Verlag: Re-printed by G. Smeeton, 1820
Anbieter: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Re-issue of the original 1659 edition in publisher's black lettered tan coloured wrappers; age toned, darkened and rubbed. Size: square octavo (200mm x 160mm). Collation: pp. iv, 30 and frontispiece portrait. Title-page printed in red & black. References for the 1659 edition: Wing S2083 and Sabin 78362. Scarce item in very decent condition.
Verlag: Re-printed by G. Smeeton, London, 1820
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint of the 1659 pamphlet. Square octavo. iv, 30pp. Frontispiece portrait. Printed tan wrappers. Age-toning, about very good.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1780
Anbieter: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, Vereinigtes Königreich
No Binding. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/1 - 6 May 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library.
Verlag: H. Mortlock
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
Zustand: USED_GOOD. . Hardcover. Published 1675. .With a Short View of the Life and Reign of Henry the Third King of England, by the same author. The Second Edition, Very Much Corrected, and a Preface Added by Sr. John Cotton Baronet. Caption title: Propositions of war and peace delivered to His Highness Prince Henry by some of his military servants. "A short view" and "The French charity" each have special t.-p., dated 1675 and 1665 respectively. Rebound in full contemporary calf, five raised bands & gilted leather title labels on spine, light edgewear. All edges marbled & interior remains in v.good condition for its age. Exceedingly rare. . . . .
Verlag: Privately Printed Edinburgh -8, 1884
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
4 vols. Slim 12mo. [vi] + 74pp. + vi + 66pp. + 61pp. + [i] + 46pp. Red & black lettered title pages, dec. head and tail pieces. Printed black lettered parchment wrapps. over card covers, some light browning and spotting, heavy browning to covers of vol. 3, some very minor chipping to spines, fore and lower edges uncut. Collectanea Adamantæa - III.One of a Limited Edition of 275 Small Paper Copies. US$84.
Verlag: London Printed for William Leake, Stationer, at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple gates. 1657, 1657
Anbieter: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, Vereinigtes Königreich
The 1657 Revised Edition. 4to. full tan calf with raised bands to spine. [xxxiv], 204, 281-444, 449-483, [1], 533-716, [144] pp. Pagination is irregular but the Text is complete. Small old ink signature to top of title page and "Cottons Records" neatly hand-lettered across foredge (please see photo). Light soiling and staining to prelims. One or two old worming holes to margins of latter third. Ffep partially detached at top with corresponding split and slight damage to calf at top of spine (please see photo). Light wear and slight scuffs to covers. Overall a Good+ Copy. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: VERY Heavy BOOK (2kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1642
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. The King Must Consult with Parliament [Cotton, Sir Robert (1571-1631)]. The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England: Collected Our of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome. Wherin is Manifested the Customary Uses of the Kings of England Upon All Occasions, Either of Marriage, Peace or Warre, To Call Their Peeres and Barons of the Realme to be Bartners [sic] in Treatizes, And to Give Their Judicious Advice: Tho State and Security of the Whole Kingdome Depending Upon Such Counsells and Determinations. Likewise the Names of the Kings, And the Times When Such Parliaments were Called, And the Acts that Passed Upon Such Counsells and Determinations. Likewise the Names of the Kings, And the Times When Such Parliaments were Called, And the Acts that Passed Upon Those and the Like Occasions. [.] Published for the Satisfaction of All Those, That Desire to Know the Manner and Forme of the Governement of the Land, And the Fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome. London: Printed for Tho. Bankes, 1642. 19, [1] pp. Quarto (7-1/4" x 5-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Moderate toning, light edgewear to wrappers, which are detached from pamphlet and separating along spine. $450. * First edition. Cotton was a member of Parliament and an important scholar of early English legal and political records. (His vast collection of manuscripts became the British Museum's Cotton Library.) Published posthumously, The Forme of Governement discusses the sovereign's obligation to consult with Parliament "in their great Counsels of Marriage, Peace and Warre." Like Cotton's other works, a great deal of attention is paid to historical precedent. An expanded version was later published as The Antiquity and Dignity of Parliaments (1679). OCLC locates 1 copy in a law library (University of Minnesota). English Short-Title Catalogue R021849.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1657
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. A Notable Abridgment of the Parliament Rolls Cotton, Sir Robert [1570/1-1631]. Prynne, William [1600-1669], Editor. An Exact Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London, From the Reign of King Edward the Second, Unto King Richard the Third, Of All the Parliaments Holden in Each Kings Reign, And the Several Acts in Every Parliament: Together With the Names and Titles of All the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, And Barons, Summoned to Every of the Said Parliaments. Collected by Sir Robert Cotton. Revised, Rectified in Sundry Mistakes, And Supplied with a Preface, Marginal Notes, Several Omissions, And Exact Tables, Both of the Special Matters, Great Officers, Speakers, Nobles, And Other Persons Therein Contained by William Prynne. London: Printed for William Leake, 1657. [xxxiv], 204, 281-444, 449-483, [1], 533-716, [144] pp. Pagination irregular. Text complete. Folio (11-1/2" x 7"). Eighteenth-century mottled calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind ornaments and lettering piece to spine, marbled edges, blind tooling to board edges. A few minor scuffs to boards, light rubbing to extremities, joints just starting at foot, corners bumped and somewhat worn, front hinge cracked, later armorial bookplate (of Sir Frederick Evelyn) and twentieth-century bookplate (JE) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves, light soiling and a few minor stains to title page. $650. * First edition. As Holdsworth notes, the importance of the Parliament Rolls was so great during the seventeenth century that "transcripts were made for private use, and published by private enterprise." He adds that the most important of these was produced by Prynne. It is based on a manuscript that is now attributed to William and Robert Bowyer. It records the substance of Acts of Parliament and other particulars, that are not extant in print, among the statutes or the Parliament Rolls, and supplies the purpose of a useful index to the Rolls of Parliament. It was reissued in 1679 and 1689. Holdsworth, A History of English Law II:423. English Short-Title Catalogue R1629.
Anbieter: ASHER Rare Books, T Goy Houten, Niederlande
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. [2], 96; [2], 10 pp.Rare first edition (here in the 1657 issue, but first published in 1655) of a political history of England written in 1610 by the famous antiquary and politician Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). Although the title-page names no author, he signs the text on G8v: "Robert Cotton Bruceus" and The French charity, added with a separate title-page as a sort of appendix, has also been attributed to him. Although The French charity is not named on the present title-page, it was named on the 1655 title-page and is clearly intended as part of the edition. Cotton wrote this political history of Great Britain in 1610 at the request of King James I for the education of his sixteen-year-old son, the Crown Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, who died two years later. In 1657 he reissued it with a cancel title-page (still under Oliver Cromwell, but now referring to the state as the "Commonwealth", a term now usually reserved for the period before 1653) and in some copies also a frontispiece portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (not present here). Cromwell had secured a declaration of war against Spain on 15 October 1655, and perhaps for that reason the 1657 title-page changes the tome with regard to war, suggesting that kings were too often preferred an unjust peace to a just war. Further editions appeared after the Restoration under various titles. The translator of The French charity (not known to have been published in the original French), described as "F.S.J.E.", has been supposed to be John Evelyn, but the "F.S." remains puzzling (Evelyn became a Fellow of the Royal Society only in 1663, and the Society was not established until the Restoration in 1660). Cotton was an avid collector of books, manuscripts, coins and antiquities. His Cottonian Library contained the richest collection of manuscripts ever assembled by a private person. The collection now resides in the British Library.Spine damaged; binding rubbed. Lacking the cancel-title and portrait. Otherwise in good condition.l ESTC R221452; Wing 6505.