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18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
“A New Scene of Hope & Consolation to the Unfortunate” 
Dodd, William. Comfort for the afflicted, under every distress. With suitable devotions. London: Edward & Charles Dilly, 1764. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). Frontis., x, 399, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Uncommon: ESTC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. institutional holdings.
• ESTC T95144. Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, joints cracked. Ex–social club library with small paper label at head of spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpapers, no other markings. Light off-setting from binding to early and late leaves; two lower outer page corners torn away, not touching text. Pages lightly age-toned with a very few scattered spots. (29791)
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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.
Click the image for an enlargement. • 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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Carpet-Making
—
Four PlatesDuhamel
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.
• 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.
WHO
Gets the BEER
& Why?(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.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
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