[BROUGHTON (Dr. Arthur)]

Enchiridion Botanicum: complectens Characteres Genericos et Specificos Plantarum per Insulas Britannicas sponte nascentium: ex Linnaeo aliisque desumptos.

Londini: impensis G. Robinson, 1782. First edition, 8vo, [2], ii, 226, [8]pp., cont. calf, rebacked, red leather spine label. Henrey III, 691.

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Book number: 40723

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[FLETCHER (W. Y.)]

English Bookbindings. [Article extracted from 'The Portfolio.']

[London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1896.] Folio, 53-104pp., 6 coloured chromolithograph plates, further illustrs., in the text, morocco-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

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Book number: 38572

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[HOADLY (Benjamin)]

An Enquiry into the reasons of the Conduct of Great-Britain, With Relation to the Present State of Affairs in Europe.

Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith in Dame-street, 1727. First Dublin Edition, ownership inscription of "Ph. Wolfe" on title, [2],70pp., disbound, uncut. The scarce Dublin edition. Goldsmith, 6502.

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Book number: 30959

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[HOADLY (Benjamin)]

An Enquiry into the reasons of the Conduct of Great-Britain, With Relation to the Present State of Affairs in Europe.

London: Printed, and Sold by James Roberts, 1727. First edition, 112pp., some light water-staining, closed tear to final leaf, disbound. Goldsmith, 6502.

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Book number: 30961

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[MARSHALL (Charles)]

An Epistle to Friends Coming forth in the Beginning of a Testimony: And of the Snares of the Enemy therein.

[London?: s.n., 1730?]. First and only edition, 8pp., drop-head title, orig. blue sugar paper wrappers. Wing, M739A; Smith, J. Friends' books, 2.145.

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Book number: 34220

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[STODDART (Lady Isabella Moncrieff Wellwood)]

The Eskdale Herd Boy, A Scottish Tale. For the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. By Mrs. Blackford.

London: J. Harris and Son, 1819. First Edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece (foxed) dated Octr. 10, 1819, some spotting of the text in places, 260 pp., modern boards, printed paper label. "The author was the eldest daughter of the Scottish Divine, the Reverend Sir Henry Montcrieff Wellwood. who received his early education at the parish school in Blackford, matriculated at the age of thirteen to the Glasgow University and returned to Blackford as the minister. It is doubtless because of this connection that the author chose her pseudonym, Mrs Blackford. She married Sir John Stoddart who became the Chief Justice of Malta. According to W. Carew Hazlitt, Lady Stoddart owed to Mary Lamb 'her earliest encouragement to cultivate the literary taste and capacity which she undoubtedly possessed in no mean degree.' " - Osborne. Moon, 827; Osborne, p. 943.

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Book number: 32222

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[MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (J.-Henri)]

L'Esprit de la présente guerre. Discours de M. de G. dans la Chambre des C. pour et contre les deux opinions dominantes dans le Parlement de la Grande-Bretagne, en faveur du commerce et de la paix.

De l'Imprimerie du Futur-Congrès, à l'Olivier Verd., 1758. First edition, small 8vo, xvi, 140, [2]pp., title page frayed at margins, just touching text without loss of any complete letter, title soiled, brown stain to fore-edge of final 10 leaves, disbound.

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Book number: 35669

Keywords: ECONOMICS TRADE COMMERCE FRENCH FINANCE

[SALUZZO (C. H.)]

Essai sur le Systeme Militaire de Bonaparte, suivi d'une courte notice sur la Révolution française, et le couronnement de sa majesté corse, par C.H.S.

Londres: Impr. de R. Juigné, 1810. First edition, xv, [1], 151, [1]pp., disbound.

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Book number: 37418

Keywords: MILITARY BONAPARTE FRENCH HISTORY

[BASSET (Joshua)]

An Essay towards a Proposal for Catholick Communion. Wherein Sixty of the Principal Controverted Points, which have hitherto divided Christendom, being call'd over, 'tis examin'd, how many of them may, and ought to be laid aside, and how few remain to be accommodated, for the effecting a General Peace. By a Minister of the Church of England.

London: Sold by John Nutt, 1704. First edition, 12mo (165 x 105 mm), [14], 248pp., with the initial blank A1, text a little spotted in places, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, label.

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Book number: 30778

Keywords: THEOLOGY CATHOLICS

[BANKTON (Andrew MacDowell, Lord)]

An Essay upon Feudal Holdings, Superiorities, and Hereditary Jurisdictions, in Scotland. Shewing, 1. The Nature of Feudal Holdings,..... 11. The Errors and gross Misrepresentations, touching the same,.... 111. That these Holdings, Superiorities and Jurisdictions have not been any of the Causes of the Rebellions 1715, or 1745. 1V. That the infringing the same may be dangerous to our happy Constitution.

