‎Angleterre‎

‎[Milk Industry; England]‎

‎Milk Maids and the Milk Industry ~ a collection of engravings & newspaper clippings‎

‎1888. Print. Good overall. Over 100 sheets illustrating the English milk industry milk maids all things milk. 32 engravings 2 vinegar valentines 2 color illustrations 2 hand bills two small illustrations by "H. W. P." one printed on unusual silvered paper or silver of a man delivering milk in a town numbered "55" and a colored print of the same image unnumbered in colored woodblock. Over 20 pages of newspaper clippings carefully mounted on folio sheets 13 1/2 x 11 1/2" discussing milk adulteration milk famine etc. Newspapers clipped include the Daily Telegraph and Fun great name for a newspaper. Edges a little ruffled & musty. Overall a very interesting collection impossible to recreate. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29363

‎[MILTON (John)]‎

‎Histoire entière et véritable du procez de Charles Stuard, Roi d’Angleterre. Contenant, en forme de Journal, tout ca qui s’est faict et passé sur ce sujet dans le Parlement, et en la Haute cour de justice; Et la façon en laquelle il a été mis a mort. Au mois de Janvier, 1648 et 49. Le tout fidellement receuilly des pièces autentiques et traduit de l’Anglois [sic].‎

‎In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, (4), 221, (2) p. de table, planche gravée. Réédition révolutionnaire du texte de John Milton publié en 1650, augmentée d'une préface de l'éditeur et d'additions. Milton y affirmait ses principes républicains et légitimait l'exécution du roi Charles Ier. L'ouvrage, qui est ici publié à la veille de l'exécution de Louis XVI, fait un parallèle dans la préface, entre les deux régicides. "La déclaration des deux maisons du Parlement (...)" (p. [151]-196) et "La déclaration des Communes d'Angleterre" (p. [197]-221) possèdent tous deux une page de titre particulière. La planche représente la décapitation de Charles 1er. (Manque à Martin & Walter). Bon exemplaire.‎

‎[MILTON (John)] - SAILLENS (Emile).-‎

‎John Milton, poète combattant.‎

‎P., Gallimard, NRF (Collection "Leurs Figures"), 1959, in 8° broché, 350 pages ; couverture illustrée.‎

‎PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande ...................‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 66968

‎[MISSIONARY - PROPAGANDA].‎

‎Tarik-i hayat.‎

‎Fine English Paperback. Pbo. No date, pre-1928. In Ottoman script. [8] p. 2 color plates: (Urshalim -Jerusalem -; Yafa - Haifa -). Rare pictorial booklet printed for missionary in the Ottoman Empire. Extremely rare. [= Way of life]. Fine++. Tarik-i hayat.‎

‎[Monograms] [England]‎

‎Vintage English Monogram Scrapbook‎

‎United Kingdom: n/a n.d. Scrapbook. Fair. Quarto. Approx. 11.25" x 9." Monogram Scrapbook. Maroon cloth hardcover with black stamped decorative borders and title in green blue and gilt on the front cover. Front hinge broken and front cover is loose but still attached. Cloth is split along the joints spine and corners. Light to moderate foxing to the sheets and tissue guards. 25 thick card leaves with numerous colored monograms. A few hand colored pages. No names or places identified in this collection. n/a unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 31082

‎[MONTEITH (Robert)].‎

‎Reasons for demanding investigation into the charges against Lord Palmerston.‎

‎Glasgow, William Collins, Londres, reprinted by T. Brettell, 1840 in-8, 16 pp., dérelié.‎

‎Rare. Violentes accusation du premier ministre par le socialiste chrétien écossais Robert Monteith (1812-1884), converti au catholicisme en 1846.Les griefs sont nombreux et concernent surtout la politique extérieure dans laquelle l'intéressé agissait en solitaire et avec une arrogance constante envers tous les pays étrangers (e.g. "Lord Palmerston is accused of unremitting collusion with Russia, even at a time when the State professed an open opposition to her").Un seul exemplaire au CCF (BnF). - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 239942

