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Arguments Respecting Insolvency dedicated to the Rt Hon Arthur.

1747Best.-Nr. 844301747. A Scarce Essay on Insolvency Written When Great Britain was Emerging as a Modern Commercial Power: OCLC Locates 1 Copy in a North American Law Library Courteville Raphael 1675-1772. Arguments Respecting Insolvency. Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Arthur Onslow Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons. London: Printed for M. Cooper At the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row 1760. vii 1 32 pp. Octavo 7-1/4" x 4"; 18.4 x 10.2 cm. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior upper outside corner of last leaf lacking with no loss to text "6" in small early hand to head of title page. A very good copy overall. $350. Only edition of this rare insightful commentary on the intersections of credit ethics and British law at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Writing at a pivotal moment when Great Britain's domestic and global commerce increasingly relied on complex credit networks Courteville offers an early sophisticated critique of the social and economic costs of imprisonment for debt alongside a rigorous analysis of contemporary bankruptcy statutes. Rather than viewing insolvency through a purely punitive or moralistic lens Courteville treats it as an unavoidable structural reality of a modern commercial state. He proposes a series of pragmatic legal reforms aimed at balancing the rights of creditors with the economic rehabilitation of honest debtors. To support his arguments he performs a comparative legal analysis-most notably drawing parallels to the mercantile laws of Holland-and scrutinizes recent insolvency acts passed by Parliament to illustrate where current British legislation fell short. Raphael Courteville is a fascinatingly multifaceted figure of the Georgian era. While chiefly remembered today as a notable organist at St. James's Westminster and a hymn composer he was also an aggressive and prolific political writer. For years he served as a dedicated state pamphleteer under the payroll of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole frequently writing for The Daily Gazetteer under the pseudonym "Freeman"-a role that earned him the colorful nickname "Court-Evil" from his Tory detractors. This tract displays his characteristic polemical sharpness applied to legal and economic reform. OCLC locates 1 copy in a North American law library Library of Congress. English Short-Titl. unknown books

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Contreras, RafaelABAA

Estudio Descriptivo de los monumentos árabes de Granada Sevilla y Córdoba ó sea La Alhambra el Alcázar y la Gran Mezquita de Occidente. Segunda edición con grabados y planos

Best.-Nr. 52831Madrid: Imprenta y Litografía de A. Rodero 1878. Octavo 22 x 15.5 cm. Original half-leather with paper-covered boards and marbled endpapers; 375 iv pp. Minor abrasions and wear especially to extremities of binding some hand-written notations to front flyleaf one folding plate with tear along one crease overall very good. Second edition of the 19th century work on Islamic architecture in Moorish Spain including the Alhambra of Granada the Real Alcázar of Sevilla and the Gran Mezquita or Grand Mosque of Córdoba. The Spanish-language text begins with an introduction to art in Spain followed by a brief chapter covering the comparable characteristics of various monuments and three longer sections one on each of the featured monuments. There are scattered illustrations throughout the text including elevations details and floor plans along with two large folding plates. The first is a floor plan of the Palacio Arabe at the Alhambra and the second is an overall plan or map of the Alhambra y Generalife. Rafale Contreras 1824-1890 was the head restorer of the Alhambra appointed by Queen Isabella II and who carried out a major restoration in the Nasrid palace between 1847 and 1889. He was preceded in his position by his father José and succeeded by his son Mariano making the Contreras family in charge of restorations at the palace from 1840 through 1907. Rafael was appointed after presenting the Queen with a three-dimensional scale model of the Hall of the Two Sisters with a goal of his restoration being to change the look of the Alhambra to one that was more "Oriental" in style. He focused only on the wall surfaces substituting original decorations with newer plaster casts. Some of the Contreras' restorations were quite controversial including the complete demolition of the Sala de Camas and the conversion of several gabled roofs into colorful tiled domes. Many of the walls were in a state of ruin lacking any original decoration and the Contreras family decided to fill in the gaps with decorative motifs which did not necessarily belong. Rafael Contreras also created a successful business seizing upon the influx of visitors to the Alhambra. He created architectural scale models and plaster casts of the Alhambra in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms which he sold as souvenirs. Asun González Pérez "Reconstructing the Alhambra: Rafael Contreras and Architectural Models of the Alhambra in the Nineteenth Century" Art in Translation 2017 Volume 9 Issue 1 pp. 29-49. unknown books

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