Paul Louis Courier

Oeuvres Compleãƒâoeã‚â�Tes de P.L. Courier: Ornees Du Portrait de L&Apos;Auteur

Brussells, Librarie Parisienne , 1828. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this scarce set containing the works of French Hellenist and political writer Paul Louis Courier. A first edition of the works of French Hellenist and political writer Paul Louis Courier. Published in French, with a frontispiece to volume I. Following the biography of Courier that opens the set, the reader can find some of the political pamphlets and letters which made Courier one of the most dreaded opponents of the Restoration government. As well as discussing local wrongs in his own district, he also exposes the sufferings of the peasantry in his advocation for a liberal monarchy. The third volume contains a discussion of Lucius of Patras, an ancient Greek writer about which little is known. The final volume is comprised of Courier's letters. As he deals with the facts and events of his own time, the writings of Courier are valuable sources of information as to the condition of France before, during, and after the Revolution. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of John Rushout, the second Baron of Northwick. Rushout befriended several eminent men such as Edward Gibbon and Horatio Nelson whilst touring Europe after his university degree in Switzerland. Rushout developed a love of antique art, and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1832. With the spine label of volume III tucked in. In a full brown calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine, a little more so to the joints. The leather to the front board of volume IV is a little scuffed. Volume III is missing the spine label but it has been tucked into the volume. Volume IV is missing a slither of calf to the head of the spine. The front joint to volume I is beginning to crack. The rear hinge is starting, but firm to volume IV. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light foxing throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 862N26

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Oeuvres CompleÃÂOeÂÂ�tes de P. L. Courier First Edition Scarce Illustrated First Edition None

Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts

A Summary Account of Prizes for Common Things Offered and Awarded by Miss Burdett Coutts at the Whitelands Training Insitution

London, Hatchard, 1857. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce work from the Whitelands Training Institution, a curious insight into Victorian education. Inscribed by Angela Burdett-Coutts. The second edition of this vanishingly scarce work.Signed by Burdett-Coutts to the head of the half-title.A detailed summary of the prizes offered and awarded at the Whitelands Training Institution. Including a list of the questions given at exams, with examples of the best answers which were subsequently awarded.Questions given include 'what advice would you give to young girls as to the care of medicines in a sick-room?', and 'how would you teach that the possession or want of self-respect is betokened by dress, and that moral habits are influenced by dress?'This volume also includes recipes ideal of a sick person, advice on how to treat scarlet fever and measles, and hints on points of domestic economy.Offering an insight into education for females in the Victorian era, when their education focused on housekeeping and the care for others.Angela Burdett-Coutts was an influential figure in Victorian England, one of the wealthiest women in the country. She was a great philanthropist, spending the majority of her wealth on scholarships and endowments. With Charles Dickens she co-founded the Urania Cottage. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, with some marks and discolouration to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Crack to the rear joint. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Pencil marks to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with light scattered spots and handling marks. Inscription to the half-title. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 846P30

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: A Summary Account of Prizes For Common Things whitelands training institution miss burdett coutts angela georgina burdett couts whitelands training institution education None

Edward W. Cox

Heredity and Hybridism: A Suggestion, and Spiritualism Answered by Science; with the Proofs of a Psychic Force

London, Longman and Co, 1875 . First edition. Leather. The vanishingly scarce first edition of English lawyer Edward W. Cox's biological study of heredity and hybridism, bound with the second edition of his vanishingly scarce work on spiritualism. Two vanishingly scarce works from English lawyer and legal writer Edward William Cox, known as Serjeant Cox.In the first work, a first edition, Cox discusses many scientific topics, including hybridisation - is the process of interbreeding individuals from genetically distinct populations - and heredity.Chapters include 'when is sex determined?', 'why mules are barren', 'union of germs' and 'the growth of the chicken&apos.In his introduction, Cox states that he hopes that there shall be shed 'some new light [..] upon those most obscure problems of Physiology and Psychology - the phenomena of Heredity and Hybridism&apos.The second work is the 'revised and enlarged' second edition of Cox's work on parapsychology, 'Spiritualism Answered by Science', discussing philosophy, ethics and metaphysics.This edition includes 'Correspondence upon Dr. Carpenter's asserted refutation of Mr. Crookes's experimental proof of the existence of a hitherto undetected force&apos.With 'Ivor House, Barnet Gate' in gilt to the front board.Two fascinating and unusual works from a writer known to have an interest in mediumship and seances. In a full calf binding. Externally very smart, with light fading to back strip, and rubbing to back strip head. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 902F45

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: zoology Genetic hybridization birth natural sciences Genetic hybridization None

George Crabb

English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order

London , Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1875. Cloth. A grammatical work on synonyms from George Crabb. New edition, with additions and corrections. With copious illustrations and examples drawn from the best writer. In a green cloth binding. Externally, sound, though with some bumping and a few marks. Hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Pages are bright, though with some slight marginal age-toning and scattered foxing throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good/Good.

