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POLITICS
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.
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“
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.
“Publick
Good”
Endangered?
(English
Charity). The present state of the unhappy sufferers of the Charitable
Corporation, consider’d. With reasons humbly offer’d for their relief.
London, 1733. 8vo in 4s (19 cm, 7.5"). [4], 24 pp.
• Cry for financial assistance from Parliament for the Charitable Corporation for Relief of the Industrious Poor, along with an explanation of why the Corporation ought rightfully to be both charging interest on its loans and making those loans as readily available as possible. This tract is here in its sole edition.
• ESTC T121015; Goldsmith’s-Kress 7152. Recent, slate-grey light boards. Half-title with two very minor spots of soiling, pages otherwise clean.
(English
Political Broadside). Bluster, Humphrey [pseud.].
Humphrey Bluster’s letter to his father, respecting the Hull election. Hull:
Pr. for the author by W. Ross, [ca. 1818]. Folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"). [1] f.
There were American versions of “Humphrey Bluster” letters; in
1818 two such items respecting the Boston election were printed. At this writing
RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956list
no holdings of the present, Anglo Bluster.
• Not in NSTC. On Graham, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXII, 328–32. Creased, with corners bent, otherwise good. A few early, lightly inked marginalia.
Venus
— Candle-Snuffers?(English Political Satire PLUS). Venus attiring the graces. London: J. Dodsley, 1777. 4to
(24.8 cm, 9.75"). 11, [1 (blank)] pp. [with]
[Mason, William?] [Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck,
upon his newly invented patent candle-snuffers. London: J. Almon, 1776]. [5]–11,
[1 (adv.)] pp.
• Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.
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)
Rare
Dutch POEM
on
William
of Orange[Everwyn, Willem]. Hollandsche naklank, op d'Engelsche eergalm, van zyn koninklyke majesteit William. Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz, [1689]. 4to (19.5 cm, 7.625"). A8; 15, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Sole edition of this rare Dutch poem on William III of England (a.k.a., William of Orange) who ascended the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland with his wife Mary II (née Stuart) in consequence of the Glorious Revolution that deposed Mary’s father, James II.
We were able to trace only one copy in the U.S. via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956, while STCN locates only one copy at the British Library.
• STCN 168904. Recent brown speckled wrappers. Closely trimmed in the bottom margin with loss of part of imprint and of guide words and signatures. Some spots of light browning and soiling. Rubber-stamp of a now-defunct library on title-page. Terse pencilled notations on title-page, and inked correction on p. 9.
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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