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1 [ABINGER, Lila, Lady]. ORIGINAL ARCHIVE, including upwards of 500 Autograph letters, Documents, Newspaper Cuttings & various other Ephemera. [Various Places] [c.1895-1927]. £ 2,500 A fascinating archive of an English aristocrat at a time of great change, this collection of more than 500 letters, cuttings, and papers documents the life of Lila, Lady Abinger (1867-1941). Lila was the daughter of Sir William White, and married Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger in 1899. As was common among ladies of her class, she had, in the years leading up to the Great War, involved herself in much charity and voluntary work; the present archive includes correspondence relating to her role as the President of the Hampshire Imperial Service College and the British Women’s Patriotic League, and Vice-President of the Girl Guides’ Association, while also documenting her support for the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women and the Anti-Socialist Union of Great Britain, among other organisations. From 1909 onwards, she was a member of the predecessor of today’s Queen’s Nursing Institute, but on the outbreak of war, she worked for the Voluntary Aid Detachment. On the death, from a heart attack, of her husband in 1917, she decided to take a more hands-on role, and work for the French Red Cross at the Hospital Militaire, 23 Montmirail before transferring to Ambulance 5/66 in 1918. The papers show the incredible bureaucracy that the War had created, partly increased by the naïvety of Lady Abinger, which is revealed in her correspondence with the French Red Cross. ‘I am afraid you will have to obtain new photographs as the Authorities are strict as to the question of their being full face and taken without a hat.’ ‘As Montmirail is in the Zone of the Armies, it will be necessary for the Médecin-Chef to apply to M. Piessac, 7th direction, Minitère de la Guerre, Paris with the request that the authorization for you to enter the Zone may be telegraphed to the French Embassy in London.’ ‘With regard to taking a dog to France, there is usually considerable difficulty…’ though the whole process took from September 1917 until March 1918 before she set foot in France. A similar bureaucracy was encountered on coming back from France after the Armistice and ‘it was quite impossible for me the grant a visa to your femme de ménage to accompany you to England.’ Included are various passes and identification documents to get her through France. After the war, she married a Frenchman and moved to the French village in which she had served. She seems to have cut her ties with the Abinger family for a while, although later correspondence shows she started to reuse her title Lady Abinger again. Many of the papers included her document her move to France, the transport of furniture and the sale of her belongings through Sotheby’s and Christies; there is even a correspondence over a claim against Lady Abinger by Schneider & Amelang through The Clearing Office (Enemy Debts) over an unpaid invoice from 31st January 1914 for copies of the Almanach de Gotha that was only settled in 1921 together with 5% interest. Being bought before hostilities, the Versailles Treaty allowed for their settlement.

More ‘Liaisons Dangereuses’

2 [ANON]. LA FEMME VERTUEUSE, ou le débauché converti par l’amour; lettres publiées pour l’instruction de quelques sociétés, dans le genre des Liaisons dangereuses. Par M. l’A. D. L. G. Premiere Partie [-Second]. A Amsterdam; Et se trouve a Paris, Chez Lefevre, Libraire … 1787. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp. [ii], 187, [1] blank; [iv], 287, [1] blank; without the half-title to first part; some minor light foxing and marking in places, otherwise clean; uncut in the original publisher’s boards, spine with remains of paper label titled in ink, some surface wear and rubbing to extremities, but still a good copy. Published five years after Les Liaisons dangereuses, whose influence is

1 P ICKERING & C HATTO acknowledged in the subtitle, this epistolary novel proceeds along similar lines, while moving between Parisian townhouses and country chateaux. Full of revenge, kidnap, and misrepresentations, the plot deals less with the calculated war of Laclos’ novel than with various skirmishes between the sexes, described with great vigour and archness by the anonymous author. Claudine Brécourt-Villars, who edited the text for a new edition in 2012, suggests that the novel may be the work of Jean-Pierre Luchet (1740-1792), a journalist, essayist, theatre director, and friend of Voltaire. A second edition appeared in 1788. OCLC records three copies only, at Göttingen, Augsburg and the BNF.

3 [ANON]. LETTRES D’UNE DAME ANGLOISE, et de son amie a Paris, contenant les memoires de madame Williams. Premiere [- seconde] partie. A Londres, MDCCLXXI [ 1771]. £ 450 FIRST LONDRES EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [ii], 236; [viii], 312; with woodcut title vignettes and headpieces; some foxing in places, but generally clean and fresh; in contemporary mottled calf, spines tooled in gilt with titles lettered in gilt; some light bumping to corners and extremities, but a good copy.

First Londres edition of this translation of Letters between an English lady and her friend at Paris, which first appeared in English in 1770, and is sometimes, rather implausibly, attributed to the (eight-year-old) Helen Maria Williams. The novel was very quickly translated into French, first appearing in Amsterdam in 1770, before the present printing appeared in 1771; we find an exchange of letters between the (fictitious) Charlotte Williams and Mlle Adelaide d’Angeville. “This psychologically powerful novel is as memorable and affecting in its own way as Mrs Inchbald’s A Simple Story. The story of a father’s partiality and a mother’s jealousy, the sense that it offers of the vulnerability and confusion of the daughter in this situation, is acute and realistic” (Perry, p. 104). See Ruth Perry, Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818, CUP, 2004; OCLC records copies at Wisconsin and Rostock.

4 [ANTHOLOGY]. LES RÉCRÉATIONS DE LA TOILETTE. Histoires, Anecdotes, Avantures amusantes & intéressantes, pour servir d’amusemens aux jeunes dames, entremêlées de quelques pieces de vers qui n’ont point encore paru. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris. 1775. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], 431, [1] blank; 421, [2] table, [1] blank; minor stain in gutter of final leaf of vol. II (not affecting the text), otherwise clean crisp copies throughout; attractively bound in later marbled boards, spines with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, minor sunning to spines. First edition of this rare collection of stories, poems, and diversions, some new and some previously published, and assembled, according to the Epitre aux dames, “pour vous délasser des peines que vous donnent les fatigues de vos toilettes”. Among the works included, several of which had appeared in the Mercure de France, are tales about the dangers of novels, warnings about luxury, and a number of contes and poems describing romantic adventures and misadventures; many of the poems appear for the first time. OCLC records one copy in the UK, at the BL, and one in North America, at San Diego State.

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5 [AUNT AFFABLE]. AUNT AFFABLE’S PRETTY PLAY BOOKS for all Good Little Nephews & Nieces. The Child’s Book of Riddles. London, Ward & Lock, [c. 1860]. . £ 125 Large 8vo, pp 8, comprising 64 riddles, each with hand-coloured illustration, solutions beneath, bound in original pictorial coloured stiff yellow wrappers, rubbed and part split at spine, small stab hole in lower blank corners, light stains, but a reasonable copy of a rare and fragile publication Scarce early publication by Frederick Warne, being an attractive handcoloured book of riddles for children, published as part of the ‘Aunt Affable’ series which were enormously popular throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. OCLC records two copies, at Toronto and the BL.

6 [BANDETTINI, Teresa]. A SUA ECCELLENZA IL SIGNOR BARONE KRAY, Generale d’Artiglieria. Ode della Signora Teresa Bandettini dell’ Accademia di Mantova, ed Amarilli Etrusca in Arcadia. [Colophon:] In Mantova, dalla Regio-Ducale Stamperia dell’ Erede Pazzoni. MDCCIC [1799]. £ 400 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. VIII; aside from some very light soiling to margins, clean and fresh throughout; stitched as issued in the original bronze paper wraps, a desirable copy. A very good copy of this uncommon ode by the Lucca poet Teresa Bandettini, addressed to Paul Kray, the Habsburg general who had commanded the Austrian forces at the siege of Mantua in 1799, the same year as this ode was printed. Bandettini (1763-1837) was born in Lucca, and entered into the Arcadia under the name Amarilli Etrusca. A noted critic of the romantic movement, she was one of most important celebratory poets of her time, greatly esteemed by the likes of Mascheroni, Bettinelli and Alfieri. Not in OCLC.

7 [BANDETTINI, Teresa et al]. PROSE E POESIE IN MORTE DEL CAVALIERE SAVERIO BETTINELLI fra gli arcadi Diodoro Delfico, recitate dai socj della R. Accademia di Mantova e dai Pastori Arcadi della colonia Virgiliana. Mantova, per Francesco Agazzi, tipografo nell’ Accademia. 1808. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 100; apart from a few minor marks a clean crisp copy throughout; in contemporary marbled boards, a fine copy. A good copy of this uncommon commemorative volume marking the death of the Jesuit poet, rhetorician and critic Saverio Bettinelli (1718-1808). Bettinelli, after a period as professor of rhetoric at Venice, spent much of his life travelling through Germany, Italy and France, where he composed his best known work, Lettere dieci di Virgilio agli Arcadi, much admired by Voltaire. This collection contains a variety of letters, appreciations, sonnets and odes by leading members of the Arcadi, including Teresa Bandettini, Enrichetta Dionigi Orfei, Domenico Todeschini, and Camillo Renati. OCLC records four copies, at the BL, BNF, Lyon and Roverto in Italy.

8 [BEAUMONT, Countess of, possible author]. AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF FRANCE. For the use of schools [French title: Abrégé de l’histoire de France]. Translated from the French by a Lady. Chelsea: Printed by Stanhope and Tilling, Wilderness-Row, for T. Faulkner, Paradise-row; sold by B. Uphill, May’s Buildings, London; and by all other Booksellers. 1805. £ 650

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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION? 12mo, pp. [iv], 107, [1] blank; a clean copy throughout; with neat contemporary inscription, possibly authorial, on front free endpaper ‘Katherine Alexandiere, from the Countess of Beaumon[t?]; in contemporary mottled calf, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, joints rubbed and chipped at head, but still a very appealing copy.

Rare first edition, printed in Chelsea and in parallel English and French throughout, of this charming Abridgment of the History of France, ‘translated from the French by a Lady’ for a juvenile audience. The work begins by stating that there have been 67 Kings of France, then covers each in turn with clear and succinct details of the length of each reign, as well as any notable events, beginning with Pharamond, the first King of the Merovingians, who ascended the throne in 420. The work ends, as one might expect, with Louis XVI, concluding that ‘The actual state of France does not permit us to enlarge on all that followed from it. Suffice to say that Louis fell by the intrigues of some malcontents: that in 1792 France was formed in to a Republic, and a little while after, the National Convention, by the plurality of a single voice, caused this unhappy Prince to die on a scaffold’ (p. 107). Although claimed to be an abridgment, we have been unable to identify the original work, nor the female translator. There is contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper, by the Countess of Beaumon[t?] who could quite possibly be the translator, but we have found no information on her to substantiate this. OCLC records one copy only, at the British Library.

9 [BERNARD, Catherine de?]. FEDERIC DE SICILE. Tome I [-III]. A Paris, Chez Jean Ribou, MDCLXXX [ 1680]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 12mo, pp. [vi], 192; [ii], 178, [2] privilege; [ii], 178 [privilege]; some foxing and dustsoiling throughout, with occasional marginal dampstaining; in contemporary calf, spines in compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt; wear to spines and extremities, with some loss. First edition of the first novel by the French novelist, poet, and playwright Catherine Bernard (c.1662-1712). Bernard was a cousin of Fontenelle and a niece of Corneille, and at the age of seventeen moved from Rouen to Paris, with the aim of writing for the theatre. She produced two tragedies, Léodamie and Brutus, in 1690 and 1691, with mixed success before turning to the writing of “un grand nombre de pièces légères que l’on trouve dans différents recueils, et notamment dans ceux de l’Académie française de 1690 à 1697” (Nouvelle Biographie Générale). Of her writings, Coulet says “[Elle] a forgé un chainon entre ‘La Princesse de Cleves’ et les romans sentimentaux de Prevost, de Mme de Tencin, de Rousseau. Moins naturelle que les classiques, elle se complait dans une tristesse au fond de laquelle on sent une protestation angoissée” (Le Roman jusqu’à la Revolution, pp. 292-5). The present novel has a youthful optimism about the possibilities of love, not always found in her later work, but the undercurrents of her mature writings (the idea that love is all-powerful and that people, especially women, are incapable of resistance, even though resistance is often wise) are still present. OCLC records North American copies at the Newberry Library and the University of Illinois.

10 [BLACKBURN, Jemima]. SCENES OF ANIMAL LIFE AND CHARACTER. From Nature and Recollection by J.B. London, Griffith and Farran, [1858]. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 4to, lithographic title and 19 numbered lithographic plates; a clean copy throughout; original publisher’s yellow printed boards with a repeat of the lithographic title on front cover and printed

4 P ICKERING & C HATTO advertisements on rear cover, spine missing and covers lightly dust-soiled, but still an appealing copy. These wonderful scenes were drawn from nature in the zoos of London and Edinburgh, in Switzerland, in a riding school outside Edinburgh, at a Scottish hunt and in the Highlands, and in a home, where the dog about to be portrayed is hiding his face under an armchair (titled Hopeless Subject). The sketches by the Scottish artist have dates ranging from 1841 to 1858. ‘It is primarily a children’s picture book, originally appearing in two formats, either in black and white, or in colour. In it she collates a number of sketches made over the previous ten [!] years, entitling them humorously in groups, “The St. Bernard dog - romance and reality”, “Fox hunting - in sport and earnest”, etc, They contain several examples of her enchanting sense of humour’ (Fairley, ”Jemima”, p. 52). Jemima Blackburn (née Wedderburn; 1823–1909) was an Edinburgh painter and illustrator. ‘Her early childhood was overshadowed by the death of her father (before her birth) and beset by intermittent illness. She was encouraged to draw by her doctor, the distinguished John Abercrombie, and although she seems to have received no artistic training and little formal education, Jemima Wedderburn lived in vibrant intellectual surroundings which moulded her remarkable, enquiring mind. (As a child she used to skin mice so as to find out how their muscles worked.) Her cousin the physicist James Clerk Maxwell moved to 31 Heriot Row after the death of his mother and the close friendship that developed was vital and stimulating to both. The physician Henry Acland introduced her to John Ruskin who took a keen interest in her work, even thinking of her, according to a letter from Effie Ruskin, ‘as the best artist he knows’ (Lutyens, 113–14). Sir Edwin Landseer claimed that in the drawing of animals he had nothing to teach her (G. Du Maurier, The Young George Du Maurier: a Selection of his Letters, 1860–67, appendix, 287)’ (Oxford DNB). See ”Jemima” - The Paintings and Memoirs of a Victorian Lady. Edited … by Robert Fairley, Edinburgh, 1988; OCLC locates copies in Toronto Public Library, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Kansas, Ohio State University and in the V&A; not in the National Library of Scotland.

11 BRUN, Sophie Christiane Friederike. SITTEN- UND LANDSCHAFTSTUDIEN VON NEAPEL und seinen Umgebungen in Briefen und Zuschriften entworfen in den Jahren 1809-1810 nebst späteren Zusätzen von Friedrike Brun, geborne Münter. Mit einem Cortile nach dem Ruinen von Pompeji und Cicero’s Grabmal in zwei Kupferstichen. Leipzig, Hartleben’s Verlags- Expedition, 1818. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iii, xxiv, 350, [1]; with two engraved aquatint plates, one folding; lacking the half title; somewhat worn contemporary half calf, spine with two handwritten paper labels. First edition, edited with a preface by Karl August Böttiger, of this topographical and cultural study of Naples by the German-Danish writer Friederike Brun (1765-1835). Comparing Naples in 1796 with how it was thirteen years later, and describing the buildings, people, customs, and surroundings of the city, Brun’s work consists of a series of letters to her daughters and to her friends, which reflect on the theatre, music, and literature of the area. She also discusses Pompeii, and includes a folding plate showing the reconstruction of an impluvium from a house there. Brun spent much of her life travelling around Europe, in particular Italy, where she first went in 1795, returning in 1796 and then staying for three years from 1807. She also published Briefe aus Rom in 1818 and Römisches Leben in 1833, as well as a number of volumes of poetry and three travel diaries. She was also noted as one of the leading

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Scandinavian salonnières of the early nineteenth century, inspired by Mme de Stael, with whom she had a close friendship. Garcia 2211; OCLC records no copies outside of Continental Europe.

12 CARAVELLA, Venturino. SULLA EDUCAZIONE FISICA DELLA DONNA. Catania, tipografia di C. Galatola, 1876. £ 175 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 12mo, pp. 47, [1] nota; with presentation inscription on title page; in recent green wrappers. First edition of this brief essay on the physical education of women, the text of a lecture given at the University of Turin, by the Italian hygienist Venturino Caravella. Caravella’s remarks are addressed specifically at the adult Italian woman, and discuss the exercises appropriate to different occupations and types, ranging from laundrymaids to ladies in waiting, mothers to cooks; he encourages dance and music, while acknowledging that dancing, walking, and other everyday exercise is not sufficient, and needs to be augmented by gymnastic exercise. Caravella also published works on the health of elementary schools, and the need for new rules to govern gymnastics in schools. OCLC records just one copy, at the University of Frankfurt.

13 [COESVELT COLLECTION]. COESVELT, W. G., and Anna Brownell JAMESON. COLLECTION OF PICTURES OF W. G. COESVELT, ESQ. OF LONDON with an Introduction by Mrs. Jameson. London, James Carpenter and Son, 1836. £ 400 4to., pp. xii, 27, additional engraved title with vignette and 90 illustrations on 74 engraved plates; contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt; a bit rubbed and worn, covers slightly bowed. Collected by W. G. Coesvelt, a prominent London banker, this catalogue of Italian paintings was compiled by Anna Jameson, the noted art historian. Coesvelt offered his collection to the British government in 1836. They refused the offer, but the Russian Emperor bought seven of the finest paintings privately with the remainder sold by Christie’s. Mrs. Jameson gives lengthy descriptions of ninety items along with the names of the buyers. Jameson (1794-1860) was an essayist, travel writer, biographer, literary and art critic, who later in her life became more inclined to feminist positions, initiating together with Bessie Parkes The English Woman’s Journal and publishing in 1856 The Communion of Labour: Social Employments for Women.

14 CORONIDÈO, Nirindo [pseudonym for Francesco TOGNETTI]. ALL’APPLAUDITISSIMA VALOROSA CANTANTE SIGNORA MARIA BOLLO Prima Donna nel Teatro Marsigli di Bologna. Il Carnevale dell’anno MDCCCXIX. [Bologna], Sassi, [1819]. £ 650 A very large broadsheet (610 x 445 mm); fine engraving in the centre, text printed in red and black and with several letters and words hightened in gold over red; previously folded, lower half a little spotted; however, a very decorative item. The ode, written by the local author and poet Francesco Tognetti and printed in advance of the prima donna’s arrival in Bologna, was designed both to enhance the prestige of her performance and advertise the private theatre run by the Marsigli family. This form of adulation was quite commonly circulated through the press but the present example is certainly a single example, printed off and given to Maria Bollo on her arrival at Bologna.

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Francesco Tognetti was a chronicler of the musical life of Bologna, more especially remembered for his rather flattering Discorso su i Progressi Della Musica in Bologna 1817. His ‘Prima donna’ work, including this adulatory poem, was always under a pseudonym. ‘The anonymity of some of the authors of poetry devoted to prima donnas might of course be a mere indication of their modesty or discretion.…But unless strong evidence emerges to the contrary, it is plausible to assume that a considerable number of celebratory poems were commissioned by an impresario, a prima donna herself, or other agents interested in promoting an artist. And the practice was probably widespread even before poems began to appear in the periodical press.’ Franz Izzo Divas and Sonnets in The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Centur OUP, 2012, p. 14. Maria Bolla was brought to England from Milan as a child and, after remaining six years in a school in Hampstead, returned to Italy. She toured extensively through Europe in the 1790s and at Vienna on the 8th January 1796 was given a Benefit concert which included both Haydn and Beethoven. Michael Kelly, friend of Mozart and the first Basilio & Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro, engaged Bollo for the King’s Theatre in 1800, when she was about twenty-five years old. In 1802 she sang at Paris and again in London, before returning to Italy. By the 1819 she was nearing the end of her career although she was still taking on relatively new roles, including Amenaide in Rossini’s Tancredi at Macerata in 1817.

15 CRIVELLI, Domenico. DIECI DONNE state cagnioni di dieci grandi avvenimenti descritti da Domenico Crivelli, Veneziano. Milano, Co’ tipi di Giovanni Pirotta. 1828. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [ii], 312; some light foxing in places due to paper stock; in later blue cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, spine lightly sunned, but still a very good copy. First edition of this uncommon work by the Venetian writer and historian Domenico Crivelli (not to be confused with the operatic tenor of the same name), in which he describes the influence of ten women on historical events in classical antiquity. In the ten chapters, Crivelli seeks to show how women influenced the foundation of the Roman republic, the role of Cleopatra in the battle of Actium; and the revenge of Valentinian III’s widow against her husband’s killer’s leading to a 15 day massacre in Rome. Crivelli was also the author of a number of other historical works, including Storia dei Veneziani and Della prima e della seconda Giovanna regine di Napoli. OCLC records one copy in North America, at Georgetow.

16 [DRAKE, Judith attributed to]. AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE FEMALE SEX. In which are inserted the characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady … London, for A. Roper at the Black Boy, and R. Clavel at the Peacock, 1696. £ 1,750 THIRD EDITION, ‘WITH ADDITIONS’. 8vo, pp. [xxxii], 148, [4] contents; with engraved frontispiece; apart from some minor foxing in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary speckled sheep, recently rebacked, spine lettered and numbered in blind, corners rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Third edition ‘with additions’ of An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, by the writer and medical practitioner Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1723). ‘Written in a lively and witty style, Drake’s pamphlet defends women against the accusations of vanity, impertinence, enviousness, dissimulation, and inconstancy which men make against them. In satirical sketches of the Scholar, the Country Squire, the Beau, the Virtuoso, the Poet, and the Coffee-house Politicians she revealed the

7 P ICKERING & C HATTO weaknesses of men. While admitting to ‘a very great Veneration’ for the Royal Society in general, she thought there was ‘a vast difference between the particular Members’. She attacked the ‘Mushrome and Cockel-shell Hunters’. What ‘noble Remedies, what serviceable Instruments’ had they produced to equal ‘so good a Med’cine as Stew’d Prunes, or so necessary an Instrument as a Flye-Flap’? She argued that women by nature were no less talented than men. ‘Never design’d for Fatigue’, they were ‘chiefly intended for Thought and the Exercise of the Mind’. Men’s physical strength made them more fitted ‘for Action and Labour’ (Drake, Essay, 18). Aware of women’s potential to ‘become their Superiours’ men had denied them access to education (ibid., 21). She had sharp words for those men who believed time spent in women’s company was ‘mis’employ’d’ (ibid., 6) but admitted that among the ‘inferior sort’, ‘the Condition of the two Sexes’ was ‘more level’ than among their social superiors (ibid., 15–16)’ (Oxford DNB). The work was once attributed to Mary Astell, and then attributed to Judith Drake on account of the effusive commendatory poem (after the Preface) by her brother James Drake, and by her appearance in a post 1741 Curll catalogue as the author. The first edition appeared in 1696. Wing D2125C.

‘Mill on the Floss’ in French

17 ELIOT, George. [ALBERT-DURADE, Alexandre-François d’, Translator]. LA FAMILLE TULLIVER ou le Moulin sur la Floss par George Eliot. Traduit de l’Anglais par F. D’Albert-Durade. Tome Premier [-Second]. Paris, E. Dentu, Libraire … Geneve, H. Georg, Editeur. 1863. £ 385 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], 373, [1] contents; [iv], 363, [1] contents; alittle light foxing in places, otherwise clean throughout; in contemporary morocco backed mottled boards. spine lettered and numbered in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, but still a very appealing copy. A handsome copy of the rare first French translation of The Mill on the Floss, Eliot’s second novel, and her most enduring literary success. The translator, Alexandre-François d’Albert-Durade, was a Genevan friend of Eliot’s, with whom she stayed when in Switzerland. He translated several of her novels into French, starting with Adam Bede in 1861. OCLC records three copies, at the BNF, Bibliotheque de Geneve and the Morgan library in New YorkSee Parrish p. 14 and Sadleir 816a for first edition.

18 ERCOLINA, Carlotta, de Saxy Vedova Visconti. LETTERE DI STORIA NATURALE E PSICOLOGIA della Cittadina Carlotta Ercolina de Saxy vedova Visconti. Socia di Varie Accademie Letterarie. Milano, Presso Pirotta e Maspero Stampatori-Librai in Senta Margarita, Anno IX [1800]. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 287, [1] blank; minor stain just visible at head of first gathering, otherwise apart from some minor marking and foxing in places a clean copy throughout; bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, some light rubbing, but still a very good copy. First edition of this collection of scientific letters by the prolific educational writer Carlotta Ercolina de Saxy Visconti (1735-1805). A native of Naples, de Saxy was the member of a number of literary academies, and was a keen advocate of female education; her first publication was Saggio elementare di educazione nazionale per le fanciulle (1783). The present letters are addressed to “un’Amica piena di

8 P ICKERING & C HATTO talenti e di spirito, ma che nacque da parenti materialisti ed atei”, and have in consequence a whiff of natural theology, while discussing astronomy, the possibility of other inhabited planets, fossils, salts and minerals, the nature and uses of plants, anatomy, both human and animal, and zoology. OCLC records one copy only, at Oklahoma.

19 FAVART, Charles Simon. ENGLISHMAN IN BOURDEAUX. A Comedy. Written in French, by the celebrated Monsieur Favart. Acted with universal Applause, at the Theatre-Royal, in Paris. Where it has had a more extraordinary Run than any other new Piece, in the Memory of the present Frequenters of the French Stage. Translated by an English Lady now residing in Paris. London: printed for G. Kearsly, in Ludgate-Street. 1764. £ 150 FIRST LONDON EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 60, [2] epilogue, lightly browned throughout; in recent marbled wraps.

First London edition of Favart’s Anglois à Bordeaux, ‘translated by an English Lady now residing in Paris’. ‘Your piece being one of the few that can be often seen, affording still new pleasure, I have assisted at several representations, and, from the first, resolved to give it an English dresh, a free not a servile one: in order to attempt, in my country, what you have so laudably endeavoured in your’s, the removal of national prejudices, which are a disgrace to humanity’ (Dedication, p. iii). Although we have been unable to identify the female translator she was evidently living in the Fauxbourg St. Germain, so she signs off her lengthy dedication ‘To Monsieur Favart’. A Dublin edition was printed the previous year, but this appears to be the first London edition. OCLC: 3024435.

20 [FIELDING, Sarah and Henry FIELDING]. FAMILIAR LETTERS between the Principal Characters in David Simple, and some Others. To which is added, A Vision. By the Author of David Simple. In two volumes. Vol. I [-II]. London, Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1747. £ 3,500 FIRST EDITION, ROYAL PAPER ISSUE, SUBSCRIBER’S COPY. Two vols, 8vo, pp. xlviii (including subscribers), pp. 49-352; [ii], 392; apart from a few minor marks, a clean crisp copy throughout; contemporary sprinkled calf, cover borders ruled with double narrow gilt filet, spines with raised bands gilt ruled, red leather labels gilt lettered, edges red flecked, subscribers copy, with the contemporary armorial booplate of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington on front pastedown of each volume; a handsome and appealing copy.

Handsome first edition, particularly desirable being the scarce Royal paper issue and a Subscriber’s copy, of Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple, by Sarah Fielding (1710-1768) with contributions by her brother Henry. In May 1744, [Sarah Fielding’s] first novel appeared, The Adventures of David Simple, set in the cities of London and Westminster. For its second edition (July), Henry supplied revisions ‘not entirely for the good’ (Kelsall, introduction to Fielding, Simple, xxi), corrections, and a preface. Sarah was also on friendly terms with the master of the epistolary novel, Samuel Richardson, to whom she addressed her only separately published piece of literary criticism (anonymously), and one of the earliest published critical defences of Richardson, Remarks on ‘Clarissa’ (1749), and on 10 April 1747 she published by subscription a two-volume plotless collection of different sorts of prose and poetic narrative, neither novel nor sequel, set in Bath and reminiscent of

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Richardson’s first book (usually known by its short title, Familiar Letters, 1741), Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters of David Simple and Others. This included biographical remarks in a preface and letters 40–44, all written by her brother, as well as two dialogues supplied by James Harris. Its 500 subscribers included Sarah’s cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, William Warburton, and Samuel Richardson’ (Oxford DNB). Block, p. 77.

21 [FOWLER, Georgiana]. MACDONALD, George. PHANTASTES: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women. London: Smith Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill 1858. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 323 [1]; 24 ‘New and Standard Works’ dated July 1859; original green cloth decorated in blind with the ticket of Westleys & Co., recased, preserving original endpapers; inscribed ‘Georgiana E. J Fowler from WmWS. March 27th. 1862’ First edition of George MacDonald’s Phantastes, particularly attractive as the original owner, Georgiana Fowler, has illustrated in pen and ink much of the first two chapters. Georgiana Fowler, according to the 1861 census, was born at Reading, Berkshire, in 1842, which is corroborated by the source of this copy from the blindstamp of ‘Lovejoy, Bookseller, Reading’ on final free-endpaper. Her sketches appear to be much influenced by the ‘Illustrators of the Sixties’ which included Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt and Madox Brown. The text of MacDonald’s first ‘Fantasy’ novel lends itself well to illustration but it was not until the year of the author’s death in 1905 that Arthur Hughes’ illustrated edition appeared.

