Pamphlets and Books

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[Pamphlet] On the Scarcity of Home Grown Fruits in Great Britain with Remedial Suggestions. In a Letter to Joseph Mayer

Author: 
Charles Roach Smith
Publication details: 
Liverpool: T. Brakell, Printer, Cook Street, 1863
£85.00
On the Scarcity of Home Grown Fruits in Great Britain

14pp, 8vo, wraps, trace signs of having been bound in another volume, some marking (mainly back wrap, mainly good.

[Printed pamphlet.] An Address delivered in the Chapel of the Protestant Dissenters' Grammar School, Mill Hill, on Occassion of Public Day, June 18th, 1845.

Author: 
Algernon Wells [Rev. Algernon Wells (1793-1850), Secretary of Mill Hill Grammar School, and to the Colonial Missionary Society] [Evangelical Dissenters]
Publication details: 
London: Printed by J. Unwin, 31, Bucklersbury. 1845.
£125.00
An Address delivered in the Chapel of the Protestant Dissenters' Grammar School,

12mo, 15 pp. Stitched and unbound. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper. Described by Wells as 'an attempt, however feeble, to set forth the character and design of that interesting establishment', Mill Hill Grammar School, and 'designed to exhibit favourably a Public Grammar Education, rendered select by strict religious oversight; and to show the importance that Evangelical Dissenters should possess a permanent Institution for securing such an education for the sons of their more respectable families'.

The History of Mill Hill School 1807-1907. [Inscribed by the author Norman George Brett James to his mother, and with four pieces of ephemera.]

Author: 
Norman G. Brett James [Mill Hill School; J. R. Magrath, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
London: Andrew Melrose, 3 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. [1909.]
£180.00

8vo: xii + 416 pp. Fair, tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, in worn contemporary brown leather binding with the school's arms in gilt on both boards, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on flyleaf: 'To my very dear Mother from her loving son Norman. August 10. 1909.' Loosely inserted are two newspaper cuttings, the first being a 30-line undated term report, and the second a Daily Telegraph obituary of the school's headmaster Sir John McClure.

[Illustrated Pamphlet] Women's Work for the Royal Air Forces

Author: 
[[Women's Royal Air Force]
Publication details: 
[May 1918]
£180.00
Women's Work for the Royal Air Forces

Pamphlet, [16]pp., 12mo, very good condition, illustrated front cover, illustrated with photographs throughout revealing their various duties (on the ground of course). No copy recorded. The RAF was formally established on 1 April 1918, a month before the publication of this pamphlet.

Notes et Notices sur l'Expédition scientifique des Anglais au pic de Ténériffe, en 1856. Sur l'Origine des Espèces [i.e. Darwin's 'Origin of Species']. Sur Toulon, port de mer. Sur l'Ouvrage de Miss Nightingale, intitulé: Notes on Nursing. [...]

Author: 
J.-P.-A. Madden [Jean-Patrice-Auguste Madden (1808-1889)] [Florence Nightingale; Charles Darwin]
Publication details: 
Versailles: Imprimérie de E. Aubert, 6, Avenue de Sceaux. 1864.
£285.00
Notes et Notices sur l'Expédition scientifique des Anglais au pic de Ténériffe

12mo, [iv] + 52 + [i], the last page carrying an erratum. Unopened. In original grey printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, with wear to wraps (particularly spine) and dog-eared front wrap. Bound in at the end is a separate seven-page pamphlet with a title-page which simply reads 'Toulon Port de Guerre par J. P.A. Madden.' The printer of this seven-page item is Imprimérie Cerf at Versailles.

An Unmatched Private Historical Collection of Sixty Original Drawings and [1300] Autograph Letters and Manuscripts. English. Foreign. Arranged alphabetically and illustrated with [1500] Portraits [of John A. Sainsbury, primarily Napoleonic] &c &c.

Author: 
[John A. Sainsbury, collector; Napoleon Bonaparte; the French Revolution; J. Duplessis Berteaux;]
Publication details: 
Without date or place. [London, circa 1840.]
£325.00
[John A. Sainsbury, collector

12mo, 40 pp. In original brown wraps, printed in green ink on the front with the British royal crest, and on the back with that of Napoleon. Yellow endpapers. Text clear and complete. A fair, tight copy, on aged paper, in worn wraps. Illustrated title-page in red and black. In manuscript on reverse Sainsbury has written: 'J. S. | 13 Upper Ranelagh St | Eaton Square | This Collection is offered at One Half it's Cos - | Viz 1200 Guins.' The text begins with a two-page description of 'Drawings and Proof Engravings. Important scenes in the French Revolution' by J.

Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, of the late General Ainslie, Author of "Illustrations of the Anglo-French Coinage," [...] The collection comprises his entire [...] series of Anglo-French coins.

Author: 
[Samuel Leigh Sotheby, London auctioneer; General Sir Robert Ainslie (1776-1839), army officer and numismatist]
Publication details: 
At S. Leigh Sotheby's, 3 Wellington Street, Street, London, 3 to 6 June 1840.
£265.00
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals

4to, 31 pp. In original grey printed wraps, with the bookseller's ticket of Messrs. Bolster of Cork. Text clear and complete. A fair, tight copy, on aged paper. In worn red calf quarter-binding, red cloth. Neatly priced up in manuscript (the sale totalled £803 4s 6d), and ruled with red lines.

A quantity of books from Christ Church, Kilndown, Library, c.1875

Author: 
[Sunday School Library, Kent]
Publication details: 
[Kilndown, Kent, c.1875
£1,200.00

61 items, characterised by grey-brown amateur wrapper, usually grubby, with: A label on the front usually stating, 'CHRIST CHURCH, KILNDOWN | LIBRARY. | No. [...] | Please keep clean. | Can be exchanged on EVERY FRIDAY on application to Rev. H. HARRISON. | October, 1875', And a label on reverse of wrapper, 'CHRIST CHURCH, KILNDOWN | Lending Library | Rules. | . 1. The Library to be Free to Sunday Scholars and Members of the Choir; all other persons using the Books to pay a Subscription of a Half-penny a Month. | 2.

[Printed pamphlet.] Articles of Visitation and Inquiry, Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical, given to [...] every Parish within the Diocese of Lincoln, at the Triennial Visitation of the Right Rev. Father in God, George, Lord Bishop of that Diocese.

Author: 
[Sir George Pretyman Tomline (1750-1827), 5th Baronet, successively Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of Winchester]
Publication details: 
[1794.] Printer not stated.
£100.00
Articles of Visitation and Inquiry,

The full title reads: 'Articles of Visitation and Inquiry, Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical, given to the Ministers, Church-Wardens, and Sidesmen, of every Parish within the Diocese of Lincoln, at the Triennial Visitation of the Right Rev. Father in God, George, Lord Bishop of that Diocese, in the Year of Our Lord, M,DCC,XCIV.' 8vo, 8 pp. On two bifoliums, unstitched and unbound. Aged and lightly stained, with wear causing loss to a few words of text on the last leaf. After sections on 'The Church-Wardens OATHS.

The Scale of Medicines with which Merchant Vessels are to be furnished ...With Directions for their Use [title continued below]

Author: 
Charles M'Arthur, M.D., Surgeon, Royal Navy.
Publication details: 
London, Wm. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster Row, 1894.
£65.00
The Scale of Medicines with which Merchant Vessels are to be furnished

[Title continued] "...Observations on some of the accidents and diseases to which seamen are more peculiarly liable; and directions for preserving the health and promoting the comfort of merchant seamen." Second edition, Title, pp.[1]-76[8=advts], 8vo, original purple cloth gt, corners rubbed, hinge strain, som foxing, mainly fair-good.

[Pamphlet] Lecture on the Aetiology of Constitutional Diseases of the Eye

Author: 
John Tweedy, FRCS, Hunterian orator.
Publication details: 
London: Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1887.
£56.00
 Lecture on the Aetiology of Constitutional Diseases of the Eye

Reprinted from The Lancet of Jan. 8, 1887, 11pp., 12mo, original grey/brown wraps, frayed and edges sunned, INSCRIBED With the Author's kind regards

A Book of Counsels for Girls. Published under the direction of the Tract Committee.

Author: 
Mary Bell, Victorian novelist, author of 'By Northern Seas' (1897)
Publication details: 
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. [1888.]
£125.00
A Book of Counsels for Girls.

12mo, 96 pp, followed by four-page SPCK catalogue (with first page listing works by the Rev. F. Bourdillon). Text clear and complete. In original olive cloth binding, gilt, stained with damp. Damp damage at rear leaving light staining to corners of last few leaves and catalogue, together with heavier damage to rear endpapers. Traces of Library label on front pastedown. Cloth faded, worn and stained. Bell explains in her preface that 'The poor are excellently well provided with all sorts of books of counsel and help.

