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1662réf. 34668London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston Book-seller to His most Sacred Majesty. 1662; 1662. 2 volumes bound in one. First Edition. Illustrated with superb folio plates engraved on copper a frontispiece "Dieu et Mon Droit" depicting the Royal Coat of Arms and engraved illustrated title-page a double-page illustration showing Charles and the ship of state another double-plate showing the 'Bramble speaking to the Trees' and another double-page plate of the Cedar showing the apostolic delineations a final plate showing the Earl of Clarendon the engravings and title-pages throughout bordered with double and triple-ruling in red collated complete. Large Thick Folio 14" x 9.25" handsomely bound in the original contempoaray polished speckled calf the spine with raised bands over cords double ruled in gilt red morocco lettering label bgilt central gilt ornamental devices in the compartments. 2 frontispiece and engraved title xii 120 2 458 2; viii 733 4 Table plates pp. An unusually fine survival still retaining its original binding. The text-block and illustrations all crisp and clean and unpressed the binding still strong and in a a very pleasing state of preservation. An especially pleasing copy. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST COMPLETE OF ALL WORKS ON KING CHARLES I OF ENGLAND AND THE KINGDOM. Charles I 1600 – 1649 was King of England Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland. After his father inherited the English throne in 1603 he moved to England where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland in 1612 upon the death of his elder brother Henry Frederick Prince of Wales. After his accession in 1625 Charles quarreled with the English Parliament which sought to curb his royal prerogative. He believed in the divine right of kings and was determined to govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies in particular the levying of taxes without Parliamentary consent and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies coupled with his marriage to a Catholic generated antipathy and mistrust from Reformed religious groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics and failed to aid continental Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall. From 1642 Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645 at the hands of the Parliamentarian New Model Army he fled north from his base at Oxford. Charles surrendered to a Scottish force and after lengthy negotiations between the English and Scottish parliaments was handed over to the Long Parliament in London. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight he forged an alliance with Scotland but by the end of 1648 the New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried convicted and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and the Commonwealth of England was established as a republic. The monarchy was restored in 1660 with Charles's son Charles II as king. Archbishop William Laud whom Parliament beheaded during the war called Charles a "mild and gracious prince who knew not how to be or how to be made great." Charles was more sober and refined than his father but he was intransigent. He deliberately pursued unpopular policies that brought ruin on himself. Both Charles and James were advocates of the divine right of kings but while James's ambitions concerning absolute prerogative were tempered by compromise and consensus with his subjects Charles believed he had no need to compromise or even to explain his actions. He thought he was answerable only to God. "Princes are not bound to give account of their actions" he wrote "but to God alone". wiki Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, Book-seller to His most Sacred Majesty. hardcover
18538vo., First Edition, with 10 genealogical tables in the text; original decorative ribbed dark green cloth BY BONE & SON, boards elaborately tooled at corners to an arabesque design in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, primrose endpapers, very neatly recased, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, and particularly clean copy. A FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS COUSIN THE REV. GEORGE CHILTON WITH THE FORMER'S UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The author's second genealogical work, following his study of Victoria and Albert (1841) and preceding his notable 'Shakepeareana Genealogica' in 1869. George Robert Comyn Chilton, b.1825, was educated at Christ Church Oxford where he gained his BA in 1848 and MA in 1852. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the Bar in 1850. In 1861 he was appointed Vicar of Wanborough (Surrey) where he served until at least 1876. THIS WORK IS EXTREMELY SCARCE; PRESENTATION COPIES ARE THE MORE SO
réf. 2689Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett Printer to the University 1753. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. No pagination. Final leaf: Bb3. Contemporary red morocco repaired. With 47 engraved plates most likely by Frederick Hendrick van Hove. ESTC T182569. ESTC records a copy in Scotland three at Oxford some in private collections one in Australia but none in the US. Tear in title-page not affecting text. Bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms Collected into English Metre. London: Printed by C. and J. Ackers for the Company of Stationers 1753. 0 Oxford: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University, 1753. hardcover
1615réf. 611London: Printed by Robert Barker 1615. Leather Bound. Very Good . 7 x 8 1/2 inches. 4to. B 10 leaves C-E in 8s. Lacks preliminaries. Begins with Communion. Griffiths 1615/4. Bound with: The Bible that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages; with most profitable annotations vpon all hard places and other things of great importance Geneva/Breeches version. London: Robert Barker 1615. Collates as 4 leaves of NT Preliminaries before BCP A-Hhh in 8s Iii 2 leaves Kkk-Yyy in 8s Zzz 10 leaves. General title lacking. Bible text complete with light dampstain throughout. A few pages with old ink marks or stains tears or repairs without loss of text. Top margin closely cropped on some pages. NT title page and preliminaries bound before BCP. Herbert 340/341. Bound with: Robert Herrey Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances or Large and Ample Tables Alphabeticall. London: Printed by Robert Barker 1615. 158 of 164 pages. Collates as A - I in 8s K 7 of 8 leaves. ESTCS122242. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins The Whole Book of Psalms. Cambridge: John Field 1666. 34 pages with final blank. Lacks title page. Printed in unusual four column Roman type. Printing information from ESTCR17943. Prior owner's name John Adcock 1683 on endpapers in fancy script. Bound in full period brown leather with remnants of clasps and deep blindstamped central lozenges to covers. Professionally rebacked with original spine relaid new sewn headbands and new endpapers. The last Black Letter Geneva Bible in Quarto bound with a version of the 1552 English BCP. Printed by Robert Barker unknown
1585réf. 456London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. Leather Bound. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. ¶3 - ¶8 A - E 8 leaf quires F 5 leaves. Lacks title page and following leaf. Scattered stains and soiling mostly at margins. Small darker stain at top margin. Loss to lower forecorner of B8 affecting about 12 lines of text. Kalendar printed in red and black. Colophon at end with ownership inscription of John Purkiss dated February 1 1768. Griffiths 1585/3. Bound with: The Holy Bible Geneva/Breeches version. London: Printed by Christopher Barker 1585. A-3H 8 leaf quires 3I 2 leaf quire 4 leaves 3K-3Y 8 leaf quires 3Z 10 leaf quire. Printed in two column black letter type. Occasional small closed tear with no loss and a few marginal notes shaved esp. 3O. Lacks preliminaries and 3P4&5. 18th Century notes regarding Purkiss family on verso of NT title page. Herbert 187 following Herbert 165 and Herbert 170. Bound with: Herrey Robert F. Two right profitable and fruitfull Concordances or large and ample Tables Alphabeticall. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1585. A-L 8 leaf quires M 4 leaf quire. Bound with: Sternhold Thomas and John Hopkins. The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English meetre. London: Assignes of Richard Day 1585. A - G 8 leaf quires lacking G6 - G8. Last few pages tatty with slight loss of text. ESTCS90640. Bound in dark brown paneled calf with recent sympathetic rebacking with four raised bands offset by gilt rules. An excellent copy of the 1552 English BCP and Geneva Bible. Both standards for many American colonists. Printed by Christopher Barker unknown
1630réf. 482London: Printed by Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill 1630. 3/4 leather. Very Good. 7 x 9 inches. 4to. 84 of 92 pages. A 8 leaves B 10 leaves C - E 8 leaves. Printed in two column black letter. Lacks title page title page for The Whole Booke of Psalmes Collected into English meetre by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others. . . dated 1600 bound before BCP and preliminaries. Griffiths 1630/7. ESTCS123192. Bound with: The Bible: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. Geneva/Breeches version. London: Robert Barker 1602. 2 434 4 441 - 554 leaves. Printed in two column black letter. Title page with old tissue repairs to margin and lower portion of text. Closed tears to 335 and 462 loss to top corner of 9-11 32 324 and 392. Loss to bottom of 131 145 198 210 235 248 454 458 459 486 and 546 and to top half of 165. Lacks 50 G2 220 252 253 and 289. Several pages misnumbered. Herbert 269. ESTCS116971. Bound with: Herrey Robert. Two right profitable and fruitfull concordances or large and ample tables alphabeticall. London: Robert Barker 1602. 162 of 164 pages. Collates as A - K 8 leaf quires L2. Lacks K8. ESTCS102034. Compare ESTCS5161 signature of B4 under "it" of "habitation". An occasional light stain smudge or mark but generally clean. Bound in modern 3/4 dark brown calf with red spine label and five raised bands to 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 Robert Barker and the Assignes of John Bill unknown
1778réf. ABC_455321778. Sewn with two small chords in the left upper and bottom corner. Folio. First draft of an autograph manuscript in French with erasures and corrections probably written by a diplomat or strategist concerning the causes of Britains defeat of France in India during the Seven Years War 1756-1763 and analysing different ways to restore France to power on Indian soil by an alliance with the sultan Haider Ali Khan 1722-1782 who ruled Mysore and a large part of southern India and was one of the greatest enemies of the British East India Company. According to the unidentified diplomat who wrote this text Haider Ali Khan was the only one who was able to defeat the British or challenge their supremacy in India. In this manuscript he describes the best strategy not only to join Haider Ali Khan but also to negotiate with the British people on profitable Indian trade for both parties.Slightly worn and frayed around the edges first page slightly dust-soiled but still an interesting autograph manuscript in good condition. unknown
réf. 7819manuscrit sans date (début XVIIIe), reliure plein veau d'époque, dos à 5 nerfs, titres et fleurons dorés, roulette dorées sur chasses et champs, tranches rouges, 19,5x24 cm, pagination par feuilles, TOME I, partie 2 (251 à 474) : Histoire d'Egypte, 216 pages( 251 à 358) ; Histoire des Patriarches, 228 pages (359 à 472), table de l'histoire des Patriarches jusqu'à l'exode, 4 pages (473-474). TOME II, partie 1 (1 à 291) : Histoire de l'ancienne Grèce, 70 pages (2 à 36) ; Histoire d'Argos, 76 pages (37 à74) ; Histoire d'Athènes, 274 pages, (75 à 211) ; Histoire de Thèbes, 154 pages (215 à 291). TOME II, partie 2 (293 à 557) : Histoire de Lacedemone, d'Arcadie et de Troye en particulier : Histoire de Lacedemone, 48 pages (293 à 316), Histoire d'Arcadie, 10 pages (317 à 321), Histoire de Troye, 70 pages (323 à 357) ; Histoire de l'ancienne Italie, 154 pages (360 à 436) ; Histoire ancienne de la Sicile, 62 pages (437 à 467) ; Histoire ancienne de l'Affrique, des Isles de la mer méditeranée et des parties de l'Europe qui confinent à l'océan : Histoire ancienne de l'Affrique, 28 pages (469 à 482), Histoire ancienne de l'Espagne, 60 pages (483 à 512), Histoire ancienne de la Sardaigne, 8 pages (513 à 517), Histoire ancienne de la Corse, 3 pages (518 à 519), Histoire ancienne des Isles Baleaires, Majorique, Minorique et Irique, 2 pages (520), Histoire ancienne de l'Isle de Malthe, 3 pages (521 à 522) , Histoire ancienne de l'Europe, 12 pages (523 à 533) ; Histoire ancienne de la gaule, 30 pages (534 à548) ; Histoire ancienne de l'Angleterre, 16 pages (549 à 557).
réf. 209019Paris-Leipzig, Jules Renouard et compagnie, 1841 2 vol. in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., viij-432 pp. ; vij-492 pp., demi-basane fauve à coins, dos lisses ornés de filets, guirlandes et fleurons dorés, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque). Rousseurs, petites galeries de vers à la fin du vol. II.
1827réf. STLD0088London, T. Rickaby 1793 [und Thyer:] London, Joseph Brooker 1827. 4°. Gest. Tit. m. Vign., XXXIX(1), 317(1) S.; Gest. Tit. m. Vignetten, sep. Drucktitel, S. (319)-678, 1 Bl., VIII S. ; 2 gest. Titel m. Vignetten, (Notes tom.I u. II), 495(1), XVIII(2) S. Mit zus. 3 gest. Front. (dav. 2 Porträts), 13 Kupfertafeln, (11 doppelblattgroß od. 3-fach. gef.) und 20 Kopfstücken u. Vignetten in Kupferst. nach Hogarth. [Und Thyer:] Tit. m. mont. Holzst.-Vign., Ss. (I-VII), Ss.(8)-301. Mit 2 gest. Portr. u. 9 mont. Holzst.-Illustr. auf Tafeln. 4 prachtvolle Franzbände aus rotem Maroquinleder auf 5 Doppelbünden mit Goldlinienverzierungen, Deckelrand-, Steh- und Innenkantenverzierungen in Goldprägung, goldgepr. Adelswappen, umseit. Goldschnitt u. marmorierten Vorsatzpapieren. Kapitale leicht berieben, Ecken etw. bestoßen, Einbände mit altersbedingten Gebrauchsspuren, im Text vereinzelt stockfleckig, insgesamt sehr frisch u. gut erhalten. Brunet I, 1428; Graesse I, 584. In nur 200 Exemplaren hergestellte Prachtausgabe der englischen Verssatire, die als "schärfste und derbste Verspottung des Puritanismus jener Zeit" (KLL) gelten kann. Mit seinen Illustrationen zu Butlers Knittelversen machte sich William Hogarth erstmals einen Namen als Kupferstecher. "Hogarth hat zu diesem Gedicht zwei verschiedene Folgen von Illustrationen gestochen: 12 große, sorgfältiger ausgearbeitete Kupferstiche, die er selbständig, unabhängig von einem Verleger geschaffen und im Februar 1726 herausgegeben hat, und 17 kleinere, die mehr Holzschnittcharakter haben und vermutlich früher entstanden, aber erst im darauffolgenden April in einer Gedichtausgabe erschienen sind. Diese folgen dem Verlauf der Handlung, während die großen Blätter nur die entscheidenden Szenen mit einem gekürzten Textauszug als Legende wiedergeben...Epos und Bilder sind eine antiheroische Satire auf Puritanertum und Sektenwesen" (Margrit Bachofen-Moser in Hogarth-Katalog Zürich, 1983, SS. 25 ff.). - Splendid edition of the English verse satire, produced in only 200 copies, which can be considered the "sharpest and crudest mockery of Puritanism of that time" (KLL). Hogarth first made a name for himself as an engraver with his illustrations of Samuel Butler's doggerel verse. "Hogarth engraved two different sets of illustrations to this poem: 12 large, more carefully executed engravings, which he created independently, unaided by a publisher, and published in February 1726, and 17 smaller ones, more woodcut in character, which were probably made earlier but did not appear in an edition of the poem until the following April. These follow the course of the plot, while the larger sheets reproduce only the decisive scenes with an abbreviated text excerpt as legend...Epic and pictures are an anti-heroic satire on Puritanism and sectarianism" (Margrit Bachofen-Moser). "200 copies printed, some with the plates in red, others in black. An elegant edition edited by Dr. Nash, the historian of Worcestershire, who has added a variety of entertaining notes" (Lowndes, The The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, S. 313).
