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1780100008<p>1780. Card 145 x 10cm. Text in French in various types within a decorative border. No date. Besides tissues and silk Zambra also sells perfume & Chocolate.</p>
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
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
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
174832847London: Printed for M. Cooper 1748. Third Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. 8" 5". Half title page 55 pages. Folding chart in back is the last content. No blank rear wrap. Half title page partially loose. Trimmed wraps. Contents cover much of England's War debt; America and West India trade treaty with Spain etc. <br /> <br /> Sabin 90620 First Second editions. Printed for M. Cooper 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
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
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
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
175141756London: n.p. 1751. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. Minor wear to extremities browning to title page edge wear to last leaf still a near fine copy. 1 57 1 pp. Folio. "Very rare and valuable. It contains an Appendix of Premiums paid by the Irish Linen Board" Higgs Bibliography of Economics p.8. An important source document. There is also a 28 page edition. OCLC locates only four complete copies of this separate issue: Yale Amer. Textile Museum Univ. Mass. Univ. Minn. and nine of the 28 page extract. Kress 5155. Higgs 54. Goldsmiths'-Kress 08612.1. n.p. hardcover
179231794Philadelphia: s.i. 1792. Very Good. Philadelphia: 1792-93. Single folded sheet 41.5 x 33.5cm; report in manuscript verso filled nearly to completion recto a quarter filled. Signed by Captain David Ross and two other parties; docket dated 1793 signed by Inspector Jeremiah Simmons. Stock exceedingly brittle with shallow chipping long closed tears along folds with old archival mending age-toning and light soiling as well as contemporary wax seal remnants. Overall a Very Good and legible survival. <br /> <br /> Cargo report executed in manuscript and dated November 9th 1792 listing materials shipped from Port-de-Paix Saint-Domingue modern day Haiti to Philadelphia for the firm Dutilh & Wachsmuth. The date places this report in the early days of the Haitian Revolution following the August 1791 enslaved peoples' revolt. The island was a vital source of commercial interests to Philadelphia and the burgeoning revolution was at the forefront of everyone's mind making this voyage and the survival of associated documents all the more significant. Dun cites one contemporary account "'No business is going on here' one letter told 'as every one is taken up with meetings committees and arming themselves.'" Dun p. 484. <br /> <br /> Goods delivered include wine sugar and coffee and were delivered to Dutilh and a handful of others including Captain Ross himself who received a hogshead of molasses. Ross eventually rose to the rank of Continental Navy Lieutenant during the Quasi-War with France and is remembered for commanding the privateer Belvedere guiding her back to Dover after an engagement with a French brig "leaving Belvedere with 50 round shot in her hull and her sails and rigging further shredded." <br /> <br /> References: James Alexander Dun "What Avenues of Commerce Will You Americans Not Explore! Commercial Philadelphia's Vantage onto the Early Haitian Revolution." The William and Mary Quarterly July 2005 Third Series Vol. 62 No. 3 pp. 473-504<br /> <br /> See also the Destroyer History Foundation website. [s.i.] unknown
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
17789984Madrid: Pedro Marín 1778. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. 284x197mm. 11¼x7¾". Madrid Pedro Marín 1778. En folio 284 x 197mm. Frontispicio con el escudo real de España grabado al cobre 2 19 262 pp. Encuadernación en piel de época sin el tejuelo de la lomera. Primera edición del Decreto de Carlo III por el que se establece el comercio libre con América y Filipinas y se finaliza con el monopolio del comercio a las Indias que venían ejerciendo Cádiz y Sevilla permitiendo a otras ciudades que lo soliciten comerciar con el nuevo continente. Este Reglamento articulado en 55 puntos fue promulgado por Carlos III como parte de las reformas borbónicas con el fin de incrementar el intercambio comerical entre España y América; se habilitaron 13 puertos españoles y 24 puertos americanos: San Juan de Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Monte-Christi Santiago de Cuba Batabanó La Habana Isla de Margarita Trinidad Campeche Golfo de Santo Tomás de Castilla Omoa Cartagena de Indias Santa Marta Río de la Hacha Portobelo Chagres Tierra Firme Montevideo Buenos Aires Valparaíso La Concepción Arica Callao y Guayaquil. Se excluyó a Venezuela hasta 1788 para proteger los intereses de la Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas que se disolvió en 1785 y a México por el temor de que la prosperidad de este territorio provocara la despreocupación hacia otras zonas menos activas lo que iba contra la idea rectora del proyecto. Cuatro años más tarde en 1789 se amplió el comercio libre a México y en 1797 a otros países de Europa. Ejemplar en gran papel de amplios márgenes. Pedro Marín hardcover
