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1798182503London: printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1798-99. First edition of this complete set of 114 statute laws. It opens with the act that granted Lord Nelson and his descendants a perpetual pension in reward for his victory at the Battle of the Nile. It also includes the Slave Trade Act 1799 notable for better regulating the conditions aboard slave ships sailing from Africa. Other laws of note include William Pitt's Income Tax Act; the Offences at Sea Act still in force today; and the Combination Act banning trade unions. Folio 294 x 183 mm pp. 887 36. Woodcut headpieces tables in text. Near-contemporary half calf flat spine gilt-lettered direct flat bands marbled boards. From the collection of Clive Richards although unmarked as such. Spine darkened and rubbed wormhole in fifth compartment corners worn front free endpaper stabilized pp. 321-33 with large loss at foot affecting text: a very good copy. hardcover
1777599<p>Anno Regni GEORGII III REGIS Magnae Britaniiae Franciae & Hiberniae DECIMO SEPTIMO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster the Twenty-ninth Day of November Anno Domini 1774 in the Fifteenth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith. </p><br /><p>FIRST EDITION 4 1039-1042 woodcut coat of arms on title woodcut floriated initial text in black letter unbound folio 320 x 200mm London Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1777</p><br /><p>This important act emphasised the Government's dedication to improving general science and navigation by offering rewards to those who could find an accurate method for determining longitude at sea. </p><br /><p>The first Longitude Act of 1714 was Parliament's response to the loss of 2000 lives in 1707 when four British navy ships ran aground after miscalculating the longitude. The Act offered prize money of £10000 reduced from £20000 for a reliable and accurate method of determining longitude at sea. Research and related experimentation were also encouraged and award money was made available for lesser discoveries and specific improvements. The competitions attracted the skill and imagination of the greatest scientific minds and mariners of the time.</p><p>The most prominent and successful competitor was John Harrison 1693-1776 who received disbursements of £22000 over a period of 35 years for his brilliant discoveries and invention of the marine chronometer. This was however not without a struggle for recognition. The marine chronometer was quicker but the preferred avenue of institutionalisation was the Lunar Distance Method. The Lunar Distance method was a method to determine longitude using certain astrological measurements and specific corrections marked in yearly almanacks. The Act of 1765 put caveats and conditions on the original act of 1714 and included stipulations that applied specifically to Harrison. It even named him in the opening language and described the current status of his contrariety with the board. Only with the relentless championing from his son and the personal intervention of King George III Harrison was awarded the monetary prize he was due. The Longitude Act 1777 reiterated specific goals of the program as revised by the 1774 Longitude Act and approved an additional £5000 for continued research work and experimentation and for awards to recognize lesser contributory discoveries as approved by the Commissioners of the Board of Longitude.</p><p>The Longitude at Sea program was successful in multiple ways and facilitated important advances in mathematics astronomy horology navigation and Arctic exploration. Over the life of the program a total of £53000 in prize money was awarded to more than sixty participants.</p><br /> Charles Eyre and William Strahan
1804157362London: R. Wilks 1804. First edition. This Act published at the outset of the Napoleonic Wars and intended as a temporary measure permitting the enlistment of non-British officers and retrospectively formalized the commissions of any who had been serving until its passing. We have located only four institutional copies on WorldCat at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek King's College London the British Library and ULB Darmstadt. The text of the act is followed by Rules and Articles for the Better Government of such of our Forces as Shall Consist of Natives of Foreign States who now are or may at any Future Period be Enlisted into our Service. This outlines the regulations all serving British officers and henceforth all foreigners in the army would be subject to. The act was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act of 1872. Octavo pp. xxxvii iii 292 lacking pp. 112-21. Text in English and German. Original grey boards white paper backstrip printed paper labels on both boards. Nineteenth-century ink shelf mark on spine. Binding worn spine cords exposed inner hinges cracked front inner hinge stablized contents lightly toned rear endpaper stained: a good copy. hardcover
182633099London: printed by John Baskett and others 1826. Folio various paginations; approximately 38 Acts of Parliament relating almost entirely to the finances of the Royal Navy 3 folding tables; contemporary red straight-grain morocco yellow binder's ticket of Smith 49 Long Acre; rubbed and worn but sound. Includes several acts on the wages of seamen seamen's' hospitals harbor moorings the Royal Navy treasury prize money benefits for seamen's' families bounty money pensions etc. printed by John Baskett [and others] unknown
1840036870London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1840. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. pp. 1630 - 1687 complete this is a dis-bound but complete Act. A very clean copy.An Act for regulating the Markets and for erecting a Market House in the Town of Launceston in the County of Cornwall. George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode Paperback
