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- The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies in Two Volumes. By Bryan Edwards, Esq. of the Island of Jamaica
- ISBN: NA Price: $600.00
- Publisher: Dublin: Luke White Date Published: 1793
- Description: 2 volumes, xxiv, 491, [1], 4 (ads) pp., folding map (the other illustrations found in the London edition of the same year were not used for this Dublin edition) + x, [3] (appears to be missing A2 but there is no apparent loss between the last page of the contents and the first page of text)-[460], [2] (section title for Appendix), 461-474, [2] (section title for Tables), 6 tables with the first two leaves and the others folding; contemporary full leather rubbed and with a long scratch across the front cover of second volume, private hand stamp at corner of each front free endpaper, signatures of two early owners on each first blank, Mary Alsop 1795 and Fanny Alsop 1830, general light age toning and age staining, E2 in first volume has a long tear and margin chip but no loss and four duplicate leaves from the end bound in with the preliminary matter, sound set and still near very good. Volumes Included: 2
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- Origines juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books, Grants and Settlements of Estates...
- ISBN: NA Price: $946.89
- Publisher: London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, & Henry Her Date Published: 1671
- Description: ..., Degree of Serjeant, innes of Court and Chancery. The Second Edition with Additions. narrow folio (leaves 34.5 cm. tall x 22 cm.), [4 leaves] (Imprimatur for the 1666 edition, title in red and black, Preface), 336, [2] (index), [2] (section title for the Chronica Series that covers the period 1067-1671), 117, [1], [1] (errata) pp., (printer?s numbering errors in Rr and Ss as issued with no change in the total number of pages and all text present), 33 pages included in the pagination are pictorial and all but one of them show multiple coats-of-arms and heraldic devices; lacks the six portraits as sometimes found, later leather binding now rubbed and worn with front cover and front free endpaper detached, Imprimatur leaf also detached and creased along fore edge, title darkened and a small group of interior leaves with a few spots in bottom margin but most of the text is clean and bright; Wing D2489. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, law, courts, heraldry, chronology, British history mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667764
- The Elements of the Art of Packing as applied to Special Juries, particularly in Cases of Libel Law
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,403.85
- Publisher: London: Effingham Wilson, Date Published: 1821
- Description: first edition; [title leaf], vii (beginning with Advertisement), [1], 269, [1] pp. bound with Hints to Witnesses in Courts of Justice. By a Barrister (attributed to Barron Field). London: Printed for J. Butterworth and Son, 1815, 24 pp. including the half title; an old leather binding very worn with sides detached and spine covering almost gone but text still well sewn, general age toning and a light damp stain at fore edge almost throughout, good. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, Freedom of the Press, juries, law mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666680
- Views of Ports and Harbours, Watering Places, Fishing Villages, and other Picturesque Objects on the English Coast. Engraved by William and Edward Finden...
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,536.71
- Publisher: London: Charles Tilt Date Published: 1838
- Description: ...from Paintings by J. D. Harding, G. Balmer, E. W. Cooke, T. Creswick, and other eminent artists.; first edition, quarto, [iii] (printed title)-vi, [162] pp., lacks half title?, 50 steel engraved plates including the frontispiece and the pictorial title; contemporary marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and tips now rubbed especially at joints and front hinge cracked, signature of a previous owner on pictorial title, early plates have damp stain at upper inside corner touching the images, general age toning, good+ only. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, art, ports, harbors mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667765
- The State of the Protestants in Ireland Under the late King James' Government; in which Their Carriage towards him is justified, and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his...
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,590.76
- Publisher: London: Printed for Robert Clavell, Date Published: 1691
- Description: ...Government and of submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated; first edition; quarto (21 cm. tall), [14 leaves] (permission, title, contents), 408 (actually 426, there are printer's numbering errors in Bb, Bbb, Fff, and Ggg1), [1] (advertisements); first few leaves tattered with no loss, bottom margin of title repaired with tape from verso and a short tear at fore edge of following page also repaired but again no loss, age toning and age staining with occasional burn dots, paper not fragile and an entirely readable copy in simple modern cloth; Wing K538. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Ireland, Protestants, James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Anti-Catholicism mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666688
- The Grand Question, Concerning the Bishops Right To Vote in Parlament In Cases Capital Stated and Argued from Parlament-Rolls, and the History of former Times...
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,055.28
- Publisher: London: Printed for M. P. and sold by Richard Rumball Date Published: 1680
- Description: ...With an Enquiry into their Peerage, and the Three Estates in Parlament.; first edition; 12mo (leaves 17 cm. tall), [2 leaves] (title, Contents), 188 pp.; possibly contemporary plain full leather binding worn with substantial chip at tail of spine and hinges cracked, free endpapers stained and tattered, name of a previous owner scribbled out in ink at corner of title, last two leaves margin tattered with no letters touched, complete and block still well sewn but good only; Wing S5594. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, Parliament, Church of England, Bishops, Archbishops, temporal power mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667767
- The Practice of the High Court of Chancery. With Notes, &c. adapted to the Court of Chancery of the State of New York
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,129.28
- Publisher: Albany: E. F. Backus Date Published: 1818
- Description: xi, [1], 260 pp.; old full leather rubbed with a few peel marks, age toning and age staining throughout but entirely readable, overall good+; the British text is unchanged but an occasional footnote was added by a unnamed "gentleman of the profession". Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, law, pleading and procedure, New York State mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 670667
- The New London Magazine; being An Universal and Complete Monthly Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment. Vol. I.
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,798.21
- Publisher: London: Printed for Alex. Hogg Date Published: 1785
- Description: Volume 1, July through December 1785 and Supplement; vi, 392 pp., frontispiece and all 20 copper-plates called for, with two of them folding; modern half morocco by Wallis but rubbed and front cover detached, text block still well sewn, margins cut down shaving text at top of frontis., bottom of title, and one plate but no letters entirely removed and all words readable, light general age toning with an occasional age spot. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British literature, literary magazines mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666710
- The Humours And Conversations Of The Town, Expos'd in Two Dialogues. The First, of the Men. The Second, of the Women
- ISBN: NA Price: $1,070.63
- Publisher: London: Printed for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, Date Published: 1693
- Description: 16mo (leaves 14.5 cm. tall), [6 leaves, beginning with title, A1), 139, [5] (ads) pp; contemporary full leather worn with front cover detached and bowed, signature of a previous owner (Jane Modgford) on title and first text page top margin cut short shaving a few page numbers but no letters touched, general age toning with title dark at margins, last leaf of advertising chipped at fore edge with loss of letters, light overall pucker, reading copy; Wing H3720. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: British literature, humor mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 667774
- Barbados Blue Book, 1912-1913
- ISBN: NA Price: $109.01
- Publisher: Bridgetown: T. E. King & Co., Printers to the Government of Barbados, Date Published: 1913
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, general age toning and partially disbound with back cover corner chipped, complete but good- only in original paper wrappers. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Colony of Barbados, British West Indies Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 786692
- Barbados Blue Book, 1911-1912.
- ISBN: NA Price: $89.20
- Publisher: Bridgetown: T. E. King & Co., printers to the Government of Bardados Date Published: 1912
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, general age toning, original paper wrappers very rubbed at spine and late leaves shaken, complete but good only . Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Colony of Barbados, British West Indies Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 786693
- Barbados Blue Book, 1907-1908.
- ISBN: NA Price: $96.41
- Publisher: Bridgetown: Bulletin Printing & Publishing, Printers to the Government Date Published: 1908
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, general age toning, original paper wrappers chipped and damp stained, complete but good- only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 786694
- Barbados Blue Book, 1913-1914.
- ISBN: NA Price: $99.52
- Publisher: Bridgetown: Advocate Co. Ltd., Printers to the Government of Bardados Date Published: 1914
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, general age toning, original paper wrappers chipped at spine, early and late leaves shaken, complete but good- only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Barbados Blue Book, 1906-1907
- ISBN: NA Price: $160.37
- Publisher: Bridgetown: T. E. King & Co., printer to the Government of Bardados Date Published: 1907
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, general age toning, original paper wrappers chipped at one corner, partially disbound, complete but good- only. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 786696
- Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty Against East India Sugar.
