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1661Best.-Nr. 754811661. London: 1661 & 1663. London: 1661 & 1663 Two Scarce Books of Rates Great Britain. Customs Administration. A Subsidy Granted to the King Of Tonnage And Poundage And Other Sums of Money Payable Upon Merchandize Exported and Imported. Together with a Book of Rates Agreed Upon by the Honorable House of Commons And Hereunto Annexed. Also an Act for the Encouraging And Increasing of Shipping And Navigation; With an Act to Prevent Frauds And Concealments of His Maiesties Customs And Subsidies. London: Printed by Chr. Barker 1661. ii 180 pp. Bound with Rules and Instructions for the Tare of Goods & Merchandize Imported into Any Port of England. Revised and Published by the Farmers of His Majesties Customs. As a Direction to All Their Officers Concerned Therein. London: s.n. Printed Anno Dom. 1663. ii 14 pp. 12mo. 5-1/2" x 3". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked retaining existing spine with blind fillets endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and a few minor stains to boards small hole to fore-edge of front board moderate rubbing to board edges corners bumped and worn. Light toning to interior faint dampstain to first few leaves of first work light soiling to a few leaves. $1500. Only edition; first edition. Two scarce books of rates for customs administrators under Charles II. The first work also includes the text of the Navigation Act of 1660 and the Customs Act of 1660 which significantly restricted colonial trade by requiring that certain goods such as sugar tobacco and indigo be exported only to England and that only those "born within the allegiance of our sovereign lord the King.or naturalized" could become merchants. OCLC locates 4 copies of the first work in North America Harvard New York Society Library UCLA Yale and 1 copy of the second Harvard. Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1608 1712. English Short-Title Catalogue R228060 R171955. unknown
Best.-Nr. 295372Cincinatti New York: Strobridge Litho Co. PAUS Herbert Andrew. Original poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 1/2" x 56 1/2". Homefront poster from World War I encouraging Americans to save food. This vividly colored lithograph depicts a Red Cross nurse a wounded soldier a mother and infant and other people in need standing in front of a Iron Cross and pointing to a quote by John Greenleaf Whittier. Folded as issued some cracks along folds. Repair to right margin. Mounted on linen. Beautiful colors. Strobridge Litho Co unknown
2011Best.-Nr. SONG1560278609Brand: Aviation Supplies Academics Inc 2011-09-01. 2012 Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 8.50x1.60x10.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Aviation Supplies Academics, Inc paperback
2011Best.-Nr. 2091502135501011Keihan Electric Railway 2011. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 786 pages of main text 265 pages of materials. Complete box size: 22x31cm Keihan Electric Railway paperback
1995Best.-Nr. ZB2632181995. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item vol. 3 original paper wrappers ex library. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. unknown
1945Best.-Nr. 43322Washington DC: Foreign Economic Admin 1945. fair to good. 27 cm approx. 1200 2-vol. set illus. maps some color fold-out charts some fold-out bibliography marginal underlining to a few pages. Some pages darkened paperclips to top margin of a few pages some scuffing to boards. Contains a total of 32 Project Reports which also were issued separately. Classified "Restricted" on front board of Volume I. Technical Industrial Disarmament Committees were prepared to assist in the post-war governance of Germany. Topics covered include German aircraft industry German scientific research and engineering German light metals industry German petroleum industry German iron and steel industry German chemical industries German foreign trade German food self sufficiency and landed estates development of peaceful industrial activity and German transportation and communication systems. Foreign Economic Admin hardcover
1902Best.-Nr. 850B73Austria : Upper Austrian Finance Administration 1902. Leather. Fine. 22" by 16". Eduard Lorenzo . A stunningly bound and very scarce retirement gift book. A stunning German retirement gift to a 'your excellency' the former President of the Upper Austrian Finance Administration from the other officials of the organisation. With four pages detailing the companies gratitude and well wishes for retirement a page of signatures from the officials all in cursive German script. The gift has been dated 1902 and illustrated by Edvard Lorenzo. In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays.Bound by C Wumro in Urfahr a district of Linz in Upper Austria. With two sheets that have deciphered the cursive script of the first page in both English and German. In a clam shell case and in crushed morocco binding with extended embossed detail with metal and gem inlays. Externally excellent. Internally the first two pages are loose the rest are bound. Pages remain bright and clean. There are tears to the interior of the clam shell case where the metal inlays have been otherwise it is in very good condition with a few marks to the boards. Fine Upper Austrian Finance Administration hardcover