60542Published by Authority. Gibraltar Garrison Library. 1839. Folio. Comprising 39 Statutes WITH separate Title and Index PLUS 4 additional Statutes added these from 1 & 2 Vict. 1838. New cloth a very good copy. The Statutes range from An Act for consolidating and amending Laws relative to Jurors and Juries 6 Geo.4 c.50 1825 to An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death in certain Cases 1 Vict. c.91 1837 and including certain very important Acts viz. for Regulating Schools of Anatomy 2 & 3 W.4 c.75 1832;. to abolish the Practice of hanging the Bodies of Criminals in Chains 4 & 5 W.4 c.26 1834;. for abolishing Capital Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege. 5 & 6 W.4 c.81 1835. COPAC does not record a copy of this title. Published by Authority. Gibraltar Garrison Library. 1839. Folio. hardcover
1745583<p>Anno Regni GEORGII II REGIS Magnae Britaniiae Franciae & Hiberniae DECIMO OCTAVO. At the Parliament Begun and holden at Westminster the First Day of December Anno Domini 1741 in the Fifteenth Year of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith. </p><br /><p>FIRST EDITION 2 483-486 woodcut coat of arms on title woodcut floriated initial text in black letter folio 320 x 200mm London Thomas Baskett 1745</p><p>The third Act to be published on the Northwest Passage the act of 1745 offered the enormous sum of £20000 for the discovery of a north-west passage providing that they were a British subject. </p><p>The preamble to the Act stated the expected economic benefits of the discovery of the passage and that it would be "a great encouragement to adventurers" to offer a prize. The allocated sum was £20000 to be paid to the owners of the first ships to successfully make such a passage.</p><p>The Board of Longitude existed from 1714 until 1828 after the original Act of Parliament was passed in 1714. First added to in 1741 the act was subsequently amended or repealed and replaced on numerous occasions until the Board was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1828. </p><p>This Act established a group of commissioners to determine the validity of any claims and restricted the scope of the Act to only apply to British subjects. It further required all British subjects to provide help and assistance to the explorers when necessary. In setting a hefty monetary reward and promoting the potential benefits to society this act of Parliament likely intensified the Northwest Passage fervour and motivated explorers to venture deep into the Arctic.</p><p>When the Act was extended in 1775 and the reward reiterated Cook took up the mantle leading to his third voyage. </p> Thomas Baskett
1918165701918. Representation of the People Act 1918. 8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64 Printed by Percy Lunch Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Normal Gibb Scorgie C.V.O. C.B.E. Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office and King's Printer of Acts of Parliament. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 6 in. The Representation of the People Act of 1918 granted the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification. The same Act gave the vote to all men over the age of 21. As a result of this act 8.5 million women joined the electorate and made up almost 40% of all voters in the United Kingdom. This was a great victory for the women's suffrage movement which had been calling for voting rights since the 1830s. Militant suffrage groups in the UK were even known for campaigns of destruction and mayhem in order to keep their issue in the forefront of everyone's minds. unknown
182633099London: printed by John Baskett and others 1826. Folio various paginations; approximately 38 Acts of Parliament relating almost entirely to the finances of the Royal Navy 3 folding tables; contemporary red straight-grain morocco yellow binder's ticket of Smith 49 Long Acre; rubbed and worn but sound. Includes several acts on the wages of seamen seamen's' hospitals harbor moorings the Royal Navy treasury prize money benefits for seamen's' families bounty money pensions etc. <br/><br/> printed by John Baskett [and others] unknown books
20940London,10 Ph of Palace of Westminster with sl.cr. tissue guards. French captions. 24x31c. white emb. cvr BUT gutta-percha perfect binding completely failed and all pages detached. else good
1771168171771 velin ivoire, dos à nerfs, muet. in-12, 26, 56, 28, 48, 50, 14, 38, 47pp., s.l., s.n. (ca. 1771)
187991271London: Chatto & Windus. 1879. 1st ed. octavo rebound in half leather with gilt decorations and raised bands to spine new endpapers pp xii 325 plus 40 pp publisher's catalogue. Faint inscription with date 1879 in ink and blindstamp to title page some light markings to top-edge otherwise near-fine condition. A beautifully rebound first edition. A report prepared by the Sub-Committee of the Afghan Committee for the British Parliament. "The object of this publication is to help our countrymen to understand by what steps they have been involved in war with the Afghan nation and what grounds are assigned for that war by its authors." Preface. Not in NLA 1st edition. Half leather. Chatto & Windus hardcover
2543London: Mark Baskett January 10th 1765. . Folio disbound first title still conjugate gutter showing evidence of previous binding. Second title third leaf detached; gutter showing evidence of previous binding The passage of these acts was probably spurred by an the likelihood of an outbreak of cattle plague on the British mainland which actually did occur in later in 1765. London: Mark Baskett, January 10th 1765. unknown books
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 312 p. B/w ills. Hizmete adanmis bir ömür: Galip Demirel.
