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1790NS0211Paris Buisson 1790. Report presented by Jean Philippe Gárran de Coulon one of the committee members. Martin & Walter 2:14304. Hard Cover. 52 151 pages; 20.5 cm. VG contemporary half-leather binding worn. Stock#NS0211. Buisson. hardcover
17182514The Hague: C. Fritsch 1718. Very good. 8vo. xliv 728 2 pp. text lightly foxed. Collation: a-b⸠cⶠA-2Y⸠2Zⶠ-2Z6 a blank as per the Emory Pitts copy. Bound in 18th-century red morocco boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle spine elaborately gilt with raised bands morocco label a.e.g. spine and extremities somewhat rubbed. Bookplate of the Washington Cathedral Library inside upper cover. Title-page trimmed at top removing the name of an early owner and backed with later paper. Preserved in a protective cloth case. AN ENIGMATIC BINDING AT ONE TIME ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT AITKEN OF PHILADELPHIA THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDERS. CERTAINLY IT SHARES THE EXTREMELY DISTINCTIVE SPINE TOOL WITH THE NYPL-LENOX COPY OF AITKEN'S 1782 BIBLE WHICH WE EXAMINED PERSONALLY AND YET THE DENTELLE TOOLS ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE EMPLOYED BY RICHARD MONTAGU FOR THOMAS HOLLIS. <br /> <br /> This is the first complete German edition of the Book of Common Prayer including the Lections and Ordinals. It was probably translated into German by J.J. Caesar chaplain to King Frederick I of Prussia who had attempted to united the Lutheran and Reformed churches of Germany into a single episcopal church in communion with the Church of England.<br /> <br /> Published in 1718 our binding belongs certainly to the latter half of the 18th-century; it is therefore this book's second binding. The spine label reads "Prayer Book" and not "Gebet-Buch" and thus it was bound either in America or England and not in Germany or The Netherlands. Based on tool identification our binding may have been made in the same workshop as that which bound the Lenox-NYPL 1782 Aitken Bible. In 1902 the NYPL binding was attributed Aitken's own shop William Loring Andrews Bibliopegy in the United States p. 59 with a poor reproduction on plate XIV. Whereas the Lenox copy is by comparison relatively plain it shares with ours the unmistakable deformed bird / floral ornament in the spine compartments. The repeated tools on the covers have so far resisted identification despite extensive searching over a period of several years through innumerable reference works on early American and British bookbinding printed and online. Concerning the former there is a very serious lack of published scholarship and so we set our sights on the largest collection of unpublished notes on American bookbinding in the world namely Willman Spawn's gargantuan hopelessly disorganized archive of rubbings and files at the American Philosophical Society. We proceeded through Box 28 and yet more than 100 boxes remain to be explored. Whatever his nationality our binder was inspired by the work of Richard Montagu specifically his work for Thomas Hollis ca. 1758-1761 see Howard Nixon's Five Hundred Years of English Bookbinding nos. 68 and 69 although the tools are NOT identical to ours. <br /> <br /> According to a typed note from the American Cathedral Library where the present volume resided for at least 60 years until it was purchased by William Reese it was bound possibly for presentation to William White 1748-1836 the first Bishop of Philadelphia. On this card the identity of the binder is confidently assigned to Robert Aitken himself. Whether or not the binding originated from Aitken's shop or if indeed it is even American there can be no doubt that it was in Philadelphia at a very early date and its provenance is unbroken since that time see below. Certainly William White would have had need for a German language Book of Common Prayer to administer to his already significant German-speaking congregation. White knew well his Philadelphia neighbor Robert Aitken and as one of the Chaplains of the Congress of the United States he examined Aitken's Bible when it was in 1782. White was also the