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Scamader, and the aqueduct over the Simois.
Printed by William
Bulmer and Co., Shakspeare Printing Office; for John White,
1805
FIRST EDITION, with 2 aquatint plates of views, pages (4),
xvi, (3), 149 (i. e. 145), with the half-title and the 8-page
subscriber list, 4to, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled and
lettered spine: the binding worn and the upper joint cracked, but
still a very good copy.
Carlyle travelled as part of Elgin’s embassy to the Porte intending to
gain access to the Seraglio Library. The poems include six translated
from the Arabic.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
93
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CARPENTER (Wm. B.), MD, FRS.
The Microscope and
its revelations. Seventh edition, in which the first seven chapters
have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout
reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. W. H.
Dallinger.
J. & A. Churchill,
1891
With 20 plates, some coloured, and 756 other illustrations, pages
xviii, 1099, 16 (adverts), wanting the half-title, 8vo, original
cloth: the binding worn with the inside hinges cracked, but
strong and otherwise a clean and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PROCTOR (Richard A.).
Science Byways...
Wyman, “Knowledge Library”,
(1882). Pp xiv,
(1), 422 and (2), 16 ads, 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, by
Wyman, with ticket: wanting a blank flyleaf, tiny nick in
headband, some light foxing, but a very good copy.
(2)
SMITH (Edward), FRS, MD.
Food. Ninth edition.
Kegan
Paul, International Scientific series III,
1886. With illustrations, pp
xvi, 485, (3, blank) and 43, (4) adverts, 8vo, original cloth: very
good.
(3)
STEWART (Balfour), FRS.
The Conservation of Energy,
being an elementary treatise on energy and its laws. Seventh
edition.
Kegan Paul, International Scientific series VI,
1887. With 14
illustrations, pp (4, ads), xv, 180 and 42, (4) adverts, 8vo, original
cloth: very good.
(4)
LOMMEL (Eugene).
The Nature of Light, with a general
account of physical optics. Fifth edition.
Kegan Paul,
International Scientific series XVIII,
1888. With 188 illustrations,
pp (4, ads), xiii, 356 and 42, (4) adverts, 8vo, original cloth:very
good.
(5)
WURTZ (A.).
The Atomic Theory. Translated by E.
Cleminshaw. Fifth edition.
Kegan Paul, International Scientific
series XXX,
1888. With folding table, pp (4, ads), xiii, 344 and
42, (4) adverts, 8vo, original cloth: very good (6)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
94
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CARR (George).
Rational reform on constitutional
principles: addressed to the good sense of the English nation.
London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy,
1818
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xi, (1), 258, (2, adverts), with
the half-title, 8vo, original boards, uncut and almost entirely
unopened: the spine and label heavily worn but the binding very
strong and otherwise a very good to nice copy in original state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FRY (Danby Palmer).
The local
taxes of the United Kingdom: containing a digest of the law,
with a summary of statistical information concerning the
several local taxes in England, Scotland, and Ireland (the local
taxes of Scotland by J. Hill Burton)...
Charles Knight,
1846.
FIRST EDITION, pages vi, (2), 278, with the half-title, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt, gilt spine, with label, gilt: small
cancelled stamp on verso of title, otherwise very good - nice.
Kress C 6841 & C 6892...
(2)
TREASURY, COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.
Code
of regulations and instructions for conducting the duties of the
Commissariat Department. Revised and consolidated.
Printed for
H. M. S. O.,
1852. Pages 350, (1) and interleaved throughout
(except for index) with blue paper blanks, 8vo, original calf, gilt,
royal crest in gilt on both boards: a very good copy.
(3)
GILBART (James Wm.), FRS.
A Practical Treatise on
Banking. 1865. With portrait, pp xxx, 364: xii, (365) -682, 2
vols, 8vo, original brown cloth, by Burn, with ticket: little wear
to headbands but bindings and inside hinges strong: a very good
copy. (5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
95
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CARTHEW (Thomas).
Reports of cases adjudged in the
court of king’s bench. From the third year of King James the
Second, to the twelfth … of …William the Third. With two
tables … Published by his son Thomas Carthew …
In the Savoy:
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling …,
1728
FIRST EDITION, pages (14), 520, (29, table), (1, adverts), (2,
blank), complete with the initial licence leaf, folio,
contemporary calf: light cracks in the outside joints but the
binding strong and otherwise a nice, fresh copy with the Tervoe
bookplate.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
FINCH (Sir Heneage), first Earl of
Nottingham.
Reports of Cases decreed in the High Court of
Chancery, during the time of Sir Heneage Finch... none of these
cases ever printed before, and all of them carefully collected by a
gentleman [William Nelson] who attended the said court, and
was himself of counsel in the said cases. With proper tables...
In
the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt...,
1725. FIRST EDITION,
pages (2), iv, (4), 480, (22), small folio, finely bound in recent
quarter calf: with some light browning, but a very good copy. (2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
96
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CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
A letter to the Right Honorable
Robert Peel, M. P.
London, Sold by Booker, Bond Street …To be
applied to the benefit of the Catholic Female Charity-School, St. Giles.
1821
FIRST EDITION, 24-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
COPAC locates copies at C, Newcastle, Dt and
Reading, but there is also a copy on-lin at D.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[COBDEN (Richard) ].
Russia.
By a Manchester Manufacturer; author of “England, Ireland,
and America”.
Edinburgh: William Tait …,
1836. FIRST
EDITION, pages (2), 52, roy 8vo, recent wrappers: light old
waterstain and some upper margins cut close affecting some
running headlines and page numerals: a good copy.
(2)
MORGAN (David): - Llewellin (Wm.).
David Morgan,
the Welsh Jacobite; a contribution to the history of jacobitism in
Wales. Reprinted from the “Cambrian Journal”, 1861.
Tenby:
Printed by R. Mason, High Street,
1862. FIRST SEPARATE
EDITION, pp 40, (2, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good
copy.
(3)
[BURNS (Richard) ?].
Commercial facts affecting the
present condition of Great Britain. By a practical man.
Manchester: Published by B. Wheeler,
1855. FIRST EDITION, 24-
pages, 8vo, recent wrapper: small stamp on title, otherwise very
good.
Attribution from Black, Economic Pamphlets, 7507 (locating one
copy: Di). COPAC has Bristol and London Universities only. No copy
found in WorldCat.
(4)
TALBOT (John), 16th Earl of Shrewsbury.
A second letter
to Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Esq. from the Earl of Shrewsbury.
On the present posture of affairs.
London: Charles Dolman,
1841.
FIRST EDITION, pages 58, (2, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a
very good to nice copy.
Goldsmiths’ 31991. Not in Kress.
(5)
PALMERSTON (Henry J. T.), viscount:-.
Reasons for
demanding investigation into the charges against Lord
Palmerston.
Glasgow: Printed by Willisam Collins & Co.,
1840.
FIRST EDITION, pages 19, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
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