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Journal de Pierre Le Grand Depuis L'Annee 1698: Jusqu'a La Conclusion de La Paix de Neustadt 1773
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1855054970Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Engraved Portraits. FIRST EDITION. EDINBURGH : 1855. Individual biographies with vignette engraved portraits to each part; individually numbered; Oberlin; Columbus; Madame Roland; Peter the Great; Rob Roy; John Howard; Clan MacGregor Walter Scott James Watt Alexander Murray; Isaac Newton and others. Original red textured cloth; gilt lettered and decorated spine. Blind-stamped decorative cover with gilt decorative motif. Original yellow end-papers. All edges gilt. Bright tight and clean. Neat contemporary owner name; no internal markings. Minor use only. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Everyman Keswick Inklings Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> W. & R. Chambers hardcover
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177355016Berlin und Leipzig Decker 1773. Contemp. hcalf. Spine worn and upper part of spine taped. Stamp on title-page. 146504 pp. Light scattered browning to leaves. unknown
1924171423N.p.: N.p. 1924. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1924 silent film both showing canine actor Peter the Great. One with a mimeo snipe affixed to the verso the other with a distributor's notice regarding exploitation. <br /> <br /> A German Shepherd dog is the sole witness to a murder and helps his master escape when he is wrongfully accused of being the killer. <br /> <br /> Peter the Great was a German-born German Shepherd who appeared in six Hollywood films between 1922 and 1926. His career was cut short due to a violent altercation between his co-owners his trainer and another dog trainer in 1926 leading to a shootout and ultimately to Peter's death.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good toned with a few chips and wear at the corners and one with dampstains to the margins. N.p. unknown
1913610387Saint Petersburg: Printing House of Partnership E. Weyerman and Co. for A. Petrov 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition revised. Preface by A. Petrov. Small quarto. 44 2 publisher's ads pp. Text in Russian. With 34 monochrome illustrations. Half leather gilt and paper over boards. Leather heavily rubbed and boards a bit bowed a very good copy. The text and illustrations are fine. A nicely produced volume one of 600 copies printed. Printing House of Partnership E. Weyerman and Co. for A. Petrov] hardcover
1740100257<p>London: Printed for J. Hodges at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge MDCCXL 1740. 1740. Very good. - Octavo 6-5/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcover bound in full calf with a black leather title label and decorations in gilt within raised bands on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed and bumped with a minor chip to the head of the spine and a portion of the title label chipped off. 4 346 & 14 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece engraved by George Bickham the Younger c. 1706–1771 and an engraved head-piece tail-piece and a formal decorated initial. There are two small pieces out of the front margin of page 3/4 without loss of text and a small tear in the margin of page 65/66 without loss of text. Very good.</p><p>Second edition published in the same year as the first.</p><p>From the library of Captain Colin Campbell of Kilberry with his armorial bookplate with the motto "Ne Oublie Pas" signed "R.M." R. Mountaine on the front pastedown and the ownership names of "Kilberry" and "Minard" handwritten at the head of the title page.</p><p>"CAMPBELL COLIN d. 1782 of Kilberry major of 100th foot obtained an unenviable notoriety in consequence of a fatal assault committed by him on Captain John McKaarg or Macharg a brother officer while stationed at the island of Martinico in 1762. The cause of difference is said to have originated at Jersey where Campbell at that time major-commandant of the 100th foot was obliged to take the payment of McKaarg's company out of his hands owing to the latter's pecuniary difficulties. On the arrival of the regiment at Martinico McKaarg took every opportunity of vilifying Campbell who demanded in writing an explanation. McKaarg replied in a curt letter. Campbell immediately proceeded to McKaarg's tent armed with a bayonet and a small-sword and demanded satisfaction. McKaarg having a broad sword only endeavoured to evade a meeting. Thereupon Campbell struck him