first President of the first Bible Society in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1808. <br /> <br /> That Aitken printed and published the 1782 Bible does not automatically imply that he was the binder of the Lenox-NYPL copy or any others but the names of several of his former employees are known including James Muir who remained in Philadelphia and William Andrews who relocated to Boston. Another copy of the 1782 Aitken Bible remains unstudied namely that in the John Carter Brown Library which features a similarly decorated spine. <br /> <br /> Our binding was no doubt an expensive commission; that the tooling on it has remained so fresh is perhaps due to a paper or fabric covering that seems to have once surrounded it: inside the boards are traces of adhesive near the gutter margins at the top and bottom precisely where a covering would have been attached. <br /> <br /> Of this first edition of the German Language Book of Common Prayer there are copies at Huntington Lancaster Theological Seminary Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity United Lutheran Seminary Philadelphia and Emory. <br /> <br /> ¶ PROVENANCE: William White Bishop of Philadelphia -- old presentation inscription excised from title-page no doubt written in English in the 18th century with one remaining word clearly visible: "To" -- Suffrage Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania Samuel Bowman 1800-1861 -- by descent to his daughter Ellen Ledlie Bowman married Thomas Hubbard Vail Episcopal Bishop of Kansas -- by descent to their daughter Kellen Sitrgreaves Vail Motter 1870-1952 -- donated to the National Cathedral Library of Washington DC -- purchased by William Reese who sold it to us on behalf of a private collector -- bought back by us in 2023. <br /> <br /> For an account of Robert Aitken's bindery see Willman and Carol Spawn's "The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth Century Bindery and its Tools" in: PBSA LVII 1963 pp. 422-437 although the title is misleading as the images are unnecessarily few in number ditto Willman Spawn's "Extra-Gilt Bindings of Robert Aitken 1787-88" in: Proceedings of the AAS pp. 415-417. The dentelle tools on the covers of our binding appear to be reproduced here for the first time. C. Fritsch unknown
17795161551779 16 pages in8. 1779. Broché. 16 pages. Petite brochure en vieux français pas de couverture ni reliure seulement 8 double feuillets pas même attachés. Une signature en haut du premier feuillet a l'encre ancienne . La date indiquée est celle de la "signature" en fin d'ouvrage pour donner une idée de la datation. Quelques rousseurs et marques sur les feuilles externes intérieur plutôt bien conservé . Prix à débattre je n'ai pas la moindre idée de la valeur de cette brochure
17134037Londini: Apud R. J. Bonwicke and five others 1713. 1713 12mo in 6s. 36 184 150 p. Collates unsigned2 A6 a - b6 B - Q6 R2 unsigned1 Aa - Mm6 Nn2. Engraved frontispiece as Griffiths 87/16. The Psalms are in the 1716 reprint with Atkins name removed from the imprint of the part title. The substitution of the 1716 sheets means that the catchword on R2v is incorrect. Griffiths describes this edition as 16mo but it is in 6s with horizontal chainlines. Bound in contemporary black morocco rubbed but sound. Sides tooled in triple panels with corner tools. Spine gilt in panels between raised bands. All edges gilt. Name torn from blank endpaper and an inscription deleted . A few old shorthand notes. A sound copy. Londini: Apud R. J. Bonwicke, [and five others], hardcover
1793SPN-574Paris : Imprimerie de la Veuve d'Antoine-Joseph Gorsas (Rue Neuve des Petits Champs, au coin de celle de la Loi, N°741), s.d. [1793], document original. Petit opuscule de 5 pages, sous couverture d'attente manuscrite, présentant la Liste des députés proscrits, avec la désignation de leurs départements, les Noms des membres proscrits de la Commission des XII, les Noms de ceux qui étaient proscrits et qui ont été retirés des précédentes listes + Notice sur Antoine-Joseph Gorsas, auteur du Courrier des Départements, et député du Département de Seine-et-Oise, à la Convention Nationale.
