[SMITH, Elisha] [Exemplaire relié aux armes d'un descendant de la famille Von Basta, comte de Hust]Livre Rare Book
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1737AMO-4509London, Printed for the Author ; and sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, 1737 3 parties reliées en 2 volumes in-8 (23,6 x 15 cm) de (13)-XXXII-431-(1 bl.) et (10)-352 pages, suivi de "An Appendix in Answer to a Book, etc." en pagination séparée de 85-(27) pages. Reliure strictement de l'époque plein maroquin noir, dos à nerfs richement ornés aux petits fers dorés, large dentelle dorée en encadrement des plats, armoiries dorées au centre des plats, roulette dorée sur les coupes et en encadremen intérieur des plats, doublures et gardes de papier peigne, tranches dorées. Légères marques aux reliures, sans gravité. Petits manques aux pièces de titre et sur un bord de coiffe (coiffe supérieure du premier volume), coins légèrement frottés ou usés, sans gravité, armoirires dorées sur le premier plat du premier volume légèrement frottées. Intérieur en bon état, imprimé sur beau papier fort à grandes marges (large paper).
174536894Edinburgh 1745. 1st printing ESTC T30512. Broadside printed recto only. Complete printed text supplied on request. On an old mount broadside previously folded and repaired with slight loss of a few letters not affecting sense or legibility. A triangular section to the upper right blank margin lost & supplied no text affected. Some expected age-toning & soiling. A Good copy. Large headpiece 4.3 cm x 15 cm. Large initial capital letter 'W'. 30.3 cm x 22 cm. <br/><br/>Charles best known today as the instigator/leader of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745 in his effort to restore an absolute monarchy to the United Kingdom which culminated in defeat at the Battle of Culloden essentially signaling the end of the Jacobite cause. This broadside issued at the apex of the rebellion highlights the extent of Charles' belief in his claim to the throne for in it he declares the parliament at London to lack legitimacy; next he brands traitor & rebel all who attend said parliament; and finally he declares the "pretended union of these Kingdoms now at an End." A very rare survivor of this tumultous time of British history this broadside is known in only 6 copies per ESTC none on this side of the pond. unknown books
17131394685London: Printed by John Baskett 1713-1717. First Editions. Hardcover. Folio 61-174 2179-191 6 203-206 2 211-218 2 223-270 2 275-357 3 361-362 2 367-382 2 387-422 4. In Good minus condition. Bound in full contemporary calf with banded spine and tooling to boards. Boards show moderate wear to edges moderate plus wear and bumping to corners and several gouges to the front board. Cracking to leather along joint of front board. A clear lacquer appears to have been applied to the boards. Text block has light age toning to edges. Ex-Library institutional plate appears on front paste down. Ex libris of former owner appears on front pastedown. Several ink "doodles" in an 18th-century hand appear on the front paste down and front free end page. Square-inch tear to fore-edge of front free end page. Pages tightly trimmed by binder impacting some of the printed marginal annotations. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Appears to contain two collections of public statutes passed in 1713 and 1714 but printed between 1713 and 1717 each with a closing contents page. The first collection contains Acts II - XVIII of 18 acts and the second contains Acts II - XXIII of 23 acts. The acts cover a range of topics including duties tariffs and taxes; the paying and management of military personnel and militias; and the management of churches. The most significant of the acts however is Act 15 of the second set of acts entitled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". This formally established the Commissioners of the Longitude and the reward of £20000 for "the first Author or Authors Discoverer or Discoverers of any such method ." that to the satisfaction of the committee accurately determined a ship's longitude at sea accurate to within 20 geographical miles. This reward would not be claimed until 1765 when clockmaker John Harrison developed his "time-keeper" or marine chronometer. 1394685. Special Collections. Printed by John Baskett hardcover
1767QQ0322Printed by Mark Baskett and by the assigns of Robert Baskett 1767. Original full black morocco elaborate gilt borders to boards built up with single gilt fillet geometric roll and small tools rococo floral motifs. Geometric gilt decor to board edges; floral gilt decor to turn-ins. Raised bands to spine and elaborate gilt decor in small tools flowers stars fronds etc. Some rubbing to board and spine edges and to raised bands on spine. Board corners slightly pushed in. Mild uniform sunning to boards and spine. Minor abrasion c. 1.5cm to centre rear board. All edges gilt. Thick 4to 33 x 26.5 x 10.5cm. Hinges sound. Original marbled endpapers; front endpapers cracked at gutter. With loose slip of paper with pen inscription: 'This Bible was donated to the Community of Our Lady and St John at Alton Abbey by HRM Roundell Esq . whose late wife Louise was a member of the Corrie family. February 2005'. There is indeed the signature 'Edgar Corrie' to t.p. and 6pp. inscriptions largely genealogical records of the Corrie family to front of vol. inc. blank verso to front free endpaper and t.p. in a variety of old hands some interspersed with annotations to birth or baptismal records giving dates of death. First blank front endpage has some loss at top and bottom gutter. Dates recorded range from 1748 the birth of Edgar Corrie clearly recorded after the fact to 1894 Fanny Amos the 'loving and dearly loved friend and nurse' to a succession of Corries born in the mid-nineteenth century; possibly the only individual recorded who was not a member of the Corrie family by birth or marriage. The first page of inscriptions is not a genealogical record but a selection of biblical passages and an unattributed quotation from the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian James Howell 'in the conduct of human affairs it is a rule that a good conscience hath always within doors enough to reward itself' see Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters of James Howell 1907 Vol. III p. 3. The collected inscriptions are signed 'E.C. 14th March 1799'; Corrie concludes at the bottom of the page 'I earnestly recommend the serious consideration of all the above texts & truths to each & to all of my Children' the second page of inscriptions records ten children to Corrie and his wife Ann Falkner. Edgar Corrie 1748-1819 prominent Scottish merchant in Liverpool business partner with John Gladstone father of the prime minister from 1787-1801. Corrie was a clandestine abolitionist: he wrote to Lord Hawkesbury in February 1788 with 'a long attack on the conduct of the slave trade in Liverpool' but asked that his name should be concealed from all except the Prime Minister William Pitt as it would 'cause him "irreparable prejudice" in the town if his letter became known' F. E. Sanderson “The Liverpool Abolitionists” in R. Anstey and P. E. H. Hair eds. Liverpool the African Slave Trade and Abolition 1989 pp. 215-16. No pagination. Decorated initials. Text printed in double columns. Separate dated t.p. for NT. Index to rear. The Apocrypha is listed in contents but it was issued without. Lacking the additional engraved title page mentioned by Darlow & Moule as are many other copies in ESTC & OCLC. Large paper copy considerably larger than the 24.1 x 18.8 size mentioned in Darlow & Moule. An imposing Baskett bible in handsome original binding with interesting provenance. Darlow & Moule 1180; ESTC T93100. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Very Good/Fine. c. 3000pp. 33 x 27 x 10 cm. Printed by Mark Baskett and by the assigns of Robert Baskett Hardcover
