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1865100069Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners gilt title on front cover 55 colo maps.Extremities quite worn some general fading hinges repaired and rear free endpaper glued down maps with scattered narrow dampstain to bottom margin some splitting at centerfolds and a few scattered spots and toning or offsetting title with some offsetting; still a pretty sturdy atlas that has very good content overall. Colorful general atlas with double page maps of Australia various countries in Europe South America and Africa.There are two double page maps of the United States; the Eastern United States and the Western United States. Washington Dacotah Idaho and Utah are shown larger than they are today. Adam and Charles Black, books
1865100069Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners gilt title on front cover 55 colo maps.Extremities quite worn some general fading hinges repaired and rear free endpaper glued down maps with scattered narrow dampstain to bottom margin some splitting at centerfolds and a few scattered spots and toning or offsetting title with some offsetting; still a pretty sturdy atlas that has very good content overall. Colorful general atlas with double page maps of Australia various countries in Europe South America and Africa.There are two double page maps of the United States; the Eastern United States and the Western United States. Washington Dacotah Idaho and Utah are shown larger than they are today. Adam and Charles Black,
16991295121Amsterdam: Jean-Louis De Lorme 1699. First French Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 4 249 pages; newlyre bound in 1/4 brown leather brown cloth boards paneled spine with green label and gilt lettering; title page has two stamps for a Cabinet De Lecture or reading room; title page also has a pen scribble line underneath the word 'voyage' not impacting any text; two sheets of contemporary blue paper bound in presumably publisher's wraps; lacking engraved frontispiece; large folding map present in excellent condition; CM consignment; shelved case 3. First French edition original published in German one year earlier in 1698. A journal of the Russian embassy headed by Everard Isbrand Ides which went over land from Moscow to Peking written by the secretary of the embassy Adam Brand. The aim of the expedition was to conclude commercial agreements with the Chinese but in fact this was not incorporated. Includes a table "des chiffres de la carte" pp. 183-92 with numbers of cities and other places passed along the route indicated on the map. The map only to be found in this edition. At end there is an anonymous letter about the present state of Moscow included;. 1295121. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Jean-Louis De Lorme hardcover books
10243Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Sammelband containing rare early editions of 16 sonatas published ca. 1790â1820 by the Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek the French composer Louis Adam the English composer and pianist Johann Baptist Cramer and the French composer Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne including one signed on the title by Louis Adam as well as piano arrangements of two Haydn symphonies works by Kuhn Hebenheim and Chabanon and one piece of manuscript music. Hardcover spine of reused vellum with earlier text; marbled paper boards; shield-shaped label to the cover reads: ". grandes Sonates sans Accompagnement par Dussek Adam et autres auteurs à Mme. Sara Davoit." Music engraved throughout. Boards rubbed; edge and shelf wear; binding structurally sound and overall very good. 10 x 13.5 inches 27 x 34 cm.<br style=""><br style="">The contents bound in the following order:<br style="">Trois grandes sonates pour piano composées et dediées à Gabrielle Pleyel par J. L. Dussek. Oeuvre 35. A Paris chez Jmbault rue Honoré label affixed over the original imprint of Pleyel ca. 1797. Stamped by Pleyel on the title. PN 64. 55 pp. Very rare.<br style="">Grande Sonate pour le piano forte composée et dédiée par D. Steibelt à Madame Bonaparte A Paris chez M.elles Erard A Lyon chez Garnier ca. 1800. PN 29. 35 pp. Rare.<br style="">Sonate pour le Forté Piano dédiée à Monsieur le Marquis de Grimaldi composée par L. Adam. A Paris chez Sieber label affixed over the original imprint of Pleyel 1801. Stamped by Pleyel on the title. PN 374 C. 23 pp.<br style="">Grande Sonate composée pour le Piano-Forte et dédiée à Mademoiselle Laure Didot par L. Adam. A Paris self-published de la Collection de Pièces Nouvelles pour le Piano 8e. Livraison. ca. 1820. Signed by Adam on the title. PN 8. A. 27 pp.<br style="">Trois Grandes Sonates pour le Forte Piano dédiées à son ami Désormery par G. Le Moyne. Oeuvre 10. A Paris chez Sieber label affixed over the original imprint not legible n.d. Stamped by Lemoyne on the title. PN 10. 24 pp. Very rare; we have located no copies on WorldCat.<br style="">Quatres Sonates pour Clavecin our Forte-Piano composés par J. B. Cramer. A Paris: Chez Jmbault rue Honoré label affixed over the original imprint of Sieber 1795. PN 1077. 