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Hong Kong: Unpublished, 1886. Diary of a young British officer serving with the China Squadron, based in Hong Kong and patrolling Chinese and Japanese waters between 1886-1889. Parker writes in a small octavo which is bound in black textured cloth over thin boards, chipping to spine covering; decorative printed endpapers. Ruled leaves with most stapled gatherings now loose from the glued binding. The manuscript runs to 118 unnumbered pages written in an easily legible hand using black ink plus blanks. Parker sets out his remit on the first flyleaf: 'W.H. Parker. Diary of the 2nd Commission of H.M.S. Linnet Commissioned at Hong Kong on the 7th January 1886 and Paid off on the 24th January 1889.' The diary proper begins 17th November 1885 when Parker 'Embarked on board H M Troops Ship Oronto' in Plymouth arriving a few weeks later 'Anchored at Hong Kong ships lying there Audacious Flagship... Commodore's Ship Daring Linnet Midge Espoir Ramble Gunboats.' Parker's entries tend to be short and to the…
Read More Storia Delle Massimere di Governo delle Repubblica di Venezia by Abraham-Nicolas AMELOT DE HOUSSAYE - 1681: 17TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF BANNED BOOK
by Abraham-Nicolas AMELOT DE HOUSSAYE
Storia Delle Massimere di Governo delle Repubblica di Venezia: 17TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF BANNED BOOK
by Abraham-Nicolas AMELOT DE HOUSSAYE
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Seventeenth century manuscript copy of this attack on Venetian decadence - possibly undertaken in order to evade the suppression of the second printed edition of this book which followed protests by the Ambassador for Venice.
Small quarto, pasteboard binding with leather elaboration; old insect damage to inner paper lining. Text block loose within case. The text begins with a manuscript title page, lower 4 cm torn away: 'Storia Delle Massimere di Governo delle Repubblica di Venezia Descritta da un Secretario d'un Ambosciator di Francia in Venezia'. Interestingly this title does not match any of the printed versions we've located suggesting that it may stem from a distinct manuscript source. The text is preceded by two tables, 6pp; an address to the reader - 'A Chi Legge' and three main sections, of about 80 leaves each followed by Osservazioni, folio 249-281. In all 282 folios or 562 pages. The manuscript is written in an easily legible professional hand, certainly a fair copy. No detailed comparison with either the first edition of 1676 or the revised second edition which this text resembles more closely has been attempted.
In this work De la Houssaye , a Secretary to the French Embassy to Venice, sought to analyse and critique the government of the Venetian Republic, focussing on the causes of its decadence. First published in French in 1676 the Storia drew a heated protest from the Venetian ambassador, Marcantonio Giustinian, later Doge of Venice. The author was sent to the Bastille and a second edition with supplement - apparently present in this manuscript - was published immediately after which drew fresh protestations, and was also suppressed. This lent the book such notoriety that it was republished in Italian in 1681 and thence reprinted all over Europe including an English version by Lord Falconbridge, son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. This manuscript must post-date the first French first edition but it's not clear where it fits in afterwards though it must be possible that it was a response to the attempted suppression of the book by the Venetian authorities.
Small quarto, pasteboard binding with leather elaboration; old insect damage to inner paper lining. Text block loose within case. The text begins with a manuscript title page, lower 4 cm torn away: 'Storia Delle Massimere di Governo delle Repubblica di Venezia Descritta da un Secretario d'un Ambosciator di Francia in Venezia'. Interestingly this title does not match any of the printed versions we've located suggesting that it may stem from a distinct manuscript source. The text is preceded by two tables, 6pp; an address to the reader - 'A Chi Legge' and three main sections, of about 80 leaves each followed by Osservazioni, folio 249-281. In all 282 folios or 562 pages. The manuscript is written in an easily legible professional hand, certainly a fair copy. No detailed comparison with either the first edition of 1676 or the revised second edition which this text resembles more closely has been attempted.
In this work De la Houssaye , a Secretary to the French Embassy to Venice, sought to analyse and critique the government of the Venetian Republic, focussing on the causes of its decadence. First published in French in 1676 the Storia drew a heated protest from the Venetian ambassador, Marcantonio Giustinian, later Doge of Venice. The author was sent to the Bastille and a second edition with supplement - apparently present in this manuscript - was published immediately after which drew fresh protestations, and was also suppressed. This lent the book such notoriety that it was republished in Italian in 1681 and thence reprinted all over Europe including an English version by Lord Falconbridge, son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. This manuscript must post-date the first French first edition but it's not clear where it fits in afterwards though it must be possible that it was a response to the attempted suppression of the book by the Venetian authorities.
