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1900172658Likely Beijing: c.1900. Language learning at China's premier banking institution A connection to the late Qing dynasty and the Legation Era: a banker's vocabulary list for learning spoken and written Chinese produced during the tenure of HSBC's legendary Peking agent Edward "Guy" Hillier when political upheavals brought new diplomatic stresses and economic opportunities for China's largest foreign bank. The ledgers from which this example is formed were only produced between 1890 and 1910. HSBC entered the China market in Hong Kong in 1865 and because Chinese reformers began to look for more foreign investment in government projects it established a Peking office in the Legation Quarter in the 1880s. Quickly Guy Hillier 1857-1924 was drafted to lead operations. Fluent in Chinese Hillier was the bank's chief representative in the Chinese capital from 1891 to 1924 although he managed to avoid be out of the city during the Boxer Uprising. "Hillier tested the very limits of the 'treaty system' establishing close relations both with modernizing compradores and with imperial officials. It was Hillier's genius to understand the politics of the foreign diplomatic community to learn what was possible in the London market to determine what was acceptable politically in China and to match all three - on terms to the benefit of the Hongkong Bank its associate companies and indeed the general British position in China" ODNB. Hillier needed well-trained multilingual staff to handle HSBC's growing involvement in loan negotiations. This manual containing over 1000 entries suits this purpose combining English words with their Chinese character equivalents and a romanized form with tone numbers for pronunciation purposes. Fittingly for a banker it begins with numbers from 1 to 100000 and their simple logic the number "20" for example being formed from the characters "2" and "10". The contents is then arranged alphabetically by romanization and ranges from the essential "you" and "quick" to the complex "camel" and "deaf". The final two pages contain a list of common fruits and vegetables in English and romanized Chinese. The regular stiff form of the Chinese characters as well as the inclusion of serifs on strokes echoes the songti fonts found in many contemporary western works on China and suggests that the writer was a learner copying directly and cautiously from a printed dictionary rather than an experienced linguist producing the manual for a colleague. Several leaves see the learner tackle the complexities of words and sentences formed from multiple characters. "Bicycle" for example is explained as the combination of the Chinese characters for "self" "proceed" and "carriage" while "woo yuan woo koo dee" is given for the phrase "without cause of reason". Over the page they pair such phrases such as as "I tomorrow give you money" and "Have fish fresh not have" with their romanization indicative of attempts to get to grips with the logical distinctions between Chinese and English syntax. Also given is a list of countries with their Chinese pronunciations - with the exception of America Russia and Japan these are all European nations. The compiler's identity remains unknown. Fourteen individuals worked in HSBC's Peking office under Hillier between 1895 and 1908. This manuscript bears all the hallmarks of one of these bankers cutting their linguistic teeth in the complex atmosphere of late-imperial Peking. Octavo 210 x 133 mm ff. 72. Contemporary buff card wrappers 132 pages filled in ink and pencil. Formed from 3 ledgers each with red edges and and 12 bifolia ruled in red on recto the opening bifolium of each ledger with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Peking letterhead printed in black all bound into wrappers with cord. Binding sturdy staining and soiling to wrappers and contents 40 mm closed tear slightly intruding into manuscript on one page: a very good example. unknown
1870346951Hingham Centre Massachusetts 1870. Illustrated with a mounted albumen photograph of a man in top hat holding an umbrella under his arm and a suitcase lettered "C.O.&P.P. Brains." 3pp. Folio. Old folds with some separations. Illustrated with a mounted albumen photograph of a man in top hat holding an umbrella under his arm and a suitcase lettered "C.O.&P.P. Brains." 3pp. Folio. A humorous if not non-sensical annual letter and program for the annual meeting of the Clams Oyster & Plum Pudding Corporation of Hingham Massachusetts - presumably a social or supper club. unknown