41; pp.<br style="">Five items of music without title pages or imprints:No. 30. Prix 3H 12S. Sonate par A. Kuhn. 2â13 pp.3e. Année. No. 28. 3H 12S. Simphonie par J. Hemmerlein. 2â10 pp.3e. Année. No. 32. 2H 8S. Sonate de Mr. Chabanon. 5 pp.IIe. Simphonie d'Haydn. 5 pp.Seconde Année. No. 22. Simphonie d'Haydn. 2â13 pp.<br style="">La Rosiere de Salency Ouverture arrangée pour Clavecin ou Piano-Forte. A Paris: Chez H. Naderman label affixed over the original imprint of Imbach n.d. PN 22. 4 pp. Followed by part for "violon d'accompagnement ad libitum" 3 pp. Very rare.<br style="">Manuscript music titled "Bataille de Prague" for keyboard. 5 pp.<br style="">Louis Adam spent over four decades from 1797 through 1842 as Professor of Pianoforte at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to being a skilled pianist he composed a number of popular pieces for piano and also wrote two standard methods: Méthode ou principe générale du doigté pour le Forté-piano 1798 and Méthode nouvelle pour le Piano 1802. His son Adolphe Adam is known as the composer of the ballet Giselle.<br>"Dussek is an unjustly neglected composer. Admittedly some of his more insignificant works. are trivial and deservedly forgotten but there is a body of piano sonatas piano concertos and chamber works that are of sufficient musical worth to be performed and enjoyed today. His music seems to have been received with enthusiasm in his own time; reviews of the original editions in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung praise Dussek's originality and expressiveness and the appropriateness to the piano of his melody harmony and scoring . Most of his works were reprinted at least once and some as many as ten times some important works appeared in as many as three different editions by Breitkopf & Härtel alone who issued a 12-volume collected edition of his works just after his death." Howard Allen Craw et al in Grove Online hardcover books
179327911London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1793. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. All three volumes professionally rebacked keeping the original speckled leather boards. Not xlib. Owner's sticker inside the front c overs Bloomfield Jervis Beach 1820-1894. A very nice clean attractive set. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . A. Strahan and T. Cadell hardcover
1810012551Breslau und Leipzig: Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn 1810. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Third Edition. 8vo. Pappbände der Zeit. Band 1: XII/412 seiten. Band 2: VIII/631 seiten. Band 3: VIII/422 seiten. Aus dem Englischen der vierten Ausgabe neu übersetzt. Dritte mit Stewarts Nachricht von dem Leben und den Schriften des Autors unveräderte Ausgabe. Six panels on spine; title panel in red with gilt lettering. Brown leather and brown boards. Chips to crown and foot of spine Band 1; chip to crown Band 3; joints torn at crown of spine Band 2. Adam Smith`s "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." 3 volumes - German Language Some shelfwear to covers and corners rubbed to boards. Text blocks fresh and clean. Bindings solid. Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn Hardcover
17821334227Berlin: Friedrich Maurer 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 16 429 1; VG; bound in brown library cloth gilt titling to spine; ex-library label removed from spine pencil erased from recto of title page; 2 vignettes folding frontispiece plate symbolic content some tape repair to rear wear and separation at folds; very mild foxing; faint orange underlining to three words on title page scattered pencil to title page;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Scarce; AG consignment; shelved case 3. Rare and early freemasonry work by the German Adam Michael Birkholz. The First Masonic Grand Lodge was founded in England in 1717 spreading to the continent in the decades following. This history was first published in 1779 and republished in 1782.;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> "Birkholz was a Rosicrucian writer.Der Compass der Weisen.is a well known work though not trustworthy as to history. He wrote under the name of Adamah Booy" Adolph Frederick Alexander Woodford;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> "Birkholz maintained that he was one of the "members of the inner Constitution of the genuine and right Freemasonry" and with this book he intended "to present clearly and faithfully the history of this illustrious Order from the beginning of its founding." Florian Ebeling;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> "The history of the Order was described in detail in the book The Compass of Wisemen which was extremely popular in the masonic milieu" Konstantin Burmistrov Maria Endel;. 1334227. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Friedrich Maurer hardcover books
