SIDNEY [SYDNEY] (Algernon):

The Works of Algernon Sydney. A New Edition.

London: Printed by W. Strahan, Jun. for T. Becket and Co. and T. Cadell..., 1772. 4to, pp. [viii], 540 [541 - 542 additional index], 22, 56, 57 [58 blank], 65 [66 blank], 32, 33 [34 blank], with the liberty icon at the foot of the last page of text, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco label; binding restored, with old spine laid down and joints renewed, top and base of spine renewed, corners restored. A very good copy. This edition of Sydney's works by Thomas Hollis was first published in 1763; this second edition contains revisions and corrections by Joseph Robertson. Sydney was executed for his republican plots on 7 December 1782.

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N° du livre: 3770

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[?SILLIMAN (Benjamin)]:

Letters of Shahcoolen, a Hindu philosopher residing in Philadelphia, to his friend El Hassan, an inhabitant of Delhi.

Boston : Printed by Russell and Cutler..., 1802. FIRST EDITION. Large 12mo, pp. 152, including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, black leather label; small piece cut from upper right-hand corner of title-page, front joint cracked, rear joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, binding a bit dried. The work is also attributed to Samuel Lorenzo Knapp and is notable for its attack on republicanism as well as Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin.

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STEELE (Richard).

Remarks upon Mr. Steele's Crisis, Humbly inscrib'd to the Clergy of the Church of England.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott..., 1714. SOLE EDITION. Small 4to, pp. 16, disbound; large ink-stain on title-page almost obliterating "Church," title-page a little soiled, lower corner worn. Steele published his "Crisis" in January, 1714, to defend the Hanoverian succession; he was expelled from the House of Commons for seditious utterances. This was one of several replies.

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N° du livre: 5053

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Taurobolium.

The Tauroboliad or the Sacrifice of the Constitution. A Satire.

London: Hatchard and Son..., 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 194 x 119 mms., pp. [v] - viii, 104, original binder's cloth, paper label on spine (faded), uncut and largely unopened with top margin of pp vi-vii carelessly opened, and small circular armorial bookplate (?Elton) on front paste-down end-paper The volume is inscribed by the anonymous author "To the Hereditary Guardians of the British Constitution the Peers of England This Satire is inscribed." In the preface, the author refers the founding of the ceremony of the Taurobolium by Julian the Apostate, alluding to the sacrifice of a bull, which was practiced "rom about AD 160 in the Mediterranean cult of the Great Mother of the Gods. Celebrated primarily among the Romans, the ceremony enjoyed much popularity and may have been introduced by the Roman emperor. The nature and purpose of the ceremony seems to have gradually changed during the late 2nd and 3rd centuries. At the beginning it apparently resembled similar sacrifices performed in the cults of other deities, such as Mithra. By about 300, however, the ceremony had changed drastically. The person dedicating the sacrifice lay in a pit with a perforated board placed over the pit's opening. A bull was slaughtered above him, and the person in the pit bathed in the blood streaming down. Thus the ceremony, perhaps influenced by Christianity, gradually took on the elements of moral purification" (Encyclopedia Britannica). The poem is written in decasyllabic syllabic couplets as a dialogue between a Tory and a Whig, and many of the assertions would not sound out-of-place in the current Brexit debates and debacles.

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N° du livre: 9413

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THE CRAFTSMAN. [BOLINGBROKE (Henry St. John), Viscount]:

A Final Answer to the Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication; and to All the Libels, Which have come, or may come from the same Quarter against the Person, last mentioned in the Craftsman of the 22nd of May.

London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 32. BOUND WITH: [PULTENEY (William), Earl of Bath]: An Answer to One Part of a late Infamous Libel, Intitled, Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication of his two honourable Patrons; In which the Character and Conduct of Mr P. is fully Vindicated. London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 62. BOUND WITH: [ARNALL (William)]: Observations on a Pamphlet, Intitled, An Answer to one Part of a late Infamous Libel, &c. In a Letter to Mr P. London: Printed for J. Roberts..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 50. 3 volumes in 1, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. In 1730 - 1731, Bolingbroke contributed 24 essays to The Craftsman (edited by Nicholas Amhurst and one of most outspoken periodicals against Walpole's government), which later formed his Remarks on the History of England. Francklin, the publisher, had been brought to trial in 1729, acquitted, and brought again in 1731, when he was convicted and sentenced to a year in jail and fined £100.

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N° du livre: 2328

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TRIENNIAL ACT. [?HUTCHESON (Archibald)]:

A Speech Made in the House of Commons April the 24th 1716; Against the Bill for the Repeal of the Triennial Act, And for enlarging the Time of Continuance of Parliaments. Never before Printed.

London: Printed for J. Jones..., 1722. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], ii, 29 [30 blank], title-page soiled and repaired at inner margin, last leaf soiled, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. A copy of this pamphlet in the library at Christ Church, Oxford, has a contemporary ms. attribution to Archibald Hutcheson

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N° du livre: 2308

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[WALPOLE (Robert), later Earl of Orford]:

Observations upon the Treaty Between the Crowns of Great-Britain, France, and Spain, Concluded at Seville on the Ninth of November, 1729, N.S.

London: Printed, and Sold by J. Roberts..., 1729. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 29 [30 blank], 23 [24 blank], occasional annotation in pencil, bound in 20th century full cream goatskin with title blocked in black on spine. A very good copy. The Treaty of Seville, signed on 9 November 1929, had the effect, among others, of making it extremely difficult for Jacobites to expect assistance for their cause from Britain's nearest continental neighbours.

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N° du livre: 2327

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WATSON (Richard), Bishop of Llandaff:

An Address to the People of Great Britain.

London: Printed for R. Faulder..., 1798. 8vo, pp. [iv], 42 [43 adverts, 44 blank], disbound. Watson proposes that national taxes (he seems to shift between advocacy of an annual wealth tax or an income tax)should be increased both to pay for the war against France as well as to reduce the national debt. Over twenty editions appeared in 1798, many of them piracies, and the work provoked a number of replies. Some of his observations have an astonishing contemporary relevance: "The channels of commerce, were they open alike to the enterprize of all nations, are so numerous and copious in the four quarter of the globe, that the industry of all the manufacturers in Europe might be fully employed in supplying them." Kress 3754, citing the Dublin edition in the same year as the first edition.

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N° du livre: 2678

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[?WILLES (John), Sir]:

The Present Constitution, and the Protestant Succession Vindicated: In Answer to a late Book Entituled, The Hereditary Right to the Crown of England, Asserted, &c.

London: Printed for J. Baker..., 1714. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, xviii, 82, disbound. The book alluded to on the title-page is George Harbin's Jacobite tract The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England Asserted, published in the previous year.

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N° du livre: 4964

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