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ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW 
More
than One Lifetime's
Worth of Adventure
& Interesting
Ideas
(A
Life in Law *&* “Elsewhere”). Harriott,
John. Struggles through life, exemplified
in the various travels and adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America,
of John Harriott, Esq. London: Pr. for the author, 1815. 12mo (18 cm, 7.1").
3 vols. I: Frontis., xvxv, [1], 443, [1] pp. II: xii, 428, [2] pp. III: vii,
[1], 479, [1] pp. (lacking pp. 69–72); 1 fold. plt., 1 plt.
Click the images for enlargements. 
one
of the founders of the Thames police, a clever and independent
mariner who went adventuring around the world before settling down to become
an Essex justice of the peace and eventually Resident Magistrate of the Thames
River Police (a.k.a. the Marine Police Force, sometimes called England's
first official police force). Here he looks back on his remarkably varied youthful
escapades, including travelling in the merchant-service, visiting “the
Savages in North America,” meeting the King of Denmark, serving in the
East India Company's military service, and narrowly escaping such dangers as
tigers, poisonous snakes, floods, fires, and scamming fathers-in-law. If the
narrator is to be believed, the two issues that caused him the chiefest distress
in life were pecuniary difficulties and other people's unchivalrous treatment
of women. He also has much to say about 
law
and business in the New World and the Old, slavery in America, forcible incarceration
in private madhouses (with excerpts from a first-person account of such), and
the nature of farming in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as the state
of affairs in Washington, DC, and, of course, the history of the creation of
the Thames police.
Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry
Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an 
oversized,
folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised
by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber
fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high
window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.
• NSTC H625; Sabin 30461. Contemporary speckled sheep,
spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities
refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of
library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century
bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols.
II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs
of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece;
vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed
letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled,
reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots
of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean. 
Utterly
absorbing. (30651)
Both
entries above are repeated in the
REGICIDE
Pilloried — Sort
Of
Anonymous.
Invisible John made visible: or, A grand pimp of tyranny portrayed,
in Barkstead’s arraignment at the barre, vvhere he stands impeached of high
treason, and other gross misdemeanours, as the late tyrant’s bum-bayliff
in his most arbitrary, oppressive and tyrannical invasions of the rights and liberties
of Engli sh-men, within the late cantonized county of Middlesex, the City of London
Tower, &c. Whereunto are added, five queries, to the Parliament, Council of
State, and Army.... London: no publisher/printer, 1659. Small 4to. [1] ff., 6
pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. There exist at least four different editions of this work. In this edition, line 9 of the title begins “VVhere” and line 19 has “Parliament, Council of State, and Army.”
• Wing (rev. ed.) I289aA; ESTC R234704. Removed from a nonce volume and now in later wrappers. (21001)
Looking
atTithes
from Both Sides[Arnall,
William]. The second part of the case of tythes; containing animadversions
on a reverend prelate’s remarks upon the bill now depending in Parliament...to
which are prefix’d the reverend prelate’s remarks. The third edition,
with additions. London: J. Peele, 1731. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). 32 pp.
Conveniently, both Sherlock’s argument and Arnall’s
response are printed here.
• ESTC T108041. On Arnall, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, II, 103). Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. Final page stamped by a now-defunct institution. Small area of worming in lower outer corner throughout, not touching text.
“Translated
Asgill”
Strikes
Back[Asgill,
John]. Mr. Asgill’s defence upon his expulsion from the House of
Commons of Great Britain in 1707. With an introduction, and a postscript. London:
A. Baldwin, 1712. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.55"). 87, [1] pp.
his
rapturous religious tenets while affirming his belief in the
Scriptures and denying any wrongdoing—especially in the pesky land speculation
matter. One might, upon perusing Asgill’s arguments, agree with the assessment
made by the printer of the original treatise, who “fancy’d [Asgill]
was a little craz’d” (p. 40).
This example is apparently a variant state of the first edition of 1712 (ESTC does not distinguish between variants, grouping all entries under one listing), with p. 61, line 8 ending “of the Romish Persuasion.’
• ESTC T41498. On Asgill, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, II, 159–61. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with small numeric stamp, spots of discoloration. A few pages more notably browned than their neighbors; otherwise generally clean.
For
ENGLISH POLITICS, click here.
For RELIGION, click
here.
