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Due opere unite in 8° (cm 11,5 x 18,5), cartonatura colorata muta coeva, tracce d'uso, titolo calligrafato al dorso, pp viij, 326 per la prima opera; viii, 219, (6) per la seconda. Esemplari in buone condizioni, in barbe, bruniture dovute al tipo di carta, antica firma al frontespizio della prima opera ed all'occhietto della seconda, di due importanti opere economiche e politiche di ambito illuminista. L'A. della prima opera, De Lolme (1741-1806), gureconsulto calvinista di Ginevra, discepolo di Rousseau e ammiratore di Montesquieu, ammiratore del sistema politico britannico, deve lasciare Ginevra per Londra, avendo pubblicato libelli che dispiacciono all'oligarchia dominante; studia il sistema britannico ed elabora una teoria di governo liberale "all'inglese", ovvero moderato. La prima edizione dell'opera appare nel 1771. "Avec cet in-8° de 312 pages, de Lolme osait donner ce que personne avant lui, fût-il anglais, n'avait entrepris : une description et une explication du régime politique anglais par rapport aux autres formes de gouvernement européennes. Avec l'ardeur du néophyte, il s'efforçait même de prouver, lui le démocrate de Genève, que l'agencement constitutionnel anglais, résultant de l'histoire et de l'esprit national du peuple britannique était le neilleur possible et seul susceptible de garantir la véritable liberté politique" (J.P. Machelon: "Les idées politiques de J.L. de Lolme", P.U.F. 1969). Segue versione inglese nel 1775. L'A. non si limita, nel suo trattato, a descrivere le istituzioni britanniche, le idealizza e crea la teoria del governo liberale, affermando che la libertà politica non può essere assicurata che dall'equilibrio dei poteri. Per quanto riguarda la seconda opera, del La Combe (1733-1795), COPAC precisa che essa fu pubblicata anonima per la prima volta nel 1780, ma in altra scheda troviamo: "Epitre placée devant l'édition de 1777' signed: L'atheronome.--cf ESTC. The imprint is false; printed for Merkus's widow in Leipzig Leipziger Messkatalog". Luogo quindi falso di edizione, autore anonimo, dediche tendenziose e colme di sottintesi ed allusioni satiriche ai lettori iniziati. Descrizione sarcastica di: strade, mezzi di trasporto, vie d'accesso, mode, ordini cavallereschi, carattere della nobiltà, la religione, i monumenti civili ed ecclesiastici, gli Ebrei, la valuta, commercianti e produttori, istituzioni politiche, ricchezza nazionale, leggi civili e criminali, Caccia, Carne, Pesce, Frutta, Birra, Carbon fossile, poste, domestici, costruzione degli edifici, la Borsa, teatri, la Stampa e la libertà di stampa, ospedali, palazzi reali, corse di cavalli, esercito, elenco delle navi da guerra, soldo degli ufficiali e delle truppe, i supplizi in vigore, la Costituzione, i tre poteri politici, prezzi delle derrate, pompe funebri, lotteria di Stato, per finire con "gli effetti perniciosi del tè", causati del suo uso smodato. Esemplari delle due opere censiti in COPAC.
Second Edition, 88pp., recently bound in quarter red morocco with red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, a nice copy. A letter addressed to John Crawfurd, by a native author who bears his views on the inadequacy of present imports, and failure of returns from India. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 26232.100.
First Edition, folding table at end, (with a clean tear and no loss of text) some waterstaining on lower part of six leaves, 26 pp., modern marbled wrappers. The folding table of forges gives "An Account of the Quantity of Iron they have annually made and do now make according to the best Information we could get. --- What Forges are in Scotland we have been capable of getting any Information." Also showing the past and present annual tonnage produced. With a note "N.B. The making of British Iron hath gradually decreased in proportion to the increase of the importation of Foreign". The decrease in the present year being 7,295 tons. Kress, 5531; Goldsmith, 9108; Hanson, 6055 (dated c1747?); The British Library suggests the date as [1736?]; Higgs 1181.
First Edition, 30, [2]pp., text slightly foxed towards the end, disbound. Judge Jeremie was appointed Attorney-General in Mauritius and arrived from England in 1832 to announce abolition without indemnity to a hostile reception of sugar planters and slave owners. Slavery was finally abolished in 1835 but not before the owners received ?2,000,000 compensation from the British. After accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery, Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society.
