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ALBERT, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of England. ~ The Principal Speeches and Addresses of his Royal Highness The Prince Consort; with an introduction, giving some outlines of his character. London: John Murray, 1862.
“Two editions of the Prince Consort's Speeches were published by the Society of Arts in 1857.
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£2000.00
(ALBUM). ~ [n.p., n.d., but England c. 1820-1835.]
An unusually good lady’s album, combining manuscript texts, sketches, caricatures, paintings, prints, and découpage.
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![[ALI ABENCUSIAN, pseudonym of Miguel de LUNA]. VIEUX-MAISONS, [Gilles de Rainssant, Sieur de], translator.](/photos/897/main/897.jpg "[ALI ABENCUSIAN, pseudonym of Miguel de LUNA]. VIEUX-MAISONS, [Gilles de Rainssant, Sieur de], translator.")
£500.00
[ALI ABENCUSIAN, pseudonym of Miguel de LUNA]. VIEUX-MAISONS, [Gilles de Rainssant, Sieur de], translator. ~ Histoire Veritable Contenant la vie de Jacob Almançor Roy d’Arabie, qui Conquist le Royaume d’Espagne sur le Roy Dom Roderic, Traduite d’Espagnol en Francois par le sieur de Vieux-Maisons Gentil-home Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy. Gervais Clousier, 1638.
First edition in French of the life of Almançor, the Arabic conqueror and ruler of Spain in the 10th century.
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£250.00
(ARMENIAN). ~ Compendiose notizie sulla congregazione de’ monaci Armeni Mechitaristi di Venezia nell’isola di S. Lazzaro. [Title also in Armenian]. [Island of San Lazzaro, Venice: Tipografia di Sudetta Isola, 1819.
First edition of a lovely example of the Armenian typography of the Mekhitarist monks of the island of San Lazzaro in the Venetian lagoon.
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£950.00
(ART TRADE). ~ La Confession publique du brocanteur; aventure extraordinaire, arrivée au mois de novembre 1769, sur un vaisseau parti de l’Amérique pour Saint-Malo. Elle est rapportée fidellement par M*** qui y étoit présent, suivant le manuscrit que l'on a trouvé dans ses papiers. Amsterdam, 1776.
First edition of a wicked exposé of the contemporary tricks of the art market.
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![[AUBIGNÉ, Théodore Agrippa d'.]](/photos/880/main/880.jpg "[AUBIGNÉ, Théodore Agrippa d'.]")
£375.00
[AUBIGNÉ, Théodore Agrippa d'.] ~ Les aventures du Baron de Fæneste, comprise en quatres parties. Les trois premieres reveües, augmentees, & distinguees par chapitres. Ensemble, la quatriesme partie nouvellement mise en lumiere, le tout par le mesme auteur. “Au Dezert” [Geneva]: imprimé au despens de l'autheur, 1640.
An early edition of Aubigné's controversial invective against the enemies of Protestantism in France, which takes the form of a prose dialogue between the Catholic courtier Baron de Fæneste, the satirical anti-hero and a Protestant gentleman named Enay.
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£450.00
BAILEY, Samuel. ~ The rationale of political representation. By the author of Essay on the formation of opinions, &c. &c. London: R. Hunter, 1835.
First edition.
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£275.00
BAILEY, Samuel. ~ Discourses on various subjects; read before literary and philsophical societies. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1852.
First edition.
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£200.00
BAYLEE, John T. ~ Statistics and facts in reference to the Lord’s-day... London: Seeleys and J.H. Jackson, 1852.
First edtion.
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![[BECCARIA,Cesare, marchese di.]](/photos/443/main/443.jpg "[BECCARIA,Cesare, marchese di.]")
£125.00
[BECCARIA,Cesare, marchese di.] ~ An essay on crimes and punishments, translated from the Italian. With a commentary attributed to M. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. Edinburgh: for Bell & Bradfute, J. Fairbairn, and Mundell, Doig, & Stevenson, 1807.
A scarce Scottish edition.
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£2500.00
BEER TRADE PROTECTION SOCIETY. ~ Minute Book of the Proceedings of the Committee of the Beer Trade Protection Society. London: 1854-1866.
The minute book of a significant Victorian trade organisation, representing the interests of an estimated 41,000 “beershops” and 89,000 public houses in England.
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£100.00
BLANC, Louis. ~ Organisation du travail... IV édition considérablement augmentée, précédée d’une introduction, et suivée d’un compte-rendu de la maison Leclaire... Paris: Cauville Frères, 1845.
First published in 1839, this edition is of particular interest for the supplements, containing the 1843 accounts of the maison Leclaire, one of the first French companies to offer its employees a proportional share in profits.
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![[BONNEMAIN, Antoine-Jean-Thomas.]](/photos/481/main/481.jpg "[BONNEMAIN, Antoine-Jean-Thomas.]")
£650.00
[BONNEMAIN, Antoine-Jean-Thomas.] ~ Les chemises rouges, ou mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du règne des anarchistes. Paris: Deroy & Maret, “An VII” [1799.]
First edition of this account of two of the most brutal episodes of the Terror - the execution of 9 members of the town council of Orléans implicated in a supposed murder attempt on Léonard Bourdon, member of the National Convention, and the summary execution of 54 men and women accused of having been part of a royalist plot against Robespierre, Collot d’Herbois and other members of the revolutionary government.
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(BOSWELL, James). Pottle, Frederick A, editor. ~ Boswell's London Journal 1762 - 1763. London: William Heinemann, 1951.
Reprint, first published in 1950.
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![(BREAD). [House of Commons Report].](/photos/934/main/934.jpg "(BREAD). [House of Commons Report].")
£250.00
(BREAD). [House of Commons Report]. ~ Report from the Committee in laws relating to the manufacture, sale, and assize of bread. [Communicated by the Commons to the Lords.] Ordered to be printed 6th July 1815. [London], 1815.
First editions of two detailed reports on the flour and baking trade, with detailed interviews conducted with dealers and bakers in town and country and statistical appendices.
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£800.00
(BREWING). [LILLE ORDONNANCES.] ~ Recueil des Edits, arrests du conseil, ordonnances & reglemens pour la regie & perception des anciens imposts sur les vins & Bierres des chastellenies de Lille, Douay & Orchies, Pays de Laloeu & Bourg de la Gorgue; et pour les attributions aux Offices d’Egards Gourmeurs de Bierres, Jauges & Droits de Brasseries. Avec les Instructions aux Commis pour l’execution d’iceux. Lille: widow of J.C. Malte, “au bon Pasteur, prés l’Hôtel de Ville,” [n.d., probably 1699.]
First edition of this rare and comprehensive collection of the ordonnances governing the brewing and distilling trade of Lille.
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£1750.00
(BREWING). [TOURNAI ORDONNANCES]. ~ Ordonnances de messieurs du magistrat de la ville & cité de Tournay des 26. 8bre & 15. novembre 1718, portant reglement pour les brasseurs & brasseuses, cabaretiers, cabaretires & débiteurs de bierres; comme aussi pour les commis & employez à la conservation des droits & impôts de cette ville, de même que pour les brouteurs, &c. Tournai: Anselme du Puicht, 1718; 1721.
An appealing copy in fine original state, of the civic ordinances of the city of Tournai concerning all aspects of the beer trade: a trade which was then, as now, a central part of Flemish economy and culture.
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£225.00
(BROADSIDE.) ~ Verses written by a converted Indian, when near death. Kettering: Dash, [n.d., c. 1830-1841.
A very scarce Kettering-printed broadside bearing the text of a hymn-tune beginning: My soul’s full of glory, which fires my tongue, / Could I meet with angels, I’d sing them a song.
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£125.00
BROUGHAM and VAUX, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron. ~ The present state of the law. The speech of Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P., in the House of Commons, on Thursday, February 7, 1828, on his motion, that an humble address be presented His Majesty, praying that he will graciously be pleased to issue a commission for inquring into the defects occasioned by time and otherwise in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same. London: Henry Colburn, 1828.
First edition of Brougham’s famous six-hour speech (the longest in the history of the Commons) which kick-started the long-overdue reform of the British legal system.
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![[BRÉGHOT DU LUT, Claude, Antoine PERICAUD and Pierre-Alexandre GRATET-DUPLESSIS.]](/photos/30/main/30.jpg "[BRÉGHOT DU LUT, Claude, Antoine PERICAUD and Pierre-Alexandre GRATET-DUPLESSIS.]")
[BRÉGHOT DU LUT, Claude, Antoine PERICAUD and Pierre-Alexandre GRATET-DUPLESSIS.] ~ Recueil de la chevauchée, faicte en la ville de Lyon: La dixseptiesme de Novembre 1578. Avec tout l’Ordre tenu en icelle. Lyon: [J.M. Barret], [1829].