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1996Best.-Nr. ZB2632191996. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item vol. 4 original paper wrappers ex library. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. unknown
1959Best.-Nr. 69915Berkeley CA: Bureau of Public Administration University of California. Very Good. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT CLEAN AND UNMARKED - 217 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; 040574; Ex-Library; Tompkins Dorothy C. compiler; Bureau of Public Administration University of California Berkeley Dwight Waldo Director The Supreme Court of the United States: A Bibliography . 1959. Bureau of Public Administration, University of California hardcover
Best.-Nr. Z1-I-010-01372Aoac Intl. Used - Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Aoac Intl unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-W-023-01005Aoac Intl. Used - Good. Contains light staining. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Aoac Intl unknown
Best.-Nr. GD013479okBC2S4Church of England Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites of the Church. England probably Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ca. 1840's-1850's. Small 12mo contemporary blind stamped brown calf with a brass clasp lettering on upper cover includes the word "Knowledge" apparently part of the stamp of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Title and preliminnary leaves wanting binding heavily rubbed and worn with loss along spine and joints clasp remaining scattered handling wear staining and small edge losses internally. Front board almost detached. A well used field copy. The Crimean War prayer book of John Matthews of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers with extensive manuscript inscriptions locating him at the British camp before Sebastopol and at Scutari. Matthews records himself on an endleaf as "John Matthews No. 4 Company/21st R.N.B. Fusiliers/Camp before Sebastopol/4th Division." Elsewhere he signs the volume variously as "Private 21st Regt" and Corpl. J. Matthews 21st Fusiliers." A particulary evocative ownership verso reads in part "John Matthews is my name and England is my nation/Crimea is my dwelling place and Christ is my salvation" followed by the traditional lines asking that the little book remember him after his death. Additional manuscript entries include "Scutari Bk. Hosp./Near Constantinople" apparently referring to the Barrack Hosiptal at Scutari together with a list of Crimean locations and actions: "Alma" "Inkerman" "Balaclava"and "Sebastopol." The 21st Royal North British Fusiliers served with the 4th Division in the Crimea and participated in the principal operations of the campaign. An unusually personal surviving devotional object from the Crimean War: a soldiers pocket Book of Common Prayer carried and repeatedly inscribed during the campaign with direct contemporary references to Sebastopol Scutari and the major battles of the war. The partial SPCK blind stamp is particularly appropriate the Society having distributed Prayer Books among British servicemen during the period. Lacking title page and therefore without a securely identifiable imprint or edition; date and SPCK attribution based on binding topography and surviving cover lettering. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Church of England Hardcover
1886Best.-Nr. 1416566New York: The American Art Association 1886. Limited Edition #20/50. Other. Large Quarto 305 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is beige with no lettering. Bound in publisher's wrapper. Moderate age toning chipping and soiling to wrapper. Spine shows moderate wear with rubbing abrasions and chipping to head and tail. Text block has deckled edges with some pages uncut. Moderate age toning to page edges mild age toning to interior. Scattered mild to moderate foxing throughout. Occasional faint offsetting across from unprotected illustrations. Foxing and staining to fore edge of frontis piece page. Contains 29 pencil-signed etchings. Shelved in oversize room A. Limited Edition #20/50. 1416566. Special Collections - Upstairs. The American Art Association unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-H-008-01441Stationery Office. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Stationery Office unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-H-008-01443Stationery Office. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Stationery Office unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-V-005-01964Wiley. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Wiley unknown
