[CLARKE (William)]

Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries.

London: William Clarke, 1819. First edition, small 4to (235 x 145 mm), xlviii, [2], 138, 133*-138*, 139-454, 449*-454*, 455-672, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved portraits (some foxed), 2 woodcuts in the text, later library buckram. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. Provenance: With the bookplates of Library Company, Philadelphia and Jacob L. Chernofsky.

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Book number: 40623

Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AUCTION CATALOGUE BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS INCUNABLES INCUNABULA MANUSCRIPTS PRINTING TYPOGRAPHY

[POTTER (Thomas)]

The Reply of the Country Gentleman to the Answer of his Military Arguments, By the Officer.

Printed by W. Prat, 1758. First edition, 63, [1]pp., water-staining mainly to final 30 pages, recent marbled wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover.

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Book number: 33896

Keywords: Military PAMPHLET

[COPLESTON (Edward)]

A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review [No.31] against Oxford. Containing an Account of Studies pursued in that University.

Oxford, Printed for the Author; and sold by J. Cooke, and J. Parker; and J. Mackinlay, 1810. Second Edition, half-title, viii, 187, [1]pp., some light damp-staining of the inner margins of the first few leaves, original wrappers, uncut. The Edinburgh Review had published an attack on the Oxford system of education, "to which Copleston at once replied and completely demolished his antagonist, whom he convicted not only of stark ignorance of what he had undertaken to condemn, but of much bad Latin besides." - DNB.

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Book number: 33955

Keywords: Education Oxford System Edinburgh Review

[POTTER (Thomas)]

The Reply of the Country Gentleman to the Answer of his Military Arguments, by the Officer.

London: Printed by W. Prat, 1758. First edition, 63, [1]pp., disbound. A reply to Henry Seymour Conway's 'The Military Arguments, in the Letter to a Right Honourable Author', 1758.

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Book number: 38402

Keywords: MILITARY FRANCE ROCHEFORT EXPEDITION SEVEN YEAR WAR

[FOSTER (Sir Michael)]

A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746, in the County of Surry, and of Other Crown Cases, to Which Are Added, Discourses Upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law.

Dublin: Printed for Sarah Cotter, in Skinner-Row, 1763. First Irish edition, xi, [1], 412, [16]pp., cont. calf, worn, raised bands, without title label, the bottom inch of spine is worn through to stitching.

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Book number: 35232

Keywords: LAW IRELAND DUBLIN PRINTING IRISH EDITION

[BEAUFOY (Colonel)]

The Report of the Committee for Conducting the Experiments of the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture.

London: Printed by Order of the Society, by Bunney and Gold, [c. 1799.] First edition, 4to (322 x 250 mm), [4], 38pp., text slightly age-toned, 8 double-page engraved tables, 2 double-page engraved plates, some light offsetting to tables and plates, contemporary marbled boards, a little worn at extremities, calf re-back, original printed paper label on upper cover. A report of the experiments carried out for the Society between 1796-1798. It contains nine chapters outlining the experiments 'made to ascertain the laws respecting bodies moving through the water with different velocities.' Provenance: Early book label and signature of J. Hays.

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Book number: 40168

Keywords: MARITIME NAVAL ARCHITECTURE

[LABELYE (Charles)]

The Result of a Particular View of the North Level of the Fens Taken in August, 1745. London: Printed by C. and J. Ackers, 1748. First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), 32pp., facsimile letter tipped-in, later quarter calf by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, slightly rubbed, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. [Sold with:] ----. The Result of a View of the Great Level of the Fens, Taken at the Desire of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, &c. Governor, and the Gentlemen of the Corporation of the Fens, in July 1745.

London: Printed by George Woodfall, 1745. First edition, 8vo (190 x 120 mm), vi, [2], 74pp., without the map, later quarter calf by Birdsall & Son, Northampton, slightly rubbed, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Charles Labelye (1705-1753) was a Swiss civil engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage from the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, he is best known for his work on the original Westminster Bridge. He was invited by the Duke of Bedford and the Corporation of the Fens to compile a full and detailed report which was undertaken during periods of special leave granted him by the Westminster Bridge Commission. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Lord Esmé S. Gordon. Skepton, 815, 816.