18914326Chicago: National Library Association 1891. Good. 4to. 182 2 pp. With woodcut-engraved illustrations throughout. Original gray printed wrappers chipped more prominent at the foot of spine; stains on front cover and first 18 pages - SEE IMAGES. A sound copy suitable for exhibition and study. NOW VERY LITTLE KNOWN THIS SCARCE AND GIGANTIC AMERICAN BOOK CATALOGUE WAS ONE OF THE VEHICLES FOR A NOTORIOUS AND LITIGIOUS PYRAMID SCHEME WHICH HAS SOME SEMBLANCE TO TODAY'S SUBSCRIPTION BOOK CLUBS. <br /> <br /> The perpetrator was a shadowy figure name George W. Borland 1851 or 1852-1931 of Chicago; according to legal records he was frequently sued and lost; after filing for bankruptcy he simply reformed his companies under different names. <br /> <br /> Borland claimed that his subscription services eliminated the middlemen and as the present amazing "stock catalogue" shows his firm offered to members desirable books published by Harper Brothers Appleton Scribner's Houghton Mifflin Lippincott and many others at slashed prices. In order to achieve such savings his National Library Association continually recruited new members who had to pay the so-called "subscription fee" and were enticed with discounts and prizes to recruit friends families schools libraries church congregations etc. <br /> <br /> Apparently Borland and his cohorts were complete scam artists; in the year 1884 alone Borland et al. were the subjects of major lawsuits the judgments of which resulted in massive losses approximately $100000 = $3.5 million today. Consequently these crooks simply reformed under another name and relaunched their enterprise. Contemporary newspaper and legal records show that Borland continued to lose cases from creditors such as Bradner Smith & Co. in 1891 -- the year in which the present catalogue was issued -- the judgment was $1491. In 1896 after the name was changed to National Merchants' Supply Co. he was forced into bankruptcy following by a lawsuit from Felix Marston & Co. <br /> <br /> Sidney Huttner in his innovative "Lucile Project" describes some of the consequences of Borland's dubious activities including his involvement with the National Library Association. In its hall-of-shame "Trade Embarrassements" column in Bradstreet's Weekly: A Business Digest vol. 10 July 5 1884 p. 13 Borland's name appears not once but three times: <br /> 1. G.W. Borland & Co. book publishers assigned to W. N. Lee having previously confessed five judgments for $40439.<br /> 2. Chicago Installment Book Co. and George W. Borland & Co. the proprietors of it closed by sheriff on confessed judgments for $40690 and both assigned to W. N. Lee.<br /> 3. Fairbanks Palmer & Co. publishers closed by sheriff. It is said they held papers of G. W. Borland for $40200.<br /> <br /> The catalogue also provides an excellent well-illustrated guide to the myriad of works available for the literate public during the 1890s including -- but certainly not limited to -- Atlases and Maps Historical Works Art and Art History Juvenile Works Architectural Books Law Books Agriculture and Floriculture Medical Books Photograph Albums Mechanical Books Biography Music and Music Books Books On The Civil War Bibles Building Industrial Arts Poetry Political Economy Government Book Binding Prayer Books and Hymnals "Cheap Books" Religious and Theological Books Cookbooks Housekeeping Shakespeare Fiction Self-Improvement Dictionaries Sports Games and Amusements Essays and General Literature Science and Philosophy Textbooks Testimonials Foreign Books and Periodicals Travel Discovery and Adventure Temperance Books Works of Reference Gift Books Wit And Humor Writing Paper Tablets etc. <br /> <br /> We have been unable to locate any useful information about Mr. Borland; even a cursory bio-bibliographical exposé of his antics is merited.<br /> <br /> Our copy like all others has the date altered in type: 1891 with the latter two digits printed in a slightly different font. Of this 1891 edition Worldcat locates 3 copies Grolier AAS UVA; there is also a copy in the Chicago Public Library's Trade Catalog Collection. A considerably smaller edition of the Catalogue of the National Library Association was issued in 1890 copy at Univ. Tulsa; NB: the type in our edition was completely reset. National Library Association unknown
1801180831002Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation 1918-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 0x0x0. Vintage Original Hardcover with interesting related ephemera 1918 Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation 72 pages. Very Good no DJ. Minor shelf/edge wear to thin green cloth boards with black titles. FFEP and the following title pages have a small tear and some wrinkles caused by paper clips. All three fold-out diagrams are present. One is on the tail section and the other two are a front view and a side view. A handbook of the workings of the Curtiss Standard JN4-D Military Tractor. Contents include specifications examination of parts general construction flying landing tables and more. 20 vintage B & W plates. The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport New York later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for the U.S. Army the “Jenny" continued after World War I as a civil aircraft as it became the "backbone of American postwar civil aviation." Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the war and became central to the barnstorming era that helped awaken the U.S. to civil aviation through much of the 1920s. Laid in is a letter from Herb Youngblood of the Engineering Department of the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co of Detroit Mich on the company Stationery to Mr. J. D. Roach at Selfridge Field Mt Clemens Mich. The letter is about this booklet and is hoped to be of some assistance in preparing a similar booklet for the Hispano-Suiza Motor Company. Also mentions fishing in Walled Lake. This is a great business/personal letter concerning this booklet written by and to a fellow colleague in early Aviation circles. A very nice vintage aeronautical piece with great ephemera. LOC SSS-26 Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation hardcover
188649156N.P.: N.D. ca 1886. N.D. circa 1886. First edition. 12" x 10" cardstock advertisement showing the picture of a lovely young girl from the chest up wearing a white dress with purple ribbon ties appearing to be looking out of a barn door. Born and raised in Anderson County Kentucky Wiley Searcy reached maturity just as the Civil War was beginning. Kentucky citizens were torn between North and South in their loyalties. For unrecorded reasons the Searcys chose the Union side. Few soldiers on either side saw as much action as Searcy did in the process rising from a lowly private to the rank of captain. Searcy mustered out in 1869 returning to his home in Kentucky. In 1886 Searcy is recorded as having purchased a distillery that had been established in Anderson County in 1818 by Joe Peyton widely known as "Old Joe." The distillery would eventually bear his name . the Wiley Searcy Distillery. Under Searcy’s leadership the distillery flourished. In 1909 as occurred many times for distilleries fire ravaged the complex destroying all three warehouses. The loss of whiskey was considerable. Searcy by now 66 years old and perhaps feeling the effects of his wartime wounds declined to rebuild and instead sold the property to the local Ripy Brothers in 1911. Very minor wear to top edges along with aged tanning to rear else fine condition. A very attractive advertising piece. N.D. (ca 1886). unknown
18901214071890 Lyon. Imprimerie de Pitrat ainé, 4, rue Gentil - 1890 - In-quarto, magnifique reliure plein veau de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs, caissons et fleurons à l'image du lion pour Lyon, titre en doré, date en doré sur la coiffe inférieure, Filets formants un cadre avec fleur de lys sur les plats, roulettes sur les plats intérieurs, ex-libris sur le premier plat intérieur, toutes tranches dorées - Exemplaire nominatif sur papier de Hollande de Masure et Perrigot d'Arches (Vosges) - 311 pages
183099804<p>Boston MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830. 1830. Very good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed self-wrappers. Once bound in with other similar pamphlets these three related items are unbound and removed with stab marks along the left edges. The pagination is a follows: pages 1-11 1 & 13-21 1-8; and 1-12. There is some scattered foxing throughout all three items. The cover page of the Senate No. 10 report dated December 15 1829 is darkened & stained with minor chipping to the bottom corners of that page and of the last page. Very good.</p><p>First edition Massachusetts Senate No. 21. The report is signed on page 11 by John W. Lincoln Chairman. The report is followed by the text of a bill entitled "An act to establish the Boston and Lowell Rail Road Corporation."</p><p>The Boston and Lowell Railroad was the first major railroad in the state of Massachusetts. The Boston and Lowell Railroad was preceded by the Middlesex Canal. Converting the canal to a railroad would eliminate the issue of transportation being unavailable during the winter when the canal froze. Patrick Tracy Jackson led the task of convincing the state legislature to fund the project. This proved difficult as the investors of the Middlesex Canal were against building a new form of transportation designed to replace their canal. The report at hand details the protest of the directors of the Middlesex Canal against granting the petition of John F. Loring and others to construct a railroad in its place. Loring and the other investors received their charter on June 5 1830 and the railroad began operations on June 24 1835.</p><p>The pamphlet is accompanied by an earlier February 12 1830 pamphlet titled:"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. : The president directors and company of the Middlesex Canal having seen the publication of the petition of John F. Loring and others for a rail road from Boston to Lowell and the order of notice thereon beg leave to present the following remonstrance to granting the prayer thereof." 12 pages. Signed page 12: Wm. Sullivan Josh. Coolidge Geo. Hallet committee of directors of Middlesex Canal to this purpose duly authorized. House No. 40 printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830.</p><p>In addition an earlier pamphlet from 1829 is included: "Boston December 15 1829. To His Excellency Levi Lincoln Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : Sir On the behalf of the Commissioners of Internal Improvements I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of a survey made in conformity to a resolve of the legislature passed on the 12th day of June 1829 directing the Board to survey a route for a rail road from the town of Taunton to some point in the route previously surveyed between Boston and Providence : with great consideration and respect I am your humble and most obe't. serv't. Josiah J. Fiske chairman." 8 pages. Signed on page 8: Josiah J. Fiske Willard Phillips James Hayward Commissioners of the Board of Internal Improvements. Senate No. 10. Printed by Dutton and Wentworth.</p> [Boston, MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth], [1830]. paperback
18671412291867. CORPORATION OF LONDON. Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. 4 88 pp. 8vo red publisher's binding with gilt insignia and lettering on front outside cover. London: Benjamin Pardon 1867. This collection of proceedings by the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee documents the Corporation of London's efforts to ensure the safety of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground as the Corporation's lease was nearing its end Christmas 1867. Bunhill had been a burying ground of Nonconformists and other denominations since the sixteenth century. With the work of the committee the Corporation obtained an Act of Parliament in 1867 preserving the burial ground as an open landscaped space with seating gardens and the restoration of some of it most noteworthy monuments including John Bunyan Daniel Defoe and William Blake. The appendix contains a reprint of a rare tract from 1717 "Inscription on the Tombs in the Dissenters' Burial Place near Bunhill Fields." Some wear to edges of binding else fine. unknown
18671412291867. CORPORATION OF LONDON. Proceedings in reference to the preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. 4 88 pp. 8vo red publisher's binding with gilt insignia and lettering on front outside cover. London: Benjamin Pardon 1867. This collection of proceedings by the Bunhill Fields Preservation Committee documents the Corporation of London's efforts to ensure the safety of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground as the Corporation's lease was nearing its end Christmas 1867. Bunhill had been a burying ground of Nonconformists and other denominations since the sixteenth century. With the work of the committee the Corporation obtained an Act of Parliament in 1867 preserving the burial ground as an open landscaped space with seating gardens and the restoration of some of it most noteworthy monuments including John Bunyan Daniel Defoe and William Blake. The appendix contains a reprint of a rare tract from 1717 "Inscription on the Tombs in the Dissenters' Burial Place near Bunhill Fields." Some wear to edges of binding else fine. unknown books
1859297870London : Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Library copies. Good copies bound in quarter buckram over boards; slightly edge-nicked. Remain quite well-preserved overall. Series: Great Britain. Public Record Office. Rerum britannicarum medii ævi scriptores ; no. 12. Physical description: 3 volumes in 4 : color frontispieces color facsimiles. Imprint varies slightly. Each volume has also special t.p. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Latin Old French and English texts; English introduction and notes. Subjects: Customary law - England - London. Anglo-Norman dialect ; Glossaries vocabularies etc. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts hardcover
185718923New York: Various 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good. TRINITY CHURCH PAMPHLETS Collected for the Corporation: 1857. Clean buckram exlibrary binding properly deaccessioned. Titles in brackets are as found in the CONTENTS page of the Trinity Pamphlets. Following that is the actual pamphlet running title and page count. Details of the 19 pamphlets: 1 Charter The Charter of Trinity Church in the city of New York; and Laws and Proceedings Relating to the same connected with the application now pending before the legislature concerning that corporation C. Van Benthuysen and Company: Albany NY 1846. 46 pages last blank. 2 Report of Commissioners of Land Office of 1836 The Trinity Church Title. Report of the Commissioners of the Land Office made to the House of Assembly May 12 1836. Pudney & Russell Printers: New York 1855 32 pages. 