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[ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for continuing so much of an Act made in the third year of His present Majesty’s reign, intituled, An Act to continue and amend two Acts made in the twenty-first and twenty-eighth years of His late Majesty’s reign, for encouraging the making of indico in the British plantations in America; and for extending the provisions of an Act of the thirtieth year of His late Majesty’s reign, with respect to bringing prize goods into this kingdom, to Spanish prize goods taken since the late declaration of war with Spain, as relates to encouraging the making of indico in the British plantations in America; and for explaining so much of an Act made in the fifth year of His present Majesty’s reign, as relates to the regulating the fees of the officers of the customs in America; and for extending the same to the naval officers there. London. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1770. Folio. [2], 691-694pp. Disbound. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24243
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[ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for continuing certain laws therein mentioned relating to British sail cloth, and to the duties payable on foreign sail cloth, and to the allowance upon the exportation of British made gunpowder, and for giving further encouragement for the importation of naval stores from the British colonies in America. London. Printed by Mark Baskett, 1764. Folio. [2], 235-236pp. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24240
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[ACTS - GEORGE III]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for raising a certain sum of money by loans or exchequer bills for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty three; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for allowing His Majesty’s subjects to import their goods and effects, being the produce of certain places ceded to France and Spain by the late treaty of peace, upon payment of the same duties as they would have been liable to, if such places had remained in His Majesty’s possession. London. Printed by Mark Baskett, 1763. Folio. [2], 383-398pp, [2]. With a final blank leaf. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24239
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[ACTS - GEORGE II]. [Drop-head title:] An Act for granting to His Majesty the sum of eight hundred thousand pounds out of the sinking fund; and for granting a sum remaining in the Exchequer, arisen by the surplus of the duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and forty five; and for the further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for giving further time for the payment of duties omitted to be paid for the indentures or contracts of clerks and apprentices, and for the further enforcing the payment of the said duties. London. Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1745. Folio. [2], 551-567pp, [1]. Disbound. Stab-stitch holes to gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 24235
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[ROYAL NAVY]. [Drop-head title:] A list of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals, and Captains. [London]. [s.n.], [1799]. [10], 120 leaves. Predominantly printed on versos only with rectos blank. ESTC T101523.

[Bound with:] [ROYAL NAVY]. An alphabetical list of the Commission Officers of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions. [London]. [s.n.], [1799]. 176pp. ESTC T101543.

8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked.Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24138
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[PITT, William]. [Drop-head title:] A Letter from a Right Hon. Person to ------ in the City. [London]. [s.n.], [1761]. Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Single leaf broadside. Mounted on later paper sheet. Engraved name and portrait of William Pitt the Elder at the head of the title. Two old horizontal folds, single small marginal stain. A later pencilled note to the mount curiously quotes an entry in Church of England clergyman James Woodforde's (1740-1803) The Diary of a Country Parson (1924-31): 'Gave the Bath Newsman for Mr. Pitt's speech ... More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29200
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[THOMOND, Henry O’Brien, Earl of]. [Drop-head title:] A bill for confirming several grants in fee-farm, made by Henry Earl of Thomond, by virtue of or since the passing of an Act of the first session of this present Parliament, [intituled, An Act to enable the Earl of Thomond to make leases for three lives, with covenants for renewal for ever, and grants in fee-farm, of the lands and hereditaments in Ireland, comprized in his marriage-settlement] and for giving some ease and relief to the purchasers, under the said former Act, in the particulars herein mentioned. [London]. [s.n.], [1713]. Folio. 4pp. With a docket title. Disbound. Three old horizontal folds. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24230
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[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]. [Drop-head title:] A bill for the effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown Silk, which shall be coarser than those known by the Names of Third Bolognia, and Second Orsoy, and all Trams into this Kingdom, from Italy, Naples, and Sicily, for the better Employing the Poor, and Preserving the Silk-Throwing Trade in this Kingdom. [London]. [s.n.], [1727]. First edition. Folio. 3pp, [1]. Docket title printed to verso. Disbound. Old folds. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 22495
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WATTS, I[saac]. Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children. London. Printed for C. Dilly et al., 1800. 12mo. x, 70pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements.Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Extremities worn, marked, and bumped, surface loss to spine. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to FEP: 'William Steevens / Wycombe / Bucks / 1800 / 9th mo: 22nd', small holes to text of leaves A3 and F5 (without loss of sense). More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 25147
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WITHER, George. Divine Poems (by way of Paraphrase) on the Ten Commandments... London. Printed for Joseph Marshall, 1728. Second edition. [16], 118pp. Preliminaries misbound. With 12 engraved illustrations in the text. ESTC N55028. ESTC records a single copy of this edition in the British Isles (V&A), and one further in North America (Illinois).

[Bound after:] MURPHY, Arthur. The grecian daughter. A tragedy... London Printed for W. Lowndes, 1796. 60pp. Early inked ownership inscription to browned title page. Not in ESTC.

[And:] ADDISON, [Joseph]. Cato. A ... More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 28851