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1742Best.-Nr. W2123Boston: Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green 1742. Compilation of acts passed by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1692 through 1742. Also bound in are two acts Evans 5237 and 5238 that were passed in 1743. Preceding the compilation are the colony's Charter and a "Table of Acts". Sympathetically rebound in full brown leather with original leather laid down on front and rear boards. Missing the title page and first 2 pages of the Charter. Would be in very good condition but for some chewing at the foot of the spine; so about good. First Edition. Hardcover. About Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book. Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green hardcover
Best.-Nr. 207482Lisieux, F. B. Mistral, Paris, Barbou, s.d. (1788) in-4, LXXIV-331-[9] pp., avec 5 tableaux dépliants, dont 3 "in fine", basane fauve, dos lisse orné, roulette en encadrement sur les plats, tranches marbrées (reliure postérieure). Épid. sur les plats.
Best.-Nr. 90273A Paris, chez Alexis Eymery, Libraire de la Minerve française, et chez Corréard, Libraire, 1818-1822, 20 volumes +1 supplémentaire, in-8 de 130x210 mm environ, tome 1 : Assemblée Constituante, année 1789, xvi-469 p., - tome 2 : Assemblée Constituante, 1790, - x-428 p., - tome 3 : Assemblée Constituante, années 1790-1791, x-448 p., - tome 4 : Assemblée Constituante, années 1790-1791, 482 p., - tome 5 : Assemblée Constituante, années 1790-1791, viij-424 pages+9 tableaux dépliants, - tome 6 : Assemblée Constituante, années 1789-1790-1791, x-418 p., - tome 7 : Assemblée Constituante, 1790-1791, x-426 p., - tome 8 : Assemblée Législative, années 1791-1792, 414 p., - tome 9 : Assemblée Législative, 1792, viij-422 p., - tome 10 : Convention, 1792-1793, 528 p., - tome 11 : Convention, 1793, x-424, - tome 12 : Convention, 1793, 455 p., - tome 13 : Convention, 1793, 413 p., - tome 14 : Convention, 1794, vij-431 p., - tome 15 : Convention, 1794-1795, vij-415 p., - tome 16 : Directoire, 1795-1799, xvj-486 p., - tome 17 : Consulat (de l'an 8 à l'an 10), 1799-1802, x-438 p. (avec un fac-similé de l'écriture de Napoléon), - tome 18 : Consulat, Empire, années 1802-1804, xiv-494 p., - tome 19 : Empire, années 1804-1808, 507 p., - tome 20 : Empire, (de 1789 à 1815) 630 p., 1 volume supplémentaire, Session de 1819, 10-746 p.(ouvrage annoncé dans le tome 19), demi reliure en veau bleu-marine, dos lisses portant titres et tomaisons dorés, ornés de filets dorés, gardes marbrées, tranches finement mouchetées. Des rousseurs et pages brunies, quelques défauts de marge, frottements et petites épidermures sur le cuir de certains volumes, rares erreurs de pagination (dont une signalée dans le tome 12) sans manque de page. Edition sans portraits.
1968Best.-Nr. 2080502106600302Not Available 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
1791Best.-Nr. 109471791 20 vol. in-8 demi-basane, dos à nerfs, plats papier moucheté, tr. rouges. P. Baudouin imprimeur de l'Assemblée Nationale et se trouve à Avignon chez François Seguin. (1791).
Best.-Nr. 10014S.l. [Paris], s.d. [1790]. In-8, tel que paru. 74 pp.(humidité sur les marges extérieures).
