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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; Presidents. ISBN: 1557787824. ISBN/EAN: 9781557787828. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18441.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition. First printing, near fine hardcover shows just a touch of shelf wear and soil and bit of a musty odor at least for now, else tight and clean, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a faint wrinkle at front flap and a couple of small closed tears. 198 pages with black & whites. Still a pleasing copy of this look at the assassination of JFK.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 206 pages. Illustrated. Peter Quennell "1768: The Literary Background" / 1768: London Traffic Annual Register" / Bevis Hillier "1768: The Art Scene" / Brendan Lehane "1768: The Unknown World" / R Prawer Jhabvala "A Course of English Studies" / John Betjeman "Dilton Marsh Halt" (poem) / Hippolyte Bouche "A Journey to America in 1849" / Hubert Van Zeller "Bed and Breakfast" / Osbert Lancaster "Pocket Cartoons (8)" / Lord Kinross "The Opening of the Suez Canal: 1869" / Penelope Gilliatt "Come Back if it Doesn't Get Better" (U.P.).

No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. Jiffy Printing, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1979. Condition: First Printing. Stapled binding with 44 photo-illustrated pages.

Condizione: very good. Photo non contractuelle. Envoi rapide et soigné.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Number line to 1. DJ in archival cover.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Print on Demand. This book chronicles the history of the different international efforts to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. As of the time of the book's writing, there had not yet been a successful completion of such a project, though many efforts had been attempted, including a number of early Spanish expeditions. The author highlights that one of the many challenges faced by those who had attempted to build the canal was the resistance of indigenous peoples who used the land where the canals were to be built, which had often led to violence. Many of the efforts described demonstrate the limits of technology and the influence of politics and economics on international projects. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. Edition originale. In-8° broché, 2 pages. Collection: Senate document (New York (State). Legislature. Senate) , 1841, no. 40.

Couverture rigide. Condizione: Neuf. Condizione sovraccoperta: Neuf. Edition originale. Paris 2004. 1 volume/1. -- Comme Neuf -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée sous jaquettte illustrée. Format in-4°( 28 x 22,5 cm )( 990 gr ). ------ 168 pages très illustrées. *********** "" Provocante ou romantique, homosexuelle ou hétérosexuelle, la représentation de la sexualité avait à Rome un vaste public. L'art érotique romain était d'une infinie variété, pouvant aller des simples lampes à huile en terre cuite jusqu'aux vaisselles d'argent ciselées. Ces uvres d'art sont longtemps restées cachées dans les réserves des musées car considérées comme pornographiques. C'est à travers une analyse sociologique pertinente qu'elles nous sont aujourd'hui dévoilées et replacées dans leur contexte originel, qu'il s'agisse de l'intimité domestique, du bordel ou des salles de réceptions officielles. Les représentations érotiques dans la Rome antique reflétaient la condition sociale de ceux qui les possédaient. Le sexe était alors envisagé comme un plaisir légitime qui fournissait matière à rire et à plaisanter. Nous voici donc au cur d'un monde ancien où une sexualité épanouie était le signe d'une bénédiction divine ; où bien des actes que nous considérons aujourd'hui comme répréhensibles, immoraux ou illégaux étaient pratiqués et célébrés sans complexe "" *************.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. Edition originale. # Broché: 128 pages # Parution : 2 avril 2012 # Résumé : Recueil d'incantations et de formules magiques, présenté ici dans une version magnifiquement illustrée en couleurs, Le Livre des morts des anciens Egyptiens était déposé dans les tombes égyptiennes, placé sur le sarcophage ou glissé dans les bandelettes de la momie. Les textes ont pour but de protéger le mort dans son voyage dans l'au-delà et remontent aux alentours du XVIIe siècle av. J.-C. Il s'agit du document le plus complet et le plus remarquable témoignant de la croyance des anciens Egyptiens en une sorte de " jugement " après la mort.

