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1740002032London: John Watts 1740 Book. Good. Full-Leather. 2nd edition. xxiv 488p. 8vo. Title page printed in red and black. Lacks portrait frontis. Stain to p67. Page edges red. Bound in very worn full leather boards almost detached sections of spine missing as is lettering label. Signs of a bookplate having been removed from the front pastedown. Jaggard p708. John Watts hardcover
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16-6234New York: Boston London: Major newspapers and reviews 1877-1917. A Collection of original printings of obituaries. tributes and biographies of Ambassador John Lothrop Motley 1814 -1877. Mounted on 14 ledger sheets 31 x 42cm. .Ambassador John Lothrop Motley April 15 1814 – May 29 1877 was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian he is best known for his works on the Netherlands the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom Court of St. James during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.In December 1870 Mr. Motley sent a 62-page dispatch to Secretary Fish titled “End of a Mission†in which he protested his recall and recounted the events leading to the dispatch of November 10. The Secretary followed with an even longer rejoinder sent not to Motley who was no longer in an official position and hadn’t been when he had sent the dispatch but to the chargé d’affaires Benjamin Moran. Senator Sumner upbraided Mr. Grant and Mr. Fish on the Senate floor then had the Senate publish all the documents related to the recall. In 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes a fellow Brahmin wrote a memorial biography which was devoted to a defense of the former minister and a repudiation of his recall. John Jay who had succeeded Mr. Motley in Vienna published his own defense of him in 1877. Mr. Grant after leaving the presidency wrote a letter to the New York Herald reiterating that his reason for dismissing Mr. Motley was solely that he had failed to carry out his duties. Mr. Grant restated this charge a few years later in a Cairo interview while he was on a world tour concluding that he had no ill will toward Mr. Motley who “…like other estimable men made mistakes and Motley made a mistake which made him an improper person to hold office under me.â€.Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley 1814 -1877 on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member Royal Victorian Order M.V.O. New York:, Boston, London: Major newspapers and reviews, 1877-1917 unknown
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144231Very Good. Duodecimo 4 pages on 2 conjugate leaves Hampstead 29 March 1899. Folded for posting; a few light smudges; paper a little unevenly tanned; in very good condition. The letter addressed to a Dr Williams begins with a declaration: 'I hasten to say that I personally am not a believer in telegony' a theory of heredity claiming that offspring can inherit the characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent. He corrects a misunderstanding that may have arisen from something he said regarding dog and horse breeders; 'It is also attested of negresses that have born to a white man that they will bear afterwards partially white children to a black man. some years ago I investigated the matter by testing for some five hundred pairs of sons & daughters whether the younger were more like the Father than the Mother but I could find no trace of it. Francis Galton at the discussion which followed the paper spoke of telegony as a superstition and Lankester Poulton & others had nothing to say in favour of it'. <p>He refers to Charles Darwin's account in '"Origin of Species" . of Lord Morton's quagga' and notes that Ewart has been trying to repeat the experiment without success. 'I should say that telegony like the inheritance of acquired characters may have an element of truth in it but all the arguments in favour of it so far deduced are from the scientific standpoint worthless. It is a widespread superstition'. <p>Karl Pearson 'has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911 and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics and his thought is an example of what is today described as scientific racism' Wikipedia. He was the first Galton Professor of Eugenics holding the chair from 1911 to 1933. unknown
132099A plain postcard 89 × 140 mm postmarked 'Chiswick . 10 Apr 1968'; postage stamps neatly peeled off the address panel; in very good condition. The message reads in full: 'London April 10th. Very many thanks for that kind letter and do please forgive this brevity - I have an ocean of neglected mail about me. <p>I should of course be honoured to come to next Festival. It would be stupid of me to reiterate my regrets about this year. Again my sincerest thanks. As ever - Anthony Burgess'. For context a few contemporary accounts will suffice. 