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1736ref. 698131736. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Charters Offices and Boundaries: The Legal and Physical Structure of Bristol 1736 Bristol England. Bristol. The City Charters. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors Recorders Sheriffs Town-Clerks And All Other Officers Whatsoever. As also of a Common-Council And the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with And Corrected According to the Latin Originals. To which are Added The Bounds of the City By Land With the Exact Distances from Stone to Stone All Round the City. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. 297 15 pp. A few errors in pagination text complete. Engraved copperplate frontispiece. Final advertisement leaf. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/2". Contemporary paneled calf gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece joints and head of spine reinforced gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few minor scratches stains and scuffs to boards moderate rubbing to board edges small chip to lettering piece corners bumped and somewhat worn hinges starting. Light toning to text slightly heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves. $250. First and only edition. A substantial and uncommon provincial imprint this work presents the civic charters and constitutional framework of Bristol carefully rendered from the Latin originals and supplemented with detailed descriptions of the city's jurisdictional limits. Of particular interest is the appended perambulation of the boundaries reflecting the mid-1730s survey of the city's extent with the limits fixed by reference to some 103 boundary stones-74 on the Gloucestershire side and 29 on the Somersetshire side-each described with notable topographical specificity. One example reads: "Stone 1. On the bank of the River of Avon near a limekiln on the East and a sluice on the West call'd Woodwell's-Lake standeth the first stone." An important record of municipal governance and urban geography in eighteenth-century England combining legal transcription with practical surveying data. ESTC T143949. OCLC locates 3 copies in North American law libraries Harvard the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania. A copy at the Harry Ransom Center catalogued with a tentative date of "1735" is almost certainly in error. unknown books
1736ref. 694771736. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto. Bristol's Municipal Constitution in Practice: Charters and Jurisdictional Boundaries 1736 Bristol England. Bristol. The City Charters. Containing the Original Institution of Mayors Recorders Sheriffs Town-Clerks And All Other Officers Whatsoever. As also of a Common-Council And the Ancient Laws and Customs of the City. Diligently Compar'd with And Corrected According to the Latin Originals. To which are Added The Bounds of the City By Land With the Exact Distances from Stone to Stone All Round the City. Bristol: Sold by Felix Farley 1736. Quarto 9-1/2" x 7-1/2". 297 15 pp. Engraved copperplate frontispiece. Final advertisement leaf. Occasional minor pagination errors text complete. Contemporary paneled calf rebacked in period style lettering piece and gilt-ruled raised bands. Boards rubbed edges worn corners bumped. Light toning a few leaves darker occasional marginal foxing minor worming to margins in a few gatherings not affecting text. Early ownership signature of Marmaduke Coules to recto of frontispiece. $350. First and only edition. A substantial and uncommon provincial imprint this work presents the civic charters and constitutional framework of Bristol carefully rendered from the Latin originals and supplemented with detailed descriptions of the city's jurisdictional limits. Of particular interest is the appended perambulation of the boundaries reflecting the mid-1730s survey of the city's extent with the limits fixed by reference to some 103 boundary stones-74 on the Gloucestershire side and 29 on the Somersetshire side-each described with notable topographical specificity. One example reads: "Stone 1. On the bank of the River of Avon near a limekiln on the East and a sluice on the West call'd Woodwell's-Lake standeth the first stone." An important record of municipal governance and urban geography in eighteenth-century England combining legal transcription with practical surveying data. The early owner Marmaduke Coules is plausibly identifiable with the mid-eighteenth-century Warden of the Ancient Society of St. Stephen's Ringers a long-established Bristol civic and religious fraternity associated with St. Stephen's Church A. B. Beaven Bristol Lists: Municipal and Miscellaneous 1899 p. 336. OCLC locates three copies in U.S. law libraries Harvard Uni. unknown books