179928701CADEN 1799 un papier, manuscrit à l'encre brune de 4 pages, sur papier vergé ligné bleuté filigrané , format : 25 x 19 cm, cachet fiscal en noir en haut de 1ère page : "REP. FRA. - 25 cent", signé de 3 signatures des membres du conseil en bas de la 3ème page : LETTRE DU CONSEIL DE LA COMMUNE DE CADEN, SUITE AU JUGEMENT RENDU PAR LE TRIBUNAL CIVIL DE VANNES DU 9 FRIMAIRE AN 7 (29 Novembre 1798), CONDAMNANT LES COMMUNES DE RIEUX, CADEN ET ALLAIRE DES DOMMAGES ET INTERETS ET AMENDES SUITE A L'ASSASSINAT DE TROIS PERSONNES LORS DE RASSEMBLEMENTS DANS LES DITES COMMUNES, DANS LA NUIT DU 21 AU 22 BRUMAIRE AN 7(11 et 12 Novembre 1798), LE CONSEIL ESTIME QUE L'INDIVIDU DE LA COMMUNE DE CADEN, SOUPCONNE D'AVOIR FAIT PARTIE DE CE RASSEMBLEMENT N'Y ETAIT PAS, DONC LA COMMUNE ESTIME QU'ELLE N'A PAS A PAYER LES DOMMAGES INTERETS ET LES AMENDES, DELIBERE A VANNES, LE 14 NIVOSE AN 7 (3 Janvier 1799)
177128799LANMEUR 1771 un double feuillet (document authentique) de 4 pages avec en-tête préimprimé en noir et manuscrite à l'encre brune, sur papier ligné et filigrané : "GAUDIN", format : 20,5 centimètres de large x 26 centimètres de haut, , signature du Maire : BUTTON, LETTRE DE VOEUX POUR LA NOUVELLE ANNEE ECRITE PAR LE MAIRE DE LA COMMUNE D' ARS, ILE DE RE : MR BUTTON A MR Jean-Louis ADMYRAULD, PREFET DE LA CHARENTE- INFERIEURE A LA ROCHELLE, ARS, LE 2 JANVIER 1834,
179121263"Messieurs, le soussigné à l'honeur de vous représenter qu'ayant été nomé jugé de paix du canton de Montpézat, à la pluralité de trois cent trente-trois voix - sur cinq cent trente six, il a la douleur de voir que, par des opositions déguisées, il est dans l'impossibilité de remplir ses fonctions & de s'acquiter envers le public des devoirs que sa charge lui impose. Quelques habitants de Montpézat dont les motifs ne sont peut-être pas tout à fait désintéressés, ont formé la prétention de m'obliger à aller prêter serment devant le Conseil Général de la Comune du chef lieu du Canton, & de m'assujetier à doner trois jours de la semaine des Audiences réglées dans leur ci-devant Parquet ; et pour réussir dans leur projet, ils ont engagé Me Martine de Bonefon, Président de l'Assemblée à empêcher le Secrétaire de prendre l'extrait du procès verbal qui doit m'être remis pour l'envoyer au greffe du Tribunal du District." etc etc. , soit une lettre manuscrite de 8 pp. au format in-4, On joint : Extrait de la délibération prise par le Conseil Municipal de la Commune de Tonneins La Montagne dans la séance du 9me Pluviose, 3me Année de la République, concernant une pétition présentée par "Blavignac Père à l'adresse du district, et renvoyée à la municipalité pour avoir son avis, la dite pétition tendante à se plaindre de ce que sur la réquisition des fourrages faite en vert du 9 Nivose, le dit Blavignac est porté pour 40 quintaux"...
171771427Oxford: imprimé par Jean Baskett imprimeur du Roi 1717. A pretty bilingual Book of Common Prayer An attractive early Georgian binding for this bilingual BCP. "A reissue of the French-English 1717 'Book of common prayer' with a new title page and preliminaries in French added before the original parallel French and English title pages and slight resetting by removal of ornaments in the direction lines" ESTC. In this copy the French title appears first followed by the French prelims and the English title precedes the text. Octavo 195 x 120 mm. Ruled in red throughout; double columns parallel English and French text. Contemporary black morocco spine divided in six compartments by raised bands compartments divided saltire-wise with dotted rules with tulip-head tools and dots sides gilt with a central lozenge built up of massed tools enclosed by an outer lozenge of rolls and flower-heads cornerpieces outer French fillet in gilt turn-ins gilt with floral roll comb-marbled endpapers gilt edges. An attractive copy with a little expert furbishment repairs to head and joints corners consolidated gilt retouched internally clean. A very good royal-ruled copy. hardcover
