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1780Best.-Nr. 147011780 en ff. 8pp. in-4, (les 3 dernières vierges), Aix Esprit David 1780
1790Best.-Nr. 39482Paris 1790. A PRISTINE COPY of this rare example of French revolutionary Judaica a satire against Mirabeau. 1 37 pp. Printed with large margins on extremely fine laid paper. 8vo. Sewn into plain blue wraps as issued ENTIRELY UNCUT. A bit of faint old staining else FINE AND BRIGHT. Barbier II 334. Rare and important. paperback
1867Mm 150x225 Volume rilegato in mezza pelle con titolo oro impresso al dorso, 372 pagine. Testo in lingua francese - french text. Opera in ottime condizioni con solo un piccolo distacco alla testa del dorso. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla confervma dell'ordine.
2013La democrazia rappresentativa si fonda sull'assunto che esista un'elite con la vocazione al potere politico. Ma fino a che punto può spingersi la delega che i governati conferiscono ai governanti? È pensabile che, in situazioni limite, li possano revocare prima del termine del mandato? Può essere utile per tenere alto il livello della classe politica e, insieme, alimentare il senso civico e la cittadinanza attiva? È il problema che cerca di affrontare questo libro, muovendo dall'istituto anglosassone del Recall, vale a dire della revoca dell'eletto a seguito di una petizione popolare. Nel 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger ha assunto la guida politica della California proprio grazie al Recall del governatore in carica. L'istituto della revoca ha conosciuto così un'attualità inattesa nelle democrazie liberal-democratiche, al punto che il governo britannico in carica lo ha inserito nel proprio programma di riforme istituzionali. Questa sensibilità è uno dei prodotti più evidenti delle trasformazioni che sta conoscendo la democrazia contemporanea, in cui diversi fattori - si pensi alla sfiducia crescente che pervade i cittadini, al continuo ricorso ai sondaggi d'opinione, alla "mediatizzazione" della politica et al. - premono sull'istituto della rappresentanza, segnalando l'opportunità di un ripensamento del suo profilo. Prefazione di Giuliano Urbani. Autori: Davide Gianluca Bianchi.
1918Best.-Nr. 165701918. Representation of the People Act 1918 1918 documents the statutory transformation of British electoral democracy at the close of the First World War granting parliamentary voting rights to women over thirty who met property qualifications while extending the franchise to men over twenty-one. The Act records the legal mechanism by which decades of women's suffrage agitation entered parliamentary law revealing how electoral reform operated through age sex residence and property qualifications and providing primary-source evidence for the study of women's political rights wartime citizenship and the expansion of representative government in Britain. Representation of the People Act 1918. 8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64. London: Printed by Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Norman Gibb Scorgie C.V.O. C.B.E. Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office and King's Printer of Acts of Parliament 1918. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9.5 x 6 inches. The printed Act sets out the revised parliamentary franchise registration procedures voting rules redistribution provisions and related administrative structures that governed the enlarged electorate. Its significance lies not only in the admission of approximately 8.5 million women to the electorate but also in the unequal structure of that admission: women's voting rights remained restricted by age and qualification while men received a broader franchise. Passed after a long suffrage campaign that included constitutional lobbying mass organizing civil disobedience imprisonment and militant protest the Act marked a decisive but incomplete victory for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Original wrappers with expected minor handling wear; internally sound very good. A major parliamentary document for the study of women's suffrage postwar citizenship and the legal architecture of modern British electoral reform. unknown
1871Best.-Nr. 161381871. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the parliamentary investigation of infant welfare paid infant care mortality and state regulation in Victorian Britain. The report documents the emerging system of infant life protection through committee proceedings witness testimony appendices and an index revealing how legislators gathered medical legal and social evidence to define infant neglect as a matter requiring public oversight. Produced one year before the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 the volume provides primary-source evidence for the study of child welfare law women's labor and caregiving economies public health regulation infant mortality and the legal history of "baby farming" a term used in nineteenth-century debates over paid care for infants. The 1872 legislation has been identified by historians as Britain's first infant life protection legislation making this parliamentary report important to the documentary record behind early state intervention in private infant care. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. 328 pp. Rebound in modern cloth. The report includes the committee's formal proceedings minutes of evidence appendix and index giving the volume a structured evidentiary record rather than a general policy summary. Its contents outline testimony and documentary material on infant care outside the immediate family social conditions affecting infant survival legal deficiencies and the need for enforceable protections. As a government publication it shows the mechanisms of parliamentary fact-finding in practice: evidence was collected organized indexed and converted into a legislative record that helped frame infant protection as a matter of law public health and social administration. The report belongs to the broader nineteenth-century movement toward state scrutiny of child welfare women's caregiving labor and domestic arrangements previously treated as private matters. Its timing matters because it precedes the 1872 Act and captures the evidentiary process by which infant mortality and paid infant nursing entered the legislative sphere. First few pages including title page with small loss at right page edge not affecting legibility; handwritten page numbers in upper right corners throughout; pages bright and clean; overall good. A substantial parliamentary source for research into Victorian child welfare infant mortality gendered labor public health law and the development of modern protective regulation. unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-H-006-00390Stationery Office Books. Used - Good. 