Considerably augmented by Barbara Hikmann

22 GARTLER, Ignaz and Barbara HIKMANN. WIENERISCHES BEWÄHRTES KOCHBUCH in sechs Absätzen Enthält: Tausend sechshundert und zwanzig Kochregeln für Fleisch- und Fasttage, alle auf das deutlichste und gründlichste beschrieben, nebst einem Anhange in fünf Abschnitten , worinnen ein allgemeiner Unterricht, was man in der Küche, beym Einkaufen, Anrichten der Speisen und Anordnung der Tafeln zu beobachten habe, als auch bequeme Speis- und Suppeezettel. Anfangs herausgegeben von Ignaz Gartler, nunmehro aber verbessert und vermehrt von der Barbara Hikmann…. Wien, verlegt bey Joseph Gerold, 1803. £ 385 8vo, pp. [viii], 736, with engraved frontispiece and two engraved plates; aside from some spotting in places, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary half calf over speckled boards, skiver label on spine, lettered in gilt; binding rubbed and worn. Uncommon later edition of this much-reprinted Viennese cookbook, which first appeared a quarter of a century before. Later editions, including the present one, were considerably augmented by Barbara Hikmann; the present edition contains some 1620 recipes, along with rules for table setting, advice for shopping, and instructions on the general principles of food preparation. The plates show table settings and various kitchen equipment. We have been unable to locate any editions before the twelfth of 1785; all editions are very rare. OCLC records just one copy of this edition, at San Jose State University.

23 GENLIS, Madame Stephanie de. HERBIER MORAL ou recueil de fables nouvelles et autres poesies fugitives par Madame de

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Genlis. Hambourg, chez Pierre Chateauneuf, Libraire. Londres, chez l’Homme, Libraire, No. 93, Newbond-Street. 1799. £ 385 FIRST EDITION? 8vo, pp. xvi, 144; with engraved frontispiece and folding music at end; light stain just visible at foot in second half of the work, otherwise clean throughout; in contemporary calf backed marbled boards, vellum corners, spine tooled in gilt with morocco lettering piece, apart from some light rubbed a very desirable copy, with the library label of ‘Gordon Castle’ on front pastedown. Rare first edition of this collection of fables and verse by the prolific writer Stéphanie de Saint Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). Originally planned as a herbier mythologique, historique et littéraire which never came to fruition, the Herbier moral contains seventeen poems inspired by plants, and is followed by a collection of poesies fugitives, including romances, short fables, and the Chant d’une jeune sauvage. Genlis wrote over 140 works in all, covering both educational works and novels, and had a great influence in England. She was a supporter of the revolution, but fled to Switzerland in 1793 after the fall of the Girondins, where she stayed until 1799, when she was welcomed back to France by Napoleon. Her unfavourable attitude to the philosophes of eighteenth- century France is summed up in her Les Diners du Baron d’Holbach (1822). OCLC records no physical copies outside Germany.

24 HENRY, Élisa-Victorine. LE CHARME, suite de compositions gracienses. Lithographiees par Régnier et britannier d’apers Mlle Élise Henry Paris: Gache, rue de la Victoire 66. London and London: Gambart, Junin & Co. 25 Berners St Oxf. St. Imp. Lemercier á Paris 1845. £ 2,250 Large folio, [510 × 370 mm.] six hand coloured lithograph plates, finished by hand in gum arabic by Regnier & Bettanier, each plate enclosed in an ornate blue and silver chromolithographic border, with publisher’s line below; original pale green glazed boards with title printed in gilt, brown and blue within elaborate copper-lustre border. An excellent copy of a virtually unknown work by the artist Elisa- Victorine Henry. Each plate depicts an oval hand-coloured lithographic scene of two young, richly costumed ladies historically dressed and musing together, or exchanging mute or intimate confidences. The eroticism of the plates may have been too much for the buying public both in Paris and London which may account for great rarity of the volume and the few press notices given over to advertising the publication. Gambart, Junin & Co. had only just established themselves in London in 1845 and this volume was probably one of the first products they attempted to market. Little, if anything, is known of the artist, Elisa-Victorine Henry, except that she was Moscow born, was of the French School, and painting historical and genre scenes around 1825. Colas 1429.

Marie Huber: “a man’s mind in a woman’s heart”

25 [HUBER, Marie]. LE SISTEME DES ANCIENS ET DES MODERNES, Concilé par l’exposition des sentimens differens de quelques théologiens sur l’état des âmes separées des corps. En quatorze lettres. Nouvelle edition, augmentee par des notes & quelques pièces nouvelles. A Amsterdam, chez les Wetsteins & Smith. 1733. £ 650

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8vo, pp. xii, 310, [1] errata, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean crisp copy throughout; two unobtrusive library stamps on title; uncut in contemporary boards, spine titled in ink and library label at foot, some browning and foxing to boards, but still a very desirable copy. Uncommon expanded edition of this theological work by the Swiss protestant thinker Marie Huber, which had first appeared in 1730 under the title Sentiments Differents de quelques Theologiens, sur l’État des âmes séparées des corps. En quatorze lettres. Marie Huber (1695-1753) was the second of fourteen children of a patrician family, born in Geneva, but spent most of her life near Lyon. ‘Influenced by a pietist uncle, Fatio de Duillier, this accomplished Protestant maiden enthusiastically undertook to combat theological dogma with rare logic and common sense. She rejected predestination and sacraments, and favoured an inner and more personal religion fostering mysticism and direct relation with God. Advocating reason as her sole guide, she was described as having “a man’s mind in a woman’s heart” … Immanuel Kant may owe her more than is generally acknowledged. Forceful and unusually independent in her thinking, she is considered the forerunner of liberal Protestantism’ (Pascale Dewey in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (1999), p. 260). Her other works include Lettres sur la religion essentielle (1738; 1754) in which she opposes rigid church dogma and precedes the deism of her compatriot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; she also translated and epitomised the Spectator (Amsterdam, 1753). OCLC records five copies in North America, at Arizona, UC Berkeley, Yale, Cornell and Wayne State.

26 JOHNSON, Samuel. [GUICHARD, Octavie, dame BELOT, Translator]. HISTOIRE DE RASSELAS, Prince d’Abissinie. Par M. Jhonnson [sic], auteur du Rambler, & traduite de l’Anglois par Madame B****. A Amsterdam, et se trouve a Paris, chez Prault Fils, 1760. £ 450 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo, pp. [iv], xv, [i] blank, 228; some minor light foxing in places, otherwise clean throughout; in recent marbled boards.

Rare first French edition of Johnson’s only novel, a masterpiece of moral fiction conceived and published in the same year as - but quite separately from - Voltaire’s Candide (1759). ‘Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and puruse with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia’ (the opening paragraph of the first edition). Octavie Guichard, Mme Belot, later wife of President du Rey de Meynières, translated Hume’s History, published the anonymous Reflexions d’une Provinciale (1756) in reply to Rousseau’s second Discours, and translated Sarah Fielding’s Ophelia (1763). OCLC records copies in North America at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Florida, Toronto, Missouri, Illinois and UC Irvine; see Rothschild 1242 and Chapman & Hazen p. 142 for first edition.

27 [LADY, By a, ‘E.R.’]. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. Selected by a Lady, for the use of her own children. Southampton, Printed and sold by T. Baker, for B. Law, Ave-Maria-Lane, Ludgate-Street. 1794. £ 1,250 SECOND EDITION. 12mo, pp. viii, [v] contents, [1], 387, [1] errata; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sheep, recently rebacked, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, surface surface wear and rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.

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Rare second edition of this charming work on geography and history, ‘selected by a lady, for the use of her own children’, only published, as she notes in her preface, after ‘an inconvenience from the manuscript; for though the first sheets were purposely written in a large and distinct hand, I found they read them with a difficulty that retarded their progress’ (p. v). ‘We are in general too apt to under-rate the capacities of children; but I believe experience will evince that they are just as capable of learning something that may be useful (provided a proper method be taken to render it agreeable to them) as they are of repeating the little tales that are frequently told them for their amusement; and as Geography and History enlarge the mind more than any other studies, they cannot be begun too early’ (p. vi). The work, set out over 105 sections, provides a wealth of information and the compiler is evidently a lady of some learning, perhaps a school teacher. As well as detailed information major countrie, there are also sections on ‘The Voyages that have been made round the World’, ‘Solutions of problems by the terrestrial globe’, ‘A table shewing nearly the whole race of mankind computed to be now in the known world’ (calculated as approaching 1 billion), and concluding with ‘Tables of men of learning and genius’ among the ancients, in Great Britain and throughout Europe. A section also covers ‘New Discoveries’, including the Sandwich Islands, noting that ‘this noble group was the last discovery of Captain Cook … where that celebrated navigator terminated his services to mankind, and his life, falling a sacrifice to the momentary fury of a nameless savage’ (p. 264) We have been unable to find any further information on the compiler, ‘E.R.’. The dedication (dated February 20, 1794) to ‘The Rev. Mr. Gilpin, of Vicar’s-Hill in New Forest’, coupled with the Southampton imprint, perhaps indicates she lived in Hampshire. The first edition appeared in London in 1790. ESTC records four copies, at the BL, NLS, Bodleian and Liverpool, OCLC adds one further copy, at Indiana; ESTC records two copies of the first edition, at the BL and Glasgow.

