Collection 1627-1832.

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Collection 1627-1832.

Some volumes from the Kashnor collection, consisting of a handwritten copy of a manuscript, belonging to William Wright, of parliamentary proceedings in the reign of King Charles the First 1627-1628; some 300 tracts mainly on monetary matters, taxes and duties, on trades, shipping, trade c. 1693-1698 and n.d.; a handwritten journal of the meetings of the Scottish and English commissioners appointed to negotiate a union between the nations of Scotland and England 1702-1703 and articles agreed upon by the commissioners n.d.; accounts of revenue, Ireland 1729/1731-1733/1735 and a volume containing The Political Magazine September 1831-June 1832, bound together with a letter by William Carpenter to John Epps 1832. NB. The larger part of the Kashnor collection, consisting of printed material incorporated in the IISH library, has been described in: Huub Sanders BÌ€ooks and pamphlets on British social and economic subjects (ca. 1650-1880) at the IISH Amsterdam' 1988.

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Kashnor, Leon.

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Together with his brother D. Kashnor, Leon Kashnor was the owner of the Museum Book Store in London specializing in social and economic history; he was among the first booksellers to gather a large collection around some movement or person, before selling it as a whole; in the course of forty years he built up and sold several collections of unique material relating to British social and economic (and political) history from the seventeenth century on; a collection of this kind, including the wo...