Nine Years (26 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. R Paalme Dutt "Whither India?" / D N Prit "Strings Or Chains?- The Marshall Plan" / Arpaf Szakasits "With The Imperialists?- Or With The Working Class" / Zdravko Mitovsky "Why We Broke With Them" / Quaestor "Green Light For War - Nine Years Ago" / / P H H Bryan "The Caste System In Britain" (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Blue cloth boards with surreal pictorial on front cover. Some general wear and darkening to covers. Interior is unmarked. A few instances of minor page soiling. Eight illustrated plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 177 pages. Scarce. Eight copies located in WorldCat institutions (incl.The British Library, National Lib of Scotland, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, UCLA, Univ Florida). The story of a young English girl, Pansie Moss, and her imaginative life at home, featuring an extended dream adventure in Fairyland, located inside her aunt's flour bin. The character of Pansie was likely modeled on the author's own step-daughters, Lilian and Lucie, who, like Pansie, spent their early childhoods in India. The author and her step-children returned to England in 1880, the year that Pansie's Flour-Bin was published. Eliza Tabor Stephenson (1835-1914) was an English writer and the author of both novels and books for children. Her first novel was published in 1861. In Bombay, in 1875, she married the widower and senior chaplain, John Stephenson.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good binding. Small quarto. 24 pp. In later plain wrappers. Title in manuscript on the front wrapper; light to moderate foxing/age-toning throughout, but generally a nice copy. Political pamphlet on French policies, translated from German for Spanish-speakers. Excellent reportage of what was happening where and who was involved in these early days of Louis XVI's expansionist policies leading to the Nine Years' War. Institutionally rare. Between the two editions that were issued in 1689, there are only 7 institutions reporting ownership according to OCLC--Harvard is the only institution in the U.S. Palau VII, p. 152 for another edition printed in Barcelona, 1688 [sic], by Hernando Ferrer. The first edition of Palau appears to be in error as to the date; OCLC identifies that edition as having been printed in 1689.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (12 inches). 7 & 8 William III, Chapter 32. General title leaf + pages 703-715. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Small circular ex-library stamp on first leaf of text. Paper very lightly toned. To better populate juries with qualified people, and to avoid unnecessary expense and trouble to those selected for jury duty, this Act established the procedure under which the books of freeholders was drawn up. In order that all Sheriffs of counties be better informed of persons qualified to serve on juries, constables and headboroughs of all counties were to draw up lists of the names, abodes, and titles of eligible freeholders (being men between the ages of 21 and 70 years).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (12 inches). 7 & 8 William III, Chapter 23. General title leaf + pages 515-520. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Small circular ex-library stamp on general title leaf and first leaf of text. This Act was an extension of the mutiny law that ensured that the several armed forces be continued and other troops be raised for the safety of the Kingdom, for the common defence of the Protestant religion, and for carrying on the war against France. In accordance with the terms for keeping a standing army (as outlined in the Bill of Rights), the Act was in effect for a maximum of one year, and expired on April 10, 1697. The Mutiny Act became an annual Act: it governed the activities of the British armed forces, and made desertion, mutiny, and sedition crimes triable by court-martial and punishable by death.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (12 inches). 7 & 8 William III, Chapter 11. General title leaf + pages 343-346. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Contemporary signature and small circular ex-library stamp on general title leaf and first leaf of text. As the war with France raged on, there was growing concern for the safety and welfare of the recently-widowed monarch, King William III (Queen Mary II having passed away in late December, 1694) and the security of the country. In response to a heightened state of security, this Act renewed the temporary suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in England for the period between February 20 and September 1, 1696. The law permitted the Privy Council to arrest those (excluding members of both Houses of Parliament) that were suspected of high treason, and imprison them without bail or trial.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 25. General title leaf + pages 453-454. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The Act provided that all offences against the Articles of War for the Royal Navy (as detailed in the 1661 Act: 13 Charles II, Session 1, Chapter 9) could be tried at the Kings Bench or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer, and if committed out of the realm could be alleged and laid in any country.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 24. General title leaf + pages 447-449. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. The objective of the Act was to encourage the building of larger vessels with heavier armament, and adapted for long military voyages rather than for general commerce.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 19. General title leaf + pages 315-318. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. In consideration of the ongoing war with France, this Act permitted soldiers to be called into service for the protection of the kingdom during the present year in case of invasion, insurrection or rebellion.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 17. General title leaf + pages 297-298. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act allowed the exportation of copper, iron and mundick metal (a kind of copper ore) to countries other than France and its allies.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 16. General title leaf + pages 291-293. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act outlined the need for saltpetre for the use of ships of war and the army, and the rules for securing and importing the same into the country. Saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, was a highly-valued strategic material during times of war, as it was used as a major constituent of gunpowder.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 15. General title leaf + pages 283-287. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act was an extension of the mutiny law that ensured that the several armed forces be continued and other troops be raised for the safety of the Kingdom, for the common defence of the Protestant religion, and for carrying on the war against France. In accordance with the terms for keeping a standing army (as outlined in the Bill of Rights), the Act was in effect for a maximum of one year, and expired on March 1, 1694. The Mutiny Act became an annual Act: it governed the activities of the British armed forces, and made desertion, mutiny, and sedition crimes triable by court-martial and punishable by death.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 William & Mary, Chapter 6. General title leaf + pages 107-110. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Paper evenly toned. This Act amended the Royal Mines Act of 1689 by stating that all owners or proprietors of mines in which there was copper, tin, iron or lead should hold and enjoy the same mines and ore, notwithstanding that such mines or ore should be claimed to be Royal Mines. The crown, or any persons claiming Royal Mines under it, was given the right to purchase the ore of any such mine. The right of the crown to all mines of gold and silver remained unaffected by the new rules.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.5 inches). 3 William & Mary, Chapter 7. General title leaf + pages 257-260. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. In connection with the ongoing war with France, this Act (3 William & Mary, Chapter 7) continued the order that soldiers called into active service have their wages (for up to one month) advanced.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.5 inches). 2 William & Mary, Session 2, Chapter 12. General title leaf + pages 351-354. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. In response to the late invasion of Great Britain by the French (most likely referring to the Battle of Beachy Head, off the southern coast of England) in connection with the ongoing war with France, it was ordered by this Act that soldiers be called into active service when needed, and their wages (for up to one month) be advanced.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (12 inches). 7 & 8 William III, Chapter 27. General title leaf + pages 551-566. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Small circular ex-library stamp on general title leaf and first leaf of text. Paper evenly toned. To protect the King and Parliament from Horrid and Detestable Conspiracies Formed and Carried on by Papists and other Wicked and Traitorous Persons, for Assassinating His Majesties Royal Person, in order to Encourage an Invasion from France, to Subvert our Religion, Laws and Liberty, this comprehensive Act made it mandatory to swear the oath of allegiance to the king or suffer the charge of recusancy (i.e., the refusal of the Anglican faith) and its consequences of civil disabilities and other penalties. In addition, any persons convicted of declaring that His Present Majesty was not king, or that James II or his son James the Pretender had rights to the crown, would Incur the Danger and Penalty of Premunire (the ancient offence of challenging the supremacy of the crown and encouraging papal encroachments). Anyone suspected of treason could be detained in custody without bail or mainprize until December 1697. In case His Majesty came to any violent or untimely death, the Succession of the Crown (as outlined in the Bill of Rights) would be followed. The Act was passed largely in response to the failed Jacobite assassination attempt on the king at Turnham Green in February 1696.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.5 inches). 2 William & Mary, Session 2, Chapter 13. General title leaf + pages 357-359. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. This Act granted amnesty to Lords and others of Their Majesties most honourable Privy Council, diverse Lords, Gentlemen, and other good Subjects, being Magistrates and Officers, or Acting in pursuance of their Orders who apprehended and imprisoned several suspected persons, seized their horses and arms, and raised militia in a manner that was outside of that generally allowed by law, in order to protect the kingdom from harm associated with French invasions along the British coastlines. The Act voided all personal actions, suits, indictments, and all other prosecutions against persons involved in the patriotic and heroic acts.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.5 inches). 2 William & Mary, Session 2, Chapter 2. General title leaf + pages 183-184. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Some ink smudges on final page. England had been at war with France since King Williams formal declaration on May 7, 1689. At the time, all authority, jurisdiction, and power related to the Royal Navy had been vested in the Lord High Admiral. The crushing defeat of England by the French navy at the Battle of Beachy Head (wherein on July 10, 1690, the English and Dutch fleet lost 11 ships, and the French lost none) became the catalyst for Britain to rebuild its Navy into a world power. By this Act, some powers of the Lord High Admiral were transferred to Commissioners, who were considered more appropriate for handling certain matters, and laid the foundation of what would become the Board of Admiralty, the key institution exercising oversight of the Royal Navy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.5 inches). 3 William & Mary, Chapter 13. General title leaf + pages 321-323. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. In connection with the ongoing war with France, this Act made it clear that anyone caught assisting the war efforts of the French would be tried as a traitor and, if found guilty, would be subject to the death penalty as for high treason. In addition, anyone returning from France or any of the French possessions without prior permission would be committed to prison and held without bail or mainprize (i.e., have their habeas corpus rights suspended) for a time not exceeding twelve months.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (11.5 inches). 5 & 6 William & Mary, Chapter 21. General title leaf + pages 383-415. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume. Tiny chip (paper flaw) affecting corner of first text leaf. Recent paper spine. This was the FIRST STAMP ACT introduced in Great Britain and was designed to help raise money for the war against France through stamp duties. The new stamp duties were essentially taxes on documents accomplished on vellum, parchment, and paper, with payment of the tax being indicated by a stamp applied to document. The presence of the tax stamp validated the document and gave it official legal status. Legal documents that lacked the tax stamp were not valid and could attract a fine of up to five hundred pounds. The tax ranged from one penny to several shillings on a variety of legal documents, including insurance policies, court documents, land grants, letters of probate, university degrees, contracts, and other administrative documents. Blank paper could be submitted to the tax office for tax stamps to be applied and the prescribed duty amount paid, or pre-stamped paper could be purchased for use. Anyone caught counterfeiting tax stamps faced the death penalty. Tax stamps proved to be an effective way to raise money, and continued to be used into the future. Similar tax stamps were devised for use in America after the Seven Years War to raise money for British troops stationed in the colony for protection from Native attacks (as detailed in the infamous Stamp Act, 1765), but were soundly rejected as an unwarranted taxation method and the plan was repealed the following year. As is well known, the disastrous 1765 tax stamp experiment sowed the seeds of the American Revolution that came some ten years later.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A collection of EIGHT BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS plus ONE INTEREST RECEIPT relating to the Tontine Investment Strategies of 1692, 1765, and 1789. London: 1692-1790. Woodcut Royal coats of arms, headpiece ornaments, vignettes, and decorative initials. Text in Black Letter. The Eight Acts have been neatly extracted from bound volumes. The Interest Receipt is a printed document with manuscript additions. SEE IMAGE for details on ALL NINE DOCUMENTS. The Tontine investment strategy was used by European governments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for raising money to fund wars and pay down debt. The principles of the Tontine were based on an arrangement wherein investors bought into a managed fund and received interest payments as long as they or their designated beneficiary remained alive. Not surprisingly, subscribers generally nominated younger persons as their beneficiary. Over time, as beneficiaries died and were eliminated from the group of dividend recipients, annual payments to surviving subscribers increased. The last surviving beneficiaries shared the entire remaining dividends, and upon their death the Tontine ended. The Tontine system was apparently conceived in 1653 by Lorenzo de Tonti (1630-1695), a financier and exiled Neapolitan banker living in France, and father of the renown French-Canadian fur traders and explorers Henri de Tonti (c1649-1704) and Alphonse de Tonti (c1659-1727). Tontines were particularly attractive to governments because they could raise large amounts of money without having to repay the principal. In November of 1692, Parliament initiated the first British Tontine (known as King Williams Tontine) by means of the Million Act, 1692 (see Item 1) with the aim of raising Ten Hundred Thousand Pounds (i.e., £1 million) to fund the ongoing war with France. Although the Million Act, 1692 did not identify the proposed investment strategy as a Tontine, it was modelled on the principles of a Tontine by inviting investors to purchase a life Annuity with group survivorship benefits from the Exchequer for £100 per share. Investors were offered an interest rate of 10% (or £10 per annum) until 1700 and 7% (or £7 per annum) thereafter. However, the Million Act, 1692 offer was not fully subscribed by the deadline of 1 May 1693, and prompted another call for subscriptions of £100 (or multiples thereof) at an elevated interest rate of 14% (or £14 per annum) as set out in a supplementary Act in 1693 (see Item 2). But the offer remained undersubscribed, and the terms were revised and enhanced by additional Acts issued in 1694 (see Item 