- ISBN: NA Price: $72.76
- Publisher: London: Whitmore and Fenn, Date Published: 1823
- Description: first edition; [iv], 120 pp.; title darkened with light margin chipping, light extraction roughness at spine with first few leaves detached and now in self wrappers, good; Sabin 90729,. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Great Britain, sugar trade, tariff, British West Indies, East Indies Show items similar to this.
- Item Number: 528005
- Aboriginal Indian Remains in Jamaica ... With a Note on the Craniology of the Aborigines of Jamaica by Prof. A. C. Haddon. (Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 2, Number 4, July 1897)
- ISBN: NA Price: $200.52
- Publisher: Kingston: The Institute of Jamaica, Date Published: 1897
- Description: quarto, [iv] 51 pp.. folding map as frontis., 8 plates, illustrations in text; library book plate and markings, later cloth with original front cover laid on, back hinge cracked, still good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: Indians of the West Indies, Jamaica, CRN Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 676594
- Barbados Blue Book, 1901-1902.
- ISBN: NA Price: $165.02
- Publisher: Bridgetown: V. Gale, Printer to the Government Date Published: 1901
- Description: first edition; narrow folio, each section separately paginated but substantial; library hand stamps and markings, original paper wrappers chipped and badly stained with front cover and early leaves detached, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 797741
- New Precedents in Conveyancing. Containing Great Variety of curious Draughts, many of them on Special Occasions, Drawn or Settled by Mr. Piggot, Northey, Webb, and other Eminent Hands...
- ISBN: NA Price: $3,725.06
- Publisher: Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Sarah Cotter, Date Published: 1752
- Description: ...and now Publish'd from Original Manuscripts; 2 volumes, [title leaf], [4 leaves] (Subscribers), [1 leaf] (Preface with the recto numbered as 3 and the verso as v, 310 pp. + [title leaf], 311-576, [32] (Alphabetical Table) pp., contemporary full calf with red leather labels, armorial book plates of Owen Williams of Temple House, Berkshire; binding rubbed, especially at spines and joints, general light age toning, short pen note at end of text in second volume, margins in Alphabetical Table cut short with a few letters barely touched but else a near very good text. Volumes Included: 2
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- Item Number: 666677
- Christiani Thomasii iuriscons. Halens. Lectiones de prudentia legislatoria, cum raefatione Gottlieb Stollii, prof. polit. in Academ. Jen.
- ISBN: NA Price: $2,196.89
- Publisher: Francofurt et Lipsiae: (Renger) Date Published: 1740
- Description: small octavo, [4 leaves] (beginning with title), 166 pp.; library book plates, general age toning, small ink smear at bottom of title, parchment covered boards darkened and lightly soiled, still sound and good+. Volumes Included: 1
- Subject: jurisprudence, law mw8x Show items similar to this.
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- Item Number: 666685
- The true Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, And one of the best Astronomers that ever were. ...
- ISBN: NA Price: $8,948.41
- Publisher: London: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, and Nathaniel Thompson, and are to b Date Published: 1672
- Description: A [Work] full of [Curiosity] and [Learning]. Translated and Commented by Theophilus de Garencieres, Doctor in Physick Colleg. Lond.; first complete edition in English; narrow quarto (leaves 28 cm. tall), [18 leaves] (beginning with title in red and black, in this copy the words Work, Curiosity, and Learning which should be in red were not printed and the word Prognostications and one other were first printed in red and then overprinted in black but slightly off register), 522 pp., there are printer's errors in the pagination, but complete as issued and total number of pages remains the same, the stanzas in French followed by an English translation, and an annotation, usually brief; lacks the frontispiece, later quarter leather badly worn with sides detached and the text block broken into two parts, modern armorial book plate and markings of other owners including Frederick S. Ryman of Boston who has added occasional marginalia in pencil, colored pencils, and ink including the date in red ink on title, all this apparently done in October 1918, the title leaf dark with chipping at extremities, margins cut down with a few running titles barely touched, light general age toning, good; Wing N1399. Volumes Included: 1
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- Item Number: 666721
