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176535551London: Mark Baskett 1765. Folio. 12 x 7 7/8 inches. 2 279-310pp. 5 George III cap. XII. Disbound. Housed in a blue full morocco box.<br/> <br/>Very rare first official printing of the Stamp Act: an exceptionally important document in American history.<br/> <br/>The passage of the Stamp Act was one of the signal events in the history of the United States. After its successful effort in the French and Indian War the British government was saddled with a massive debt. Added to this was the cost of administering its new lands in Canada and the necessity of protecting colonists on the American frontier from Indian attacks. In order to raise funds for border defenses the British Parliament decided to levy a tax directly on the colonists rather than relying on colonial legislatures to raise the funds themselves. Over the protests of colonial agents in London including Benjamin Franklin from Pennsylvania and Jared Ingersoll of Connecticut a tax was levied on all legal and commercial papers pamphlets newspapers almanacs cards and dice. Nine pages in the present act are taken up with descriptions of what type of printed materials would be subject to the tax. A Stamp Office was created in Britain and Stamp Inspectors were to be assigned to each colonial district. Colonists wishing to purchase or use any of the materials covered in the Act would be required to buy a stamp. The outrage in the colonies at this form of taxation was immediate and overwhelming and the Stamp Act was repealed in 1766. The bitterness engendered by the Act lingered on and coupled with subsequent British laws including the Intolerable Acts and the Townshend Acts became some of the many grievances enunciated in the Declaration of Independence. "This is the original folio edition of the famous or infamous Stamp Act by which the American colonies were taxed in and on their business papers" Church. "The importance of this act to our history needs no comment" Streeter. Sabin and Howes note an octavo edition of sixty-six pages also printed by Baskett in London in 1765. This momentous law was reprinted several times in the American colonies in 1765 in editions in Boston New York Philadelphia Annapolis New London and Woodbridge New Jersey.<br/> <br/>Sweet & Maxwell II:176; Church 1054; Stevens 6; Howes A285; Sabin 1606. Mark Baskett unknown books
17131394685London: Printed by John Baskett 1713-1717. First Editions. Hardcover. Folio 61-174 2179-191 6 203-206 2 211-218 2 223-270 2 275-357 3 361-362 2 367-382 2 387-422 4. In Good minus condition. Bound in full contemporary calf with banded spine and tooling to boards. Boards show moderate wear to edges moderate plus wear and bumping to corners and several gouges to the front board. Cracking to leather along joint of front board. A clear lacquer appears to have been applied to the boards. Text block has light age toning to edges. Ex-Library institutional plate appears on front paste down. Ex libris of former owner appears on front pastedown. Several ink "doodles" in an 18th-century hand appear on the front paste down and front free end page. Square-inch tear to fore-edge of front free end page. Pages tightly trimmed by binder impacting some of the printed marginal annotations. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Appears to contain two collections of public statutes passed in 1713 and 1714 but printed between 1713 and 1717 each with a closing contents page. The first collection contains Acts II - XVIII of 18 acts and the second contains Acts II - XXIII of 23 acts. The acts cover a range of topics including duties tariffs and taxes; the paying and management of military personnel and militias; and the management of churches. The most significant of the acts however is Act 15 of the second set of acts entitled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". This formally established the Commissioners of the Longitude and the reward of £20000 for "the first Author or Authors Discoverer or Discoverers of any such method ." that to the satisfaction of the committee accurately determined a ship's longitude at sea accurate to within 20 geographical miles. This reward would not be claimed until 1765 when clockmaker John Harrison developed his "time-keeper" or marine chronometer. 1394685. Special Collections. Printed by John Baskett hardcover
192195293London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1921. Rare collection of original documents relating to the Palestine Question 1917-1947. Octavos 3 volumes unbound. Scarce and desirable. With the failure of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946 the British government requested the General Assembly of the United Nations to form a special committee to investigate the Palestine problem. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine UNSCOP arrived in Palestine on 15 June 1947. The Arab Higher Committee believed UNSCOP to be pro-Zionist and so boycotted proceedings although some members of the AHC did meet the committee in a private capacity. While UNSCOP was in Palestine the SS Exodus arrived in Haifa with Jewish Displaced Persons seeking to illegally immigrate to Palestine and some have stated that it was this that changed the UN's outlook to support the creation of the state of Israel. UNSCOP's final recommendations delivered on 3 September 1947 at Geneva supported the termination of the Mandate with a majority of committee members recommending the partition of Palestine into two separate states and a minority favouring a federal union with Jerusalem as its capital. Having originally boycotted UNSCOP the Arab Higher Committee must have realised that there would have been only a very small window of opportunity between the Geneva meeting and the General Assembly vote to present their case and so compiled the present lot. Published on 1 October 1947 it contains 46 different documents 'Including the texts of correspondence memoranda and notes submitted to British and international authorities by Palestinian Arab organisations between 1921 and 1947' Khalidi & Khadduri. One assumes it was distributed to members of the UN General Assembly prior to the vote on Partition; this occurred on 29 November 1947 with the General Assembly adopting Resolution 181 based on the UNSCOP majority plan with only slight modifications to the proposed recommendations. We can only trace 11 copies in institutions: 2 in the UK LSE and Oxford 8 in the US and one at the American University of Beirut Khalidi & Khadduri 780. His Majesty's Stationary Office unknown