28 [LEMPRIERE, Harriet]. SCRAPBOOK OF THE LEMPRIERE FAMILY, containing watercolours, drawings, photographs &c., probably compiled by Harriet Lempriere of Pelham Place, Hampshire. [1859–c1890]. £ 950 4to, 295mm x 235mm; with more than 50 photographs and 50 prints, and some 16 drawings and 10 watercolours and several dried flowers, news-cuttings &c, over 40 leaves (some items loose, a few removed); in contemporary greem morocco, extremities slightly worn, cloth boards mildly bubbling, but still a very desirable item. Fascinating scrapbook album relating to the Lempriere family, likely compiled by the last survivor, Harriet Lempriere (1843-1901). Vice-Admiral George Oury Lempriere (1787–1864), of Chesnel, Jersey, married in 1833 Frances Dumaresq (1817–1887), granddaughter of Admiral Thomas Dumaresq who built himself a house, Pelham Place, with the prize money given after he commanded the Repulse at the Battles of the Saintes, 1782, under Admiral Rodney. Pelham Place, in Newton Valence, Hampshire, became the Lempriere home – the four children of the marriage, all unmarried, being Audley (1834–1855), a captain in the 77th Regiment killed at the Siege of Sebastopol, Algernon Thomas (1835–1874), a barrister, Ellen (1838–1908) and – the inheritor as the last survivor – Harriet. Highlights of the album are a pen-and-ink drawing by Harriet Lempriere, “Drawn in the Pelham drawing-room on Wednesday Evening, October 12th 1859”, when a stalk of pampas grass caught fire from the candles and Miss Florence Price, holding it, behaved with impeccable courage (Ellen grasped a chair and Harriet threw up her hands in horror) – “drawn from memory by H.L. – Miss Price was staying at Chawton House with

13 P ICKERING & C HATTO her Uncle Edward Knight esqre” (i.e. Edward Knight, née Austen, 1794– 1879, nephew of Jane Austen); and a pen-and-ink drawing by C.C. Lempriere of “Boldre House . Lymington . Seat of Revd A. Knighton” (Augustus James Knighton, né Brine, 1805–1879, married Helen Lempriere, Harriet’s second cousin, daughter of Philip Raoul Lemprière, Seigneur of Rozel, the man who gave Millais his first paintbox). George Oury Lempriere draws a “View of the seven hundred Palmtree Near Alicante”, William More Molyneux (1835–1907) his family seat, Loseley. Photographs include a notable Scott family group (Lady Miller and named others, neighbours at Rotherfield Park), c1860, a fine portrait of Cecil Miller (Lady Miller’s son, born 1860, as a boy), “Mr & Mrs Knapton[,] Cecilia. Maria Poingdestre [Mrs Knapton’s sister]. Emily Brine[.] Boldre House Lymington” (a resonant image of house and family), “Kitcombe” (Kitcombe House, on the Pelham estate), a cabinet portrait of “Captn Frank Smith of Greatham Moor” (Francis Smith, born 1854, son of the Rev William Smith of Greatham Moor, Liss, and grandson of the Dean of Christ Church), and “Newton Valence schoolchildren at Pelham”, c1880 (a splendid mass group photograph, two of the children supporting the banner of the Newton Valence Temperance Society). Other photographs, mementoes &c recall holidays in Corsica, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Cornwall and the Isle of Wight.

29 [LLOYD, Henrietta]. HINDU WOMEN: with glimpses into their life and zenanas. London: James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street. 1882. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 143, [1] blank, [8] advertisements; a clean copy throughout, with contemporary prize label on front pastedown; in the original blue publisher’s cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, some rubbing to extremities, but still a very good copy. First edition of this lively attack on Hinduism (with forays into other Indian religions) and its unfortunate consequences for women in India, written in order to show the obstacles placed in front of Christian missionaries in the country, by Henrietta Lloyd, the editorial secretary of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. ‘Of the woman’s life and fate … we must next give some brief sketch. The outline might be a few sharp touches as follows: - The unwelcome birth. The child-marriage. The lonely wife-life; its vacant, listless drag. The joys of motherhood. The horrors of widowhood. The gloomy future. Life without hope, and death in darkest despair. … For a female to aspire to the exercise of her free-will would be “shocking to the Hindu community”‘ (p. 24). OCLC records three copies in North America, at Harvard, North Carolina and Wisconsin, Madison.

30 [LOEN, Johann Michael von]. [ROME, Madame de, Translator]. L’HOMME JUSTE À LA COUR, ou les mémoires du C. D. R. Premiere Partie [-Second]. A Berlin, et se trouve a Paris, chez Pillot, Libraire, rue St. Jacques. 1771. £ 385 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 244, [iv], 264; some light soiling in places but generally fresh; in contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-piece lettered in gilt; some wear to extemities. First French translation of Der Redliche Mann am Hofe, an early novel by the enlightenment German writer and statesman Johann Michael von Loën (1684-1776), translated by Marné de Morville de Rome. Published in the same year as Frederick the Great’s accession to the Prussian throne, The Honest Man at Court is a novel rooted in the enlightened absolutist tradition; von Loën proposes that the court, and the country, could be reformed through the presence, and influence, of

14 P ICKERING & C HATTO an honest man. Marné de Morville, Mme de Rome, was the translator of several works from both German and English into French, including two novels by Charlotte Smith, as well as the author of novels in her own right. OCLC records copies at the BNF, National Library of Switzerland and Mainz.

31 [MARIE ANTOINETTE]. CARCERAZIONE E MORTE DI M. ANTONIETTA, Regina di Francia. In Fuligno, Per Giovanni Tommasini, 1794. £ 385 FIRST EDITION? 8vo, pp. 40; printed on blue paper; stitched as issued in contemporary? marbled wraps, endpapers with dampmarks (not affecting the text), light surface wear, otherwise a very good copy. As far as we can tell, this is the first edition of this polemical account of the imprisonment and death of Marie Antoinette; we have been unable to find a French version. The author is clearly a staunch monarchist; Marie Antoinette is always “unfortunate”, her oppressors are “monsters”, and the Queen’s innocence is emphasised over and again, as is the fact that this is just one example among many of Jacobin barbarism. Not in OCLC, ICCU, SBN, or KVK.

32 MERARD DE SAINT-JUST, Anne-Jeanne-Félicité. BERGERIES ET OPUSCULES de Mlle d’Ormoy l’aînée. En Arcadie, et se trouve a Paris, chez Lamy, 1784. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [2], iv, 172; apart from some minor foxing and dust-soiling in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, boards and spine decorated in gilt, with red morocco label lettered in gilt, small chip at head, and some surface wear, but still a very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of the Vte. de Pelleport-Burete, Baron de l’Empire one front pastedown. First edition of this rare collection of little works by the prolific French writer Anne d’Ormoy, (1765-1830). Comprising a series of eleven contes on pastoral and moral themes, the work is dedicated, fulsomely, to the author’s husband, the writer Simon-Pierre Mérard de Saint-Just, who was for many years Maître-d’Hôtel of the future Louis XIII, and whom she had married shortly before. The various tales celebrate the loves and intrigues of shepherds and shepherdesses, anticipating some of the themes of d’Ormoy’s Mon Journal d’un an of 1788. OCLC records one copy in North America, at Princeton.

33 MITFORD, Mary Russell. CHRISTINA, the Maid of the South Seas; A Poem. London, Printed by A. Valpy, 1811. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. x, [ii], 332, [1] errata, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; contemporary diced calf, covers ruled with double gilt fillet and patterned roll-tool border, spine gilt in compartments, raised bands, marbled end-papers, upper joint a trifle tender, but firm, and not detracting from this being a handsome and appealing copy. A handsome copy of an historically important work. Mary Russell Mitford’s second published work, the poem ‘… is founded on a recent discovery, by an American vessel, of a small English colony, established by some of the mutineers of the Bounty … For many interesting particulars respecting the present situation of this infant colony she [Mitford] is indebted to the kindness of a gentleman, who heard from several officers of the Topaz an account of the manners, the virtues, and the happiness which she has attempted to pourtray [sic]… She cannot conclude without expressing he grateful acknowledgements to Captain Burney… in arranging and revising her notes…The scene of the Poem is

15 P ICKERING & C HATTO laid in Pitcairn’s Island’ (Introduction). James Burney (1750-1821) sailed under Cook on the third voyage, and on the deaths of Cook and Clerke assumed command of the Discovery. In 1803 he began the publication of A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, which extended to five vols. and was completed in 1817. The Christina of the title is, in Mitford’s romantic creation, the half-Polynesian daughter of Fletcher Christian. The notes to the poem extend to no less than 140 pages, and, with the poem, form an important and detailed postscript to the literature of the Mutiny and its aftermath. Sadleir 1744; NCBEL, III, 749.

34 [MORELLI, Maria Maddalena]. DI CORILLA OLIMPICA Ode alla Fecondita. Firenze, nella Stamperia di Gio. Batista Stecchi, e Anton-Giuseppe Pagani. 1767. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [12]; attractive woodcut vignettes throughout; apart from a few minor marks, a fine clean and crisp copy, uncut and stitched as issued.

A good copy of this uncommon and beautifully printed ode to fertility by the poet Maria Maddalena Morelli (1727-1800), writing under her Arcadian name Corilla Olimpica. Born in Pistoia, Morelli spent a period travelling around Italy before becoming the court poet at the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, in which capacity she composed the present ode, on the occasion of the birth of the daughter of Maria Luisa and Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany. Morelli was renowned above all as an improvisatory poet, like her younger contemporary Teresa Bandettini, and her reluctance to commit her works to the press goes a long way to explaining the rarity of this and others of her works. Her life inspired Mme de Staël’s 1807 novel Corinne, ou l’Italie. Not in OCLC or ICCU.

35 MORENCY, Suzanne Giroux de. ÉTRENNES AUX DAMES, pour l’an 1808 … Suivies de quelques mots sur le beau sexe. A Paris, chez l’Auteur, rue Marceau-Saint-Honore, Cabinet Litteraire… [1808]. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 80; with frontispiece portrait of the author; some light soiling in places; in recent wrappers. A very uncommon collection of verse, with a preface offering tips for ladies by Suzanne Giroux, commonly known as Mme de Morency (born 1770). Morency was the first French women to put her name to an erotic novel, her Illyrine of 1799, which remains her best known work. The present work opens with her “New Year’s Present for Ladies” for the year 1808, ten lines concluding: L’amour trompant mon coeur par une douce ivresse, Me tient lieu du bonheur que donner la sagesse. The remainder of the volumes is taken up with J.M. Mossé’s Quelques mots sur le beau sexe et sure ses détracteurs, followed by his Premices poetiques; this, as the Mercure de France notes in its unenthusiastic review, draws heavily on Legouvé’s Mérite des femmes. Not in OCLC.

36 [MORGAN, Lady, née Sydney Owenson]. WISEMAN, Nicholas Patrick. REMARKS ON LADY MORGAN’S STATEMENTS Regarding St. Peter’s Chair preserved in the Vatican Basilic … Rome, Joseph Salviucci and Son, 1833. £ 150

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FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. 8vo, pp. [ii], 37, [1] imprint; with engraved frontispiece; minor foxing just visible in places, otherwise clean throughout; in recent boards; inscribed at head of title ‘Charles Weld from his friend the Author’ and initialled ‘CNW’ in pencil beneith, presumably in the hand of the recipient.