Defending!“Perfect
Freedom of Discussion”
Bailey, Samuel. Essays on the formation and publication of opinions and on other subjects. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy (pr. by A. Waldie), 1831. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.9"). [2 (adv.)], 240 pp.
questions
of legal liability for freedom of expression.
• American Imprints 5858. Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter red cloth and plain paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed/soiled, spine sunned/discolored, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: traces of now-absent label at head of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, call number in a 19th-century hand on pastedown and front free endpaper. No other markings. Pages generally clean, with text block firm. (26284)
For
a short “shelf” devoted to
A
Different Take
on
Cromwell
vs. the King
[Bancks,
John]. The life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Containing particularly his decent, his first
advances to popularity, his wonderful success in the civil wars, Battle of Worcester,
&c. &c. Stourbridge: Heming & Tallis, [ca. 1815]. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5").
Frontis., [2], [7]–28 pp.
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no institutional holdings of this sole edition thus. The biography is attributed to “A Gentleman of the Middle Temple,” but the text is for the most part adapted from of A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell by John Bancks (or Banks, 1709–51), a bookseller, poet, and biographer; there seems to have been some confusion with the Restoration-era playwright John Banks (d. 1706).
The present rendition was excerpted from the first eight chapters of the Critical Review, and closes with a discussion of Cromwell's burial; much of Bancks's editorializing regarding the conduct of the king and other political matters has been removed, providing an interesting contrast to the original work. (According to the DNB, the work in its first state earned Bancks accusations of being an enemy of the monarchy due to its sympathetic tone towards Cromwell — a major difference from all previous biographies.)
This edition features a wood-engraved frontispiece done by Turnbull after Harper.
• Not in NSTC. On Bancks, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent light blue paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Frontispiece recto (back) with rubber-stamped numeral and pencilled annotation, no other markings. Pages age-toned with spots of minor staining, edges slightly ragged, corners bumped. An intriguing oddity. (28744)
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more of MILITARY/NAVAL
The Secret (Bloody!) OathBolron, Robert. The papists bloody oath of secrecy, and letany of intercession for the carrying on of this present plot. With the manner of taking the oath, upon their entring into any grand conspiracy against the Protestants. London: Printed for Randal Taylor , 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 23, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Title-page strikingly set in black and red. Also, partly in black-letter.
• Wing (rev. ed.) B3502; ESTC R19392. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition. (32243)
“Not Daring to Stay Any Longer in Ireland”Bourk, Hubert. The information of Hubert Bourk, gent. touching the Popish Plot in Ireland, carried on by the conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone. London: Printed for Randolph Taylor, 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). [4] ff., 27, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • WIng (rev. ed.) B3843; ESTC R19524. Removed from a nonce volume; very good condition, very clean and nice. (32236)
An Influential Jurist Bradley,
Joseph P. Miscellaneous writings of the late Hon. Joseph P.
Bradley ... Newark (NJ): L.J. Hardham, 1902. 8vo (23.9 cm, 9.4"). Frontis.,
xii, 435, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's plain grey cloth, spine with printed paper label; binding with spots of mild staining, small area of discoloration at head of spine. Ex–social club library: call number on front pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean. (28159)
For
POST-1820 AMERICANA,
Nonconformist
DEBATEBritish Anti-State-Church Association. Proceedings of the first Anti-State-Church Conference, held in London, April 30, May 1 & 2, MDCCCXLIV. London: Pr. for the British Anti-State-Church Assocation, 1844. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). xi, [1], 142
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC 2LON952. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. First two leaves with small nicks to outer edges; pages clean.
Corruption Trial & Ultimate Vindication Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of. Letters of Albanicus to the people of England, on the partiality and injustice of the charges brought against Warren Hastings, Esq., late Governor General of Bengal. London: Pr. for J. Debrett,, 1786. 8vo (19.5 cm; 7.5"). [1] f., vii, [1 (blank)], 97, [1 (blank)] pp.
Attributed to the Earl of Buchan by Halkett & Laing (vol. 9 [1962 ed.]).
• Goldsmiths’-Kress 13204; ESTC T143537. Recent full brown speckled calf, covers gilt-tooled in the Cambridge style. Raised bands on spine accented with gilt beading on bands and defined by gilt rules above and below each band. Title-page printed aslant or trimmed somewhat askew, and with a few small old inkspots; pamphlet otherwise clean, with occasional light instances of foxing. (21735)
Bishop Burnet's Instructive LivesBurnet, Gilbert. Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester. London: William Pickering, 1829. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). [2], v, [1], 330 pp.; 1 plt.
