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First edition, small 8vo, xvi, 140, [2]pp., title page frayed at margins, just touching text without loss of any complete letter, title soiled, brown stain to fore-edge of final 10 leaves, disbound.
First edition, large 8vo, xii, 168pp., one of 300 copies, coloured frontis., 18 plates and inserts (collotype, photogravure and line: one coloured), some folding and others of 4 & 8pp., orig. buckram, spine gilt with red leather label, uncut. This important critical biography of the founder and part proprietor of the Morning Post, The World, The Oracle or Bell's New World, Bell's Weekly Messenger, La Belle Assemblee, original proprietor of the The British Library, Bell's British Theatre, Bell's Poets of Great Britain and Bell's Edition of Shakespeare is an elegant production. There are appendixes on Bell's book and newspaper typography, the story of his types in the United States, and his type specimens. Appleton 94.
First edition, small 4to (208 x 165 mm), 46, [2]pp., one of 250 copies printed for private circulation, portrait frontis., cloth-backed boards, title lettered in gilt on upper board.
Third edition, 8vo (220 x 140 mm), x, [1], 432pp., hand-coloured folding engraved map,, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional spotting and off- setting, recent cloth, leather title label to spine.
Folio (440 x 280), 3, [1 blank]pp., drop-head title, items listed in 5 columns, numerous contemporary MS. additions, with horizontal folds, one or tow minor tears to folds and some light browning, but overall a very good copy. Reginald Whitley (c. 1754-1835) & Robert Osborn (c. 1783-1866) Nurserymen. Whitley was originally in partnership with Peter? Thoburn in a nursery in Cromwell Road, Kensington, 1788-96; Whitley and Barrit, 1796-1801; Whitley and Brames until 1810. Whitley, Brames and Milne acquired Burchell's Fulham Nursery in 1810; Whitley and Osborn from 1833. The business was continued by Osborn's sons William and Thomas. This catalogue is not listed in JISC or OCLC, however, it is noted in Desmond. Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists, pp. 528 & 737.
Oblong 4to (200 x 275 mm), 8pp., French and English title pages, 20 engraved views mounted (one or two with a few spots), each with a leaf of dual language text, endpapers browned and a little chipped, publisher's red morocco-backed pebble-grained cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover, head and foot of spine rubbed, light stain to lower board. A series of views detailing all of the stages involved in the production of kid gloves at the Trefousse works, Chaumont, including preparing the skins, cutting, sewing, dyeing, and finishing. Tr?fousse was one of the leading manufacturers, employed over 5000 people and cut out 1,750,000 pairs of gloves annually.
First edition, 4to (230 x 185 mm), vii, [1], 172, [4, appendix]pp., ex-Mercantile library with neat stamp to title page, some minor chipping to blank margins of half-title, text age toned, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. "Designed as a polyglot dictionary for commercial traders, and includes words associated with manufacture and commerce as well as nautical terms. Arranged alphabetically."?Alston. Alston II, 122; ESTC locates 3 copies in the UK and 3 in North America.
8vo (220 x 135 mm), viii, 173, [3]p., folding hand-coloured engraved map, 4 engraved plates (3 folding), occasional spotting and offsetting, cont. half calf, rubbed, rebacked with original spine laid-down. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The L?wendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
4to, xxiv, 207pp., numerous coloured and black and white plates, orig. cloth, d.w, in a cloth box. Supplement to the important reference work on Western books on China published between 1477 and 1877: An extensively annotated catalogue in English of books on China in Western languages (1550 entries, each with a minute collation), arranged chronologically. With an introduction, references, indices, and a preface by Professor Han Qi of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The L?wendahl - von der Burg collection is a most important assembly of Western books on China, written by sinologues, missionaries, travellers, merchants and other authors. The collection also includes works by Chinese authors translated and edited by Western scholars. The contents cover Chinese history, language, philosophy, religion, society, science, medicine, missionary work and the "Chinese Rites" controversy, trade (incl. treaties with foreign powers), Hong Kong, foreign aggression, and travel accounts.
First edition, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), 91, [1]pp., modern boards, small tear to head of upper joint, morocco label on spine. Provenance: Unobtrusive Lansdowne House blind stamp to head of title.
Large A1 sheet (58 x 84 cm), original bold coloured lithograph, lightly creased, blank margins creased with a couple of chips (corners more so), small hole and abrasion to upper right corner of image. Hungarotex is one of the oldest Hungarian companies dealing with foreign trade in textile products, they have been operating under different names and organisational forms since 1946.
8vo, xii, 479, [5]pp., 1 hand-coloured folding engraved map, 28 engraved plates (6 folding, 2 hand-coloured), occasional spotting and offsetting, recent buckram, morocco title label to spine. Provenance: From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate.
First Edition, 2 vols., folio, text in English French and German, 258 plates including some facsimiles (42 in colour), 300 figures in the text, orig. cloth, red morocco labels. Among the numerous aspects and personages dealt with are shop fronts, interiors, the bookseller, his assistants, the customer, the book-buyer, the book-thief, the auctioneer and the antiquarian bookseller.
8vo 190 x 120 mm), [2], 5-89, [1]pp., interleaved with blank pages, contemporary 46 page MS. tab index bound at front, cont. half calf, rubbed and worn.