1717ref. 284581London: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall 1717. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Good binding. One of Defoe's infamous pamphlets published under his second period of employment by the British government as a literary fifth columnist. Defoe would publish political or current event pamphlets either anonymously or posing as a Whig Tory Jacobite whom he said "my very soul abhors" DNB 738 or even a repentant double agent all while writing revolutionary works that lacked their bite incendiary news which proved incorrect or polemical pieces with unsound arguments. In short he worked a a pamphleteering agent of chaos all in the service of the government pacifying their erstwhile opponents. Defoe was seen as a renegade traitor and spy by a number of his contemporaries: "the little art he is truly a master of of forging a story and imposing it on the world." DNB 737. Mercurius Politicus was published in the years shortly before his fantastical Robinson Crusoe. The periodical ran from May 1716 to December 1720. This being the April 1717 issue. With "An Account of the Spaniards taking Twelve English Ships in the Bay of Campechy sic never printed before" as well as new appointments for the Bank and the East-India Company and updates on the Jacobite situation in Scotland. Sewn pamphlet lacking original paper wrappers. 211-273 pp. An ex-library copy with a punch-stamp dampstain and writing on the title page not affecting the text; library stamp on the verso of the title page. ESTC P2105. DNB V 737-738. Good binding. Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall unknown books
1660ref. 44488London: Printed for James Davis and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. 1st Edition Abbott 1043; Wing G351. Later binding by Riviere & Son full red morocco triple gilt border rule to boards. AEG. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling five raised bands. Gilt stamped title to spine. Gilt dentelles. Very minor binding wear. Age-toning to eps & text paper. A handsome & pleasing VG - Nr Fine volume. 8 131 13 pp. A6 blank. 12 pages of bookseller offerings conclude volume. Engraved frontispiece restored lower corner. 12mo; A6 B - G12 A1 = Frontis. 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" 14 cm x 8.3 cm. Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard hardcover books
1949ref. 148954Los Angeles: Monogram Pictures 1949. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1949 Western film. With manuscript ink annotations and a stamp reading "MEGGS 2" to the verso. Former governor of Louisiana Jimmie Davis stars as a man fighting governmental injustice and rallying local farmers to the election polls through music. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Monogram Pictures unknown books
1916ref. 88025New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers 1916. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; mauve cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 89-3502pp. Though the title page credits it to C.D. Williams the frontispiece and four black & white plates of illustrations are signed by John Sloan. Gentle sunning and some light dust-soil to spine neat early owner's ink name and tiny label at upper front pastedown with a small faint splash mark to upper corners; Very Good with the spine titling somewhat brighter than usual. "In The Golden Blight 1916 an early example of modern science fiction a physicist whose sympathies are with the proletariat in their opposition to World War I invents a machine which from any distance can reduce gold to ash. Despite the villainous attempts of the capitalists and their kept government to prevent him he eventually attacks even the gold in the United States Treasury Building in his effort to bring a stop to the war. When the financiers of the world gather in the Treasury's vaults to observe as one of them has predicted the reconstruction of the ash back into its original form the metal kills the financiers wrecks the Treasury Building and leaves for wiser posterity a Caesar's Column of gold bodies and masonry. Freed of their servitude to gold which as the physicist explains represents capitalism the people of the world immediately declare peace and vote in the Cöoperative Commonwealth" Rideout pp.59-60. REGINALD 04906. The H.K. Fly Company Publishers unknown books
1970ref. 141538N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Two small town ladies from North Carolina travel to Hollywood on a vacation. Their naiveté is evident capturing the attention of several actresses all of whom resolve to give the girls a proper introduction to Los Angeles. Hollywood ends up failing all of their expectations in a big way. Set in Hollywood. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Hal England and Jerry Fey. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1521ref. 68857London: Richard Pynson 1521. Full Description: HENRY VIII King of England. Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Martin. Lutheru. Aedita ab Invictissimo Angliae et Franciae Rege et do. Hyberniae Henrico Eius Nominis Octavo. London: Richard Pynson 1521. First edition. Small quarto 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 210 x 155 mm. 80 leaves. With the final two blank leaves. Final leaf of text is errata and colophon. Large woodcut initials. Title-page within a allegorical woodcut boarder signed HH for Hans Holbein. "The woodcut border on the title-page which depicts the story of C. Mucius Scaevola and King Porsenna McKerrow & Ferguson 8 was adapted from a design by Hans Holbein for the De immortalitate animae by Aeneas Gazaeus printed by Froben in Basel in 1516." Sotheby's. Probably remboitage binding of 17th-century vellum rebacked. The arms of Pope Urban VIII in gilt as central devices on front and back board. Boards double ruled in gilt and with gilt bees as corner devices. All edges gilt. Leaves very clean. Binding with staining and repairs to corners. Old ink manuscript on front board. Final blank leaf professionally repaired. Overall a very good copy. It was perhaps as early as 1516 that Cardinal Wolsey anxious to distract him from more worldly preoccupations first encouraged Henry VIlI to embark on a serious rejoinder to Luther 49. In so doing Wolsey wrought his own downfall and this was perhaps the least of the consequences of 'The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments' one of the most fateful books in the history of western civilisation. Despite his unfeigned zeal to extirpate heresy it was not until Henry began to take a serious interest in foreign affairs that he realised the practical value which such a work might have if dedicated to the Pope. It is difficult to estimate the spiritual influence of the papacy at a time when the vast majority of Christendom saw It as a not specially powerful temporal state; but it was none the less felt. How much Henry's anxiety to complete the book between May and July 1521 was activated real if romantic desire to become the champion of the papacy it is hard to say. This point of view may be supported by Henry's statement to a startled and incredulous Thomas More 47 that 'from that See we received our crown imperial. More could see the dangers of so firm commitment to the temporal if not to the spiritual power of the papacy and his misgivings were soon to be justified a hundredfold. Henry gained the recognition he sought from Leo X the title of Fidei Defensor. But had he not made so absolute an admission of papal authority it is unlikely that he would have felt so personally slighted by the Pope's refusal to give him his way in his 'great matter' the divorce from Catherine of Aragon; unlikely that he would have turned with such vehemence on almost all the advisers. More among them who had made his reign so successful hitherto; unlikely that he would have claimed the royal supremacy in the Church; unlikely- but there speculation must stop. Suffice it to say that the publication of the Assertio must be considered to mark a critical moment in the history of the English Reformation." PMM 50. ESTC S123359. PMM 50. STC 13078. HBS 68857. $27500. Richard Pynson unknown books
1970ref. 147286London: Winkast Film Productions 1970. Two scripts a first draft script and a draft script for an unproduced film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on two pages one with what appears to be a question mark and another with a question mark and a strike. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. English novelist and playwright Barry England is best known for his first novel the 1968 thriller "Figures in a Landscape" made into the 1970 Joseph Losey film of the same name starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell. 1900 in the Arizona border town of Berwick a group of thieves and entertainers are hatching a plan to break into the vault at the bank. The sheriff and mayor are on guard and everyone is suspicious of the weathered inscrutable old Jed Bounty. First draft screenplay: Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Draft screenplay: Orange untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Barry England. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Winkast Film Productions unknown books
1915ref. 9026566St. Louis: Phil Wagner 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrations by John Sloan. Binding shows wear at the extremities. Gilt lettering on spine is rubbed. Slip tipped in with presentation "Fraternally Inscribed to My Comrade in the Social Revolution" and signed by the author. Phil Wagner hardcover books
1919ref. 23253Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1919. First Edition. Octavo 19.25cm.; publisher's blue decorative cloth embossed in black; 8349pp.; color frontispiece. Light edge wear mostly at spine ends else Near Fine. Socialist author's fantastical adventure novel set in Malaysia. BLEILER 1972 p. 109. Small, Maynard & Company unknown books
