BERNARD A LIST OF NEW ACQUISITIONS QUARITCH AUGUST · MMXV DIARY OF A DUTCH DIPLOMAT IN BRUSSELS AND LONDON

1. [BENTINCK VAN RHOON, Willem. Manuscript diary of diplomatic missions from The Hague to Brussels and London, 1 January to 26 May 1753]. [in:]

[ALMANAC.] Nieuw geinventeerde koopmans comptoir- en schrijf- almanach, op het jaar onzes heeren Jesu Christi M DCC LIII . . . door Dirk Jansz. van Dam. Amsterdam, By de Erve de Wed. Gysbert De Groot, [1752?].

4to, [120] printed pages, interleaved throughout, with entries in French in brown ink in Bentinck’s neat hand; text printed in red and black, with woodcut device to title; a few light marks and stains otherwise in very good condition; nineteenth-century vellum-backed glazed boards, manuscript title in red and black on spine; board edges a little scraped, a few small marks. £2750

A Dutch almanac used as a diplomatic diary by the Dutch politician Willem Bentinck (1704-1774) during missions from The Hague to Brussels and London in 1753, providing a fascinating window onto diplomatic manoeuvring between the Dutch, Austrians, and British in the aftermath of the War of the Austrian Succession, and recording meetings with important figures including Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz and the Duke of Newcastle.

Bentinck (son of Willem, 1st Earl of Portland) played a leading role in the Orangist revolution of 1747 which installed William IV, Prince of Orange, as Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He coordinated military efforts with Great Britain against France following the French invasion of the Netherlands, and was a key figure at the congress resulting in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. His negotiations with Austria allowed the Dutch to reclaim the barrier fortresses in the Austrian Netherlands, which served as a buffer against the French, and he was instrumental in placing Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick, an Austrian field marshal, at the head of the Dutch army. Following the death of William IV in 1751, Bentinck helped establish the regency of his widow, Anne, Princess of Orange and daughter of George II. Bentinck married Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg in 1733, although the couple divorced in 1743; their second son was John Bentinck, naval officer and inventor. This diary records three missions undertaken by between his missions Bentinck returned to The Hague Bentinck to Brussels, capital of the Austrian for conferences with Princess Anne and her ministers. Netherlands, between January and March 1753, and a visit to London in May. Bentinck’s notes are a careful After Bentinck returned to The Hague on 23 March record of his travels, meetings, and conversations, there are no further diary entries until 16 May when he apparently kept as an aide memoire for reporting back took a boat to England, arriving at Harwich and to his superiors. What is actually going on is reaching London via Colchester on the 19th. Having occasionally opaque, and Bentinck seems to have been caught up on London gossip with Lady Anne Sophia an expert in evading questions. During his trips to Egerton, he attended an audience with George II on the Brussels, Bentinck meets several significant figures, 20th. Here he met the Prince of Wales, was kept including Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and chatting by Princess Caroline, and was closely Antoniotto Botta Adorno, respectively governor and questioned by Princess Amelia. After getting stuck in plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands. On 17 London traffic, Bentinck spent the evening in January Bentinck records a conversation with Botta conversation with the Duke of Newcastle (Thomas regarding the Old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie: Pelham-Holles), then foreign minister and soon to be ‘Botta dit que le fils du Pretendant avoit changé de Prime Minister: ‘il a beaucoup declamé (your damned religion, que ce n’étoit plus un secret . . . que le treaty of commerce) contre la demande de la Pretendent avoit dit été à Berlin . . . que le Roi de Prusse déclaration sur free ship, free goods, qu’il disoit qu’on voulait lui donner sa soeur, et l’avoit engagé à changer ne pourroit jamais accorder’. Other topics of discussion de religion’. But Bentinck’s most important and recorded by Bentinck are measures taken with Russia frequent meetings are with Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, against the King of Prussia, Dunkirk and the Treaty of the influential Austrian chancellor and foreign minister. Aix-la-Chapelle, and relations with France. Bentinck’s Bentinck’s discussions with Kaunitz refer to the Barrier last recorded meetings are with the Countess of Treaty, the locks at Ostend, the canal at Bruges, and to Yarmouth, mistress of George II, and with ‘le the commercial possibilities of allowing the sea to Chancelier’ (Henry Pelham, Prime Minister and advance up to Bruges. Political manoeuvring is never Chancellor of the Exchequer) who, he notes, ‘evita de far below the surface of their discussions, with talk of ‘le parler d’aucune affaire’. projet’ and a ‘contre projet’, and the frustration of both men at the lack of progress of negotiations is apparent. The almanac is not recorded on STC Netherlands; no When Kaunitz repeatedly asks Bentinck about his and copies appear in COPAC or OCLC. Princess Anne’s intentions in Holland, Bentinck records his extreme embarrassment at his evasive replies. In MADE IN YORKSHIRE: WORLD-CLASS 19TH-CENTURY TEXTILE DESIGN, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

2. BEAUMONT, Roberts. Colour in woven design . . . The specialists’ series. London, Chiswick Press for Whittaker & Co. and George Bell & Sons, 1890.

8vo (181 x 128mm), pp. xxiv, 440, [2, advertisements]; 32 coloured halftone plates and 181 black-and-white diagrams in the text; very light foxing on individual plates, one quire beginning to separate at foot but sewing holding firm; original dark blue publisher’s cloth, series device in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisements on flyleaves and free endpapers (6 pp.); extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, overall a very good copy; provenance: Roberts Beaumont (1862-1922, autograph inscription on front free endpaper, ‘With the author’s compliments’, presenting the book to:) ‘Monsieur Waddington Secretary of Jury in Class 77. Paris Exhibition 1900’. £400

First edition. A practical handbook for students of textile design, Colour in woven design joins colour theory with the technical science of dyeing and working with woven textiles. Beaumont’s initial chapters discuss theories of colour (with intriguing analogies between light and sound) and attributes of all colours as pertaining their uses in fabrics and other industrial applications; followed by patterns created by weaving threads of different colours, such as stripes, checks and spots; as well as colour effects that can only be produced in fabrics, as opposed to other materials, e.g. in double weaves and reversible cloth. The plates and diagrams in the text make the material very accessible, especially the photographic reproductions of designs. ‘Many of the patterns printed on the plates have been woven at the Yorkshire College under my supervision . . . . It need scarcely be observed that the coloured illustrations are unique, being exact representations of the woven textures’ (Preface, pp. viii-ix).

R. L. Herbert, ‘A color bibliography’ in The Yale University Library Gazette 49 (1974), pp. 3-49 (p. 30); R. Osborne, Books on colour since 1500: a history and bibliography of colour literature, 2013, p. 51; S. N. D. North, ‘A bibliography of wool and the woolen manufacture’ in Bulletin to the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 21 (1891), pp. 118-134 (p. 122). 3. BEAUMONT, Roberts. Woollen and worsted cloth manufacture: being a practical treatise for the use of all persons employed in the manipulation of textile fabrics. Technological handbooks. London, Chiswick Press for George Bell & Sons, 1899.

8vo (175 x 110mm), pp. [2, advertisements], xx, 471, [4, advertisements]; 255 black-and-white halftone illustrations, diagrams and plates, of which four folding; quire K slightly shaken but holding firm, slight historical smudges on one plate, minor foxing on individual plates; original green publisher’s cloth blocked in black, spine gilt, lemon-yellow endpapers; extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: Roberts Beaumont (1862-1922, autograph inscription on front free endpaper, ‘With the author’s compliments’, presenting the book to:) ‘Monsieur Waddington Secretary of Jury in Class 77. Paris Exhibition 1900’. £250

Third, re-written, edition. ‘Invaluable in our technical schools’ and ‘what a good manual should be – full, clear, and well illustrated’ – these are the contemporary reviews of Woollen and worsted cloth reproduced at the beginning of this third edition of Beaumonts’ first substantial publication. Conveying the science, intricacies and charm of making fabrics, Beaumont first explains the sourcing and identifying of materials including mohair, alpaca and cashmere, cotton and silk; the machine processes of making thread (illustrated with state- of-the-art machines by one of the best-known woollen and cotton machine makers of the time, John Tatham of Rochdale); the actual use of thread and yarns in looms (hand or power) and fundamental weaves; and more complicated methods of pattern design, colours, backed and double cloths, and techniques of finishing cloth.

S. N. D. North, ‘A bibliography of wool and the woolen manufacture’ in Bulletin to the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 21 (1891), pp. 118-134 (p. 122).

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Roberts Beaumont descended from a family of weavers and wool manufacturers – his father had established the textile department at the newly founded Yorkshire College of Science in the 1870s – and became the leading figure in northern English education in textile arts of the late nineteenth century. His original introduction to Woollen and worsted cloth manufacture, written in 1887, had concluded: ‘Should the book have a satisfactory sale, other works dealing with specific branches of manufacture may subsequently be prepared’ (p. viii) – a promise that the author fulfilled, among others, with his extended monograph on colour design (see above). By presenting the latest edition of his first, and the first edition of his latest book to the French jury’s secretary at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, he was able to demonstrate his enduring and growing success in education and the trade, before the background of a highly competitive international marketplace. The recipient, Monsieur Waddington, may have been a son of William Henry Waddington, the erstwhile prime minister of France, whose grandfather was a British cotton manufacturer. BEAGLEHOLE'S MONUMENTAL EDITION OF COOK'S VOYAGES, COMPLETE WITH THE PORTFOLIO OF CHARTS, THE LIFE, AND THE ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA

4. COOK, Captain James. The Journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery. The voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 [–The voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775; –The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780; –Charts and views. Drawn by Cook and his officers and reproduced from the original manuscripts. Edited by R. A. Skelton; –The life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole]. Edited by J. C. Beaglehole. Cambridge, Robert MacLehose & Company Limited at the University Press, Glasgow [I-III] and Butler & Tanner Ltd [IV] for The Hakluyt Society, 1955-1974.