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 but has been well cared for. 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 Books unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-H-006-00391Stationery Office Books. Used - Good. 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 but has been well cared for. 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 Books unknown
Best.-Nr. 20653Both from Roupell Park Brixton. March 1857 and 25 April 1859. The first letter has the damaged signature 'William: Roupe<ll>' the second is signed 'W: Roupell'. ONE March 1857: 1p. 8vo. Signed autograph draft of a circular Roupell made for his election agent at the time of his first parliamentary contest. On the reverse of a letterhead of 4 Wolsingham Place Lambeth which was the office of solicitor R. C. Barton who was Roupell's election agent see George Hill 'Electoral History of the Borough of Lambeth' 1879. In poor condition heavily worn with loss to the outer edges and text including the end of Roupell's signature. Reads: 'My Dear Sir I have been urged <to> become a Candidate for the orough of Lambeth – There is to be a meeting of my friends & support<ers> at “The Horns Tavern” Kennington o<n> BLANK evening at BLANK o'clock preci<sely> when I hope to have the honor of you<r> attendance & support'. TWO 25 April 1859: Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed recipient or more likely another draft of an intended circular. 1p. 12mo. In good condition lightly aged with wear at foot and to signature. Reads: 'The Nomination Day having been fixed for Thursday and the Polling for Friday next I have the pleasure to enclose your Polling Card. Conscious that during the time I have sat in Parliament I have endeavoured faithfully to represent you and at the same time have not been unmindful of your local interests I rely upon your cordial & hearty support early last word underlined at the Poll'. Both from Roupell Park, Brixton. March 1857 and 25 April 1859. unknown
Best.-Nr. 19838Roupell Park Brixton. 28 April 1859. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition on aged and worn paper. Possibly produced in court as docketed at head: 'facsimile printed 1st & 3rd' the present item is not a facsimile. The male recipient is not identified. He wishes to reiterate his thanks 'for the hearty support and valuable assistance you have so kindly tendered in securing my Reelection as one of your Representatives for the Borough of Lambeth'. He will 'bear a pleasing recollection of those services' and hopes that his 'future course in Parliament may be such as fully to justify the confidence you have reposed in me'. Over a number of years and to the tune of more than £100000 Roupell plundered the estate of his father Richard Palmer Roupell 1782–1856 scrap-metal dealer and property developer. A committee was convened in the House of Commons to investigate irregularities in his parliamentary campaign in the 1857 general election. Roupell Park, Brixton. 28 April 1859. unknown
Best.-Nr. 22328no place 4 February 1898 . Two pages 4to bifolium second leaf blank apart from note in another hand on verso " Mr Huskisson's of the 4th Feby 98" good condition. Text: "mr Moodie was appointed Vice Consul to the Southern States of North America upon the late Consul obtaining leave of absence for the recovery of his health. Since that period upwards of four uears the whole duties of the Office have been executed by Mr. Moodie whose zeal and attention to the Interests of the British Merchants under circumstances of considerable difficulty and embarrassment are universally acknowledged. Mr. Moodie is a British Subject and his principles and character for many uears before his appointment to the Vice Consulship are well known. Upon these points Mr. Hammond may be referred to. Mr. Miller is lately deceased and it is hoped that Mr. Moodie's past Services & the circumstances above stated may entitle him to a favourable consideration upon the present vacancy." no place, [ 4 February 1898 ] unknown
Best.-Nr. 14313Both from Treasury Chambers London. 12 December 1805 and 24 January 1806. Both documents 1p. folio. Both in good condition on lightly-aged laid paper the first with pin-holes from its attachment to another item. The first letter relates to 'the Expences incurred in constructing the Royal Military Canal' with reference to a 'Letter from Sir Brook. Watson Bt' and 'Lieut. Col. Brown's Accounts for expenditure'. The second letter again deals with communications from Watson and Brown the latter 'enclosing Accounts & Vouchers for the Expenditure on the Royal Military Canal & Rampart'. The Royal Military Canal conceived by Lieutenant-Colonel John Brown as a defence against invasion runs for 28 miles between Seabrook near Folkestone and Cliff End near Hastings. In mid-1805 due to the slow progress of the work the contractors and consultant engineer John Rennie had been dismissed and replaced by the Quartermaster-General’s department with Brown in command. Both from Treasury Chambers [London]. 12 December 1805 and 24 January 1806. unknown
1898104 p. + Portrait Frontis. Deckle edges. Top edge gold gilt. XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Bookplate of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary on front paste down. 16mo. 180mm. Original full cloth binding lettered and ruled in gold. Hardbound. Very good. ENGLAND BX 4
Best.-Nr. 0656248513.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1972No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 222pp. All about parliament, the law, political parties, the Commons, the Lords, the Monarchy, civil service, nationalised industries and local government.