1720Best.-Nr. 160753London: J. Roberts and A. Dodd 1720. A price list for the purchase system - commissions in the C18th British army First edition of the first formalized listing of the terms and prices applying to the purchase of military commissions a system which obtained in the British Army or equivalent from around 1660 until removed in the Cardwell Reforms of 1871. Rare ESTC has four copies in the UK Library Hub adds National Library of Scotland World Cat locates eight copies in North America and one at the University of Queensland. This is a window onto a complex and contentious area of debate not least because the practice was illegal for large parts of its operation; "The 'system' comprehending purchase and sale was constrained by a range of laws warrants orders rules custom and connived at abuses. Sale of commissions for significant periods of its vigourous life was specifically and incontrovertibly contrary to law even including the Royal Prerogative. The same prohibition was matched by indubitably established official recognition acceptance or condonement. Further and perhaps not surprisingly few conclusions of principle can be adumbrated without fear of contrary evidence" Scouller p. 217. A system which required each of the advancing officers to pay the officer stepping down that proportion of the commission price that represented the difference between their new and old ranks see Scouller p. 223 was surely nigh on impossible to administer and how far the list prices were adhered to tends to be transactionally and anecdotally obfuscated. The largest "tariff" noted here is £9000 for the purchase of the colonelcy of Lord Irwin's Regiment the King's Regiment of Horse a sum which if factored against the wage of the average worker at the time comes to a staggering £20 million today. The "acquisition of colonelcies. is neither so widely known nor as well documented" as for ranks up to and including lieutenant-colonel and was something that George I had attempted to stop at the very beginning of his reign - "that Evil Practice" - but was only eventually eradicated under his great-grandson George III Hayes p. 3. The circumstances of Irwin's purchase of the regiment from Lord Lumley in 1717 with its valuation at £9000 - the secretary-at-war had noted in broaching the subject that "no regiment can be in better condition" Hayes p. 8 - is the best documented of any such transaction due to the survival of a large tranche of correspondence between Irwin and his agent Richard Worthington. Irwin gathered the funds to cover purchase with 3000 guineas from his colonelcy in the 16th Foot a loan of £1500 each from his agent and from the government and a further £1500 from the sale of stock. The rest was offset in a slightly unseemly fracas over "off reckonings" allowances made for regimental clothing and equipment between Worthington and Lumley to include a payment of £500 "for to buy Hatts gloves & odd Matters ye Ensueing Year" and also giving "ye Lordship the Trumpetters Horse & other considerations". This is a scarce piece which offers insight into an elusive and important subject. Folio 322 x 195 mm pp. 8. Twentieth-century red half morocco gold vein overprint on Turkish pattern marbled boards lettered in gilt longitudinally bulked with blanks. Very light shelf-wear contents lightly toned and a little creased a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 5747. James Hayes "The Purchase of Colonelcies in the Army 1714-63" in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 39 157 1961; R. E. Scouller "Purchase of Commissions and Promotions" in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 62 252 1984. hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. 40444Washington DC: GPO 1972. good. Approx. 1500 wraps 5-volume set illus. some color diagrams maps covers somewhat worn and soiled some spine rippling. This is an extremely scarce NASA Earth Resources item. The five volumes are: I. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Programs; II. University Programs; III. U.S. Geological Survey Programs; IV. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration Programs and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Programs; and V. Agriculture and Forestry Programs. GPO paperback
2021Best.-Nr. 2081502111900872Magazine Company 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Magazine Company paperback
1945Best.-Nr. 61744Washington DC: United States. Department of State 1945. Presumed first pre-printed version. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by author. Worn and soiled. Covers torn with front corner missing on Appendices volume. Sectioned tabbed. 2 volume set. Rare. The second volume are the Appendices to the Final Report. Various paginations. Memeographed production. Errata. Two-hole punched with metal fastener. This report should not be characterized as an expression of the adopted policy or program of the U. S> Govern exepter as the policy recommend may have been reflected in the Yalta Declaration the Berlin Protocol or public announcements by the President or the Department of State. On Sepbert 28 1944 President directed the Foreign Economic Administration to conduct "studies form the economic standpoint of what should be done after the surrender of Germany to control its power and capacity to make war in the future. " This function was later transferred to the Department of State when the entire Foreign Economic Administration was dissolved shortly after the end of the war. This report largely completed under the aegis of the Foreign Economic Administration was submitted as the final accounting of the work of that government organization. United States. Department of State hardcover
