House of Commons 1814. Sm. folio 46pp on laid paper with woodcut head-piece; sewed as issued but disbound a remarkably crisp clean copy ideal for framing and display. 54 Geo III xxxvi; Session 1814-14; granted Royal Assent 4 May 1814. DARROCH & TAYLOR 4355 RECORDS THIS ACT AS THE FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE PARISH. House of Commons, unknown
House of Commons 1813. 8vo. 44pp. on laid paper some black-letter with woodcut head-piece; disbound a remarkably crisp clean copy ideal for framing and display. 53 Geo. III cxlii; granted Royal Assent 3 June 1813. DARROCH & TAYLOR 4133 RECORDS THIS ACT AS THE FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE TOWN. House of Commons, unknown
House of Commons 1819. Sm. folio 26pp on laid paper with woodcut head-piece; disbound a very good clean crisp copy ideal for framing and display. Goddard p.108 records this act as the first separately published reference to the parish House of Commons, unknown
House of Commons 1818. Sm. folio 20pp on laid paper; disbound a very good clean legible copy ideal for framing and display. 58 Geo.III: Session 1818; granted Royal Assent 23 May 1818. GODDARD p.55 RECORDS THIS ACT AS THE FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED REFERENCE TO THE PARISH. House of Commons, unknown
London: Baskett 1768. disbound pamphlet 2 pages pages a little stained some old wormholes to margin otherwise very good. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Baskett Paperback
London: Baskett 1768. disbound pamphlet 2 pages pages a little stained otherwise very good. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Baskett Paperback
London: Printed : George Eyre & Andrew Strahan 1803. original gathers. Fine. tall octavo. 130pp. Fascinating document inc. a 109 page schedule of duties for such diverse items as : ambergris badger skins broken glass opium leopard & lion skins tea tobacco whale oil & wine. Disbound but nice condition Printed : George Eyre & Andrew Strahan unknown
London: Charles Eyre William Strahan 1776. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio 30.5x19cm. Part of collection of statutes chapter 14 pages 349-370. Arms of George III on the first page. Disbound pages clean no marks minimal foxing to the bottom of pages. Charles Eyre, William Strahan unknown
London: Charles Eyre & William Strahan 1771. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 sale item tall quarto 46 pp. general title leaf pp. 1271-1314 complete in itself but part of a series two pieces of clear tape on extraction mark at left margin else very good London: Charles Eyre & William Strahan unknown
London: Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew 1779. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Red morocco-backed green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed some light spotting. Bookplate of John Carter Brown ex-library with stamp on title else very good. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Financing the Revolution. A satire. Often attributed to Richard Tickell as it imitates the tone of Tickell's "Anticipation" published the year before. Purports to contains speeches made in the Houses responding to the King's speech on the war in America and his need for more monies to pay for it. Adams "American Controversy" 79-3a; Sabin 1685 Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew unknown
London: Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew 1779. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Red morocco-backed green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed some light spotting. Bookplate of John Carter Brown ex-library with stamp on title else very good. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Financing the Revolution. A satire. Often attributed to Richard Tickell as it imitates the tone of Tickell's "Anticipation" published the year before. Purports to contains speeches made in the Houses responding to the King's speech on the war in America and his need for more monies to pay for it. Adams "American Controversy" 79-3a; Sabin 1685 Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew unknown books
Mezzotint frontis. port. of George III a little foxed arms on each title & two engraved views of the library serving as head- & tailpieces. Five vols. Large folio cont. red straight-grained morocco minor scuffing panelled & tooled in gilt with centerpiece stamped monogram "GR" surmounted by a crown on covers spines gilt dentelles gilt a.e.g. London: W. Bulmer & W. Nicol 1820-29. The catalogue "sumptuously printed" by Bulmer of the magnificent library of King George III 1738-1820 donated to the nation by his son George IV. This is a royal copy having belonged to Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the fifth son of George III who became King of Hanover in 1837. It is superbly bound in red straight-grained morocco and printed on paper superior to other sets. "The kings of England had from the end of the fifteenth century always shown a certain taste for fine books especially for the handsomer volumes of their own day.A new library was started in 1765 by King George III when he purchased for 10000 pounds the valuable collection of incunabula with a few manuscripts brought together by Joseph Smith 1682-1770 the British Consul at Venice. "George III continued adding to his library for nearly fifty years buying with considerable discrimination at all the notable sales of the period; he secured the best books at the West Ratcliffe and Askew auctions built up a magnificent collection of English plays and kept on right up to the Roxburghe sale 1812. His usual agents were Messrs Nicol the booksellers but he seems to have obtained from the Continent some extremely valuable incunabula by the assistance of one Horn of Ratisbon a great despoiler of the German convents. "There is a sumptuously printed but hastily compiled catalogue of which copies are seldom met with."