Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46, Great Russell Street Telephone: 020 7631 4220 (opp. British Museum) Fax: 020 7631 1882 Bloomsbury, Email: [email protected] London www.jarndyce.co.uk WC1B 3PA VAT.No.: GB 524 0890 57 CATALOGUE CCXXII WINTER 2016-2017 BOOKS & PAMPHLETS 1576-1827 Catalogue: Robert Swan. Production: Carol Murphy & Ed Lake. All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items marked with a dagger (†) incur VAT (20%) to customers within the EU. A charge for postage and insurance will be added to the invoice total. We accept payment by VISA or MASTERCARD. If payment is made by US cheque, please add $25.00 towards the costs of conversion. High resolution images are available for all items, on request; please email: [email protected]. JARNDYCE CATALOGUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE include (price £10.00 each unless otherwise stated): The Museum: A Jarndyce Miscellany; European Literature in Translation; Bloods & Penny Dreadfuls; The Dickens Catalogue; Conduct & Education (£5); Anthony Trollope, A Bicentenary Catalogue (£5). The Romantics: A-Z with The Romantic Background (four catalogues, £20); JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: 19th Century Novels; Women Writers; English Language; Plays. PLEASE REMEMBER: If you have books to sell, please get in touch with Brian Lake at Jarndyce. Valuations for insurance or probate can be undertaken anywhere, by arrangement. A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £30.00 (£60.00 overseas) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. BOOKS & PAMPHLETS 1576-1827 ISBN: 978 1 910156-13-1 Price £10.00 Covers adapted from item 24. Brian Lake Janet Nassau cata 222.indd 1 11/11/2016 12:52:16 1 cata 222.indd 2 10/11/2016 17:29:33 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Almansa 1576-1700 THE SPANISH MATCH 1. ALMANSA y Mendoza, Andres. The Joyfull Returne, of the most illustrious Prince, Charles, Prince of Great Brittaine, from the court of Spaine. Together, with a relation of his magnificent entertainment in Madrid, and on his way to St. Anderas, by the King of Spaine. The royall and princely gifts interchangeably given. Translated out of the Spanish copie. His wonderfull dangers on the seas, after his parting from thence: miraculous delivery, and most happy-safe landing at Portsmouth on the 5. of October. Printed by Edward All-de for Nathaniel Butter and Henry Seile. [2], 46pp. 4to. One sl. marginal tear, otherwise v.g. clean copy. Expertly bound in recent quarter sprinkled calf, raised & gilt banded spine, red morocco label, marbled boards, vellum tips. ¶ESTC S107749, chiefly a translation of Almansa y Mendoza’sRelacion de la Partita del Principe de Walia, an account of the visit to Madrid of the Prince of Wales to be bethrothed to the Spanish Infanta. It is a prose ‘festival book’, partly written in the form of a letter addressed to ‘Don Alonso Neli de Reibadeneyra, Lord of Vega de Porras, neere to Valladolid’. The gifts given to the Prince by Philip IV are listed, including 18 Spanish Genets, 6 Barberies, 6 breeding mares, and 20 foals. The banquet (with trout of ‘extraordinarie greatnesse’), and court masques are described, and the Prince is taken to see paintings by Raphael and Michelangelo. The Spanish Match was a proposed marriage between Prince Charles, the son of King James I of Great Britain, and Infanta Maria Anna of Spain, the daughter of Philip III of Spain. The prospect of a Spanish dowry was a potential source of income for James, who sought ways to rule without depending on the Commons for subsidies. The policy of the Spanish Match was supported by the Howards and other Catholic-leaning ministers and diplomats - together known as the ‘Spanish Party’ - who were deeply distrusted by some Protestant groups in England. Negotiations took place over the period 1614 to 1623, and during this time became closely related to aspects of British foreign and religious policy, before breaking down completely. When negotiations began to drag, Prince Charles, now 22, and Buckingham decided to seize the initiative and travel to Spain incognito, to win the Infanta directly. Travelling under the names Thomas and John Smith, they arrived in Madrid on 7 March 1623 to the astonishment of Philip IV, and of the English Ambassador, John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, who had been given no warning of the Prince’s intentions. Charles and Buckingham were ignorant of the key facts, that Maria Anna was strongly averse to marrying a non-Catholic, and that the Spanish, who had been protracting the marriage negotiations to keep British troops out of the war, would never agree to such a match unless James and Charles pledged to repeal the anti-Catholic Penal Laws. Though a secret treaty was signed, the Prince and Duke returned to England in October without the Infanta. 