1680ref. 131051680. POPISH PLOT. England. Parliament. A True Copy of the Journal-Book of the Last Parliament . Wherein is Comprised a Fuller and Further Discovery of the Popish Plot.London: Printed in the year 1680. 8vo. 6 104 97-105 108-203 "194" 177-316 p. Text complete despite erratic pagination front and rear blanks wanting. Modern utilitarian cloth covers warped. Text very browned and margins very brittle. Complete but good at best. The Popish Plot. Wing E2748. unknown books
1648ref. 128971648. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. A Declaration of the Parliament of England Concerning a Paper Subscribed by the Commissioners of Scotland Dated 24 Febr. 1649/50. colophon: London: For Edward Husband Febr. 27 1648. Folio. 2 p. paginated 53-54 and signed M conjugate blank. Caption title. Modern cloth. Printer's imprint on verso of first leaf. unknown books
1681ref. 129011681. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. The Proceedings of the Honourable House of Commons who met at Oxford March 21. 1680/1. London: For John Peacock 1681. Folio. 2 12 4 p. Modern cloth. Title a trifle dusty. Wing E2685. unknown books
1701ref. 103031701. ENGLAND. . An Act for the Further Limitation of the Crown and Better Securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject. Dublin: By J. Whalley for Mat. Gunne 1701. 4to. 4 p. Caption title. Removed. Trimmed closely with loss of a line at the bottom of Browned. ESTC records five copies in Ireland none in the United States. unknown books
1715ref. 64641715. ENGLAND. A Report from the Committee of Secrecy Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to Examine Several Books and Papers . Relating to the late Negotiations of Peace and Commerce . By . Robert Walpole. London: Jacob Tonson Timothy Goodwin Bernard Lintott and William Taylor 1715. Fol. 4 64 92 95-96 p. Later plain boards leather spine label. Foxed footnotes on a few early pages shaved light soiling. Robert Walpole's report dealing chiefly with the negotiations of peace and trade the intended demolition of Dunkirk and the Assiento contract. The numbering of the final leaf varies among copies; the text is complete and consecutive. unknown books
1657ref. 79081657. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. An Act for the Attainder of the Rebels in Ireland. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September . 1656. London: Henry Hills and John Field 1657. Fol. 2 24 p. final blank G2. Modern boards leather spine label. Light dampstain in margins of a few leaves. Printed in Black letter. Wing E1092. unknown books
1681ref. 128991681. ENGLAND. PARLIAMENT. The Debates in the House of Commons Assembled at Oxford the Twenty First of March 1680. colophon: London: For R. Baldwin 1681. Folio. 20 p. Modern cloth. The Exclusion Bill to prevent the Duke of York from becoming the popish successor to the throne. Wing E2546. unknown books
1961ref. 41436np 1961. Near fine. Album belonging to Sergeant John A. England United States Army from his 1960 trans-Pacific cruise aboard the U.S.N.S. General Edwin D. Patrick a WWII-era transport ship based out of San Francisco. A contingent from the Republic of Korea Navy was aboard and the album focuses heavily on the Korean sailors and their interactions with American servicemen. A brilliant hand-painted title illustration in acrylic titled 'ROK NAVY' and two additional vignette works in the same medium illuminate the album. The images are clear and well composed creating a significant record of U.S.-Korean relations and of the Edwin D. Patrick which was the longest surviving of the P2 carriers in the U.S. fleet launched in 1945 decommissioned in 1968 and sent to scrap in 2010. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 10.5" x 14.5". Green faux-leather covered boards string bound. 24 card leaves 21 with 77 black and white snapshot photographs each measuring approximately 5" x 3.5" recto mounted loosely in corners. Final 3 leaves blank an additional 3 photographs laid-in; 80 prints total. Hand-painted title illustration to first endpaper two vignette scenes on first and fourth leaves. Mild edge wear to album exterior otherwise generally near fine. unknown books
1635ref. 827351635. Edinburgh 1683. 13-1/2" x 11. Edinburgh 1683. 13-1/2" x 11.". Rare Broadside Recording a Proclamation of Charles II Enacted to Protect the Textile Industry Broadside. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. A Proclamation Discharging Merchants and Other Traffickers to Sell or Exchange any Prohibite Commodities With Themselves Or Amongst Others. Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His Most Sacred Majesty 1683. 