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1835011854Edinburgh: Edinburgh Review 1835 Quarter calf over marble boards. All edges trimmed and decoratively stained/speckled. Heraldic bookplate of Dogmersfield Library with later plate of John E. Howell. 558 pp. James B. Bernard Theory of the Constitution; Observations on the Motion of Sir Robert Heron respecting the Vacating of Seats in Parliament; Lectures on Intellectual Philosophy by John Young; Thoughts upon the Aristocracy of England by Isaac Tomkins; The Natural Son by Lord Albert Conyngham; Des Cometes en general et en particulier de celles qui doivent paraitre en 1832 et 1835 by M. Arago and other articles on Halley's Comet and Bielas' Comet. Speciments of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Historia Statisticae Adumbrara; Petition from the Inhabitants of the City of London against Newspaper Stamps; Biographical Memoirs of Mirabeau in French; Speech of Henry Lord Brougham on the Address in the House of Lords on Tuesday 17th Feburary 1835. History of the Revolution in England in 1668; the Acharnenses of Aristophanes; A Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia by Capt. Thomas Boteler; Deontology; or the Science of Morality from the mss. of Jeremy Bentham; Journal of Frances Anne Butler; Works of George Dalgarno of Aberdeen; Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a Northwest Passage by Sir John Ross including Discovery of Northern Magnetic Pole; Edward Baines History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain; Andrew Ure The Philosophy of Manufactures; James Montgomery A Poet's Portfolio; First Report of Hist Majesty's Commissioners on Ecclesiastical Revenue and Patronage Ireland and follow-up reports; Note to the Article on Lighthouses. Fine. Edinburgh Review hardcover
1887058131London: James Clarke & Co Ltd 33 Store Street 1887. First ENGLISH Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1887. SCARCE; the rare first printing. Translation of the German; 'Kampf um's Recht' . Good clear print; better than the later printings. Four-page preface by George MacDonald. Hardback. Dark-red cloth; gilt lettered spine. Bold green lettered cover. Later replacement yellow end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. A novel; single-column text. Set in the Carpathian Mountains. A tight bright and clean copy. Minor wear to spine. A few fox spots. No owner name or internal markings. VERY GOOD INDEED. xi 531 pages. A small cutting of and adverts with reviews from a contemporary newspaper is tipped-in to title-verso. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books Cumberland Literature Rarities Theology and History. . James Clarke & Co Ltd 33 Store Street. VERY SCARCE; the rare first printing. <br/> <br/> James Clarke & Co Ltd, 33 Store Street hardcover
1897349878Paris : Bureaux de La Revie 1897. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 1 volume ; 19-26 cm. Subjects; French literature ; Periodicals. Literature Modern ; Periodicals. Littérature française ; Périodiques. French literature. Literature Modern. Paris : Bureaux de La Revie hardcover
1896447720The Architectural Review 1896. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. All issues of The Architectural Review from 1896-1898 collected and finely bound in gilt-blocked leather over cloth. Spine bands and panel edgessomewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Text is clear and without blemish. Remain well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 2 volumes 32 cm. The Architectural Review hardcover
18742111902160200284Suharaya Mohei and others 1874. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Suharaya Mohei and others paperback
1900mon0000036169: Harvard University Press 1900. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. : Harvard University Press paperback
1896447724The Architectural Review 1896. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. All issues of The Architectural Review from 1896-1903 collected and finely bound in gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Text is clear and without blemish. Remain well-preserved overall. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 3 volumes 32 cm. The Architectural Review hardcover
186232318Danville KY and Cincinnati OH: Printed for the Association and Sold By Moore Wilstach Keys & Co. of Cincinnati 1862. 8vo. Four issues: No. 1 195pp; No. 2 197-370 1-errata pp; No. 3 371-541 pp; No. 4 543-714 6 pp. Number 1 lacking rear wrapper; the top outer corner of last four leaves creased and worn one corner torn loss of only a few letters; Number 4's rear wrapper detached but present. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Contents include articles on the Presbyterian religion original sin "The Secession Conspiracy in Kentucky" Politics and the Church Negro Slavery and the Civil War Israel and the Sinai. The Danville Review was founded by professors at Centre College and Danville Theological Seminary in order to establish a Presbyterian quarterly more centrally located than those in the eastern states. <br /> Original editors were Robert J. Breckinridge Edward P. Humphrey Stephen Yerkes and Joseph T. Smith of Danville Theological Seminary; James Matthews Jacob Cooper and Robert W. Landis of Centre College of Danville; and Robert W. Landis John M. Worrall and Robert L. Breck all of Kentucky. It was as its Prospectus stated "designed mainly for the exposition advancement and defence of the Christian Religion considered in its purely Evangelical sense; and for open resistance to whatever is hostile to it or inconsistent with it. . . Its pages will be open to the consideration of all other interests of man and the discussion of everything that promotes or obstructs any one of these interests. The work is projected and will be controlled by persons all of whom are members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America all of whom accept the standards of that Church in their obvious sense." <br /> Reverend Breckinridge used the publication in his fight to keep Kentucky from secession. <br /> Not in Lomazow. Printed for the Association and Sold By Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. of Cincinnati unknown
