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1968réf. 58920Manchester England: Whitworth Art Gallery University of Manchester. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 24 pp. With 10 ills. 21 x 15 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1968. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester paperback
1967réf. 58715Manchester England: Whitworth Art Gallery University of Manchester. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Text in English. 24 pp. With 3 ills. 21 x 15 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1967. Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester paperback
1681réf. BB1603London: Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty from 1649 1681. Morocco. Fine. Later seventeenth-century edition of this purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Crown 8vo 181 x 101mm: 16256pp with frontispiece engraved by William Marshall Madan 47 and full-page portrait of Charles II facing Chapter XXVII. Beautifully bound to period style by Fitterer in black morocco spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in blind covers paneled in gilt with curlicue corner devices burgundy red leather lettering piece gilt end papers renewed. An exceptional copy tightly bound and clean throughout with crisp impressions of the plates. Madan 66. Almack 62. ESTC R204383. Wing E311A. Originally attributed to Charles I but according to Madan composed by John Gauden Bishop of Worcester who probably included some authentic writings of the King and may even have collaborated with him. The first edition was in print on the day of Charles I's execution on 30 January 1649 followed by many editions with various erroneous dates and publishing details. The Eikon reviews the course of the civil wars from the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640 to Charles's imprisonment at Carisbrooke Castle in 1647 and defends the King's policies. It is part political memoir and part spiritual autobiography presenting Charles as the defender of both Church and State. Written in a moving straightforward style in diary form the Eikon combines irenic prayers urging forgiveness of Charles's executioners with a justification of royalism. The poem "Majesty in Misery" said to have been written by the King at Carisbrooke first appeared in the 1676 edition of Perinchief's Life of King Charles but this is the first edition of the Eikon in which it was printed. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty [from 1649] unknown
1710réf. 496London: Reprinted without any alteration 1710. Leather Bound. Very Good . 4 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches. 8vo. 168 unnumbered pages. Title page yellowed and chipped at bottom with no loss. First few pages age-toned other pages bright and clean. U2 and U3 with small losses to lower corners affecting 2 or 3 lines of text with text supplied in neat handwritten facsimile. ESTCN11904. See ESTCS108617 1546 edition. Half title excised and "reprinted without any alteration" removed from title page. Bound in later full brown calf with "King Henry VIII's Primer" in gilt to spine and light wear to corners and head and tail of spine. A very good copy of the 1710 reprint in 32 lines scarce in its own right of the 1546 edition by Grafton altered to give appearance of the even rarer 1546 edition. Reprinted without any alteration unknown
1864réf. 41261Boston: Little Brown and Company 1864. 1. Bemis George: PRECEDENTS OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF SIR ROUNDELL PALMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MAY 13 1864. Boston: Little Brown. 1864. viii 83 1 blank pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. Clean text. Good. England's reception and fitting out of Confederate privateers is inconsistent with its professed neutrality. The U.S. a neutral in earlier European wars prohibited such collaboration in American ports. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 4626. Bartlett 394. II DAB 174. Not in Harv. Law Cat. Marke. 2. Cordner Rev. John: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: AN ADDRESS ON THE AMERICAN CONFLICT DELIVERED AT MONTREAL ON THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 22 1864. Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers spine wear. ix 1 blank 30 pp. Disbound else Very Good. Published by the antislavery Union and Emancipation Society the pamphlet demonstrates that "the supposed hostile designs of the United States upon Canada" is merely an attempt to turn British sentiment against the Union. The rear wrapper is a two-column list of the officers of the Society including a two-column list of more than one hundred fifty Vice Presidents. Sabin 16762 Montreal printing only. Not in Bartlett. 3. Free Man's Aid Society: THE FRIENDS OF THE FREED-MEN. London: 1864. 7 1 pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good. This rare pamphlet was written by John Curwen Secretary to the Free Man's Aid Society. He lauds the abolitionists- - British and American-- who aid the Union cause recognizing "instinctively that this must become an anti-slavery war." They have enlisted in fighting regiments organized the education of freedmen at Port Royal. The pamphlet describes the freedmen's schools the freed children's eagerness to learn and the observations of the teachers some of whom were women. OCLC 644153331 1- U Manchester as of August 2025. 