3 Memorial of Trinity Church to the Legislature in 1853 Memorial of the Corporation of Trinity Church to the Legislature March 26th 1853 from title page to #2 above State of New-York No. 63 In Senate Mar. 26 1853 Memorial of the rector church wardens and vestryment of Trinity Church in the city of New York. 6 pages last blank 4 Remarks on Trinity Church Bill. Troup Troup Robert Remarks on Trinity Church Bill before the Council of Revision. T. & J. Swords New York 1813 but reprinted here by James A Sparks 1846. vi 5-70 pages last blank. 5 Clark's minority report State of New-York No. 117 In Senate April 9 1846. Report of Mr. Clark from the Committee on Charitable and Religious Societies on memorial of inhabitants of the city of New-York in relation to Trinity Church. 36 pages last blank. 6 Examination of Clark's Minority Report Examination of a minority report made by the Hon. Orville Clark to the Senate of the State of New-York on the Memorials of Inhabitants of the City of New York in Relation to Trinity Church C Van Bethuysen and Co Albany: 1846 36 pages last blank. 7 Report of Committee of Assembly 1847 State of New-York No 114 In Assembly March 30 1847. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary on sundry memorials of inhabitants of the city of New-York for the repeal or modification of an act passed January 25 l8l4.20 Pages. 8 Remonstrance of Trinity Church 1847 Remonstrance of the Corporation of Trinity Church against the repeal or modification of the Act of 25th January 1814. C Van Benthuysen and co Public Printers: Albany 1847. 16 pages. Includes pasted-in errata on page 11. 9 Communication of Vestry Feb 20 1856 to Senate State of New-York No 45. In Senate Feb 20 1856. Communication of the vestry of Trinity Church in the city of New York to the Honorable the Senate of the State of New-York in reply to resolutions of the Senate passed April 13 1855. 58 pages. 10 Factys versus Fancy Facts against fancy or A true and just view of Trinity Church / by William Berrian. New York: Pudney & Russell Printers 1856. 74 pages. 11 Reports of Senate Committee Reports of the Select Committee of the Senate on the affairs of Trinity Church with the Testimony Relative Thereto. Van Benthuysen Printer: Albany 1857. 284 pages last blank. 12 Argument of Counsel Arguments of the counsel of Trinity Church before the Senate Committee. C. Van Benthuysen Printer: Albany NY 1857. 66 pages. 13 Remonstrance and Protest Remonstrance and protest of the rector church wardens and vestrymen of Trinity Church against the repeal amendment modification or alteration of the act of 1814 in Relation to the said Corporation C Van Benthuysen: Albany 1857. 14 pages last blank. 14 Debates Debates on the Trinity Church bill in the Senate of the State of New York / reported by Douglas A. Levien. J Munsell: Albany NY 1857. 2. 98 pages. 15 To the Senators etc. To the senators of the Senate of the State of New York : being an examination and exposure of the "Report of the Select Committee to whom was referred the Report of Trinity Church made in 1855 made in Senate Janyar 29th 1957 and re-committed for further inquiry by a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church February 12 1857. 32 pages last blank. 16 Letter of Mr. Barnard A letter from the Hon. D.D. Barnard addressed to the Hon. Erastus Brooks Senator &c. on the proceedings against Trinity Church now pending in the Senate of the State. Van Benthuysen: Abany NY 1857. 44 pages last blank 17 A Word for Trinity Church A word for Trinity Church from the American Church Monthly for April 1857 /by N.H. Hudson. Edward P. Allen: New York 1857. 28 2-blank pages. 18 A Review etc. A Review of the reports evidence and arguments as presented in the case of Trinity Church to the Legislature of New York 1857. 34 pages last blank. 19 The Title Parish Rights and Property The title parish rights and property of Trinity Church New York : from the appendix to Bishop De Lancey's twentieth conventional address delivered in Oswego August 19 l857. Curtiss & White Printers: Utica NY 1857. 24 pages last blank and including errata at base of page 23 tipped in. This collection is scarce but was apparently published in this form - We find 4 examples in institutional collections in OCLC/Worldcat. Hard Cover. Various unknown
