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Dalrymple’s
Cunning
Knavery
(Dalrymple,
John). Observations on a late publication entitled “Memoirs of Great-Britain,
by Sir John Dalrymple,” in which some errors, misrepresentations, and the
design of that compiler and his associates are detected. London: J. Almon, 1773.
4to (26 cm, 10.25"). 28, xx pp.
• ESTC T12257. On Dalrymple, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XIII, 424–25. Removed from a nonce volume; first and last pages soiled; 6-digit number rubber-stamped on title-page. Chipping in upper inner corners of first three leaves; shallow chipping and dog-earing to the whole, with soiling on the edges and corners.
Radical Baptist Would-Be Regicide?? Danvers, Henry. A treatise of laying on of hands. With the history thereof, both from the Scripture and antiquity. London: Pr. for Fran. Smith, 1674. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). [2], 60 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Uncommon: OCLC, ESTC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only seven U.S. holdings; Wing adds one more.
• ESTC R8336; Wing (2nd ed.) D236. On Danvers, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent marbled paper wrappers. Pages browned; first and last few leaves with edge chips. Pagination 15/16 skipped, signatures however correct and text uninterrupted. (24981)
“To
the King”
Denham,
John. Coopers-Hill. A poem. London: Pr. & sold by H. Hills, 1709. 8vo.
16 pp. 
Rare
POLITICAL Chapbook Dialogue between John and Thomas on the corn laws, the charter, teetotalism, and the probable remedy for the present disstresses. Paisley [Scotland]: Printed for the Author, by G. Caldwell, 1842. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Original self wrappers. Unbound; removed. Slightly darkened. Very good. (17412)
Eleutheropoli? Du Moulin, Louis. Irenaei Philadelphi Epistola, ad Renatum Veridaeum. In qua aperitur mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Anglia redivivum, & excutitur liber Iosephi Halli, quo asseritur Episcopatum esse juris divini. Eleutheropoli [really, Basel]: no publisher/printer, 1641. Small 4to. 76 pp., [4] ff.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. A work of considerable significance for English canon law. There was another edition in 1641, without any place of printing specified, in 8vo format, and having 122 pages.
• Removed from a nonce volume, semicircular area torn from lower portion of the title-page costing two letters of the imprint. Old ownership inscriptions on title-page. Library stamps in lower margin of last page. (21014)
Agitating
Against Parliament —
But Not Against
the King?Dublin
(Ireland). The great charter of the liberties of the city
of Dublin, transcribed and translated into English; with explanatory notes. Addressed
to his Majesty, and presented to his Lords Justices of Ireland. Dublin: James
Esdall, 1749. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). [2], vi, xliv, 31, [1 (blank)], 3–36,
[2 (1 blank)] pp. (pp. iii/iv of the dedication bound in between iv & v of
the preface).
The work bears two imposing engraved headpieces done by P. Simms, and is handsomely printed in roman, italic, and fraktur, with the title-pages for the English and Latin sections in red and black.
• ESTC T200365. Full brown morocco old style, covers framed in
gilt rolling and panelled in single gilt fillet with inset corner fleurons;
spine with gilt-stamped title, raised bands decorated with dotted gilt rules,
and gilt-stamped shamrock devices in compartments. Title-page and one other
lightly stamped by a now-defunct institution; Latin title-page trimmed closely
with loss of three characters; the leaves with the beautiful headpieces (and
in fact all others) just as they should be. Some cockling and mild
browning, pages otherwise clean. 
A nice copy of this evocative expression of Irish
patriotic feeling.
Culture & Commerce CONNECTED — 1846Eclectikwn, Eis. Language in relation to commerce, missions, and government. England's ascendancy, and the world's destiny. Submitted to the consideration of merchants, statesmen and philanthropists. Manchester: A. Burgess & Co., 1846. 12mo. 23, [1] pp.
• NSTC 2L4183; not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. Pages clean. (10991)
The Title Says It All Edwardes, Herbert B. 
Our Indian empire: Its beginning and end. [London: 1861]. 16mo. 32 pp.
• NSTC 2E4979. Removed from a nonce volume. (11085)
Political
Fury Elegy in memory of that valiant champion, Sir R. Grierson, late laird of Lag, who died Dec. 23d, 1733. Wherein the Prince of Darkness commends many of his best friends, who were the chief managers, of the late persecution. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, n.d. (ca. 1848). 12mo. 24 pp. 
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a bound volume. Wrappers lacking. Good++ condition. (8412)
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