THOROTON'S HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (3 VOLS.) by THROSBY JOHN:

London: Liberal Publication Department, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This bound volume contains Liberal Leaflet No. 1923 entitled "Tory M.P.s on Mr. Brodrick's Army Corps Scheme". The pamphlet is 4 pages in length and contains two excerpts from Churchill's House of Commons Speech of 24 February 1903 - the last of his famous six oratorical assaults on Brodrick's plan to expand the Army. In 1903 Winston Churchill was a brash new member of Parliament. The Secretary of State for War, John Brodrick, had introduced a plan for expanding the peacetime Army. Brodrick was a fellow Conservative and Cabinet member. Churchill had been an Army officer and had partaken in four wars on three continents before election to Parliament in 1900. Nonetheless, Churchill vehemently assaulted Brodrick's plan. Fascinatingly, this was the same fight upon which Churchill's father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had gambled and lost his own political career in 1886. Unlike that of his father, Churchill's opposition… Read More

LONDON, FOR THE AUTHOR, 1736. FULL LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . THE SECOND AND BETTER EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND FOR JOSEPH AMES AND PETER THOMSON AND SOLD AT THE GOLDEN BALL IN PATERNOSTER ROW. QUARTO MODERN SCARLET FULL-LEATHER RE-BINDING GILT TITLES AND DECORATIONS RAISED BANDS NEW ENDPAPERS. FRONTISPIECE OF THE AUTHOR LAID DOWN AS IS THE TITLE PAGE. PLUS 25 PLATES OTHER ILLUS. IN THE TEXT. INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF PAPERS RECORDS REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY .... pp. viii 204 124. AN EXCELLENT COPY CLEAN AND TIGHT IN AN ATTRACTIVE QUALITY BINDING.

EDINBURGH, BELL AND BRADFUTE, 1798 (?). HALF LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . THE TITLE PAGE OF THIS BOOK IS MISSING SO I CANNOT VOUCH FOR THE PUBLISHER OR THE DATE BUT THE FIRST EDITION WAS PRODUCED IN EDINBURGH BY BELL AND BRADFUTE IN 1798. LARGE FOLIO (28 BY 42 CM) LATER REBINDING IN HALF LEATHER RAISED BAND GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE RED TITLE LABLE MARBLED ENDPAPERS. BOUND INTO THE FRONT IS A FOUR PAGE HAND-WRITTEN INDEX IN 19TH CENTURY COPPERLATE. THE BINDING IS ATTRACTIVE TIGHT THE PAGES VERY CLEAN. BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM HENRY MASON TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. SOME COPIES REFER TO ARMORIAL PLATES IN THE TEXT BUT NOT IN THIS COPY. 562 pp. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS.

LONDON, STRAHAN FOR CADELL, 1792-6. FULL LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . FIRST EDITION QUARTO NICELY BOUND IN LATER FULL LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWNS VILLAGES AND HAMLETS WITHIN 12 MILES OF THE CAPITAL. VOLUME 1: SURREY 593 PAGES PLUS INDEX. VOLUME 2: MIDDLESEX 598 PLUS INDICES VOLUME 3; MIDDLESEX 696 PLUS INDEX VOLUME 4: HERTS. KENT AND ESSEX 711 PLUS INDEX. COMPLETE WITH 3 MAPS 4 ENGRAVED TITLE PAGES WITH VIGNETTES 1 ENGRAVED DEDICATION 60 PLATES 2 FOLDING PEDIGREES. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT SET HANDSOMELY BOUND.

Not Given. Good. 1661. Hardcover. Rebound copy of original four books, with some missing components. The portrait of King Charles I noted in other copies is missing. A previous (early) bookseller noted "Imperfections", including missing "to Book 2nd, page 66 to 71, to Book the 3rd, page 8 to 11, page 68 to 71, page 74 to 77, page 80 to 85, and to Book the 4th, page 50 to 53" Covers are half leather with gilt title on spine, patterned paper on balance. Front hinge cracked but text block solid. Pages notably clean with some foxing, a few small tears including old repairs, and a few inky fingerprints. ; 11.75 x 7.75 x 1.60 inches .