4. Massie James W.: THE CASE STATED: THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE. Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society. 1863. 8pp. Disbound. Good. England's Union and Emancipation Society was committed to the abolition of Slavery. "What darker or more dreary calamity could threaten any nation or people on earth than the successful establishment of a Republic whose corner-stone shall be 'that the negro is not equal to the white man and that slavery- subordination to the superior race- is his natural and normal condition'." Bartlett 3040. Sabin 46186 note. Not in LCP or Dumond. 5. Owls-Glass pseud.: REBEL BRAG AND BRITISH BLUSTER; A RECORD OF UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES BAFFLED SCHEMES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES WITH ECHOES OF VERY INSIGNIFICANT THUNDER VERY PLEASANT TO READ AND INSTRUCTIVE TO ALL WHO ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING. New York: American News Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers the rear wrapper advertising 'The Martyr's Monument.' vi 7-111 1 blank pp. Clean text. Disbound else Very Good. Sabin and the Library Company suggest Richard Grant White as the author. The book "a curious study" of British elite opinion is a commentary on articles from British intellectuals which had supported the Confederacy. The author's close examination of British public opinion is a scathing condemnation of British turpitude. These were "undeniably able and dextrous writers and politicians who to please the public for whom they wrote and spoke opposed ridiculed and contemned our people and our government during the tremendous struggle for the worthy and honorable existence of our country. It would not be very easy for us to forget these efforts of our inimical kinsfolk or indeed desirable that we should lose sight of so instructive a warning. . ." Sabin 68317. LCP 11149. Bartlett 4012. 6. Potter Thomas Bayley: UNION AND EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT A CONVERSAZIONE HELD IN THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM ON MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 1 1864 TO RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE REV. DR. MASSIE RESPECTING HIS ANTI-SLAVERY MISSION TO THE AMERICAN CLERGY AND CHURCHES. Manchester: Alexander Ireland. 1864. 33 3 pp. Disbound without wraps Clean text. Good. Potter was the President of the Society a British organization based in Manchester and supporting the North in its war against Slavery. The pamphlet reports on "a very interesting conversazione" concerning Dr. Massie's trip to America. He met with President Lincoln "a man of integrity whose word is to be believed whenever he speaks. I came away with the conviction that he is the friend of the negro and the man of colour and that he has a firm resolution that whatever power he has shall be constitutionally exerted for the emancipation of every slave in the United States." Massie also met with Seward "again and again" and with Chase and other civil and military leaders all of whom favorably impressed him. "The day is not far off when the coloured regiments of America will be the safeguard of her negro freedom and the security for all the freedom that belongs to men of whatever colour" Not in LCP Bartlett Dumond Monaghan or Sabin. OCLC notes about fifteen institutional holdings. 7. Siemms F. D.: AMERICA. THE WAR: PAST PRESENT AND PROBABLE FUTURE. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE CONCERT HALL LIVERPOOL. BY F. D. SIEMMS A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL WHO SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES TO A VERY RECENT PERIOD BEING AN EMBODIMENT OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS AS AN OFFICER OF ARTILLERY. Liverpool 1864. 24pp. Disbound with wrapper remnants along spine. Good. Siemms says "Without any previous intention of being a soldier either in the army of the North or South yet I found myself one fine day an officer in the army of the Southern Confederacy." He gives some details of his unit's movements and briefly discusses different engagements while noting his frustration at the North's exaggeration in reporting its successes. His war experience was brief: "My military life ended" when he was taken prisoner "at Bull's run" and held as a prisoner until the British flag brought his release. Presenting himself as something of an expert he says "the negroes are far better off than a certain class of poor people in many European countries." He says 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is filled with exaggeration and "downright untruths." He exposes "the false pretence that the North was fighting for liberty" and says the press has greatly exaggerated the North's progress in the field. Frederick David Samson Siemms 1844-1907 was born in England but it is unclear how he ended up in the United States or fighting for the Confederate Army. His military records show that he enlisted on May 13 1861 at the age of 17 years for a period of 12 months as a private with 1st Artillery Virginia Confederate with Capt. Johnson H. Sands' Company Co. B Henrico Artillery Virginia Light Artillery. His occupation was dentist and optician. Company muster rolls show he was discharged on July 20 1862. Military records of Frederick D. Siemms Fold3 website; Soldier and Sailor's Database at National Park Service website; The Commercial Gazette of London June 4 1890 Page 6. OCLC 4844821 1- U Rochester as of March 2025. Not in Bartlett or Sabin. 