1971Best.-Nr. bas170Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Colonies West Indies Volume 8. Facsimile reprint of the 1898 edition. Folio quarter cloth hardcover 466 pp. Near-Fine. Irish University Press, 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. bas170Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Colonies West Indies Volume 8. Facsimile reprint of the 1898 edition. Folio quarter cloth hardcover 466 pp. Near-Fine. Irish University Press, 1971. Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. 16737Deutscher Bundestag 2000 416 pages collection COURS CONTORNS ET DETOURS. 17x3x24cm. 2000. Broché. 416 pages.
196632 pages. Features: The C.N.R. gambles on passenger service - article with photos; Rita Tushingham - article and colour photos - filming of "The Trap"; Blair Richardson - The Hard-Punching Bible-Belter - article with photos of Canada's middleweight boxing champion; First Came the Vikings; When Our Parliament Buildings Burned - on a winter night fifty years ago a dreadful fire broke out - article with photos; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
1795Best.-Nr. 1402166London 1795. One admittance ticket for the "Seventieth Day" of impeachment trial of Warren Hastings. Ticket appears to be missing a section along the right edge and has split into thirds and is currently laid down on paper. Signed 'Pelham' with original wax seal intact in lower right corner. Shows age toning and a few fingerprints along the edge but in Good condition otherwise. RW Consignment. Shelved at Rockville Room A General Ephemera Part 2. Warren Hastings 1732-1818 the former Governor-General of Bengal was charged by the House of Commons in 1787 with high crimes and misdemeanors related to his administration of the East India Company's territories in India. These included allegations of corruption and abuses of power. The trial which was spearheaded by Edmund Burke became one of the most famous legal and political spectacles of the 18th century. Running from 1788 to 1795 it consumed seven years of parliamentary life. The "Seventieth Day" fell in 1795 near the trial's conclusion. Hastings was ultimately acquitted in April of that year. 1402166. Special Collections - Upstairs. unknown
Best.-Nr. 22600Headed 10 Downing Street Whitehall 6 March 1891. Three pages cr. 8vo bifolium fold marks good condition. "I have read your letter with reference to Mr Justice Stephen with care and I observe that while you throw the whole responsibility on the Government for the continuance of a condition which you describe as 'notorious' and creating 'a general dissatisfaction' you do not advance a single specific allegation as to a failure of justice on which it would be possible to take action. The only course of action open to the Government in the case of a judge whose conduct merits removal is by address to the Crown in both Houses of Parliament. The constitution has very properly made the judges absolutely independent of the Government of the day which so far as they are concerned possesses no Paternal or Disciplinary authority and any Member of Parliament is equally entitled to move an Address with any member of the Government. But this power which you possess in common with ourselves should obviously be exercised with abundant specific proof of the necessity in the public interest of that course. I am not in possession of evidence of that character on which I could feel it my duty to proceed." At this time Smith was First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House. [Headed] 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 6 March 1891. unknown
1750Best.-Nr. 27721LONDRES 1750 une vue d'optique en couleurs, GRAVÉE A L'EAU-FORTE ET AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER DE FORMAT: 44,5 x 29 cm., 1750 Londres Publish'd according Act of Parliament, sans nom d'Editeur,
1752Best.-Nr. 27742londres PARIS Publish'd according Act of Parliament et Chéreau 1752 une vue d'optique en couleurs, GRAVÉE A L'EAU-FORTE ET AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER DE FORMAT: 51,5 x 34,5 cm., 1752 Londres Publish'd according Act of Parliament et A Paris chez Chereau Editeur,
1788Best.-Nr. 36279London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 189-219 1 blank as issued. Disbound else Very Good. The recorded matters include protests from Scotland asserting that the Parliament of Scotland has overturned "the Ancient Constitutions of the Royal Boroughs of Scotland" by enacting "unjust and illiberal Systems" pertaining to the Suffrage pages 205-211. The Penns of Pennsylvania explain that in 1779 "during the unhappy Troubles which then prevailed in North America the aforementioned Proprietaries by an Act of Assembly passed in the Province of Pennsylvania were violently divested of all their said Charter Rights and of all their Estates in said Province." They seek redress Pages 214-215. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown books
1788Best.-Nr. 36636London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 831-839 1 blank. "Numb. 96." at upper left corner at head of title. Disbound light margin spotting else Very Good. The Commons addresses requests to assist planters from East Florida who have suffered from its cession to Spain. Several petitions are presented from "Persons who have suffered in their Rights and Properties during the late unhappy Dissentions in America in Consequence of their Loyalty to His Majesty and Attachment to the British Government. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown books