Manifestacion de los derechos de la menor dona Grimaneza de la Puente en el juicio que en segunda instancia; ha promovido en esta real audiencia, con el Señor Marques de Corpa oydor de ella: sobre el entero de la dote de la Marquesa de la Puente su hija finada, para que se reforme la sentencia de vista declaratoria de la simulacion del instrumento dotal. by Arias de Saavedra, Francisco - 1793

London: Dodsley 1st first edition, 1780. Hardcover. Good. Two Volumes octavo 19th century half calf with 5 faux raised bands gilt and tan title labels (tips slightly rubbed) xxxiv +412pp (ii)+432pp +[208]pp of index for both volumes. Titlepage of first volume is damp marked and the following three leaves of dedication and the last 8 leaves marginally so. The last two leaves also slightly browned but all paper supple and strong. There is sporadic & pale marking with volume 2 having a marginal ink spot to pp311 sl.offset to 310 and marginal damp to approx 10 leaves + the index. Ownership E.Kensington and note to pastedown that it was given my Mrs Bell in remembrance of her husband. *Madan was a loose-living lawyer when he attended a service by John Wesley, this led to his reform and he became a convert and took holy orders serving as chaplain of a Charity - Lock Hospital. He sympathized with the Lady Huntingdon and George Whitfield faction of Methodism but after 30 years this very controversial work… Read More

1808. HASTINGS, Sally. POEMS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. To Which is Added, A Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West; In the Year, 1800. In a Letter to a Lady. Lancaster, Pa.: William Dickson, 1808. Limited edition, "Printed and Sold ...for the Benefit of the Authoress" by subscription. 220 pp. 12mo., rebound in 3/4 green leather, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, top-edge gilt. Bookplate to ffep. Spine is sunned to brown. Joints are rubbed and weak, and just starting, but the boards are still attached. Light foxing to one section of text, else clean. It is a very scarce book in a fragile binding. Hastings (1773 - 1812) was a poet of local celebrity in Lancaster, PA at the turn of the 19th century. Her work combines religious sentiment with odes to nature and to acquaintances among her literary circle; her travel diary includes interesting descriptions of what was then the western frontier. (Streeter Sale vol. 2, 834; Howes H-289).

1696. Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu" Orsaio, Domenico (Ursaya, Domingo, Ursaya, Domenicus). De Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Praesentiae Parochi: Dissertatio Theologico-Legalis Dominici Ursayae, In qua Incidenter Quidem, Sed Forsan non Injucunde Agitur: De Consensus Necessitate, Illiusque Probatione; De Abolendo Usu Contrahendi Matrimonia pet Nutus, & Signa.; De Clandestinis Matrimoniis, & Duabus Speciebus Clandestinitatis; De Poenis Parochi Voluntarie Assistentis Eisdem Clandestinis Matrim.; De Necessitate, Antiquitate, & Origine Denunciationum Matrimonialium; De Testibus Deponentibus Pro, & Contra Matrimonium; De Necessitate Praesentiae Moralis Parochi in Matrimoniis; De Parocho Affectante non Audire Verba Contrahentium Matrimonium, & Remediis Circa Ilius Affectationem; De Forma Conciliari, An Possit per Aequipollens Adimpleri, & de Dubietate in Ordine ad Matrimonium, An Scilicet, & in Quo Dubio Respondendum sit pro Matrimonio.… Read More

1861 Women of the South Mary Forrest Southern Literature Confederate Feminism
This mid-19th century book 'Women of the South' by Mary Forrest is a collection of biographical sketches and engravings of women writers including with a small collection of their works.
·
Octavia Walton Le Vert;
·
Catharine Anne Warfield;
·
Eleanor Percy Lee;
·
Susan Archer Talley;

·
Augusta J. Evans;
·
Mary S.B. Dana Shindler;
·
Amelia E. Welby;
·
L. Virginia French;
·
Essie B. Cheesborough;

This 1861 subscription-only edition is illustrated with 7 portrait engravings.

Item number: #5808
Price: $399
FORREST, Mary
Women of the South distinguished in literature ...
New York, Derby & Jackson, 1861.

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages
o [xvi], 511
o
Illustrated with portraits of important women
·
Language: English
·
Binding: Leather; tight and secure
·
Size: ~9.5in X 7.5in (24.5cm x 18.5cm)
Our… Read More

Rare/Collectible hardcover first edition copy of Anita Allen's Uneasy Access. Ex-library book. The book is otherwise in very good condition. The text is clean and unmarked and the bright blue cover is in very good condition. No dust jacket. See pictures.

