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173934763London: Printed by T. Cooper 1739. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Disbound trimmed wraps. Approx. 7.5" x 5". 30 pages 1. Front wrap mostly detached. Pages 29 30 and the rear wrap have a small chip upper edge resulting in loss of a couple of letters. <br /> <br /> This pamphlet was published shortly before "The War of Jenkins Ear" with Spain. Contents cover trade issues in the new American colonies; sale of "Negroes"; Native Americans; European countries etc. <br /> <br /> Sabin 64143. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> The War of Jenkins' Eara was fought by Great Britain and Spain between 1739 and 1748. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea with major operations largely ended by 1742. It is considered a related conflict of the 1740 to 1748 War of the Austrian Succession. The name derives from Robert Jenkins a British sea captain whose earb was allegedly severed in April 1731 by Spanish coast guards searching his ship for contraband. In 1738 opposition politicians in the British Parliament used the incident to incite support for a war against Spain.2<br /> <br /> The most significant operation of the war was a failed British attack on Cartagena in 1741 which resulted in heavy casualties and was not repeated.3 Apart from minor actions in Spanish Florida Georgia and Havana after 1742 Britain and Spain focused their efforts on the War of the Austrian Succession in Europe. Printed by T. Cooper unknown
17506862London c.1750. Copper engraving 17 x 22 cms recent hand colour slight spotting blank verso; published in the London Magazine. Map unknown
175685444Dublin: Printed by the Executor of George Abraham Grierson Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty and Jane Grierson at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street 1756. Leather-bound. Very Good Minus. 12mo. 5 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in. Full contemporary brown leather. Corners slightly bumped. Moderate wear to extremities binding very sound. age-cracking to surface of boards. Spine leather heavily rubbed away. Chipping to bottom of spine. 7 tooled bands gilt rubbed away to 3. Edges neatly trimmed close to text. pp. 242. Contemporary or near contemporary ink inscriptions to front pastedown 13 lines. Gift of Hill Coulson to James Morewood. Ink inscription continued on to rear free endpaper 10 lines. Occasional pencil annotation throughout. Nicely laid paper lightly tanned and very clean throughout. Has not showed up at auction since 2006 and only one copy found in libraries worldwide University of Kings College. The Book of Common Prayer is an Anglican liturgical text that comprises services and prayers for important occasions in life: baptism marriage death illness and childbirth. Books of Common prayer emerged out of the English Reformation as England's break with the Catholic Church inaugurated vernacular worship. Books of common prayers enabled lay people to establish a more direct connection with God. The present copy contains ink and pencil inscriptions that attest to its use as a devotional object if not a text for deep study. Printed by the Executor of George Abraham Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and Jane Grierson, at the King unknown
17206035London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Map unknown
172435317London: Printed for A. Johnston 1724. Leather bound. Fair. 12mos. Two volumes. Volume I: 3 70 pages. Volume II: 3 pages 71-166 3 Spotted brown calf leather bindings. Raised bands and red leather title labels on the spines. The preliminary and rear end sheets removed in both volumes. Armorial book plate of Henry H. Ficken on the front paste downs. Illustrated with 190 coat of arms engravings. Outer joints are cracked volume 1. Front board detached volume 2. Edge wear to the boards and spines. Interior contents toned in places. <br /> <br /> Full title of this scarce two volume set is "Shewing I. The atchievements of all the English nobility complete i.e. their several quarterings or pretensions; being the arms of the most eminent families in Great Britain and Ireland: also their impalements &c. as well as their paternal coats crests supporters and mottos. II. Their several titles of honour whether hereditary or by great offices in the state: together with just and correct blasons of their said atchievements and reasons for many of their particular bearings &c. To which is added by way of introduction a concise essay upon the nature rise and intent of arms and armory. Shewing their progressive growth in the practice of both the ancients and moderns; together with sufficient rules and observations for attaining a perfect knowledge in that science." 10 copies of the printed version listed in OCLC 10/22. Printed for A. Johnston unknown