Click the images for enlargements. • NSTC 2B60417. Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label; engraved portrait of Hale lacking. Ex–social club library with rubber-stamp on half-titles and main title-page but not on the pretty engraved title-page introducing Rochester's life; no other markings. A few leaves with upper outer corners bumped. Nice printing of two much-read and long-respected memoirs.(30337)
For
Books for the BUSTED
What’s Going on Here?Burnside, Thomas. Document Signed. Clearfield, PA, 1811. Double folio (39.5
cm, 15.5"). [1] f.
Click the image for an enlargement.
The Irish-born Burnside, then treasurer of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, was later a justice of the Pennsylvania state supreme court.
A notary’s seal is affixed to the document, which was signed by both Burnside and Patton.
• Creased and slightly age-toned, with the folios separated and some offsetting from seal; a few small holes, touching text without notable loss.
What
to Wear, theDuty
of Schoole-Masters, Divorce
Sentences, &
More
Church
of England. Constitutions and canons. 1603. English.
Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Bishop
of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and
the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province: And agreed upon with
the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at London, anno Dom. 1603,
and in the year of the reign of our soveraigne Lord James, by the grace of God,
King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the 37. And
now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesties authority under
the Great Seal of England. London: Pr. by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and
Richard Whitaker, 1633. Small 4to. [60] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical was an assemblage of rulings given equal force with the canon law, although the rulings themselves were not based on canon law.
• STC (rev. ed.) 10076; ESTC S101555. Removed from a nonce volume. A very nice, clean copy with an array of marginal markings — Xs, asterisks, “vid.,” and the odd hand-with-pointing-finger. (21226)
Churchill to Sir AlgernonChurchill, Winston. Winston S. Churchill to Sir Algernon West. 18 February 1898. New York: Kelly Winterton Press for Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1988. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). [6] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Taken from an original letter then in the collection of Malcolm Forbes, Jr., the text is handsomely printed on handmade paper using Baskerville type, with acaricature of Churchill on an elephant brandishing a polo mallet by M.G. Lord, and blue ornaments. Of two hundred copies printed, this isnumber one, signed by the artist below the colophon.
• On West, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Stitched in publisher's light blue speckled wrappers, title stamped in navy blue on front. Protective mylar wrappers. Light fading at bottom of wrappers. (31289)
Capturing an AgeOne Biography at a Time [Clarke]. The Georgian era: Memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth. London: Vizetelly, Branston, & Co., 1832–34. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.65"). 4 vols. I: Frontis., 582 pp.; 12 plts. II: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. III: Frontis., [2], 588 pp. IV: Frontis., 588 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. jurists,
physicians, voyagers and travelers, scientists, writers, economists, architects,
artists and musicians, etc. All the expectable princesses, duchesses, and countesses
are present, along with a handful of women represented in other categories —
the preponderance falling under the “Vocal Performers” and “Actors”
headings.
The first volume is illustrated with
12
plates each offering four rows
of small portraits, some intriguingly expressive; each volume opens with an
engraved frontispiece portrait of a royal George.
• NSTC 2C23867. Recent textured maroon cloth, spines with
gilt-stamped black leather title and volume labels; title-pages institutionally
pressure- (not rubber-) stamped. Scattered light spots of staining,
pages generally clean; first few leaves of voI. \ II with outer margins chipped.
A
hefty, substantive evocation of Georgian life and times. (30012)
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more BIOGRAPHIES, mostly 20th-Century
ELIZABETH
Must Have Loved
HisThinking
on Monarchy
Crompton,
Richard, ed. L'authoritie et iurisdiction des courts
de la maieste de la Roygne: nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton
del milieu Temple esquire. Apprentice del ley. Londini: Caroli Yetsweirti, 1594.
4to. [4], 232 ff.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on
Written in Law French with some Latin, and with extended passages entirely in English in the section on “forrest” law; printed in black letter.
Provenance: Contemporary inked signatures to fly-leaf of Henry Wynn/Wine (Middle Temple?).
• ESTC S109077; STC (2nd ed.) 6050; Lowndes, I, 558. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Pinhole or small worming throughout to top margins, touching a few letters in headings; light waterstaining to margins/corners of first/last leaves; one preliminary with just a very little bug-spotting. Paper flaws in margins of ff. 45, 164, and 172; last leaf a little tattered. Overall, very good. (21344)
For
16TH-CENTURY BOOKS, click here. For
BOOKS IN FRENCH, click here.
