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1650réf. 740221650. Royalist Estates "Confiscated to the Use of the Commonwealth" Broadside. Parliament. Die Martis 23 Julii 1650. Resolves of Parliament Concerning Such Delinquents as Have Not Paid in their Fines According to Compositions. London: Printed by Iohn Field Printer to the Parliament of England 1650. 13-1/4" x 8-3/4" broadside mounted and matted on 20" x 14-1/2" board text in single column below headline and woodcut Parliamentary arms with a four-line woodcut initial signed in type by Henry Scobell. Moderate toning light soiling in places light browning and wear to top-edge not affecting text or image fold line to upper right corner. $1500. Near the beginning of the first English Civil War Parliament established two committees to confiscate the estates of Royalists and process the fines owed by "delinquents" who could regain their land with a monetary fee and a promise of future loyalty to the Parliamentarian cause. The fines were then used to fund the Parliamentarian army. This order threatens total confiscation of land within eighty miles of London if the delinquents did not pay. Our broadside is one of three similar variants with the same date; the present variant lists John Field as the sole printer. OCLC Library Hub and the ESTC locate 3 copies worldwide British Library Trinity College Dublin Yale University. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC R225774. unknown books
1842réf. 91013London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1842. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good because of fragile repaired map. 2 vols. 4 folding maps 3 in Part I and one in Part II xxvi 744 637p. Contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled boards. Covers intact but rather heavily scuffed and rubbed. Bookplates removed on both front pastedowns. Contents generally sound and clean although the large folding map of the coast of West Africa in Part Volume II is fragile. That map had split apart along many of the original folds and elsewhere. While it had been carefully put back together it needs careful handling when folding or unfolding to keep nthe map intact. These volumes contain a wealth of material about British trade and administrative activities in Gambia Sierra Leone and Gold Coast the three areas of particular British interest and control in West Africa at that time -- Lagos and other pieces of what is now modern Nigeria were still outside British influence and control in 1842 and Benin hadn't yet been grabbed by Germany before passing to Great Britain after World War I. These volumes also contain quite a bit of information about British efforts to suppress and end the slave trade. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed hardcover books
réf. 675581980. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. 920 vols. of 967 lacking 47 vols. 154 linear feet. Debates in the House of Commons 1909-1980 Great Britain. Parliament. Parliamentary Debates Official House of Commons. London: Printed for the Controller of H.M.S.O. 1909-1980. Vols. 1-362; 406-701; 704-898; 900-965; 967. Together 920 volumes. Lacking vols. 363-405 702 703 899 and 966. One hundred fifty-four 154 linear feet of shelf space. Contemporary cloth blind frames to boards blind fillets and gilt titles to spine a few volumes bound in similar-style later cloth. Light to moderate shelfwear some hinges cracked or starting interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Shelf location labels to foot of spines property stamps to edges bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1995. New Series. Authorized by Parliament this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804. unknown books
1891réf. 675561891. Debates in Parliament 1892-1908 Great Britain. Parliament. The Parliamentary Debates Fourth Series. London: Reuter's Telegram Co. and Others 1892-1908. 136 of 199 volumes lacking Volumes 16-77 1893-1899 and 100 1901. Contemporary cloth blind frames to boards gilt titles to spine. Several volumes bound in three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards some with cloth-reinforced spines a few bound in recent buckram. Moderate to heavy shelfwear with chipping to spine ends most hinges cracked several boards loose or detached interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Location labels to spines bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1995. Fourth Series. Authorized by Parliament this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804. unknown books