1825230481825. EnvironmentalismAgriculture Archive of six manuscripts and printed works concerning water rights water supply and environmental regulation in the United States and Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials chronicle the evolving legal protections governing access to water resources including industrial use agricultural supply municipal control of waterways and emerging concerns regarding river pollution. Together the documents trace a historical arc from early industrial petitions for water-powered manufacturing and property-based water rights disputes to later government and professional studies addressing irrigation law water infrastructure and environmental contamination. The archive contains six items three manuscripts and three printed works:<br /> <br /> 1 Manuscript Petition. Lancaster Pennsylvania. 1825 petition submitted to the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Lancaster requesting authorization to use water from the town run for manufacturing purposes. The petitioner proposes constructing a machine for manufacturing cards used in carding cotton and requests permission to convey water through wooden pipes from the municipal run to power the operation. The petition references specific lots and locations within Lancaster and includes statements assuring that the diversion would not interfere with existing water flow or neighboring property. Approximately 8 x 9.75 inches.<br /> <br /> 2 Autograph Letter Signed. Philadelphia February 25 1861. Letter addressed to J. E. Thompson concerning a dispute involving water use along the Wissahickon Creek. The writer discusses complaints relating to the removal of sand and alteration of water flow affecting neighboring property references a dam causing land inundation and ultimately states a willingness to relinquish certain rights so the dam may be removed noting that steam power is sufficient for his manufacturing purposes.<br /> <br /> 3 Charles C. Brown. River Pollution in the United States. Reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Engineers October 1890. Early engineering study discussing sources of river contamination and methods of measuring and preventing industrial pollution of American waterways.<br /> <br /> 4 Certified Court Record Suffolk England 1833. Court of Common Pleas water rights dispute concerning property and access to a well in the parishes of Stowmarket and Needham Market Suffolk. The case lists William Ransom as plaintiff and Thomas Wells and Susan Wells as defendants relating to the liberty of drawing water and access rights. The record references the reign of King George IV and was officially certified July 16 1833 by Charles Roberts Assistant Keeper of Records of the Public Record Office.<br /> <br /> 5 R. H. Hess. Arid-Land Water Rights in the United States. Reprinted from the Columbia Law Review June 1916. Scholarly legal analysis examining riparian rights and the doctrine of prior appropriation in the American West and the legal development of irrigation water allocation.<br /> <br /> 6 United States Department of Agriculture. Farmstead Water Supply. Farmers' Bulletin No. 1448. Washington D.C. issued August 1925 and slightly revised June 1933. Government agricultural engineering bulletin describing sanitary well construction water storage and safe water supply systems for American farms.<br /> <br /> Manuscript documents show typical folds from original filing and storage with moderate toning and minor edge wear; handwriting remains clear and legible throughout. Printed pamphlets show light toning occasional edge wear and scattered minor staining consistent with use and inexpensive publication formats. Overall condition good to very good. This archive offers a compact documentary survey of water governance and environmental awareness across more than a century linking early industrial petitions and property disputes with the later emergence of legal scholarship and engineering studies addressing irrigation policy rural infrastructure and river pollution in the modern United States. unknown
188634067Paris: Boussod Valadon et Cie 1886-1889. 16 volumes. Halfleather leather corners marbeld covers and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Each volume with ca. 360 pages and many original ill. on plates; 33 cm. Text in French / Français - leather sl. rubbed sl. worn some foxing/ spotting Although very good set see picture. More pictures on request. Boussod, Valadon et Cie hardcover
187757710Louvain / Bruxelles / Paris: Ch. Peeters / Librarie de la Societe Bibliographique / Societe Belge de Librairie / Secretariat de la Societe Scientifique 1877-1914. 71 vols of the series. Hardcovers. Text in French / Français. tickets on spines stamps slightly worn bit browned last 2 vols. not uniformly bound Although very good almost complete run of the first 36 years of this revue rare. See pictures 'Fondée en 1877 par la Société scientifique de Bruxelles la Revue des Questions Scientifiques est une publication périodique de niveau universitaire qui est encore actuellement publiée par ladite Société avec la collaboration de l'Université de Namur et de la Haute école Louvain-en-Hainaut. Pluridisciplinaire et francophone elle est une revue de haute vulgarisation scientifique consacrée aux sciences y compris leur actualité leur histoire leur philosophie et leur impact sociétal. Elle comporte des articles des chroniques d'actualités des analyses critiques et enfin des comptes rendus.' - source rqs belgium Ch. Peeters / Librarie de la Societe Bibliographique / Societe Belge de Librairie / Secretariat de la Societe Scientifique hardcover
189752614Paris / Rome: Victor Lecoffre / J. Gabalda / Francois Ferrari 1897-2000. 91 volumes of the series. 25x16.5 cm. - first 38 volumes worn browned few pages loose rest very good in firm modern library bindings stamps tickets 19411942 and 1945 have title 'Vivre et penser' 1943 & 1944 not published See pictures more pictures on request Victor Lecoffre / J. Gabalda / Francois Ferrari unknown
1828302753London Charles and Henry Baldwyn 1820-1828. 1828. 8vo. Title page vignettes. Contemporary 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards red and dark green spine labels minor rubbing. An attractive set. 16 volumes. Bookplates of F. Barham Zincke of Wherstead. Volumes 15 16 are edited by Henry Southern and Nicholas Harris Nicolas published by Baldwin Cradock and Joy; and Payne and Foss. Printed by Thomas Davison. Volumes 1-14 printed by D.S. Maurice. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820-1828. hardcover
1889ZB394145Harvard Law Review Publishing Association 1889-1996. Volumes 3 12 17 33 38 59 61; 65-70; 73-78; 80-81; 85; 89-101; 106 107 109 1889-1996. partly bound library markings else textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Harvard Law Review Publishing Association unknown