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Above – the engraved title to item 114 The front cover illustration is item 40 All illustrations in the catalogue are variably reduced ENGLISH BOOKS BEFORE 1800
1. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. 8vo, London, engraved and printed by the permission of John Baskett, by J. Sturt, 1717. [xviii], 166pp., entirely engraved throughout with portrait of the King as frontispiece, vignettes of scenes from the Bible, porrtraits of monarchs, decorative initials, all text within a decorative border, with the volvelle verso of title. Later 18th century red morocco, gilt decorative border on the covers, flat spine richly gilt, a.e.g., head and foot of spine slightly worn, a little old ink staining on the lower cover, variable mostly light spotting and browning, else a very good copy. Unidentified engraved armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. £395 Despite the foxing an attractive copy of this edition containing the remarkable silver plate engravings by Sturt. Much of the engraving is very elaborate and in amazing detail - for example, within the head of King George on the frontispiece Sturt has engraved the text of the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed, the Ten Commandments, prayers for the King and Queen and the XXIst Psalm! ESTC does not record a copy with this collation.
2. BOSMAN, William. A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts. Containing a geographical, political and natural history of the kingdoms and countries... Written originally in Dutch .... and now faithfully done into English. Second edition, 8vo, London, J. Knapton..., 1721. [viii], 185, 210-456, [16]pp., gap in pagination is correct. With a folding engraved map and 7 engraved plates. Modern calf. Very good copy. £550 An important work on West Africa written in the form of a series of letters. Bosman who was the chief factor for the Dutch at the Castle of St.George d'Elmina spent some 14 years in the region. The plates contain small views of the European forts and castles on the coast and some of the birds and animals of the region. The book remains an important source for the history of West Africa. Kress 3362.
3. BULKELEY, John and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the years 1740-1. Containing a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty’s ship the Wager on a desolate island in the latitude 47 south, longitude 81:40 west. With the proceedings and conduct of the crew, and the hardships they endured in the said island for the space of five months..... interspersed with many entertaining and curious observations, not taken notice of by Sir John Narborough, or any other journalist. First edition, 8vo, London, Jacob Robinson, 1743. xx, 220pp. Contemporary calf, double gilt fillet on covers and gilt bands on the spine, very short cracks at the foot of the joints, slightly rubbed and a few short scuff marks, but still a very good clean copy. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of James Irvine of Kingcausie. £1,250 Hill 210 - ‘This is one of the principal accounts of the ‘Wager’, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. The ‘Wager’ was one of Anson’s fleet, which was on its way to harass the Spanish. After the wreck, gunner John Bulkeley and carpenter John Cummins conducted the mutinous part of the crew until they arrived safely in Rio de Janeiro. Much of the adventure and interest of the account is in the description of their travails passing through the Strait of Magellan in a longboat’. Sabin 9108.
4. BURRISH, Onslow. Batavia illustrata: or, a view of the policy, and commerce of the United Provinces: particularly of Holland. With an enquiry into the alliances of the States General, with the Emperor, France, Spain, and Great Britain. First edition, three parts in 1 vol, 8vo, London, William Innys, 1728. v, [i], 580, [2]pp., 3 engraved headpieces. Contemporary calf, gilt border on the covers, spine richly gilt, slightly rubbed, title a little soiled, but overall a very good copy. Early signature M. Forbes on the title. £360 With dedication to Sir Robert Walpole. The first part deals with the methods of government in the United Provinces. The second part deals with the fisheries, manufactures and general commerce of Holland - this part includes chapters on the Dutch trade with the Levant, the Dutch East-India and West-India Companies, trade with England and other countries etc. The third part deals with the alliances of the States-General. Kress 3740; Goldsmiths 6576.
5. CARY, John. Survey of the high road from London to Hampton Court, Bagshot, Oakingham.... Hertford..... Ryegate...... Richmond. On a scale of 1 inch to a mile. First edition, oblong 8vo, London, printed for J. Cary, 1st July, 1790. Engraved throughout - consists of title, folding general map, explanation and advertisement, general plan of the turnpike gates in the vicinity of the metropolis and 80 strip maps on 40 leaves (complete), most with light contemporary hand-colouring. Bound in the original limp leather wallet style binding, worn and frayed at fore-edge, spine a bit damaged, because of the oblong format in which it has been bound there is a central fold throughout and a few maps therefore have some light offsetting from the colouring. However, this hardly detracts and overall this is a good clean copy. £550 Despite the wear to the original binding an attractive copy of this popular work which has detailed road maps to 26 places around London. Fordham in his essay on Cary in 'Studies in Carto-Bibliography' (1914) remarks that his coloured road-strips are 'amongst the most charming of his engravings'.
6. [COURT, Pieter de la]. WITT, Jan de. The true interest and political maxims of the Republick of Holland and West-Friedland. In three parts. The first treating of liberty in general. Of manufactures. Fisheries. Navigation. Toleration of religion..... Part II. and III. Of a free navigation and clearing the seas. Of war and peace. Of treatys of peace and alliances, particularly with England, France and Spain..... Written by John de Witt, and other great men in Holland. First edition in English, 8vo, London, 1702. lvi, 492pp., engraved portrait. Contemporary panelled calf, spine richly gilt, very short cracks at head and foot of joints, but a very nice clean copy overall. With the engraved armorial bookplate of John, Earl of Sutherland verso of title. £400 This work was actually written by Pieter de la Court and it circulated in manuscript before publication. It was finally published without de la Court’s permission in 1662 by the statesman Jan de Witt who made some alterations to the text and added two chapters. The work was praised by Schumpeter p.368 - ‘Both authors have to be ranked very high in a history of economic thought or policy’. Kress 2344; Goldsmiths’ 3864; Einaudi 1370.
7. [HALE, Thomas]. An account of several new inventions and improvements now necessary for England, in a discourse by way of letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to building of our English shipping, planting of oaken timber in the forrests, apportioning of publick taxes, the conservancy of our royal rivers, in particular that of the Thames, the surveys of the Thames... Herewith is also published... the proceedings relating to the mill'd-lead-sheathing, and the excellency and cheapness of mill'd-lead in preference to cast sheet-lead... Also, a treatise of naval philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty... First edition, 2 parts in 1 vol, London, James Astwood, 1691. [xvi], cxxv, [i], [18], 132pp., 2 folding tables listing all the buildings and encroachments on each side of the Thames between London Bridge and Limehouse. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, a bit rubbed, with the Signet Library bookplate on the front pastedown and the engraved bookplate of Sir John Anstruther verso of title. In all, a good copy of this rare and important book. £1,750 In the first part Hale discusses improvements to shipbuilding and the importance of sea power for Britain's economic prosperity. The second part with separate title deals with milled lead and its advantages in sheathing ships as well as its many other uses in lining cisterns, pipes, furnaces, and vessels used in breweries and dairies etc. This second part concludes with Sir William Petty's 'Treatise of Naval Philosophy' beginning at p.117. This is in 3 parts - I. A phisico-mathematical discourse of ships and sailing. II. Of naval policy. III. Of naval oeconomy or husbandry. Wing H.265; Keynes Petty 39.
8. [HUBERT, Sir Francis]. The Historie of Edward the Second, surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the fatall down-fall of his two unfortunate favorites Gaveston and Spencer. Now published by the author thereof, according to the true originall copie, and purged of those foule errors and corruptions..... 8vo, London, printed for L. Chapman, 1629. [xvi], 168pp., including the first blank, engraved portrait. Modern red morocco by Lloyd, gilt border on covers and small fleuron at corners, gilt dentelles, a.e.g. A very high quality binding in superb condition. £1,500 The second edition of this long poem which was first published the year before in an unauthorized edition which was full of errors as noted on the title of this edition. Lowndes 1113 - ‘An epic poem by no means contemptible in plan or executuion’. An exceptionally well bound copy of this rare book. STC.13901.
9. JEFFREYS, Thomas. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies, compiled from authentic memoirs.. Second edition, 4to, London, Faden & Jeffreys, 1774. [vi], xxiv, 106, [2]pp., with 32 folding or double-page engraved maps and plans, including a double-page map of the West Indies bound in as frontispiece. Contemporary calf, a little worn, hinges cracked but firm, occasional light marginal foxing and some light paper toning, but all maps in good clean condition. At the centre of the upper cover there is a contemporary gilt stamp 'English Society' and on the front pastedown there are the stamped initials WG beneath a crown - an intriguing provenance; verso of the frontispiece there are 3 old, probably c.1900, stamps of Belgian monastic libraries - these stamps do not show through to the map and there are no other stamps. In all, a good copy. £3,000 This fine work includes 2 large folding maps of Cuba and Hispaniola, a detailed plan of the city and harbour of Havana, a map of Panama, plans of Cartagena, Pensacola, Vera Cruz and many other towns and harbours in Cuba and the West Indies. Phillips 3842; Sabin 35960.
10. LAVATER, Johann Caspar. Aphorisms on man, translated from the original manuscript. Third edition, small 8vo, London, J. Johnson, 1794. viii, 224pp., engraved frontispiece by William Blake after a drawing by Fuseli. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt. A very good copy. £165 After the dedication to Henry Fuseli there is an advertisement leaf which states the author’s intention to add a second volume with aphorisms on art and artists and at the end it states ‘end of vol 1’, However, this second volume never appeared as a fire at the printer’s destroyed the manuscript and this is all that was published.
11. LEYCESTER, Sir Peter. Historical antiquities, in two books, the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland. The second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire. First edition, 3 parts in 1 vol, folio, London, printed by W. L. for Robert Clavell, 1673. [viii], 392, [10], 395-437, [3]pp., with the first blank, title in red and black, engraved and woodcut coats of arms in the text and folding engraved map of Cheshire by Speed. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine, later endpapers, some light marginal damp staining, tear in map repaired verso and small part of border of map at inner margin trimmed away but not affecting the map itself nor the coats of arms along the border. In the top margin of the title there is the 18th century ownership inscription ‘Mr H. Cholmeley his book left him by his grandfather Sr H. C.’ - of Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire?. £625 Good copy of one of the earliest books on Cheshire. The text includes ‘A transcript of the Doomsday-Book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire...’. Upcott pp.64-65; Wing L.1943. Map of Havana from item 9
A plate from item 60
12. LOVE, Christopher. Grace: the truth & growth, and different degrees thereof. The summ and substance of the last XV. sermons.... to which is added, a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached. Small 8vo, London, printed by T. M. for John Rothwell, 1654. [xii], 217, [7]pp., title within a typographic border. Disbound, title a bit browned, a few light stains and a few short tears around the edges, text cut close in a few places. £185 Love (1618-1651) was a Welsh Presbyterian preacher and activist in the Civil War. In 1651 he became involved in a plot to restore Charles II to the throne. He was captured, charged with high treason and executed at Tower Hill on 23 August 1651. This work was first published in 1652 and there were 2 printings in 1654, both rare, but ESTC does not record the present edition which has a totally different collation and imprint to the others.
13. NAPIER, John, Lord of Marchiston. A plaine discovery of the whole revelation of St.John: set down in two treatises: the one searching and proving the true interpretation thereof...... Whereunto are annexed certain Oracles of Sibylla, agreeing with the Revelation, and other places of scripture. Fifth edition, corrected and amended, 8vo, Edinburgh, Andro Wilson, 1645. [viii], 244, 32, 31-38pp., without the final errata leaf, title within a typographic border. 19th century calf by J. Leighton, red edges, some marginal staining in the fore-margins, else a very good copy. With the bookplate of Lord Napier. £400 First published in 1593. ‘The Plaine Discovery is an important text for anyone with an interest in Napier and his works because it explains the faith that governed his intellectual, public and private lives. His hopes and fears, and those of his audiences, were reflected in the book, and the first shoots of his interest in mathematics that blossomed two decades later in the logarithms may be seen’ - Alexander Corrigan in ‘The Life and Works of John Napier’ (2017). Wing N.152.
14. PEMBLE, William. A briefe introduction to geography containing a description of the grounds and generall part thereof, very necessary for young students in that science. First edition, small 4to, Oxford, printed by John Lichfield for Edward Forrest, 1630. 46 pp. (misprinted as 64) + final blank, with the folding climate table, woodcut diagrams in the text. Modern red half morocco, small light marginal stain on a few leaves, a short note in ink in an early hand about the author shows through. Nevertheless, in all a very good copy. £1,350 William Pemble (1591-1623) was a theologian, born in Kent and studied at Oxford where he became a reader and tutor at Magdalen College. He was the author of several theological works, but this is his only scientific work. All his works were published posthumously. Pemble does not describe individual countries, but deals mostly with 'the nature, qualities, measure, with other generall properties of the earth'. In addition to the note about the author verso of the title there is a much longer note of 21 lines about Pemble in the same early hand written on the final blank. Amongst other things this note tells us that Pemble 'became a famous preacher, a well studied artist, a skilful linguist, a good orator, an expert mathematician and an ornament to the society among whom he lived'. Reprinted in 1669 and 1685, but this first edition is rare - ESTC records only 5 locations in America. STC 19571; Madan I, p.151.
15. SPAIN. Hispania Illustrata: or, the maxims of the Spanish court, and most memorable affairs, from the year 1667, to the year 1678. Fully laid open in letters from the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Sunderland, and Sir William Godolphin, during their embassies in Spain. Together with several curious papers from Don John of Austria, the Conde de Penaranda and other chief ministers there.... Now first published from the respective originals. First edition, 8vo, London, W. Norton for G. Sawbridge, 1703. [xvi], 416pp. Later 18th century or early 19th century half calf on boards, red title label, royal arms in gilt in the top spine compartment, some scuffing on the covers, but
overall a good copy. From the library of the diplomat Lord Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845) with his arms stamped in blind at the centre of the covers. £135 Pp.106 -109 contain Godolphin’s discourse on the wools of Spain - attention is drawn to this is in the preface as also to the number of letters dealing with the advantages of closer relations with Spain. 126 letters are printed a number of which are in double columns in order to include the Spanish translation.
16. [TENDE, Gaspard de]. An account of Poland. Containing a geographical description of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and the wars they have been engag’d in; the constitution of the government...... With a brief history of the Tartars. By Monsieur Hauteville (pseudonym of Tende). First edition, 8vo, London, T. Goodwin, 1698. [xvi], 300pp., with the half-title and 2 final blanks. Contemporary panelled calf, spine richly gilt but rather worn with some loss near the foot and the title label chipped, tear in N3 without loss and 2 holes in the first of the 2 blanks at the end, some browning towards the end, else good. £550 A translation of Tende’s ‘Relation historique de la Pologne’ (1687). Tende (1618-1697) took part in the Thirty Years War and lived in Poland for 25 years. Rare. Wing T.678.
CONTINENTAL BOOKS BEFORE 1800
17. ARIOSTO, Ludovico. L. Ariosts rasender Roland, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt. 8vo, Bern, bey der typographischen Gesellschaft, 1778. 355pp., title with large engraved vignette, 8 engraved headpieces and 8 engraved tailpieces. Contemporary calf, narrow gilt decorative border on the covers, flat spine gilt, red label, a.e.g. Very nice copy. £285 A beautifully printed edition of Ariosto’s epic poem ‘Orlando Furioso’ (1516) in a translation by Friedrich August Clemens Werthes (1748-1817). The delightful engravings are by Balthasar Anton Dunker (1746-1807). Rümann 41.
18. [ARMAND, Claude, dit Alphonse]. Miraculeuse resurrection d'un enfant venu mort au monde, qui a receu vie en l'Église de Bonne-Nouvelle en Gastinois, le 16. Juillet 1620. Small 8vo in 4s, Paris, iouxte la coppie imprimée à Poictiers par Iulien Thoreau, 1620. 13, [3]pp., including the final blank, (pages 12 and 13 are misnumbered 11 and 12). Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut ornamental headpiece and 1 large woodcut decorative initial. Cloth-backed marbled boards c.1900, title in gilt on the spine. Very good condition. £450 On 16 July 1620 Jean Lorrain's wife gave birth to a stillborn child. For 2 hours after birth the child was lifeless, cold and without a pulse. The father took the dead infant to the priest at the church of Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle and asked him to bury the child. He refused because it had not been baptised whereupon the father began to pray to the Virgin and the child was restored to life. It lived for a few hours, but long enough to be baptised and subsequently to receive a Christian burial in the churchyard. The priest declared this event to be a 'miracle'. The first edition was published in Poitiers, but I have not been able to trace a copy of that. There was also a Lyon edition in 1620 as well as the present edition, all extremely rare. There was a reprint published in Paris in 1640.
19. AUGUSTINE, Saint. Les confessions de Saint Augustin. Traduites par le R. P. de Seriziers de la Compagnie de Iesus. Fifth edition, 12mo, Rouen, chez Jean Viret, Clement Malassis, Jacques Besogne & Jacques Herault, 1647. [xii], 635, [1]pp., woodcut decorative initials and tailpieces. Finely bound by David in the late 19th century in dark green crushed morocco, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., very slightly rubbed at 1 or 2 extremities, modern bookplate on the front pastedown. Nevertheless, a superb copy in a fine Jansenist style binding. £250 Beautiful copy of this particular French translation of St. Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ which was first published in 1638. René de Seriziers or Ceriziers (1603-1662) was a Jesuit historian and theologian who was chaplain to Louis XIV and also translated other works by St. Augustine. Sommervogel II, 998. A rare edition - OCLC only locates the copy at Rouen University.
20. [AUXIRON, Claude-François-Joseph d']. Principes de tout gouvernement ou examen des causes de la splendeur ou de la foiblesse de tout état considéré en lui-même, & indépendamment des moeurs. First edition, 2 vols, 12mo, Paris, chez J. T. Hérissant fils, 1766. lxxx, 213; [iv], 314, [4]pp. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt, some corners slightly worn, a little worming on the upper joint of vol 1 and on the upper cover of vol 2, a few spots in the text, but overall, a nice set in very good condition. £1,150 This is the most important work of the anti-physiocratic economist Auxiron (1728-1778) and a major contribution to the population debate. Kress 6314; Higgs 3943; INED 145.
21. BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE, Claude Charles Leroy. Histoire de l'Amérique Septentrionale... contenant le voyage du Fort de Nelson, dans la Baye de Hudson, à l'extremité de l'Amérique. Le premier établissement des François dans ce vaste païs, la prise dudit Fort de Nelson, la description du fleuve de Saint Laurent, le gouvernement de Quebec.... 4 vols, 12mo, Paris, chez Nyon fils, 1753. [xii], 370; [ii], 356, [8]; [xii], 310, [6], [ii], 271, [5]pp., in vol 1 the pagination jumps from 10 to 15, but no text loss - correct thus. With additional engraved pictorial title in vol 1, 3 maps (2 folding), 24 engraved plates 9 of which are folding and 2 leaves of engraved music. Contemporary calf, flat spines gilt, slightly rubbed, joints of vol 1 partly cracked, old faded stamp on titles, but overall a very good attractive set. £1,950 A most important work on Canada which was first published in 1722 and this is a reprint of the first edition with new title pages. Bacqueville was a French naval officer who served in Hudson's Bay and New France at intervals between 1697 and 1714 and his book, written mostly as a series of letters, gives an account of the Hudson's Bay expedition, French settlements on the St.Lawrence river, French and British relations with the Indians and Indian life and customs. Volume 3 contains a history of the Iroquois and their wars with the British. The views of Quebec and Fort Nelson are amongst the earliest views of Canada. This edition appears to be rarer than the first edition. Chadenat 3916 - 'ouvrage rare, un des meilleurs sur les Indiens du Canada'; Sabin 2692 and Streeter sale I, 120 for the 1722 edition; Howes B.23; Staton & Tremaine 131.
22. [CANZLER, Johann Georg]. Memoires our servir à la connoissance des affaires politiques et économiques du royaume de Suède jusqu'à la fin de la 1775me année. First edition, 2 vols, 4to, Londres & Dresden, chez George Conrad Walther, 1776. [iv], x, [ii], 172; [ii], 173-431, [1]pp., titles in red and black with engraved portrait of King Gustavus III on title of vol 1 and vignette on title of vol 2, 43 folding tables and 2 engraved plates. Calf- backed marbled boards c.1900, red and green labels, slightly rubbed, occasional light foxing, stamp of Felix Leseur on titles. Good copy. £150 A very thorough study of the economy of Sweden with a wealth of statistical information. Kress 7196; INED 938 - ''renseignements très précis et nombreuses donnés numériques'.
23. CHARRON, Pierre. De la sagesse. 8vo, Paris, chez Jean-François Bastien, 1783. xxviii, 768pp., engraved portrait as frontispiece, 1 other engraved plate. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine slightly faded, light offsetting from portrait onto the title, a little light foxing at the beginning and end else a very good copy of this famous work. £150
24. CHOLIÈRES, Nicolas de. Les neuf matinées du Seigneur de Cholières. Dediées à Monseigneur de Vendosme. First edition, small 8vo, Paris, chez Jean Richer, 1585. [xvi], 315, [1]pp., woodcut printer's device on title. 19th century quarter roan, side-notes shaved, some light browning and occasional spotting, inscription in top margin of title shaved. £650 This strange work, the author's first book, consists of 9 essays on a variety of topics, some quite bizarre - on ugly and beautiful women, on whether an old man should take a young woman and an old woman a young man, on whether jurisprudence is preferable to medicine, on gold and iron, on whether a girl would prefer a scholar or a soldier, etc. Gay-Lemonnyer III, 328-329 - 'Ce volume contient une suite de discussions sur des sujets souvent bizarres. Le langage s'y émancipe parfois avec cette franchise qui ne choquait personne à l'époque de Rabelais et de Montaigne...'. Not in Adams.
25. CLAIRON, Hyppolite. Mémoires d'Hyppolite Clairon, et Réflexions sur la Déclamation Théatrale; publiés par elle-même. Second edition revised and enlarged, 8vo, Paris, chez F. Buisson, 1799. [4], 379pp., engraved portait. Contemporary calf-backed boards, spine slightly rubbed, some light offsetting from portrait on title, but still a very good copy. £75 Lively memoirs of Hyppolite Clairon (1723-1807), one of the most celebrated French actresses of the 18th century and a famous beauty. When she was over 60, she was the mistress of Baron de Staël. Cioranescu 19701 for the first edition from the same year.
26. COUSIN, Louis (translator and editor). Histoire de Constantinople depuis le régne de l'ancien Justin, jusqu'à la fin de l'Empire. Traduite sur les Originaux Grecs par M. Cousin, Président en la Cour des Monnoies. 8 vols bound in 11, 12mo, [Amsterdam], suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, chez Damien Foucault, 1685. Additional engraved pictorial title in vol 1, engraved headpieces. Uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt, a little worn at some corners and at the head and foot of some of the spines, small brown stain on engraved and printed title of vol 1 only. In all, a handsome set in good condition. From the Schloßbibliothek Walpersdorf (Austria) which was bequeathed to the Stiftsbibliothek Herzogenburg in 1905 - bookplates of both libraries in each volume. £795 First published by Damien Foucault in Paris in 1672-74 this is the second edition of this scarce and important work on the history of Constantinople. It is an abridged translation of the 'Corpus Byzantinae Historiae', a collection of texts on Byzantine history. Not in Blackmer; Atabey 295 describes an imperfect copy of this same edition lacking the second part of volume 7.
27. DESPREZ DE BOISSY, Charles. Lettres sur les spectacles; avec une histoire des ouvrages pour & contre les théâtres. Fourth edition, revised, corrected and enlarged by the author, 2 parts in 1 vol, 12mo, Paris, chez Butard, 1771. xvi, 694, [4]pp., continuously paginated over the 2 parts. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, some wear, foot of spine rubbed with loss of some gilt, joints cracked but firm, a few spots in the text. £120 The first part deals with the theatrical controversies of the time and the whole of part 2 beginning at p.409 consists of an important account of books on the theatre.
28. [DUCLOS, Charles Pinot]. Les confessions du Comte de ***. Écrites par lui-même à un ami. Two parts in 1 vol, 12mo, Amsterdam, 1742. [iv], 342pp., continuously paginated over the 2 parts, the second part beginning at p.193 with separate title, woodcut ornament on titles, 2 woodcut decorative headpieces. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, corners a little worn and joints partly cracked but firm. In all, a good copy. £100 A very popular novel which was first published in 1741. Gay-Lemonnyer I, 660.
29. FÉNÉLON, François de la Salignac de la Mothe. Reponse de l'Archeveque de Cambray, à l’écrit de M. l’Eveque de Meaux, intitulé Relation sur le Quiétisme. Small 8vo, n.p., n.d., [Paris, c.1698]. 252pp. Early 20th century burgundy morocco by Rivière, gilt dentelles, a.e.g., contained in a chemise and slipcase, the slipcase and chemise rubbed but they have done their job in keeping the binding in perfect condition. £225 Fénélon’s defence of Quietism against the attacks of Bossuet, here in a fine Jansenist style binding by Rivière which is in superb condition.
30. FLAMSTEED, John. Atlas céleste de Flamsteed, approuvé par l'Académie Royale des Sciences..... Séconde édition par M. J. Fortin. Small 4to, Paris, chez F. G. Deschamps, et l'auteur, 1776. viii, 40pp., 30 double-page engraved star maps mounted on stubs. Contemporary calf-backed boards, a bit worn at foot of spine and short crack at foot of lower joint, stain on front free endpaper, 1 or 2 spots only on the plates. Good copy of this most beautiful star atlas. £1,500 Although the title states 'second edition' this is the first edition in French. Flamsteed, the Royal Astronomer, died in 1719 and his 'Atlas Coelestis' was first published in 1729 by his wife. It contained 26 maps, but its large size made it difficult to use. Fortin, therefore for the present edition, reduced the size of the maps to a third of the original, added 4 new plates and revised others.
31. FRISI, Paolo. Traité des rivières et des torrens ...... augmenté du traité des canaux navigables: traduit de l'Italien. First French edition, 4to, Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1774. xxiv, 248pp., 2 folding engraved plates and 1 folding table. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, some wear to corners especially the lower corners, small light damp mark in corner of first few leaves, else a very good copy. From the library of Charles Mallet with his old stamp in red in bottom margin of title. £285 Important work on the control of rivers, erosion, flood prevention etc., followed by a treatise on canals. The fine plates show a map of part of the river Po and the canalisation of a section of the river Gotha in Sweden. This is a translation of Frisi's 'Del modo di regolare i fiumi, e i torrenti' (Lucca, 1762). DSB V, 195.
32. GAITO, Giovanni Domenico. Tractatus de credito ex libris, epistolis, cambis, apochis, instrumentis publicis.... Folio, Venice, sumptibus Societatis, 1669. [xii], 564, [132]pp., printed in double columns, title in red and black, large woodcut coat of arms on title, woodcut decorative initials and decorations. Bound at a later date using an old manuscript vellum leaf from an antiphonal, remains of a hand-written title label on spine, with ties, a little staining on the half-title and title. Overall a very good clean copy with the early woodcut amorial bookplate of I. M. Lachmiller ab Hofstat on the front pastedown. £575 Greatly enlarged edition of this work on transactions of credit which was first published in 1626. Palgrave II, p.171 - ‘... he proved the lawfulness of interest on money. It is interesting to observe the effort made in it to overcome the prejudice, existing at that time, to consider money as being an unfruitful property, without however venturing to oppose this opinion openly’. Not in Kress or Goldsmiths; Historical Accounting Literature p.4 describes a Cologne edition from 1662.
33. GAZET, Guillaume. L'ordre des evesques d'Arras depuis la separation de l'evesché de Cambray. Avec un brief recueil de leurs faits plus illustres..... Plus le catalogue des sainctz qui sont honorez au diocese d'Arras, avec l'histoire de la sacrée manne & de la sainte chandelle. 12mo, Arras, chez Gilles Bauduyn, 1598. 108pp., text of the last 2 leaves are here in 19th century manuscript. Later 19th century cloth, leather title label, old monogram D stamped on title. £150 Enlarged edition of a work first published in 1597. Important for the history of Arras. Not in Adams.
34. JOUBERT DE LA HIBERDERIE, Antoine-Nicolas. Le dessinateur, pour les fabriques d'étoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie, avec la traduction de six tables raisonnées, tirées de l'Abecedario Pittorico, imprimé à Naples en 1733. First edition, 8vo, Paris, chez Sebastien Jorry, Bauche et Brocas, 1765. xlviii, 218, [6]pp. including final blank, 5 Item 35 Item 12
A plate from Flamsteed’s ‘Atlas Céleste’ – item 30
full-page woodcuts and 1 engraved headpiece. 19th century calf-backed marbled boards, spine richly gilt, corner of 1 leaf torn, but no text loss, light toning throughout and occasional light foxing, paper a bit wavy from earlier water staining, but despite all this still a good copy. £750 This very rare and interesting books is a practical work written for designers and manufacturers of luxury fabrics, especially silk. The 5 large woodcuts illustrate designs which can be incorporated into fabrics. Chapter XV (pp.86-118) describes everything a designer should see on a visit to Paris - the great workshops which manufacture tapestries and porcelain etc., museums, galleries, palaces and theatres etc. Beginning at p.119 there is the translation of sections of the 'Abecedario Pittorico' written by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (1660-1727). An important section is a bibliography of art, architecture and artists, and the work concludes with advice to young painters, the care and repair of paintings, and finally a section on fresco painting.
35. JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius. Juvenalis familiare commentum. Argumenta Satyrarum Juvenalis per Anthonii Mancinelli & per Jodocii Ba[dii]. Large 8vo, Lyon, Bernard Rosier & Jean Thome, 29 October 1512. [vi], 151ff., Gothic letter, title in red and black within a woodcut decorative border, woodcut decorative initials. Contemporary limp vellum with yapp edges, later green cloth ties, part of yapp edge on lower cover worn, title a bit soiled in 1 lower corner and with small marginal repair verso, occasional light browning and a few small stains, very occasional underlining and a few old annotations, x3 with small tear and 1 tiny hole, final leaf with repaired tear verso but no loss, no front free endpaper. This copy is without the final leaf x6 with very small printer’s device verso, but most recorded copies state 151ff. as here and do mention the final leaf. Nevertheless, still a good copy in its original binding. £600 Rare early edition of Juvenals’s satires with the extensive commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius. Of particular interest is the fine decorative woodcut title border which includes 14 portraits of Juvenalis, Mancinelli and Badius in various poses and in all but 2 they are shown holding a book. Adams J.755; Schweiger II, p.502; Baudrier XII, p.34.
36. KERGUELEN TRÉMAREC, Yves-Joseph de. Relation d'un Voyage dans la Mer du Nord, aux côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwége; fait en 1767 & 1768. First edition, 4to, Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Prault, 1771. viii, 220, [2]pp., title in red and black with engraved vignette and 2 other vignettes, 14 engraved maps and coastal profiles a number of which are folding, and 4 engraved plates. Bound c.1900 by Gustav Hedberg of Stockholm in patterned boards, red morocco title label on spine, date in gilt at foot of spine, Hedberg’s small ticket on the front pastedown, occasional marginal foxing or spotting, else a good copy. Hedberg (1859-1920) is regarded as Sweden’s best binder of the period. £785 Account of an important voyage to protect the French fishing fleet off the coasts of Iceland and Greenland. On this voyage he also spent much time in England. On a later voyage to explore the Indian Ocean Kerguelen sailed south from Mauritius and discovered the islands which bear his name. Sabin 37616; Cox II, 21.
37. LAUJON, Pierre. Les A Propos de Société ou Chansons de M. L **** (2 vols). With:- Les A Propos de la Folie ou Chansons Grotesques, Grivoises et Annonces de Parade. Together 3 vols, 8vo, first editions, [Paris], 1776. x, 302; [iv], 316; vi, 319, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece and title in each volume, 1 engraved head and 1 tailpiece after Moreau also in each volume, woodcut printed music throughout, handsomely printed and with numerous delightful woodcut tailpieces. Later (probably c.1900) green quarter calf on marbled boards, spine richly gilt in compartments, red and green labels,, t.e.g. A well bound set in very good clean condition. With the bookplate of Oscar Ladner of Vienna, friend of Sigmund Freud, in each volume. £450
Scarce collection of songs and ballads some of which were no doubt performed at the soirées which he gave. The engravings after Moreau are delightful, especially that at the beginning of vol 2 which depicts a magic lantern show. Cohen-de Ricci 604 - ‘Les illustrations sont d’une grâce ravissante et comptent parmi les meilleurs de Moreau’.
38. MARTIALIS, Marcus Valerius. Epigrammatum libros XV. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Vincentius Collesso J. C. jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad usum Serenissimi Delphini. 2 parts in 1 vol, 4to, Paris, Antoine Cellier, 1680. [xxviii], 793, [3], 59, [1], 168pp., engraved frontispiece by L. Moreau, 1 engraved headpiece and 1 engraved initial. 18th century straight-grained red morocco, 2 triple gilt fillets on the covers, a.e.g., spine slightly faded, joints slightly rubbed, but still a very good copy. With the bookplate of Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862), headmaster of Eton College from 1834 to 1862 and a notable book collector and linguist. £295 Includes the 'Epigrammata Obscaena'. Attractive copy of this edition of Martialis produced for the education of the Grand Dauphin. Brunet III, 1492 - 'Volume peu commun'; Schweiger II, 599 - ‘selten’.
39. MARTINI, Georg Heinrich. Das gleichsam auflebende Pompeji. Oder Versuch einer Geschichte dieser Stadt, worinnen ihr Ursprung, ihre Begebenheiten, ihr ungewöhnlicher Untergang, die wiederholten Nachsuchungen, und die wirklich da ausgegrabenen Kunstwerke und Denkmäler beschrieben werden. First edition, 8vo, Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1779. [viii], 342pp. Contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, top corners a little worn, but in all a very good copy. £200 Scarce early work on the history of Pompeii and its destruction along with some account of the works of art found there. COPAC records the British Library copy only.
Bound in red morocco for Maria Beatrice d’Este
40. [MOREAU, Jacob Nicolas]. Les devoirs du prince réduits à un seul principe, ou discours sur la justice, dédié au Roi. First edition, 2 parts in 1 vol, 8vo, Versailles, de l’imprimerie du Roi, département des Affaires étrangères, 1775. xxi, [i], 466pp., continuously paginated over the 2 parts. Contemporary red morocco, flat spine richly gilt, gilt decorative border on the covers, bound for Maria Beatrice d’Este, Duchess of Massa (1750- 1829), wife of Ferdinand de Lorraine (1754-1806), 4th son of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. A superb binding, 1 tiny worm hole near the head of the lower joint and 1 very small rubbed spot on the upper joint, but still a very fine copy. £1,350 A wonderful copy of this rare book. Beatrice d’Este married Ferdinand of Austria on 15 October 1771, the arms on the covers incorporate the Habsburg double eagle. On her marriage she therefore became the sister-in-law of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Queen of France. The beautiful binding is almost certainly French. There was a copy of this book in the library of Dominique de Villepin sold at Pierre Bergé Auctions, Paris, 19 March 2008, lot 42. That copy was in a red morocco binding very similar to the present copy, the spine decoration being identical. The book later came into the possession of Prince Albert Casimir of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822), founder of the Albertina Museum in Vienna. His library shelf label is on the front pastedown. There is also the modern armorial bookplate of Michael Stanhope Dormer. Moreau (1717-1803) was a historian, historiographer of France and at the time of writing this book also librarian to Marie Antoinette. The book is basically a defence of the ‘Ancien Régime’ and of absolute monarchy.
41. NAUDÉ, Gabriel. Apologie pour les grands hommes soupconnez de magie. Dernière édition où l'on a ajouté quelques remarques. Small 8vo, Amsterdam, chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1712. [18], 470pp., engraved frontispiece, title in red and black. Later 18th century calf, triple gilt fillet on covers, spine richly gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., upper joint
cracked but firm. A very good copy with the collation note of J. J. de Bure, fils aîné dated 18 March 1807 on a front endpaper. £450 Best edition of this well-known book which was first published in 1625. Deals with famous scientists and philosophers who have been falsely accused of magic and sorcery - figures include Cardanus, Roger Bacon, Nostredamus, Albertus Magnus, Savonarola, Paracelsus, Pythagoras and others. Dorbon 3227; Caillet 7923 - 'ce très curieux ouvrage', Rosenthal 3004; Cioranescu 50838.
