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Paris, s.n.t., 1781, in-8, cartone posteriore cilestrino, tagli rossi, pp. 112. Eleganti fregi tipografici al frontespizio e in forma di testata. Mancanze alla carta di copertura del dorso, cerniera del piatto ant. semi-staccata; piccola macchia d'inchiostro che interessa 6 carte. Pamphlet anti-francese con notizie sulla guerra d'indipendenza americana e sulla missione di B. Franklin in Francia.
Cologne (ma: stampato in Olanda), chez Pierre Marteau, 1695, in-12, piena pelle marmorizzata coeva, dorso a 5 nervi con titolo e fregi (perdita della doratura) negli scomparti, tagli spruzzati, pp. (12), 436. Frontespizio in rosso e nero, fregi in xilografia. Dorso brunito, con qualche mancanza, ma interno assai fresco. A causa di questo pamphlet contro François d'Aix de La Chaise, apparso nel 1693, Le Roux fu costretto a lasciare la Francia rifugiandosi a Bruxelles. Questa 2ª parte (che fece seguito al gran successo della 1ª apparsa con sottotitolo diverso) ha in questa edizione la particolarità di un "Catalogue des livres nouveaux" posto dopo la prefazione: assai inusuale per un editore fittizio come Marteau, dietro cui si celavano stampatori di opere rischiose da trasportare e vendere. Edizione originale con firma d'appartenenza "Giaco(mo) Soranzo, 1731": senatore della Repubblica di Venezia, nella cui biblioteca erano ben 4000 manoscritti e 20.000 libri raccolti in un catalogo di vendita nel 1780.
24pp., orig. marbled paper wrappers, lightly stained. "A firmly conservative appeal to businessmen, urging that they of all people should resist the subversive arguments of Tom Paine and the reform societies." (Hamilton, Doctor Syntax, p. 163). Goldsmiths'-Kress, no. 15506.1.
Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, 4to, piece torn from upper blank margin of title (not touching the text), [4], 72pp., disbound. Kress, B2474; Goldsmith, 15727.
First edition, 4to, [2], 24pp., disbound. Rare; ESTC locates 3 copies in the UK and 3 in North America.
First Edition, half-title, errata slip after title, stab-holes in the inner blank margins, short tear in G3 and G4 (no loss of text), [4], 47, [1] pp., disbound. An attempt to prove with his own detailed figures that the accountant for the East India Company, George Anderson, was guilty of producing a false balance sheet. Kress, B2426; Goldsmith, 15174.
First edition, [4], 94, [1 advert]pp., with half-title, disbound.
27, [1 blank]pp., some occasional spotting, disbound.
First Edition, advert. leaf after title, [4], 58pp., disbound. Keith held a living in Scotland and took an active interest in agricultural matters. He made experiments in distillation at the request of the Scotch Distillery Committee of the House of Commons and later for the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland. This survey of Aberdeenshire is his major work. The L, ABu, C, E, and O copies in the ESTC.
Third edition, xv,[1],30,[2]pp., disbound.
First Edition, 16pp., disbound. The author was one of six reformers consulted by Colonel Sharman, a leader of the Irish Volunteers, on the ideas for political development in Ireland. His reply shows the essentially conservative and aristocratic nature of proposals that had alarmed his political associates. Bradshaw, 7528.
Fourth Edition, half-title, [4], 160pp., disbound.
Second Edition, with the final advert. leaf G4, [4], 46, [2] pp., disbound. Sir John Sinclair inaugurated the British Wool Society at a large sheep-shearing festival held in 1791 at Newhalls Inn, Queensferry. He is credited with initiating these sheep-shearings which were later developed by Francis Russell, the fifth Duke of Bedford. Kress, B2206; Goldsmith, 14668.
Second edition, [2], 77, [5]pp., without half-title, 6 folding tables, disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 17698.
First Edition, half-title, a little browning at the beginning of the text, [4], 136 pp., disbound.
First Edition, folding table, stab-holes on inner blank margins, [16], 128 pp., disbound. Brewster was the author of "Essays in Trade and Navigation, in Five Parts" (1695). Only the first part, which included evidence of his opposition to the new Bank of England, was published. In 1702 he issued "New Essays on Trade", and the anonymous book "A Discourse Concerning Ireland and the Different Interests Thereof" (1698), relating to the woollen issue, has also been ascribed to him. He died at some point between March 1704 and February 1705. Kress, 2335; Goldsmith, 3857; Hanson, 130.
[8], 30pp., with half-title, some light age-toning, stitched as issued.
35, [1]pp., stitched as issued. Hanson, 1741; Goldsmiths', 4906.
8vo, 16 pp., text browned, disbound. Foxon, H335.
8vo, 16pp., fore-edges slightly cut-down (not effecting text), disbound. Foxon, H334.
20pp., title-page very badly ink stained, slightly chipped at upper margin, some side-notes cropped, cont. manuscript notes to terminal leaf, disbound.