TEXT: 4 volumes in 5, 8vo (233 x 152mm), pp. I: [2, series-title, verso blank], cclxxxiv, [2, fly-title, ‘Note on the Dating’ on the verso], 684, [4, blank]; II: [6, blank l., series-title, verso blank, title, imprint on verso], clxx, 1021, [3, blank]; III, i: ccxxiv, 718, [719-720 blank]; III, ii: viii, [721]-1647, [1, blank]; IV: xi, [1, blank], 760; colour-printed frontispieces after Nathaniel Dance, Henry Roberts, and John Webber (I-III.i and IV), and monochrome frontispiece after David Samwell (III.ii); three colour-printed plates, 110 monochrome plates, 12 folding and 85 printed with illustrations recto-and-verso, 17 maps, five folding and printed in colours, nine folding, and one printed with maps recto-and- verso; maps in the text, some full-page; a few light spots or marks, a few ll. with short marginal tears; original blue buckram, upper covers blocked in gilt with portrait bust of Cook, spines lettered in gilt, printed dustwrappers retaining prices; some fading on dustwrappers, some minor chipping and short tears at edges, nonetheless a very good, clean set. PORTFOLIO: folio (381 x 248mm), pp. viii; loosely-inserted corrigenda for the list of charts and views; 58 loose maps numbered I to LVIII, 21 folding including one large world map; stapled text and maps all loose and within paper band as issued, blue buckram portfolio, upper cover blocked in gilt with portrait bust of Cook, spine lettered in gilt, printed paper sleeve; paper band with short tears as often, portfolio very lightly rubbed at edges, sleeve a little worn (as often), nonetheless a very good copy. [with:]

BEAGLEHOLE, J. C. (editor). The Journals of Captain James Cook . . . I. The voyage of the Endeavour . . . Addenda and corrigenda to the first edition [–II. The voyage of the Resolution and Adventure . . . Addenda and corrigenda to the first edition; –III. Cook and the Russians. An addendum to . . . the voyage of the Resolution and Discovery] [dropped-head or wrapper titles]. Cambridge, Robert MacLehose & Company Limited at the University Press, Glasgow for The Hakluyt Society, 1968-1974. 3 volumes, 8vo (232 x 151mm), pp. I: 12; II: 6, [2, blank], ‘The Journals of Captain Cook. List of charts and views. Corrigenda’ loosely inserted; III: 9, [1, imprint]; one loosely-inserted monochrome plate with cancellans fig. 14b; original printed wrappers; very lightly rubbed at edges, some fading, otherwise in very good condition. [And:] Prospectus. The Journals of Captain James Cook. [?Cambridge,] The Hakluyt Press, [c. 1955]. 8vo (232 x 156mm), pp. 8 (pp. 2-6 specimen pages); loosely-inserted order form. £1350 First editions of The Journals with the portfolio of charts, together with the first Hakluyt Society edition of Beaglehole’s Life, and the rare addenda and corrigenda. This magisterial edition of Cook's Journals by John Cawte Beaglehole (1901-1971) has long been accepted as the standard and authoritative text, and the transcription of Cook's manuscript is accompanied by facsimiles of the original charts, the smaller ones in the text volume and the larger one contained in the portfolio. Each volume contains an introduction by the editor giving the background to each voyage and a discussion of the text itself, and the comprehensive footnotes provide a page-by-page commentary on Cook’s writing: ‘the reconstruction and annotation of the journals constituted Beaglehole’s life work. Knitting the holograph journals that survive principally in large pieces or fragments, and even in multiple inconsistent copies, was an extremely difficult task’ (Rosove). When he died, Beaglehole was working on his Life of Cook, which was published in 1974 by A. and C. Black Ltd and then issued by the Hakluyt Society as volume IV of the work; Rosove states that it is ‘the definitive Cook biography and likely to remain so for many years to come’. Due to the interval of seven years separating the appearance of the last volume of the Journal and the publication of the Life, and the sporadic appearance of the four items of addenda and corrigenda, complete sets such as this are rarely found in commerce.

Beddie 227 (vols I-III and portfolio); Conrad p. 7 (vol. I and portfolio); Compassing the vaste globe of the earth, Extra 34a, 34b, 35, 36a, 36b, and 37, and OB 8; NMM I.571 (‘This is the standard modern authority on the first voyage’), 585, and 593a-b (text vols and portfolio); Rosove 78-1.A1, 78-3.A1, and 78-5.A1 (text vols), 79-1.A1, ‘scarce’ (‘Charts and views’), 28.B1 (Life) and 78-2.A1, 78-4.A1, 78-6.A1, and 79-2.A1 (the four addenda and corrigenda, all but one described as ‘scarce’); Spence 102 (complete work including Life) and 103 (Cook and the Russians). CRAWFURD’S ACCOUNT OF HIS MISSION TO THAILAND AND VIETNAM, UNDERTAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY

5. CRAWFURD, John. Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the courts of Siam and Cochin China; exhibiting a view of the actual state of those kingdoms. London, S. and R. Bentley for Henry Colburn, 1828.

4to, pp. vii, [i, illustrations], 332, [2, explanation of alphabet, verso blank], 323-598; H4 a cancellans; folding aquatint frontispiece by J. Clark after Robert Elliot, nine aquatint plates by J. Clark et al. after Edward Reid, et al. with tissue guards, two engraved plates of alphabets, three engraved maps by John Walker after Crawfurd et al., one folding, and one folding letterpress table of vocabularies; wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces, letterpress tables in the text; occasional light spotting or marking, some light offsetting, a few small damp-marks, a few tears on tissue guards, small piece torn from margin of frontispiece, old repairs on verso of folding map; 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, others with central foliate tool, all edges speckled red; slightly rubbed and scuffed, spine-ends slightly chipped, nonetheless a very good copy; provenance: early manuscript correction on p. 393 – Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet (1879-1960, politician and writer, engraved armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). £6000

First edition. In 1821 the East India Company sent the orientalist and colonial administrator Crawfurd (1783-1868) from Calcutta to Bangkok, ‘partly to secure commercial concessions and allay the fear distrust of Europeans, but also to apply for the sultan of Kedah to be restored. In this respect the mission was a failure, but Crawfurd’s reports, published in London in 1828, were of the greatest value. In particular he was able to show that Siamese military power was far weaker than had been assumed and should not pose a real threat. The mission, which left Bangkok in July 1822, was accompanied by the naturalist George Finlayson . . . . Crawfurd’s mission then coasted to Pulau Condor, touching at several islands en route, and visited Saigon . . . where Crawfurd met [the traveller and natural historian] Monsieur [Pierre-Médard] Diard. After calling at Turon . . . the mission arrived at Hue, the capital of Cochin China, where, although French influence was predominant, Crawfurd received permission for the East India Company to trade’ (Howgego II, p. 149).

Following his return, Crawfurd was appointed Resident of Singapore in 1823 by Sir Stamford Raffles (who was retiring from the role) and he remained on the island until 1826, when he was posted to Rangoon as Civil Commissioner. In Burma Crawfurd led a mission to the court of the king at Ava and then travelled back to India in 1827, remaining there until 1828 when he retired permanently to England. In retirement Crawfurd wrote two accounts of his missions – the present work and Journal of an embassy from the Governor General of India to the court of Ava (London, 1829) – which were both ‘well received’ (ODNB). Journal of an embassy . . . to the courts of Siam and Cochin China describes the mission’s departure from Calcutta and its journey to Thailand via Penang, Malacca, Singapore, and Borneo; the events of the mission itself; and the return journey via Vietnam. Following the conclusion of the narrative, the final eight chapters discuss the literature, culture, theology, history, natural history, etc. of Thailand, the geography, culture, history, economy, etc. of Vietnam, and the geography, economy, and history of Singapore. THE FIRST DANTE IN HEBREW

6. DANTE (Saul FORMIGGINI, translator). Sefer Marot Elohim [in Hebrew]. / La Divina Commedia. Parte prima l’Inferno [all published]. Traduzione ebraica. Trieste, Julius Dase (Tipografia del Lloyd Austriaco), 1869.

8vo, pp. viii, 202, [4], Hebrew and Italian titles; the occasional spot, but a very good copy, uncut, in the original printed yellow wrappers; slightly soiled, spine restored. £750

First edition of the first attempt to translate the Divine Comedy into Hebrew.

The present translation, by Saul Formiggini, a physician from Trieste, started a heated debate amongst the Hebrew scholarly community on the propriety of translating Christian texts into Hebrew and on the vocabulary (Biblical and poetic) chosen in translating texts from Italian or from classical languages. The Hebrew scholar and rabbi Lelio Della Torre criticized Formiggini’s translation, stating that ‘an Israelite, in translating Dante into Hebrew, acts against Judaism’ (L. Della Torre, Sull’Inferno di Dante fatto ebraico dal signor S. Cav. Dott. Formiggini lettere due del prof. L. Della T. a Benedetto Levi, Padua 1871, p. 23, our translation).

Formiggini translated the Purgatorio and Paradiso as well, but the manuscripts, donated by Salvatore Sabbadini to the Museo Civico of Trieste in the 1940s and only recently re-discovered there, remain unpublished, perhaps as a result of the criticism provoked by the Inferno.