1786151130Montreal 1786-8. Very good. 7 handwritten documents and one printed document with written insertions. Folds staining chips. <br /> <br />1 Printed broadside dated April 1 and April 21 1786 and July 3 1786 with particulars of case written on recto and written text about judgment on verso. Signed by Edward Southouse as judge Edward William Gray as sheriff and T. Walker. Seal on top left corner. Folds. Stains at edges. <br /> <br />2-4 3 Documents attached two written in French. One French document signed by Languinet and the other dated August 27 1788 signed by Corbin. The latter notes receipt of 13 Louis 17 chelins 10 sols from M. Cairns. Document in English signed by Southouse and J. Beeke clerk April 25 1786. Verso dated January 8 1788. Some splitting. Small piece missing at side with no loss of text. <br /> <br />5 Reasons for Jannet McKay's opposition filed 1787. 8 p. Financial statement of the McKay estate signed by A. Davidson July 9 1787. <br /> <br />6-7 2 p. petition to have debtor appear in court. Signed by Walker for the plaintiff and John Fraser as judge March 20 1786. Affixed to this document is a note in French about the place of residene of Alexander McKay and John Davey signed by Jn Rival March 22 1786. <br /> <br />8 2 p. judgment by Southouse May 16 1786. <br/><br/>Judgement in favour of Antrobus for sum of £224 5s 9p plus £8 13s 2p and 5s for the writ. See article from the Quebec Gazette May 18 1786. <br /> <br />Antrobus is probably the merchant and office holder of this name in Trois Rivieres. Baptised July 6 1756 in Cockermouth Cumberland married on March 29 1787 in Trois Rivieres to Catherine Cuthbert died May 8 1820 and is buried in Trois Rivieres. He first appears in Quebec Cty in the 1780s as a grocer engaged in a sizable retail trade and engaged in provisioning fisheries and the West Indies. He and other merchants sent flour bread oats and biscuit to Newfoundland and imported fish seal oil and seal skins. One of the best-known merchants in the colony he was prosperous enough to buy land. unknown
1764WRCLIT65827Londres but possibly Amsterdam: Chez P. Vaillant & J. Nourse dans le Strand 1764. xlix1438pp. plus frontis and fifty-one inserted engraved plates. 12mo. Full contemporary olive green morocco raised bands compartments gilt with cross- hatching covers with rolled leaf and flower borders surrounding a central compass-like device of leaves stems and buds a.e.g. marbled endsheets. Text leaves adjacent to inserted plates somewhat foxed foretips bumped otherwise a very good copy. One of two impressions of 1764 under Vaillant's imprint that ESTC suggests might have been printed in Amsterdam the other without Nourse's co-imprint. The first Vaillant edition cited by Griffiths is dated 1748 with editions dated 1776 1778 1780 and 1788 following. This copy has been extra- illustrated with the suite of appropriate engravings by G.L. Smith published in London in 1773 by William Dawson Pater-noster Row evidently just for this purpose the plate utilized here for the frontis bears a caption and Dawson's dated imprint. ESTC locates only four copies with this dual imprint and ten with Vaillant's name alone. GRIFFITHS 36:25. ESTC 142212. Chez P. Vaillant & J. Nourse dans le Strand hardcover books
1707WRCLIT65772London: Impresso por G. Bowyer Acosta de Fran. Coggan . 1707. 456pp. A8; b8; B-2D8; 2E4. Octavo. Old paneled calf gilt label. Upper joint cracked but cords sound shallow losses at crown and toe of spine front free endsheets detached one with early ink name small tidemark with red tinge at toe of gutter of last third of textblock modest tanning and foxing otherwise a good copy. The second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Spanish printing a revised translation by Felix Anthony de Alvorado the minister to a congregation of Spanish merchants in London. Darlow & Moule suggest the translation was not so much a new undertaking as a simple revision and updating of Texeda's translation. It was reprinted with corrections in 1715. ESTC locates seven copies in North America. GRIFFITHS 162.2. ESTC T140403. DARLOW & MOULE II:8482n. Impresso por G. Bowyer, Acosta de Fran. Coggan ... unknown books
1722188331722 Broché - 17 x 22- 157 pp - année 2009 - Editions Aéropage 2ème édition - illustrations -
