Catalogue 142 - RIOT, REVOLUTION, RADICALISM & REFORM.

Popular political and social pressures on democratic and constitutional government in Great Britain , 1780-1860. (200 items)

Catalogue 141 - Miscellaneous interesting, unusual and often rare, books, pamphlets, broadsides & manuscripts from 1646 to 1911. (140 items)

Including a fine and exceptionally rare 18th century broadside on the horrendous cost of marriage in 1741; an anonymous attack on the upper classes for the alleged neglect of their servants’ welfare, written in the style of Dean Swift (Direction to lords and ladies, masters and mistresses, for the improvement of their conduct as servants, 1756); Anthony Horneck’s Delight and judgment (1684) in which he expresses an unusually liberal view on such matters as gambling, cosmetic surgery and other ‘sensual and carnal delights’; a fine letter signed by William Tunstall to his father-in-law describing the 1644 attack of the Scots at South Shields in the English Civil War, and much else.

Catalogue 140 - ECONOMICS, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED.

English printed books, pamphlets and broadsides from 1608 to 1800, on economics, theoretical and applied.
A fine representative group of 17th and 18th century material broadly in the field of economics, including money, banking, trade, commerce, taxation and related subjects. Including first or early editions of books by Jeremy Bentham, Sir Francis Brewster, Edmund Burke, Sir Josiah Child, Francis Cradocke, Richard Cumberland, Charles Davenant, Abraham De Moivre, William Fleetwood, Joshua Gee, Sir Nathaniel Gould, Joseph Harris, William Lowndes, Bernard De Mandeville, Thomas Mun, Sir William Petty, Malachy Postlethwayt, William Prynne, Henry Saxby, Sir John Sinclair, Adam Smith, Sebastien le P. de Vauban, Robert Wallace, Sir Charles Whitworth, Andrew Yarranton and Arthur Young.
The books are listed in alphabetical order and there is a comprehensive index.
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Catalogue 139 - early autumn miscellany of books, pamphlets, broadsides & manuscripts from 1610 to 1898.

Our usual eclectic mixture, including a fine copy of the 1st edition of Charles Babbage's important On the economy of machinery and manufactures (1832) and other texts in economics, including a very good copy of John Stuart Mill's Principles of political economy, 1st edition, 1848, and a superb set of a 1793 printing of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in a fine contemporary binding; many books on law, philosophy and politics, including several pamphlets by or about Robert Owen, and a very good copy of the only early edition of John Lilburne's Peoples prerogative and priviledges, asserted and vindicated (1647); several rare early works on constructing wheel carriages, including John Theodore Koster's Description of a new or improved method of constructing wheel carriages (Liverpool, 1819), together with the exceptionally rare supplement of 1820, presented by the author to W.E. Gladstone's father; a good crisp copy of the second edition of a book of major importance to science, Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, published in Stockholm in 1740, no copy of which is recorded in libraries in North America; several manuscripts, including a fine continental travel journal of Emma and Maria Petit, the sisters of John Louis Petit, the architectural historian and watercolour painter, written during the summer of 1838 and enlivened by 42 whole-page sketches, and an 18th century manuscript document illustrative of the settlement of New Hampshire, sometime in the stock of the New York bookseller H.P. Kraus; and many other items, several of considerable rarity.

Catalogue 138

A summer catalogue of 145 items selected to show the range of our current stock, none published after 1885. Subjects include, as usual, economics, law, philosophy, philanthropy and education. Among the books are a good copy of Michael Tatischeff's translation of Catherine II's New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire (1768); John Cazenove's Elementary Treatise on Political Economy (1840) inscribed from the author; a marvellous music manuscript from Lincolnshire, William Dennis's The New Ierusalem's Harmony written in 1753 and apparently unpublished, sometime in the library of the chemist Charles Hatchett; Thomas Earnshaw's Longitude: an appeal to the public of 1808 in which he recounts his fractious relationship with the Board of Longitude; a charming early Victorian brochure (ca. 1840) advertising "an agreeable summer rendezvous for 'parties de campagne'" at the Castle Hotel, Richmond; a good copy of the first Irish edition of Adam Ferguson's Essay on the history of civil society from the 18th century Irish library of Michael Kearney; an exceptional collection of manuscript material derived from a slave estate in Barbados showing its development over two centuries; André Jullien's Wine Merchant's Companion of 1825, "essential reading for the English sommelier"; a rare report of 1808 illustrating in detail both the administration and maladministration of medical services to the British Army; Henry Lee's Anti-scepticism (1st ed., 1702), one of the most able assessment of John Locke's Essay on Humane Understanding; a rare French handbook of 1778 on ladies' hairdressing, written by a flamboyant and enthusiastic Paris hairdresser; the manuscript account book of a Suffolk village parson kept over the period 1837-1847; the Duke of York's own copy of Count O'Rourke's Treatise on the art of war (London 1778); the 1st edition in English of Blaise Pascal's Les Provinciales (1657), the "most devastating doctrinal and intellectual attack on the Society of Jesus prior to its suppression in 1773"; an interesting copy of the National Rifle Association of Great Britain's conference report of 1864; three works by Granville Sharp opposing slavery and the slave trade; a superb set of the first collected edition of
Adam Smith's Works, 1811-12; pamphlets by and about the mystic Joanna Southcott; the first two volumes of the famous medical journal The Lancet (1823/24), and Paolo Zacchia's Quaestiones medico-legales (4th ed., Avignon, 1655), the first scientific work on forensic medicine. And much more, of course.