Autograph letter signed to R. Triphook, 23 Old Bond Street.

Author. Two pages, 4to, bottom portion torn off with minimal loss, spike-hole, hole in conjoint blank leaf (blank save address), discoloured but text readable. "I received yours of the 27th ulto respecting the Sale of the S[?] Hill Books on Saturday next, & soon afterwards I received a Copy of the Sale Catalogue. / Today I am favour'd with yours of the 28th ulto but with the postmark of yesterday./ Be so good as to [w]ithdraw the large Paper Copy of the Description of 1774 - for I should not like to sacrifice it to the lowest bidder - nor to suffer the Commission on an unsatisfactory offer.-/ With respect to the other articles I wde[sic] be obliged to you to put such Prices upon them as you think they may reasonably be expected to produce & such as you think Minimum at which they should be sold./ When the Sale is effected you can receive the money & keep it to my acct./ Do not omit to withdraw the large Paper Description of 1774 for I would not consent to part with it upon bad Terms - it is a great Rarity & with the Exception of an another [sic] Copy in my Possession the only uncut Copy in Existence. With a view to a complete Set it is [.] I regret that it was not [o]bserved in the Catalogue that all the Copies were uncut [underlined]."- An account of the origin of steam-boats in Spain, Great Britain and America; and of their introduction and employment upon the river Thames, between London and Gravesend, to the present time. [By Robert Peirce Cruden.]CRUDEN. Robert PeirceLondon: Effingham Wilson, 1831. pp. 75: plates. 8o.[2] The History of the Town of Gravesend in the County of Kent, and of the Port of London. [With plates.]CRUDEN. Robert Peircepp. v. 569. William Pickering: London, 1843. 8o.[3] A Description of three ancient ornamented bricks, found at different periods in London and Gravesend. With observations, etc. [By R. Cruden.]LONDONLondon, 1825. 8o.