�-De Ricci pp. 55-56. "As a boy George III had received an excellent education. He learned Latin well enough to be able to read the classics; French and German; history geography and the British political system; mathematics and elementary science; art architecture and music. After he left the schoolroom he continued his education under the Earl of Bute an inspiring if somewhat pedantic tutor.Under his tuition the King developed wide cultural interests a reverence for scholarship and the instinct of a collector. "The King's aim was.to acquire a library which contained every book which an eighteenth-century scholar could desire. It was a library to be used not simply to be admired.It was as far as it could be in the eighteenth century a universal library.It is rich in library catalogues. In addition to the catalogues of British libraries there are catalogues from France Italy Spain Portugal Germany Belgium Switzerland Sweden Poland and Russia. There are over five hundred sale catalogues most British and most with the prices marked. "It was the King's wish that a catalogue should be published but he postponed this as long as possible. When it became clear after 1812 that the King would never recover Queen Charlotte and the Prince Regent urged the preparation of a catalogue. It was compiled by Barnard and published between 1820 and 1829 in five folio volumes.It was never offered for sale but copies were presented to heads of state and the great libraries in the United Kingdom and on the Continent. It is today an extremely rare book."�John Brooke "The Library of King George III" in The Yale University Library Gazette Vol. 52 No. 1 July 1977 pp. 33-45. "Frederick Barnard had begun the catalogue of the books and manuscripts of the King's Library while it was at Buckingham House. The catalogue was completed.by Barnard and his staff for the Trustees of the British Museum and printed in five volumes between 1820 and 1829.Very few copies were printed none for sale and they are now very rare."-�Paintin The King's Library p. 22. This copy lacks the engraved frontispiece portrait of Bernard. A sixth volume issued separately in 1829 and not present here describes the maps prints and drawings. A magnificent set. From the library of Prince Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the subsequent Kings of Hanover. Miller That Noble Cabinet p. 125�"one of the finest libraries ever created by one man.By the time of the King's death the collection amounted to 65250 volumes besides 19000 unbound tracts." unknown
Mezzotint frontis. port. of George III a little foxed arms on each title & two engraved views of the library serving as head- & tailpieces. Five vols. Large folio cont. red straight-grained morocco minor scuffing panelled & tooled in gilt with centerpiece stamped monogram "GR" surmounted by a crown on covers spines gilt dentelles gilt a.e.g. London: W. Bulmer & W. Nicol 1820-29. The catalogue "sumptuously printed" by Bulmer of the magnificent library of King George III 1738-1820 donated to the nation by his son George IV. This is a royal copy having belonged to Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the fifth son of George III who became King of Hanover in 1837. It is superbly bound in red straight-grained morocco and printed on paper superior to other sets. "The kings of England had from the end of the fifteenth century always shown a certain taste for fine books especially for the handsomer volumes of their own day.A new library was started in 1765 by King George III when he purchased for 10000 pounds the valuable collection of incunabula with a few manuscripts brought together by Joseph Smith 1682-1770 the British Consul at Venice. "George III continued adding to his library for nearly fifty years buying with considerable discrimination at all the notable sales of the period; he secured the best books at the West Ratcliffe and Askew auctions built up a magnificent collection of English plays and kept on right up to the Roxburghe sale 1812. His usual agents were Messrs Nicol the booksellers but he seems to have obtained from the Continent some extremely valuable incunabula by the assistance of one Horn of Ratisbon a great despoiler of the German convents. "There is a sumptuously printed but hastily compiled catalogue of which copies are seldom met with."-De Ricci pp. 55-56. "As a boy George III had received an excellent education. He learned Latin well enough to be able to read the classics; French and German; history geography and the British political system; mathematics and elementary science; art architecture and music. After he left the schoolroom he continued his education under the Earl of Bute an inspiring if somewhat pedantic tutor.Under his tuition the King developed wide cultural interests a reverence for scholarship and the instinct of a collector. "The King's aim was.to acquire a library which contained every book which an eighteenth-century scholar could desire. It was a library to be used not simply to be admired.It was as far as it could be in the eighteenth century a universal library.It is rich in library catalogues. In addition to the catalogues of British libraries there are catalogues from France Italy Spain Portugal Germany Belgium Switzerland Sweden Poland and Russia. There are over five hundred sale catalogues most British and most with the prices marked. "It was the King's wish that a catalogue should be published but he postponed this as long as possible. When it became clear after 1812 that the King would never recover Queen Charlotte and the Prince Regent urged the preparation of a catalogue. It was compiled by Barnard and published between 1820 and 1829 in five folio volumes.It was never offered for sale but copies were presented to heads of state and the great libraries in the United Kingdom and on the Continent. It is today an extremely rare book."John Brooke "The Library of King George III" in The Yale University Library Gazette Vol. 52 No. 1 July 1977 pp. 33-45. "Frederick Barnard had begun the catalogue of the books and manuscripts of the King's Library while it was at Buckingham House. The catalogue was completed.by Barnard and his staff for the Trustees of the British Museum and printed in five volumes between 1820 and 1829.Very few copies were printed none for sale and they are now very rare."