S. Sabbadini, ‘Di una traduzione ebraica della Divina Commedia’, in Archeografo triestino, 38, 1923, pp. 239–265; on Formiggini see Tullia Catalan, ‘La primavera degli ebrei. Ebrei italiani del Litorale e del Lombardo-Veneto nel 1848–49’, Zakhor 6 (2003), p. 42; J. Elbogen, Encyclopaedia Judaica, VI (1930) 1052. RUSSIAN AND GERMAN POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN 1886 – A FRENCH SOLDIER’S ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL

7. DE BEAUCHAMP, M. [Manuscript journal of a journey from France to Russia.] Paris, 16 February 1887.

4to (251 x 196 mm), ff. [100], pp. 1-187 numbered and written in ink in a late nineteenth-century hand; illustrated with the following items pasted in: one full-page and five double-page contemporary lithographic maps of northern Europe and Russia, partly annotated and routes marked in manuscript in red ink, one a photograph of a lithographic map, seven stamps of values 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 14 and 35 kopecks, one permit to travel in print and manuscript, one telegram receipt, one paper bill (value 3 roubles) and 10 smaller clippings, several from maps, six third-page pencil drawings annotated in ink, eight substantial and 10 smaller ink sketches in the text, some partially coloured; very light, occasional foxing, traces of historical glue around some pasted elements; contemporary French dark green, hard-grained half morocco gilt over patterned boards, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, lettered and dated in one, fleur-de-lis within panels in four, author’s name in one, marbled endpapers, blue and purple silk markers; covers slightly scuffed and with minor restoration, nonetheless a very attractive, well-illustrated manuscript. £2750

This handwritten travel memoir documents the progress from France via Germany to Russia, with extended visits to St Petersburg and Moscow, of a French soldier named de Beauchamp and his companion, Lieutenant Jehan de Lagarde, of the ‘11e Chasseurs’. The two men had been to Constantinople in the previous year, and went on this trip to Russia from 27 September to 2 November 1886; this fair copy of notes taken en route was finished in February 1887. Beauchamp’s narrative captures the spirit of the autumn of 1886: peoples and cities, food and architecture, excursions to the countryside and military exercises and the many, diverse designs of military uniforms make his narrative both a lively and informative one. With their descriptions of sites including Sanssouci palace and Bismarck’s house in Berlin, the Hermitage and military schools in St Petersburg, Red Square and a variety of churches in and around Moscow, the Gelati Monastery, the Batumi port in Georgia, Sebastopol on the Crimean Peninsula and a Museum of the Crimean War, and with their reviews of hotels and restaurants, this volume constitutes a personalised Baedeker of entertainment enjoyed by the military.

A true memento of the journey, the volume contains numerous drawings (e.g. of the fortifications at Kronstadt and the Kremlin), paper objects (for instance, a travel permit issued on 1 October 1886 to Beauchamp [transliterated ‘Bushon’] for travel from Vladikavkaz to Tiflis, worth 4 roubles, 32 kopecks for a stretch of 200 and ¾ versts, ‘with provision of four horses and guide’) and maps. The list of personalities with whom the two men share trains, meals and information further reads like a Who’s Who of European-Russian military and society: Karl Franz Alexander von Böhlendorff-Kölpin (1855-1925, member of the Reichstag and lieutenant of the Hussars of Zieten); ‘Alexis Sergewitch’ (identified in a contemporary annotation as politician Alexey Sergeyevich Yermolov, 1847-1917); and Baron Alexander of Kutzschenbach (1835-1909) are only a few examples. Kutzschenbach had established in Georgia, 20 years previously, glassworks (‘une verrerie, qu’il va perfectionner’) and a very successful dairy and cheese business (‘une laiterie colossale pour laquelle, hommes et bêtes, il a tout fait venir de Suisse!’); indeed, his imported business model had managed to increase milk productivity four- to fivefold (Ernst Siegentaler, ‘Schweizer Käse im Caucasus’, Burgdorfer Jahrbuch 53 (1986), 45-118, p. 56).

The two men not only take the Trans Caucasian route but also hear about plans for the Trans Siberian railway and the intention of a Siberian doctor (Lichkowitz) to inspect the territory – a very early reference indeed: construction work on the Trans Siberian railway would not commence until five years later, in 1891. Here and throughout, the journey is permeated with fine observations: the manuscript ends with Beauchamp’s signature after an almost poetic account of the electrically illuminated industrial area around Duisburg: ‘Toute la plaine du côté de Duisbourg est eclairée à la lumière électrique. Il est 9h du soir et fair nuit sombre; c’est fort joli: ce sont les phases lumineux qui éclairent les innombrable usines qui travaillent jour et nuit’. NAPOLEON, FABLES, AND TALES FROM ANTIQUITY: JUVENILE EDUCATION UNDER THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC

8. [FRANCE.] A manuscript compilation of fables, anecdotes, contemporary and classical history, and model letters. [France, c. 1801-2].

Manuscript in French on white and light blue thick laid paper, folio (285 x 220 mm), pp. [2, blank], 160, [64], [74 blank], neatly written in dark brown ink in a single hand, up to 30 lines per page; significant staining to first 8 leaves and to final blank leaves, a little staining to inner margins and pp. 45-50, a few ink stains and small tears, corners creased, otherwise in good condition; in three stab- stitched gatherings, remains of paper covers; most of lower cover wanting, upper cover soiled and chipped. £750

An intriguing compilation of short passages on contemporary French history (lauding Napoleon), stories from classical and European history, fables, anecdotes, and model letters, neatly written out, possibly by a teacher, during the later years of the French First Republic. A handwritten note on the upper cover reading ‘La Republique francaise’ and the heading ‘Devoirs de l’an 10’ on p. 95 would appear to place this manuscript’s composition in the ninth and tenth years of the First French Republic i.e. to 1801 and 1802, a dating supported by other evidence.

The first entry, headed ‘Recit de la conquéte d’égypte par Bonaparte’ covers, in quick succession, Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign of 1798, his return to France and election as First Consul the following year, and his crossing of the Alps and victory at Marengo in 1800. He is nowhere referred to as Emperor, his title from 1804. The events described were very much recent history for the compiler of our manuscript and this passage is unrestrained in its praise for Napoleon, describing him as ‘ce grand genie que les dieux on bien voulu nous accorder pour le bonheur de l’europe et de l’asie’. A later passage, on p. 27-29, relates Napoleon’s harangue to his troops in the Alps in 1800 during his second Italian campaign, in which he recalls the exploits of Hannibal. A passage headed ‘Lettre d’un jeune homme a un de ses amis nouvellement parti pour St Domingue’ (p. 160 ff.) also lavishes praise on Bonaparte, ‘notre héros du 18eme siécle’ who had ‘perfected society’, and refers to the Santo Domingo rebellion of 1801. Besides Napoleon, a few other passages describe events in ‘recent’ European history: we read of the siege of Calais by Edward III, of the Spanish conquest of South America, and of Frederick the Great’s victory at the battle of Rossbach in 1757. There are also anecdotes about Andrew II of Hungary, Charles the Bold, Gaspard II de Coligny, and the French naval officer Abraham Duquesne.

A significant number of passages are stories from Greek and Roman history and mythology. From myth and legend we read of Actaeon, Laius of Thebes, the sack of Troy, and Pyramus and Thisbe. And from ancient history come stories of Philip of Macedon, Alexander’s conquest of Asia, Pyrrhus, Demosthenes, and Zeno; Marius’s battle against the Cimbri, Hannibal’s victory at Cannae, Octavian, Nero, and Cicero.

Many of the passages are animal fables in the tradition of Aesop and La Fontaine, although in prose, and moral tales. Among the former are fables of the hen and the chicken, the eagle and the kite, the mouse and the old rat, the fly and the poor man, the magpie and its young, and the queen and the ants, while the latter include tales of a schoolboy and his book (study not books make one knowledgeable), a labourer and his son, and two fishermen. Other tales are intended to demonstrate qualities, such as loyalty, generosity (demonstrated by Marcus Camillus), and valour (embodied by Horatius Cocles). This diverse compilation also includes what might be described as model letters, one addressed to a ‘cher ami’, another headed ‘compliment’, and another to a friend ‘nouvellement parti pour Paris’.

The content of the manuscript is clearly aimed at a juvenile audience but the handwriting, few corrections and orthography seem to point to an adult scribe. Our manuscript is quite possibly the work of a teacher (‘devoirs’ heads a passage on p. 95): a collection of passages of moral and historical instruction copied out for dictation to the compiler’s young pupils perhaps? The exact source of the passages has not been ascertained, although the fable of ‘Les trois laboureurs’ (p. 149 ff.) appeared in a juvenile work entitled Le nouvel Éraste, published in Paris in the seventh year of the French Republic. This manuscript provides a fascinating insight into the education of French children during the First French Republic, not least in its eulogistic presentation of Napoleon, who would very soon introduce his own important educational reforms and a few years later become Emperor. THE ADVENTURES OF THE GIPSY KING

9. [GOADBY, Robert.] The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars . . . to which is added a dictionary of the Cant language used by the Mendicants. Bath, printed and sold by J. Browne, 1802.

8vo, pp. [ii], 124, with engraved frontispiece-portrait of Carew; a good copy bound in contemporary half calf; hinges a little rubbed; bookplate of Mr James Highett to front pastedown. £125

One of the bestsellers of eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century English biography. It is the semi-fictional reconstruction of the remarkable life of the impostor and thief Carew (1693-1750), a Gypsy king, who was deported to the American colonies and escaped back to England. This life of Carew proved enormously popular (originally published in 1745), and went through innumerable editions with varying titles. The dictionary of Cant language is between pp. 117 and pp. 124, and was updated to include contemporary expressions. INSCRIBED BY THE MOUNTAINEER AND VOLCANOLOGIST TEMPEST ANDERSON TO A FELLOW-MEMBER OF THE ALPINE CLUB

10. GRIBBLE, Francis Henry. The early mountaineers. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld. for T. Fisher Unwin, 1899.

8vo, pp. xiv, 338; half-tone portrait-frontispiece and 46 half-tone plates, one with images recto-and-verso; some light spotting and marking, frontispiece lacking tissue guard; original blue cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt with vignette, spine lettered in gilt, coated black endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, a few quires unopened; extremities slightly rubbed, slight, superficial cracking on hinges, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: Tempest Anderson (1846-1913, gift to:) William Cookworthy Compton, October 1899 (1854-1936, presentation inscription on half title ‘The Revd W. C. Compton. A trifling remembrance of a charming visit to the British Association Tempest Anderson Oct 99’). £300

First edition. The author Gribble (1862-1946) explains in his preface that The early mountaineers was intended to complement Sir Frederick Pollock’s account of the early history of mountaineering published in C. T. Dent’s Mountaineering (London, 1892). The work describes mountaineering in the classical era and subsequent centuries down to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and discusses the writings and achievements of (amongst others) Conrad Gessner, Josias Simler, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, and Marc-Théodore Bourrit. Neate judges Gribble’s work an ‘authoritative and detailed record of pre-nineteenth century mountaineering in the Alps and Pyrenees’.