London: Dodsley 1st first edition, 1780. Hardcover. Good. Two Volumes octavo 19th century half calf with 5 faux raised bands gilt and tan title labels (tips slightly rubbed) xxxiv +412pp (ii)+432pp +[208]pp of index for both volumes. Titlepage of first volume is damp marked and the following three leaves of dedication and the last 8 leaves marginally so. The last two leaves also slightly browned but all paper supple and strong. There is sporadic & pale marking with volume 2 having a marginal ink spot to pp311 sl.offset to 310 and marginal damp to approx 10 leaves + the index. Ownership E.Kensington and note to pastedown that it was given my Mrs Bell in remembrance of her husband. *Madan was a loose-living lawyer when he attended a service by John Wesley, this led to his reform and he became a convert and took holy orders serving as chaplain of a Charity - Lock Hospital. He sympathized with the Lady Huntingdon and George Whitfield faction of Methodism but after 30 years this very controversial work… Read More

1808. HASTINGS, Sally. POEMS ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS. To Which is Added, A Descriptive Account of a Family Tour to the West; In the Year, 1800. In a Letter to a Lady. Lancaster, Pa.: William Dickson, 1808. Limited edition, "Printed and Sold ...for the Benefit of the Authoress" by subscription. 220 pp. 12mo., rebound in 3/4 green leather, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, top-edge gilt. Bookplate to ffep. Spine is sunned to brown. Joints are rubbed and weak, and just starting, but the boards are still attached. Light foxing to one section of text, else clean. It is a very scarce book in a fragile binding. Hastings (1773 - 1812) was a poet of local celebrity in Lancaster, PA at the turn of the 19th century. Her work combines religious sentiment with odes to nature and to acquaintances among her literary circle; her travel diary includes interesting descriptions of what was then the western frontier. (Streeter Sale vol. 2, 834; Howes H-289).

1696. Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu" Orsaio, Domenico (Ursaya, Domingo, Ursaya, Domenicus). De Matrimonii Nullitate ex Defectu Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Consensus Contrahentis & Moralis Praesentiae Parochi: Dissertatio Theologico-Legalis Dominici Ursayae, In qua Incidenter Quidem, Sed Forsan non Injucunde Agitur: De Consensus Necessitate, Illiusque Probatione; De Abolendo Usu Contrahendi Matrimonia pet Nutus, & Signa.; De Clandestinis Matrimoniis, & Duabus Speciebus Clandestinitatis; De Poenis Parochi Voluntarie Assistentis Eisdem Clandestinis Matrim.; De Necessitate, Antiquitate, & Origine Denunciationum Matrimonialium; De Testibus Deponentibus Pro, & Contra Matrimonium; De Necessitate Praesentiae Moralis Parochi in Matrimoniis; De Parocho Affectante non Audire Verba Contrahentium Matrimonium, & Remediis Circa Ilius Affectationem; De Forma Conciliari, An Possit per Aequipollens Adimpleri, & de Dubietate in Ordine ad Matrimonium, An Scilicet, & in Quo Dubio Respondendum sit pro Matrimonio.… Read More

1861 Women of the South Mary Forrest Southern Literature Confederate Feminism
This mid-19th century book 'Women of the South' by Mary Forrest is a collection of biographical sketches and engravings of women writers including with a small collection of their works.
·
Octavia Walton Le Vert;
·
Catharine Anne Warfield;
·
Eleanor Percy Lee;
·
Susan Archer Talley;

·
Augusta J. Evans;
·
Mary S.B. Dana Shindler;
·
Amelia E. Welby;
·
L. Virginia French;
·
Essie B. Cheesborough;

This 1861 subscription-only edition is illustrated with 7 portrait engravings.

Item number: #5808
Price: $399
FORREST, Mary
Women of the South distinguished in literature ...
New York, Derby & Jackson, 1861.

Details:

·
Collation: Complete with all pages
o [xvi], 511
o
Illustrated with portraits of important women
·
Language: English
·
Binding: Leather; tight and secure
·
Size: ~9.5in X 7.5in (24.5cm x 18.5cm)
Our… Read More

Rare/Collectible hardcover first edition copy of Anita Allen's Uneasy Access. Ex-library book. The book is otherwise in very good condition. The text is clean and unmarked and the bright blue cover is in very good condition. No dust jacket. See pictures.