-Paintin The King's Library p. 22. This copy lacks the engraved frontispiece portrait of Bernard. A sixth volume issued separately in 1829 and not present here describes the maps prints and drawings. A magnificent set. From the library of Prince Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the subsequent Kings of Hanover. Miller That Noble Cabinet p. 125"one of the finest libraries ever created by one man.By the time of the King's death the collection amounted to 65250 volumes besides 19000 unbound tracts." unknown books
London 1776. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Creased and lightly soiled small hole at central crease. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Appointing James Lee to Captain of the 30th Regiment of Foot. The appointment comes at the start of the American War of Independence though the 30th Regiment of Foot would not join the fight until 1781. unknown
London 1776. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Creased and lightly soiled small hole at central crease. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Appointing James Lee to Captain of the 30th Regiment of Foot. The appointment comes at the start of the American War of Independence though the 30th Regiment of Foot would not join the fight until 1781. unknown books
with double voucher before Sir John Eardley WILMOT 1709-1792 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1766-1771 of 2 dwellings 1 granary 3 gardens and 100 acres in the parish of Titchfield Hants owned by tenant in tail John Paffard fine engraved portrait 8" x 7�" of George III elaborately engraved border on three sides of the document the vignettes include Neptune ruling the waves and Hercules slaying the Hydra vellum 27�" x 35�" Westminster 14th June lacks seal a little creased in some folds On the verso the property is named as 'Paffard's Lee'. Before the trial John Paffard will have conveyed it to his friend John Webb the defendant for a nominal sum. Another friend Henry Cutler sues Webb for possession alleging dispossession by a fictitious Hugh Hunt. Called to warrant Webb's title Paffard in turn calls the court crier Thomas Francis Martin to say untruthfully that Martin had sold the lands to Paffard as a freehold. The process ends with judgment against Webb and Martin and with Cutler in freehold possession. John Paffard has rid himself of all entails and encumbrances on the property and will soon get it back from Cutler. Wilmot a fellow pupil with Dr. Johnson at Lichfield took part in the cases arising from John Wilkes' libels. hardcover
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd. 1907. . 1st Ed. 2 vols. Large 8vo. xvi 295pp. viii 317pp. i blank x publ. adverts. Colour port. frontiss. 51 ports. and ills. Hinges very sl. tender e.ps. lightly browned with sm. lib. ink stamp mark to top edge of front pastedown in vol. 2 where label removed original gilt lettered cloth with gilt emblem to upper board soiled and sl. rubbed corners sl. bumped spine faded bumped and sl. rubbed t.e.g. Additional postage may be necessary US$34 London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd. 1907. hardcover
printed with manuscript details appointing Richard Ward to be "Captain of Dragoons in Our Army" countersigned by "Dunk HALIFAX" George Montague-Dunk 1716-1771 2nd Earl of Halifax uncle of Lord North as a Secretary of State and by the Hon. Robert WALPOLE d. 1810 Clerk of the Privy Council Ambassador to Portugal for the War office vellum 1 side oblong folio with papered seal and revenue stamp Court at St James's 17th November Dunk Halifax 'the Father of the Colonies' was 1st Lord of Trade 1748-1761 promoting Nova Scotia whose capital is named after him 1749 as are counties in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1741 he married the heiress of Sir Thomas Dunk. In 1763 he signed the famous 'Dunk Warrant' to search and apprehend the authors printers and publishers of Wilkes 'North Briton' No. 45. After the officers arrested 18 people and seized a vast quantity of papers the warrant was pronounced by the judges to be 'unreasonable search and seizure' and Halifax was mulcted in damages. It has been called 'the most important warrant in Anglo-American law' and the doctine overturning it is closely related to the Fourth Amendment. Robert Walpole's father was Horatio 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton brother of the Prime Minister. hardcover
appointing James Hay of Seggieden 1771-1838 as Cornet in the Perthshire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry commanded by Charles Moray Esq. "and to take Rank in our Army during the Establishment of the said Regiment only" engraved with manuscript additions papered seal of Royal Arms signed also by Henry DUNDAS 1742-1811 1st Lord Melville Secretary at War 1 side vellum 9�" x 13�" no date 9th May three portions at the foot have been cut away affecting the note of registration and the statement of date also the last three letters of Dundas's signature Hay rose steadily in the Militia and by 1809 he was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the E. Perth Regiment. Seggieden is 4 miles SE of Perth. hardcover