Eloquent &Full, Full, FULL of Life Curran, John Philpot. Forensic eloquence. Sketches of trials in Ireland for high treason, etc. Including the speeches of Mr. Curran at length: Accompanied by certain papers illustrating the history and present state of that country. Baltimore: G. Douglas, 1804. 8vo. iv, [2], 40, pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Shaw & Shoemaker 6317. Recent quarter brown cloth and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page spotted and creased; title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper portion and added authorial identification, two trials each with similar inscription in header; one leaf with inscription in outer margin and one likewise in lower margin; one leaf with inscription overlying text. A few early pencilled corrections and annotations. Foxed; some corners creased or chipped. Title-page and last leaf with inner portions repaired. One leaf with short tear from upper margin, not touching text. (29996)
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more of IRISH interest, click
here.
“Spread Reports in theCoffee Houses that the Popish Plot Was a Contrivance of the Presbyterians” Dangerfield, Thomas. The information of Thomas Dangerfield, Gent., delivered at the bar of the House of Commons Tuesday the twentieth day of October in the year of Our Lord 1680 perused and signed to be printed according to the order of the House of Commons by me, William Williams, speaker. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, & Henry Hills, 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 15, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Wing (rev. ed.) D187; ESTC R6224. Removed from a nonce volume; small stain in outer margin of four leaves. Very good condition. (32248)
A
Big Year for Oliver
Oldschool
Dennie,
Joseph, ed. The
port folio. Volume V. Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1805. Large 4to
(32.2 cm, 12.7"). 408 (lacking 89–96, never bound in) pp.
Click the images for enlargements. the year in which Dennie was put on trial for seditious libel. Dennie's own account of the trial begins in the last issue here, with the volume as a whole also including critical commentary on Sotheby's translation of Virgil's Georgics, bits of interesting British “law intelligence,” a satire on patent medicines, the immortal “Ode to a Market Street Gutter,” a sketch on the history and present state of Philadelphia, original poetry in English and French, and the papers of Samuel Saunter, a.k.a. the “American Lounger,” a.k.a. Dennie himself.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked presentation inscription to New Salem Academy from the Honorable Ethan Allen Greenwood (1779–1856), the Massachusetts lawyer who established the New England Museum.
• Sabin 64182. Contemporary quarter sheep and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped date; worn and stained, front cover with (child's?) pencilled name, spine head with remnants of paper shelving label, spine leather cracked. Volume refurbished, with leather consolidated, joints repaired, edges reinforced with repair tissue. Lacking one issue, no. 12, apparently never bound in; one stanza of one poem excised. Some leaves creased, with occasional tears into text; varying degrees of age-toning and foxing; scattered small holes. Lower outer portion of one leaf torn away, with loss of several lines. A few pencilled marks of emphasis; a later hand has laid in several sheets of annotations and commentary on various pieces herein. Dried plant matter laid in. Price reduced recognizing absent No. 12; but a volume of interest both simply as a substantial Port Folio and as the one produced in such a significant year for the proprietor. (29238)
“I Perceived that a Great Number Were Knowing,Dugdale, Stephen. The information of Stephen Dugdale, Gent. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, & Henry Hills, 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). [2] ff., 11, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Wing (rev. ed.) D2475; ESTC R504. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition. (32249)
“He Thought the KING Deserved anExecrable Death” Dugdale, Stephen. The further information of Stephen Dugdale, gent. delivered at the bar of the House of Commons. Pursuant to an order of the said house, on the 30th of October, 1680. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst ... and Thomas Simmons , 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). [2], 20, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Wing (rev. ed.) D2474; ESTC R505. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition, veryclean. (32250)
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.
BEER, here.
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.
Quintessential “Pennsylvania Dutch” — A First & “Fancy”Egelmaan, Charles Frederick, engraver. Broadside Taufschein, begins: “Im Jahr Christi 1[blank space] dey [blank space]um [blank space] Vhr [blank space] wurde [large blank space] ehelich geboren.... “ and completed by an anonymous scrivener. [Reading, PA: C. F. Egelmann, 1814 and later]. Folio (35 x 25.5 cm; 13.75" x 10.125") [1] p.
Click the images for enlargement.the first engraved Taufschein (birth/baptismal certificate), an example of which is offered here. The certificate is forCaroline Buchler, daughter of L.F. and Sara (Wagner) Buchler, born 8 August 1843 in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The minister is simply identified as Oberfeld.
