[BOSANQUET (Charles)]

A Letter to W. Manning, Esq. M.P. on the Proposition Submitted to the Consideration of Government, for taking the Duties on Muscovado Sugar ad valorem.

Printed by S. & C. McDowall. [1807]. First Edition, [ii],46pp., title and last leaf a little dusty, disbound. "The quality of sugar formed no just basis for taxation. Such a system was inexpedient because it would encourage the production of low-grade product, particularly in the newly conquered colonies which were capable of supplying an almost unlimited quantity of the superior article. It would be impossible to grade sugars properly into the several classes according to which they would be taxed in the proposal under consideration. There would be much fraud to secure the benefit of low rates. Completely side-steps the great fact that it was not equitable to exact the same duty as formerly when sugar had declined to one-third of its one-time value."—Ragatz, p.281. Copac locates the Bodleian copy only; OCLC adds NHL & INU. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19403.3; Sabin,102848;

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Book number: 26673

Keywords: ECONOMICS TRADE MUSCOVADO SUGAR

[CURRIE (James)]

A Letter, Commercial and Political, addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt: in which the real interests of Britain in the present crisis, are considered, and some observations are offered on the general State of Europe....... By Jaspar Wilson, Esq.

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, 4to, piece torn from upper blank margin of title (not touching the text), [4], 72pp., disbound. Kress, B2474; Goldsmith, 15727.

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Book number: 30691

Keywords: ECONOMICS ANTIQUARIAN PAMPHLETS

[BENSON (William)]

A letter to Sir J- B--, by birth a Swede, but naturaliz'd, and a M--r of the present P---t: concerning the late Minehead doctrine, which was establish'd by a certain free parliament of Sweden, to the utter enslaving of that kingdom.

London: printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-Lane, 1711. [6], 40pp., without half-title, disbound.

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Book number: 30748

Keywords: Economics ANTIQUARIAN POLITICS SWEDEN PAMPHLETS

[STUART (John, 3rd Earl of Bute)]

A Letter to the Earl of B---, [i.e. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute] Relative to the Late Changes that have happened in the Administration.

London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1765. First edition, 4to, [4], 15, [1, blank]pp., with half-title which has a small hole which just carries through to the title, stitched as issued, corners a little dog-eared. 3 UK locates and 5 North American in ESTC.

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Book number: 32707

Keywords: POLITICS PAMPHLETS

[DUMBELL (John)]

A Letter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [A Letter relative to Weights and Measures].

London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Shoe-Lane, "Not Published", [1814]. First Edition, title lightly foxed, 26 pp., modern cloth-backed marbled boards. Signed "John Dumbell, Mersey Mills, near Warrington, May 20, 1814." Goldsmith, 20873; COPAC finds the British Library copy only, OCLC adds copies at Princeton and the National Library of Australia.

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Book number: 33047

Keywords: Weights & Measures Economics PAMPHLETS

[GRENVILLE (Richard, Lord Temple)]

A Letter to His Grace the Duke of Grafton, on the present Situation of Public Affairs.

London: Printed for J. Almon, [1768?]. First edition, [2], 30pp., without half-title and final advert leaf, disbound. Goldsmiths-Kress, no. 10398; Sabin, 40439.

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Book number: 33104

Keywords: ECONOMICS POLITICS PAMPHLETS

[Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and the Right Hon. Henry Pelham].

A Letter to the Author of an Examination of the Principles; and an enqury [sic] into the conduct of the two b-rs: in which is proved, by indisputable facts of foreign transactions, that the two b--rs are true guardians to these kingdoms;... and are therefore falsly accused by the said letter writer.

London: Printed for G. Keith, 1749. Second edition, [2], 82pp., disbound. 'The two b[rothe]rs' mentioned are Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and the Right Hon. Henry Pelham. 'An examination of the principles;..' is by John Perceval.

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Book number: 33393

Keywords: POLITICS HISTORY PAMPHLETS

[PRICE (Joseph)]

A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; On the latter Part of the late Report of the Select Committee of the State of Justice in Bengal. With some curious Particulars and original Anecdotes concerning the Forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar, on the proof of which he lost his life. Together with some remarks on the Conduct of the Majority of the Civil Government at that time in Fort William, Bengal, proper and necessary to be perused and duly weighed by every Member of both Houses of Parliament, before they proceeded to determine on the Evidence given up in the first Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons.

[London]: Printed for the author, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1782. First edition, 100,20,70pp., repair to closed tear to inner margin of title-page, title a little soiled, disbound.