13-1/2" x 11" 34.3 x 28 cm broadside removed from volume with loss of most of imprint statement at foot text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms eight-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning lightly soiled horizontal fold line through center some edgewear along left margin "94" and "August 1683" in early hand along right margin. $750. Only edition one of two issues the other published in London. Intended to support domestic textile production this broadside was sent to sheriffs and other law enforcement officials throughout Scotland. The salutation line in our copy is blank. An act from September 1681 and a proclamation from the year before prohibited the importation and sale of certain fabrics. However it permitted merchants to sell any imported stock that remained. By 1683 sufficient time had elapsed to liquidate this stock but it was apparent that many were continuing to import textiles in violation the law. The present broadside decrees that merchants cannot buy or sell any "Cloaths Stuff Sarges serges Holland Cambridge Silk-stockings or any Goods made of Wool or Lint" unless they can prove they were either made in the kingdom or lawfully imported before the prohibition. As for any remaining imported stock permission is granted to the Merchants Burgesses of Edinburgh to sell it until November 1. Afterwards it will be "Confiscat Burnt and Destroyed and the Persons guilty otherwise punished." Both issues of this broadside are rare. OCLC Steele and the English Short Title Catalogue locate four copies of ours National Archives of Scotland National Library of Scotland Harvard Business School two copies. Steele A Bibliography of Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns III:2552. English Short-Title Catalogue R183441. unknown books
1915ref. 19738Saint Louis: William K. Bixby Printed by the Torch Press Cedar Rapids 1915. One of 200 copies printed. Frontispiece portrait facsimile of the letter. 1 vols. 4to. Original cream boards stitched. Some light discoloration else a very good copy. One of 200 copies printed. Frontispiece portrait facsimile of the letter. 1 vols. 4to. With a very interesting 8-page 8vo autograph letter from Charles L. Freer the eminent American collector written from London May 1902 to W. K. Bixby regarding his visit with Whistler. He describes his pursuit of Whistler's art works and writes Bixby to say that he has arranged for Bixby to purchase "Grey & Silver Pourville." Freer's extensive Whistler collection with his other fine collections were presented to the Smithsonian Institution to form the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington. Bixby's "Privately Printed Books" p. 15 William K. Bixby [Printed by the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids] unknown books
1621ref. 310863London: Printed by Bonham Norton and John Bill printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie 1621. 20 pp. 4to. Later quarter reddish morocco rebacked. Dust-soiling to first leaf title and last two leaves some minor spotting very good. 20 pp. 4to. ESTC S107590; STC14399 Printed by Bonham Norton and John Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie unknown books
1649ref. 303254London: Printed by Roger Daniel 1649. Second edition. 8 263 pp. Woodcut device of the King's arms on recto of first leaf. LACKING folded engraved frontispiece. 2 engraved portraits. 1 vols. 8vo. 19th-century sheep. Bookplates. Second edition. 8 263 pp. Woodcut device of the King's arms on recto of first leaf. LACKING folded engraved frontispiece. 2 engraved portraits. 1 vols. 8vo. Madan 25; Wing 2nd ed. E307 Printed by Roger Daniel] unknown books
1985ref. 152068Boston Massachusetts: The Research Laboratory Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1985. Hardcover. VG Binding may have a stray soil mark; pages may have tanned lightly; text and illus are clear. Burgundy cloth 261 pp. many BW illus. rear pocket contains 2 microfiche sheets. Contains the texts of 23 papers and 18 poster sessions held at the fifth international seminar 1983 in this series which began in 1958. Many include illustrations charts and/or graphs. Scarce. The Research Laboratory, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston hardcover books
1648ref. 256708London: for Richard Royston 1648. First edition third issue with pagination of sheet "G" corrected. 8 269 pp. Lacking first and last blank leaves A1 and S8 and lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait by Marshall. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in 20th-century black crushed morocco gilt-lettered spine marbled endpapers a.e.g. by Rivière and Son. Some staining to upper corners of pp. 197-269 for the most part in the margin errata leaf bound recto-verso. Bookplate of Frederick Adolphus Philbrick lawyer and an early British philatelist on front pastedown institutional bookplate on recto and verso of front free endpaper. Joints with traces of rubbing. Overall a very attractive copy. First edition third issue with pagination of sheet "G" corrected. 8 269 pp. Lacking first and last blank leaves A1 and S8 and lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait by Marshall. 1 vols. 8vo. A book so infrequently found with the portrait by Marshall that earlier bibliographies incuding Pforzheimer following Almack's lead assumed that when one did appear it was "tipped in". Madan #1 3; Pforzheimer 171 note for Richard Royston] unknown books