First edition, half-title, [4], 99, [1]pp., disbound, half-title detached. A former officer in the East India Company's armies and Commander in Chief of the Great Mogul's Forces, Major John Morrison, returned to Britain in 1772 styled as 'Commander in Chief of the Great Mogul's forces'. Morrison was regarded as a traitor by the East India Company but he did succeed in publishing a pamphlet entitled "The Advantage of an Alliance with the Great Mogul" in 1774. Positioning himself alongside advocates of direct Crown control over Indian territories, Morrison suggested that Shah Alam II would be willing to cede Bengal to George III. The emperor's rough treatment at the hands of the Company, especially the non-payment of tribute, was lambasted as 'a dishonourable blow to the law of nations'. A proper agreement between kings would restore 'the stability and dignity of regal government', and replace 'the fluctuating and unsteady resolve of a Company of private men'. Kress, S2527; Goldsmith, 11155; Higgs, 5981.
1873South Pacific Ocean, 20 May 1873. Manuscript signed letter written by an American merchant, Captain Summers of Honolulu, penned onboard a barque recently purchased by him, as he made his return voyage from Iquique (then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru) to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). 8vo. 4 pages. Double leaf letterhead measuring approximately 12,5 x 20 cm, with small embossed image of a colonial building. Mild age-toning and tearing at folds, otherwise in very good condition. In the July 1st 1873 issue of Honolulu's 'The Friend" magazine for mariners, this specific voyage was recorded as follows: "Liberian bark Clara Louise, Master Summers, Sailed from Iquiqui, Peru, May 4th, ... crossed the line... during three days had heavy winds and calms, took the NE trade... with fair weather, arrived on the 17th June." A letter of excellent content concerning one Honolulu ship owner's experience in the sea trade, Captain Summers describes his attempts to obtain cargo at Iquique (now in Chile, then part of Peru), mentioning saltpeter and copper, as well as the high price of fresh water. Finding little success in purchasing goods to resell on the Pacific coast of South America, he makes efforts to earn income by chartering cargo. He rightfully blames the introduction of the steamship for reduced opportunity available to independent merchants such as himself, still using sails to navigate large wooden vessels. Still, he remains optimistic of the opportunity to secure cargo in the Sandwich Islands, possibly owing to his Honolulu connections. Especially damaging to his endeavour and ambition is one unscrupulous character, referred to as 'Old Fearrington', from whom he purchased the barque Clara Louise. Upon trying to sell the vessel itself, in Callao, he found some of the vessel's wood to be rotten. His ship was therefore neither sellable, nor sea-worthy for cross-Atlantic voyages. Perhaps most disappointing, the captain could not afford the risk of transporting sugar, a lucrative and prolific commodity at the time, as the ship's hull could not be trusted with such weight. The recipient of this correspondence is the captain's brother Tom who appears to live in the San Francisco Bay area. The captain ends his letter with a request for his brother to write to San Francisco wholesaler and importer Cross & Co., most likely the captain's client. Excerpts from the letter: "My dear Tom, I have been down this way again and after a passage of 80 days anchored in Iquique itis one of the most desolate holes... not a spear of grass for 60 miles of the town, water 10 cents per gallon... 40 cents for washing a shirt." "... I discharged after 20 days delay what with holidays... I could get no cargo on this boat so I thought it best to try the Sandwich Islands... but 400 miles out of the way." "I might got some sugar if I had not been deceived in this vessel. I have had plenty of chance to sell but old Fearrington had the rotten wood all covered... had to trust his word but he did lie... I have sent him $2200 in gold of of this freight so you see that he has received $6000 from me in 15 months..." "... he deceived me, told me she was sound all through and I had not the money to spare to have her overhauled... if she had been a good sound vessel I could have sold her and made good a profit by it for both of us..." "When I wanted to sell it at Callao they overhalled and found some of her timbers rotten..." "I have not taken any wages since leaving and I think if I can get some more good charters I shall make myself whole and give him back his rotten old ship..." "... getting down to Iquique she commenced leaking... had to keep the pump going all the time... had to get caulked all over and now she is tite... " "I have been told by one of my best friends in Boston that old Fearrington