1646réf. 792861646. Ordinances and Orders from the First English Civil War Great Britain. Parliament. A Collection of All the Publicke Orders Ordinances and Declarations of Both Houses of Parliament From the Ninth of March 1642. Untill December 1646. Together with Severall of his Majesties Proclamations and Other Papers Printed at Oxford. Also a Convenient Table for the Finding of the Severall Date and Title of the Particulars Herein Mentioned. London: Printed by T.W. for Ed: Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons 1646. 18 5-943 i.e. 951 1 24 pp. Pagination irregular text complete. Engraved frontispiece depicting Parliament. Folio 11-1/4" x 7". Contemporary speckled calf new morocco spine label blind rules to boards raised bands blind fillets and lettering piece to spine gilt rules to board edges edges of text block rouged. A few shallow scuffs and faint stains to boards which are slightly bowed light rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine corners bumped and lightly worn pastedowns loose hinges cracked later armorial bookplate of John Fairfax Crowder 1902 or 1903-1999 to inner front board later owner signature Mathison and recent bookplate of Dr. and Mrs. H.R. Knohl to front pastedown small tear to front free endpaper. Light toning to interior light soiling in a few places faint dampstaining to last several leaves later binder's notes tipped onto first leaf of table marginal markings and brief later annotations in pencil to a few leaves. A very good copy. $2000. Only edition. Published near the end of the first English Civil War this volume collects ordinances and orders issued during that time. Many relate directly to the war while others deal with everyday governance or ideological issues such as religious liberty. John Fairfax Crowder one of this copy's former owners was a solicitor who served as president of the Birmingham Law Society. English Short-Title Catalogue R007926. unknown books
1650réf. 1053401650. PARLIAMENT. BroadsideÑEnglish Civil War. Westminster: Edward Husband and John Field 27 September 1650. Broadside trimmed 10-1/4 by 9 inches mounted on a larger sheet of paper. $2500.Dramatic printed broadside from the English Civil War ordering the burning of an ""impious and blasphemous book.""This broadside calls for the arrest imprisonment and then exile of author Laurence Clarkson and the seizure of his book The Single Eye which earned the censure of the government. The document reads in part: ""Upon report from the Committee for suppressing licentious and impious practices under pretence of Religion Liberty &c. The Confession of Laurence Clarkson touching the making and publishing of the impious and blasphemous book called The Single EyeÉ the said Laurence Clarkson is to be forthwith sent to the House of Correction there to be kept to labor for one Moneth and from that time to be Banished out of this Commonwealth and the Territories thereof and not to return upon pain of DeathÉ the book called The Single Eye and all printed copies thereof are to be forthwith seized and burnt by the hand of the Common Hangman in the New-Palace at Westminster and upon the Exchange; and that the Lord Major and Sheriffs of London and Middlesex be required to cause the same to be done accordingly."" Those in possession of the book are also ""required and enjoined forthwith to deliver the same to the next Justice of the PeaceÉ who are hereby required to cause the same to be publiquely burned."" Another man named in this broadside Mr. Rainborow is stripped of his duties as a Justice of the Peace in Middlesex County and forbidden from returning to that position anywhere in England or Wales. Wing E2432. Goldsmiths 1188. Upper margin trimmed a little closely affecting the printed seal at the head of the document. Near-fine condition. unknown books
1646réf. 17558London: Printed by T.W. Thomas Warren for Ed. Edward Husband 1646. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece woodcut headpieces. Contemporary calf worn especially at spine joints somewhat tender; first blank appears to be torn out leaf with frontispiece repaired some browning and soiling mostly on edges. Overall a good copy from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield with their dated 1860 bookplate motto “Sapere aude” on the paste-down and blind embossed stamp of armorial on first three leaves. First edition. In 1640 King Charles I established the Long Parliament in order to acquire funds for the Bishop’s War against the Scots. However as soon as the Long Parliament took control they began dismantling the monarchy’s authority by removing the king’s advisors and sympathizers. The orders and ordinances collected in this copy begin at this crucial moment and cover the duration of the English Civil War from 1642 to 1646. It is therefore an excellent reference source for laws and statutes during the English Civil War. It also contains several matters of Colonial interest including An Order for advancement of the Plantations in New England; An Order to make the Earl of Warwick Governor of the Plantations in America; An Ordinance against Importation of Whale-oyl; and An additional Committee for ordering Foreign Plantations among others. Wing provides the name of the printer for this copy and lists several other volumes containing records of orders over a range of years. Printed by T.W. [Thomas Warren] for Ed. [Edward] Husband unknown books
1826réf. 33099London: printed by John Baskett and others 1826. Folio various paginations; approximately 38 Acts of Parliament relating almost entirely to the finances of the Royal Navy 3 folding tables; contemporary red straight-grain morocco yellow binder's ticket of Smith 49 Long Acre; rubbed and worn but sound. Includes several acts on the wages of seamen seamen's' hospitals harbor moorings the Royal Navy treasury prize money benefits for seamen's' families bounty money pensions etc. printed by John Baskett [and others] unknown books