42. NECKER, Jacques. Mémoire de M. Necker au Roi, sur l'établissement des administrations provinciales. 4to, Londres, 1781. 22pp. Stitched into contemporary plain wrappers, uncut, as issued, central horizontal crease throughout, but good condition. On the front cover there is the signature ‘Necker’ and ‘No.1189’ - possibly by Necker himself. £80 From the same year as the first edition. In this important 'mémoire' Necker criticises the injustices of the present tax-raising system and proposes reforms. His proposal was for devolved government in the form of provincial assemblies right across France to deal with fiscal affairs. INED 3366 (different edition).
43. [NELIS, Corneille François de]. L'Aveugle de la Montagne, Entretiens Philosophiques. 3 parts in 1 vol, 4to, Rome, chez Vincent Poggioli, 1797. [iv], xiv, [ii], 77, [3], 101, [3], 80pp., engraved allegorical frontispiece after Geremia Rovara. Contemporary calf, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt fleurons at corners, edges and corners a little rubbed, joints partly cracked but still firm, some light staining on title, but still a good copy. £195 Nelis (1736-1798) was a distinguished scholar and later became Bishop of Antwerp. The three parts of the book deal with metaphysics, morality and philology. This is the second edition and contains considerably more material than the first which was published by Bodoni in 1795.
44. NOVEL. L'amour en fureur, ou les excez de la jalousie italienne. 12mo, Cologne, Pierre Marteau (but probably Holland), 1710. 163pp., title in red and black, additional engraved pictorial title and 5 engraved plates. 18th century citron morocco, triple gilt fillet on covers, flat spine gilt decorated in gilt with an in urn in the compartments, a.e.g., some wear at head of spine, a little soiling at the top of the covers, but in all a very good copy. With the small armorial bookplate of John Chamier. £350 Strange little novel concerning a jealous husband who puts a chastity belt on his wife..... The author is not known. It was first published in 1667 and went through several editions, all now rare. Early editions were banned - see Anne Sauvy ‘Livres saisis à Paris entre 1678 et 1701’ (1972) p.165 who also states - ‘Les bibliothèques de Paris ne possèdent aucune édition antérieur à 1710’. Gay-Lemonnyer I, 116; Lever p.43.
45. OLEARIUS, Adam. Voyages très-curieux & très-renommez faits en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse..... Dans lesquels on trouve une description curieuse & la situation exacte des pays & états, par où il a passé, tels que sont la Livonie, la Moscovie, la Tartarie, la Medie, & la Perse.... Traduits de l'original & augmentez par le Sr. de Wicquefort. 2 vols bound in 1, folio, Amsterdam, chez Michel Charles Le Cène, 1727. [xxxvi], 1108 columns (printed in double columns), [20]pp., portrait, additional engraved title (dated 1718 and with Leiden imprint), and 41 mostly folding or double-page engraved maps and views (as listed in the note to the binder on the last page) as well as numerous engravings in the text. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, worn at corners and head and foot of spine, joints partly split, some browning at the beginning, a few gatherings browned especially in the second volume, a few plates only are browned, otherwise text and plates in good clean condition. Modern bookplate of Edgar Walter Saks on a front endpaper. £2,950 Adam Olearius (1599-1671) or Öhlschläger was a German scholar, mathematician, librarian and geographer. This work gives an account of his travels with the embassy of the Duke of Holstein to Moscow and Persia between 1635 and 1639. The first edition of this book appeared in German in 1647 and other editions and translations followed including an English
translation in 1662. The present late edition is preferable to earlier editions because it contains far more engraved maps and views. Indeed, the book is notable for its magnificent large views of Moscow, Novgorod, Baghdad, Astrakhan and many other places, and also of importance is the detailed map of the Volga. Atabey 884; not in Blackmer.
46. PALAPRAT, Jean. Le concert ridicule, comédie. First edition, 12mo, Paris, chez Thomas Guillain, 1694. 51pp., woodcut ornament on title. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards. Very good copy. With the Hayhurst bookplate. £75 Palaprat (1650-1721), born at Toulouse, was a lawyer and playwright. A number of his plays, including the present one act farce, were co-written by David-Augustin de Brueys and first performed at the Comédie Française. Cioranescu 51748.
47. PARIS MAP. LATTRÉ, Jean. Plan routier de la ville et faubourg de Paris. Folding engraved map, c.550x760mm., dissected and mounted on linen, Paris, chez Lattré, 1773. The map folds into a contemporary slipcase with title in gilt ‘Plan de Paris’ on a red morocco label. Slipcase a little rubbed, but overall in very nice condition. £295 A most attractive and very detailed map with a street index down each side and a large decorative title cartouche in the top right corner.
48. PELLOUTIER, Simon. Histoire des Celtes, et particulièrement des Gaulois et des Germains, depuis les tems fabuleux, jusqu’à la prise de Rome par les Gaulois. 2 vols, 12mo, The Hague, chez Isaac Beauregard, 1750. [xliv, 574; [xii], 418pp., titles in red and black. Contemporary calf, spines richly gilt, some browning in vol 1, but a good set. Note that the work is divided into 3 books and books 1 and 2 are in vol 1. Vol 1 lacks leaf H12 (pp.191/192) between books 1 and 2 and because there is a catchword on p.190 it looks as if a table of contents is missing before the start of book 2 on p.193. This must be an error - there is a full table of contents at the beginning and this edition consists of the sheets of the 1740 edition with new titles. The 1740 edition is digitised on Gallica and it is exactly the same. £150 This scholarly work, first published in 1740, was very well received on publication and went through several editions.
49. PETRARCH, Franscesco. Il Petrarca. Small 8vo,Venice, Aldus, 1546. 176, [18]ff., italic letter. With woodcut printer’s device on title and on verso of the last leaf. Early 19th century green morocco, 2 double gilt fillet on the covers, spine with title in gilt, gilt compartments and ‘Aldus 1546’ in gilt at foot of spine, corners a little worn, some light marginal staining on the title, a few spots. However, overall a very good copy, well bound in a simple yet elegant style. £750 This is the fifth and last Aldine edition of Petrarch. Renouard p.138 - ‘elle est bien imprimée, très correcte, et les exemplaires en sont presque aussi rares que ceux des éditions précédentes..... Ces cinq éditions sont fortement louées par les littérateurs italiens...’. Adams P.811; Brunet IV, 550.
50. PINTO, Fernão Mendes. Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto, fidellement traduits de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier. Dediez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. 4to, Paris, chez Arnould Cotinet et Jean Roger, 1645. [viii], 1020pp. [recte - 940]. Contemporary vellum, covers a bit soiled, more especially the lower cover, some gatherings browned, else a good copy. Ownership inscription of Fr. Fernandes 1740 on title with small erased inscription beneath. £1,850 The second French edition of this important and very influential account of a journey to China and Japan which was first published at Lisbon in 1614. Pinto (c.1510-1583) was the first European to enter Japan (in 1542). Parts of Pinto's narrative are based on earlier written and oral accounts of China, and it is thought that some details of Pinto's account are fictional, but there is no doubt that Pinto did travel to the Orient. The work was translated into several languages and there were 3 abridged English editions in the 17th century. Löwendahl 96; Lust
347; Cox I, 324 - 'A classic record of experiences and observations of one the earliest Europeans into the interior of oriental countries...'.
51. RABELAIS, François. Oeuvres de Maître François Rabelais, suivies des remarques publiées en Anglois par M. Le Motteux, et traduites en François par C. D. M. New edition, 3 vols, 8vo, Paris, chez Ferdinand Bastien, an VI [1798]. xvi, 479; 634; 595pp., with 76 engraved plates 'avant la lettre' (4 folding) and including a portrait. 19th century calf, red labels, covers with a gilt fillet and blind-tooled borders, red edges, a few spots, but a good set. From the Selbourne library. £400 The first edition to include these amusing and very distinctive illustrations. This edition was printed in 3 different formats and each was limited to 250 copies. Cohen-de Ricci 843.
52. RAVENEAU DE LUSSAN, Sieur. Journal du voyage fait à la Mer du Sud, avec les flibustiers de l'Amerique en 1684, & années suivantes. 12mo, Paris, chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1690. [xvi], 272pp. Uncut in dark blue morocco by Rivière, some soiling in margins of title and old inscription in the bottom margin of the title with slight loss through fraying, occasional minor stains and marginal tears, otherwise text generally in good condition. The simple yet elegant Rivière binding from probably about 1900 is superb and in fine condition. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox on the rear pastedown. £500 First published in 1689 this is the second edition of an interesting account of buccaneering in the West Indies and on the Pacific coast between Guatemala and Chile. A colourful work with much information on the native peoples of the countries he visited. Hill 1423 - 'A rare and charming book'; Cox II, 270 - 'A very famous and entertaining work'; Sabin 67984.
53. REGNARD, Jean-François. Democrite, comédie. First edition, 12mo, Paris, chez Pierre Ribou, 1700. [iv], 90pp., woodcut typographic ornaments. Modern red morocco by Bernasconi in Jansenist style, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles. A fine copy. £120 Regnard (1655-1709) was a popular comic poet and playwright, long regarded as second only to Molière as a writer of comedies. Oxford Companion to French Literature - ‘Regnard was no moralist, but depicted a corrupt world with boundless gaiety, in a rich, picturesque, and lively style and in excellent verse’. Cioranescu 58488; Tchemerzine IX, 357.
54. REGNARD, Jean-François. Le retour impreveu, comédie. First edition, 12mo, Paris, chez Pierre Ribou, 1700. 59pp., woodcut ornament on title. Modern red morocco in Jansenist style by Bernasconi, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles. Fine condition. The binding is uniform with the above. £125 Cioranescu 58493; Tchemerzine IX, 357.
55. RICCOBONI, Louis. Observations sur la comédie et sur le genie de Molière. First edition, 12mo, Paris, chez la Veuve Pissot, 1736. xx, [iv], 357, [1]pp. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, foot of spine a bit worn and corners also a little worn, but still a very good copy. £125
56. RIZZI ZANNONI, Giovanni. Atlas géographique et militaire ou théâtre de la guerre présente en Allemagne où sont marqués les marches et campemens des armées, depuis l'entrée des trouppes Prussiennes en Saxe en aoust 1756 jusqu'au commencement de 1761. 12mo, Paris, chez Ballard, [1763]. [5] engraved leaves, followed by double-page engraved key map and 16 double-page engraved maps, the title is within a decorative border engraved by Choffard, the maps have the coasts hand-coloured. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, corners worn, else a good copy. With the contemporary bookplate of P. G. Phelip and also with his signature in the top margin of the title. £500 This attractive little atlas of the Seven Years War covers Germany, Poland and parts of the surrounding countries.
57. ROSTRENEN, Gregoire de. Grammaire Françoise-Celtique, ou Françoise- Bretonne, qui contient tout ce qui est nécessaire pour apprendre les regles la Langue Celtique, ou Bretonne. First edition, small 8vo, Rennes, chez Julien Vatar, 1738. xvi, [iv], 186pp. Contemporary sheep, probably English, a bit worn at corners, head and foot of spine defective, some browning from the turn-ins at the beginning and end, else a good copy. £475 Very rare early grammar of the Breton language.
58. SCHEFFER, Johannes. De Re Vehicularum Libri Duo. Accedit Pyrrhi Ligorii. V.C. De Vehiculis Fragmentum... First edition, 2 parts in 1 vol, 4to, Frankfurt, ex Officina Zunneriana, 1671. [vi], 286, [2], 422pp., additional engraved pictorial title, engraved and woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary English panelled calf, head and foot of spine a bit worn, joints cracked but firm, some browning and spotting in the text due to the paper quality and typical of German books of this period. £295 Scholarly work on carts, carriages, chariots etc.
59. SCUDERY, Georges de. Alaric, ou Rome vaincue. Poëme heroique. 12mo, Brussels, & se vend à Paris, chez Augustin Courbé, 1656 [xxxviii], 380, [24]pp., engraved printer's device on title, additional engraved pictorial title, portrait of Queen Christine of Sweden to whom the poem is dedicated, and 10 engraved plates which have been attributed to Adriaan Schoonebeck. Beautifully bound in late 19th century red morocco by Hardy-Mennil, triple gilt fillet on covers, spine richly gilt, centre of covers with a gilt supralibros of a double R (second R reversed) beneath a crown, gilt dentelles, a.e.g, tear in front free endpaper, else in very fine condition. £360 Lovely copy of this long epic poem based on Alaric's conquest and sack of Rome in 410 A.D. and illustrated with fine engraved plates. The poem was first published in folio in 1654. Brunet V, 249 - '... une des plus belles et des plus recherchées que l'on ait de ce poëme...'.
60. WRIGHT, John. Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa, fatta in Roma gli otto di gennaio MDCLXXXVII dall’ illustrissimo, et eccellentissimo signor Conte di Castlemaine..... Folio, c.348 x 220mm., Rome, Domenico Ercole, [1687]. 90, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, large engraved headpiece and initial, 15 engraved plates including a very large folding plate. Contemporary vellum, a section of the folding plate browned, 2 old armorial stamps on the title and initials BA stencilled in the bottom margin of the frontispiece. A very good copy. £2,650 This magnificent book gives an account of the mission of Roger Palmer, first Earl of Castlemaine, to Rome to seek a reconciliation of the English Church of James II with the Vatican. It is illustrated with 15 engravings by Arnold Westerhout of which 6 are after drawings by G. B. Lenardi and depict the highly ornate carriages in which Castlemaine and his entourage were taken to the Vatican. The large folding plate (c.330 x 1150mm.) shows a long table set for a banquet and on the table are magnificent ornamental statues in silver and gold of moral virtues and classical gods etc. These are shown in detail on the 6 following plates. In 1688 an English translation was published. Vinet 808 with a detailed description; Pine-Coffin 687.
BOOKS AFTER 1800
61. ALLASON, Thomas. Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola, in Istria. First edition, large folio, c.490 x 350mm., London, John Murray, 1819. [viii], 65pp., 10 plates engraved by W. B. Cooke, George Cooke, Henry Moses and Cosmo Armstrong after drawings by Allason, 4 engraved vignettes. Contemporary green watered silk cloth, morocco title label on the upper cover, a little rubbed, wear to the joints, small old ink stain on the upper cover, light marginal foxing to the plates, but overall in good condition. Provenance: the Alpine Club Library with small release stamp verso of title - no other library markings. £695
Allason (1790-1852) was an architect and he travelled in Istria and Greece in 1814 as draughtsman to John and Edward Spencer Stanhope. This work on the Roman antiquities of Pola is dedicated to the Society of Dilettanti and Allason’s intention was to improve on the descriptions by Stuart and Revett which had been published by the Society. Blackmer 25.
62. [ANFOSSI, Filippo]. La restituzione de' beni ecclesiasticii necessaria alla saluta di quelli che he han fatto acquisto senza il consenso e l’autorità dells S. Sede Apostolica. First edition, 8vo, Rome, presso Francesco Bourlié, 1824. viii, 161, [1]pp. Old patterned wrappers, uncut, a little wear at edges, but a good copy printed on strong paper. £25 In this book Anfossi, Vicar-General of the Dominicans, argues against the acquisition of church possessions without Papal sanction, and calls for the restitution of such disposals. He backs his case with canon law, decrees and other sources and examines the rights of ownership. Einaudi 122; not in Kress or Goldsmiths.
63. ANGHIERA, Peter Martyr d'. De Orbe Novo. The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d’Anghera. Translated from the Latin with notes and introduction by Francis Augustus MacNutt. 2 vols, 8vo, New York & London, G.B. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1912. [x], 414; [viii], 448pp., folding map and 5 portraits. Publisher’s original cloth- backed boards with gilt coat of arms at the centre of the upper covers, t.e.g. Very good condition. £120 This is one of the most important sources for the history of the discovery and conquest of the New World. Peter Martyr d’Anghiera (1457-1526), a member of the Spanish court, was heavily involved in New World affairs, knew most of the explorers and was present when Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage. He also interviewed captains and sailors when their ships returned from the Americas. Peter Martyr’s history of the Spaniards in America began in 1511 when the first book or ‘decade’ was published and by 1526 he had completed 8 ‘decades’. All 8 were first published together in 1532. The present edition is uncommon - this is no.217 of 375 copies only.
64. BANK NOTES. Report of the Committee of the Society of Arts, &c. together with the approved communications and evidence upon the same, relative to the mode of preventing the forgery of bank notes. First edition, large 8vo, London, sold by the housekeeper, at the Society's house, 1819. [iv], 59, [1], 57*-59*, [1],, 61-72pp., with 6 engraved plates 1 of which is folding. Uncut and partly unopened in the original boards with the original printed paper title label on the spine, head and foot of the spine defective, but still a fine clean copy. Signature of Earl Compton on the front pastedown. £695 The years before 1819 saw an increase in convictions for passing forged bank notes, but judges were reluctant to pass the death sentence for the crime and therefore it was felt necessary to improve bank notes and make them more difficult to forge. This work suggests improvements to bank note design. The folding plate shows an improved copper plate printing press for bank notes and the other plates, which are masterpieces of engraving, show new bank notes and features which, it was hoped, would defeat forgers. Kress C.414; Goldsmiths 22503.
65. BERQUIN-DUVALLON, Pierre-Louis. Vue de la Colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane et Floride Occidentale, en l'année 1802, par un observateur résident sur les lieux. First edition, 8vo, Paris, à l'Imprimerie Expéditive, 1803. xx, 318, 5, [5]pp., 2 folding engraved maps with full contemporary hand-colouring one of which is a fine map of the Mississipi delta region. Modern dark blue half morocco by Sangorsky & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., others uncut, some light browning and staining, marginal hole (probably a paper flaw) in 1 errata leaf but no text loss, small old stamp on the half title. Nevertheless, overall a very nice copy and, according to a pencil inscription on a front endpaper, this copy was once in the collection of Sir Leicester Harmsworth. £1,150 The author was a French plantation owner in Haiti or St.Domingue as it was then known who fled to Louisiana during the Haiti slave rebellion led by Toussaint Louverture. He gives a good
description of Louisana which at the time of writing was a French possession administered by Spain, but in 1803 it became part of the United States. The book is particularly interesting for the author's account of life in the cities, especially New Orleans with its gambling, theatres, dance halls and mixture of races. Sabin 4962; Howes B.389; Streeter Sale 1530 - 'This gives an entertaining and gossipy first-hand picture of life in New Orleans at the turn of the century...'.