Printed for R. Lee, at the Dove in Fleet-street, 1747. First Edition, 59, [1] pp., disbound. Lord Bankton, (1685–1760), judge, supported the reforms of laws affecting major landholdings that followed the Jacobite rising of 1745, but in his "Essay upon Feudal Holdings", published anonymously in London in 1747, warned against radical reform of the feudal system.

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Book number: 33042

Keywords: Law PAMPHLETS

[MARKHAM (Revd. Ralph)]

An Essay on Immorality [in verse]. In Three Parts.

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by John Hart, 1760. First edition, 4to (255 x 205mm), [12], 56pp., a near contemporary note on half-title attributes the work to "ye late Revd. Ralph Markham, Brother to Dr. Markham, late Rector of St. Mary's Whitechapel.", engraved frontispiece by Francis Hayman, lightly off-set on title, modern paper wrappers, a good copy. Part 1. Considers "An Enquiry into the Origin of Evil.... [and] the inherent Corruption of human Nature.... a more particular View of the common Vices; beginning with the ungenerous Gratification of lawless Love, in the Ruin of innocent Girls." Part 11. gives "A Sketch of the Gamester. [and] A drunken Evening particularly enlarg'd upon. A Picture of its odious Conclusion:... [and] the proper Use of Liquor." ESTC lists this as anonymous.

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Book number: 35609

Keywords: POETRY ENGLISH LITERATURE

[JENKS (Silvestor)]

An Essay upon the Art of Love, Containing an Exact Anatomy of Love and all the other Passions which attend it.

[London?]: [s.n.], Printed MDCCII, [1702.] First edition, 12mo (130 x 80 mm), [8], 9-300pp., neat library shelf label to front paste-down, some light browning to text, cont. calf, rubbed, light stain to upper cover, joints cracked, spine gilt, title label chipped. Silvester Jenks [alias Metcalfe] (1656–1714), Roman Catholic priest. "In a work wonderfully titled An Essay upon the Art of Love, Containing an Exact Anatomy of Love and all the other Passions which attend it (1702), Silvester Jenks set forth "the Anatomy of the living Soul." Philosophers such as Jenks described the causes and composition of the passions in terms derived from experience, either instead of, or in addition to, the physiological explanations of writers such as Descartes and Malebranche."—Traiger. Traiger, The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, p. 202.

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Book number: 36649

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[MAXWELL (John)]

An Essay upon Tune. Being an attempt to free the Scale of Music, and the Tune of Instruments, from Imperfection.

Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliot and T. Cadell, 1781. First edition, 8vo (200 x 122 mm), iv, 290, [2]pp., with final errata leaf, 19 folding engraved plates, some light offsetting, minor browning from turn-ins, contemporary tree calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, black leather lettering piece, joints slightly cracked otherwise a fine copy. The work was published anonymously and was long attributed to the English clergyman, the Rev. Francis Kelly Maxwell (1729-1782). However, it has recently been attributed to John Maxwell who was a property manager in Scotland for Sir William Pulteney and an amateur violinist. "In the 'Essay upon Tune' Maxwell presented his discovery to the public, namely, a division of the octave into forty-four distant pitches with the mechanism to enable an organ to produce these pitches."—Kassler. Provenance: Ownership inscription and bookplate of Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903). Kassler, The Science of Music, pp.760-1.

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Book number: 39503

Keywords: MUSIC TECHNOLOGY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

[COLLIJN (Isak)]

Ett urval av 1400-Och 1500-Talstryck samt Konstnärliga Bokband ur Thore Virgins Samling på Qvarnfors.

Almqvist & Wilksells, Uppsala. 1946. 71pp., one of 100 numbered copies, coloured frontis., 13 plates (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer.

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Book number: 23764

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[Davis (Ellis James)]

Etymonia.

London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875. First edition, 8vo (195 x 135 mm), [6], 258 + 16pp., of publishers adverts, with half-title, title and prelims spotted, minor waterstain to lower margins, front endpapers stained, orig. decorated cloth, neatly rebacked with orig. spine laid-down, lower portion of upper cover lightly stained. A rare Utopian novel. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of R. C. Hyde; Bookplate of Max Salomon.

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Book number: 36597

Keywords: NOVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE FIRST EDITION UTOPIAN NOVEL FICTION