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- Powers of the Governor-General under the White Paper.
- ISBN: NA Price: $31.54
- Publisher: (Alipore, Bengal Government Press), Date Published: 1933
- Description: 16 pp.; original paper wrappers, library markings, lacks rear cover, spine trimmed with no loss, later stapling, good only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: India, British history, Indian reforms Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 302093
- A Sermon, occasioned by the decease of John Howard, Esq. preached in Little Wild-Street, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, March 21, 1790. The Second Edition.
- ISBN: NA Price: $100.74
- Publisher: London: Printed for T. Cadell Date Published: 1790
- Description: 41, [1] (ad) pp.; light general age toning and light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers; subject is John Howard, 1726-1790, British philanthropist and prison reformer. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, prison reform Show items similar to this.
Request a photo for this item.- Item Number: 700609
- The True Patriot. A Sermon, on the Much Lamented Death of John Howard, L.L.D. F.R.S. preached at Hackney, his native place. With Memoirs of his Life and Character.
- ISBN: NA Price: $181.11
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Johnson, Date Published: 1790
- Description: first edition; [iv], 43, [1] (ad), [2] (Postscript) pp.; light extraction roughness at spine, now in self wrappers; subject is John Howard, 1726-1790, British philanthropist, prison reformer, and "Patriot of the World",. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, prison reform, BRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 700606
- The Earl of Macclesfield's Speech in the House of Peers On Monday the 18th Day of March 1750. At the Second Reading of the Bill For Regulating the Commencement of the Year, &c
- ISBN: NA Price: $273.87
- Publisher: London: printed for Charles Davies, Printer to the Royal Society Date Published: 1751
- Description: first edition: small quarto (21.5 cm. tall), 23 pp.; a brief but fairly involved history of calendars; extraction roughness at margin, upper outside corner has light damp stain throughout with last few leaves nibbled at tips, self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: calendar reform, calendars, British history, history of science Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 527463
- Historia Social del Ecuador. (Tomo I- Tomo III) (Llacta No. 17-19)
- ISBN: NA Price: $96.59
- Publisher: Quito: Editorial Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Date Published: 1964
- Description: Volumes 1 through 3 only, a final volume was published later and not present here; I. El concertaje de indios y manumision de esclavos. + II. Aspectos socioeconomicos de la estructura agraria ecuatoriana. III. Recopilacion de las leyes indigenas de 1830 a 1918.; library hand stamps and markings, text browned but not fragile, pictorial paper wrappers soiled, still sound copies. Volumes Included: 3
- Subject: Indians of Ecuador, land reform, law Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 744358
- Report from the Committee Appointed to inquire into the Existence of any Abuses in the Disposal of The Patronage of The East India Company. Ordered, by the House of Commons to be printed, 23d March 1809.
- ISBN: NA Price: $636.04
- Publisher: {London}: Date Published: 1809
- Description: narrow folio, 238 pp.; inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices in regard to the appointment or nomination of Cadets or writers, most of the text being testimony on the buying and selling of these positions, postings to Saint Helena seem to have been free of problems mainly because no one wanted to go there; lacks paper wrappers, else a very good, untrimmed copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: rare, British history, East India Company Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 153195
- The History of the Life and Acts Of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the First Bishop of London, and the Second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth ... By J. S.
- ISBN: NA Price: $194.91
- Publisher: London: Printed for John Hartley, Date Published: 1710
- Description: first edition; narrow folio (32.5 cm. tall x 19.5 cm.), [2] (title in red and black), xvi, 314, 108 (An Appendix Of Certain Original Papers), [5] (table) pp., portrait frontis.; contemporary paneled calf has neat repairs at joints but upper and lower portions still splitting, tips rubbed and hinges cracked, light general age toning, still an overall very good copy. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, English Reformation, Great Britain Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 432972
- An Account of the Great Confusion in London, Preparations to Address the King - Cutting of the Supplies - Refusal to Pay Taxes - all in Consequence of the Rejection of the Reform Bill, and the Resignation of Ministers.
- ISBN: NA Price: $55.18
- Publisher: Newcastle: Douglas and Kent, printers, Date Published: 1832
- Description: broadside, 38 cm. tall x 16.5 cm., "Extracted from the Morning Chronicle, May 10, 1832."; horizontal fold mark, else very good+,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: pamphlets, British history, William IV, Reform Bill Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 523030
- Acharyya Ray Commemoration Volume.
- ISBN: NA Price: $68.38
- Publisher: Calcutta: N. C. Paul at the Calcutta Oriental Press, Date Published: 1932
- Description: first edition; quarto, viii, 615 pp., portrait frontispiece, some articles have plates, almost all are in English; ex library, only the detached orange cloth sides remain from original cloth and now partially disbound, complete but good- only; articles in honor of chemist and entrepreneur Prafulla Chandra Ray, 1861-1944 but reflective of his many and widely diverse interests. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: history of science, India, CTT Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 824610
- Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Bangalore. (Vols. 1-4)
- ISBN: NA Price: $822.68
- Publisher: Bangalor: Mythic Society Date Published: 1910
- Description: Volumes 1 (1909-1910) through 4 only; [viii] , 157, [1] pp. + [viii], [10], 149 pp. + [18], 146 pp. + 16, 184 pp.; quarto, 4 volumes bound as 2 and includes plates and lists of members; later green cloth rubbed, especially at leather spine lables, scattered penciling but an overall very good interior,. Volumes Included: 4
- Subject: India, ethnology, history, religion Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 326438
- The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Edited by Franz Boas. (Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. II. Anthropology I. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition IV.)
- ISBN: NA Price: $232.27
- Publisher: NY: American Museum of Natural History Date Published: 1900
- Description: first edition; folio (leaves slightly taller than 34.5 cm.), [230] pp. including a full page map, 7 plates and the last two have explanatory text on facing pages, this copy also has a plate not called for with title "Album of the North Pacific Coast. Plate 2. Thompson Indians." (from another source?), numerous illustrations in text; library markings and general age toning, later cloth with the original paper front cover bound in but badly chipped and mounted on a later sheet, the signature of American anthropologist M. R. Harrington at corner but faded, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British Columbia, Canada, Ntlakyapamuk Indians, crn Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 724650
- Twenty-seventh through Thirty-third Annual Reports of the Executive Committee of the Indian Rights Association, For the Years Ending December 16, 1909 through 1915.
- ISBN: NA Price: $342.76
- Publisher: Philadelphia: Date Published: 1910
- Description: seven reports bound as two; 1909 (57 pp., 1 plate); 1910 (72 pp., 1 plate); 1911(87 pp., 2 plates); 1912 (106 pp., 3 plates); 1913 (108 pp., 3 plates with a four page pamphlet "The 'Citizenship Expedition'" bound in); 1914 (78 pp., 3 plates); and 1915 (102 pp., 4 plates); a non-Indian organization concerned with the natural and political rights of "these helpless wards of the Nation"; ex library in later boards with cloth spine and all original paper covers bound in. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: legal history American Indians Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 530625
- The North Briton ... (Numbers 1-218).
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,767.84
- Publisher: London: W. Bingley, Date Published: 1769
- Description: a complete contemporary reprint of Wilkes controversial essay paper and its continuation after Number Forty Six by other hands; 2 bindings, small folio (slightly taller that 31 cm.), [4] (beginning with title for Volume I. Part I. Second Edition, 1771), 163, [1], [4] (containing Numbers 1-46 with index), 132 (appendix to part one) pp., [1-2] (title for Volume I. Part II, 1769), [288]-614, [2] pp. (Numbers 47-100, with index; the first edition of the reprint of part one had a different pagination but a complete text) + 732 pp. (Numbers 101-218); first title leaf has corner chipped off with no letters touched, generaly light age toning, blocks well sewn but needs recasing or rebinding. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: British history, British literature Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 539663
- Epea Ptepoenta. Or, the Diversions of Purley. Second edition.
