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Anon. [Printed] The Whigs and the Press. Report of the Trial of the Proprietors and Printer of the True Sun, ... [continued below] [title continued] ...For Recommending Non-payment of theAssessed Taxes; upon an Ex-officio Information, filed by His Majesty's Attorney-General. Before M.Justice Patteson and a Special Jury. 14pp., 8vo, disbound, foxed, final leaf detached, better than poor and worse than fair. Note: Charles...	£165.00
[Alexander MacGillivray (1750-1793), leader of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians from 1782] [Treaty between the USA and the Creek Indian Nation reported in] Gazette Nationale ou Le Moniteur Universel, no.332. Disbound, paginated [477]-484, some staining but otherwise text in good condition, clear and complete report of the Treaty on p.[477], with a Note Historique sur Mac-Gillivray.	£56.00
[Trinitarian Order] [Printed] Déclaration de l'empereur, concernant l'Emploi des Biens des Couvens supprimés des Trinitaires, & les Confréries établies aux Pays-Bas pour la redemption des Captifs Disbound, four pages, folio, aged but good, paginated [1]-4, but also numbered in MS. 95-98. The Trinitarian Order was created in France in the C12th to raise funds to ransom crusader and other Christians held by barbarians. This edict from Emperor Joseph II of Austria orders the suppression of...	£95.00
[The Champ de Mars Massacre], July 1791 [Reports in 2 issues of the French Revolutionary] Gazette Nationale ou Le Moniteur Universel, nos. 200 and 201. Pp.[159]-164 and [165]-172, reports and debates on the "massacre" on pp.163-4 and 166-8. On the 17 July the Assembly decided that Louis XVI could continue as King. Republicans led by Danton held a protest meeting on the Champs de Mars and were in the end fired upon by Lafayette's National Guard...	£125.00
[Alexander W. Williamson, Chemist, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science] [Pamphlet] Address of Alexander W. Williamson, President 27pp., 8vo, sewn as issued, good condition. Scarce. COPAC lists six copies, while WorldCat lists the Glasgow and Edinburgh copies but no American.	£95.00
[Louis Capet (Louis XVI] Decret[s] de la Convention Nationale [two decrees relating to Louis XVI] A. Décret de la Convention Nationale du Août 1793 . . . Relatif aux Créanciers de la Liste civile, & aux Dettes contractées par Louis Capet No.1410/No.1220, 2; [2 blank], bifolium, edges frayed, some staining, text clear and complete. B. Décret de la Convention Nationale du 19e. jour de...	£180.00
[Funeral of Voltaire] [Account of the elaborate arrangements made for Voltaire's funeral by the French Revolutionaries in the] Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, no.194. Disbound, pp.[101]-108, some staining mainly good condition, account of funeral pp.107-108.	£56.00
Llewellyn Powys, author [Booklet] Honey and Gall (Studies in Mystic Materialism) 64pp., c.8.5 x 12.5cm, fair condition, covers faded to beige rather than blue. Inscribed (slightly faded) on front cover Gertrude M. Powys \| Easter 1945 \| from Alyse. Alyse Gregory, American suffragist and writer, wife of Llewellyn Powys. Gertrude Powys, artist sister of the Powys brothers. The...	£120.00
[Slave Trade] [Printed] Denmark Slave Treaty. A Bill entituled An Act for carrying into effect the Treaty with the King of the French and the King of Denmark for suppressing the Slave Trade Disbound, 20pp., sm. folio, good condition.	£56.00
[Police Act 1757] [Printed] An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty intituled, An Act for appointing a sufficient Number of Constables . . . [cont.] [cont.] for the Service of the City and Liberty of Westminster; and to compel proper Persons to take upon them the Office of Jurymen, to present [sic] Nusances and other Offences within the said City and Liberty. Disbound, pp.[625]-638, two leaves detached, otherwise good condition.	£65.00

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