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65346London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1827. Large 4to. 31 x 24 cm. Handsomely bound in contemporary full burgundy morocco sides framed and decorated in blind spine with gilt-decorated raised bands compartments tooled in blind gilt lettering gilt inner dentelles green watered silk endpapers and doublures original brass clasps all edges gilt. Text printed in two columns. Inner board with gilt presentation: 'A tribute of respect and esteem from the parishioners of Stoke Next Guildford to the Rev. C. Neat. For his faithful and much valued ministrations among them. 1835.' Some light rubbing to exterior contents clean and unmarked generally a very handsome presentation copy given to the Rev. Charles Neat who met with an unlucky end just three years after his parishioners presented him with this thoughtful gift see below. Royal Cornwall Gazette 6 July 1838 Death of the Rev. Charles Neat MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday last the Rev. Charles Neat was proceeding from Penzance to St. Ives to hold a Church Missionary Meeting; when near Halse-town the horse he was driving took fright and the reverend gentleman with his servant was thrown out from the gig. Mr. Neat we regret to say fell on his head and fractured the base of his skull and received other very serious injuries. The accident occurred about five o'clock and shortly after the Rev. Mr. Havart of St. Ives arrived with medical assistance.- Every thing that skill could devise and kindness dictate was promptly done; but was of no avail. Mr. Neat lingered in a state of insensibility till half past one o'clock on Wednesday morning when it pleased God to take him to his reward. He had preached on Sunday afternoon in St. Ives Church to a very large congregation; and very many were preparing to attend the Missionary Meeting on Tuesday evening when this mysterious providence prevented their assembling. Mr. Neat has left a widow and one son to deplore his untimely loss. The servant received no injury. The horse ran into the town about a mile and a half distant but did no further mischief. Royal Cornwall Gazette 13 July 1838 ST IVES. The funeral of the Rev. Chas. Neat whose melancholy death we announced last week took place on Tuesday the 10th instant. His remains were borne to the grave by ten of the most respectable Gentlemen of St. Ives; and followed by his afflicted son and many of the neighbouring clergy. Upwards of 3000 persons were present and with that decorum which a people so religious and right-minded would be sure to exhibit upon an occasion so solemn and touching. The beautiful service of our church was read with great feeling and propriety by the Rev. Wm. Havart the perpetual curate of St. Ives. Among the clergymen present to pay their last tribute of respect we observed the Rev. T. Vyvyan of Penzance; U. Tonkin of Lelant; H. E. Graham of Ludgvan; H. Rogers of Camborne; - Townsend of Marazion; H. Pinnock of Madron; Zennor; F. Bazeley of St. Dominick; Browne of Penzance &c. &c.-Mr. Neat was 44 years of age; although many of our readers may have considered him much older; his long residence abroad having considerably altered his appearance. Stoneman of Zennor; F. Bazeley of St. Dominick; - Browne of Penzance &c. &c. - Mr. Neat was 44 years of age; although many of our readers may have considered him much older; his long residence abroad having considerable altered his appearance. London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1827. hardcover
1685AQ22730London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb 1685. 271pp 1. ESTC R7189 Wing A105. Bound with: Rules and articles For the better Government of His Majesties Land-Forces In Pay during this present rebellion. London. Printed by Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb. 1685 36pp. ESTC R28828 Wing R2239. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf later rebacked preserving contemporary backstrip. Rubbed head-cap perished. Early manuscript shelf-marks to FEP early inscription of Hugh Scott to title page of first mentioned work dampstaining primarily confined to margins of first work more extensive in second. A scarce late seventeenth-century martial manual on the English army line infantry formations. First printed in 1676 the work is primarily devoted to the correct battlefield positioning of pikes and muskets; detailed instruction is provided for the efficient command of personnel in order to maximise damage inflicted and minimise friendly losses. The information is presented in an efficient and remarkably accessible manner the directions for the 'exercise of the musquet' for example are arranged as a list of succinct stages easily comprehended: 'Handle you Charger / Open it with your Teeth / Charge with Powder.' Successive editions each a revision on the last accommodated advances in military technology such as the introduction of flintlock firing mechanisms and the wide-spread employment of the bayonet. This copy is paired with a reissue of the regulations for the conduct of the infantry occasioned by the onset of the Monmouth Rebellion during which the ranks of the English Army swelled in response to the threat of the deposition of James II. . Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb unknown