192195293London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1921. Rare collection of original documents relating to the Palestine Question 1917-1947. Octavos 3 volumes unbound. Scarce and desirable. With the failure of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946 the British government requested the General Assembly of the United Nations to form a special committee to investigate the Palestine problem. The United Nations Special Committee on Palestine UNSCOP arrived in Palestine on 15 June 1947. The Arab Higher Committee believed UNSCOP to be pro-Zionist and so boycotted proceedings although some members of the AHC did meet the committee in a private capacity. While UNSCOP was in Palestine the SS Exodus arrived in Haifa with Jewish Displaced Persons seeking to illegally immigrate to Palestine and some have stated that it was this that changed the UN's outlook to support the creation of the state of Israel. UNSCOP's final recommendations delivered on 3 September 1947 at Geneva supported the termination of the Mandate with a majority of committee members recommending the partition of Palestine into two separate states and a minority favouring a federal union with Jerusalem as its capital. Having originally boycotted UNSCOP the Arab Higher Committee must have realised that there would have been only a very small window of opportunity between the Geneva meeting and the General Assembly vote to present their case and so compiled the present lot. Published on 1 October 1947 it contains 46 different documents 'Including the texts of correspondence memoranda and notes submitted to British and international authorities by Palestinian Arab organisations between 1921 and 1947' Khalidi & Khadduri. One assumes it was distributed to members of the UN General Assembly prior to the vote on Partition; this occurred on 29 November 1947 with the General Assembly adopting Resolution 181 based on the UNSCOP majority plan with only slight modifications to the proposed recommendations. We can only trace 11 copies in institutions: 2 in the UK LSE and Oxford 8 in the US and one at the American University of Beirut Khalidi & Khadduri 780. His Majesty's Stationary Office unknown books
192295292London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1922. Rare original pamphlet establishing the <span class="match">Palestine</span> <span class="match">Mandate.</span> Octavo 12 pages. Scarce and desirable. A<span class="match"> crucial document in Middle Eastern history</span>. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference despite huge pressure from France most of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Treaty relating to the post-war political solution of the Middle East was enforced. Emir Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi 1885-1933 leader of the Arab Revolt was named as King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria but as he had relinquished coastal areas of Syria to the French he found himself undermined by Syrian extremists agitating for a Greater Syria. Wavering he caved in to their demands and rejected his previous accommodation with the French. Simultaneously Feisal's political grip of inland Syria started to wane and the Allies hurriedly reconvened this time at San Remo Italy in April 1920 and hammered out an allocation of Mandates. This change in policy supported by American enthusiasm for Mandates brought political stability to the region enforced by imperial ambition and repressive force killing off the Sykes-Picot Treaty which had at least in principle enshrined the idea of Arab self-determinism. The British under pressure from the Anglo-Indian government supported the French in order to secure Mesopotamia and were given the Mandate of Palestine. The present volume is the finalised version of the terms under which the British would govern the Mandate. There was provision for the settlement of Jews and the establishment of 'the Jewish national home' as per the Balfour Declaration of 1917. However there was considerable debate as to whether this should apply to the eastern area of the Mandate known as Trans-Jordan and the current work carries a note explicitly stating that these provisions are not be enacted in Trans-Jordan. In effect this limited the eastern boundary of any future Jewish state to the River Jordan Khalidi & Khadduri 1650. His Majesty's Stationary Office unknown books
138486A Dijon, Ressayre, Causse, 1689-(1781) 17 vol. in-4, basane brune mouchetée, dos à nerfs (reliure de l'époque). Épidermures sur les plats. Accrocs sur certains dos. Pièces de titres parfois abîmées. Qqs rousseurs et mouillures. Il manque les pages de titre des tomes I et III. Petites galeries de vers sur quelques plats, au tome V, elles sont aussi dans l'ouvrage avec atteinte au texte. Au tome XII, l'année 1751 manquait, elle a été remplacée par une copie manuscrite.
