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1867ref. BK0152Barbados: Office of "The Official Gazette" No. 14 Broad Street 1867. 30 pp. with unnumbered index 42 pp. Half leather over cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription "W. Brandford Griffith / 1869" on a preliminary blank. Scattered foxing and light toning. A locally printed manual for the Barbados House of Assembly with the ownership inscription of William Brandford Griffith then both a member of the Assembly and the island's auditor-general. Griffith served in the Assembly from 1861 to 1874 and was appointed auditor-general in 1863; he subsequently held several other colonial offices before becoming governor of the Gold Coast in 1885. The rules numbered through 271 and accompanied by an extensive alphabetical index set out the conduct of the Assembly's public business. The index includes procedures for issuing election writs and returning the names of elected members to the governor and council together with the course to be followed when writs had not been executed. Although published well after emancipation these rules governed an Assembly whose electorate remained restricted by property qualifications. Free men of color had gained voting rights subject to those qualifications in 1831 and Samuel Jackman Prescod entered the Assembly in 1843. Planters and merchants nevertheless continued to dominate both the Assembly and the Legislative Council during the period in which Griffith served. OCLC records the 1867 edition OCLC 823344433 but we have been unable to identify a current institutional holding. . Office of "The Official Gazette," No. 14, Broad Street unknown books
ref. 4378St. John, Printed by Christopher Sower, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1797. In-folio (35 x 22 cm) (528)-581 pages. Feuillets reliés d’une couture. Manque la couverture originale. Premier feuillet empoussiéré et taché à quelques endroits, minimes rousseurs au corps du texte.
ref. 114292Cussac 1789 1790 A Paris, Chez Cussac, Et à Toulouse, Chez J. B. Brouilhiet, de l'Imprimerie J. J. Robert, 1789 (3 volumes) -1790 (4 volumes). Ensemble de 7 volumes in-8 de 125 x 195 mm contenant les tomes I à XIV (n° 1 à 414) et in-fine la "Table Générale et analytique [... des] 12 premiers volumes du Point du Jour" de 72 pages. Demi reliures à coins d'époque, cuir tacheté et papier bleu à la colle, dos lisses portant titres et tomaisons dorés sur pièces de cuir rouge et bleu, tranches jaspées, gardes blanches. Année 1789 : Volume 1. n°64 du 26 août constitué de 4 ff. (incomplet ?); Volume 2. n°96 du 2 octobre compte 2 cahiers inversés. Année 1790 : Volume 3. Pas de n°347 mais le numéro 346 relate la séance du 28 juin, le 348 annonce "suite du 28 juin"; Volume 4. Pas de n°367 (dimanche 18 juillet), pas de 392, 393 (10, 11 août) et les numéros 387 à 412 (14 au 31 août 1790) du "Journal des débats et des décrets" ont été intercalés (chacun avec plusieurs feuillets répétés). Ensemble en bel état malgré les défauts suivants : des frottements sur les coiffes et quelques coupes, discret travail de vers sur 4 mors, un plat fragilisé, quelques feuillets brunis et rousseurs.
Ensemble relié en 2 volumes in-4 (269 x 200 mm), plein veau porphyre de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés de compartiments fleuronnés et cloisonnés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau vert bronze, triples filets d'encadrement sur les plats, filets sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, dorés sur tranches. Edition originale de la collection de format in-4°, des ‘Mémoires’ et des ‘Observations’ présentés à l'Assemblée des Notables, comportant les deux séries, chacune en "quatre divisions", publiés par ordre du Roi et imprimés pour les Notables "qui n'a été remise qu'à eux et pour eux seuls". Secrétaire de l’Assemblée, c’est Dupont de Nemours qui en fut le principal rédacteur. "Il accepta de rester au second rang pour poursuivre sa revanche de la chute de Turgot (...). L'Assemblée se montra favorable à la suppression des corvées et accepta l'impôt territorial, comme Dupont l'avait réclamé. Elle marque une victoire des idées physiocratiques" (Schelle, 'Dupont de Nemours’, p. 266 et s.). Les "Troisième et quatrième divisions" des 'Observations' figurent en un volume séparé sous page de titre et de faux-titre particulières, paginées 222 à 696. Les "Première et seconde divisions" de ces 'Observations présentées au Roi' (222 p.) manquent. Très rare, ils n'ont été publiés qu'à petit nombre d'exemplaires Coiffes et mors frottés (fendus en tête du premier caisson sur 4.5 cm), quelques épidermures. Provenance: Famille de Bauffremont, avec ex-libris héraldique à la devise: "Dieu aide au premier Chrétien" au deux volumes. Très bon exemplaire, relié en veau porphyre de l'époque, imprimé sur papier fort.