Condizione: Comme neuf. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Three documents, all in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, each of the total of six leaves with three (later?) punch holes to the inner margins of the leaves. On the same browned thin wove paper. The source of these items is uncertain, but they appear to date from the first decades of the twentieth century. ONE: 'Disposition of Troops in the Canal Defences, 15th January, 1915.' 4pp., folio. Beginning with: 'G.O.C., Canal Defences. - Major-General A. Wilson. | Chief Staff Officer, Canal Defences. - Br.-General A. H. Bingley.' Followed by the 'Troops' and 'Posts in Sector' for three sections, as well as the 'Advanced Ordnance Depot' and 'Defence of Railway and Sweet Water Canal', 'General Reserve Camp, Moascar'. TWO: 'British Force in Egypt in August, 1914.' 1p., 8vo. A nine-line list. THREE: Transcription, headed 'Letter - General Maxwell to Lord Kitchener. | 16th October, 1914.' An abridged portion of a letter quoted in full in Sir George Arthur's 'Life of Lord Kitchener'. Text begins 'There is rather more nervousness in Egypt', and ends 'the Canal ought to be safe'.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 2-sheet lithograph map as frontispiece measuring 285 x 870 mm, half-title, leaf listing share-holders, 16pp (map loose in 2 pieces, toning, wormholes, corners chipped with minor loss). Pictorial wrappers (soiling, chips, wormholes, ownership signature of Wm A Merriman, a fair copy).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in gilt and black, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 285 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Tiny ink squiggle to the verso of the front free end paper. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine tips and corners, red band across the spine sun faded, not price clipped + corner mounted close cut signature on light blue sugar paper of the period and probably from a souvenir | autograph book to the title page SIGNED 'Gort' + mounted period monochrome photograph. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.

31.5 x 31.4 cm.; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered Vinyl record complication of audio by musicians and visual artists. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca. Produced with the assistance of White Columns. Contributions by Larry Simon, Dara Birnbaum, Carla Liss, Bobby G, Wharton Tiers, Carol Parkinson, Nina Canal, Lee Ranaldo, Jenny Holzer, Annea Lockwood, Michael Smith, A. LeRoy, Chris Nelson, Willie Klein, Mitch Corber, Mark Abbott, Dan Graham, Michael Shamberg, Anne Demarinis, Thurston Moore, Andy Blinx, Don Hunerberg, Vikky Alexander, John Howell, Salvatore Principato, Nigel Rollings, Peggy Katz, Eric Bogosian, Herr Lugus, Amy Taubin, Remko Scha, Susan Russell, Bill Buchen, Verge Piersol, David Hofstra, Lynne Tillman, D. Brown, Sandra Seymour, Phill Niblock, Barbara Kruger, John Rehberger, Paul McMahon, Nancy Radloff, Bruce Tovsky, Martha Wilson, Ned Sublette, Glenn Branca, Gail Vachon, B. Conan Piersol, Gregory Sandow, Stephan Wischerth, Bob George, Judy Rifka, David Garland, Mark Bingham, Michael Byron, Glenda Hydler, Susan Fisher, Laurie Spiegel, Barbara Ess, Kiki Smith, Shelley Hirsch, Peter Gordon, Arleen Schloss, Tod Jorgensen, David Rosenbloom, Doug Snyder, Jon Rubin, Steve Stain, Thomas Lawson, Harry Spitz, Rhys Chatham, David Linton, Isa Genzken, Daile Kaplan, Kim Gordon, Miranda, Sally A. White, Joseph Nechvatal, Steven Harvey, Sammy Marshall Harvey, Brian Doherty, Rudolph Grey, Richard Morrison, and Zev. References : "In Numbers : Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955" by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons, Victor Brand, Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson. Zurich / New York, Switzerland / NY : JRP - Ringier / PPP Editions, 2008, pp. 218. "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 269. Very Good. Light yellowing of verso from adhesives. Still in factory shrink-wrap, opened to sleeve cut. Dusting to plastic wrapping. Light scuff on side 1. Otherwise Fine. Due to the fragility of this item additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. 