1645AQ22725London: Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock 1645. 2 6pp. Modern navy morocco lettered in gilt to spine T.E.G. Marbled endpapers early alternate manuscript pagination to upper corners. With a loosely inserted letterpress receipt from bookseller Frank Hammond addressed to Lord Cottesloe acknowledging payment of £12 for the book in 1961. The sole edition of a decidedly uncommon news-book account of the actions of the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant - led by veteran Scottish Army officer Alexander Leslie 1st Earl of Leven c.1580-1661 - in the summer of 1645 reporting most particularly on their taking of a royalist garrison within the moated house at Cannon Froome Herefordshire. Following the defeat of a Royalist rebellion against the Covenanting-led Scottish Government in the Spring of 1645 the Scottish army of the Solemn League and Covenant - named after the 1643 treaty between the reforming parliaments in England and Scotland- led by the Earl of Leven marched south to assist their allies. As this news-book reports a 'party of 4500 Horse Foot and Dragoons' en route to Hereford became aware of a Royalist garrison led by 'Governor Colonell Barnold' in the small Herefordshire village of Castle Froome. After the Royalist commander refused to surrender the moated house which had been reinforced with Irish volunteers after the battle of Newark Leven the 'Lieut. Generall.gave order for storming the place'. The heat of the battle is described thus from a purely Roundhead perspective: 'The Grasses were about nine foot deep and as broad and in most places full of water; The Works above the Grasses were so high that all the Ladders we could get were too short; the Enemy behaved themselves valourously but it pleased the Lord to give our Souldiers to much courage that after a hot dispute they were beate from their works after which they fled to the house where they fought desparately till a great part of them were killed. We lost about 16. and 24. are wounded; of the Enemy were killed about 70. Colonell Barnold deadly wounded Captain Briskoe Capt. Houke & thirty others taken Prisoners.' ESTC records copies at just seven locations in the British Isles Advocates Library BL Hereford Cathedral Newcastle NLS Oxford Trinity College Dublin and just three further elsewhere California State Harvard Texas and Yale. Provenance: Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters'. ESTC R200176 Thomason E.294 Wing L557. First edition. Quarto. Printed by M. B. for Robert Bostock unknown
1712AQ23533Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson 1712. 30 308 2 309-429pp 1. Title page in red and black. Leaf B1 is a cancellans with 'nople asure' in line eight of text corrected to 'no pleasure'. Some copies have both states of B1 the present copy does not. Handsomely bound in later richly gilt-tooled dark green morocco A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Elaborate brocade endpapers armorial bookplate of Thomas Maitland Dundrennan to FEP internally clean and crisp. An attractively bound eighteenth-century Edinburgh-printed edition of the controversial ‘Laud’s Prayer book’ an avowedly English-influenced version of the liturgy issued by Robert Young printer to Charles I in 1637. Drafted by the Bishops of Ross and Dunblane John Maxwell d. 1639 and James Wedderburn 1585-1639 the Scottish Book of Common prayer was largely based upon the rite first issued in 1549 during the reign of King Edward VI. Introduced to an unaccepting Scottish population on 23rd July 1637 by Archbishop Laud at the behest of King Charles I it attempted to replace John Knox's Calvinist Book of Common Order and proved the greatest symbol of the unpopular standardisation of Anglican Protestantism throughout the British Isles. The text was one of several triggers of the Covenant movement and the first stages of the War of Three Kingdoms.Despite its unpopularity this historic text influenced the 1662 revision of the English Liturgy the 1789 American Book of Common Prayer and the Scottish Episcopalian Liturgy of 1929. Thomas Maitland Lord Dundrennan 1792-1851 judge and sometime Solicitor General for Scotland. A devotee of antiquarian literature Dundrennan amassed an extensive library - 'a monument' according to Lord Cockburn 'honourable to his taste and judgment'. The contents on which was dispersed by sale over nine days in November 1851. ESTC T138343. 8vo. Printed by James Watson unknown
1772AQ15188Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill 1772. 416pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco 'William Crosbie Esq. Mayor. 1776' stamped in gilt to upper board A.E.G. Extremities rubbed and discoloured loss to gilt tooling joints worn. Marbled endpapers internally clean and crisp but for tear to margin of K2. A handsomely bound eighteenth-century edition of the Church of England liturgy bound for the Mayor of Liverpool and merchant slave trader William Crosbie. ESTC locates three copies of this quarto edition in British libraries BL Bristol and Oxford and a further two in North America Brown and Pennsylvania. ESTC N32792. Quarto. Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill unknown