Best.-Nr. 53K000002L7EUnited States Department of Comm. unknown_binding. Like New. . No writing or tears unknown_binding United States Department of Comm unknown
1973Best.-Nr. ZB644081Berkeley Calif. ; Vancouver : Faculty of Commerce and Business Administr 1973. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Oct. 26 weekend SALE item Volumes 9-26 lacking Volume 18 else an uninterrupted run of complete volumes partly bound minor library markings else text clean & bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Berkeley, Calif. ; Vancouver : Faculty of Commerce and Business Administr unknown
1613Best.-Nr. 3684Salamanca: S.n. 1613. First edition. Signed at foot by royal and municipal officers. The name of the city “Villa de Grana dilla” added in manuscript with closure lines in ink after each paragraph. Unbound as issued. Pinholes at gutter some edge chipping and denting slight dampstain at margin. In good condition. First edition. Signed at foot by royal and municipal officers. The name of the city “Villa de Grana dilla” added in manuscript with closure lines in ink after each paragraph. Unbound as issued. 4 last blank p. Unrecorded 1613 circular from Salamanca enforcing the Armada-era servicio de millones Spain’s foundational fiscal levy. This printed circular addressed to the municipal authorities of the Villa de Granadilla district of Salamanca and dated 14 February 1613 was issued by the royal commission for the servicio de millones. It instructs the council to review the first two years of collection deposit surpluses and use them to cover future shortfalls thereby avoiding new sisas consumption levies. From 1 April 1613 only the necessary taxes were to remain with any excess applied to public benefit. The order mandates detailed accounting before a scrivener and imposes fines for neglect. Signed by royal and municipal officers including Bernardino de Zúñiga and Francisco de Medina y Paz. The servicio de millones was an indirect tax introduced by Felipe II approved by the Cortes de Castilla on 4 April 1590 originally conceived to raise eight million ducados over six years to finance the royal expenditure associated with the Armada Invasion of England and other military commitments. Rather than remaining temporary it evolved into a regular levy on six staple items—wine oil vinegar meat soap and tallow candles—becoming embedded in Castilian fiscal practice. Over time the burden of collection shifted to local authorities and consumption-based levies sisas increased exacerbating pressure on towns and rural communities. The document therefore captures a moment when the Habsburg fiscal state under Felipe III was consolidating central control over municipal finances demanding proper accounting and deposit of surpluses and trying to prevent over-taxation—reflecting broader patterns of state building fiscal strain and local reticence in early-seventeenth-century Spain. Reference: Yun Casalilla B. 1987. Sobre la transición al capitalismo en Castilla: Economía y sociedad en Tierra de Campos 1500–1830. Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León Consejería de Educación y Cultura. . [S.n.] unknown
1850Best.-Nr. #4258vo. 215 x 160 mm. 8 ½ x 6 ¼ inches. 306 leaves chapters separated by blanks. 19th century leather backed marbled paper boards; inner hinge cracked edges bumped some abrasion to the head of the spine; sound. Beautifully written manuscript volume containing an extensive discussion of library management and practices written by an anonymous Spanish author in the middle of the 19th century. This dissertation organized in 70 chapters begins with a discussion of the library profession and its importance to civil society. His first chapters describe the "Archive" with reference to Spanish monastic governmental and diplomatic collections that have been preserved. He focuses his attention on Aragon Mallorca Navarra and Santiago. He turns to France to furnish some interested information on the archives in Paris before getting into the chapters on classification of materials and the creation of inventories. After nearly 200 leaves of text on the subject of archives the authors turns his attention to libraries. From the beginning he takes a historical approach focusing his attention on both books and manuscripts mentioning the collections at Cambridge University. Paleography is a subject he spends some time describing and then he moves into the history of printing typography Gutenberg and the spread of printing to Spain. The final dozen chapters are devoted to the rules for managing a library lessons in classification and inventory control. He quotes from both DeBure and Brunet in his lessons on cataloguing. A rather remarkable piece of work thought to be unpublished. An examination of both United States and Spanish national collections turned up no reference to this anonymous piece of library scholarship.
