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1729658131729. London: printed and sold by J. Roberts 1729. London: printed and sold by J. Roberts 1729. English Trade in the West Indies Trade. Great Britain. Amhurst Nicholas 1697-1742 Attributed. Observations on the Conduct of Great-Britain With Regard to the Negociations and Other Transactions Abroad. London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts 1729. 61 1 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Light rubbing minor wear to spine ends and corners light soiling to title page and verso of final leaf. Light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves. A nice copy. $100. First edition. Attributed in some sources to Nicholas Amhurst this pamphlet defends Sir Robert Walpole then chancellor of the exchequer against accusations of neglecting England's West Indian commerce to the advantage of Spain. It describes English expeditions to counter Spanish influence and in the interest of fairness lists English ships taken by Spain since the Treaty of Hanover 1725. English Short-Title Catalogue T41776. unknown
1788126576Rouen: 1788. Dupont de Nemours refuted First edition written in response to the Eden Treaty of 1786. Bound at the rear is Tableau du maximum des denrées et aliments dans le district de Rouen Rouen: de l'Imprimerie du District et du Journal de Rouen an 2e de la République 1793/4. Octavo 208 x 128 mm. Contemporary quarter roan spine lettered in gilt marbled paper boards and endpapers. Extremities rubbed boards scuffed contents generally bright with occasional soiling some chipping and unevenness to title leaf else a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 13590; McCulloch p. 145. hardcover
179212195Düsseldorf: s.n. 1792. Contemporary mottled calf rebacked restored marbled endleaves. <p>      ILLUSTRATED PATTERN AND PRICE BOOK OF STEEL KNIVES AND FORKS MANUFACTURED AT SOLINGEN with the strict governmental guidelines for craftsmen and their commercial partners.<br />       The “City of Blades†Solingen was the largest sword knife and scissor manufacturer in the West. It employed over four thousand workers and exported globally. Through their rigid guild system est. 1571 the knife makers protected their trade secrets. Legal standards and strictures ensured the Solingen bladesmiths dominated the market and were the sole suppliers to elite merchants who commissioned bulk orders and custom products. Ordinary tradesmen — like the owner of this book — could only purchase ready-made items and had to pay cash.<br />       KNIVES FOR COBBLERS WOOD- AND LEATHERWORKERS BUTCHERS HUNTERS FARMERS TAILORS GARDENERS WEAVERS AND COOKS form the largest section in the volume. Each blade has a schematic manuscript illustration with separate costs for the work of smiths and for grinders. Many models adopt Dutch English French Flemish and Portuguese designs for the local chic and for export. Only the leatherwork knives are illustrated in watercolor 95 pieces marking a specialty of the owner of this sample book.<br />       THE SECTION ON FORKS HAS ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT WATERCOLOR ILLUSTRATIONS and price lists of large carving tools to dainty ones for desserts 65 models. This other house specialty addressed the increasing adoption of forks by upper- and middle-class families in later 18th-century Europe.<br />       ANOTHER SECTION SHOWS HANDLES. These were exclusively manufactured by artisans called Reyder. Each of the two hundred three models listed was available in a range of specified styles and materials. The cost of each type of custom work like turning polishing and coloring is itemized. THE MOST PRIZED EXAMPLES ARE OF FINELY DECORATED BONE EBONY ANTLER GOAT HORN GUAIAC OR PALM WOOD. Look-alikes of “false deer horn†“false guaiac wood†etc. fit other budgets with imitation luxury finishes and less expensive materials. The illustrated examples of knives showcase eighteen different handle decoration options including black red white yellow or green dye black marbling and fine lacquer painting in abstract or foliate patterns. Seven handles are inscribed with German verse. In good condition some light staining hand soiled throughout.<br /> ¶Daniels Vollständige Beschreibung der Schwert-Messer- und übrigen Stahl-Fabriken zu Solingen 30-62.</p> s.n. unknown