First edition, 8vo (233 x 150 mm), [4], 49pp., disbound. Issued with: SEED CATALOGUE. LAWSON (Peter, & Son) Agricultural Seeds?1843. Peter Lawson & Son, Seedsmen and Nurserymen to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Eninburgh. Edinburgh: [s.n.,] 1843. Single sheet printed on both sides (230 x 430 mm), folded, lightly spotted. Agricultural seed list with prices, issued by this Edinburgh based Seedsmen, available seeds include hay and pasture grasses, grass seeds, cereal grains, clovers, turnips, mangel wurzel, etc. The rare first edition which was issued with the above seed catalogue form the same.
Third Edition, revised and corrected, with additions, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), vii, [1], 432pp., large folding frontispiece a little browned, with the stamps of the "Oriental Club" at either side of the title, pp.366-372 have a small stain on lower part of text, nineteenth century half morocco, hinges rubbed, spine gilt, with the bookplate of the Oriental Club.
13 vols. in one, folio, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked but holding, rubbed, morocco labels. 1. Copy of a Minute of Sir John Shore,.... late Governor General of Bengal; detailing the measures adopted in Oude, which led to the deposition of Vizier Ally, and placing on the throne the Nabob Saadut Ally,.... [18 other papers], [4], 71, [1] pp. 2. Such Extracts of the Letter from the Governor-General in Council at Bengal,.... as relate to the Continuance of a Part of the Company's Troops in the Territories of the Nabob Vizier at Futtyghur;.... [15 other papers], 44 pp. Supplement 2. to No. 3. Rajars of Sasnee and Bidjeghur, and of Cutchura and Titteah. 271-302 pp. 5. No.6. - Copy of all Communications to the Secret Committee or Court of Directors, by the Governor General; respecting the Nabob Saadut Ally, previous to, or after, the Conclusion of the Treaty of Lucknow in 1801;.... with large folding map, 41, [1] pp. 6. Copy of a Treaty concluded between the Marquis Cornwallis, then Governor General of India, and the late Vizier Afoph ul Dowlah; in 1787.... [7 other papers], 19, [1] pp. 7. Copies and Extracts of such Proceeding of the Governor General in Council, as regard the Claims of Individuals on the late or present Nabob of Oude,.....29, [1] pp. 8. Account of all the Sums of Money which have been paid, by the East India Company, into His Majesty's Exchequer.... [8 other papers], 49, [1] pp. 9. A List of all Pensions payable by the East India Company:- and, a Return of all Sums of Money granted by way of Gratuity,... 13, [1] pp. 10. Copies of Covenants entered into by the Servants of the East India Company; and the Orders issued to their Servants relative to Loans from the same, to the Princes of India and Natives thereof. 20 pp. 11. Copies of Letters from Lord Cornwallis to the Court of Directors and Secret Committee, dated 1st August 1805;.... [2 other copies of letters], 15, [1] pp. 12. Return of the 1st, Order of.... the House of Commons of 18th April 1806, which requires, "Copy of a Treaty between Affuf ul Dowlah and the late Nabob of Furruckabad, and guaranteed by the Marquis Cornwallis, in 1787.", [15 other papers], 30 pp. 13. Extracts of Letters, &c. received from the Presidency of Bombay; relative to the Sum of Bombay Rupees 31,25,944,.... said to be Money lent to the Guicowar., 7, [1] pp. 14. Copies of all Applications to the Court of Directors by any Claimants on the late or present Nabob of Oude, with the Decision of the Court of Directors,.... 7, [1] pp.
Token made of copper, 28 mm in diameter, in excellent condition, together with an issue of 'Chambers Edinburgh Journal' which features a brief biography of Lackington from August 1833. James Lackington 1746-1815. A celebrated bookseller who started his London career as a poor shoemaker in 1770. He borrowed five pounds, interest free, from the Methodists, and started the business of selling cheap books for cash only. In 1779 he issued a catalogue of 12,000 volumes. In 1793 he admitted his apprentice Robert Allen as a partner and soon afterwards built the spectacular bookshop known as the Temple of the Muses.
First edition, xxii, 240pp., library stamp on title and places in the text, early ownership signature on upper blank margin of leaf following the title, 3 folding tables at end (last defective), old water-staining of the tables and last 2 leaves, first and last few leaves chipped at margins, disbound. One of the significant works of it's era advocating free trade for Ireland, written in the form of a sequence of letters to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Buckinghamshire. However, "its doctrines being regarded as seditious it was ordered to be burnt by the common hangman." - DNB. Bradshaw, 2109; Wagner, 348; Kress, B203; Goldsmith, 11826.
First edition, 8vo, 15, [1] pp., disbound. Letters complaining about the irregular customs duties being imposed at the Port of Calcutta, raised on copper, tin and tuthenague, but remaining the same on coffee, pepper and cloves. University of Oxford Libraries copy only on JISC.
First edition, small 8vo, vi, 144 + [4]pp., of averts, complete with all folding maps and plates, orig. cloth, lightly faded, gilt.
First edition, viii, 169, [1]pp., frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. The dispersal of the Foley family library in October 1919 was notable for the richness of the books sold - and for the general inadequacy of the prices they fetched. Drawing on records kept by principal participants in the sale and in the four subsequent "knock-outs", the Freemans reveal the intricacies of a practice whose workings have not previously been subject to such detailed and informed scrutiny.
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, 8vo, 8, 35, [1]pp., light waterstain to fore-margins, orig. blue paper wrappers.