1755réf. 375741755. First Edition. PARLIAMENT. Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Vicesimo OctavoÉ London: Thomas Baskett 1755. Folio contemporary full paneled calf gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine raised bands gilt-stamped arms of George II to front and rear covers. $2800.First edition of the laws passed by Parliament in 1755 handsomely bound in contemporary paneled calf-gilt stamped with the gilt arms of King George II.Includes an act for regulating places of public entertainment an act for making more effectual the laws prohibiting the importation of spirituous liquors and of tea found on any British ship not belonging to the East India Company acts for the better supply of mariners and seamen to serve in His Majesty's Ships of War and to better enforce discipline of His Majesty's marine forces while on shore and a continuance of an act for encouraging the making of indigo in the American colonies. This collection prints the full text of the 25 most important acts of the year each with an abstract at rear and a table of other acts passed during the year but not printed in this collection. Contemporary calf with expected age wear and restoration to joints spine ends and corners. A very good attractively bound copy with the gilt arms of King George II. hardcover books
1760réf. 339119London: John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; and others 1760. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Disbound. Some with foxing some trimmed a few leaves detached. Overall very good. A couple in duplicate. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Includes the following: An Act for the Continuing the Liberty of Exporting Irish Linen Cloth to the British Plantations in Amerca Duty-free 1717 An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Pensilvania in America 1727 An Act for the better Preservation of His Majesty's Woods in America 1729 An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Colony of New York in America 1730 An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America directly into Ireland Goods not enumerated in any Act of Parliament 1731 An Act to explain and Act . intituled An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America 1732 An Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in His Majesty's Plantations and Colonies in America 1732 An Act for granting a Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1739 An Act for the more effectual securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's British Subjects to America 1739 An Act for the more easy and effectual Conviction of Offenders found at large within the Kingdom of Great Britain after they have been ordered for Transportartion to America 1742 An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade 1742 An Act to revive several Acts . relating to Rice to Frauds in Customs to the clandestine running of Goods and to Copper Ore of the British Plantations 1742 An Act for continuing several LAws relating to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America 1743 An Act to continue Two Acts of Parliament . for encouraging the Growth of Coffee . for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746 An Act for the better encouragement of the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746 An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act . for Naturalizing Foreign Protestants . in America 1747 two copies An Act for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1748 An Act for encouraging the People known by the name of Unitas Fratrum or United Brethren to settle in . America 1749 three copies An Act to encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1750 An Act for encouraging the Growth and Culture of Raw Silk in . America. 1750 An Act for encouraging the making of Pott Ashes and Pearl Ashes in . America 1750 An Act for continuing several Laws . upon the importation of Masts 1751 An Act for avoiding and putting and end to certain doubts and questions . concerning Real Estates . in America. 1752 An Act for reducing the number of Directors of the Corportatioin of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America 1753 An Act for continuing several Laws . and for the encourging the trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1753 An Act for continuing an Act . for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1755 An Act for extending the Act . as shall serve on Board His Majesty's Ships or Vessels employed upon the Lakes Great Waters or Rivers in North America 1756 An Act to enable His Majesty to grant Commissions to a certain number of Foreign Protestants . in America 1756 An Act to extend the Liberty . of importing Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1757 An Act to prohibit for a limited time the exportation of corn grain meal malt flour bread biscuit starch beef pork bacon . from His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America 1757 An Act to continue . a Liberty to carry sugars of the growth produce or manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1758 An Act for continuing certain laws . and to the Encouragement of the Trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1758 An Act to continue several laws . to the encouraging the growth of Coffee in His Majesty's Plantations in America 1759 An Act to continue several laws . to the granting Liberty to carry Rice from his Majesty's Province of Carolina in America 1760. John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; [and others] unknown books
