'CARACTERES, Pensees, Maximes et Reflections Morales et Politiques sur divers sujets. Dediées a sa Altesse Royale Madame la Princesse de Galles, &c.'; by J- de la Menardière. Preceded by the author's letter of dedication (f.2), an 'Avertissement' (f. 4), and a 'Table des Maximes'(f. 6). Pap...
'REMARKS, Historical and Political, collated from Books and Observation, humbly presented to the King's most excellent Majesty', by James Burgh [d. 1775]. With a dedicatory letter, 13 Aug. 1762. Holograph. Paper; ff. 131. Quarto. 91/2 in. x 7 in. A.D. 1762. Bound in blue morocco, tooled. Book-p...
TREATISE 'sur l'education d'un Prince': five letters in French, apparently to some reigning German prince, who is addressed as V[otre] A[ltesse] S[érénissime]. The author, whose name is not given, appears to have been at one time attached to the service of the Hereditary Prince of Württemberg (f...
TREATISE on the education of girls, by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert (d. 1733). French. Printed under the title of Avis d'une Mère à sa Fille in 1728 and subsequently. Paper; ff. 71. Quarto. 9 in. x 7 in. XVIII cent. Bound in red morocco, tooled.
ALBUM AMICORUM containing the autograph signatures and mottoes, accompanied in most cases with the writers arms in tincture, of Sovereigns, Princes, Nobles, &c.; 1622-1633, and (one) 1699. From the inscription (f. 45 b) of his son Charles Maurice, beg. 'Liber erat patris', &c., the MS. a...
'LIST of the subscribers to Mr De Cort's Picture ... of the Ruins of Cliffden [Cliefden House, co. Bucks.] at the time it was drawn for, on June the fourth, 1798, the amount to be paid ... towards the Voluntary Contribution for the Defence of the Country.' Preceded (f. 1) by a signed address by ...
'MEMOIRE sur la guerre de Boheme', written apparently by a French officer of the Allied Army during the operations in Bohemia against Maria Theresa in 1741-1742. The memoir, which begins with a review of affairs consequent on the death of the Emperor Charles VI, in October, 1740, describes in mu...
TRANSCRIPT of two letters relating to Ireland from Sir James Caldwell, Bart., of Castle Caldwell, co. Fermanagh (d. 1784), viz.:-(a) to John Ponsonby, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, 'relative to the Restrictions layed upon the Trade of Ireland by the British Acts of Parliament' 20 Oct. 1...