This copy was a gift from the ophthalmic surgeon Tempest Anderson, who pursued his personal interests in geology, volcanology, photography, and mountaineering with distinction; he was ‘a distinguished and active member of the Alpine Club, having been elected in 1893 . . . . He made his own cameras and lenses, including a panoramic camera, and promoted the use of photography in geology. He served on a British Association committee which arranged the collection and documentation of several thousand geological photographs. The Royal Institution appointed him Tyndall lecturer on volcanoes, and he won awards for photographic studies of mountains and glaciers’ (ODNB). Anderson served on the councils of a number of learned societies, including the British Association for the Advancement of Science (becoming vice-president of the latter in 1906), and he inscribed this copy to W. C. Compton – who was the brother of the mountaineer and artist E. T. Compton and, like his brother and Anderson, a member of the Alpine Club – as a memento of the sixty-ninth meeting of the British Association. During the meeting (which was held at Dover in September 1899, Anderson spoke on ‘The eruption of Vesuvius in 1898’ (18 September), and ‘slides from negatives by the author were exhibited, some of which have been reproduced in the “Alpine Journal”, May 1899’ (Report of the sixty-ninth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (London, 1900), p. 749).

NLS, Mountaineering e011; Neate G69; Perret 2056 (‘important ouvrage . . . . Peu courant, recherché’); Wäber, Contribution à la bibliographie de la littérature suisse des voyages de 1891 à 1900, p. 28. AN INSCRIBED COPY OF A RARE HOTEL HISTORY WRITTEN BY in taverns with ‘unrepentant [English] sinners who were nightly in that state ‘CALCUTTA’S BERNARD SHAW’ when they couldn’t distinguish between Christmas and the Pujas. If they did not deliberately set out to reach hell, they made a deplorable mess of finding the road 11. HOBBS, Harry, Major. Spence’s Hotel and its times (1830-1936). to Heaven’ (p. 7). The history of Spence’s Hotel incorporates extensive Calcutta, Thacker’s Press & Directories, Ltd., [1936]. discussions of architectural masterpieces in its vicinity built from lottery funds (Calcutta Town Hall, and, purportedly, St John’s Church) and details on staff, their pay and duties. The final pages of the volume reproduce the ‘Broadcast Oblong 8vo, pp. [vii], [1, blank], 41, [1, blank], [2, section title, blank], 6; 15 half- Address on the King’s Jubilee. Given at the Calcutta Station’ on 6 May 1935 tone plates; very light foxing, especially on outer leaves, one very small marginal which had prompted the composition of this book. A contemporary review of tear without loss, initial leaves very slightly creased; contemporary blue cloth Hobbs’s work in The Straits Times (14 June 1936, p. 10) points out that ‘it is curious lettered in gilt on upper cover; extremities very lightly rubbed, generally a very Spence’s Hotel should have survived for more than a century and preserve its good copy; provenance: Harry Hobbs (1864-1956; inscription on title ‘with the good general characteristics throughout those changing years . . . . Major Hobbs is a wishes of H. Hobbs. February 29th 1936’, presenting the book to:) V. G. Nixon brilliant raconteur, who is able in a light, folder-like volume to entertain all those Esq. who are interested in the East with a fund of good stories about bad things’. £400 The work is rare, and COPAC only records one copy (Oxford University). We First edition. Based on a broadcast address given by the hotel’s manager, Hobbs have not traced any further copies in OCLC. for the King’s Jubilee at Calcutta Station, Spence’s Hotel and its times provides a history of the eponymous institution of Calcuttan hospitality, ‘the oldest hotel in India’ (p. 17), from its establishment in 1830 to the year of publication. Hobbs (born 1864) had moved to Calcutta aged 19 as a piano tuner, and soon built a business as piano importer, writer of books and articles (on subjects as varied as The romance of the Calcutta Sweep (Calcutta, 1930) and barmaids), volunteer soldier and, around the time of the Second World War, hotelier. Hobbs was a life member of the Asiatic Society from 1925 onwards and reportedly, at the time of his death in 1956, the ‘oldest European in India’ (‘Glass images of India found in shoebox allow glimpse into days of the Raj’, The Guardian, 7 May 2012, referring to Hobbs’s obituary). His tombstone bears the inscription: ‘His pen was his sword’, and thanks to his ‘sarcasm [which] could be searing, even vindictive and unkind . . . his many friends nicknamed him Calcutta’s Bernard Shaw’ (Raleigh Trevelyan, review of Martin Tucker, The Chingri Khal Chronicles (Winchester, 2006), in Times Literary Supplement, 3 November 2006, p. 28).

Spence’s Hotel provides an entertaining mixture of history and anecdotes. In the historical chapter on ‘Old-Time Taverns’ Hobbs relates a series of anecdotes of weary travellers looking for appropriate accommodation, restricted to boarding ‘A DIRECTORSHIP! – A DIRECTORSHIP! MY TEA-SHOP FOR A DIRECTORSHIP’ – AN ATTACK ON RICHARD TWINING’S CANDIDACY FOR DIRECTOR OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY

12. ‘HYSON, Timothy’ [?but Thomas LOWNDES]. A letter to Mr. Richard Twining, tea dealer, and one of the candidates for the present vacancy in the East India direction. London, C. Rowland for the author, 1827.

8vo (210 x 128mm), pp. [iv, title, imprint, preface], 5-16; light offsetting in gutter and onto back free endpaper; modern grey paper on boards, matching modern printed label on upper cover, old marbled edges; a very good copy. £250

Second(?) edition. The Letter to Mr Richard Twining is a public denunciation of the candidacy of the tea merchant Richard Twining (1749-1824) for a directorship of the East India Company in 1810. Twining, who had already been instrumental in the development of tea prices and taxation for many years, would be elected as Director of the East India Company in that year, and remain in office until his retirement due to ill health in 1817.

The East India Company was frequently the subject of satirical assaults. The text combines personal attacks, political rhetoric and, as a preface, a playful dramatization of a conversation between ‘Twining’ and ‘Sir William Bensley’ (modelled on a Director of the Company) – an exchange during which ‘Twining’ exclaims: ‘A Directorship! – a Directorship! my tea-shop for a Directorship’ (p. iv). His eagerness for the position, in contrast with his public protestations of his merits and virtues, make for the most comical points the Letter, which otherwise covers the intricacies of colonial trade and commerce, international organisations and their structures with much intelligence.

The Letter was published as part of Thomas Lowndes’s collected writings (Tracts in prose and verse, bound up together, London, 1825-1827), and it is likely that Lowndes, who owned stock in the East India Company, was indeed the author of the piece. The name appearing at the foot of the letter, one ‘Timothy Hyson, Late Supercargo and Chinese Interpreter’ of ‘Souchong-Place’ at ‘Portman-square’, appears to be a witty pseudonym: like souchong, hyson was a popular variety of tea traded to Britain at the time. 13. [JANSEN, Hendrik, translator]. Lettres écrites de Portugal sur l’état ancien et actuel de ce Royaume. Suivies du portrait historique de M. Le Marquis de Pombal. London and Paris, Cellot and Jombert (‘Desenne’ on a pasted-over slip covering original imprint), 1780.

8vo, pp. [iv], 72; a very good, clean copy bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine decorated gilt in compartments, gilt arms of Baron Stuart de Rothesay on covers, arms of Jean-Laurent, comte de Durfort-Civrac, duc de Lorges at foot of spine; small library shelf-mark on upper cover, binding rubbed at edges, foot of spine slightly chipped. £475

First French translation of Letters from Portugal, on the late and present State of that Kingdom (London, 1777), variously attributed to John Blankett and Philadelphia Stephens, and the first edition to include the portrait historique de M. Le Marquis de Pombal. Many of the letters deal with the relationship between Portugal and Brazil, America and England, celebrating the statesmanlike qualities of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis de Pombal, Secretary of the State of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves from 1750 to 1777, when he fell into disgrace following the accession to the throne of Portugal of Queen Maria I.

Provenance: Jean-Laurent, comte de Durfort-Civrac, duc de Lorges (1746–1826), Lieutenant-général des armées du roi, visited England on diplomatic missions several times; Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779–1845), British ambassador to France at the Duke of Wellington’s insistence, and later to Russia. Rothesay had a close relationship with Portugal, serving as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil from 1810 to 1814 and again from 1825 to 1826, negotiating and signing on behalf of John VI of Portugal a treaty recognizing the independence of Brazil in 1825. His extensive library was sold at auction by Sotheby & Wilkinson in 1855.

The work is rare: no copies are recorded in UK and OCLC lists only 2 copies in US, at the Library of Congress and Washington University; none of the copies we have been able to trace has the imprint variant ‘Desenne’.

Barbier II 1267; ESTC T153479; Foulché-Delbosc 176; Neiva, La France et le monde luso-brésilien: échanges et représentations (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles), p. 224 (note). JULIAN HUXLEY’S ANNOTATED COPY

14. KOESTLER, Arthur, et al. The God that failed: six studies in Communism . . . with an introduction by Richard Crossman. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1950.

8vo, pp. 272; a very good copy in the original blue publisher’s cloth with gilt lettered spine; small tear to joint at head of spine; ex-libris stamp ‘Julian S. Huxley’ on front free endpaper and with his pencil markings and annotations throughout. £250

First UK edition, annotated by the zoologist and philosopher Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975). The God that failed comprises personal essays by six very different intellectuals who were initially attracted to Communism but who subsequently became disillusioned. Part one, ‘The initiates’, collects accounts by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright, while part two, ‘Worshippers from afar’, includes contributions by André Gide, Louis Fisher, and Stephen Spender. The contributors saw Communism ‘as a vision of the Kingdom of God on earth . . . . They were not discouraged by the rebuffs of the professional revolutionaries, or by the jeers of their opponents, until each discovered the gap between his own vision of God and the reality of the Communist State – and the conflict of conscience reached breaking point’ (Introduction).