66. BLONAY, Jacques de. Alphabet de l'erudition contenant les mémoires et reflexions de Monsieur de Blonay à son cher fils François-Joseph et à la posterité de la maison de Blonay. Réimpression de l’unique édition. Large 8vo, Moutier, F. Ducloz, 1890. 495pp., text in Latin and French. Printed on good quality paper. Contemporary red half morocco, original wrappers bound in, partly unopened. Very good copy. £60 Reprint of the very rare first edition printed at Chambéry in 1708. The work consists of a series of moralising reflections and advice to his son, written somewhat in the manner of La Rochefoucauld. No.92 of a limited edition, limitation not specified, but possibly 100.
67. BRIGHT, Rev. J. Franck. Maria Theresa. First edition, 8vo, London, Macmillan and Co., 1897. x, 224pp.+[4]pp. adverts. Original blue cloth. Very good. £10 On Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. A volume from the series ‘Foreign Statesmen’.
68. BROOKSHAW, George. Groups of Flowers, drawn and accurately coloured after nature. with full directions for the young artist; designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting. Groups of fruit, accurately drawn after nature...... Six birds, accurately drawn and coloured after nature.... Three parts in 1 vol, second edition, folio, c.370 x 270mm., London, Thomas M’Lean, 1819. First part with title, [4]pp. introduction and 6 plates in 2 states (hand-coloured and uncoloured) each with a leaf of text; the fruit and bird parts each have a title, 6 plates in 2 states and each with a leaf of text - 36 engraved plates in total. Contemporary maroon morocco, wide gilt and blind-tooled decorative border on the covers, spine gilt, a.e.g., joints and corners rubbed, 1 corner rather more worn, occasional very light foxing to the text, but plates clean. Good copy overall. £900 First published in 1817 this work was written to help young artists in the painting of fruit, flowers and birds and it contains attractive hand-coloured plates particularly in the fruit and flower parts. Dunthorne 53-55; Sitwell ‘Fine Bird Books’ p.82.
69. [BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph]. Dictionnaire des plantes alimentaires, qui peuvent servir de nourriture et de boisson aux différens peuples de la terre. Contenant les noms triviaux Latins et Français de ces mêmes plantes; les pays où croisent les éxotiques; la méthode de les préparer en pain, pâtes, pâtisseries, vermicels, potages, conserves, confitures, ratafias, liqueurs, et généralement de quelque manière qu'elles puissent s'employer... 2 vols, 8vo, Paris, chez Samson, an XII - 1803. vi, [ii], 398; [iv], 412pp., - preliminaries of vol 1 misbound, but both volumes have a half-title. Modern quarter calf, red title labels, uncut, spines faded, else a good copy. Bookplate of the Deuzel collection. £135 This is a revised and enlarged version of Buc'hoz's 'Manuel alimentaire des plantes..' (1771). Rare. Not in Vicaire.
70. [CELLA, Paolo della]. Voyage en Afrique au Royaume de Barca et dans la Cyrénaique à travers le désert. Traduit et augmenté de notes historiques, géographiques et botaniques, et d'une notice sur l'ancienne et moderne Cyrénaique, sur le Royaume de Fezzan, sur Temboctou, sur l'Oasis de Syouah.... par Adolphe Pezant. First edition in French, 8vo, Paris, Armand-Aubrée, 1840. xvi, 432pp., 8 lithograph plates including the frontispiece, folding lithograph map of Cyrenaica [eastern Libya]. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, flat spine gilt, occasional light foxing and a few leaves with some staining, but in all a good copy. £395
Scarce first French edition of Cella's interesting account of travels in eastern Libya, one of the first Europeans to travel in this region. Pezant's extensive notes begin at p. 292. The plates show plants, animals and natives.
71. [COMPAN, Charles]. Dictionnaire de danse, contenant l'histoire, les règles et les principes de cet art, avec des réflexions critiques et des anecdotes curieuses concernant la danse ancienne et moderne; le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs qui ont écrit sur cet art. Small 8vo, Paris, chez Servière, an dix, [1802]. xvi, 395, [3]pp. Contemporary quarter calf on mabled boards, spine decorated in gilt and blind, small neat repair at the head of spine. A very good copy with the large armorial bookplate 'Bibliothèque de Mouchy' on the front pastedown. £395 Second edition of this work which was first published in 1787 and was the first such dictionary to appear. A rare work - COPAC locates the BL copy only of this edition and only a few others are recorded.
72. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, R. B. El Rio de la Plata. First edition, 8vo, London, Wertheimer, 1914. xiv, [ii], 181pp., Spanish text, full length portrait of the author as frontispiece. Original cloth, slightly rubbed, but a good copy. £100 Account of travels in Uruguay and Argentina by the Scottish socialist and writer Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936). A presentation copy, inscribed in Spanish and dated 21 June 1915.
73. DABRY DE THIERSANT, Claude-Philibert. Guide des armées alliées en Chine ou dialogues sur les reconnaissances militaires en trois langues: Français, Anglais, Chinois avec la pronunciation figurée du Chinois suivi d’un vocabulaire chinois, français, anglais..... Vu et corrigé par un lettré chinois. First edition, 8vo, Paris, Henri Plon & London, W. O. Mitchell, 1859. [ii], xvi, 164pp. Finely bound by Despierres in contemporary hard-grained red morocco, single gilt and double black fillet on the covers, large gilt arms of Marshall Randon at the centre of the covers, a.e.g. Superb binding in fine condition. £500 An exceptional copy of this Chinese phrase book and vocabulary written for the use French and British soldiers for use during the campaign in China in the Second Opium War (1856-1860). The text is mostly in 5 columns - the French and English word or phrase, the Chinese character, and the French and English guide to the Chinese pronunciation. This copy was specially bound for the soldier and politician Jacques Louis Randon, Comte de Randon (1795-1871). As a young soldier Randon took part in Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign and he rose through the ranks to become a general and finally Marshall of France and governor of Algeria. At the time of the Second Opium War he was the Minister for War. Excellent copy with a great provenance.
74. DENHAM, Major Dixon & CLAPPERTON, Hugh. Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824,...... extending across the Great Desert to the tenth degree of northern latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah empire. With an appendix... First edition, 4to, London, John Murray, 1826. xlviii, 335, 269, [1]pp., 1 large folding engraved map, 37 engraved plates (1 coloured), and 6 woodcuts in the text. Modern half calf on marbled boards, uncut, crease in title and with some browning from the frontispiece, some mostly marginal foxing to the plates as often, map and last 3 plates more heavily foxed, 2 plates and 3 text leaves with small marginal stain, but overall a good copy. £650 Presentation copy of this classic account of an ill-fated journey across the Sahara and back in an attempt to trace the course of the river Niger. It is inscribed by Denham to Mary Anne Whitby (1784-1850) who was an authority on silkworms. From 1846 she collaborated with Charles Darwin on a series of experiments on hereditability in silkworms and she also corresponded with him. Denham has written on the title - 'Mrs. Whitby, Newlands, Lymington. with the best wishes and remembrances, D. Denham'.
75. DEVILLE, Achille. Essai historique et descriptif sur l’Église et l’Abbaye de Saint- Georges-de-Bocherville, près Rouen. First edition, folio, c.350 x 270mm., Rouen, de l’imprimerie de Nicétas Periaux jeune, 1827. xiii, [iii], 111pp., 12 plates, wood-engraved vignette on the title and also vignette tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, unopened, occasional light foxing to the text and plates, but overall a handsome well bound copy. £150 The plates are mostly lithographs after drawings by Achille Deville and they were lithographed by Periaux of Rouen, one of the earliest lithographers of Rouen who is mentioned in Tywman’s ‘Lithography 1800-1850’.
76. DEVILLE, Achille. Histoire du Château-Gaillard, et du siège qu’il soutint contre Philippe-Auguste, en 1203 et 1204, ornée de planches lithographiées ou gravées, et de plusieurs vignettes. First edition, folio, c.350 x 270mm., Rouen, Édouard Frère & Nicétas Periaux, 1829. xvii, [iii], 150, [6]pp., with 12 lithograph plates and wood-engraved vignettes. Contemporary half calf, text mostly unopened, some foxing at the beginning and end, but still a handsome copy bound uniform with the above work. £150 Scholarly work on this medieval castle at Les Andelys, on the river Seine near Rouen. Like the above it contains plates lithographed by Periaux after Deville. Of particular interest is a fine double-page facsimile of a document by Richard the Lionheart concerning the exchange of Les Andelys. Château Gaillard changed hands several times in the Hundred Years War, but in 1203-4 it was held by Richard the Lionheart and besieged by French forces.
77. [DREVON, Hendrik]. A journey through Sweden, containing a detailed account of the population, agriculture, commerce, and finances; to which is added an abridged history of the kingdom, and of the different forms of government...... With some particulars relating to the history of Denmark, and to the life of Count Struenzee. Written in French by a Dutch officer, and translated into English by William Radcliffe. First edition in English, 8vo, London, G. Kearsley, n.d., [1790]. vii, [i], 337, [7]pp. Uncut in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, covers rubbed and worn around the edges, head and and foot of spine chipped, otherwise a very good unsophisticated copy as issued. £245 An uncommon book written in the form of a series of letters to a 'dear friend'. The original French edition was published at The Hague in 1789. Kress B.1825.
78. DUBLIN MAP. KIRKWOOD, J. Plan of Dublin with the latest improvements. Drawn and engraved for the New Picture of Dublin, by Kirkwood & Son, Batchelors Walk. c.350x495mm., [Dublin?], Kirkwood & Son, 1828. Folding engraved map mounted on linen. Folds into the original green cloth covers with title label ‘Plan of Dublin’ within a typographic border on the upper cover. Nice condition. £175
79. DUBUFFET, Jean. Mémorial de la petite exposition de dessins et de peintures de Jean Dubuffet joyeusement organisée à Bruxelles en décembre 1949 par l’auteur et son ami Geert van Bruaene pour l’inauguration de sa nouvelle boutique ‘Le Diable par la queue’. First edition, small 4to, c.200 x 200mm., Paris, E. & J. Desjobert, 1949. [8]pp. pictorial front cover with title, lithographed throughout on pale brown paper reproducing the handwriting of the artist and 2 drawings. Fine condition. From the Fred Feinsilber collection, but not included in the 2006 Sotheby sale. £275 This is the catalogue of an exhibition at Geert van Bruaene’s gallery in 1949. The text lists 24 paintings and drawings with title and dimensions and Dubuffet also notes that this is his first exhibition in Europe outside Paris. The rear cover contains some details of the printing. Limited to 600 copies... ‘en hâte, pour qu’elle soit prête à la date de l’exposition’. COPAC only records the copy at the British Library.
80. DUNOYER, Charles. De la liberté du travail, ou simple exposé des conditions dans lesquelles les forces humaines s'exercent avec le plus de puissance. First edition, 3
vols, 8vo, Paris, chez Guillaumin, 1845. xvi, 482; [vi], 480; [vi], 527pp. Contemporary dark blue quarter calf on marbled boards, occasional light foxing, but still a very good clean set. £250 An attractive copy of Dunoyer's most important work, but in fact this is a revised and extended edition of his 'Nouveau traité d'économie sociale' 2 vols, 1830 many copies of which were destroyed in a fire. Palgrave - 'this masterly work'; Kress C.6576; Einaudi 1651; Goldsmiths 34067.
81. [ENGELBACH, Lewis]. Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a series of letters addressed to a friend in England, in 1802. Large 8vo, London, R. Ackermann, 1815. 4, 400, [12]pp., 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates mostly by Rowlandson including a frontispiece and an additional engraved title, 2 hand-coloured engraved maps - a folding map of the Bay of Naples and a map of the island of Capri. Later dark blue crushed morocco by Rivière and Son, double gilt fillet on covers enclosing a triple gilt panel with gilt fleuron at each corner, spine richly gilt, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., joints rubbed, but in all a very good copy. £695 This is the first edition in book form. The work was originally published in the periodical ‘Ackermann’s Repository’ 1809-13. A particularly handsome copy in a Rivière binding of this attractively illustrated book. Abbey Travel 166; Tooley 419.
82. ENGLAND AND WALES. MAP. Brookes' Travelling Companion through England and Wales. Folding engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, c.590 x 510mm., London, William Darton, 1812. The map is the original light hand-colouring and has a fine large title cartouche showing Britannia in the top right corner. Folds into a contemporary slipcase. Good condition. £110 An attractive map showing the roads and distances from London etc. The map includes the east coast of Ireland and part of Scotland. Offered with this map is a smaller folding map of Ireland, c.370 x 285mm., Dublin, engraved on stone and printed at Allen’s, Dame Street, n.d., [c.1840?]. This map has the original full body colour. Both maps come from the Kingcausie Library in Scotland and on the back of each there is the date of acquisition - 1st November 1842. Both maps fit into the same slipcase.
83. FIELDING, Theodore H. Synopsis of practical perspective, lineal and aerial. Second edition enlarged, large 8vo, London, published for the author by W. H. Allen & Co., 1836. [xii], [9]-156pp., with half-title and errata slip, 17 folding or double-page plates, 1 plate with 3 views and a coloured plate at p.137 which is usually bound in as the frontispiece. Original publisher’s cloth with title label on the spine, label a little soiled, slightly worn, a few spots in the text, but a good copy. £135 Fielding was a teacher of drawing and perspective at the East India Company Military College at Addiscombe near Croydon, and his work was frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy. This is a presentation copy, inscribed on the f.e.p. - ‘To John Shepherd Esqu. with the author’s best respects’.
84. FLAXMAN, John. Eight illustrations of the Lord's Prayer, from the designs of the late John Flaxman, R.A. Drawn on stone by Richard Lane, A.R.A. First edition, London, Charles Knight, 1835. Title and 8 lithographed plates after Flaxman, each plate retains the original tissue guard. Contemporary half calf, rubbed, plain later reback, inner hinges strengthened, some light foxing on the title. With the bookplate of T. & H. S. Brightwen on the front pastedown. £90 A rare work illustrating drawings by the sculptor and designer John Flaxman (1755-1826). Three copies only located in the U.K. - Cambridge, National Gallery Library and Glasgow Art School.
Item 8 Item 1 Item 73
Item 59 Item 21 (4 vols) Item 49
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85. FROEBEL, Julius. Seven years' travel in Central America, Northern Mexico, and the far west of the United States. First edition in English, 8vo, London, Richard Bentley, 1859. xiv, [ii], 587pp., 8 wood-engraved plates including a frontispiece, wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, slightly rubbed, but still a very good copy from the library of Lord Farnham with his bookplate. £680 Froebel’s account of his travels in Mexico and the south-west of the United States is considered to be one of the most interesting books on the region. It is divided into 3 parts - ‘Rambles in Nicaragua &c.’, ‘Journey to the north of Mexico &c.’ and ‘Journey from Texas to California &c.’. He finally arrived in Los Angeles in September 1854 and returned to his native Germany in 1857. Graff 1448; Howes F.-390; Sabin 25992.
86. GELL, Sir William. Itinerary of the Morea: being a description of the routes of that peninsula. First edition, 8vo, London, printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1817. xv, [i], 248pp., folding engraved map, interleaved copy, without the half-title. Modern half calf. A very good copy. £595 Blackmer 663; Atabey 486 - 'This is the first of Gell's 'Itineraries', which contained information organised along plotted routes and are the forerunners of today's guide books'.
87. GRAVES, Robert & HOGARTH, Paul. Majorca observed. 8vo, London, Cassell, 1965. 150, [2]pp., numerous illustrations, some full-page, after drawings by Paul Hogarth. Original cloth with dw. Good copy of this attractive book. £15 Robert Graves’s account of life in Majorca was written in the 1950s, but this is the first edition with illustrations by Paul Hogarth.
88. GUICHES, Gustave. La pudeur de Sodome. Folio, Paris, Maison Quantin, 1888. [vi], 46, [1]pp., with the celebrated etched erotic frontispiece by Félicien Rops. Later quarter morocco on cloth, t.e.g. Fine copy. £245 No.309 of 325 copies.
89. GUILLARD DE SERVIGNÉ, J. B. Les sonnettes ou mémoires de M. le Marquis de D' ***, précédés d’une étude sur l’auteur et son oeuvre par Horace de Boueix. 12mo, Paris, au Cercle de l’Esprit Gaulois, n.d., [c.1880]. xxx, 118pp., illustrated by E. Mesplès with etched frontispiece, 3 etched plates and vignettes in the text. Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., original pictorial upper wrapper bound in, slightly rubbed. Good copy. £100 Scarce reprint of an 18th century erotic novel here published in the series ‘Petite Bibliothèque de l’Esprit gaulois’. Pia 1348. No.56 of 160 copies on ‘papier d’Arche’ of a total limitation of 332 copies. This is a presentation copy inscribed by the editor on the half-title.
90. [GURNEY, Hudson]. Fragments. The Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto. Book First [all published]. 8vo, Great Yarmouth, Charles Sloman, printer, 1843. 37pp. Publisher’s bind-stamped cloth with title ‘Ariosto Orlando Furioso’ in gilt on the upper cover, a.e.g. A fine copy. £85 This is Hudson Gurney’s translation of the first book of ‘Orlando Furioso’ - no more was published. Gurney wrote the translation in 1808 - at the end there is printed ‘H. G., 1808’. Extremely rare. COPAC only records the copy at the British Library and the catalogue gives the date as ‘[1808?]’ - however, verso of the title there is the small imprint of Charles Sloman, Great Yarmouth, 1843’ which the cataloguer has failed to notice.
91. HADEN, Francis Seymour. About etching. Part I. Notes on a collection of etchings and engravings by the great masters.... Part II. An annotated catalogue of the examples exhibited of etchers and painter-engravers’ works... Large 4to, c.335 x 250mm., London, the Fine Art Society, 1879. 78pp., with an original etching by Haden ‘The Moat
House’ as frontispiece, and 15 facsimiles of etchings. Original quarter morocco on green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, spine a bit rubbed, else a very good clean copy. £195 Haden (1818-1910) was a surgeon by profession, but also a talented artist who specialised in etching. As an artist he was quite an important figure because he was one of the founders of the Society of Painter-Etchers and was a driving force in the revival of etching in Britain. The 15 facsimiles after Dürer, Rembrandt, Turner, Claude Lorrain, Meryon and others are of very high quality and each retains its original tissue-guard. This is the fourth and best edition of this work - the earlier editions had fewer pages and were not illustrated.
