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1786conn1786Connecticut 1786. First Edition. Paper. Printing and signatures bright a. Summons to be enacted by the Sheriff in 1786 town of Salisbury County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut. Historical from the time period directly after the Revolutionary War when money collection was of high priority. Debt was in shillings just prior to when moving to US currency. Also includes receipt for payment of a debt in New York 1774.Both mounted in board under glass and frame. Remarkably bright and readable. Excellent piece of early Americana. Summons measures 8 x 6.25 inches. receipt 3 x 7.5 inches in frame measuring 11.5 x 9 inches.Printing and signatures bright and crisp light toning lines tatter to left edge and small cut to left lower corner unknown
1776elala1674London: Printed by T.Wright And Sold by G.Kearsly 1776-81. 1776. 11 Volumes. folio. text in double columns. contemporary calf worn 2 covers detached joints cracked chipping to joints & spine ends. the Richard Heber 1773-1833 copy. Sweet & Maxwell I.369.8. Marke 1030-31. Marvin 660-61. London: Printed by T.Wright And Sold by G.Kearsly, 1776-81. unknown
17619316Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row and Laurence Flin in Castle-Street. Poor. 1761. Hardcover. xii 196 pp 26 index 2 leaves pub. ads; 16mo; full brown calf. Front board detached; ownership signature Thomas Knight 1829 with four line note "Collection of Irish History from the reign of Elizabeth etc. front endpaper. Thomas Knight's name also written vertically accross top portion of title page. At the end of the half page of text on xii begins in a miniscule holograph hand presumed by Knight an account of Lady Davies who according to the preceeding Author's Life "had or pretended to have a spirit of prophecy" and it was reported that she predicted her husband's death the Sunday before his being found dead of an apoplexy on the morning of Thursday 8th of December 1626 just before his installation as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The writing continues onto the next blank page printed oddly with only the words HISTORICAL RELATIONS the preceeding page also having the word HISTORICAL printed below the text apparently relating an anecdote about Lady Davies who having made prophecies of bad luck for the Duke of Buckingham and other predictions of a mischevious nature was brought before the High Commission where the proceedings apparently involved her claims of the prophet Daniel infused into her body based on an anagram of her name Eleanor Davies and ultimately being "shot with arrows from her own quiver" by the Bishop suggesting Dame Eleanor Davies - never so mad a lady. What fun in the margins. . Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row and Laurence Flin in Castle-Street hardcover
179210204no place Dublin: no publisher Mills 1792. Fair. 1792. Softcover. i dedication to the Duke of Portland; B3 To the Public; 7-172pp.; 8vo; bound in later plain brown paper wrappers with title and imprint information in pencil front cover. Dampstain and tanning throughout more severe in the final few leaves but text is eminently readable. From the holdings of the late Ian Jackson. Francis Dobbs 1750-1811 was an influential member of the Irish Parliament barrister and writer on political and religious themes. Sir Jonah Barrington wrote of him: "His intellect was of an extraordinary nature; he seemed to posses two distinct minds - the one adapted to the duties of his profession; the other diverging from its natural center led him through wilds and ways rarely frequented by the human understanding - entangled him in a maze of contemplative deduction from revelation to futurity." . no publisher (Mills) (1792) paperback
1796049671Hartford CT: Hudson & Goodwin 1796. First 10 pages of introductory material absent including title page we determined title and age by matching to Evans 30260. Begins with six pages of index bdginning with L for Leather then proceeds to page enumerated as 1 which is The Charter of the antient Colony of Connecticut remaining pages present. Heavily worn sheep leather with black spine label spine split as is the text block many pages detached paper brittle many chips and tears very minor wormhole to bottom of the last 100 pages or so pages age-toned with some occasional spotting index pages that are present are browned and heavily chipped. Front free endpaper actually present and the faint offsetting from the missing title page confirms the title. Certainly no better than a binding or research copy. Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hudson & Goodwin Hardcover