‎[Murray's]‎

‎A HANDBOOK FOR RESIDENTS AND TRAVELLERS IN SHROPSHIRE AND CHESHIRE‎

‎Spine sunned and with chipping along edges. Small paper label on front board. A nice and tight copy internally with map in rear pocket ; Ex-Lib; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 156, 6, 48 pages‎

‎[Murray's]‎

‎A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN HAMPSHIRE‎

‎Spine sunned and with some chipping and fraying to spine ends. Some wear to extremities. Front hinge started. Laid-in correction sheet that is darkened and frail, detached but present. Library label on front board. Bookplate. Title page hole stamped; Map in rear pocket; Ex-Lib; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 213, 52 pages‎

‎[Murray's]‎

‎A HANDBOOK TO THE ENGLISH LAKES Included in the Counties of Cumerland, Westmorland, and Lancashire‎

‎Spine sunned and with top spine outer covering chipped. VG+ maps in board pockets. Top edge of book a bit rubbed and with board pockets open at top. This is an unusually handsome Ex-lib copy with tight binding ; Ex-Library; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; xlii, 161, 52 pages‎

‎[Murray's]‎

‎HANDBOOK FOR LINCOLNSHIRE‎

‎Top of spine cover missing and rest of spine cover frail and detaching, but present. Library label on front board. Bookplate. Hole stamped on title page. ; Map in rear pocket; Ex-Lib; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 213, 18, 48 pages‎

‎[Murray's]‎

‎HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS ON OXFORDSHIRE‎

‎Spine sunned and with small chips to spine ends. Library 'Not to be taken' sticker on front board. Library book plate to front pastedown. Blindstamp to title page. Circulation card and card pocket in rear endpaper; First and only edition. A nice and tight copy with map in rear pocket ; Ex-Lib; 12mo; 242, 48 pages‎

‎[MUSIQUE] - DISTER (Alain)‎

‎Les Beatles.‎

‎Paris, Albin Michel, 1975; in-12, 190 pp., broché. Très bon état.‎

‎[MÉHÉE DE LA TOUCHE (Jean-Claude-Hippolyte)]‎

‎Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le Ministère anglais ;. les premiers représentés par le C[itoy]en Méhée, et le Ministère anglais par MM. Hamond, Yorke, et les Lords Pelham et Hawkesbury : suivie des Stratagèmes de Fr… Drake, sa correspondance, ses plans de campagne, &c‎

‎À Paris, de l'Imprimerie de la République, Germinal an XII-1804 in-8, [2]-276 pp., demi-chagrin rouille, dos à nerfs (rel. moderne). Qqs piqûres éparses.‎

‎Très intéressant témoignage de l'utilisation des agents doubles par le premier Consul : Méhée de La Touche (1760-1826) se faisait passer à Londres pour un royaliste pourchassé par la police et monta une opération pour compromettre l'un des meilleurs agents anglais, Drake, résidant à Munich, à l'œuvre derrière la plupart des conspirations du Consulat. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 204599

‎[MÉHÉE DE LA TOUCHE (Jean-Claude-Hippolyte)]‎

‎Alliance des Jacobins de France avec le Ministère anglais ;. les premiers représentés par le C[itoy]en Méhée, et le Ministère anglais par MM. Hamond, Yorke, et les Lords Pelham et Hawkesbury : suivie des Stratagèmes de Fr… Drake, sa correspondance, ses plans de campagne, &c‎

‎À Paris, de l'Imprimerie de la République, Germinal an XII - 1804 in-8, 276 pp., demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque). Dos passé et frotté. Rousseurs.‎

‎Très intéressant témoignage de l'utilisation des agents doubles par le premier Consul : Méhée de La Touche (1760-1826) se faisait passer à Londres pour un royaliste pourchassé par la police et monta une opération pour compromettre l'un des meilleurs agents anglais, Drake, résidant à Munich, à l'œuvre derrière la plupart des conspirations du Consulat. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 231965

‎[NELSON] - LANGLADE (Jacques de).-‎

‎Nelson. Biographie.‎

‎1990 Paris, Presses de la Renaissance, 1990, in 8° broiché, 442 pages ; illustrations hors-texte ; couverture illustrée en couleurs.‎

‎...................... Photos sur demande ...................‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 77832