169861339Amsterdam George Gallet 1698 Amsterdam Lorme 1699. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Lower part of front board with small hole in leather showing the wooden boards underneath. With a few occassional brownspots. Line of imprint trimmed off in the second work and small tear to the map 'Relation du voyage de Mr Evert Isbrand' otherwise a nice and clean copy. 6 164 4 pp. frontispiece and 8 engraved plates; 4 249 1 pp. folded map. Wanting the frontispiece. <br/><br/><em>First French translation of Adam Brand’s ‘Relation du voyage’ an 18-month journey to Beijing where he served as the embassy’s secretary. In 1692 Tsar Peter the Great commissioned Eberhard Isbrand Ides to lead a mission to the Kangxi Emperor of China with Adam Brand functioning as the embassy's secretary. The delegation comprising over 250 individuals including noblemen advisors merchants and soldiers arrived in Beijing after an 18-month journey in 1693. The embassy's primary accomplishment was securing permission for Russians to conduct business in Beijing with a caravan of up to 200 members every three years. The present work became extremely popular in Western Europe and it was quickly translated into various European languages including English 1698 and 1707 French 1699 Dutch 1699 and Spanish 1701. Withbound is Prideaux' "La Vie de Mahomet". </em> hardcover
169861339Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1698 (+) Amsterdam, Lorme, 1699. 8vo. In a nice contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Lower part of front board with small hole in leather, showing the wooden boards underneath. With a few occassional brownspots. Line of imprint trimmed off in the second work and small tear to the map ('Relation du voyage de Mr Evert Isbrand'), otherwise a nice and clean copy. (6), 164, (4) pp. + frontispiece and 8 engraved plates" (4), 249, (1) pp. + folded map. Wanting the frontispiece.
#[42511]42491 pag. Full leather spine broken library stamp on title page. Illustrated with a frontispice and a folding map of Russia after Nic. Witsen map repaired. On pp. 193-249: lettre de monsieur xxx =Witsen sur l'etat present de la Moscovie. hardcover
2015Atlantic-97814666860382015. Hardcover. New. hardcover
2015Atlantic-97814666860382015. Hardcover. New. hardcover
183010481Paris, Bichebois & cie, Chaillou-Potrelle, Rittner ; London, Tilt, 1830. 7 lithographies (19 x 13 cm) en feuilles, sous couverture verte illustrée.
1802018053Paris: Agasse An X 1802. Cinque volumi in 8° di 4-CXXVII-368pp; 4-493pp; 4-564pp; 4-556pp; 4-588pp. Ritratto di Smith inciso da Prevost al primo volume. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle dorsi lisci dorati. Tagli gialli. Bella copia. Prima edizione di questa traduzione e del classico commento del Garnier. La stessa edizione esiste anche con fogli di errata a ogni volume. Ma questa sembra essere più rara: All editions usually having at the end of each volume an errata-leaf. Here; however all the errors have been corrected and the errata-leaf is not present. Is the improved version of the first edition of this classic translation scrive il Catalogo 53 di Gerits che lo valuta appunto più degli esemplari con errata. Vanderblue p. 25; K.E. Carpenter The Dissemination of the Wealth of Nations in French and in France p. 175; Kress B.4604; Goldsmiths 18412; Einaudi 5340. Agasse unknown
Album oblungo (mm. 420x580), bella legatura in tela edit. (con aloni, risguardi rifatti), cornici a secco con grande stemma della Svizzera in ricca decorazione oro al piatto anteriore. Magnifica raccolta di 15 tavole (al vivo mm. 300x460) disegnate da Eugène Adam e litografate da Jules Adam, introdotte da un bellissimo frontespizio figurato, pure litografato; tutte sono precedute da una pagina di descrizione in tedesco e in francese. Dall’introduzione apprendiamo che l’artista svizzero ha concepito “l’idéé de consacrer ses pinceaux à l’illustration d’une campagne simplement simulée, exécutée au sein de la paix.. en faisant un heureux mélange de scènes guerrières avec les scènes majestueuses de la nature des Alpes.. En 1861 la Suisse se trouve attaquée sur toute sa frontière méridionale..”. Le operazioni di guerra disegnate e descritte sono le seguenti: “Embarquement des troupes à Lucerne, 14 aout - Départ d’Amsteg, 16 aout - Construction du pont au Pfaffensprung (Saut du Moine), 16 aout - Combat du pont de Meidschlingen, 16 aout - Levée du camp de Wasen, 17 aout - Position près de Goeschenen, 17 aout - La batterie n. 27 à la première galerie de la route du St. Gotthard, 17 aout - Service divin du bataillon bernois au camp d’Andermatt, 18 aout - Rapport du soir au camp de Réalp, 19 aout - Marche de la I brigade vers la Furka, 20 aout - La II brigade au col des Nufenen, 20 aout - Halte de la I brigade au glacier du Rhone, 20 aout - Scène de bivouac dans la cour du palais Stockalper à Brigue, 22 aout - Combat du Bois de Finges, 24 aout - Entrée des troupes à Sion, 24 aout”. Cfr. Benezit,I, p. 55: “Eugen Adam (1817-80), allemand, peintre de sujets militaires, paysages, fut élève de son père Albrecht”. Nel ns. esempl.: 4 pagg. di descrizione restaurate per mancanze (non di testo) e altre con aloni; le tavole, tutte ben conservate, portano a volte e solo ai margini, lievi aloni o lievi fioriture.