185718923New York: Various 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good. TRINITY CHURCH PAMPHLETS Collected for the Corporation: 1857. Clean buckram exlibrary binding properly deaccessioned. Titles in brackets are as found in the CONTENTS page of the Trinity Pamphlets. Following that is the actual pamphlet running title and page count. Details of the 19 pamphlets: 1 Charter The Charter of Trinity Church in the city of New York; and Laws and Proceedings Relating to the same connected with the application now pending before the legislature concerning that corporation C. Van Benthuysen and Company: Albany NY 1846. 46 pages last blank. 2 Report of Commissioners of Land Office of 1836 The Trinity Church Title. Report of the Commissioners of the Land Office made to the House of Assembly May 12 1836. Pudney & Russell Printers: New York 1855 32 pages. 3 Memorial of Trinity Church to the Legislature in 1853 Memorial of the Corporation of Trinity Church to the Legislature March 26th 1853 from title page to #2 above State of New-York No. 63 In Senate Mar. 26 1853 Memorial of the rector church wardens and vestryment of Trinity Church in the city of New York. 6 pages last blank 4 Remarks on Trinity Church Bill. Troup Troup Robert Remarks on Trinity Church Bill before the Council of Revision. T. & J. Swords New York 1813 but reprinted here by James A Sparks 1846. vi 5-70 pages last blank. 5 Clark's minority report State of New-York No. 117 In Senate April 9 1846. Report of Mr. Clark from the Committee on Charitable and Religious Societies on memorial of inhabitants of the city of New-York in relation to Trinity Church. 36 pages last blank. 6 Examination of Clark's Minority Report Examination of a minority report made by the Hon. Orville Clark to the Senate of the State of New-York on the Memorials of Inhabitants of the City of New York in Relation to Trinity Church C Van Bethuysen and Co Albany: 1846 36 pages last blank. 7 Report of Committee of Assembly 1847 State of New-York No 114 In Assembly March 30 1847. Report of the Committee on the Judiciary on sundry memorials of inhabitants of the city of New-York for the repeal or modification of an act passed January 25 l8l4.20 Pages. 8 Remonstrance of Trinity Church 1847 Remonstrance of the Corporation of Trinity Church against the repeal or modification of the Act of 25th January 1814. C Van Benthuysen and co Public Printers: Albany 1847. 16 pages. Includes pasted-in errata on page 11. 9 Communication of Vestry Feb 20 1856 to Senate State of New-York No 45. In Senate Feb 20 1856. Communication of the vestry of Trinity Church in the city of New York to the Honorable the Senate of the State of New-York in reply to resolutions of the Senate passed April 13 1855. 58 pages. 10 Factys versus Fancy Facts against fancy or A true and just view of Trinity Church / by William Berrian. New York: Pudney & Russell Printers 1856. 74 pages. 11 Reports of Senate Committee Reports of the Select Committee of the Senate on the affairs of Trinity Church with the Testimony Relative Thereto. Van Benthuysen Printer: Albany 1857. 284 pages last blank. 12 Argument of Counsel Arguments of the counsel of Trinity Church before the Senate Committee. C. Van Benthuysen Printer: Albany NY 1857. 66 pages. 13 Remonstrance and Protest Remonstrance and protest of the rector church wardens and vestrymen of Trinity Church against the repeal amendment modification or alteration of the act of 1814 in Relation to the said Corporation C Van Benthuysen: Albany 1857. 14 pages last blank. 14 Debates Debates on the Trinity Church bill in the Senate of the State of New York / reported by Douglas A. Levien. J Munsell: Albany NY 1857. 2. 98 pages. 15 To the Senators etc. To the senators of the Senate of the State of New York : being an examination and exposure of the "Report of the Select Committee to whom was referred the Report of Trinity Church made in 1855 made in Senate Janyar 29th 1957 and re-committed for further inquiry by a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church February 12 1857. 32 pages last blank. 16 Letter of Mr. Barnard A letter from the Hon. D.D. Barnard addressed to the Hon. Erastus Brooks Senator &c. on the proceedings against Trinity Church now pending in the Senate of the State. Van Benthuysen: Abany NY 1857. 44 pages last blank 17 A Word for Trinity Church A word for Trinity Church from the American Church Monthly for April 1857 /by N.H. Hudson. Edward P. Allen: New York 1857. 28 2-blank pages. 18 A Review etc. A Review of the reports evidence and arguments as presented in the case of Trinity Church to the Legislature of New York 1857. 34 pages last blank. 19 The Title Parish Rights and Property The title parish rights and property of Trinity Church New York : from the appendix to Bishop De Lancey's twentieth conventional address delivered in Oswego August 19 l857. Curtiss & White Printers: Utica NY 1857. 24 pages last blank and including errata at base of page 23 tipped in. This collection is scarce but was apparently published in this form - We find 4 examples in institutional collections in OCLC/Worldcat. Hard Cover. Various unknown books
186315CB19in8 dos chagrin, 399pp, dos à faux-nerfs, fleurons, caissons, titres et filets dorés, plats marbrés, tête dorée
189796742Paris, Guillaumin et Cie 1897 In-8 22,5 x 13,5 cm. Reliure demi-basane bordeaux, dos à nerfs, couvertures conservées, X-671 pp., notes en bas de page, table des matières. Dos insolé, sinon bon exemplaire.