‎[NEW ENGLAND & NEW YORK]. Backus Joseph‎

‎A Digest of Laws Relating to the Offices and Duties of Sheriff Coroner and Constable‎

‎New-York: Printed for the Author 1812. . 2 volumes. 8vo contemporary sheep lacking top surface in places; spines darkened; internally lightly browned. Ownership signature on front free endpaper of first volume and on front cover of same volume; ownership labels on both spines Comprehensive manual outlining all duties and actions required of the various officers. Marvin p. 83 New-York: Printed for the Author, 1812. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1268

‎[New England]. Little, Fred V, Executive Secretary (ed).‎

‎Boston Architectural Club Year Book for 1920.‎

‎Boston: Boston Architectural Club 1920. First printing. Beige Cloth over Boards. Very Good. Folio pp. nn ca 150 numerous b/w photographs and drawings of buildings lots of ads for building trades and others representing current architectural and related projects primarily by Boston area architects and designers. . Wonderful early Boston architectural and trade catalog. Scarce. Boston Architectural Club hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5135

‎[New England – Gilded Age – Women] Coolidge, Alice Brackett White‎

‎My Early Reminiscences / Alice B Coolidge 1926‎

‎Quincy Massachusetts: unpublished 1926. 201 pp cardstock wraps. Normal wear to wraps; overall Near Fine. Alice Brackett White Coolidge 1864–1927 was a Boston socialite of the prominent Richardson family; her grandfather was merchant and Massachusetts State Legislator Jeffrey Richardson. Coolidge was also the author of three children’s books: The Bunnies of Evergreen Village 1917 The Refugees in Evergreen Village 1918 and Evergreen Village to the Rescue 1922. Offered here is Coolidge’s unpublished memoir of her early life written in 1926 titled My Early Reminiscences.<br /> <br /> The memoir recalls Coolidge’s childhood and teen years spent mainly in Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine. Her recollections typically involve extensive descriptions of the houses at which her family stayed the scenery around them and the various families they met and visited with. Given her position in society her acquaintances are sometimes quite influential people: Princeton president John Grier Hibben enjoys Coolidge’s fishcakes; Trinity Church rector Phillips Brooks gives her grandfather an “excellent pew†in the newly-finished church; pioneering doctor Alfred Worcester mistakes red pepper for mercury in a scientific demonstration at her school; and she recalls brief correspondences with John Greenleaf Whittier and William James.<br /> <br /> Coolidge also took dance lessons from Augustus Papanti whom she describes as “one of the thinnest men I ever saw†who was “very melancholy. I hardly remember his ever smilingâ€; and remembers Judge Charles Devens for “his great stature his charming face his courtliness of manner and his really boyish simplicity in entering into our evening games†including a game of “mind reading†which Devens played “with zest.â€<br /> <br /> One of her longtime friends was Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury. She recalls:<br /> <br /> “Mr. Pillsbury as a young naval man a brother-in-law of my uncle Dr. Richardson used to take me out in the swan-boats on the Public Garden Pond. Later he went through all the ranks up to being retired as a Rear Admiral but time and circumstances never changed him. We always met at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and always talked at great length. . He was a wonderfully interesting lovable man and very modest and unassuming and shy. I always considered him one of my best friends though older by many years than I.â€<br /> <br /> Another interesting New England figure Coolidge encountered was Joseph Lee. She describes Lee’s hotel in Newton:<br /> <br /> “The house where we stayed was kept by a remarkable man named Joseph Lee. He was a mulatto much above many of his kind and his wife was a handsome woman partly Indian. They did the cooking and he waited on table with a colored maid to help him. In fact there were no white women in the house. The cooking was delicious.â€<br /> <br /> Lee was born enslaved in South Carolina freed in 1865 and went on to invent the automatic bread kneading and bread crumbing machines.<br /> <br /> Though nearly all of her childhood was spent in New England she also remembers being invited to visit Charles Joseph Bonaparte in Baltimore:<br /> <br /> “We had never been so far south except to Washington and I felt a curious feeling of being in a different atmosphere from any I had known. . We were met at the station by Mrs. Bonaparte in a large roomy covered vehicle with two horses. The coachman and footman were in the Bonaparte colors -- a deep wine color. The footman I well remember. He was a light-colored young negro very handsome and smiling and excited over having young ladies from the North. . All the servants were colored and lived in cabins near the house. . I never knew Mr. Bonaparte in public life so my memories of him are quite intimate and I fancy I saw much of his real self. . His mind was very active. He used to talk or listen as he walked and he moved his head in a curious way from one side to the other with a slightly rolling motion which was distinctly individual. . I never saw him irritated or excited and he was always very simple. In the group picture we had taken at the Maplewood he sat down cross-legged on the piazza floor like a boy. That was in about 1887. I suppose in public life or in law he was different but he was very equable and charming as we met him in his home and at the mountains. Most of all I admired his sweet tender ways with his flower-like wife.â€<br /> <br /> This was not too long after the end of Reconstruction and Coolidge remarks on the tense atmosphere:<br /> <br /> “Mrs. Bonaparte had warned me to be careful about questions regarding the North and South as the ‘feeling’ had not yet died away. I was so glad she had warned me. A gentleman slipped in and sat down beside me to watch a parade and whispered in my ear as the bands had been playing ‘Dixie’ how glad he was to meet a Northerner. I was glad to meet him too although I remember neither his name nor face but I felt I breathed freer in his sympathetic locality. . I had no idea that this feeling still remained as far North as Baltimore and of course I remembered how our Massachusetts troops had been fired upon in Baltimore at the outset of the war but I was admonished and very wise and only returned my unremembered neighbor’s greeting with a sympathetic word and look.â€<br /> <br /> Besides individuals Coolidge does cover a few historical events including the Great Boston Fire of 1872:<br /> <br /> “Oh! a horrible sight met our eyes. Back of the opposite houses in Park Square was a background of sheets of red flames and heavy black smoke rising high into the air. . On the Parade Ground all was in confusion and the sight was very sad and never-to-be-forgotten. It was literally covered with boxes and bales of furniture and sad forlorn desperate looking people crouching or sitting or standing amidst what they had saved from their homes . At night . the whole city was in darkness as there was no gas.â€<br /> <br /> The family also frequently stayed at hotels in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Coolidge recalls the “overwhelmingly tragic†effects of the 1867 sale of this land to logging companies; she writes that looking out from the Flume House in Franconia “all about were brown scarred places marking the woodchoppers’ work which was cutting away our beautiful trees for lumberâ€.<br /> <br /> In this memoir Coolidge supplies detailed remembrances of the private personalities of influential figures of Gilded Age New England. We find two copies of My Early Reminiscences on OCLC. Of interest to historians of the era especially as told through the perspective of a young woman. unpublished unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : List3141

