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1850réf. AQ27621London: s.n. 1850. 26pp 2. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. From the recently dispersed library of William St Clair with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription to head of title. A series of dispatches relating to the violent torture of Cape Coast native Robert Erskine. In 1847 whilst a domestic in the service of Captain Augustus William Murray of the 1st West-India Regiment and stationed at the infamous Cape Coast Castle Erskine was accused of having stolen sundry articles of jewellery from the officer. Despite his protestations of innocence and a lack of any evidence connecting him with the crime Erskine was brutally tortured for eight days. In consequence of his torment he lost the use of his hands. It was later ascertained that the actual culprit was a soldier of the 1st West India Regiment and likely one of the individuals who engaged in Erskine's maltreatment. A year after the event the Aborigines Protection Society took up Erskine's case and successfully prosecuted it in 1851. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1821réf. AQ27623London: s.n. 1821. 14pp 2. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds. A rare survival of copies of correspondence relating to act to divest the African Company of Merchants of the charge and management of forts and settlements on the Gold Coast of Africa and transfer their control to the Crown. The act that abolished the company was passed in May 1821 and the transfer ownership of eight forts including the notorious Cape Coast Castle was affected on 3rd July the day after these letters were ordered by Commons to be printed. They contain listings of the Company's employees and respective salaries and abstract of annual stipends paid to local Kings and Cabboceers. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC records copies at just two locations Florida and NLW; COPAC adds no further. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1812réf. AQ27619London: s.n. 1812. 9pp 2. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. The second located copy a series of dispatches relevant to the establishment of a British Army recruiting station at either Sierra Leone or Gorée. Under the authority of the Prince Regent Brevet Major Wingfield of the 8th West India Regiment was charged with determining the most suitable location for the depot with the assistance of inter alia one sergeant and two corporals 'from every Black Regiment in the West Indies' and that 'such eligible Negroes as may be found amongst the cargoes captured under the Slave Abolition Act should be appropriated to this service'. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC records a single copy UWI; COPAC adds no further. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1820réf. AQ27620London: s.n. 1820. 17pp 1. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds sealing wax remnant to title ink-stamp pf the Institute of Historical Research to verso. The second located copy of an annual report submitted by Royal Navy officer Sir George Collier 1774-1824 on the condition of the African Company's forts and settlements. Between 1818 and 1821 Collier commanded the six-ship coast of Africa squadron with a remit to suppress the slave trade a charge he undertook with zeal significantly reducing the traffic of slaves from the continent. In 1820 his work was recognised by election to honorary life membership of the African Institution. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy Southampton. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1812réf. AQ27618London: s.n. 1812. 19pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Bound with: Drop-head title: Further paper relating to the slave trade. Viz. Observation by William Dawes Esquire one of the Commissioners ;- in addition to the Report made by the Commission of African Enquiry. - 1811. London s.n. 1812. 21-22pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Folio. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutters. Later resewn. Early manuscript page numbers to upper margins. A rare survival of a report on the condition of British territories on the Gold Coast of Africa in particular efforts to tarry the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade. Of interest are the expense tables showing the cost of maintaining British forts in the region; Cape Coast Castle for example has an average annual charge of £3277 with 'Black Men's Pay' making up £179 and 'Castle Slaves' costing £990. The report is here paired with the second located copy of an addendum by sometime governor of Sierra Leone William Dawes 1762-1836 that whilst broadly agreeing with the findings nevertheless suggests an increase in naval power off the African Coast. Soon after this paper was printed Dawes at the suggestion of William Wilberforce travelled to Antigua to work for the anti-slavery cause there. OCLC and COPAC together record copies of the first mentioned work at just three locations John Carter Brown NLW and Princeton. OCLC records a single copy of the second mentioned work NLSA; COPAC adds no further. . [s.n.] unknown