One of 100 copies on papier vélin of this critical edition of a sixteenth-century verse account of what, in English, would be called a ‘skimmington ride’ (a spontaneous and noisy procession to ridicule an erring husband or wife).
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BULLOCK, Charles, the Reverend. ~ The Home Life of The Prince Consort. London: Home Words Publishing Offices, [n.d.]
Second edition.
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![[BURNET, Sir Thomas.]](/photos/127/main/127.jpg "[BURNET, Sir Thomas.]")
£650.00
[BURNET, Sir Thomas.] ~ Le Chevalier de St. George, réhabilité dans sa qualité de Jacques III. par de nouvelles preuves. Avec la relation historique des suites de sa naissance, par Mr. Rousset, membre de l’Académie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, &c. “A Whitehall, de l’ancienne imprimerie du Cokpit”, [?Amsterdam], 1745.
A very scarce French work with a false “Whitehall” imprint on the subject of James Stuart (variously the Old Pretender or Chevalier de St.
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(CALONNE, Charles Alexandre de). ~ Grande révolution arrivée à Londre [sic] et emprisonnement du sieur de Calonne pour l'avoir excité. [Paris:] J. Calais , n.d. [c. 1791.]
First and only edition of this violent polemic against the disgraced minister Calonne, who had been blamed for the collapse of French finances on the eve of the Revolution.
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£180.00
CANDEILLE, Julie. ~ Souvenirs de Brighton, de Londres et de Paris; et quelques fragmens de litterature légère; par Mme Simons-Candeille. Paris: Delaunay, Mongie, Lenormand, L’Huillier, 1818.
First edition.
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£850.00
(CANNIBALISM). (FRANCIS SPAIGHT.) ~ Les Naufrages du Francis-Spaight. Trois hommes dévorés par leurs compagnons d’infortune. --- Délivrance miraculeuse des Naufragés. [caption title]. [Rouen: Emile Periaux, 1836.]
First reported in the Irish press in January 1836, news of the wreck of the Francis Spaight which had taken place on December 3, 1835 was communicated in full by the London Times of June 22, 1836.
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£800.00
(CARADOC, of Llancafarn, Saint.) ~ Die Historie van Walles, in sich haltend derer Printzen von Walles Leben und Thaten, von Cadwalader... biss auf Lhewelinum... Vormahls geschrieben in Brittischer Sprache von Caradoco Lhancarvanensi; nachmahls von D. Powel in Englisher publiciret, und von Mr. Wynne vermehret; ietzo aber aus dieser ins Teutsche gebracht. Coburg: Paul Gunther Pforenhauer, 1725.
First edition in German of the Welsh medieval Chronicle of the Princes, commonly known as the Chronicle of Caradoc of Llancarfan.
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![[CAREW, Bampfylde-Moore.]](/photos/927/main/927.jpg "[CAREW, Bampfylde-Moore.]")
£200.00
[CAREW, Bampfylde-Moore.] ~ The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the beggars. Being An impartial Account of his Life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the Age of Fifteen and entering into a Society of Gipsies; wherein the Motives of his Conduct are related and explained: The great Number of Characters and Shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other Places of Europe: with his Travels twice through great Part of America: Giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies, with the Method of electing their King. And a dictionary of the cant language used by the mendicants. London: for J. Buckland, C. Bathurst and T. Davies, 1793.
The celebrated life of a colourful swindler and impostor, first published in 1745 and reprinted numerous times.
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£750.00
[CERFVOL, De, pseudonym.] ~ Mémoire sur la population, dans lequel on indique le moyen de la rétablir, & de se procurer un corps militaire toujours subsistant & peuplant. “Londres” [but Paris], 1768.
First edition of an influential pro-divorce polemic and a significant contribution to the eighteenth-century population debate.
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£350.00
CHALMERS, Thomas. ~ Sermons preached in the Tron church, Glasgow. Glasgow: for John Smith and Son, William White and Co in Edinburgh and Longman et al in London, 1819.
First edition, very scarce, of a work reprinted twice in the following decade.
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£7500.00
CHAMPIER, Symphorien. ~ Campus Elysius Galliae amoenitate refertus: in quo sunt medicinæ compositæ, herbæ et plantæ virentes: in quo quicquid apud Indos, Arabes, et Poenos reperitur, apud Gallos reperiri posse demonstratur. Lyon: Melchior & Gaspard Trechsel, 1533.
First edition of two of the most influential and characteristic works by the renaissance physician and humanist, Symphorien Champier, colleague of Michael Servetus and François Rabelais at the Schools of Medicine at Lyons.
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(CHARLES X, King of France.) ~ Arrivée de Charles X en Angleterre. [Marseille: Rouchon, n.d. ?1830.]
A rare Marseille-printed pamphlet announcing the arrival of the recently-abdicated French King at Porstmouth.
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![[CHEVRIER, François Antoine.]](/photos/463/main/463.jpg "[CHEVRIER, François Antoine.]")
[CHEVRIER, François Antoine.] ~ Testament politique du maréchal duc de Belle-Isle. “Paris: aux dépens des Libraires associés” [?Amsterdam], 1762.
First published in 1761 and also published in English in 1762.
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£120.00
(CHURCH OF ENGLAND). SEABURY, Samuel, the Reverend. ~ The continuity of the Church of England in the sixteenth century: two discourses: with an appendix and notes... New York: Pudney & Russell, 1853.
First edition of a work “designed to explain and defend the position of the Church of England, so far as it involves that of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States” (Preface).
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£4400.00
CICERO, Marcus Tullius. ~ [The complete works, in Latin]. Paris: Simon de Colines & Robert Estienne, 1543-1547.
An exceptionally rare complete set of the Colines-Estienne Cicero in a handsome uniform binding.
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£475.00
(CIVIL LIST.) ~ The Devil’s menagerie of state paupers. An alphabetical list of places, pensions, sinecures, grants, and compensations. [London: Glover, 1832.]
First edition of this very scarce exposé of individuals receiving state pensions and other favours, with marvellous woodcut illustrations.
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£700.00
COBBETT, William. ~ Cobbett’s two-penny trash; or politics for the poor. Vol.1 [parts 1-12]; [Vol. 2 parts 1-12]. London: by the author, 1831-2.
First edition, a complete run (there was no issue for March 1832).
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£200.00
COBBETT, William. ~ Cobbett’s paper against gold: containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England, the funds, the debt, the sinking fund, the bank stoppage, the lowering and raising of the value of paper-money; and shewing, that taxation, pauperism, poverty, misery and crimes have all increased, and ever must increase, with a funding system. No.1[-15]. [London]: W. Molineux, [1817.]
First published in the Political Register 1810-15; then in two vols in 1815; then in parts (as here) in 1817.
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£350.00
COLQUHOUN, Patrick. ~ A treatise on the commerce and police of the river Thames: containing an historical view of the trade and port of London; and suggesting means for preventing the depredations thereon, by a legislative system of river police. With an account of the functions of the various magistrates and corporations excercising jurisdiction on the river; and a general view of the penal and remedial statutes connected with the subject... London: for Joseph Mawman, 1800.
First edition of this celebrated treatise by the Benthamite reformer and pioneer of the London police forces.
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£475.00
(COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING) “From Howland’s Steam Confectionery and Grocery stores, 12 & 14, Bank Street, Ashford.” ~ [A complete uncut sheet of 16 confectioner’s labels/wrappers.] [n.p., n.d., but Kent, c. 1890-1900.]
A lovely ephemeral survival from Ashford, Kent.
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£400.00
COTTU, Charles. ~ On the administration of criminal justice in England; and the spirit of English government... translated from the French. London: for Richard Stevens and Charles Reader, 1822.
First complete edition in English (a much abbreviated version had appeared in the Pamphleteer in 1821).
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![[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]](/photos/280/main/280.jpg "[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]")
£300.00
[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.] ~ Histoire du maréchal de Fabert, lieutenant général des armées du roy, gouverneur des ville & château de Sedan &c. Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1697.
First edition of this biography of one of France’s greatest seventeenth-century military leaders.
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![[DALRYMPLE, David, Sir.]](/photos/137/main/137.jpg "[DALRYMPLE, David, Sir.]")
£550.00
[DALRYMPLE, David, Sir.] ~ Proposals for carrying on a certain public work in the city of Edinburgh. [Edinburgh, 1752.]
First edition of a humorous and scatological skit on Sir Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto’s Proposals for carrying on certain public works in the city of Edinburgh which had appeared in the same year: the pioneering work of Enlightenment urban improvement which persuaded the town council to begin its celebrated building projects.
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![[DAVENANT, Charles.]](/photos/77/main/77.jpg "[DAVENANT, Charles.]")