17506921London c.1750. Copper engraving 16 x 21 cms recent hand colour light offsetting blank verso; published in the London Magazine. Map unknown
17607652London c.1760. Copper engraving 19.5 x 20 cms recent hand colour blank verso. Map unknown
174616919Caer-Grawnt Cambridge: Joseph Bentham. Good with no dust jacket. 1746. Hardcover. Edgeworn missing clasps joints started leather cracking toned with random foxing a few pages with tattered edges corner folding owner's genealogy and signatures wear. Still solid hardcover. ; Full leather binding. Four works with separate title pages all printed by Joseph Bentham in 1746 and bound as one: 1 Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin : A gweinidogaeth y Sacramentau Book of Common Prayer: And the Ministry of the Sacraments; 2 Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan; sef Yr Hen Destament a'r Newydd The Sacred Bible; namely The Old Testament and the New; 3 Testament Newydd ein harglwydd a'n hiachawdwr Iesu Grist The New Testament of our lord and savior Jesus Christ; and 4 Llyfry Salmau : Wedi eu Cyfieithu A'u Cyfansoddi Ar Fesur Cerdd yn Gymraeg. Drwy Waith Edmund Prys Arch-diacon Meirionnydd Book of Psalms: Translated and Composed to the Measure of Music in Welsh. Through the Work of Edmund Prys Archdeacon of Meirionnydd. Contains two folding maps: 1 Teithiau Plant Israel Yn Yr Anialwch : Rhodd Wm. Iones Esqr. F R S J'r Cymru : N Hill Sculp The Children of Israel's Journeys In The Wilderness; and Teithiau yr Apostolion : Rhodd Wm Iones J'r Cymru : Nath'l Hill Sculp The Journeys of the Apostles. Nathaniel Hill was a London-based engraver and globemaker.; Unpaginated pages . Joseph Bentham hardcover
175212358<p><b>1752 WELSH Bible & Book of Common Prayer BASKETT Anglican Prys PROVENANCE</b></p><p>In the first part of the 18th-century the Baskett family began printing the Book of Common Prayer following the success of John Baskett's 1710 New Testament. This 1752 edition of the Book of Common Prayer was published by Thomas and Robert Baskett in Welsh and includes the entire Old and New Testaments of the Bible as well as a metrical psalter by Archdeacon Edmund Prys.</p><p>Item number: #12358</p><p>Price: $599</p><p>Church of England</p><p><b><i>Llyfr gweddi gyffredin a gweinidogaeth y sacramentau a chynheddfau a seremoniau eraill yr eglwys yn ol arfer Eglwys Loegr: Ynghyd a'r Sallwyr neu Salmau Dafydd Wedi eu nodi megis ag y maent i'w canu neu i'w dywedyd mewn Eglwysydd.</i></b></p><p>Llundain : Printiedig gan Tomas Bascett Printiwr I Ardderchoccaf Fawrhydi'r Brenhin ; a chan Wrthddrychiaid Rhobert Bascett. MDCCLII 1752</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>· References: Darlow & Moule 9600</p><p>o <b>Provenance</b>: Handwritten</p><p> <i>Robert Price 1776</i></p><p> <i>Elizabeth Price 1776</i></p><p> <b><i>Captain Owen Jones 1812</i></b></p><p>· Language: Welsh </p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight & secure</p><p>· Size: ~8.75in X 6in 22cm x 15cm</p><p>· Quite rare</p><p><br /></p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>12358</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Printiedig gan Tomas Bascett, Printiwr I Ardderchoccaf Fawrhydi’r Brenhin ; a chan Wrthddrychiaid Rhobert Bascett hardcover
1791910Londini London: Gulielmi Bent 1791. Second edition. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 3 7/8 x 6 inches. 12mo. Collates as: A 2 leaves B - T in 8s U 6 leaves. Printed in two column Roman type. Pages clean. Marbled endpapers. Bound in contemporary full maroon morocco with gilt borders and central starburst emblems. Spine with five compartments each with a gilt emblem separated by gilt rules. Corners rounded and front cover lightly scuffed. Griffiths 87:23 A wonderful copy of the Anglican BCP in Latin revised by Edward Harwood a classical scholar and Presbyterian minister in a very nice contemporary binding. Gulielmi Bent unknown
1744157485London: Typis G. Bowyer et al 1744. Editeo sexta prioribus longe emendatior. Hardcover. Good. Unpaginated. 18 cm. Engraved frontipiece. Full leather in mylar wrap removed for photo. Corners worn hinges cracking. Spine is cracked and has no labels. Bookplate on front pastedown ink inscriptions on both free endpapers rear states Tho. Ryley 1764. Small tear in top corner of front free endpaper. <br/><br/>Title continues "Itémque Forma et Modus Creandi Ordinandi et Consecrandi Episcopos Presbyteros et Diaconos. Epistolae Evangelia et Psalmi Inseruntur juxta Sebastiani Castellionis Versionem." Latin text in two columns. Typis G. Bowyer, et al hardcover