1787ref. 1312110036Annapolis: Frederick Green 1787-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Folio. Contemporary leather rebacked and restored. Good binding and cover. Minor marginal loss to front end page and title page. Faint marginal dampstain.Laws passed from 1765 to 1784. Revises Maryland's laws in the wake of the American Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. One of 100 copies. Evans 35850. Evans 20483. Wheeler J.T. Maryland 435. Tower 129. Provenance: Colonel Joshua Gist's copy. With Gist's signature on the title page. "Col. Gist 1747-1839 was a strong supporter of the federal government and a Patriot during the American Revolution. He had been a colonel in the Soldier's Delight Battalion of Baltimore County a military unit that remained in the state to guard against a Tory uprising during that conflict. He was in command of the 20th Regiment of Maryland Militia at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion. His distinguished brother Gen. Mordecai Gist commanded Maryland troops during the Revolution." Jay Graybeal Annapolis: Frederick Green hardcover
1836ref. elala1147Toronto: R.Reynolds Printer 1836. 1836. 8vo. pp. 256 4. original cloth-backed bds. short split in upper front joint covers spotted some scattered light foxing. A scarce and important report. Charles Duncombe a prominent American-born physician and politician in Upper Canada was appointed in 1835 to visit and report upon the systems of education pursued in the United States and to offer recommendations for the educational institutions of Upper Canada. His report pp. 68 in which he stresses the need for practical education and adequate financial support for common schools and teacher education is followed by a lengthy appendix of supporting documentation pp. 69-256. Although Duncombe's proposals were not immediately implemented many would be introduced under the administration of Egerton Ryerson and would form the basis of Ontario educational policy until 1871 i.e. local assessment elective school boards female education the creation of normal schools non-sectarian religious instruction &c. Fleming 1059. Gagnon I 1201. Sabin 21268. TPL 2011. DCB IX pp. 228-32. Hardcover. Toronto: R.Reynolds, Printer, 1836. hardcover
In-8, broché sous couture, couverture de papier d'origine, (1) f. de faux-titre, 130 p. titre compris. "Seconde édition corrigée", publiée quelques semaines après l'originale (janvier 1789) de ce "brûlot politique" fondateur dans l'histoire politique de la France qui obtint un immense retentissement et rendit immédiatement son auteur célèbre. "Reprenant sous une forme amplifiée et théorisée les notions, nouvelles au XVIIIe siècle, d’utilité sociale et d’égalité civile, Sieyès identifie le Tiers à la nation, ensemble d’individus libres, également doués de raison et soucieux de la chose publique. Sieyès appelle le Tiers à se constituer en société politique pour composer enfin cette nation, c’est-à-dire une volonté générale, unitaire, imprescriptible, qui délègue des représentants en son nom" (Luce-Marie Albigès). (Bastid, 'Sieyès', p. 317 n° 6. R. Zapperi, éd. Droz, p. 92. Monglond, I, 197. Martin & Walter, IV, 31634. Cf. 'En français dans le texte', p. 191-193). Faux-titre et dernier feuillet un peu froissés et cornés, comportant quelques fissures marginales de papier sans perte. Exemplaire broché sous couture d'origine, entièrement non rogné, tel que paru. Bien complet du faux-titre qui manque souvent.