several times with his sword. McKaarg was compelled by his antagonist to beg for his life and immediately expired. He had received eleven wounds two of which were mortal. Campbell was arrested and on 6 April 1762 was tried for murder by a general court-martial held at Fort Royal. He endeavoured to prove that McKaarg had fallen in a fair duel. On 14 April the court adjudged Campbell to be cashiered and declared him incapable of serving his majesty in any military employment whatsoever. Pending the king's consideration of the sentence Campbell escaped from the island. Owing to some informalities the proceedings were not confirmed but he was immediately dismissed from the army. . The relatives of Captain McKaarg subsequently brought an action of assythment against Campbell and ultimately damages. were awarded to them. Campbell chiefly resided in Edinburgh where he attracted notice by his foppery and was well known as an antiquated old beau. In the summer he visited Buxton and the other fashionable watering-places of the day. He died unmarried at Edinburgh in 1782 and his estate at Kilberry in Argyllshire descended to his nephew." Quoted from the Dictionary of National Biography volume 8 page 349. The Oxford Dictionary of Biography gives Campbell's death date as 1798.</p><p>"The action of assythment is now no more than a legal antiquity but in 1767 we find its scope and character were the subject of much discussion in the Court. It appears that while the 100th Regiment of Foot had been fighting the French in Martinique Captain Colin Campbell of Kilberry had killed Captain Macharg a brother officer in a quarrel. For this offence he was cashiered by sentence of court-martial. Captain Macharg's relatives brought an action of assythment in the Court of Session. In the defence of Captain Campbell it was pled that assythment was a proceeding for infliction of a fine and not for payment of damages and that Captain Campbell having already been tried and punished could be liable to no further legal proceedings for the same offence. Assythment was said apparently with reason to have been instituted to take the place of the right of private vengeance which early law allowed to the relatives of a murdered man and to have been regarded more as a criminal penalty than as a civil reparation. His counsel quoted Balfour's Practicks to the effect that assythment was paid 'to the kin bairins and freindis in contentation of their damnage and for pacifying of their rancor' and Bankton who had laid it down that assythment was given to the wife and nearest. of-kin 'that they might be reconciled to the manslayer.' Captain Macharg's relatives however were successful in maintaining on the other hand that assythment was an action for payment of reparation and not of a fine and the Court remitted to the Lord Ordinary to fix the amount." Quoted from "The Green Bag" 1889-1914 volume 15 page 442.</p> London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge, MDCCXL [1740]. hardcover
172540967Amsterdam Wetsteins & Smith 1725-30. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spines titlelabels with gilt lettering. Small stamp on halftitles. 2847036;6608;6696;12780 pp. Engraved frontispiece 3 engraved portraits 2 folded maps 1 folded plan a. 1 engraved plate. Fine and clean. unknown
2110813London Printed for J. Stagg et al. 1725. 8vo. 18th-century English panelled calf spine with raised bands and red morocco lettering-piece; pp. viii 429 errors in pagination woodcut head- and tail-pieces; hinges a little worn otherwise a very good copy.Second edition of one of the the first full-length biographies of Peter the Great in the English language. At times ascribed to Daniel Defoe the book had appeared in 1723 under the title An impartial history of the life and actions of Peter Alexowitz.ESTC T88904. hardcover
89815Ernst Moskva 1848. . Quarto 275 x 225 cm. 50 pp. including title with 23 engraved portraits after Yakov Ivanovich Argunov with captions in French and Russian inscription in pencil to title; a couple of ancient restorations. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; wormed and rubbed inner hinges cracked.<br /> Lovely and fresh example of this scarce pictorial record of the men who started the construction of a modern Russia at the turn of the 18th. century including Sheremetev Menshchikov Golitsyn Bruce Kurakin and Kantemir among others. Each portrait inspired from an earlier work by Bantysh-Kamenskiy - 1812-13 is accompanied by a short biography.<br /> Obolianinov 2034; cf. Vereshchagin 34; not in Gubar. Ernst, Moskva, 1848. hardcover