elala6164London: 1804. The second Anglo-Maratha War 1803-05 saw the British gain significant territories and influence including regions around Delhi and in present-day Gujarat falling into direct Company rule. The two rulers who fought the EIC were Daulat Rao Sindhia 1779-1827 and Raghuji Bhonsle II d. 1816. General Gerard Lake and General Arthur Wellesley commanded the EIC army. Included here are the texts of government dispatches government correspondence with the secret committee of the EIC agents ministers and military officers commanding in the field and correspondence and proceedings with the Maratha Princes of States. The plates include two maps of India by A.Arrowsmith and six plans showing General Lake’s encampment at Secundra Aug. 26 1803 the battle of Assye Sept. 23 1803 the attack on Perron's Camp before Allyghur Aug. 29 1803 the entrance into the fort on Sept. 4 the Battle of Delhi Sept. 11 1803 and the Battle of Laswaree November 1 1803. “At the Battle of Assaye on 23 September 1803 General Sir Arthur Wellesley 1769-1852 the future Duke of Wellington masterminded victory for the EIC over the Maratha army of Daulat Rao Sindhia head of the Gwalior state. The cause was greatly helped by Wellesley first steadily building up supplies and then bribing British and Anglo-Indian mercenary officers in the Marathas' employ not to fight. When the Marathas heard of this subterfuge they promptly dismissed all their European officers believing them all of suspect loyalty. The unfortunate consequence for the Marathas was that their army now had no command structure and was routed but not before their artillery had caused tremendous damage to the British. The costs for the EIC victory in this bloody battle were high with around one-third of its army killed or wounded. 6000 Maratha soldiers were killed at Assaye. The experienced British officers were all in agreement that the Maratha artillery was as well organized and deadly as that of any European army they had ever faced. There was some consolation for the human losses in the capture of 98 Maratha cannons. Wellesley then won another battle at Argaum aka Argaon in November 1803 but at the end of his career and even after defeating Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in June 1815 Wellesley declared that his greatest ever military challenge had been at Assaye. On 1 November 1803 the EIC won another decisive victory at the Battle of Laswari this time with a force of 10000 men under the able command of General Gerard Lake 1744-1808 a veteran of the American War of Independence. Again the costs of victory were high with around 838 EIC troops killed or wounded. The EIC then took over Delhi and its surrounding territory. There were a few minor Maratha successes such as the defence of Bhurtpore aka Bharatpur against multiple British attacks in early 1805 but with the large losses in central India to Wellesley and in northern India to Lake the Maratha Confederacy was now but a shadow of its former self. The Hindu princes were largely obliged to follow EIC policies and put up with a permanent resident backed by sepoys EIC Indian troops. However there would be one more conflict to come in a doomed effort to regain the Marathas' lost independence.†Mark Cartwright The World History Encyc. folio. pp. xix 1 587. 2 folding hand-coloured maps & 6 folding partly hand-coloured plans. modern half calf a few minor marks on spine. elala6164 [London]: 1804 unknown
027213London; 1803-1806: Np. Folio. These reports were issued between 1715 and 1801 and were not inserted into the Journals. The reason they are so important for research is that before 1801 very few House papers were printed. Those that were printed were simply included in the Journals. The public demand increased after the Act of Union with Ireland. Charles Abbot elected Speaker of the House in 1801 ordered the Clerk of the House to gather and list all the papers in his custody which became the Abbot Collection this set fills in many gaps for the student of 18th Century Egnland. It is now commonly known as the "First Series". All volumes are bound in half red lether over red cloth spines lettered in gilt with occaisonal leaves with either browning or scattred foxing. Vol. 1. Miscellaneous subjects 1715-1735 viii 707 pages 26 pages index. deals with the poor smuggling Tea tobacco pages 443-535 give details on the 1732 fire as Ashburnham House the Cottonian Library with a listing of the rare books or manuscripts that were totally lost damaged or partly damaged and still useful. v. 2. Miscellaneous subjects 1738-1765 viii 467 pages 19 pages index. Deals with army clothing Hudson's Bay North-West Passage; trade of Hudson Bay Company v. 3. Miscellaneous subjects 1771 to 1773; and East India 1772 & 1773 xix 564 pages 27 pages index. Double page plan for Gun Ship of War much on East India Company and trade pages 137-564 naval timber linen trade of Great Britain and Irelandv. 4. East Indies 1772 1773 xix 763 pages 12 pages index. v. 5. East Indies 1781 1782 -xii 1015 pages with index to volumes 4 and5 at the end. v. 6. East Indies 1783 xv 863 pages.7. East Indies Carnatic War &c. 1781 & 1782 1067 pages. v.8. East Indies Carnatic War &c. 1781 & 1782 xxiii 1105 pages v.9. Provisions poor 1774 to 1802 xi 735 pages index v. 10. Miscellaneous subjects 1785-1801 viii 804 pages 43 pages v. 11. Miscellaneous subjects 1782-1799 distilleries of Scotland with a few textual illustrations of still and 11 full page entravings of distillery apparatus large folding hand-colord map of Scotland v. 12. Finance reports I to XXII 1797-1798 503 pages v. 13. 1798. Finance reports XXIII-XXXVI 837 pages 13 pages with proceedings and measures of government thereon 1798-1803 and index to the whole 837 pages v. 14. Miscellaneous reports Port of London 1793-1802 with plates Dr. Jenner's petition regarding vaccine innoculations discover of nitrous fumigations 635 pages 29 pages bound without engravings. 15. Public records 1800 with plates 14 facsmile leaves between pages 64 and 65 from the Domesday Book 667 pages 23 pages index Bound without the plans. v. 16. General index 1715-1802. The approximately 12000 pages provide one of the deepest views of British politics as Parlaiment dealt with the shape of empire and the entire costs of its vast navy and the East India Company. Local pickup only. Np unknown books