8. Smith Goldwin: ENGLAND AND AMERICA: A LECTURE DELIVERED BY GOLDWIN SMITH BEFORE THE BOSTON FRATERNITY DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES. . . Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. x 36 pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. "With Thomas B. Potters Complts" written on front wrapper. Good. An odd combination of sympathies Smith supported the Union opposed imperialism and woman suffrage and disliked Jews. His lecture was first published in The Atlantic and was also printed in Boston. Sabin 82678. Bartlett 4507. Little, Brown and Company unknown
1635réf. 744401635. Carriages Over One Ton Banned "Upon Pain of Our Heavy Indignation" Broadside. Highways. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. By the King. A Proclamation for Restraint of Excessive Carriages To the Destruction of the High Ways. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1635. 14-1/4" x 10-1/4" 2 ff. broadside text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms 8-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning very light foxing and soiling slight horizontal fold lines faint dampstain to bottom and two small worm holes near top of both sheets minor loss to woodcut but no loss to text crease to left edge of first sheet which is mended at bottom edge just touching a few letters of text without loss. Housed in attractive 15" x 11" green buckram folder with red morocco lettering piece to front. $2000. Despite previous attempts to regulate excessively heavy carriages the king and his people still found "by dayly experience" that "those great abuses" were "still continued and increased." This two-page proclamation restricts carriages to "twenty hundred weight" one ton and imposed limits of either five horses five oxen or four oxen and two horses. It also encourages local officials to keep up with highway maintenance and "answere the contrary at their perils." Offenders were duly reported to the attorney general as a public nuisance where they would receive "such punishment as their contempts and offences shall deserve." OCLC and the ESTC locate 1 copy of this scarce broadside in North America Huntington Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S122973. unknown
1587réf. 741441587. A Scarce Set of Orders Regulating Grain Allotment by Justices of the Peace Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Queen of England and Ireland. Orders Devised by the Especiall Commandement of the Queenes Maiestie For the Reliefe and Stay of the Present Dearth of Graine Within the Realme: Sent from the Court at Greenewich Abroad into the Realme The Second Day of Ianuarie 1586. In the 29. Yeere of Her Maiesties Reigue By Her Maiesties Priuie Counsell. ii 20 2 pp. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1586 i.e. 1587. Quarto 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Modern polished tan calf signed binding by Riviere & Son gilt frames and small corner decorations to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces gilt tooling to board edges edges of text block gilt gilt inside dentelles. Light bowing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities chip to head of spine front board and rear joint just starting faint offsetting and recent pencil notations to endpapers. Moderate toning to interior trimming to leaf B1 pp. 7-8 just touching side notes without loss to legibility. A handsome copy. $2000. Only edition. Following a 1586 famine Elizabeth's Privy Council issued orders to justices of the peace dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. The sweeping highly detailed orders listed the quantities of grain permitted each family and controlled prices for any excess put on the market. Though many other monarchs had regulated grain markets after crop failures the practice expanded significantly under Elizabeth. Along with other social reforms this provided the foundation for her overhaul of the poor laws in 1601. OCLC locates 6 copies of this scarce title 5 in North America Yale Williams College University of Minnesota Law School Harvard Law School Huntington Library; the ESTC adds 1 North American copy Folger Shakespeare. Beale Bibliography of Early English Law Books T304a. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S100696. unknown