1761biblio137<p><i>First Baskerville edition. Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in The Strand London. Birmingham. 1761. 4 volumes. Quarto. Complete</i><i> with the rare "Directions to the Binder". Text and plates all complete.</i></p><p><i>Vol. I: I title ii blank iii-v dedication vi blank vii-xx Preface xxi-xxv Poem xxvi-xxvii Contents xxvii blank 1-501 Poems on Several Occasions 502 blank 503-37 Poemata 538 blank 3z2 blank 3z2 verso "Directions to the Binder. This leaf is to be cut out". therefore usually missing 413-537 Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals 538 blank 539-42 index 543-4 blank. 3 engraved plates plus 6 plates included in pagination.</i></p><p><i>Vol. II: Title A1 blank A2 sub title to Remarks on Several Parts of Italy A2v blank. A3-A3v Dedication A4-A4v Preface 1-171 Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 172 blank 173-372 The Tatler 373-538 The Spectator 539-40 Index 550 blank. 7 engraved plates.</i></p><p><i>Vol. III: Title blank 3-579 The Spectator 580 blank 581-91 Index 592 blank.</i></p><p><i>Vol. IV: Title blank 3-117 The Spectator 118 blank 119-271 The Guardian 272-8 The Lover 279-300 The Present State of the War 301-7 The Trial of Count Tariff 308 blank 309-32 The Whig-Examiner 333-522 The Free Holder 523-55 Of the Christian Religion 556 blank 557-66 Index 567-8 blank. </i></p><p><i>Full calf spines renewed with gilt rules leather labels in red and black with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Minor paper fault to I p.401 II p.148 no loss; marginal spot II p.100/101; slight marginal browning to IV p.487/8 text unaffected. A handsome set.</i></p><p><b><i>Provenance</i></b><i>: From the library at Thurland Castle. Armorial bookplate of R. H. Welch to fep of each volume illustrated with a Star Wand and Garter crest. Robert Welch Liverpool Merchant. d.1780 of Thurland Castle Lune Valley.</i></p><p><i>ESTC T89166. </i><i>Gaskell 17.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p> Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head in The Strand hardcover
14400<p>London: 1955. In very good condition on aged paper in a brown card folder. The material in this collection relates to a book that was never published and included here are copies of two typed letters from WMP to HS casting light on the nature of this doomed collaborative project. In WMP's first letter dated 26 July 1955 he writes to 'Dear Swaff' to 'finalise the manner in which your book is to be written'. Presaging future problems he urges him: 'I do entreat you to remember the fact that a book is different to a series of paragraphs. It must have cohesion. . I don't mind at all whether my name appears or not. That is really of no consequence to me. But I want to see YOU set forth properly and clearly frankly and concisely so that your full genius can be appreciated. If you would rather make it a species of autobiography with successions of stories linked by comments by me I do not mind at all - so long as we understand the method to be used. But those stories must be properly placed.' He concludes by urging HS to 'Think all this over - and when once we can agree on a workable form we shall get a book of which we can both be proud.' The second letter also 2pp. 4to is undated but clearly indicates that the project has hit the buffers: '. it was always my intention that you should speak for yourself on the subject of Northcliffe and also Beaverbrook . If the Northcliffe story goes in as you have given it to me . the whole structure of the book falls to the ground. I don't suppose you have read what I have already written or you would have noticed this. . So far as I can see you want me simply to compile stories and perhaps occasionally comment thereon. I don't know if I can do that. I shall have to consider it. I am not one for blowing my own trumpet and I am never obstructive but I happen to have a small reputation of my own as an author - I have written fourteen books which have all been successful save one . I really do know something of how successful books should be constructed. . It is a very different thing to writing articles .'. An indication of WMP's method is given by Item Seventeen below where he writes: 'Tell Popie to describe how I used to hide at the back of the theatre. Hated being so much the object of attention. It was terrible. I loathed it. I don't like being pointed out. You miss it though when you are not signing autographs. Bloody nonsense. But if everyone stopped . . .' The more substantial items in the collection number as follows: ONE: Untitled typescript by HS largely devoted to Winston Churchill. 