1623 £2,250 ANONYMOUS LAW OF HUSBANDS & WIVES 2. Baron and Feme. A Treatise of the Common Law concerning Husbands and Wives. Wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts: what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods and actions. What things of the wise accrue to the husband by the intermarriage, or not. ... Declarations and pleas, &c. of divorces, &c. with many other matters relating to the said subject; and some useful precedents. Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns Esquires. [32], 380, [36] index, 8pp ads. 8vo. Sl. wear to edge V4-7 with old stain on opening of pp300-301. Ad. leaves browned, following e.p. edge sl. worn, small rust hole to preliminary ad. barely affecting several letters. Near contemporary plain calf, simple raised bands, ‘Baron & Feme’ handwritten in top compartment; cata 222.indd 3 10/11/2016 17:29:33 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Anonymous ANONYMOUS continued upper joint cracked. Armorial bookplate of Sir Rd. Bempde Johnstone, Bart., with his ownership name at head of titlepage. Later bookplate of Los Angeles Board of Law Library on the front e.p. ¶ESTC R6177. An important work dealing with the law as it relates to ‘feme coverts’, married women, or women under the guardianship of a male head of household. There are sections dealing with women and trade, one being a revision of the situation of sisters purchasing a property or a lease, who are henceforth treated as one person, with ownership remaining with a sister even if she married. On the death of a married sister ownership would not now pass to her husband. This was of great importance for women in the millinery and dress- making trades, a significant proportion of whom were in partnership with sisters or other female relations. Another section deals with the borough custom of feme sole trader in London. (Ref: N.J. Phillips. Women in Business 1700-1850.) 1700 £1,500 THE BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIDGE 3. An Exact Relation of the Defeat of the Rebels at Bothwell-Bridge. Published by Authority. In the Savoy: printed by Tho. Newcomb. 7, [1]pp. Folio. Recent quarter morocco, plain cloth boards, gilt lettered spine. ¶ESTC R12355. The Duke of Monmouth’s troops defeated the Covenanters who lost 700 or 800 killed & 1,200 were taken prisoner. 1679 £380 TRIALS OF THE LORDS 4. The Narrative and Reasons which were delivered by the House of Commons, to the Lords at the last conference, touching the trials of the Lords in the Tower. 8, 7-9, [1] pp. Folio. Disbound. A fine clean copy. ¶ESTC R10051; Wing E2626. Referring to the trials of the Earl of Powis, Viscount Stafford, Lord Petre, Lord Arundel & Lord Bellasis for treason. 1679 £50 __________ VENICE PRINTING 5. ASSARINO, Luca. Raguagli Del Regno d’Amore Cipro. In Venetia, per li Turrini. [16], 292 [ie 192]. 12mo. Old waterstain visible on original coarse grain paper wrappers, not intrusive in text. Hand-lettered backstrip, sl. worn. ¶Unrecorded by Copac, which only notes editions of 1642 and 1654 (although another was published in Turin also in 1646). Assarino, 1602–72, was a Genoese writer, probably born in Potosì in Bolivia, who led a turbulent life as a political informer, with several spells in prison. He compiled Il Sincero, the first Italian newspaper, and historical works, such as Delle rivoluzioni di Catalogna (1644) and Delle Guerre e Successi d’Italia (1662). His extremely successful novels included La Stratonica (1635), which was translated into French, English, and German, and L’Almerinda (1640), later expanded and completely reworked in I Giuochi di Fortuna (1655). (Ref: Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.) 1646 £320 EMBLEMS OF LOVE 6. AYRES, Philip. Cupids Addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata Amatoria. Emblems of Love. Embleme d’Amore. Emblemes d’Amour. In four languages dedicated to the Ladys. Sold by R. Bently in Covent Garden. S. Tidmarch at the Kings head in Cornhill. &c. [184]pp, engraved throughout, with frontispiece, titlepage, 2 engraved sonnets, 44 emblematic plates & engraved verse in Latin, English, Italian and French. 8vo. Several plates bound in incorrect order, some occasional browning mainly to fore-edges. Early 19th century tree calf, recent red morocco labels; hinges repaired, spine & board edges rubbed, corners a little worn. Bookplate of Baron de Spon. ¶ESTC R9912. FIRST EDITION, later versions are undated and have differences in the introductory pages. The illustrations, and the accompanying Latin and cata 222.indd 4 10/11/2016 17:29:33 2 3 5 6 cata 222.indd 5 10/11/2016 17:29:34 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY - Ayres Italian verses, are mostly copied from Otto Van Veen’s Amorum Emblemata, and the titlepage is engraved by Francis Barlow.