[GrIGGS (W.)]

147 Examples of Armorial Book Plates. From Various Collections. (Second Series).

London: W. Griggs & Sons, Limited, 1892. 4to, coloured frontis., 147 plates, front inner hinge broken, orig. decorated boards, spine torn.

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Book number: 38284

Keywords: BOOKPLATES EX LIBRIS EX-LIBRIS BOOK PLATES BOOK-PLATES

[FAULKNER (T. W.)]

Abstract of Returns of Charitable Donations for Poor Persons in the County of Bucks.

Aylesbury: Published by T. W. Faulkner; Woodman, Printer. 1820. 4to, iv, 81, [1, blank]pp., ownership signature of Thomas Field (1884), with printed label of G. H. Wyatt on front paste-down, cont. marbled boards, re-backed and new corner pieces, rubbed, joints cracked, orig. printed label on upper cover. Faulkner published this work to draw to public attention "the 'Abuse' that at the present time, and for many years past, have been existing in the distributions of 'Various Charities'... Some curious returns will surprise the Reader, of 'Large Receipt's' and 'Trifling Expenditure', yet declared the 'Trusts in Debt'; to others irregularly paid or not at all, and to numerous accounts of the annual trivial irregularly to be the produce of Gifts to the Poor, that if correct, would appear rather an 'Insult' than intended as a 'Relief'." (Preface). Copac recording a single copy at the British Library.

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Book number: 32529

Keywords: SOCIAL STUDIES POOR BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ASHENDON AYLESBURY BUCKINGHAM BURNHAM COTTESLOE DESBOROUGH STOKE CHIPPING WYCOMBE

[JACKSON (Edward)]

An Account of the Many and Great Loans, Benefactions, and Charities, Belonging to the City of Coventry, To which is annexed, a Copy of the Decretal Order of the Court of Chancery. Relating to the Memorable Charity of Sir Thomas White.

Printed for William Ratten, 1733. First Edition, [ii],vi,[1]-174,[4],175-242pp., lacks final errata leaf, recent half calf, leather label.

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Book number: 24952

Keywords: POOR COVENTRY WARWICKSHIRE TOPOGRAPHY ANTIQUARIAN

[ROTHERAM (John)]

Account of the Statue of King Charles II. Formerly on Tyne Bridge, Newcastle, with the Pasquinade, on its removal to the Exchange, and the Reply.

Newcastle: Printed for John Sykes, 1826. First edition, 7 + [1]pp., of ads, engraved vignette to title-page, a further 3 engravings within the text, disbound.

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Book number: 33046

Keywords: POETRY NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE PAMPHLETS

[LASSONE (Joseph-Marie-Fran�ois de)]

An Account of the Tenia [or Long Tape Worm], and Method of Treating it.

London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1778. Second edition, corrected and considerably enlarged, xxi, [1], 77, [1]pp., with half-title, 3 folding Copper-engraved plates, faint library stamp on title and margin of third plate, disbound. Translation by Samuel Foart Simmons from the earlier Paris edition. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.

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Book number: 34342

Keywords: MEDICINE TENIA MEDICAL PAMPHLETS LONG TAPE WORM

[ANDREE (John)]

An Account of the Tilbury Water. Containing, a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring, experiments on the water, observations on the experiments, the vertues of the water interspers'd with various cases, the manner of drinking it; and lastly several remarkable cures.

London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1740. Second edition with additions, 8vo (190 x 115 mm), [4], i [i.e. iii]-iv, [7]-40pp., pp. [5-6] misnumbered i and iv, title page a little dusty, recent quarter red morocco, marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover. John Andree, (1697/8–1785), physician, was the co-founder of the London Hospital. "During his life he was best-known as the physician who extolled the medicinal properties of the alterative water derived from a particular well in the village of West Tilbury, Essex. His tract An Account of the Tilbury Water (1737) remained in print for half a century; the water was promoted as a 'true specifick' for diarrhoeas and all kinds of fluxes, and was considered to be 'fitted by nature to absorb and correct the acrimonious contents of the stomach and bowels'."—(ODNB). Wellcome on-line, no. 10628708.

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Book number: 36898

Keywords: MEDICINE HYDROLOGY TILBURY WATER

[DALRYMPLE (Sir David)], Editor.

An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by Himself. To which are added, His Letters to several persons. [An Account of His Majesty's escape from Worcester, dictated to Mr. Pepys by the King himself].