1766357746London: R. Davis 1766. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in quarter leather over paper-covered boards with paper labels to the spine. Spine bands worn with some loss. Panel edges bumped and rubbed as with age. Text remains clear without blemish. Physical description: 453 pages. Subjects: Agriculture England; Periodicals; Early works to 1800. Commerce England; Periodicals; Early works to 1800. Technological innovations England; Periodicals; Early works to 1800. Industrial arts Great Britain; Periodicals; Early works to 1800. London: R. Davis hardcover
1766museumrusticumLondon: R Davis; J Newbury; L Davis and C Reymers 1766. Third Edition Corrected. Hardcover. Pages are clean with text block . Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: Or Select Papers on Agriculture Commerce Arts and Manufactures. Drawn From Experience and Communicated by Gentlemen Engaged in These Pursuits full 6 volume set Third Edition Corrected. Revised b the members of Society for the Encourage of Arts Manufactures and Commerce in 1766. Numerous plates including foldout tables and woodcut illustration.Pages are clean with text block solidly bound hinges weak / separating with prior poor repair original leather boards show heavy rub wear and bumping spines show cracking to leather and title bands no longer present. R Davis; J Newbury; L Davis and C Reymers hardcover
1787162443London: Printed by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1787 i.e. 1788. Among the earliest Parliamentary responses to the British slave trade First edition of the first British law to regulate slave shipping preserved in its original volume of yearly parliamentary acts. The law bound 54th in this volume pioneered techniques of popular abolitionist appeal. The Slave Trade Act 1788 limited the number of enslaved persons that could be transported on British ships. It also required that all ships carried a doctor to monitor the conditions of the enslaved persons. The Act was supported through Parliament by Sir William Dolben 1727-1814 and Charles Stanhope 1753-1816. LoGerfo notes of their campaign that "the machinery used to appeal to the literate public would also be used in the future" p. 450. This volume collects 57 acts passed by the 16th Parliament of Great Britain which met from November 1787 to July 1788 and was led by Pitt the Younger. Like all Parliamentary statutes of this period the Slave Trade Act was separately printed with a general title page for inclusion in the yearly volumes of acts. Most of these statutes were printed with their own title pages included in the signatures and pagination - here all such pages have been removed. These laws were printed in limited numbers usually estimated at around 1100 copies only. The volume includes laws against chimney sweeps and child labour and measures to compensate dispossessed American loyalists in the years after the Revolution. Folio 304 x 191 mm pp. 1012 = 900 title pages of individual acts removed. Woodcut device to title page woodcut head- tailpieces and initials to contents. Contemporary quarter sheep spine lettered and with black morocco label in gilt marbled paper sides. Bumping and wear minor loss to spine ends joints cracked but holding firm slight browning and foxing to endpapers and contents slight marking to edges: a good copy. ESTC N58828; N58797 Slave Trade Act. James W. LoGerfo "Sir William Dolben and "The Cause of Humanity": The Passage of the Slave Trade Regulation Act of 1788" Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 6 No. 4 Jun. 1973. unknown
1713186652London: Printed for John Baskett Printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty And by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills deceas'd 1713. A foundational document in the transatlantic slave trade First edition of a major development of the transatlantic slave trade which greatly expanded the market for British slave traders in the Americas and helped establish Britain as the predominant slave trading power. After the War of the Spanish Succession Spain ceded to Britain the exclusive right to import African slaves into Spanish America. This monopoly the Assiento was delegated to the newly formed South Sea Company and held until 1750. The supposed value of the Assiento was the basis of the South Sea Bubble. In fact the restrictive terms - slave numbers were capped and all shipments were heavily taxed by the Spanish Crown - resulted in the South Sea Company never making substantial profit from the agreement. Nonetheless the Assiento played a major role