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By the Authors of the Ancient Part ; [G Sale, G Psalmanazar, A Bower, G Shelvocke, J Campbell, J Swinton, etc] ; [Sale, George]Biblio.com

By the Authors of the Ancient Part; [G Sale, G Psalmanazar, A Bower, G Shelvocke, J Campbell, J Swinton, etc]; [Sale, George]Biblio.com

The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time Compiled From Original Authors

178487609London: Printed for C. Bathurst : J.F. and C. Rivington : A. Hamilton : T. Payne : T. Longman : S. Crowder : B. Law : J. Robson : F. Newbery : G. Robinson : T. Cadell : J. and T. Bowles : S. Bladon : J. Murray : J. Nichols : J. Bowen and W. Fox 1784. Edition undetermined; perhaps 2nd. Hardcover. Overall very good to about very good with minor wear and rubbing to exteriors resulting in mildly chafed marbled paper-backed boards to most volumes. Leather cracking at joint folds to a handful of volumes a few minor glue repairs. Bindings solid and tight. Leaves clean. No foxing. Approximately half of volumes have a minor flaw such a small less than an inch or so hairline crack at spine fold or a minor chip to spine head or bottom. All in all a sold if incomplete set. Forty octavo volumes in original half leather and marbled board bindings. Volumes 1-36 38 39 41 & 42 of an unknown quantity; most likely 42 60 or 65. Folded plate of text in v. 25. An impressive early World History scholarly and comprehensive in scope. Scarce. Many sources cited and from which the work's compilations are translated or drawn would imply that they may appear here in English for the first time. Numerous complete single volumes many segmented volumes on the History of the Arabs Arabian Peninsula Turks Seljuks Persia Mongol Empire Asia Egypt the Jewish Diaspora Germany imperial cities Russia Poland Denmark Sweden Roman Empire France Italy Ireland Scotland Africa Asia Canada England Mexico Peru Chile Early Americas etc. Numerous topical sidenotes to wide margins as well as bibliographical footnotes to each page. A very detailed compilation and interpretive account. Volumes 41 & 42 are supplements. Small label of I. Wilson Bookbinder Macclesfield to front paste-downs. Articles by George Sale and others. Attributed authors and translators include Sale George 1697-1736; Psalmanazar George 1679-1763; Bower Archibald 1686-1766; Shelvocke George -1760; Campbell John d. 1708-1775; Swinton John; d. 1703-1777. Chronologies Timelines. Early World History History. World History. Historiography; Imperialism. Historical Works in English 18th Century. A large heavy set. Additional shipping charges may apply. Please inquire. Printed for C. Bathurst : J.F. and C. Rivington : A. Hamilton : T. Payne : T. Longman : S. Crowder : B. Law : J. Robson : F. New hardcover

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[Mirror Club, The] / Henry Mackenzie / William Craig / Alexander Abercromby / Alexander Fraser TytlerBiblio.com

The Mirror - A Periodical Paper Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780 "Veluti in Specula".

