Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1963
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/53
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 Letter (A) TO THE HONOURABLE A[RTHUR] M[CO]RE COM[MISSIOJNER OF TRADE AND PLANTATION, 39 pages, sm. 8vo, wrappers, fames Roberts, 1714. £10 Kress 2912. ** A very characteristic mercantilist tract, attacking the French trade.” (Foxwell) Arthur Moore was accused of complicity with clandestine practices against the South Sea Company and in 1714 was conse and declared incapable of further employment by the company, of which he had been a irector. Letter (A) TO THE RT. HON. CHARLES GRANT, President of the Board of Trade &c., &c. on the Corn Laws, Wool Laws and Rents in Kind by Agricultor; 48 pages, unbound, Edinburgh, 1828 £2 10s Letter (A) TO THE RT. Hon. N. T. BAINES, president of the Poor Law Board, on the Bill for the alteration of the Law of Settlement and Removal. By a County Magistrate, 14 pages, unbound, 1854 £1 5s Leubuscher (C.) BULK BUYING FROM THE COLONIES. A Study of the Bulk Pur- chase of Colonial Commodities by the U.K. Government, 1956 £1 Levant Company. CASE OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF MERCHANTS OF ENGLAND, Trading to the Levant Seas, 4 pages (somewhat damaged at folds), folio, wrappers, no imprint [1744] £20 Kress 4688. Inscribed on the back “The Case of the Governor and Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant Seas.” The Company wishes to set their charter out in a true light as they did not feel that the Bill depending in the House of Commons would answer the purpose of both enlarging and regulating the trade to Turkey. Levi (Leone) THE HISTORY OF BRITISH COMMERCE and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1878, Second Edition, 1880 £5 15s Levine (L.) THE WOMEN’s GARMENT WoRKERS, a History of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, plates, New York, 1924 £1 10s Levy (H.) DRINK: an Economic and Social Study, 1951 £1 Lewins (William) HER MajeEstTy’s MalIts: A History of the Post-Office, and an Industrial Account of its Present Condition, portrait, cr. 8vo, 1865 £2 Lewis’s (Medical Booksellers) 1844-1944. A BrigF ACCOUNT OF A CENTURY’S Work, coloured frontispiece, 1945 £1 Liefde (J. de) Stx MONTHS AMONG THE CHARITIES OF EUROPE, i/lusts., 2 vols., cr. 8vo, 1865 £2 10s 626 627 628 629 630 Mass., 1952 £1 10s Life (The) ADVENTURES AND SERIOUS REMONSTRANCES OF A SCOTCH GUINEA NOTE, containing a defence of the Scotch system of Banking, and a reply to the late letters of E. Bradwardine Waverley, by the author of the “‘letters of a plain man”’, iv-+21 pages, unbound, title page, slightly defective, Edinburgh, Waugh & Innes, 1826 £3 Lindahl! (Erik) STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CAPITAL, 1950 £2 Lindsay (William) HisToRY OF MERCHANT SHIPPING AND ANCIENT COMMERCE, illusts., 4 vols., thk. 8vo, 1874-76 £32 A large part of the work relates to the development of trade. On Construction and operation of ships there is a great amount of interesting material. This book has for many years been very difficult to find complete. Linen. BRUCE (WILLIAM) SOME FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE FATE OF THE LATE LINEN BILL, last Session of Parliament in this Kingdom, 33 pages, unbound, Dublin, 1753 o Kress 5247. A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, Allowing and Relating to the Bounties payable on the Exportation of British and Irish Linens, 38 pages, sm. 8vo, wrappers, Edinburgh, Assigns of Robert Freebairn, 1750 £5 Kress 5021.
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