1538réf. 752261538. Acts Passed in the Twenty-Third Year of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXIII. H. VIII. The Kynge Our Soveraygne Lorde Henry the Eight by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande and of Fraunce Defender of the Faythe and Lorde of Irelande at the Sessions of His Highe Courte of Parlyament after Diverse Prorogations Holden at Westminster the .XV. Day of January In the .XXIII. Yere of His Moste Noble Reigne to the Honour of Almyghtye God and Holy Churche And for the Common Weale and Profytte of This His Realme By the Assente of the Lordes Spiritualle and Temporall And the Commons in This Presente Parliament Assembled And by Auctoritie of the Same Hath Ordeyned Establysshed and Enacted Certayne Good Statutes Lawes and Ordinances in Maner and Fourme Folowing. London: Imprynted.in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges moste noble grace 1538. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". XXVIII ff. Modern three-quarter tan mottled calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt fillets and title to spine endpapers renewed. Boards slightly bowed negligible light rubbing to extremities. Light toning to interior two small wormholes to upper gutter not affecting text faint dampstaining to margins of ff. V-XXIII light foxing and soiling to a few leaves. $2000. Nineteen acts passed by the Reformation Parliament during the 23rd year of the reign of Henry VIII. The collection includes several acts dealing with trade acts reforming courts and prisons and "An acte that no person commyttynge pety treason murder or felony shall be admytted to his clergie." As called for by the ESTC it does not include the text of the Act of Annates. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S92172. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S143. unknown
réf. Z1-U-026-00942Arts Council England. 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 so some stamps and wear and may have sticker on cover but in good overall condition. 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. Arts Council England unknown
réf. Z1-C-082-00146Used - Good. Paperback. 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 so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 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. paperback
réf. Z1-C-018-01336Bibliolife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 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. Bibliolife unknown
réf. Z1-A-010-03936Elsevier Science Ltd. 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 so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 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. Elsevier Science Ltd unknown
1648réf. 8019Hague i.e.London Printed by Sam: Browne 1648. 1648 Two volumes in one. 2 96 2 78 77-355 1; 8 48 67-80 49-66 81-374 9-123 9 p. Vol. I Engraved portrait of the king with his hands on a globe signed Guil. Marshall sculpt. The title page ruled in red. Sectional titles included in the pagination. Vol. II The general title follows the title and folded frontis. of Eikon Basilicae. The Eikon is Madan 64 the second issue. The titlepage is printed in red and black and has the crown CR emblem surmounting a skull. Contemporary calf the boards panelled with a two line roll and small corner tools. The plain spine with raised bands and the title in later gilt in the second panel. The binding is rather worn on the edges corners and joints but the boards are still firmly attached. Front free endpaper removed. Early signature of Edw. Roberts on the top margin of the frontispiece. Book stamp of J.H. Rudemare at the foot of the titlepage possibly the Abbé Rudemare. Inscribed below the first line of the title 'Bib. Confess. Monial. Aug. de Sion'. A sound unrestored copy of a scarce book ESTC R200749. Madan states that although Brown did indeed print many royalist publications at the Hague this was actually printed in London. Hague [i.e.London], Printed by Sam: Browne, hardcover
1715réf. 1031F19Oxford: John Baskett 1715 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 11" by 8". None. Attractively bound in full morocco this is a wonderful early Georgian era King James Bible from the press of royal printer John Baskett. An early eighteenth-century edition of the Authorised or King James Version of the Holy Bible including both the Old and New Testament. The edition is notable as an immediate predecessor to Baskett"s celebrated Oxford Bible of 171617 subsequently known as the "Vinegar Bible" from its famous misprint in the heading to Luke XX. A2 A-3Q8 3R4 3R2 3S-4I8 4K4 4L2 a8 b7. Collated lacking final leaf b8 the final leaf of the index. ESTC T81356 Rebound in full morocco with endpapers renewed. With contemporary inscriptions dated 1798 to a front blank. Rebound in full morocco with endpapers renewed. Externally fine. Contemporary inscriptions to a front blank. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with instances of spotting throughout most concentrated to page perimeters. Restoration to tail of A2 not affecting text. Lacking final leaf b8. Very Good Indeed John Baskett hardcover