£350.00
[DAVENANT, Charles.] ~ A discourse upon grants and resumptions. Showing how our ancestors have proceeded with such ministers as have procured to themselves grants of the crown-revenue; and that the forfeited estates ought to be applied towards the payment of the publick debts... the second edition. London: for James Knapton, 1700.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of this protest against the policy of gifting forfeited lands away by the crown and proposing precedents for their resumption.
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![[DODSLEY, Robert, attributed to.]](/photos/926/main/926.jpg "[DODSLEY, Robert, attributed to.]")
£450.00
[DODSLEY, Robert, attributed to.] ~ Le miroir des dames et de la jeunesse ou Leçons de toutes les vertus qui honorent les deux sexes. Ouvrage tiré d’un Manuscrit Indien Rempli de Maximes, et de Sentences. Appropriées a tous les Version libre de l’Anglois âges et a tous rangs. Version libre de l’Anglois. Paris: [Firmin Didot for] Le Fuel & Delaunay, n.d., [c. 1820.]
An elegant little Didot production, presumably designed as a gift for children or parents, combining cursive and civilité typefaces with a lovely series of stipple-engraved plates.
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£3000.00
DONNE, John. ~ Biathanatos. A declaration of that paradoxe or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise. Wherein the nature, and the extent of all those lawes, which seeme to be violated by the act, are diligently surveyed. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1648.
First edition, second issue, giving the date '1648'.
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£450.00
DRUMMOND, Henry, editor. ~ On the condition of the agricultural classes of Great Britain and Ireland. With extracts from the parliamentary reports and evidence, from 1833 to 1840. And remarks by the French editor, published at Vienna... London: John Murray, 1842.
First edition in English, very scarce, of this translation of De l’agriculture et de la condition des agriculteurs en Irlande et dans la Grande Bretagne (1840), based on the parliamentary commission of 1833-6.
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£200.00
DUNCKLEY, Henry. ~ The charter of the nations; or, free trade and its results: an essay on the recent commercial policy of the United Kingdom, to which the council of the National Anti-Corn Law League awarded their first prize. London: W. and F.G. Cash and M’Glashan in Dublin and Menzies in Edinburgh, 1854.
First edition, presentation copy.
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![DUVAL, N[icolas.]](/photos/989/main/989.jpg "DUVAL, N[icolas.]")
£4400.00
DUVAL, N[icolas.] ~ Nouvelles Écritures de Finance & Italienne bâtarde, en usage Avec un traité pour apprendre l’Ortographe par N. Duval Secretaire Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy & M. Escrivain Juré Paris po[ur] les verifica[ti]ons des Écritures et Signat[u]res. Dediées a Monsieur de Bellinzani Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils. &c. [Paris:] “Le livre se vend chez l’Autheur demeurant vis à vis le grand portail de St. Eustache...” [letterpress Privilege gives: Paris: widow of John Henault and his son Francis Henault, 1674.]
Nicolas Duval was an influential figure in the development of French calligraphy and worked at the heart of the French government as Secretaire Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy.
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£200.00
[D’URFEY, Thomas.] ~ The Weesils. A satyrical fable: giving an account of some argumental passages happening in the Lion's Court about Weesilions taking the oaths. London: [n.p.], printed in the year. 1691.
First edition of D’Urfey’s anonymously published satire on William Sherlock, lampooning his notorious abandonment of nonjuror principles and satirising the reputed influence of his much-reviled wife.
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£300.00
EDMONDSON, Joseph. ~ Precedency by Joseph Edmondson Esq. Mowbray Herald. London: “Engraved and Printed for the Editor and Sold by him at his House in Warwick Street Golden Square St. James,” [n.d. but c. 1780.]
First edition of this book of precedency, engraved throughout.
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(EDUCATION, America). GOULD, Benjamin Apthorp Jr. ~ An American University. An oration before the Connecticut Beta of the phi beta kappa fraternity at Trinity College, Hartford, 1856, July 15. Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1856.
First edition.
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(ENGLAND). BLACK, Adam and Charles, publishers. ~ Black’s Guide to England and Wales containing plans of the principal cities, charts, maps, and views, and a list of hotels. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1870.
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![[ERARD, Claude.]](/photos/903/main/903.jpg "[ERARD, Claude.]")
£700.00
[ERARD, Claude.] ~ Plaidoyez de Mr.***, avocat au Parlement. Paris: Jacques Le Febvre, 1696.
First edition of Erard’s legal pleas, a presentation copy.
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![EYRIÈS, J[ean] B[aptiste] B[enoît].](/photos/999/main/999.jpg "EYRIÈS, J[ean] B[aptiste] B[enoît].")
£650.00
EYRIÈS, J[ean] B[aptiste] B[enoît]. ~ L’Angleterre, ou, Costumes, moeurs et usages des Anglais. Suite de gravures coloriées avec leurs explications. Paris: Libraire de Gide Fils, [n.d, but c. 1821.]
First edition of a surprisingly scarce illustrated book.
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![FADEN, W[illiam].](/photos/983/main/983.jpg "FADEN, W[illiam].")
£800.00
FADEN, W[illiam]. ~ The Country Twenty-Five Miles Round London, planned from a scale of one mile to an inch. London: William Faden, [January 1st] 1795.
Faden’s maps of London and its region were first printed in 1788 and were regularly updated.
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£650.00
(FAUST, Johann). PALMA-CAYET, Pierre-Victor. ~ Histoire prodigieuse et lamentable de Jean Fauste, grand magicien avec son testament et sa vie epouventable. “Cologne, chez les Héritiers de Pierre Marteau” [i.e. Bruxelles G. de Backer], 1712
A very scarce edition.
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£300.00
[FINCH, Daniel, Earl of Nottingham.] ~ Observations sur l’état de la nation Britannique au commencement de l’année 1713. Par un pair du royaume. Traduit de l’anglois, avec des remarques. “Londres, chez Jean Morphew” [but probably Low Countries], 1713.
First edition in French of Observations upon the state of the nation, in January 1712/3, an assessment of the position of Great Britain on the eve of the Hanoverian succession.
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![FLEURY, [Claude, Abbé.]](/photos/935/main/935.jpg "FLEURY, [Claude, Abbé.]")
£900.00
FLEURY, [Claude, Abbé.] ~ Les devoirs des maîtres et des domestiques... Paris: Pierre Aubouin, Pierre Emery, et Charles Clouzier, 1688.
First edition of an illuminating treatise on the reciprocal duties of masters and servants.
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![[FOUQUET, Charles Louis Auguste de,] Duc de Belle-Isle [and Louis-Georges-Erasme CONTADES, marquis de].](/photos/407/main/407.jpg "[FOUQUET, Charles Louis Auguste de,] Duc de Belle-Isle [and Louis-Georges-Erasme CONTADES, marquis de].")
£150.00
[FOUQUET, Charles Louis Auguste de,] Duc de Belle-Isle [and Louis-Georges-Erasme CONTADES, marquis de]. ~ Lettres du Marechal Duc de Belleisle au Marachel de Contades; avec des extraits de quelques-unes de celles de ce dernier; trouvées parmi les papiers, aprés la Bataille de Minden. Suivant la copie de Londres, imprimée sur les originaux, par autorité du gouvernement de la Grande Bretagne. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1759.
One of several editions of 1759, professedly “suivant la copie de Londres” issued in both English and French; other editions rapidly appeared in Amsterdam, Paris, and The Hague.
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£300.00
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. ~ [Poor Richard’s almanac/The way to wealth, in French.] La science du bonhomme Richard, ou, Le moyen facile de payer les impots dans les possessions de l’Amerique angloise; Contenant en outre, Un discours de S.E. Mr. Jean Hancock, président du Congrès de Philadelphie. L’interrogatoire que Mr. Francklin subit au mois de février de 1766 devant le parlement d’Angleterre - La constitution de la République de Pensylvanie, telle qu’elle a été établie par la Commission générale de Philadelphie au mois de juillet 1776; & L’interrogatoire de Mr. Penn, a la barre du Parlement au mois de Novembre de la même année. Ouvrages traduits de l’anglois, qui mettent dans tout leur jour les principes & la fuite des contestations qui divisent les insurgents avec la mere patrie. “A Philadelphie, et se trouve à Lausanne, Chez François Grasset & comp.” 1778.
The Way to Wealth first appeared in French as a separate publication in 1777.
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£1200.00
(FREEMASONRY). ~ Free masonry the high-way to hell. A sermon: wherein is clearly proved, both from reason and scripture, that all who profess these mysteries are in a state of eternal damnation. London: [no printer’s name given], 1768.
An apparently unrecorded issue of this anonymous anti-freemasonry sermon: also printed in the same year as Masonry the Way to Hell.
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£750.00
(FRENCH REVOLUTION. MANUSCRIPT.) ~ Mémoire sur les fonctions des Assemblées Administrative de District et de leurs Directoires. [France: 1790.]
