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191928312London: George Allen & Unwin 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Olive drab boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; xvi 336pp. Inserted advertising leaf tipped in before first page of Preface. Tight straight and unmarked copy Near Fine. Social survey of British labourers mainly in the city of Sheffield undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship though not credited herein of the prominent Fabian Socialist anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman 1886-1972 who also founded the Sheffield Educational Settlement 1918. Among contemporary testimonials included on the inserted advertising leaf is the following from the Daily Mail: ".One of the most interesting social studies that have been made since Charles Booth's Life and Labour in London.Anyone who agrees that 'the proper study of mankind is man' could not fail to find this fascinating." See Helen Smith "Love Sex Work and Friendship: Northern Working-Class Men and Sexuality in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" in Alana Harris & Timothy Jones eds Love and Romance in Britain 1918-1970 Lon: 2015. George Allen & Unwin unknown
16733413Lugduni Apud Ioannem Certe ad insigne sanctissimae Trinitatis Lyon Jean Certe 1673. 1st Edition . Hardcover. . ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . Small octavo. Pp. ii blank title verso blank iv Approbation table of contents 231 verso blank. Small ornaments to title and to recto and verso of the Approbation head- and tail-pieces ornamental initials. HARDCOVER bound in contemporary full mottled calf spine in compartments between raised bands gilt lettering direct in second compartments remainder each gilt ornamented. Marbled paste-downs all edges sprinkled in light red and brown. Handsome copy in fine condition beautifully well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Very early work on money lending and Usury Laws Canon Laws. Published anonymously. Attributed to Jacques Gaitte Cf. Barbier V. 4 col. 1238. Very rare. B-2 <br/> <br/> Lugduni, Apud Ioannem Certe ad insigne sanctissimae Trinitatis [Lyon, Jean Certe] hardcover
Small octavo. Pp. (ii) blank, title (verso blank), (iv) Approbation, table of contents, 231 (verso blank). Small ornaments to title and to recto and verso of the Approbation, head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials. Hardcover, bound in contemporary full mottled calf, spine in compartments between raised bands, gilt lettering direct in second compartments, remainder each gilt ornamented. Marbled paste-downs, all edges sprinkled in light red and brown. Handsome copy in fine condition, beautifully well preserved. ~ First edition. Very early work on money lending and Usury Laws (Canon Laws). Published anonymously. Attributed to Jacques Gaitte (Cf. Barbier, V. 4, col. 1238). Very rare.
First Edition, [2], 34pp., disbound. Signed at the end 'Britanicus' [sic], i.e. William Grant, Lord Prestongrange.
189141660V.p. 1891-1899. Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo 18cm.; contemporary half green calf over cloth gilt-ruled spine in six compartments all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners spine toned contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock else Near Very Good internally near fine. Contents as follows:. 1. Henry George. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. - The Remedy. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1889. x406pp.<br /> <br /> 2. Robert Blatchford. Merrie England. London: Clarion Office 1894. "Cheap Edition." 206pp. Facsimile illus. <br /> <br /> 3. John Smith. England's Ruin; or John Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Plea for Socialism as contained in the widely-circulated book Merrie England. London: Walter Scott 1895. 31pp. Portrait illus. <br /> <br /> 4. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Progressive Publishing Company 1891. "Centenary Edition." xiii14-163pp. <br /> <br /> 5. George Blaiklock. Socialism: False and True. A Review and an Exposure. London: G. Cohen n.d. ca. 1890s. 16pp.<br /> <br /> 6. Leo Tolstoi alt. spelling Tolstoy; A. Hulme Beaman trans. Master and Man. London: Chapman and Hall 1895. 125pp. unknown
First edition, [2], 30pp., without half-title and final advert leaf, disbound. Goldsmiths-Kress, no. 10398; Sabin, 40439.
First edition, [4], 44pp., with half-title, disbound, uncut.
1978221148Hangzhou.: 杭州大学经济系. Hangzhou Daxue Jingji xi. December1978. Translation into Chinese of a feasibility study for a high end hotel to be built near Sydney Harbour 46pp three folding financial charts with some captions in English the text otherwise is in simplified Chinese characters. 26 x 18cm. Wrappers browned and chipped worn at edges loss at upper edge to lower wrapper and spine. A good secondhand copy. Interesting background information on the decision to build the Regent Hotel in Sydney; includes tourism numbers and financial information. . 杭州大学经济系. [Hangzhou Daxue Jingji xi] unknown
First Edition, signature of Philip Wolfe on title, 20 pp., modern marbled boards, morocco label. Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748.
First Edition, 80pp., disbound. Written in support of Sir Robert Walpole. Sabin, 31607; Goldsmith, 7946.
First edition, 80pp., disbound. Written in support of Sir Robert Walpole. Sabin, 31607; Goldsmith, 7946.
First edition, 112pp., some light water-staining, closed tear to final leaf, disbound. Goldsmith, 6502.