179534198London: Printed for H. D. Symonds 1795. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps 8" x 5". 2 52 pages. Half title page is present. Light scattered foxing to the contents. Pamphlet concerns war with France. Printed for H. D. Symonds unknown
1788248223A Londres : chez J. Nourse & P. Elmsly dans le Strand. 1788. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy with wear tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Edition; Nouvelle edition revue et corrigée. Physical description; xlix i.e.li 1 438 2 p. ; 16 cm. Subjects; Church of England — Liturgy — Texts — Early works to 1800. Anglican Communion — England — Liturgy — Texts. Prayer-books. Genres; Liturgical books - England - 18th century. Presentation copies Provenance - England - 19th century. Psalters - England - 18th century. A Londres : chez J. Nourse & P. Elmsly, dans le Strand. hardcover
179739386Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1797. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. Self wrappers stitched. Spotting some stitching lacking stitch marks short marginal tears or chipping a few repairs to first page else very good. Second edition. 48 pages including self-wrappers woodcut decorations. 1 vols. 12mo. With Roads to the Principal Towns and Inns with innkeeper's names on the last three pages. On the back page is a short advertisement from Isaiah Thomas for a "Very large Collection of Books in the various Branches of Polite Literature" Evans 32920; Drake. "Almanacs" 3586 Isaiah Thomas unknown
17395864London 1739. Copper engraving 32.5 x 20 cms recent hand-colour from one of the editions printed by Bowles with locally discovered Saxon coins in the margins. Map unknown
1717284581London: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall 1717. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Good binding. One of Defoe’s infamous pamphlets published under his second period of employment by the British government as a literary fifth columnist. Defoe would publish political or current event pamphlets either anonymously or posing as a Whig Tory Jacobite whom he said “my very soul abhors†DNB 738 or even a repentant double agent all while writing revolutionary works that lacked their bite incendiary news which proved incorrect or polemical pieces with unsound arguments. In short he worked a a pamphleteering agent of chaos all in the service of the government pacifying their erstwhile opponents. Defoe was seen as a renegade traitor and spy by a number of his contemporaries: “the little art he is truly a master of of forging a story and imposing it on the world.†DNB 737. Mercurius Politicus was published in the years shortly before his fantastical Robinson Crusoe. The periodical ran from May 1716 to December 1720. This being the April 1717 issue. With “An Account of the Spaniards taking Twelve English Ships in the Bay of Campechy sic never printed before†as well as new appointments for the Bank and the East-India Company and updates on the Jacobite situation in Scotland. Sewn pamphlet lacking original paper wrappers. 211-273 pp. An ex-library copy with a punch-stamp dampstain and writing on the title page not affecting the text; library stamp on the verso of the title page. ESTC P2105. DNB V 737-738. Good binding. Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall unknown
172133322London: Printed for D. Browne J. Walthoe J. Knapton B. Knaplock et. al. 1721. 8 volumes. First Complete and Best Published Edition. With and engraved frontispiece of the author to Vol. I and Dedication to Richard Cromwell Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging. Folio very handsomely bound in contemporary paneled calf the spines with raised bands separating the compartments panels within the compartments fully gilt with elaborate corner tooling and central ornamental devices two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco lettering labels the covers with double fillet rules at the borders surrounding a central panel tooled with fillet lines enclosing a roll tooled framework and a central panel of mottled calf original plain paper endleaves. Vol. I with index and subscribers list. Vol. II The Second Part Containing the Principal Matters Which Happened from the Dissolution of the Parliament.Until the Summoning of Another Parliament which met at Westminster April 13 1640. Vol. III The Second Volume of The Second Part Containing the Principal Matters Which happened From March 26 1639 until.April 13 1640. Vol. IV