1822037619Paris: Mme Veuve Agasse Imprimeur-Libraire 1822. 2nd Edition . Meia de Pele / Half Leather. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º217x137. 6 volumes de CLVI-368 / 6-493 / 4-564 / 2-556 / 670 / 572 pp. Gravura com retrato do autor. Encadernaçdos em meia inglesa de pele. <br/> <br/> Mme Veuve Agasse, Imprimeur-Libraire hardcover
120099Edinburgh Printed for Adam and Charles Black and William Tait 1839. . 'A new edition corrected throughout and greatly enlarged'; 8vo 23 x 15 cm; two engraved plates including portrait frontispiece slightly soiled contemporary female ownership inscription in pen to half-title text slightly browned; modern calf backed russet cloth boards vellum tips contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to spine fore-edge uncut very good; 8 lxiii 1 648pp.<br /> An early single-volume critical edition of Smith's masterpiece. The editor J.R. McCulloch achieved note as the first professor of political economy at University College London and for his works on statistical analysis. The work opens with a short biography of Smith and an 'Introductory Discourse' giving a history of the study of political economy.<br /><br />A cornerstone text in the development of modern economic theory and political philosophy the Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control' PMM.<br /> Tribe 151. Edinburgh, Printed for Adam and Charles Black, and William Tait, 1839. hardcover
1800152848Stockholm: Tryckt i Kumblinska Tryckeriet 1800. First translation in Swedish of Georg Sartorius's abbreviated edition of the Wealth of Nations first published in German in 1796 aimed as a university textbook. "Sartorius' indisputable contribution to economic science consists in the fact that he was one of the first German professors to grasp the significance of Adam Smith's system. At a time when German academic and political life was still dominated by the cameralist tradition he enthusiastically undertook the propagation of the Smithian doctrine using the lecture hall as his principal forum. His selections from the Wealth of Nations published as early as 1796 'for use in academic lectures' revealed a capacity to present the principles and implications of laissez faire in a manner suited to the tastes and needs of German students" ESS. This abridged version intended as a textbook marked a radical reduction of the work - at around 40000 words it is a tenth the size of the original. The Swedish translation by the jurist Johan Holmbergsson 1764-1840 was important in introducing Smith's ideas to Sweden. Prior to this publication only excepts of Smith's work had been available in Swedish in the journal Läsning i blandade ämnen 1799. The section on income tax is omitted possibly for political reasons since it suggested that there were some forms of taxation that should be applied to all. The preface is an abbreviated and revised version of Sartorius's original introduction. Octavo 163 x 106 mm. Late 19th-century purple quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt marbled sides blue speckled edges. Library label of Stockholms Högskolas Juridiska Bibliotek to front pastedown and their stamp to title pp. 17 and 236. Inner hinges a little weak. A very good copy. Tribe 73. Kress B.4270; not in Goldsmiths' or Vanderblue. hardcover
1830129378Paris: Chez Barrois l'Ainé 1830. Second edition first published in 1798 of Sophie de Grouchy's translation the "the best available in her language" Ross p. 365 which brought Smith's work to a much broader French audience following two ineffectual translations and which remains the standard French text. The edition includes de Grouchy's Lettres sur la sympathie her notable contribution to moral philosophy. The translation was preceded in French editions by Marc-Antoine Eidous's translation of 1764 roundly criticized for its low quality and held by Smith to be responsible for the poor reception of his work on the continent and Jean-Louis Blavet's translation of 1774-5 which was poorly disseminated. A manuscript translation by Louis Alexandre Duc de la Rochefoucauld 1774 was abandoned and unpublished. In contrast de Grouchy's translation was praised from the start and commended for its faithfulness to the original text. "Smith was no longer alive by the time Grouchy published her own translation 1798; he died in 1790 but it is safe to say that he would have been happier with hers as she followed the text as precisely as she could attempting to capture the tone and rhythm as well as the multilayered meanings of his sentences" Bergès and Schliesser p. 9. The edition also includes a translation of Smith's Dissertation on the Origin of Language first published in The Philological Miscellany and thereafter appended to the third and subsequent editions of the Theory of Moral Sentiments. The translation was reprinted again in 1860; Tribe mentions a printing of 1820 p. 239 but does not list it in his catalogue and it cannot be traced presumably an error. De Grouchy was a prominent salon hostess