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1800D6751early 1800s. Hardcover. Very Good. Full red morocco arms of George III stamped in gilt on boards lettering "Standing Orders" and ornament stamped in gilt on spine a.e.g. inside gilt dentelles; 8vo 5x7 inches; approx. pp. 200 entries beautifully handwritten in black ink with numbered subject headings in the margins and an index at rear. Scuffing along joints and edges of boards; joints a bit tender. Recorded by one or two scribes addressing parliamentary procedures in the 18th century. A lovely reference. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1791WRCLIT70719Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith for Messrs.R. Cross et al 1791. 21731pp. Contemporary calf gilt label. Neat ink name on title modest wear to extremities and old stain on upper board; internally a very good crisp copy. Bookplate. First and sole 18th century Dublin edition of this highly popular anonymous summary history. It reached a self-proclaimed 6th London edition in very short order. ESTC T48424. BRADSHAW 2020. Printed by Brett Smith, for Messrs.R. Cross [et al] unknown books
177934022London: Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew 1779. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Red morocco-backed green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed some light spotting. Bookplate of John Carter Brown ex-library with stamp on title else very good. First edition. Pp. iii-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Financing the Revolution. A satire. Often attributed to Richard Tickell as it imitates the tone of Tickell's "Anticipation" published the year before. Purports to contains speeches made in the Houses responding to the King's speech on the war in America and his need for more monies to pay for it. Adams "American Controversy" 79-3a; Sabin 1685 Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew unknown books
1025Mezzotint frontis. port. of George III a little foxed arms on each title & two engraved views of the library serving as head- & tailpieces. Five vols. Large folio cont. red straight-grained morocco minor scuffing panelled & tooled in gilt with centerpiece stamped monogram "GR" surmounted by a crown on covers spines gilt dentelles gilt a.e.g. London: W. Bulmer & W. Nicol 1820-29. The catalogue "sumptuously printed" by Bulmer of the magnificent library of King George III 1738-1820 donated to the nation by his son George IV. This is a royal copy having belonged to Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the fifth son of George III who became King of Hanover in 1837. It is superbly bound in red straight-grained morocco and printed on paper superior to other sets. "The kings of England had from the end of the fifteenth century always shown a certain taste for fine books especially for the handsomer volumes of their own day.A new library was started in 1765 by King George III when he purchased for 10000 pounds the valuable collection of incunabula with a few manuscripts brought together by Joseph Smith 1682-1770 the British Consul at Venice. "George III continued adding to his library for nearly fifty years buying with considerable discrimination at all the notable sales of the period; he secured the best books at the West Ratcliffe and Askew auctions built up a magnificent collection of English plays and kept on right up to the Roxburghe sale 1812. His usual agents were Messrs Nicol the booksellers but he seems to have obtained from the Continent some extremely valuable incunabula by the assistance of one Horn of Ratisbon a great despoiler of the German convents. "There is a sumptuously printed but hastily compiled catalogue of which copies are seldom met with."-De Ricci pp. 55-56. "As a boy George III had received an excellent education. He learned Latin well enough to be able to read the classics; French and German; history geography and the British political system; mathematics and elementary science; art architecture and music. After he left the schoolroom he continued his education under the Earl of Bute an inspiring if somewhat pedantic tutor.Under his tuition the King developed wide cultural interests a reverence for scholarship and the instinct of a collector. "The King's aim was.to acquire a library which contained every book which an eighteenth-century scholar could desire. It was a library to be used not simply to be admired.It was as far as it could be in the eighteenth century a universal library.It is rich in library catalogues. In addition to the catalogues of British libraries there are catalogues from France Italy Spain Portugal Germany Belgium Switzerland Sweden Poland and Russia. There are over five hundred sale catalogues most British and most with the prices marked. "It was the King's wish that a catalogue should be published but he postponed this as long as possible. When it became clear after 1812 that the King would never recover Queen Charlotte and the Prince Regent urged the preparation of a catalogue. It was compiled by Barnard and published between 1820 and 1829 in five folio volumes.It was never offered for sale but copies were presented to heads of state and the great libraries in the United Kingdom and on the Continent. It is today an extremely rare book."John Brooke "The Library of King George III" in The Yale University Library Gazette Vol. 52 No. 1 July 1977 pp. 33-45. "Frederick Barnard had begun the catalogue of the books and manuscripts of the King's Library while it was at Buckingham House. The catalogue was completed.by Barnard and his staff for the Trustees of the British Museum and printed in five volumes between 1820 and 1829.Very few copies were printed none for sale and they are now very rare."-Paintin The King's Library p. 22. This copy lacks the engraved frontispiece portrait of Bernard. A sixth volume issued separately in 1829 and not present here describes the maps prints and drawings. A magnificent set. From the library of Prince Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and the subsequent Kings of Hanover. Miller That Noble Cabinet p. 125"one of the finest libraries ever created by one man.By the time of the King's death the collection amounted to 65250 volumes besides 19000 unbound tracts." unknown books