The Third Part.Containing the Principal Matters Which happened from the Meeting of the Parliament November the 3d 1640 To the End of the Year 1644 Wherein is a particular Account of the Rise and Progress of the Civil War to that Period.Vol. V The Second Volume of The Third.Vol. VI The Fourth and Last Part in Two Volumes. Volume the First. Containing the Principal Matters Which Happen'd From the Beginning of the Year 1645 to the Death of Kng Charles the First 1648. Wherein is a Particular Account of the Progress of the Civil War to that Period. Vol. VII The Fourth and Last Part. Vol. VIII The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Upon an Impeachment of High Treason by The Commons then Assembled in Parliament in the Name of Themselves and of the All the Commons of Englan: Begun in Westminster-Hall the 22th of March 1640. And Continued.until the 10th May 1641. Shewing the Form of Parliamentary Proceedings in an Impeachment of Treeason To which is Added A shor Account of some other Matters of Fact.With some Special Arguments in Law. A very handsome set in remarkably preserved and original binding some hinges expertly refurbished three covers detached clean internally but for the usual browning to some leaves due to paper stock used in the printing a large wide margined copy of this important work. FIRST COMPLETE AND BEST EDITION. John Rushworth born c. 1612 died May 12 1690 was the English historian whose Historical Collections of Private Passages of State 7 vol. 1659–1701; 8 vol. 1721 covering the period from 1618 to 1649 continues to be a valuable source of information on events leading up to and during the English Civil Wars.<br> Rushworth studied law and in 1638 was made solicitor to the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He was enrolled at Lincoln’s Inn in 1640 and called to the bar in 1647. Rushworth was more interested in politics than in law and during the intermission of parliaments 1629–40 he attended and made shorthand notes of all important political and judicial proceedings heard before the Star Chamber the court of honour and the king and council. In 1640–42 he was assistant clerk to the House of Commons and after the outbreak of war he acted as a messenger between Parliament and its committees at Oxford and York. He himself published a number of the newssheets that preceded the establishment of regular newspapers—e.g. the daily London Post 1644–45; 1646–47 the Kingdomes Weekly Post 1643–1644—and also the parliamentary pamphlets opposed to the Royalist Mercurius Aulicus.<br> Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 Rushworth became personal secretary to Oliver Cromwell. He began drafting plans for the abolition of the monarchy and the House of Lords and the establishment of an English Republic under the leadership of Cromwell. As secretary 1645–50 to Sir Thomas Fairfax general of the New Model Army Rushworth had considerable importance and thereafter he was employed by the council of state and Parliament. When Cromwell became Lord Protector in 1653 Rushworth was promoted to Registrar of the Court of Admiralty. In 1657 he was elected Member of Parliament for Berwick in the Second Protectorate Parliament. As a member of the Cromwellian government he enjoyed the friendships of John Milton who served Cromwell as the official State Censor; John Owen; John Bunyan and many other well known people of that period. When Oliver Cromwell died on 3 September 1658 his son Richard Cromwell became Lord Protector.<br> At the Restoration Rushworth made peace with Charles II and although called to give information on the activities of the regicides was not himself implicated. In 1667 he became secretary to the lord keeper and later agent to the colony of Massachusetts. Despite his many emoluments and an inherited estate he fell into poverty and spent his last years in a lodging in the King’s Bench prison Southwark where he died.<br> Rushworth’s Historical Collections was compiled from his own notes and from printed material with the avowed intention of making it possible for a true history to be written of events that in pamphlets and news sheets dating from the period before the control of the press were liable to misrepresentation. It is most useful for its eyewitness accounts of the Earl of Strafford’s trial the Battle of Naseby and the parliamentary campaigns of 1644–45 and for its transmission of contemporary comment.