2 volumes. 24 cm. Volume 1L: Contemporary calf, boards almost detached. Volume 2: Contemporary binding, boards detached. Spine creases. Three folding maps in volume 1. 614, [1] pp. + 666, [1] pp. Fold out map of Lake Champlain canal (with some foxing) in front of vol. 2. Toning throughout. Foxing throughout Volume I, affecting plate. One plate detached. Some hand soiling to margins. Sabin 22745. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

See the three men's entries in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with tape from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf, which is docketted by Manby. Signed 'J Emerson Tennent'. Folded once. He explains that a friend of his, 'who is much interested about the Suez Canal, is going to Egypt next week', and that he has that day promised, if he can, 'to obtain for him, a copy of an Address which you once gave me, (but which I have put away so carefully that I cannot find it now) delivered by J. M. McClean, to the Institution, in which he stated the cost already incurred and the large balance, still required to complete the canal'. This is, he believes, 'an un-satisfactory inference as to the power of raising so great a sum, or [rending it re-production?]'. In addition to the address, he would like 'any later documents shewing the state & prospects of the enterprise'. The Suez Canal took from 1859 to 1869 to build.

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The company opened canals from Newport to Pontypool and to Crumlin in 1796. It was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1875, and a passenger service from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff still runs. Three items with covering paper on which Sir J. E. Harington has written in ink: 'Sir J E Harington | Monmouthshire Ry & Canal Papers', with the following added in pencil: 'May 21 1849. | Asking my consent to take new shares - | No.' All items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed from Grevile to Harington. Bristol; 13 June 1849. 2pp., 4to. With envelope sealed with red wax bearing two postmarks, addressed to 'Sir Jno. E. Harington Bart | 3 Wilton Crescent | Belgrave Square | London'. He explains that Ruscoe has sent the circular (Item Two below), 'with a Copy of the Resolutions for the Auction of new Shares offering one Share for every three Shares now held, together with the form of a consent [Item Three below]' has been sent to 'Miss Kinsey', but that although she is 'desirous to accept the offer', she does not know Harington's 'Wishes upon the Subject'. In consequence Grevile is sending Harington the papers, and explains how he or 'Mr. Balfour' may arrange the matter. TWO: Printed circular by 'Ralph Ruscoe, | Principal Clerk.' Monmouth Railway and Canal Office, Newport, May 21st, 1849.' 1p., 4to. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium; wiith the recto of the second leaf carrying, in small print, a 'Copy of Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Company of Proprietors of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, Held at the Canal House, in Newport, on Wednesday, May 16th, 1849. | Richard Blakemore, Esq., M.P., Chairman.' Addressed, with postmarks, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Miss Kinsey | Cottage | Clifton', the address corrected in another hand to 'No 1 Richmond Terrace'. The circular is addressed in manuscript to 'C. Grevil [sic] Esqr. The Revd. Richd. Harington [future principal of Brasenose College, Oxford] & Charles Balfour Esqr.', with 'The Revd W. M. Kinsey' added in pencil. Both documents relate to the issue of new shares as described in Item One above. THREE: Printed 'form of a consent' referred to in Item One above. 1p., 4to. Dated 1849. Not filled in. From the Harington papers.

The 57-mile canal section of the two rivers was constructed between 1794 and 1810. In the face of competition by the Great Western Railway it fell into disuse in the latter nineteenth century. A process of restoration began a hundred years later, and the canal is now a popular amenity. Both items in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Both headed on first page 'Report of the Committee of Management, of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation.' Both are 3pp., 8vo, on bifoliums. ONE: The report covers the whole of the first page, and is signed in type 'Charles Dundas, Chairman.' The second page carries a letter from 'Thomas Merriman & Sons, | Principal Clerk', dated from Marlborough, 23 July 1830. The third page carries a 'Statement of Accounts for the last Year', in double entry, the first of the two accounts on the page headed 'Annual Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, for the Year ending 29th March, 1830.' The account is made out by the firm's auditors Thomas Sanders and J. E. Bicheno. Addressed in manuscript on reverse of second leaf, with postmark dated 11 August 1830, to 'Sir J. E. Harington Bart. | Berkeley Square.' TWO: Report on first page as in Item One, signed in type by 'Frederick Page, Chairman. | Marlborough, 17th July, 1832.' The first twenty-two lines of the report constitute a memorial tribute, beginning: 'The Committee cannot enter on the Report of this year, without first adverting to the great loss which the Proprietors have sustained by the death of The Right Honorable Charles Dundas, Lord Amesbury, their late Chairman. | The imperfect scheme, projected in 1788, of extending the Navigation of the River Kennet to Hungerford, was by him enlarged to that of a connexion between Bristol and the Metropolis; and his personal exertions towards the accomplishment of this improved plan, were never from that time relaxed, although they were unavailing, until December, 1792; when the spirit of Canal Enterprize enabled him to carry it into execution.' Taking up around half of the second page is a map by 'R. Cartwright Lithc. Printer 1 Warwick Place Bedford Row', 'intended to illustrate the foregoing Report by showing that the Tonnage desirable between Bitton and Bristol in the West, and between Bitton and the Dundas Aqueduct to the East from Coals brought from the Gloucestershire Collieries will be a new source of Income, as the quantity of Coal at present carried on those parts of the line is very inconsiderable.' At the foot of the second page is reproduced a letter from Merriman & Sons. Covering the whole of the third page is a double-entry 'Annual Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, for the Year ending 29th May, 1832.' Made out, as Item One, by Sanders and Bicheno. The document is addressed in manuscript, on reverse of second leaf, with Avon postmark dated 7 August 1832, to 'C Balfour Esqre | Berkeley Street'. From the papers of the Harington family of Ridlington (Charles Balfour being their agent). The only other copy traced at the British Library.

Five items, the first four printed and the fifth an ALS. Four of them in good condition, with light signs of age; the fifth (Item Two below) somewhat aged and worn. An account of this abortive scheme first proposed in 1758 is to be found on pp.424-427 of Joseph Priestley's 'Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain' (1831). The scheme finally failed in 1832, when the bank of Sir George Duckett (see Item Five below) failed, and he became bankrupt. Only the Stort Navigation was completed. ONE: 'London and Cambridge Junction Canal. | Data upon which the Company have founded their Calculations. | June, 1813.' Printed by 'S. Goswell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London.' 