18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Business Correspondence in
Italian & French
E. A. Secrétaire des negociants, ou lettres françoises it italiennes.... Par E.A. professeur de ces deux langues. Amsterdam: Et se vend à Turin, chez les Frères Reycends, Guibert e Silvestre, libraires, 1752. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 333, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.
Scarce: No U.S. copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN; and only two via the Italian union catalogue (SBN), the British Library, the OPAC of the Dutch Royal Library, and the Catalogue collectif de France, both in France. 
First of three editions.
Provenance: On blank back of Italian title-page, “Comprato da me Filipo Ricccardini in Ancona,” dated 1801; similar note on title-page in French.
• Goldsmith’s-Kress 9910.20 (for later ed. only). Uncut copy. Publisher’s cartonné binding, with some staining; spine perished and renewed with marbled paper not affecting inked notation in Italian on front cover. Some light browning and occasional spots of staining; actually rather clean for such a working volume. A few pages adhered together at their gutters, obscuring individual letters without loss of sense. Inked notations on endpapers; ownership inscriptions as above.
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Folded,
Sealed, & Sent
from Edinburgh
to New GallowayEdinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. Begins, “Right Honourable, and very Loving Friends and Neighbours...Whereas the Commissioners of Burrows...did appoint their next general Convention to be holden at the said Burgh of Edinburgh, upon the first Tuesday of July next, 1723 years....” [Edinburgh, 1723]. Folio (31 cm, 12.4"). 4 pp.
The paper bears the seal of Edinburgh in red wax, with one half of the broken seal on either end.
• Not in ESTC. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder. Slightly tattered, with a few small holes around margins and occasionally in text. Tears along folds to second leaf partially repaired some time ago, in one area with archival tissue and in three other places with paper, with text imperfectly aligned along one main fold and a few letters obscured along the other.
As
If It
JUST
Arrived from the Print
Shop . . . 
Observations
on “Muhhekaneew”
EXTRAORDINARY
CONDITION!
Edwards, Jonathan. Observations onthe
language of the Muhhekaneew Indians.... New-Haven: Pr. by Josiah
Meigs, 1788. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [1] f., 17, [1 (blank)] pp. 
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• Evans 21068; Pilling, Algonquian, 124; Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection, Mohegan-2; Field 487 (giving date erroneously as 1787); Sabin 21971. Uncut, unopened copy retaining original sewing and preserving the often missing preliminary leaf. In a Mylar envelope. 
As darn near a fine copy as is obtainable.
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Edwards on Original Sin — A Reed Family Copy Edwards, Jonathan. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended; evidences of its truth produced. And arguments to the contrary answered. Wilmington: James Adams, 1771. 8vo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). xv, [1], 341, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance & evidence of readership: Title-page with note, “Joseph Reed, his book”; Reed's ownership noted again on a blank page at the end, dated 1772. Endpapers heavily marked with other early inked inscriptions — so heavily marked that it is hard to “untangle” the elements, but names and dates are clearly present, including the names of other Reeds. Additional inscriptions and annotations are scattered throughout the volume.
• ESTC W019063; Evans 12032; Rink, Delaware, 59; Sabin 21942. Recent mottled calf, covers framed in blind roll, spine with gilt-stamped burgundy leather title-label and gilt-dotted raised bands. Back free endpaper lacking; other endpapers and pages marked as above. Pages age-toned with spotting, blotting, and/or waterstaining quite variously. (27082)
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For
Distribution in
Scotland?
— Scarce BROADSIDE(England
— Party Politics).
Broadside. Begins: “Queries. Whether any Parliament ever did better than
this has done...” [Edinburgh?]: J.M., 1710. Folio (30.8 cm, 12.1"). [2]
pp.
Searches
of ESTC, OCLC, RLIN, and NUC
Pre-1956 locate only two copies—one in Scotland,
one in England.
• ESTC T168050. Now in a Mylar folder; edges slightly ragged, repair at lower inner margin just touching letters on one side, small holes in lower center with loss of a few letters. Some letters in header cut off at top due to printer’s error. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.
“
We Are Now
Got through this
Heap
of Scandal ”(England
— Politics & Religion).
A letter to the author of the Memorial of the State of England,
answer’d paragraph by paragraph. London, 1706. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 44 pp.
• ESTC N3245. Recent, slate-grey light boards. Title-page with numeric stamp and with number inked in lower margin by an early hand. Edges untrimmed; some light staining.
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