1776100869<p>Folio contemporary sheep rejoined and crudely rehinged viii 493 1 6 6 4 4 1 15 pp. Binding is very worn especially at the extremities despite hinge repairs back cover is detached and top cover a bit loose browning and aging marginal dampstaining affecting appendices early ownership signatures including Belmont Perry and Thomas Hendry on title and elsewhere bookplate on front pastedown. Samuel Allison 1739-1791 was a Burlington attorney who had an interest in both politics and the law. In 1762 he was commissioned as one of the surrogates for West Jersey and was put to work compiling a new edition of provincial laws which is the current volume and covers the period from 1702 to 1776. Allison was a Quaker who opposed slavery and secession from the British Empire. He worked throughout his life to end slavery and became a spokesperson for a sizeable Quaker community in New Jersey. The present work includes coverage of relief of the poor raising money for public buildings preventing the waste of timber and the regulation of slaves. There are several manuscript corrections to the text in this copy which according to Felcone appear to be the rule for all copies. New Jersey in the American Revolution. Felcone 158. Evans 14911. Sabin 53046.</p> Isaac Collins,
17875031London: Charles Eyre & Andrew Strahan 1787. First edition. 27 George III Chapter 44. A Fine copy measuring 310 x 190mm and collating complete: 2 987-988. A scarce and important piece of legal history which ESTC records at only one library Lincoln's Inn and which does not appear in the modern auction record. The present is the only example on the market. <br /> <br /> At the start of the Restoration "English church courts were revived by an act of Parliament on 27 July 1661 to resume their traditional task of correcting spiritual and moral misdemeanors. Soon thereafter parishioners across England's dioceses once more faced admonition fines excommunication and even imprisonment if they failed to conform to the laws of the restored Church of England" Aklund. As much as these courts sought to reestablish a monolithic Anglican communal identity during Charles II's reign their position in the 18th century became "a case study in the secularization of the legal system" particularly given their theoretical justification based in the problematic concept of divine right Harris. Numerous acts the present example among them "represented an important step in the direction of limiting the reach of of ecclesiastical jurisdiction" Harris. <br /> <br /> An Act to Prevent Frivolous and Vexatious Suits in Ecclesiastical Courts was passed in 1787 drawn from a bill presented in Parliament the previous year. Its major accomplishment was the removal of Church authority in the regulation of private sexual behaviors: "It shall be further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Suit shall be commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court for Fornication or Incontinence of for any striking or brawling." While the Church may have voiced its moral codes or enacted social shaming within its own communities it no longer had the legal authority to regulate or punish sexual behavior. Such secularization had significant benefits across a number of communities. For survivors of assault it ended the Church's ability to mandate that a woman marry her attacker; for queer communities it prevented Biblically based persecution; for sex workers it took away the risk of arrest or fines for conducting their livelihoods. Ultimately the jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts over sexual behavior whether in the form of obscene or defamatory words sexual engagement and sensual pleasure was terminated by this act. Little to no legal regulation of sex would be enacted until the next century when the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and a series of Contagious Diseases Acts would seek to give secular courts more control over individuals' bodies. <br /> <br /> ESTC N58717. Charles Eyre & Andrew Strahan unknown
1800mon0000028980S Low London 1800. Leather. Very Good. in x in x in. Rubbing to the covers of all volumes. Raised bands on the spine. I assume a paste on leather label of the title was on each volume at one point. It is no longer there on any of the vols. On Vol. 3 the binding is starting to crack on the outside at the front spine edge. The other three vols. the binding is fine. Vol. 1-438pp.; Vol. 2-534pp.; Vol. 3-448pp; Vol. 4-371pp. plus an appendix at the end of Vol. 4 of 175pp. S Low, London hardcover
17379900042889Amsterdam: Zacherie Chatelain 1737. Leather Bound. Tall folio. Bound in full contemporary calf with seven raised bands and the spine ornamented in gilt. The binding shows minor wear but is otherwise strong and the contents are in remarkable condition. There is an elaborate engraved plate preceding the formal title page printed in red and black. Measures 47 x 29.5 cms. Zacherie Chatelain d.1723 was the father of Henri Abraham 1684-1743 and Zacherie Junior 1690-1754. They worked as a partnership publishing this atlas under several different Chatelain imprints depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication. The original atlas was published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720 with a second edition appearing in 1732. The maps were accompanied by information