1852144684London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1852. iii368 pp. Folio. Bound in 19th century diced calf and Victorian cloth. Spine ruled into 6 compartments. Paste paper endpapers. Gilt maritime library stamp on front board otherwise no other stamps. Binding a bit worn. With 28 maps mostly sledge tracks including 6 folding maps. Numerous illustrations mostly in the text. A very clean crisp copy internally. Arctic Bibliography 45228. Contains extensive and detailed reports by sledgers from Austin's and Penny's expeditions. Provenance is the Marinens Bibliothek The library of the Danish Navy. Very scarce and the second largest volume produced during the Franklin Search period. 1852 George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
15621278941562. HENRY VIII PARLIAMENT. Acts. Anno XXXIIII et. V. Henrici VIII. London: T. Powell 1562. Slim folio 8 by 11-1/2 inches modern full brown morocco. $3800.Early edition of the Parliamentary Acts of 1542 featuring 25 acts featuring the important Act for the Advancement of True Religion and the first English act dealing with Bankruptcy finely printed in black-letter with lovely historiated woodcut initials.The first and most important act passed by the Parliament in 1542 banned the reading or owning of the Bible in Englishat that point Tyndale's translationin England for most of the population. Exceptions were made for the clergy the gentry wealthy merchants and the wives of the gentry and nobility who were only allowed to read it in private effectively barring the Bible in English from the vast majority of the population. By the time of the act's passage Tyndale was already dead executed near Brussels in 1536 after being convicted of heresy for his promotion of theology influenced by Martin Luther. And Tyndale himself had never actually published a full Bible in English having only managed individual publications of the New Testament the Pentateuch and a few other books of the bible; the first full Bible in English was actually produced by Miles Coverdale in 1536 based heavily on Tyndale's earlier publications. The act also banned numerous other categories of books although it did provide exceptions for ""statutes and lawes of the realme cronicles Canturbury tales Chaucers bookes Gowers bookes and stories of menns lives."" The acts from this year are also notable for containing the Statute of Bankrupts the first codification of law for bankruptcy in England. First published in 1543 with several editions or issues following soon after; this is one of two editions published in 1562. Without the acts for Wales. STC 9409. Foxing to a few leaves mild dampstaining to inner margin of some early leaves but text readable and clear; handsomely bound. Rare. unknown
18082605200078W. Phillips and John Hatchard London 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. An Extremely Rare Early Abolitionist Work : British Parliamentary debates on Slave Trade Abolition Bill of 1807 Bound in period marbled half calf. 12mo. 19.75 x 13.25 cm. iv 273 pp. Front joint cracked. Small chip off spine leather. Period manuscript note in shorthand on pages 66-67. <br> A detailed account of the debates of the British Parliament on the abolition of the slave trade including full transcripts of speeches made by MPs. The speeches show the diversity of arguments opposing the slave trade. It includes rousing speeches against slavery on a religious and moral level; utilitarian speeches discussing the low profits of the slave trade and the ability of plantation owners to maintain the current slave population; testimonies on the complex social structure and craftsmanship of African societies and thus their humanity; and arguments that by abolishing slavery France will become Britain's "inferior in virtue". <br> Includes numerous speeches by Lord Grenville the Prime Minister who shepherded the Slave Trade Abolition Bill through Parliament: "I know my Lords that on this subject strange notions of morality have been suggested as if what were just to one race of the species might be unjust to another. I know not my Lords on what principle of law divine or human such sentiments are founded. My Lords I have been always taught to consider justice to be one uniform consistent rule of conduct; to that it has been enough for me to listen to the proof that any particular acts are unjust with respect to certain individuals of classes of the species to convince me that the same acts must be unjust to all the rest of mankind." Grenville and other MPs advocate for a universal form of justice under the law that precludes the natural legal inequality of slavery. <br> This book was printed by William Phillips the son of James Phillips a Quaker printer and abolitionist activist and founding member of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade who published first hand accounts of the evils of the slave trade which were highly influential in the bills passage. <br> Refs: Sabin 93370. <br> A rare edition only one copy has appeared at public auction in the last 125 years. No other copies are available for sale. <br> Cataloged by Anastasia Rittenhousesmith. W. Phillips and John Hatchard, London hardcover
1852127366London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode 1852. Hardcover. very good. 1st printing. 216pp. Folio 32.5 X 21.5 cm. Original 19th century marbled boards which have been rebacked with a new leather spine and new leather corners. Original endpapers have been salvaged. Edged sprinkled in red. 3 maps 1 folding. Minor wear to binding but overall a clean attractive copy. Old rubber stamp on the title page. Arctic Biblio. 45229 There are two rubber stamps on the title page. The first is from the Royal College of surgeons and the second is a presentation stamp Inscribed by R.McCormick R.N. who was on the North Star one of the search for Franklin ships. - "Major document. Contains reports covering 1850-52 of expeditions in Bering Strait under Collinson's command reports of expeditions in the eastern Canadian arctic by DeHaven John Ross Austin & Penny; and reports by Rae of his expedition to southwest Victoria Island. Numerous letters are included speculations on the activities of the Franklin Expedition various proposals for further search etc.".</p><p>An interesting association copy by a Search for Franklin officer. 1852 George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode hardcover
1857143185London 1857 31 July and 11 August. xviii547 pp. Two parts. Folio. Original printed blue wrappers. Wrappers and spine are a bit rough with some professional restoration. Portfolio of plans including three large folding hand-coloured maps original printed wraps with cover title and document title on right-half of back wrapper. Maps printed by Henry Hansard entitled: Map of North America Drawn by J. Arrowsmith; Map of the North-West Part of Canada Hudson's Bay & Indian Territories Drawn by Tho. Devine and Aboriginal Map of North America denoting the Boundaries and the Locations of various Indian. Some mild chipping to the edges of the wrapper with tears along joints. Overall very good and with a clean tight text block. Uncommon in the original blue and plain paper wraps. All housed in a custom fold over box. Peel 3 - 347 - "An important document containing the evidence of many witnesses on the suitability of Rupert's Land for agricultural settlement." TPL 3729/30; Sabin 33549; Smith 1514. "Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed 31 July and 11 August 1857." Document 224 260-I- Sess. 2. "The Maps referred to in the accompanying Report were in progress and will be delivered as early as possible." 5 October 1857. The maps all show the high Arctic and Western Canada from Hudson's Bay to the West Coast. This report is complete with the maps and in wrappers has become very scarce in the market place. 1857 paperback
1730102277Bound volume of 89 acts folio 11 3/4" x 7" period full calf 446 pp. Various paginations actual page count is done by hand and a manuscript index at the front lists the acts and indicates the page it is on. Binding is worn backstrip is gone hinges are cracked covers almost detached and some signatures are loose some early ink notations and page numbering are on top of pages it appears there are some remnants of wax seals on the margin of the last page some soiling at endpapers normal aging and browning but internally pretty clean; despite the mentioned flaws the contents are in very good shape but the binding needs work. While this collection of Acts passed under George II and George III is not sequential a previous owner has provided a useful index as to the contents and location of various acts. The laws cover a very broad area of issues from the more mundane such as dog stealing punishments for disorderly houses and preventing abuses in making bricks and tiles to more important issues including the raising and training of the militia regulating the price of corn preservation of public highways and the punishment for selling ale and apiarist without a license. Other important acts include regulating places of entertainment regulating the trials of controverted elections establishing trade agreements in the East Indies changing some of the rules passed by Queen Elizabeth on providing relief to the poor and wildlife preservation. A fascinating glimpse at another time and issues of the day. Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Mark Baskett & Others,
1730102277Bound volume of 89 acts folio 11 3/4" x 7" period full calf 446 pp. Various paginations actual page count is done by hand and a manuscript index at the front lists the acts and indicates the page it is on. Binding is worn backstrip is gone hinges are cracked covers almost detached and some signatures are loose some early ink notations and page numbering are on top of pages it appears there are some remnants of wax seals on the margin of the last page some soiling at endpapers normal aging and browning but internally pretty clean; despite the mentioned flaws the contents are in very good shape but the binding needs work. While this collection of Acts passed under George II and George III is not sequential a previous owner has provided a useful index as to the contents and location of various acts. The laws cover a very broad area of issues from the more mundane such as dog stealing punishments for disorderly houses and preventing abuses in making bricks and tiles to more important issues including the raising and training of the militia regulating the price of corn preservation of public highways and the punishment for selling ale and apiarist without a license. Other important acts include regulating places of entertainment regulating the trials of controverted elections establishing trade agreements in the East Indies changing some of the rules passed by Queen Elizabeth on providing relief to the poor and wildlife preservation. A fascinating glimpse at another time and issues of the day. Charles Eyre and William Strahan, Mark Baskett & Others, books
185767368Printed in the UK: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company 1857. First edition. Leather and paper over boards. As described. Hardcover 1/4 leather brown over paper marbled over boards. 4to. xviii 547 pp. Illustrated with 3 large colour folded maps in a pocket on the inside of the back board 2 of the maps have 4'' enclosed tears without loss of substance. Maps by John Arrowsmith. Sympathetically rebound with a new spine. Six compartment spine with five raised ribs. Red label in compartment two and black label in compartment four have the the title and subtitle in gilt. Head darkened. Six small ink stains on the fore edge. Bookplate on front pastedown. Previous own was Mr. John White 1863-1928 appointed Chief Geographer of the Canadian Department of the Interior in 1899. Pages 212-225 329 and 374-379 have pen markings and some marginalia by Mr. White. Mild age toning mostly to the edges. The text block is clean unmarked except where noted and square with a strong binding. Boards are rubbed with some of the marbling worn off. Edges are worn through in places. The spine is rubbed and has some small water stains near the tail. Corners bumped. An extremely rare volume this copy is supple and easy to handle despite its rough exterior. Condition as described. References: TPL 3729/30 Sabin 33549 Lowther 52 Peel 188. Laid in this copy is a bibliographical description from Acadia Book Store. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company unknown
17671098111767. First Edition. CUSTOMS COMMISSIONERS ACT. Act to enable His Majesty to put the Customs and other Duties in the British Dominions in America and the Execution of the Laws relating to Trade there under the Management of Commissioners. London: Mark Baskett 1767. Folio 20th-century marbled stiff paper boards. $3200.Rare first printing of the 1767 Customs Commissioners Act one of the controversial Townshend Acts that united patriot opposition to British rule and provoked the Boston Massacre.Following the Stamp Act which had united colonial opinion against British authority ""as no issue before a new period of agitation began in 1767 with the passage of the Townshend Acts"" Morison Sources xv. Engineered by Charles Townshend Chancellor of the Exchequer these were intended to raise revenue from the American colonies by imposing duties on goods Americans were already forced to import only from England punish New York's opposition to the Quartering Act and establish a board of customs commissioners in America. This is the first printing of that Customs Commissioners Act. ""To guarantee that colonial duties raised as much money as he had promised to Parliament Townshend was tightening control over America's slack customs procedures"" by appointing commissioners in England and sending them to Boston ""with broad powers. Since colonial jurors rarely convicted a local merchant of smuggling Townshend's acts set up new admiralty courts that could try smugglers without a jury. And the acts made it easier for customs officials to obtain writs of assistance"" Langguth 93. In addition ""the moneys thus raised in the colonies were to be used to render the royal governors and judges independent of colonial assemblies"" Morison xv. To Samuel Adams ""these new commissioners of customs were 'the greatest political curses that could be sent amongst us From the time the acts took effect November 20 1767 many Bostonians had been boycotting luxury goods from Britain by signing a 'nonimportation agreement Stricter enforcement at the customs offices was drawing off hard currency from America and bad times were spreading across the colonies"" Langguth 94 102-103. With increased colonial opposition to the Customs Commissioners Act and other Townshend laws ""the customs administration to enforce them became especially in ports like Boston increasingly militarized"" provoking merchants such as John Hancock into ""calling one of his sloops Liberty and flaunting his intention of 'running Madeira ashore"" Schama History of Britain II:463. The day after the Liberty was seized by customs officials Sam Adams was overheard challenging the crowd ""If you are men behave like men. Let us take up arms immediately and be free and seize all the king's officers"" Langguth 98. With the Board of Commissioners of the Customs headquartered in Boston the city became the ""rowdiest of all the centers of protest"" and those who broke the boycott were often tarred and feathered. As tempers grew shorter and customs officers were accused of bribery and extortion matters often ""got completely out of control. On 23 February 1770 an eleven-year-old boy Christopher Seider joined by a noisy protest of schoolboys and apprentices outside the shop of an importer was shot dead by a customs officer"" and his funeral turned into a mass protest led by Sam Adams. Only one month later on March 5th amidst these already heightened tensions ""a wigmaker's apprentice ragged a soldier all the way to the Custom House for an allegedly unpaid bill. When a guard struck the pursuing youth a tocsin normally used as a fire alarm was sounded and mobilized a large and angry crowd"" Schama History of Britain II 463. In the melee that followed the redcoats opened fire killing fiveamong them Crispus Attucksand the day would be memorialized in history as the Boston Massacre. Printed in gothic type indicative of the first edition. This first printing excised from the Sessional Volumes of Parliament pages 563-66 precedes all American printings. Minor rubbing spine. Very nearly fine condition. hardcover
1760339119London: John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; and others 1760. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Disbound. Some with foxing some trimmed a few leaves detached. Overall very good. A couple in duplicate. Together approx. 35 Acts each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Includes the following:<br /> <br /> An Act for the Continuing the Liberty of Exporting Irish Linen Cloth to the British Plantations in Amerca Duty-free 1717<br /> An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Pensilvania in America 1727<br /> An Act for the better Preservation of His Majesty's Woods in America 1729<br /> An Act for Importing Salt from Europe into the Colony of New York in America 1730<br /> An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America directly into Ireland Goods not enumerated in any Act of Parliament 1731<br /> An Act to explain and Act . intituled An Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in America 1732<br /> An Act for the more easy Recovery of Debts in His Majesty's Plantations and Colonies in America 1732<br /> An Act for granting a Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth Produce or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1739<br /> An Act for the more effectual securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's British Subjects to America 1739<br /> An Act for the more easy and effectual Conviction of Offenders found at large within the Kingdom of Great Britain after they have been ordered for Transportartion to America 1742<br /> An Act for further regulating the Plantation Trade 1742<br /> An Act to revive several Acts . relating to Rice to Frauds in Customs to the clandestine running of Goods and to Copper Ore of the British Plantations 1742<br /> An Act for continuing several LAws relating to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America 1743<br /> An Act to continue Two Acts of Parliament . for encouraging the Growth of Coffee . for the better securing and encouraging the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746<br /> An Act for the better encouragement of the Trade of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1746<br /> An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act . for Naturalizing Foreign Protestants . in America 1747 two copies<br /> An Act for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1748<br /> An Act for encouraging the People known by the name of Unitas Fratrum or United Brethren to settle in . America 1749 three copies<br /> An Act to encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1750<br /> An Act for encouraging the Growth and Culture of Raw Silk in . America. 1750<br /> An Act for encouraging the making of Pott Ashes and Pearl Ashes in . America 1750<br /> An Act for continuing several Laws . upon the importation of Masts 1751<br /> An Act for avoiding and putting and end to certain doubts and questions . concerning Real Estates . in America. 1752<br /> An Act for reducing the number of Directors of the Corportatioin of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America 1753<br /> An Act for continuing several Laws . and for the encourging the trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1753<br /> An Act for continuing an Act . for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America 1755<br /> An Act for extending the Act . as shall serve on Board His Majesty's Ships or Vessels employed upon the Lakes Great Waters or Rivers in North America 1756<br /> An Act to enable His Majesty to grant Commissions to a certain number of Foreign Protestants . in America 1756<br /> An Act to extend the Liberty . of importing Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America 1757<br /> An Act to prohibit for a limited time the exportation of corn grain meal malt flour bread biscuit starch beef pork bacon . from His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America 1757<br /> An Act to continue . a Liberty to carry sugars of the growth produce or manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America 1758<br /> An Act for continuing certain laws . and to the Encouragement of the Trade of the Sugar Colonies in America 1758<br /> An Act to continue several laws . to the encouraging the growth of Coffee in His Majesty's Plantations in America 1759<br /> An Act to continue several laws . to the granting Liberty to carry Rice from his Majesty's Province of Carolina in America 1760. John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; [and others] unknown
148103hardcover. 357 1pp. 8vo handsomely rebound in new 1/2 calf and marbled boards red morocco label; some scattered foxing otherwise internally very good. London: J. Almon 1775.<br/><br/> This volume contains important opinions and debates on the Boston Tea Party and Parliament's legislative response: The Coercive Acts. Pages 77-116 are on the reaction to the Boston Tea Party and the first Coercive Act which was the Boston Port Bill. This act closed the port of Boston to all imports and exports. Bostonians had less essential imported goods This increased anti-Parliament sentiment and furthered the idea of American Independence from Great Britain. Pages 116-251 are the debates on the second Coercive Act which was the Massachusetts Government Act. This act concentrated more executive authority with the Crown and the Royal Governor of Massachusetts. Members of the provincial council and many legal officials including the attorney general were no longer chosen by Massachusetts officials.<br/><br/> unknown books
50373Two volumes iv 315 appendix of 2 174 pp.; and viii 427-524 4 395-728 2 pp. comprising three of the five reports issued in 1835 by the House of Lords to investigate the state of prisons in England and Wales with the goal of researching the prospect of instituting a system which separated prisoners and establishing uniformity of discipline and diet across the prison system to be supervised by a group of Inspectors with interviews conducted with a range of gentlemen including some prison workers as well as questions posed to prisoners at institutions including Wakefield the Millbank Penitentiary the House of Corrections at Lewes and Cold Bath Field Prison and instructions for how to deal with convicts in various situations. Each volume is illustrated with dozens of tables and three lithographic plates which include: "Ergometer - Tread Wheel - Labour. Lewes Prison"; "Tread Wheels at Petworth"; "Crank-House at Petworth"; and "Design for a Prison Chapel by Jas. Savage upon a plan propsed by the Rev. Whitworth Russell Chaplain to the General Penitentiary Millbank in which all the prisoners can see the Clergyman and be seen by him and yet not see or communicate with each other." 4to. Modern three-quarter leather with papered boards and gilt lettering to spine Norwich binder's label to rear pastedown of each volume. London House of Commons 1835. By 1835 the threat of "prisoner culture" whereby prisoners spent time with other prisoners sharing stories learning from each other and plotting was recognized by the State. A Select Committee in the House of Lords was tasked to research a system to separate the prisoners. Six resolutions were laid out in the introduction to the first report including a uniform system of discipline a group of Inspectors to be appointed to visit the prisons and report to the Secretary of State and a new rule that persons who have been acquitted or had their trials postponed should not be imprisoned. The resolutions also include the proposal for the new system of separation: "That entire Separation except during the Hours of Labour and of Religious Worship and Instruction is absolutely necessary for preventing Contamination and for securing a proper System of Prison Discipline. That Silence be enforced so as to prevent all Communication between Prisoners both before and after Trial."