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1754LV2072London:: Printed by Thomas Baskett Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty 1754. 1754. Folio. pp. 2 227-230. Self-wraps. Title-page: Anno Regni Georgeii II. Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Vicesimo Septimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the Tenth Day of November Anno Dom. 1747 . . . Defender of the Faith &c. Relating to Duty taxes applied to the importation of all wines vinegar cider beer as well as all brandy wines ‘strong waters’ and the like coming to London or any other "ports creeks or places" in the kingdom of England. Full title: "An Act to continue the Duties for Encouragement of the Coinage of Money; and for removing Doubts concerning the Continuance of the Duty of Twenty Shillings for every Ton of Brandy Wines and Strong Waters imported." Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, 1754. paperback books
164337991London: Printed for Edw. Husbands 1643. 4to 19 cm 7.5". 63 pp. <br><br>The Irish rebellion of 1641 is nicely explained on the Trinity College Dublin library website http://1641.tcd.ie/historical-rebellion.php. Thousands of English and Scottish settlers were dispossessed during the uprising; many of those who fled to Dublin for safety were interviewed by crown authorities and their depositions taken. This publication contains abstracts of some of those eyewitness testimonies as well as the House's reasoning on the cause of the rebellion and a short narrative of its early months the latter with considerable emphasis on naval operations. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC R4373; Wing rev. ed. E2557. Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Very good condition. Printed for Edw. Husbands hardcover books
170311502London 1703 i.e. 1713. 8vo 17.9 cm 7.25". 1 f. 104 pp. <br><br>Report of the commission appointed at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession to examine the finances of the United Kingdom following the war and the recent union of Scotland and England 1707. Also included is A Report from the Commissioners Appointed to Take Examine and Determine the Debts Due to the Army &c. with its own sectional title-page dated 1713. First of two editions also printed 1714.<br>Â Â Â Â This is less dry than might seem with notes being present as to which officials' accountings were in revolting disarray as to what bakers were scamming Navy purchasing officers how much was spent on what at military hospitalsetc. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T94705; Goldsmiths'-Kress 5055. 20th-century gray wrappers with title in blue ink on front wrapper. Wrappers with browning fading light soiling a little shallow chipping and a few shallow tears. Heavy pencilling on inside front wrapper and title-page. Pages with some shallow dog ears and traces of soiling. All edges speckled red. unknown books
181824993London: John Baskett and others printers 1818. 12 works folio. 12 1/2 x 8 inches and smaller. Disbound or stitched<br/> <br/>A fascinating series spanning the whole of the period when whaling was carried out on a successful commercial basis in the waters off Greenland.<br/> <br/>After an abortive start by the South Sea Company between 1724 and 1732 the British whaling fleet operated off Greenland and the Davis Strait throughout the remainder of the 18th century with increasing success due to a large degree to the succession of bounties granted to ship owners by the British Government. The present selection of acts of parliament includes a number concerning the bounty: the first dated 16th January 1732 makes law "that a Bounty will be paid on the Return of every Ship of 200 tons and over imployed by His Majesty's Subjects in the Whale Fishery". For the bounty to be paid certain stringent criteria had to be met; these increased as the century progressed. By the time of the last Act in the present group March 1818 the Greenland whalers were reporting declining catches and were already beginning to turn their attention to other whaling grounds i.e. largely in the Pacific and Antarctic. This group offers and interesting series of snapshots of the industry during its most productive century. The acts comprise: 1. An Act for encouraging the Greenland Fishery. 1732. Stitched later wrappers. Exemption from duty extended for a nine year period. 2. An Act for the further Encouragment of the Whale Fishery carried on by His Majesty's British Subjects. 1733. Stitched later wrappers. The introduction of a bounty for ships over 200 tons. 3. An Act for continuing the several Laws therein mentioned . including granting a further Bounty for all Ships employed in the Whale Fishery during the present War; for exempting Harponers and others . from being impressed. No date but circa 1750. Spine reinforced. The bounty raised by a third other measures to help the trade. 4. An Act for granting a additional Bounty on Ships employed in the Greenland and Whale Fishery for a limited time. No adte but circa 1761. Disbound. The increased bounty confirmed for another five years. 