First Attempts, Signed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Softcover with French flaps, b&w illstns. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Copy. Condition: NF+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Signed & short inscribed 2012 by author on half-title page. Clean purple and gold cover with b/w photo of Bertram Ogilvie's second biplane tethered at the top of the launching ramp at Riverbend Road, Napier. Very faint and just a few thin small scratches to cover. Immaculate content. Sepia toned illustrations and drawings. Binding is As New. 184p. By Author & Inscribed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 184p Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine Signed by the author, with illustrations, the early days of experimentation in air flight in New Zealand, including ballooning and early aeroplanes, and an interview with Richard Pearse. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 184p Soft card covers with flaps Near Fine Signed by the author, with illustrations, the early days of experimentation in air flight in New Zealand, including ballooning and early aeroplanes, and an interview with Richard Pearse. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

3 x volume set, signed, dated and inscribed by author. Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, white and biege lettering to covers, 184pp & 320pp & 208pp, illus, Near FINE (light scuff to vol3 front cover, v. slight soiling to page edges).

LAWRENCE HYDE, FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER (1641-1711). Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681, he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension.ROBERT HOWARD (1626-1698). An English Restoration dramatist, Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee, as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution, Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration, he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer.DS. 1pg. 8 x 8 . May 15, 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed Rochester. It was written to Robert Howard, the auditor of the Exchequer: At my hearty Commendation, By Virtue of his Ma[jest]ys Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys [sic] to the Judges, These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye [sic as] are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serj[ean]t at Law and one of the Barons of his Ma[jest]ys Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds p[er] an[num] according to the direction of the said Letters Patents, and let [sic] the same be satisfied out of any his Ma[jest]ys Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament, For which this shall be your Warrant. Trea[sur]y Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochester. The document is addressed To my very Loving friend Sr Robt Howard, Auditor of his Ma[jest]ys Rec[ords] of Excheq[ue]r. This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit, which was Englands first attempts at paper currency. Obviously, it was cumbersome to pay people, since lengthy documents, such as this example, had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year, the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges, and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law, who first introduced paper money in France, and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes.