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ABBOT (Charles), first Baron Colchester.
Reports from the
select committee, appointed to inquire into the state of Public
Records of the Kingdom, &c. Reported by Charles Abbot, Esq.
on 4 Jul 1800. Vol. XV.
No printer, place or date,
(1803)
With 20, mostly folding or double-page, engraved plates, pages
564, 563*-564*, 565-667, (1, blank); 23, (1, blank) (index), folio,
near contemporary half calf: small marginal piece torn from one
plate without serious loss, otherwise a very good, strongly
bound copy but the binding worn and lacking spine label.
Two reports, with appendix, etc. Without imprint or command number.
Four of the plates bear the added comment in their imprint “And to be
Reprinted, 1803”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MARCHANTIUS (Jacob).
Hortus Pasorum et Concionatorum … Accessit huic quartae
editioni … et … Candelabrum Mysticum …
Parisiis, Petri
Billaine,
1638. Title-pages in red and black with engraved
vignette, pp (34), 274, 273bis-880, (26, including final leaf
blank): 369, (6), 2 works in 1 vol, folio, contemporary panelled
calf: binding worn but strong, some worming, mainly in lower
margins: clean and good-very good copy.
(2)
PEARSON (John).
An exposition of the Creed. The tenth
edition revised and corrected.
Printed by W. Bowyer, for S. Keble
and R. Gosling,
1715. With an engraved portrait after Loggan,
pages (10), 398, (10), folio, contemporary panelled calf: with
some light worming in the extreme lower inner margin, well
clear of text, the binding sound and strong but just a little worn
at corners, but still a crisp copy with the armorial bookplate of
the Rev. Will. Denis. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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ADAM (Wm.).
Speech … in the House of Commons, March
10th, 1794. on moving for the production of certain records, and
for an address to the King, to interpose the royal justice and
clemency, in behalf of Thomas Muir, Esq. and the Rev. Thomas
Fyshe Palmer.
Printed for J. Debrett,
1794
FIRST EDITION, pages 117, (1, adverts), final leaf backed (text
ends on recto) and wanting advert leaf for books published by
Debrett, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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ADAM (Wm.).
The speech of … in the Commons, on the
third reading of the Scots Judicature Bill, on the 24th of June
1808.
Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay … for Archibald
Constable … and John Murray, London,
1808
Pages (4), 53 and leaf of addenda, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ADAM (Wm.).
Speech of
William Adam, Esq. on the 6th of April, 1810, on Mr.
Lethbridge’s motion respecting Sir Francis Burdett: together
with the substance of what Mr. Adam said in the preceding
debate for adjournment, and in the subsequent proceedings,
upon this momentous topic.
Printed for J. Ridgway,
1810. FIRST
EDITION, pages (2), 107, (1, errata), 8vo, recent wrapper: a
very good copy.
In 1810 Adam gave strong support to Speaker Charles Abbot, who had
vigorously exerted parliamentary privilege by issuing a warrant on 6
April for the arrest of the radical member Sir Francis Burdett for
publishing an inflammatory speech and address. (ODNB).
(2)
[ESCOTT (Bickham S.) ].
Would reform in parliament be a
benefit to the country?
J. Hatchard and Son,
1830. FIRST
EDITION, pages (4), 40, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: with a
small stamp on the half-title, otherwise a very good copy.
(3)
ADAM (Wm.).
Speech of … in the House of Commons,
5th of March, 1810; on the resolutions proposed by Mr
Whitbread, regarding the Earl of Chatham’s report to His
Majesty on the expedition to the Scheldt.
Printed for J. Ridgway,
1810. FIRST EDITION, pages viii, 48, with half-title, 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good copy.
Chatham, blamed for the
disastrous Scheldt expedition, had been set an impossible task. (ODNB).
(4)
ADAM (Wm.).
delivered by Mr. Adam, in the House of
Commons, on the conduct of H. R. H. the Duke of York. 1809.
a very good copy.
Adam an eminent lawyer close to the royal family, arranged a loan to
the Duke of York at a time when the latter was having difficulties with
his mistress Mary Anne Clarke.
(5)
METROPOLITAN PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
ASSOCIAION.
No. 2. The Metropolitan Parliamentary
Reform Assoociation. To the People of Great Britain.
(London)
(1842). Drop-title, 4-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
Not in NSTC and COPAC locates only the London
University copy.
(6)
SMITH (John Benjamin).
Free Trade in Sugar. Dedicated
to the Cobden Club..
London: Unwin Brothers, 24 Bucklersbury
(1871). FIRST EDITION, pages 21, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
(7)
ADAM (Wm.).
in the House of Commons, 5th of March,
1810; on the resolutions proposed by Mr Whitbread, regarding
the Earl of Chatham’s report to His Majesty on the expedition
to the Scheldt. 1810. a very good copy.
(ODNB).
(8)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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ADAMS (Wm.).
Sacred Allegories. New edition, with
engravings from original designs by Charles W. Cope, R. A.,
John C. Horsley, A. R. A., Samuel Palmer, Birket Foster, and
George E. Hicks.
Rivingtons,
1856
FIRST EDITION THUS, with 36 wood engraved illustrations
(9 after Palmer), pp (2), vi, (2), 16, (2), 17 - 294 and advert leaf,
with half-title, roy 8vo, contemporary green morocco, gilt
panelled sides, fully gilt spine, inside gilt borders, edges gilt, by
Hayday: some very light marginal foxing, still a very good to
nice copy of this notable book, attractively bound.
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BILUART (Charles René).
Summa
S. Thomæ hodiernis academiarum moribus accommodata, sive,
Cursus theologiæ … Opera et studio F. Caroli Renati Billuart …
Editio nova, accurate emendata …
Leyden,
1864. 10 vols bound
in 5, roy 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt and blind-bordered sides,
fully gilt spines, with red and green spine labels, gilt, and large
oval crest of Maynooth College in gilt on all boards: an
attractive, strongly bound library set.
Bound by George Bellew of Dublin, with his label in each volume.
(6)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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AINSWORTH (Wm.).
An account of the caves of
Ballybunian, County of Kerry: with some mineralogical details.
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; Simpkin and Marshall,
London; Bancks and Company, Manchester; and C. O’Brien, Limerick,
1834
FIRST EDITION, with 9 woodcut illustrations (2 full-page), pp
(4), 96, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards: the binding worn at
corners but sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy.
A
cheap copy in that it is without the frontispiece and the folding table, but
showing no evidence that they were ever present.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CATHOLIC CHURCH,
LITURGIES, DIRECTORIES: -.
Directorium ad rite legendas
horas canonicas, missasque celebrandas, juxta rubricas breviarii
missalis Romani, ad usum cleri saecularis regni Hiberniae. Pro
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