Scarce first edition of this work by the cardinal archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1802-1865) in which he contends that an ivory covered wood chair preserved as a relic in St. Peter’s Basilica is the origin of the term “cathedra,” and that it is indeed the gift of a wealthy Roman senator to St. Peter, against a claim to the contrary made by Lady Morgan in her description of Italy (1821). The work, notes Wiseman, ‘first appeared in an English Periodical. It has since been translated into Italian, and published in the Giornale Arcadio. Rome, however, is the place where its subject must naturally excite the most interest’ (p. 3). OCLC records six copies in North America, at McGill, UCLA, Harvard, Missouri, Georgetown & the Catholic University of America.

37 [NOVEL]. HISTOIRE DE MADAME DUBOIS, Ecrite par elle- meme. Nouvelle Anglaise. A Amsterdam, et se trouve a Paris, chez Merigot jeune … 1769. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [vi], 7-223, [1] blank; dampstain to bottom corner in first part of work, and some foxing and marginal staining in places; in contemporary sprinkled sheep, head and tail of spine chipped and joints cracked, missing label, and rubbed to extremities. First edition of this anonymous “English” novel, containing a number of “aventures malheureuses” narrated by the eponymous heroine, who sets out her stall from the opening line: “Quelques personnes me jugeront, peut-etre, coupable; mais les coeurs sensibles adouciront la sentence”. In the Avertissement, the author notes that she (?) has taken care to suppress certain turns of phrase, whose tone might not please every reader, but has preserved as many expressions as possible which show, through their simplicity and candour, that the heroine is “une ame honnete et ami de la vérité”. Not in Barbier; OCLC records three copies in North America, at Michigan State, Princeton and Vanderbilt.

38 OSLER, Mrs. Catherine Courtauld. WHY WOMEN NEED THE VOTE. [Birmingham, Templar Press, 1910]. £ 150 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. 8vo, pp. 55; apart from a few marks, a clean copy throughout; stapled, and disbound, with the original rather worn and battered green wraps loosely inserted; withdrawn from ‘The Women’s Library’. Scarce first separate printing, reprinted from the “Common Cause”, by the doyenne of the Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society, Catherine Courtauld Osler (1854-1924). ‘Women are inspired by no Utopian hopes of revolutionising human nature, no blind confidence in any superior power of their own sex to accomplish a task in which men have so signally failed; but they recognise that his most gigantic problem of our civilisation - nay, of our national existence, -the problem which, of all others, most intimately affects both sexes, -demands the united judgment, intelligence and co- operation of our best, purest and most disinterested men and women’ (p. 30).

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Women Workers in War

39 [PERIODICAL]. THE BOMBSHELL. No. 1. Vol. 3 [-No. 12. Vol. 3]. [Sheffield] January, 1919 [-December, 1919]. £ 500 8vo, pp. 9-487, [1]; without pages 1-8, probably never actually printed, certainly never bound in here and as clearly complete as is; some light dampstaining in places, but generally clean throughout; in contemporary maroon cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, some staining, but still a good copy. Rare and fascinating ‘monthly journal devoted to the interests of the Employees of Thos. Firth & Sons, Ltd., Norfolk Works, Sheffield’ (p. 49) many of who were women who had filled the roles of men during the Great War. The magazine contains a plethora of information on the staff of the factory, and whilst, as one might expect, sport clubs (especially swimming), social events, ‘letters to the editor’ and articles relating to the war are covered, there is also much on the women of the factory, with many photographs included of the women workers (including one of Agnes Baxter, Engineers Tool Dept. Swimming Club, winner of the Fawcett Cup, 1918). Of the pieces particularly for a female audience we find ‘Three Shell Girls’ (p. 18), ‘Aunt Susie’s Corner’ (p. 115), ‘An Alphabet of Fair Ladies’ (p. 138) and ‘The Workman’s Wife’ (p. 206) to name a few. The present magazine, labelled ‘vol. 3’, is the first number produced when the company had moved to Firth’s own works in Sheffield, ‘after a very successful career at the National Projectile Factory’ at Templeborough. We have been unable to trace either of the previous volumes. Not in OCLC.

40 PERRIER, Marie-Victorine Patras. RÉCRÉATIONS D’UNE BONNE MÈRE avec ses filles, ou Instructions morales sur chaque mois de l’année, A l’usage des jeunes demoiselles. Par Mme Perrier. A Paris, chez Capelle et Renand, Libraires- Commissionnaires, rue J.J. Rousseau. An XIII (1805). £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 387, [1] Table des Mois; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; bound in contemporary red morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, upper board with ownership of ‘Aimée Artaud’ stamped in gilt, some minor rubbing to extremities, but not detracting from this being a handsome and very desirable copy. A lovely copy of the principal work of the French writer and journalist Marie-Victorine Patras Perrier (1780-1821). Perrier offers, in the form of little stories, poems, dialogues and songs, a month-by-month series of moral instructions for young women, telling them about the power of eloquence, the dangers of jealousy, the importance of smiling, and the punishments due for mistrustfulness and disobedience. She notes that the best educational works (those of Lambert, Genlis, and others) lack the important element of warning against faults and bad habits, which can influence future happiness far more than one might think, and seeks to fill that need. This copy belonged to Aimée Artaud; possibly this is one of three daughters of Joseph Artaud, who appear in portraits by Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, held by the Louvre. OCLC records two copies, at the BNF and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

41 [POWELL, Rebecca]. A CANDID ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BENEFACTIONS OF THE LATE REBECCA POWELL, in Favour of the Town of Cirencester. By a Native of the Place. London: Printed for W. Bathoe in the Strand, 1765. £ 650

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 24; in recent marbled boards. Rebecca Powell (1643-1722) is now known as the greatest benefactor of the Cotswolds town of Cirencester, responsible for the foundation of the girls’ and boy’s schools which now, combined, bear her name. Her wealth largely derived from a succession of advantageous marriages, the last of which, to Thomas Powell, ended on his death in 1718. In her will, she left money for “erecting endowing supporting and perpetually establishing a Charity School or Schools in Cirencester”; this was to become the Yellow School for girls, designed as a companion to the Blue School for boys that she had established with her husband. However, legal wranglings over the estate among the Trustees ensured that the school did not open its doors until 1740; these are described, with some vigour, in the present anonymous pamphlet, which also gives a clear insight into the economics of education in the mid eighteenth century. ESTC records three copies, two in the UK at Bodley and the Cirencester Record Office, and one in North America, at UCLA; apparently not in the BL.

42 [PROSTITUTION]. A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS ITEMS RELATING TO PROSTITUTION AND STATE REGULATION OF VICE. Comprising: 1. [BUTLER, Josephine E.] The following is a copy of the Memorial addressed to Lord Salisbury, Lord George Hamilton, and other members of the Government, by the Executive Committee of the Ladies’ National Association:- MEMORIAL TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY. [London] June, 1897. Leaflet, pp. 2; minor loss to corner (not affecting the text).

2. MEMORANDUM presented to the Delegates and Members by the British Committee of the International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Prostitution. International Congress on the White Slave Traffic, held in London, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd June, 1899. [Pewtress & Co., Printers, 28, Little Queen Street, London, W.C., 1899]. 8vo, pp. 46, [2] blank; stitched as issued in the original printed wraps, upper wrapper lettered in gilt and black.

3. [LADIES’ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION]. Printed Letter, dated March, 1906. 4to, pp. 4; disbound, as issued, and with folds visible, some tears.

4. WOMEN AND THE REGULATION SYSTEM. Impressions of the Geneva Congress of September, 1908. London: Women’s Printing Society, Limited, 31, 33, 35, Brick Street, Piccadilly, W. [1908] 12mo, pp. 14, [2]; stapled as issued in the original printed green wraps, rather sunned and chipped to extremities.

5. THE SUPPRESSION OF THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Historical sketch of the English section of the movement. Paper prepared by Maurice Gregory, at the request of the “Commission Administrative” (Continental Executive Committee) of the International Federation for the Geneva Congress, 1908 … London: Friends’ Association for Abolishing State Regulation of Vice. 1908. 6. [CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT COMMITTEE]. CONFERENCE, June 3rd, 1913. [London], Printed by St. Clements Press, Ltd., Portugal Street. [1913]. 8vo, pp. 90, [2] advertisements; stapled as issued in the original printed green wraps.

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7. [INTERNATIONAL ABOLITIONIST FEDERATION]. MORALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Report and Public Health. Report of the Portsmouth Conference June 15-18, 1914. Published by the British Branch of the International Abolitionist Federation … 1914. 8vo, pp. xvi, 352; in the original burgundy printed publisher’s wraps, lightly sunned and rubbed to extremities.

8. HANDBOOK OF THE CONFERENCE of the International Abolitionist Federation to be held in Portsmouth, 15th to 18th June, 1914, in the Assembly Rooms, Esplanade Hotel, Southsea … Portsmouth: W.H. Barrell, Ltd., Printers and Stationers. [1914]. 8vo, pp. 32; loose (as stapled removed) in the original brown publisher’s wraps.

9. WILSON, Helen. ON SOME CAUSES OF PROSTITUTION. With Special Reference to Economic Conditions. A Paper read at the Eleventh Congress of the International Abolitionist Federation, held in Paris, June 9-12, 1913 … Revised edition, 1916. The Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 19, Tothill Street, S.W. [1916]. 8vo, pp. 15, [1] blank; disbound, as issued, staples removed.

10. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL, 1922. (Introduced by the Home Secretary on February 8th on behalf of the Government). [G. White, Chelsea]. March, 1922. Leaflet, pp. 2. 11. [THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT COMMITTEE]. Leaflet No. 4. SIX SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS TO LAWS CONCERNING AFFILIATION. [London] Published by the Criminal Law Amendment Committee. [n.d., c. 1925?] Leaflet, pp. 2. 12. [THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT COMMITTEE]. Leaflet No. 5. THE AGE OF CONSENT. Headley Bros., London & Ashford. [n.d., c. 1925?] Leaflet, pp. 2. 13. [THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT COMMITTEE]. Leaflet No. 26. THE LAW OF DIVORCE AS IT IS, AND AS IT SHOULD BE. [London] Printed by P.M. Printing Service, Ltd. 62, Glengall Road, S.E. [n.d., c. 1930?] Leaflet, pp. 2. 14. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. IT’S WORK AND ITS NEEDS. Orchard House, 14, Great Smith Street, London, S.W. 1. [n.d., c. 1930]. 8vo, pp. 12; disbound and stapled as issued, minor dust-soiling.

15. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. THE WORK OF THE A.M.S.H. Printed in Great Britain by H.R. Grubb, Ltd., Croydon. [1938]. 8vo, pp. 4; disbound, as issued. 16. ”THE PREVENTION OF PROSTITUTION: THE REDUCTION OF DEMAND”. Being Extracts from Chapter V of an Unpublished Report of the League of Nations (C.Q. S/A 19 (c)) Prevention of Prostitution, 1939 … Reprinted from “The Shield,” October, 1942. Leaflet, pp. 2; minor tear at head.

17. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. The Alison Neilands Memorial Lecture III. THE SOLICITATION LAWS by Mrs. Franklin Lefroy, M.A., J.P. Delivered in Livingston Hall, February 16th 1948. [Swindon Press Ltd, 1948].

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8vo, pp. 24; stapled as issued in the original printed green publishers wraps. 18. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. The Alison Neilands Memorial Lecture IV. THE POLICE AND THE PROSTITUTE by C.R. Hewitt. Delivered in Livingston Hall, March 14th 1951. [Swindon Press Ltd, 1948]. 8vo, pp. 16; stapled as issued in the original printed publishers wraps.

19. [THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE]. The Alison Neilands Memorial Lecture V. JOSEPHINE BUTLER AND THE MORAL STANDARDS OF TODAY. By Mary Stocks. Delivered at Caxton Hall, London, S.W. 1. 21 February, 1961. [S.S.S. Ltd., London, 1961]. 8vo, pp. 15, [1] blank; loose (as staples removed) in the original printed wraps. . £ 500 Together 19 items, collations and condition as above; withdrawn from ‘The Women’s Library’.

43 [SCHLEGEL]. DREY BRIEFE an ein humanes Berliner Freudenmädchen über die Lucinde von Schlegel. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1800. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 34; some foxing and soiling; in later red calf- backed boards, title in gilt on spine; some loss to head and tail of spine, and binding worn; with the engraved bookplate of Ernst Magnus on First edition of these three letters, addressed to a “humane Berlin prostitute”, on the subject of Schlegel’s barely disguised autobiographical novel Lucinde, which had appeared in 1799, causing a scandal with its frank description of sexual liaison. The publication of Lucinde prompted a flood of responses, many of which were hostile; the book itself became a shorthand for obscene literature in the way that Lady Chatterley’s Lover did 130 years later. The present work is both one of the rarest and the most forthright responses; the author professes himself to be in a state of nervous exhaustion after repeated readings of Schlegel’s work, to the extent that “ich will lieber Fichtens Werke studieren, als die Lucinde” (p. 33). VD18: 10032290; OCLC records just two copies, in Hamburg and Berlin.

44 SERGEANT, E. Vane. WOMAN SUFFERAGE. Especially Written for the Male Quartet of Chicago. Published by E. Vane Serpent, Grant Park, Ill. [The H.S. Talbot Co. Printers of music Chicago, Ill.] [1914]. £ 300 pp. [1] 2-4 [5-6] including covers, with 1 inch tear in gutter throughout; upper cover printed in purple with a caricature of the quartet signed by ‘French ‘13’.

Although the copyright date and issue for Woman Sufferage was 1914, the only contemporary review we have been able to locate dates from March 1917, when The Ragtime Review described the song with little enthusiasm. ‘I don’t care much for the lyrics. Might make a good quartette number.’ This statement is at odds with our copy so it seems likely that the song was reissued, minus the quartet arraignment, during the period of renewed effort to gain votes for women in the United States in 1917. The Oxford Male Quartet of Chicago appear to have flourished between 1910 and 1930. The individuals seem to have changed over the years but their main outlet was through entertainment at church halls, Masonic meetings and town festivals, expanding their work in the early 1920’s with broadcasts on the YMCA radio network. The content of their programme included sentimental and faintly religious material sung by

21 P ICKERING & C HATTO four clean well spoken men. Although in 1914 the song would have just raised a laugh, by 1918 the words had become passé and embarrassing for mixed audiences. When radio came the song would have been positively dangerous for their reputation, but then sub ragtime tunes were pretty dead anyway.

45 [SERRA, Luigi]. LETTERA SULLE COMETE IN OCCASIONE DELLA COMETA Comparsa Quest’anno Diretta A Due Dame dall’abbate Luigi Serra. Genova i.e. Genoa Stamperia Francese- Italiana. [1805?]. £ 685 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 21, [1] blank; text within double-ruled borders, title vignette; clean and fresh throughout; in recent wrappers.

Only edition of this rare letter addressed to two noblewomen by the Genoa mathematician and astronomer Luigi Serra (1757-1813), aimed at soothing their fear of comets. The ladies (alas unidentified) had made a connection between the recent appearance of a comet (probably either comet Encke or comet Biela, both of which appeared in 1805) and a prolonged period of heavy rainfall. Gathering together the combined authority of Newton, Aristotle, Galileo, Flamsteed, and many others, Serra attempts to reassure the ladies that comets posed no threat, and were not connected to more common meteorological phenomena. Serra was professor of mathematics at Genoa from 1805 until 1809. In addition to the present work, he also published Inni di libertà in 1797, and wrote a collection of political satires, which appeared in a new edition in 1994. Not in OCLC; ICCU records one copy, at the Biblioteca della Società Neapolitan di storia patria.

46 SIBIRIAK, V. THE WORKING WOMAN IN THE SOVIET UNION. Moscow, [International Press] for the Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1932. £ 85 Small 8vo, pp. 38, [2] advertisements; two leaves with tears to lower margins, a few pencil marks; original publisher’s wrappers; lightly spotted or browned. Scarce English edition of this government publication intended to inform the public of the West on the progress women had made and how Bolshevism was liberating the women of the Soviet Union, including the women of the ethnic minorities of Siberia and Central Asia. The pamphlet also celebrates ‘the liquidation of the kulak as a class’ and tells that even the ‘foul-smelling yurtas of the Kirghiz steppes the sale of brides and other savage laws of the sale and purchase of slave-women are becoming a thing of the past. The light of literacy has begin [!] to break in, and woman has lost her obedience’ (p. 5).

‘The Cooks Book’ for Hardwick House

47 [STENT, Mary & Ann COLET]. ‘THE COOKS BOOK. 1748’ Mid Eighteenth Century Manuscript Household book for Hardwick House. 1748 [-1753]. £ 2,500 MANUSCRIPT IN INK. 190mm x 150mm, two gatherings of 40 pages, first loose, and 10 pages loosely inserted at end; some dust-soiling, dog- earing and chipping to edges, as one might expect for an item of this nature, but generally very clear and readable throughout; in contemporary vellum, dust-soiled and spine defective, but still a very desirable item, housed in a custom made cloth box. Fascinating mid-eighteenth century household accounts book for Hardwick House on the banks of the river Thames in Oxfordshire.

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The accounts provide an interesting insight into the diet of the household, as well as the hierarchy within the kitchen staff. Many payments are listed for the ‘woman for scowerin’ and ‘woman for washin’ but it is quite clear that the ‘Cook’ is in absolute charge of the domestic arrangements. Many of the foods listed are similar to today’s grocery bills (eggs, sugar, vinegar, butter etc.), although the quantities are somewhat at a variance with todays fastidious advice on dietary needs! Also listed are some now long since defunct foods, such as ‘Wiggs’ which we find mentioned throughout: ‘Wiggs’, or ‘Whigs’ were leavened buns that were lighter and richer than household bread. They were always flavoured with carraway seeds, or carraway comfits, and as a result they were usually eaten as a special treat. It is also evident the family enjoyed a fishy diet, with lobsters, oysters and anchovies ordered on a regular basis; these were probably brought up from the lower tidal reaches. The manuscript seems to indicate that there were two cooks working at the house between 1748 and 1753. The accounts are first signed off by Mary Stent, who did not remain long at Hardwick House having been given her final payment on the Christmas quarter-day of 1748 ‘Rem[oval]’ due to the Cook [£]3=16=11.’ Ann Colet takes her place and the receipts show a decided improvement in the variety of provisions if not in handwriting. Both cooks state in the book ‘Receiv’d [date] of P. Powys Esqr the contents of this account in full for all demands to me.’ It is clear a certain amount of money was allocated and entrusted to the cook to manage the affairs of the kitchen with an accompt carried out at regualar intervals when funds were running low. A note on the front free endpaper for sacks of ‘fat’ being sent up to Reading, firmly identifies the manuscript with the Powys family at Hardwick House. ‘Hardwick House was bought by Richard Lybbe in 1526; that family ended in an heiress Isabella Lybbe who married Philip Powys in 1730 and their Powys descendants had their home there for a further 130 years. Caroline Powys, wife of Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House maintained a diary from 1756 which recorded the daily social round of her class in gossipy detail. She wrote of visits to neighbouring country houses, the winter balls and assemblies in Henley and the seasons in London and Bath with their plays, concerts and balls’ (Wikipedia). It is also interesting to note that Hardwick House is reputed to have been the inspiration for E. H. Shepard’s illustrations of Toad Hall in the book The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

48 [SUFFRAGETTES]. THE SUFFRAGEE. Sung by Mr. Jock Mills. 6816. Recorded in London. Pressed in Berlin. [1908]. £ 300 10 inch (25 cm) 78 rpm recording; matrix 6816 recording date J4S [i.e September 8th 1908] and processing date 21108A [i.e 21st October 1908] with black and gold printed label. in later card sleeve, together with a modern CD of the recording; an unusual survival. Scarce survival of this recording of Jock Mill’s comic response to the ‘Women’s Sunday’ rally held at Hyde Park on 21st June 1908. The opening gives an idea of the tone: I’m suffering from a suff-e-ragette Suffering sore you can see Since my wife’s joined the suffragists I’ve been a suffragee. However it is the middle verses of the song which allude to both the rally at Hyde Park and the Suffragettes’ being turned away as they attempt to enter the Houses of Parliament and window breaking at 10 Downing St. on the 30th of June 1908 that the greatest interest in this recording lies. Very few recordings of suffragette interest actually tie into any specific contemporary event. Mills however includes an additional versewhich was probably added to his music hall turn whilst treading the boards in London during the summer months of 1908. One wonders if he also actually witnessed these events.

