Titus Silas (8 results)

Quarter Calf. Condition: Good/very Good. Large 8vo. 1901. (6)322pp. Age toned and uncut, ex library. Bound in edge-worn quarter calf gilt. Images available on requst.

Demi-cuir. Condition: Bon. In-8. 320 pages. Usure au dos, couvertures conservées, ex-libris (Couvent des Franciscains). Texte de cet officier, Silas Titus (1811-1899), qui servit durant la Guerre Civile américaine.

A very scarce Revolutionary imprint of this classic English apology for tyrannicide, issued against Robespierre during the Terror.It is a translation by the abbé de Marigny, of Killing no Murder which had first appeared in English in Holland in 1657 and in French the following year (apparently to encourage the assassination of Cardinal Mazarin). '. about May 1657, there arrived in England copies of an apology for tyrannicide, entitled Killing Noe Murder, published by Sexby in Holland, evidently with the assistance of Silius Titus, under the name of Sexby's former fellow agitator William Allen. Sexby argued that Cromwell was a tyrant on a par with Caligula and Nero. However stable, his reign was an abrogation of law which constituted the enslavement of the English people and threatened the outright corruption of English society. In such circumstances the private citizen was perfectly within his rights in seeking to exact the punishment for which responsibility ought normally to rest with God and the magistrate. Tyranny being the suspension of the normal course of law, tyrannicide could not be regarded as an act of murder' (Oxford DNB). 18mo (115 × 80 mm), pp. 72. Two small wormholes to gutter of first 20 pages. Uncut in contemporary mottled boards, manuscript spine label. Rubbed, but a good copy. [cf. Quérard, I, 271-272. Rochedieu, French Translations of English Works, 332. WorldCat lists only a small handful of copies of this 1793 reprint.].…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1804 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 19 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 19.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1658 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 95 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 95.…

small in-12mo, title page + 94 p., last leaf's upper inner corner torn off and repaired (loss of a few words), upper margin cut too short (partial loss of page number in one or 2 cases), title page foxed, browning and small light waterstain to last part of the vol., p. 21/22 with large tear repaired, library stamps (both names are Czech) on endpaper, marbled endpaper on inside frontcover with traces of eliminated bookplate, calf binding, gold tooled spine, large goldtooled coat of arms (showing the initials "R M F") on both covers, spine ends chipped, two tiny traces of worming, some waterstains, lower corners and spine partly rubbed, top corners scraped, red sprinkled edges. First French edition, translated by Jacques Carpentier de Marigny from the first English edition of 1657 of «Killing (a tyrant is) no murder». This work was published to instigate the assassination of Oliver Cromwell, it is one of the most shocking and well-known works to be written during the Protectorate. The three questions treated in this pamphlet are: 1. "Whether my Lord Protector be a Tyrant of not?" 2. "If he be, whether it is Lawful to do Justice upon him without solemnity, that is, to kill him? 3. "If it be lawful, whether it is likely to prove profitable or noxious to the commonwealth?" Pamphlet is addressed to Oliver Cromwell and the Army in Preface. Colonel Titus was a member of Parliament from 1680 to 1681, royalist. Cromwell was Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658.The goldtooled coat of arms (surmounted by the coronet of a duke) on this calf binding, could not yet be identified by us.Première traduction française de «Killing no murder», faite sur l'originale anglaise de 1657 par Carpentier de Marigny, probablement commandité par le cardinal de Retz. L'ouvrage ne sera plus réimprimé en français avant la Révolution (1793) et le Consulat (édition de 1800). ?Édition originale et rare d'un livre assez recherché. . on y a fait une réponse sous le titre de «Killing is murder» .? (Brunet). ?On en a fait, sous l'ancienne date, une réimpression à Paris en 1793 .? (Graesse).Dirigé contre la politique arbitraire de Cromwell, assimilé par une partie de ses anciens compagnons comme par les royalistes anglais à un tyran, l'opuscule semble étonnant dans cette traduction française à la même époque; mais le traité que Mazarin signa en mars 1657 avec le Protecteur, et qui devait mener à la cession de Dunkerque excitait vivement les opposants à la politique du Cardinal.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Brunet I/189-190; Graesse I/80; Weller -.…

Reprint. Small 4to, pp. [2], 27. Bound in later 3/4 calf, rubbed, upper cover separate, some minor foxing and soiling, very good. Wing T-1312. Pamphlet is addressed to Oliver Cromwell and the Army in Preface. First edition may be in Holland in 1657. The three questions are: 1. "Whether my Lord Protector be a Tyrant of not?" 2. "If he be, whether it is Lawful to do Justice upon him without solemnity, that is, to kill him? 3. "If it be lawful, whether it is likely to prove profitable or noxious to the commonwealth?" Colonel Titus was a member of Parliament from 1680 to 1681. Cromwell was Lord Protector from 1653 to 1658. Written to instigate the assassination of Oliver Cromwell.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 372 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1852. This modern reproduction of Narrative of the attempted escapes of Charles the First from Carisbrook Castle, and of his detention in the Isle of Wight, from November, 1647, to the seizure of his person by the army, at Newport, in November, 1648: Including the letters of the King to Colonel Titus, now first deciphered & printed from the originals by Hillier, George, 1815-1866; Titus, Silas, 1623?-1704 makes an old or rare text available for consultation, bibliographic research, and specialized collections. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…