[MacAULAY (Alexander)]

Property Inviolable: or, some Remarks upon a Pamphlet entituled, Prescription Sacred [which states that the clergy of Ireland have no legal right to the tithe of agistment].

Dublin: Printed in the Year, 1736. First edition, 47, [1]pp., ownership inscription on title "Philip Wolfe", disbound. Kress, 4296; Goldsmith, 7404.

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Book number: 30858

Keywords: ECONOMICS COMMERCE FINANCE TITHES ANTIQUARIAN

[MacAULAY (Alexander)]

Property Inviolable: or, some Remarks upon a Pamphlet entituled, Prescription Sacred [which states that the clergy of Ireland have no legal right to the tithe of agistment].

Dublin: Printed in the Year, 1736. First edition, 47, [1]pp., ownership inscription on title "Philip Wolfe", disbound. Kress, 4296; Goldsmith, 7404.

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Book number: 39886

Keywords: ECONOMICS COMMERCE FINANCE TITHES SHEEP CATTLE

[HONE (William)]

The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, a National Toy, with Fourteen Step Scenes; and Illustrations in Verse.

London: Printed by and for William Hone, 1820. Eighteenth edition, 8vo, 22pp., woodcuts in the text, first and last leaf a little soiled, spine with a thin strip of tape.

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Book number: 38213

[GALLOWAY (Honorary Colonel Thomas L.)]

The Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry 1848 to 1948.

Glasgow: Printed for the Regiment By Robert MacLehose and Company Ltd, 1948. First edition, 4to, 125pp., foreword signed by the author in ink, numerous illustrs., orig. publishers quarter blue morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt, spine faded otherwise a nice copy. Provenance: With a tipped-in A.L.s of presentation from the author to Mr. Harris, "I send you a copy of the centenary history of the Q.O.R.G.Y.... It was a very restricted edition and very few libraries have a copy..."

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Book number: 39564

Keywords: MILITARY SCOTLAND REGIMENTAL HISTORY QUEEN'S OWN ROYAL GLASGOW YEOMANRY

[THOMAS (Joseph)]

Railroad Guide, from London to Birmingham. Containing Picturesque, Historical, Legendary, and Statistical Sketches of its Vicinity.

London: Joeseph Thomas, 1839. Third edition, 8vo (195 x 120 mm), 236pp., frontispiece double-page strip map, 8 plates (some coloured), orig. publishers cloth, title and illustration of a locomotive stamped in gilt on upper cover, inner hinges worn, tears to joints but holding firm, corners rubbed. Ottley, 6940.

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Book number: 39258

Keywords: RAILWAYS TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY MIDLAND RAILWAYS

'CIVIS.'

The Railway Question. Practical Suggestions for a Fundamental Reform of the Railway System, on a Principle Combining National Benefits with the Permanent Interests of Shareholders. By Civis.

London: Edward Stanford, 1856. First edition, 8vo (210 x 135 mm), 50, [2]pp., stitched as issued, first and last leaf soiled. Ottley, 4361. "Government control of future development (new lines) with dividends guaranteed". Copac locating the British Library copy only.

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Book number: 36472

Keywords: RAILWAYS TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY

[LEVER (Ellis)]

The Railway and the Mine. Lever's Illustrated Year-Book 1861.

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., [1860]. 8vo (215 x 135 mm), 194 + 16pp., of adverts printed in pink paper, pictorial title page, 8 engraved plates, illustrs., in the text, a couple of gatherings standing proud, orig. blind-stamped ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, head and foot of spine lightly chipped. All published of this scarce work on the Railway and Coal industry.

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Book number: 36553

Keywords: ECONOMICS RAILWAYS COAL INDUSTRY TRANSPORT

[NEWMARCH (Charles Henry)]

Recollections of Rugby, By an Old Rugbaean.

London: Hamilton & Adams. Oxford: J. Vincent. Cambridge: J. Deighton. Rugby: Crossley and Billington, 1848. First edition, 12mo (160 x 115 mm), [4], 180, 2, [2]pp., 3pp. of adverts. at end, lithograph frontispiece of the school, ownership name and date on title and front endpaper "S. G. Tatlor C. G. S. Rugby, came 1892 - 1894", orig. embossed cloth, gilt, a nice copy.

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Book number: 35520

Keywords: EDUCATION WARWICKSHIRE SCHOOLS RUGBY SCHOOL

[CEVA (Tommaso)]

Reflexions upon the Idolatry of the Jesuits, and other Affairs relating to Religion in China. Written originally in Italian: translated into French:. the Paris copy, by a gentleman at the Hague and sent in a letter to the Rev'd. Dr. Francis Atterbury.

London: Printed by H. Hills, 1709. 8vo (17 x 105 mm), 24pp., a little very minor worming in the text with loss of a few letters only, margins cut close and outer margin of 2 leaves just shaved, disbound. A translation from the French Réflexions sur les affaires presentes de la Chine, itself a translation of the Italian Alcune riflessioni intorno alle cose presenti della Cina. Not in Lust or Lowendahl.

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Book number: 39398

Keywords: CHINA JESUITS

[COTTON (James Henry)]

Remarks upon the Report of the Commissioners on the State of Education in North Wales: Intended to have been addressed to the editor of the "North Wales Chronicle."

Bangor: Printed and Published by Hugh Williams, 1848. Second edition, with additions, 24pp., disbound.

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Book number: 33068

Keywords: EDUCATION NORTH WALES PAMPHLET

[BURTON (John)]

Remarks on Dr. K----'s Speech before the University of O-------d, at the Dedication of Dr. R-----'s Library, on the XIIIth of April, MDCCXLIX. By Phileleutherus Londinensis.

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1750. First edition, 45, [1, errata]pp., some early notations to head of title-page, lightly soiled, disbound. "Burton, John (1696–1771)... Though a tory Burton was not so extreme as Dr William King, principal of St Mary Hall, and under the pseudonym Phileleutherus Londinensis he criticized King's celebrated speech at the dedication of the Radcliffe Library, in Oxford, on 13 April 1749. King responded with a fierce 'Elogium famae inserviens Jacci Etonensis, or, The praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called Jack the Giant' (1750), in which he satirized 'the Burtonic style'."—(New ODNB). Phileleutherus Londinensis = John Burton; Dr. K---- = Dr. King, and Dr. R----- = Dr. Radcliffe; O-------d = Oxford.

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Book number: 33624

Keywords: HISTORY RADCLIFFE LIBRARY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PAMPHLETS

[O'BRYEN (Denis)]

Remarks upon the Report of a Peace, in consequence of Mr. Secretary Townshend's Letter to the Lord Mayor of London, Bank Diectors, &c. By the Author of the Defence of the Earl of Shelburne.

London: Printed for J. Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, 1783. Third edition, 8vo, half-title, [5], 6-38pp., without the final advert leaf, disbound. Adams, 82-63c; ESTC cites the John Carter Brown copy only.

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Book number: 38406

Keywords: AMERICAN CONTROVERSEY MILITARY

[KENNEDY (John)]

Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. J— H— [Sir John Hill] Inspector-General of Great Britain. In a series of Letters from a Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country. With occasional hints relative to a Parallel Performance of a certain noble Earl [John Boyle, Earl of Orrery.]

London: Printed for W. Owen, 1752. First edition, 8vo, 64pp., disbound. An attack upon Dr John Hill, author of a daily letter entitled 'The inspector' in 'The London advertiser and literary gazette'.

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Book number: 39087

[BLOOD (Thomas)]

Remarks on the Life and Death of the Fam'd Mr. Blood: giving an account of his plot in Ireland, to surprise Dublin castle; several transactions in his head-quarters in the city; rescue of Captain Mason at Doncaster; attempt on the person of His Grace the Duke of Ormond; seizing on the crown and scepter in the Tower; coming into favour with his prince; concern about His Grace the Duke of Buckingham; sickness, death, and twice internment.

London: Reprinted by G. Smeeton, 1817. Small 4to (198 x 155 mm), [2], 34, [2]pp., engraved portrait frontispiece (lightly offset), title printed in red and black, disbound. Reprint of the original edition which was printed by Richard Janeway and published in 1680.

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Book number: 40639

Keywords: HISTORY IRELAND

[CLARKE (William)]

Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. London: William Clarke, 1819. First edition, xlviii, [2], 138, 133*-138*, 139-454, 449*-454*, 455-672, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved portraits (foxed and offset, the portrait of Towneley is inserted and stands proud), small ink splash to title, 2 woodcuts in the text. [Bound with:] A Dialogue in the Shades; between William Caxton, a Bibliomaniac, and William Wynken, Clerk. Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall. A Ballad. The Diary of Roger Payne, with a Lithographic sketch on the Monument to be Erected to his memory by the Bibliographical Club.

London: Printed for William Clarke, 1821. Second edition, [2 ads], [36]pp., with printed title-page and half-title, engraved headpiece, the advert leaf includes two editions of Beckford's Vathek and A Description of Fonthill Abbey. Small 4to (235 x 145 mm), 2 works in one, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. The Dialogue in the Shades is a two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers. This second edition is issued with an additional half-title, title-page with note from 'Mr. Wynkem' on the verso, and with the addition of The Diary of Roger Payne, a work in the same vein. A rare anti-Dibdinia item. Windle & Pippin, D9.

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Book number: 36005

Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY THOMAS FROGAL DIBDIN BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS INCUNABLES INCUNABULA MANUSCRIPTS PRINTING TYPOGRAPHY WILLIAM BECKFORD FONTHILL ABBEY