1726AQ31788London: Printed by George James Printer to the Honourable City of London 1726. Single leaf broadside. Somewhat marked with some creasing and tearing to extremities especially at horizontal folds. A rare survival of an early eighteenth-century broadside reprinting - ordered to be distributed within the capital by the Common Council of the City of London Corporation - of two specific English laws applying severe penalties to negligent careless and criminal servants. The vast majority of the Common Council of the City of London Corporation were issued either in folio or as here broadside format. As the preamble states the intention of this was so that this legal reminder could be be 'sent into the several Wards' of London 'and by the Beadles delivered to every House-keeper that all Servants may be acquainted with the same and know the Penalties therein contain'd'. The two specific laws highlighted are 'the Clause relating to Servants in a late Act of Parliament passed in the Sixth Year of Queen Anne.Entituled An Act for the better Preventing Mischiefs that may happen by Fire' and 'also another Clause relating to Servants.Entituled An Act for the more effectual Preventing and Punishing of Robberies that shall be committed in Houses'. The first as the broadside shows made the provision for the forfeiture of 'One hundred Pounds unto the Church-Wardens of such Parish where such Fire shall happen to be distributed amongst the Sufferers by such Fire' by any 'Servant or Servants' who 'thought Negligence or Carelessness shall fire or cause to be fired any Dwelling-House or Out-House or Houses'. The second barred 'all and every Person or Persons that shall be at any time from and after the First Day of July in the Year 1713 feloniously steal any Money Goods or Chattels Wares or Merchandizes of the Value of Forty Shillings or more.shall by Virtue of this Act be abolutely debarr'd of and from the Benefit of Clergy'. ESTC locates copies at just three British libraries BL Guildhall Museum of London and just two elsewhere Harvard and Kansas. ESTC T40013. Dimensions 308 x 390 mm. Printed by George James, Printer to the Honourable City of London unknown
179828699ambrières 1798 une lettre manuscrite à l'encre brune de 4 pages, sur papier vergé ligné crème filigrané "à la fleur de Lys" , format : 30 x 22 cm, timbre fiscal gravé en noir en haut de 1ère page : "Rep. Franc. 75 cts" + deux timbres "MINUTE" gravés en noir + un timbre "MINUTE" gravé en rouge + TIMBRE CANTON D'AMBRIERE gravé en noir en bas de 1ère page à gauche, lettre signée signé en bas de la 4ème page : BERNARD PACORY, LE 1 BRUMAIRE AN 7, EXPOSE DU CITOYEN BERNARD PACORY, MEUNIER AU MOULIN DE TORCE, COMMUNE DE LIGNE, DU 21 BRUMAIRE AN 7 (11 Novembre 1798), DEVANT LES CITOYENS ADMINISTRATEURS COMPOSANT L'ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPALE DU CANTON D'AMBRIERE : A PROPOS DE SA FILLE AINEE, EMPRISONNEE EN LA MAISON D'ARRET DE MAYENNE PAR DES MOTIFS IMAGINAIRES , POUR CRIMES SUPPOSES ET NON REELS DEPUIS PLUS DE 2 MOIS, DEMANDE SA MISE EN LIBERTE ET UN CERTIFICAT DE VIE ET DE MOEURS QUI LUI EST ACCORDEE, LE 6 FRIMAIRE AN 7 (26 Novembre 1798) + une lettre a en-tête imprimée en noir et manuscrite à l'encre brune sur papier vergé bleuté ligné, format : 20,5 x 18 cm : LETTRE DE L'AGENT ET LE COMMISSAIRE DE L'ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPALE DE LASSAY DU 19 VENDEMIAIRE AN 7 (10 OCTOBRE1798) adressée aux Citoyens administrateurs du Departement de la Mayenne : RELATIVE A L'EX CHOUAN JACQUES RAIMBAULT ET A LA FILLE PACORY DU MOULIN DE TORCE : PENDANT LA GUERRE CHOUANNIQUE, CERTAINS DISENT QU'ELLE ETAIT UNE ESPIONNE DANGEREUSE EN MÊME TEMPS QU'ELLE APPROVISIONNAIT LA BANDE SCELERATE ET LUI DESIGNAIT DES VICTIMES, lettre signée à l'encre brune : Perrier fils et Raimbault , Agent et Commissaire de l'Administration Municipale de LASSAY, (on apprend aussi dans cette lettre que l'ex chouan Jacques Raimbault est mal vu dans la commune de Montreuil)
17651309130004H. Woodfall and W. Strahan for T. Osborn 1765-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Volume Three of Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the reigns of . King William Queen Anne King George the First King George the Second Folio 32 cm. Contemporary leather binding. Board worn and soiled. Binding poor. 542 p. Published as v. 3 of the Lord Raymond's Reports of cases. H. Woodfall and W. Strahan for T. Osborn hardcover
