William Lambard

Eirenarcha or the Office of the Justices of Peace, in Foure Bookes with the Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen and Such Other Low and Lay Ministers of the Peace

London , Companie of Stationers, 1619 . Leather. A handsome edition of Eirenarcha by William Lambard bound together with his Duties of the Ministers of the Peace. With illuminated capitals. Black letter throughout. Collated: Both works complete referencing Copac. A sixteenth-century antiquarian and politician, William Lambarde was a writer on legal subjects. He was accepted to Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court of London. Eirenarcha being an antiquated word for 'justice of the peace', this publication was a manual for the contemporary constables - a precursor to our modern policing system - and became the standard work on the subject. Rebacked in a quarter calf binding with morocco boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to boards. Bumping to extremities. Front joint starting but sound. Faded library stamp to boards. Ex libris bookplate to front pastedown. Library stamp to front and rear blanks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean but age toned. Contemporary ink annotations and marginal worming to title page and a few other pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: EXP3-B-13

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Law Legal Eirenarcha Lambarde Legal Manual Justice of Peace None

William Lamport

Cursory Remarks of the Importance of Agriculture in Its Connection with Manufactures and Commerce, Adapted to the Present Situation of Great Britain

London, J. Buckland; R. Dodsley; T. Cadell; J. Sewel; Tucker and Sweetland, 1784. First edition. Cloth. A vanishingly scarce first edition treatise on British agriculture, an interesting work by William Lamport. A vanishingly scarce first edition of this work.ESTC citation number T112000.One leaf of publisher's adverts. Bound without half-title.An interesting late-eighteenth century treatise on agriculture in Britain.In particular this work looks at how the agricultural industry is connected to the manufacture and commerce of the country.Chapters in this work cover general principles, facts relating to the influence of agriculture on trade and commerce, the present state of Great Britain, methods of improvement, estates already cultivated, and more.By William Lamport, an honorary member of the Bath Agricultural Society. Rebound in a modern cloth binding. Externally, smart, with a couple of very light marks to the boards. Ink note and faded stamp to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned and clean. Ink to the head of the title page. Tide mark to the margin of pages 1-24, 49-56, and 65-72. Bound without the half-title. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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Book number: 861P23

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Cursory Remarks of the Importance of Agriculture in its Connection With william lamport agriculture britain william lamport None

Joseph Lancaster

Improvements in Education

London, J Lancaster, 1806. Leather. A sixth edition copy of Joseph Lancaster's renowned early nineteenth century treatise on education. Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator, renowned for developing a variant of the monitorial system with a recursive method of instruction and delivery. As a precursor to the modern-day method of 'peer tutoring', within this method students were rewarded for successfully passing on information to the next pupil. Printed and Sold by J. Lancaster Free School Borough Road; Darton and Harvey Gracechurch Street and Hatchard Piccadilly This work succinctly details Lancaster's methods and was written by Lancaster shortly before he travelled to the United States to lecture and promote his ideas. The height of popularity of his system came in the first decades of the nineteenth century, and in 1808 "The Society for Promoting the Lancasterian System for the Education of the Poor" was created. This is a very important work in the history of education. Rebound in a lovely quarter cloth binding with marbled paper boards and morocco label tipped to spine. Externally lovely with minor shelfwear to extremities and head and tail of spine. Hinges reinforced. Bookseller's label tipped to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned but bright, with the odd spot to the occasional page and age toning to textblock. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 653M12

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Education Lancaster Society Leather Lancaster None

Gunnar Landtman

The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea a Nature-Born Instance of Rousseau&Apos;S Ideal Community

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. First edition. Cloth. An illustrated first edition of this work on the people of British New Guinea by philosopher Gunna Landtman. An uncommon first edition of the work.In the publishers original cloth with gilt illustration to the front board. With a frontispiece and 113 monochrome illustrations over plates and vignettes. The work was written by Finnish Philosopher Gunna Landtman. Landtman was also a sociology and philosophy professor and is considered to be the first modern sociological anthropologist. Landtman lived with the Kiwai Papuans for two years, where he gathered research for this work. This work looks at the life's of the Kiwai Papuans through the eyes of Rousseau's theory of the ideal community. This theory states that the most ideal society is based of men being true to their human nature, which he explains means freedom of will. Publisher's advertisements to the rear of the book. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally in very good condition with slight fading to the spine, bumping to the spine resulting in rubbing and minor rubbing and marking to the boards. Offsetting and the odd spot to the end papers. Internally generally firmly bound with the chords showing to the frontispiece but firm. Bright pages. Pages generally clean with the odd spot, heavier to the title page and light offsetting to the half title and the publisher's advertisements. Light spotting to the fore edge and age toning to the top edge. Very Good . Ill.: None stated. Very Good .

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Book number: 874Z14

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: first edition British New Guinea Gunnar Landtman Illustrated British New Guinea None stated

Gunnar Landtman; Alfred C. Haddon

The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea. A Nature-Born Instance of Rousseau&Apos;S Ideal Community

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this scarce 20th century ethnographical work on Kiwai Papuans by sociologist and philosopher Gunnar Landtman A first edition of this scarce ethnographical work on Kiwai Papuans, the Mawatta, and the Masingle peoples. With 113 illustrations, collated but not complete, as three plates are missing between pages 22 and 25, and two plates are missing at pages 30 and 31. Having lived with the Kiwai Papuans between 1910 and 1912, Finnish sociologist and philosopher Gunnar Landtman follows his volume on Kiwi Papuan folklore with this examination of their ways of life. Comprised of 33 chapters, Landtman discusses a broad range of topics from housing, hunting, and harvesting, to astrology, meteorology, and social organisation. The work also contains records of the habits and beliefs of the Mawatta people on the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The book was rebound by the Fife Education Committee County Library. There is a torn bookplate with advice for users of the Fife Education Committee library to the front pastedown, and purple ink stamps to the recto of the front endpaper, and the title page. Small ink markings to the verso of the title page. Pages v and 19 have small tape repairs. Rebound in a half calf library binding. Externally, generally smart with a little rubbing to the boards. Spine lightly bumped to the head, with some marginal wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with the occasional mark throughout. Good . Ill.: Not stated. Good .

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Book number: 843N24

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Kiwai Papuan Rousseau Ideal Commuity Gunner Landtman Folklore Rousseau Ideal Commuity Not stated