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Book number: 38127

Keywords: CIVIL ENGINEERING THE FENS LINCOLNSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE

[ROSCOE (William)]

A Review of Mr. Roscoe's considerations on the causes of the present war, and the Expediency of a Peace with France.

London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1808. First edition, 8vo, iv, 79, [1]pp., disbound.

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Book number: 37820

Keywords: POLITICAL HISTORY NAPOLEONIC WARS HISTORY

[PULTENEY (William, Earl of Bath)]

A review of the excise-scheme; in answer to a pamphlet, intitled The rise and fall of the late projected excise, impartially considered. With Some Proper Hints to the electors of Great Britain.

London: Printed by H. Haines, at Mr. Francklin's in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1733. 8vo, 71, [1]pp., disbound. A reply to Matthew Concanen's 'The rise and fall of the late projected excise'. Goldsmiths' 7144. Hanson 4590. Kress 4070. Sabin, 70233.

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Book number: 39887

Keywords: Economics COMMERCE ANTIQUARIAN

[TAITT (Alexander)]

The Right of the House of Stewart to the Crown of Scotland consider'd.

Edinburgh: Printed in the Year, 1746. First Edition, half-title, [2], 22 pp., a little dusty, disbound.

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Book number: 33388

Keywords: Jacobites Scotland POLITICS PAMPHLETS

[TAITT (Alexander)]

The Right of the House of Stewart to the Crown of Scotland consider'd.

Edinburgh: Printed in the Year, 1746. Second Edition, half-title, [4], 5-24pp., disbound.

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Book number: 33394

Keywords: Jacobites Scotland POLITICS PAMPHLETS

[HEYWOOD (Samuel)]

The Right of Protestant Dissenters to a Compleat Toreration asserted; containing an Historical Account of the Test Laws, and shewing the Injustice, Inexpediency, and Folly of the Sacramental Test, as now imposed, with respect to Protestant Dissenters; With an Answer to the Objection from the Act of Union with Scotland. By a Layman.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, and J. Debrett, 1789. Second Edition, corrected, vii, [1], 99, [1] pp., disbound.

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Book number: 35486

Keywords: Theology

[GIBSON (Edmund)]

The Right of the Archbishop to continue or prorogue the Whole Convocation: Asserted in a Second Letter; by way of Reply to a Pamphlet, Entitled, The Power of the Lower House of Convocation to Adjourn it self, &c. and also to a late Book, Entitled, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Lower-House, &c. with the Publisher's Preface: as far as they relate to the Point of Continuation.

London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1701. First Edition, 4to, [8], 97, 100-139, [1] pp., From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Middle Hill, original Middle Hill boards with the ink press-mark on inside front board, lacks part of back-strip, uncut. The text is continuous in spite of the irregular pagination.

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Book number: 34243

Keywords: Theology SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS MIDDLE HILL BOARDS

[MORE (Hannah)]

The Riot; on half a loaf is better than the bread. In a dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hod. To the Tune of "a Cobler there was," &c.

London: Sold by J. Evans and Co. Printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts... and J. Hatchard... By S. Hazard, Bath.` [c. 1810]. 12mo, 7, [1]pp., woodcut to title page, disbound. A Cheap Repository Tract.

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Book number: 40037

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS CHEAP REPOSITORY TRACT RELIGIOUS TRACT EDUCATION HAWKERS NEWSMEN

[PUSELEY (Daniel)]

The Rise and Progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. In which will be found a colonial directory; increase and habits of population; tables of revenue and expenditure. gathered from authentic sources, official documents, and personal observation in each of the colonies, cities and provinces enumerated. By an Englishman. (5th thousand.)

London: Saunders & Otley, 1857. 8vo, [2], 15, [3], xvi, 496, 30 [ads]pp., orig. red patterned cloth, head and foot of spine lightly chipped, small hole to base of spine.

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Book number: 38996

Keywords: TRAVEL AUSTRALIA TASMANIA NEW ZEALAND