283 p. + Wonderful plates, including a magnificent color printed frontis and fine mezzotint-like portraits. Folio. Three-quarter red leather binding, over marbled boards. Rubbed. First edition. Limited to 1250 numbered examples. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W150
8vo., First Edition, with decorative and printed titles, very numerous plates, illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, and patterned endpapers, title and a few following leaves lightly spotted; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, firm copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small blind stamp on title.
8vo., First Edition, with decorative and printed titles, very numerous plates, and illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, some moderate offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small hole in backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
7179All six letters dated from London in 1759. All six letters in quarto; good on aged paper; and with text neatly-written clear and entire. Letter One: 3 May 1759. 2 pp. 40 lines of text. Giving advice regarding a will to be drawn up by a Mrs Robertson. 'As to the place where Mrs. Robertson makes the Disposition it is absolutely immaterial . and then her will wrote in her own hand writing without witnesses will be as good as with twenty witnesses .'. Valediction from 'your affectionate friend & Cousin'. Letter Two: 30 June 1759. 1 pp. 24 lines. It is unfortunate that a trial should be 'put off . to so long a day but it may turn out for the better as it will give people time to Cool'. He is 'sorry the man Bell should be so ignorant & weak to think it can tend to his character to commit Perjury & willfull murder if his testimony as he gave it could take away Capt. Goddard or the Serjeants lives to save his character of consistency. But the Character is alas too Common - many more fear men than fear God'. Gives advice on how Goddard should proceed: 'then he Bell must be ask'd if he did not say so & so to you & to Mr Jefferys or one of you - if he denies that than sic you & Mr Jeffererys sic must confront him .'. Letter Three: 10 July 1759. 1 p. 19 lines. He is worried that Letter Two may have miscarried and repeats the advice contained within it. 'I hope Mr Goddard will have some English Councel sic as well as Mr Lockhart because our method of proceeding is very far different from the Scots method.' Letter Four: 15 November 1759. 17 lines of text. He is glad his correspondent is 'safely return'd to Berwick from your Statfordshire sic expedition. Discusses speaking to 'the Colonel' about 'Jack'. Letter Five: 14 November 1759. 2 pp. 45 lines. Concerning a fatal attack on 'Mr Paterson' of the 66th Regiment of Foot by brother officers. 'I am glad you said so little to my Brother Hugh Hume Campbell 3rd Earl of Marchmont about those who attack'd & abused Mr Patterson. . If the officers or any of them should be Broke which I think unavoidable - they must think it is better to be broke than hanged. . Mr Wright prayed for if he did not revenge as he call'd it an enormous offence in which he partook. as to the excuse of being in liquor it will be of no use an officer drunk should still be a Gentleman . this has been perpetrated by officers of the same Corps and in the same place; where a young officer was tried for murder and I was happily instrumental in assisting him . Every body here whom I have consulted cry out shame . My best wishes attend all at the Pallace. Again be cautious you cannot medle sic too little in this business.' Letter Six: 29 December 1759. 3 pp. 61 lines of text. He is glad that his correspondent 'ceas'd speaking upon the subject' at Marchmont House 'when he perceiv'd the state of things. I wish your sister & Miss Grizie Carre had been as cautious . it is a subject I can say little upon till the Captain comes over . I fear whatever may be the Event of the Court martial as to Mr Wright - I much apprehend obloquy will follow it'. He hopes to see Mrs Tonyn when the Captain who is 'a slave by trade & calling' comes. All six letters dated from London in 1759. unknown