in boosting and consolidating Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade. The front free endpaper contains a detailed contemporary owner's note naming the binder of the volume - John Worrall - the price paid how it was constructed and how the book should be used: a very unusual survival. The notes state "This book Intituled State Pamphlets was bound by John Worrall for 2s. 2d. and containes 425 leaves". Little is recorded of John Worrall. He was apprenticed from 1674 to 1682 and was working at Warwick Court in 1709 and at Fleet Ditch in 1722. He died in 1726 all from Howe p. 103. The notes continue that the contents are consecutively numbered in manuscript and to use that numbering not the pagination of the original pamphlets. It specifies that "Remarks" are to be "entred in the proper cleane leaves as the observation thereof sees best" - blanks are bound between the tracts. It then notes that the manuscript table should be placed as the second leaf as is found. It refers the reader to another volume with more detailed instructions - it is evident the volume was held in a library which anticipated wide use. The nine other works bound in the volume - an inventory is available on request - date from 1688 to 1714 and are tracts on religion law and politics alongside the Treaty of Utrecht. It includes Jonathan Swift's first political work A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome 1701 - this copy is the second issue with most of the first edition type corrected and reset. 10 works bound in 1 vol. quarto 206 x 156 mm. Contemporary calf red morocco label to style covers ruled in blind edges sprinkled red. 19th-century ownership signature "S. Louise Langdon" to verso of manuscript contents leaf. Joints and extremities restored slight staining to endpapers a little browned occasional trimming to pagination. Overall very good. ESTC T4476 another issue only has Baskett in the imprint; Kress 5020; Sabin 2227. Ellic Howe A List of London Bookbinders 1648-1815 1950. unknown
177097Birmingham or Sheffield 1770. <p>Oblong folio. 390 x 220 mm. 15 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Vellum spine over decorative blue paper wrappers paper label with title in Italian on upper board and ink title in Italian on spine. Paper stock toned with age a few leaves with staining in the margin otherwise in good condition.</p> <br /> <p>Silversmith model book containing 80 full-page engravings of candles sticks and holders candelabra pitchers plates salt and pepper shakers serving utensils silverware and other household pieces. Each image is beautifully and careful engraved with rich detail and ornamentation. Each includes a printed product number as well as one in ink with a different item number and a price.</p> <br /> <p>Although there is no title-page or signatures of engravers this large sales catalogue appears to be English as some of the engravings have English words of explanation engraved in the text. The binding is definitely Italian and the paper label is in an Italian hand. The watermark is a "fleur de lis" pattern suggesting an international company manufacturing the silver. There were only a few English companies with the capacity to export at this time including silver works in Sheffield and Birmingham both of which by 1770's had established networks of dealers selling their wares across the continent. This catalogue with specific Italian connections is very unusual and suggests the scope of the business had reached export capacity by the third quarter of the century. The most important Italian silver makers at this time were Giardini of Rome and Venuti of Naples.</p> . unknown
178564443Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts London 1785. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. London: Printed at Logographic Press 1785. 326 pages. Portrait of Lord Romney plates of Braithwaite's Crane & Marshall's Secret Escutcheon. 8.75 x 5.25" buff paper spine blue paper over boards. Untrimmed. Papers on Agriculture Polite Arts account of James Barry's pictures for Society's Great Room Manufactures cloth from hops Mechanics Abstract of Proceedings Rewards Presents Models & Machines Officers Members Premiums for Agriculture Chymystry Polite Arts Manufactures Colonies & Trades Index. Covers detached sewing broken lightly damped lacking upper blank cover chipped soiled G. Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, London hardcover