5.An Act for further continuing several Acts . for the Encouragement of the Whale Fishery. 1768. Stitched. 6. An Act for the better Support and Establishment of the Greenland and Whale Fishery. 1771. Stitched. The rules about the amount of bounty to be paid has changed with additional laws concerning vessels of American origin exemption from duty extended to include the Gulf of St. Lawrence certain members of a whaler's crew to be exempt from being pressed into service in the Royal Navy etc. 7.An Act to explain and amend Two Acts made . with respect to the Limits of the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights . and to enlarge the Time for the Return of the Vessels employed in the Whale Fisheries. 1780. Stitched. 8. An Act for granting an additional Bounty on Ships employed in the Greenland and Whale Fishery for a limited Time. 1782. Disbound. The bounty retained for a further five years. 9. An Act for allowing Vessels employed in the Greenland Whale Fishery to complete their full Number of Men at certain Ports for the Present Season. 1805. Spine strengthened. Whaling ships permitted to call in to ports in Scotland the Orkneys and the Shetland Islands to find men to complete their crews. 10. An Act for allowing until the Signature of Preliminary Articles of Peace Vessels . to complete their full Number of Men at certain ports. 1806. Spine strenghtened. An extension of the previous act. 11. An Act to revive and continue for five years several Laws. 1815. Strengthened spine. Several prvious acts re-confirmed. 12. An Act to amend an Act . so far as it relates to the Oaths thereby required. 1818. Unbound. Concerns the oaths required from owners/captains before the bounty due would be released to them. John Baskett [and others], printers unknown books
1701WRCAM29809London: Printed for Edward Jones and Timothy Goodwin 1701. 61pp. Folio. Modern three-quarter calf and cloth boards gilt title on front board spine gilt with two raised bands. Bookplates on front endpapers contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. Very good. Proceedings in the House of Commons regarding the impeachment of the Earl of Portland the Earl of Orford Lord Somers and Lord Halifax in March-April 1701. The Earl of Portland was one of the main negotiators of the Second Partition Treaty which sought to stave off what became the War of Spanish Succession. The treaty was wildly unpopular in England and after its signing discontent among the public and in the House of Commons led to impeachment proceedings against Portland along with Orford Somers and Halifax who were said to be cognizant of the negotiations. Somers and Orford were eventually acquitted and the charges against Portland and Halifax were dismissed. GOLDSMITHS 3839. SOWERBY JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY 2909. DAB II pp.285-92. Printed for Edward Jones, and Timothy Goodwin hardcover books
1717WRCLIT61833London: Printed by J. Darby and Sold by J. Roberts 1717. 32pp. Octavo signed in 4s. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early ink ownership signature on title otherwise very good. A roster of those "summon'd to meet at Westminster on the seventeenth of March 1714/15 . through the twentieth of February 1716/17." ESTC Online records 4 copies one in the US. ESTC T176503. Printed by J. Darby, and Sold by J. Roberts unknown books
174116585London 1741. 8vo 19.7 cm 7.75". 16 pp. <br><br>Register prepared for the 1741 general election with notations regarding how M.P.s voted on the Convention and on Walpole's proposed Excise Bill a tax on tobacco and wine. The current U.K. Parliament website sums up the terms thusly: "The Lords Spiritual are made up of the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York the Bishops of London Durham and Winchester as well as specific bishops of the Church of England. The Lords Temporal are made up of Hereditary Peers elected under Standing Orders Life Peers Law Lords the earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain."<br>Â Â Â Â ESTC locates only four copies none of which are in the U.S. A search of WorldCat finds the copy at the Kress Library at Harvard. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T26238; Goldsmiths'-Kress 7877.5. Recent marbled papercovered boards spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pages age-toned with some dust-soiling. hardcover books
166715762London: n.p. 1667. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. London 1667. 4to. 5-1/2 x 7-1/2'. 32pp. Bound to style in quarter leather; maroon lettering label gilt; marbled paper boards in a Stormont design. Light blindstamp of a seminary library on title and marginal acquisition number two tiny closed marginal tears on the title one of the affecting the 'e' of 'Printed' else a very good copy. Wing T.2471. ESTC R23832. n.p. hardcover books
180317287London 1803. Folio 32.5 cm 12.75". 17 1 pp. <br><br>Government document "Ordered to be printed 29th March 1803": Charts of Bank of Ireland transactions in 1802. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing gone. One page not the title stamped by a now-defunct institution else clean. unknown books
180217275London 1802. Folio 32.5 cm 12.75". 5 1 blank pp. <br><br>Government document "Ordered to be printed 28th May 1802": Account of the state of the Irish treasury as of 5 January 1802. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in NSTC CD version. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing gone. Title-page with area of offsetting to upper inner margin else clean. unknown books
180417288London 1804. Folio 32.5 cm 12.75". 7 1 blank pp. <br><br>Government document 49 "Ordered to be printed 5th April 1804": Charts of certain Irish imports and exports 17991803. Removed from a nonce volume now in a Mylar folder; sewing gone. Title-page stamped by a now-defunct institution with small area of offsetting to inner upper margin. Pages with small edge chips. unknown books
183836533London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1838. Folio. 713-716 pp as issued. Disbound. Very Good. <br/><br/> This Act discusses the two recent conventions between Great Britain and France and the King of the Two Sicilies with details regarding cruizers of the Two Sicilies which are to be employed in the suprression of the slave trade ports to which captured vessels shall be taken &c. George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode unknown books
165726937London: Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1657. 1st edition Wing E-1046. Not in Gabler nor Goldsmith. Printed self-wrappers. VG split developing along fold. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve. 2 2 pp. Commonwealth seal to t.p. Folio: 2. 10-5/8" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>Gabler though not listing this item does briefly discuss & list divers tracts & pamphlets written in the early 1640s voicing public outrage over a contract between Charles I and the Vintner's Company of London- under said contract the Vintners agreed to pay a 46 shilling tax on every ton of Spanish & French wine & also agreed to annually buy a certain amount from English importers. In return the vintners were permitted to sell cooked victuals a proviso not in their original charter & allowed to recoup the tax by charging a penny a quart more that the officially published price. The ultimate effect was to give the Vintners' Company a monopoly on the wine trade all the while enriching the coffers of Charles I. Needless to say wine drinkers were livid. Parliament eventually responded in the consumers' favor. Gabler pp. 2-3. This act of Cromwell's establishes limitations on prices for Spanish & French wines a proclamation issued perhaps in memory of the Vintner's Company earlier attempts at profiteering Printed by Henry Hills, and John Field, Printers to His Highness unknown books
179834069London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printer's to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1798. Folio. Disbound pages 805-820 as issued. Very Good.<br/><br/> This detailed law an important step in England's final abolition of the African slave trade regulates the maximum number of slaves that such ships may carry; requires the keeping of meticulous records the provision of written Declarations to Customs Officers mortality records; imposes bonds and penalties; requires surgeons' inspections; regulates living quarters for the slaves.<br/>ESTC N60199 2- Cornell Lincoln's Inn. OCLC 352927642 1- NYPL 64758335 2- Cornell Northwestern as of December 2018. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printer's to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown books
176436526London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1764. Folio. 1 1 blank 335-336pp as issued. Disbound. Very Good. <br/>ESTC N56806. Printed by Mark Baskett unknown books
182836527London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1828. Folio pp. 945-947 1 blank. Disbound else Very Good. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
183836534London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode 1838. 821-823 1 blank pp as issued. Disbound. Else Very Good. George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode unknown books
168927134London Glasgow: No publisher/printer 1689. Small 4to 19 cm; 7.5". 7 1 blank pp. <br><br>A petition for redress and significant changes in the king's relations with Scotland. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. ed. A561; McAlpin IV 341; ESTC R11006. Removed from a nonce volume. Clean. No publisher/printer] unknown books
170122505London: Charles Bill 1701. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full cambridge style brown calf in paneled design. Very good. 480 pages. 4 pages of A Table of the Statutes Publick and Private. 12 3/4 x 8 inches. Considered to the first Parliamentary Act relating only to the Jews was as a result of an 18 year old girl being disowned by her Jewish family when she converted to Christianity enacted for Mary de Mendez Berta's benefit. Bound in a larger volume of British Acts from the years 1701-1704 that also numerous other acts: Mutiny one related to Quakers security of the succession of the Crown Protestant Line counterfeiting preserving public credit repairing bridges and highways raising the Militia debt relief of poor prisoners et al. This act relating to Jews only until then Jews were mentioned only in clauses of Acts or in context of law suits and trials. The Act which in fact was designed to facilitate and even encourage conversion passed with almost no objection. Leather chipped in spots raised bands wear at corners hinges cracked but binding intact some light soling. mostly clean and bright throughout with one quire bearing moderate toning with text printed in black letter. Charles Bill unknown books
164237985London: Printed for John Wright 1642. 4to 19 cm 7.5". 8 pp. <br><br>First edition. This ordinance made provision for privateers to hinder aid reaching the Irish during the Rebellion of 1641 although the rebellion wasn't entirely quelled until Cromwell's New Model Army reconquered Ireland in 1653. The war was almost certainly the most destructive in Irish history and its abiding legacy was the wholesale transfer of land ownership and political power from the old Catholic elite to a Protestant one in part newly installed and in part pre-existing the war. The publisher of this wartime proclamation was an official printer for the Parliament of England and published several early newspapers and ballads. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC R19001; Wing rev. ed. E1765. Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints rubbed. Very good condition. Printed for John Wright hardcover books
164520454London: Pr. for John Wright 1645. Small 4to. 1 f. 6 pp. <br><br>A parliamentary action on ordination: The ordinance sparked some controversy immediately and there was at least one immediate publication that examined its import.<br>Â Â Â Â => Bibliographically interesting. Wing records four different issues of this ordinance the telling points being on the title-page: the spelling of "classical" or "classicall" and the form of the date whether "12 Novemb. 1645" or just "1645" and combinations thereof. ESTC fails to distinguish them. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Wing rev. ed. E1894A; ESTC R176130. Removed from a nonce volume and dusty; in modern wrappers. All edges a bit chipped and lower margins of leaves A2 and A3 with loss of blank paper. All leaves age-toned. Pr. for John Wright unknown books
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
2543London: Mark Baskett January 10th 1765. . Folio disbound first title still conjugate gutter showing evidence of previous binding. Second title third leaf detached; gutter showing evidence of previous binding The passage of these acts was probably spurred by an the likelihood of an outbreak of cattle plague on the British mainland which actually did occur in later in 1765. London: Mark Baskett, January 10th 1765. unknown books
171940973London: Printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd 1719. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy with minor edge wear. 2p.185. Sm. 4to. Anno Regni Georgii Regis . quinto. At the Parliament begun . the seventeenth day of March anno Dom. 1714. . And from thence continued by several prorogations to the eleventh day of November 1718. being the fourth session of this present Parliament. ESTCN50526. Printed by John Baskett, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd unknown books
1664002881S.l. Grenoble : s. n. 1664. Very good. First edition thus OCLC lists one copy at Yale with the same title but different text and date - 1638; this edition not in OCLC; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4; single leaf removed text to recto only; illustrated with a woodcut border above the title; a small manuscript note to top margin; minor spotting to left margin; in very good condition. Reaffirming a royal edict first issued in 1556 the document dealt with prostitutes or women who had conceived in a dishonest way and concealed their pregnancy and after giving birth killed their infants and burried them or threw them away. The women were to be punished by death the manner of which was to be determined depending on the gruesomeness of the particular case. The paper contained an extract of the original 1556 edict as well which also required all unmarried women to officially declare their pregnancy and ordered the death penalty for any such mother whose infant died before receiving proper baptism regardless if an infanticide had actually occured. In early modern Europe pregnant unmarried women could face punishment for fornication and if they had a miscarriage or the newborn died they could be accused of infanticide but the courts rarely saw such cases as the magistrates were aware of the physicians' limitations in diagnosing and distinguishing a stillbirth a natural-cause death and a murder. It all chaged throughout most of Europe in the 16th century arguably beginning with the above-mentioned 1556 edict in France which was followed by similar ones in England and Germany in the 1600s and the early-1700s. s. n. unknown books