will do me out of the profets & ship yet he has done so with several captains ruined them..." "... I don't know whether I will get any cargo at the Sandwich Islands but I am in hopes..." "... the business in both oceans is very dull the steamers take all the trade. If she was a sound vessel I would go to Japan or China and sell... she will not carry 300 tons with safety..." "I must now close... give my love to Sarah and all of your dear family. Write direct Cross & Co. California Strait S. Fran." "goodby from your affectionate Brother, Wm H Summers." End Excerpts. Further research is warranted to learn more about the Captain, although it appears from historical records that his home was in Honolulu. The present letter suggests that he was a man of integrity, and that he had family in San Francisco. The Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society, Vol 5, mentions a Captain Summers of Honolulu who was involved in hunting seals in 1826 with a brig called Waverley. This may be the same Summers or a relation, possibly his father. A San Francisco Ship Passenger List names William Summers as making a voyage on a British schooner named Koh-i-noor in November 1851 from Lahaina to San Francisco, presumably to visit his brother. The ship had only a scant few passengers, but a substantial cargo of potatoes from Hobart Town, as well as potatoes and oranges from Hawaii. A book titled "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania," edited by J.H. Battle; published by A. Warner & Co. in 1887, outlines genealogical connections and mentions, "Sir Richard Summers, from whom the Sandwich islands derived the name by which they were first known, as the Summers islands". This reference may lead to the lineage of Captain Summers who wrote the present letter. "The Friend" began as a monthly newspaper for seamen, which included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. Reverend Samuel Chenery Damon was sent by the American Seamen's Friend Society to be chaplain in Honolulu, where he began to edit and publish the periodical in 1843. Reverend Damon had published between a half million and a million copies of The Friend, most of which he personally distributed, by the time he retired in 1885. Manuscript
Sin lugar ni año (primer tercio del Siglo XVIII), 27,5 x 20 cm., 21 folios incluso portada orlada con un grabado en madera de Ntra. Señora de Belén. (Carece de encuadernación. Importante y raro impreso que trata del comercio internacional español a comienzos del Siglo XVIII; el pleito consiste en la no aceptación en pago por parte de Simón de la Cancela de letras endosadas en París a las que el demandado titula ?Billetes y acciones de Banco? cuando lo estipulado en el pago era en especie de oro y plata).
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
2 Vols., large 4to, 624; 625-1192pp., orig. cloth, printed title label to upper covers.
1958Topics: Shocking mess in civil defense; Canada-US Partnership problems; Lester Pearson - Peacemaking to Politicking; New Surgery repairs the heart - Dr. Wilfred Bigelow; Nice 2-page colour GM ad with five illustrations of Chevrolet through Cadillac; Canada's CF-100 - Boldest and Costliest Aviation Venture; How the Price Squeeze hit the Newspapers; U.K. Trade Mission - what it achieved; How to make money when stocks go down; Colour Chevrolet ad; Toronto Exchange in Losing Battle with Skulduggery; Let's not panic on Canadian Education; Playground of Danger in the Middle East; Small Investors invade Real Estate; Cover photo - Dr. E.J. Pratt; Cover photo of Conductor Walter Susskind; Our Shabby Airports - a growing shame; The Cigarette war comes to Canada; How we cover up our Racia Abuses; Confused Tax Laws cost you money; Cover photo of TV's Joyce Sullivan; Our 'forgotten force' in the middle-east - Snafu in UNEF; Closed-circuit TV catches on in Canada; Revival of Freedom on Latin America; Natural Gas Stocks - profit possibilities; Cover photo of George C. Metcalf; Election Pollsters; Can a machine prove you are drunk?; What free trade would mean to Canada; Cover photo of J.E. Coyne of the Bank of Canada; What do we need most in Canadian schools - money or brains?; A Long-Term Payoff in Labrador Power; Spoon-fed patriotism won't work in Canada; New market technique for skillful traders; Cover photo and story on Sir Robert Watson-Watt; Rescuing a world bent on Suicide; How many people are really out of work?; Our moonstruck U.S. Neighbors; Sales Promotion brings in hard cash; Cover photo and article on Rev. Dr. J.R. Mutchmor; The Recession; Dilemma of Diplomacy; Parlor politics and the video vote; New play in the copper market; Cover photos and article on CCF leader M.J. Coldwell; How Canada built and abandoned the world's first Jetliner - designed by James Floyd; Gold's new glitter brings out old glamor; Our religious revival - new faith or old