177810011Madrid: Pedro Marín 1778. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. 265x195mm. 10½x7¾". Madrid Pedro Marín 1778. En folio 265 x 195mm. Frontispicio con el escudo real de España grabado al cobre 2 19 262 pp. Encuadernación en piel de época sin el tejuelo de la lomera. Primera edición del Decreto de Carlos III por el que se establece el comercio libre con América y Filipinas y se finaliza con el monopolio del comercio a las Indias que venían ejerciendo Cádiz y Sevilla permitiendo a otras ciudades que lo soliciten comerciar con el nuevo continente. Este Reglamento articulado en 55 puntos fue promulgado por Carlos III como parte de las reformas borbónicas con el fin de incrementar el intercambio comerical entre España y América; se habilitaron 13 puertos españoles y 24 puertos americanos: San Juan de Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Monte-Christi Santiago de Cuba Batabanó La Habana Isla de Margarita Trinidad Campeche Golfo de Santo Tomás de Castilla Omoa Cartagena de Indias Santa Marta Río de la Hacha Portobelo Chagres Tierra Firme Montevideo Buenos Aires Valparaíso La Concepción Arica Callao y Guayaquil. Se excluyó a Venezuela hasta 1788 para proteger los intereses de la Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas que se disolvió en 1785 y a México por el temor de que la prosperidad de este territorio provocara la despreocupación hacia otras zonas menos activas lo que iba contra la idea rectora del proyecto. Cuatro años más tarde en 1789 se amplió el comercio libre a México y en 1797 a otros países de Europa. Ejemplar en gran papel de amplios márgenes. Pedro Marín 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
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
171421230London 1714. Broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. An early British petitionary leaflet calling for greater enforcement of customs laws for imported goods. The author charges that most consignments of foreign goods are now being made to "Naturalized Foreigners and Unfreemen" who are not under the same obligations as Freemen who state in their oath "not to Colour of Cover the Goods of Aliens." If "no Remedey be given" it is argued "all Persons will be discouraged from taking their Freedoms and few will be left of Substance to perform the necessary Service in the Government of London." The document is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid-1710s. ESTC records four copies at the British Library Oxford the National Library of Wales and the California State Library.<br/> <br/> Hanson 1980. unknown
17913649Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1791. First edition. Bound in later hardpaper boards covered with pastepaper spine with red gilt leather title vignette. Untrimmed. Paper tanned. Otherwise in very good condition. First edition. Bound in later hardpaper boards covered with pastepaper spine with red gilt leather title vignette. 18 2 blank p. <p><br /> Official report on the 1786 “Commission de Tabago†an extraordinary tribunal established to examine debts between British creditors and settlers after the French conquest of the island.<br /> <p><p><br /> First edition of the National Assembly’s official report on the controversial “Commission de Tabago†an extraordinary tribunal established in 1786 under the ancien régime to review debts between British capitalists and settlers after the French conquest of Tobago.<br /> <p><p><br /> The report reconstructs the background of the island’s transfer: originally ceded to Britain in 1763 Tobago had been largely settled and financed by British investors who lent capital for the development of sugar estates secured by mortgages. Following the French conquest 1781 and definitive cession Treaty of Paris 1783 the treaty guaranteed the inhabitants’ property rights under English law. Nevertheless in 1786 the Conseil du Roi created a special commission at Tobago to investigate alleged usury and excessive interest rates in these mortgage contracts. The commission—presided by the governor and ordonnateur—confiscated titles annulled or reduced debts and declared most English claims void provoking losses estimated at over 13 million livres.<br /> <p><p><br /> This Rapport examines the legality of the tribunal under both French and English law concluding that it was arbitrary unconstitutional and in violation of the 1783 peace treaty. The committees show that English statutes were misquoted that the island’s existing courts Common Pleas and Chancery already had proper jurisdiction and that no disputes existed before the commission was imposed. The report also denounces the suppression of trial by jury and the disregard of due process. It recommends—and the Assembly accepted—that the entire commission and its judgments be annulled thereby restoring lawful jurisdiction in the colony. The episode marked one of the last acts of French administration on Tobago which was recaptured by Britain in April 1793 returned to France in 1802 under the Treaty of Amiens and formally surrendered under the Treaty of Paris in 1814.<br /> <p><p><br /> An important Revolutionary document reflecting early attempts to reconcile French constitutional principles with colonial administration and international treaty obligations.<br /> <p><p><br /> Not in Sabin. No records on RBH. WorldCat locates 6 copies.<br /> <p>. [Imprimerie Nationale] unknown
173932846London: Printed for T. Cooper 1739. Wraps. Good. Disbound stitched trimmed wraps. Approx. 7.5" x 4.75". 30 pages. Author not listed. Light toning to the front cover. <br /> <br /> The writer defends England's treaty with Spain. He replies to George Lyttleton who opposed the treaty due to Spain's capture of British ships in America. The writer states "There are many instances of robbery and barbarity on both sides.but none of these instances can justify a National War Printed for T. Cooper 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
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
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
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
