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83203 A View of the Contested Points in the Negotiations between the Administration and the Directors of the East India Company, on the subject of the renewal of the Company’s Charter; as they stood on the 9th April 1793. J. Debrett 1793 £155
83216 Pope, Alexander. The Works of Vol. II, Part II. Containing all such Pieces of this Author as were written since the former volumes and never before published in Octavo. London. Printed for R. Dodsley and sold by T. Cooper. 1738. £65
83217 Pope, Alexander. The Works Vol V. Printed for T. Cooper 1739. £80
83287 John Milton. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books with Historical, Philosophical and explanatory notes. Translated from the French of The Learned Raymond de St. Maur. A New Edition adorned with plates. London. Printed for R. Bladon, T. Lawes, S. Crowder, C. Ware, and T. Payne. Paradise Regain’d A. Poem in Four books. Two parts bound in one volume. 1775. Ink ownership stamp on endpaper. small pencil numbers on title page. Full leather binding sound and tight. Spine scuffed, corners bumped. Interior clean, all plates present. £325
83376 Shakespear. The Works in Eight Volumes. The Genuine Text. With a Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton. London Printed for J. and P. Knapton. 1747. This is Vol. 1 only and contains the The Tempest. A Midsummer-Nights Dream. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Measure for Measure. Full leather, text age toned. Neat signature on end paper. 456 pages. Front and rear hinges cracked, corners bumped. G. £135
83378 Hugh Turford. The Grounds of a Holy Life; or the way by which many who were heathens, came to be Christian’s; and such as are now sinners, may come to be numbered by Saints; by little preaching. The Tenth Edition. Philadelphia. Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Third-Street, opposite the Work-House, 1772. On the front end paper is an inscription which reads ‘Moses Brown’s’ then with a different pen ‘to Dr. Borgella at providence the 16th Day of July in year 1781.’ Moses Brown 1738-1836, American manufacturer and philanthropist, b. Providence, R.I. He was associated with his brothers John, Joseph, and Nicholas in the family's mercantile activities before establishing (1790), with Samuel Slater, the first water-powered cotton mill in the United States. Largely because of Brown's influence, Rhode Island College (later renamed Brown Univ. in honour of his nephew Nicholas) was moved in 1770 from Warren to Providence. Brown contributed generously to the college. Moses Brown School in Providence, a leading preparatory institution for boys, was established (1819) by Quakers on land donated by him. The book is full leather binding, binding tight with age toning of pages. Two small chips out of the leather on the spine. 123 pages. VG £850
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