7 + [1]pp., 8vo. On two loose bifoliums. Most of the first page is taken up with a 'Rough Sketch of the London and Cambridge Junction Canal. | The dotted Line represents the intended Canal and Branch. The black Lines are the present Navigations.' The text is divided into seven sections: 'I. - Length of the Canal', 'II. - Tolls', 'III Present Trade', 'IV. - Expense of Conveyance', 'V. - Estimate', 'VI. - Profits', 'VII. Future Profits'. Four lines have been scored through (though still legible) in the final section. TWO: 'Plan Explanatory of the London and Cambridge Junction Canal.' Undated (circa 1811). Bifolium, the central two pages of which carry a 31 x 30 cm. map ('Engraved by G. Mills 51 Nelson Sqr. Blackfriars.') captioned: 'Plan shewing the Course of the Proposed London & Cambridge Junction Canal from Bihop Stortford to Clay Hithe Sluice near Cambridge intended to Unite the Ports of London & Lynn also of a Proposed Camal from the above near Cambridge to Bedford and the Grand Junction Canal near Newport Pagnell | Survevyed under the Direction of John Rennie Esqr, C.E.F.R.S. &c &c by Netlam & Francis Giles 1811.' THREE: Drophead title: 'London and Cambridge Junction Canal. | The Directors of this Company are | The Earl of Hardwicke, K.G. | Hon. Richard Neville, M.P. | John Julius Angerstein, Esq. | The Rev. George Jenyns. | James Searle, Esq. | Lieut. Col. Duckett, M.P. | Sampson Hanbury, Esq. | The Rev. James Geldard. | Mr. Atkinson Francis Gibson. | This Canal will connect the entire eastern-side of England (South of Peterborough) with London, [.]'. By 'Wm. Yatman, Chief Clerk and Secretary to the Company.' Undated (circa 1811). 'Printed by the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields.' 2pp., 8vo. Bottom half of second page carries an engraved map by'J. & W. Newton, Chancery Lane', captioned 'Blue Lines describe the Existing Navigations. | Red Line describes the London and Cambridge Canal and Branch to Whaddon.' FOUR: Headed: 'London and Cambridge Junction Canal Company, Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 9th June 1812.' 1p., 8vo. 'S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, London.' Soliciting subscriptions to shares, 'before the 31st of August 1813'. The text begins: 'The state of public credit last year suspended the exertions of the Company.' FIVE: Autograph Letter in the third person from 'Mr Duckett', i.e. Sir George Duckett (1777-1856), MP for Plympton Erle (the 'Lieut. Col. Duckett, M.P.' of Item Three above), to 'Sir John Harrington [sic]'. From Upper Grosvenor Street, London; 24 June 1813. 2pp., 12mo. Duckett has 'consented to act as Treasurer pro tempore, with a view to take the concern, out of the former Solicitor's hands and to put it upon a better footing'. The person he sent 'to collect percentages, and distribute information' was 'told by Sir John, he has already paid 1 Per Cent', but since Duckett 'cannot find any memorandum amongst his papers of Sir John having paid, Mr Duckett would feel most obliged to Sir John if at his earliest convenience, he would acqiuaint Mr D. To whom, & when he paid it, that it may be regularly credited to his Acct.' Harington has docketed the document: '26 Jun. 1812. | Pd. by Messrs. Birch | L Chambers'. From the papers of the Harington baronets of Ridlington, the recipient of Item Five being Sir John Edward Harington, 8th Baronet (1760-1831).

The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, and despite opposition from mill owners fearing a disruption to their water supply, began construction following the passing of an act of parliament in 1794. On completion (it was officially opened in 1804), and until the railway age, it constituted the main commercial route between Yorkshire and Lancashire. The present small collection provides an interesting sidelight into the legal and financial difficulties involved in the project, with several reference reflecting badly on Shuttleworth's professional capabilities. The correspondents are: John Bill of Farley Hall, Staffordshire; William Bilsborrow, Haslingden brewer; Samuel Greg, Rochdale cotton manufacturer; Howarth & Wilcock, Halifax solicitors; Thomas Marriott (of Stockport?); John Robert Ogden, Bradford solicitor; Mark Pearman of Coventry; N. & F. Phillipps & Co., Manchester merchants; Daniel Whalley of Great Fenton. The ten items in fair condition, on aged and worn paper, each with slight loss at the head of the leaf, and Item Five below with a small hole in leaf resulting in loss to a few words of text. A curious feature is the emendation of the word 'Canal' to 'Company' in several of the letters in an unknown nineteenth-century hand. ONE: ALS ('Jno. Bill') from John Bill (1756-1847) of Farley Hall, surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary. 4 May 1802. 1p., 8vo. Depositing a cheque for £40 from Messrs Jones & Co. TWO and THREE: ALS and ANS ('Will Bilsborrow') from William Bilsborrow, Haslingden brewer. ALS: 14 April 1800. 