18179AE's five letters on letterheads of 30 Ennismore Gardens S.W. London 3; and Spring Bank Oldham 2; four of them from between 1905 and 1907 the other undated. GHE's letter on letterhead of 35 Grosvenor Road Claughton Birkenhead; 1903. The six items totalling 9pp. are in fair condition on lightly-aged paper George H. Emmott's letter having slight wear at head. The recipient was Charles J. Holdsworth of Sunnyside Wilmslow Cheshire. AE's first letter responds briefly to Holdsworth's congratulations on Emmott's appointment as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; the second letter sends what 'appears to be an old scrap book of Henry King's' Holdsworth's uncle with reference to 'old Friends' books of his'; the third no more than a note states his 'only objection' as 'publication in the newspaper' ; the fourth and longest at two full 4to pages gives his views 27 April 1907 on 'Haldane's Territorial & Reserve Forces Bill': 'I do not vote on account of my official post but I do not want to pass by this communication from the Society of Friends without acknowledgment'. He is not commenting as he is 'out of political strife for the time being' but is 'tempted to say privately that I am told the number of volunteers from boys who have been in Cadet Corps is far smaller proportionately than from the general male population. The reason stated is that military training even of that imperfect kind lessens rather than increases the military spirit. I wonder if it really is so. If it is we need not fear the moral effect of military training very much. For any danger but that of the military spirit is not to be feared & the physical results are good enough.' AE's fifth letter refers Holdsworth to his brother George who with his wife will probably know 'who took most of these books'. George H. Emmott's letter dated 12 July 1903 is 3pp. 8vo and discusses AE's school days at the Quaker School in Kendal: 'I remember however that on one occasion when his half yearly report came home it contained the remark from Henry Thompson that he combined the good qualities of both his elder brothers - meaning I believe my studiousness and love of books and our brother John's love of games & outdoor exercise. I do not know how it arose but his nickname at school where he was quite a general favourite wwas "Madam" .'. AE's five letters on letterheads of 30 Ennismore Gardens, S.W. [ London ] (3); and Spring Bank, Oldham (2); four of them from be unknown
184812In 8 demi-toile postérieure muette.Faux-titre, titre, XXV,510 pages,non rogné, non coupé, couverture conservée.Veuve Louis Janet éditeur.
In-8° pp. 194 con dis. n.t. legatura edit. con sovracoperta ill.
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 26.
Due volumi in 4° grande, legati in piena pelle, titolo inciso ai piatti ed al tassello ai dorsi, sguardie figurate, bianca con dedica autografa dell'autore al Dr. M.G.T., frontespizi, introduzioni, 660, 743 pp., indici, colophon e bianche finali, numerose vignette ed illustrazioni fotografiche a piena pagina. Dall'introduzione: "Il primo volume di quest'opera si apre con un saggio critico sulla crisi del Parlamento italiano, la cui parte introduttiva documenta la unanimità delle critiche da parte dei gruppi politici, dopo un abbastanza largo compendio di storia parlamentare in un secolo (1848 - 1948), il volume si chiude con la esposizione critica delle vicende della Camera italiana durante le quattro legislature della Repubblica; il secondo volume offre tutta una serie di documentazioni inedite, dati per la prima volta raccolti, di curiosità utili al conseguimento di un valido quadro, intorno all'attività e al funzionamento della Camera italiana dal 1948 al 1968. ... La crisi, funzionale, strutturale, pianta purtroppo le sue radici nel costume stesso della Nazione e innalza i suoi fastigi fino ai vertici dello Stato. ..." Ben più che interessante, in ottimo stato, con un significativo corredo iconografico, impreziosita dalla dedica autografa di Giorgio Almirante.
2 voll. in 4°, pegamoide edit. con tracce d'uso, pp. 660,(4); 657,(7), con ill. b.n. n.t., buon es.
Mm 170x240 Collana "Strumenti. Diritto". Brossura editoriale con bandelle, 1045 pagine. Rare sottolineature a matita, peraltro copia molto buona. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