178229831AB1782. Fourth Edition overall First Dublin Edition. In Two Volumes complete set. Dublin Printed by T.Henshall for T.Walker 1782. Small Octavo 10 cm x 18 cm. VI 288 VIII 288 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather with new spinelabels made to style. Both Volumes now in protective Mylar. Some minor wormhole-damage to the last 20 pages of Volume Two.Minor lesions to some pages only. Faded dampstain to both Volumes. Still both Volumes firm and complete. Important scottish enlightenment publication. From the library of one "John Courtenay" with his name in ink on the titlepages of both Volumes. This is possibly John Courtenay 22 August 1738 - 24 March 1816 who was an Irish officer in the British Army later becing a politician in England. He was a Whig member of Parliament MP at Westminster from 1780 to 1807 and again in 1812. Wikipedia With interesting articles especially on Female Matters of the 18th century: On Duelling Regulations proposed - Story of Captain Douglas / Remarks on the Poems of Ossian / Of Beauty - Philosophical Opinions of it / The Mussulman's Mirror / Censure of a particular piece of indecorum at the theatre / Of Female Manners / Change to those of Scotland considered / Description of a Tour through the Highlands by a London Family / Of Education - A classical contrasted with a fashionable education / Description of a shopkeeper virtuoso in a letter from his wife Rebecca Prune / Distresses of the families of Soldiers - Story of Nancy Collins / Danger of too refined an education to girls in certain circumstances in a letter from Harriet B. / Behaviour of Great LAdies in town to their country acquaintance in a letter from Elizabeth Homespun / Recital of a conversation critcism on the Tragedy of Zara / The Hardship of educating a young lady in an expensive manner and then leaving her with a very slender provision for her support; History of herself by S.M. / Account of a younger brother in the country in a letter from Joseph Fielding / Essay on Dreams / Of the privilege of fashion to alter nature; some accountof certain fashionable peculiarities in Edinburgh / Antiquarius on the Virtues of certain ancient medicines / On Superstition and the Fear of Death / Emilia on Female accomplishment / etc. etc. Mirror Club act. 17761787 a prominent group of Scottish literati who published the Edinburgh journals The Mirror 177980 and The Lounger 17857 evolved from a small Edinburgh literary debating society known as the Feast of Tabernacles 177077. The latter was a self-selected group of young writers lawyers preachers and landed scions whose acknowledged leader was the politician Henry Dundas. Many of these individuals had earlier belonged to the Belles Lettres Society 175963 the junior version of the Select Society a famous grouping of Scottish politicians philosophers preachers and writers. In its early evolution from the Feast of Tabernacles about 17767 the founding members of the Mirror Club included Henry Mackenzie William Craig Alexander Abercromby William Macleod Bannatyne and Robert Cullen. Other members from this time were the lawyers George Ogilvie d. 1785 William Gordon of Newhall d. 1778 and George Home of Wedderburn 17341820. Later corresponding members who contributed essays or correspondence included James Beattie David Dalrymple William Greenfield Robert Henry David Hume bap. 1757 d. 1838 William Richardson William Strahan Alexander Fraser Tytler and his father William Tytler. The publisher and future lord provost of Edinburgh William Creech whose idea it was to publish The Mirror should be considered an ex officio club member since he was the only contact for many of the correspondents. Any forced division between core and corresponding members is somewhat misleading however since Dalrymple Richardson and Alexander Fraser Tytler made a far greater contribution to the club's publications than certain full members. Tytler in fact became one of the club's principal essayists. The Mirror Club's ethical essayswhich copied the form and continued the function of The Spectator 171114 of Addison and Steeleappear to have been well received. Macleod Bannatyne reported that 400 copies of each issue were printed the same number that was recorded in Eminent Scotsmen by William Chambers. This number significantly underestimates the number of actual readers in an age when paper periodicals were widely circulated. Many of the club's essays were printed elsewhere with twenty-three papers and one poem appearing in the Caledonian Mercury the Scots Magazine and The Bee. The bound collection of The Mirror went through eleven editions prior to 1802 and The Lounger six editions before 1805. While no subscription lists have been found acknowledged subscribers included James Beattie William Strahan Dugald Stewart John Home William Richardson Hugh Blair and Jane Gordon duchess of Gordon. The indisputable driving force of the Mirror Club was Henry Mackenzie who from his early years had been groomed by the Edinburgh literati to succeed David Hume as their convivial leader and adjudicator of literary taste. Mackenzie composed 49 of the 110 issues of The Mirror and 62 of the 101 issues of The Lounger. Occasionally he composed several different drafts of a paper that he sent to friends including Adam Smith for comment. He also revised the majority of the essays for publication. Three of Mackenzie's closest friends William Craig Alexander Abercromby and Alexander Fraser Tytler accounted for 68 of the remaining 100 essays. As a microcosm of the Scottish literati the publishing arm of the Mirror Club provides valuable insights into the socio-economic agenda professional background and inter-generational networks of landed and literary lowland society. All club members came from families well connected to Scotland's élite by status interests marriage and profession. They viewed themselves as the legal and literary representatives of Scottish landed society and they believed that a united and enlightened class of landowners could lead the country out of its economic backwater. Along with their teacher and in the case of Mackenzie and Craig their friend Adam Smith the core members of the Mirror Club shared a vision of Scotland as an improving capitalist community where economic and social power was held by the owners of land and where the status quo was strengthened by a complicated system of patronage deployed by Henry Dundas. The agrarian nature of Scottish improvement was strongly endorsed by club members. The liberal Macleod Bannatyne and conservative Abercromby composed a series of essays on the corruption of rural values by urban fashion. Other issues were thinly disguised warnings against the upward mobility of Scotland's urban merchant classes and paeans to the independence and gentility of landowners. On landed estates gentlemen could continue to perform the roles of patriarchs over small leaseholders while maintaining a happy and deferential retinue of servants. This gentrified world was personified by Home and Tytler who preferred to live and write from their estates as well as by Macleod Bannatyne's memorable character Umphraville. A competing interest group within the membership came from the legal profession. Two young lawyer members were George Ogilvie and William Gordon of Newhall though neither published an essay in The Mirror. Gordon died on 11 January 1778 a year before its appearance while Ogilvie died shortly before the initial publication of The Lounger in 1785. George Home of Wedderburn was already establishing himself in Edinburgh's legal community when The Mirror first appeared. He served for more than thirty years as principal clerk of the court of session where he was eventually succeeded by Sir Walter Scott. He was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. As befitted his status and seniority in legal circles Home had the privilege of composing the first Mirror essay and later contributed on staple club themes such as the value of social affection and personal cheerfulness see no. 34. In the prominence given to the legal profession the club demonstrated a clear preference for law over the church. Nevertheless clergymen such as John Logan were prominent in the Feast of Tabernacles and the connection between the moderate party of the Church of Scotland and the revival of Scottish belles-lettres was retained in Lounger essays by William Greenfield and Robert Henry. Moreover many Mirror papers including Mackenzie's famous series 'The story of La Roche' nos. 424 advocated religious belief and feeling. In terms of form and style the Mirror Club's offerings were self-conscious imitations of The Spectator Mackenzie proudly earning the epithet of the Scottish Addison. However it is evident that the club also developed the essay genre and championed the new literary form of the novel as the moral preceptor of the modern age. At one level the club's thinking remained parochial and transitional providing advice to a Scottish élite that was distinctly hierarchical and yet sufficiently poor to provide greater social and economic mobility than its English counterpart. But in its literary output the club also aimed to create a revolutionary new paradigm for ethical and cultural analysis by delineating the progress of individual character and passions through the structures of civilized manners formal education and custom. Nowhere was this more forcefully advanced than in the club's re-evaluation of Shakespeare as the creator of unique individuals with complex personalities. The club's attention to the philosophical analysis of Shakespeare was continued by Schlegel Coleridge and Hazlitt to name a few. Improving humane and tolerant the Mirror Club popularized Enlightenment values principally among the Scottish gentry. Yet collaterally the club and its publications provided a far wider readership with an innovative characterization of Scottish identityone that affirmed the ethical and sociable community rather than the uniquely covenanted nation. Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Article by John Dwyer hardcover