fear?; Boating craze booms business; Cover photo and article of CPA's Grant McConachie; Business in British Columbia; Could we stop Russian missiles?; Global triple play - Ike to Dag to Mr. K; Vancouver's Deas Island Project - Submarine Highway Under the Fraser; Cover photo and story on Stratford's Charmion King; Trade Policy; Why the CF-105 had to be built *Great Avro Arrow Article with Photos*; The case against the Grand Jury; Mutual Funds; Cover photo and article on Labour Minister Mike Starr; Why the market rises while business slumps; Will resurgent Tories take over in B.C.?; How the DBS figures can make you money; Can leadership solve the world's ills; Cover photo and article on Federal Finance Minister Donald Fleming; Canadian-UK banks combine to develop South American trade; Terror in British Columbia - the Sons of Freedom in the Kootenays; NORAD and NATO and their affects on our national interest; New Trend - Mutual Life Companies; Dollars and cents re: Air Conditioning; Jason Robards cover photo and article; Cover photo and artile on Davidson Dunton; Hoffa Muscles in - will labor racketeers strangle the Seaway?; Feeble defense policy cripples our armed forces; TV inquisitors give journalism new depth; Mining market madness; Cover photos and article on Dag Harrarskjold; The State of Alaska - partner or problem?; Sherman Adams Case - Pharisee's Prattfall; What Shakespeare did to Stratford; Who benefits from Gasoline wars?; Cover photo and article on Maurice Duplessis; Will foreign cars drive U.S. Makers to Model-T thinking?; How NORAD worked in Mid-East Crisis; Successful Pay-TV - a first for Canada?; TBill sale can fight inflation; Cover photo and article on CBC's Jack Duffy (who bears a resemblance to Mr. Obama); The Family Fortunes; TV in Russia; Arab Showdown; Buy a house and stay solvent; Cover photos and article on Claude Bissell; Does Ottawa connive in U.S. attempt to tax Canadians?; Why emotion rules in U.S. School Fight; Army faces atom war without atomic arms; A hundred-y Book
1942130 pages. Features; Canadian Pratt & Whitney photo ad inside front cover; General Electric Wire and Cable ad; Nice National Steel Car ad; Martin ad; Incredible full-page Beechcraft ad shows literally dozens and dozens of their aircraft under construction; Inner Motors ad; Interesting ad for Pyrene fire extinguishers; Great illustrated ad for the Douglas "Havoc" night fighter; Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific War - great article with photos; The Hoover Propeller - detailed article with illustrations; Editorial Comment; Annual Survey of Military Aircraft in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain - *Massive* section with photos and write-ups of 107 aircraft; Attractive colour full-page ad for Wright engines with futuristic theme shows people being loaded into a "Flying Daycoach" (which looks a lot like an Airbus A380); Nice ad for Sensenich Propellers; Fairchild ad shows two "Bolingbrokes"; Canadian Aircraft Production - The Priority System, Fairchild M-62 Manufacture, Good Posture boosts Production - correct seating aids plant workers; Nice Brewster ad; "So I Bailed Out" - report of a Canadian fighter pilot; Nice Rotal propeller ad; G.Q. Parasuit ad; New Equipment Section; Index to advertisers; Two-colour Lockheed ad inside back cover illustrates the "Convoy of Commerce" featuring a Hudson Reconnaissance Bomber in action over the sea; Intava ad on back cover; and more. Somewhat average wear. Unmarked. Chips from backstrip. Mailing label on front cover; A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
196792 pages. Features: Torado Iwasaki was cheated out of his 640 acres on Salt Spring Island; Ernest Manning's offer to merge the Alberta Social Credit Party with the federal Conservatives; Egyptian travel posters in West Germany include swastika; How We've Come to Love the Car - a 10-page exploration of this surprising cultural shift - Peterborough's Superblock and architect Gerald Robindon, Monteal's new Place Bonaventure-Canada Trade Centre (cutaway view) - with photos and brief write-ups of the following people and their vehicles - Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, Al Hamel, Dr. Morton Shulman, Harley Neilson (of the chocolate business), Dorothee Hebert and Kenneth Jarvis; Does Canada Need the Tories?; Wonderful photographic celebration of Orillia, Ontario's Centennial - with text by Jack Batten; Expose '67 - the unpredictable other half of Expo '67; Alan Eagleson and the formation of the NHL players' union (NHLPA) - article with great full-page photo of Eagleson with Carl Brewer - who later became an implacable opponent of Eagleson and his misdeeds - amazing NHL history, some of it from the dark side; Spiritualist James Wilkie of Vancouver - is his body taken over by timeless spirit Rama?; Lotta Hitschmanova helps the starving, sick and homeless