179128618nantes 1791 1 document original de 6 pages brochées, pré- imprimées en noir et manuscrites à l'encre brune sur papier vergé crème, ligné et filigrané "cornet de chasse avec courroie simple en pendentif surmonté d'une couronne royale", format : 35 x 22,5 cm, orné d'un timbre fiscal en noir :"a l'extraordinaire - expedition - département de la loire-inférieure", Département de la Loire-Inférieure - District de Nantes : Adjudication des Biens Nationaux N°1201, Vente à la Bougie de Terres situées à la Gagnerie près l'Auneau, Commune de Ste LUCE (Loire-Inférieure), Adjugé au Sieur GRIHAULT DE LA MOTTE pour la somme de 10 Louis, 150 Livres, Fait à Nantes, le 3 Juin 1791, cachet de cire du District de Nantesn et signature manuscrite du receveur du District de Nantes : VALLIN Ainé,
1770174711770 un fort volume, reliure plein veau havane raciné in-quarto (binding full calfskin in-quarto) (20,5 x 25,6 cm), dos 5 nerfs (spine with 5 raised bands) - entre-nerfs à encadrements à double filets or avec fleuron au fer plein or et rinceaux aux angles avec des petits fers en remplissage (between the raised bands double gilt lines - floweret with hollowed out blocking stamp - with foliages executed in the curved lines in angles - with small blocking stamp in filling) - pièce de titre comportant le titre abrégé de l'ouvrage sur fond beige avec double filets or (garnet label of the title with the title abbreviated by the work with gilt line), rinceaux en tête et en pied (top and at the foot of spine with foliages carried out with the curved line), double filets sur les coupes (double gilt line on the cuts), toutes tranches jaspées bleues (all blue marbled edges), sans illustrations excepté des fronts de chapitre gravés sur bois en noir, des lettrines et culs-de-lampes gravées sur bois en noir et une vignette aux armes royales gravée sur bois en noir au bas de la page de titre, légers trous de ver sur 1/4 de cm dans la marge sans conséquence pour la compréhension du texte des trois dernières pages de table, XXII (2 ff) 403 et 268 pp et( 1 ff.) avec Approbation & Privilège du Roi, 1770 A Toulouse, chez Dupleix et Laporte, libraires Editeurs,
17151067831715. London: printed by John Baskett and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1715. <br /> <br /> Folio 380 23 3 pp. unpaginated text ends on Aaa4 as per ESTC. Engraved frontispiece by Loggan after Caspars. Title-page printed in red and black ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco covers tooled in gilt with a wide scrolled border central gilt block of the arms of the Duke of Chandos backstrip richly gilt gilt edges a lovely binding of the period in the style of Mearne skillfully restored at head and foot and along joints. Armorial bookplate of John van Hatten.<br /> <br /> § Lovely prayer book bound for James Brydges 1st Duke of Chandos 1674-1744. It once rested on an embroidered cushion in the Duke and Duchess's private pew in his magnificent chapel at Cannons described by the architect Gibbs as "the finest in England." The centerpiece of the elaborately-tooled binding is the Duke's gilt arms supported by two otters beneath a ducal coronet. Four other bindings with the block are recorded by the British Armorial Bindings database. Full description and provenance available on request. ESTC T81463. unknown
17231197771723. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. London: John Baskett and the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills 1723. Tall folio 10-1/2 by 16 inches contemporary full mottled calf expertly rebacked with original spine neatly laid down corners and spine panels with gilt device of the crown of King George I raised bands renewed endpapers all edges gilt. $8250.Beautiful early 18th-century tall folio edition of the venerable Book of Common Prayer the treasury of ritual prayer and Scripture that has indelibly shaped the piety and literature of the English-speaking worldwith fine engraved frontispiece handsome in nicely restored contemporary calf featuring the gilt device