17631730471763. Grain policy in the ancien régime First edition of this exceptionally scarce economic tract on the grain trade. We trace only two institutional copies worldwide: at the University of Chicago and the BnF. The recent spine label attributes this work to Louis Paul Abeille 1719-1807 an early convert to physiocracy and a friend of Quesnay and Mirabeau. Abeille served as secretary of commerce under Louis XV & XVI from 1769-83. A series of subsistence crises brought concerns over public access to grain to the forefront of French economic debate in the mid-18th century. In the absence of public granaries government policy was to regulate more strictly the distribution of grain by private commercial interests but periodic subsistence crises revealed the inadequacy of this policy. Over the next decade the physiocrats continued to promote deregulation of the grain trade which contributed to spiralling prices and the Flour War of 1775. The attribution to Abeille is presumably based on his publication in 1760 of the Corps d'observations de la Société d'agriculture de commerce et des arts établie par les États de Bretagne années 1757 & 1758 which brought him to the attention of Quesnay and Mirabeau in Paris. Abeille was the secretary of the Agricultural Society of Brittany a learned society for agricultural improvement. Duodecimo 159 x 92 mm. Recent marbled paper boards gilt label to spine edges sprinkled red. Minor foxing and browning: a very good copy. Not in Black Goldsmiths' or Kress. hardcover
1737EANmoFRA36London: Sold by J. and P.Knapton E.Symon and J.Stagg 1737. 1737. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. viii ie. xvi 120 ie. 240 1. French & English text on opposite pages with duplicate pagination. woodcut title vignette ornaments & initials. contemporary calf bit rubbed occasional light foxing short tear to outer margin of B7 - no loss. armorial bookplate of Sir Richard Neave. First Edition. The first memorial pp. 1-20 concerns the Guinea Company the commerce of the French colonies in America the state of the French West Indian islands Martinique Sainte Croix Saint Domingue &c. and the means of preserving and extending trade there. Included are remarks on restricting some branches of commerce to certain ports exclusive companies and farms of certain commodities particularly tobacco and sugar. Goldsmiths' 7461. Kress 4346. Sabin 47744 title from a bookseller's catalogue. F. London: Sold by J. and P.Knapton, E.Symon, and J.Stagg, 1737. unknown
17363222Lichfield England 1736. Oblong document on vellum upper edge scallopped 143 x 214 mm. recto with letterpress form accomplished in manuscript in brown ink slightly faded but legible one passage erased large woodcut armorial initial and 2 pence duty mark strip of three blue sixpence stamps red wax seal paper stamp on verso. Slight soiling to corners and part of top edge.<br /> <br /> A bookseller joins the toy trade: Robert Shaw son of the Lichfield bookseller of the same name agrees to an apprenticeship of seven years during which he promises to serve his master keep his secrets to not waste or lend his Goods; and “Taverns Inns or Ale-houses he shall not haunt At Cards Dice Tables or any other unlawful Game he shall not playâ€. For this the toymaker Richard Robinson agrees to pay 5 pounds into the public charity pledges to feed and lodge his new Apprentice and added in manuscript promises his father Robert Shaw Sr. “to fund and provide for his said Son wearing apparell of all sorts as well Linens as Woolens during the said term.â€<br /> <br /> Lichfield Staffordshire was the childhood home of Samuel Johnson 1709-1784 whose father Michael Johnson was also a bookseller; as a boy Johnson sometmes bound books for his father to help earn money. Contemplation of the latter’s debt-ridden career may throw light on the motives of his colleague Shaw Sr. in sending his son out to learn another profession. <br /> <br /> A bookseller Robert Shaw is known from archival sources including a payment to him in 1737 by Lichfield Cathedral for lettering books in the library cf. Peter Hanks The Bookbinder and Historical Invisibility: Bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850 thesis University of Wolverhampton 2024. Booksellers in this period were more involved in actual book production and their duties included supplying bookbindings. <br /> <br /> A colleague who previously owned this document remarked: “I have not been able to determine how Robert Shaw the Younger fared in the toy trade or if he was able to follow the indenture’s commandment `Taverns Inns or Ale-houses he shall not haunt’ which he never could have done if he’d followed his father into bookselling.†unknown
