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REPORT SCOTLAND From the Select Committee to Whom the Several Petitions From the Royal Burghs of Scotland were Referred, 1819 Plus Appendix to report From Select Committee: Report from Select Committee, The Royal Burghs 1818, 1819, and 1820: Report from Select Committee, The Royal Burghs of Scotland 1818, 1819, 1820, & 1821, Together with The Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee, with; Appendix to Report from Select Committee on Petitions (1818- 1821) from Royal Burghs of Scotland. Folio LONDON 1819-20-21
Leather spine, no boards. 549, 130, 107 printed pages. The Committee under the Chairmanship of Lord Hamilton were looking to making this report a continuation of that of 1793. Every Royal Burgh was to supply a report, but the four largest, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Dunfermline had to send representatives to be questioned. In the minutes of evidence, Edinburgh covers the first 232 pages, Aberdeen 102, Dundee 56 and Dunfermline 35. The appendix which follows lists who the letters of request ahve been sent and who has returned, copies of accounts etc., all of which amounts to 84 pages. The reports for the subsequent years introduce the other Royal Burghs, and the Appendixes Gives an Extract from the Acts of Convention of Burghs 1708, Extracts from Sett of the Burghs, Return showing Royal Burghs Scotland that have at any time lost the power of electing their Council, 1685 to 1821, Excerpts from Council Books, Grants of Money by the Convention of Royal Burghs, Money from Convention to Improve Harbour of Kircudbright; 1808-1820, plus Excerpts from Abstracts of Burgh Accounts. The information contained gives a fascinating insight into local government in Scotland at the end of the 18th and begining of the 19th Century. £175.00
RICHMOND Yorks. J & C Walker Town Plan The southern boundary runs along the Swale while the it extends to just North of Aske Hall 4¾"x3¼" . East to West it goes just beyond Catterick Bridge over to Applegarth. £16.00
RIPON 3½"x4½" Town Plan by J & C Walker the River Ure is the Eastern border and the town sits in the centre of the Borough with Littlethorpe in the South just below the Town’s borders. £16.50
RIVADENEIRA (P.Pedro de) Tratado de la Tribulacion nueva edicion 12mo MADRID 1879 Contemporary quarter calf, small raised bands, titled and lined in gilt. v. slightly bumped. 460, (3) pps. £15.00
ROMANUM Missale Romanum ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii… 4to MECHLINAE [1920]
Contemporary quarter red morocco, small raised bands, titled in gilt to spine, gilt decorated cloth boards. lii, 700, (198), [36]. Text printed in double column lined and titled in red both at head and within text. Music printed across both columns again in red and black. One illustration facing the ‘Canon Missae’. A handsome volume. £45.00
ROSLIN Castle & Chapel Edinburghshire, North Britain. Three prints of Roslin Castle and Three re., Roslin Chapel. 3½"x2¼" 1815 £24.00
ROYAL Air Force Pocket Book Air Ministry 1932, 12mo LONDON 1932
Original royal blue cloth amendment tipped in to front pocket. 280, pps, advert leaf front & rear, 52 illustrations, one folding of 9 plates, 7 coloured. £45.00
RUSSELL (Bertrand) History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. 1st ed. LONDON 1946
Original printed brown dustwrapper, small snicks to d/w with small hole, using the other side of a wartime map of South of France! Ownership inscription to front free ep. 916 pps. £25.00
RUSSELL (P.) England Displayed. Being a New, Complete and Accurate Survey and Description of the Kingdom of England, and Principality of Wales 2 vols bound in one Folio LONDON 1769
Contemporary quarter reversed calf, upper bd detached, small raised bands, red label. xii, 390, 314 pages, printed in double column, no ills. Each county is described in considerable detail giving location, rivers meers lakes etc, Inland navigation, Air, soil and natural productions, Husbandry, Labour, what they are paid and how, how the land is used, Trade, Cities, Market Towns, and Villages, Members of Parliament, Important Houses etc. £125.00
RYEDALE Guide to Ryedale, Including the Towns of Helmsley, Kirbymoorside, and Pickering, With the Places of Interestand Beauty in the Neighbourhood, by George Frank Kirbymoorside. 12mo. BIRMINGHAM 1872
Publishers original bright green wrappers, part of spine missing, upper cover hinge nearly gone, extensive description to upper wrapper, [iv], 57pps., 3 full page ills. A pretty and informed work. £35.00
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