92. HARPER, Charles G. Thames valley villages. First edition, 2 vols, 8vo, London, Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1910. xiv, 309; xi, 296pp., numerous plates and text illustrations from photographs by W. S. Campbell and from drawings by the author. Original green cloth decorated in black, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed, but a good set. £25
93. HARRISON, Ada. A Majorca holiday. First edition, 8vo, London, Gerald Howe Ltd., [1927]. [viii], 228, [4]pp., 16 plates showing crayon studies by Robert Austin and 15 line drawings in the text also by Austin. Original cloth, dw a little torn and soiled, but overall a good copy. £15
94. HOPE, Thomas. Costume of the ancients. New edition enlarged, 2 vols, large 8vo, London, William Miller, 1812. xvi, 52, [4]pp. + 130 plates; [8]pp. + 170 plates numbered 131-300. Near contemporary straight-grained green morocco, triple gilt fillet on covers and gilt fleuron at each corner, a.e.g., spines a little rubbed and joints and corners also a bit rubbed, title of vol 1 slightly stained, bound without half-titles, else a good clean set. £150 The 300 plates are line engravings mostly by Henry Moses whose costume drawings were noted for their accuracy. Colas 1478; Lowndes - ‘An esteemed work’.
95. ITALY MAP. GIEGLER, J. P. Carte générale & routière d'Italie. Folding engraved map c.710x545mm., dissected and mounted on linen, Milan, chez J. P. Giegler, 1818. The map folds into a contemporary slipcase with title ‘Italy’ in ink on the cover. Very good condition. £100 The map also shows parts of Switzerland and Austria as well as the coast of Dalmatia.
96. JACOB, William. Report on the trade in foreign corn, and on the agriculture of the north of Europe. To which is added, an appendix of official documents, averages of prices, shipments, stocks on hand in the various exporting countries, &c. Third edition, 8vo, London, James Ridgway, 1826. 249pp. + [3]pp. adverts., 2 folding tables included in the pagination. Uncut in the original boards, neatly respined, but retaining the original printed title label, light damp mark in the bottom corner of the first few pages. Overall, a very good copy. £90 From the same year as the first edition. Goldsmiths’ 24924 for the first edition; not in Kress or Einaudi. Palgrave II, 471 - ‘..... valuable information and very full statistics of the state of the land and the agricultural produce of those countries at that period’.
97. LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ, Frédéric-Henri-Charles de. Ondine. Traduction de Jean Thorel. 8vo, Paris, Librairie de José Corti, 1943. 145, [5]pp., with 19 lithographs in the text by Valentine Hugo. Original wrappers. Very good. £25 Published to mark the centenary of the death of La Motte-Fouqué. Limited edition of 1000 copies.
98. LAWRENCE, James. L'Empire des Nairs, ou le Paradis de l'Amour. 4 vols, 12mo, Paris, chez Maradan, 1814. lxxi, 255, [5]; 291; 288; 291pp. Uncut in the original blue wrappers, printed paper title lables on the spines, spines a little worn and a few joints splitting, but overall a very good set. £200
This is a translation of Lawrence's 'Empire of the Nairs, or Rights of Women, an Utopian Romance' (1811). James Lawrence (1773-1840) was an English writer who lived abroad. This work began as an essay written in German on the 'Nair system of gallantry and inheritance' which was published in Wieland's 'Deutsche Merkur'. The essay's radical ideas which owed much to Mary Wollstonecraft and Godwin attracted considerable attention and with Schiller's support it was printed in the 'Journal der Romane' with the title 'Das Paradies der Liebe' and later reprinted as 'Das Reich der Nairen'. A French translation was published in 1807 and in 1811 Lawrence revised the novel for the first English edition. The French edition of 1807 is very rare and this 1814 translation of the revised text is also rare, COPAC recording 1 copy only.
99. LE BRUN, Henri (compiler). Le bréviaire des moralistes français. Maximes et pensées mises en ordre par Henri Le Brun. First edition, 8vo, Paris, Librairie Ed. Sagot, 1887. [iv], 399pp. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards, t.e.g., original wrappers bound in, slightly rubbed at extremities, but still a very good copy. Bookplate of Alfred and Blanche de Curzon on the front pastedown. £50 Maxims by Rousseau, Montaigne, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Chamfort, Vauvenargues, Montesquieu and others arranged according to subject matter. This is number 23 of 25 copies only printed on ‘papier du Japon’.
100. LEIPZIG. Neue Beschreibung von Leipzig. Ein Handbuch für Fremde u. Einheimische, welche die Merkwürdigkeiten und Umbebungen dieser Handelsstadt näher kennen und ihren Aufenthalt zwekmäßig benutzen wollen. Mit einer Vorrede von I. G. Leonhardi. Neue mit Plan vermehrte Ausgabe. Small 8vo, Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1808. viii, 167pp., engraved title, 2 folding engraved plates and engraved folding hand- coloured map of Leipzig. Original boards, spine and corners a bit rubbed, but most of the original printed title label remains. £150 Very scarce guide to Leipzig with a preface by Johann Gottfried Leonhardi who describes himself on the title as ‘Professor der Oekonomie zu Leipzig’.
101. MARCOUSSIS, Louis. DERMÉE, Paul. Le Volant d'Artimon. First edition, 4to, c.235 x 183mm., Paris, Collection Z, Jacques Povolozky & Cie., 1922. [42]pp., with 3 original woodcuts by Louis Marcoussis - 2 full-page woodcuts in black and white in the text and 1 in colour on the front wrapper. Unopened in the original printed wrappers, upper joint partly split, else a very good copy. Contained in a red half morocco chemise and a slipcase - these in fine condition. Provenance: from the collection of Fred Feinsilber sold at Sotheby’s Paris in October 2006. £350 Paul Dermée (1886-1951) was a Belgian born writer, poet and journalist who lived in Paris for many years and knew Picasso, Juan Gris and other avant-garde artists of the period. He also participated in the Dada movement. This volume of poems is notable for the 3 beautiful cubist woodcuts by Louis Marcoussis. The edition was limited to 216 copies, this being one of few additional copies numbered 00 reserved for the author. It is also a presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title - ‘hommage de l’auteur Paul Dermée’. Garvey ‘The Artist and the Book 1860-1960’, 185.
102. MOSER, Henri. A travers l'Asie Centrale. La Steppe Kirghize - le Turkestan Russe - Boukhara - Khiva - le Pays des Turcomans et la Perse. Impressions de voyage. First edition, 4to, Paris, Librairie Plon, 1885. xi, 463pp., numerous wood-engraved plates and illustrations in the text including 16 heliotype plates, folding map. Contemporary red morocco- backed cloth, spine richly gilt, a.e.g., occasional light foxing in the text, but still a very good copy. £100 Moser was born at St.Petersburg, but educated in Switzerland. He travelled widely in Russian central Asia and acquired an important collection of ethnographical objects.
103. MOSES, H. Vases from the collection of Sir Henry Englefield, drawn and engraved by H. Moses. First edition, 4to, London, Rodwell and Martin, [1820]. 60, [4]pp., text in English and French, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved decorative title and 39 engraved plates one of which is coloured. All the plates retain the original tissue guards. Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, calf a bit rubbed and scuffed, spine slightly faded, occasional light foxing to the text, a few plates only with some marginal foxing, else a good copy. £150 Beautiful engravings of Greek and Roman vases from the celebrated collection of Sir Henry Englefield
104. PALGRAVE FAMILY. Palgrave Family Memorials. Edited by Charles John Palmer and Stephen Tucker (Rouge Croix). First edition, 4to, Norwich, printed by Miller and Leavins (for private distribution only), 1878. [viii], 208pp., 33 engraved or lithograph plates of portraits of the Palgrave family, coats of arms and churches etc. a few of which are coloured, and 29 wood-engravings in the text. Contemporary half vellum on marbled boards, original card covers bound in, red labels, spine a bit soiled, but a good copy. Bookplate of T. & H. S. Brightwen inside the front card cover. £80 Well illustrated and detailed history of the Palgrave family of East Anglia from the 15th century to 1878. This is an interesting copy. It appears to have belonged at one stage to the economist Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave. Loosely inserted is a letter to him from the Rev. P. Oakley Hill, dated 15 May 1901, in which he thanks Palgrave for providing a scholarship for a daughter and gives him some information about the Palgrave family gleaned from his parish registers. Pages 89-96 contain numerous additions and corrections to the text in Palgrave’s hand and there are also a few additions elsewhere.
105. PALGRAVE, Francis Turner. Address to the students, delivered on the prize-day of the Salisbury School of Science & Art, 25th January, 1889. First edition, 8vo, [Salisbury], printed for Edward H. Hulse, M.P., at the Office of the Salisbury & Winchester Journal, 1889. 22pp. Original printed wrappers, some light foxing to the front cover and the title, else very good. £40 This is by the Palgrave of ‘Golden Treasury’ fame. At the time of writing he was, as stated on the title, ‘Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford’. Very rare - COPAC only records the copy at the British Library.
106. PALGRAVE, Francis Turner. My sister Cecilia. First edition, 8vo, Lyme Regis, F. Dunster, 1891-92. The complete text of the novel as published in the periodical ‘The Grove’. Chapters 1 to 25 are extracted from various numbers of the ‘The Grove’ and disbound; chapters 26 to the end are in issue XIII, May 1892 which is entirely devoted to the novel and is here complete in the original printed wrappers. The first page is lightly foxed and soiled, the complete number is in very good condition. £65 This is Palgrave’s third novel which was published serially in 8 instalments of 36 chapters from October 1891 to May 1892 in the ‘The Grove. A Monthly Miscellany’, edited by R. Hanbury Miers, and published at Lyme Regis, Dorset. It seems that this semi-autobiographical novel has only ever been printed in this format. According to Martin Spevack in his ‘Works of Francis Turner Palgrave; A Descriptive Survey’ (2012) Palgrave wrote this work about 1860. Very rare - a few libraries only have copies of ‘The Grove’ which ceased publication after no.XIII May 1892. ‘Either 4 or 6 copies were printed I believe’
107. [PALGRAVE, Sir Francis]. Fragments, gathered up, that none may be lost. [Vol 1 only of 2], 4to, n.p., n.d., [c.1829]. In 2 parts - 67, 93pp., caption title, text printed on 1 side of leaf only. Uncut in contemporary cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt ‘Fragments Part I’. In very good condition. £180 The book is in 2 parts and the second section of 97 pages has the caption title ‘Fragments, gathered up,.... Series II’. The text consists of essays, drafts for projected books?, on the Middle
Ages. COPAC records a copy at the British Library in 2 volumes, but no pagination stated, and gives a date of 1854 based on a presentation inscription in the book. The present copy belonged to Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave and by the first caption title he has written - ‘The two volumes of Fragments were apparently printed about 1830. I do not know when they were written by my father Sir Francis Palgrave, but I believe not long before that date. Either 4 or 6 copies were printed I believe. R. H. Inglis Palgrave, Henstead Hall, Suffolk, December 1910’.
108. PALGRAVE, Sir Francis. O'MH'POY BATPAXOMYOMAXI'A. La guerre des grenouilles et des souris d’Homère. Traduit mot pour mot de la version latine d’Étienne Berglere imprimée vis-à-vis, par M. François Cohen de Kentish-Town, agé de huit ans. A quoi on a ajouté une paraphrase en vers anglois, publiée par M. Pope. First edition, 8vo, à Londres, printed by W. and C. Spilsbury, 1797. [iv], 57pp., additional engraved pictorial title engraved by J. Spilsbury after E. F. Burney. Later maroon half calf, spine titled in gilt ‘Homer’s Frogs and Mice - Palgrave 1797’, t.e.g., original? marbled wrappers bound in with the large engraved bookplate of Frederick Hendriks 1893 on the upper wrapper. Good copy. £295 This is a most interesting and rare edition, privately published, of Homer’s Batrachomyomachia, in Latin, French and English. The translation from the Latin is by Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861), archivist and historian, who was 8 years old at the time. Sir Francis was actually Jewish, his name in 1797 was Francis Cohen. On his marriage in 1823 he changed his religion and surname. He married Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Dawson Turner, and took the name Palgrave which was the maiden name of his wife’s mother. The couple had 4 sons, all highly talented - Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897) known for his famous anthology of English poetry ‘Palgrave’s Golden Treasury’; Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919) economist and author of the ‘Dictionary of Political Economy’ which has gone through several editions and revisions and is still in print; Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829-1904), clerk of the House of Commons; William Gifford Palgrave (1826-1888) traveller and diplomat. This book was printed for Sir Francis’s father and only a small number were printed according to a note by Frederik Hendriks on a front endpaper. This copy was bought by Sir Harry Inglis Palgrave at the sale of Hendriks’ library in November 1909. Note - book placed in this section to go with the other Palgrave books.
109. PALGRAVE, Sir Francis. The Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth. Anglo-Saxon period. Containing the Anglo-Saxon policy, and the institutions arising out of laws and usages which prevailed before the conquest. First edition, 2 vols, 4to, London, John Murray, 1832. xlii, 658; xx, cccclvipp. Later 19th century half calf by Morrell, spines gilt, a bit rubbed, but a good set. This copy belonged to Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave with his ownership inscription in each volume and his address Henstead Hall, Suffolk. His bookplate is also on the front pastedown of vol 2. £120 Volume 1, actually styled ‘Part I’, is the text. Volume 2 or ‘Part II’ consists of ‘Proofs and Illustrations’. A very scholarly work which, according to D.N.B., ‘... contains matter still of interest’. Two other copies of this title are available.
110. PALGRAVE, Sir Reginald Francis Douce. A slim volume containing four articles on history by Sir Reginald. Folio, c.330 x 240mm., London, various dates c.1890-1901. Contains two articles on the execution of Charles I, one on the Star Chamber, Palace of Westminster, and one on John Bunyan, all extracted from periodicals, c.20pp., illustrations. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered ‘Miscellaneous Articles. Palgrave’ in gilt. Very good condition. £25 In addition the volume contains a 4 page autograph letter to Sir Reginald from James M. Gardiner of the British Museum, dated 7 December 1896 and a cutting of a letter to The Times about King Charles I published on 10 May 1890. One of the articles contains a number of pencil annotations most probably by Sir Reginald and there is also a rather crude and damaged drawing no doubt also by him of the execution of King Charles. The volume includes a 5 page
article ‘The Ladies’ Gallery of the Old House of Commons’ by Mary E. Palgrave (a daughter?). This volume almost certainly belonged to Sir Reginald Palgrave or another member of the Palgrave family.
111. PRISONS. SOCIÉTÉ ROYALE POUR L'AMÉLIORATION DES PRISONS. Collection of 18 various reports, ordinances, statutes etc. relating to prisons in France. 4to, n.p., [Paris], de l'Imprimerie de Denugon, n.d., [1820]. [iv], 30, 121, 44, 154, 39pp. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, head and foot of spine a little rubbed, occasional spotting, pp.114-120 printed in the wrong order (as also in the BN copy), but a good copy. £180 This volume contains 8 reports and 10 ordinances, regulations and statutes etc. relating to the state of prisons in 1820. They are not all separately paginated, but the second leaf contains a full table of the 18 works. The first leaf simply contains the title 'Société Royale pour l'Amélioration des Prisons'. The reports deal with prison conditions, health of prisoners, prison workshops, ways of improving prisons and much else. Authors include Decazes, Marquis de Barbé Marbois, and the Duc de la Rochefoucauld. The society was formed in April 1819 by Decazes and the Duc d'Angoulême was its president. The aim of the society was to seek improvements in prison conditions and to oversee the management of prisons. The 18 pieces are in chronological order and therefore at the beginning there is the ordinance founding the society, its constitution and the list of members. A very rare volume with important documentation..
112. ROME. Raccolta di 50 vedute antiche, e moderne della città di Roma e sue vicinanze incise da Piranesi, Morelli, Prontis, ed altri celebri bullini. Oblong 4to, c.215 x 270mm., Rome, presso Piale, n.d., [c.1830]. Engraved title with vignette and 50 engraved views of Rome. Contemporary maroon morocco, titled in gilt on the front cover ‘Views in Rome’, blind-tooled decorative border on the covers, spine also decorated in blind, a bit rubbed and soiled, some plates with marginal foxing and 1 plate with a tear in the margin outside the plate mark, but most in good clean condition. On a front endpaper there is the ownership inscription of Thomas Williamson dated 1834. £225 A good collection with many attractive views.
113. SCHELLING, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von. Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände. 12mo, Reutlingen, in der J. N. Enßlinschen Buchhandlung, 1834. 129pp. Unopened in contemporary wrappers. A very nice clean copy. £80 The first separate edition of this important work which was originally published in Schelling’s ‘Philosophische Schriften’ (1809).