18285421London: T. Birt 1828. First edition. Single sheet measuring 250 x 185mm and printed in two columns to recto. Some edgewear to margins not affecting text; a bit of foxing and toning largely confined to margins. A scarce and delicate survivor OCLC documents only one example at the National Library of Scotland. The present is the only example on the market.<br /> <br /> The Dandy Wife is narrated by a man who aimed "to choose me out a loving wife" at the age of twenty-one but whose experience becomes a warning to "all young men of high renown": "If you want a tidy wife Beware of a boarding school." What unfolds is a satire of how the marriage economy is affected when women have access to knowledge -- intellectual and physical -- and how by meeting a man's superficial expectations a woman can fulfill her own more pressing needs.<br /> <br /> Thinking that a boarding school girl will have the innocence submissiveness and domestic skill he desires the narrator selects a wife from among their ranks. Thinking only of what he can obtain from such a bargain he is unprepared for what an educated woman brings into his house. The Dandy Wife he describes understands the commodity value of her own beauty and material adornment and that these are her key means for acquiring wealth of her own. "She takes one-half of what I earn In drinking gin and tea; Besides such frills and furbelows My Dandy Wife does wear.Her sleeves upon her dandy gown Oh! Lack they're such a size You'd think they were two balloons that in the air would rise." Aside from staying on par with fashion trends her clothing assists her in avoiding domestic tasks she abhors. She refuses to do laundry more than monthly and through ridiculous cooking failures she rapidly establishes that the kitchen is not a showcase for her skillset. Accustomed to a life of learning she is not trained to conduct domestic business. <br /> <br /> By the ballad's end it becomes clear that the Dandy Wife was savvier in managing a marriage than her husband was. For not only does her superior intellect help her carve out a more satisfying role but she also has physical knowledge that predates him: "The day that I was married I thought I'd got a charming maid But I was much deceived.For scarce five months we'd married been When she had a darling son. T. Birt unknown
187151324[Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1871]. 4to. Uncut, unopened. As extracted without wrappers. Very fine and clean. 64 pp.
[Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1871]. 4to. Uncut, unopened. As extracted without wrappers. Very fine and clean. 64 pp.
First edition, [2], 5-62, [1], 62-68pp., disbound.
First Edition in English, small 4to, typographical device on title, title recto [A], verso blank, [2], 41, [1] pp., modern half calf, a good copy. "The political satire against the Duc des Luynes, according to Barbier, was the cause of the author's imprisonment in the Bastille where he died. The bibliography of the early French editions, as in the case of the more celebrated Menippean satire, does not appear to have been studied so that it would be difficult to say with just what celerity it was translated and published in English. However, the fact that it was translated is not necessarily an indication of the concern of Jacobean England with the internal affairs of France. Although this translation may have been in part intended as a commentary upon Buckingham and other 'favourites' of the King's Council, it was probably published principally because of its intrinsic wit and vigor." - Pforzheimer Library. S.T.C. 15203; Hazlitt 11, 123; Huntington C.L., 511; Pforzheimer, 578.
8vo (215 x 135 mm), 194 + 16pp., of adverts printed in pink paper, pictorial title page, 8 engraved plates, illustrs., in the text, a couple of gatherings standing proud, orig. blind-stamped ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, head and foot of spine lightly chipped. All published of this scarce work on the Railway and Coal industry.
First edition, 12mo (155 x 100 mm), 244 p., engraved frontis., and 11 plates (lightly foxed), double-page engraved map, orig. cloth, gilt, a very good copy.
First edition, 8vo, [2], 65, [3]pp., in this edition there are no press figures on pp.1, 16, and 24, there is a press figure, 3, on p.47, title-page dusty, the final leaf which consists of a postscript and erratum has the lower blank margin cut away, disbound. Lyttelton attacks the convention with Spain, and denies the right of Spain to search American and British ships. It also contains the treaty with Spain regarding America (pp.46-57). Sabin, 42889; Kress, 4443; Goldsmith, 7626; Hanson, 5233.
Second edition, 8vo, [2], 67, [3]pp., the verso of p.67 and the recto of the final leaf bear a Postscript, disbound.
48737, [Paris], [Éd.Cujas] 1963, in-8, pleine basane verte, tit. doré sur dos à 4nerfs soulignés par fers estampés à froid, plats encadrés par fers, présence schémas et cartes dont une colorée et sur papier glacé, (très lég. épidermures), bon état, 209p.
pleine basane verte, tit. doré sur dos à 4 nerfs soulignés par fers estampés à froid, plats encadrés par fers, présence schémas et cartes dont une colorée et sur papier glacé, (très lég. épidermures), bon état « Publié pour la première fois en 1960, ce livre était devenu presque introuvable et, dans L’Afrique noire est mal partie, René Dumont, évoquant quelles difficultés il éprouva avant de se le procurer, signale qu’il semblait interdit. Si redoutable soit-[il] aux yeux de certains, [l’ouvrage] est fort utile. […] Le jugement porté en 1960 sur l’économie de l’île n’est […] guère optimiste. […] L’auteur n’est pas tendre non plus pour les dirigeants successifs du pays, incapables de définir une politique économique cohérente […] » [P.-Y. Péchoux, Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, 1964, n° 17-65, p. 116]
First edition, contemporary name on title, advertisement leaf at end, 50, [2] pp., modern marbled wrappers, printed label on upper cover. Kress, 2750.