ref. 15991Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1788. 6 pieces bound in one volume. 7, (1) pp.; (8) pp.; 18 pp.; 7, (1) pp.; (4), 505 pp.; 14 pp. 4to. Modern half calf. All original editions. The Assembly of Notables was an advisory body of the Old Regime, including nearly 150 of the most prestigious nobles and public officials of France. The first Assembly of Notables, convened by Louis XVI to approve the last great reform program of the Bourbon monarchy, rejected unexpectedly the most important reforms, initiating the crisis leading to the revolution in 1789. The government's program, conceived by the controller general, C.-A. de Calonne, intended to eliminate the mounting deficit through a combination of financial and institutional reform. A new land tax and provincial assemblees were the centerpieces. Other reforms included the taille (tax on commoners, mainly peasants), a money payment replacing the corvée (peasant road service), a more equitable salt tax (gabelle), free internal trade in grain, and removal of tariff barriers within the national borders. The Notables had several reasons to oppose most of the proposed reforms and close analysis of their debates and of their role in ancien régime society helps to explain why they opposed royal reforms and why their example sparked broader opposition, which succeeded ultimately in undermining the monarchy and forcing it to convene an Estates General in 1789. The major theme in the first Assembly was the nation controlling and participating in government and from the spring of 1787 until the autumn of 1788, calls resounded for the convening of an Estates General and for extending the powers of provincial assemblees. The crown finally succumbed to financial stringency and public pressure and in August 1788 an Estates General was summoned. In the same year, 1788, a second Assembly of Notables was convened with the task of advising the king on procedures for electing the Estates General. During this session, of which the proceedings were edited by P.S. Dupont de Nemours and Hennin, the decision was made to convoke the États-Généraux in 1789 and the rules of the elections were established. The debate centered, among other things, on equal representation for each order and separate deliberation and vote by order. The public demanded the 'doubling of the Third' and 'vote by head', aimed at ensuring greater influence for the Third Estate in the Estates General. These issues dominated debates in 1789, until June, when the three orders merged into a National Assembly, marking the first victory of the Revolution.
ref. 21930Bruxelles 1785 in 8 (20,5x13,5) 1 volume reliure plein veau moucheté fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs très orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, tranches teintées rouge, faux-titre, titre, 117 pages. Relié à la suite du même: 1°/ DOUTES SUR LA LIBERTÉ DE L'ESCAUT, Réclamée à l'Empereur; sur les Causes et les Conséquences probables de cette Réclamation (Londres, Chez G. Faden [1785]) VI et 168 pages, XL, et carte gravée dépliante. Relié à la suite du même: 2°/ LETTRE REMISE A FRÉDÉRIC-GUILLAUME II, Roi régnant de Prusse, Le jour de son Avénement au Trône (Berlin, 1787) 50 pages. Relié à la suite du même: 3°/ LETTRE SUR L'INVASION DES PROVINCES-UNIES, A M. le Comte de Mirabeau, et sa réponse (Bruxelles, 1787) 16 pages. Très bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1780ref. 565Montpellier Jean Martel Ainé 1780 in-4 de 116 pp., avec 1 planche et 2 tableaux repliés hors-texte dérel
1714ref. 230704052016ybvkGuernsey 1706 / 1714. 2 manuscripts in brown(ed) ink on vellum with orig. black wax(?)-seals with imprinted Royal Arms of England (three-lions) surrounded by engraved words, difficult to read. - I. ca. 14 x 38 cm; II. ca. 12 x 31 cm, formerly folded, framed above each other under glass around mid-20th century (ca. 42 x 52 cm).
ref. 180048Paris, 1787 22 pièces en deux vol. in-8, pagination multiple, veau fauve moucheté, dos lisses ornés de filets et dents-de-rat dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison cerise et bouteille, encadrement de double filet à froid sur les plats, chiffre DM poussé au centre des plats, tranches jaunes mouchetées de rouge (reliure de l'époque). Coins abîmés, charnières frottées.
ref. 224986Lisieux, F. B. Mistral, Paris, Barbou, s.d. (1788) in-4, 440 pp., broché, couverture papier paille imprimée, étui et emboîtage demi-basane blonde, dos lisse, filets dorés Dos absent, couverture renforcée en marge par un papier blanc de l'époque.
