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much admired as giving an accurate picture of Roman family life. “ -
DCB.
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ATKIN (George Duckworth).
House Scraps. Collected by
G. Duckworth Atkin. With illustrations by Geo. Cruichshank, F.
C. Gould, Lucien Davis, etc. For Private Circulation Only.
Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange
1887. FIRST
EDITION, with decorative title-page, 5 plates (2 double-page) and
numerous other illustrations, pages vi, 183, (1), 8vo, original
brown cloth: a nice copy.
Apparently the only edition of this collection of stock exchange facetiae.
The subscriber list states “limited to 200” and lists 200 names.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
533
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AZPILCUETA (Martin de), ‘Navarrus’.
Consiliorum &
Responsorum, quae in quinque libros, iuxta numerum & titulos
Decretalium, distribuuntur, tomi duo. Quae quidem in hac
secunda editione Consiliis pene trecentis aucta & multo melius,
quam in priori editione digesta sunt …
Lugduni, sumptibus Ioannis
Baptistae Buysson (ex typog. Petri Rolandi,
1594
The title-pages in red and black, each with large woodcut device,
pp 384: 273, (1, blank), (56, index), without blank leaf Z8, 2 vols
bound in 1, folio, contemporary calf, recently and neatly repaired:
the extreme lower blank margin of title cut away (clear of title-
page border), light old water stain in places, internally a clean and
well-margined copy.
Adams A 2378, noting just one copy (C). Martin de Azpilcueta (1493-
1586), the most prominent canon lawyer of his day, adviser to three
successive popes, a founder-member of the School of Salamanca, where he
introduced a new method of teaching civil law, combining its exposition
with that of canon law. He was among the first to question strongly the
validity of Artitotle’s condemnation of usuary, he explicitly denounced
price controls, defended money-changing and usury, was the first
economic thinker to state clearly and unequivocally that government price-
fixing is a mistake and was an early expositor of the Quantity Theory of
Money - he studied at Toulouse almost simultaneously with Jean Bodin.
€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
534
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BABBAGE (Charles).
On the Economy of Machinery and
Manufactures. Third edition enlarged.
Charles Knight,
1832
With an engraved title-page and pages xxiv, 392, (2, adverts), (2,
blank), 12mo, original cloth, uncut, the spine neatly repaired
retaining all the original endpapers and flyleaves, with
contemporary ownership inscription of Sidney Campbell Henry
Roper Curzon dated July 30th ‘33 and bookplate: a very good
copy.
Enlarged and with a new three-page preface. Generally regarded as the
first treatise on the scientific management of factories to be published in
English.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
FAIRBAIRN (Sir Wm.), FRS: - Pole
(Wm. P.), FRS.
The life of Sir William Fairbairn … Partly
written by himself. Edited and completed by William Pole, F. R.
S.
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1877. FIRST EDITION, with a
portrait, a plate and a few text illustrations, pages xvi, 507, 44
(adverts dated March 1876), 8vo, original mauve cloth: a very
good to nice copy.
Authoritative: main source for the life of one of the greatest engineers of
the 19C.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
535
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BABBAGE (Charles).
Passages from the life of a
philosopher.
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green,
1864
FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece, pages xii, 496, 8vo,
original green cloth, uncut, skilfully rebacked retaining the
original backstrip, new endpapers: with a light old marginal water
stain on the fore-edge of the first few leaves: a very good copy.
A valuable and enjoyable autobiography, the principal source for our
knowledge of the history of his difference and analytical engines -
precursors of the modern digital computer. Babbage’s own bibliography of
his published writings is included.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
536
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[BACON (Francis)]
Certaine Considerations touching the
better pacification, and Edification of the Church of England:
Dedicated to his most Excellent Majestie. (London) 1640
48pp. 4to. Disbound. An additional title page bears the imprint
‘London Printed, 1640. ’ The last leaf is blank. Title, initial and
headpiece ornaments. ESTC, S101536. Very good.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
537
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BAGSHAW (Edward).
Two Arguments in Parliament, the
First Concerning the Cannons, the Second Concerning the
Premunire Upon those Cannons. London,
Printed by George Miller
,
1641.
. [2], 43, [1]pp. 4to. Disbound. ESTC, R16597. Wing, B401. Front
edge shaved, lacks blank leaf at end. Good. (WITH) Englands
Complaint Englands Complaint to Jesus Christ, Against the
Bishops Canons of the Late Sinfull Synod, a Seditious
Conventicle, a Packe of Hypocriets, a Sworne Confederacy, a
Traiterous Conspiracy against the true Religion of Christ, and the
Weale Publicke of the Land, and consequently against the
Kingdome and Crowne. In this Complaint are Specified those
impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, Scattered
through the Canons and Constitutions of the said Sinfull Synod.
And confuted by Arguments annexed hereunto. (Amsterdam)
Printed Anno Dom. 1640. [52]pp. 4to. Disbound. ESTC,
S101178. Very good. (2) (€180-220) Church Government Reasons
Why the Hierarchy or Governement of the Church by Arch-
Bishops, Lord Bishops, Deanes, Arch-Deacons, Chancelors and
their Officers, exercising Sole or Superiour Authoritie in
Ordinations and Jurisdictions may and ought to be Removed.
(London) Printed Anno 1641. [3], 4-6pp. 4to. Disbound. ESTC,
R23346. Wing, R558. Very good.
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
538
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[BAILEY (Samuel)].
Essays on the formation and
publication of opinions, and on other subjects.
Printed for R.
Hunter …,
1821
FIRST EDITION, pp xi, (1, blank), 284, 8vo, contemporary half
calf, new label: very good.
His first book, considered by well-informed radicals of the 1820s “the
most useful single addition to the moral sciences since the Wealth of
Nations” - Wickwar. The essays contain a vigorous defence of the thesis
that a man is not responsible for his opinions, because they are
independent of his will; and that opinions should therefore not be the
objects of disapproval or punishment. His was ‘an intellectual’s appeal for
freedom of the press as an influential factor in the ‘natural progress of
knowledge’ and in a judicious and gradual adaptation of their
institutions to the inevitable changes of opinion’. He believed that no
power could arrest the ‘silent march of thought’ made possible by a free
press (McCoy). James Mill declared that if a man were allowed to claim
the paternity of any modern book, he would not hazard much by
choosing, after the Wealth of Nations, the essay on the formation of
opinions, of which the latter is virtually a continuation (DNB).
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
539
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BALIOL (Margaret).
To the Right Honourable the Lords
spiritual and temporal, and to the Commons of Great-Britain, in
Parliament assembled. The humble petition, and reiterated
complaint of Margaret Baliol, and her sisters, and other the co-
heirs of Peter Baliol, Esq; deceas’d, still most humbly offer’d to
the justice of this Honourable House.
[London?: s. n.]
[1710?]
BROADSIDE, with docket title on verso, folio, folded, faint old
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