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Book number: GEN18-H-11

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: George Crabb Grammar Synonyms Grammar None

Alec Craig

The Banned Books of England

London, George Allen and Unwin, 1937. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this interesting history of censorship laws in England by Alec Craig, in the unclipped dust wrapper. Alec Craig explores the history of English laws regarding the censorship and the banning of books with this account of works by various authors that were banned as obscene in the country. With a look on the law of obscene libel, the sexual impulse case, a general history, and the injustice of the law and its reform. A chapter compares the English and American law on the issue. With a foreword by E. M. Forster. In the original, unclipped dust wrapper.  In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with only minor shelf wear and casual chipping, as well as some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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Book number: 782A80

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: banned books censorship first editions censorship None

George Lillie Craik

The Romance of the Peerage or Curiosities of Family History

London, Chapman and Hall, 1848-50. First edition. Leather. Complete four volume study of family history into the noble peerage of England and Scotland by George Lillie Craik. Complete in four volumes, the first edition published between 1848 and 1850. A fascinating and comprehensive history of British and Scottish noble peerage, from the marriages and descendants of Lettice Knollys to the peerage of Anne Scott, 1st Duchess Buccleuch. Written by George Lillie Craik, Scottish author and literary critic. Featuring a frontispiece to each volume. Bound with half titles. From the library of William H Stewart, with his bookplate to front pastedowns. In uniform half straight up grain morocco bindings over marbled boards, gilt to top edge. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, lightly rubbed and chipped to spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to first few leaves; pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 836A3

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: genealogy first editions peerage social history first editions scotland None

Alexander Crombie

Gymnasium Sive Symbola Critica; Abridged. Intended to Assist the Classical Student in His Endeavours to Attain a Correct Latin Prose Style

London , Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1851. Cloth. The abridged fifth edition of Alexander Crombie's work on classical linguistics. The Rev Dr Alexander Crombie (17 July 1762 Aberdeen – 11 June 1840, York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, England) was a Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher. Cloth binding with decorative blindstamped detail on front board and gilt title detail on spine. Externally, a trifle rubbed with fading to the spine and bumping and wear to extremities. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Internally firmly bound, pages bright with scattered light spotting and a few handling marks. Personal ink stamp to front pastedown and copperplate inscription on endpaper. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: GEN36-C-8

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Alexander Crombie Linguistics Language Studies Linguistics None

Richard Crompton

Star-Chamber Cases Shewing What Causes Properly Belong to the Cognizance of That Court Collected from the Most Part out of Mr Crompton His Booke

London, [Iohn Grove], John Grove, 1642. Cloth. A very scarce historical account of star-chamber cases written by the sixteenth century lawyer, Richard Crompton. Crompton was a member of the Middle Temple and was known for editing and enlarging Sir A Fitzherbert's 'Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace&apos. Other works by Crompton include 'A Short Declaration of the End of Traytors and False Conspirators against the State, and the Duetie of Subjects to their Souereigne Gouvernor&apos. The ESTC notes that this work is selections from 'L'authoritie et iurisdiction des courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne&apos. This was Crompton's chief work. A different selection of star-chamber cases from this work were published in 1630. ESTC reference no: R31335. This re-publication of the star-chamber cases was issued at the start of the English Civil War and following the abolition of the Star Chamber by Prynne, Leighton, Bastwick and Burton with the 'Habeas Corpus Act' of 1640.  In a recent full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Just the occasional light spots to pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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Book number: 753L17

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Star Chamber Legal Law Legal None

Francois Crouzet; Martin Thom

Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. First edition. Cloth. The first English language edition of one of the important historical works by Francois Crouzet, in a superior condition. The first English language edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. An interesting exploration of the development and growth of English economy and how it has historically compared to France's economy, starting in the eighteenth century and up to the twentieth century. By Francois Crouzet, translated into English from French by Martin Thom. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper is very smart with a couple of light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 832P9

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Britain Ascendant: Comparative Studies in Franco-British Economic History economics france britain economics None

Mrs. Hylton Dale [Marianne Dale]

Child Labor Under Capitalism

London, The Fabian Society, 1908. First edition. Paperback. A scarce Fabian Tract exploring the history of child labour and arguing for reforms to prevent future child labour. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original paper wraps. The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation created to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism. This organisation has had a powerful influence on British politics, particularly on the Labour Party. Prominent members include George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Ramsay MacDonald and Emmeline Pankhurst. The Fabian Society was formed in 1884, and this was one of its earliest pamphlets, Fabian Tract No. 140 published in 1908. It explores the use of child labour in England from the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century until the Children's Act of 1908, and lists immediate reforms for the Fabian Society to work for. It also recommends further reading material on the subject. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally generally smart, though the wraps are detached from the main text. Some spotting to the wraps, and small holes to the rear of the wraps probably due to insect damage. These holes do not affect the text, and the wraps remain intact. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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Book number: 894M27

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Child labour Social reform Victorian literature Political pamphlet Social reform Not Stated