British and European Public Affairs, chiefly early-nineteenth century SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER PAMPHLETS IN 21 VOLUMES: including observations and reports (e.g. on the building of the proposed Union Canal between Falkirk and Edinburgh in 1814, the plan for the New Town between Edinburgh and Leigth, 1819, for the Edinburgh Academy, on education and schools in Scotland), descriptions (of the regalia of Scotland, of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich), accounts (e.g. of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831, with engraved frontispiece), catalogues (e.g. for the National Gallery of Practical Science, 1833), letters (e.g. to the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, on the French government, the state of France; with other works on the French Revolution), speeches, narratives of battles in the Napoleonic Wars (some with engraved plates), proclamations, reports from India on mutinies and other imperial affairs; and others (e.g. A Brief Account of the Mechitaristican Society founded in the Island of St. Lazaro. [Translated by Alexander Goode.], Venice, 1825--William Wright's Grotesque Architecture...1790, with engraved plates), several volumes of political and economic pamphlets, chiefly London and Edinburgh imprints; 4to and 8vo, some with the ownership signature of William Forbes, some presentation copies to Forbes, some volumes with annotations, nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 358, 359, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372, 373, 374), some bindings slightly scuffed or worn (22)
British and European Public Affairs, chiefly early-nineteenth century SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER PAMPHLETS IN 21 VOLUMES: including observations and reports (e.g. on the building of the proposed Union Canal between Falkirk and Edinburgh in 1814, the plan for the New Town between Edinburgh and Leigth, 1819, for the Edinburgh Academy, on education and schools in Scotland), descriptions (of the regalia of Scotland, of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich), accounts (e.g. of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831, with engraved frontispiece), catalogues (e.g. for the National Gallery of Practical Science, 1833), letters (e.g. to the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, on the French government, the state of France; with other works on the French Revolution), speeches, narratives of battles in the Napoleonic Wars (some with engraved plates), proclamations, reports from India on mutinies and other imperial affairs; and others (e.g. A Brief Account of the Mechitaristican Society founded in the Island of St. Lazaro. [Translated by Alexander Goode.], Venice, 1825--William Wright's Grotesque Architecture...1790, with engraved plates), several volumes of political and economic pamphlets, chiefly London and Edinburgh imprints; 4to and 8vo, some with the ownership signature of William Forbes, some presentation copies to Forbes, some volumes with annotations, nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 358, 359, 366, 367, 368, 369, 372, 373, 374), some bindings slightly scuffed or worn (22)
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