‎[New England Stamp Co?]‎

‎The Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue‎

‎Boston nd. 1893. Revised and Corrected. Hardcover. Fair. 543 4 p. 23 cm. Small illustrations. Half black leather with black cloth. Spine missing. No title page. Ink inscription from 1894 on front free endpaper. <br/><br/>A Descriptive List of all postage stamps ever issue by any government in the world giving their date of issue color and value. Illustated wth the Types of all Stamps prices used and unused at which they can be obtained of the publishers being a useful guide for arranging stamps in the International Postage Stamp Album. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 138373

‎[No Author]‎

‎A LETTER FROM THE DUCHESS OF M-R------GH, IN THE SHADES, TO THE GREAT MAN.‎

‎Original Wraps. 12mo. [2], 79, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edition. A letter, supposedly written by the spirit of Sarah Churchill (1660-1744) , Duchess of Marlborough, to William Pitt. Includes material on the colonies in America, Cape Breton, and political events on the continent. Subjects: Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744. Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778. Great Britain - Politics and government - 1727-1760. OCLC lists 28 copies. Spine rebacked. Spine light soiling and minor tear to title page, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (SPEC-40-44)‎

‎[Notre Histoire]‎

‎NOTRE HISTOIRE‎

‎N° 133 (Mai 1996) 66 pages, format 220 x 295 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, bon état‎

‎Au sommaire : Opus Dei, un mystérieux catholicisme ; En Egypte, des harpistes aveugles ; La couronne d'Angleterre : une tiare ? ; Rothschild en Palestine, etc.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126739927