1819réf. AQ27617London: s.n. 1819. 5pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Three old horizontal folds. An apparently unrecorded parliamentary bill proposing amendments to the 1750 Act for extending and improving the Trade to Africa specifically reducing the number of committee members and restraining the trade opportunities of the African Company of Merchants. The bill was seemingly never enacted.; the Company was abolished in 1821 with all assets passing to the Crown. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1662réf. 2201280001London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1662. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Customs act 1662 Unbound. 2 209-242 p. : coat of arms ; 29 cm fol. Text in black letter. Ten-line decorated initial on first page. Royal arms on cover title page: approximately 8 x 6.5 cm. Crawford arms 66. See Crawford J.L.L. Bibliography of royal proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns and of others published under authority 1485-1714 II page 511. Public General Acts. 1662. 14 Car.II.c.11. "Anno regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae decimo quarto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May anno Dom. 1661. In the thirteenth year of the reign of our Most Gracious Soveraign Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. And there continued till the nineteenth of May in the fourteenth year of His Majesties said reign : And thence prorogued to the eighteenth of February then next following London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty paperback
1746réf. 2108240008Paris : Le Gras 1746. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Gilt spine morocco spine label. Good binding and cover. All edges red. Marbled end pages. 2 808 pages. Text in two columns. Clean unmarked pages. Paris : Le Gras hardcover
1930réf. 1712100011London: H.M.S.O.; Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 24 volumes. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with red and green leather spine labels. Some minor chipping to spine labels. Edges wine red. Foreign Office embossed on front boards. Good bindings and covers. Clean unmarked pages. Consists of WWII era parliamentary debates Vols. 79-84 88-96 110 112-119. Includes the years: 1930-1935; 1937 1939-1941. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. H.M.S.O.; Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1819réf. 1801150015London : Ordered by the House of Commons 1819. Paperback. Very Good. Folio. Original blue wraps. 37 pp. Lacking most of spine. Reprinted from the 1817 report. Shelfwear. Folding crease to middle of volume. [London] : Ordered, by the House of Commons paperback
1734réf. 1608030007Dublin : Printed by and for Theophilus Jones 1734-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 38 2 pp. Hardcover. Bound in modern blue cloth. Red leather title label on front board. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. This edition has distinguishing notes whereby to know each member that voted for and against the enquiry into the affairs of the South-Sea Company Dublin : Printed by and for Theophilus Jones hardcover
1764réf. 1409240058London: Mark Basket; Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1764-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 18 Acts in 10 Volumes. 4to. 6 volumes bound in paper wraps. 4 volumes bound in quarter brown cloth. Paper boards. Paper title pastedown on front covers. Good binding and cover. Minimal shelfwear. Slight sunning to extremities. Clean unmarked pages. AN ACT TO CONTINUE SEVERAL LAWS RUM OR SPIRITS OF THE BRITISH SUGAR PLANTATIONS BEFORE THE DUTIES OF EXCISE ARE PAID THEREON; AND TO THE FURTHER PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS GOING ARMED OR DISGUISED IN DEFIANCE OF THE LAWS OF EXCISE. London: Printed by Mark Baskett Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett. 1764. 2 239-242 pp. AN ACT TO IMPOWER THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY TO LAY OUT UPON PROPER SECURITIES A FURTHER SUM OF MONEY Lon: Baskett 1764. 2 455-458pp. AN ACT TO EXPLAIN AMEND AND RENDER MORE EFFECTUAL TWO SEVERAL ACTS OF PARLIAMENT MADE IN THE SECOND AND THIRD YEARS OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY FOR PAVING CLENSING AND LIGHTING THE SQUARES STREETS AND LANES WITHIN WESTMINSTER Lon: Baskett 1764. 2; 527-546 pp. AN ACT TO CONTINUE PREVENT THE FRAUDS AND ABUSES COMMITTED IN THE ADMEASUREMENT OF COALS WITHIN THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMINSTER Lon: Baskett 1764. 2 639-640 pp. AN ACT FOR PUTTING THE ROAD FROM CLARGES STREET TO HYDE PARK CORNER AND FROM THE SOUTH END OF PARK LANE paving cleansing lighting the Squares Streets Lanes and other Places in Westminster. Lon: Baskett 1766. 2 859-864 pp. 5 statutes in 1 volume. Each title page Lon: Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1771. 1st statute AN ACT FOR BETTER PAVING THE STREETS SQUARES LANES COURTS ALLEYS WAYS 2 315-352pp. 2nd statute AN ACT TO EXPLAIN A CLAUSE IN AN ACT OF THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT FOR BETTER SUPPLYING THE CITY OF WORCESTER AND THE LIBERTIES THEREOF WITH WATER AND FOR BETTER PAVING AND LIGHTING THE SAID CITY 2 355-356pp. 3rd statute AN ACT FOR BETTER REGULATING THE POOR WITHIN THE CITY OF OXFORD. 