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1875983F28London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1875. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 15" by 11.5". None. The first edition of these highly informative statistical returns detailing land ownership in late 19th century England and Wales. The first edition of 'England and Wales Exclusive of the Metropolis. Return of Owners of Land 1873' complete in two volumes. Volume I: Bedford to Norfolk; Volume II: Northamton to Radnor.This is a statistical return listing for each county in England and Wales excluding London detailing: the names and holdings of all landowners with one acre or more showing acreage and annual rental value; the total number and combined acreage and rental value of owners with less than one acre; and the estimated area of commons and waste land.Rebacked in half calf bindings.These volumes offer detailed statistical insight into land distribution in England Wales and Ireland in the late 19th century. Rebacked in half calf bindings with cloth covered boards and with back strips laid down. Light fading and damp staining to fore edges of cloth of boards most concentrated to front board of volume I. Tail of front joint of volume II starting with board firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
190095469London: HMSO 1900. Hardcover as now bound; all were originally issued as softcovers. Good. Modern red cloth. 34 cm. 1 51p.; 2 102p.; 3 55p.; 4. v 145p. Condition of individual papers vary with occasional chipping edge-wear soiling etc. Two groups of leaves browned and rather brittle in the second report. Original wrappers if there were any have not been preserved. The second report is mostly by F. D. Lugard; he seems to show up only a bit in the other reports which seem to feature communications from Portal Colvile MacDonald Cracknall Hardinge etc. HMSO hardcover
1843103363London 1843. Softcover. good to very good. 189pp. Folio original blue wrappers. Corners missing on top and bottom of spine and front cover. Front blank missing large chunk or top corner. good to very good TPL 7686. 1843 paperback
1892215504London : HMSO 1892. First Edition. Hardback. Binding or reading copy. Fair copy bound in contemporary leather-backed boards. 'Foreign Office' stamped to front and rear panels. Spine and panel edges worn and rubbed. Lacking some of spine cover. Text block intact. Heavy foxing to title page and scattered through prelims. Light tanning to page margins. Title page has nearly separated from the binding. Related newspaper clippings obituary notice of Maj. Gen. Sir W. MacPherson tipped in to ii and iii of prelims. Provenance: Bequeathed to the Foreign Office Library by Sir James McIver MacLeod with his MS notes to the front pastedown and his signature to the title page. Foreign Office bookplate tipped in at title page. MacIver was correspondent with Ernest Satow. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 425 pages; Description: ix 425p. illus tables folding map ; 24cm. Subjects: Great Britain -- Parliament -- House of Commons -- Army Medical Department -- Reports -- 19th century -- Parliamentary papers. Military history -- British Army -- Health -- Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports of Army Medical Dept. Notes: ""With appendix"" --title page. London : HMSO hardcover
1832224111London : Hansard & Sons 1832. First Edition. Hardback. Bound in contemporary gilt-blocked aniline calf over marble boards; front hinge detached. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and toned. Scans and additional bibliographic detail on request ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Series; Reports of committees; 1831-32 ; P.B.2. Pagination not continuous. Includes the correspondence minutes of evidence on the claim Mr. Bury's evidence etc. William Alexander Mackintosh etc. London : Hansard & Sons hardcover
1890439866London : Stationery Office 1890. Hardcover. Very good copies in gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Marbled end-papers. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 5 volumes. London : Stationery Office hardcover
1869106177London: Printed by Henry Kent Causton & Son. 1869. Softcover. very good. 1st Edition. 228pp. Small Octavo. Sewn as issued. very good Peel 3 - 506. Correspondence covers the years 1862-69 and relates to the surrender of the title to Rupert's Land. Hudson's Bay House. 1869 Printed by Henry Kent Causton & Son. paperback
1874141379London: Printed by William Clowes & Sons. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1874. Hardcover. very good. 1st printing. ii266pp. Folio. Extract bound in modern paper covered boards with new paper label on front board. Tope edge gilt. Edges a bit browned but overall a very nice clean copy. very good Very scarce. This folio parliamentary paper was a very early report to both Houses of Parliament on the first attempt to finance and build the first Canadian Trans Continental Railway. This attempt failed and helped to bring down John A. MacDonalds government. 1874 Printed by William Clowes & Sons,.. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
1859106258London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1859. Softcover. very good. 1st Edition. v83pp. Folio in original printed blue wrappers with folding map colour in outline. Minor chipping to wrappers at extremities. Scarce in the original wrappers. very good Lowther 86 4 parts. - "Contents pt. 1: Copies of despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of British Columbia and from the Governor to the Secretary of State relative to the government of the colony; also copies of the act of Parliament to provide for the administration of justice; and instrument revoking ao mucxh of the crown grant of 30th May 1838 to the Hudson's Bay Company for exclusive trading with the Indians as relates to the territories comprised within the colony of British Columbia." Pt 1 Appendix "Handbook to the Gold Regions of Fraser's and Thompson's Rivers." by Alexander C. Anderson late Chief Trader Hudson's Bay Company Service with map "Showing the different Routes of Communication with the Gold Region on Fraser River.". 1859 Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode paperback