1733ref. 2306280030Printed for J. Roberts London 1733. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. Tobacco in Colonial Virginia Rebound in modern 3/4 leather over marbled boards. 64 pages. 3rd edition. Includes "A Vindication of the Said Representation" attributed to John Randolph. European Americana 733/46; Howes V117 "aa"; Sabin 99911. Printed for J. Roberts, London hardcover
1871ref. 49789Philadelphia: Altemus & Co 1871. Very Good-. Philadelphia: Altemus & Co. ca. 1871. Thick quarto photo album 25cm; full custom embossed brown goat with steel and faux pearl decorative elements owner's name Smith M. Weed to upper cover in gilt steel clasps one missing all edges gilt; title page printed in gilt followed by 25ll. stiff card stock to which are mounted a hundred and ninety-eight 198 cartes de visite some captioned in ink many signed by the subject and others still identified as "dead" in pencil. Leather rubbed and worn at corners with loss at spine head all but two of the photographic windows filled; overall About Very Good images all in bright and near fine condition. Photo album of the New York lawyer and politician Smith M. Weed 1833-1920 who served on the New York State Assembly from 1865 to 1867 in 1871 and from 1873 to 1874. This album probably dates from 1871 one of the years Smith served on the Assembly that coincided with John T. Hoffman the first man pictured here serving as governor of New York. It is perhaps significant that Weed does not identify Hoffman by name but simply lists him as the Governor of New York--Hoffman was implicated as being part of the Tammany Hall Tweed Ring against which Weed was an outspoken critic. His report in favor of repealing the Erie Classification Act came within a vote of breaking up the Tweed and Erie Rings for which he was "regarded as an enemy of the then party-controlling influence. He was brutally assaulted by the notorious James Irving then a power with the 'Ring'" Life Sketches of Government Officers of Members of the Legislature of the State of New York 1873. Perhaps needless to say but still disappointing that Irving's signed CDV is not among those present here. As well as members of the Legislature there are also CDVs of men in its orbit including the Canal Commissioner two prison inspectors the governor's private secretary the head doorkeeper and the assistant doorkeeper and three reporters for the New York Sun the Associate Press and the Argus. An interesting photographic record of New York state politics in the era of the Tweed Ring. Altemus & Co unknown
1871ref. 49789Philadelphia: Altemus & Co 1871. Very Good-. Philadelphia: Altemus & Co. ca. 1871. Thick quarto photo album 25cm; full custom embossed brown goat with steel and faux pearl decorative elements owner's name Smith M. Weed to upper cover in gilt steel clasps one missing all edges gilt; title page printed in gilt followed by 25ll. stiff card stock to which are mounted a hundred and ninety-eight 198 cartes de visite some captioned in ink many signed by the subject and others still identified as "dead" in pencil. Leather rubbed and worn at corners with loss at spine head all but two of the photographic windows filled; overall About Very Good images all in bright and near fine condition. Photo album of the New York lawyer and politician Smith M. Weed 1833-1920 who served on the New York State Assembly from 1865 to 1867 in 1871 and from 1873 to 1874. This album probably dates from 1871 one of the years Smith served on the Assembly that coincided with John T. Hoffman the first man pictured here serving as governor of New York. It is perhaps significant that Weed does not identify Hoffman by name but simply lists him as the Governor of New York--Hoffman was implicated as being part of the Tammany Hall Tweed Ring against which Weed was an outspoken critic. His report in favor of repealing the Erie Classification Act came within a vote of breaking up the Tweed and Erie Rings for which he was "regarded as an enemy of the then party-controlling influence. He was brutally assaulted by the notorious James Irving then a power with the 'Ring'" Life Sketches of Government Officers of Members of the Legislature of the State of New York 1873. Perhaps needless to say but still disappointing that Irving's signed CDV is not among those present here. As well as members of the Legislature there are also CDVs of men in its orbit including the Canal Commissioner two prison inspectors the governor's private secretary the head doorkeeper and the assistant doorkeeper and three reporters for the New York Sun the Associate Press and the Argus. An interesting photographic record of New York state politics in the era of the Tweed Ring. Altemus & Co unknown books
ref. 006867Atlanta GA : Isssued by various state publishers 1937-1999 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A 50 volume set ranging from 1937 to 1999 ; composed of various editions issued by various publishers ; Vols. for 1956- issued in 2 v.: v. 1. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia; v. 2. Local and special acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia. ; without volumes for 1957-2 1958 1959-2 1961-2 1969-2 1972-2 1980-2 1985-1998 1999-1 ; uniformly bound in tan cloth ; ex-lib no labels ; condition ranges from fair for the 1937-38 volume to as new for later volumes ; A difficult to find set ; perfect and necessary for a Georgia legal office or library ; can be used without electricity computers or the internet! ; VG [Atlanta, GA] : [Isssued by various state publishers], 1937-1999 hardcover