<br/>One of the witnesses in the first report was Lieutenant John Siblly Governor of the Brixton House of Corrections who had a plan for a "solitary confinement prison" with 284 cells. Another was John Mance Keeper of the House of Corrections at Petworth who is credited as the inventor of the ergometer a labor scale a device which could quantify how much labor could be doled out to various types of prisoners rated both on physical and mental qualifications. The ergometer was "made to show the superintending officer the quantum of labour to be executed hourly daily and weekly.and notifies the officer and prisoners by an alarm bell when the day's work is executed."<br/>The final report includes new evidence from Mance the tread wheels and crank-house that he supervised and regulated with his ergometer. Very scarce institutionally. hardcover books
107594London Charles Bill 1702. . Folio 27.5 x 17.5 cm; woodcut headpiece and initial black letter; single leaf from 'Anno Regni Annæ Reginæ Angliæ Scotiæ Franciæ & Hiberniæ primo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the thirtieth day of December. 1701' acts of Parliament for the last year of the reign of William III and the first year of Anne; unbound; 453-454pp.<br /> An act of Parliament 'To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and allowed for the children of Jewish parents who shall turn Protestants' p.453. <br /><br />The law arose from the curious case of Mary de Mendez Berta an eighteen-year-old who was disowned and expelled from the family home following her conversion to Protestantism. A petition was brought before Parliament in an attempt to make Mary's father Jacob de Mendez Berta pay for his daughter's upkeep after which it was resolved that a bill be produced to address her case. <br /><br />The resultant act had some effect in the eighteenth century and was considered by the Lord Chancellor Thomas Parker in the 1718 case of Vincent vs. Fernandez. Here it was found that the law could apply equally to the adult child of a Jewish parent in this instance a 44-year-old married woman who had been cut-out of her father's will. The law remained in effect until 1846 when it was repealed by the Religious Disabilities Act.<br /> ESTC N53589; Roth Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica p.246 no.1; Henriques The Jews and the English Law Oxford 1908. [London], [Charles Bill], [1702]. unknown
15622557Cambray: Nicolas Lombard 1562. First edition. Papered spine. With contemporary underlines throughout and occasional marginal notes in ink. Upper outer corners stained and chipped throughout first leaves with small loss. Closed tear on the title page not affecting the text. Overall in very good condition. First edition. Papered spine. ff. 14 2 blank. Sign.: A–D4 D3–4 blank. First edition of this scarce and important document of the French Wars of Religion.<p><br /> <br /> A protest against the Edict of Toleration also known as the Edict of January or Saint-Germain which was issued by the French Crown on January 17 1562 after a long series of repressive measures against the Protestant Huguenots in order to restore peace in the kingdom torn by civil and religious dissensions. <p><br /> <br /> The registration process of the edict led to the bitterest legislative struggles of the century between the Parlement and the Crown. After a vote on 7 February the Parlement very Catholic refused to verify or publish the edict and on 12 February a remonstrance the present publication was drawn up and sent to the Court. Eventually the Parlement had to capitulate and the edict was registered on March 6 five days after the Massacre of Vassy which triggered the first of the series of eight civil wars lasting some thirsty-six years in France the Wars of Religion. <p><br /> <br /> The Edict of Tolerance remained a reference for the Huguenots in the later negotiations between them and the royal power and became the foundation of the subsequent toleration edicts such as the Edict of Ambroise the resolution of the first war in 1563 and the Edict of Nantes which marked the end of the period of the French Wars of Religion in 1598.<br /> Seemingly two different editions 16- and 24-leaves were published by Lombard in 1562. Due to their substantial similarities the presence or lack of the last blank leaves and the peculiar dating “mil cinq cens soixante & un†the bibliographies list these editions under at least six different entries dated 1561 or 1562 later editions also by Lombard appeared in 1565 and 1566.<p><br /> <br /> USTC 6319 2 copies: Nîmes - Bibliothèque Carré d’art; Paris - Bibliothèque Mazarine or 17432 1 copy: La Rochelle- Bibliothèque municipale<br /> Literature: Keller A.-C. 1952. Michel de l’Hospital and the Edict of Toleration of 1562. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 142 301–310. Nicolas Lombard 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. printed by John Baskett [and others] 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
2787Binding split in half along center spine with boards still attached by cords; title strip peeling; boards heavily rubbed and worn with loss to corners and board edges; slight toning scattered foxing throughout; manuscript pages are remarkably bright and clean. Overall a very appealing document with binding a challenge in need of restoration. <p>A Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords Beginning with the Reign of King Charles II d and Ending with the VI th Parliament of Great Britain Upon the Death of King George I: with an Alphabetical Table Vol. II 1660 - 1727. April 25th 1660 - May 9th 1727. </p> <br /> <p>Manuscript Calendar of the Journals of the House of Lords April 25th 1660 - May 9th 1727. </p> <br /> <p>Folio approx. 15 x 10 inches. 722pp Alphabetical Table. Contemporary full leather gilt-stamped title to spine spine and board edges tooled in gilt lettered paper thumb tabs large contemporary armorial engraving tipped-in. Housed in modern cloth-covered clamshell case by Ruth L. Heginbottom. </p> . unknown
