Sales catalogue 20: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles

Date:
20th century
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/50/5
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 20: Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    752 Petty (Sir Wm.) Several Essays in Political Arithmetick. 4TH EDN, corrected. To which are prefix’d Memoirs of the author’s life. 1755. Full calf, FINE COPY. 8vo £3 10s This 4th Edition is scarce. It includes Essays con- cerning the Multiplication of Mankind; On the Growth of the City of London; Observations upon the Dublin Bills of Mortality and the State of that City; Two Essays in Political Arithmetick, com- paring the Cities of London and Paris; Observa- tions on the Cities of London and Rome; Essays in Political Arithmetick; and _ Political Arithmetick concerning the Value of Lands, People, Buildings, Manufactures ... Taxes, Interest, &c., particularly as the same relates to G.B. and its __ Territories, to Holland and France. 753 Pigou (A. C.) Wealth and Welfare. 1912. Ovig. cloth, FINE COPY. 8vo 18s In Four Parts:—(1) Welfare and the National Divi- dend. (2) The Magnitude of the National Dividend. (8) The Distribution of the National Dividend. _. (4) The Variability of the National Dividend. 754 Pitt (Rt. Hon. Wm.) Speech of, in the British H. of'C., on Thursday, Jan. 31, 1799. Dublin, 1799. 53 pp., several slightly waterstained. 8vo 6s On the Union between G.B. and Ireland to promote and secure their mutual interests, and to consolidate the Strength, Power and Resources of the British Empire. With observations on Trade, Taxes, Agriculture and Manufactures. 755 [Place (Francis)} Address of the Metro- politan Anti-Corn Law Association, to the Public. 1841. 8 pp. Caption title, + Leaflet, No. 8. 8vo 8s 6d 756 Place (Francis) Factory Workers and Hand-Loom Weavers: Ten Hours Bill. Edited by J. A. Roebuck. [1835]. Caption title. 4 pp. 8vo. 7s 6d 757 Place (Francis) Hand Loom Weavers and Factory Workers: A: Letter to James Turner, Cotton Spinner. Edited by J. A. Roebuck. [1835]. Caption title. 9 pp. 8vo 10s. 758 Place (Francis) The Peers and_ the People: Municipal Reform: Corn Laws: Taxes on Knowledge. Edited by J. A. Roebuck. [1835]. Caption title, 11 pp. 8vo 7s 6d 759 Place (Francis) A Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. Edited by J. A. Roebuck. [1835]. Caption title, 16 pp. 8vo 10s 760 Place (Francis) The Taxes on Knowledge. Edited by J. A. Roebuck. [1835]. Caption title, 11 pp., 8vo 7s 6d 761 Political Economy Club. Questions dis- cussed by the members during the years from 1834 to 1851. [PRINTED FOR THE CLruB MEMBERS ONLY]. Paper wrappers, scarce, roy. 8vo 6s Contains the titles of 136 Questions discussed during the years mentioned, and include 21 by Prof. N. W. Senior; 14 by J. R. M’Culloch; 16 by Thos. Tooke; 8 by Col. R. Torrens and others by Messrs. Malthus, Mill, S. J. Loyd, Thornton, etc. Poor & Poor Laws. 762 Act (An) of the Commons of England... For the Relief and Imployment of the Poor, and the punishing of Vagrants, and of London, and Liberties thereof. Where- by is constituted a Corporation .. . for the due ordering and putting in execution the said Act. 1649. 12 pp. Fo. £1 5s 763 Armstrong (Rev. John) A Further Appeal for the formation of Church Penitentiaries. 1851. 24 pp. 8vo 5s A contribution to that vital problem in our social system, the recovery of fallen women. 764 Baker (James) The Life of Sir Thomas Bernard. 1819. Portrait, contemp. half calf, nice copy. 8vo 18s 6d This biography of Bernard, who devoted so much of his life in an endeavour to improve the condition of the Poor, was written by his nephew and executor. 765 Bill (A) for the better Relief and Employ- ment of the Poor, and for the more effectual punishing Rogues and Vagabonds; and for reducing the Laws relating to the Poor, and to Rogues and Vagabonds, into one Law. [c. 1748]. Caption title, 28 pp. Fo. 18s 6d 766 Bill (A) intituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction. [1744]. Caption title, 24 pp. Fo. 15s 767 Bitter (The) Cry of Outcast London. An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor. 1883. 20 pp. caption title. Cr. 8vo 5s 768 (Bradlaugh (Chas.)} Poverty, and _ its Effect on the Political Condition of the People. 1890. Caption title, 8 pp. Cr. 8vo 4s 769 Brougham (Henry) A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly, M.P., upon the Abuse of Charities. 1lTH Epn. 1818. 67 pp. 8vo 6s 770 Criticisms on ‘‘General’’ Booth’s Social Scheme from three different points of view. By C.S. Loch, Secy. Charity Or- ganisation Soc., Bernard Bosanquet and the Rev. Canon Philip Dwyer. 1891. Orig. cloth. Cr. 8vo 7s 6d In his book ‘‘In Darkest England and the Way Out” General Booth, of the Salvation Army, set forth a scheme covering the whole field of charitable work. 771 Davison (John) Considerations on the Poor Laws. Oxford, 1817. 122 pp. 8vo 10s 772 Dawes (Rev. Richard) Observations on the Working of the Government Scheme of Education, and on School Inspection, .. . with other general Remarks on Elementary Education. 1849. 59 pp. 8vo 5s 773 Gardner (Christian F.) Local Taxation: An Essay on the Injustice, Inequalities and Anomalies of the Present Poor-Rate — Assessment, and the Incidence of other local Burdens in England and Wales. [1869]. 64 pp. 8vo 6s 774 Glass (Jos.) Chimney Sweeping Described, with a view to the Emancipation of Climbing Boys. [c. 1825]. 4p. 8vo 5s 775 Hill (Caroline S.) Memoranda of Obser- vations and Experiments in Education. Vizetelly & Co. (c. 1850). 39 pp. 8vo 5s
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