1727204Original 1727 disbound series of Acts of Parliament totalling 4-pages in Good condition;<br /><p><i>Anno decimo tertio Georgii Regis</i><i><br /></i></p><p><i>"An Abstract of the Act for enlarging the Times for hearing and determining Claims by the Truftees for raifing Money upon the Eftates of the late Directors of the South Sea Company and others : and for Relief of the Creditors of Robert Knight Efq; late Cafhire to the faid Company ; and for Relief of Perfons who have entered Claims for contingent Debts and Incumbrances ; and for giving time to Ralph Gulfton and other Creditors of Edward Gibbon ; and for impowering the Truftees to difmifs Claims for want of Profecution ; and for applying the Produce of the faid Eftates for the Benefit of the South Sea Company</i><i>." 1.5 pages</i><br /></p><p></p><p><i>"An Abstract of the Act for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture and for preventing Difputes among the Perfons concerned therein ; and for limiting a Time for profecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by an Act of the Twelfth Year of His Majesty's Reign in case of Payment of the Workmens Wages in any other Manner than in Money."</i> 1.5 pages</p><p></p><p><i>"An Abstract of the Act for preventing Frauds and Abufes in the Dying Trade"</i> 1 page</p> Not stated paperback
1741AQ25221London: Sold by J. Roberts 1741. 40pp. Uncut. Stitched as issued. A trifle dusty. Scattered spotting. The sole edition of an anonymous pamphlet written in reply both to Samuel Webber's An account of a scheme for preventing the exportation of our wool London 1740 and William Webster's 1689-1758 The consequences of trade. London 1740 which called for reforms to woollen manufactory. ESTC T46871. First edition. 8vo. Sold by J. Roberts unknown
1731825London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane 1731. First edition. Very good. <p data-pm-slice="1 1 ">Octavo. approx. 20 cm. 2 viii 48 pp. Complete with half-title. Disbound; woodcut title vignette initials and ornaments. Notation in 18th century hand on half-title referring to the Dedication "Suppos'd by Lord Harvey sic." Very good or better. <br /> <br /> First edition. The dedication preface contains a scathing attack on William Pulteney who then mistakenly attributed authorship to John Lord Hervey and responded with A Proper Reply culminating in a duel both combatants were uninjured. The true author was Sir William Yonge Sir Robert Walpole's lieutenant notoriously disliked by George II. The text includes a pointed reference to losses sustained by British merchants in the West Indies on the lower quarter of page 13.</p> . ESTC T47414. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane unknown
1721LC4D1MQ3QGJ6Amsterdam 1721. 1 leaf 21 x 8 cm; 1 leaf 20.5 x 8 cm; 1 leaf 17.5 x 8 cm. Jacobus van Egmond Ad 1: Text printed on both sides each in a border built up from typographic ornaments. Ad 2: Text printed on one side. Ad 3: Text printed on one side. 3 documents. Ad. 1: Rare VOC ships manifest for cargo shipped from the East Indies - Batavia and Ceylon Sri Lanka - on 22 East-Indiamen sailing on 1 December 1720 from Batavia and on 15 November from Ceylon. The list includes more than 100 different colonial wares and gives the weights in pounds or the lengths in feet: from pepper more than 6.5 million pounds cloves 694000 pounds cinnamon 604000 pounds and coffee more than 1.77 million pounds to 962 pounds of Javanese cardamom some jewels and rariora and many feet of silk and linen cloth. Small wormhole affecting two characters otherwise in good condition.Ad. 2: Rare list of the results of the auctions of colonial wares organized in 1781 by the Chambers of the VOC Amsterdam 30 April 1781; Zeeland 7 May; Delft 15 May; Rotterdam 17 May; Hoorn 22 May; Enkhuizen 23 May including pepper cinnamon nutmeg etc. with the prices fetched. With a small tear not affecting the text. Still in good condition.Ad. 3: Price list of the various varieties of raw sugar: brown sugar from Martinique Surinam etc.; sugar packed in chests from Brazil Havana; in bales from Bengal Manilla etc.Small hole not affecting the text.l Ad. 1: cf. Landwehr VOC 1123-1134 other manifests. hardcover