1776305122London 1776. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Creased and lightly soiled small hole at central crease. Partially printed document on vellum accomplished in manuscript paper seals intact remnant of red wax seal. 11 x 16-1/4 in. Appointing James Lee to Captain of the 30th Regiment of Foot. The appointment comes at the start of the American War of Independence though the 30th Regiment of Foot would not join the fight until 1781. unknown books
178924645London 1789. 4 pages including docketing. 1 vols. Folio. The Warrant for accounts due for December 1787 until December 1788 to Sir Charles Gould Judge Advocate General. Folds some light discoloration else very good. 4 pages including docketing. 1 vols. Folio. Sir Charles Gould afterwards Morgan was appointed judge advocate general in 1771. "The manner in which he discharged the duties of this office it is said 'won the favour and exteem of George III in no ordinary degree' "DNB He was also one of the authors of the Oxford poem in 1751 on the death of Frederick Prince of Wales. Gould was knighted in 1779 made a baronet in 1792 and then a privy counvillor in 1802. unknown books
178838765London: Stockdale 1788. <p>George III 1738-1820. Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended his Majesty. . . . 8vo. 16pp. London: J. Stockdale 1778 i.e. 1788. 210 x210 x 133 mm. Modern boards. Fine apart from a little spotting.</p> <p> Reprint of a parliamentary report. Few illnesses of historic personages have been followed so closely and documented so well as the insanity of George iii king of Great Britain from 1760-1820. The king suffered five separate attacks of mental illness during his long reign the first in 1765 and the last in 1810; this final breakdown which ended only with the king's death resulted in the establishment of the Regency. Of the remaining four attacks the one that incapacitated the king between October 1788-March 1789 is the most interesting not only because of the political turmoil it generated over the regency question but also because of the stimulus it gave to the study of psychiatry. The question of the king's recovery was of such political importance that special committees from each house of Parliament were set up to interrogate the king's doctors about the progress and probable outcome of his illness. These examinations printed in the Parliamentary proceedings and republished in numerous cheap popular editions advanced the cause of psychiatry by educating the public about mental illness and by giving an aura of respectability to the study of insanity. Guttmacher pp. 1-15. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 509-514. See Norman 889. </p> . Stockdale unknown books
178938761London: Logographic Press 1789. George III 1738-1820. Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended his majesty during his illness; touching the present state of his majesty's health. 4to. 4-52pp. lacking half-title. London: Logographic Press 1789. 210 x 160 mm. Later half calf marbled boards a bit rubbed. Occasional foxing otherwise very good. Bookplate of Charles W. Pilgrim. <p>Reprint of a parliamentary report issued in January 1789. Few illnesses of historic personages have been followed so closely and documented so well as the insanity of George III king of Great Britain from 1760-1820. The king suffered five separate attacks of mental illness during his long reign the first in 1765 and the last in 1810; the final breakdown which ended only with the king's death resulted in the establishment of the Regency. Of the remaining four attacks the one that incapacitated the king between October 1788-March 1789 is the most interesting not only because of the political turmoil it generated over the regency question but also because of the stimulus it gave to the study of psychiatry. The question of the king's recovery was of such political importance that special committees from each house of Parliament were set up to interrogate the king's doctors about the progress and probable outcome of his illness. These examinations printed in the Parliamentary proceedings and republished in numerous popular editions such as the one we are offering here advanced the cause of psychiatry by educating the public about mental illness and by giving an aura of respectability to the study of insanity.</p> <p>The present report contains testimony from the eight physicians attending the king during his illness taken on January 7-13 1789. The most influential of these physicians was Francis Willis proprietor of a private asylum in Lincolnshire; his optimism about the king's eventual recovery found favor with Prime Minister William Pitt and the Tory government which had been supported by the king. Willis's chief rival was Richard Warren a friend of the leaders of the Whig opposition; his pessimistic views about the king's illness were adopted by those who wished to see the Prince of Wales established as Regent. Guttmacher pp. 1-15. Hunter & Macalpine pp. 509-514. See Norman 890. 38761</p> . Logographic Press unknown books
1968292031New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1968. hardcover. Ed. by Bonamy Dobree. Frontis. 8vo 1/2 black cloth d.w. New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1968. Near Fine<br/><br/> Funk & Wagnalls unknown books
