Books on 18th Century
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An Act for the more effectually carrying into Execution the Laws relating to the Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper; and for repealing certain Stamp Duties on Policies for insuring Property in any foreign Kingdom... from Loss by Fire.
4 page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published in ...
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An Act for better securing the Duties on Paper printed, painted, or stained, in Great Britain.
6 page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published in ...
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An Act to limit for a Time for the Repayment of the Duties on Male Servants and Carriages by the Commissioners of Excise, and also on Horses, Waggons, Wains, and Carts….
17 page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published in ...
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An Act for regulating Houses, and other Places, kept for the Purpose of Slaughtering Horses.
Five page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published ...
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An Act for the more effectually preventing the Fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the fair Trader... and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations, and the United States of America.
One page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published ...
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An Act for obviating all Doubts which have arisen... with respect to the exclusive Power of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to nominate and appoint the Governor General and Coundil of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.
Five page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published ...
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An Act to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Admeasurement of Coals, sold by Wharf Measure, within the several Parishes lying between Putney and Rotherhithe, both inclusive, in the County of Surrey.
Six page statute, original 18th century printing, removed from a collection of Statutes published ...
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The Output of the British Woolen Industry in the Eighteenth Century.
16p offprint, red paper cover, stapled booklet, paper previously appeared in the Journal of ...
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Virtue, Commerce and History.
321p paperback, clean cover, pages clear throughout, a near fine copy
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Europe Since Napoleon.
911p xxxix hardback with dustjacket, school stamp, second edition, very good
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Le Café: Essai Historique. Coffee: An Essay.
110p paperback, clean cover, pages clean throughout, very fine copy
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A Short History of the First Liverpool Infirmary 1749 - 1824.
116p green cloth, clean dustjacket, small neat sticker and stamp on first page, clean throughout, ...
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Optics after Newton. Theories of Light in Britain and Ireland, 1704 - 1840.
ix 257p hardback, orange dustjacket in excellent condition, clean pages, with illustrations, no ...
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The Medical Society of London 1773 - 1973.
xviii 141p cloth with blue jacket, colour frontspiece, b&w plates, pages clean and bright, binding ...
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Science and Society 1600-1900.
166p purple hardback, dustjacket in good clean condition, inside corner of dustjacket has been ...
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Life and Labour in England, 1700 - 1780.
208p paperback, very good copy, library bookplate present
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The Pilgrim's Progress. The Bedford Edition Published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Author's Death.
301p small format, hardback, fresh dustjacket, rare edition, very well preserved
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James Hogg, Selected Poems.
xxix 193p hardback, dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, front endpaper removed
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Gulliver's Travels.
xiii 381p small blue cloth, very good copy with Jersey bookseller label to endpaper
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Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Ou les lois Fondamentales du Code Penal de la Chine, Mis en Francais, avec des Notes, par M Felix Renouard de Sainte-Croix.
2 Volumes in half cloth binding, marbled paper edges, very light college library markings ...
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Matthew Maty MD FRS (1718 - 1776) and Science at the Foundation of the British Museum, 1753 - 1780.
58p essay, stapled, grey card cover, illustrations, very good, from the Historical Series of the ...
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The Earth Generated and Anatomized by William Hobbs. An Early Eighteenth Century Theory of the Earth.
150p large paperback, grey card cover, plates and illustrations, very good, from the Historical ...
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A History of the Nonjurors: Their Controversies and Writings with Remarks on some of the Rubrics in the Book of Common Prayer.
xiv 530p half calf binding with title label to spine (dull), 5 bands, marbled endpapers, library ...
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Memoirs de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Volume 11.
xlvi 350p large format, rebound in plain blue library cloth, small library stamp to title page, ...
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Memoirs de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Volume 9.
xxi 434p large format, rebound in plain blue library cloth, small library stamp to title page, ...
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Memoirs de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Volume 10.
xxxiv 365p large format, rebound in plain blue library cloth, small library stamp to title page, ...
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Personal and Party Government. A Chapter in the Political History of the Early Years of the Reign of George III, 1760 - 1766.
322p slightly worn green cloth, gilt titles, small old paper college library stickers to spine, ...
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La Real Galleria di Firenze accresciuta e riordinata per comando di S A R l'Arciduca Granduca di Toscana.
xxxix 219p paperback, large folding table in back, very good, reprint of the edition of 1782
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Costumbrismo y Novela: Ensayo Sobre el Redescubrimiento de la Realidad Espanola.
144p large format hardback with dustjacket, nice clean copy
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Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar.
xix 442p plus [28] pages of index followed by "Advertisement", engraved frontispiece (clean) title ...
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Die Romane und Erzählungen. 2 Bände.
xix 443p, 391p, vollständige Ausgabe mit einem Porträtkupfer Voltaire's. Band 1 übertragen von ...
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Seigneurie et Féodalité. Volume 1: Le Premier Age des Liens d'Homme a Homme.
422p rebound in plain burgundy cloth, library stamp and bookplate, nice clean copy
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Descartes.
24p sewn offprint, grey card cover, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library, well ...
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Scottish Metaphysics. Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of Physical Science.
xiv 244p burgundy cloth fresh, from a Cambridge college library with decorative bookplate and small ...
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The Life of Miss Anne Catley, Celebrated Singing Performer of the Last Century.
78p red buckram a little dusty, frontispiece portrait of Miss Catley, edges un-cut, bookseller note ...
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An Account of the Life of that Celebrated Actress, Mrs. Susannah Maria Cibber... Also the two Remarkable and Romantic Trials between Theophilus Cibber and William Sloper.
56p original red cloth with black and gilt ornaments, portrait frontispiece, text printed in dark ...
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Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral. Edited Frederic Harrison.
xvii 357p small format, green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, floral design to spine, ...
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Samuel Richardson 1689 - 1764. Imprimeur à Londres, Auteur de Pamela, Clarisse et Grandison.
xx 521p library re-bound in plain black cloth, a fresh copy, with frontispiece, from a Cambridge ...
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Goethe's Frauen. In zwei Lieferungen.
121p 122p original cloth binding, frontispiece, binding a bit worn, old library stamps (Goethehaus ...
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The Life of Jonathan Swift. With Portrait.
xxiii 576p original burgundy cloth with gilt title to spine, frontispioece, only minor library ...
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Memoirs of the Count of Grammont with Notes and Illustrations. Second Edition, Revised. Vol 1 ONLY.
x 378p Vol 1 only, lush red morocco binding with gilt rule and intricate dentelles, spine hinge ...
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Tales of the Castle, or Stories of Instruction and Delight, Being Les Veillees du Chateau. Vol 2, 3 and 5 ONLY.
3 volumes (of 5), second edition, bound in full calf, spines decorated gilt, title labels lost, ...
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Les Choses Memorables de Socrate, Ouvrage de Xenophon, traduit du Grec en François. Avec la vie de Socrate par le meme M. Charpentier.
xxii 402p plus table plus extensive publisher's catalogue, failed recent rebinding in plain calf, ...
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Friedrich Schlegel and Goethe, 1790 - 1802: A Study in Early German Romanticism.
150p essay in this issue of the Publications of the Modern Language Association. For sale is the ...
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Memoirs of Madame La Marquise de Montespan. Volume One only.
xix 377p Volume One only, first English translation, edition limited to 500 copies, bright blue ...
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C W E Dietrich, genannt Dietricy. Sammlung Fürsten von Liechtenstein, Donaueschingen.
approx 100p large format paperback, illustrated throughout, price list inserted, very good indeed
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The Portrait Surveyed. British Portraiture 1670 - 1870.
36 pages, colour cover and frontispiece, b/w plates, nice copy well preserved
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