1767réf. 1098111767. First Edition. CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS ACT. Act to enable His Majesty to put the Customs and other Duties in the British Dominions in America and the Execution of the Laws relating to Trade there under the Management of Commissioners. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Folio 20th-century marbled stiff paper boards. $3200.Rare first printing of the 1767 Customs Commissioners Act one of the controversial Townshend Acts that united patriot opposition to British rule and provoked the Boston Massacre.Following the Stamp Act which had united colonial opinion against British authority ""as no issue beforeÉ a new period of agitation began in 1767 with the passage of the Townshend Acts"" Morison Sources xv. Engineered by Charles Townshend Chancellor of the Exchequer these were intended to raise revenue from the American colonies by imposing duties on goods Americans were already forced to import only from England punish New York's opposition to the Quartering Act and establish a board of customs commissioners in America. This is the first printing of that Customs Commissioners Act. ""To guarantee that colonial duties raised as much money as he had promised to Parliament Townshend was tightening control over America's slack customs procedures"" by appointing commissioners in England and sending them to Boston ""with broad powers. Since colonial jurors rarely convicted a local merchant of smuggling Townshend's acts set up new admiralty courts that could try smugglers without a jury. And the acts made it easier for customs officials to obtain writs of assistance"" Langguth 93. In addition ""the moneys thus raised in the coloniesÉ were to be usedÉ to render the royal governors and judges independent of colonial assemblies"" Morison xv. To Samuel Adams ""these new commissioners of customs were 'the greatest political curses that could be sent amongst usÉ From the time the acts took effect November 20 1767 many Bostonians had been boycotting luxury goods from Britain by signing a 'nonimportation agreementÉ Stricter enforcement at the customs offices was drawing off hard currency from America and bad times were spreading across the colonies"" Langguth 94 102-103. With increased colonial opposition to the Customs Commissioners Act and other Townshend laws ""the customs administration to enforce them became especially in ports like BostonÉ increasingly militarized"" provoking merchants such as John Hancock into ""calling one of his sloops Liberty and flaunting his intention of 'running Madeira ashore"" Schama History of Britain II:463. The day after the Liberty was seized by customs officials Sam Adams was overheard challenging the crowd ""If you are men behave like men. Let us take up arms immediately and be free and seize all the king's officers"" Langguth 98. With the Board of Commissioners of the Customs headquartered in Boston the city became the ""rowdiest of all the centers of protest"" and those who broke the boycott were often tarred and feathered. As tempers grew shorter and customs officers were accused of bribery and extortion matters often ""got completely out of control. On 23 February 1770 an eleven-year-old boy Christopher Seider joined by a noisy protest of schoolboys and apprentices outside the shop of an importerÉ was shot dead by a customs officer"" and his funeral turned into a mass protest led by Sam Adams. Only one month later on March 5th amidst these already heightened tensions ""a wigmaker's apprentice ragged a soldier all the way to the Custom House for an allegedly unpaid bill. When a guard struck the pursuing youth a tocsin normally used as a fire alarm was sounded and mobilized a large and angry crowd"" Schama History of Britain II 463. In the melee that followed the redcoats opened fire killing fiveÑamong them Crispus AttucksÑand the day would be memorialized in history as the Boston Massacre. Printed in gothic type indicative of the first edition. This first printing excised from the Sessional Volumes of Parliament pages 563-66 precedes all American printings. Minor rubbing spine. Very nearly fine condition. hardcover books
1730réf. 102277Bound volume of 89 acts folio 11 3/4" x 7" period full calf 446 pp. Various paginations actual page count is done by hand and a manuscript index at the front lists the acts and indicates the page it is on. Binding is worn backstrip is gone hinges are cracked covers almost detached and some signatures are loose some early ink notations and page numbering are on top of pages it appears there are some remnants of wax seals on the margin of the last page some soiling at endpapers normal aging and browning but internally pretty clean; despite the mentioned flaws the contents are in very good shape but the binding needs work. While this collection of Acts passed under George II and George III is not sequential a previous owner has provided a useful index as to the contents and location of various acts. The laws cover a very broad area of issues from the more mundane such as dog stealing punishments for disorderly houses and preventing abuses in making bricks and tiles to more important issues including the raising and training of the militia regulating the price of corn preservation of public highways and the punishment for selling ale and apiarist without a license. Other important acts include regulating places of entertainment regulating the trials of controverted elections establishing trade agreements in the East Indies changing some of the rules passed by Queen Elizabeth on providing relief to the poor and wildlife preservation. A fascinating glimpse at another time and issues of the day. Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Mark Baskett & Others, books
1562réf. 1278941562. HENRY VIII PARLIAMENT. Acts. Anno XXXIIII et. V. Henrici VIII. London: T. Powell 1562. Slim folio 8 by 11-1/2 inches modern full brown morocco. $3800.Early edition of the Parliamentary Acts of 1542 featuring 25 acts featuring the important Act for the Advancement of True Religion and the first English act dealing with Bankruptcy finely printed in black-letter with lovely historiated woodcut initials.The first and most important act passed by the Parliament in 1542 banned the reading or owning of the Bible in EnglishÑat that point Tyndale's translationÑin England for most of the population. Exceptions were made for the clergy the gentry wealthy merchants and the wives of the gentry and nobility who were only allowed to read it in private effectively barring the Bible in English from the vast majority of the population. By the time of the act's passage Tyndale was already dead executed near Brussels in 1536 after being convicted of heresy for his promotion of theology influenced by Martin Luther. And Tyndale himself had never actually published a full Bible in English having only managed individual publications of the New Testament the Pentateuch and a few other books of the bible; the first full Bible in English was actually produced by Miles Coverdale in 1536 based heavily on Tyndale's earlier publications. The act also banned numerous other categories of books although it did provide exceptions for ""statutes and lawes of the realme cronicles Canturbury tales Chaucers bookes Gowers bookes and stories of menns lives."" The acts from this year are also notable for containing the Statute of Bankrupts the first codification of law for bankruptcy in England. First published in 1543 with several editions or issues following soon after; this is one of two editions published in 1562. Without the acts for Wales. STC 9409. Foxing to a few leaves mild dampstaining to inner margin of some early leaves but text readable and clear; handsomely bound. Rare. unknown books
1713réf. 1394685London: Printed by John Baskett 1713-1717. First Editions. Hardcover. Folio 61-174 2179-191 6 203-206 2 211-218 2 223-270 2 275-357 3 361-362 2 367-382 2 387-422 4. In Good minus condition. Bound in full contemporary calf with banded spine and tooling to boards. Boards show moderate wear to edges moderate plus wear and bumping to corners and several gouges to the front board. Cracking to leather along joint of front board. A clear lacquer appears to have been applied to the boards. Text block has light age toning to edges. Ex-Library institutional plate appears on front paste down. Ex libris of former owner appears on front pastedown. Several ink "doodles" in an 18th-century hand appear on the front paste down and front free end page. Square-inch tear to fore-edge of front free end page. Pages tightly trimmed by binder impacting some of the printed marginal annotations. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Appears to contain two collections of public statutes passed in 1713 and 1714 but printed between 1713 and 1717 each with a closing contents page. The first collection contains Acts II - XVIII of 18 acts and the second contains Acts II - XXIII of 23 acts. The acts cover a range of topics including duties tariffs and taxes; the paying and management of military personnel and militias; and the management of churches. The most significant of the acts however is Act 15 of the second set of acts entitled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". This formally established the Commissioners of the Longitude and the reward of £20000 for "the first Author or Authors Discoverer or Discoverers of any such method ." that to the satisfaction of the committee accurately determined a ship's longitude at sea accurate to within 20 geographical miles. This reward would not be claimed until 1765 when clockmaker John Harrison developed his "time-keeper" or marine chronometer. 1394685. Special Collections - Upstairs. Printed by John Baskett hardcover books
