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[Printed House of Commons report, 1833] Report from the Select Committee on the Petition of Frederick Young and others, (Police.)

Folio, 182 pp. Text clear and complete. Disbound. Paginated in a contemporary hand 407 to 588. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with title-leaf loose and chipped. The select committee was 'appointed to inquire into the Matter of the Petition of Frederick Young, and others, of Walworth and Camberwell...

[Printed House of Commons report into policing in London, 1838.] Report from Select Committee on Metropolitan Police Offices; With the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index.

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'....

[Printed paper] Studies on the Mouth Parts and Sucking Apparatus of the Blood-Sucking Diptera. No. 4. The Comparative Anatomy of the Proboscis in the Blood-Sucking Muscidae. By Captain F. W. Cragg, M.D., I.M.S., King Institute of Preventive Medicine.

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...

Autograph Letter Signed William Blades, bibliographer, to the Earl of Ashburnham, Collector, with related autograph material.

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...