The Alfred Swaine Taylor family collection

A remarkable collection of items belonging to Victorian ‘Father of Forensic Medicine’ and photography pioneer Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor

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The Alfred Swaine Taylor family collection

A remarkable collection of items belonging to Victorian ‘Father of Forensic Medicine’ and photography pioneer Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor

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Syllabus of A Course of Chemical Lectures delivered at Guy's Hospital, by William Allen, John Bostock and Arthur Aikin, London 1822, 8vo, worn hal...

Collection of 24 admission tickets to lectures which Alfred Swaine Taylor attended, at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, and two admission tickets to h...

Alfred Swaine Taylor's admission card as a pupil to Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals, for 1823/24, measuring 18 x 13cm, printed double sheet giving t...

Alfred Swaine Taylor, 20 coloured drawings of internal organs and parts of the body, one of the brain dated 1825 which opens to show two layers, t...

Alfred Swaine Taylor, 14 medical sketches, 13 are pencil sketches, some initialled, of male figures in traction, limbs in splints, and males with ...

Alfred Swaine Taylor, 38 scientific pen and ink drawings, a few have some colouring, eight appear to have been done to illustrated Natural Philoso...

A large metal cylinder containing 14 rolled certificates issued to Alfred S. Taylor, in respect of courses attended and qualifications, mainly fro...

PRICHARD James Cowles, Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, London 1826, 2 vols, second edition, complete at date of publication, the ...

Reference letters, from Astley Copper, Bransby Cooper, Thomas Addison and Joseph Green, regarding Alfred Swaine Taylor's appointment at Guy's Hosp...

Box; Alfred Swaine Taylor manuscript lecture notes, introductory lectures 1832, 18pp, approx A3 size; On Heat, approx 100pp, 4to

Syllabus of A Course of Chemical Lectures delivered at Guy's Hospital, by Arthur Aikin and Alfred S Taylor, London 1833, 8vo, half calf, 70pp, int...

Guy's Hospital syllabus of Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, annually delivered in the medical theatre of the institution, 17 of these ...

Mss notebook, 12 x 19cm approx, half calf, 334pp, Notes on Medical Jurisprudence entries relating to the period 1831-1837, all in Taylor's hand

A subpoena to Alfred Swaine Taylor signed by Chief Justice Ellenborough, 1832, and two mss documents bearing signatures of judges dated 1831 and 1...

Mss vellum bound indexed notebook, 13.5 x 20.5cm approx, spine titled 'Med-Jur 2', 374pp, all in Taylor's hand

Mss notebook, approx 17 x 23cm, approx 150pp, includes Experiments in Organic Chemistry and Chemistry Lecture notes, all in Taylor's hand

Mss notebook, approx 18 x 27cm, approx 150pp, a few blanks but most completed mainly with mss notes on chemistry 1834 to 1836, some loose notes at...

Accounts and correspondence relating to the first printing of Alfred Swaine Taylor's Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, 1836, and later correspond...

TAYLOR, Alfred S, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence, London 1836, 1st edition, 8vo, ¼ cloth paper on boards, titled Vol1 but only one volume publi...

Mss notebook, approx 15 x 20cm, approx 140pp, notes in Taylor's hand on experiments on the non-metallic bodies from about 1836 to 1839

Archive Box; Alfred Swaine Taylor manuscript lecture notes, undated, Chemistry Introductory Lectures, 16 parts, approx 400pp; Air and Gases, 26 pa...

Archive Box; Alfred Swaine Taylor manuscript lecture notes on Medical Jurisprudence, 36 parts on large paper, approx 700pp, 22 parts (not complete...

GEOGHEGAN, Dr Thomas Grace, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Ireland, a.l.s., dated 1838, complimenting Alfred Swaine Taylor on his recent publ...

Syllabus of A Course of Chemical Lectures delivered at Guy's Hospital, by Arthur Aikin and Alfred S Taylor, London 1839, 8vo, diced calf, 77pp, an...

T.S. Traill, R. Christison, and J. Syme, Suggestions for the medico-legal examination of dead bodies, Edinburgh 1839, 36pp, 8vo, Parliamentary Bil...

Box; large quantity of Taylor's manuscript writing on aspects of medical jurisprudence, in numbered parts presumably for publication, but not all ...

Lot 2027

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Box; large quantity of Taylor's manuscript writing on physics and natural philosophy

TAYLOR, Alfred S., Remarks upon the Subject of Infanticide, from the London Medical and Physical Journal, 8vo, 15pp ending 'to be continued', uncu...

An 1841 handbill relating to the murder of Cornelius Rhymes by Hannah Rhymes and John Grace by poisoning at East Hagbourne.Alfred Swaine Taylor wa...