in foreign lands - article with photo; Nice colour photo ad for Hollandia pipe tobacco; Colour photo centrefold ad for Eskilon winterwear; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Ski-doo; The Investigation Service of the Post Office Department - the secret watchers who guard your mail; Fantastic two-page colour photo ad for CBC-TV with photos of 17 of their shows/personalities; Photo ad for GM's short-lived Epic car; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1924162 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of redhead by W.T. Benda; Nice color Jell-O ad inside front cover by Guy (Giro) Rowe; Victrola ad features illustrations of Martinelli, Bori and Ruffo; One-page ad for the New Hudson Sedan; Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Surrenders to the American Legion - fascinating photo-illustrated article written by the man who returned him to the U.S. (part 1); The Letter - story by W.S. Maugham; An Appeal to Decent Drinkers - fascinating article by Gifford Pinchot on the morality of supporting the trade in illegal alcohol during prohibition; The House of the Arrow - mystery novel; The Internationalist - love story; Tuberculosis - Cured by the Sun - article by Paul H. de Kruif, Ph.D.; The Play Actor (fiction); To Stop War Draft Wealth - remarkably prescient article by Marquis James proposes that if wealthy classes knew their factories would give them little profit if war started, these classes would see that no war occured; The Dog-Barking Navigator (fiction); The Masons and the Ku Klux Klan - the controversy over Masons also being members of the Klan; Diamond Dick - and the First Law of a Woman, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Stalin - Russia's Leading Politician - fascinating early photo-illustrated look at the man who dominated the Soviet Union for decades; Tongues of Flame - a novel of conflict; France's Only Statesman - photo-illustrated article on Joseph Caillaux; Araby - a Tale of the Isles of the East Beyond the East; Home is the Sailor - new stories of Phoebe and Ernest and their children; My Life, by Mary Garden - true talk about matters personal (with photo); The Dream - fiction by H. G. Wells; Who Deserves a Servant? - an interesting and thoughtful article on the subject of domestic workers; One Born Every Minute - fiction; Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, by Henry Holt; Nice red and black one-page Campbell's Vegetable Soup ad; One-page illustrated Chevrolet ad for the Superior Utility Coupe; One-page orange and black ad for the Goodrich Balloon Cord tire; Nice one-page two-color ad for Royal Typewriters is illustrated by David Robinson; Nice one-page photo ad for Listerine features quizical young lady and caption "This can't apply to me!"; Resinal soap and ointment ad; Forhan's ad with baseball theme; Classy one-page L.T. Piver ad; Nice 2/3-page Coke ad features lady in white coat and dress; One-page photo ad for Fleischmann's Yeast; Great one-page Thopson-Barlow Co. ad features young model in the Madame X Reducing Girdle; Orange and black ad for Way Sagless Spring Co. inside back cover; Nostalgic back cover ad for Mulsified shampoo features curly young lady's hair being inspected by her beau. Approx. 0.75" x 3" of loss to upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
2004208 pages. Bibliography and glossary. Sumptuously and profusely illustrated with colour photos and reproductions of archival maps and illustrations. Text in English. "Documents the tremendous impact the arrival of New World gold and silver had upon Europe and the world economy. Describes the routes followed by the galleons on their return to Spain, loaded with precious metals, and the techniques used for their extraction. Discusses how mining towns were established, and famous fairs held in Portobelo and Jalapa. From this we learn how several mints were founded." - from Prologue. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A suberb copy of this beautifully-presented work. Gift quality. Book
1953Contents include: Retail trade establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations, including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment, payrolls, inventories and commodities. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
1953Contents include: Wholesale trade establishments and service establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment and payrolls, with inventories and commodities shown for the wholesale trade. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
[24]pp., drop-head title, text lightly browned. First published in Latin, 1742. Glass (1709-86), native of Tiverton, considered the greatest English authority after Sir William Watson on inoculation for the smallpox. Of the Innys catalogue ESTC (N15501) gives 5 locations in the British Isles and 3 in North America.