- ISBN: NA Price: $155.35
- Publisher: London: Printed for the author at J. Johnson's Date Published: 1798
- Description: 2 volumes, quarto, frontis., [i] (dedication), [ii-iv], [1]-534, 1 plate + [i] (dedication), [ii-iv], 516 + index; old calf covers now worn & detached, some light foxing throughout, else textually clean & tight; a good binding set. Volumes Included: 2
- Subject: British History Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 292345
- The Conduct of the Ministry Impartially Examined. And the Pamphlet entitled Considerations onthe Present German War. Refuted from its own Principles
- ISBN: NA Price: $331.23
- Publisher: London: Printed for R. Griffiths, Date Published: 1760
- Description: iv, 56 pp., self wrappers, removed from a larger binding, else textually clean. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: british history Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 417920
- The Monitor: or, British Freeholder. From August 9, 1755, to July 31, 1756, both inclusive. with The Monitor ... From August 7, 1756, to July 16, 1757, both inclusive.
- ISBN: NA Price: $601.62
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Scott, Date Published: 1756
- Description: 2 volumes, contemporary reprint of Numbers 1 through 104; old calf very rubbed and dry with sides becoming detached, very good internally,. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 535056
- The Monitor: or, British Freeholder. From August 9, 1755, to July 31, 1756, both inclusive. through ... July 22, 1758, to July 14, 1759, both inclusive.
- ISBN: NA Price: $487.60
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Scott, Date Published: 1757
- Description: 4 volumes, first volume is third edition; contemporary reprint of Numbers 1 through 208 of this Whig newspaper originally issued in folio, bound in at the end of third volume is "An Account of he Facts which appeared on the late Enquiry into the Loss of Minorca, From Authentic Papers. By the Monitor." (London: Printed for J. Scott, 1757, [2], 174 pp.); old calf bindings rubbed and worn with chipping at heads of tails of decorated spines, some sides and endpapers detached, very good internally. Volumes Included: 4
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- Item Number: 539655
- The Rolliad, in Two Parts; Probationary Odes for the Laureateship; and Political Eclogues: with Criticisms and Illustrations. Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by the Original Authors.
- ISBN: NA Price: $483.18
- Publisher: London: Printed for J. Ridgway, Date Published: 1799
- Description: "The Twenty-first Edition"; xxxii, 524 pp., engraved frontis.; old calf with later rebacking but front cover detached and back joint split, a few age spots in text but overall clean internally, armorial book plate of Sir Francis L. H. Goodricke; a collection of verse and prose satires on William Pitt and members of his party,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British history, British literature, satire Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 528947
- Capital (Supplements). Survey of Indian Industries, 1968-1973. Annual Survey of Economic and Public Affairs, 1968, 1970-1973.
- ISBN: NA Price: $604.86
- Publisher: Calcutta: Capital, Ltd. Date Published: 1968
- Description: the special supplements to Capital magazine; Survey of Indian Industries (the annual supplement to the July issue) 1968 through 1973 + Annual Survey of Economic and Public Affairs ((the annual supplement to the December issue) 1968, 1970 though 1973; library markings, 11 items here bound as eight in matching red cloth with all paper sides retained, good+. Volumes Included: 8
- Subject: India, industry, economic history, Big Sets Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 705021
- The Law Reports. Indian Appeals: Being Cases in The Privy Council on Appeal from The East Indies, etc. Vols. 1-16 (1873/74-1887/88)
- ISBN: NA Price: $982.64
- Publisher: London Date Published: 1874
- Description: volumes 1-16, an unterrupted run, minor library markings, quarterly leather somewhat deteriorated, textually very good . Volumes Included: 16
- Subject: India LEgal History Colonialism Business Crime Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 338343