114. SCHLEGEL, August Wilhelm. Blumensträusse italienischer. spanischer und portugiesischer Poesie. First edition, small square 8vo, Berlin, in der Realschulbuchhandlung, 1804. [ii], 238pp., with 5 engraved plates including an engraved title. Original decorated card binding with a coloured illustration on the covers, spine also decorated, and contained in a contemporary slipcase, covers a bit soiled, some light foxing, but overall in good condition considering it is still in the rather delicate original binding. £150 Schlegel’s translations of poems by Dante, Petrarch, Tasso, Ariosto, Cervantes, Camoens and others in the attractive original binding. The illustrations on the covers have been attributed to the German romantic painter Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810). A delightful and rare little volume. A copy is fully described and illustrated in the famous Kaldewey Catalogue ‘Deutsche Romantiker’ (1979) no.85. With a Dada collage by Pierre Mercier
115. SCHWITTERS, Kurz. Anna Blume. Dichtungen. First edition, 8vo, Hannover, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1919. 37pp. +[3]pp. adverts. Original wrappers the front cover with a View in Rome from item 112
Map of part of Louisiana in item 65
design by Schwitters. Contained in a box the lid of which is decorated with a Dada collage by the artist Pierre Mercier signed and dated [19]90, and the box slides into a slipcase. Very good condition. Provenance: from the Fred Feinsilber collection sold at Sotheby’s Paris in October 2006. £850 This is the first book of the Dadaist artist and poet Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). Unique copy with the decorated box lid by Pierre Mercier (1946-2016) which was probably specially made for Fred Feinsilber. On 24th May 2017 Pierre Mercier’s library was auctioned in Paris. The auction contained a section ‘Boîtes et emboîtages de Pierre Mercier’, but the present work was not in the sale. Album with many prints by Charlotte Bonaparte
116. SCRAP ALBUM. An album containing many prints by Charlotte Bonaparte which formerly belonged to Christine Bonaparte (1798-1847) who became Lady Dudley Stuart on her marriage to Lord Dudley Stuart. Folio, c.430 x 270mm., various dates c.1820-29. 55 lithographs and engravings mounted on blue paper in the album. The album is in very worn contemporary half calf, spine defective, but prints generally in very good condition. Label of Lady Stuart on the rear cover. Sold A most interesting album of prints with a great provenance. It belonged to Princess Christine Bonaparte, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), younger brother of Napoleon, and his first wife Christine Boyer (1771-1800). She married the British politician Lord Dudley Stuart on 20 July 1824. The album contains many prints by Charlotte Bonaparte (1802-1839), daughter of Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844), Napoleons’ older brother and formerly King of Naples and King of Spain who went into exile after the fall of Napoleon. From 1817 to 1832 he lived in America, mostly at the estate called Point Breeze near Bordentown, New Jersey. Charlotte was a talented artist who had studied engraving and lithography in Paris under the artist Louis Léopold Robert and she lived with her father in New Jersey from December 1821 to August 1824. Later she settled in Italy where she died in childbirth. The prints are of varying size, mostly 1 to a page. The album includes 12 lithographs of tree studies by Henry William Burgess dated 1820 or 1821, 5 views in Devon (Teignmouth, Dartmouth, Plymouth - 1 coloured), and the other 38 prints are all by Charlotte Bonaparte. These consist of views in New Jersey and Italy - the Italian views are mostly lithographed by T. C. Salucci after drawings by Charlotte. Some titles - ‘Chüte de la Passaïc’ (Passaic Falls, New Jersey), ‘Vue de Lebanon’ (N.J.), ‘Vue prise dans le Parc de Point-Breeze’, ‘Vue du Lac Diane’ (Quebec), ‘Le Clair de Lune’ (a moonlit landscape engraved by Charlotte after Bognet and printed on blue paper), ‘L’Hermitage de Camaldoli’, ‘Vue de Monte Forato’, ‘La Villa di Campomarzo à Trieste’, ‘Rome, Maison de Raphael’, ‘Rome, Palais des Césars, vue prise de la Villa Mills’ and others, including a few unsigned prints but which are certainly by Charlotte. A few of her lithographs can be seen on the internet; images and a full list of the prints can be sent on request.
117. SÉGUR, Joseph Alexandre de. Les femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez différents peuples anciens et modernes. First edition, 3 vols, 12mo, Paris, chez Treuttel et Würtz, an XI - 1803. 350; 344; 345pp. + adverts. With 6 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spines gilt in compartments, slightly worn, covers a little rubbed, but overall an attractive set in good condition. £150 A study of women in society from ancient times to the French Revolution. The work also contains a few short stories.
118. SHARP, Granville. The Gilbart Prize Essay on the adaptation of recent discoveries and inventions in science and art to the purposes of practical banking. Third edition, 8vo, London, Groombridge and Sons, 1854. vi, 356pp., 2 engraved portraits (the first loose), and 122 plates, specimens and printing samples, some folding and some on coloured paper, illustrations. Contemporary dark green half morocco on marbled boards, 15 red wax seals (for the Great Exhibition, “Granville Sharp Accountant”, “Hampshire Banking Company” and others) inside the lower cover, note to the reader printed on blue paper tipped-in on the front
free endpaper, top edges gilt, others uncut. Binding a little rubbed and worn, occasional foxing and a few stains to the plates and a few inevitable tears at folds, envelope on plate 51 now detached with some damage to the mount beneath, but no text loss. In all, a good copy for a work such as this. £995 The third edition of Sharp’s essay, but the first to contain all the plates and printing samples etc. An amazing catalogue of innovations in commercial printing and design inspired by the recent advances displayed at the Industrial Exposition of 1851. In that year J. W. Gilbart, a director of the London and Westminster Bank and a Fellow of the Royal Society, offered a prize for the best essay on the subject of how these recent technological advances could be adapted to practical banking. The result was this wonderful essay by Sharp which contains a wealth of specimens and illustrated advertisements relating to banking including locks, safes, machines for defacing coins, scales, various copying presses, bank notes, stationery, cheques, envelopes and much else. There also a few pamphlets in the plate section including John Chubb’s ‘Construction of locks and keys’, ‘Appel’s process of anastatic printing‘, and ‘Photographic forgery of bankers’ notes’. All plates are present according to the plate list, but there are also a few extra plates not listed and the book ends with a 2 page catalogue of Gilbart’s books which is also not called for. A unique book as evidently no two copies are exactly alike.
119. SHOBERL, Frederic. The world in miniature; Russia, being a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, diversions, and other peculiarities, of the different nations, inhabiting the Russian Empire. 4 vols, 12mo, London, R. Ackermann, [1822- 23]. vii, 181; 294; 204; xviipp.; with a list of plates at the end of each volume and there are 22 pages of advertisements at the end of volume 1. With 72 hand-coloured engraved costume plates. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter morocco on patterned cloth, uncut and unopened, light offsetting from the plates, otherwise an attractive set in fine condition. £700 Excellent copy of this well-illustrated work on Russia. Tooley p.418; Colas 2724.
120. [STAFFORD, Elizabeth, Marchioness of]. Views in Orkney and on the north-eastern coast of Scotland taken in MDCCCV and etched MDCCCVII. First edition, folio, c.375x260mm., n.p., 1807. 27pp., etched title with small map, 31 etched views on 28 leaves and 12 etched head and tailpieces also of views. Contemporary diced russia, triple gilt fillet on covers, neatly rebacked retaining the original spine, later leather title label. In all, a very good clean copy. £550 Scarce work on the Orkney Islands illustrated with original etchings by the Marchioness of Stafford - only 120 copies were printed for private distribution. The text is extracted from Barry’s ‘History of the Orkney Islands’ and Wallace’s and Brand’s descriptions of Orkney. This is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a front endpaper ‘C. S. Beaufort - Given to her by the author the Marchioness of Stafford’ and dated 1808. On the front pastedown there is the armorial Beaufort bookplate and the modern bookplate of John Davie Manson Robertson.
121. TRADE CATALOGUE. Aux Deux Villageois, maison fondée en 1785...... Fabrication spéciale de vestes et de vêtements de travail pour cuisiniers, charcutiers, bouchers et garçons de salle. 8vo, Paris, n.d., [c.1895]. 16pp., a few illustrations in the text, and 1 folding plate printed on each side c.170 x 380mm., the title is on the front cover. Original printed wrappers, a little worn, light central vertical crease throughout, front cover a little soiled, but generally a good copy for an ephemeral item such as this. £30 A sales brochure of the department store ‘Aux Deux Villageois’, Paris. The front cover includes a wood-engraved view of the store, carriages and shoppers outside, and in the distance Les Halles. A fascinating priced catalogue of clothing for those in the food and restaurant trade - butchers, confectioners, bakers, brewers, chefs, waiters etc. The folding plate shows knives, kitchen utensils, decorative tableware etc.. Inside the rear cover there is a list of cookery books for sale.
122. TRIAL. The trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and a special jury. By the author of the "Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A.M.". First edition, 8vo, London, Knight and Lacey, 1825. 111, 24pp., 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates one of which is a frontispiece. Later dark blue half morocco on marbled boards, offsetting from frontispiece onto the title, otherwise a very nice copy. £100 In April 1824 Rev. Alexander Fletcher (1787-1860), a fashionable preacher, was prosecuted for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. The trial resulted in a number of publications, including the present work which is an amusing satire on the trial.
Presentation copy to Félicien Champsaur and no.2 of 10 copies on ‘papier du Japon’
123. VERLAINE, Paul. Choix de poésies. First edition, 12mo, Paris, Bibliothèque Charpentier [G. Charpentier & E. Fasquelle], 1891. 300pp.+2 blank leaves, portrait by Eugène Carrière. Bound with: VERLAINE, Paul. Invectives. First edition, 12mo, Paris, Leon Vanier, 1896. [iv], 155, [1]pp. Together 2 works in 1 volume - contemporary dark blue quarter morocco on marbled boards, t.e.g., joints and head and foot of spine slightly rubbed. The first work has the original printed upper wrapper bound in and ‘Invectives’ has both wrappers and the spine bound in. Good copy. £1,800 This is an important association copy. ‘Choix de poésies’ is no.2 of 10 copies on ‘papier du Japon’ and it is a presentation copy to Félicien Champsaur inscribed on the half-title ‘à Félicien Champaur son ami P. Verlaine’. Champsaur played a part in the publication of this book. It was he who submitted the poems to Fasquelle for publication and it was he who persuaded Verlaine to break with his usual publisher and use Charpentier. This anthology of previously published poems was chosen by the writer Charles Morice (1860-1919) with the agreement of Verlaine. It does, however, contain 2 previously unpublished poems in the section ‘Bonheur’. The section ‘Fêtes Galantes’ is dedicated to Champsaur and on the divisional title there is the cut-out inscription ‘à Félicien Champsaur’ in Verlaine’s hand. In addition there is a tipped-in at the front of the volume an autograph postcard signed signed by Verlaine (”P.V.”) to Champsaur. The postcard, dated Friday 30 [January 1890], begins ‘Cher ami...’ and discusses sending proofs and corrections to ‘Fêtes Galantes’. The volume of poems ‘Invectives’ contains a poem addressed to Champsaur. ‘Choix de Poésies’ - Clouzot p.268; Vicaire VII, 997. ‘Invectives’ - Clouzot p.268; Vicaire VII, 1000.
124. VERLAINE, Paul. Confessions. Notes autobiographiques. First edition, 12mo, Paris, Publications du “Fin de Siècle”, 1895. 246, [4]pp., lithograph portrait by Anquetin. Later red half morocco on marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in. Good copy. £650 Contains much on Verlaine’s early life and friendships, his marriage, the beginnings of his career as a poet, the Commune etc. This is a presentation copy to the journalist and playwright Alfred Capus (1858-1922), inscribed on the half-title ‘à M. Alfred Capus, hommage de l’auteur, P. Verlaine’. Clouzot p.268; Vicaire VII, 1000.
125. VERLAINE, Paul. Dans les limbes. First edition, 12mo, Paris, Léon Vanier, 1894. 45, [3]pp., portrait. Original printed wrappers, covers a bit soiled, spine worn and splits in joints, tiny worm hole in the top margin of the last few pages. £60 In the autumn of 1892 Verlaine was in the Hôpital Broussais, Paris and it was here that he wrote this collection of 17 poems. The inspiration was Philomène Boudin who visited him regularly - ‘un volume amoureux, cette fois très chaste... ‘Les Limbes’, c’est l’hôpital avec une visiteuse’ (letter to Leon Vanier). Clouzot p.268; Vicaire VII, 999.
126. [VERLAINE, Paul]. CARRÉ, Jean-Marie. Cahiers Jacques Doucet. Autour de Verlaine et de Rimbaud. Dessins inédits de Paul Verlaine, de Germain Nouveau et d’Ernest Delahaye. Classés et présentés par Jean-Marie Carré. First edition, 4to,
Université de Paris, 1949. vi, 168pp., with 129 full-page illustrations reproducing drawings by Verlaine, Nouveau and Delahaye. Original wrappers, a bit dusty, head of spine torn. Limited to 1500 copies. £35
127. [VERLAINE, Paul]. CAZALS, F.-A. Iconographies de certains poètes présents (Album II). Paul Verlaine. Ses portraits. Préface de J.-K. Huysmans. Lettres de Felicien Rops, Ernest Delahaye, H.-A. Cornuty. Autographes de Paul Verlaine. First edition, large 8vo, Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Association, 1896. 29, [3]pp., illustrations. Loosely inserted is a [4] page leaflet with reviews of this book. It has 2 illustrations and the caption title ‘Les Portraits de Verlaine par F.-A. Cazals. Opinions des Journaux et Revues’. Original printed wrappers. Very good. £100 This scarce work contains 22 portraits of Verlaine, a few of which are full-page. The edition is limited to 640 copies, this one being number 39 of 472 copies on ‘papier couché’.
128. VILLARS, Madame de. Lettres de Mesdames de Villars, de la Fayette et de Tencin, et de Mademoiselle Aïssé. Précédées d'une notice et accompagnées de notes explicatives. 12mo, Paris, chez Léopold Collin, an XIII, 1805. xlvii, [i], 366,pp. + 2 advert leaves. Contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt, spine slightly faded, misbound at the end, but complete. With the Bibliothèque de Cirey bookplate. Very nice copy. £35 Madame de Villars was ambassador in Spain from 1679 to 1681.
129. WISSETT, Robert. A treatise on hemp, including a comprehensive account of the best modes of cultivation and preparation as practised in Europe, Asia and America; with observations on the sunn plant of India, which may be introduced as a substitute for many of the purposes to which hemp is now exclusively applied. With an appendix, of the most effectual means of producing a sufficiency of English grown hemp, by the Right Hon. Lord Somerville. First edition, 4to, London, printed for J. Harding, 1808. [ii], 296, xvipp., 5 engraved plates - complete, but note that the introduction, table of contents and 5 plates are bound in at the end. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, worn, joints cracked and upper cover coming loose, some light foxing and paper toning at the beginning. £550
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130. AMERICANA. The De Orbe Novo Collection. Exploration of the New World, 1492- 1625. Auction catalogue. 4to, New York, Bloomsbury Auctions, 2009. 154, [8]pp., numerous illustrations. Original pictorial boards. £10 81 very important early books on America are fully described and illustrated in this auction catalogue. The collection belonged to Bruce McKinney who supplied a preface and a had a hand in the cataloguing. Most unusually he includes in the description the date of purchase, where purchased and the price he paid for every lot in the sale. Several items in the collection were purchased from Kraus’s catalogue 185.
131. ARMITAGE, Anne & BERESFORD, Laura. Mapping the New World. Renaissance maps from the American Museum in Britain. 4to, London, Scala Arts and Heritage, 2013. 128pp., numerous colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine. £10
132. BINDINGS. Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Exposition de reliures. II - Du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XIXe. 8vo, Brussels, 1931. 312pp., 13 plates of bindings. Unopened in the original printed wrappers. Very good. £15 780 bindings are described, many in great detail, but too few illustrations.
133. BODLEY, Sir Thomas. Trecentale Bodleianum. A memorial volume for the three hundredth anniversary of the public funeral of Sir Thomas Bodley March 29, 1613.
8vo, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1913. xii, 175, [1]pp. Original white limp boards with yapp edges perhaps in imitation of a vellum binding, spine a bit soiled, else a very good copy. £18 Includes the life of Sir Thomas written by himself, the first draught of the statutes of the library, Sir Thomas’s will, funeral orations etc. On the front pastedown there is a printed label stating that this is the last book at the Clarendon Press produced under the management of Henry Frowde, signed by him and presented to J. Lynn. Loosely inserted there is also a related printed letter to Lynn signed by Humphrey Milford who presumably took over the management of the press from Frowde.
134. BOWMAN, J. H. Greek printing types in Britain in the nineteenth century: a catalogue. First edition, 4to, Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1992. xiv, 78pp., illustrations. Original wrappers. £10
135. BURDEN, Philip W. The mapping of North America. A list of printed maps 1511- 1670. First edition, 2 vols, small folio, Rickmansworth, Raleigh Publications, 1996- 2007. xxxiv, 568; lxvi, 540pp., 833 illustrations including 23 in colour. Original cloth, dws. Very good set. £150 This important work fully describes and discusses 774 early maps of North America. Every map is illustrated. Because of the 13 year gap between the first and the second volume the two volumes are not often found together.
136. CADART, Alfred. Catalogue complet d'eaux-fortes originales et inédites composées et gravées par les artistes eux-mêmes. Avec douze planches types divers... 8vo, Paris, A. Cadart, éditeur-imprimeur, 1874. 56, [2]pp., with 12 original etchings. Original printed wrappers, covers a little soiled and upper joint partly split, but still a good copy. £150 A catalogue of original etchings and suites of etchings printed by Cadart. The etchings here are by A. Masson (portrait of Cadart), A. Appian, Aufray de Roc-Brian, Ch. Beauverie, Feyen- Perrin, M. Lalanne, A. Lalauze (2), A.-P. Martial, A. Taiée, P. Teyssonières and J. Veyrassat. A scarce and attractive item.
137. COLAS, René. Bibliographie Général du Costume et de la Mode. Reprinted, 2 vols, 8vo, New York, Hacker Art Books, 1969. viii, 784; [785]-1411 columns, 69pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. £20 Facsimile reprint of one of the standard costume bibliographies which was originally published in 1933.
138. DANFORTH, Susan. Encountering the New World 1493 to 1800. Catalogue of an exhibition. With an introductory essay by William H. McNeill. 4to, Providence, Rhode Island, the John Carter Brown Library, 1991. xxi, 87pp., numerous illustrations, some in colour. Very good. £10
139. DELGADO-GOMEZ, Angelo. Spanish historical writing about the New World 1493- 1700. With a bibliographical supplement by Susan L. Newbury...... 4to, Providence, Rhode Island, the John Carter Brown Library, 1994. xiv, 127pp., illustrations in the text. Original card binding. Very good. £18 69 rare early books are fully described. Handsomely printed by the Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont.
140. DUNKELMAN, Arthur. A Catalog of the gift of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation to the Library of Congress. First edition, 4to, Washington, Library of Congress, 2007. xxii, 235pp., numerous colour illustrations. Original cloth, dw. Fine. £15
Excellent and well illustrated catalogue of 907 rare books, maps, paintings and early artefacts relating to America. Includes essays by specialists in the various fields.
141. GARCIA, Pedro Gonzalez (editor). Discovering the Americas. The Archive of the Indies. First edition in English, 4to, New York & Paris, The Vendome Press, 1997. 299pp., numerous colour illustrations, some full-page. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £30 This fine book describes and illustrates documents, maps and books relating to the Spanish exploration of the Americas held in the General Archive of the Indies at Seville. This archive is of world importance as it houses the historical records of the Spanish in the New World.
142. GOSS, John. The mapping of North America. Three centuries of map-making 1500- 1800. First edition, folio, Secaucus, New Jersey, the Wellfleet Press, 1990. 184pp., 85 colour plates. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £15
143. GUMUCHIAN & Cie. Catalogue de reliures du XVe au XIXe siècle, en vente à la Librairie Cumuchian & Cie. 4to, Paris, [1930]. [ii], vi, 180, [2]pp., 135 plates including 11 in colour. Original red cloth. Very good copy. £185 This lavishly illustrated catalogue describes some 400 bindings most of which are shown in the plates. The descriptions are in French and English. Limited edition of 1100 copies.