<br> While Rushworth was remembered as a person his writings found favour in America where they served as a source of inspiration for Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson bought a copy of Rushworth's Historical Collections for use in his own library and he often quoted from them. Rushworth was a contemporary of John Lilburne whose writings had a profound impact on the history of the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. Although his senior he also shared much in common with Oliver Cromwell born 1599 because they were evangelical Christians who believed that the Church of England should undergo a total reformation contrary to the wishes of King Charles I. His views of Charles I as a king who had declared war on his own people were later echoed in words by Thomas Jefferson and others when writing about the reign of George III in the Declaration of Independence. Britannica. Wiki Printed for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Knapton, B. Knaplock et. al.... hardcover
1746LD8053Madrid: por Antonio Marin 1746. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 150 x 95mm. 16 269pp. Signatures: p8; A-R8. Engraved head- and tail-pieces initials. Text in Spanish translated from the French. 18th-century Spanish vellum ms. title to spine Jacobo 2o; lacking ties but internally clean and bright. <br/><br/>Spanish imprint of the biography of James II of England published during the last of the Jacobite uprisings. Forced out of power in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and defeated in the subsequent battle of the Boyne by William of Orange the short reign of James II has an importance that reaches far beyond his three years in power. He died in 1701 in exile at the Palace of St. Germain in France and remains to be one of the most complex and intriguing persons of history. An ardent Roman Catholic his efforts to return England to the Catholic faith continue to resonate to this day in Northern Ireland. The Jacobite uprisings were a series of rebellions and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring from 1688 to 1746. The aim of the later uprisings was to return the House of Stuart and the descendants of James II to the throne of Great Britain after being deposed by Parliament during the Glorious Revolution. This biography of James II was printed in the last year of the major Jacobite uprising known as the The Forty Five. It was an intense time to show partisanship and effectively Jacobitism ended here as a serious political force in Britain. Not commonly found in such good original condition. por Antonio Marin hardcover
17506916London c.1750. Copper engraving 18 x 22.5 cms recent hand colour blank verso; published in the London Magazine. Map unknown
17306726London c. 1730. Copper engraving 19.5 x 31.3 cms recent hand-colour antiquities British coins in the margins blank verso. Herman Moll c. 1654-1732 was both map engraver and publisher one of the most prolific and significant map-makers working in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-centuries. He is now known to have been of German rather than Dutch origin and he came to London at some point in the 1670s initially working with established figures such as Moses Pitt. Map unknown
17206065London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Map unknown
1778ABC_455321778. Sewn with two small chords in the left upper and bottom corner. Folio. First draft of an autograph manuscript in French with erasures and corrections probably written by a diplomat or strategist concerning the causes of Britains defeat of France in India during the Seven Years War 1756-1763 and analysing different ways to restore France to power on Indian soil by an alliance with the sultan Haider Ali Khan 1722-1782 who ruled Mysore and a large part of southern India and was one of the greatest enemies of the British East India Company. According to the unidentified diplomat who wrote this text Haider Ali Khan was the only one who was able to defeat the British or challenge their supremacy in India. In this manuscript he describes the best strategy not only to join Haider Ali Khan but also to negotiate with the British people on profitable Indian trade for both parties.Slightly worn and frayed around the edges first page slightly dust-soiled but still an interesting autograph manuscript in good condition. unknown
17206061London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Map unknown
17877138London c. 1787. Copper engraving 22 x 28 cms original hand-colour blank verso. Characteristically clear and elegant map by one of the leading cartographic engravers publishers and globe-makers of the period perhaps best known for his English county atlases. Map unknown
17506917London c.1750. Copper engraving 19 x 18.5 cms recent hand colour blank verso; published in the London Magazine. Map unknown