1688réf. 34660Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes for the Author 1688. First Edition. Complete and illustrated with all five finely engraved folio portrait plates called for of Edward armoured and in various other poses the Prince of Wales-the Black Prince and the Author Joshua Barnes finely decorated six seven and ten-line initial letters and engraved devices title-page printed in red and black. Large Folio 14" x 9" bound in contemporary paneled calf the spine with raised bands over the cords tan morocco lettering label gilt ruled and lettered. xvi 911 pp. A handsome copy the text-block and engraved plates all very clean crisp and unpressed the binding very strong and solid some expected evidence of age the corners in good order the spine panel original the hinges sometime strengthened and sophisticated. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD III WITH FINELY ENGRAVED PLATES. Edward III 1312–1377 was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe. His fifty-year reign is one of the longest in English history and saw vital developments in legislation and government in particular the evolution of the English Parliament as well as the ravages of the Black Death. He outlived his eldest son Edward the Black Prince and was succeeded by his grandson Richard II. Edward was crowned at age fourteen after his father was deposed. After a successful campaign in Scotland he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne starting the Hundred Years' War 1337–1453. Following some initial setbacks this first phase of the war went exceptionally well for England and would become known as the Edwardian War. Victories at Crécy and Poitiers led to the highly favourable Treaty of Brétigny 1360 in which England made territorial gains and Edward renounced his claim to the French throne. Edward was temperamental and thought himself capable of feats such as healing by the royal touch as some prior English kings did. He was also capable of unusual clemency. He was in many ways a conventional medieval king whose main interest was warfare but he also had a broad range of non-military interests. Admired in his own time and for centuries after. modern historians credit him with significant achievements. Complete copies of this great work on Edward are rare. Most lack all or some of the engraved plates or are rebound. Printed by John Hayes for the Author hardcover
réf. Z1-V-002-02475Health Education Authority. 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 so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 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. Health Education Authority unknown
1809réf. 640612Published for John Reeves Esq. Sold by G. and W. Nicol and Scatcherd and Letterman 1809. First Thus. Leather Binding. Near Fine. Includes a fine fore-edge painting of the City of Philadelpia shown ca. 1770 as seen from the water showing the harbor and shipping in the foreground. Attractively bound in full period black straight-grained morocco known as 'Russia' spine decorated with floral designs in gilt and gilt ruled compartments covers bordered with twin gilt fillets enclosing a repeating gilt scroll gilt inner dentelles all edges gilt expertly rebacked in matching leather with original spine laid down light wear to boards; some foxing to first and last few leaves. The fore-edge painting appears to be of some age and must be pre-1950 at the minimum due to the presence of a UK dealer's catalog entry for this copy with an exchange rate of 4 pounds to the dollar which last occurred in 1950. Published for John Reeves, Esq., Sold by G. and W. Nicol, and Scatcherd and Letterman unknown
1920réf. 30705Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1920. First edition. A fine copy in a bright nearly fine to fine dust jacket with four-color illustration by P. J. Monahan on the front panel with slight wear and loss to upper front corner tiny chip to upper left front corner slight shelf wear to spine ends. A stunning copy rare in this condition. 30705. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-394 inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan original blue-green cloth front and spine panels stamped in brown. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam which he believes to be the true religion. Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-74 and 1981 1-68. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915 pp. 177-79. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 284. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 79. In 333. Bleiler 1978 p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 E-195. A. C. McClurg & Co. unknown
1887réf. 1172191887. BRITISH ISLES PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Tourist photographic album of cathedrals in England Scotland and Ireland. No place circa 1887. Folio 11 by 14 inches contemporary full white parchment elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers patterned endpapers all edges gilt cloth dust jacket; 40 leaves. $2400.Original late 19th-century photographic album containing 116 albumen prints depicting views of notable cathedrals in England Scotland and Ireland mounted on thick blue card in a beautiful parchment-gilt binding by Giulio Giannini of Florence Italy.Presumably compiled by a tourist this album contains prints of such sites as Canterbury St. Paul's Durham Exeter Westminster Abbey Tintern Abbey and others. Most prints measure 5-1/4 by 8 inches placed two on a sheet though one measures 7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches; each is titled in the print along the lower edge. With Giulio Giannini's publicity card laid in. Owner ink signature dated 1887.Cloth dust wrapper with mild soiling; parchment-gilt album beautiful and fine. hardcover
