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1814236681London: Printed for the Author 1814. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements. 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Bound in marbled later wrappers. Very good. Fourth edition with "many additions and improvements" 44 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First published in 1797 this was a popular anti-tobacco tract which was also reprinted in editions of 1798 1805 as well as this last lifetime London edition a New York edition appeared in 1829. "Fairholt notices that DISSERTATION 'was one of the bitterest attacks on the habit and becme the textbook of the oppositionists'" Brooks Arents Catalogue. Arents Vol. IV 1126-c Printed for the Author unknown
1812103343Philadelphia: E. Sargeant and Griffin and Rudd; and J.F. Watson 1812 Commonly called The Sacrament Of The Lord's Supper; to Which Are Added A Collection of His Smaller Tracts. This includes A Dissertation on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco. Includes a stunning signature and doodle from the book's original owner James Raisbeck. There is an admonition not to steal this book found on the last endpage. Bound in full leather more accurately graded very good. Pages toned with intermittent spotting. 283 pages. Illus. by cover art by Evan Gaffney. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. E. Sargeant and Griffin and Rudd; and J.F. Watson hardcover
1812ZE17959New York: E. Sergeanta nd Griffin and Rudd 1812. First American edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. First edition with publisher's "advertisment" dated New York Feb. 10 1812. 283 pp. Oroginal full tree claf spine lined in gilt and with gilt lettered red leather spine label. A tight example binding rubbed about the edges and with some scuffing to the spine strip. Scattered foxing to the text. Included with the title piece and with separate title pages with 1812 imprints are Clarke's "Discourse on The History of The Rich Man and The Beggar: From Luke XVI 19-31" "A Narrative on the Last Illness And Death of Richard Porson A.M.etc" with a facsimile of an ancient Greek inscription "A Dissertation on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco.humbly addressed To All The Tobacco Consumers; especially to those among Religious People" "An Address to the Philogical Society of Manchester read at The Anniversary of Their Institution". The key piece in this compilation is Clarke's famous "Disseratation on the Use and Abuse Of Tobacco" which has first printed in London in 1797 and appears in an American printing here for the first time. <br/><br/> E. Sergeant,a nd Griffin and Rudd hardcover
1835754L5Cambridge: J & J J Deighton 1835. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5.5". None. A smart uncommon fourth edition of Adam Sedgwick's publication on education at Cambridge University. Uncommon for this work to be in such a smart condition.In a full cloth binding with blind tooled floral motifs. The fourth edition of this popular work.Publisher's adverts to the rear. Written by Adam Sedgwick a British geologist and priest. At the time of publication he was a Woodwardian professor and fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. This work is an expansion of a lecture delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College on the day of the annual commemoration in December. In a contemporary full cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Bumping to the extremities. Spine has faded. Internally firmly bound. Tidemarks to the head of front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are bright with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed J & J J Deighton hardcover
18391304120018T. Mason and G. Lane 1839. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1839 EDITION. Pages are unmarked slightly tanned with light foxing spots. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Chipping on back strip edges. Hinge slightly cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! T. Mason and G. Lane hardcover
1830E12433BLondon: T.T. and J. Tegg 1830. Leather_bound. Near Fine. Two volumes full crished morocco decorated in blindstamp and lined in gilt spine lined and lettered in gilt all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. xxiv 502 pp. one leaf of ads; 770 pp. Handsome example occasional minor bump here and there interior bright with scattered light foxing. <br/><br/> T.T. and J. Tegg hardcover
1804AQ21202Cambridge: Printed by and for B. Flower 1804. 324pp. Modern morocco-backed marbled boards gilt. Slightly rubbed to extremities occasional marking else a crisp unpressed and generously margined copy displaying several untrimmed fore-edges and some marginal paper flaws. With occasional neat early underlining of key passages suggesting a close reading a handful of single-word manuscript translations into French early ink-stamps of Wm. McKendrick to early blank preceding title and following leaf and later ink inscription to modern blank fly. The second edition of the first work of economics in English consciously intended to be used as a textbook: as the author himself notes in a preliminary 'advertisement' the work was to be 'found convenient as a text book in those institutions of liberal education in which the "Wealth of Nations" makes an essential branch of their letters'. A lucid abridgement by English radical Jeremiah Joyce 1763-1816 of Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's monumental Wealth of nations it condensed the two thick quartos of the original edition London 1776 or the by then well known bulky triple-decker octavo editions of the late eighteenth century into a single convenient octavo volume. Mizuta 82. Second edition. 8vo. Printed by and for B. Flower hardcover