An interesting French revoutionary document, being a contemporaryscribal copy of the successive instructions issued to the newly established local district Assemblées during 1790 concerning their jurisdiction and operation.
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£850.00
(FRENCH REVOLUTION.) ~ Discours, addressé [sic] à un certain peuple sur sa situation présente … “a Londres: se vend chez W. Richardson” [but probably continental], 1789.
Second edition, a rare Revolutionary pamphlet, first published the year before, and amended here in light of the ‘happy events’ of the Revolution which ‘obligent le zèle et la bonne foi de l’auteur … de donner ici, comme dans un postscrit, ou supplément, les corrections et additions que la justice et le changement des circonstances rendent nécessaires’ (p.
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![FREYDIER, M[onsieur].](/photos/1002/main/1002.jpg "FREYDIER, M[onsieur].")
£550.00
FREYDIER, M[onsieur]. ~ Plaidoyer de M. Freydier, avocat à Nismes, contre l’introduction des cadenats ou ceintures de chastete. Montpellier: Augustin-Françous Rochard, 1750.
The record of a bizarre case of sexual jealousy.
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£400.00
(FRIENDLY SOCIETIES). ~ Rules and orders to be observed by the Union Society, Macclesfield. Founded January 28th 1783... revised by the committee. Macclesfield: P. Hall, 1817.
A very rare set of Friendly Society regulations, with additonal evidence of their operation in the form of slips and notes of payment to a member.
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£600.00
(GAMBLING). MUMFORD, Erasmus. ~ A letter to the club at White’s. In which are set forth the great expediency of repealing the laws now in force against excessive gaming, and the many advantages that would arise to this nation from it. London: printed for W. Owen, at Homer’s Head, near Temple-Bar, 1750.
First edition.
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£250.00
GATTEY, François. ~ Éléments du nouveau systême métrique, suivis des tables de rapports des anciennes mesures agraires avec les nouvelles... Paris: Bailly and Rondonneau, ‘An X’ [1801].
First edition of an important practical guide to the new metric system, designed to counteract the persistence of local customary measurements in the regions of France and containing numerous tables for conversion from the old measures to the new.
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£250.00
(GEORGE II). COEUR, Jacob de. ~ Odes a la gloire de sa Majeste Britannique George II. et a la louange de son altesse serenissime le Duc de Cumberland: envoyées pour etrennes au premier Janvier de l'an 1744. Vieux stile. La Haye: J.A. Barreau, 1744.
An apparently unrecorded eighteenth-century pamphlet published in The Hague as a New Year’s greeting to George II, issued following his victory against the French at The Battle of Dettingen in 1743, while preserving Flanders from the predations of the French.
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£200.00
(GLOGOV.) ~ Auspicio D.T.O.M. Indultu Invictiss. R. Imp. D. Rudolphi II. semp. augusti, & c. suffragio: illustris, & magnifici, domini: Johan-Albert Rhai, à Zilinou. Phil. & J.V. Doct. S. Caes. Maj. &c. Consil. Com. Pal. & Imp. &c. Eq. Aur. C. Rom. Orat. & Poetae Caes. &c. Dextrâ: Nobilis, Clariss, & Ampliss. Dn. M. Joh. Hornii, Hall. Not. Apost. & Imp. &c. eiusdem &c. à Secr. ordinarii, &c. Laurus Poetica missa Christophoro Preis, Fraunstadiensi, SS. Th. Stud. A. 1609. Glogau: Joachim Funck, [?1609.]
An unusual and ephemeral production, comprising a series of Latin congratulatory verses printed in Glogov addressed variously to Christophorus Preis, Rudolph II, Joannes-Albertus Rhajus, Johannes Hornius and Johannis Georgius a Rottenberg ‘pharmacopaeo Pragensi’.
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£400.00
GREGG, William Rathbone. ~ Essays on political and social science, contributed chiefly to the Edinburgh Review. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853.
First edition in book form of these influential essays.
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£175.00
GRENVILLE, [William Wyndham Grenville, Baron]. ~ Substance of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, in the House of Lords, November 30, 1819. On the Marquis of Lansdowne's motion, that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the state of the country, and more particularly into the distresses and discontents prevalent in the manufacturing districts, and the execution of the laws with respect to the numerous meetings which have taken place. Pp. [iv] (half title and title), 62, [2] (advert). London: John Murray, 1820.
An interesting collection of speeches by leading lights of British politics given between 1819-1822.
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(GRONOW, Rees Howell). ~ The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: being anecdotes of the camp, court, clubs, and society, 1810-1860. London: John C. Nimmo, 1900.
New edition of Captain Rees Howell Gronow (1794 - 1865) amusing meditations on his extensive travels and observations of society, nobility, culture, the court of Napoleon III, the Duke of Wellington, Chateaubriand, Louis XVIII, Madame de Stael, fashionable society throughout Europe.
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£300.00
(HANDBILL). ~ A la Bonne Foy, Cour des Réligieux de l’Abbaye Saint Germain des Prés, la quatrieme Boutique Paris: N. Fr. Valleyre jeune, c. 1773-83.
A lovely survival of a Parisian haberdasher’s advertisement.
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£150.00
[HARDY, Thomas.] ~ The patriot. Addressed to the people, on the present state of affairs in Britain and in France. With observations on Republican government, and discussions of the principles advanced in the writings of Thomas Paine. Edinburgh: for J. Dickson and G. Nichol in London, 1793.
First edition of a rather reactionary consideration of Paine’s republicanism which includes notice of the earlier critique by John Quincy Adams.
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HELPS, Alfred, Sir. ~ The claims of labour. An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed. London: William Pickering, 1844.
First edition.
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HOBSON, J. A. ~ John Ruskin Social Reformer. London: James Nisbet & Co, 1898.
First edition.
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HOLT, Ardern. ~ Fancy dresses described; or what to wear at fancy balls... third and greatly enlarged edition. With additional coloured illustrations. London: Debenham & Freebody, Wyman & sons, [1882].
You’re going to fancy dress party in 1882.
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![[HOTMAN, François.]](/photos/13/main/13.jpg "[HOTMAN, François.]")
£500.00
[HOTMAN, François.] ~ La vie de Messire Gaspar de Colligny Seigneur de Chastillon, Admiral de France. A laquelle sont adiousté se Memoires sur ce qui se passa au Siege de S. Quentin. Leyden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevir, 1643.
First Elzevir edition of this biography of the French protestant hero Gaspard de Coligny.
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£200.00
HUNT, Henry. ~ To the radical reformers, male and female, of England, Ireland, and Scotland. “Ilchester Bastile, 26th day, 7th month, 2nd year of the Manchester massacre, without retribution or enquiry, April 11” [London: Thomas Dolby,] 1821.
Two rare issues of Henry Hunt’s radical addresses from Ilchester jail, where he was imprisoned for his part in various reform meetings and the events leading to the Peterloo Massacre.
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£300.00
INGELO, Nathanael. ~ Bentivolio and Urania, in six books. The fourth edition with large amendments. Wherein all the obscure words throughout the book are interpreted in the margin, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former editions. London: A[nne].M[axwell]. and R[obert].R[oberts]. for Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey, 1682.
Fourth, amended edition.
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£450.00
INGLIS, Henry David. ~ The Channel Islands: Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, &c: (the results of a two year’s residence). London: Whittaker, Treacher, Arnot, 1834.
First edition of a scarce work which ran to several editions.
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(IRELAND). ~ [MONSABRÉ, Père.] Pour l’Irlande. Allocution prononcée dans l’église de la Madeleine à Paris, le 18 avril 1880, par le P. Monsabré... Paris: [E. de Soye et fils for] E. et A. Lesort; Collège des Irlandais and Bureaux de la Semaine religieuse, [ 1880.]
First edition.
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£250.00
(IRELAND.) NICHOLLS, George. ~ Poor laws - Ireland. Three reports by George Nicholls, Esq., to her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for the home department, London: by W. Clowes and sons, 1838.
First edition.
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£475.00
JACOB, Edward. ~ The history of the town and port of Faversham, in the county of Kent. By Edward Jacob, Esq. F.S.A. Illustrated with copper plates. London: for the author, by J. March; and sold by B. White, In Fleet-Street; L. Hawes, and Co. In Pater-Noster-Row; S. Patterson, In Essex-Street; and by S. Doorne, in Faversham, 1774.
First edition, author’s presentation copy inscribed, in the year of Jacob’s death to William LeGrand (probably his brother-in-law).
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£150.00
(JESUITS). OLIVER, George, the Reverend. ~ Collections towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English, and Irish members of the Society of Jesus. London: Charles Dolman, 1845.
First edition, one of 250 copies of this valuable biographical dictionary.
