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Smokers and Smoking> Also, Snuff and Snuff-Takers.

Joseph Baker, 1851. 8vo. pp. ix, [1], 90: xi, [1], 90> illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt. Corners a little bruised otherwise a near Fine copy. The 2 publications were originally published separately in 1845 and 1846. Scarce.

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Book number: 28121

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The Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [23 February 1871.] [bound with] The Mortman Act, 1736.[bound with] An Act to Restrain the Disposition of Lands, 1873. [bound with] An Act for Facilitating the Acquisition and Enjoyment of Sites for Buildings for Religious, Educational, Scientific and Other Charitable Purposes, 1868.

George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1871. 8vo. pp. ccviii,1062: 3: 3: 8> folding charts, etc. Contemporary half morocco, worn. Front inner hinge broken. From the library of R.W. [Rod] Ambler. All books from this collection have his name, followed by the place and date of purchase in ink on the end paper.

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Book number: 35013

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SHARP, Granville

The Gilbart Prize Essay on the Adaptation of Recent Discoveries and Inventions in Science and Art to the Purposes of Practical Banking.

Groombridge and Sons, 1854. 3rd English Edition. Thick 8vo. pp. viii, 356> list of 90 illustrations and printed specimens [some folding, some over several pages], 15 wax seals on the rear pastedown. Half morocco, a little rubbed but a very sound copy. Granville Sharp, who was the accountant in the East of England Bank at Norwich, is best known for this profusely illustrated work, first published as a slight, unillustrated essay of fewer than 50 pages in 1852. Sharpe was awarded the £100 first prize put up by J.W. Gilbart, manager of the London and Westminster Bank. It is a detailed fully illustrated report on Victorian high-tech banking describing the widest range of technical developments affecting everything from fixtures and fittings for a bank, the health of employees, materials required including inks, paper, pens and account books, copying machines, printing and engraving including improvements in security printing and engraving to help prevent bank note forgery. The specimens provide samples of bank notes, watermarked security paper, bank cheques and similar material. Although described as the 3rd Edition, previous issues were short extracts or incomplete versions. This is a substantial full printing of the essay complete with excellent reproductions of all the many examples referred to. Although the illustrations are numbered 1 - 90, there are in fact a large number of bis illustrations giving a total of around 170 plates, samples and promotional leaflets.

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Book number: 46295

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STIRLING, William

Judicial Tattooing. [and] A Note on "Forgery" by Tracing.

Lyon: Joannès Devigne, 1934. 8vo. pp. 7> illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Issued by the Bibliothèque de la Revue Internationale de Criminalistique, official organ of the International Academy of Criminology. A scare pamphlet, the first article [3 pages], outlining the method of tattooing criminals banished from the Kingdom of Siam, and attempts made to remove or hide the tattoo. The second shorter article [2 pages] is on the use of tracing signatures in attempts at forgery.

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Book number: 45733

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A GENTLEMAN OF THE INNER TEMPLE

A Concise Abstract of All the Public Acts Passed in the Last Two Sessions of Parliament, From November 11, 1783, to August 20, 1784> Being the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third.

John Fielding and Scatchard and Whitaker, 1784. 8vo. pp. [6], [2, publisher's catalogue], 256. Contemporary sheep, worn but sound, internally clean and tight. On-line catalogues identify Liverpool University and Yale as the only locations for this rare title. "This is the fifth year of publishing this very useful Work."

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Book number: 38507

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