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, and sold by John Balfour bookseller in Edinburgh, 1766. First Glasgow Edition, 8vo, viii, 190 pp., some light browning at the beginning, contemporary green morocco, spine ruled in gilt, crimson label, a nice copy. Printed from a manuscript in the Pepysian Collection, Magdalen College, Cambridge. The preface is signed by the editor, the jurist and historian Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Gaskell, 449.

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Book number: 30909

Keywords: Royal Family HISTORY ANTIQUARIAN

[HERON (John)]

An Account of the Donations to the Parish of Newark upon Trent, in the County of Nottingham. By a Parishioner.

London: Printed for the Use of the Parishioners, 1748. First edition, 4to, vii, [1], 80pp., original wrappers, spine frayed, uncut and unopened, a very nice copy.

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Book number: 34477

Keywords: Nottinghamshire Newark British Topography

[SHARP (William)]

An Account of a New Method of Treating Fractured Legs. Read before the Royal Society of London. To which is prefixed a Letter on that Subject to James Parsons, M.D., a Member of that respectable Society, dated November 6, 1766.

London: Printed in the Year, 1767. First Edition, 16pp., folding engraved plate, modern marbled wrappers, a nice copy. Blake, p.416.

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Book number: 32260

Keywords: Medicine MEDICAL PAMPHLET An Account of a New Method of Treating Fractured Legs. Read before the Royal Society of London. To which is prefixed a Letter on that Subject to James Parsons, M.D., a Member of that respectable Society, dated November 6, 1766.

[?WARNER (I.)]

An Address to the University of Oxford, occasioned by a Sermon, intitled, The Divine Institution of the Ministry, and the absolute necessity of Church-Government; preached before that University by the Reverend Mr. Joseph Betty, on the 21st of September 1729. By I. W. L.

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1730. Second Edition, [2], 73, [1]pp., pamphlet with a marbled paper spine.

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Book number: 30971

Keywords: Theology ANTIQUARIAN

[KEATE (William)]

The Address of William Bull [i.e. William Keate], Gent. to William Pool, Esq; Steward of the Manor of Bishop's-Whitelands, in the south part of Great Britain.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. Second Edition, with alterations and additions, no half-title, 48pp., disbound.

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Book number: 35491

Keywords: Politics

[SIKES (Thomas)]

An Address to Lord Teignmouth. President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England. By a country clergyman.

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1805. First edition, 36pp., disbound. "A country clergyman" is usually identified as Thomas Sikes, Vicar of Guilsborough.

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Book number: 35673

Keywords: CHURCH OF ENGLAND BIBLE

[FITZWILLIAM (Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl)]

Address to the People Landowners of England, on the Corn Laws. By Viscount Milton.

London: John Murray, 1832. First edition, 46, [2, advert leaf]pp., cont. ownership signature in ink at head of title page "Arthur F. Gregory", disbound, a nice clean copy.

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Book number: 38369

Keywords: ECONOMICS CORN LAWS

[GIBSON (Edmund, Bishop of London)]

An admonition against common swearing: In a letter from a minister to his parishioner.

[London: N.P., c. 1725.] 12mo, 23, [1]pp., disbound. This edition not recorded by ESTC.

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Book number: 39641

Keywords: CHURCH OF ENGLAND THEOLOGY

[JOHNSON (John)]

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Marriage-State, as Enter'd into with Religious or Irreligious Persons, Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream: with Notes Explanatory and Improving. By J. B****n Minister of the Gospel.

Bosworth: Printed by Robert Grimley, for the Author, 1775. Sixth edition, with addition of new cuts, large 12mo (212 x125 mm), 29, [3]pp., with half-title, with the portrait of 'John Bunyan of Bedford' dreaming, and 8 curious woodcuts, and final leaf of advertisements of books by John Bunyan defective, old cello-tape repairs to all leaves, small burn hole to pages 15-18, stitched as issued. Includes a half-title with imprint: 'Sold by Mr. John Twells bookseller in Ashby,.. '. Provenance: Early ownership signature in ink on verso of half-title 'Edward Farden, His Book 1780.' Very rare, this appears to be the only eighteenth-century printing from this provincial town; ESTC locates just two copies (Northampton Record Office and Selly Oak Colleges Central Library).

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Book number: 40512

Keywords: EPHEMERA JOHN BUNYAN BOSWORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE