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30,000 Frenchmen Will
NOT Land Suddenly in Hampshire 
Kinloch, Arthur. The invasion of England: A supposition. Edinburgh: [Pr. by Ballantine for] James Nichol (Edinburgh) & H. Ballière (London), 1852. 8vo. 8 pp.
Provenance: “Caledonian United Service Club” inscribed at top of title-page.
Click the image for an enlargement. Rare: No copies were traced via OCLC or COPAC.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned with some light soiling. Inked notations in top margin of title-page. (11255)
“I
owe no apology to Your Grace . . .”Kinnaird, Charles, 8th Baron. A letter to the Duke of Wellington on the arrest of M. Marinet. London: Pr. [by Charles Wood] for James Ridgway, 1818. 8vo (18.8 cm, 7.375" ). [1] f., 40 pp. 
• NSTC 2K6435, Imprint 1. Removed from a nonce volume. A few light brown spots.
Free Trade vs. Protection — EpitomizedKnott, John M. The currency and the late Sir Robert Peel. [London, 1850]. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 23, [1 (blank)] pp.$400.00
• Goldsmiths'-Kress 36939; NSTC 2K8200. Recent paper wrappers. Half-title faintly dust-soiled and with small inked numeral in upper corner; pages otherwise clean.
Separation
of Church & State
— RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
First
Collected Edition
Locke,
John. Letters concerning toleration.
London: A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston & B. White, I. Rivington, et
al., 1765. 4to (29.5 cm, 11.6"). Frontis., [8], 399, [1 (blank)] pp.
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This
is a lovely, “gentleman's library” edition, well printed with generous
margins.
Provenance: Two text pages and back pastedown with flourished ownership inscriptions of Richard Wood, Jr., dated 1780.
• ESTC T114245; Graesse, IV, 243; Lowndes 1380; Allibone 1113–14. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding lightly rubbed/scuffed overall, joints starting from top and front hinge (inside) starting; spine with a chip and a small paper label. Front pastedown with three bookplates most tantalizingly layered over one another, the most recent being from a 19th-century social club library; front free endpaper with pencilled and inked numerals in an early hand. Pages age-toned and faintly to moderately spotted; minor offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. (26302)
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