[Pamphlet] UHL River Hydro-Electric Project. Opening of Main Tunnels: by ... Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey, de Montmorency ... Governor of the Punjab.

Author: 
[Punjab Public Works Dept. Hydro-Electric Branch]
Publication details: 
[1932]
£45.00
Punjab Public Works Dept. Hydro-Electric Branch

12pp., 8vo, in grubby stiff dec. wraps, photographic frontispiece, staples rusted meaning loose leaves, front cover stamped Sir Alexander Gibb Partners Intelligence Dept with date (5 May 1932), no. 0201 also written there. With pencilled annotations (engineering statistics and figures, eg. 146ft. per face per month).

Autograph Letter Signed ('H. Newton') by the Reverend Hibbert Newton, of St Michael's, Lant Street, on the back of a [printed handbill for 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools' and 'Sunday Schools. | (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)'

Author: 
Reverend Hibbert Newton (1817-1892), of St Michael's, Borough, Southwark [The Lant Street Ragged Schools and Sunday Schools]
Publication details: 
Newton's letter dated 12 April 1868; 16 Merrick Square, Borough, Southwark. Handbill dating from the same time.
£135.00
The Lant Street Ragged Schools

The handbill on the recto of the first leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Sunday Schools. | (In the Lower and Upper Rooms of the same buildings.)') and verso of the second leaf (headed 'The Lant Street Ragged Schools | For Boys and Girls, | Borough, Southwark. (Established A.D. 1862, and continued in active operation.)') of a 12mo bifiolium, with Newton's letter on the recto of the second leaf. Docketed on reverse of the first leaf. Texts clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper.

A Letter from an Old Unitarian, to a Young Calvinist. [Identified in manuscript as 'Mr. James Curtis' to 'John Curtis, his nephew'.]

Author: 
[James Curtis, unitarian; John Curtis, Calvinist; John Evan, printer, Bristol]
Publication details: 
Bristol: Printed by John Evans & Co. Sold by R. Hunter (successor to Mr. Johnson) St. Paul's Church-yard, London; and J. Fry, St. John-street, Bristol. 1816. [John Evans & Co. Printers, Bristol.]
£75.00
A Letter from an Old Unitarian, to a Young Calvinist

12mo, 24 pp. Disbound. Text clear and complete. On aged paper, with the last leaf loose. Two-page preface dated 'Bristol, Dec. 1815.' This copy is significant in that the author and recipient are identified in a contemporary hand on the title-page. The only copy listed on COPAC, at the British Library, is unattributed.

Comparative View of the Scriptural Evidence for Unitarianism and Trinitarianism. [By Lant Carpenter.]

Author: 
[Lant Carpenter] [T. Besley, Exeter printer]
Publication details: 
Exeter: Printed by T. Besley, Jun. 39, High-street, and sold by T. Browning, St. Martin's Lane, and by Rowland Hunter, London. 1817.
£56.00
Comparative View of the Scriptural Evidence for Unitarianism

12mo, 39 + [i] pp. Disbound. Text clear and complete on aged paper. Final page with list of four books 'By the same Author, And sold by the Booksellers mentioned in this Title-page'. The only other copy of the first edition on COPAC at the British Library.

[Specimen copy for the Plates only] The Marchioness of Brinvilliers

Author: 
Albert Smith, illustrator John Leech
Publication details: 
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1886
£280.00
[Specimen copy for the Plates only] The Marchioness of Brinvilliers

pp.1-10 text, 15 detached plates with tissue-guards (as called for), text (concluding mid-sentence, bound in to grey-blue printed wraps, reinforced spine, 2 closed tear, chipped and sunned. Full quotation of title om front wrap: Specimen copy for the Plates only | The Marchioness of Brinvilliers | By | Albert Smith | Illustrated by John Leech | [Bentley insignia] | With fifteen spirited full-page Etchings on Steel, only once before printed from,* onthe first publication of the story, in its serial | form, about 1842. | *Besides twenty-seven impressions for the Leech Catalogue.

[Booklet] An Outline of the Religion of Islam

Author: 
Rev. H.U. Weitbrecht Stanton, Ph.D., D.D., Missionary in the Punjab, 1876-1911; Chief Reviser of the Urdu New Testament.
Publication details: 
Published by The Missionary Equipment and Literature Supply, Ltd, Church House, Westminster, SW1, 1925.
£85.00
An Outline of the Religion of Islam

52pp., 8vo, printed green wraps, chipped and sunned, contents good. It includes figures for Moslem populations. Scarce. COPAC lists copies at NLS, Trinity Dublin and Oxford.