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£450.00
LE SAGE, Alain René. ~ Diable boiteux (in French and English ) ...The devil upon two sticks, or The crippled devil. In French and English. In two volumes... New York: T. and J. Swords, for J. Rivington, Pearl Street, 1795.
A New York printing of this bilingual version of Le Sage’s best selling novel, aimed (according to the advertisement) at elementary students of French.
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£135.00
LESTER, C. Edwards. ~ The glory and the shame of England... New York: Harper & brothers, 1841.
First edition.
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£150.00
LINGUET, [Simon Nicolas Henri]. ~ Mémoires sur La Bastille, et sur la détention de M. Linguet, écrits par lui-même. London [i.e. Berne: Weller]: T. Spilsbury, 1783.
An early edition of Linguet's memoir of his incarceration in the infamous Bastille prison from 1780-82.
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£2000.00
(LONDON). BANKS, John Henry, & Co. ~ A Balloon View of London [as seen from Hampstead]. London: “published as the act directs, May 1st 1851, by, Banks & Co... Effingham Wilson,” 1851.
The very scarce first edition of Banks’s famous Balloon View, issued to coincide with the opening of the Geat Exhibition: and depicting Crystal Palace in its orginal site in Hyde Park.
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£250.00
(LONDON). HERBERT, Henry, publisher. ~ London (illustrated). A complete guide to the places of amusement, objects of interest, parks, clubs, markets, docks, principal railway routes, leading hotels, and also a directory, in a concise form, of first class reliable houses in the various branches of trade. Seventh year of publication. London: Henry Herbert & Co, 1878.
A very attractive and scarce Victorian guide to London, copiously decorated and illustrated and especially interesting for the series of photographic illustrations by Elliot and Fry, mainly depicting current luminaries of the London stage (Mesdames Albani and Marie Roze, the Bateman sisters, J.
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(LONDON). KELLY, publisher. ~ Kelly’s map of the suburbs of London. London: Kelly’s Directories Ltd, n.d. [c.1870].
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£150.00
(LONDON). LEIGH, Samuel, publisher. ~ Leigh’s new picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious, medical,literary, municipal, commercial and moral state of the British metropolis presenting a luminous guide to the stranger on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement to with are subjoined a description of the environs, and a plan for viewing London in eight days. London: for Leigh and Son, and Baldwin and Craddock, 1834.
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(LONDON). MACQUEEN-POPE, W[alter]. ~ Haymarket: theatre of perfection. London: W.H. Allen, 1948.
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![(LONDON). MOGG, E[dward].](/photos/257/main/257.jpg "(LONDON). MOGG, E[dward].")
£400.00
(LONDON). MOGG, E[dward]. ~ Mogg’s London and its Environs for 1855, Exhibiting a Circle of Three Miles from the General Post Office. And an index to three thousand places. London: W Mogg, [1855].
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(LONDON). NEVILL, Ralph and Charles Edward JERNINGHAM. ~ Piccadilly to Pall Mall, manners, morals, and man. London: Duckworth & Co., 1908.
First edition.
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(LONDON). SLADEN, Douglas. ~ Sladen’s London and its Leaders (illustrated). London: Sands & Co, [1902].
First edition of a fascinating survey of Edwardian London society.
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(LONDON). TIMBS, John. ~ Curiosities of London exhibiting the most rare and remarkable objects of interest in the metropolis with nearly sixty years’ personal recollections... a new edition, corrected and enlarged. London: Virtue & Co., 1876.
First published in 1855 Timbs’s Curiosities is a wonderful catalogye of London facts and eccentricities: alchemists, coffee houses, Chelsea buns, fogs, law courts, railway termini, prisons - they’re all here.
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(LONDON). WHEATLEY, Henry B. ~ Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall; or a ramble from the Haymarket to Hyde Park. Consisting of a retrospect of the various changes that have occurred in the court end of London. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1870.
First edition.
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£125.00
(LOUIS XIII). ~ Les actions du temps. [N.p.]: 1622.
A rare satirical pamphlet aping the style of contemporary almanacs, addressing public grievances against Louis XIII’s government.
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![(LOUIS XIII). [FANCAN, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de.]](/photos/48/main/48.jpg "(LOUIS XIII). [FANCAN, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de.]")
£125.00
(LOUIS XIII). [FANCAN, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de.] ~ La chronique des favoris [drop-head title]. [N.p.]: [n.d., 1621.]
First edition of this satire directed against Charles Philippe d’Albert, duc de Luynes and his brothers, favourites of Louis XIII.
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![LOVEDAY, R[obert].](/photos/866/main/866.jpg "LOVEDAY, R[obert].")
£850.00
LOVEDAY, R[obert]. ~ Loveday’s Letters Domestick and Forrein. To several persons, occasionally distributed in subjects philosophicall, historicall, & morall. By R. Loveday Gent. the late translator of the three first parts of Cleopatra. London: J.G. for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1659.
First edition.
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£1650.00
LUPI, Girolamo. ~ Il Caudatario... Opera non men utile, e curiosa, che necessario à Cortegiani, et à Gentilhuomini che seanno nella Corte di Rome... [?Rome, first part of the seventeenth century, but after 1641.]
The ‘caudatari’ or train-bearers of Rome were central to the rituals of the mass and of the papal courts.
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£600.00
[L’ESTOILE, Pierre de]. ~ Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de France. Contenant ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable dans ce royaume depuis 1515. jusqu’en 1611. (Ed. Jean Godefroy). Cologne [Brussels]: Heirs of Herman Demen, 1719.
A finely-illustrated history of France in the sixteenth and early-seventeenth century.
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![[L’HERMITE, Jean Baptiste, seigneur de Soliers.]](/photos/930/main/930.jpg "[L’HERMITE, Jean Baptiste, seigneur de Soliers.]")
£575.00
[L’HERMITE, Jean Baptiste, seigneur de Soliers.] ~ Le Cabinet du Roy Louis XI. Contenant plusieurs Fragmens, Lettres missives, & secretes Intrigues du Regne de ce Monarche, & des autres Pieces tres curieuses, & non encores veuës. Receüillies de diverses Archives & Tresors. Paris: Gabriel Quinet, 1661.
First edition of a scarce history of the reign of the late-medieval French king.
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£525.00
MACKENZIE, Eneas. ~ A descriptive and historical account of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, including the Borough of Gateshead. Newcastle: Mackenzie and Dent, 1827.
First edition.
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£400.00
MADDISON, Ralphe. ~ Great Britains remembrancer, looking in and out. Tending to the increase of the monies of the Commonwealth. Presented to his Highness the Lord Protector, and to the High Court of Parliament now assembled... London: for Tho[mas] Newcomb, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, 1655.
An expanded version of Maddison’s Englands looking in and out (1640).
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£450.00
MALCOLM, John. ~ Sketch of the political history of India from the introduction of Mr. Pitt’s bill, A.D. 1784, to the present date... London: James Moyes for William Miller, 1811.
First edition, large paper copy.
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£400.00
(MALTHUS.) [WHATELY, Richard, later Archbishop of Dublin.] ~ Hints on the cultivation of the peat-bogs in Ireland, with a view to the increase of population, security, and public happiness, especially in that part of the Uited Kingdom. In a letter to the Rev. T. Malthus. [London: by the Pamphleteer,] 1816.
First edition of a letter published as a contribution to The Pamphleteer (vol.
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£8000.00
(MANUSCRIPT NOVEL). ~ [A fictional narrative of the adventures of Valsain and Aspaisie and their friends Qisnhy and Carithe in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Northern Europe and America.] [?France c. 1800-1801.]
A manuscript novel, almost certainly authorial and unpublished.
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£350.00
(MANUSCRIPT). ~ [Metallurgy] Copie de Lettres... [Napoleonic-era letterbook]. [France:] 2 January - 29 December 1811.
A richly-informative manuscript, being the record of letters sent on behalf of a manufacturer of iron to a wide variety of tradesmen and officials, including the proprietors of factories and forges and craftsmen such as nail-makers, pin-makers, iron, wood and charcoal merchants.
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![MARIN, [François Louis Claude.]](/photos/362/main/362.jpg "MARIN, [François Louis Claude.]")
£950.00
MARIN, [François Louis Claude.] ~ Histoire de Saladin, Sulthan d’Egypte et de Syrie, avec une introduction, une histoire abrégée de la Dynastie des Ayoubites fondée par Saladin, des notes critiques, historiques, géographiques, et quelques pièces justicatives. Paris: Tilliard, 1758.
First edition of Marin’s accomplished Middle Eastern history, a work which was widely-read and influential in the emerging orientalism in French culture.
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£3000.00
(MARITIME LAW). ~ Ordonnance de Louis XIV, roy de France et de Navarre. Donée à Fontainebleau au mois d’Aoust 1681. Touchant la Marine. Paris: Denys Thierry and Christophle Ballard, 1681.