First edition, 8vo (200 x 125 mm), [8], cl, 363, [1]pp., blind stamp on title and following leaf, library bookplate on front paste-down, contemporary calf, rubbed and chipped, joints broken and just holding by the cords, faint white number visible on spine. "Improvement of British commerce formed the inspiration for Postlethwayt's final major works, Britain's Commercial Interests Explained and Improv'd and Great Britain's True System, both published in 1757. The former, though not a very innovative work, was especially strong on advocating expansion of the Union by including Ireland and encouraging agricultural improvement to cheapen the necessities of life, permitting lower wages and increased competitiveness in foreign markets. They were also designed to secure his own self-improvement through patronage, a strategy which was apparently unsuccessful. Together with the dictionary, these books contained the economic contributions for which Postlethwayt has been largely noted in the literature on the history of economic ideas." - Oxford DNB. Sabin, 64565.
1776pp. vi, (2), 262. LACKS 2 pages of advertisements. Slight loss at bottom of pp. 235/236. 8vo. 210 mm. Full leather binding; boards detached. Full title: SIX SKETCHES ON THE HISTORY OF MAN. Containing, the Progress of Men as Individuals. I. The Diversity of Men, and Languages. II. Of Food, and Population. III. Of Property. IV. The Origin and Progress of Commerce. V. The Origin and Progress of Arts. VI. The Progress of the Female Sex. With an Appendix, concerning, the Propagation of Animals, and the care of their Offspring. Age stain. Foxed. Loss bottom margin and a few lines of text on pages 235 & 236. Manuscript ownership of Robert Ross on title page. Capt. Robert Ross (1753-1823) was born in Lancaster, PA, and died in Nicholson Twp, Fayette Co. PA. In 1776 Robert took the oath of allegiance before Col. Miller of Lancaster Co. PA. and enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a private in Capt. James Taylor's company, 4th Penn. Battalion. Ross was regimental color bearer in 1776, under Gen. Anthony Wayne, at the storming of Stony Point (NY). In 1779 at Brandywine and through the Canadian campaign to the close of the war. Robert Ross fought also in the Indian Wars of 1790-1794. Robert Ross was an early settler, of Nicholson Twp. It does not appear that in the early part of the Revolutionary war he was reckoned among the adherents of the patriot cause, but in June, 1779, he took the oath of allegiance to Pennsylvania, and afterwards served to the end of the war under General Wayne. At the close of the struggle he, like thousands of others, was paid the arrears due him for services in Continental money, which was depreciated to one-fortieth of its face value. He afterwards served in the various Indian campaigns in Ohio and Indiana, rising to the rank of captain. In the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, Capt. Ross was on the side of the insurgents, and commanded a company of about one hundred men of the western and southwestern parts of the county, a part of the (supposed) available force of the insurrectionists to be used in opposition to the government. At the head of this company Capt. Ross marched to Uniontown in August, 1794, to raise the 'liberty poles' in the town, and two miles south of it at Gaddis' place. When Gen. Lee came in with his army to suppress the insurrection, a squadron of cavalry was sent towards the Monogahela for the capture of Robert Ross as insurgent leader, but the expedition was unsuccessful. Evans 14801. Scarce. EVANS1
Málaga, Imprenta del Comercio, 1838, 22,5 x 16 cm., holandesa piel moderna, 3 hojas + 97 págs. (Ejemplar con una nota de errata manuscrita y firmada por el autor en hoja blanca anterior a la portada. Es una obra rarísima, no recogida por Palau, tampoco hay ningún ejemplar en bibliotecas españolas, incluso la Nacional y de la que no hemos encontrado referencia en internet).
191933,5x21 cm; (1), 4, (4), XI, (2), 483, (1), XIII, (1) pp. Brossura editoriale. Piatto posteriore mancante. qualche strappetto e uno strappo al margine alto del piatto anteriore, senza perdita di carta, qualche mancanza di carta al dorso, esemplare un poco lento ma per il resto ben conservato e all'interno in ottime condizioni di conserazione. Al piatto anteriore titolo e stemma in nero. Prima edizione rarissima di questo studio della East India Industrial Commission che studia con estrema cura e una grande quantità di dati la situazione economica, commerciale e industriale indiana negli anni 1916-18. Tra gli argomenti trattati nel rapporto: scambi economici nelle aree rurali; influenza delle importazioni nella vita dei villaggi; Calcutta; industria della juta; commercio e comunicazioni; industria del cotone, lavoro delle ferrovie. Nel complesso esemplare in buono stato. Rarissimo. GOOD COPY. FIRST EDITION. VERY RARE.
