Scrapbook. Good. Hardcover. 13.25"x10". Re-backed. 30 leaves many tipped in pieces. Written with an oversized clear cursive hand. Majority of the entries center on contemporary women's issues in Victorian England. 20% of the top edge of the text block has eroded occasionally affecting some of the entries. The erosion has been stanched and the album is now in nice condition. Hardcover
Printed For GCJ & J Robinson. 1788. Hardcover. Very Good. X 367pp illustrated with 6 plates complete as listed some foxing mainly to plates and prelims attractively bound in full calf nicely respined raised bands bookplate of Denis Gray corners of covers rubbed. By William Thompson or Thomas Newte ; Octavo . Printed For GCJ & J Robinson hardcover
London: M Cooper 1747. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp 51 1 Concerning Scottish land tenure. In modern blue card wrappers with title label to upper cover. Very good condition a few spots 3 small holes to final leaf. Very Good 1747 M Cooper unknown
1864. BATTLE FIELDS. AN ENGLISH COMBATANT. Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with Sketches of Confederate Commanders and Gossip of the Camps. By An English Combatant Lieutenant of Artillery on the Field Staff. New-York: John Bradburn 1864. 1st American ed. 8vo. xxvii 1 517pp. maps. In later publisher's binding with printed paper title label and T. H. Knight stamped at the tail of the spine. Light rubbing to the binding and the title label. Foxing throughout. Very good. In Tall Cotton 8. Howes B-238. "This account was written by an Englishman who because of long residence in the South was `southernized' to the extent of being a defender of slavery. He is vague as to where he lived and where he joined the Confederate army but by inference it seems to have been Alabama. He was sent first to Corinth Mississippi thence by railway through Chattanooga and Lynchburg to the concentrations in northern Virginia around Manassas and he seems to have taken part in all the principal battle from Bull Run to Fredericksburg. he was a great admirer of Jefferson Davis to whom this book is dedicated and a thorough sympathizer with the Confederate cause" -Coulter 20. One of the most consulted Southern sources for military operations; the author was an Englishman who served briefly in the Confederate Army"-Nevins I p.55. unknown
N.Y.: John Bradburn 1864. Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American edition original cloth 517 pages two fold-out maps mild scattered foxing private library bookplate 1864 owner name inner hinges starting spine lettering dulled minor edge wear housed in a slipcase. Manassas Oak Hill Missouri Harpers Ferry Price Lee Leesburgh numerous battles and commanders etc. Howes B238. John Bradburn hardcover
Hartford: J. Babcock 1797. First American edition. unbound. Poor. First American edition. 18mo. 4" x 6 1/2" Disbound and sewn without blanks 108 pp. A working copy only complete but with some loss to the title and final leaves not affecting the text short tear to two internal leaves again not affecting the text. Preceeds the 1798 American editions published in New Haven by G. Bunce and in Northampton Mass. by William Butler. Sold as is. The novel first appeared in London in 1687 and long remained in favor having several 18th century British printings. Charlotte Elizabeth Morgan notes in "The Rise of the Novel of Manners' 1911 that ".in the late 18th century a New England publisher passed it off as an original American production." . The summary continues:".the story is the usual one of love contrary to the commands of parents the desertion of the hero and the consequent suicide of the heroine. The use of portents is an interesting feature. J. Babcock unknown
<p>Navy calf spine with red and brown title plates gilt decoration and title. Blue and brown marbled boards and end papers.</p><p>Signed by the author Jardine Alexander this is a stand alone book full of individual historic letters. A First Edition of a second volume from a two volume set.</p><p>First edition. Jardine died. 1799 a Royal Artillery officer was for much of his career stationed in Gibraltar from where he conducted a mission to the sultan of Morocco Muhammad III in 1771; after the end of his active military career in 1776 he became a British agent in Spain. His Letters are "notable for their defence of sexual equality" ODNB which Jardine based on the profitable intermingling of the sexes which he observed on his travels: Jardine was a friend of William Godwin's and his book was read by Mary Wollstonecraft who reviewed it favorably in the fourth volume of the Analytical in 1789 O'Neill The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate p. 116. It proved a demonstrable influence on her Vindication of the Rights of Women which was published in 1792 Chernock Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism p. 21 A very good copy.