‎[OWEN (John)]‎

‎A Letter to a Country Clergyman [Thomas Sikes], Occasioned by his Address to Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By a Sub-urban Clergyman [John Owen].‎

‎First edition, [4], 61, [1] + [2]pp., publisher's ads, with half title, disbound.‎

‎[Parliamentary Acts] [George III, King of England].‎

‎A nearly full run of the Acts passed under his reign one of the most active and crucial reigns for American history.‎

‎London 1760-1819. Folio approximately 275 x 185 mm. 93 volumes including 5190 Acts. Bound in contemporary virtually uniform calf with the arms of the City of Aberdeen to the upper covers of most volumes. Some age wear as reasonably expected generally the books are sound with some recent professional restorations to extremities joints heads and toes of spines etc. where it was necessary recently professionally cleaned and polished. Contents generally fresh and clean without any significant foxing or damp-staining exceptional set overall. Provenance: these Acts were compiled and bound for the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen bearing their arms on the front and back boards until 1792 and the town's motto of Bon Accord on the bottom of the backstrip thereafter. It is likely then that these were originally housed in the old Tollbooth from which Aberdeen was governed until the construction of the larger town house complex in the 19th century. This being the case it is also likely that the medieval library that these were to be stowed away in was not overly gifted with shelf space and the incidental removal of Acts deemed less interesting to a Scottish readership would have been an easy way of slimming the collection down so that it fitted into its designated place. A near full-run of the Acts passed under the reign of King George III a period that oversaw the American Revolutionary War changes in policy regarding slavery etc. In ninety-three volumes and including 5190 Acts this collection recalls the entirety of the reign of King George III undoubtedly one of the most significant for American history and in general amongst the most dynamic and rapidly changing periods of the modern era. These Acts bear witness to the birth and rebirth of nations the reorganization and regulation of the East India Company the gradual abolition of slavery the rapid onset of the Industrial Revolution the growth of an empire that touched every corner of the known world and the rising clatter of mechanization and industry. Almost every major Act of George III's reign is included. Sixty years of some of the most energetic social and political history are laid out kept in time to the marching beat of Parliamentary governance. This set is even more interesting for having been held together and bound with the arms of the City of Aberdeen to mist volumes. This collection is an invaluable primary source of unusual scale and completeness. American contents: The United States of America's rise from a string of far-western colonies to a sovereign state is mapped comprehensively. Tensions in the Americas arguably began with the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which barred American colonists from settling further west of a line closely circumscribing existing colonial boundaries. A year later the Sugar Act and Currency Act both vol. VI heightened unrest by hampering the already struggling economies of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1765 the Stamp Act vol. VII passed into law imposing a tax on printed goods and documents payable only in British currency. The response was enormous culminating in the Stamp Act Congress whose united voices issued the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. Parliament was petitioned and when it became clear that the Act was harming British mercantile interests in the Colonies it was repealed. Soon after however the Declaratory Act vol. VIII reasserted British authority in America. To Britain control over the Colonies was essential. A succession of failed harvests combined with large-scale grain exports had led to soaring corn prices and riots across Britain. In response Parliament abolished import duties on "Corn and Grain" from America vol. VIII followed by the removal of duties on wheat and wheat flour vol. IX and later on other American grains including rice and maize vol. X. America was simply too valuable for Britain to lose. The Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768 introduced further measures to curb colonial dissent and extract greater profit from His Majesty's American possessions. The Revenue Act vol. IX placed taxes on several goods including tea and introduced Writs of Assistance allowing property searches in cases of suspected smuggling. Passed concurrently the Commissioners of Customs Act vol. IX sought to enforce compliance with British customs laws. The Indemnity Act vol. IX waived import duties on tea imported by the East India Company undercutting smuggled Dutch tea that threatened British revenue. The New York Restraining Act vol. IX suspended the New York Assembly's legislative authority until it complied with the Quartering Act of 1765 vol. VII. The last of the Townshend Acts the Vice Admiralty Court Act vol. X of 1768 replaced colonial courts with admiralty courts to more effectively punish and