of King George I in the corners and spine panels.Born of Thomas Cranmer's desire for liturgical texts upon which all of Europe's Protestant English-speaking churches could agree the beautiful and dignified language of the Book of Common Prayer first issued in 1549 has considerably influenced not only ecclesiastical practice but also literature in English. ""The language of the Prayer Book is now part of the whole language and as a source of spiritual inspiration it is for most Englishmen second only to the Bible"" PMM 75. This 1723 London edition is handsomely bound in full mottled calf with King George I's gilt monogram cipher in each corner of the boards as well as in each spine panel. Ornamented with fine engraved frontispiece dated 1710 decorative headpieces and woodcut initials. Griffiths 1723:1. A few ink corrections and marginal annotations.A few short wormtraces; text clean. Evidence of cloth ties corners expertly restored. A very handsome volume. hardcover
17541216301754. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University by whom they are sold and by Benj. Dod in London 1760. Tall folio 10-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches full contemporary dark green morocco rebacked with elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down with crowned monogram of George II in compartments covers with elaborately gilt-tooled borders and gilt centerpiece featuring the arms of King George II raised bands later marbled endpapers evidence of silk ties. $7500.Splendid folio Cambridge edition of the Book of Common Prayer in a beautiful armorial George II binding with broad gilt-tooled borders elaborate royal cypher in spine panels and splendid gilt centerpiece on each cover featuring the arms of King George II and text hand-ruled in red throughout.Born of Thomas Cranmer's desire for liturgical texts upon which all of Europe's Protestant English-speaking churches could agree the Book of Common Prayer first issued in 1549 with its magisterial liturgical language is ""as a source of spiritual inspiration for most Englishmen second only to the Bible"" PMM 75. This finely printed Cambridge editionset in large type with wide margins and hand-ruled in red throughoutboasts an impressive royal binding bearing the gilt monogram and crown device of King George II in the spine compartments and his gilt embossed armorial design on both boards within an ornate floral border. Griffiths 1754:1. Owner ink signature.Some faint foxing a very few leaves with light edge-wear. Expert restoration to lovely royal binding. hardcover
1786301631Wien, Mößle, 1786. (Nachdruck). Ttlbl., 527, 424 S. Hln. (100 Jahre BGB. Jus Commune, 14) ISBN 3-8051-0764-1
1766301632Frankfurt, Garbe, 1766. (Nachdruck). Ttbl., (18), 962, (58) S. Hln. (100 Jahre BGB. Jus Commune, 15) ISBN 3-8051-0763-3
177428601SAINTE-LUCE 1774 1 document manuscrit à l'encre brune sur vélin parchemin de 4 pages, format : 27,5 centimètres de haut sur 20,5 centimètres de large, cachet fiscal en haut de la 1ère page en noir : "BRETAGNE - 1 SOL", signatures historiées des Notaires Royaux de Nantes : MORICET ET JALABER, AFFÉAGEMENT DE LA TERRE DE LA RINTIÈRE, COMMUNE DE SAINTE-LUCE PRÈS DE L'AUBINIÈRE, DE 48 CORDES, PAR PIERRE MAUCLERC DE LA MUZANCHÈRE ÉVEQUE DE NANTES, A PIERRE FRANCOIS GRIBAULT DE LA MOTTE, AVOCAT AU PARLEMENT, PROCUREUR AU SIÈGE PRÉSIDIAL DU COMTÉ DE NANTES, DEMEURANT AU PILORI, PAROISSE DE SAINTE-CROIX A NANTES, LE 9 JUILLET 1774,
17783057London: Henry Fenwick 1778. First Edition. Very Good/A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III covering the years 1769-1778 one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions placed on the American colonies in 1775 the court's recommendations to "suspend hostilities against our fellow-subjects in North America" and its extended position paper counseling conciliation with the rebellious colonies. The text reports correspondence from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock and from Richard Price and includes discussion of the Quebec Act of 1774 and the Newfoundland fisheries. Reference: Sabin 451. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Henry Fenwick hardcover books
