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Second edition, 110pp., pamphlet with a marbled paper spine. Hanson, 4813n; Goldsmiths', 7306.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 114 pages. In modern cloth covered boards, gilt lettered to the spine. Browned throughout. ESTC T1954 which identifies the author as Corbyn Morris. The date on the final page is Feb 1741/2 would now be considered as 1742. Book.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. Disbound. Complete. Title page, pages 1-18. Stain at head of title page. Close cropped at foot of pages, with slight loss of footnotes. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: Folio (20.5 x 31 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Printed before 1800; Inventory No: 353747. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. VG+, 2nd ed, 1714. In contemporary full speckled calf, corners and edges very lightly worn and bumped. Spine, highly decorative tooling in gilt, raised bands, titles in gilt to maroon leather label, worn along joints slightly. Internally, armorial bookplate of Early of Macclesfield to fpd, fep lacking top corner, small embossed coat of arms to titlepage and first 3 leaves, [16], 147 pp, 6 printers devices, text block edges sprinkled red, endpages only, a little browned, 2 of the spine compartments have North Library numbers of 1860. A lovely copy. Was first published in 1630. (ESTC T4742. Biblio. of Wales 138. Jenkins 55. Lowndes 655). This edition has: To which is added His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's patent both in Latin and English; also an account of his dignity, privileges, arms, rank and titles, and of his sons and daughters. Which the 1st edition did not. Dodderidge [Doddridge], Sir John, judge. See ODNB.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Howitt, Tomson, Woodward Cruickshank Rowlandson Cooper Etc (illustrator). EXTRA illustrated, 47 pls, VG+. In full 20c brown morocco, decorative gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Relaid spine, old laid down, raised bands, gilt titles & decorative gilt tooling. Internally, portrait frontis, [3], 4-92 pp, 47 pls (includes 1 folding & 12 coloured), 1 vignette, 2 printers devices, upper cover with gilt illustration of a hare hunting scene by horse, within gilt box, lower cover has gilt image of fox head and laurels (pencil note to verso of fep states Bound by Lloyd of Mold, gilt tooling to board edges, decorative gilt tooling to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, t.e.g, tissue guards to all plates, title page in red and black ink within double ruled borders with vignette, not dated but probably of the early 1800's. Many of Howitt's plates are dated 1798 or 99 and some state that they were also republished by Edward Orme in 1812 (his sporting book?). There is a wonderful double page plate by Rowlandson [Fox Hunting, a Landscape scene, 1787]. The coloured plates are mostly 1801 or 2. Articles and plates on Horses, Foxhunting, Hare running, Shewing a Horse, Hare Hunting, Otter hunting, The Badger and more. Fascinating. Copac suggests it was an 1803 or 1817 facsimile of the 1733 edition, printed by G Smeeton of St Martin's Lane. 6 copies in UK institutions. It also states that it came with 1 plate (port), so the remainder were tipped in at a later stage? All a bit of a mystery but a wonderful book, and possibly a little uncommon! (Halkett & Laing state author was Thomas Gosden) (pencil note to fep states author was not Gosden but by Rev Mr Squire Am, Chancellor of Wells?).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SCOTT John. EAST Adam. DAVIES G (illustrator). 1st Edition. A Unique Copy, Extra illustrated. First edition in worn, maroon morocco over worn marbled boards, some gilt tooling. Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed. Internally, portrait frontis, title page in red & black with woodcut, [3], 4-92 pp, 17 coloured pls (by Adam East) + 1 vignette, plus 4 additional coloured plates (by G Davies) tipped in, plus 1 additional tipped in paragraph header, foxing & offsetting throughout, ink ms note about pls to ffep, printed by G. Smeeton. (253190 mm). (ESTC N031090). Originally 100 copies published per spine ilt text, there were later editions in the early 1800's.

20cm. 40pp, head and tail-pieces,decorated capital. Disbound from a disparate collection. Light text age-browning.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. 110 pages. ESTC T26521 here lacking the final leaf. Disbound with no covers. Page edges are untrimmed and consequently rather dusty. Some marks and stains to the pages. Author identified on ESTC. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. In modern wraps with label on front. Leaves clean and bright, title with minor soiling. Loer blank corners of p. 11 and 17 torn (not affecting text). Very good. Theodore Delafaye paints a very grim picture of the future of England under Jacobite rule: * Persecutions and imprisonments racks and tortures; crucifixions and burnings, these and such like infernal engines of slavery and superstition are no doubt very frightful to conceive, and much more to undergo. * ESTCT42765. [Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746].

First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo; bound in 4's. ( 192mm. ) Pp. [2] 5 - 31 [1] blank. Wanting the half title. Dampstaining. Sometime bound in burgundy cloth backed boards. Anonymous. By John, Lord Hervey. With reference to Bolingbroke's letters on English history. The first leaf is blank. Signature A3 is mis-signed 'A2'. Signatures: A-D4. ESTC T41859.

The Third Edition. 63, [1 (blank)] pp. Headpiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4" Walpole's answer to Stanhope's opposition to the Parliament proposal to hire Hanoverian troops as mercenaries, cf. "The Case of the Hanover forces in the pay of Great-Britain, impartially and freely examined" [1743]. Hint of age-toning, otherwise VG+. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. xxiii, 47p. Pamphlet. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 19cm. Text lightly browned. Half-title present.

The Third Edition. 37, [3] pp. Lacks half-title. Pp [38 - 39], "Tracts Written by the Same Author." Last page blank. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-5/8" Age-toning. 1 cm spot to t.p. [no lettering obscured]. A VG copy. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book rebound in green cloth with printed label to upper cover. In VG condition, internally clean, paper is age-toned, contemporary annotation in margin of page 40. [6], 64p.

Disbound. Condition: Good. 52, [1] pages. Disbound pamphlet without covers. Splitting down the spine into separate sections. Indentation to the lower outer corner of the first few pages. ESTC T103804. Book.

Second Edition, 44pp., last page lightly foxed, pamphlet with a marbled paper spine.

1st Printing. 52 pp. 8vo. Caleb D'Anvers = William Pulteney Age toning, a bit of soiling to outer leaves, Very Good. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [4], 63, [1], modern blue cloth, paper label on upper cover, some occasional spotting of contents. [ESTC notes that The hereditary right of the crown of England, ' is by George Harbin] [ESTC T59150].

FIRST EDITION 8vo. hardback, rebound in 18th century style marbled paper-covered boards with paper title label to spine. New endpapers. 72pp. including half-title with Price Is. 6d. With Dramatis Personae. Small modern bookplate to front pastedown. Some foxing, handling marks, soiling and light staining to foredge. Top edge trimmed a little close on a few leaves, affecting heading only. A Good Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd. [Whig British Political Pamphlet] 3rd ed. (The first was printed the same year). Hardcover. Rebound in modern cloth. 19 cm. 31 pages. According to DNB, Thomas Gordon (d. 1750) was a Scottish-born pamphletist who wrote on the Bangorian controversy. The advertisement at the rear states, "In the Second Part of the learned Dissertation, will be considered the reasons, why Old Women are suffered to educate our Youth." Blind stamp of William Thomas Morgan, Bloomington, Indiana. Morgan was a professor of European and British political history at IU in the early 20th century. "Bolingbroke observed, upon hearing of Conyers Middleton's death at the same time as Gordon's, 'Then there is the best writer in England gone and the worst.'".

xvi, 62p. Engraved portrait of Bacon (not called for by ESTC). Later paper covered boards titled on the spine. Title page dusty, otherwise a very good copy. ESTC T99351.

Hardcover. Condition: Boards Poor; Interior Good. Second Edition. Small Octavo. 7 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in. Quarter-bound worn calf (spine only) over paper-over-boards, decorated with red, blue, and yellow non-pareil marbling. Five raised bands to spine with gilt-lettered titling on contrasting leather label. NOTE: Both front and rear board detached, scuffing to boards, rubbing to extremities. Front pastedown endpaper bears a bookplate with (one of the four) Lyttleton (Littleton) family crests -- this one, of Rev. Charles Lyttelton, LLD. It bears the motto "Ung Dieu . Ung Roy" (One God. One King). This motto was originally a war cry. Lays out the provinces and principalities of Wales: Venedotia or North-Wales; Dometia (South-Wales); and Powisia (Powisland), each of these Provinces again subdivided into Cantreds, and every Cantred into Comots, after which "The whole Country is now allotted into Shires, which are thirteen in Number."Following this are History, Manner of Government, Tax Fees, including Cornwall and Chester. Pages bright, supple and quite easily turned. 147 pp.