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlande480,00 €

Biggs, William, Voluntier in the Military Transactions Abroad and at HomeBiblio.com

The Military History of Europe &c. From the Commencement of the War with Spain in 1739 to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748;

1755004217London: Printed for R.Baldwin at the Rose in Pater-noster-row; J. Marshall at the Unicorn in St. Clement's Church-yard; and P.Davey and B.Law at the Bible-and-Ball in Ave-Mary-Lane 1755. Book. See Description. Original Leather Boards. First Edition. 8 1/8" x 4 7/8". viii pages then numbered 1 - 332 305 - 411 9 page index. The contents of the first occurrence of pages 305 - 332 are briefly classified in the index appearing to be a late addition to the preceding text and follow logically from page 304. The subsequent chapter starting at page 305 covers the rebellion in Scotland and is indexed normally. There is a second edition in 1756 which possibly corrects what now appears to be unconventional pagination. Page 335 is mis-paginated as 353 - a easy type-setting mistake! Page 165 tabulates a Regimental Plan of the Losses of the Allies at Dettingen Battle; inserted at page 311 is a folding page tabulating a Regimental Plan of the Losses of the Allies at Fontenoy Battle; inserted at page 360 is a folded page with both a Plan of Culloden Battle and a Regimental List of the Killed and Wounded of the King's Troops; on page 373 is a Regimental Plan of the Losses of the Allies at Racoux alias Liege Battle; inserted at page 392 is a Regimental Plan of the Losses of the Allies at La Veldt alias Val Battle. 'Containing all the transactions of that war both by sea and land: also comprehending a concise and impartial history of the rebellion in Scotland.' A detailed and vivid account written by Biggs with 'all the clearness candor and exactness in my power' almost immediately after the events he describes. In original calf; front endpaper with the name L Dighton 1762 in ink; no front free end-paper the half-title follows with the name L Dighton 1780 on the top corner rear free end-paper almost detached. Internally otherwise very good just slight irregularities to the edges of the folding sheets. The boards are worn particularly at the edges and corners and only partially attached and the spine is particularly worn with no labels remaining. Fine double gilt lining is still visible in places to spine and board edges; the binding generally is sufficient to protect the interior and has an appropriate authenticity. A scarce book. Printed for R.Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-row; J. Marshall, at the Unicorn in St. Clement's Church-yard; and P.Dave Hardcover

Trinder's Fine Tools · Royaume-Uni250,00 £GB≈ 285,45 €

[The Massachusetts Sentinel] [United States Constitution] [Georgia]Biblio.com

The Massachusetts Centinel. Saturday February 16 1788. Georgia Ratifies the Constitution

178836781Boston: Benjamin Russell 1788. First Edition. Newspaper. Good. Newspaper. Single issue removed from larger gathering. Paper measures proximately 15" x 9.5". 4 pages. Stitched holes on the left margin. Scattered brown spots. Light toning to the paper. Contents include the latest "American Intelligence". Including the front page news article titled: "Augusta Georgia January 5. We have the pleasure to announce to the publick that on Wednesday last the Convention of this State unanimously ratified the Federal Constitution in the words following viz. State of Georgia. In Convention Wednesday January 2 1788. We the Delegates of the people of the State of Georgia in Convention met having taken into serious consideration the Federal Constitution agreed upon and proposed by the Deputies of the United States in General Convention held in the city of Philadelphia on the 17th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven Have assented to ratified and adopted and by these presents do in virtue of the powers and authority to us given by the people of the said State for the purpose for and in behalf of ourselves and our constituents fully and entirely assent to ratify and adopt the said Constitution which is hereunto annexed under the great seal of said State. Done in Convention at Augusta in the said State on the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and seventy eight and of the Independence of the United States the twelfth." Other items from the paper includes news from Charleston S. C.; Wilmington Delaware; Philadelphia; New York; Massachusetts; and Europe. Much of the Massachusetts news concerns the newly adopted Constitution. [Benjamin Russell] unknown

Americana Books ABAA · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

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