144. HARRISSE, Henry. The discovery of North America. A critical, documentary, and historic investigation. With an essay on the early cartography of the New World, including descriptions of two hundred and fifty maps or globes existing or lost, constructed before the year 1536..... 8vo, Amsterdam, N. Israel, 1969. xii, 802pp., 23 maps, some folding, including 5 in a pocket at the end. Original cloth. Very good copy. £35 Facsimile reprint of this well known book first published in London and Paris in 1892.
145. HESSLER, John W. The naming of America. Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map and the ‘Cosmographicae Introductio’. First edition, oblong 8vo, London D. Giles for the Library of Congress, 2008. 121pp., full-page colour illustrations. Original cloth, dw. Fine. £12 This book features a new translation by John Hessler of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
146. HOLFORD, Sir George. The Holford Library. Catalogue of choice, rare and valuable books.... the property of Sir George Holford. Sotheby auction catalogue. Parts 2, 3 and 4 only (of 4), large 8vo, London, Sotheby’s, 1927-28. 147; 127; 90pp., 83 plates in total, some folding and including 17 colour plates. Original printed green wrappers. Good condition. £35 The 3 catalogues describe 2748 lots - early continental books in fine bindings (many bindings illustrated), English literature, fine arts, etc. The missing part 1 was devoted to illuminated manuscripts.
147. HOYM, Charles Henri, Comte d'. Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym... Digestus & descriptus à Gabriele Martin; Bibliopola Parisiensi. 8vo, Paris, Gabriel & Claude Martin, 1738. [vi], xx, 528, [56]pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, corners and head and foot of spine worn, joints partly cracked, but firm, some scuffing on the covers. Contents in good condition and prices realised are recorded throughout in red ink in a small contemporary hand. £695 This is the auction catalogue of one of the most celebrated libraries of the 18th century. It included manuscripts, maps, prints, fine bindings and many Elzeviers. 4785 lots were sold in 59 sessions. This copy is complete with the author index, but is without the 6 pages of supplement (lots 4786-4862) and a leaf listing the imperfect books - these are missing in most
recorded copies. The catalogue was edited by Claude Martin who was a friend of Hoym and played a part in forming his library. Grolier 46.
148. KLOOSTER, Wim. The Dutch in the Americas 1600-1800. A narrative history with the catalogue of an exhibition of rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library. 4to, Providence, Rhode Island, the John Carter Brown Library, 1997. xviii, 101pp., 8 colour plates and numerous illustrations, some full-page, in the text. Original pictorial wrappers. Fine. £15 Excellent scholarly work. 1500 copies printed by the Stinehour Press.
149. KRAUS, H. P. Catalogue 185. America Vetustissima. Fifty books, manuscripts, & maps relating to America from the first fifty years after its discovery (1493-1542). In celebration of the Columbus quincentenary. Folio, New York, H. P. Kraus, 1990. 138, [6]pp., illustrations, a few folding. With the price list. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. Very good. £35 Item 9 (price on request) was an example of the Waldseemüller globe gores of 1507, the first printed map to use the name 'America'. Another example of this map was lot 97 in the Christie auction, London, on 13 December 2017. After an article casting doubt on the authenticity of the Christie map by Michael Blanding in the New York Times on 10 December 2017 Christie's withdrew the map from the auction. Blanding also stated that the Bavarian State Library which bought the Kraus example in 1991 for an estimated $1.2 million now has doubts about its authenticity. The map is fully illustrated in the catalogue. Limited edition of 400 copies printed at the press of A. Colish.
150. OLDHAM, J. Basil. English blind-stamped bindings. First edition, folio, Cambridge, at the University Press, 1952. xiii, 73pp., 61 plates with 1089 illustrations. Original cloth. Very good. £100 The best book on early English roll-tooled bindings. Limited to 750 copies.
151. PICOT, Émile. Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Baron James de Rothschild. 5 vols, large 8vo, New York, Burt Franklin, n.d., [c.1970?] 671; 595, 516; 646; 684pp., numerous illustrations and a few colour plates. Original cloth. £50 Facsimile reprint of the original edition published at Paris between 1884 and 1920. Superb scholarly catalogue of this magnificent library of early books, French books in particular. 3382 items are catalogued in great detail and there are many illustrations of title pages, woodcuts, typefaces etc. Volume 5 contains an important index to authors, printers, titles, binders etc.
152. PLESCH, Arpad. Mille et un livres botaniques de la collection Arpad Plesch. Catalogue raisonné des livres curieux, rares ou notables de la bibliothèque botanique Arpad Plesch. 4to, Brussels, Arcade, 1973. 517, [3]pp., text printed in double columns, 34 tipped-in colour plates and a few other illustrations in black and white. Original cloth with dw. and in orginal slipcase, dw. rather torn especially on the spine and a little spotting and and some fading on the slipcase, else in very good condition. £95 Excellent catalogue of Plesch's superb botanical library - the books are catalogued with full collations and many also with detailed notes. In 1975-76 Plesch sold 863 items from his library in 3 sales at Sotheby’s, but this catalogue describes many more books and in far greater detail.
153. PRITCHARD, Margaret Beck & TALIAFERRO, Henry G. Degrees of latitude. Mapping colonial America. First edition, 4to, Williamsburg, Virginia, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2002. xi, 434pp., 292 illustrations, many in colour. Original cloth. Fine copy. £35 A lavishly illustrated and scholarly work which fully describes 74 important maps. In addition there is a description of the 105 maps in a late 17th century folio composite world atlas which
was assembled by the London map publisher Philip Lea for John Custis (1678-1749) of Virginia.
154. QUARITCH, Bernard. A catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. 4to, London, 1921. viii, 76pp., frontispiece and 79 plates, a few extra illustrations of bindings have been loosely inserted. Contemporary half calf, corners and head and foot of spine a bit rubbed. 329 bindings described. £80
155. REGNAULT-DELALANDE, F.-L. Catalogue raisonné d'objets d'arts du cabinet de feu M. de Silvestre, ci-devant Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel, et maître à dessiner des enfans de France. 8vo, Paris, chez l'auteur, 1810. [ii], xvi, 555pp. Contemporary calf- backed marbled boards, spine gilt, joints lightly cracked but still firm. A very good copy. £120 Excellent catalogue of the fine collection of Old Master paintings, drawings, prints and books collected by the artist and teacher Jacques-Augustin de Silvestre (1719-1809). They are catalogued by school, but there is a full index at the end and also a list of catalogues written by Regnault-Delalande. Bénézit states that his 'collection magnifique' was sold in 1810, and it is possible that this catalogue served as the sales catalogue, though it is not priced. The 'Cabinet Impérial' acquired many pieces from this collection.
156. ROPS, Félicien. Felicien Rops et son oeuvre. Par Arsène Alexandre, E. Bailly, F. Champaur, Edmond Haraucourt, J.-M. de Hérédia, J.-K. Huysmans, Camille Lemonnier, Leon Maillard, Octave Mirbaud, J. Péladan, Vittorio Pica, E. Rodrigues, Octave Uzanne, Emile Verhaeren, etc. First edition, 4to, Brussels, chez Edmond Deman, 1897. 185, [4]pp., printed in double columns, frontispiece, full-page illustrations and numerous illustrations in the text. The 4 page prospectus for the book is loosely inserted. Dark blue half morocco by Charles de Samblanx, spine decorated with coloured onlays with a design of leaves, original printed wrappers bound in, head of spine slightly rubbed, else a fine and attractive copy. £245 A collection of essays on Rops. Pp.153-1185 consist of a catalogue of his prints. No.74 of a limited edition of 366 copies.
157. ROPS, Félicien. RAMIRO, Érastène. L'oeuvre lithographié de Félicien Rops. Orné de sept reproductions de lithographies en taille douce. First edition, 4to, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, 1891. xvii, 137, [4]pp., 7 plates and several smaller illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Very good. £195 Probably printed in a very limited edition although there is no limitation statement. It is printed on ‘papier de Japon’ and the 7 plates are each in 2 states. Rare.
158. [SANCHEZ, Juan Manuel]. Bibliografia Zaragozana del siglo XV. Por un bibliofilo Aragones. First edition, large 8vo, Madrid, 1908. xv, [v], 205, [11]pp., numerous illustrations in the text many of which are full-page. Contemporary half cloth on marbled boards, leather title label on spine slightly chipped, but still a very good copy. £100 A presentation copy of the rare first edition of this bibliography of books printed at Zaragoza before 1500. Some 80 books are described in great detail and many are illustrated. Limited edition of 100 copies - at the end there is a list of the subscribers.
159. SCHWARTZ, Seymour I. The mismapping of America. First edition, 8vo, Rochester, U.S.A, University of Rochester Press, 2003. xviii, 233pp., numerous full-page illustrations. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £12 Scholarly and well illustrated work on the cartographic mistakes in the mapping of America, such as the existence of a north-west passage and the depiction of California as an island. Presentation copy.
160. SCHWARTZ, Seymour I. Putting "America" on the map. The story of the most important graphic document in the history of the United States. First edition, 8vo, Amherst, New York, Prometheus Books, 2007. 400pp., illustrations. Original cloth, dw. Very good. Presentation copy. £15 On the extremely rare Waldseemüller world map of 1507, the first map to name America and considered to be the ‘Holy Grail’ of American cartography. The map was lost for 4 centuries before an example was found in a German castle in 1901. In this book Schwartz gives a readable account of the discovery of the map and all the controversies which have surrounded it.
161. SCHWARTZ, Seymour I. & EHRENBERG, Ralph E. The mapping of America. Oblong 4to, Edison, New Jersey, Wellfleet Press, 2001. 363pp. With 354 illustrations including 84 in colour. Original cloth, dw. Fine. £20 Excellent history of the mapping of America, well illustrated and with a scholarly text fully indexed. This is a presentation copy from Schwartz dated December 2011.
162. SOTHEBY'S. Catalogue of valuable printed books formerly in the library of William Beckford, the property of the Earl of Roseberry. 8vo, London, Sotheby’s, 1975. 90pp., colour frontispiece showing a selection of books in the auction. Original green wrappers. Very good. £10 517 lots - the last substantial portion of Beckford’s library to come to auction.
163. SUAREZ, Thomas. Shedding the veil. Mapping the European discovery of America and the world. Based on selected works from the Sidney R. Knafel collection of early maps, atlases, and globes 1434-1865. First edition, small folio, Singapore, London, World Scientific, 1992. xiii, 203pp., 66 plates including 25 in colour. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £15 61 important maps described in great detail. Presentation copy.
164. THORNTON, John L. & TULLY, R. I. J. Scientific books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to science. Third, revised edition, 8vo, London, The Library Association, 1971. [x], 508pp., frontispiece and 16 plates. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £12
165. TOOLEY, R.V. The mapping of America. Second impression, small 4to, London, Holland Press, 1985. xii, 519pp., with 179 plates which are included in the pagination. Original cloth, 2 small sellotape repairs to the dust wrapper, else very good. £25 One of the standard reference books on the mapping of North America.
166. TUER, Andrew W. History of the horn book. 8vo, New York, Arno Press, 1979. xviii, 486pp., frontispiece and numerous illustrations, some full-page. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £10 Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1897. Probably still the best book on the subject.
167. WOLFF, Hans (editor). America. Early maps of the New World. First edition in English, 4to, Munich, Prestel, 1992. 192pp., 186 illustrations including 90 in colour. Original cloth, dw. Very good. £18 Scholarly description of important early maps in the Bavarian State Library. Includes an account of the library’s acquisition of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 globe gores (the first map to name America) from H. P. Kraus’s catalogue 185 in 1990 - see this catalogue for a copy where it is fully described and illustrated. Doubts about the authenticity of this map have been expressed recently after another example was offered by Christie’s 2 or 3 years ago which subsequently was proved to be a forgery.
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
168. BARBEYRAC, Charles (1629-1699). MANUSCRIPT. Formulae remediorum ex DD Barbeirac praxt depromptae. 2 parts in 1 vol, 12mo, c.135x100mm., Monspelii [Montpellier], 1693. 282, 108, [16]pp., title with small floral ornament drawn in ink. Modern calf with title in gilt and date at foot of spine. The manuscript is in good condition, but some light soiling on the first and last few pages. It is easily legible throughout apart from on the last index leaf which has only a few lines on the recto. A rather stained leaf before the title is blank except for an ownership inscription dated 1746. £395 Barbeyrac practised medicine in Momtpellier and he was also the doctor of the Duchesse d’Orléans, Cardinal de Bouillon and Madame de Sévigné. He was the author of ‘Traités nouveaux de medecine.... ‘ (Lyon, 1684) and ‘Medicamentorum constitutio, seu formulae...’ which was not published until 1751. However, it has been considered that Barbeyrac was not the author of these books. The present manuscript was most probably written by a student or an assistant of Barbeyrac. Although the title and chapter headings are in Latin, the text is mostly in French. It possibly bears some relation to the second title mentioned above. Yale University Library has a 330 page manuscript with the title ‘Formule des remedes suivant le sentiment & la pratique de Mr. de Barbeyrac...’, which is quite likely to have the same or very similar text to the present manuscript.
168. BELL, Benjamin. Cours complet de chirurgie théorique et pratique. Traduit de l'Anglois sur la quatrième et dernière édition, par Ed. Bosquillon. 6 vols, 8vo, Paris, Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1796. Half-title in vol 1 and 5 only, complete with 99 engraved plates which mostly show surgical instruments. Later 19th century roan-backed marbled boards, name 'A. Verneuil' in gilt at foot of spines (a binder or owner), head and foot of spines a bit worn, small marginal repairs to 1 leaf in vol 5, a few plates are bound out of order, but all are present. Text and plates are very clean. Overall, a good copy. £200 The first French edition of Bell's 'A System of Surgery' (Edinburgh, 1783-88). Garrison-Morton 5579 on the first edition - '...... his best work'; Heirs of Hippocrates 672 - '.... his most famous work. The clarity and precision with which it was written provided a model for later nineteenth century surgical works'. Wellcome II, 135;
169. BELLOSTE, Auguste. Le chirurgien d'hôpital, enseignant la manière douce & facile de guerir promptement toutes sortes de playes, & le moyen assuré d'éviter l'exfoliation des os. Third edition, 12mo, Paris, chez Laurent d'Houry, 1716. [xlviii], 540pp. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, foot of spine a little worn, short crack at head of upper joint, a little minor worming in the top margin up to p.130. Good copy. Early ownership inscription on f.e.p. - 'Ex Libris Ludovici Dubois doctoris medici'. £120 This third edition is greatly revised and enlarged and adds, beginning at p.375 - 'Pharmacie chirurgicale, contenant le choix & la preparation des remedes les plus necessaires aux chirurgiens', and 'Dissertation sur la rage'. This work was translated into English. Blake p.40; Wellcome II, 141 describes this third edition, but with the date of 1734 and the imprint of 'widow d'Houry', no doubt a re-issue of this with a new title.
170. BOURGUET, Louis]. Traité des petrifications. First edition, 2 parts in 1 vol, 4to, Paris, chez Briasson, 1742. xvi, 163, 91, [1]pp., 60 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, a little rubbed at corners, a little worming at the foot of the spine, some light browning in the text, a little marginal spotting to a few plates only. Overall, however, a good copy. With a torn contemporary armorial bookplate on the front pastedown and loosely inserted is a piece of paper with 15 lines of French text about Bourguet in a contemporary hand. £1,250 The first part consists of Bourguet's ideas on the origin of fossils as well as letters to other scientists including Garcin, Réaumur, Jallabert, and D'Ortous de Mairan. This part includes a letter on the fossilised skeleton of an elephant found in Germany. The second part includes
a bibliography of writings on fossils and a description of the 441 specimens illustrated on the 60 plates. Good copy of this important early work on paleontology.
171. CHAUFFARD, Hyacinthe. Traité sur les fièvres prétendues essentielles, où l’on cherche à demontrer leur identité avec les phlegmasies locales. First edition, 8vo, Paris, chez Gabon et Compagnie, 1825. 351, [1]pp. Contemporary red half calf on marbled boards, spine gilt, some light foxing, but still a good copy, attractively bound. From the library of Camille Aboussouan with his bookplate designed by Hans Bellmer. £60 The author was a professor of anatomy and chief medical officer at the civil and military hospital of Avignon.
172. CHEYNE, George. An essay on regimen. Together with five discourses, medical, moral, and philosophical: serving to illustrate the principles and theory of philosophical medicine, and point out some of its moral consequences. First edition, 8vo, London, C. Rivington, 1740. [iv], xvi, iv, lxviii, [ii], 344pp. Contemporary red morocco, gilt decorative border on covers, spine richly gilt, a.e.g., joints partly cracked and upper cover coming loose, head and foot of spine chipped, but still a very attractive fresh copy. 18th century bookplate of the Earl of Granard on the front pastedown. £300 Heirs of Hippocrates 483 - 'In the preface to this work, prepared late in Cheyne's life, the author reveals his basic interpretation of and approach to philosophy'. Wellcome II, 339; Blake p.86.
173. CULPEPPER, Nicholas. The English physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this.... 12mo, London, printed for S. Ballard, R. Ware [& 5 others], 1741. [xii], 387, [9]pp. Contemporary sheep, covers loose, some staining and soiling. A well read working copy, perhaps also suitable for rebinding. £60
174. DALECHAMPS, Jacques. Chirurgie Françoise, recueillie par M. Jacques Dalechamps... et depuis augmentée d'autres annotations sur tous les chapitres, ensemble de quelques traictez des operations de chirurgie, facilités & esclaircies par M. Jean Girault. Small 4to, Paris, chez Olivier de Varennes, 1610. [xx], 664, [28]pp., title in red and black, woodcut printer's device on the title, numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, red edges, small repairs at corners, neatly rebacked reusing the original richly gilt spine, title a bit dusty and with a thinned area where a stamp or name has been erased resulting in some small paper loss but this does not affect any text or the device, some marginal staining in the second half of the volume and staining in the index, a few leaves cut close at the fore-edge. Ownership inscription of Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748-1798), stamp of the surgeon René Marjolin (1812-1895) at the end and on 1 or 2 pages. Nevertheless, still a reasonable copy of this rare work. £895 First published in 1570 and again in 1573 (both these editions very rare) this is the third edition of this excellent early work on surgery, the most important of this period after Paré. Numerous fine woodcuts depict surgical instruments and procedures. This copy has an interesting provenance. It was once in the possession of Vicq d'Azyr, a brilliant anatomist and physician, member of the Académie Française and Perpetual Secretary of the Société Royale de Médecine. On a front endpaper there is the inscription 'M. Vicq d'Azyr med. rue du Sepulchre..'. Brunet II, 471; Wellcome I, 89; Krivatsy 3048 with note; D.S.B. III, 534.
