Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, a Report of the Secretary of State, in relation to vessels of the United States engaged in the fisheries, seized by the British authorities during the year last past.

United States. Department of State. / Washington: Blair & Rives, printers, 1840
42 pp, issued as 26th Congress, 1st Session, HD 186; extraction roughness at spine, first leaf holed with a few letters hit but readable; part of the long running dispute over American fishermen operating in Canadian territorial waters, among the reports is a communication that close to 5000 armed American fishermen in the Bay of Fundy "will not long suffer the tyranny of drunken lieutenants in the British Navy",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, Canada, fisheries dispute

Item #: 663728

$40.58

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North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. Centenary, 1809 - 1909.

North British and Mercantile Insurance Company / Edinburgh 1909
small octavo, 75, [1] pp. including full page illustrations; original paper covered boards darkened and rubbed, still sound and good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Scotland, business history, insurance

Item #: 663685

$12.80

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The Principles of Foreign Exchange as affecting the Preferential Trading with the Colonies proposed by The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. November, 1903. Second Edition.

Matheson, Ewing. / London/Leeds: Spon/Richard Jackson, 1903
46 pp, light extraction roughness at spine and soft fold mark at one corner of title, niw in self wrappers; opposes preferential tariffs for the Colonies. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, colonies, tariff, MW8

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Item #: 659483

$6.88

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The Cornwall Family History Society. Numbers 107 (March 2003) through 118 (December 2005).

Cornwall Family History Society. / Truro: The Cornwall Family History Society 2003
these 12 issues only; 36 pages each and illustrated, all but one has a New Members Interests supplement inserted; overall a very good group in softcover. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Cornwall, England, Great Britain, Cornish geneology

Item #: 657462

$38.57

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Handbook for Speakers on the Tariff Question.

Free Trade Union. / London: Free Trade Union, 1903
92, [2] (index) pp., lacks paper wrappers, light extraction roughness at spine and fore edge lightly tattered, good; arguments in favor of Free Trade. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Free Trade, MW8

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Item #: 653704

$7.24

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The Rival Policies. A Speech delivered by the Right Hon. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman at Bolton, on October 15th, 1903.

Campbell-Bannerman, Hnery. / London: Liberal Publication Department 1903
Authorised Edition; 16 pp., title age toned and light extraction roughness at spine of self wrappers; the policies are Free Trade and Protectionism. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britai, Free Trade, MW8

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Item #: 653566

$7.22

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The English-Speaking World. (Volume 20, Number 6 - Volume 44, Number 4) (1938-1962)

English-Speaking Union. / London: English-Speaking Union, 1938
Volume 20, Number 6 (June 1938, first issue after the title change from The Landmark) through Volume 44, Number 4 (July 1962, last published); quarto before Volume 26 and small octavo after, 12 issues a volume at first and later 6 issues a volume in the smaller format (with a few exceptions e.g. Volume 25 is complete in three issues with the first misnumbered as Volume 24, Number 13; Volume 35 is complete in 8 issues and December 1953 not issued); ex library in 13 later quarter or full cloth bondings, most front covers retained but only some back covers, some early issues are called American Edition; an illustrated magazine to promote Anglo-American friendship and mutual support. Volumes Included: 24

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, Anglo-American relations, SLT, Big Sets

Item #: 626124

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$263.55

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Food Economy in War Time.

Wood, T. B., & F. G. Hopkins. / Cambridge (etc.): At the University Press, 1915
35 pp, library markings, only the chipped front cover remains of original paper wrappers, spine trimmed and entirely disbound, complete text but reading copy only; tries to balance nutrition with cost in wartime Britain e.g. eggs are agreeable but extravagant, new milk has the same food value at one third the cost. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: food, nutrition, World War I, Great Britain

Item #: 644680

$6.36

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American Journalists in Europe. An account of a visit to England and France at the close of the war made by a party of editors and publishers of American industrial papers ...

Swetland, Horace M. / NY: United Publishing Corporation, 1919
large quarto, 115 pp., plates; flexible cloth, good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain France

Item #: 640437

$14.74

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Register of Burials at the Temple Church, 1628-1853. With an Introduction by the Rev. H. G. Woods, D.D., Master of the Temple.