pertaining to cosmography geography history chronology genealogy topography heraldry and costume of the world. The maps in the Atlas Historique were based on those of the French cartographer Guillaume De L'Isle but were presented by the Chatelains in an encyclopedic format. The text is in French and is printed in two columns on the page with maps and other illustrations interspersed. Each map and table is numbered consecutively see MapHist dot com. Our offering is described as 'Tome II Seconde Partie ou Tome III' of the 'Nouvelle Edition' which has been 'Revue corrigee & considerablement augumentee'. It covers Great Britain Ireland Switzerland Savoy Lorraine and the Republic of Venice. It contains 26 folding maps and ten genealogical tables or charts. Zacherie Chatelain unknown
1790016799<p>Connectict: Hudson and Goodwin 1790. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN AND PRINTED COLONIAL STATE OF CONNECTICUT October 1790 SIGNED TAX RECEIPT Combination hand writing and printing Colonial border design around 5x7 inch Seven sentences of print and script Hartford Printer Hudson And Goodwin with Signature Treasurer Very Good shape original hole punched by the State of Connecticut in center of document. Two halves One piece of clear tape holding together Flip side signed and inscribed beautiful flowing script"John Dodd" Photo on request.</p> Hudson and Goodwin
176039247Lisboa, Officina de Pedro Ferreira 1760. 14 unpag. S.; 226 S. + 35 S. + 6 unpag. S. Lederband der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. = Originalausgabe - edição original. [2 Warenabbildungen] Gut erhalten. Exlibris auf dem Innendeckel. / Livro em bom estado.
179428825Philadelphia 1794. Folio. 13 x 7 3/4 inches. 4pp. Signed in print by J. Wagner Clerk. Contemporary manuscript notations on each page tallying the number of vessels. Unbound<br/> <br/> A contemporary official printed list of American vessels with spoliation claims issued by the Secretary of State in the midst of the negotiations over Jay's Treaty.<br/> <br/> In 1793 and 1794 the British captured numerous neutral American merchant ships during its conflict with France including ships in both European and North American waters. The Secretary of State here issued an official list of 304 American merchant vessels -- including the ship's name as well as the names of the masters and owners -- for distribution among port collectors compiled "from the record of the Cases in the office of the Department of State." The terms of Jay's Treaty would include compensation for the vexations and spoliations with the British eventually paying out over $10000000 by 1802. A rare and ephemeral early American document. OCLC cites but a single copy Library Company. Not in Evans or Bristol. unknown
175042895Petropoli St. Petersbourg 1750. 4to. Uncut without wrappers. Extracted from "Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae" Tom. I. ad Annum 1747 et 1748. Pp. 245-266 a. 1 engraved plate ad. p. 251. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of a groundbreaking paper in chemistry in which Lomonosov describes his discovery of the transition of a metal into passive state and this is the first scientific description of this phenomena. He observed and described fast termination of the dissolution of iron in concentrated nitric acid and attributed this to a change in the solvent properties."Lomonosov employed corpuscular mechanics in chemical explanations more extensively than Boyle had done. Treating chemical compounds as particles in adhesion he held that "adhesion is eliminated and renewed by means of motion.since no change in a body can take place withouy motion". He attempted to apply these theories to chemical phenomena - although he was limited to speculation- in papers on the action of chemical solvents in general."DSB VIII p. 469."Lomonosov was founder of Russian science and he would be universally recognized as a great pioneer of science had he been born a West European. He was famous also for his literary works including poems and dramas. In 1755 he wrote a Russian Grammar that reformed the language and in the same year he helped found the University of Moscow. In 1760 he published the first history of Russia."Isaac Asimov. </em> unknown
1792008987Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews 1792. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Early American Imprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In contemporary marbled calf red morocco label with gilt lettering back viii 9-396 pp. Contains 28 sermons. Volume II only of the 2 volume set. Very Good a few pages with marginal marks and notations in pencil moderate toning throughout boards rubbed first front end page almost separated. The period ownership signature at title page of David Goodwin. Possibly David Goodwin c.1744-1825 who served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War later represented Charlestown in the Massachusetts legislature and he was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bible Society. Printed by Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 the famous Yankee patriot printer newspaper editor historian and founder of the American Antiquary Society. I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews Hardcover
179722339Madrid: Imprenta Real 1797.- 1 h. 424 p.: La primera hoja es un frontispicio grabado al cobre por Carmona sobre dibujo de Mengs; 8º 18 x 114 cm; Excelente papel verjurado texto orlado; Plena Piel roja de la época con lomo cuajado ruedas doradas en ambas tapas o planos cantos y cortes dorados. En general magnífico estado de conservación pero falto del retrato grabado con que se abría la obra y con una pequeña perforación al pie del lomo. SIGLO XVIII ESPAÑOL Libro en español Imprenta Real hardcover
178536223London: HMSO 1785. Small Folio. 3 reports. pp 17 ; 7 ; 1-119 appendix 2 121-123 folding tables verso blank 124-412 p. 128 242 274 329 332 406 - 412 are numbered fold out tables on leaves with blank verso Complete. Bound in a respined contemporary brown calf. Marbled endpapers. Stout imperious looking volume containing 3 reports on British Fisheries. Contents are wonderfully clean the many folding charts are intact and seemingly unaffected by their age. . Very Good. Full Calf. 1785. [ HMSO ] 1785 unknown
17760087821776. Near Fine -. 1 handwritten document of 4 pages 39 x 25 cm. folded. On 12 Dec. 1776 William Rowan of Fawn Township York Co. Pa. yeoman mortgaged 245 acres in Fawn Township to Beulah Paschall of the city of Philadelphia spinster for 300 pounds of Pennsylvania due by 12 Dec. 1783 with interest paid yearly. Signed by William Rowan; witnesses Peter Miller and Abraham Shoemaker; Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice Thomas Willing; and York County Recorder Samuel Johnston. Embossed paper stamp of Pennsylvania. The mortgagee was Beulah Paschall 1732-1793 a Philadelphia Quaker and owner of Cedar Grove. Thomas Willing 1731-1821 was a highly successful merchant and real estate developer as well as a Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice from 1767 to 1776. He served as the first president of both the Bank of North America and the Bank of the United States and supported the American Revolution. York County Recorder Samuel Johnston on the other hand had come to York County from England as an official representative of the Penn family. He held a variety of county offices at various times in addition to that of recorder of deeds: clerk of courts prothonotary and register of wills. When he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania during the Revolution he had to relinquish all public offices. However he did not opposed the Revolution. Two of his sons-in-law served as colonels in the American militia and two of his sons were privates. By 1786 Johnston lived in Maryland and was admitted as an attorny in Baltimore County. In Near Fine- Condition: just starting to separate along folds; minor soiling; otherwise bright and solid. unknown
17394412Paris France: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin 1739. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/n/a. 18mo 6.5"x4". 392pp. Leather wrapped boards. Faded gilt decorations to spine. Significant shelfwear and rubbing. Corners and extremes bumped and crushed. Eight places where leather has fallen away. With the most significant to spine and front board 1"x1". See photos. Fading to red colored text block edge. Mild wave to textblock. Textblock toned though no spotting. Missing rear endpaper. Not the most handsome book but it is holding together. Text in French. Volume Two only. Hippolyte-Louis Guerin hardcover
178239248Lisboa, Officina Luisiana 1781 / 1782. kl. 8°. Kupferstich als Frontispiz; VII S.; 357 S. + 6 S. Index. / 402 S. + 3 S. Index e Erratas. In zwei Lederbänden der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung. [2 Warenabbildungen] Exlibris a. d. Innendeckel. Rücken v. Bd. 2 unten etwas lädiert. Gut erhalten. / Livros em bom estado.
1798018808PA: W. Ross 1798. Book. NVG. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Softcover with baby blue wrappers which are worn minor foxing thus near very good. What make this copy interesting is that it is signed by Yale professor and noted lawyer Roger M. Sherman. W. Ross Paperback
1798031EV1Printed by W. Ross Philadelphia: . 1798 131 p. Publisher's device on title page. Light XLib stamp of the Mercantile Library on title page and elsewhere. Light dampstain. Lacks fly leaves. Top edge gilt. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Disbound - removed. Good. Title continues: 'Published by the Secretary of State Timothy Pickering In conformity with the Resolution of Congress of the 22d June 1798.' The envoys were: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1746-1825; John Marshall 1755-1835; and Elbridge Gerry 1744-1814. An important document in the quasi-war with France 1798. Evans 34838. Sabin 34870. Quite scarce. EVANS1. Hardcover. Printed by W. Ross, Philadelphia: (). hardcover
