East India Company.- By-Laws, Constitutions, Orders, and Rules, for the Good Government of the Corporation of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East-Indies..., stitched in old marbled wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, [Kress B.2702], 1794 § [Monson (William)] A Letter to a Proprietor of the East-India Company, first edition, lacking half-title, stab-holes, modern boards, [Goldsmiths' 8511; Kress 5050], for T.Osborne, 1750 § Address (An) to the Proprietors of India Stock, shewing...the necessity of sending Commissioners to Regulate and Direct their Affairs from Abroad..., first edition, with half-title and final blank (both a little soiled), modern cloth, S.Bladon, 1769 § Pulteney (William) The Effects to be expected from the East India Bill, upon the Constitution of Great Britain, if passed into Law, first edition, foxing to final leaf, modern marbled boards, [Goldsmiths'12531; Kress B629], J.Stockdale, 1783, 8vo (4)

⁂ The By-laws... had been revised by the East India Company's Committee of By-laws, not least to try and stamp out the practice of illicit trade by some Company directors. This is one of several printings of the Company's rules of engagement, each now very rare. Of this 1794 printing ESTC locates other copies only at BL and 2 in America (Kress, Harvard and Bancroft Library, Berkeley).

The second concerns the capture and ransom of Madras by the French in 1746.