during the French Revolution and under Napoleon. The Lettres sur la Sympathie appended to the translation form a response to Smith's Moral Sentiments but also offer an original and important contribution to moral philosophy. The text written from around 1791 to 1793 takes the form of eight letters addressed to C sometimes surmised as to her husband the philosopher Condorcet more probably her brother-in-law the physiologist and philosopher Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. De Grouchy in the first letter sets out her project to find the origins of sympathy and over the following letters sustains her argument that they are physiological based in experienced or imagined pain and pleasure. The Lettres have long been recognized in French scholarship - Jean-Paul de Lagrave's French edition of 1994 lists at least 15 works in French dealing with her from 1887 to 1987. In English scholarship her work has been recognized only more recently. English translations were published - independent from Smith's Theory - in 2008 edited and translated by Karin Brown and James E. McClellan III and 2019 edited and translated by Sandrine Bergès and Eric Schliesser both containing lengthy introductory monographs confirming the originality and importance of the Lettres. Karin Brown in 2008 bemoaned de Grouchy's then invisibility in English scholarship - "the Lettres are certainly a notable if overlooked Enlightenment text. But more specifically there is significant recent interest in sympathy and sensibility in the literature of the eighteenth century and Sophie de Grouchy is the one contemporary woman philosopher who thought and wrote critically about sympathy. This otherwise informed and eye-opening scholarly reinterpretation of the role of sentiment in late-eighteenth century thought is unaware of Sophie de Grouchy or her contributions" Brown and McClellan p. xvi. 2 vols octavo 203 x 117 mm. Contemporary red paper-covered boards spine and covers lettered and tooled in gilt covers additionally ornately panelled in blind marbled edges. Contemporary school presentation bookplate. Wear around extremities spines a little sunned foxed yet overall an attractive copy. Tribe 141; Vanderblue p. 41. Sandrine Bergès and Eric Schliesser introduction to Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy Oxford University Press 2019; Karin Brown and James E. McClellan Sophie de Grouchy: Letters on Sympathy 1798 a Critical Edition 2008; Ian Simpson Ross Life of Adam Smith 1995. hardcover
1865442551865. Wien W. Braumüller 1865 8° VI 1 Blatt Druckfehler 143. 1 pp. 13 Holzschnitte 2 farblith. Tafeln mit 24 von Politzer gezeichneten Abbildungen Halbledereinband der Zeit; Rücken erneuert; feines Exemplar. First Edition of the first OTOSCOPY ATLAS! "In 1865 Adam Politzer 1835-1920 published his first work on otoscopy or rather his first great work as an artist. He was the first to think of publishing a book on this subject. The 143-page atlas showing methods of examining the ear included 37 drawings of the tympanic membrane by Politzer entitled "Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande". There were 13 drawings in black and white distributed through the text and 24 drawings in color reproduced as two separate plates using chromolithography by Carl I Heitzmann at the Köke lithography workshops in Vienna. Scientific images began to be used in medical circles as they could be an excellent aid to understanding a phenomenon and teaching it. The images represented true or real facts i.e. they allowed reality to be studied more or less directly and analyzed according to perception and interpretation. Recognizing a certain feature did not mean understanding the message of the image itself in which the feature could have a particular meaning. It was necessary to know how to interpret the images before recognizing the features taking into account that the images were only two-dimensional. Interpreting them was the major problem. The objectives of their analysis were clearly defined and these were essential for determining the means of interpretation. The atlas was the first real one of observations made during direct visual examination of the ear based on the diagnostic approach and examination of the tympanic membrane with different images of healthy and diseased ears described in relation to the color transparency position healthiness cicatrization and mobility of the tympanic membrane. Politzer introduced color for the first time. Apparently simple to use in fact it was not at all. Color is affected as much by light as by darkness so it was connected closely to light and revealed to the eye therefore through observation. Politzer had to perfect a technique for keeping the light constant during examination of the ear so he could finalize the colors he saw while studying pathologies of the tympanic membrane. His atlas was soon considered essential to the study of otology. In the introduction Politzer clearly explained the importance of examining the tympanic membrane