'Burgess 53 passing through Perth to Adelaide for festival lectures on obscenity pornography and the novel is a rough-hewn man who looks more like a cattleman from some sunless plain than an escaped Manchurian. In fact he so completely lacks pommification and literary lustre that his quest to discover the Australian idiom is likely to be entirely successful. Burgess was once scheduled for an Adelaide Festival when his first wife became fatally ill. This two months trip is a recompense' Duncan Graham 'The Bulletin' 14 March 1970 page 53. <p>'Anthony Burgess visited Australia in 1970 to open the Adelaide Festival an occasion that brought much calamity. Even before they disembarked the plane Liana Burgess had a giant stuffed elephant she had bought in Bombay confiscated by Australian officials Burgess supposed its body must have been stuffed with syphilitic bandages. She also did not have the correct visa for entry and was eager to leave the country before she had even properly arrived. Further bad luck ensued when Burgess quoted from Drayton's verses to the Virginia pioneers angering his audience who saw him as condescending. These experiences soured Burgess's view of Australia yet the country made a lasting impression. In his 1980 novel "Earthly Powers" Kenneth Toomey visits the country and is impressed with its beauty even as he struggles with the Australian language' from the official Anthony Burgess website. <p>'I am quite willing to concede Roger Lewis's point that Burgess was not nice to know. The one time I laid eyes on him in 1970 when he was on his way to the Adelaide Festival he gave a disgraceful contemptuous talk at the University of Sydney. He treated us like cretins - I felt at the time that he had persuaded himself that he was lecturing in Omsk or Monrovia. Afterwards at lunch he patronised all and sundry. But does an artist have to be a good chap Plenty - Wagner Sartre and Picasso among others - clearly weren't. So there's something distasteful and tiresome about Lewis's endless catalogue of Burgess's betises' Andrew Riemer reviewing 'Anthony Burgess' by Roger Lewis in 'The Sydney Morning Herald' 8 March 2003. <p>The postcard is loosely inserted in Hedley Brideson's copy of 'Nothing like the Sun. A Story of Shakespeare's Love-life' by Anthony Burgess London Heinemann 1964 first edition; a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper initialled in pencil on the front free endpaper by Hedley Brideson. 2 items. unknown
115573Very Good. Small octavo 3 pages a bifolium last page blank; 'Fallodon Chathill Northumberland' letterhead 2 January 1904. Folded once for posting; in excellent condition. 'My dear Holland I should like very much to help in your Candidature but I have foresworn all further promises & engagements till I have got rid of those which I now have & which will take all of my spare time till Easter. And it is only some six weeks since I spoke under the walls has it any walls of Birmingham viz at West Bromwich. I don't think the first will dissolve in the summer: Joseph Chamberlain wants a dissolution when the pinch of bad trade is being most felt. We might have a dissolution in February but more likely in the autumn of 1904 or in February 1905'. Grey 'was a Liberal MP 1885-1916 and Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs in Gladstone's last administration 1892-95 when the Grey declaration warned the French off the Sudan. He was Foreign Secretary 1905-16 in the Liberal administration of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith' 'Dictionary of World Biography'. <p>Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC. unknown
6854017Polity Press pp. 96 . Hardback. New. Polity Press hardcover
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36998LONDON PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2005. A FINE COPY IN GREY AND BLUE BOARDS. GENERAL EDITOR NORMAN PAGE. LONDON, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2005 hardcover
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1996Q-0687121787ABNDP - Abingdon Press 1996-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! ABNDP - Abingdon Press paperback
1723227586London: R. Gosling 1723. 2 61 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed some soiling old stab marks. 2 61 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> R. Gosling unknown
1649150001London: Printed in the Year 1650 i.e. 1649. One of five editions all listed by ESTC as printed in 1649 with a 1650 date with minor variations; the author argues against duties of obedience to a usurping power naturally directed against Parliament and the new Commonwealth. Authorship is unclear - an attribution to Richard Hollinworth is still held by ESTC based on a report by the contemporary Adam Martindale but is also credited to Charles Herle and DNB places it as by Edward Gee "with little doubt". The latter attribution is most commonly accepted. Small quarto 182 x 131 mm. Recent brown quarter calf gilt ornaments in compartments marbled sides vellum tips. Contemporary ownership signatures "John Bryan 3d" and "E. Bailey" to title. Selbourne Library stamps to title verso and to p. 51 small slip of paper affixed to p. 53 covering a few letters. Binding fine; contents generally a little browned and soiled as usual for pamphlets of this date. A good copy. ESTC R201998; Wing G449. hardcover
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44074LONDON CHATTO AND WINDUS1904. NEW EDITION. FINE BINDING BY SOUTHERAN HALF LEATHER OVER BLUE CLOTH TOP EDGES GILT RAISED BANDS BROWN LABELS GILT TITLE. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF GERTRUDE MARY BAILEY 1870-1941 WIFE OF THE NEWPORT SHIP- REPAIRER AND ONE OF THE WELSH CITY'S FIRST FEMALE MAGISTRATES. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. LONDON, CHATTO AND WINDUS,1904 hardcover
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199235437Cumberland Rhode Island U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 1992. Paperback. 0300052332 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED - 416 pp. - 33 black and white illus. 2 maps 5 graphs; 1 diagram 21 halftones. -- with a bonus offer-- . Yale Univ Pr paperback
