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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.
First edition, 8vo (198 x 120 mm), [2], 53, [1]pp., later cloth-backed boards. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute. Rothamsted Catalogue, p.21; Perkins Catalogue, 1342.
The board (300 x 320 mm) features four examples of spines (230 x 45 mm), the whole backed with marbled paper to represent the endpapers (corners rubbed), at the head of the board is a large black morocco label with a gilt boarder entitled "Specimens of Bookbindings", plus three additional separate models of spines. This has the appearance of being dated to the 1890's with the titles on the dummy samples being of Dickens novels and periodicals (i.e. Strand Magazine, Sunday at Home, etc.). However, the sample "Stand Magazine" is lettered Jan.-June 1921.
First edition, 8vo, 59, [1]pp., disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 24922.
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.
Second edition, 8vo, [4], 53, [1] pp., advert. leaf at end, lower third of title lightly browned, stitched as issued, uncut. Provenance: Early signature in ink at head of title page 'W. Fellowes'. Kress, C186; Goldsmith, 23371; Rothamsted, p.22.
Second edition, with large additions, folio, [2], vii, [3], 898, [20]pp., some light spotting, cont. calf, rubbed, head and foot of spine worn, lacks spine label, joints cracked. Rest of the title: To Which IS Added a state of the present general traffick of the whole world; describing the Manufactures and Products of each particular Nation: And Tables of the Correspondence and Agreement of the European Coins, Weights, and Measures, with the Addition of all others that are known. Extracted fro the works of the best writers both at Home and Abroad; more especially from those justly celebrated ones of Messieurs Savary; improved and corrected by the author's own observations, during his long Continuance in Trade. The whole calculated for the Use and Service of the Merchant, Lawyer, Senator, and Gentleman. The second edition, with large additions. By Wyndham Beawes, Esq; His Britannick Majesty's Consul at Seville and St. Lucar. With the bookplate of St. Andrew Warde Esq. (1745-1822) of Hooton Pagnall, Yorkshire.
6 Parts in three 4to volumes (255 x 205 mm), plus folio atlas plate volume (335 x 265 mm), xv, [1], 280, viii, [2], 274; xxxii, 290, ix, [1], 288; xvi, 282, vi, 290pp., plus atlas volume with 3 title pages and 36 plates, all lithographed and double-page, marbled endpapers and edges, cont. polished calf, flat spine with morocco lettering pieces, the remainder tooled in a gilt latticed pattern, a couple of minor worm holes to joints but a fine set in remarkable condition. Baron Pierre Charles Fran?ois Dupin (178-1873) was a French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist and politician, particularly known for work in the field of mathematics. In 1816, after some difficulty, Dupin was allowed to visit Great Britain to study its commerce and industry. This work is the result which placed him in the foremost rank of statisticians. "In the following work, I have endeavoured to exhibit the full extent of the Military and Naval Forces which the government of Great Britain can bring into the field, or launch upon the ocean... My observations on these subjects were derived from a residence of five years in England; during which time I was constantly employed in visiting and viewing every object and institution worthy of notice relative to the British Army and Navy." Volume 1: Force Militaire. First edition. Volume 2: Force Navale. First edition. Volume 3: Force Commerciale. Second edition. Provenance: Colonel Douglas-Mercer, Scots Fusilier Guards, bookplate. Brunet II, 893; Poggendorff I, 62.
Folio (325 x 250 mm), [8]pp., followed 30 numbered chromolithographed plates and one further "extra sheet" with 10 mounted albumen photographs, a couple of sheets with slight fraying to blank fore-edge, loose in publisher's printed boards, worn, re-backed with tape. Minton's Ltd, was a major ceramics manufacturing company, originated with Thomas Minton (1765-1836) the founder of "Thomas Minton and Sons", who established his pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1793, producing earthenware. Herbert Minton began experimenting making encaustic tiles in 1828 in addition to the established Mintons pottery and china business, and produced their first catalogue of 62 designs in 1835. "The Tiles in this book are, with the exception of those shown on Sheet 16, which are printed patterns, and on the extra Sheet of Photographs, all Enamelled by a Patent process, know as "Reynold's process," which was adapted in 1848 by the late Mr. Herbert Minton, and has ever since been carried on at Mintons (Limited) China Works... The process for the decoration of Tiles was early favoured by the late Mr. A. Welby Pugin, "the great restorer of Gothic Arts," in the Houses of Parliament and in many other places, and the patterns in that style of ornament in this book are all from his hand. Since the days of Pugin the use of these enamelled Tiles for decorative purposes has greatly increased, and there are now few houses without some examples...".
Oblong folio (335 x 500 mm), printed on thick laid paper, letterpress title with wood-engraved decorations, approximately 250 illustrations of architectural ornaments, including stock numbers (not in order), engraved on fifteen well executed copper plates, some printed in blue, 2 with aquatint, some light soiling, occasional spotting, a few stains, mainly to last two plates, nineteenth-century half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, foot of spine chipped, but overall a very good copy. This is not only an exceptionally rare and unrecorded provincially printed pattern book, but it is also highly unusual as being a named pattern book produced for a firm of provincial architects and builders. John Langwith Sr. (c.1723-1795) was an architect and builder who worked at Grantham in Lincolnshire. Syston Park was designed by Langwith for John Thorold, 9th baronet, and constructed between 1766-73. Syston was a fine house, built of limestone ashlar with pedimented or corniced windows. Langwith's 35-page bill for his labours survives today.1 He was also responsible for Vine House, 5 Vine Street, Grantham c.1764, as well as many local buildings of note including the George Hotel, Grantham (1780). In 1785 Langwith was one of three architects who submitted designs for the Castle Gaol at Lincoln, but those of William Lumby were accepted. By 1789, John Langwith Jr. (c. 1753-1825) was taking the lead in his father's business as a builder and surveyor at Grantham. The 1780s and early 1790s witnessed a boom in construction in Grantham. This related partly to the general economic cycle and is reflected, amongst others, in the brick tax returns. In July 1791, Langwith advertised initially for an apprentice to a carpenter and joiner and, in November, his need was for 'Twelve Journeymen joiners and carpenter wanted immediately', adding 'sober men may have constant employ.'2 He held several civic offices and eventually became an alderman, despite bankruptcy in 1803, from which he recovered. His recorded works include Grantham Vicarage, (now the Rectory) in Church Street, which he rebuilt in 1789 in a pleasant vernacular Georgian style at the cost of some 788 pounds; Barkston Rectory, Lincs., 1801; and designs (perhaps not executed) for a prison at Grantham, 1811.3 Lincoln Race Stand c.1818. Langwith was the architect and contractor for the Race Stand, this was replaced by the existing Race Stand of 1897 by William Mortimer. The architectural pattern book produced by John Langwith can thus be attributed with a high degree of certainty to John, junior, published at the height of a building boom. The location of the Manufactory is not known but is perhaps most likely to have been in the Back Lane (now Elmer Street), as an affidavit sworn by lawyer George White, dated 1836, refers to the burial of John Langwith, builder and surveyor, of Back Lane, Grantham.4 1 The invoice is summarised in Richard Wilson and Alan Mackley, Creating Paradise. The Building of the English Country House 1660-1880. (2000), p. 197. 2 Lincoln, Stamford and Rutland Mercury (LRSM), 29 July and 11 November 1791. 3 H. M. Colvin, Directory of English Architects (1995) p. 599. 4 LA: 1 FANE 11/14. Not recorded by ESTC, JISC, OCLC or any of the appropriate reference works.
First Edition, 22,[2]pp., with the final advert leaf, single worm pinhole to lower blanks margins, disbound. Printed in parallel columns with Burke's 'A short account of a late short administration', to which it is an answer. "There are sections on the Stamp Act, American trade, and the general problem of taxing America."?Adams. Adams, The American Controversy. 66-37; Sabin, 41681; Goldsmiths-Kress, 10255.
First edition, 4to, 228pp., orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications New Series Vol. 6.
First edition, 4to, 228pp., orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut. Oxford Bibliographical Society Publications New Series Vol. 6.
First edition, [3], 4-86pp., presentation inscription on front fly-leaf "To John Gladstone Esq. &c. &c. &c. With most resp. Compts from The Author", a little foxing of first 6 pages, disbound. The author is described on the title as "Formerly Writer to the Signet, now General Agent and Auctioneer, Edinburgh" part of which has been deleted by the author who has added in manuscript "Land Agent & Conveyancer".
Second edition, [4], 77, [1]pp., with half-title which is a little soiled, 6 folding tables, disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 17698.
First Edition, 12mo, xx, 241, [3, ads]pp., original boards, upper hinge cracked but firm, uncut and largely unopened, printed paper on spine, chipped with some loss, otherwise nice copy. Rare, the British Library copy on Copac; OCLC adds one more copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia; not in Kress or Goldsmith.
Small 8vo, 32pp., orig. printed wrappers, a very good copy. JISC locates a single copy at the British Library.
First Edition, half-title, early signature on title, 31, [1] pp., disbound. The letter points out that if forces were sent, Spain would undoubtedly attack at once. However, the British fleet would have to protect the Portuguese trade with Brazil, Paraguay and Madeira.
First edition, [4], 192, 100p., 2 engraved folding plates (one as frontispiece), of which both slightly browned with spotting to adjacent leaves, title-page and subsequent few leaves with light damp-stain to lower outer corner of blank margin. 2 vols., bound in one, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), nineteenth-century red half calf, spine rubbed, marbled boards, edges dyed yellow. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George Wilbraham (1779-1852), Whig politician, of Delamere House, Northwich, Cheshire.