First edition of Colbert’s famous codification for Louis XIV, the basis of modern maritime law in all parts of the world.
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£750.00
MARSHALL, John. ~ An account of the population in each of six thousand of the principal towns and parishes in England and Wales, as returned to Parliament at each of the three periods, 1801, 1811, & 1821... shewing also the estimated annual value of the real property in each town and parish as assessed to the property tax in 1815... London: for the author, R. Jennings and W. Chaplin, 1831.
First editions of these massive statistical works compiled while Marshall was employed on the commission to inspect the boundaries of the cities and boroughs, for purposes of the Reform Bill.
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![MARTIN, C. F[rançois.]](/photos/998/main/998.jpg "MARTIN, C. F[rançois.]")
£400.00
MARTIN, C. F[rançois.] ~ Les Tables de Martin, ou le Régulateur Universel des calculs en parties doubles; ouvrage par invention, pour trouver, d’une manière certaine, tous les rapports réciproques du nouveau système et de poids et mesures de tous les pays, ainsi que des francs, livres tournois et monnaies étrangères. Précédé d’une instruction générale; suivi d’un tableau décimal complet en dix pages; de tables d’intérêt depuis un huitième jusqu’à 25 pour cent; des opérations des divers changes avec les principales villes de l’Europe; de la conversion des monnaies étrangères en monnaies de France, et vice versâ; du cubage des bois ronds, équarris et autres, etc.; divisé en 25 chapitres, précédé chacun d’une instruction particulière... Paris: chez l’auteur, 1817.
Le régulateur universel was an ingenious and widely-used calculator for the conversion of regional French and European weights and measures into the newly constituted metric system.
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£900.00
MARTINELLI, Vincenzio. ~ Istoria del governo d’Inghilterra e delle sue colonie in India, e nell’ America Settentrionale, scritta da Vincenzio Martinelli a sua eccellenza il Sig. principe D. Lorenzo Corsini. Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1776.
First edition of this Italian account of the constitution of England, of which the largest part is devoted to a description of the British colonies in the East Indies and in America.
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![[MAYEUR DE SAINT-PAUL, François.]](/photos/925/main/925.jpg "[MAYEUR DE SAINT-PAUL, François.]")
£850.00
[MAYEUR DE SAINT-PAUL, François.] ~ Le vol plus haut, ou l’espion des principaux théatres de la capitale; contenant une histoire abrégée des acteurs & actrices de ces mêmes theâtres, enrichie d’observations philosophiques & d’anecdotes récréatives. Dedié aux amateurs. “Memphis: chez Sincere, Libraire réfugié au Puits de la Verité” [?Paris,] 1784.
First edition of a notorious libelle, directed against the Parisian theatrical world and some of its luminaries, usually attributed to the wayward actor Mayeur de Saint-Paul and occasionally to one or more associates: the arch-libellist Charles Thévereau de Morande, François Poultier and the actor Dumont.
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£150.00
MAZURE, F[rançois]. A[ntoin]. J[ean]. ~ Histoire de la Revolution de 1688, en Angleterre. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin and in London & Leipzig by Colburn, Saunders and Otley, Martin Bossange and Co., Treuttel et Wurtz, Treuttel Fils and Richter; Bossange Frères, Zirgès, 1825.
First edition, with a nice Maggs provenance.
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£225.00
McCULLOCH, John Ramsey. ~ The principles of political economy: with a sketch of the rise and progress of the science. London: for William Tait in Edinburgh, Longman in London and Curry in Dublin, 1830.
Second edition “corrected and greatly enlarged” of the most influential manual of political economy before Mill.
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£500.00
(MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT FACSIMILE). ~ Les Sires de Gauves [spine title] Les Sires de Gavres [title]. Brussels: [Gachet for] Vandale, [ 1845.]
A handsome recreation of the medieval roman of the Sires de Gavres, ligthographed throughout in imitation of a fifteenth-century manuscript.
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£1250.00
MENA, Manuel Antonio de. ~ Estado general del Imperio Rusiano ò Moscovita, desde su origen hasta la toma de Azoff en la presente guerra. Tomo I... [Tomo II]. Madrid: Lorenzo Francisco Mojados, 1736-38.
First edition of this very scarce Spanish history of the Russian empire.
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![(MILITARY MANUSCRIPT). C[HASTELET, Paul Hay, Marquis de.]](/photos/302/main/302.jpg "(MILITARY MANUSCRIPT). C[HASTELET, Paul Hay, Marquis de.]")
£750.00
(MILITARY MANUSCRIPT). C[HASTELET, Paul Hay, Marquis de.] ~ Traité de la Guerre, ou Politique Militaire. “Paris: Girard”, n.d. [c. 1668.]
An attractive seventeenth-century military manuscript, a very early copy of Chastelet’s Traité de la Guerre, neatly executed, and conforming to the pagination of the first printed edition quite precisely - the printed version containing 277 pages.
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(MILL, John Stuart.) BAIN, Alexander. ~ John Stuart Mill. A criticism: with personal recollections. London: Longman, Green, and Co. 1882.
First edition in book form.
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MOLESWORTH, William Nassau. ~ The history of the Reform Bill of 1832. London: Chapman and Hall, Ireland and Co. in Manchester, 1865.
First edition.
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£100.00
MOORE, Frank. ~ Songs and ballads of the American revolution. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1856.
First edition.
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MORLEY, John. ~ The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. London: Macmillan and Co, 1905-6.
First published 1903.
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(NAPOLEON BONAPARTE). “AHRIMAN I” (pseud). ~ Ought France to worship the Bonapartes? London: [Collingridge for] Robert Hardwicke, 1863.
First edition of this anonymous pamphlet deploring the persistence of the Napoleonic cult.
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![NECKER, M. [Jacques].](/photos/879/main/879.jpg "NECKER, M. [Jacques].")
£800.00
NECKER, M. [Jacques]. ~ Du pouvoir exécutif dans les grands états. [n.p., Paris?:], 1792.
First edition.
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£250.00
NEILD, James. ~ An account of the rise, progress and present state of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales... London: “for the benefit of the charity”, Nichols and son, 1802.
First edition of this remarkable survey of the prisons of Britain.
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£600.00
(NELSON, Horatio, Viscount Nelson). CHARNOCK, John. ~ Nelson's leben nach dem Englishen. Bremen: Johann Heinrich Müller, 1807.
First German edition of Charnock's biography of Nelson, very well preserved in its original binding.
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£2000.00
NOLLET, Jean-Antoine. Miguel Geronimo SUAREZ Y NUNEZ, translator. ~ Arte de Sombrerero [L’art de faire les chapeaux, in Spanish] Traducido al castellano, de orden de la Real Junta General de Comercio, Moneda, y Minas por D. Miguel Geronymo Suarez y Nuñez. Madrid: Andres Ramirez, [1771.]
First edition in Spanish of L’art de faire les chapeaux, the first systematic and scientific study of the ancient process of hat-making, which Jean-Antoine Nollet had written for the Encyclopédie (1765).
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£200.00
(OPERA BILL.) (COOKE, Thomas Simpson, composer.) ~ Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. This Evening, Saturday, May 2, 1829. His Majesty’s Servants will act (By Particular Desire) 42nd time, a new Drama, in two Acts, called Charles the XIIth... After which, the Farce of The Portrait of Cervantes... To conclude with (for the 12th Time) a New Grand Melo-Dramatic Fairy Tale, entitled Thierna-Na-Oge Or The Prince of the Lakes. The Overture and Music composed and selected by Mr. T. Cooke. The whole produced under the direction of Mr. W. Barrymore... Monday next, May 4, will be produced, (for the first Time) A New Grand Opera, Masaniello; Or The Dumb Girl of Portici... The new Melo-Dramatic Fairy Tale of Thierna-na-Oge; Or, The Prince of the Lakes, Every Night! Colman’s Comedy of the Jealous Wife. London: J.Tabby, Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [1829.]
Cooke’s Thierna-na-Oge is one of the first operas by an Irish-born composer to make use of the country’s rich store of legends: Thierna-na-Oge being the mythical Irish Atlantis.
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£150.00
(OPERA BILL.) (MEYERBEER, Giacomo, composer.) ~ Theatre Royal, Drury Lane This Evening, Monday, April 8th, 1833, Their Majesties’ Servants will perform, (for the First Time this Season), Meyerbeer’s Grand Opera of Robert The Devil With the Whole of the Music, for the First Time on an English Stage. On this occasion Mr. H. R. Bishop will preside in the Orchestra... To conclude with the Ballet Opera of The Maid of Cashmere. (With the whole of the Music, for the Eighth Time in this Country, by Auber,) Arranged and Adapted to the English Stage by Mr. H. R. Bishop... [London:] S. G. Fairbrother Printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [ 1833.]
