Unpublished, 1960. together with a similar letter 1 page, typed and signed “Ben A Smith” on United States Senate headed note paper addressed to Mr. E.(sic) Paul Getty, President, Getty Oil Italiana, Via Torino 6, Rome Italy and dated October 13 1961 concerning the same Gino Palladino who “I understand has been interviewed and found well qualified” and requesting news of the gentleman’s “prospects”.
The two letters together in one envelope printed top left “United States Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Free.” and top right a printed signature of John F. Kennedy U.S.S.” and addressed to Mr. Getty, President of the Oil Refining Company, Gaeta, Latina, Italy. Envelope a little age-stained, the letters fine and fresh.
Benjamin Atwood Smith II (1916-91) was a room-mate of JFK at Harvard and a close friend of the Kennedy family. He took JFK’s seat in the Senate as a “seat warmer” until Ted Kennedy became 30 and old enough to qualify for election.

1. [SHERLOCK, Thomas and Edmund GIBSON] attrib. The History of the Test Act...Mistakes in some late writings... rectified. London : J. Roberts 1732 31pp. ESTC T44805

2. [GIBSON, Edmund] The Dispute adjusted, About the Proper Time of Applying for a Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts... Second Edition. London : J. Roberts 1736 18pp ESTC N25834.
3. [SYKES, Arthur Ashley] The Corporation and Test Acts shewn to be of No Importance. London J. Roberts 1736 72pp. ESTC T34188

4. [SYKES, A. A. } attrib.The Reasonableness of Applying for the Repeal or Explanation of the Corporation and Test Acts... 2nd Edition. London J. Roberts 1736 64pp. ESTC N12934

5.MODERN TORY: A Letter to Sir W---m W---m Upon the intended Application to Parliament For Repealing the Corporation and Test Acts. London A.Dodd... 1736 31pp ESTC T103812
6. ANON. An Inquiry into the Propriety of applying to Parliament for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test-Acts in a Letter to Samuel Holden Esq. 2nd Edition. London J. Roberts 1732 31pp. ESTC T104816
7. [ABERNETHY, John] attrib.Some Considerations... touching the Administration and Receiving the Sacrament... as Directed by the Test-Act... 2nd Edition. London. John Oswald 1733 32pp ESTC t85087
8. ANON. A True Churchman’s Reasons For Repealing the Corporation and Test-Acts... In a Letter to a Member of Parliament. London J. Roberts 1732 28pp. ESTC T4848

9. [FORD, John} A Brief Enquiry Concerning the Dignity of the Ordinance of the Lord’s Supper... London J. Peel 1732 36pp. ESTC t120348
10. [CROFT, Archer] A Vindication of the Test-Act; or the Right of Protestant Dissenters...By a Member of the House of Commons. London T Cooper 1736 38pp. ESTC T145971

11. ANON. The Unreasonableness of Repealing the Corporation and Test Acts Demonstrated.... London T. Cooper 1736. 31pp. ESTC T103806 {answering ESTC N12934]

12. [WARBURTON] The Alliance between Church and State. or. the Necessity and Equity of an Established Religion and a Test-Law.... In Three Parts. London Fletcher Gyles 1736. 175pp. ESTC T21261
13. ANON. The Occasional Paper Upon the Subject of Religion, and the Church Establishment; and the present Attempts against them. Number 1. London J. Roberts 1735 Nos 1-9 (of 10) together 256pps. ESTC P6317

8vo, bound in 2 volumes, contemporary sprinkled calf, blindstamped french fillett borders and scallop roll at hinges, morocco labels on spines “Tracts About Ye Test Act”,
joints and heads of spines worn, upper joints vol. 1 cracked but cords still firm, large rubber stamp on Vol. 1 flyleaf “Bond” (ie. Bond of Creech Grange, Dorset), internally clean.