179743741Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross 1797. First edition. Removed. Very good mostly unopened uncut untrimmed copy minor browning at lower edge. 3 226-232 2 pp. 8vo. Evans dated it both 1797 and 1798. two petitions both concerning a waving of taxes on spirits the Orchard Cook and Abiel Wood case claiming the ship was wrecked on an island and the cost of recovering the cargo exceeded the cost of the mechandise and that their insurance had lapsed. In the second case Hooper claimed he was lax in filing papers for re-shipping a cargo overseas. Wisely both were declined as the committee felt the government is not in the business of insuring that a business is successful and well run. Ah to return to those days. Orchard Cook 1763-1819 and Abiel Wood 1772-1834 had a better idea. They both became U.S. Representatives from Massachusetts. OCLC locates eight copies. Evans 33015. Evans 34753. ESTCW15017. [Printed by William Ross] unknown
179843744Philadelphia 1798. First edition. Removed. A very good copy lightly soiled and edge worn. 4 pp. 8vo. Nathaniel Cutter wanted relief from being re-taxed on goods that left Massachusetts where he had paid tax and then returned to the same port with the same goods because he was harrassed by the British and French and turned away in the Dominican Republic. The committee wisely wrote: "Your Committee however cannot find any good reason for relieving him against consequences of a risque which every exporter ought to calculate for himself." Cutter would continue to take risks suppling the French in Saint-Domingue and a claim was allowed him in 1803 by the American Commission in Paris for unpaid costs by the French See Greg H. Williams: The French Assault on American Shipping 1793-1813: A History p. 154. Evans 34754. ESTCW25464. unknown
173934763London: Printed by T. Cooper 1739. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Disbound trimmed wraps. Approx. 7.5" x 5". 30 pages 1. Front wrap mostly detached. Pages 29 30 and the rear wrap have a small chip upper edge resulting in loss of a couple of letters. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet was published shortly before "The War of Jenkins Ear" with Spain. Contents cover trade issues in the new American colonies; sale of "Negroes"; Native Americans; European countries etc. <br /> <br /> Sabin 64143. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> The War of Jenkins' Eara was fought by Great Britain and Spain between 1739 and 1748. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea with major operations largely ended by 1742. It is considered a related conflict of the 1740 to 1748 War of the Austrian Succession. The name derives from Robert Jenkins a British sea captain whose earb was allegedly severed in April 1731 by Spanish coast guards searching his ship for contraband. In 1738 opposition politicians in the British Parliament used the incident to incite support for a war against Spain.2<br /> <br /> The most significant operation of the war was a failed British attack on Cartagena in 1741 which resulted in heavy casualties and was not repeated.3 Apart from minor actions in Spanish Florida Georgia and Havana after 1742 Britain and Spain focused their efforts on the War of the Austrian Succession in Europe. Printed by T. Cooper unknown
1800I7DD3T6LJ6QQNo place 1800. 27 x 40 cm. Aquatint in contemporary hand colour engraved by "J. L. T." after "J. R. P." Three partly exposed women before a large tent being advertised and inspected by several men dressed in fine oriental garb. On the left is another woman whose price is under discussion while the background shows date palms and two dromedaries.Rather severe water stains and a few small holes in the blank margin; some scuff marks in the image; trimmed closely with loss to lower left corner. A very appealing print. Rare. unknown
