written on rectos, good condition. At the top of the first page he writes Proof to William Le Queux. 89 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, and he signs the last page. There are corrections and additions. This is Le Queux's contribution to the thousandth number of Pearson's Weekly in...	£750.00
House of Commons Select Committee report on Metropolis Police Offices [London policing], 1837 [Edward Gibbon Wakefield] [Printed House of Commons report into London police offices, 1837] Report from the select committee on Metropolis Police Offices; with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. Folio, iv + 194 + 29 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Repaginated in a contemporary hand 309 to 535. Good, on aged paper, with slight wear to title leaf. Comprising report, minutes of evidence (from witnesses including Samuel March Phillipps and Edward Gibbon Wakefield), appendix and index...	£180.00
House of Commons Select Committee report, 1818 [London policing and prisons; Clerkenwell Prison; Cold Bath Fields Prision; Tothill Fields prison] [Printed House of Commons report on London policing, 1818] Third Report from the Committee on the State of the Police of The Metropolis; with Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Committee; and an Appendix. [with plan of New Prison, Clerkenwell] Folio, 293 pp. With fold-out engraved 'Ground Plan of the New Prison, Clerkenwell, Commenced Septr. 1816'. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Paginated in a contemporary hand 1 to 29 5. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The minutes of evidence cover 152 pages, with testimony on Tothill Fields,...	£120.00
[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...	£450.00
Lieut. S. R. Christophers [Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers (1873-1978)], M.B., I.M.S. [Printed paper] Haemogregarina Gerbilli. By Lieut. S. R. Christophers, M.B., I.M.S. 4to, iii + 15 pp, and one plate, with 'Explanation' on tissue guard. 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. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with slight damp staining to plate...	£28.00
House of Commons Select Committee report on police of the metropolis [London policing], 1822 [Printed House of Commons report into policing in London, 1822] Report from the Select Committee on the Police of The Metropolis. 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...	£150.00
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...	£28.00
Captain S. P. James [Sydney Price James (1870-1946)], M.B., I.M.S. [Leishmaniasis] [Printed paper on Leishmaniasis.] On Kala Azar, Malaria and Malarial Cachexia. By Captain S. P. James, M.B., I.M.S. 4to, iii + 47 pp + 11 pp carrying 17 charts (graphs). In original printed boards. 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 lightly spotted boards. Scarce: the only copies on COPAC...	£30.00
[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
House of Commons Select Committee report into the Cold Bath Fields Meeting [Calthorpe Street Riot, London], 1833 [Printed House of Commons Select Committee report into the Calthorpe Street Riot, London, 1833.] Report from Select Committee on Cold Bath Fields Meeting: with the Minutes of Evidence. 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...	£56.00

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