[HUTTON (William)]

A Concise History of Birmingham, containing an Account of its Ancient State, and the Latest Improvements: together with a Statement of the Arrival and Departure of the Mails, Stage Coaches, Waggons, &c. &c. The whole forming a Complete Guide to the Inhabitant and Stranger.

Birmingham: Printed by and for R. Jabet, and P. Lucas, 1808. Fourth edition, 12mo (164 x 100mm), xviii, 78pp., folding plan of Birmingham, library stamp on title, blind stamp on first 6 leaves, 3 engraved plates, contemporary calf, upper cover detached.

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Book number: 35630

Keywords: ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY BIRMINGHAM WARWICKSHIRE

[PULTENEY (William)]

The conduct of the late and present m-------ry compared. With an Impartial Review of Public Transactions since the Resignation of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford; and of the Causes that immediately effected the same. To which is added, Remarks on the Farther Report of a certain Committee. In a Letter to a Friend.

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1742. Third Edition, 24pp., disbound.

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Book number: 33293

Keywords: POLITICS History PAMPHLETS

[DOUGLAS (John)]

The Conduct of a Noble Lord Scrutinized. By a volunteer who was near his Person from the 28th of July, to the 2d of August, 1759.

London: Printed for J. Fuller, 1759. First and only edition, 8vo, 38, [2]pp., with half-title, disbound. Referring to the conduct of Lord George Sackville at the battle of Minden.

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Book number: 38416

Keywords: ANGLO-FRENCH WAR MILITARY SEVEN YEAR WAR

[SACKVILLE (Lord George)]

The Conduct of a Late Noble Commander, candidly considered. With a view to expose the Misrepresentations of the Anonymous Author of the Two Letters Addressed to His L-p; To place the Controversy on a Foundation supported by Facts; to state the Difficulties, which obstruct a public Inquiry; and to propose a Method of removing Them.

London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1760. First and only edition, 8vo, [4], 43, [1]pp., with half-title, disbound.

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Book number: 38450

Keywords: MILITARY SEVEN YEAR WAR ANGLO-FRENCH WAR

[CROOKSHANKS (John)]

The Conduct and Treatment of John Crookshanks, Esq; Late Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Lark; relating to his attempt to take the Glorioso, a Spanish Ship of war, in July 1747... with a Plan, shewing the positions of the Ships. Containing the Original Orders, Letters, and Papers, that passed in consequence of that affair, between Captain Crookshanks, Admiral Knowles, the Secretaries of the Admiralty, and others.

London: Printed for J. Scott, 1759. First edition, 8vo (200 x 115 mm), viii, 155, [1]pp., large engraved folding plan 'A view of the Lark and Warwick, when they came up with the Glorioso', later boards, leather spine label, a nice copy. In July 1747 the Lark, in company with the Warwick (60 guns), who near the Azores fell in with the Spanish ship Glorioso, homeward bound with treasure. The Warwick closed with the Glorioso and was badly damaged, while the Lark stood off.

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Book number: 39374

Keywords: MARITIME NAVAL SEAMANSHIP

[MALLET (David)]

A Congratulatory Letter to Selim, on Three Letters to the Whigs [by Horace Walpole].

Printed for M. Cooper, 1748. First Edition, half-title, [4], 64pp., disbound. Hazen, Bibliography of Horace Walpole, p.34.

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Book number: 33071

Keywords: Politics PAMPHLET

[WEBSTER (William)]

The Consequences of Trade, as to the Wealth and Strength of any Nation; of the Woollen Trade in Particular, and the Great Superiority of it over all other Branches of Trade... The Danger we are in of becoming a Province to France, unless an Effectual and Immediate Stop be put to the Exportation of our Wool... By a Draper of London.

Printed Anno Domini M.DCC.XL. Sold by T. Cooper. 1740. 27, [1]pp., final leaf stained, stitched as issued, uncut.

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Book number: 22954

Keywords: ECONOMICS TRADE ANTIQUARIAN

[WEBSTER (William)]

The Consequences of Trade, as to the Wealth and Strength of any Nation; of the Woollen Trade in particular, and the great superiority of it over all other Branches of Trade.... By a Draper of London.

London: Printed and Sold by T. Cooper, 1740. Third Edition, 35, [1] pp., modern marbled wrappers. Kress, 4538; Goldsmith, 7763.

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Book number: 32270

Keywords: Trade Wool The Consequences of Trade, as to the Wealth and Strength of any Nation; of the Woollen Trade in particular, and the great superiority of it over all other Branches of Trade.... By a Draper of London.

[MURRAY (Patrick, 5th Baron Elibank)]

Considerations of the Present State of the Peerage of Scotland. By a Peer of Scotland.

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour, 1774. 21, [1]pp., a little soiled, later wrappers.

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Book number: 32700

Keywords: POLITICS SCOTLAND EDINBURGH IMPRINT

[LYTTELTON (George Lyttelton, Baron)]

Considerations upon the present State of our Affairs, at Home and Abroad in a Letter to a Member of Parliament from a Friend in the Country.

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1739. First edition, 8vo, [2], 65, [3]pp., in this edition there are no press figures on pp.1, 16, and 24, there is a press figure, 3, on p.47, title-page dusty, the final leaf which consists of a postscript and erratum has the lower blank margin cut away, disbound. Lyttelton attacks the convention with Spain, and denies the right of Spain to search American and British ships. It also contains the treaty with Spain regarding America (pp.46-57). Sabin, 42889; Kress, 4443; Goldsmith, 7626; Hanson, 5233.

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Book number: 38380

Keywords: POLITICS ECONOMICS MARITIME SPAIN AMERICA

[LYTTELTON (George Lyttelton, Baron)]

Considerations upon the present State of our Affairs, at Home and Abroad in a Letter to a Member of Parliament from a Friend in the Country.

London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1739. Second edition, 8vo, [2], 67, [3]pp., the verso of p.67 and the recto of the final leaf bear a Postscript, disbound.

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Book number: 38384

Keywords: POLITICS ECONOMICS MARITIME SPAIN AMERICA

[MAUDUIT (Israel)]

Considerations on the Present German War.

London: Printed for John Wilkie, 1761. Fourth edition, 8vo, 144pp., with half-title, disbound.

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Book number: 38414

Keywords: ANGLO-FRENCH WAR MILITARY SEVEN YEAR WAR

[BARNARD (Sir John)]

Considerations on the Proposal for Reducing the Interest of the National Debt.

London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1750. Second edition, [2], 34pp., disbound. A reissue of the sheets of the first edition of the same year, printed by Richardson, with title page altered

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Book number: 39137

Keywords: ECONOMICS NATIONAL DEBT

[THOMAS (Hugh Owen)]

Contributions to Surgery and Medicine. Part I. Intestinal Disease and Obstruction.

London: H. K. Lewis, [1883]. First edition, 8vo (210 x 125 mm), [6], vi, 284, xvi, 5 lithographed plates, each with explanation leaf, numbered 1-5, ex-Birmingham Medical Institute library, with several neat faint ink stamps, presentation label from the author, gathering loose, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, head and foot of spine chipped. "Not all Thomas's therapeutic precepts... originated with him, but he was the first to apply them in a rational and systematic manner and to make them the basis of his treatment. He published his methods, illustrated by numerous case histories, in his Contributions, issued irregularly in parts between 1881 and 1890 [not numerically]; the works eccentric mode of publication guaranteed its obscurity".—Norman. Garrison & Morton, 4348; Norman, 2070.

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Book number: 37468

Keywords: MEDICINE SUGERY

[KENNETT (White)]

Convocation-Craft: or, a brief History of the Intrigues, and Insolence, of English Convocations under the Papacy, till Restrain'd by King Henry V111. With an Account of their Behaviour since, intermix'd with proper Reflections, and Authorities to prove, that when they act beyond their Commission from the Crown, they incur the Danger of a Præmunire.......

London: Printed for S. Baker, 1717. First Edition, cont. signature of W. Foster (cropped) on upper blank margin of title, Ms. note by W. Foster in a blank margins of two leaves, 90pp., disbound. "Advertisement to Church-wardens" on p. 90. Brief history of the intrigues and insolence, of English Convocations under the papacy, till restrain'd by King Henry VIII.

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Book number: 30808

Keywords: Theology ANTIQUARIAN PAMPHLETS