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179120133Lyon, chez Rosset et Dombey, 1791 ; in-8 (215 mm), broché ; 60 pp., couverture d’attente bleu collée à une feuille de passe. (sign A-C8, D6).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original autograph letter signed by Lawyer Usmanbas sent to his daughter Fetânet Hanim who was sister of Turkish musician Ilhan Usmanbas, (1921-). 22x14 cm. In Ottoman script. 1 p. Full. Dated 26-7-[1]946. He mentions a lawsuit in detail.
18564036Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido 1856. Still very good. 17pp. Original printed wrappers bound into full calf front board gilt lettered. Some toning and scattered light foxing. This law was promulgated at the end of 1856 by the new liberal government of Mexico following its ascendancy in the mid-1850s and preceded the reform Constitution of 1857 by two months. Its statutes defined "crimes against the independence and security of the nation" including various forms of treason rebellion and foreign military service or assistance and made them punishable by death. The law anticipated conservative resistance and revolt against the new policies of the liberal faction that aimed to strip power and influence from the church and traditional aristocracy of the country. Their efforts indeed led to full-scale civil war in 1858 and the second French intervention in the early 1860s. OCLC locates a small handful of institutional copies and we locate just one in available sales records. Scarce and in attractive original wrappers. Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido unknown
1824816Lyon, Bohaire, 1824, in-8, broché, (2) ff., 126 pp., couv. impr.
25258P., Ducloux, 1850, in 8° broché, 240 pages ; qq. rousseurs ; couverture fanée avec infimes manques.
5925A Douay, chez Baltazar Bellere, 1662. Quatre volumes en un in-8 plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs sobre, titre doré, plats décorés, ouvrage regroupant: La Perle des prêtres: [titre], [table], 102 pages; S. Philippe Neri, fondateur de l'Oratoire: [titre], [table], 76 pages; Le Directeur charitable: [titre], [table], 84 pages; Recueil de plusieurs personnes éminentes: [titre][table], pp. 1-86 et 109-186 (manquent 11 ff.). Epidermures, coiffes arasées, mouillure en marge sans atteinte au texte, exemplaire méritant restauration.
ORD-7893Ses démêlés avec l'Inquisition, sa condamnation à mort et sa délivrance miraculeuse. Genève. Imprimerie de Jules-Guillaume Fick. 1868. In-8 (120 x 182mm) broché, couverture muette d'origine, 41 pages. Bon exemplaire, sans rousseurs, non rogné, ex libris L-H Darnet.
191562581Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co. State Printers 1915. 8vo. v 1 234 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding floor plan charts. Blue embossed & ribbed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing edgewear still a NF copy w/ presentation slip bound-in from the Board of PPIE Managers for Massachusetts. First edition of this report which highlighted the tremendous achievements by the State of Massachusetts during the Progressive era as well as their very popular tea room which was one of the best-attended attractions during the run of the World’s Fair. The Massachusetts Booth emphasized their reforms in education for vocational training and reducing poverty new educational methods improvements in Mental Health “Insanity Hospitals†Public Health reforms to improve the blind as well as dental agricultural and medical reforms. In addition there was a fine exhibit on Massachusetts road building for the early “Good Roads†campaign reforms prior to World War I. Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, hardcover
1793AQ34964London: Printed for James Ridgway 1793. 15pp 1. Disbound with title detached. Leaves browned light spotting and staining. The first edition thus which includes four anonymous letters which had previously been published in periodicals printed by political publisher and radical sympathiser James Ridgway 1755 – 1838. . First edition. 8vo. Printed for James Ridgway unknown
19886Cologne, Pierre de la Vallée, [Amsterdam, Louis et Daniel Elzévier] 1657. In-12, [24]-398-111 pp., maroquin brou de noix de David, triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, bordure intérieure ornée d'une dentelle dorée, tranches dorées sur marbrure (rares taches et rousseurs).