</p><p>CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. LETTERS FROM SPAIN TO FRIENDS IN ENGLAND. LETTER I. On entering Spain from France. The Coun∣try. The Mountains. National and Provincial Objects. French Government. LETTER II. Guipuscoa. Lime. Police. People. Women. Frontier. Industry. Liberty. Policy. Pasage. St. Sebastian's. LETTER III. Romantic Ruins and Situations. Strangers attached to Spain. Society of Arts. Good Conde. Industry. LETTER IV. Iron. Trades. Music. Timber. Bilbao. Wool. Clergy. Commerce. Bourbons. Smuggling. The Poor. Mr. Bowles. Roads. LETTER V. Mountains. Cannon. St. Ander. Ships. Foundery. Military. Asturias. Liberty with Security. Monopolies. Govern∣ment. LETTER VI. Rivadeo. Winds. Provincial Characters and Distinctions. Galicia. Government. Marine. LETTER VII. Of Travel and French Opinions. Spanish Dependence and Decline. Reflections. Dr. R—. Truth. Books. LETTER VIII. Bowles. Manufactories. Pontz. History. Letters. Campomanes. Knowledge and useful Arts. LETTER IX. Talents. Conversation. Trades. Improve∣ments. Princes. LETTER X. Government and Character of the French and Spaniards. LETTER XI. Travellers. Galicia. Lands. Taxes. Law. Women. LETTER XII. Chimneys. Windows. Trees. Theft. Religion. LETTER XIII. Reflections on Home on Finance &c. LETTER XIV. Andalusia. Cadiz. Trade to the Colonies. Laws of Ports. LETTER XV. Virtue public and private. Reformers. Abuses. Mysteries. Government. LETTER XVI. General Knowledge. Universities. Arts. Travel. Military. LETTER XVII. Theory with Practice. Public Diversions. Women. Theatre. Letters. Learning. LETTER XVIII. Wit. Manners. Character. Taste. Language. Authors. LETTER XIX. Sierra Morena. Olavide. Cordova. The Moors their Arts Manners Taste. Walks. Society. Cortejos. Situation. LETTER XX. Nobility. Mirth and Happiness. Antiqui∣ties. Arts and Population. LETTER XXI. Country. Seguidillas. Timber. Sheep. Corporations. Nitre. Military Schools. Aranjuez. LETTER XXII. Madrid. Arts. People. Escurial. Old Castile. Flocks. Towns. Church. Corn. Water. Government. LETTER XXIII. Examples. Colonies and Companies. East Indies. LETTER XXIV. Spanish Improvements. Roads. Canals. People. Laws. Languor. LETTER XXV. Tolls. Mountains. Mauragatos. Galicia. St. Jago. Societies. Commerce. LETTER XXVI. The Peninsula of Spain and its Inhabitants. LETTER XXVII. On Government. LETTER XXVIII. Spanish ancient Government. Decline. Cha∣racter. Peculiarities. Edicts and want of Confidence. LETTER XXIX. Spanish Manners. Taste. Passions. Hap∣piness. Female Character. Ministry. Princes. LETTER XXX. Situation. Trade. Prohibitions and high Duties. LETTER XXXI. Commerce. Policy. War. Gibraltar. Family Compact. Mediterranean. LETTER XXXII. Spanish Charity and Poor. Spirit of Power of Control and of Government. LETTER XXXIII. Of Changes. Towns. Police. Of Princes. LETTER XXXIV. Rural Taste and Improvements. Servants. Population. Money &c. Impediments to the Rise of Spain. LETTER XXXV. Military and Geographical Observations. Conclusion. LETTERS FROM PORTUGAL TO FRIENDS IN ENGLAND. LETTER I. Galicia and North of Portugal. Vigo. Spanish Councils. Defensive War. Industry Taste Science of the Portuguese. Water Finders. Frontier Coast. LETTER II. Form &c. of Portugal. Vegetable and animal Life. Character. Count la Lippe. LETTER III. Policy. Industry. Character. Law. LETTER IV. Manners and Education. Inquisitorial and Monastic Spirit. Toleration. Romish Church &c. LETTER V. Appearance of the Country. People. Braga. Oporto. Brazils. Wine Trade. Lower Classes. LETTER VI. Lisbon. Marquis de Pombal. Sovereigns and Government. Character &c. LETTER VII. Of Books. Of Man. Portugal. Of Societies. The World. Europe. Confe∣deracies. Letters. War. Travelling &c. in a variety of miscellaneous Re∣flections. A LETTER FROM JERSEY. To A. J.</p><p>Barbaria by Jan Janssonius shows the coast of North Africa an area known in the 17th century as Barbaria c. 1650</p><p>The Barbary pirates Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the Barbary states. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast in reference to the Berbers. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture slaves for the Barbary slave trade. Slaves in Barbary could be of many ethnicities and of many different religions such as Christian Jewish or Muslim. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing merchant ships they engaged in razzias raids on European coastal towns and villages mainly in Italy France Spain and Portugal but also in the British Isles the Netherlands and Iceland.</p><p>An action between an English ship and vessels of the Barbary Corsairs</p><p>While such raids began after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the 710s the terms "Barbary pirates" and "Barbary corsairs" are normally applied to the raiders active from the 16th century onwards when the frequency and range of the slavers' attacks increased. In that period Algiers Tunis and Tripoli came under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire either as directly administered provinces or as autonomous dependencies known as the Barbary states. Similar raids were undertaken from Salé and other ports in Morocco.</p><p>A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro c. 1681</p><p><strong> Background:</strong> The Barbary corsairs were pirates and privateers who operated out of North Africa based primarily in the ports of Tunis Tripoli and Algiers. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast in reference to the Berbers. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and even to the eastern coast of South America with Brazil and into the North Atlantic Ocean as far north as Iceland but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing ships they engaged in raids on European coastal towns and villages mainly in Italy France Spain and Portugal but also in England Scotland the Netherlands Ireland and as far away as Iceland. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Europeans for the slave market in North Africa. The Barbary states were nominally part of the Ottoman Empire but in practice they were independent and the Ottoman government in Constantinople was not involved. Attacks:Since the 1600s the Barbary pirates had attacked British shipping along the North Coast of Africa holding captives for ransom or enslaving them. Ransoms were generally raised by families and local church groups. The British became familiar with captivity narratives written by Barbary pirates' prisoners and slaves. During the American Revolutionary War the pirates attacked American ships. On December 20 1777 Morocco's sultan Mohammed III declared that merchant ships of the new American nation would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage into the Mediterranean and along the coast. The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship stands as America's oldest unbroken friendship treaty with a foreign power. In 1787 Morocco became one of the first nations to recognize the United States of America. Starting in the 1780s realizing that American vessels were no longer under the protection of the British navy the Barbary pirates had started seizing American ships in the Mediterranean. As the U.S. had disbanded its Continental Navy and had no seagoing military force its government agreed in 1786 to pay tribute to stop the attacks. On March 20 1794 at the urging of President George Washington Congress voted to authorize the building of six heavy frigates and establish the United States Navy in order to stop these attacks and demands for more and more money. The United States had signed treaties with all of the Barbary states after its independence was recognized between 1786 and 1794 to pay tribute in exchange for leaving American merchantmen alone and by 1797 the United States had paid out $1.25 million or a fifth of the government's annual budget then in tribute. These demands for tribute had imposed a heavy financial drain and by 1799 the U.S. was in arrears of $140000 to Algiers and some $150000 to Tripoli. Many Americans resented these payments arguing that the money would be better spent on a navy that would protect American ships from the attacks of the Barbary pirates and in the 1800 Presidential Election Thomas Jefferson won against incumbent second President John Adams in part by noting that the United States was "subjected to the spoliations of foreign cruisers" and was humiliated by paying "an enormous tribute to the petty tyrant of Algiers".</p> T Cadell. hardcover
Edward and Charles Dilly 1777. Hardcover. Good. London 1777; 2 Volumes complete; leather covered boards; edge and corner wear with board exposed at corners; joints cracked but attached; spine edges frayed; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; end paper edges toned; lightly foxed; Interior is clean and unmarked; 418 and 392 pages. Additional shipping charges may be required for international or expedited orders. Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover
London : William Ridgway 1864. First Edition. Paperback. Disbound as issued. In later plain paper wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 82 pages; Physical desc. : ii 82p ; 22cm. Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861-1865 -- Foreign public opinion. London : William Ridgway paperback
Church of England Book Society 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 1888; London; red cloth covered boards with gold titles; toning and edge wear; bookplate on front end paper; interior pages are lightly toned; interior clean and unmarked; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; 285 pages Church of England Book Society hardcover
London: no publisher 1679. Unbound. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 18pp. Tiny tears modest age-toning and small stains a very good copy. ESTC R1480. (no publisher) unknown
London: Printed for M. Cooper 1747. 47pp 1. Modern buff paper boards contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine. Small paper flaw to imprint. The sole edition of an anonymous pamphlet attempting to persuade British parliamentarians to reconsider the alliance with Savoy and Austria during the War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748 following their devastating siege of Genoa 1746 that had decimated international commerce and threatened access to capital upon which Britain so heavily relied. ESTC T47263. First edition. 8vo. Printed for M. Cooper hardcover
London: M Cooper 1747. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp47 1 In very good condition with some soiling in modern blue card wrappers with title label to upper cover. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Very Good 1747 M Cooper unknown
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