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30,000 Frenchmen Will
NOT Land Suddenly in Hampshire 
Kinloch, Arthur. The invasion of England: A supposition. Edinburgh: [Pr. by Ballantine for] James Nichol (Edinburgh) & H. Ballière (London), 1852. 8vo. 8 pp.
Provenance: “Caledonian United Service Club” inscribed at top of title-page.
Click the image for an enlargement. Rare: No copies were traced via OCLC or COPAC.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned with some light soiling. Inked notations in top margin of title-page. (11255)
“I
owe no apology to Your Grace . . .”Kinnaird, Charles, 8th Baron. A letter to the Duke of Wellington on the arrest of M. Marinet. London: Pr. [by Charles Wood] for James Ridgway, 1818. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.375" ). [1] f., 40 pp. 
• NSTC 2K6435, Imprint 1. Removed from a nonce volume. A few light brown spots.
Free Trade vs. Protection — EpitomizedKnott, John M. The currency and the late Sir Robert Peel. [London, 1850]. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 23, [1 (blank)] pp.$400.00
• Goldsmiths'-Kress 36939; NSTC 2K8200. Recent paper wrappers. Half-title faintly dust-soiled and with small inked numeral in upper corner; pages otherwise clean.
Separation
of Church & State
— RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
First
Collected Edition
Locke,
John. Letters concerning toleration.
London: A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston & B. White, I. Rivington, et
al., 1765. 4to (29.5 cm, 11.6"). Frontis., [8], 399, [1 (blank)] pp.
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This
is a lovely, “gentleman's library” edition, well printed with generous
margins.
Provenance: Two text pages and back pastedown with flourished ownership inscriptions of Richard Wood, Jr., dated 1780.
• ESTC T114245; Graesse, IV, 243; Lowndes 1380; Allibone 1113–14. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding lightly rubbed/scuffed overall, joints starting from top and front hinge (inside) starting; spine with a chip and a small paper label. Front pastedown with three bookplates most tantalizingly layered over one another, the most recent being from a 19th-century social club library; front free endpaper with pencilled and inked numerals in an early hand. Pages age-toned and faintly to moderately spotted; minor offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. (26302)
Reasons to Submit to the Government
“Both from Scripture Long, Thomas. A full answer to all the popular objections that have yet appear'd, for not taking the oath of allegiance to their present Majesties, particularly offer'd to the consideration of all such of the divines of the Church of England (and others) as are yet unsatisfied. London: R. Baldwin, 1689. 4to (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [4], 83, [1 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • ESTC R19546; Wing (rev. ed.) L2967. Contemporary speckled calf framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons and contrasting plain calf panel, nicely rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled compartment decorations; corners and edges rubbed, sides in pleasing condition. Somewhat-spotted half-title with early inked authorship annotation; pages age-toned, otherwise clean and all edges red. (26525)
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