1772ABC_48853Lisbon 1772. Folio ca. 29 x 20 cm. Na Regia Officina Typografica Disbound and subsequently mounted in a modern black stiff paper folder with a printed label mounted on the front wrapper. With a large decorated woodcut initial E incorporating the Portuguese royal coat of arms. 3 1 blank pp. Very rare first issue of two of a late 18th-century decree by the Portuguese King José I 1714-1777 dealing with difficulties in the transportation of enslaved people from Mozambique to Brazil. This text dated 12 December 1772 and signed Rey King at the end is also signed by the notorious Portuguese nobleman and diplomat Marquez de Pombal. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo 1st Marquis of Pombal 1699-1782 who was the Secretary of State of the Kingdom during the reign of Dom José I in the period of 1750-1777. It is concluded with a formal text dated 18 December 1772 and signed by João Baptista de Araújo a senior officer of the Secretariat of State.In 1761 Marquez de Pombal prohibited the importation of enslaved people in Portugal and Portuguese India not for humanitarian reasons but because they were needed for labour in Brazil. He stimulated the trade of mostly African enslaved people for that colony and with his support two companies for slave trade were founded the Companhia Geral de Comércio do Grão-Pará e Maranhão and the Companhia Geral de Comércio de Pernambuco e Paraíba. Both companies were privileged and had a monopolistic character. Their lists of shareholders included many Portuguese noblemen and clergy. Between 1757 and 1777 more than 25000 enslaved people were imported to Pará and Maranhão from West African ports.The two issues can be identified by their catchwords on p. 1: issue one shows the catchword as a vol- that catchword was changed in the second issue to a.The inner margin shows some signs of the previous binding. Otherwise in very good condition.l Gauz Portuguese and Brazilian books in the JCB 772/1; WorldCat 1045359449 3 copies; cf. Porbase 2301650 and no copies. unknown
1751AQ31219Lisbon: s.n. 1751. Single sheet printed on both sides. A trifle creased. A rare survival of a mid-eighteenth century edict issued by King José I of Portugal forbidding traders to transport slaves from Portuguese seaports to colonial territories held by other nations. The Portuguese slave trade experienced continual growth throughout the latter half of the eighteenth century in particular from West African colony of Luanda from which between the issue of this edict in 1751 to 1760 an average of 10 940 enslaved Africans were trafficked annually. OCLC records copies at just three locations BL NYPL and UoL; COPAC adds one further Senate House. . Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. [s.n.] unknown
178839695London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 313-316 2 as issued. Disbound else Very Good. "Numb. 36." printed in left corner at head of title.<br /> <br /> The matters include "A Petition of the Aldermen Burgesses and Inhabitants of the Town of Wokingham in the Counties of Berks and Wilts. . . representing the present State of the African Slave Trade as being contrary to the Principles of Justice Humanity good Policy and Religion; and submitting the same to the Consideration of the House."<br /> The reception of a Report concerning the regulation of Trade between the North American Colonies and the West India Islands and "the Countries belonging to the United States of America" is noted.<br /> This is an early protest against the continuation of the African Slave Trade. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown
178841603London: Printed and Sold by John Nichols. 1788. Folio. Pages 253-265 1 blank pp as issued. Caption title as issued. Disbound with some loosening else Very Good. "Numb. 29." printed in left corner at head of title.<br /> <br /> The matters include "A Petition of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Helstgon in the County Cornwall; and also A Petition of the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and other Inhabitants of the Town of Shrewsbury: Were severally presented to the House and read; representing the present State of the African Slave Trade as being sent State of the African Slave Trade as being contrary to the Principles of Justice Humanity good Policy and Religion; and submitting the same to the Consideration of the House."<br /> This is an early protest against the continuation of the African Slave Trade. Printed and Sold by John Nichols... unknown
1738AQ34551London: Printed for T. Cooper 1738. 28pp. With half-title. Disbound. Text-block detached in two pieces. Leaves browned light scattered spotting some damp-staining to half-title and p.28. The sole edition of a Georgian pamphlet on the British linen trade urging for the repeal of the eighteenth-century drawback which amounted to nearly the whole of the duty laid on foreign linens imported into Britain and which was given on their re-exportation to the plantations. ESTC T46529. First edition. 8vo. Printed for T. Cooper unknown