1859BIBLIO-43253Corporation of London London first edition 1859. Contemporary half-calf and boards 8vo 22 cm. vi 658 pp. The catalogue includes sections on the following: LONDON: General History and Topography; Apprentices; Bartholomew Fair; Biography; Bridges; Charities and Poor; Clubs Spies and Guides; Colleges; Companies; Ecclesiastical; Fire of London; Gazettes; Hospitals; Improvements; Inns of Court; Laws Charters Customs; Miscellaneous; Pageants; Parishes and Churches; Plague; Police; Political; Population; Prisons; Public Buildings; Royal Palaces and Parks; St. Paul's Cathedral; Schools Societies &c; Thames and Port of London; Theatres; Theological; Southwark; Westminster; Manuscripts; and GENERAL CATALOGUE: Parliamentary Constitutional and Political Documents and Records; Political and Constitutional Works; British and Irish History; British and Irish Antiquities and Topography; Biography; Cases Civil and Criminal Trials Etc; Ecclesiastical History and Antiquities; General History and Antiquities Chronology and Geography; Law Jurisprudence; Natural History Philosophy and Mathematics; Arts and Sciences; Poetry the Drama Essays Etc; Theology; Voyages and Travels; Miscellaneous; Addenda. With an Index. Inscription on front free endpaper leather rubbed and slightly powdering old mould stains to boards a handful of leaves foxed otherwise Very Good internally. Corporation of London, London, first edition, 1859 hardcover
1878933Y10London: E. J. Francis and Co 1878. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 6.5". None. The first edition of this analytical index for the nine-volume series 'Remembrancia' containing archival correspondence for 1579-1664. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. This volume offers as an analytical index to the 'Remembrancia' a series of nine volumes which date from 1580-1664.The archives contain copies of the correspondence between the Sovereigns the Lord Mayors the Common Council and more upon matters relating to the government of the City of London its rights privileges customs religion trade markets and more. The index was prepared by the authority of the Corporation of London under the superintendence of the Library Committee. With a presentation bookplate for the York Public Library dated 1902 to the front pastedown. With a City of York Reference Department bookplate to the rear pastedown. In the original cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With a presentation bookplate for the York Public Library dated 1902 to the front pastedown. With a City of York Reference Department bookplate to the rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the York Public Library blind stamp to the first few leaves. Very Good Indeed E. J. Francis and Co hardcover
184912076Newcastle and London; M. A. Richardson; J. Russell Smith 1849. 1849. Hard Cover. Small quarto pp. ix 10-108 paginated to include the original bound in paper wraps. Fold-out Gardiner pedigree. Later purple half calf by Waters of Newcastle with gilt titles to spine gilt fillets and embellishments in blind to calf and pebbled cloth-covered boards; all edges sprinkled red. Lengthy note in pencil to first blank referring to Alderman Hornby's manuscript and small marginal note in pencil to p. 69; original wraps lightly soiled; scattered light foxing almost exclusively to endpapers. Spine sunned otherwise a very clean copy. The defence of the Corporation of Newcastle in reply to charges brought against them by Ralph Gardiner in 1653 transcribed from a manuscript in the possession of Alderman Hugh Hornby but previously unpublished. Gardiner's diatribe against the draconian control of the coal trade on the River Tyne was full of accusations of the misuse of the Royal Charter and corruption and the publication of the Conservatorship manuscript enabled readers to view both sides of the heated argument. This is the very last of Richardson's tracts; rare the title-page states that only 150 copies were printed. Jisc locates just one institutional copy at the University of Leicester. Newcastle and London; M. A. Richardson; J. Russell Smith, 1849. hardcover
189547372London: Corporation of London Art Gallery 1895. Edition not stated. Octavo 21.5cm; red morocco decoratively stamped in gilt; spine in six compartments; AEG marbled endpapers; 126pp. Light soiling to boards with minor spots of chapping to hinges and crown of spine; front leading corner bumped. Toning to preliminary margins; slightly foxed ex libris on front pastedown see comments. Overall Near Fine. A directory of loaned artworks on exhibition at the Corporation of London Art Gallery from April 23 to July 21 1895. While the book does not contain pictures each piece and artist is described to detail along with the identity of the donor. With complete index.<br/><br/>Bookplate reveals that this book is from the collection of Dennis Wheatley 1897-1977 a best-selling English author of thrillers many with an occult or "black magic" theme e.g. The Devil Rides Out 1934. He was also a noted collector of antique books and nowadays there is a great deal of artistic appreciation directed towards his personal bookplate. It was illustrated by F.C. Papé as a tribute to Wheatley's mentor Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe; in his design Gordon Eric is depicted as a satyr seated on a stump beside a bottle of champagne and a saxophone as he delivers some words of wisdom to a young man based on Wheatley himself. [Corporation of London Art Gallery] unknown books
188498511London Cassell & Company Limited 1884. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 403 pages; Description: p. 403. Scott Benjamin 1814-1892. Overall William Henry 1829-1888. Monckton John Braddick Sir 1832-1902. City of London England . Court of Common Council. Library Committee. London, Cassell & Company, Limited hardcover
184621947Paris Imprimerie De Bureau 1846 In-12 414 pp, coiffes faibles et dos détaché, un mors fendu intégralement, coiffe absente en queue, reliure frottée, exemplaire a restaurer intérieur très acceptable
190040354Detroit MI:: De Soto Sales Division Chrysler Corporation 1900. paperback. VERY GOOD MINUS. Original official factory service manual large tan softcover with black fabric spine 268 pages staplebound no publication date. Cover moderately soiled from use black cloth on spine is present but ragged. Interior is clean unmarked. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order daily shipments and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. De Soto Sales Division, Chrysler Corporation, paperback
189090022759London: Bernard Quaritch 1890. 1st thus. . Hardcover. G. Ex-library with neat labels on eps and class no. on spine otherwise a good copy appears unread. Petrol blue cloth covers with splash marks to back burgundy leather spine with rubbing to top gilt lettering. Immediate despatch from the UK. 8vo. <br/> <br/> Bernard Quaritch hardcover
1885149763London : Printed By J. C. Francis 1885. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with gilt coat of arms to front cover. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 185 pages; Physical desc. : xxx 185 p. ; 26 cm. Subject: London England --History --Sources --City of London --Medieval period. Ex-libris copy with bookplate attached. London : Printed By J. C. Francis hardcover
188632380N.p. 1886. 4to. ii 203 1 pp. Publisher's black cloth gilt lettered to the upper board. Very good. A comprehensive annual record of the corporation's personnel listing their names offices starting salary length of service and their salary at the time of printing amongst other data. [N.p.] unknown
187932378N.p. 1879. 4to. ii 177 1 pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt lettered to the upper board contemporary ownership inscription of "Frederick Wadswell C.C. Bishopsgate Without" to the front free endpaper. Spine faded a little wear to the covers else very good. A comprehensive annual record of the corporation's personnel listing their names offices starting salary length of service and their salary at the time of printing amongst other data. [N.p.] unknown