1881ref. 111818Olympia WA.: Published by Authority / C. B. Bagby Public Printer 1881. Full-Leather -- Good -- Rebacked -- Other than wear at corners exposing boads book is clean and tight 580 pages plus 44 pages of index. Code of Washington -- 1881 -- Containing All Acts of a General Nature -- Revised and Ammended by the Legislature Assembly of the Territory of Washington During the Eighth Biennial Session. And the Extra Session Ending December 7 1881; The Constitution of the United States and Ammendments thereto; The Acts of Congress Applicable to the Territory of Washington; and the Naturalization Laws. Full-Leather. Good. Published by Authority / C. B. Bagby, Public Printer Hardcover
1829ref. elala1084np: 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 3index 4-255. modern calf covers bit discoloured. The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America 1820-28 when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousies establishment of a new Quebec Gazette his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections his dismissal of justices of the peace and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things the Montreal petitioners complained that contrary to the laws of England juries both grand and petty and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected or as it were packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country .The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became for the Patriotes yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830 when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832 when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors " Donald Fyson Grand Juries Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada 1764-1830 a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa May 1998TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne Gagnon or Lande. np: 1829. unknown
1791ref. 6000066Tours: Auguste Vauquer Imprimeur du Département d'Indre & Loire 1791. Quarto 4 pp. woodblock ornament and drop title; fine and uncut preserved in modern marbled wrappers. The National Assembly decree calling for the publication of all accounts and charts of the La Pérouse expedition. In this second of two La Pérouse decrees of 1791 the government commits to the publication of the maps and narrative for the official account of the voyage. The publication would be six years in the making first appearing in 1797 as Voyage de la Pérouse autour du Monde and would come to be regarded as one of the greatest narratives of maritime exploration ever published. This decree too is printed at the start of the official voyage account. The text of the decree makes special reference to La Pérouse's Australian landing and copious correspondence relayed to France throughout the voyage 'envoyées par M. la Peyrouse de la partie de son voyage jusqu'à Botanibay.'; famously La Pérouse's last report was forwarded by Governor Phillip from Port Jackson. Three different imprints have been recorded for publication of this decree-- Paris and Grenoble versions have been described as well as the present issue from Tours. The Paris issue is held by two Australian libraries State Library of New South Wales and the National Library and it is recorded by several bibliographers Allen's Check List p. 10; McLaren 134; Ferguson 107 and also appears in the exhibition catalogue Centenaire de la mort de Lapérouse Paris 1888; number 48. However the Tours and Grenoble imprints are both scarcer and have escaped notice by the bibliographers mentioned. This example has a manuscript certification dated 24 June 1791 for the district of Tours. . Auguste Vauquer, Imprimeur du Département d'Indre & Loire unknown
ref. 44617Discours du Roi: 30 brochures dans une reliure en veau raciné in-8. (1788 - 1789). 2 feuilles manuscrites sur vergé vert en fin d'ouvrage intitulé "Table des ouvrages contenus dans ce volume".Le supplément à la Gazette est cartonné,n°40.Format in-4. BE.Le Discours à la coiffe supérieure manquante,une reliure d'époque aux coins émoussés.Alternance de feuillets verts et blancs.Pièce de titre et date au dos.Le Supplément a qques rousseurs.
1791ref. 117509Didot jeune 1791 A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1791, 1 volume in-quarto de 170x265 mm environ, VII, 118 pages. Reliure postérieure, demi chagrin vert bouteille, dos à cinq nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, fers dorés, gardes marbrées. Menus frottements sur le dos, mors interne fendillé, coins frottés, des rousseurs, bon état général malgré les défauts signalés.
ref. 235877Paris, chez tous les marchands de nouveautés, 1787 in-8, 92 pp., veau fauve marbré, dos à nerfs cloisonné et fleuronné, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de simple filet à froid sur les plats, simple filet doré sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque). Accroc en coiffe supérieure.
1764ref. 1509200002Printed by Hugh Gaine at his book-store and printing office at the Bible & Crown in Hanover-Square. M DCC 1764-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume 1 only. Large folio. 38 cm. Vol. I. Bound in publisher's full sheep. Bound by Rob. McAlprine signed by him. Red morocco spine label. Scuffs/rubbing to cover. Creasing to title page. Engraving of Royal arms on title Reilly 862. iv 840 i.e. 838 2 p. Contains an Act for reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler etc at appendix which Evans states if often absent. Printed by Hugh Gaine, at his book-store and printing office at the Bible & Crown, in Hanover-Square. M, DCC, hardcover
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