Sammelband: A collection of 13 rare 19th & 20th century pamphlets

including the SS Great Eastern in Liverpool, Banting's Letter on Corpulence, and British Israelism with hand-coloured map. 1817 to c1908

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Printing Details

Hardback, bound in brown buckram, gilt titling to spine. 21 × 13.5cm, please see below for pagination.

This is a rare collection of thirteen pamphlets from the early nineteenth century through to the early twentieth century, and covering an array of subjects, including a rare pamphlet on the SS Great Eastern (1886). Contents:

1. England's Hope Suddenly Cut Off: Authentic Particulars of the Last Illness, and Much Lamented Death of Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte, Who Expired at Half Past Two O'clock, on Thursday Morning, November 6, 1817. Author not stated, printed by R Edwards, Fleet Street, 1817. 32pp. Second edition. First and last pages foxed and tanned but main body of text in good readable condition.

[3pp adverts for cigar importers and outfitters in Ramsgate and Margate, the third page of adverts with a newspaper clipping concerning the following pamphlet laid in]

2. An account of the wreck of the Indian Chief (lacking covers). The Indian Chief was a barque that was wrecked in a storm in 1881 on the Long Sand, off the mouth of the Thames. Twelve of her crew were rescued by the Ramsgate life-boat. Good readable condition but a printing error has left the bottom corner of page four lack a few words of text.

[4pp adverts Thanet businesses, some damage to one page].

3. Letter on Corpulence Addressed to the Public by William Banting. Published by Harrison, London, 1864. Third edition, 50pp. Good clean pages, bound without covers. [A rare early diet plan, and the first to advocate the low carbohydrate method to achieve weight loss].

4. End of this Age on April 23, 1908 by Rev. M Baxter (The Prophet Baxter). 32pp, Biblical prophecies, the end of the world, etc etc in the light of political events and so on. Foxed but readable.

5. Britain (or Israel), The Fifth and Last, and The Unconquerable Empire as Depicted in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream and its Interpretation, to which is added Britain (or Israel) The "Ancient of Days" by John Gilder Shaw. Published by S W Partridge, London. Undated, c1879, includes fold-out map of "J G Shaw's Illustrative Prophetic Map" with hand-coloured figure stretching from France through to Persia. The first of a number of British Israelism texts, the movement that believed the people of Great Britain are the direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.

6. Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Founded upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs, by Edward Hine. Published by S W Partridge, undated c1874. 54pp. Good condition, some spotted foxing. Bound without covers. British Israelism.

7. Are Englishmen Israelites? A Three-Nights' Debate between Mr Edward Hine and Mr Robert Roberts in Exeter Hall, London, 1879, together with A Lecture by Mr Roberts in the Myddleton Hall, Islington, Sunday 27th April, 1879. Published by F Pitman, London, 1879. 128pp. Assumed first. The subject of the lecture being "the true position of Britain in relation to Israel's coming Restoration and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of David."

8. Are we Israelites, The Testimony of History, Philology, and Ethnology on the Subject, by Rev Bourchier Wrey Savile, with an introduction by Philo-Israel. Published by W H Guest, London, 1879. 63pp. Good condition, foxed to page edges.

9. A Complete History of the "Great Eastern" from her First Projection in 1850 to her Visit to the Mersey in 1886. Published by Lewis's of Liverpool, 1886. 32pp. An incredibly rare pamphlet produced by Lewis's, the famous Liverpool department store, documenting the history of Brunel's the ship from it's launch in 1858 and transatlantic crossings, to its mooring as a floating advertisement for Lewis's The S.S. Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was was broken up in 1889. This pamphlet has few illustrations including the Great Eastern at Sea, and as the floating advert. Readable condition, but delicate. Pages quite heavily tanned and bound without covers. Pages starting to work loose a little but the text is complete. [Note: I have only found one of these on the open market at auction back in 2012 at Toovey's in Sussex.]

10. Croquet; The Laws and Regulations of the Game with a Description of the Implements etc by John Jaques. Published by Jaques and Son, London, undated c1866. 48pp, many illustrations with adverts to rear. Green cover bound in, contents in very good condition.

11. Thirteen plates of Thomas Rowlandson's works (Vauxhall Gardens, Harmony, Racing Incidents etc) followed by a 4pp copy of "Rowlandson's Tour in a Post-Chaise to the Wreck of the Royal George, 1782" [Probably the 1891 reprint published in The Graphic].

12. The History of the Convict Hulk "Success" and "Success" Prisoners, A Vivid Fragment of Colonial History by Joseph C Harvie. Published by Petty & Sons, Leeds, 1900. Early reprint, 80pp, illustrations. Some tanning but good.

13. Montalembert on Constitutional Liberty, A Picture of England, Painted by a Frenchman, being a Complete Translation of the Memorable Article entitled 'A Debate on India in the English Parliament' which has Subjected the Author to the Now Pending State Prosecution, by M. Le Comte de Montalembert. Published by Effingham Wilson, London, 1858. First edition. 76pp. Quite a rare Montalembert title in which he praises English political freedom, particularly its parliamentary system and religious neutrality in India, and which left him facing prosecution in France. This copy slightly tanned and with some spotted foxing but in strong readable condition. Signature to the head of the title page is George Henry Maberly, a noted London coach builder in London, and founder of Thrupp and Maberly.

Condition

The buckram is faded to the spine but is otherwise in good condition. The pamphlets are mostly in very good order and remains in strong readable condition, with all but one bound without covers. There is spotted foxing throughout (noted above). The inner binding remains secure with just the Great Eastern pamphlet starting to work loose as it was produced on cheaper paper and would originally have been stapled. Overall, a rare collection of pamphlets.

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