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Book number: 33774

Keywords: ECONOMICS PAMPHLET INDIA

[SHERLOCK (Thomas)]

A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes.

London: Printed for John Whiston, 1750. 16pp., stitched as issued (loose), margins a little frayed. ESTC T180219.

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Book number: 33937

Keywords: Theology Earthquakes Pamphlet

[ANSTIE (John)]

A Letter addressed to Edward Phelips, Esq. Member for the County of Somerset; containing General Observations on the Advantages of Manufacturing the Combing Wool of England, which is Smuggled to France; and Cursory Remarks of the Evidence given by the Manufacturers to the Committee of the House of Commons: Also, a Refutation of the Argument adduced by the Author of the Annals of Agriculture, from an Official Paper of Mons. Calonne; to shew The Inconsiderable Quantity of British Wool imported into France. By the chairman of the Wool Meeting.

London: Printed by Stafford and Davenport, for J. Debrett, opposite Old Bon Street, Piccadilly, 1788. Second Edition, 4to, half-title, [4], 30, [2] pp., signed on p. 27: John Anstie, with a final leaf containing a resolution of the Wool Meeting at the Crown and Anchor, March 17, 1788, stitched as issued. Although John Anstie wrote several pamphlets about the wool trade there does not seem to be a first edition of this work.

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Book number: 34511

Keywords: ECONOMICS Smuggling Wool trade Somerset

[OWEN (John)]

A Letter to a Country Clergyman [Thomas Sikes], Occasioned by his Address to Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By a Sub-urban Clergyman [John Owen].

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1805. First edition, [4], 61, [1] + [2]pp., publisher's ads, with half title, disbound.

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Book number: 35674

Keywords: CHURCH OF ENGLAND BIBLE

[WHATLEY (Robert)]

A Letter to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled; containing, a state of the cause between the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole and Mr Whatley, as It now lies at Issue in the Hands of the Members of the most Honourable the Privy-Council, by Mr Whatley's most humble Appeal to his Majesty, in the Cause between Them.

London: Printed for the Author, 1742. First edition, 8vo, [2], 53, [5]pp., title page a little dusty, later paper wrappers.

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Book number: 37995

Keywords: POLITICS

[BOLINGBROKE (Viscount Henry St John)]

A Letter to Sir William Windham. II. Some reflections on the present state of the nation. III. A letter to Mr. Pope. By the late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1753. First edition, [2], 531, [1]pp., with half-title and etched portrait frontispiece, endpapers browned from turn-ins, contemporary speckled calf, spine tooled in gilt, red morocco title label, joints just starting otherwise and excellent copy.

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Book number: 38234

Keywords: ECONOMICS HISTORY POLITICS

[FOTHERGILL (John)]

A Letter to a Friend in the Country, Relative to the Intended School, at Ackworth, in Yorkshire.

London: Printed and Sold by James Phillips, 1789. Second edition, with additions, 8vo, 64pp., LACKS PLATES, some light spotting, library stamp to verso of title, later paper wrappers.

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Book number: 38247

Keywords: EDUCATION YORKSHIRE SCHOOLS ACKWORTH

[WAGSTAFFE (William)]

A Letter from the Facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his Loving Brother the Profound Greshamite [John Woodward], shewing, That the Scribendi Cacoethes is a Distemper arising from a Redundancy of Biliose Salts, and not to be Eradicated, but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an Appendix of Socrates his Clyster, and The Use of Clean Linnen in Controversy.

London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1719. First edition,48pp., small stain on title, slight browning of the text, uncut, disbound. "This Letter is an attack on John Woodward, Professor of Physic at Gresham College, who repeatedly came into conflict, on scientific subjects, with members of Tory circles. It is the only one of the pieces printed in Wagstaffe's 'Miscellaneous Works', 1725, of which the authorship is undisputed." - Rothschild. ***** Some of Dr. Wagstaffe's writings have such literary merit, that Charles Wentworth Dilke conjectures that this work was written by Swift, whilst Sir Henry Craik in his 'Life of Swift' said the hypothesis was almost irresistible. Wagstaffe was a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, whether he was also an original satirist influenced by Swift is open to question, but he certainly must have met him quite frequently at the house of his father-in-law, Charles Bernard. Rothschild, 2473 (second edition).

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Book number: 38446

Keywords: ENGLISH LITERATURE EPISTOLARY FICTION JONATHAN SWIFT SWIFTIANA