1p., 4to. 'You certainly misconceive my request in my former Letter. I will again state, that I will thank you to favor me with an explanation how a Ball[anc]e. of 19. 10/- arises due to me in the call of June 1st. 95. This, with Particulars of Mr Hamer's Bill, is all I at present require you to furnish me with. There are some errors which I have found & which a personal interview wod. immediately reconcile, [.] I beg your immediate attention to the above, that I may examine and liquidate'. ANS: 17 December 1800. 1p., 4to. He has 'just return'd from a short Journey' and will 'take an oppty of seeing you in the course of a walk'. FOUR: ANS ('Saml. Greg') from Samuel Greg (1758-1834), Rochdale cotton manufacturer (see his entry in the Oxford DNB). Manchester, 18 December 1800. He is remitting a draft for £90 on Joseph Denison of London, 'which you will be pleased to apply towards my Shares in the Rochdale Canal'. The word 'Canal' has been altered in another hand to 'Company'. FIVE: Manuscript Letter, signed 'Howarth & Wilcock', Halifax solicitors. 1 January 1801. 1p., 4to. Regarding the 'Mortgagees of the Revd. Mr: Stopford's Estate', and 'the Land taken for the Use of [.] We have the Dr[af]t. Conveyance to peruse, & have written to Mr: Elliott respecting some variation in the Measure'. SIX: ALS ('Thos Marriott') from Thomas Marriott. Stockport postmark. No date. 1p., 8vo. 'Dr Sr. | Will you have the goodness to enquire and inform me under what Idea the Rochdale Canal [altered by another hand to 'Company') Compy attempt to cut through that Estate at Newton Heath in the Holding of Gt. Berry and it is not within the powers of their Act, if that be true I assure them they never can purchase it it is but a Few Day, that we known [sic] that it was medled [sic] with | I shall be glad you can give better Acctt [sic] then I understand is however something must be done'. Postscript: 'NB Mr. Hessell I understand has had some Conversation with a Mr. Hobson this of course had the right to be enqired into the Appearance stantds that Mr Hobson Has nothing to do with it - even in that case Mr Hassell broke all Faith: this is all nothing, the fact is that if they have it, it is because the [sic] cant be prevented therefore to propose any price for it is useless so if they [sic] Law gives it to them it is done with' SEVEN: ALS ('Jno. Rt. Ogden') from John Robert Ogden, Bradford solicitor. 13 December 1800. 1p., 4to. 'When your first Letter arrived respecting the Canal going through my Estate, I was from home, and in reply to that and your last, I shall be obliged if you'l [sic] inform me, if the Line of the Canal through such Estate, is staked and measured, and expect shortly being in Lancashire, when I will wait upon the Committee if assembled at that time respecting treating with them for the Sale of it.' Note in another hand: 'to get the valuation of each particular Field the quantity taken cannot be ascertained till the Canal is cut'. On three occasions in the letter the word 'Canal' has been altered in another hand to 'Company'. EIGHT: ALS from Mark Pearman, gentleman, of Coventry ('instrumental in conducting the elections at Coventry since 1790'). 1 January. 1801. 1p., 8vo. Complaining that he has not received a response to two previous communications regarding 'two Transfers of one Rochadale share &c by Mr. Allen to me', with reference to 'Mr Cole of this place surgeon'. NINE: Printed form (clearly made up by the Company and sent to shareholders), completed in manuscript and signed 'N & F Phillipps & Co' (Manchester merchants). 13 December 1813. 1p., 4to. Addressed (in print) to 'Mr. Jno. Crossley'. Acknowledging receipt of 'a Draft on Jones and Co. London, value [One Hundred] Pounds, [-] s. [-] d. the same being the third dividend (and second of the current year) on the Shares in the Rochdale Canal.' Manuscript postscript: 'Mrs George Lloyd now of York wishes her divd. to be remitted to our partner Mr. Falkr Phillips if not already done please to do so.' TEN: ALS ('Dl: Whalley') from Daniel Whalley (c.1734-1814) of Great Fenton. 11 August 1800. 1p., 4to. Complaining of a communication which he supposes has been 'written in haste, having neither name nor date', regarding 'the call on my four shares'.