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The Very Day He Assumes Office in April 1782, Edmund Burke, Now Paymaster of British Troops in the New World, Reshapes War Provisioning and Makes Plans to Manage Payment and Expenses for the Retreating of the Troops from the New United States Headed Toward Nova Scotia by Edmund Burke

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Title: The Very Day He Assumes Office in April 1782, Edmund Burke, Now Paymaster of British Troops in the New World, Reshapes War Provisioning and Makes Plans to Manage Payment and Expenses for the Retreating of the Troops from the New United States Headed Toward Nova Scotia
Author: Edmund Burke
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 10/04/1782. War-related documents of Burke from his short term in this position are very uncommon This document was last sold by Sessler's and Mabel Zahn in the 1960s and has been in the same private collection sinceThe American victory at Yorktown in fall 1781 had effectively ended major combat operations in the Revolution, and Lord North’s ministry collapsed soon afterward, bringing in a government committed to both peace negotiations and fiscal retrenchment.Britain’s political decision to stop prosecuting the war in America came in February 1782, when the House of Commons voted on the 27th to cease further offensive operations and effectively end the war effort against the Americans. This vote reflected a dramatic shift in parliamentary opinion after Yorktown, growing public war-weariness, and sustained political pressure from MPs who argued that continued conflict was futile and fiscally unsustainable. Following this vote, Parliament, on March 5, granted the government authority to negotiate peace with the Americans.On March 22, with Lord North's government collapsed, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, formally took office as prime minister. On April 10, Edmund Burke formally took over as Paymaster of all the Armed Forces, including those in the New World. Burke, a British statesman and philosopher, had advocated for the rights of the American colonists and opposed heavy-handed British policies, such as taxation without representation.Burke’s assumption of the office of Paymaster came at a decisive moment in the final unwinding of Britain’s war effort in America. Burke, long a critic of wartime corruption and administrative excess, entered the paymastership not as a routine political appointee but as a reformer tasked with imposing order, transparency, and restraint on a military system that was rapidly contracting. His tenure coincided with Parliament’s recognition that Britain’s military presence in North America had shifted from active conquest to consolidation, evacuation, and settlement of outstanding obligations.The payment of troops and suppliers in Nova Scotia assumed heightened importance. Halifax and the surrounding region functioned as a major logistical and administrative hub for British forces still stationed in North America, including regular regiments, Loyalist units, and the so-called “subsistence contingent and extraordinary forces” maintained after the cessation of large-scale fighting. Funds disbursed there were not merely local expenses but part of a broader effort to settle accounts for provisioning, transport, and pay connected to troops withdrawn from the former colonies. The paymaster’s oversight thus linked Nova Scotia directly to the final chapters of the American war: paying soldiers awaiting redeployment, sustaining garrisons guarding Britain’s remaining footholds, and closing the financial books on a conflict that had already been lost militarily but was still very much alive in its administrative and fiscal consequences.Document signed, London, April 10, 1782, the very day Burke took over. ""Know all Men by these present, that I, the Right honorable Edmund Burke, Paymaster General of his Majesty's Forces, as well within Great Britain as without (except the Kingdom of Ireland) have authorized and empowered George James Williams of the Parish of St. James in the County of Middlesex Esq. for me and in my name and stead, to pay the subsistence contingent and extraordinary expenses of his Majesty's forces, and also the pay of the staff officers now and for the time being in Nova Scotia, according to such orders, directions and instructions as he shall receive from me and or my deputy; hereby giving and granting to him full power and authority to do and execute the same, subject to orders, directions and instructions from time to time, in as ample a manner, and as effectually to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do or execute the same.""Burke’s enduring role in the conservative movement rests on his defense of constitutional continuity, moral restraint, and inherited political order, principles that profoundly shaped Anglo-American political thought. In Britain, his opposition to radical reform and, later, to the French Revolution articulated a conservatism grounded not in reactionary absolutism but in reverence for tradition, prescription, and gradual change. These ideas resonated strongly in America, where Burke had earlier been a sympathetic advocate of colonial rights within the British constitution, arguing that liberty was best preserved through custom and law rather than abstract theory. After independence, American statesmen and later conservative thinkers drew on Burke’s writings—especially his emphasis on ordered liberty, suspicion of centralized power, and respect for social institutions—to frame a distinctly American conservatism that valued stability, federalism, and historical continuity over revolutionary ideology.

