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“The Dissenting Cause is Founded on Reason & Truth”
Doddridge, Philip. Free thoughts on the most probable means of reviving the dissenting interest. Occasion'd by the late enquiry into the causes of its decay. London: Pr. for Richard Hett, 1730. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 39, [1] pp.
$100.00
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First edition. Doddridge was a prominent dissenting minister; the DNB calls the present pamphlet “his first important publication,” in which he replies to Strickland Gough's Enquiry with a clear, forceful statement of his beliefs on what the nature of dissenting religion should be.
ESTC T40185. On Doddridge, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with early inked annotations of authorial identity; first few leaves with lightly pencilled bracketing in margins. (27656)
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Duhamel
du Monceau, [Henry Louis]. Art de faire les tapis, façon de
Turquie, connus sous le nom de tapis de la Savonnerie. [Paris: De l’imprimerie
de L.F. Delatour], 1766. Folio (46 cm, 18"). [1] f., 25, [1 (blank)] pp.; 4 plts.
$350.00
First edition of this stand-alone entry from the Description
des arts et métiers, faites ou approuvées par Messieurs de l’Académie
des sciences de Paris, a series of publications on French arts and trades
sponsored by the Académie Royale des Sciences. Based on the papers of
Jacques Noinville, former director of the famed Savonnerie carpet factory, the
work describes the history and techniques of making Oriental-style rugs; the
plates depict workers using looms and devices resembling spinning wheels, as
well as individual pieces of equipment and a sample floral design.
19th-century quarter sheep over paper-covered boards, worn and
abraded with small discolorations; spine leather chipped, with remnants of
gilt-stamped leather title label. Edges untrimmed. Some offsetting and a very
few spots to pages; small area of worm damage in upper margins.
(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
$850.00
Account of the legal dispute between Dunsinnan and Ramsay over the
estate of Thomas Young, which included “Fourty Bolls Bear and Malt”;
executory principles are addressed. This is a scarce document, with no copies
listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956.
In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century
paper; now in a Mylar folder.
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