correctly because if it was done well many diseases of the ear could be identified without further examination: . Politzer showed that the color of the tympanic membrane depended on the combination of three factors: its own color the color of the promontory806 seen against the light and the effect of the light source. Revolutionary at that time the importance of the otoscopie image in diagnosis is still today the key point in examining a patient with ear problems. In more than 90% of cases the otoscop¬ie image is sufficient for making a correct diagnosis. This new method with its three main stages followed almost exactly that used by art critics to study a work: description of the object observed using the appropriate vocabulary understand¬ing after studying it how the image is composed and analysis of the meaning of the image or rather of the pathology found. More simply studying an image means asking questions in this instance looking for anomalies from which to make a diagnosis. Because it is transient the image has to be reproduced so it can be used again. It then becomes a transposition of the real thing or a reality in itself and can be used for training in observation. That was without doubt Politzer's aim when he published the otoscopy atlas." Albert Mudry: Adam Politzer 2010 pp.174-178 Garrison-Morton No.3378 unknown
H19204Very Good. Parchment 24 x 20 inches very good usual folds boldly signed by architects Robert and James Adam the builder Thomas Nicholl and additionally signed by the owners Beaumont Hotham 2nd Baron Hotham Thomas Thynne 1st Marquess of Bath and William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke of Portland who was twice Prime Minister of Great Britain. Premises were leased to John Purling a slave owner and slave trader of St. Vincent. Purling himself was Chairman of the East India Co. 1771-1772 and MP for New Shoreham East Looe and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis between 1770 and 1790. In his will of Portland Place from 1800 he left 12000 Pounds in trust for his niece Margaret Clements: his real estate including interests in unspecified estates and enslaved people on St Vincent were left in trust for his nephew George Purling. There is a small surveyed drawing inset of the premises under contract which was part of Portland Place a street that was laid out by the brothers Robert and James Adam for the Duke of Portland in the 1770s and originally ran north from the gardens of a detached mansion called Foley House. It was said that the exceptional width of the street was conditioned by the Duke's obligation to his tenant Lord Foley that his views to the north would not be obscured. The street still contains many of the capacious Georgian houses designed and built by the Adam family and is considered one of their most significant and lasting achievements. The last time a document signed by the Adam brothers came up for auction was 1987 at a Phillips auction where an assignment of lease from 1774 signed by three Adam brothers sold for 380 Pounds. Robert Adam was the most important English architect of the late 18th century. unknown
16-5888Islington London: Published by W. Angus Gwynne's Buildings Feby. 1 1787 1815. 4to. 26.2 x 25 cm.Contemporary straight-grain morocco blind-stamped decorative gilt border extremities rubbed. 64 leaves LXIII leaves of plates : ill. .additional engraved title and 63 engraved views by Angus after Sandby Turner Nattes & others each with explanatory leaf of text spotting and foxing throughout.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:22224907.Engraved title page.First issued 1787-1797 with 48 plates. Reissued in 1815 with an additional 15 plates; these 63 plates are dated 1787-1815Some leaves have printing on verso. Islington, [London],: Published by W. Angus, Gwynne's Buildings, Feby. 1, 1787 [1815] unknown
1814184537Edinburgh: Printed for Oliphant Waugh & Innes; and John Murray London 1814. First edition of Buchanan's commentary on The Wealth of Nations. Although an early supporter of Smith and classical economics Buchanan criticized Smith's rent theory and his support for the taxation of wages. The work was issued as the supplementary fourth volume of Buchanan's edited edition of the Wealth of Nations the spine labels are lettered such but is complete in itself. Octavo 207 x 126 mm pp. 8 xvi 316 88 16. Contemporary calf green morocco labels to spine red speckled edges. Bookplates to front pastedown of Scottish antiquary Alexander Thomson of Banchory 1798-1868 and of Dutch economist Arnold Heertje 1934-2020. Hinges split but firm light wear at extremities minor foxing. A very good copy. Einaudi 733; Goldsmiths' 20895; Kress B.6395; Vanderblue p. 14. unknown
91922Kiøbenhavn Johan Frederik Schultz 1796. 4to. LII s. Kobberstkket portrett. Samt. helskinnbd. Ryggdekor i gull. Bordyre i gull på for- og bakdekkel. Liten fift i ryggen ved nedre kapitél. Fint eks. . unknown
100-41958Mandarin. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Mandarin paperback