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[LIFE]
The life and adventures of Bamfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars:being an impartial account of his life, from his leaving Tiverton School at the age of fifteen, and entering into a society of gipsies; wherein the motives of his conduct are related and explained: the great number of characters and shapes he has appeared in through Great Britain, Ireland, and several other places of Europe: with his travels twice through great part of America: giving a particular account of the origin, government, laws, and customs of the gipsies; with the method of electing their King: and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants.
1788 - 12mo., portrait frontispiece, 203 + (1)pp., early ownership name on title, portrait a little offset, slight general paper browning, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked with gilt lines, raised bands and original label. A good copy.

gypsies, beggars, dictionary
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

HOLT, John
General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster:with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. From the communications of Mr. John Holt, of Walton, near Liverpool; and the additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers in the county.
1795 - 8vo., folding engraved map, 5 engraved plates (one folding), two folding tables, text figures, (4) + xii + 241 + (1)pp., in contemporary calf, the sides with gilt borders with the arms in gilt on each cover of the Society of Writers to the Signet (the Signet Library), sometime carefully rebacked and lettered. A very good, crisp, copy.
Second, enlarged, edition (1st ed., 4to., 1794). Perkins 815. Rothamsted (1940) p.75. Goldsmiths 16248. Kress B.2975. Upcott p.480. Anderson p.151.
Lancashire, agriculture, railways
  
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

SHARP, James
[begins] Rolling carts and waggons.To ascertain the advantages of these waggons, a few journies have been made into Warwickshire and Staffordshire ...
1773] - single sheet broadside (20.5 x 22.5 cms), with a large woodcut of one of Sharp's horse-drawn vehicles on the road, the text below in three printed columns, unbound, in very good state of preservation.
Rare.
roads, transport, civil engineering, advertisements
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[TRIAL]
Report of the trial of Michael Keenan, for administering an unlawful oath.
1822 - 8vo., (4) + 64 + (4) + 65-111pp., including the half-title, very slight foxing at beginning and end, original boards, neatly rebacked, uncut. A very good copy.
First edition: uncommon.
trials, Ireland
  
Price : GBP£ 300
  
 

HOLLINSHEAD, John
Hints to country gentlemen and farmers on the importance of using salt as a general manure.... The second edition.
1800 - 8vo., 60pp., title-page a little soiled and with library blindstamp in lower margin, efficiently bound fairly recently in marbled boards with printed paper spine label.

salt, agriculture, Blackburn, Chorley
  
Price : GBP£ 175
  
 

WHITWORTH, Robert
A report and survey of the canal proposed to be made on one level, from Waltham-Abbey to Moorfields.Also a report and survey of a line which may be continued from Marybone to the said proposed canal, in case any future design of navigation to that place, or the north side of London, from the rivers Thames or Coln, should ever take place. ... To which is subjoin'd an address to the ... worshipful the Aldermen and Common-Council, of the City of London, on the importance and great utility of canals in general ... By James Sharp.
1773] - folio, (2) + 8 and (2) + 16pp., two large folding plans, on thick paper, inner blank margins of text leaves strengthened for binding, outer margins of two of the text leaves also strengthened with archival tape, rebound recently in maroon cloth, the title lettered gilt on upper cover. A good copy, the maps (plans) themselves in fine state of preservation.
First edition. Skempton 1798. Kress 6986. Goldsmiths 11059. Higgs 5805.
canals, London, transport, civil engineering
  
Price : GBP£ 450
  
 

[TRIAL]
The trials of Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wallace, and Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace, for wilfully destroying the Brig Dryad, off Cuba,with intent to defraud the Marine Assurance Companies and underwriters.
1841 - 8vo., viii + 294pp., prelims. misnumbered, original blind-stamped cloth, rather faded, spine neatly repaired. A good, uncut, copy.
First edition: scarce. Apparently not in BL (May 2007). Not in Kress or Goldsmiths.
marine insurance, insurance fraud, shipping, Cuba, trials
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[THAMES HAVEN RAILWAY]
Thames Haven Railway. Extracts from the "Public Ledger" of 24th and 31st of December, 1835.
n.d. [1835 or 6] - folio, 3 + (1)pp., with docket title (as above), folded, unbound as issued. A very good copy.
Ephemeral and inevitably rare. No other copy located in our usual searches.
fish, London, travel, railways
  
Price : GBP£ 100
  
 

CLIFFORD, C[harles]
How to lower ships' boats.A treatise on the dangers of the present system, and their remedy, with a full description of the new method approved and adopted by the Admiralty. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners. The Transport and Convict Services. The Honorable East India Company. The Royal Mail Steam Company. European and American Steam Ship Company. The Steam Navigation Board, Melbourne, &c. With official reports. ... Fifth thousand.
1859[-1860] - 8vo., iv + 76 + 10 + (4)pp., with 8 lithographic plates by Ashby and Co. after drawings by E. Hayes, with an additional whole-page illustration of the lowering gear on p.14, original cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, spine rather faded. A very good presentation copy inscribed by the "author and inventor" on upper margin of title.
Very scarce indeed.
naval, safety at sea, life saving, lifeboats
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

BEAUMONT COMPRESSED AIR LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY LIMITED
Prospectus.
n.d. [1880] - folio (400 x 265mm), 4pp., with a large illustration of a Beaumont compressed air locomotive pulling a carriage, four small holes but text not affected, minor edge fraying and marginal dust-soiling, folded into four for posting. Unbound as issued and offered with a separate but related form of application for shares in the Company.

transport, engineering
  
Price : GBP£ 85
  
 

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