1775réf. 000855England 1775. On offer is an original LS by English King George III dated 3 January 1775 a mere six days before Parliament declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion. On March 23 Patrick Henry gives the "Give me or give me Death" speech and on 19 April came the first shots on Lexington Green. King George III King of England 1760 - 1820 he supported the policy which led to war with and the loss of the American colonies sends his cousin to Princess Abbess at Gardersheim Germany his profuse best wishes for the New Year. Signed "George R" one page both sides 8 x 12.5 which reads in part: "You have our most sincere thanks for the pleasant mark that your dear Love has given us at this time of change to a New Year of your friendly disposition toward us. We reciprocate the same and would express the sincere wish that Your dear Love may have begun the New Year Pleasantly and may pass it in uninterrupted enjoyment of unalloyed prosperity.George R." In fine condition with remnants of previous matting to the lower corners. As King George's III grandfather George I came over directly from Germany George III spoke and wrote German in which this letter is written. Comes with a full translation. VG. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Manuscript. unknown
1662réf. 490London: John Bill and Christopher Barker 1662. First edition. Half leather. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 11 3/8 inches. b3 - b8 c 8 leaf quire d 2 leaf quire B - Gg 6 leaf quires Hh 7 of 8 leaves. Lacks initial 8 leaves G3 R5 and Hh8. Begins with part of the Act of Uniformity. Kalendar in red and black. Soiled and dampstained. Several pages with contemporary ink notes. Several pages with closed tears that have been repaired with no loss. A few pages with marginal losses affecting text mostly minimally and a few other marginal losses not affecting text. ESTCR211954. Griffiths 1662/2. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English Meeter. London: Printed by S.G. for the Company of Stationers 1661. 19 153 16 pages lacking pages after 139. ESTCR31616. Bound in modern tan half leather with brown buckram boards and new endpapers. True First Edition of the corrected 1662 edition of the English BCP. Very rare. John Bill and Christopher Barker unknown
1629réf. 481London: Printed by Bonham Norton and John Bill 1629. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 8 3/4 inches. 4to. A2 - A6 B - H 8 leaf quires. Title page lacking. Printed in two column Roman type. Margins of first two signatures a little grubby with closed tears and a few pages with marginal losses affecting a few letters of text. Otherwise pages lightly soiled. G8 with closed tear and old repair with no loss of text. Griffiths 1629/4. ESTCS93878. Bound with: The Holy Bible contayning the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and reuised by his Maiesties speciall commandement Authorised KJV version. London: Bonham Norton and John Bill 1629. 6 introductory material 32 numbered pages genealogies lacking 1 2 5-8 15-16 21-22. Printed in two column Roman type. Loss to lower quarter of pages 31 and 32. A - Ffff 8 leaf quires. Light soiling and close cropped but otherwise nice. P2 bound after P3. Lacks Cc2 Cc3 Bbb4 Bbb5 Ppp1 NT title Gggg1 and Gggg2. Marginal losses to Qq1 Qq8 Vu1 Ggg4 and Ppp9 affecting notes and minimally text. Loss to lower corner of Ii4 Ii5 Dddd7 and Dddd8 affecting small amount of text. Loss of lower 1/4 to Mm8. Herbert 425. ESTCS124382. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The booke of Psalmes collected into English meeter. London: Imprinted for the Company of Stationers 1628: A - H 8 leaf quires. Lacks A1 and H8. Printed in two column Roman type. ESTCS4530. All page edges rouged. Bound in modern 3/4 brown calf with brown cloth. Five raised bands to spine with red morocco spine label with title and date to lower spine. A very good copy of the original 1552 English BCP bound with a Geneva/Breeches Bible and Psalms. A staple of many American colonists. Printed by B[onham] Norton and J[ohn] Bill unknown
1864réf. 12679Boston: Published at the Office of the Society 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the activities of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society NEFAS an activist group formed to assist emancipated Black Americans in may aspects of life especially with gaining academic and practical educations following the Civil War. The present work is especially important for the long section titled "Condition of the Freedmen" which occupies pages 11 to 51 about half of the total work. This section details the population state of education labor and industry opportunities general condition and more of free African Americans in several regions of the country namely the Military Department of the South Key West and the Tortugas Military Department of Virginia and North Carolina the District of Columbia the Mississippi Valley Middle Tennessee Western Arkansas and Louisiana. Interestingly a substantial subsection of the section on the Department of the South is devoted to a discussion of arable lands available to freed slaves around Beaufort and Port Royal known to modern audiences as "Forty Acres and a Mule." Regarding the land in this area the report states that "It was a matter of course that the lands should all be taken for those blacks who did not wish to turn cultivators were perfectly aware that they could sell their 40 acres for many times the government price." The organization was also notable for its mission specifically aimed at education and for the critical role women played in its work. "The New England Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in Boston in 1862 in response to an appeal.on behalf of 8000 formerly enslaved people at Port Royal SC. Originally named the Educational Commission its mission was to provide teachers and other aid for 'the industrial social intellectual moral and religious' advantage of freedmen" Massachusetts Historical Society. As was the case with many abolition and aid groups women were in the vanguard of the NEFAS. They recruited trained and even served as educators in the program. For much of the twentieth century if historians wrote about the first teachers among freed people at all they characterized them as foolish even dangerous women.who bore a heavy responsibility for the racial tension after the Civil War and whose work caused Southern educators to avoid Black education" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. Yet scholars in the 1960s and after -- particularly women and Black researchers -- have returned to the documents of the Society to uncover the serious and often intersectional work being done by both white and Black activists in Port Royal reframing "the freedmen's education movement as not primarily a gift of northern largess.but as autonomous actions of hundreds of Black communities across the South demanding access to literacy and numeracy" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. In this sense those "dangerous" women were troubling because they heard the call of Black peoples took their needs seriously and reacted accordingly. The movement was thus "largely Black-inspired abetted by female missionary teachers" whose shared goals were to prepare "former slaves for lives of freedom in a democratic America" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. The present Annual Report shows the early efforts of this Society including fundraising allocation of funds educational programs and educational gains and future goals. Included in the list of Officers are eleven white women in leadership roles; indeed women were the majority in the Committee on Teachers and the Committee on Clothing and Supplies. Among them are more well-known activists who appear in American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists i.e. Ednah Cheney and Sarah Barrett Cabot who had raised her daughter to become a leader in the movement. Most however are lesser or unknown denoted largely by their husbands' names rather than their own. Even less visible but even more important were the unlisted Black women who were members of the group and contributors to the grassroots work. "Nearly one-fifth of the Northern teachers were Black.Black teachers were fifteen times more likely to give a few years of their lives to Southern Black education.the rest of the recruited teachers were native to the South; many had been enslaved while others were Southern free Black women and other men of color" The Freedmen's Teacher Project. The accomplishments in the report -- fundraising equipment educational gains -- can largely be attributed to their efforts. The report for the first year of the organization is exceedingly rare with only one example listed in OCLC; twelve copies of the present report appear in OCLC though no copies have appeared in modern auction records and no other copies are currently in trade. An important and scarce historical document preserving the accomplishments of a fairly short-lived intersectional activist group with vital reports on the activities of freed slaves throughout the southern part of the country. Published at the Office of the Society unknown
