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DRUMMOND, Henry, editor.
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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. more...

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DUNCKLEY, Henry.
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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.

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GASKELL, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn.
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GASKELL, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn. ~ Cranford; preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson.   London: Macmillan and Co.,   1892.

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GREGG, William Rathbone.
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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. more...

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(MALTHUS.) [WHATELY, Richard, later Archbishop of Dublin.]
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(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. more...

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[MANCINI, Cesare, attributed to.]
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[MANCINI, Cesare, attributed to.] ~ Les plaisirs innocens et amoureux de la campagne, contenant le traite des mouches à miel, ou les régles pour les bien gouverner, & le moyen d’en tirer un profit considerable par la recolte de la cire & du miel. Et un avis pour ceux qui veulent tirer de l’utilité des vers soye Avec la methode d’elever, nourrir & querir toutes sortes d’oyseaux de ramage. Et un traité des chasses, de la venerie & fauconnerie...   Amsterdam: Paul marret,  1699.

First published in 1692, this is the second edition of this attractive work on country life, bee culture, silkworms, cage-birds and hunting. more...

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RAYMENT, Robert.
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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.

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RICHMOND, Alexander Bailey.
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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. more...

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SLANEY, Robert Aglionby.
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SLANEY, Robert Aglionby. ~ Essay on the beneficial direction of rural expenditure...   London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,  1824.

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WATTS, John.
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WATTS, John. ~ The facts of the cotton famine.   London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co and Ireland & Co in Manchester,  1866.

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