Woods, H. G., intro. / London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1906
quarto, x, 97 pp, oiriginal cloth rubbed and worn with hinges weak, light general age toning to text, good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Temple Church, London, Great Britain, genealogy

Item #: 637175

$6.99

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The Maintenance of the Agricultural Labour Supply in England and Wales During the War.

J. K. Montgomery / Rome: International Institute of Agriculture, 1922
[viii], 121 pp, library markings, text and paper wrappers browned and need careful handling, spine trimmed with no loss but now entirely disbound, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain, agriculture

Item #: 629497

$8.33

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Canada and British Wars. By John S. Ewart, K.C., Ottawa, Canada,

Ewart, John S. / Ottawa?: 1923
88 pp., small folding map; library markings, disbound and dampstained with paper wrappers chipped, complete and entirely readable but a working copy only; why Canadians are under no obligation to come to the military aid of Great Britain, especially in situations like the recent "squabble in the Near East",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Canada, Great Briatin, military history, ZNI

Item #: 618871

$11.22

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American and British Claims Arbitration. Cadenhead Case. Answer of the United States.

American and British Claims Arbitration. / NP: 1914
162 pp., original cloth dulled but overall very good; Miss Elizabeth Cadenhead, of Canada, was visiting Fort Bradley Michigan in 1907 when she was shot dead by an American soldier in pursuit of an escaped prisoner; includes the complete proceedings of Private Gillette's court-martial that found him not guilty. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, United States, Canada, international law, involuntary manslaughter

Item #: 617411

$12.63

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Enactments in Parliament specially concerning the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Colleges and Halls therein and the Colleges of Winchester, Eton & Westminster. Volume I: 3 Edward III - 13 Anne,

Shadwell, Lionel Lancelot, ed. / Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, 1912
(Oxford Historical Society Publications Volume 58); Volume 1 only; xxxix, [1], [360], [8] pp, library book plate and markings, original cloth chipped at head of spine but still a sound copy. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, British history, education

Item #: 617264

$11.76

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Why We Must Have Control. A Scheme to Bring Prosperity to the Cotton Trade and Maintain It.

Macara, Charles W., Sir. / Manchester: Stong's Ltd., 1924
12mo, 40 pp, library markings, paper sides chipped, spine trimmed and entirely disbound, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Briatin, cotton industry, ZNI

Item #: 615310

$17.90

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Britain's Record in India.

Woolacott. J. E. / London: Palace Chambers 1927
83 pp, original paper wrappers, library markings, spine trimmed with no loss, only front cover of remains and now entirely disbound, a reading or reference copy only; a very positive assessment intended to remedy the "reckless misrepresentations" in Dr. V. H. Rutherford's Modern India. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, colonies, Colonialism, India

Item #: 613398

$22.89

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The "Borough" Guide to Salisbury

Borough Guide Series. / Cheltenham/London: Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Ltd. 1924
34 pp., illustrated, paperback, very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Salisbury, travel, guidebooks

Item #: 605684

$13.03

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Great Britain. Handbook for Travellers. With 22 Maps, 58 Plans, and a Panorama. Sixth Edition, Revised and Augmented.

Baedeker, Karl. / Leipzig (etc.): Karl Baedeker, Publisher (etc.), 1906
16mo, xlvi, 606 pp., original cloth rubbed with joints frayed, the map used as frontis, torn with loss, pen note across title, one interior map tattered, reading copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel, Great Britain, Baedeker guides

Item #: 599292

$20.46

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The Treaty of Washington. An Analysis of Its Provisions. Our Losses, England's Gains. Address of Hon. Benj. F. Butler, at Music Hall, Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1871.

Butler, Benjamin F. / Boston: W. F. Brown & Co., printers 1871
27 pp,; library markings, light extraction roughness at spine and now disbound in self wrappers, complete but good only; the United States should not make outrageous concessions to the British for fear of war, it is Great Britain that cannot dare to tangle with America's veteran army which could quickly be brought back into the field, including a million and a half Irishmen eager to avenge British tyranny in the "green isle",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Great Britain, treaties, ZNI

Item #: 596152

$76.79

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The Financial Reform Almanack for 1871. ...

Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) / Liverpool: 1871
large octavo, vii, [1] 94 pp., errata slip; paper sides and first text page detached and chipped, general age toning, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, economic history, financial statistics

Item #: 586828

$54.98

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