This copy contains numerous marginal marks and insightful annotations by Julian Huxley, as well as his own pencilled index of passages of interest covering the rear endpapers. Unlike some of the contributors to this volume, Huxley did not join the Communist Party. Instead, frustration at political inertia in the face of economic depression led him and others to found Political and Economic Planning (PEP), a group of leading figures from business, government, and academia which sought to examine issues affecting British government and society. 15. LA MARCHE, Olivier de. El cavallero determinado, traduzido de lengua Francesa en Castellana. Por don Hernando de Acuña. Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, Cerca la Biuda, y Iuan Moreto, 1591.

8vo, pp. [xxxii], 208, [8]; copperplate engraving of knight on title, woodcut initials, woodcut printer’s device on O3r; imperfect, wanting leaves C6, D1, D8, E1, E8, F4, F5, G5, I6, and L8, and with only 13 of the 20 full-page copper engravings, a few small stains; seventeenth- century calf; very worn, part of spine missing; numerous seventeenth-century inscriptions on endpapers (see below). £300

First Plantin edition of Acuña’s Spanish verse translation of La Marche’s allegorical romance Le chevalier délibéré. La Marche (c. 1425-1502) was a poet and chronicler in the service of the dukes of Burgundy. In Le chevalier délibéré the author sets out, accompanied by Thought, to fight with Accident and Weakness in the forest of Fate, witnessing the defeat of Philip of Burgundy by the latter and Charles the Bold by the former. Hernando de Acuña (c. 1520- 1580) was a soldier poet who served in Germany, Italy and Tunisia. His translation of La Marche’s work was supposedly versified from a prose rendering of the French text by Charles V. Acuña’s translation was first published in Antwerp in 1553 by Joannes Steelsius, who published another edition two years later. The attractive copperplate engravings in this edition, some of which are wanting in this copy, have been attributed to Petrus van der Borcht (1545-1608), a native of Antwerp, and were inspired by the woodcuts in the earlier Steelsius editions.

This copy contains a number of elegant seventeenth-century ownership inscriptions in Italian and Spanish on the endpapers which place it in the hands of British owners. The first is addressed to ‘Giacomo Ferrerio gentilhuomo escozzese’ and the second to ‘Gian. Codner mercante Inglese’. There are further inscriptions, including some verse, by ‘Franersco [sic] Seton’ and David F. Seton.

Palau 130355; Peeters-Fontainas 663; STC Spanish 108. COPAC records three copies in UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge University Library, and Senate House Library). DUGALD STEWART AND HUME’S READING OF THE PRINCE DIVULGED AND CONTESTED

16. LEONI, Michele. Opinioni sul Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli. Parma, Giuseppe Paganino, 1822.

8vo, pp. 52 (pp. 49-52 are duplicated); some fraying to upper margin, some light stains to p. 6, otherwise a crisp, clean copy, uncut in the original printed blue stiff wrappers; some very light wear and soiling to the wrappers. £650

First edition of Leoni’s work on Machiavelli and The prince. The Opinioni begins with Leoni’s translation of part of Dugald Stewart’s Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the progress of metaphysical, ethical, and political philosophy, since the revival of letters in Europe, which first appeared in the supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1815. While Stewart acknowledged that ‘as an original and profound thinker, the genius of Machiavel completely eclipses that of all his contemporaries’, he was no admirer of Machiavelli’s work. ‘He cannot be numbered among the benefactors of mankind’, Stewart writes, before discussing the nefarious effects of his creed, quoting Condorcet, and agreeing with Hume that his reasoning was ‘extremely defective’ and his policy ‘profligate and shortsighted’.

Taking his cue from Stewart’s text and using its remarks as a framework, Leoni, from p. 19 to the end, adds a full essay of his own. While acknowledging and showing that Stewart and Hume had the merit of bringing about a modern science of ‘political economy’, and while showing an understanding of the reasons behind their rejection of Machiavelli, he builds a two-fold critique to the Scots’ views on The prince. Firstly, he calls on a wealthy tradition of historians, who believed that Machiavelli’s work should not be read as a series of precepts or recommendations, but as a practical observation of what is, or had been, the case; in fact a very acute observation of what is the case not just at a level of historical facts, but at the more intimate and universal level of human impulses and passions. Secondly, he invokes Rousseau’s authority (the Contrat social had contained important remarks on The prince) and extols Machiavelli as the most passionate advocate of republicanism and anti-tyranny.

Leoni (1776-1858) studied philosophy at Parma and was a prolific author and translator, producing Italian editions of Shakespeare, Sheridan, Byron, and Pope.

Rare: there are no copies in COPAC, OCLC records only three copies (Berlin, Montpellier and Strasbourg), and ICCU notes four copies in Italy. THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE FOUNDER OF NON-EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY

17. LOBACHEVSKY, Nikolai Ivanovich. Алгебра, или Вычисление конечныхъ [Algebra, ili vychislenie konechnykh (Algebra, or Calculus of Finites)]. Kazan, Universitetskaia tipografiia [University press], 1834.

8vo, pp. [ii], x, [3]–528, [2, errata]; some worming, mostly marginal, touching some letters in only a few instances, without affecting legibility; small waterstain to upper margin of a few quires; nevertheless a very good copy, bound in modern quarter purple morocco over marbled boards, tan lettering piece on spine. £12,000

First edition of Lobachevsky’s ground-breaking work on Algebra, the only comprehensive book to be published during his lifetime (all his works being published primarily as articles in scientific and academic journals or small pamphlets), in which he demonstrates a new method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations, separating the roots of a polynomial by squaring them repeatedly (today called the Dandelin-Gräffe method after the Belgian Dandelin and the Swiss K. Gräffe, who independently discovered it around the same time).

Lobachevsky (1792–1856) started working on Algebra as early as 1825 for a course of lectures at the University of Kazan, but the text was rejected by the censors for political reasons. The methods here discussed lead to his On the principles of geometry, published in the Kazan’ Messenger in 1829–30, in which he explained his discovery of non-Euclidian geometry. These theories were to be applied by Einstein in demonstrating that the universe has a non-Euclidean structure, thus making Lobachevsky one of the major precursors to the theory of relativity.

The work is rare: OCLC lists only one copy, at Harvard. We have been able to locate two further copies, at the National Library of Russia and the Russian State Library.

Engel 5; Kagan 5; see DSB, VIII, 428–434; A. S. Householder, ‘Dandelin, Lobachevskii, or Gräffe?’, in American Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), pp. 464–466; A. P. Youschkevitch and I. G. Baschmakova, ‘Algebra ili vychisleni Konechnyhy’ (‘Algebra, or calculus of finites’), in Istoriko- matematicheskie issledovaniya 2 (1949), pp. 720–28; and G. V. Gnedenko, ‘O rabotakh N. I. Lobachevsky po teorii veroiatnostei’ (‘Concerning the works of N. I. Lobachevsky on the calculus of probabilities’], ibid., pp. 129–136. 18. LOGUE, Christopher. Kings. An account of books one and two of Homer’s Iliad. London, Turret Books, 1992.

8vo, pp. [viii], 85, [5, including fold-out ‘Guide to pronunciation’ and colophon]; an excellent copy; black cloth covers, silver-lettered vellum spine, orange endpapers, top edges gilt, orange paper and black cloth slipcase; signed by the author. £100

The handsome Turret Books revised edition of Logue’s Kings (first published by Faber and Faber in 1991), issued in a limited edition of 85 copies (10 ad personam) signed by the author. This copy is number 36.

The poet Christopher Logue (1926-2011) began freely translating Homer for a Third Programme commission. The resulting book, War music: an account of books 16 to 19 of Homer’s Iliad, was published to critical acclaim in 1981. Logue never learned Greek but aimed at an original English version informed by imagistic techniques he had learned from Eliot and Pound. Craig Raine, editor at Faber and Faber, encouraged Logue to continue with Homer, and four further volumes followed: Kings, The husbands (1995), All day permanent red (2003), and Cold calls (2005). Meticulously drafted, Logue’s versions provide an original, violent vision of Homer’s heroic narrative. YELLOW FEVER ON THE NIGER: A MEDICAL HERO’S TRAVEL ACCOUNT INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

19. McWILLIAM, James Ormiston. Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2. Comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination. London, C. Adlard for John Churchill, 1843.

8vo (224 x 141mm), pp. viii, 287, [1, blank]; lithographic frontispiece and plate of indigenous peoples of the Niger area, one hand-coloured lithographed geological cross-section, one folding engraved map of the lower course of the river Niger and the route of Captain Trotter’s expedition, one full-page woodcut diagram showing the ventilation of ships based on the vacuum principle, and several tables in the text; one small, neatly repaired marginal tear on l. 1/1, very light creasing on initial ll. and frontispiece, plate lightly marked; original dark green-blue publisher’s cloth, covers blocked in blind with central ornament enclosed within single rule panel with foliate corner pieces, triple-ruled border, spine divided into five compartments by blind rules, lettered in gilt in one, lemon yellow endpapers, uncut, modern dark blue slipcase; spine lightly faded, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, small marks on upper cover, superficial cracking on hinges, overall a very good copy in the original cloth; provenance: James Ormiston McWilliam (1808-1862, epidemiologist and naval surgeon; autograph inscription on front free endpaper (‘with the very kind regards of the author’) presenting the book to:) Frederick James Brown (1824-1879, surgeon and physician) – Edwin S. Munger (1922-2010, geographer and collector of Africana; Munger Africana Library blind stamp on title). £1750 First edition. This classic treatise on the Niger region and of the geology of the Niger, condensed from the notes of Dr. the yellow fever was written by Scottish doctor James Stanger’ (ODNB). Ormiston McWilliam, the hero of a government expedition exploring the region and its commercial opportunities, and Later, he not only received the Blane Gold Medal in explicitly aimed at suppressing the slave trade. When the recognition of his exemplary ‘Journal of Practice’ (awarded yellow fever broke out on all three of the expedition’s 1843; established in 1829 by Sir Gilbert Blane ‘for the best vessels, two were sent back to sea with their dying crews, journal kept by the surgeons of His Majesty’s Navy’ but the third, the Albert, was steered down the river to safety (obituary for Sir Gilbert Blane, The annual biography and by McWilliam, aided by the expedition’s geologist William obituary: 1836, vol. 20, p. 394)), but was also made medical Stanger. officer to the Custom House (from 1847), fellow of the Royal Society (1848), and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Yellow fever was the American plague of the eighteenth and from 1859; not least, McWilliam was instrumental in the nineteenth centuries – one tenth of the population of formation and development of the Epidemiological Society Philadelphia fell victim to the disease in 1793 while its (1850 ff.). vicious outbreaks in New York City prompted the foundation of the New York Board of Health; but it also The recipient of this copy was a physician sixteen years coincided with the peak of the international slave trade and McWilliam’s junior, one Frederick James Brown, a member was closely connected with modern developments in of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1844 (and a fellow epidemiology, hygiene and quarantine. Naval medical from 1863), who had studied at University College London, officers like McWilliam were instrumental in this history: where he was awarded gold medals in surgery, physiology their need to ensure the health of crews in a self-contained and midwifery. Their association with each other appears to environment, combined with the opportunity to observe have been based not merely on mutual respect in the outbreaks of diseases in different regions and climates, profession: Brown would be influential in the establishment accelerated the pace of their medical advances. McWilliam’s of the McWilliam Testimonial, founded to support the role within medical history would have been impressive family of McWilliam after his untimely death by accident at even without the yellow fever outbreak: this voyage was the the age of 54. It seems ironic that a survivor of yellow fever first to test the prophylactic use of quinine as an antimalarial and leading figure in the medical profession should die measure. With his intelligent actions and composition of falling down a set of stairs. this book, McWilliam wrote medical history. The Medical history of the expedition to the Niger ‘supplies a history of the This work is rare: only four other copies can be traced at fever, description, morbid anatomy, sequences, causes, auction in the last 35 years, only one of which preserves the treatment, with cases; besides an account of the state of original binding. medicine among the blacks and of vaccination; a description of the ventilation of the ships, which was carried out on the Hess and Coger 7102; Hogg 880. plan adopted by Dr. Reid for the houses of parliament; an abstract of meteorological observations; and a brief account A RARE PORTFOLIO OF BOTANICAL PRINTS BY MARGARET MEE

20. MEE, Margaret Ursula. Brazilian Bromeliads [titled thus on upper cover]. São Paulo, Pancrom Indústrias Gráficas Ltda for Alternativa Serviços Programados Ltda, 1992.

Broadsheets, pp. [2, biography of Mee with colour-printed portrait, verso blank], [2, colophon and limitation statement, verso blank]; eight colour-printed plates after Mee with titles and botanical descriptions by Maria das Graças Lapa Wanderley on the versos, all loose as issued; original green cloth portfolio with paper lining and cloth fore-edge ties, titled in blind on the upper cover; portfolio very lightly marked, ties slightly worn, otherwise a fine copy. £500

First and only edition of this portfolio, one of 500 copies. The British botanical artist Margaret Mee (1909-1988) moved to Brazil in 1952, and ‘soon became captivated by the luxuriant tropical flora of the forests of the Serra do Mar in south-eastern Brazil; she began seriously to collect and paint, taking detailed notes and working in gouache, and in this wealth of subject material found her true vocation as a botanical artist. Before long she yearned to see the plants of the tropical forests, and, with a friend . . . she set out in 1956 for Belém and her first experience of the Amazonian flora. It was the first of many expeditions which led her through most of the vast Amazon basin, relying on local guides, surviving the hazards of canoe travel, the local food or lack of it, the often dangerous and always troublesome insect life, and the occasional hostility towards a solitary white woman’ (ODNB).

Mee made further expeditions, and her paintings and publications achieved widespread recognition in the following years – a recognition marked by numerous decorations and awards, including the honorary citizenship of Rio de Janeiro (1975); the British MBE for services to Brazilian botany (1976); the Brazilian order of Cruzeiro do Sul (1979); and fellowship of the Linnean Society (1986). Mee’s paintings had illustrated Lyman B. Smith’s The Bromeliads (South Brunswick, NJ: 1969) and Brazilian Bromeliads contains eight finely-printed botanical plates printed on couché paper and a biographical introduction, which quotes the Brazilian botanist Elton Leme: ‘considering the whole, [Mee’s] studies of Bromeliads are the outstanding feature of her works; their plastic beauty, their vivid colours and variegated shapes, how could they fail to capture the fancy of that artist?’. The specimens depicted are: Aechmea castelnavii; Neoregelia fosteriana; Nidularium burchellii; Billbergia amoena; Nidularium innocentii; Aechmea fernandae; Neoregelia concentrica; and Aechmea aquilega. The portfolio was issued in an edition of 500 and is rare; COPAC only locates one copy in British collections (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). 21. MERRY FROLICS (The) or the comical cheats of Swalpo a notorious pickpocket. And the merry pranks of Roger the Clown. [London,] Seven Dials: Reprinted by J. Jones, Ballad-monger, Patter-printer, &c. N.B.—Cards for Raffles and friendly Meetings, ☞ no Credit. [!] [c. 1825].

16mo, pp. 16, with twelve woodcut engravings; a fine copy, disbound. £200

An attractive chapbook, copiously illustrated with almost entirely irrelevant woodcuts – a bull in a suit, St George fighting the dragon, a shoemaker.

Swalpo is a virtuoso of petty crime. After stealing a piece of gold from a hapless fairgoer’s mouth by means of a complex trick he is introduced to a group of gentlemen who encourage him to demonstrate his mastery as a pickpocket. He filches an expensive watch, a silver tankard, and even the coat from a man’s back. His friend Roger’s observation, ‘S’diggers he’ll steal your livers if he says he’ll do it’, seems hard to fault. The story ends with reconciliation between the injured parties and an alarming demonstration of how to carve a pheasant the ‘Welsh’ way. HUNGARIAN TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE OF LIBERALISM

22. MILL, John Stuart. A szabadságról . . . Angolból forditotta és az elöszót irta Kállay Béni. Pest, Kiadja Ráth Mór, 1867.

8vo, pp. [iv], lxiv, 184; light soiling on title-page, but a very good copy in a later binding of blue and black cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges; extremities a little rubbed, a few marks on lower cover; some pencil underlining and marginal marks in the introduction, ink note and ownership inscription on title, ink stamp of Eötvös Jozsef Collegium dated 1895 to verso of title, p. xvii and p. 184, further stamps on rear free endpaper. £750

First Hungarian edition of John Stuart Mill’s great essay On liberty with a lengthy introduction by the Austro-Hungarian statesman Béni Kállay (1839-1903). First published in 1859, Mill’s vastly influential essay was dedicated to his wife Harriet who had provided the stimulus for the work. ‘Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on. He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannize over a minority, and his warning against it has a contemporary ring: “We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and, if we are sure, stifling it would be an evil still”’ (PMM 345).

The Hungarian public were first introduced to Mill’s classic text through this translation by the young Béni Kállay. Ahead of Kállay lay a distinguished career as consul-general to Belgrade, departmental chief at the foreign office in Vienna, and Imperial minister of finance and administrator of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post he held for over twenty years. Kállay’s translation is prefaced by a lengthy introduction in which he ‘nailed his flag firmly to the mast of liberty, the desire for which “is deeply rooted in human nature”. Individuality, and the freedom to express it, was for Kállay the litmus test of a liberal society, although he specifically denied that this had come about through some inevitable progressive tendency in human history. Kállay also examined the relationship between individuality and the force of most natural interest to a Hungarian politician, nationality . . . . For Kállay most “nation-individualities” (p. lx: “nép- egyéniségek”), as he called them, were too weak to stand on their own. To protect themselves they had to unite in ad hoc defensive alliances, which could be dissolved when no longer needed. The “basic principle of the balance of power”, in future, had to be based on the self-interest of nations. Just as individuals in society had to unite to resist the tyranny of state and society, so, on the international level, nations could best preserve their individuality in this kind of “free union” (p. lxi: “szabad egyesülés”)’ (I. D. Armour, Apple of discord, 2014, p. 59). In the course of his discussion, Kállay refers to John William Draper’s History of the intellectual development of Europe, Charles Brook Dupont-White’s French translation of Mill’s essay, the Magna Carta, the French economist and statesman Turgot, and Francis Lieber’s On civil liberty.

MacMinn, Hainds & McCrimmon p. 92; PMM 345 (first English edition). Rare: COPAC records a single copy, at the Bodleian; not found in OCLC. 23. MÜLLER, Johann Baptist. Erfahrungssätze über die contagiöse oder ägyptische Augenentzündung. Gesammelt am Krankenbette. Mainz, Florian Kupferberg, 1821.

8vo, pp. [xiv], [i, errata], 175, [1]; a few leaves slightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy in contemporary orange boards; authorial presentation inscription in ink ‘Dem Königlichen Medicinal=Rath, Professor . . . Dr. von Walther’ on verso of the free end-paper, facing the title. £850

A fine presentation copy of Müller’s very rare ophthalmological study of a disease then known as the ‘Aegyptian eye infection’.

A physician and surgeon with the Prussian military, Müller describes his findings in cases of eye infections amongst soldiers sometimes so severe as to result in blindness. He discusses at length the question of contagiousness of the disease, and preventive measures. The final pages provide some statistical data, followed by additional case histories.

Provenance: the recipient of this presentation copy was the distinguished surgeon and ophthalmologist Philipp Franz von Walther (1782-1849), a pupil of Beer and, together with Graefe, editor of the important Journal für Chirurgie und Augenheilkunde.

Wellcome IV p. 193. Not in the Becker Collection. OCLC records three US locations, at the National Library of Medicine, Northwestern University and New York Academy of Medicine. 24. RAVERAT, Gwendolen Mary. The wood engravings of Gwen Raverat. Selected with an introduction by Reynolds Stone. London, The University Press, Cambridge for Faber and Faber, 1959.