London. F.C. and J. Rivington et al. 1811. Handsomely bound in full diced calfskin. Blind embossed decorative boarders to covers. Gilt ruled spine compartments with blind embossed and gilt tooled motifs. Gilt tooled raised bands. Gilt titled morocco labels. Thick, tall 4to. 9" x 11.75". First Ellis Edition - the sole modern edition. Illustrated by a fold-out copper plate engraved Frontis and a woodcut of a heraldic shield en texte. Robert Fabyan (died 1513), chronicler, was born in London, of which he became an Alderman and Sheriff. He kept a diary of notable events, which he expanded into a chronicle entitled, The Concordance of Histories. It covers the period from the arrival of Brutus in England to the death of through the reign of Elizabeth I , and deals mainly with the affairs of London. It was first published in 1515, with the title of The New Chronicles of England and France. Volume has been fastidiously rebacked to lavish effect. Covers moderately rubbed with some darkening and… Read More

LONDON, FOR THE AUTHOR, 1736. FULL LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . THE SECOND AND BETTER EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND FOR JOSEPH AMES AND PETER THOMSON AND SOLD AT THE GOLDEN BALL IN PATERNOSTER ROW. QUARTO MODERN SCARLET FULL-LEATHER RE-BINDING GILT TITLES AND DECORATIONS RAISED BANDS NEW ENDPAPERS. FRONTISPIECE OF THE AUTHOR LAID DOWN AS IS THE TITLE PAGE. PLUS 25 PLATES OTHER ILLUS. IN THE TEXT. INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF PAPERS RECORDS REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING HISTORY .... pp. viii 204 124. AN EXCELLENT COPY CLEAN AND TIGHT IN AN ATTRACTIVE QUALITY BINDING.

EDINBURGH, BELL AND BRADFUTE, 1798 (?). HALF LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . THE TITLE PAGE OF THIS BOOK IS MISSING SO I CANNOT VOUCH FOR THE PUBLISHER OR THE DATE BUT THE FIRST EDITION WAS PRODUCED IN EDINBURGH BY BELL AND BRADFUTE IN 1798. LARGE FOLIO (28 BY 42 CM) LATER REBINDING IN HALF LEATHER RAISED BAND GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINE RED TITLE LABLE MARBLED ENDPAPERS. BOUND INTO THE FRONT IS A FOUR PAGE HAND-WRITTEN INDEX IN 19TH CENTURY COPPERLATE. THE BINDING IS ATTRACTIVE TIGHT THE PAGES VERY CLEAN. BOOKPLATE OF WILLIAM HENRY MASON TO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. SOME COPIES REFER TO ARMORIAL PLATES IN THE TEXT BUT NOT IN THIS COPY. 562 pp. EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS.

London: Printed By Ellerton and Henderson, 1821. Small Octavo. iv, 42 pages. This rare pamphlet gives an account in detail of the sexual practices on vessels both in port and in foreign countries. There were hundreds of prostitutes along with sailors wives (and children) were also inside the closed quarters with each bunk or hammock measuring 24" sexual activity began to take place. The Lords describe the various encounters in the narrow hammocks, the stench, the drunkeness, and the crude blasphemies and mockeries of the Lord's Prayer and Apostle's Creed. Of course, the problem of venereal disease was overwhelming and many of the ship's surgeons resigned if they had any other opportunity to avoid service on these ships. The outroar came when George Charles Smith whose ministry was on behalf of sailors and their families (see DNB) who wrote a series of pamphlets for the laymen in the seaports of England. Harvard University Library has many of his bound pamphlets under the title Prose and Poetry (not… Read More

LONDON, STRAHAN FOR CADELL, 1792-6. FULL LEATHER. VERY GOOD. . FIRST EDITION QUARTO NICELY BOUND IN LATER FULL LEATHER NEW ENDPAPERS RAISED BANDS GILT TITLES. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TOWNS VILLAGES AND HAMLETS WITHIN 12 MILES OF THE CAPITAL. VOLUME 1: SURREY 593 PAGES PLUS INDEX. VOLUME 2: MIDDLESEX 598 PLUS INDICES VOLUME 3; MIDDLESEX 696 PLUS INDEX VOLUME 4: HERTS. KENT AND ESSEX 711 PLUS INDEX. COMPLETE WITH 3 MAPS 4 ENGRAVED TITLE PAGES WITH VIGNETTES 1 ENGRAVED DEDICATION 60 PLATES 2 FOLDING PEDIGREES. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT SET HANDSOMELY BOUND.