2 359-404pp. 4th statute AN ACT FOR THE BETTER PAVING THAT PART OF THE HIGH STREET 2 407-438pp. 5th statute 2 AN ACT TO ENABLE HIS MAJESTY TO LICENCE A PLAYHOUSE IN THE TOWN OF LIVERPOOLE IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER. 2 443-444pp. 3 statutes in 1 volume. Each is published Lon: Eyre and Strahan 1771. 1st statute AN ACT FOR PAVING WAPPING STREET IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX 2 543-595 i pp. ESTC N57180. 2nd statute AN ACT TO AMEND AND RENDER MORE EFFECTUAL SEVERAL ACTS MADE RELATING TO PAVING CLEANSING AND LIGHTING SQUARES STREETS LANES AND OTHER PLACES WITHIN THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMINSTER AND PARTS ADJACENT. 2 599-642pp. ESTC N57181. 3rd statute AN ACT FOR PAVING AND REGULATING ROSEMARY LANE FROM THE PARISH OF SAINT BOTOLPH 2 647-686 pp page 648 mis-paginated ·684. Page 647 has signing ·8A2 and press figure ·3. 1st line of text last word: Lane 1st word under woodcut letter: ·Cannon. Page 686 last line of text last word: ·thereof. AN ACT TO ENABLE THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF SAINT MATTHEW BETHNAL-GREEN IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX TO PAY DEBTS ALREADY CONTRACTED in finishing and furnishing their Workhouse and on account of the Poor of the said Parish Lon: Eyre and Strahan 1773. 2 1159-1166pp. AN ACT FOR PAVING REPAIRING LIGHTING AND WATCHING THE STREETS Lon: Eyre and Strahan 1774. 2 575-638pp. ESTC: N57449. 3 statutes in 1 volume each Lon: Eyre and Strahan 1775. Rear cover soiled minor marginal dampstaining mostly to first statute. 1st statute AN ACT FOR PAVING AND REGULATING AND FOR PREVENTING NUISANCES AND OBSTRUCTIONS WITHIN NEW GRAVEL LANE AND THE SEVERAL STREETS Clerkenwell 2 1411-1447 i pp. 2nd statute AN ACT TO EXPLAIN AND AMEND AN ACT AN ACT FOR THE BETTER RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR WITHIN THE PARISH 2 1451-1462 pp. 3rd statute AN ACT FOR APPLYING THE FUNDS PROVIDED FOR REBUILDING THE OFFICES 2 1467-1476 pp. ESTC records for above statutes include: N56797 N56819 N57171 N57172 N57173 N57175 N57182 N57391 N57577 N57578 N57579. During the period 1700-1840 Parliament passed more than 600 Acts sanctioning local initiatives for improvement and reconstruction. The Acts varied enormously in scope ranging from those dealing with small projects such as the widening of a few central streets to those that dealt with the complete redevelopment of large areas. London: Mark Basket; Charles Eyre and William Strahan hardcover
1641réf. 1409300024Printed at London : For M.S 1641-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 2 48 226 pages. Bound in early 20th century 3/4 leather. Gilt letterig on spine. 5 raised bands. Cloth boards. Page ends washed red. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Owners leather bookplate on inside board of Laurence Roberts Carton. Lacks the 4 portraits. Errata leaf present at end of text but well-worn showing only a quarter of original text. Clean unmarked pages with tanning. R13582. Wing P4018. Like many Puritans abhorring decadent celebrations Prynne was strongly opposed to religious feast days including Christmas and revelry such as stage plays He included in his Histriomastix 1632 a denunciation of actresses which was widely felt to be an attack of Queen Henrietta Maria. This book led to the most famous incidents in his life but the timing was accidental. About 1624 Prynne had begun a book against stage-plays; on 31 May 1630 he obtained a license to print it and about November 1632 it was published. Histriomastix is a volume of over a thousand pages showing that plays were unlawful incentives to immorality and condemned by the scriptures Church Fathers modern Christian writers and pagan philosophers. By chance the queen and her ladies in January 1633 took part in the performance of Walter Montagu's The Shepherd's Paradise: this was an innovation at court. A passage reflecting on the character of female actors in general was construed as an aspersion on the queen; passages which attacked the spectators of plays and magistrates who failed to suppress them pointed by references to Nero and other tyrants were taken as attacks on the king Charles I. William Noy as attorney-general instituted proceedings against Prynne in the Star-chamber. After a year's imprisonment in the Tower of London he was sentenced 17 February 1634 to be imprisoned during life to be fined to be expelled from Lincoln's Inn to be deprived of his degree by the university of Oxford and to lose both his ears in the pillory. Prynne was pilloried on 7 May and 10 May. On 11 June he addressed to Archbishop Laud whom he regarded as his chief persecutor a letter charging him with illegality and injustice. Laud handed the letter to the attorney-general as material for a new prosecution but when Prynne was required to own his handwriting he contrived to get hold of the letter and tore it to pieces. In the Tower Prynne wrote and published anonymous tracts against episcopacy and against the Book of Sports. In one he introduced Noy's recent death as a warning. Elsewhere he attacked prelates in general 1635. An anonymous attack on Matthew Wren bishop of Norwich brought him again before the Star-chamber. On 14 June 1637 Prynne was sentenced once more to a fine to imprisonment for life and to lose the rest of his ears. At the proposal of Chief-justice John Finch he was also to be branded on the cheeks with the letters S. L. signifying 'seditious libeller'. Prynne was pilloried on 30 June in company with Henry Burton and John Bastwick and Prynne was handled barbarously by the executioner. He made as he returned to his prison a couple of Latin verses explaining the 'S. L.' with which he was branded to mean 'stigmata laudis' sign of praise. He was released by the Long Parliament in 1640. The House of Commons declared the two sentences against him illegal restored him to his degree and to his membership of Lincoln's Inn and voted him pecuniary reparation as late as October 1648 he was still trying to collect it. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War particularly in the press and in many pamphlets while still pursuing the bishops. Printed at London : For M.S hardcover
1743réf. 1404090036London : Printed for R. Chandler 1743-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Vol. II XI XIII and XIV of 14 volumes. Bound in contemporary leather. Gilt lettering on spine. Moderate shelfwear. Chipping and loss on spines. Front board to Vol. XIII starting. Unmarked pages. Foxing throughout. Dark moldstains. Owners' nameplate on front board of Richard E. Parker a War of 1812 vet and former Virginia senator and jurist during the 19th century. London : Printed for R. Chandler hardcover
1786réf. 1402060015London : printed for John Stockdale 1786-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Full contemporary calf. Front board detached rubbing loss to spine. 196 32 p. Contemporary signature to titlepage. Occasional spotting. Kress no. 13210.5. ESTC T173258. A view into 18th century British India. Warren Hastings was the first British governor of Bengal. London : printed for John Stockdale hardcover
1759réf. 1309160003England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons 1759-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Large heavy folio. 42 cm x 27 cm. Covers King William & Queen Mary's reign. 880 p. Hardcover. Contemporary boards. Boards detached. Unmarked pages. Issued as a Parliamentary paper. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons hardcover
réf. elala53408vo. pp. 1 p.l. xxviii 480. original blind-stamped cloth stain to upper cover lacking front flyleaf. A valuable collection of historical material relating to the Canadian North-West the Hudson's Bay Company and the Hudson's Bay Territories Saskatchewan the Red River Manitoba the North-West Territories and the frontier lands above Lake Superior. Not in Peel. Ottawa: Printed By Maclean, Roger & Co., 1880. hardcover
réf. elala5321London: 1827. folio. pp. 256. A fine copy in modern cloth original printed wrs. bound in [London:] 1827 hardcover
1823réf. EEApoGRE10London: 1823. 1823. folio. pp. 223. disbound. [London: 1823]. unknown
1647réf. AQ20484London: Printed for John Wright 1647. 2 6pp. Disbound. Leaves toned scattered spotting. Three parliamentary pronouncements including edict for the raising of fund to support those impacted by the plague in Chester. . First edition. Quarto. Printed for John Wright unknown
1970réf. 19121309-87Shannon: Irish University Press 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual labels etc front pastedown damage where label has been removed spine has library shelfmark label and a strip of blue tape which has no apparent function. Internally in very good condition indeed top edge gilt; quarter leather cover has some light rubbing and marking. Facsimile reproduction. Heavy item >2.5kg will incur extra shipping cost outside UK. Irish University Press Hardcover
1871réf. 090316United Kingdom: HMSO. Correspondence respecting the negotiations preliminary to the war between France and Prussia. 1870. c-167 77 pages. : Further correspondence .C-189 10 pages : Further Correspondence.C-210 98 pages : Further Correspondence in continuation of July 29 1870.c-244 269 pagessome french text and pencil annotations : This is a bound collection of Government Papers consisiting of the following : Correspondence with Lord Lyons Respecting his departure from Paris.1871 13 pages: also 6 more papers dealing with Pecuniary demands : sinking of British Vessels Passports Imprisonment of Mr. Worth.etc. Leather spine and corners with some cracking and wear esp. cover corners etc but sound. Marbled boards with some of the marbled sheet missing from rear cover exposing a section of hard card cover. See image from winghale books. Bookplate of Bishop of Llandaff Alfred Ollivant0 on end paper. Original government papers bound together in a large size 33 cm x 21 cm hardback. . Good. Hardcover. 1871. HMSO hardcover
réf. A9781346021751Hardback. New. hardcover
1654réf. 1292706London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield 1654. First Edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo 269 2 pages. In Good plus condition. Rebound in modern burgundy buckram gilt lettering on spine. 20 136 121-269 3. Contemporary bookplate on verso of title page of Thomas Brotherton of Hey. Small bookworm hole to upper fore corner does not impact text page wavy and tape repaired tear to ffep. Title page in red and black. Includes index. Preface signed: T.F. i.e. Thomas Fuller. ESTC Citation No. R23317 Wing F2422; JG consignment. Shelved Room G. 1292706. Special Collections. John Williams and Francis Eglesfield hardcover