prevent smuggling. These Acts were later repealed except for the Indemnity Act which in 1773 was amended and continued as the Tea Act vol. XVII prompting the Boston Tea Party. Parliament retaliated with the Boston Port Act vol. XIX closing the harbour until the destroyed tea was paid for. This was the first of the five Intolerable Acts that directly precipitated the Declaration of Independence and the outbreak of war in 1776. Soon followed the Massachusetts Government Act and the Administration of Justice Act both vol. XIX. The former tightened royal control over Massachusetts while the latter permitted royal officials accused of offences in America to be tried elsewhere. The next Intolerable Act was the Quartering Act vol. XX which reiterated provisions from the earlier Act. Finally came the Quebec Act vol. XX expanding the province's boundaries into territory now part of the United States. These measures brought the Colonies to the brink of rebellion and when Parliament angered by New York's non-compliance with the Quartering Act passed the New England Restraining Act vol. XXI in 1775 banning trade with New England war finally broke out. Years of fighting followed as France Spain and the United Provinces of the Netherlands joined the conflict against Britain. In 1782 George III gave assent to the American Colonies Peace Act vol. XXXIV allowing negotiations that culminated in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. Later that year the Trade with America Act vol. XXXV was passed formally recognising the United States and reopening trade. In other spheres the British Empire continued to develop. Shown in these Acts is the amazing variety of luxury goods flowing into and through Britain from around the world. Sugar and Tobacco from the West Indies arrived in British ports to be warehoused alongside Teas and Silks from China. However stowed between tea chests and sugar barrels British merchants often found room for human cargo. The British slave trade and its abolition is also documented in these Acts. In this time African slaves passed as freely from port to port as any other exotic merchandise and it wasn't until the Slave Trade Act of 1788 that this trade was in any way regulated. This Act only temporarily limited the number of slaves that could be carried on board a trading vessel and whilst British slavers would face further regulations in the years following it was only in 1807 that the trade was truly abolished. However long after George III's death slaves were still working the plantations of the British Empire. Britain and Ireland also underwent great change. Physically the British Isles were transformed. By his death in 1820 George III's now united Kingdom was cut with snaking canals and bristled with groaning mills. Coal and cheap iron flowed into burning furnaces allowing British manufacturers to produce with great speed and quantity goods to be exported across the world. James Watt's steam engine its invention marked in an Act of the twenty-first volume of this collection greatly encouraged this growth of industry. Textiles were one of Britain's biggest exports and their manufacture was greatly increased by Watt's machine. Handloom weavers were very quickly driven out of work and in retaliation broke machines and burned mills. Parliament's response was a series of punitive Acts ensuring harsh and 'exemplary' punishment for these Luddites. The revolt was extinguished and with it an older slower world. This collection also contains fascinating details of the East India Company and the long process by which it was gradually subsumed by the British Crown. By 1773 the Company was failing. Smuggling in the Americas had severely reduced its income and the British Government eager to safeguard its future introduced the Regulating Act vol. XVIII overhauling its organisation and drawing it closer into British control. However this did little to abate concerns surrounding the Company's inefficiency in governing its Indian territories. In 1784 Prime Minister Pitt the Younger sought to remedy this with his India Act vol. XXXVII which more firmly subordinated the Company to the Crown by appointing six Privy Councillors to the newly created Board of Control. The final major reorganisation of the East India Company during George III's reign came in 1813 with the Charter Act vol. LXXX which renewed the Company's charter but restricted its monopoly to China and the trade in opium and tea. War with France had placed enormous financial pressure on Britain and merchants who were unable to trade with much of Europe demanded the destruction of the Company's monopoly in India. Once again the Company's authority was curtailed and brought further under direct British oversight. Another significant movement of George III's reign was the abolition of the slave trade. Abolitionism had been largely a fringe movement until David Hartley tabled a motion in the House of Commons in 1776 to end Britain's involvement in the movement of human chattel. Hartley's motion failed and it wasn't until over a decade later that any sort of regulation was placed on British slaving practices. The Zong massacre of 1781 in which the crew of a British slaving ship threw one hundred and thirty African slaves overboard provoked widespread outrage and strengthened the