The cataloguer at the Penn State University library describes its uncolored example: “The form is generally dated ca. 1830, but could have been in use as early as 1814. The lower design depicts Jesus with the disciples, while the upper scene shows Jesus' baptism. The form stretches between two pillars, flanked by columns of smoke, all within line border. Distinctive mix of [stipple] engraving and etching, probably on copper plate, by Egelmann.”
The present copy is handsomely hand-colored with the blanks for names, dates, and places accomplished nicely in red ink in a clear hand.
• Weiser & Heaney, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, 495; Stopp, Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans, IV, pg. 2784. Excellent repair to a lower area into the image; other repairs to the margins. Bug spotting in lower outer corner. (31977)
BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY INTERESTING, ALSO England & Wales. Parliament. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for giving power to all the classicall presbyteries within their respective bounds to examine, approve, and ordaine ministers for severall congregations. London: Pr. for John Wright, 1645. Small 4to. [1] f., 6 pp.
Bibliographically interesting. Wing records four different issues of this ordinance, the telling points being on the title-page: the spelling of “classical” or “classicall” and the form of the date, whether “12 Novemb., 1645,” or just “1645" and combinations thereof. ESTC fails to distinguish them.
• Wing (rev. ed.) E1894A; ESTC R176130. Removed from a nonce volume and dusty; in modern wrappers. All edges a bit chipped and lower margins of leaves A2 and A3 with loss of blank paper. All leaves age-toned. (20454)
Whoa!
Hold on There!
Just
One Darn Minute!
Episcopal
Church in Scotland. The declinator
and protestation of the archbishops and bishops, of the Church of Scotland,
and others their adherents within that kingdome, against the pretended generall
Assembly holden at Glasgow Novemb. 21. 1638. London: Pr. by John Ravvorth, for
George Thomason & Octavian Pullen,, 1639. Small 4to. [1] f., 33, [1 (blank)]
pp.
Click
the image for an enlargement.
This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”
• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980. Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers. (21000)
A Jewish Convert TestifiesFaria, Francisco de. The information of Francisco de Faria, delivered at the bar of the House of Commons, Munday the first day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1680. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills , 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). [4], 12 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. In English, here, he claims to have been approached about becoming involved with the Popish Plot and, naming names, he gives dates and places of meetings and conversations.
• Wing (rev. ed.) F425; ESTC R16386. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition. (32251)
Fergusson's
First Novel of the Southwest
Fergusson, Harvey. The blood of the conquerors. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 8vo. [4], 146, [4 (adv.)] pp.
a
young Mexican lawyer, his affair with a beautiful blonde
society girl, and his issues with finances, race, and class, this 25-cent production
was designed to be eye-catchingly attractive; in the series of “Red Seal
Books,” its covers and dust jacket both bear a design of red pinnipeds
rampant, repeated in six rows.
• Publisher's black and red printed paper wrappers, in original similar dust wrapper; dust wrapper with chips and short tears to margins (longer closed tear from upper front edge), spine slightly sunned. Front free endpaper with contemporary inked ownership inscription. Two leaves with short tear from lower margin, touching text without loss. Pages age-toned, embrittled as expectable; in fact, a nice copy, and with a “Three Seal Book Mark” laid in. (28422)
“It Was a General Rumour Throughout Ireland”Fitzgerald, David. A narrative of the Irish Popish Plot, for the betraying that kingdom into the hands of the French, massacring all English Protestants there, and utter subversion of the government and Protestant-religion; as the same was successively carryed on from the year 1662. London: Pr. by Tho. Cockerill, 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). [2] ff., 35, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Wing F1072; ESTC R7381. Removed from a nonce volume; brown staining in round spots to lower halves of last leaves. Actually, very good condition. (32257)
An
INDIAN Author
Objects to aRacist
SystemFurdoonjee,
Nowrozjee (i.e., Naurozji Faridunji).
On the civil administration of the Bombay Presidency...published in England at the request of the Bombay Association. London: John Chapman, 1853. 8vo. vii, [1], 88 pp.
A search of RLIN, OCLC, NSTC, and NUC Pre-1956 shows only four U.S. holdings of this pamphlet.
• NSTC 2N1853. Recent moiré cloth–covered boards. Title-page with small inked numerals in upper outer corner. One leaf with short edge tear just touching text.
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