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Diary of the 2nd Commission of HMS Linnet Commissioned at Hong Kong
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Carmichael Family Archive Curated by Marie Stopes & her Suffragist Mother Charlotte Carmichael
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Edinburgh: Unpublished, 1850. Family archive of the birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes which relates to her Scottish Carmichael forebears including a portrait in oils of her mother the women's rights campaigner Charlotte Carmichael painted by her grandfather the Scots landscape artist James Ferrier Carmichael. The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which Marie Stopes has written 'M C Stopes - art' as well as adding explanatory annotations to many of the works. Thus a portrait of Charlotte Carmichael has Stopes's note: 'By [James Ferrier] Carmichael - of mother etc - done in 1850? The stool is the one I still have'. Clearly Stopes took on the role of family archivist, preserving images of her distinguished Carmichael forebears and including in the portfolio just a single drawing of her own. Provenance: from the estate of Marie Stopes's son the philosopher Henry Stopes-Roe. Of the 30 or so items included, the most significant, in reverse chronological order are: ANN DURWARD…
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume V containing Tristram Shandy, The Chinese Tales and The Sisters
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London: Harrison & Co, 1791. Very good, polished calf, gilt spine decoration, upper board becoming detached. Very good 1791
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy with Anecdotes relating to some Eminent Characters. In two volumes
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London: A Strahan and T Cadell, 1787. Fourth edition in most attractive contemporary binding of half polished calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels. Both volumes have the book label of 'T Barton' and laid in 3 armorial bookplates of 'Kerrison'. Volume I has lost the top 2cm of the title page where a previous owner has neatly removed an earlier ownership inscription. A clean fresh copy internally. Moore, a Scottish medic by training, wrote the letters after undertaking a Grand Tour in the company of the youthful 8th Duke of Argyll. 1787
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The Rose of Claremont or Daughter, Wife and Mother
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London: Thomas Kelly, J Tallis, 1821. Two volumes, volume 1 published by Thomas Kelly, volume 2 published by J Tallis and dated 1821. Very good in a contemporary binding of half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on a red spine labels. Elaborate engraved title pages and frontispieces featuring the British royal family and the author Mrs Catherine G Ward. Very good 1821
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Diary of the 2nd Commission of HMS Linnet Commissioned at Hong Kong
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Hong Kong: Unpublished, 1886. Diary of a young British officer serving with the China Squadron, based in Hong Kong and patrolling Chinese and Japanese waters between 1886-1889. Parker writes in a small octavo which is bound in black textured cloth over thin boards, chipping to spine covering; decorative printed endpapers. Ruled leaves with most stapled gatherings now loose from the glued binding. The manuscript runs to 118 unnumbered pages written in an easily legible hand using black ink plus blanks. Parker sets out his remit on the first flyleaf: 'W.H. Parker. Diary of the 2nd Commission of H.M.S. Linnet Commissioned at Hong Kong on the 7th January 1886 and Paid off on the 24th January 1889.' The diary proper begins 17th November 1885 when Parker 'Embarked on board H M Troops Ship Oronto' in Plymouth arriving a few weeks later 'Anchored at Hong Kong ships lying there Audacious Flagship... Commodore's Ship Daring Linnet Midge Espoir Ramble Gunboats.' Parker's entries tend to be short and to the…
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Carmichael Family Archive Curated by Marie Stopes & her Suffragist Mother Charlotte Carmichael
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Edinburgh: Unpublished, 1850. Family archive of the birth control pioneer and sexologist Marie Stopes which relates to her Scottish Carmichael forebears including a portrait in oils of her mother the women's rights campaigner Charlotte Carmichael painted by her grandfather the Scots landscape artist James Ferrier Carmichael. The collection is housed in a large portfolio on which Marie Stopes has written 'M C Stopes - art' as well as adding explanatory annotations to many of the works. Thus a portrait of Charlotte Carmichael has Stopes's note: 'By [James Ferrier] Carmichael - of mother etc - done in 1850? The stool is the one I still have'. Clearly Stopes took on the role of family archivist, preserving images of her distinguished Carmichael forebears and including in the portfolio just a single drawing of her own. Provenance: from the estate of Marie Stopes's son the philosopher Henry Stopes-Roe. Of the 30 or so items included, the most significant, in reverse chronological order are: ANN DURWARD…
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume V containing Tristram Shandy, The Chinese Tales and The Sisters
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London: Harrison & Co, 1791. Very good, polished calf, gilt spine decoration, upper board becoming detached. Very good 1791
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy with Anecdotes relating to some Eminent Characters. In two volumes
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London: A Strahan and T Cadell, 1787. Fourth edition in most attractive contemporary binding of half polished calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels. Both volumes have the book label of 'T Barton' and laid in 3 armorial bookplates of 'Kerrison'. Volume I has lost the top 2cm of the title page where a previous owner has neatly removed an earlier ownership inscription. A clean fresh copy internally. Moore, a Scottish medic by training, wrote the letters after undertaking a Grand Tour in the company of the youthful 8th Duke of Argyll. 1787
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The Rose of Claremont or Daughter, Wife and Mother
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London: Thomas Kelly, J Tallis, 1821. Two volumes, volume 1 published by Thomas Kelly, volume 2 published by J Tallis and dated 1821. Very good in a contemporary binding of half calf over marbled boards, gilt titles on a red spine labels. Elaborate engraved title pages and frontispieces featuring the British royal family and the author Mrs Catherine G Ward. Very good 1821
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A diáspora da palavra: obras de autores portugueses impressas fora de Portugal, 1521-1550. Guia da exposição.
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Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal / Centro de Estudos Históricos, Universidade Nova, 2021.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 110 pp., (1 blank l.), profusely illustrated, indexes of authors, places of publication, printers and booksellers. One of 500 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this excellent exhibition catalogue. Alves Dias is one of Portugal's leading historians, and a distinguished bibliophile.***
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The Butterflies Fly-Past. with illus. by Mandy Shepherd.
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Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the authors experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.
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In Search of Nature.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.
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Native Plums (Prunus) of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
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Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
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Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931. A History of shore and bay-based whaling in the Antarctic.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.
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Antarctic Magistrate. A life through the lens of a camera.
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Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.
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Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
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Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
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Teses Apresentadas ao II Congresso realizado de 4 a 11 de Setembro de 1960. 2º volume. Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique. Ano XXIX, N.º 125, Novembro a Dezembro.
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Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief…
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