14pp. 4to. HS's authorship is made clear on p.8 where typed references to 'I' are amended in pencil to 'Swaffer' and 'he'. The chapter discusses: an occasion on which 'Winston invited Swaffer to join his luncheon table at which his son Randolph and Professor Lindeman afterwards Lord Cherwell were among the party' '"Ah when I was a Liberal" replied Winston "we used to do things. We were not like you Socialists."'; Churchill's meeting with Eddie Cantor; HS's meeting with Churchill and Lloyd George in Marrakesh in 1935; and the results an anti-Churchill's speech by HS at the General Election of 1945. At a meeting 'in the Pinafore Room at the Savoy at which a successor to Churchill was to be demanded' H. G. Wells 'seated in a corner created a sensation when he walked over to the table beside which Swaffer had a chair. . "How dare you talk about racial quality or inequality" demanded Wells. "The only two Englishmen in this room are Swaffer and myself. We both come from Kent. The rest of you are a lot of bastards."' HS encounters Lloyd George while he is writing the 'terrible chapter' of his war memoirs 'in which he indicted Kitchener and Haig': '"They cannot deny one word I have said" began L.G. reading from the chapter. "I am an old solicitor and so I always keep the documents and as I am the only man who was a Cabinet Minister all through the war I am the only one with all the documents. Asquith has some and the Foreign Permiers have some; but I have the lot. Do you know we cannot have another war As Clemenceau once said to me "War is too serious a business to be trusted to soldiers." When a war breaks out you have to create gods for the public to worship. Afterwards when you discover they have feet of clay you cannot destroy the gods of your own creation because the public are still worshipping them."' TWO: 'The Swaffer Legend by W. Macqueen-Pope. Author's Explanation.' Typescript by WMP. 21pp. 4to. With a few emendations. It begins: 'Frederick Hannen Swaffer - more commonly known as Hannen Swaffer - and more commonly known still as Swaff - decided that this book which is perhaps not a Biography but some account of that very remarkable personage which is himself - should be called "The Swaffer Legend". I had wanted another title but I defer to his wishes. We are very old friends and I think we understand each other.' THREE: 'Chapter blank The Dramatic Critic'. Typescript by WMP. 15pp. 4to. With emendations. Ending with anecdote about Paul Robeson 'a man whom he admired as an artiste and as a representative of his race and colour . Swaffer has no colour bar.' FOUR: 'Grant Morden and the People Strike'. Typescript by HS. 11pp. 4to. Paginated 1-17 but lacking 3-8. Begins: 'Hannen Swaffer was perhaps the worst Tory editor that London has ever known.' FIVE: 'Drunks.' Typescript by HS. 7pp. 4to. Beneath title: 'H. S. suggests that you put a line on the top of each chapter in italics. "The legend is also that of a drunk . . .".' Begins: 'This sort of thing continued. Going into an Albert de Courville first night at the Palace having had a lot of drink he accused Archie de Bear who was the Press Manager and whom he had never met before of dodging the Army.' SIX: 'Pemberton-Billing'. Typescript by HS. 9pp. 4to. Begins: 'The most remarkable story that Swaffer has never himself printed is the account of the extraordinary happenings behind the Pemberton-Billing case which some said at the time "nearly stopped the War."' SEVEN: Untitled typescript by Maurice Barbanell 1902-1981 editor of 'Two Worlds' on 'the Spiritualist side of Swaff's life'. 17pp. 4to; consisting of fifteen paginated pages on yellow paper with two unpaginated pages of white paper loosely inserted after p.7. Begins: 'So far as Spiritualism is concerned Swaff is a living paradox. By virtue of the fact that he is the Honorary President of the Spiritualists' National Union - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is its "spirit" President - Swaff is the head of an organization which has five hundred churches.' EIGHT: Part of typescript by HS. 6pp. 4to; paginated 16-21. Begins: 'He called on Mrs Janis the most famous theatrical "mother" of all time indeed the founder of that race.' NINE: Typescript in red by HS. 3pp. 4to. Begins: 'Swaff first came to the Gallery First Nighters' Club about the year 1908. In those days the cream of speakers and debaters interested in matters Theatrical regularly visited the Club to join in the talks and idscussions which were a feature.' TEN: Typescript. 1p. 4to. Anecdote regarding Lloyd George. ELEVEN: 'Swaffer Stories' list of themes. Typescript by WMP. 3pp. 4to. Including headings 'Northcliffe' 'Daily Mirror' 'Names of people who worked for him and became famous'. Last entry: 'The Captain who used to work for Bairnsfather - who messed up The Daily Mirror Sancastle sic competition - and when you went to Monte Carlo with him - just as you stood.' TWELVE: Typescript by WMP. 1p. 4to. With manuscript additions. Progress report beginning: 'Book now up to Northcliffe - as ending an epoch.' THIRTEEN and FOURTEEN: Typed Letters Signed to WMP from C. L. Shard 9 March 1955 and J. Canning 9 September 1955 of Odhams Press Ltd. Shard hopes that 'our association will not be confined to the Swaffer book' for which he is sending 'the contract in its final form including the amendments to Rubens'. FIFTEEN and SIXTEEN: Copies of Typed Letters from WMP to 'Kate' at Odhams 9 and 21 November 1955 reporting on progress. SEVENTEEN and EIGHTEEN: Undated Typed Notes from HS. Both 1p. 4to. Item Seventeen quoted above. Item Eighteen note headed 'Crusades' and beginning 'Tell Popie he'd better say that the first one he remembers was the Pit Ponies.' NINETEEN: Covering letter to Item Seven from Barbanell 1p. landscape 8vo on letterhead of 'Two Worlds' 15 July 1955. With a small collection of miscellaneous related material including rough notes in pencil and ink; three letters to WMP one from 'Lesley' and another from 'Arnold'; a menu/programme for a 'Variety Club Luncheon to honour The Doyen of International Journalists Hannen Swaffer' 19 March 1953 illustrated with photographs of HS; and six newspaper cuttings relating to HS.</p> [London: 1955.]
18702090502128301282Not Available 1870. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
192923537London: The Haymarket Press 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated with four color plates by W Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties else a very good copy.<br /> <p><br /> The extra suite of plates has been mounted on blank pages leaving a small adhesive discoloration on the margin of the plates and on the supporting page.<br /> <p>. The Haymarket Press hardcover
1830257842Thame Oxfordshire 1830. 50 pp of manuscript hymns responses and chants with four-part vocals and organ accompaniment. Oblong 4to. Bound in full black morocco covers blind-stamped and tooled in gold to a panel design with wide rolls stamped with the initials "S.E.W." on the front cover and "W" with a crown on the rear cover. 50 pp of manuscript hymns responses and chants with four-part vocals and organ accompaniment. Oblong 4to. A musical notebook beautifully bound in the Regency style belonging to Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park 1790-1870. She was an early love interest of the future King WIlliam IV - when he later ascended the throne he revived the title of Baroness Wenman. Provenance: Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park her monogram in gilt on the binding unknown
1791250188London: J. Debrett 1791. iv ii 281 1 pp. interleaved. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco richly gilt in emblematic Rococco style a.e.g. metal clasps lacking connecting pieces. iv ii 281 1 pp. interleaved. 8vo. Goldsmiths' 14607; ESTC T45338 J. Debrett unknown
2074455mm x 615mm. 17 3/4 x 24. Large original watercolor with some damage. unknown
1915370851Denver: Privately printed 1915. First edition. 19 photographic illustrations in text including title-page vignette of Wyoming Sagebrush. 76pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green wrappers stapled. Some chips to wrappers spine perished. Bookplate on the inside front wrapper. First edition. 19 photographic illustrations in text including title-page vignette of Wyoming Sagebrush. 76pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An interesting narrative of the author's childhood memories of life among the Indians of Wyoming mainly at Fort Washakie. Well illustrated with photographic illustrations of Shoshone and Flat Head Indians Chief Washakie scenes on the prairies etc. Mrs. English's father was an army officer in the 7th Cavalry and so most of her childhood was spent at remote western military posts. Huntington 292; Graff 1251; Kaplan 1817 Privately printed unknown
184842797Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1848. 1st edition original cloth boards 8vo viii pages 243 242 2 leaves; 24 cm. In Hebrew and English. Hebrew and English on facing pages with duplicate foliation. Singerman 1024. Rosenbach 636 Deinard 959 Goldman-Kinsberg 37. Vinograd Philadelphia 18. <br> The first English translation of the Ashkenazi prayer book published in America. “To unite Ashkenazic Jews in America using different prayer books and to provide them with an error-free text Leeser issued this work the first Ashkenazic prayer book published in America"--Goldman 37. <br> During the mid-19th century IsaacLeeser was the most prominent leader of American Orthodox Judaism and his writings show a defense of traditional Judaism against the changes in doctrine proposed by the growing Reform movement. Starting with Jewish publications in the 1830s Leeser is considered to have laid the foundation for a consistent Jewish printing industry in America. “Practically every form of Jewish activity which supports American Jewish life today was either established or envisaged by this one man†Bertram W. Korn “Isaac Leeser: Centennial Reflections†in American Jewish Archives Vol. XIX 1967 page 136.<br> Hebrew text is chiefly after Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim's celebrated Sapha Berurah. The most recent copy offered at major auction sold for $1250 in 2023. SUBJECTS: Siddurim -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy. Prayers and devotions. Ashkenazim. Germany. Poland. OCLC: 13891018. Wear on spine and cover spine internally fixed some pencil marks. Good Condition. A nice solid copy in original binding. BK5 AMR-69-3-. Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman unknown
18882540891888. hardcover. These documents are dated from 1884 to 1892. Several are signed in type by Robert Todd Lincoln American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Department of State. 13.25 x 8.25-inch slim folio-sized volume bound with marble boards and leather 20 pages with the addition of an important typed letter signed by Benjamin F. Butler investigating a mass inheritance fraud perpetrated on the citizens of America by con artists in the United Kingdom. During this period American citizens would be notified that they were heirs to a large unclaimed English Estate or perhaps a large sum of money held in the Bank of England. To receive their inheritance they were told that certain legal fees and real estate transfer taxes would have to be paid to agents of the British Government. Another variation of the scheme involved American con artists placing advertisements in newspapers calling themselves "European claim agencies" and charging Americans exorbitant fees for investigating the ownership of non-existing estates. Lincoln is flustered because the American Legation in London is receiving hundreds of letters from American citizens who were swindled and yet little was being done in the United States to educate its citizens to the magnitude of the fraud. Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Blaine extract March 3 1891 ".since March 4 1889 one hundred and ninety 190 letters have been received at this Legation alleging the writers claims to large estates in England or to fantastic sums of money 'in chancery' or 'in the Bank of England' none of them containing an element of probability." In conclusion is a typed letter signed by former Union General Benjamin F. Butler 1 page on law office letterhead Boston November 14 1888 whereby he brings to light the vast magnitude of the con in part: ".I have now been more than 45 years in the practice of a legal profession more or less extensively. I have heard of more than 4500--I hope I do not exaggerate--cases of large estates in England awaiting American heirs and I have been consulted in a very great many and early in life looked into such matters; but I have not for the last 25 years at all because I never have heard of one dollar coming from England to any American heir on account of such estates. In the first place it is a legal impossibility unless the heirs are British subjects.all those I have ever known about are swindles." Leather binding worn at the spine with light fading to the marble boards. All interior documents are in good to very good condition.<br/> <br/> unknown
181817093Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1818. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled binding lightly shaken gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement page 4. This seems to be the first Oliver and Boyd printing of a hieroglyphic Bible and the second Edinburgh printing after the Doig and Sterling edition of 1814. The accepted publicaton date for this Bible is 1818; three other known copies are known to have been issued either in quarter leather and marbled paper boards or in printed card covers. Our copy is in what is clearly publisher's cloth with gilt blocked on the upper board. This combination is unknown before 1826. It is likely then that the textblock while printed earlier was bound after 1826. Exceedingly scarce. Protected in a custom clamshell box. Oliver & Boyd hardcover
1787095086Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Colles Moncrieffe White H. Whitestone Byrne Cash Marchbank Heery and Moore. Complete in two volumes. Modern green cloth binding with gold title on spine covers stained spine darkened owner bookplate and collection stamp Rufus M. Jones Quaker author and scholar and peeled area inside back cover in both volumes. Binding tight pages lightly tanned with sporadic light foxing else pages good. Both volumes have two fold out illustrations one scenic and one map. Photos and greater description happily provided upon request. . Good . Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1787. Printed for Messrs. Colles, Moncrieffe, White, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, Marchbank, Heery, and Moore hardcover
1976L3 boxtemp446 ik<p>The Pilgrim Study Bible: Authorized King James Version KJV Red Letter Concordance Self-pronouncing Thumb Indexed Black Berkshire Leather 124. Editor-in-Chief: E. Schuyler English Associate Editor: Marian Bishop Bower and Contributing and Consulting Editors. Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Authorized King James Version. Including Self-pronouncing introduction to each book over 7000 annotations special helps comprehensive index. 1976 Oxford University Press. Black Berkshire leather 124 gilt edges red letter thumb indexed ribbon marker xvi1722 ppConcordance.</p> Oxford University Press.