4to, pp. 136; wood-engraved frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations by Gwen Raverat after Gwen and Jacques Raverat (some from magnesium blocks ‘made for this edition’); a few light spots; original charcoal buckram, spine lettered in gilt on green panel and with publisher’s name in gilt, dust-jacket reproducing wood-engravings by Raverat, retaining price; offsetting on free endpapers, corners very lightly rubbed, dust-jacket slightly creased and torn at edges, nonetheless a very good, bright copy. £150

First edition. This was the first catalogue of the wood-engravings of Raverat (1885-1957) to be published, and the works were selected and edited by the distinguished wood-engraver Reynolds Stone (1909-1979), who later wrote of her that ‘everything that Gwen Raverat undertook was done with intelligence and skill – her graphic work for the Admiralty in the Second World War, as well as her theatre designs and paintings and drawings – but it was through wood- engraving that she was able to communicate her vision most fully. In her engraving she did not aim at decoration or use a strong decorative line, like her friend Eric Gill; nor was she a naturalist interested in the rendering of a bird's plumage or an animal's fur, like Thomas Bewick. Rather, she was a master of light, shade, and the interplay of textures, with a deceptively simple technique, and a bold sense of design’ (ODNB). The volume reproduces both individual engravings and suites of images for the books that Raverat illustrated for the Ashendene Press and other publishers. 25. RESCH, Johann Ulrich. Osiandrische Experiment von Sole, Luna & Mercurio. Nuremberg, heirs of Johann Andreas and Wolffgang Endter the younger, 1659.

8vo, pp. [viii], 327; lightly browned; a good copy in eighteenth- century speckled boards; eighteenth-century engraved bookplate ‘Domus S.S. Adelhaidis et Caietani’ on front paste-down. £1800

Very rare first edition of Resch’s account of Osiander’s alchemical experiments.

‘I have found nothing about Resch, the editor of the book. He says, however, distinctly in the preface that the author of the experiments was Lucas Osiander, professor and cancellarius in Tübingen, with his brother, Johann Otto, Abbot of Adelberg. They communicated their experiments and observations some five and thirty years earlier. Chapter x. in the present book is a reprint of Ewald von Hoghelande’s tract: Kurtzer Bericht und klarer Beweiss, &c., so that it contains some historical matter’ (Ferguson). Von Hoghelande’s treatise was first published separately in 1604. It includes several accounts of transmutations. At the end Resch gives extracts from works by Rhenanus, Michael Maier, and Joachim Tancke among others. Pages 308-310 contain an account of what was found in Rudolph II’s treasury after the Emperor’s death in 1612, and of his alchemical experiments.

Ferguson II p. 255; Krivatsy 9574; Wellcome IV p. 509. Not in Neville. OCLC locates only four copies in US, at the National Library of Medicine, University of Delaware, Lehigh, and Wisconsin. 'UNQUESTIONABLY THE BEST COLLECTION OF STEREOGRAMS THAT HAS YET BEEN PRODUCED IN MADRAS'

26. SCOTT, Allan Newton. Hyderabad. Madras, 1862.

Eight stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each mounted on card, approximately 3⅜ x 6⅞ inches (8.5 x 17.5 cm), six with captions on verso, four with a blindstamp of the photographer’s initial on the front bottom right corner; some minor marks or spotting, but generally in good condition. £550

Important early views of India from the first-prize-winning stereoview series exhibited at the Madras Photographic Society’s 1861 exhibition.

Allan Newton Scott served in the Madras Artillery from 1840 to 1866, during which time he was an active amateur photographer and early member of the Madras Photographic Society. These images come from a larger series of 54 stereoviews which were included in the Society’s 1861 exhibition and reviewed by the Madras Journal of Literature and Science (no. 11, May 1861) as ‘unquestionably the best collection of stereograms that has yet been produced in Madras and possesses the qualities of clear focussing and printing, tasteful selection of subjects and careful manipulation and mounting’. The eight here come from his studies of tombs and antiquities at Golconda and Hyderabad and include:

‘Roadside Tombs (Mahomedan) near Hyderabad’ ‘Hill Fort of Golconda, near Hyderabad, from the Tombs’ ‘Door of Tomb No. 121’ ‘Tomb of Abdoola Shah, at Golconda, near Hyderabad’ ‘Nawaub Shumush-ool-Oomra of Hyderabad, Nawaub Iktidar-ool-Moolk, his som, Nawaub- Tegh-Jung, Son of Iktidar-ool-Moolk’ ‘Interior of Summer Residence of Nawaub Shumsh-ool-Oomra’

Later, in 1862, Allan Newton Scott published an extended series the photographs alongside text by Royal Society Historian Charles R. Weld in Sketches in India: taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency (London, Lovell Reeve). FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE FAMOUS PAPER-MAKING WHATMANS

27. [THOU, Jacques-Auguste de, and Francesco GUICCIARDINI.] Thuanus restitutus sive sylloge locorum variorum, in historia illustrissimi viri Jacobi Augusti Thuani hactenus desideratorum. Item Francisci Guicciardini Paralipomena quae in ipsius historiarum libris III, IV, & X impressis non leguntur. Ex autographo Florentino recensita & aucta. Latinè, Italicè & Gallicè edita. Amsterdam, Joannes Henricus Boom, 1663.

12mo, pp. [iv], 111, [5], 77, [1], 78-79, [16 (index and errata)]; repairs to small holes in leaf I1 touching some words, otherwise a very good copy in 18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt border, corner fleurons and central pelican stamp to covers, patterned edges; spine chipped at head, upper joint a little cracked, wormtracks to upper cover, small wormhole to foot of spine; armorial bookplate of James Whatman on front pastedown. £325

First edition, supplying corrections and additions to previous editions of the Historia sui temporis by the French historian, statesman, and bibliophile Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) as well as additions to the Storia d’Italia of the Florentine statesman and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540).

Thou’s famous Historia, covering the period 1546 to 1607, was published in five parts between 1604 and 1620. The author’s impartial approach to contemporary events made him a pioneer in the scientific approach to history, although his work was placed on the index of prohibited books in 1609. The incompleteness of many editions of the Historia explains the need for Thuanus restitutus. Guicciardini’s Storia d’Italia covered Italian history between 1494 and 1534. The author’s first-hand experience of many of the events described, and his critical use of evidence, make the Storia the most important contemporary history of Italy of the period. The additions supplied here, missing from previous printed editions and taken from the author’s manuscript, are given in Latin, Italian and French translation. Short Title Catalogue Netherlands distinguishes between two variants of this volume: our copy has exer /cuerunt on leaf I5 lines 6-7.

This copy bears the spade shield armorial of James Whatman, most likely the son of the inventor of wove paper. James the younger (1741-1798) expanded his father’s Kent papermaking business, experimenting with new techniques which resulted in ‘antiquarian’ paper, the largest ever made in England and the first to rival continental papers. Whatman wove paper was adopted by the British and American governments, and used by William Blake for his illuminated books. James purchased an estate at Vinters, Kent, in the 1780s and established a library there, which was further developed by his son James. Thuanus restitutus appears in the Catalogue of the library at Vinters in Kent published in 1841 (p. 198), complementing the editions of Thou’s Historia and Guicciardini’s Storia d’Italia which are also recorded as being in the Whatmans’ library.

STCN 095061134. For Thou see En Français dans le texte 81. 28. [VASCO, Giambattista.] La felicità pubblica considerata nei coltivatori di terre proprie. Brescia, Rizzardi, 1769.

8vo, pp. 120; marginal paper flaw on g6 (far from text, in the lower outer corner), minute pin-hole wormhole near the gutter in the first few leaves, but an exceptionally fresh, crisp copy in dark impression printed on strong paper, in contemporary stiff vellum, flat spine, gilt morocco lettering-piece, all edges sprinkled red, preserving the green silk bookmark.

£1750

Very rare first edition of ‘one of the most important works of the Italian Enlightenment’ (translated from Venturi, Settecento riformatore III, p. 18).

Published anonymously, sometime attributed to Giuseppe Cauzzi, this most daring of proposals for reform was in fact the work of Giambattista Vasco, whom Venturi ranks alongside Pietro Verri and a few others as one of the principal economic thinkers of Enlightened Italy.

Vasco’s radical idea for reform comes as a reply to the question posed by the Free Economic Society of St Petersburg on the public utility possibly derived from peasants owning the land they work. It stems from his belief that participation in society is an entitlement granted principally by private ownership of land. Citizens (‘Citizens’ is in fact the title of this work which is printed on the half-title) can only feel committed as the stakeholders and stewards of a working, happy society if they can have a plot they can call their own. Though far from advocating a perfectly equal distribution of land, and as much against excessive fractioning as against excessive extensions, Vasco proposes the adoption of maximum and minimum terms of extension for landed property. He is aware that such radical restructuring cannot possibly apply to old, established nations; he therefore looks to America as the ideal ground for the building of a new society, founded on a concept of citizenship that stems from ownership.

