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1840293869London : Jones & co. 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn set bound in half aniline calf over marble boards with a gilt label to the spine. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Previous owner's inscriptions remain. Physical description; two volumes. Subjects; National Picture Gallery. The Great Masters. British Art. London : Jones & co. hardcover
1843463981London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in contemporary half black leather over marble boards now lightly scuffed and edgeworn. Spine with gilt-blocked titles somewhat worn at the ends and peeling slightly at the front joint. Well-preserved internally: tight bright and clean overall with crisp folded matter. A well-preserved example. Physical description; 1 volume variously paginated plates some folded : illustrations ; 34 cm. Notes; Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 August 1843. Subjects; Shipwrecks Great Britain History 19th century. Marine accidents Great Britain History 19th century. Merchant marine Great Britain Safety measures 19th century. Lifesaving Great Britain History 19th century. Lighthouses Great Britain History 19th century. Coastwise navigation Great Britain History 19th century. Parliamentary papers Great Britain 19th century. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
18141125558255Edinburgh: Printed by command of His Majesty King George the Third 1814. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. original boards pp/.xx60852 indexes. printed spine label all full page plates present covers are worn scuffed cover detached plates show some moderate foxing. Edited under the direction of the Record Commission by Thomas Thomson. Printed by command of His Majesty King George the Third Hardcover
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
18549579Lyon, Imprimerie Louis Perrin, 1854 ; in-8 ; cartonnage beige de l'éditeur, auteur et titre imprimés au dos en gros caractères gothiques enluminés marron, rouge et bleu ; (1) f. blanc, (6), 460, (2) pp. (la pagination passe de 244 à [251] avec (1) f. de faux-titre entre, sans manque : il s'agit de 2 ff. de blasons vides qui ont été coupés à la fabrication) ; carte rempliée en début d'ouvrage, 1 pl. hors-texte lithographiée en couleurs, 1 gravure sur cuivre hors-texte, 2 vues de Trévoux en-tête, 7 bandeaux et culs-de-lampe par Louis Perrin et en tout 258 blasons identifiés et 15 noms sans blason.
1845003282Rennes, chez Edouard Morault, libraire. In-8 (21,8x14,8 cm), 547 pp., reliure demi-maroquin vert foncé, dos janséniste à 5 nerfs, tête dorée, non rogné reliure de l'époque). Edition originale, illustrée de deux plans repliés.
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