1727réf. 55069London: printed by John Baskett. and by the Assigns of Henry Hills decease'd 1727. Later edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three parts folio in fours 38 by 24 cm. 380 23 3 table pp; text in two columns. Additional engraved title page; main title in red and black; woodcut initials and ornaments. Contemporary two-tone paneled calf triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands elaborately tooled in gilt morocco lettering piece; gilt inner dentelles; marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. Covers very lightly scuffed with mild traces of wear at extremities; upper joint just starting at top; occasional touches of mild mostly marginal foxing. A very good or better copy complete and handsomely bound. An uncommon and beautifully printed edition of the Book of Common Prayer "the first single manual of worship in a vernacular language directed to be used universally by and common to both priest and people" Carter and Muir. Despite early revisions and some major alterations following the Restoration the original simplicity of the language has been presevered the text remaining substantially unaltered since 1662. References: ESTC N67554 locates only 4 copies. Cf. Carter & Muir Printing and the Mind of Man 75 ed. 1549. Collation: pi1 a-c4 A-Aaa4 Bbb2 = 203 leaves. printed by John Baskett... and by the Assigns of Henry Hills, decease'd hardcover
1819réf. 33323London: Printed for J. Mawman in Ludgate Street; Printed for Baldwin and Cradock Paternoster-Row and Joseph Booker New Bond Street 1819 - 1830. 8 volumes. Rare First Edition Complete. A copy with fine provenance coming from the library of the Duke of Westminster with his coat of arms to the book plates and dating to 1884. Quarto contemporary polished and paneled calf the spines with raised bands gilt ruled separating the compartments two red morocco lettering labels gilt remaining compartments with elaborate gilt tooling the covers with triple gilt fillet rules surrounding inner and elaborate roll tooled borders in gilt and blind central panels of triple gilt fillets and corner pieces in blind marbled endleaves and marbled edges to match. A very handsome set some hinges starting the textblocks clean fresh crisp and unpressed. RARE FIRST EDITION COMPLETE OF THIS IMPORTANT HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FIRST INVASION OF THE ROMANS PRESENTED IN HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. John Lingard 5 February 1771 – 17 July 1851 was an English Roman Catholic priest and historian the author of The History of England From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII an eight-volume work published in 1819. Lingard was a teacher at the English College at Douai and at the seminary at Crook Hall and later St. Cuthbert's College. In 1811 he retired to Hornby in Lancashire to continue work on his writing. The principal object of his major work The History of England is to emphasise the disastrous effects of the Reformation. The book was later expanded by the author and the title changed to reflect the period covered. As each additional volume appeared the History's reputation increased while Lingard continued to revise and improve the whole work. Lingard himself argued that one of his chief duties as an historian was: "to weigh with care the value of the authorities on which I rely and to watch with jealousy the secret workings of my own personal feelings and prepossessions. Such vigilance is a matter of necessity to every writer of history . Otherwise he will be continually tempted to make an unfair use of the privilege of the historian; he will sacrifice the interests of truth to the interests of party national or religious or political." J. Lingard "History of England" vol 1 6th edition London: Charles Dolman 1854 p. 6. Lingard adopted a non-controversial and sober approach to history with the emphasis on incontrovertible fact and using primary rather than secondary sources. Lingard's History is also an apt demonstration of the advantages a Catholic historian of the time may have had in terms of impartiality. Lingard's religion had to a large extent isolated him from the mainstream nationalism which surrounded Protestant historians as well as from the growing "providentialist" concept of history. Lingard's strength of argument however continued to be popular and the influence of Protestant animosity for Catholic apologetic also led him to develop a keen critical judgment. He was devoted to absolute accuracy and detail and the History was a groundbreaking work in its use of primary sources. Lingard made extensive use of Vatican archives and French Italian Spanish and English dispatches document collections and state papers – the first British historian to do so. The peripheral nature of English Catholicism put him in a position of "outside observer" to much of English intellectual culture and this is reflected in his historical works. Despite this distancing effect however Lingard maintained an active interest in politics all his life and was a noted pamphleteer. History of England is a substantial scholarly work which gave full treatment to the history of England. From 1811 until his death in 1851 Lingard spent most of his life in the village of Hornby near Lancaster where he devoted himself to his study and writing. A quiet gentle man he was well liked by the residents. Lingard's popularity as an historian had its day but his contribution to historical method came at a critical point in British intellectual history. Printed for J. Mawman in Ludgate Street; Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-Row and Joseph Booker, New Bond Street hardcover