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1761071095London: Printed for T. Davies in Russel-Street Covent-Garden And J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1761. Hardcover. Very Good. 10.5" x 8.5" x 1.25. The first printing of this book was in 1761 and second in 1767. This copy appears to be a mix of the two. It is dated 1761 but has the publishers Davies and Dodsley of the second printing and it has only four pages of subscribers rather than five. Ascham wrote mostly about education politics and archery. Included here is "Toxophilus or the School of Shooting" which is the first English book on archery. Roger Ascham was tutor to Queen Elizabeth I. Author James Bennet was Master of the Boarding-School at Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. Likely original binding. Hardcover. Bound in half calf leather and marbled paper boards. Hubbed spine bears five raised bands with red leather label stamped in gilt lettering. Printed on laid paper. Wide margin surrounds text. Contains a list of subscribers. xvi 395 pp. Overall VG. Covers are worn. Boards are strongly attached and binding is sound. Bookplate from previous owner's library is affixed to the front pastedown. Discoloration is present within endpapers yet primary textblock is quite free from foxing. Occasional antiquarian notation in both pencil and pen throughout. Pages turn effortlessly and appear complete. A nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, And J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall hardcover
1775265758G.B. Teubner Leipzig 1775. Hardcover Französisch und Deutsch. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen eine Namenseintragung. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen. G.B. Teubner, Leipzig, hardcover
172937768London: Not Attributed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1729. Hardcover. Portrait; .Written by . James Duke of York under his administration of Lord High Admiral . Published from his Original Letters etc. First collected by Lord F. Howard. A brief history of the Restauration etc. Scarce 5 copies at auction since 1884. Contemporary patterned leather spine scraped front cover detached. Contents clean and bright with a little printing offset to 5 pages 146-150. . Not Attributed hardcover
1777268064Frankfurt und Leipzig 1777. Hardcover mit Pergamentrücken. Zustand: Die Ecken sind stark angefräst mit Fehlstelle der Innenblock ist aber auch an den Rändern intakt Rücken komplett intakt Kanten vorne am Karton berieben aber ohne Verletzungen. Frankfurt und Leipzig, hardcover
1720160753London: J. Roberts and A. Dodd 1720. A price list for the purchase system - commissions in the C18th British army First edition of the first formalized listing of the terms and prices applying to the purchase of military commissions a system which obtained in the British Army or equivalent from around 1660 until removed in the Cardwell Reforms of 1871. Rare ESTC has four copies in the UK Library Hub adds National Library of Scotland World Cat locates eight copies in North America and one at the University of Queensland. This is a window onto a complex and contentious area of debate not least because the practice was illegal for large parts of its operation; "The 'system' comprehending purchase and sale was constrained by a range of laws warrants orders rules custom and connived at abuses. Sale of commissions for significant periods of its vigourous life was specifically and incontrovertibly contrary to law even including the Royal Prerogative. The same prohibition was matched by indubitably established official recognition acceptance or condonement. Further and perhaps not surprisingly few conclusions of principle can be adumbrated without fear of contrary evidence" Scouller p. 217. A system which required each of the advancing officers to pay the officer stepping down that proportion of the commission price that represented the difference between their new and old ranks see Scouller p. 223 was surely nigh on impossible to administer and how far the list prices were adhered to tends to be transactionally and anecdotally obfuscated. The largest "tariff" noted here is £9000 for the purchase of the colonelcy of Lord Irwin's Regiment the King's Regiment of Horse a sum which if factored against the wage of the average worker at the time comes to a staggering £20 million today. The "acquisition of colonelcies. is neither so widely known nor as well documented" as for ranks up to and including lieutenant-colonel and was something that George I had attempted to stop at the very beginning of his reign - "that Evil Practice" - but was only eventually eradicated under his great-grandson George III Hayes p. 3. The circumstances of Irwin's purchase of the regiment from Lord Lumley in 1717 with its valuation at £9000 - the secretary-at-war had noted in broaching the subject that "no regiment can be in better condition" Hayes p. 8 - is the best documented of any such transaction due to the survival of a large tranche of correspondence between Irwin and his agent Richard Worthington. Irwin gathered the funds to cover purchase with 3000 guineas from his colonelcy in the 16th Foot a loan of £1500 each from his agent and from the government and a further £1500 from the sale of stock. The rest was offset in a slightly unseemly fracas over "off reckonings" allowances made for regimental clothing and equipment between Worthington and Lumley to include a payment of £500 "for to buy Hatts gloves & odd Matters ye Ensueing Year" and also giving "ye Lordship the Trumpetters Horse & other considerations". This is a scarce piece which offers insight into an elusive and important subject. Folio 322 x 195 mm pp. 8. Twentieth-century red half morocco gold vein overprint on Turkish pattern marbled boards lettered in gilt longitudinally bulked with blanks. Very light shelf-wear contents lightly toned and a little creased a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 5747. James Hayes "The Purchase of Colonelcies in the Army 1714-63" in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 39 157 1961; R. E. Scouller "Purchase of Commissions and Promotions" in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 62 252 1984. hardcover
178318774St. Petersburg: J.J. Weitbrecht 1783. Contemporary half calf marbled sides sprinkled edges. 8vo. Second known copy of a commercial publication of statutes promulgated in French by the Russian Empress Catharine the Great concerning import duties for commercial merchandise in Russian ports and at other frontiers of the Russian Empire as they were determined and accepted in 1782. There is an exception for Astrakhan a major port and market city in southern Russia at the head of the Volga river which was under the government of Siberia which apparently maintained its own commercial regulations.This publication is very rare WorldCat lists only 1 copy Kress Library of Business and Economics Harvard University. Other libraries worldwide have only the microfilm of the Kress copy.A faint stain and one tiny hole in the margin of the first 20 pp. Cover slightly rubbed. Otherwise in good condition.l Goldsmiths'-Kress 12431.16. J.J. Weitbrecht, unknown