Paris : Chez J.W. Imprimeur, rue du Colombier Fauxburgh, St. Germain, à l’Hotel de Saxe. 1767. Cr. 8vo, [A]4, B-S8, [2], iv, 272 pp, (lacking 1/2-title), cont. sprinkled calf , gilt spine, joints expertly repaired, unidentified armorial bookplate.
“The editor’s residing a few Miles from Paris, will, ‘tis hoped, be an Excuse with the Candid for the Errors of the Press.” - Preface. For several years after the publication of the notorious Number 45 of the North Briton Wilkes spent a large part of his time abroad as a fugitive, principally in Paris. He is known to have been there for most of 1767 and despite the somewhat transparent attempt to remain anonymous in the preface it is almost certain that he was the editor of these letters, as well as the “J.W.Imprimeur” of the imprint.

A rare book, and the first book I have come across for a long time still priced in my grandfather’s hand. (not the price I am offering it at!)
Reference: Rothschild Catalogue 2567

London, Printed by Richard Coats, for Tho: Williams, at the Signe of the Bible in Little-Britain. 1651. First Edition in English
Small 4to, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Ooo4, five parts in one volume, each with a separate title-page, separate t-ps also to “Tincture of Gold” and “Mineral Work” dated 1652, 3 full-page woodcut illustrations of chemical apparatus and furnaces and 13 woodcuts in the text, Qq1 blank is present, mended tear in margin of Gg4, mild browning throughout, old half calf over marbled boards, worn, stoutly rebacked. Armorial bookplate of “Harold Marshall” on front pastedown, and that of “Dr & Mrs H.R.Kohl” on front fly.
Johann Rudolf Glauber was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him: "Glauber's salt".
He made his living in the wine industry for a time, and later, in his Dess Teutschlands-Wohlfahrt (1656-1661), he advocated the export of wine and beer, giving recipes for concentrates that are stable and easily exported. This is only one in series of improvements in cottage industries that Glauber thought would improve German trade and aid in the recovery from the Thirty-Years War.
He also wrote a tract in the interest of the Dutch East India Company called "Trost der Seefahrenden oder Consolatio Navigantium" which contains methods for concentrating and preserving rations, medicines against scurvy, and preparation of fresh from salt water.
He did experiments growing crops with artificial fertilizer (tartar chemically derived from wine) in soil brought from the most infertile part of the beach, and he had several experimental plots at his laboratory in Amsterdam where he studied the effects on crops of various treatments.
Wing G846 ESTC R202215 [Duveen p.252 , Ferguson 1, 323]

London : Printed by H. Clark, for John Taylor at the Globe in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1685/6. First Edition
8vo, A8, a4, B-Z, Aa-Dd8, lacking the inserted leaf of adverts after a4 but has final advert leaf (Dd7), Dd8 is blank but possibly not genuine, worm trough in gutter of last 2 gatherings not affecting text, contemporary calf, blind-tooled with double-fillet borders and small sunflower in each corner, neatly rebacked. morocco label, a good copy. Rare.
Provenance : 1). Inscription on f.f. e-p. “Jo. Middleton ....? Ano. 1686 pret. 3s.9d” 2). Inscription on f.f.e-p. “Willm. Fox his Book. June 13 1748. given me by RB.” and his signature “Willm Fox, Warwick” at head of title. 3). Inscription on title “Thos. Bunn his Book 1761” 4). Signature on title “Charles Leonard’s 1768”. 5). 19th century engraved bookplate of Spring Hill College Library inscribed “Mathematical Lecture Room” on front pastedown. 6). Stamp of Mansfield College Library Oxford. 7). Pencilled collation note of Alan Thomas dated 1980.

After thirty years of experimentation and observation of natural phenomena Boyle appears in this thoughtful treatise to have reached his maturity as a philosopher.” - Fulton. This, perhaps the most important of Boyle’s philosophical writings, is, in the truest sense, a discourse upon the ‘nature of things’.
Reference: Wing B3979 Fulton 170