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THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA. . . . CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA; WITH REMARKS ON THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF THAT COLONY by (AMERICANA - VIRGINIA, COLONIAL HISTORY OF). KEITH, WILLIAM

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Title: THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA. . . . CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA; WITH REMARKS ON THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF THAT COLONY
Author: (AMERICANA - VIRGINIA, COLONIAL HISTORY OF). KEITH, WILLIAM
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: [Printed for] the Society for the Encouragement of Learning by S. Richardson, 1738. FIRST EDITION. 240 x 186 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/4"). 4 p.l., 187, [1] pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, raised bands, red morocco label. With engraved device of the Society on title page and final page, engraved tailpiece, and TWO FOLDING MAPS. Church 930; Howes K-36; Sabin 37240; ESTC T115083. Front joint cracked (but the cover still firmly attached), thin half-inch chip to spine at tail of front joint, other minor signs of wear to the leather, but the original unsophisticated binding sound and pleasing. Light scattered foxing (mostly confined to margins), one leaf with a tiny hole affecting a couple of words, other trivial imperfections, but A FINE COPY INTERNALLY, the paper fresh and clean, the maps (remarkably) free from any tears. Tracing the history of Virginia from the earliest English settlements through the first quarter of the 18th century, with valuable notes on the colony's economy and trade, this is a scarce and valuable work by a former colonial official with direct knowledge of the region. The history draws on earlier accounts, most notably the 1705 work of Jamestown-born historian Robert Beverley (ca. 1667-1722), but the more contemporary observations, including those related to agriculture and economy, come from the firsthand experiences of author William Keith (1680-1749), who went to Virginia in 1714 upon his appointment as surveyor-general of customs for the southern colonies in North America. According to ANB, he toured Virginia, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Jamaica over the next two years, charming all he met. In 1717, he became governor of Pennsylvania and, ANB notes, "for five years, from 1717 to 1722, Keith was the most popular governor since the founding of the colony." During his service in the American colonies, Keith wrote reports to the British government that ANB says "helped shape royal policy well into the 1760s." Knowledge gleaned in producing these reports is shared in the present work, which features two fine maps: "A New and Correct Map of America" (measuring 560 x 475 mm.), showing North and South America, with California as an island, with inset views of Port Royal, Boston, Georgia, North Pole and a Newfoundland cod fishery, as well as "A New Map of Virginia" (measuring 340 x 235 mm.) by Thomas Fairfax, dated 1738, showing the Tidewater region of the Mid-Atlantic states, centering on Virginia, with Maryland and [New] Jersey to the north and North Carolina to the south. Thomas Jefferson was familiar with this work, remarking in "Notes on Virginia" that it is "agreeable enough in style, and passes over events of little importance." Keith intended this to be the first in a series on the British colonies in North America--thus the "End of Vol. I" notation on the final page--but the project was abandoned for lack of funds. This work is rare in the marketplace: just two copies complete with maps (one of these in a modern binding) have appeared at auction since 1991..

This Indenture Witnesseth, That [Robert Shaw Son of Robert Shaw of the City of Lichfield Book Seller with his father’s consent .... ] doth put h[im]self Apprentice [to Richard Robinson of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Toymaker].. by BOOKSELLER’S INDENTURE INTO A MORE PROFITABLE TRADE

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Title: This Indenture Witnesseth, That [Robert Shaw Son of Robert Shaw of the City of Lichfield Book Seller with his father’s consent .... ] doth put h[im]self Apprentice [to Richard Robinson of Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford Toymaker]..
Author: BOOKSELLER’S INDENTURE INTO A MORE PROFITABLE TRADE
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [Lichfield, England], 1736. Oblong document on vellum, upper edge scallopped (143 x 214 mm.), recto with letterpress form accomplished in manuscript, in brown ink (slightly faded but legible, one passage erased), large woodcut armorial initial and 2 pence duty mark, strip of three blue sixpence stamps, red wax seal, paper stamp on verso. (Slight soiling to corners and part of top edge.)*** A bookseller joins the toy trade: Robert Shaw, son of the Lichfield bookseller of the same name, agrees to an apprenticeship of seven years, during which he promises to serve his master, keep his secrets, to not waste or lend his Goods; and “Taverns, Inns, or Ale-houses he shall not haunt, At Cards, Dice, Tables, or any other unlawful Game he shall not play”... For this the toymaker Richard Robinson agrees to pay 5 pounds into the public charity, pledges to feed and lodge his new Apprentice, and (added in manuscript) promises his father Robert Shaw [Sr.] “to fund and provide for his said Son wearing apparell of all sorts as well Linens as Woolens during the said term.” Lichfield, Staffordshire, was the childhood home of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), whose father Michael Johnson was also a bookseller; as a boy Johnson sometmes bound books for his father to help earn money. Contemplation of the latter’s debt-ridden career may throw light on the motives of his colleague Shaw Sr. in sending his son out to learn another profession. A bookseller Robert Shaw is known from archival sources, including a payment to him in 1737 by Lichfield Cathedral for lettering books in the library (cf. Peter Hanks, The Bookbinder and Historical Invisibility: Bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850, thesis, University of Wolverhampton [2024]). (Booksellers in this period were more involved in actual book production, and their duties included supplying bookbindings.) A colleague who previously owned this document remarked: “I have not been able to determine how Robert Shaw the Younger fared in the toy trade or if he was able to follow the indenture’s commandment `Taverns, Inns or Ale-houses he shall not haunt,’ which he never could have done if he’d followed his father into bookselling.”

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (EIGHT VOLUMES) by Wordsworth, William

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Title: THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (EIGHT VOLUMES)
Author: Wordsworth, William
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (circa 1900). An excellent eight volume set of Wordsworth in the original box. 24 mo., uniformly bound in scarlet cloth with decorative gilt spines. All edges stained red. Portrait frontispiece. The books are in pristine condition..as fine and bright as the day they were published. The original box is also covered in scarlet cloth and lined with gilt patterned paper. This chaste set was presented to Miss Madge Wilde in 1903 as a prize for English Studies at St. Monica's, Skipton..with the prize certificate affixed to the inside of the box lid. Aside from a small split to one corner of the box, this is a fine set..quite rare, particularly in this condition.

The Fortunate Ones (Signed First Edition) by Ed Tarkington

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Title: The Fortunate Ones (Signed First Edition)
Author: Ed Tarkington
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781616206802
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author with provenance for the signing laid in. A pristine copy of this critically acclaimed novel by the author of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

666 by Anson, Jay

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Title: 666
Author: Anson, Jay
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780671251444
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($12.95), lightly rubbed and bumped. Quarter black cloth with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Another haunted house horror novel from the author of The Amityville Horror.

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