appointing James Hay of Seggieden 1771-1838 as Captain Lieutenant in the Perthshire Regiment of Fencible Cavalry commanded by Colonel Charles Moray in the Troop of which Hay is already Captain and further he is to rank as "Captain in the Army during the Establishment of the said Regiment in the Army only" engraved with manuscript additions papered seal of Royal Arms 1 side vellum 5" x 15" no date circa lower portion has been cut away in a rather irregular line three other small portions cut out affecting two words easily supplied James Hay had begun as a Cornet in his local Yeomanry in 1794. In 1804 following the great invasion scare he had been appointed Captain though not so to rank in the Army unless called to active service. Militia regiments were being called upon to volunteer up to half their strength for service in the line and Hay now ranks as a full Captain in the Army. By 1809 he was Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the E. Perth Regiment of Militia. Seggieden is 4 miles SE of Perth. hardcover
Oxonii E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1762. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Folio 367 x 233 mms. pp. 174 contemporary red morocco two gilt panels on covers within gilt border spine ornately gilt in compartments to a regal motif all edges gilt Dutch end-papers bookplates of John Peyto Verney Lord Willoughby de Boke 1738 - 1816 and Robert John Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke 1762 - 1820 on the front paste-down end-paper; front hinge slightly cracked very slight wear to corners but generally a fine and attractive copy This collection of poems mostly in Latin but including others in English Greek Hebrew and Welsh was published to celebrate the birth of King George III and Queen Charlotte's son the future George IV. Henry James Pye 1745 - 1813; poet laureate 1790 - 1813 published his first poem in this volume in English and there are several other minor versifiers that can be identified e. g. James Merrick and Professor Joseph Spence Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1728 - 1738. An intriguing story of Spence's poem which appears on the recto and verso of H2 is recounted in The London Magazine for 1822 pages 577 - 580 in which it is asserted that Spence's original poem was deemed unsuitable and verses by William Lowth were used instead. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano 1762 unknown
He authorizes over £27457 a sum approximately equivalent to £50 million in today’s money The document is signed on the verso by the merchant-suppliers including Arnold Nesbitt Adam Drummond and Moses Franks the latter being one of the most prominent Jewish loyalists in the American Revolution Initially the British thought the American Revolution would be easily put down at a nominal cost of men and money. This in large part explains their intransigence both in the lead up to the war and in the early years of the conflict. But whereas 1776 saw major British victories and it seemed the Revolution might be played out 1777 was an altogether different story. On Christmas 1776 George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware and scored a morale-boosting victory at Trenton and this was very soon followed by another at Princeton. Then on October 17 1777 5895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms in a staggering American victory at Saratoga foiling British plans to split the northern states from the rest of the country. British General John Burgoyne lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force. This event was big news in France a traditional enemy of Britain and the French now gained confidence in the American cause and chose to enter the war as an American ally. This would in the end make all the difference. So by 1778 the cost to Britain of the Revolution was growing and the conflict was spreading. In February 1778 a Franco-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce was signed in Paris and on March 13 the French minister in London informed King George III’s government that France officially recognized the United States. Three days later on March 16 1778 a peace commission was created by the British Parliament to negotiate with the Americans. The commissioners traveled to Philadelphia where they offered to grant all of the American demands except independence. The British concessions were rejected by Congress. By June 1778 France entered the war as a military ally of the United States and was at war with Great Britain. No longer a confined revolution the North American conflict became an international war. And an expensive one. The British government had to supply and feed some 45000 troops in America at the height of the war about half of whom were British and half a combination of foreigners like Hessians and American loyalists. The Comptroller of Army Accounts Thomas Bowlby prepared and signed a report for the King and Government on June 11 1778 concerning “Two certificates for provisions delivered in His Majesty’s storehouses…by Arnold Nesbitt Adam Drummond and Moses Franks Esq. contractors for delivering provisions there for 120000 of His Majesty’s forces serving in America. Which certificates Your Lordships are pleased to direct the Comptroller of the Accounts of the Army to consider & return with their report thereupon…I have considered the same…†The agent for the contractors specified that the two orders totaled over a million pounds of pork about 274000 pounds of beef and close to 100000 pounds of butter. “Which provisions†writes the Comptroller “are certified to have been properly packed in good wholesome sound condition fit for His Majesty’s service.†The Comptroller states that the sum due was £27457 12s 1/2d “The payment of which is humbly submitted to your Lordships to be made…†That sum is approximately equivalent to £50 million in today’s money. The King and Government approved the expenditure. Document signed London June 18 1778 giving royal assent to the payment of 27457 12s 1/2d to be paid to Arnold Nesbitt Adam Drummond and Moses Franks “contractors for victualizing the forces in North America for provisions delivered…for the use of the forces serving under General Howe in America. Our Will and pleasure is and we do hereby direct authorize and command…you do pay or cause to be paid unto the said Arnold Nesbitt Adam Drummond and Moses Franks…the said sum…†The document is countersigned by Lord Westcote and Viscount Beauchamp Commissioners for the Office of Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord of the Treasury Henry Temple 2nd Viscount Palmerston. The document is signed on the verso by Nesbitt Drummond and Franks. Howe was commander-in-chief of British forces in America at this time. This document comes with the comptroller’s accounting. Documents signed by King George III financing the American Revolution or dealing directly with it in any way are very uncommon this being our first. A search of public sale records indicates it has been over twenty years since another document such as this reached that marketplace. By 1770 Britons Arnold Nesbitt a member of Parliament and Adam Drummond were in partnership holding contracts for victualing British troops in North America and Canada. After the outbreak of the American War the size of the contracts was doubled. A branch of the Franks family in America were merchants and they were the most prominent Jewish Loyalists in the American Revolution. The father Jacob Franks was from New York. There were two brothers. Moses Franks was living in London as representative there and David Franks was based in Philadelphia until he fled to England during the war. Their firm had supplied the British troops as a co-contractor with and fulfilled contractual requirements passed on from the firm of Arnold Nesbitt and Adam Drummond. This business arrangement had been in force since the conclusion of the French and Indian War and continued through the American Revolution. Another branch of the Franks family were strong patriots in the Revolution. One also named David was an aide to George Washington and Rachel daughter of another Moses Franks married Haym Salomon who helped finance the war unknown
He instructs a member of the House of Lords “to be personally present with us and with the Prelates Peers and Barons of our realm at our Parliament now holden at Westminster†It was the last Parliament George III would call as soon his son took over as Regent and assumed the King’s duties After passing a prohibition of the slave trade in March 1807 the third United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved. A new Parliament was directed to assemble on June 22 of that year. A general election was held for the House of Commons seats and it ran from May 4 until June 9. Members of the House of Lords were summoned by King George III in April for this upcoming fourth U.K. Parliament which lasted until 1812. George III’s final lapse into insanity lay just ahead and in the Act of February 1811 his eldest son George Prince of Wales was named as Regent. So this 1807 Parliament was the last that George III would call; in the future his son George would perform this duty under the British Constitution. Charles William Montagu Scott of Tindall known as Lord Dalkeith was elected to the House of Commons in 1793 and remained there until early 1807. In the latter year he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father’s junior title of Baron Scott of Tyndale. In 1812 he was made a Knight of the Thistle and succeeded his father as the Duke of Doncaster the same year. He would attend the House of Lords in the 1807 Parliament and received an official summons to do so from the King. Confirming this the book “The Historic Peerage of England†specifically states that Lord Dalkeith was summoned by Writ to Parliament in April 1807. This is that very document. Document signed Whitehall April 10 1807 to John Lord Eldon Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and as such the presiding officer of the House of Lords. “Right trusty and well beloved Councillor our will and pleasure is that you make or cause to be made forth one Writ of Summons under our Great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to be directed to our trusty and well beloved Charles William Montagu Scott of Tindall in our County of Northumberland commonly called Earl of Dalkeith to be personally present with us and with the Prelates Peers and Barons of our realm at our Parliament now holden at Westminster in as ample and honorable manner and form to all intents and purposes as any Baron of this Realm hath at any time hitherto…And for so doing this shall be your warrant.†An emendation indicates that a few minor corrections to this were made three days later “in His Majesty’s presence and by his command.†The 1807 Parliament saw three Tory administrations Prime Ministers Portland Perceval and Liverpool and the only assassination of a British prime minister when Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons by a deranged bankrupt. And after some initial disasters there was a decisive change of fortune in the war against France as Viscount Wellington won a series of victories in the Peninsula unknown
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