5761In folio, relié d'ép. pl. peau, rel à 5 nerfs, deux pièces de titre, un filet d'encadrement sur les plats, fleuron central repoussé sur chaque plat, coiffes bonnes, mors solides. Ouvrage peu manié, bien conservé, intérieur trés frais. 32 pp ; Impression du dictionnaire sur 2 col. (1 à 1624) ; Notes de David Hoeschel : 2 col. : 1 à 104 ; Index Rerum... 23 pp ; 2 p
17292445<p><i>Folio 333 x 205 mm pp. 2 20 title-page in double ruled border E2 badly crumpled some light browning and a few pages a little dog-eared</i><i> uncut and stab-sewn as issued: generally a good copy in original state.</i></p><p>Issued as a parliamentary paper and ordered to be printed on 20th March 1729 this is one of three reports of the Committee set up to investigate the state of prisons. It was read and presented to the Commons by James Oglethorpe and was probably largely written by him. Oglethorpe was an important pioneer of prison reform whose name deserves to be remembered alongside that of his much better known successor John Howard.</p><p>The report shows that the Warden of the Fleet Prison disregarding the changes in the statute regarding the Fleet had continued to exercise 'an unwarrantable and arbitrary power' not only by charging exorbitant fees but by loading prisoners with chains in a manner more cruel and unjustifiable than that practised in the Star-Chamber. Money was extracted from prisoners at every opportunity: any prisoners who could not afford to pay for bedding were obliged to sleep on the floor in foul conditions and the warden would not attend to the forms necessary to discharge a prisoner unless he received the fees he demanded with the result that numerous prisoners were kept several years after they should have been discharged. </p><p>It was Oglethorpe's investigations into the state of prisons and his shocking findings that led him to study the social conditions of his day including unemployment and paved the way for his important Georgia Experiment a policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony see Leslie F. Church Oglethorpe: a study of philanthropy in England and Georgia pp. 9-24.</p>ESTC t44667; Hanson 4022; Goldsmiths 6707 Robert Knaplock, Jacob Tonson, John Pemberton and Richard Williamson
190352594Rockford IL: Calvert-Wilson Co. Press 1903. 12mo. 95 1 pp. Two photo plates 1 floor plan. Olive-green pictorial publisher’s cloth w/ iron jail cell gate in white on front cover white lettering NF copy signed by Lewis on ffep. First edition signed of this fascinating anthology of writings and poetry advocating penal reform including excerpts from Clarence Darrow’s Resist Not Evil. Lewis 1857-1949 was a cigar store owner in Rockford IL and local gadfly who supported “socialist†causes like prison reform and free parks. This work was published by the author to encourage the Rockford city fathers to construct a new jail which was subsequently built at First and Walnut. Calvert-Wilson Co. Press, hardcover
170126646A Paris, chez Charles Saugrain, 1701. Un vol. au format in-8 (198 x 127 mm) de 10 ff. n.fol. et 475 pp. Reliure de l'époque de plein veau glacé et marbré havane, plats jansénistes, dos à nerfs orné de filets gras à froid, caissons d'encadrement dorés, large décor fleuronné doré, titre doré, palette dorée en queue, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées.
18854662Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1885. Petit-in-4 de LV-148 pages, demi-percaline chocolat à coins, couverture conservée.
20416In-8, cartonnage bleu à la Bradel, dos orné de doubles filets dorés (reliure Laurenchet), 107 p. S.l., 1788.
In-8, cartonnage bleu à la Bradel, dos orné de doubles filets dorés (reliure Laurenchet), 107 p. Edition originale. Ces "Considérations sur le Tiers-Etat" parurent avant l'œuvre célèbre de Sieyès qui s'y réfère (janvier 1789). Plus social, Rabaut traite des questions politiques et économiques. "Il réclame la liberté du commerce, la diminution et la simplification des impôts, la suppression de la réglementation industrielle et des barrières provinciales" (INED, 3694). Mais aussi, il est le premier à y développer la notion de "régénération" qui rencontra, dans la Révolution, le succès que l'on sait. (Goldsmiths'-Kress library, n°13742). Quelques pet. auréoles claires et petites réparation. Exemplaire bien relié.
184986600Boston: Bela Marsh 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 18.5cm. Publisher's green embossed cloth titled in gilt; pale salmon endpapers; 414pp; mezzotint portrait frontispiece. A quite attractive copy just lightly rubbed to boards with a few scattered spots of foxing to text; solidly Very Good overall and somewhat uncommon thus. <br /> <br /> A significant if entirely idiosyncratic work in the annals of American radical reform as much a philosophical treatise as an autobiography. American pacifist freethinker feminist and abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright 1797-1870 though little remembered was among the most interesting radical voices of the mid-19th century a defrocked Presbyterian minister who in his adopted role as a "Christian reformer" preached against all established religions and adopted a thoroughly stridently contrarian voice in nearly every field of social reform he touched which was practically all of them. His views opposing established government put him directly in the line of such individualist anarchists as Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker while his opposition to slavery was so uncompromising that he was ejected from the American Antislavery Society in 1837. He remained closely associated with most of the New England radical abolitionist community however especially with William Lloyd Garrison with whom he frequently collaborated. <br /> <br /> Like most of Wright's commercially-issued works this one was published by the Boston radical publisher Bela Marsh known for disseminating works by fellow abolitionists and freethinkers during the antebellum period. 86600. Bela Marsh unknown
8vo., First Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Extracts relating to the Reform Act of 1832 from the diaries of Sir Denis Le Marchant, Edward John Littleton, Baron Hatherton, and Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
1979217469Beijing.: China Pictorial. 1979. A broken run of nine issues numbering 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 and 12 lacking issues 6 7 and 8. Black and white and colour photographic illustrations throughout to accompany articles 43 - 48pp. 36.7 x 26cm. Pictorial wrappers minor wear extremities and spines some evidence of silverfish damage to wrappers else in good condition. Articles include; <br>The Tian An Men Square Incident of 1976 'Where the Silence Is' - a Stage Play Deng Xiaoping Visits Japan and the USA Chinese Characters Computerized Research Activities in Nanjing University Mourning Peng Dehuai and Tao Zhu The 8th Asian Games Qingdao Jinan Mt. Tai Suzhou Wuxi Hexi Lushan Kunming Leshan Mt Emei the Railway Line on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau The Yungang and Maiji Grottoes Taishan Mountains Vietnam's armed provocations in China's border areas Huang he River source China's Mineral Resources Dr Bethune Brazilian Sinologist Ricardo Joppert Beijing Opera Ma Yinchu and his 'New Population Theory' and the Index to China Pictorial for 1979. <br>Issue 9 is a Special Issue consisting of numerous colour photographic illustrations used in the book 'China Scenes' published in 1979. . China Pictorial. unknown
184639101Philadelphia 1846. 16 of 18 issues lacking 1 and 2 bound together in contemporary three-quarter calf with marbled boards. Pages numbered 33-288. Some leaves browned. General title page is absent; a small bookplate "Bodichon Scalands Robertsbridge" covers the caption title of No. 3. This is the bookplate of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon notable British artist feminist writer and women's rights activist who founded the first women's college at the University of Cambridge. Bound in contemporary quarter calf rubbed and marbled paper over boards. Occasional text browning. Except as noted Very Good. <br /> <br /> This periodical is a literary anthology of American and British reformist prose and poetry with significant anti-slavery contributions. The authors included John Greenleaf Whittier James Russell Lowell Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Longfellow John Pierpont Lydia Maria Child Harriet Martineau Lydia Sigourney Alfred Lord Tennyson Elizabeth Barrett and William Lloyd Garrison who wrote three poems for the journal one while imprisoned for libel of a merchant he had accused of illegal slave trading. <br /> The anti-slavery pieces are not only poetic most famous being Whittier's "Branded Hand" but also include his essay on the "Slave Market at Washington" Child on the "Economy of Slavery" the "Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society" and principles of the 1838 "Peace Convention" organized by Garrison. <br /> LCP 10848. AI 46-7277 6. Not in Lomazow or Mott. unknown
1831AQ30613London: James Ridgway 1831. 32pp. Modern marbled paper boards printed paper lettering-piece to spine. A trifle rubbed. Scattered spotting. The first edition of a register of the 199 members of the House of Lords that voted against the passing of the Reform Bill. A second edition appeared the same year. . First edition. 8vo. James Ridgway hardcover
19309162New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1930. First edition. 8vo 234pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with red and black lettering in illustrated jacket by Arthur Hawkins Jr. Slightly dusty top edge else a near fine book in very good jacket with chipping and scuffing at spine ends and corners. <br /> <br /> Scarce second novel from the Russian-born Chicago writer and playwright Albert Bein 1902-. This novel is semi-autobiographical drawing from his experiences as a child in a Southwestern reform school. "The brutality of the reformatory system and the bestiality and its surroundings are here dramatized in pictures of a dozen or more of these boys and the demoralizing effects of the life they are forced to lead." Surprisingly uncommon in the trade and in a distinctive Hawkins jacket. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith unknown
183284913London: Effingham Wilson 1832. A New Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Octavo. 23cm. Bound in later rather institutional black buckram with paper title label. 16pp. ads to front matter; xxxii; 683pp. 1pp ads to rear. Minor wear and bumping to extremities with a little rippling of the cloth to the front board strong and tight; internally clean later endpapers ink ownerships to front flyleaf frontispiece portrait "Friends of Reform - Foes of Revolution" quite heavily spotted with some offsetting to the title page edges untrimmed some occasional light spotting within. A very good copy in a later binding of a rather unwieldy work.<br /> <br /> A later printing of Wade's incendiary 1820 catalog of abuses performed by the Church The King the Government and various business interests against the people security and progress of Great Britain. A continued bestseller demonstrating a fervent appetite on the part of the British public to read Wade's excoriating denunciation of the upper classes and their merely wealthy counterparts. On a number of fronts this public airing of secretly dirty laundry met with some political and social success and led to some very public gestures at reform. Effingham Wilson unknown
32937Toulouse, Société des LIvres Relilgieux, 1872, in 12 broché, 263 pages ; qq. rousseurs ; couverture fanée.