[Prospectus of the Biographia Britannica Literaria WITH] An Essay on the State of Literature and Learning under the Anglo-Saxons; Introductory to the First Section of the Biographia Britanica Literaria of the Royal Society of Literature

Author: 
Thomas Wright
Publication details: 
London, 1839
£180.00
Prospectus of the Biographia Britannica Literaria

4; [iv],112pp., 8vo, plain brown wraps (original?), worn and nearly detached, contents good. Inscribed on half-title: Presented to the Rt Honble the Lord Brougham & Vaux by his obedt Servt Wm. Tooke | Russell Square 6 Augt 1839. Tooke was the major promoter of the Biographia Britannica Literaria.

American Books with tails to 'em. A private pocket list of the incomplete or unfinished American periodicals transactions memoirs judicial reports [...] and other continuations and works in progress supplied to the British Museum and other Libraries

Author: 
Henry Stevens of Vermont (1819-1886) [London-based American bibliographer and bookseller]
Publication details: 
Privately printed. London: At Stevens's Bibliographical Nuggetory No 4. Trafalgar Square, 4 July 1873.
£125.00
A private pocket list of the incomplete or unfinished  American periodicals

32mo, 36 pp. Unpaginated. In original blue cloth, with gilt design on front. Marbled endpapers. Unopened. Good. Nicely printed, in small type. Two-page introduction, 'To the inquisitive and pertinent reader', by 'Henry Stevens of Vermont'. On the title page Stevens is described as 'GMB FSA ETC | Sometime Student in Yale College in America | now of London'. Leaf of addenda not present. Uncommon, copies on COPAC at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, and the V & A and Society of Antiquaries libraries.

[Booklet] The Money Maker; being an Exposé of the tremendous Evils arising from our Mongrel Currency, and shewing how it has produced the present National Distress

Author: 
Abraham Whitehead, campaigner against child labour etc.
Publication details: 
London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, and all Booksellers, 1843 (Holmfirth: Printed by Joseph Crosland).
£180.00
The Money Maker; being an Exposé of the tremendous Evils

Continuation of title: "... Also, shewing how and quantity of Money may be made upon entirely new principles, so as to form a safe and useful Currency, and how the National Debt may be rapidly and honestly liquidated, at the rate of Compound Interest, without imposing fresh Burdens on the People." Booklet, 42pp., 12mo, brown printed paper wraps, corner of front missing (loss of word and 5 or 6 letters from imprint), some staining, chipping and tears of covers , mainly intact, bottom corner of pages turned, contents mainly good condition.

Folder containing 'Pigeon Excerpt with Plates' from the 'Ornithology' of Francis Willughby [Willoughby], comprising three leaves of text and four plates from the original work of 1678. With printed label discussing Restoration 'English fanciers'.

Author: 
[Francis Willughby [Willoughby]; Ornithology, 1678; bird watching; pigeon fanciers]
Publication details: 
[London, 1678.]
£180.00
Pigeon Excerpt with Plates'

The extract from Willughby's 1678 comprise three folio leaves paginated 179-184, containing the text of 'CHAP. XIV. | Of Doves or Pigeons in general.'; with plates xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv and xxxvi, with representations of twenty doves or pigeons. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Loosely inserted in a twentieth-century folder, half bound in brown marbled boards with green cloth corners and spine. Label on front ('Francis Willoughby | Ornithology 1678 | Pigeon Excerpt with Plates'.

The Rules and Constitutions for Governing and Managing the Maiden-Hospital, founded by the Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695.

Author: 
[The Maiden Hospital; the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh; the Mary Erskine School; the Merchant Maiden Hospital; Robert Fleming and Company]
Publication details: 
Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731.
£125.00
The Rules and Constitutions for Governing and Managing the Maiden-Hospital

12mo, xi + [vi] + 46 pp. Stitched as issued, in original marbled-paper wraps. Good, on lightly-aged paper. The title leaf is followed by a nine-page preface, taking the pagination to p.xi. The page following p.xi (on the verso of the leaf) is blank, and this is followed by three unpaginated leaves carrying a six-page 'Act of Parliament in Favours [sic] of the Maiden Hospital, Founded by the Company of Merchants and Mary Erskine.' This 'Act', which precedes the 46 pages of the 'Rules and Constitutions', would not appear to be present in all copies.