De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor. & Iacobi Bontii In Indiis Archiatri, de Medicina Indorum. Editio Ultima by Alpini, Prospero; Iacobi Bontii (Jacob de Bondt)

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Title: De Medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri Quatuor. & Iacobi Bontii In Indiis Archiatri, de Medicina Indorum. Editio Ultima
Author: Alpini, Prospero; Iacobi Bontii (Jacob de Bondt)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Good condition
Description: Paris: Nicolaum Redelichuysen, 1645. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo. (11) 150 (25), 39 (1) leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Red edges. First title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. Historiated and decorative headpieces, tailpieces and initials. Both titles second editions, Alpini's title first published in 1591, Bondt's in 1642. Alpini was a physician and botanist, Bondt a Dutch physician and pioneer of tropical medicine. Alpini's work is illustrated with four in-text and two full page woodcuts. Alpini traveled in Egypt and became the fourth prefect of the Botanical Garden in Padua. "One of the earliest European studies of nonwestern medicine. Alpini's work dealt primarily with contemporary (i.e. Turkish) practices observed during a three-year sojourn in Egypt. These included moxibustion - the production of counter-irritation by placing burning or heated material on the skin - which Alpini introduced into European medicine... Alpini also mentioned coffee for the first time in this work" (Norman). With extensive index at rear. De Bondt was a pioneer of tropical medicine. His work on East Indian medicine included here is based on experiences during four years he spent in Djakarta. It was the first important treatise on diseases in East India and includes the first modern description of Cholera and other tropical diseases. First published posthumously in 1642. Index at rear. Text in Latin. Binding with light wear along edges and rubbed, spine lightly sunned. Ex-Libris of German-born British professor of chemistry Franz Sondheimer on inside front cover. The first four leaves frayed with small chips at lower foredge, no loss of text, a few small inked entries and a small stamp of the Royal Medical Society Edinburgh on front cover. Title page with paper reinforcement on back. First in-text woodcut with stamp in center, second woodcut with stamp grazing image, third and fourth with stamp outside imagery. The two full page woodcuts with stamps grazing the border of image. Some light sporadic foxing of block and last page with chipping along edges, some loss of the printed word Index, and foxing and browning along edges. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover.

The Hidden Wound by Berry, Wendell

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Title: The Hidden Wound
Author: Berry, Wendell
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Signed first edition of The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry.. Octavo, 145pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on front cover and black cloth spine. Black topstain. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, $4.95 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear and sunning to spine, near fine. Signed by Wendell Berry on the front free endpaper. Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a distinguished American writer, farmer, and environmental activist known for his influential essays, novels, and poetry that advocate for sustainable agriculture and rural life. His works, including The Unsettling of America and Jayber Crow, emphasize the importance of ecological stewardship and community resilience.

Rona Barrett's Gossup. January 1976. by Barrett, Rona.

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Title: Rona Barrett's Gossup. January 1976.
Author: Barrett, Rona.
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Magazine, glossy covers, illustrated, 82 pp. Spine and cover in good shape, normal aging of contents; otherwise very good plus. This is a Cher and Elvis issue. Also, coverage of Rtan O'Neal and Robert Blake

Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute : Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety -Third Congress, Second Session

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Title: Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute : Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety -Third Congress, Second Session
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Government Printing Office, 1974. Fine. Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute : Hearing Before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety -Third Congress, Second Session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974. 622pp. 8vo. Green softcover. Book condition: Near fine. Slightly faded spine.

[Auction Catalog]: Collection Littéraire Pierre Leroy: Grands Écrivains Surréalistes Et De l'Aprés-Guerre. Mercredi 26 Juin 2002

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Title: [Auction Catalog]: Collection Littéraire Pierre Leroy: Grands Écrivains Surréalistes Et De l'Aprés-Guerre. Mercredi 26 Juin 2002
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Sotheby's, 2002. Softcover. Very Good. Auction catalog. Small quarto. 372pp. Text in French. Heavily illustrated in color. Embossed wrappers with printed acetate covers. Moderate general wear including a neatly strengthened short split at the spine base, very good.

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