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£350.00
(OPERA BILL.) (ROSSINI, Gioachino,) ~ [William Tell.] Brilliant Success And Most Extraordinary Combination Of Attractions! Rossini’s Guillaume Tell! Mr. Van Amburgh and His Lions!! and The New Ballet of The Spirit of Air!!! On The Same Evening. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Public is requested to take notice that the Overture will commence at a Quarter before seven o’clock. This Evening, Friday, December 14th, 1838, Her Majesty’s Servants will perform Rossini’s renowned Opera (in Four Acts) of Guillaume Tell... After the Opera Mr. Van Amburgh Will Exhibit A Series of Extraordinary Performances, With The Whole Of His Trained Animals To conclude with the First Act of the grand Fairy Ballet, entitled The Spirit Of Air!... [London:] W. Wright, Printer Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [ 1838.]
A Drury Lane spectacular, combining the excitements of Rossini’s William Tell with a sensational act by the American lion-tamer Isaac van Amburgh.
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£200.00
(OPERA BILL.) (VERDI, Giuseppe.) ~ (Otello). Royal Lyceum Theatre... Italian Opera... Friday, July 5th, 1889, at 8.20 p.m., First Peformance in London of Otello Grand Opera, in Four Acts, By Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boïto. (The Opera is founded on Shakespeare’s tragedy.) The Music of “Otello” published by G.Ricordi, London and Milan. [London, 1889.]
A rare opera bill advertising the first performance in England of Verdi’s Otello.
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£500.00
(OPERA BILL.) (WEBER, Carl Maria.) ~ Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. The Last Time of acting before the Holidays, Mr. Fawcett’s Night Saturday next, March 18, 1826. The performance of the Evening will commence with The Overture to Der Freischütz, Which, the Composer, Carl Maria Von Weber, has kindly volunteered to conduct in the orchestra, for that Night only. After which will be revived the Comic Opera of Love in a Village... With the musical Farce of A Roland for an Oliver... To which will be added (in one act) the ballet of The Deserter of Naples To conclude with The Ceremony of Shooting a Deserter. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. Fawcett, 4, Tavistock-street, Covent-Garden; and at the Box-Office, Hart-street. [London:] W. Reynolds, 9, Denmark-court, Strand, [ 1826.]
A rare Covent Garden bill, advertising a unique performance of the overture of Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, conducted by the composer himself.
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£150.00
(OXFORD UNIVERSITY). ~ Parecbolæ sive excerpta e corpore statutorum universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis XXXIX in Ecclesia Anglicana recepti: nec non juramenta fidelitatis et suprematus. In Usum Juventutis Academicæ. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1794.
A very pretty eighteenth-century copy of the Oxford University statutes.
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£1250.00
[PAGANUCCI, Jean.] ~ Manuel historique, géographique et politique des négocians, ou, Encyclopédie portative de la théorie et de la pratique du commerce. Lyon: Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1762.
First edition of this very extensive commercial encyclopaedia.
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£300.00
PALISSOT DE MONTENOY, Charles. ~ La Dunciade, ou la guerre des sots; Poëme. “Chelsea” [but probably Netherlands,] 1764.
Palissot was one of the most potent of the anti-philosophes, lampooning Diderot and Rousseau in his popular play Les philosophes, first performed in 1755.
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(PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY). ~ Origine et vices de la constitution Britannique; suivi d'un detail historique des elections pour le parlement en 1818. Paris: [Denugon] for L'Huillier and Delaunay, 1818.
Rare first edition, in original wrappers.
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£300.00
PENN, William, Robert BARCLAY and Joseph PIKE. ~ Three treatises in which the fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline of the people called Quakers, are plainly declared. The first, by William Penn, in England; the second by Robert Barclay, in Scotland; the third, by Joseph Pike, in Ireland. [PENN, William. A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers... The sixth edition;] [BARCLAY, Robert. The anarchy of the ranters, and other libertines; the hierarchy of the Romanists, and other pretended churches, equally refused and refuted, in a two-fold apology for the Church and people of God, called in derision, Quakers;] [PIKE, Joseph. An Epistle to the National Meeting of Friends, in Dublin, concerning good order and discipline in the Church.] Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1770.
First edition thus.
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£600.00
PENN, William. ~ Histoire abrégée de l’origine et de la formation de la société dite des Quakers, ou sont exposés clairement leur principe fondamental, leur doctrine, leur culte, leur ministere, et leur discipline, precedée d’une introduction ou il est traité en peu de mots des dispensations anterieures de dieu aux hommes... nouvellement traduite de l’Anglois par Ed. P. Bridel. Londres [genuine]: J. Phillips, 1790.
First edition of Bridel’s French translation of A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers.
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PIERRET, Paul. ~ Essai sur la mythologie Égyptienne... Paris: Charles de Mourges frères, 1879.
Inscribed by the author.
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£350.00
PLAYFAIR, William. ~ A fair and candid address to the nobility and baronets of the United Kingdom; accompanied with illustrations and proofs of the advantage of hereditary rank and title in a free country... London: W. Lewis, for the proprietors of family antiquity, 1809.
First edition of Playfair’s resounding endorsement of the benefits of an hereditary nobility, an unapologetically elitist thesis aimed squarely at fashionable republicanism.
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£400.00
(PRIMER). ~ The New England primer, improved, for the more easy attaining the true reading of English, to which is added the Episcopal and the Assembly of Divines’ catechisms. Embellished with cuts. New Haven: S. Babcock, 1838.
First published in the 1680s the New England Primer became the most successful of all early educational texts for American children and was reprinted in numerous editions into the twentieth century.
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£300.00
(QUAKERS). CLARKSON, Thomas. ~ Histoire des Quakers; traduite de l’anglais de Clarkson, et suivie de récit de la réforme opérée dans la prison de Newgate, a Londres, par le Comité des Dames. Geneva and Paris: J.J. Paschoud, 1820.
First edition in French of Clarkson’s very successful and influential A Portraiture of Quakerism (1806).
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£150.00
(QUEEN MARY). (DURHAM, Lady Agnes). ~ [A decorative index/address book given to Lady Agnes by Queen Mary in 1924, with signed pictorial note of thanks tipped in.] Christmas, 1924 and later.
A royal gift of a luxurious address book, with a personal note from Queen Mary to Lady Agnes Durham of Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
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£300.00
[RAGUENET, François.] ~ Histoire d'Olivier Cromwel. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1691.
First edition, with a second edition appearing in the same year.
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£350.00
RAYMENT, Robert. ~ The corn-trade of Great Britain, for eighteen years, from 1748, to 1765. Compared with the eighteen years, from 1771, to 1788. Shewing the national loss in the latter period to have been above twenty millions of money... London: for T. Whieldon, 1790.
First edition.
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£425.00
RETZ, Jean François Paul de Gondi de, ~ Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz. Containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars. Translated from the French. In four volumes... London: for T. Becket, T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1774.
The Memoirs were first printed in English in 1723 and were immediately popular.
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£500.00
RICHMOND, Alexander Bailey. ~ Narrative of the condition of the manufacturing population; and the proceedings of government which led to the state trials in Scotland, for administering unlawful oaths, and the suspension of the habeas corpus act, in 1817, with a detailed account of the system of espionage adopted at that period, in Glasgow and its neighborhood. Also, a summary of similar proceedings, in other parts of the country, to the execution of Thistlewood and others, for high treason, in 1820. London: for John Miller, 1824.
First edition of Richmond’s remarkable account of industrial unrest in the Scottish weaving trade.
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(RIDLEY, Nicholas, Bishop.) ~ ... Some account of the life and martyrdom of the right reverend Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Lord Bishop of London. Bristol: J. Chilcott, sold at the Depository, 6, Clare Street, Bristol; and by L.& G. Seeley, Fleet Street, London, 1839.
This is no VI in the series issued by the Church of England Tract Society “instituted in Bristol, 1811” (from the title).
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£300.00
[RIDPATH, George.] ~ Parliamentary right maintain’d or the Hanover succession justify’d. Wherein The Hereditary Right to the Crown of England asserted &c. Is Consider’d, in III. Parts. The Ist Examins the Plea from Scripture. The II. That from the Laws & History of England, for Indefeasible Right, Nonresistance & Disposition of the Crown by Will. The III. Whether the Parliament, can repeal the Hanover Succession, as now Establish’d by the Treaty of Union. With Reflections on the Treasonable Schemes of the Party, as they occurr in their Book: & Particularly that of a new lurking pretender. [London?], 1714.
First edition of this vigorous defence of the legality of the Hanover succession over the Stuarts and of parliamentary right by George Ridpath, whig polemicist, libellist and bigamist.
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£175.00
[RIVEROL, Antoine de.] ~ Petit dictionnaire des grands hommes de la Revolution; par un Citoyen actif, ci-devant Rien. Paris: “au Palais Royal, de l’Imprimerie Nationale,” 1790.
First edition.
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ROBERTSON, Joseph. ~ On scholastic offices in the Scottish Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. [N.p., ?Edinburgh or Aberdeen]: printed for private circulation, 1853.
Scarce first edition of this work on the medieval Scottish church, inscribed by the author: “James T.
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£450.00
ROMILLY, Sir Samuel. ~ The speech of Sir Samuel Romilly, in the House of Commons, on the twenty-eighth of June, 1814, on that article in the treaty of peace which relates to the slave trade. London: J. M’Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814.
First separate edition, to be distinguished from the appearance of the speech as pp.
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£200.00
RONQUILLO, Pedro. ~ The idea of the court of France, and the method of their proceedings, from the time of the Peace of Nijmeguen, until the spring of the year 1684. Supposed to be written by Don Pedro Ronquillo, the Embassador of Spain at the Court of England. Done out of Spanish into English. London: for A. and J. Churchil, 1704.
First edition in English of this diplomatic memoir by the Spanish ambassador to England.
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(RUSKIN). QUENNELL, Peter ~ John Ruskin: the portrait of a prophet. London: Collins, 1949.
First edition.
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SACHEVERELL, Henry. ~ A sermon preach’d before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret’s Westminster, on Friday, May 29. 1713. London: for Henry Clements, 1713.
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(SACHEVERELL, Henry.) ~ A list of the lords who protested against some proceedings, in relation to the case of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, in the House of peers; with their lordships reasons for entring their protestations. London: 1710.
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(SACHEVERELL, Henry.) [BURNET, Gilbert.] ~ The Bishop of Salisbury his speech in the House of Lords, on the first article of the impeachment. of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. London: 1710.
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(SACHEVERELL, Henry.) [BURNET, Gilbert.] ~ The Bishop of Oxford his speech in the House of Lords on the impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. London: for Jonah Bowyer, 1710.
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(SACHEVERELL, Henry.) [KING, William.] ~ A vindication of the Reverend Dr. Henry Sacheverell, from the false, scandalous, and malicious aspersions cast upon him in a late infamous pamphlet, entitled, The Modern Fanatick. Intended chiefly to expose the iniquity of the faction in general, without taking any considerable notice of their poor mad tool B-t in particular. In a dialogue beteen a Tory and a Wh-g. London: for H. Clements, [1711.]
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£400.00
(SCOTLAND). ~ The beast is wounded. Or information from Scotland, concerning their reformation. Wherein is briefly declared, the true cause and ground of all the late troubles there; and the reasons why they have rejected the bishops, with their courts, canons, ceremonies and service books. Hereto is added some fruitfull observations, upon the former declaration by Jo. Bastwicks younger brother. [Amsterdam: “Richt Right” press,] “printed in the yeare that the bishops had their downfall in Scotland,” [1638].
First edition of this rare Puritan pamphlet on the downfall of the Scottish bishops, written from an apocalyptic perspective and printed in the Low Countries.
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£400.00
(SCOTTISH ROYAL BOROUGHS.) ~ A Bill Proposed to be submitted to the consideration of Parliament [drop-head title], for Correcting the Abuses, and supplying the Defects, in the internal Government of the Royal Boroughs, and in the manner of accounting for the Property, Annual Revenues, and Expenditure of the same, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Prepared by The Committee of Delegates, [Edinburgh: 1787.]
Rare.
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£800.00
SETTLE, Elkanah. ~ Eusebia triumphans. The Hannover succession to the imperial crown of England, an heroick poem. London: for John Nutt, 1702.
First edition of the Restoration dramatist’s celebratory poem in rhymed heroic verse on the future of the Hanoverian succession, bound like many of his works in a presentation binding under the instruction of the author, or even (as has been suggested) by the author himself.
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£100.00
SIMPSON, James. ~ The philosophy of education, with its practical application to a system and plan of popular education as a national object. Second edition. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, Longman & Co and others in London, John Cumming and others in Dublin, 1836.
Second edition.
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£200.00
SLANEY, Robert Aglionby. ~ Essay on the beneficial direction of rural expenditure... London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
First edition.
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£200.00
[SMITH, Horatio.] ~ Torr Hill. By the author of “Brambletye house,” etc., etc., Paris: [A. Belin for] A. and W. Galignani, 1827.
Smith’s popular historical romance set at Glastonbury in the time of Henry VIII and the Reformation.
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(SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE.) ~ A letter to Mr. Hugh Bell, chairman of the Convention of Delegates. [?Edinburgh, ?1792.]
First edition of this pamphlet subscribed “a burgher of Edinburgh” charging the chairman of the Scottish Convention of Delegates with having allowed the electoral principles of the Society of Friends to become confused with the far more radical and un-parliamentary politics of Thomas Paine.
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£575.00
SPELMAN, Sir Henry. ~ Tithes too hot to be touched. Certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due. By the law of nature, scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, Popish, or inconvenient. Written by Sr. Henry Spelman Knight, and others. With an alphabeticall table. London: for Philemon Stephens, [1636].
First edition.
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SPIELMANN, M[arion]. H[arry]. ~ John Ruskin A Sketch of His Life, His Work, and His Opinions with Personal Reminiscences; Together with a Paper by John Ruskin entitled "The Black Arts". London: Cassell and Company, 1900.
First edition, including a Reprint of the paper by Ruskin entitled "The Black Arts" which was first published in The Magazine of Art.
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£900.00
STACKHOUSE, Thomas. ~ The art of short-hand. on a new plan adapted to the English language ... By Thos. Stackhouse A.M. London: for the Author, & sold by J. Wilkie, [n.d., c. 1775.]
First and only edition of a rare early shorthand manual attributed by ESTC to the Minister of St.
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STRACHEY, Lytton, ~ Elizabeth and Essex, a tragic history. London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.
First edition.
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£750.00
STRUTT, Joseph. Antoine Marie Henri BOULARD, translator. ~ Angleterre ancien, ou, Tableau des mœurs, usages, armes, habillemens, &c. des anciens habitans de l’Angleterre; c’est-à-dire, des anciens Bretons, des Anglo-Saxons, des Danois & des Normands. Ouvrage traduit de l’anglois de M. Joseph Strutt, par M. B***, & pouvant servir de suite aux Recueils de Montsaucon & de Caylus. Paris: [widow Herissant for]: Maradin, 1789.
First editon in French of Strutt’s antiquarian work, Horda Angel-cynnan: or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c.
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£3400.00
(STUART, Charles, Baron Stuart de Rothesay). ~ [5 fine blue morocco bindings by Simier from the Rothesay collection.] 1640-1650.
A handsome group, superbly bound in Paris by Simier for Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, British ambassador to France 1815-24 and 1828-31.
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£275.00
STUART, Gilbert. ~ The history of the establishment of the Reformation of religion in Scotland... London: for J. Murray and J. Bell, 1780.
First edition of Stuart’s account of the Scottish Reformation from 1517 to 1561.
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£1400.00
SULLY, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de. ~ Memoires de sages et royales oeconomies d’estat, domestiques, politiques et militaires de Henry le Grand, l’exemplaire des roys, le prince des vertus, des armes et des loix, & le pere en effet de ses peuples François. Et des servitudes utiles obeissances convenables & administrations loyales de Maximilen de Bethune l’un des plus confidens; familiers & utiles soldats & serviteurs du grand Mars des François. Dediez à la France, à tous les bons Soldats & tous peuples François. “A Amstelredam: chez Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee, & Graphexechon de Pistariste, à l’enseigne des trois vertus couronées d’Amaranthe,” n.d. [1638];
The Mémoires are the principal source for the political, economic, military and legal history of the reign of Henry IV (“le Grand”), compiled by the king’s most able and most trusted minister.
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£300.00
SWIFT, Jonathan. ~ The history of the four last years of the Queen. Published from the last manuscript copy, corrected and enlarged by the author's own hand. London: for A. Millar, 1758.
First edition, without the variant mis-prints.
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£100.00
SÉGUR, L.[ouis]-P.[hilippe], Comte de. ~ Contes, Fables, Chansons et Vers... Paris: F. Buisson, Mongie l’aîné and Frère l’aïné at Rouen, “An IX” [1801.]
First edition of this collection of pieces by the historian and former statesman de Ségur.
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£600.00
[The Journal of the proceedings of the Lords Commissioners of both nations, in the treaty of union, which began on the 16th April 1706, and was concluded on the 22nd of July following...] ~ Edinburgh: [1706.]
Three rare and fundamental texts of the Treaty of the Union which which united the countries of Scotland and England under the new name of “The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
