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Tanner (Thomas). Notitia Monastica; Or, an Account of all the Abbies, Priories and Houses of Friers, Formerly in England and Wales. And Also of all the Colleges and Hospitals Founded Before A.D. MDXL... And Now Reprinted by James Nasmith, Cambridge, 1787, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and remounted), three engraved plates of armorials, scattered light spots, bookplate, a.e.g., early 20th c. full tan morocco by Riviere, covers with panelled rolls enclosed by ornaments and corner tools, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, some light fading, folio. (1)
* Plantation Agent’s Ledger. A manuscript ledger of R[obert] Raper, 1776-78, a total of thirty leaves plus two leaves of index at front containing thirty-six names, names include Margaret Colleton, Thomas Boone, Captain George Hooper, Sarah Rutledge, Robert Bruce and Samuel Shoemaker, including entries for rent, bonds, umbrellas, wine casks, empty casks, `to my share of a Prise in the last Lottery of your Letter £50’, rope, salt, `35 pair of negro shoes at 25 shillings’, sail cloth, `paid Doctor Hardcastle for attending all ye Negroes one year to April last £130’ `for a Bridle for plantation use’ `for Negroes £531 6s 8d’, `ordinary Rum for your Negroes’, `paid for advertising Negroe [?] run away’, barrel of pitch for the boat, brown sugar for plantations, carpenter’s tools, millstones, etc., a few entries dated and placed at Charlestown, South Carolina, approx. 90 leaves blank, ownership signature of R Raper dated 1776 to front pastedown, contmep. vellum, rubbed and soiled with Raper’s monogram initials to upper cover, folio (1)
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments..., Edinburgh, printed by Richard Watkins, [1744], first vol. only of two (ends with Proverbs), general title dated 1743 (the date of 1744 appears on the colophon, which is not present here), early ms. name at head of general title and head of A3, final leaf frayed to fore-margin with sl. loss (not affecting text), marbled endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. Scottish binding of black morocco, extrems. rubbed, and small nick in head of spine, raised bands, compartments gilt tooled with saltire terminating in large dots, with fleurons in the intersections, covers gilt tooled with zig-zag roll border, enclosing a panel of large pear-shaped tools, which surround a vertical single fillet ornamented with seedhead tools at either side, with dots between, 12mo. Herbert 1065 (imperfect: the second volume only, containing Ecclesiastes to Revelation). For a similar Scottish binding featuring pear-shaped ornaments see Maggs’s `Bookbinding in the British Isles’, catalogue 1075, part I, p.238/9. (1)

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