1656réf. F96168s.l. [London?], 1656 2 parts in one volume: [8],321,[i] + 152,34,[18] pp., "Editio tertia" (in fact this is the 4th edition ; 1st in Paris 1624, 2nd in London 1633, 3rd enlarged in 1645), contemporary full vellum bit soiled though in very good condition, 14cm., text in good condition but paper is somewhat browned on quite some pages, old inscription on second last blanco endpaper, good condition, rare, [Herbert of Cherbury, 1583-1648, religious philosopher and considered as "the father of English Deism", created with his major work "De Veritate" the first purely metaphysical treatise ever written by an Englishman. In "De Veritate" he states the 5 articles which became the charter of English Deism. "De causis errorum" deals with logical fallacies but was unfinished. Both works are clearly meant to be published together and are commonly so bound], F96168
16562 parts in one volume: [8],321,[i] + 152,34,[18] pp., "Editio tertia" (in fact this is the 4th edition ; 1st in Paris 1624, 2nd in London 1633, 3rd enlarged in 1645), contemporary full vellum bit soiled though in very good condition, 14cm., text in good condition but paper is somewhat browned on quite some pages, old inscription on second last blanco endpaper, good condition, rare, [Herbert of Cherbury, 1583-1648, religious philosopher and considered as "the father of English Deism", created with his major work "De Veritate" the first purely metaphysical treatise ever written by an Englishman. In "De Veritate" he states the 5 articles which became the charter of English Deism. "De causis errorum" deals with logical fallacies but was unfinished. Both works are clearly meant to be published together and are commonly so bound], F96168
1981354 pages. Index. Footnotes. "On very rare occasions a book appears which forever changes the way in which we perceive the world around us. Within a short while it becomes hard to understand how we could have functioned without the knowledge gained from it. This is such a book. Quigley presents certain 'keys' crucial to the understanding of 20th century political, economic and military events - events of the past, present, and future... The fact that Carroll Quigley, a highly respected professor at Georgetown University and an instructor at Princeton and Harvard, could not find a publisher for this work, is in itself significant." - Stephen A. Zarlenga, Publisher. Light wear to book which is clean and unmarked but for prior owner's neat signature atop front free endpaper. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy of this significant work. Book
réf. 4394Nouvelle édition augmentée des notes de M.Tindal et de qques autres Remarques mises au bas des Pages; de l'Abrégé Historique; du Recueil des Actes Publics d'Angleterre,de Thomas Rymer, dispersé dans cette Edition à la fin des Volumes auxquels chaque partie en peut appartenir; et de Mémoires pour les vingt premières années du Règne de Georges II. La Haye 1749. 16 vols. de format in-4. Portraits , frontispice et nombreuses gravures et planches, tableaux, très belles cartes dépliantes. Reliure signée Masson-Debonnelle, plein maroquin chocolat aux armes anglaises sur les 2 plats. Dos à nerfs. Tranches dorées. Belle édition.Dos légèrement passés.Qques petits accrocs ou griffures sur les cuirs.
1717réf. 757London: John Sturt and John Baskett 1717. First edition first state. Leather Bound. Near Fine. John Sturt. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 8vo. 22 166 pages. Front hinge and front endpaper expertly reattached by conservator with Japanese tissue. Marbled endpaper and following ffep contain inscription "The gift of Lady Parkyns to her Daughter Anne Parkyns May 7th 1740." Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir William Milman on front endpaper partially obscuring one of the inscriptions. Small area where a name was erased from marbled endpaper interrupting marbling. Each page beautifully engraved by John Sturt on silver plates. More than 130 engraved vignettes ranging in size from 41 mm x 55 mm to 84 mm x 55 mm numerous other smaller in-text vignettes initials head and tailpieces etc. Each page with elaborate engraved border. This edition also double red ruled. Volvelle present in original state on page V thus first state. Pages very clean with small occasional minor smudge. All page edges gilt with small "spot" loss of gilt at top. Griffiths 1717/1. Bound in contemporary dark green crushed calf with elaborate gilt borders and central lozenge. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Slight bleaching to spine and small losses to corners. Sturt's rare and beautifully silver-engraved Book of Common Prayer with volvelle in original state. John Sturt and John Baskett 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
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 books
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
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 books
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
1736In folio. pp (2), 38, un rame al frontespizio “dominicus muratori inv. et delin. Vincen. Franceschini scul.”, nel testo da indisegni di Muratori e incisi da Rossi, Limpach, Allet, 6 vignette incise su rame come testatine e finalini e un capolettera. Contiene gli elogia a Maria Clementina in diverse lingue: ebraico, graco, arabo, siriaco, armeno, caldaico, copto, polacco, gotico, illirico, ecc ecc. Legatura in piena pelle con cornice dorata ai piatti e decorazioni in oro al dorso.
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
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
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