1831Best.-Nr. elala1146York: James Baxter Printer 1831. 1831. 8vo. pp. 5. text in double columns. modern cloth-backed bds. foxing to title. Rare. Concerning the establishment of a school fund from the sale of Crown lands set aside for the purpose. The committee was chaired by William Morris 1786-1858 who by the late 1820s "had become a recognized authority on the distressing state of schooling in Upper Canada. " DCB VIII p. 640 Fleming 583 Public Archives copy only. Casey I 1334. Not in TPL. Hardcover. York: James Baxter, Printer, 1831. Hardcover
1839Best.-Nr. elala1150Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office 1839. 1839. 8vo. pp. 87. old half sheep binding worn spine damaged foxing to outer leaves margins closely trimmed. The first half of the report dated April 30 1839 is concerned with the American involvement in the Rebellion: the raids conducted by sympathizers in the northern states including extensive discussion of the seizure and burning of the steamer Sir Robert Peel. The second half constitutes a commentary on Lord Durhams report. The last four pages contain the draft of an address to the Queen requesting continued support and protection. Fleming 1373. TPL 2334. Casey I 1727. Lande S2250. Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office, 1839. unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 49883London: British Youth Peace Assembly 1937. Very Good-. London: British Youth Peace Assembly n.d. ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; publisher's cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 48pp. Wrappers soiled and chipped at extremities upper cover starting to separate though contents remain clean and sound. Good or better overall. Signed by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 on title page. Detailed statistical report compiled by the BYPA in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Students' Societies. Chapters cover Health Nutrition and Medical Services Bengal vs. England death rate per 1000 in 1936 was 22.1 to 12; Education; Irrigation and Waterways; the Court System; and Police and Crime. Nehru took office as the first Prime Minister of India a decade after the pamphlet was published a post he held from 1947 until his death in 1964. British Youth Peace Assembly unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 49883London: British Youth Peace Assembly 1937. Very Good-. London: British Youth Peace Assembly n.d. ca. 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; publisher's cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 48pp. Wrappers soiled and chipped at extremities upper cover starting to separate though contents remain clean and sound. Good or better overall. Signed by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964 on title page. Detailed statistical report compiled by the BYPA in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Students' Societies. Chapters cover Health Nutrition and Medical Services Bengal vs. England death rate per 1000 in 1936 was 22.1 to 12; Education; Irrigation and Waterways; the Court System; and Police and Crime. Nehru took office as the first Prime Minister of India a decade after the pamphlet was published a post he held from 1947 until his death in 1964. British Youth Peace Assembly unknown books
1832Best.-Nr. 159890Quebec: Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan 1832-33. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. 42. 44 cm. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1832-33 Appendix." New endpapers. Front free endpaper has light dampstain to bottom corner. English and French title pages have professional repair to bottom near margin. Some thumbing to pages. Certain sections have wrinkling and staining; approx. the last 60 leaves are more stained. Last 4 leaves have stuck together and last leaf has holes. Very last page of text is illegible in places due to sticking. "From the 15th November 1832 to the 3d April 1833. In the Third year of the Reign of King William the Fourth. Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Provincial Parliament of This Province." Includes reference to the May 21 election riots in Montreal. On that occasion three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote were shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day it was announced that Tracey had been elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West. Appendix M approx. 140 p. of this volume pertains to correspondence concerning these events in both English and French. There was also a cholera epidemic in Quebec that year and Appendix D refers to sickness and burials at the Quarantine Station at Grosse Isle. Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan hardcover
1836Best.-Nr. 43732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown
1836Best.-Nr. 43732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown books
Best.-Nr. 49878Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon Collins Street East 1864. Octavo 215 x 140 mm publisher's blind-blocked green pebbled cloth rubbed spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s; pp. vii viii-x 241 3 blank; preliminaries with small toning spot towards fore-edge margin otherwise very clean throughout a near fine copy with a significant political association. In 1863 ""The Riverine Petition"" was sent from the Riverina District of southern New South Wales to Queen Victoria pleading for independence from the colony. Settlers cited geographical isolation neglect of local infrastructure and a desire to align with Melbourne's pastoral interests essentially seeking to separate and form a new colony. This is often referred to as the Riverine District Association movement. Ferguson 14944 Very scarce. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 34102Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly and Sold by John Neilson. 1798. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to in fours 23x 17.5cm8 preliminary leaves -23-204p. French and English title pages and printed in English and French on facing pages in original half calf and marbled boards red leather spine label ex-library with bookplate and stamps on both tp's. else a fine clean copy. cgc Tremaine 1094. TPL640. Gagnon I: 1830. The Journals were published in very small editions of 100 copies for use of the Members of the House of Assembly. Printed from 1793 to 1836 the first Journal was issued after the first session of the Lower Canada House of Assembly in December of 1792. The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided Canada into two parts Upper and Lower. Lower Canada being pre-dominately French speaking necessitated any official documentation being in both English and French. The House of Assembly had the authority to levy taxes in the Colony and to pay the administration. An Abstract in this issue lists the Civil Administration payments and pensions to the civil ministration for 1797. With the approbation of the Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas General Robert Prescott. Quebec. Printed by Order of the House of Assembly, and Sold by John Neilson. 1798 hardcover
1787Best.-Nr. 382441787 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.
Best.-Nr. 2081402110000013Hozon Ryo N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hozon Ryo paperback
1867Best.-Nr. 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
1867Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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.
Best.-Nr. 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.
1787Best.-Nr. 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
1836Best.-Nr. 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.
