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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
1817réf. AQ27622London: s.n. 1817. 63pp 1. Disbound. Later resewn. Terminal leaf creased. The report of a parliamentary committee appointed to evaluate the condition of the state of trade and establishments of the African Company issued four years prior its ultimate dissolution by the British Government in 1821. With the exception of the major forts such as Cape Coast Castle many British forts were not particularly well defended nor maintained and as such their efficacy as a deterrent to slave traders greatly diminished. Parliament frustrated by this reduced effectiveness pursued a policy of reducing the number of African Company settlements through the abandonment of any upon strict inquiry not found to be of service in a sufficient degree to warrant their expenditure. 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 copies at just six locations California NLW NYPL Senate House Southampton and UoL. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1851réf. 6000078London: William Clowes and Sons for HMSO 1851. Foolscap folio viii 246 pp. edges uncut; bound in half crimson morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe original printed wrappers bound in at the end. Detailed report of New Zealand affairs from April 1850 to August 1851 providing an overview of this pivotal era in New Zealand history marking a transition from early unstructured settlement toward a more organized Anglican-led colonial identity and the first steps toward self-governance. Governor George Grey was under immense pressure from the Settlers' Constitutional Associations while this period also saw the arrival of the "First Four Ships" in Lyttelton in December 1850 and pressure from the newly formed Canterbury Association to create a "slice of England" in the South Island complete with a structured social hierarchy and a strong Anglican Church presence. Of special interest are reports for the introduction of Maori representation in government and parliament presentations from Queen Victoria to various native chiefs the acquisition of lands by the New Zealand Company and the settlement of pensioner emigrants in New Zealand. . William Clowes and Sons for HMSO unknown
1984réf. 127210American Art Enterprises 1984. Very Good. Vol. 1 Nos. 1 3 5 August October December 1984 $3.50 cover price Parliament News dist. b/w approx. 28pp ea stapled softcover quartos. Three vintage adult magazines featuring nude & pornographic photography of solo & paired women most pages w/ blocked vignettes a few full-pg photos ads for Marlowe Sales & Gourmet Video meant to serve as a preview of the publisher's upcoming magazine issues began August 1984 short-lived series 1985 issues seen. Black/white throughout centerfolds ads lists. V1 N1: August July 1984 Finger Friggin' Latin Babes Chunky Asses Lesbian Lovers Tits 4 U Black & Lusty centerfold Hot Wet Pussys Strip Tease Hot Legs Floppers Roommates Fanny notables Mona Page Barbara Alton Leslie Winston. V1 N3: October October 1984 Erect Nipples Lesbian Girls Anal Babes Tip Top Split Beavers Pussy Poking centerfold King Size Sultry Black Dolls Geisha Girls Snatch Licking Lesbians Legs & Asses notables Barbara Alton Candye Kane. V1 N5 December 1984 Hefty Mamas Black Girl Review Poppin Mamas Hanging Breasts Creamers Bottom centerfold Lesbian Seduction Legs Legs Legs Shaved Dildo Babes Girl-Loving Girls Ass Parade. Very Good Plus rubbing & light foxing brief creases remainder clips small sticker on front 8/84. For mature consenting audiences. Scarce. American Art Enterprises paperback
réf. RGW187685 folding tables appendices; 96pp. 8vo disbound in paper wrappers Detailed accounts of income and expenditure. For example one table gives the cost of the Army including the £53502 paid to American forces. unknown
1791réf. 15177London; Printed by and for W. Woodfall 1791. 1791. First edition. Duodecimo pp. 2 123 1. Later maroon quarter calf over terracotta buckram; titled in gilt to spine; all edges sprinkled blue; marbled end-papers. Binding a little tight but strong the corners sharp. First and final leaves evenly toned; very occasional spots to margin but contents otherwise fresh. A clean copy in a near-fine rebind. The first edition of the landmark report on Wilberforce's first abortive bill to abolish slavery. This book contains an account of Wilberforce's legendary four-hour speech condemning the slave trade. Wilberforce had spoken vigorously against slavery since 1789 and had chaired a select committee on the subject of the trade in 1790 but this debate in 1791 was the first outing in the Commons for his Abolition Bill. As his biographer writes 'On April 18 in a four-hour speech that showed his mastery of the evidence and arguments Wilberforce moved for leave to bring in an Abolition Bill. Subsequent debate was lively and extended over two evenings but when the house voted at 3.30 on the morning of 20 April Wilberforce was defeated by 163 to 88 votes. The outbreak both of revolution in France and early in 1791 of a slave rebellion in the French colony of San Domingo Haiti had heightened insecurities and led the majority of M. P. s to oppose a measure that they perceived as potentially destabilizing.' ODNB. An important document in the history of Abolition. Scarce in commerce. The end of p. 60 ends 'and of such' and 3 page references to Pitt on p.124 conforming with ESTC N24631. London; Printed by and for W. Woodfall, 1791. hardcover
1784réf. 20795London: J. Debrett 1784. 37 1 advt pp. Disbound a couple of spots else Very Good. First and only edition. "Considers the question whether the system of a strong responsible parliamentary administration should be restored" NUC. In England ministers are "responsible to parliament for their conduct and looking up to parliament for support; and not as in despotic governments the mere instruments of the will of an arbitrary master." This is "the great palladium of the Constitution." The author attacks "Lord B." Bute and the King for subverting this system during the events leading to the American Revolution and giving the executive arm of government over to "men ever unfriendly to liberty." FIRST EDITION. J. Debrett 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
