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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [VAUGHN, Benjamin] Letters, on the subject of the concert of princes, and the dismemberment of Poland and France. (first published in the Morning Chronicle between July 20, 1792, and June 25, 1793.) With corrections and additions. By a calm observer. [ The second edition.] London : printed for G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793] An ephemeral & contemporary look at the European struggles that would haunt the Continent (& world) for centuries. In the long march of history, the 18th century set up a lot of pins, poised to fall in the subsequent two centuries, culminating (arguably) with World War I. In this second edition of Letters, on the Subject of the Concert of Princes, and the Dismemberment of Poland and France, published the same year as the first, a Calm Observer (ie Benjamin Vaughan) defends revolutionary rights, and, among other radical ideas, condemns the attacks on Poland and France. He also uses his pseudonym as a Calm Observer to criticize William Pitt (the younger). Vaughan was instrumental in drafting the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War between the newly-founded America and the well-established Great Britain. Vaughan s interest in politics helped foster a friendship with another important American Benjamin: Mr Franklin. Ultimately Vaughan immigrated to America where legend has Jamaica Plain (a suburb of Boston) is named to reflect his island home. The book itself is the fact it s not in a fine or even nice binding. It s in a work-a-day, contemporary paper-board binding which tells the history of the intended, nearly-ephemeral circulation of this material. Bound just enough to keep the gatherings together and the paper protected, this item was the news-channel of its day. In fact, the first publication of this material was in a serial through the Morning Chronicle, between July 1792 and June 1793. A reader at some point (possibly the 19th century when such things were particularly in vogue) has used the book to press flowers and leaves. ESTC T76534 Copies in the British Isles clustered in Oxford, the BL, John Rylands, National Trust, and UCL. MB177
Seller: Mobilis Books, Geneva, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1793. 2nd Edition. 317 pages. Brown leather with gilt lettering. Front board is detached. Ex-libris plate to front pastedown. Volume I. Inscription and ex-libris plate to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Front board is detached. Headband is almost detached. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily peeled. Loss to bottom of spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1793. Second Edition . 290 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Book has been rebound. Volume II only. Ownership plate belonging to James Traill to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to endpapers and pastedowns. Mild cracking to hinges, exposing binding thread. Binding throughout remains firm. Minor water marks to top edge of a few pages. Text is unaffected. Occasional dog-eared corners. Faint ink marks to front endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Large splits to joints, front board is slightly loose. Leather peeling overall with heavy marks and some scratches. Minor loss to spine ends, corners and rear board. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: G G J and J Robinson, 1793. 2nd Edition . Good/No Jacket. PP: title leaf (with "Vol. I." under portrait) + (iv) contents + 290pp. Leather bound duodecimo with gilt "I" on spine. Spine bears four bands, and is worn at ends, cracked on edges top and bottom. Staining/browning about edges of many pages. A worm has eaten through title and contents page approx 1", leaving a tear from edge. A later owner has left an inscription on second endpaper dated 1887. Begins with "On Early Marriages" and ends with "Loose thoughts on an Universal Fluid", this is Volume 2, contrary to the two occurrences of "I".
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: V.2 only. Bound in contemporary leather. Lacks from end page. Marginal tear on title page. Engr. t.p. with port. of Franklin. Sabin no. 25600. Franklin 437. A collection of 'popular' pieces of Franklin edited by Benjamin Vaughan and published together with a re-translation of the autobiography from the French translation of Gibelin and Steuber's continuation. Volume II: On Early Marriages; On the Death of his Brother, Mr. John Franklin; To the late Doctor Mather of Boston; and others.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ix, [3], 317 p. 19 cm. Portrait vignette on title page. Full tree leather. Corners bumped, ring mark on front, front hinge cracking at top, spine ends chipped, some wear to edges. Ink signature at top of title page. Chip in margin of p. 33. Some foxing and thumbing but most pages bright and clean. Larger than usual mark to p. 157 bottom. Contents: Life of Dr. Franklin as written by himself; Continuation of his Life by Dr. Stuber; Extracts from his Will. Preface by Richard Price. Direction to the Binder rear of Contents page.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$2565.52 + shipping
Description: Second Edition. Two Volumes. 8vo. [iii]-ix,[3],317p plus erratum; [6],290p. Engraved title with portrait of Franklin with fur cap, preface by Richard Price, Early half-calf raised bands, over marbled boards.Excellent Collectable Set.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom