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réf. 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

MILITARY ADMINISTRATIONBiblio.com

Regulations of the Prices of the Commissions in all His Majesty's Land Forces.

1720réf. 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

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[Comision del Reino de la Administracion de Millones y Desempeno]; [Consejo, justicia y regimiento de Salamanca]Biblio.com

Signed Royal Circular Regulating the Administration of the Servicio de Millones — Salamanca 14 February 1613. Nos el Consejo justicia y Regimiento y Comissarios del servicio de millones de la ciudad de Salamanca …

1613réf. 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

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Yan Chu youcan lu jia bian "Guidebook for the Traveller in Yan & Chu".

1927réf. 172731Likely Beijing: Jinghan tielu guanli ju before 1927. From bustling Beijing to historic Hankow First edition first printing of this guide to the towns and counties traversed by the Peking-Hankow railroad China's first long-distance railway line and the lifeblood of the country's modernizing economy. Aimed at the armchair traveller and tourist alike the parts discuss scenery local customs important historical events and matters of cultural interest The Peking to Hankow railway was built as a co-operative venture between the Imperial Chinese Railway Company and the Belgian China Railway Survey Company. The German engineer Heinrich Hildebrand was engaged to survey the 1500-mile route and in June 1898 the contract was awarded to a Belgian syndicate. Bonds worth 112 million Francs were issued to French investors to raise the necessary finance. Construction began at both ends of the line and progressed at a rate of 500 metres per day. The first trains began to run on sections of the track in 1901 and in 1902 the Empress Dowager Cixi made her triumphant return to the capital using part of the line. Four years later construction was finally completed. An engineering triumph the project facilitated unprecedented levels of commercial and leisure travel between north and central China. The title evokes the long history of the Beijing and Hankow regions by referring to them as "Yan" and "Chu" the names of their equivalent Zhou dynasty states. This guide was issued the Peking-Hankow Railway Administration Chinese: Jinghan tielu guanli ju. In 1927 Chiang Kai-Shek's government established its capital at Nanjing and the name of the route was changed to "Beiping-Hankow Railway" providing a terminus ante quem for the date of publication. Copies are recorded at Berkeley Chicago Harvard Princeton Columbia Stanford the University of Hong Kong and Bukkyo. 20 parts in 8 vols octavo 253 x 149 mm. Original brown paper wrappers white thread xianzhuang stitching front covers lettered in black. With original blue cloth folding case contemporary manuscript title label bone toggles. Contemporary Beijing bookseller's ink stamp on final page of first volume contemporary red ink stamp on rear wrapper of same volume. Covers with a few small closed tears and chips rear wrapper of volume I soiled contents toned a few leaves browned. A near-fine copy in like case. hardcover

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Fauken, J P F X - HOSPITALSABAA

Entwurf zu einem allgemeinen Krankenhause

1784réf. 11036Vienna: Auf Kosten der Korrespondenz Expedition 1784. First Edition. Full contemporary calf. Fine. 8vo 4 5 - 156 2 - errata pp. 4 large engraved folding plates. A landmark monograph and historical turning point in the design construction and management of large municipal hospitals. Fauken was charged with the design of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna. It was in fact a renovation of the extensive building complex of the almshouse for soldiers and the poor already extant from the late 17th century. The building was a Baroque masterpiece originally conceived and designed by Prince Karl-Eusebius von Lichtenstein. There were long galleries with many windows and the basic building was well suited to its new role as a medical establishment for a large city where patients could actually be cured. At the outset Joseph II regarded his new hospital as a teaching institution and insisted on the most up-to-date scientific principles in its organization and maintenance. The old galleries of the almshouse were subdivided corridors eliminated and the spaces then re-organized to accommodate single patients by wards. The new hospital was organized as if it were five independent hospitals and the only new structures added to the complex were the asylum and maternity ward. This separation permitted better care and purposeful planning of the facility. There was generous cross ventilation and light and strict adherence to rigorous standards of sanitation and patient care. Assorted charitable foundations were amalgamated or dissolved to provide general and ongoing funding for the institution. Fauken addresses all these issues in the book offered here as well as making an argument for the sound economic sense of good healthcare for the populace. Thompson / Goldin The Hospital . pp. 109 - 114; Flamm Hospital Hygiene; OCLC cites one copy CU in America. Auf Kosten der Korrespondenz Expedition unknown books

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