Basic HTML Version
Containing an accurate account of the astonishing frauds and
ingenious forgeries of that truly great man, on the governor and
company of the Bank of England for a series of six years.
Including a faithful detail of his devices and depredations on
society for a period of fifty-five years. A new edition, corrected
and improved.
Printed for G. Kearsley,
1790
With the engraved frontispiece illustrating Price in three
disguises cut down and neatly mounted as three separate plates
and bound in within the text, with 2 folding engraved plates
illustrating Price’s usual and his disguised handwriting, pages
xvi,248, bound without the half-title, 8vo, neatly bound in 19C
cloth, with label, gilt, by Winstanley of Manchester, with their
ticket: with some light fingering in places, but still a very good
copy.
ESTC locates copies at British Library, Cambridge(imperfect), London
University; Harvard, San Antonio and Alberta. Edition statement from
head of title-page. Price alias Patch, notorious scoundrel and the most
dangerous bank-note-forger the Bank of England ever had to deal with:
he made his own papers, engraved his own plates, made his own ink
and printed his own notes.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1214
.
PRICE (Richard).
A discourse on the love of our country,
delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-House in the Old
Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in
Great Britain.
London printed: Boston, reprinted: by Edward E.
Powars,
1790
40-pages, 8vo, recent wrapper: a half-inch horizontal strip has
been neatly cut from the top and lower blank edge of the half-
title, otherwise a well-margined and very good copy
Thomas, Stephens & Jones, 38i, locating the BL copy only. Reprinting
the text of the third edition. Though well represented in US libraries,
ESTC has only the BL copy of this edition in UK or Irish libraries.
Price, intimate friend of Franklin and the most influential British
advocate of American independence, founder member of the Society for
Constitutional Reform (1780) and when the Society for
Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain (known as the
Revolution Society) revived its activities, he played a prominent part in
its proceedings. Invited to address the Revolution Society at the meeting
on 4 November 1789, his address, A Discourse on the Love of our
Country (1789), welcomed with great enthusiasm the opening events of
the French Revolution, holding that the French were doing for
themselves what the British had done in 1688 and what the Americans
had done in the War of Independence. In the evening of the same day
at a dinner held by the society, he moved a resolution congratulating the
French national assembly and welcoming the prospect of a common
participation in the blessings of civil and religious liberty by the ‘first
two kingdoms in the world’. His role in these proceedings and the
publication of his address to the Revolution Society inflamed the wrath
of Edmund Burke, who was provoked to write Reflections on the
Revolution in France (1790), in which he assailed Price with vitriolic
invective of the most uninhibited kind. Price replied briefly yet
effectively in a preface which he attached to the fourth edition of the
discourse, and it was left to his friends Joseph Priestley, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Joseph Towers and Thomas Paine to make lengthier and
more studied replies(ODNB).
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1215
.
PRIDEAUX (John).
The Doctrine of the Sabbath.
Delivered in the Act at Oxon. Anno, 1622. And now translated
into English for the benefit of the common People. London,
Printed by E[lizabeth]. P[urslowe]. for Henry Seile, 1634. [and:]
DOW (Christopher) A Discourse of the Sabbath and the Lords
Day. Wherein the difference both in their institution[sic] and
their due observation is briefly handled. London, Printed by M.
Flesher for John Clark, 1636. 1634-1636
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH AND FIRST EDITION
RESPECTIVELY, pages (18), 41, (3, blank): (4), 75, the first
work with the final but wanting the initial blank leaf,2 works in
1 volume, 4to, contemporary unlettered limp vellum: a little
dusty and the binding stained but sound and strong and
otherwise very good unsophisticated copies.
STC 20348 and 7088. Prideaux (1578-1650), Bishop of Worcester,
Regius Professor of Divinity and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. This
speech was delivered at Oxford in 1622 in support of James’s
‘Declaration to his Subiects, Concerning lawfull Sports’, of 1618. It was
first published in the original Latin in 1625.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1216
.
PRIESTLEY (Joseph) FRS.
Miscellaneous observations
relating to education. More especially, as it respects the conduct
of the mind. To which is added, an essay on a course of liberal
education for civil and active life.
Cork: Printed by T. White, No.
55 opposite the West Gate of the Exchange,
1780
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp xxiii, (1, blank), 333, (3, blank),
12mo, contemporary calf, with label, gilt: wanting a blank
flyleaf and binding little worn but sound and strong, otherwise a
very good copy with contemporary signature of Ez. Williams
Esq and small stamp “E*W” on ttitle, the ownership stamp
repeated on pages 15 and 100, also inscribed “Ez Williams -
from / his highly respected Tuter / Elizur Goodrich Esqr. /
1783” on blank leaf at end.
An educational course, originally written for Lord Shelbourne and first
published 1778, developed by Priestley for students at dissenting
academies who were intended for civil and commerical careers and not
for the learned professions
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1217
.
PROCHNOW (Johann Dettloff).
Anfangegrunde einer
grammatik der hindustanischen sprache.
Berlin: W. Schultze,
1852
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 34-pages, cr 8vo, original yellow
printed paper wrappers: lightly foxed and with a tiny puncture
penetrating from the lower wrapper but without any serious loss,
otherwise a very good to nice copy in original state.
Not found in WorldCat though the NUC does have a copy at PU.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
INDIA.
India Reform. No. II.
The finances of India.
Saunders & Stanford, (for the India Reform
Society).
(1853). Pages 30, (1), 8vo, disbound: small stamp on
title, otherwise as very good copy.
Not found in WorldCat and COPAC locates only a single copy.
(2)
KEENE (Henry G.).
Keene’s Handbook for Visitors.
Allahabad, Cawnpore and Lucknow. Second edition, revised. To
which is added a chapter on Benares.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and
Co. (Thacker’s Handbooks of Hindustan),
1896. With 5 folding
maps, pages viii, 97 and (3),52 adverts, 12mo, original green
cloth, gilt: name cut from the very extreme upper blank margin
of half-title, otherwise a fine copy.
(3)
MOOKERJEE (Onoocool Chunder): - Mookerjee
(Mohndronauth).
The memoir of the late honorable justice
Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee. By M. Mookerjee … Second
edition … with a preface by the author.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink
and Co …,
1876. 87-pages, 12mo, original cloth: the spine worn
but the binding strong: a very good copy.
A successful biography (it ran to some seven editions over forty years) of
this judge of the Bengal High Court, brother of the nationalist H. C.
Mookerjee, written by his grandson. NSTC has the only BL copy of this
edition.
(4)
INDIA.
A view of the evidence given before a select
committee of the House of Commons, on a petition from the
East India Company, praying for relief to India in reference to
unequal duties and other grievances; with notes...
W. H. Allen &
Co.,
1840. FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION THUS, pp (2), 102, (2,
294