182155104London:: Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. The Third Edition. original boards; green cloth spine with printed paper label. . Spine sunned; spine label tanned; but a beautiful copy in original condition. 12mo. Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, hardcover
18219777<p>G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821. THIRD EDITION. 12mo. 7.8 x 4.7 inches. xii 395pp. A very good clean copy in the original publishers paper covered boards. Pages untrimmed. Chipping to the edges of the original printed paper label on spine. Previous owner has covered the spine and board edges with white paper which is chipped and showing loss which allows the original printed label to be seen. Board edges a bit rubbed and bumped. An uncommon survivor in any condition but in the original publishers boards even more so.</p> G. & W. B. Whittaker. London. 1821 hardcover
1821152837London: for G. & W. B. Whittaker 1821. Third Joyce edition constituting upon its first publication in 1797 the first abridgement of Smith's Wealth of Nations a conscious move by the editor Jeremiah Joyce to turn the bulky two or three volumes of the original into a more manageable textbook of economics. Octavo 174 x 102 mm. Contemporary marbled sides and vellum tips sometime rebacked with brown sheep spine lettered in gilt. Ownership inscription to front pastedown of Edgar MacCulloch likely the expert on Guernsey folklore 1808-1896 above later stamp of Elizabeth College Library in Guernsey. Very minor rubbing very light spotting and creasing to pages. A very good copy. hardcover
1820090829-21Cheltenham : G A Williams Printed For 1820. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8Vo. Unmarked. The Front Grey Boards Are Detached As Are Some 24 Pp. Half Of The Pages Of Text Are Uncut. Contains Fourteen Items From The Time Each Paginated Separately. Asseertions And Replies Etc. A Curiosity. <br/> <br/> G A Williams (Printed For) hardcover
1855015412London: Hakluyt Society 1855. Book measures 23x15.cm. xvi288pp 2 linen-backed maps. Bound in original publishers blue embossed gilt cloth. Cloth rubbed some wear loss staining darkening to cloth institutional library stamp. Binding in good firm condition. Internally short split on front endpaper joint occasional library stamp. Pages in good clean condition. A good copy. . Cloth. Good Plus. 8vo. Hakluyt Society Hardcover
1848087004London: Printed by E. Couchman 1848. First edition. Paperback. pp. 44. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Trace of pencil marks to corner of cover and one tiny chip otherwise crisp and unmarked. Peel 228: "The charge was to the jury at the beginning of the trial of a Native for murder and deals with whether the charter rights of HBC extended to judicial authority over Natives." Scarce. Printed by E. Couchman paperback
1848106181London: Printed by E. Couchman 1848. Softcover. very good. 1st Edition. 44pp. Octavo in original printed tan wrappers. Rare. very good TPL 7986; Peel 3 - 228 locates in the Glenbow collection. Not in Casey Gagnon Lande Sabin Amtmann Eberstadt Soliday or Streeter. In his charge to the jury at the commencement of the trial of an Indian for murder Thom incorrectly declared that the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company by its charter extended to judicial authority over the aborigines. Thom was here exceeding his authority as the case should have been tried in Upper Canada. 1848 Printed by E. Couchman paperback
188754196Wien, Bermann u. Altmann, 1887. Gr.-8°. Mit einigen Textillustrationen u. 7 tlw. gefalt. Tabellen. 64 S., HLwd. d. Zt.
18407<p>6 volumes of Adam Clarke Bible Commentary.</p><p>New edition with authors final corrections.</p><p>Hardback</p><p>Marginal readings and Parallel Texts.</p> Thomas Tegg hardcover
1809SMITHWON1809<p>"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. With A Life of the Author. Also A View of the Doctrine of Smith Compared with that of the French Economists; With a Method of Facilitating the Study of his Works; From the French of M. Garnier." by Adam Smith L.L.D. F.R.S. Printed for Mundell Doig and Stevenson Edinburgh; Lackington Allen and Co. Cradock and Joy and T. Hamilton London; and Wilson and Son York 1809. Edinburgh. Complete in three volumes.</p><p>Three octavos bound in three quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised and gilt bands to spines. The second volume is missing the title page. Some scattered foxing rubbing and wear a few scuffs damage to one spine label else in Very Good condition.</p> Printed for Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh; Lackington, Allen and Co. Cradock and Joy, and T. Hamilton, London; and Wil hardcover