1871161381871. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life 1871 documents the parliamentary investigation of infant welfare paid infant care mortality and state regulation in Victorian Britain. The report documents the emerging system of infant life protection through committee proceedings witness testimony appendices and an index revealing how legislators gathered medical legal and social evidence to define infant neglect as a matter requiring public oversight. Produced one year before the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872 the volume provides primary-source evidence for the study of child welfare law women's labor and caregiving economies public health regulation infant mortality and the legal history of "baby farming" a term used in nineteenth-century debates over paid care for infants. The 1872 legislation has been identified by historians as Britain's first infant life protection legislation making this parliamentary report important to the documentary record behind early state intervention in private infant care.<br /> <br /> Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life together with the Proceedings of the Committee Minutes of Evidence Appendix and Index. London: Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 20 July 1871. First edition. 328 pp. Rebound in modern cloth. The report includes the committee's formal proceedings minutes of evidence appendix and index giving the volume a structured evidentiary record rather than a general policy summary. Its contents outline testimony and documentary material on infant care outside the immediate family social conditions affecting infant survival legal deficiencies and the need for enforceable protections. As a government publication it shows the mechanisms of parliamentary fact-finding in practice: evidence was collected organized indexed and converted into a legislative record that helped frame infant protection as a matter of law public health and social administration.<br /> <br /> The report belongs to the broader nineteenth-century movement toward state scrutiny of child welfare women's caregiving labor and domestic arrangements previously treated as private matters. Its timing matters because it precedes the 1872 Act and captures the evidentiary process by which infant mortality and paid infant nursing entered the legislative sphere. First few pages including title page with small loss at right page edge not affecting legibility; handwritten page numbers in upper right corners throughout; pages bright and clean; overall good. A substantial parliamentary source for research into Victorian child welfare infant mortality gendered labor public health law and the development of modern protective regulation. unknown
1838elala1148Toronto: R.Stanton 1838. 1838. 8vo. pp. 63 16. original printed front wr. present disbound wrs. stained staining to upper margins through first gatherings. An investigation into "the causes which have led to the recent unnatural revolt in this portion of Her Majestys Dominions; the evils that have resulted from it; and the measures necessary to guard and protect us from the recurrence of a like calamity" p. 3 preceded by a short review of the political history of the Provinces since they became a part of the Dominions of the British Crown. The report is dated February 8 1838 and the appendix contains documents dating from December 13 1837 to January 26 1838. Fleming 1267 lacking title. TPL 2228. Casey I 1655. Gagnon I 2993. Lande 2249. [Toronto]: R.Stanton, 1838. unknown
1810140106Quebec 1810. Volume the Sixth.Statutes of the first session of the sixth Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada. Softcover. Very good. 15 p. 26 cm. Royal coat of arms on title. Disbound. Text in English and French. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Said Province Constituted and Assembled by Virtue of and Under the Authority of an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain Passed in the Thirty-First year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith." Hare et Wallot 224. paperback
1809140105Quebec 1809. Statutes of the first session of the fifth Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada. . Very good. 21 p. 26 cm. Royal coat of arms on title. Disbound. Light foxing. Ink notation on p. 16. Text in English and French. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Said Province Constituted and Assembled by Virtue of and Under the Authority of an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain Passed in the Thirty-First year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith. Volume the Fifith." Statutes of the first session of the fifth Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada. Hare et Wallot 186. unknown
1811140107Quebec 1811. Statutes of the first session of the seventh Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada. . Very good. 95 p. 26 cm. Royal coat of arms on title. Disbound. Text in English and French. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Said Province Constituted and Assembled by Virtue of and Under the Authority of an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain Passed in the Thirty-First year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith. Volume the Seventh." unknown
1874104564London: Printed by William Clowes & Sons. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1874. Softcover. good to very good. 1st printing. ii266pp. Folio disbound with all edges green. Some light dampstaining affecting top edge and upper right hand margin edges. Manuscript pagination added in upper right hand margin. good to very good Very scarce. This folio parliamentary paper was a very early report to both Houses of Parliament on the first attempt to finance and build the first Canadian Trans Continental Railway. This attempt failed and helped to bring down John A. MacDonalds government. 1874 Printed by William Clowes & Sons,.. for Her Majesty's Stationery Office paperback