Syllabus of A Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence delivered at Guy's Hospital, by Alfred S Taylor, London 1841, 8vo, leather, 39pp, Taylor...

ALDRED, Charles Cory, surgeon at Great Yarmouth and later mayor, a.l.s. to Alfred S Taylor, dated April 8th 1841, thanking him for his opinion reg...

Mss notebook, approx 15 x 21cm, 46 numbered pages used, with additional notes on versos, titled on front endpaper Organic Chemistry March 1842, In...

TAYLOR, Alfred S., Cases of Poisoning, n.d. circa 1843, 8vo, 25pp, plain wraps, uncut ...[more]

TAYLOR, Alfred S, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, London 1844, small 8vo leather. Author's signature on title page dated Nov. 28 1843, his sign...

TAYLOR, Alfred S, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, London 1844, small 8vo ½ calf, spine split lower side. Notes in author's hand on half title a...

Mss notebook, approx 11 x 17cm, cloth with brass clasp, over 300pp, Taylor's mss notes on chemistry commenced about 1844, but towards the end inse...

TAYLOR, Alfred S., Medico-Legal Report on a case of Infanticide with additional remarks on the fœtal lungs, n.d. circa 1845, 48pp, 8vo, uncut, pla...

TAYLOR, Alfred S, Medical Jurisprudence, Philadelphia 1845, first American edition, Ed. Griffith, 8vo calf, 539pp and 16pp publishers adverts ......

TAYLOR, Alfred S., Thermometrical Table, London 1845, approx 26 x 46cm, in 6 segments on linen folding to 13 x 16cm, in cloth on boards. Taylor's ...

TAYLOR, Alfred S., Thermometrical Table, London 1845, single folded sheet (untrimmed), approx 31 x 50cm. Inscribed in Taylor's hand at top 'additi...

AMOS Andrew, The Great Oyer of Poisoning, The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury..., London 1846, 8vo cloth, 5...

TAYLOR, Alfred S., On the Temperature of the Earth and Sea in reference to the Theory of Central Heat; A Lecture delivered at the Royal Institutio...

GOWER Charles Foote, The Scientific Phenomena of Domestic Life, London 1847, second edition; HERSCHEL Sir J.F.W., A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, ...

TAYLOR, Alfred S, On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, London 1848, first edition, small 8vo ½ calf. Author's signature and address on...

BRANDE William Thomas, A Manual of Chemistry, London 1848, 2vols, 8vo cloth, Vol I, 1140pp and 5pp adverts, Vol II 810pp and 2pp adverts, Vol I in...

TAYLOR, Alfred S, Medical Jurisprudence, London 1849 (1848), small 8vo ½ calf, third edition. Author's signature on title page, notes on front bla...

Mss notebook, 8vo, half calf, undated Observations and Reflections in Taylor's hand, approx 40pp completed in mss, mainly scientific matters; and ...

Alfred Swaine Taylor's microscope, a circa 1850 large brass compound monocular achromatic microscope by Smith & Beck, signed 'Smith & Beck 6 Colma...

Alfred Swaine Taylor, small bundle of illustrations, some prints including over 40 pencil and ink illustrations of things seen under the microscop...

A Victorian horn pocket microscope, having hinge action, with letter annotated 'Pocket microscope, the property of Dr Alfred Swaine Taylor, and us...

A quantity of specimen slides, to include; mahogany case containing approx 60 largely annotated slides, to include Human, Mammal, and Rock Crystal...

A quantity of specimen slides, the majority annotated and in fitted boxes, to include twelve in box annotated Blood, Birds, Reptiles, and Fish; tw...

STONE Dr James W., Phonographic Report of the Trial of Prof. John W. Webster indicted for the murder of Dr George Parkman... March 19 1850, Boston...

Syllabus of A Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence delivered at Guy's Hospital, by Alfred S Taylor, London 1850, 8vo, leather, 64pp, with a...

POLLOCK, Sir Fred, three a.l.s. to Professor A Taylor, two dated 1850 and one 1854, one discussing the ratio between murders and suicides; togethe...

REICHENBACH Karl, Baron von, Researches into Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light..., London 1850, parts 1 & 2 in one volume, 8vo cloth, Alfred S T...

TAYLOR, Alfred S. and AIKIN, Arthur, Report on the Water of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, April 1851, printed by Wilson and Ogilvy, 8vo, ...

PARKE, James, 1st Baron Wensleydale, twelve a.l.s. to Dr Alfred Taylor ...[more]

TAYLOR, Alfred S, Medical Jurisprudence, London 1852, fourth edition, small 8vo, ½ calf. Author's signature and address on half title, a few annot...

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