1978L3 3v<p>A Dream of Red Mansion Complete Three Volumes. By Tsao Hsueh-Chin and Kao Ngo. English translation from the Chinese by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang. First Edition published in 1978 Volume 1 Volume 2 1980 Volume 3 by Foreign Languages Press. Blue cloth hardcover toal 1908 pages: xiv599 pp Volume 1 iv701 pp Volume 2 iv586 pp Volume 3.</p> Foreign Languages Press. hardcover
190525521Oxford: Clarendon Press 1905 1906 1921. 3 volumes. 8vo luxuriously bound in full tan morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe lettered and decorated with skillfully accomplished borders of gilt and black in panels of spines enclosing small gilt ornament covers decorated with a frame of a black enclosed within gilt fillet border with gilt ornaments at corners gilt ruled turn-ins a.e.g. xviii 726; viii 611; ix 582 pp. A fine set. An exquisite and handsomely bound set of this excellent collection of post-Elizabethan verse. Volume I contains Chamberlayne's "Pharonnida" and "England's Jubilee"; Benlowe's "Theophila"; and the poems of Katherine Phillips and Patrick Hannay. The second volume includes Marmion's "Cupid and Psyche"; Kynaston's "Leoline and Sydanis" and his "Cynthiades"; the poems of John Hall Sidney Godolphin and Philip Ayres; Chalkhill's "Thealma and Clearchus"; the poems of Patrick Carey and William Hammond; Bosworth's "Arcadius and Sepha"; and others. Volume III contains the work of John Cleveland Thomas Stanley Henry King Thomas Flatman and Nathaniel Whiting. Includes facsimile title-pages for the various works. Clarendon Press unknown
39412OXFORDSHIRE THE OAK TREE FINE PRESS 2010. LIMITED TO 200 COPIES AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THIS IS NUMBER 39. PRINTED LETTERPRESS ON ZERKALL MOULD PAPER HAND BOUND IN CLOTH ILLUSTRATIONS BY EZEKIEL MABOTE. A FINE COPY. VERY RARE. OXFORDSHIRE, THE OAK TREE FINE PRESS, 2010 hardcover
40330Oblong folio 227 x 293 mm. Disbound. i manuscript index tipped-in 233 pp. including three blanks. Notated on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper with watermark of a shield with "GR" below.<br /> <br /> Contains the following works:<br /> <br /> 1. Clari Giovanni Carlo Maria 1677-1754 adapted by Charles Avison 1709-1770. "Unto the Lord." Duet. 16 pp.<br /> 2. Clari/Avison. "O all ye Nations." Duet. 10 pp.<br /> 3. Carissimi Giacomo 1605-1674. "Hodie Simon Petrus." Duet. 5 pp.<br /> 4. Carissimi. "O nomen Jesu." Duet. 4 pp. Attributed to Giovanni Battista Bassani in RISM ID: 800226688.<br /> 5. Steffani Agostino 1654-1728. "Saldi marmi." Duet. 19 pp.<br /> 6. Steffani. "Dolce è per voi." Duet. 9 pp.<br /> 7. Clari. "L'Amante disperato" "O femina mendace". Duet. 16 pp.<br /> 8. Steffani. "M'hai da piangere." Duet. 11 pp.<br /> 9. Steffani. "Dolce labbro." Duet. 9 pp.<br /> 10. Purcell Henry 1659-1695. "In guilty Night." Trio. 9 pp. <br /> 11. Anon. "O sanctissima." Duet. 1 p. Not in index.<br /> 12. Handel George Frederic 1685-1659. "T'amo sì." Duet. Full score. 12 pp.<br /> 13. Kent James. 1700-1776. "Hear my prayer." Anthem for two solo voices and four-part choir. 10 pp.<br /> 14. Marcello Benedetto 1686-1739. "My God my God." Solo. Full score. 16 pp.<br /> 15. Marcello. "Da voi parto." Solo cantata. 10 pp.<br /> 16. Astorga Emanuele. "Ruscelletto che vai." Solo cantata. 10 pp.<br /> 17. Clari. "Ecco Amor ecco Amore." Trio. 21 pp.<br /> 18. Astorga. "Oh che voi direste bene." Duet. 14 pp. <br /> 19. Caldara Antonio 1671-1736. "Voi vene pentirete." Duet. 4 pp <br /> 20. Kent. "When the son of Man shall come." Anthem for three voices. 15 pp. Incomplete.<br /> <br /> All pieces in a single hand with the exception of items 11 and 20 in two different hands.<br /> <br /> With "Lady Cornewall" in contemporary manuscript to upper margin of index; "1792" to upper outer corner and "554" to upper inner corner of first page. Occasional pencil annotations including figured bass; half a measure canceled on p. 185. <br /> <br /> Disbound; first signature detached. Occasional small tears to edges; several minor inkstains to pp. 56-57; pp. 124-125 excised likely due to a scribal error with no loss of music; contemporary repairs to upper outer margin of p. 7; final leaf detached; remnants of red sealing wax to corners of index. It is notable that the all of the music in the present manuscript is drawn from repertoire significantly older than the manuscript's date of 1792 in some cases over 100 years earlier performance of music of the past being a relatively novel concept at the time.<br /> <br /> The Academy of Ancient Music was "founded as the Academy of Vocal Music in 1726 to revive the glories of 16th- and 17th-century sacred music and madrigals. Again though it was the music itself rather than profit that provided the inspiration the founders a mix of leading professionals and aristocratic enthusiasts; and again the society was formalized and admitted larger audiences as the century progressed - although these changes brought their own problems with an increasing partiality for later Baroque music including Handel's oratorios and a gradual decline in missionary zeal for the older repertory." Simon McVeigh in Oxford Music Online<br /> <br /> "Lady Cornewall" was most likely Catherine Cornewall 1752-1835 wife of Sir George Amyand Cornewall 1748-1819 a portrait of whom by Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792 is held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The manuscript index is possibly in her hand. "Rather different in character was the collection made by the Cornewall family of Moccas Court Herefordshire which has almost entirely vanished. Fortunately a detailed and most interesting manuscript catalogue dated 1796 and now owned by Albi Rosenthal has survived. This was predominantly a vocal collection amounting to about 2000 items with some Italian bias but besides Alessandro Scarlatti and Jomelli it extended to Gluck. A special section of the catalogue dated 1795 contained music belonging to a Miss Cornewall who also owned R.C.M. MSS. 2061-4." A. Hyatt King: Some British Collectors of Music p. 17. unknown
GOR003230545Paperback. Very Good. paperback
1809375196Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1809. Text in two columns. 816pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf red morocco lettering piece minor staining. Minor foxing early owner's inscription on the endpaper. Text in two columns. 816pp. 12mo. First edition of the first Bible printed in Connecticut. An October 18 1809 advertisement in the Connecticut Courant reads: "Hudson and Goodwin have the satisfaction to announce to the public that they have this day completed their first edition of the School Bible. The type is entirely new imported at heavy expense . and the paper is so good a quality that it is asserted with confidence to be the best of the kind offered for sale in this country."<br /> <br /> "This is supposed to be the earliest edition of the Bible printed in Connecticut. "It was set up in Nonpareil smaIl 12mo making I believe 68 forms 34 sheets put in chases corrected and shipped from the foundry of Wilson and Sons Glasgow to Hudson and Goodwin at a cost as I have understood of 6000 crowns. The type was sold for old metal about the year 1837" O'Callaghan. Shaw 16998; Hills 168; O'Callaghan 1809.6 Hudson and Goodwin unknown
1811320096Philadelphia: Mathew Carey No. 122 Market-Street 1811. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. Contemporary calf. Worn upper cover nearly detached. Foxing. Early inked stamp of P.A. Johnson Bookseller & Stationer Morristown N.J. on front pastedown and with ownership inscription on ffep: "Henry Mingle's Bible bought of Peter A. Johnson in Morristown October 28 1812. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. In 1804 Carey first published a new edition of the quarto Bible from standing type and including the Apocrypha. A consummate promoter and bookseller Carey re-issued the Bible on a variety of paper stocks and with various numbers of engraved maps and plates over the next decade. An 1809 advertisement listed 34 variations of his "Family Bible" priced between $3.50 and $12 however none of those listed include more than 30 engraved maps and plates suggesting this issue with 50 engraved maps and plates and including the Old Testament New Testament Psalms Apocrypha and Brown's Concordance to be among the most deluxe version yet issued by Carey. We find no record of Carey's quarto bible with 50 plates as here.<br /> <br /> With an early Morristown New Jersey bookseller stamp and provenance to the Mingle family of Warren County New Jersey. Hills 174; O'Callaghan 1810.1. See Clarkin 622 8 plates and 623 1 map 10 plates; this issue not recorded Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market-Street unknown