1868106207London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1868. Softcover. good to very good. 150pp. Folio 33 x 21 cm. in original blue wrappers with folding colour map. Wrappers detached chipped some minor soiling to contents. good to very good Transmitted with the Blue Books for the Year 1866. 1868 Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode paperback
18337535Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1833. 12pp. sm. folio with fine woodcut arms of William IV on front page; disbound an exceptionally crisp virtually spotless copy ideal for display or presentation. 3 Gulielmi IV. Cap. 9; granted royal assent 6 May 1833. This is the Act of Parliament formally incorporating the Seaman's Hospital Society establishing and naming its first governors and prescribing its powers and scope of operations. By way of context its military equivalent the Royal Hospital at Chelsea was founded in 1692. The world's first charitable society for the relief of distressed seamen was established in London in March 1821. Initially it aimed to cater for those in the Port of London 'who at that time were very numerous in the Metropolis' and fittingly for the world's leading maritime nation did not differentiate on nationality or any other grounds other than disability and hardship. The motivating principles seem to have been partly public gratitude in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars in which the Royal Navy in particular had played a fundamental role in achieving victory and partly increased recognition of the helplessness of private seamen and the strength of their cause. The society was supported entirely by donations subscriptions and legacies and by the loan by government of a hospital ship HMS Dreadnought moored at Greenwich. In its first twelve years the society provided relief and support to upwards of twenty-three thousand sick and distressed seamen 'many of whom might otherwise have perished'. With the case clearly made it was time for a more formal and robust body with increased remit and governance; accordingly the Seaman's Hospital Society was given royal assent on 6 May 1833. Its significant extra powers included the rights to possess property receive bequests purchase lands and canvass donations; most important of all it was granted 'perpetual succession'. The original HMS Dreadnought continued in use until 1870 when the Admiralty made available at nominal rent the infirmary at Greenwich where the 'Dreadnought' hospital continues to this day. AN ACT OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THE WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF SEAMEN IN BRITAIN AND A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN BRITISH MARITIME HISTORY. VERY SCARCE ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. [Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, unknown
1840103402Printed for H. M. S. O. by Clowes & Sons 1840. Softcover. good to very good. v207;227;60pp. Folio. Part I sewn as issued lacking wrappers soiled with some wear to titlepage from erasure; Part II in original blue wrappers with large piece of rear corner missing; Part IV in original blue wrappers. good to very good Reference: TPL 7572-7574. Contents: Pt. 1. Lower Canada -- Pt. 2. Upper Canada political -- Pt. 4. Upper Canada. 1840 Printed for H. M. S. O. by Clowes & Sons paperback
1812AQ27618London: s.n. 1812. 19pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Bound with: Drop-head title: Further paper relating to the slave trade. Viz. Observation by William Dawes Esquire one of the Commissioners ;- in addition to the Report made by the Commission of African Enquiry. - 1811. London s.n. 1812. 21-22pp 1. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Folio. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutters. Later resewn. Early manuscript page numbers to upper margins. A rare survival of a report on the condition of British territories on the Gold Coast of Africa in particular efforts to tarry the Spanish and Portuguese slave trade. Of interest are the expense tables showing the cost of maintaining British forts in the region; Cape Coast Castle for example has an average annual charge of £3277 with 'Black Men's Pay' making up £179 and 'Castle Slaves' costing £990. The report is here paired with the second located copy of an addendum by sometime governor of Sierra Leone William Dawes 1762-1836 that whilst broadly agreeing with the findings nevertheless suggests an increase in naval power off the African Coast. Soon after this paper was printed Dawes at the suggestion of William Wilberforce travelled to Antigua to work for the anti-slavery cause there. OCLC and COPAC together record copies of the first mentioned work at just three locations John Carter Brown NLW and Princeton. OCLC records a single copy of the second mentioned work NLSA; COPAC adds no further. . [s.n.] unknown