Condition: Minor age-toning, VG to VG+. 1st Printing. 47, [1 (blank)] pp. Word scribble-out, p. 13. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-11/16" Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.

First Edition. Pamplet [as originally issued]. Finely bound in marble boards with a contrasting, gilt-blocked green Morocco label to the front panel. An uncommonly good example; scans and additional detail on request. ; 67 pages; Physical desc. : [4], 67, [1]p. ; 8vo. Subject: Liberty - Early works to 1800. George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760. Notes; authorship attributed by ESTC t021870. Referenced by: Goldsmiths' 7242. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Octavo. 30, [ii]pp. A4-D4. Last leaf blank. Head- and tail piece; initial. Disbound. ESTC T048279. On the "Bangorian conrtoversy." Replying to Sherlock's attacks on Bishop Hoadly.

First Edition. Pamplet [as originally issued]. Finely bound in marble boards with a contrasting, gilt-blocked green Morocco label to the front panel. An uncommonly good example; scans and additional detail on request. ; 67 pages; Physical desc. : [4], 67, [1]p. ; 8vo. Subject: Liberty - Early works to 1800. George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760. Notes; authorship attributed by ESTC t021870. Referenced by: Goldsmiths' 7242. 1 Kg.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very good. Second Edition. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Leather remnants on spine. Edges neatly trimmed. Octavo, 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" pp. [2], 38. Small ink inscription "x" on top left corner. Pages lightly tanned. (ESTC T188803). The prominent politician and Christian apologist John Shute, Viscount Barrington (1678-1734) wrote this pamphlet amidst the Salters' Hall debates in London. In 1719, 150 dissenting ministers convened at the Salters' Hall to debate subscription to the Trinity. Originally they had convened to "heal the doctrinal differences that had. arisenamong the leading ministers there", but the dispute widened and "the debate came to be seen as a controversy over orthodoxy." and their subscribing to the doctrine of The Trinity. In this pamphlet, Barrington provides an account of the heated debates and advocates for peace. (Paraphrased, ODNB).

TITLE CONTINUED: proposed Last Sessions of Parliament: with A General Examination of the reasons which determined the said Ministry to it; the Consequences and Events it would have had. Also The motives which engaged the Ministry to lay it Aside; with the Objections of those Political Writers who oppose the Government: And Reflections on other Faults imputed to the Ministry. Likewise The Natural Inferences which may be drawn from every particular Fact; and from the Whole in General. PAMPHLET 1734. 8vo approximately 220 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5½ inches, 60 pages, bound in quarter modern cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettered black leather label to upper cover, pale marbled endpapers, pages untrimmed. Title page slightly dusty with old ink number to top margin, small stab hole to several outer margins, small closed tears to outer margin of 2 pages, a few other minor marks to margins, otherwise a very good copy. See: ESTC T11920; Kress Library of Business and Economics, page 212, No. 4203; Catalogue of the Goldsmiths Library of Economics, Volume 1, page 358, No. 7228. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

3 titles bound together: The Description Of Bath. A Poem; A Character Of John Sheffield, 1729; Poems on Several Subjects.Stephen Duck, 1730 - [10pp.]/pp.85/[1p. - Books Printed.James Leake]/[2pp.]/pp.48/[2pp.]/pp.6/pp.3-32. Description for Stephen Duck: Engraved frontis, facing a printed title page. Clear English text on lightly toned and soiled paper, decorated with headpieces. Original half calf binding over scuffed marble boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Plain brown leather spine. Pencil doodles to endpapers. 196mm x 125mm x 20mm. * Referenced by: ESTC No. T42654 / Foxon p.200. ** "Stephen Duck (c. 1705 21 March 1756) was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" (natural geniuses) and its resistance to classlessness." - See Wikipedia.

[Price Six-pence] Very Good pp37. bound in modern marbled boards and sp. cloth.