19358vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a folding map on japon; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, uncut, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. VERY SCARCE.
1941Signed and humorously inscribed upon front free endpaper by author to the man who trained him as a gunner. 1941 First Edition. 302 pages. Index. Bibliographical Note. Three black and white map plates. Six charts. "The political basis of British sea power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the navigation system. The primary object of this system of laws was the increase of British power through the extension of overseas trade. Colonial commerce was to be subordinated and adapted to the needs of sea power, and the mercantile marine was to be a principal nursery of seamen for the navy." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sunning to fore-edge of back board. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
193868 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of children in winter scene; Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News bits include: Between the Ears, Fellow Travellers in Life, Voices in Talk Group, An Undivorceable Couple, Not at all a simple question. Editorials include Trade Agreements, Is Missionary Effort Being Discredited, and Keeping the Home Fires Burning - with photo-portrait of Chester D. Stovel, August 11, 1870 - December 19, 1937, the last of three brothers who visioned a national magazine when they started this magazine as a four-page supplement to the weekly press nearly forty years ago; Mustafa Kemal Atatürk- photo-illustrated article (part 1) on the 'lone wolf' who put modern Turkey on the map; The Lost Tunes (short story); Killer's Crossing (short story); Nothing to Regret (short story); Photographing Big Game in Africa - photo-illustrated article by Vera Batley; Hazard and High Water (short story); The Murder on the Links (part IV/4 of this Agatha Christie story); Downhill Control - skiing article with photos, including ski-jumper Arne Finsberg in flight; The Grandfather Clock (short story); Nice one-page ad for the 1938 Pontiac; Fascinating one-page Ovaltine ad shows sleep research; Movie news with photos of Kay Francis, Billie Burke, Ann Sheridan, and more; Lux soap ad includes photo of Madeleine Carroll; Vintage two-page photo ad says "New Bread Diet Takes Off Pounds"; Scott's Emulsion ad includes Old Scottie comic; Gardens of Romance; Canada Building at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Scotland is featured in a Government of Canada ad; Photo of horse "Miss Amner" owned by Mrs. Earle Spafford of Knowlton, Quebec; Personal care article for men; Cake baking article; Heinz one-page ad says 'Banish Kitchen Blues'; World Sayings; Attractive colour 1938 Ford ad inside back cover features beige and blue cars; Colour Old Dutch Cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
196482 pages. Features: Excellent cover photo of Premier Ernest Manning in front of the Alberta Legislature Building; Nice colour photo ad for 1965 Mercury Park Lane convertible; Big Canadian Push to Analyze Easter Island before civilization spoils the place; Why Canadians are practically the only diplomats that Washington trusts; How Sault Ste. Marie built the biggest little medicare scheme in Canada; Britain issues booklet "Treachery Is Their Trade" as required reading for civil servants vulnerable to attacks by Soviet spies; Editorial - Let's make friends, not enemies, with the mainland Chinese; How Arthur Hailey turned Reporter in Manning's Alberta; Ordeal by Rumor - The Skeletons in (Ernest) Manning's Cabinet, by Arthur Hailey - long, informative article including photos of cabinet ministers under clouds; Is the Family Doctor Vanishing?, by Claude P. Gendron, MD; How I Found Out the Toronto Argonauts Don't Really Lose Games on Purpose, by Peter N. Allison; Canada's 1967 Centennial celebration preparations - Will we be late for our own birthday parth? - a 'non'-progress report by Hal Tennant; When Mama Cooked Solomon Grundy, by Helen Wilson; The Killer That Could be Hiding in your car - Ray Stapley warns of the danger of metal fatigue in autos; The Many Worlds of Soviet Russia - Kenneth Bagnell reports on his five weeks in Russia, traveling from Moscow to Siberia to Central Asia; Nice colour-illustrated ad for the 1965 Ford Mustang Hardtop; Magnificent colour photo ad for the Lincoln Continental - featuring a white model with suicide doors; Nice colour-illustrated ad for the 1965 Ford Galaxie 500/XL Convertible (red); How Talk Show Host Pat Burns Won Fame and Fortune by Talking on the World's Biggest Party Line (CJOR) - article with photo; Quebec censor board censors La Terre a Boire; John Bradshaw - the man who got rich by making gardening sound easy; Colour photo ad for Coke on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book