1741réf. 1394690London: Thomas Baskett 1741. First Edition. Loose folio. Quarto pp. 2 699-700 two leaves. In Good plus condition. In an incomplete modern binding comprised of uncovered boards bearing pencil annotations; mull and sewing visible at spine. Corners of boards lightly bumped. Text block lightly age toned. BB Consignment. 1394690. Special Collections - Downstairs. Thomas Baskett unknown books
1753réf. 1394689London: Thomas Baskett 1753. First Edition. Loose folio. Quarto 2 399-403 1 pages. In Good plus condition. Disbound with light age toning and light scattered foxing. Light creasing at gutter. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized Ephemera. In 1714 the British Parliament made an act which established a £2000 reward for the individual who developed an accurate method of calculating longitude at sea. This 1753 act was one of several revisions or replacements of that original. 1394689. Special Collections. Thomas Baskett unknown books
1833réf. 1365495London 1833 - 1871. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Quarto 64 pages alternating blank leaves pp. 1133-1164 pp. 209-239 pp. 225-256 pp. 425-431 pp. 413-416 pp. 261-306 pp. 797-800 2 pages pp. 861-870; G-; Half-bound sheepskin and buckram boards with black spine labels and gilt lettering to spine and front cover; Boards show moderate plus wear to corners significant cracking and wear to leather along joints and light wear overall; Back board and spine have separated from textblock but all elements intact; Textblock has light age-toning to speckled edges; Numerous ink emendations in 18th-century hand apparently by individual involved in drafting or implementing the Thames Valley Drainage Act; Possibly the hand of Robert Harding Milward whose armorial bookplate appears on the front paste-down. RWO. Shelved in Netdesk Office Case #1. A collection of ten acts passed by Parliament between 1833 and 1871 privately bound with holograph annotations in margins. Collection prefaced by the text of the Thames Valley Drainage Act of 1871 and all successive acts bound-in are related to the history and content of the 1871 Act. Appears to have been privately bound by Robert Harding Milward a Birmingham solicitor whose career ended ignominiously in 1903 following revelations of fraudulent activity. His precise role if any in the authoring passage or implementation is unclear but presumably relates to his role as solicitor in the funding of public works projects. 1365495. Special Collections. hardcover 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
1838réf. 36533London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1838. Folio. 713-716 pp as issued. Disbound. Very Good. This Act discusses the two recent conventions between Great Britain and France and the King of the Two Sicilies with details regarding cruizers of the Two Sicilies which are to be employed in the suprression of the slave trade ports to which captured vessels shall be taken &c. George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode unknown books
1764réf. 36526London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1764. Folio. 1 1 blank 335-336pp as issued. Disbound. Very Good. ESTC N56806. Printed by Mark Baskett unknown books
1746réf. 35112London 1746. Folio printed in two columns per page. 2 150; 2 72; 2 195 1 blank pp. PLUS: large folding engraved illustrated plate 'The Situation of the English French and Spanish Fleets when They Began the Engagement in the Mediterranean on the Eleventh of Feby. 1743/4. Cape Sicie Bearing then N.N.E. & from the Center of the Fleet About ten Leagues.' Mild wear occasional light toning and mild foxing bound in modern institutional buckram with gilt-lettered spine title call numbers at base of spine. Title page with two rubberstamps. Very Good. These gentlemen were charged with permitting the combined French-Spanish fleet to escape after the British victory at Toulon during the War of Austrian Succession. It was feared that the fleets were heading for Gibraltar and a planned invasion of England. ESTC T114204. unknown books
1784réf. 20795London: J. Debrett 1784. 37 1 advt pp. Disbound a couple of spots else Very Good. First and only edition. "Considers the question whether the system of a strong responsible parliamentary administration should be restored" NUC. In England ministers are "responsible to parliament for their conduct and looking up to parliament for support; and not as in despotic governments the mere instruments of the will of an arbitrary master." This is "the great palladium of the Constitution." The author attacks "Lord B." Bute and the King for subverting this system during the events leading to the American Revolution and giving the executive arm of government over to "men ever unfriendly to liberty." FIRST EDITION. J. Debrett unknown books
1739réf. 1364557Dublin: n.p. 1739 - 1749. First Editions. Hardcover. Octavos Twenty-Four Volumes; G-; Quarter-bound in leather and original light blue paper boards spines banded some with handwritten volume number notation; Boards show significant soiling and age-toning moderate plus wear/bumping to corners moderate cracking to leather along joints and moderate wear to spines; Textblock/spine of Vol. XXIII is split at p. 163 but all pages sound otherwise bindings sound; Textblocks show moderate age-toning and curling to untrimmed edges minor shelfwear to bottom edges light to moderate uneven age-toning to pages throughout interiorly and a 19th-century ink ownership inscription "Marcus Gage" appears on the titlepage of each volume. RWO-LC. Shelved in law annex. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. Appears to be a set of true first editions as released in Dublin beginning in 1739. John Torbuck of London began releasing a reprint in 1741 but these volumes lack the publisher information on the titlepages consistent with that edition. This set appears to be complete in twenty-four volumes. 1364557. Special Collections. [n.p.] hardcover books
réf. 207401Paris, Chez Baudouin, (1790) in-8, 11 pp., dérelié.
réf. 203405Paris, Imprimerie nationale, (1791) in-8, 15 pp., dérelié.
réf. 206727Paris, Impr. Nationale., (An II) in-8, 23 pp., dérelié. Quelques piqûres
réf. 206064Paris, Impr. Nationale, (1790) in-8, 3 pp., dérelié.
réf. 198033Aix, Imprimeries de Gibelin-David & Emeric-David, 1790 placard in-folio de 46 x 35 cm, texte sur deux colonnes, en feuille. Petites galeries de vers.
réf. 203309Versailles, Baudouin, S.d. in-8, 4 pp., dérelié.