abolitionist cause. By 1788 sufficient pressure had built for Parliament to pass the first Slave Trade Act vol. XLI regulating the number of slaves permitted aboard trading vessels. Later that year the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade published its famous plan of the slave ship Brookes illustrating the continued horrors permitted under the new rules. Eleven more years of campaigning led to the second Slave Trade Act vol. LVIII in 1799 which required slaving vessels to be exclusively registered for that purpose and imposed stricter limits on the number of individuals transported. These regulations were to be enforced by Customs Officers. Seven years later the third Slave Trade Act vol. LXIX of 1807 abolished the trade altogether outlawing the sale and purchase of slaves and establishing penalties for violators. Parliament subsequently strengthened enforcement through numerous amendments and secured agreements with Spain Portugal and the Netherlands to end the trade in their own territories vols. XCI & XCII. In practice however these agreements varied in effectiveness and in Spain and Portugal the illegal trade persisted. In Britain slavery itself was only abolished in 1833. The Acts also detail the swift progress of the industrial revolution as well as evidence of the growing pains of a rapidly changing society. One of the earliest inventions mentioned in this collection is found in an Act encouraging John Harrison to make more available his invention of the marine chronometer vol. V. This was a crucial step in the British Government's mission to increase the ease and efficiency of ocean travel. A great number of Acts offering rewards for discoveries and the conducting of experiment in this vein were passed by Parliament the last being in 1818 vol. XCI. Another important invention that finds direct reference in the Acts is James Watt's steam engine vol. XXII. This machine was the centrepiece of the British industrial revolution allowing for the automation of many tasks previously found to be slow and laborious. Watt's invention allowed manufactured goods to be produced much faster and in much greater quantities. Textiles were one manufacture greatly improved by the advent of steam power however this was not the view of all. This set contains a number of punitive acts aimed to curb the Luddite movement that set about breaking machines and burning mills primarily in the North of England. The 1812 Frame Breaking Act vol. LXXVII declared the interfering with and destruction of mechanised looms a hangable offence. Shortly followed by two more dissuasive Acts the revolt was quelled and the handloom weavers and many other craftsmen of the old order were put out of work. Each regnal year is fully accounted for save the two months of George the III's final Parliament which actually became George IV's first in 1820. Occasionally Acts are missing and unaccounted for by the Table or list of contents that accompanies most years these omissions would have been made at the point of binding these volumes and often betray a Scottish interest in retaining acts relevant to Scotland whilst removing those that are not. Beyond these great narratives this collection is filled with thousands of Acts worthy of closer inspection. This list includes more famous acts such as the two Acts concerning Napoleon's confinement to the Island of St Helena vol. LXXXVII and the Regency Act vol. LXXVI in which the ailing King finally cedes power to his son the later George IV. However lowlier Acts such as those concerning parish organisation and land taxation are filled with fascinating tables charts oaths street-plans exemplar registers and lottery tickets. Every Act reveals something new of King George III's long reign and offers a vivid glimpse into the daily workings of government and society during a period of extraordinary change. This collection offers a panoramic view of King George III's sixty year reign. Reading through these Acts the scale and pace of the changing world of this early region of modernity is palpable revealing an empire continually reshaped by conflict commerce and the first stirrings of industrial power. A five hundred and seventy-four page list of the titles of each Act of Parliament contained in this collection is available upon request. London, 1760-1819. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 64760

‎[PARNELL (Henry Brooke)].‎

‎Coup-d'oeil sur les avantages des relations commerciales entre la France et l'Angleterre. basées sur les vrais principes de l'éconopmie politique ; par un membre du Parlement d'Angleterre. Traduit de l'anglais‎

‎Paris, Hector Bossange [Imprimerie de Guiraudet], 1832 in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 46 pp., dérelié. Rousseurs.‎

‎Un des nombreux opuscules économiques du premier baron Congleton (1776-1842), membre de la Chambre des Communes pour le Queen's county en Irlande. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT - LIEN DE PAIEMENT, NOUS CONSULTER.‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 244572

‎[PHILBY] - COOKRIDGE (E. H.).-‎

‎La vérité sur Philby, l'agent double du siècle.‎

‎P., Fayard, 1968, petit in 8° broché, 305 pages.‎

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Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43346