175. DELPECH, Jacques Mathieu. Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier, ou observations et réflexions tirées des travaux de chirurgie clinique de cette école. Volume 1 (of 2) only, first edition, 4to, Paris & Montpellier, chez Gabon et Compagnie, 1823. [vi], viii, pp.[147]-231, [1] followed by pp.[473]-488 for the 'Explication des planches'. With 10 engraved plates. Finely bound by Ateliers Laurenchet in modern quarter calf on marbled boards. A excellent clean copy. £135
An extract from volume 1 of Delpech's 'Chirurgie clinique de Montpellier..' (2 vols, 1823-25). It is complete in itself, deals entirely with club-foot and there is the drop-title 'Considérations sur la difformité appelée pieds-bots' at the head of the first page of text. The 10 plates all relate to this text and it is complete with the description of the plates. Delpech (1777-1832) is best known for his work in orthopedics and the present text is an important contribution to the subject. See Garrison-Morton 4312 which describes this extract as here - 'Delpech described the beneficial effect of section of the tendo Achilles for the club-foot...'. The Wellcome Catalogue does not record the 'Chirurgie Clinique'; Waller p.113.
176. DESAULT, Pierre Joseph. Oeuvres Chirurgicales, ou Exposé de la Doctrine et la Pratique de P. J. Desault, Chirurgien en chef du Grand Hospice d'Humanité de Paris; par Xavier Bichat, son élève... New edition, corrected and enlarged, 3 vols, 8vo, Paris, chez Mequignon l'aîné, 1801-03. xvi, 444; xii, 592; xiv, 439, [1]pp., engraved portrait of Desault in vol 1, 14 folding engraved plates 3 of which illustrate surgical instruments. Contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners, flat spines gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed, a couple of joints partly cracked but still firm, some very light marginal damparks, but overall a nice clean set. With the small ownership inscription 'ex libris Turpin' on title of each volume. £325 Garrison-Morton 5580 for the first edition of 1798-1803 - 'Desault was a great French surgeon, one of the first professors at the École Pratique de Chirurgie, Paris. He made many suggestions regarding the treatment of fractures and dislocations and is one of the founders of modern vascular surgery. He was Bichat's teacher'. This new edition contains a supplement by Philibert Joseph Roux in vol 3 beginning at p.335 consisting of 5 papers, including 'Mémoire sur la pression abdominale, appliquée à la connoissance des maladies de la poitrine', and 'Mémoire sur l'organisation des polypes uterines'. Wellcome II, 452.
177. DICQUEMARE, Jacques-François. La Connoissance de l'Astronomie, rendue aisée, & mise à la portée de tout le monde. Second edition, enlarged by the author, 8vo, Paris, chez Lottin le jeune, 1771. x, 158, [2]pp., with 26 engraved plates some of which are folding. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, a little worn, a few spots in the text, but still a very good copy. £300 First published in 1769 this second edition is enlarged with the addition of the 'Précis Chronologique et Historique des Progrès de l'Astronomie' which begins at p.139. This introductory work was written for young people and those with no knowledge of astronomy and, as the author states in his preface, it was intended to be a reply to the question 'what is astronomy?'. Houzeau-Lancaster 8899.
178. DIRCKS, Henry. The life, times and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester. To which is added, a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon by Henry Dircks Esq., civil engineer. First edition thus, 8vo, London, Bernard Quaritch, 1865. xxiv, 624pp.+errata leaf, 2 steel engravings including the frontispiece, 1 folding plate and numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Later red half morocco by Bayntun, a.e.g. Fine copy. Bookplate of Erwin Tomash. £110 Most attractive copy of this work on the royalist politician and inventor Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1602-1667). His book ‘A Century of Inventions’ described 100 of his inventions including a ‘water-commanding engine’ made from the barrel of cannon which has come to be seen as a prototype of the steam engine.
179. EDINBURGH PHARMACOPOEA. Pharmacopoea Edinburgensis. Additamenta adiecit Ernestus Gotofredus Baldinger... 8vo, Bremen, Georg Ludwig Foerster, 1784. [xxiv], xiii, [v], 423, [7]pp., 1 folding table. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, some worming towards the end, mostly marginal but sometimes extends into the text with loss of 1 or 2 letters. Later bookplate of Fernando Correia. £50
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738-1804) served as a doctor in the Prussian army and later became the first professor of medicine at Marburg University. Blake p.348; Wellcome II, 90.
180. GAY, John. On femoral rupture; its anatomy, pathology, and surgery. With a new mode of operating, applicable to cases of strangulated herniae generally. First edition, 4to, London, Samuel Highley, 1848. xii, 97, [2]pp., with the 2 errata slips and 3 lithograph plates, a preliminary leaf (pp.ix, x) which describes the plates has been bound in at the end to accompany the plates. Original blind-stamped cloth with title in gilt on upper cover, neatly rebacked, corners a little worn. Formely in Charing Cross Hospital library with bookplate and stamp on title, but with withdrawn stamp verso of title, ex-libris of Kirkup on the front pastedown. £95 The main work by Gay (1812-1885) who was a specialist in the surgery for femoral hernia. This is a presentation copy inscribed on f.e.p. 'Henry Hancock Esq. With the author's respects'. Hancock (1809-1880) was a surgeon and lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital. Loosely inserted is a signed autograph letter by Gay dated 28 June, 1855 - 2 pages, being a testimonial for Charles Brettingham. Wellcome III, 98.
181. HARVEY, William. Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu de membranis ac humoribus uteri & de conceptione. 12mo, Amsterdam, Johannes Ravesteyn, 1662. [xxviii], 388, [3]pp., with the famous engraved pictorial title. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt but slightly faded, corners and head and foot of spine a little worn, but still a good copy. £250 A very important work on embryology which was first published in 1651, Harvey considered this work to be of greater scientific importance than his ‘De motu cordis’. Norman catalogue 1011 - ‘.. covers all aspects of conception and birth; its chapter on parturition was the first original work by an Englishman’. Keynes 39; Krivatsy 7661; Wellcome IV, 98.
182. HOLLÄNDER, Dr. Eugen. Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei. First edition, 4to, Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke, 1903. xii, 276pp. + adverts, 165 illustrations in the text. Original printed wrappers contained in the original publisher’s cloth-backed portfolio with title on the upper cover, cloth ties, portfolio slightly worn and a little soiled, else a very good copy. £30
183. LA METHERIE, Jean Claude de. Essai analytique sur l'air pur, et les différentes espèces d’air. First edition, 8vo, Paris, Hotel Serpente, 1785. [vi], 474, [2]pp. 19th century boards covered in brown marbled paper, red title label on the spine, upper joint slightly rubbed, very minor wear at corners and and head and foot of spine, but overall a nice clean copy. From the library of King Ernst August I of Hanover with his round red stamp verso of the half-title and title. £300 La Metherie (1743-1817) was the editor of the ‘Journal de Physique’ from 1785 and he was an opponent of Lavoisier’s theories. Cole 742: ‘The book is a survey of existing information concerning various kinds of airs and the experiments and discoveries of Lavoisier, Priestley, Scheele and others’; Duveen p.335; DSB VII, 602.
184. LEWIS, William. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica.... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions of the new editions of the Lodon (1788) and Edinburgh (1783) pharmacopeias. With explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each..... New edition with many alterations, corrections and additions, 8vo, Philadelphia, T. Dobson, 1791. 656pp., printed in double columns, 6 engraved plates. Contemporary sheep, title label, a bit worn and scuffed, some old ink staining on the spine, a little light browning and spotting in places, else good. £125 The first American edition. Blake p.132; this edition not in the Wellcome Catalogue.
185. LEWIS, William. The Edinburgh new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica.... III. The pharmaceutical preparations and medicinal compositions... Fifth edition with many alterations, corrections and additions, 8vo, Edinburgh, William Creech, 1797. xxxii, 622, [1]pp., printed in double columns, 3 engraved plates 1 of which is folding.. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, red title label, covers rubbed, top corner of the lower cover rather worn, else a good clean copy. £120 Another edition of the above book. This edition not in Blake; Wellcome III, 511.
186. MEAD, Richard. Medical precepts and cautions. Translated from the Latin. Third edition, small 8vo, Edinburgh, A. Donaldson and J. Reid, 1763. viii, 147, [1]pp. Bound with: DOVAR, Thomas. The ancient physician’s legacy to his country, being what he has collected in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind... Design’d for the use of all private families. 12mo, London, printed for the relick of the late R. Badly, 1733. 216, [4]pp. 2 works in 1 volume - Contemporary half calf, rubbed, foot of spine worn, upper joint cracked, but firm, some browning from the turn-ins at the beginning of the volume, title of second work a bit soiled and long tear without loss in 1 leaf, occasional early annotations throughout in an early hand and half-title and verso of title of the Mead more heavily annotated. With the armorial bookplate of Stewart of Allanton. £95 Mead - the author’s last work which includes some case histories and a chapter on madness. This edition not in Blake; Wellcome IV, 96. Dovar - Blake records the work under ‘Dover’, but not the present edition which is probably the third; Wellcome II, 484.
187. MONRO, Alexander, secundus. A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their structure explained, and compared with that of the capsular ligaments of the joints, and of those sacs which line the cavities of the thorax and abdomen, with remarks on the accidents and diseases which affect those several sacs, and of the operations necessary for their cure. First edition, tall folio, c.490 x 300mm., Edinburgh, printed for C. Elliott, T. Kay, and Co., 1788. 60pp., 10 engraved plates including 4 large folding plates made from 2 joined sheerts. Modern calf-backed boards, short tear without loss in 1 plate. In all, a very good clean copy. £1,200 A major work by Monro secundus who was the greatest of the three Monros and the first full anatomical description of the bursae - the illustrations of the arm and leg bones on the 4 folding joined plates are life-size. Heirs of Hippocrates 635: 'This classic work contains the first full anatomical description of the sacs between the tendons and the bones which Albinus named the 'bursae mucosae'. They are illustrated on 10 plates which for explicit clarity and accuracy have not been improved upon'. Russell 613; Wellcome IV, 156; Blake p.309; Garrison & Morton 399.2.
188. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. Book the first [all published]. Translated into English, and illustrated with a commentary by Robert Thorp. Second edition, 4to, London, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1802. 2 preliminary leaves, [xv]-lviii, [2], 360pp., (collation correct thus). With 22 folding engraved plates at the end. Contemporary half calf, a little rubbed, joints cracked but firm, some light staining to the plates. Good copy and correct with 22 plates, but plate 17 is in duplicate and there is no plate 16. £795 Thorp’s translation with his commentary was first published in 1777 and it has been regarded as great improvement on Motte’s translation of 1729. Both editions are rare. Not in Babson.
189. PALFIN, Jean. Nouvelle ostéologie, ou description exacte des os du corps humain, accompagnée de remarques chirurgicales sur le traitement de leurs maladies, & enrichie de figures en taille-douce. First edition, 12mo, Paris, chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1731. xxiv, 390, [6]pp., with 8 folding engraved anatomical plates. Contemporary calf, spine
gilt, foot of spine chipped, old ink stain on the upper cover, occasional light browning, a few spots, a little mostly marginal minor worming towards the end. Overall, a good copy. £125 Palfin or Palfijn (1650-1730) was a Flemish surgeon who worked in Ypres and Paris. Blake p.336; not in the Wellcome Catalogue.
190. PARÉ, Ambroise. Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Paré, Conseiler et Premier Chirugien du Roy. Corrigées et augmentées par lui-mesme, peu avant son decés. Seventh edition, revised, folio, Paris, chez Nicolas Buon, 1614. [9]ff., 1228pp., 1 blank leaf, [57]ff. + 2 blanks, without the frontispiece portrait of Paré. Title within a fine woodcut decorative border, woodcut decorative initials and headpieces, numerous superb woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments, procedures, scientific insrtuments, artificial limbs, anatomy, monsters, portraits etc., etc. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, edges a bit rubbed, small repairs at corners, some staining in lower margin near the beginning, some marginal fraying of first few leaves without affecting the text, else a good clean copy of this magnificent book. Old Kimbolton Castle label inside the front cover and bookplate removed from there also. £2,995 Paré (c.1510-1590) was one of the greatest French surgeons. Having studied in Paris he became an army surgeon in 1536, and surgeon-in-ordinary to Henry II. He later served Francis II, Chalres IX, and Henry III as chief surgeon. He reformed the treatment of gun-short wounds and was particularly adept at constructing artificial limbs which are well illustrated in the book. Krivatsy 8592 calls for 13 preliminary leaves, but other recorded copies have 9 leaves as the present indicating perhaps that the portrait is sometimes missing. Wellcome does not record this edition.
191. PLAGUE. Four German ordinances relating to the plague. Folio, Stade, 1739-51. Three consist of [4]pp., and 1 is a single leaf, 1 with a large woodcut decorative initial at the beginning. Unbound, uncut, as issued. Good condition. £125 Each ordinance is issued in the name of the King of Great Britain and Elector of Braunschweig & Lüneburg. The 1739 ordinance states that the plague in Hungary has spread towards the German border and orders passport officers to be watchful. The 1743 ordinance bans ships from Sicily and the Calabrian coast from entering the river Elbe because of the plague. The 1744 ordinance renews that of 1743 and extends the ban to include ships from the Barbary coast, Morocco and the Levant. Finally the 1751 ordinance also relates to ships coming from the Levant and Africa banning them from landing crew or cargo etc.
192. PLAGUE. German ordinance setting out measures to prevent the spread of the plague. Folio, Hanover, 4 August 1712. [16]pp. Unbound, stitched as issued. Very good condition. £125 Rare and most interesting work detailing measures to combat the plague in Schleswig-Holstein in particular. It deals especially with the responsibilities of customs officers and border guards and sets out regulations for examining goods and travellers entering the country, the control of beggars, soldiers, travelling students, inns etc, etc. People were not allowed to leave areas known to be affected by the plague - if they did so they risked being shot. The work was issued in the name of Georg Ludwig, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg.
193. POILROUX, Jacques. Traité de médecine légale criminelle. First edition, 8vo, Paris, chez Levrault, 1834. [iv], xxix, 464, [3]pp. Uncut in old yellow wrappers, bookplate verso of the front cover partly excised, small old round stamp verso of title, else good. £175 Poilroux's work contains a number of interesting case histories and there are chapters dealing with suicide, strangulation, poisons and poisoning, drowning, autopsies, rape and sexual crimes, etc., etc. Very rare - not in the Wellcome catalogue and Worldcat gives 4 locations only.
194. SCARPA, Antonio. Memoria chirurgica sui piedi torti congesti dei fanciulli, e sulla maniera di correggere questa deformita. Third edition, enlarged, 8vo, Pavia, nella
Stamperis di P. Bizzoni, 1817. 68pp., 5 folding engraved plates by Pietro Anderloni. Uncut in contemporary wrappers. A very good copy. £150 Important and well illustrated work on club-foot. It was first published in 1803 and Norman 1900 writing of this edition states - 'The first accurate account of the state of the bones, muscles and ligaments in congenital club-foot. Scarpa designed an orthopedic brace to correct the condition, and believed in the possibility of intra-utarine restraint as a remedy'. Wellcome V, 35 records the first and second editions only; Garrison-Morton 4308 for the first edition.
195. SCOUTETTEN, Henri. La méthode ovulaire, ou nouvelle méthode pour amputer dans les articulations. First edition, 4to, Paris, chez Mlle. Delaunay, 1827. [vi], 49pp., and 11 superb large lithograph plates, all but 1 folding, each with a leaf of descriptive text. Red roan- backed marbled boards, head and foot of spine a bit rubbed, else a very good copy, text and plates in fine clean condition. £750 Nice copy of this very rare work on amputations, notable for the fine plates some of which are lithographed after drawings by Moreau who was a pupil of David. Heirs of Hippocrates 1608.7 (online version) - 'First edition, uncommon, of this description of this new method of amputations at the joints, by the noted military surgeon..... illustrated with 11 superb lithographic plates, OCLC records just 2 copies, at the National Library of Medicine and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin'.
The first comprehensive work on the heart and its diseases
196. SÉNAC, Jean-Baptiste. Traité de la structure du coeur, de son action, et ses maladies. Second edition, revised and enlarged by the author, 2 vols, 4to, Paris, chez Mequignon l'aîné, 1783. xii, 532; [iv], 611pp., portrait and 23 engraved plates, all in volume 1. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, corners and edges a bit rubbed, some light browning and a few spots in the text, but overall a handsome copy in good condition. From the Selbourne library. £775 Sénac (1693-1770) was a Jesuit priest and physician to Louis XV. This fine work was first published in 1749 with only 17 plates. Portal revised the text for this new edition and added the 6 extra plates. Heirs of Hippocrates 520 describing the first edition - '... the first comprehensive and systematic treatise on the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the heart and its diseases'. Garrison-Morton 2733 - '.... Sénac was the first to use quinine for palpitation'; Norman 1929.
197. SYLVESTER, Charles. The philosophy of domestic economy; as exemplified in the mode of warming, ventilating, washing, drying & cooking..... adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and more recently, on a greatly extended scale, in several other public buildings, newly erected in this country; together with an explanation of the principles on which they are performed. First edition, 4to, Nottingham, H. Barnett, 1819. xi, 11, 62pp., engraved frontispiece and 10 engraved plates at the end. Contemporary half calf, corners rubbed, rebacked, light offsetting on title, a little light spotting to the plates. With old bookplate of the Bodleian Library on the front pastedown, but with the small release stamp 'duplicate sold by authority'. This copy lacks a very small erratum slip which was probably not added to all copies - it merely states 'In line 7 of the note in page 32, for FW read F...W'. In all, a good copy and there are no library markings on the binding. £700 This work describes Sylvester's collaboration with the Derbyshire inventor William Strutt in designing and installing an innovative system for heating and ventilating the new Derby Infirmary. This hospital was rebuilt around 1900 and nothing now remains of Sylvester's pioneering work.