Einaudi 5834; Higgs 5201; Kress Italian 379; Mattioli 3700. Not in Goldsmiths’ or Sraffa. Very rare outside Italy. OCLC shows no copies in the UK, two copies at Toronto, two in France and one in Switzerland. WALLACE’S ESSAYS ON EVOLUTION, GEOLOGY, PHYSICS, The previous (and probably the first) owner of this volume was the POLITICS, ETC. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH physician and soldier C. K. McKerrow, who was educated at the Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge. He graduated MA, 29. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Studies scientific and MB, BC in 1908 and took the diplomas of MRCS and LRCP in the social. London, Richard Clay & Sons for Macmillan & Co., 1900. same year; he then took up the positions of Assistant House- Surgeon and later Assistant House-Physician at St George’s 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. I: xv, [1, blank], 532; II: viii, 535, [1, imprint]; Hospital, London, before becoming an extern at the Frauenklinik, errata slips tipped onto pp. I, [xi] and II, viii; wood-engraved and Vienna, and finally joining his father’s practice in Ayr. In 1915 half-tone illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text, some full- McKerrow was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps page, one folding map printed in blue and black and bound to and subsequently appointed Regimental Medical Officer (RMO) to throw clear; occasional light spotting, small hole on l. I, D4, cracks the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in France, where he on vol. I block; original green cloth gilt, upper covers with gilt established an efficient and disciplined medical unit and developed ‘ARW’ monograms enclosed by the title, and upper border of gilt strategies for the quick and effective administration of first aid, and rules and lower border of blind rules, lower covers with upper and evacuation and treatment of casualties. Amongst his comrades, lower borders of blind rules, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, white McKerrow acquired ‘a reputation as an RMO of extraordinary endpapers; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, spines courage. During one attack he had run out to help a wounded man slightly leant, slight cracking on vol. I. block, nonetheless a very and been pursued by a hail of firing. Despite this, he treated the good, bright set; provenance: Charles Kenneth McKerrow, Clare casualty and found a bit of tin roofing to serve as a stretcher. He College, Cambridge (1883-1916, book-labels on front free dragged him back to safety, under fire the entire way’ (E. Mayhew, endpapers). ‘Regimental Medical Officer Charles McKerrow: saving lives on the £700 Western Front’, in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, vol. 44 (2014), pp. 158-162, at p. 160). First edition. Wallace explains in his preface that Studies scientific and social ‘consists mainly of reprints of the more important articles McKerrow also developed an interest in ‘trench fever’, and began I have contributed to reviews and other periodicals during the collecting data on cases, which he sent back to his wife Jean in Ayr thirty-five years from 1865 to 1899. I have ventured to call them and used as the basis for a paper titled ‘Pyrexias of doubtful origin “Studies”, because the larger part of them deal with problems in in an infantry battalion on active service’, which he read in early which I have been specially interested, and to the comprehension December 1916 ‘to general acclaim at a divisional medical and solution of which I have devoted much time and thought. conference. It was the largest research study of the topic to date Many of these problems are connected with the modern theory of conducted by an officer in a forward position and accordingly he evolution, others with important geological and physical theories, was asked to prepare it for publication’ (op. cit., p. 162), and it others again with educational, political, or social questions. They appeared in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1918. are dealt with either in the way of exposition or criticism, and in Travelling to the front on 20 December 1916, McKerrow was several cases they contain novel views or fresh arguments, seriously wounded by shrapnel from a shell, and died from his strengthening the case in favour of some of the disputed theories’ wounds shortly afterwards: ‘he was 33 years old . . . . The (p. [v]). He further notes that many of the pieces ‘have received a Northumberlands were devastated at the loss of an RMO widely careful revision’ and in many cases he has amended and enlarged acknowledged to be the finest in the entire division’ (loc. cit.). the original article to such an extent ‘as to render it a new piece of work’ (loc. cit.). 30. [WEST SUSSEX PASTIMES – IN PHOTOGRAPHS.] [Cover title:] The troops. Littlehampton, [n.p.], 1935.

8vo, pp. [44] + eight gelatin silver print photographs + manuscript note loosely inserted; photographs approximately 3 x 4¼ inches (7.7 x 10.8 cm.), or the reverse, pasted in with letterpress captions below, a little tarnishing to edges of some prints, occasional offsetting of type visible on prints, but generally crisp and clean, blindstamp of Warwick House, Littlehampton and presentation inscription ‘To Jane, June 1935, Tom’ on first free endpaper; in original burgundy cloth with lettering in gilt on upper cover; spine and top edge lightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed. £480

First (and presumably only) edition, rare. A nostalgic account of a childhood gang’s friendship and their pastimes in the 1920s.

The unnamed first person narrator succinctly recounts memories of growing up in West Sussex among a circle of friends from age 5 or 6 until the end of their school careers. As the group ages, their interests and activities mature accordingly. Tom describes how the group’s early diversions revolve around ‘clockwork trains, toy aeroplanes, miniature steam engines…mudpies, fights, sticky sweets’ and moved onto competitive sports. At age twelve the gang started racing twice a week on the beach at Littlehampton and each school holiday held a ‘Grand Prix’ and the ‘Rustington Road race’. Later hockey was the competitive sport of choice, being suitable for mixed teams, alongside tennis, swimming, and a ‘badminton-cum-fives-cum-ping-pong’ game which they nicknamed ‘wall tennis’. The troops also partook in amateur dramatics, performing a play which Stephen wrote called ‘Canaries’ and then filming with a baby cine camera another of his plays, called ‘Crooks in Clover’ after the film ‘Clowns in Clover’ (1928). By 1929 the more mature gang decided to have a ‘clubroom’ where ‘two Club Nights a week were held . . . we generally played the gramophone and talked scandal, mostly the latter. Sometimes cards. Jane always insisted on being barmaid – this sounds awfully naughty but it was only Orange crush and cider’. A light-hearted memoir of youth in a bygone era. This presentation copy is inscribed by the supposed author, Tom, to Jane, one of the original four members of ‘the gang’. The accompanying manuscript poem (likely also by Tom) is a light-hearted verse written to comfort Jane while ill with mumps and absent for a gathering of ‘the troops’. It is signed by eleven members and Mrs Mitchell – Philip and Jane’s mother and previous Hon. Treasurer to the club.

The troops are gathered once again to celebrate – but where is Jane? While nursing someone else’s mumps Herself has caught the horrid lumps, which proves, alas, that those who serve won’t always get what they deserve. We’ll think of you and drink your health wishing you happiness and wealth, and all hope you’re not feeling rotten – Assuring you you’re not forgotten. By The Troops.

The photographs comprise: ‘On the Beach before a Meeting’, ‘Cornering during a race’, a group portrait, a portrait of Podge, a portrait of Jane, ‘Group in Arundel Park in the snow’, ‘On the Beach Courts’, and a portrait of Stephen.

Not in COPAC or OCLC. We have not traced another copy of this book. ANDRÉ SIMON’S COPY FOR THE WINE TRADE CLUB

31. [WILSON, Thomas.] Distilled spirituous liquors. The bane of the nation: being some considerations humbly offer’d to the Hon. the House of Commons. London, J. Roberts, 1736. [bound with:]

[SPIRITS.] An impartial enquiry into the present state of the British distillery; plainly demonstrating the evil consequences of imposing any additional duties on British spirits . . . Wherein also the manifest absurdities and gross impositions on the publick contained in a printed pamphlet, entituled, Distilled Spirituous Liquors the Bane of the Nation, are fully detected and exposed. London, J. Roberts, 1736.

Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [ii], viii, 61, [1], 24; [iv], 55, [1]; title of each work slightly soiled, but a very good copy in nineteenth-century half black morocco over marbled boards; extremities very lightly rubbed; blind-stamp of the Wine Trade Club on first two and last pages. £550

First edition of Thomas Wilson’s (1703–1784) ferocious attack on distilled spirits, such as gin, brandy and rum amongst others, holding them responsible for a negative impact on landed interest, the moral corruption of society and posing a serious threat to health. He calls for an increase in taxes or even outright prohibition in order to solve these issues.

Bound after it is an anonymous refutation of Wilson’s work, in which are outlined the negative consequences a rise in the duties on spirits would have on the entire country. Regulation of consumption is suggested rather than prohibition.

The Wine Trade Club was founded in 1908 by, amongst others, André Simon who became also its first president. Simon’s Bibliotheca Vinaria was ‘written primarily to supply a printed catalogue for the library of the Wine Trade Club’ (BV, p. v), the library it describes being formed mainly of books he had personally collected: the present copy appears in the note facing p. 199.

II:. Goldsmiths’ 7387; Hanson 4983. THE PROMINENT SOCIAL CIRCLE OF MARY WYATT OF THE HAM

32. [WYATT, Mary.] [VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS.] Carte-de-visite album, mainly 1860s with a minority later.

188 albumen-print cartes de visite, all in windows marked with "WM Be S.G.D.G." patent below, a few of artworks, some amateur photographs in place of cartes-de-visite, many with paper name labels applied to windows, several with coats of arms or monograms cut out from correspondence letterheads pasted above; light spotting and foxing throughout; elaborate Arts and Crafts carved wooden upper cover with ‘MW’ monogram in centre, Wyatt heraldic crest and family motto vi attamen honore (with force but honour), thick wooden lower cover; some loss to outer border of upper cover, clasps missing. £400

A wonderful example of an early carte-de-visite album showcasing the prominent family, friends and acquaintances in the social circle of Mary Wyatt (née Mary Nicholl of the Ham), the wife of renowned architect and art historian Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Mary Wyatt’s initials are carved into the cover and her name is written in a beautifully-drawn design pasted at the beginning of the album. Most of the cartes-de-visite are intact, with only one missing and very few showing signs of having been moved from their windows since Wyatt compiled the album.

Mary Wyatt’s maiden name, Nicholl, and the related Nicholl Carne surname, comes from a prominent family of landowners and public servants in Glamorgan. The family seat, Dimlands in the Vale of Glamorgan, was built on the site of the fortress Jestyn ap Gwrgant at the end of the eighteenth century by Mary Wyatt’s uncle, Rev. Robert Nicholl Carne, a rector, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of Glamorgan. Nicholl Carne inherited the 99-acre estate from his father, Whitlock Nicholl of the Ham, High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1746, but the family had owned the significant tract of land since the time of Henry VII. Upon Rev. Robert Nicholl Carne’s death in 1849, his youngest son, John Whitlock Nicholl, inherited Dimlands. He was also heavily involved with the courts and law enforcement of Glamorgan, serving on the Cowbridge Bench of Magistrates and later as High Sheriff of Glamorgan. Whitlock Nicholl sought to greatly improve Dimlands in 1850, and it is believed that he involved the well-known architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, who had previously designed the other family seat of the Nicholl family, The Ham in Llantwit Major, and was married to Nicholl’s cousin, Mary.

Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt was a renowned architect and art historian responsible for a number of impressive private residences as well as public buildings. His list of accomplishments is substantial and includes the co-design of Paddington and Temple Meads stations and also Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Wyatt was also Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company, Art Referee for the South Kensington Museum and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge. At the end of his career, Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt and Mary Wyatt returned to live at Dimlands in 1875, and lived there until Sir Matthew’s death two years later in 1877.

The extraordinary breadth of Mary Wyatt’s connections is clear in this album. Prominent legal and ecclesiastical men appear as well as titled families and friends. The most frequently-seen surnames return to the closely-linked Welsh families of Nicholl, Nicholl Carne and Wyatt and their extended relations which are often embellished with cut-out monograms or crests from what must have been Mary Wyatt’s extensive correspondence. Recent Catalogues:

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