3) and 1695 (see Item 4 and Item 5) to help the government achieve its goal of raising £1 million. Of the 22,352 beneficiaries, only 5 survived to 1755. By 1783 only one beneficiary remained: a lady from Wimbledon, nominated as a beneficiary at the age of 10, enjoyed a few yearly dividend payments of £1081 before she died at the age of 100 years. Tontine interest payments to beneficiaries were made through the offices of the Exchequer, and were accompanied by official Receipts that stated the original contribution amount and date of purchase, annual interest rate, payment period, and amount paid (see Item 6). The second Tontine of 1765 (see Item 7), under King George III, attempted to raise £1.5 million towards the Navy and victualling debt, but in combination with a lottery and with more options for payment of dividends. The Tontine Act, 1765 met with very limited success. The third and final Tontine was created in 1789 (see Item 8), also under King George III, with plans to raise just over £1.5 million towards general government revenue. Once again, it offered options for classification and payment of dividends. Although the Tontine Act, 1789 was never fully subscribed, it still managed to generate more than £1 million in revenue. In 1790, a Long Annuity option was offered to participants of the 1789 Tontine (see Item 9).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (10.75 inches). 6 & 7 William III, Chapter 6. General title leaf + pages 263-326. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. As the war with France raged on, there was a continuous need for money to fund operations. This Act placed a variety of taxes on citizens, including a tax of two shillings and sixpence on the marriage of every person not in receipt of alms (being money or food given to the poor) and additional taxes in cases of marriage of persons of rank or property. The Act also contained a provision that Quakers, Papists, and Jews, and any other persons living together as man and wife, would be liable to the taxes that they would have been obliged to pay had they been married according to the law of England. At the same time, the Act was not to be construed as in any way making good or effectual any such marriage. This was one of the earliest mention of Jews in British statute law.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio (12 inches). 7 & 8 William III, Chapter 3. General title leaf + pages 35-43. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. Small circular ex-library stamp on general title leaf. For centuries, English criminal procedure had been organized on the principles that a person accused of a serious crime should not have access to counsel for preparing a defence strategy nor be represented by counsel at trial. In addition, the accused did not have access to the indictment specifying the charges and, being incarcerated, were not able to physically secure defence witnesses. With the crown amply represented by counsel, the imbalance favoured prosecution over defence. In response to the traditional inequalities, this Act established a set of procedural safeguards for the treason defendant that eventually became paramount elements of English due process. The Act allowed treason defendants to advise with, and be represented by, up to two counsel who would be permitted not only to examine and to cross-examine, but also to sum up and to address the jury about the merits of the defendant's case. The accused also had the right to have defence witnesses heard, the right to have them sworn, and the right to have them subpoenaed. The defendant was also entitled to a copy of the indictment (by paying the fee of transcription) five days in advance of the trial, and a list of prospective jurors. In order to be tried and convicted of treason, the indictment had to be signed by the grand jury within three years of the alleged crime, and evidence had to be confirmed from two witnesses to the same offence. No evidence could be used against the defendant except what was pleaded in the indictment. The Act helped to ensure that the accused no longer had to blindly fend for himself in a court of law, and largely avoided the unfortunate act of self-incrimination. It can be reasonably argued that the Treason Trials Act was a significant influence on the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution (i.e., Article Six of the U.S. Bill of Rights THE GUARANTEE OF DUE PROCESS RIGHTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS).

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Condition: Good+. First Edition. Original one-sheet broadside roughly trimmed (8-1/8 by 12-4/8 inches). Printed on rag paper with old creases, now mellowed, and two archival tissue repairs on left margin. Mounted on mat board with mat board overlay. Overlay with edge-wear. Framed under glass. First Lord of the Admiralty, Edward Russell (1653 -1727) was a key figure in the Nine Years War, notably establishing his reputation at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue. Following a decisive 1693 victory over the French navy near Cape Barfleur, the House of Commons determined that Russell had not done enough in dispatching French ships; he was removed from duty. After disasters that befell the British Navy in summer 1693, Russell was reinstated. In early May 1694 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, and sailed for the Mediterranean to thwart French depredations against the Spanish coast near Barcelona and Palamos. The engagement documented here likely occurred enroute to the Mediterranean. With the idiosyncratic spelling and usage common to the era. e.g., "we were buzzed about the ears .". A charming, patriotic broadside from reign of William and Mary. Rare. No institutional copies located. . Loose Broadside, Framed Under Glass.