1850AQ27621London: s.n. 1850. 26pp 2. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. From the recently dispersed library of William St Clair with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription to head of title. A series of dispatches relating to the violent torture of Cape Coast native Robert Erskine. In 1847 whilst a domestic in the service of Captain Augustus William Murray of the 1st West-India Regiment and stationed at the infamous Cape Coast Castle Erskine was accused of having stolen sundry articles of jewellery from the officer. Despite his protestations of innocence and a lack of any evidence connecting him with the crime Erskine was brutally tortured for eight days. In consequence of his torment he lost the use of his hands. It was later ascertained that the actual culprit was a soldier of the 1st West India Regiment and likely one of the individuals who engaged in Erskine's maltreatment. A year after the event the Aborigines Protection Society took up Erskine's case and successfully prosecuted it in 1851. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1821AQ27623London: s.n. 1821. 14pp 2. Docket title to verso of terminal leaf. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds. A rare survival of copies of correspondence relating to act to divest the African Company of Merchants of the charge and management of forts and settlements on the Gold Coast of Africa and transfer their control to the Crown. The act that abolished the company was passed in May 1821 and the transfer ownership of eight forts including the notorious Cape Coast Castle was affected on 3rd July the day after these letters were ordered by Commons to be printed. They contain listings of the Company's employees and respective salaries and abstract of annual stipends paid to local Kings and Cabboceers. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC records copies at just two locations Florida and NLW; COPAC adds no further. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1820AQ27620London: s.n. 1820. 17pp 1. Disbound. Later resewn. Three old horizontal folds sealing wax remnant to title ink-stamp pf the Institute of Historical Research to verso. The second located copy of an annual report submitted by Royal Navy officer Sir George Collier 1774-1824 on the condition of the African Company's forts and settlements. Between 1818 and 1821 Collier commanded the six-ship coast of Africa squadron with a remit to suppress the slave trade a charge he undertook with zeal significantly reducing the traffic of slaves from the continent. In 1820 his work was recognised by election to honorary life membership of the African Institution. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy Southampton. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1817AQ27622London: s.n. 1817. 63pp 1. Disbound. Later resewn. Terminal leaf creased. The report of a parliamentary committee appointed to evaluate the condition of the state of trade and establishments of the African Company issued four years prior its ultimate dissolution by the British Government in 1821. With the exception of the major forts such as Cape Coast Castle many British forts were not particularly well defended nor maintained and as such their efficacy as a deterrent to slave traders greatly diminished. Parliament frustrated by this reduced effectiveness pursued a policy of reducing the number of African Company settlements through the abandonment of any upon strict inquiry not found to be of service in a sufficient degree to warrant their expenditure. From the recently dispersed library without any indication of such of British scholar and senior civil servant William St Clair 1937-2021 and presumably used by him in his research for his acclaimed book The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade 2006. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at just six locations California NLW NYPL Senate House Southampton and UoL. . Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1878PCT78VIC97Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1878. 1878. folio. pp. 80. folding lithographed map. several text illus. disbound scattered library rubberstamps. Including the journal of exploration of Port Phillip made by Charles Grimes Surveyor-General of New South Wales 1802-03 together with a copy of his map the order book of Lieutenant-Governor Collins during the stay at Port Phillip 1803-04 and the journal of the Rev. Robert Knopwood Chaplain to the settlement 24 April 1803 to 31 December 1804 &c. cfFerguson 15655. Soft cover. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, [1878]. Paperback
182676430unknown: unknown 1801 / 1821 / 1825 / 1826. 4to. 697-720; 221-224; 1497-1540; 1-30 pp manuscript. Half brown calf over marbled boards with a red leather title label bearing gilt lettering and ruling to the front board. Rubbing to the spine corners and boards. Some chipping and loss to the leather at the spine with a 2cm split at the front hinge. Some offsetting to the text alongside some spots markings and occasional pencil annotations to the Acts of Parliament. With copies of letters of correspondence relating to the use of land within Hanslope Park in Stony Straford dated to 1865 on embossed Hanslope Park paper loosley enclosed. Contains 4 Acts of Parliament relating to the Inclosure of Salcey Forest forming part of the Inclosure Acts of the 18th and 19th century which put previously common land into private ownership with manuscript Commisioner's minutes providing detail on the procedure land claimants and expenses at the rear. The four Acts include: 'An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts of Inclosure; and for Facilitating the Mode of proving the several Facts usually required for the passing of such Acts' from 1801; 'An Act to amend the Law respecting the inclosing of Open Fields Pastures Moors Commons and Waste Lands in England' from 1821; 'An Act for dividing allotting and inclosing the Forest of Salcey in the Counties of Northhampton and Buckingham; and of certain Lands in the Parish of Hartwell in the said County of Northampton' from 1825; and finally 'An Act for Subdividing alloting and inclosing the Allotment directed to be set out by an Act of the last Session of Parliament for inclosing the Forest of Salcey in the Counties of Northampton and Buckingham to the several Owners and Proprietors of Land claiming Rights of Common in and over the said Forest' from 1826. This volume provides a fascinating local insight into this hugely significant period of change in the history of English land ownership. . Very Good. Half Calf. 1826. [unknown] 1801 / 1821 / 1825 / 1826 unknown