[Printed pamphlet.] England's Bards, 1864; or, The Three Poems which were awarded the one hundred guineas offered as prizes in the advertisement "Ho! For a Shakespeare!" which appeared about the time of Shakespeare's Tercentenary Anniversary.

Author: 
[The Manufacturers of Thomson's Crinolines; 'William Fulford'; 'Peter Quince'; William Shakespeare; Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen; the Shakespeare Tercentenary Anniversary Celebrations]
Publication details: 
London: Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1864.
£85.00
England's Bards, 1864; or, The Three Poems

8vo, 16 pp. Unbound. Evidence of previous stitching, but with no remains of thread,. Aged, worn, and with outer leaves somewhat dusty. Preface, dated 'London, June 1864', by 'THE MANUFACTURERS OF THOMSON'S CRINOLINES', states that the judges of the best of 'the immense number of manuscripts received' were 'B. Webster, Esq., J. Sterling Coyne, Esq., Andrew Halliday, Esq., George Rose, Esq., and Thos.

[Printed pamphlet.] The Y.W.C.A. Central Club. First Year's Report. 1932 to 1933.

Author: 
Evelyn W. Moore, General Director, The Y.W.C.A., Central Club, London
Publication details: 
['Central Club. 3rd June, 1933.'] Great Russell Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, W.C.1.
£75.00
he Y.W.C.A. Central Club. First Year's Report. 1932 to 1933.

12mo, 24 pp. Stapled. In original printed wraps. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper, in dusty and worn wraps. At head of front wrap: 'Miss Scott Moncrieff. Executive Cttee'. The report is preceded by a list of officers, and followed by a list of 'Donors and Subscribers (From May 24th, 1924, to May 24th, 1933)'. Photograph of entrance of building on front wrap, and of whole of building on back wrap.

[Printed item.] Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrative of a Centenary of Artistic Lithography 1796-1896. [With introduction by Louis Prang.]

Author: 
Louis Prang [The Grolier Club, Artistic Lithography Exhibition, 1896; The De Vinne Press]
Publication details: 
[The De Vinne Press.] At the Grolier Club, 29 East 32nd Street, New York, 6 to 28 March 1896.
£75.00
 Catalogue of an Exhibition illustrative of a Centenary of Artistic Lithography

12mo, 73 pp. Introduction followed by bibliography (pp.11-19). In original red and black printed wraps. Good tight copy, in lightly-worn and chipped wraps. Unlimited edition, without illustrations. The only copies of this edition at the British Library and University of London.

A Short Memoir of the Ladies of Llangollen, By the late Rev. J. Prichard, D.D. [Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby.]

Author: 
Rev. John Prichard (1796-1875) [the Ladies of Llangollen; Lady Eleanor Butler; Hon. Sarah Ponsonby]
Publication details: 
Llangollen: Printed and Published by Hugh Jones. [1920s.]
£65.00
A Short Memoir of the Ladies of Llangollen

12mo, 16 pp. Stapled. In original pink printed wraps, with engraving of the two women, on a country path, on cover. Good, on lightly aged and dusty paper. Cutting of photograph of marble memorial to the couple loosely inserted. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC at Oxford, by whom it is dated to the 1920s. Main title on front wrap, with the title given at the head of the text being 'Lady Eleanor Butler and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby.'

[Offprint] Tehran Water Supply: Raw-Water Collection and Distribution System

Author: 
Gholam Ali Meykadeh, Robert Louis Fitt, Thomas James Boddington
Publication details: 
The Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1958.
£28.00

Excerpt Proc. Instn Civ. Ehgrs, vol.II, pp.467-486, December 1958. Original green printed wraps, sewn as issued, very good condition.

[Printed] Prayers for the London Mission, 1884, Home Mission Tracts, no.53.

Author: 
[Home Mission Tracts] Lord Bishop of Rochester
Publication details: 
[SPCK, 1884]
£20.00
Prayers for the London Mission, 1884, Home Mission Tracts, no.53.

Four pages, 12mo, not bound. COPAC records only one copy, at Cambridge. -

National Society, No. 29. Sunday School Lessons. Fourth Sunday after Trinity.

Author: 
National Society [for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church (Great Britain)]
Publication details: 
N.d.
£20.00
National Society, No. 29. Sunday School Lessons.

Four pages, 12mo, edges dusted, mainly good, not bound. No copy found on COPAC (one with similar title said to be at Cambridge is not this).

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