[RENNELL (James)]

War with France. The only Security of Britain, at the Present Momentous Crisis: Set forth in an earnest address to his fellow-subjects, by an old Englishman.

London: Sold by Chapman and Co., 1794. 8vo (185 x 125), 16pp., title a little stained, later blue wrappers. The scarcer of the two editions published in the same year (ESTC T52232).

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Book number: 36573

Keywords: MILITARY ANGLO-FRENCH WAR POLITICS

[HOOLE (Barbara)]

A Week at Harrogate. A Poem: in a Series of Letters...

Knaresbrough: Printed, (for the Author) at Hargrove's Office, 1818. Third edition, viii, 9-98, [2]pp., one engraved plate, 10 woodcuts in the text, cont. signature of John Preston at head of title, cont. half calf, hinges cracked. Although the title page calls for "Three neat Plates" only one is present.

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Book number: 31067

Keywords: ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY YORKSHIRE POETRY HARROGATE KNARESBOROUGH

[APPLEYARD (E.S.)]

Welsh Sketches, Chiefly Ecclesiastical, to the Twelfth Century. By the Author of "Proposals for Christian Union." [First, Second and Third Series].

London: James Darling, 1853-54. Third edition of First Series, first edition of Second Series, second edition of Third Series, viii, 160; viii, 153, [3]; viii, 192pp., errata leaf at end of Second Series, all in original limp cloth, slightly worn, spines faded. Provenance: Ownership signature of B. Johnes, 1870, on front flyleaf.

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Book number: 35554

Keywords: WALES WELSH HISTORY

[LOFTUS (William Robert)]

The Wine and Spirit Merchant. A Familiar Treatise on the Art of Making Wine; with Introductory Remarks on Ancient and Modern Wines, and the Nature and Soil of Wine-Producing Countries, with a Copious Appendix, Containing the Names and Characters of all known Wines.

London: Published by W. R. Loftus, [c. 1870.] 8vo, xiv, [2], 300 + 24pp., of adverts, orig. blind-stamped publishers purple cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, head and foot of spine a little frayed, small hole in cloth on rear cover. Gabler, Wine into Words, G27910.

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Book number: 39100

Keywords: DRINK WINE FOOD AND DRINK

[MACKENZIE (J.)]

A Woollen Draper's Letter on the French Treaty, to his Friends and Fellow Tradesmen all over England.

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. French, 1786. First Edition, half-title, signed on p.40 "R. J. Woollen Draper." [i.e. J. Mackenzie], [4], 48 pp., cont. blue paper wrappers, a nice copy. Pp. [41]-48 contain: "A List of the Cities and Towns in France*, wherein the Woollen Manufacture of all sorts are established, distinguishing each". A note at the foot of page [41] states "This List was printed by authority in the year 1760, from which time it has been annually increasing." Goldsmith, 13193.

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Book number: 30912

Keywords: Economics WOOLLEN TRADE WOOL TRADE COMMERCE ANTIQUARIAN

[COMBE (William)]

A Word in Season, to the Traders and Manufacturers of Great Britain.

Birmingham: Printed by Thomas Pearson, 1792. 24pp., orig. marbled paper wrappers, lightly stained. "A firmly conservative appeal to businessmen, urging that they of all people should resist the subversive arguments of Tom Paine and the reform societies." (Hamilton, Doctor Syntax, p. 163). Goldsmiths'-Kress, no. 15506.1.

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Book number: 30306

Keywords: ECONOMICS ANTIQUARIAN POLITICAL PAMPHLETS

BOOK-KEEPING. O'BRIEN (W. P.)

Double Entry Elucidated. Calcutta: Printed at the Eastern Press, by P. M. Cranenburgh & J. M. Gomes, No. 179, Bow Bazar Street, 1866. First edition, 16pp., contemporary ownership stamp on upper blank margin of title "A. Phillips, 11A, Dr. Sudir Basu Rd, CAL-23.", text age-toned. [Bound with] The Physical Varieties of Man.

[Calcutta:?] [n.p., c 1866.] First edition?, 32pp., drop-head title, text age-toned. 2 works bound together, small 8vo, plain paper wrappers. An attempt at a classification of mankind into a number of distinct varieties or groups. The groups being Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and the Malay. The theories of Professor Blumenback, Charles Darwin, Baron Cuvier, Professors Agassiz and Huxley, and Dr. Pritchard, among others are discussed at some length.

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Book number: 40259

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY BOOK-KEEPING EVOLUTION CHARLES DARWIN

WHITTINGTON PRESS. O'CONNOR (John)

Knipton: a Leicestershire village. By John O'Connor with thirty-five wood-engravings by the artist.

Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1996. Folio, 2 vols., [32]pp., 35 wood-engraved illustrs., one of 200 copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper at Whittington, THIS BEING ONE OF 45 COPIES WITH A SEPARATE PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT OF THE ENGRAVINGS, copy no: 4 signed by the artist in pencil, main volume bound in quarter Oasis leather with separate portfolio bound in cloth-backed boards, both volumes enclosed in a matching slip-case, fine copies.

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Book number: 40502

Keywords: PRIVATE PRESSES WHITTINGTON PRESS KNIPTON LEICESTERSHIRE PRIVATE PRESS