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A weekend excursion to London they went, To interview Asquith was their intent. He gave them advice both timely and true, and promised them votes by 2002. The wife lost her temper outside she doth fight, Was run into jail, what a beautiful sight. Jock or Jack Mills (1864-1947) was known and advertised as ‘The Wise Man.’ His stage persona was loosely based on Harry Lauder’s ‘Hielan persona’ interspersed with knowing monologues. This stereotype originally encouraged a certain sentimental social cohesion in Scotland but its popularity began to wane by the end of the Edwardian era. The Homophon company was one of many German concerns that undercut and seriously affected the profitability British record producers before WWI. They recorded lesser artists on cash terms usually in London and then had the records pressed cheaply in Germany before being shipped and sold through as system of factoring to small local shops and market stalls. The survival rate of these discs is low in comparison to the records produce by such major British manufacturers as HMV.

49 [SUFFRAGETTES - NUWSS]. MEMORIAL OF HEAD MISTRESSES OF GIRLS’ PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS. [London, Vacher & Sons, Printers, 1909]. £ 175 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; stapled as issued. Uncommon pamphlet, published by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, in which the headmistresses of many of the most prominent girls’ schools in the country argue for the enfranchisement of “duly qualified women”. “We are members of a great profession which undertakes duties towards the state that are second to none; we have been chosen from the ranks of that profession by governing bodies who have judged us to be especially fit for the exercise of great responsibilities. We are placed side by side with men who have been similarly elected for similar duties … Unlike the Head Master, however, who has the Parliamentary franchise twice over - as a taxpayer and as a graduate - the Head Mistress is relegated by the State to the same class as the male convict and the lunatic”. A note on the verso of the title observes that Asquith refused to receive a deputation of Headmistresses, when asked. OCLC records just one copy, at the University of Glasgow.

50 TURRA, Elisabetta Caminer. COMPOSIZIONI TEATRALI MODERNE. Tradotte da Elisabetta Caminer. Tomo I [-IV]. Venezia, a proprie spese e si dispensa dal Colombani. MDCCLXXII [1772]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. Four volumes, 8vo, pp. I. xx, 382 [misnumbered 362], [1] imprint, [1] blank; II. 90, [1] imprint, [1] blank; 72; 88; 98; III. iv, 111, [1] imprint; 71, [1] imprint; 108; 84; IV. 55, [1] imprint; [ii], 36; 119, [1] imprint; 71, [1] imprint (A2 not present, as usual); 84; with engraved frontispiece to volume I and engraved title in each volume; some occasional foxing and browning, and the odd marginal tear, but generally clean and crisp throughout; in later blue paper-backed marbled boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt; some slight wear to extremities, but a good copy nonetheless.

A superb copy of this collection of theatrical translations by the Venetian publisher, writer, and theatrical producer Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-1796). Turra is best known as the founder and editor of the Giornale enciclopedico, which became one of the foremost enlightenment influences in the Veneto, thanks to its combination of reviews, announcements, and extracts of the latest philosophical, scientific and literary works from throughout Europe. In particular, the Giornale, under

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Caminer’s direction, was especially interested in the question of the rôle of women in society: She wrote one of the first Italian reviews of Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman. and translated several works by Voltaire; her translations of French plays were often performed in Venice under her direction. The plays translated include works by Mercier, Goldoni, Fenouillot de Falbaire, Beaumarchais, Arthur Murphy, and Voltaire, and cover the theatre of England, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Duke and Princeton.

A free-thinking travel writer’s scrapbook for her son

51 TWEEDIE, Ethel Brilliana SCRAP-BOOK OF COLLECTED WRITINGS [London]. [1889-1895, 1906]. £ 1,250 21.5cm, c. 90 ruled leaves; with numerous cuttings pasted in, many of them folded, two items laid in; later red cloth binding with gilt spine title “Collected Writings Mrs. Alec Tweedie” in double gilt rule, with manuscript date 1896, inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape.

Fascinating scrapbook compiled by Ethel Tweedie F.R.G.S. (1862-1940), prolific travel writer, as well as a photographer, painter, and early advocate of women’s rights and suffrage. Tweedie was born Ethel Harley in London and educated at Queen’s College, London and abroad. She married Alexander (Alec) Tweedie (d.1896), and they had two sons, Leslie and Harley. This compilation includes nearly 100 articles that Tweedie published over just six years, cut from a number of magazines and several newspapers, all of them dated and identified. There is a manuscript contents list and a flyleaf note dedicating the volume to her elder son Harley (1888-1926) “from his Mother the ‘scribe’ to remind him when he is a big man of what his mother was doing when he was a wee boy & interrupted her writing to get chocolates or play at horses.” The selection of articles gives ample evidence of Tweedie’s range of interests, from several interviews with Henrik Ibsen (one titled ‘By one that knows him’) and Fridtjof Nansen to essays on golf and game birds. Several of the items included here document the author’s travels in Scandinavia. Others (some signed with her middle name, Brilliana) describe society events for women’s magazines. Her unconventional views show through in her arguments in favour of women forgoing sidesaddles to ride astride and her open-mindedness toward Sunday sports. ‘A masculine woman is my abhorrence, but I cannot see why women may not enjoy the same sports as men, if they do so with equal safety. Why are English women so well developed, so clear-complexioned, so vigorous, in every way capable of enduring fatigue? Our great grandmothers were not so. For one simple reason - the female sex now enjoys every kind of exercise. Women in the last 25 years haved ceased to be looked upon as fragile household dolls’ (Tweedie’s article ’Women on Horseback. The question of cross saddles versus side saddles cut from the Herald, London, Sunday, March 23 1890).

52 VETTORI PALTRINIERI, Anna Maria. SULL’ORIGINE DEL TERREMOTO VERSI SCIOLTI di Anna Maria Vettori Paltrinieri tra gli arcadi di Roma Ciparene Temidia tra gli agiati dell’imperiale accademia di Roveredo Erminia ed accademica affidata di Pavia. In Mantova, per l’erede di Alberto Pazzoni, regio-ducale stampatore. 1780. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, pp. 12; with engraved headpiece; some marginal soiling but otherwise clean; in recent patterned boards with nineteenth century wrappers bound in; title on typewritten label on upper cover.

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Only edition of this rare poem by the Mantuan writer and poet Anna Maria Vettori Paltrinieri (1749-1802), on the origins of the earthquake that hit Bologna on June 2nd, 1780, and earthquakes in general. Vettori Paltrinieri was a member of the Arcadi, under the name Ciparene Temidia, and was the daughter of the Mantuan physician and poet Vettore Vettori, and the mother of the writer Camilla Paltrinieri Triulzi. In the present poet, she draws on Zanotti and “l’immortal Newtono” in describing the Bolognese earthquake (one of a number of tremors which affected the area in 1779 and 1780), and imagines what happens with the vast subterranean bodies of water evidenced by the spas of Emilia- Romagna. OCLC records one copy, at Rovereto Civica.

53 [VICTORIANA]. HUMOROUS SEA-SIDE SKETCHES [cover title]. London, Read & Co., [c. 1855]. £ 600 Lithographic panorama measuring 120 x 2620 mm, concertina-folding into red cloth covers measuring 130 x 152 mm; illustrated label printed in three colours; a little worn. Scarce panorama depicting twenty humorous incidents at the seaside, nearly all showing Victorian ladies frolicking on the beach, riding on donkeys, and paddling in the sea. It is interesting to note that several of the images depict ‘bathing machines’, a device popular in the 18th and 19th centuries to allow people to change out of their usual clothes into swimwear. The roofed and walled wooden cart would then be rolled in to the sea to allow for bathing. Queen Victoria is known to have used one, which can still be seen on the beach at Osborne House to this day. The yellow cover label supplies the title, a repeat of one of the sea-side incidents (‘A Smack Among the Rocks’), and the imprint. A list of the publisher’s prints and panoramas is pasted inside the back cover. Abbey, Life 613.

‘One of the first women in France to live by her pen’

54 [VILLEDIEU, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, Mme. de]. THE UNFOTUNATE [SIC] HEROES: or the Adventures of Ten Famous Men, viz. Ovid, Lentullus, Hortensius, Herennius, Cepion, Horace, Virgil, Cornelius Gallus, Crassus, Agrippa. Banished from the Court of Augustus Caesar. In Ten Novels. Composed by that Great Wit of France, Monsieur De Villa Dieu. Englished by a Gentleman for his Diversion, [London]. In the Savoy, Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, 1679. £ 3,500 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo, license leaf, title, pp. [iv], 240, 141-156, 241-265, [7] Books printed for Henry Herringman’; minor stain at head of front free endpapers (not affecting the text), otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary calf ruled in blind, head of spine chipped, extremities rubbed and with minor surface wear, nevertheless, still an appealing copy with the early eighteenth century armorial bookplate of Lord Lymington on front pastedown. First English translation of Les Exilés by the well regarded French novelist, Marie Catherine Desjardins, Mme. de Villedieu (1640?-1683), who along with Madeleine de Scudéry was the best-paid woman writer of the century and the only women authors to receive royal pensions. ‘Villedieu … seems to have lived perpetually at odds with the contemporary social order. Early literary historians, perhaps confusing the novelist with her heroine Henriette-Sylvie, described Villedieu as a woman of easy virtue whose conduct scandalized her contemporaries, and subsequent commentators have generally repeated this portrayal. However, as Bayle first warned readers, this alleged biography cannot be documented. Surviving documents reveal simply an independent woman

26 P ICKERING & C HATTO unbound by convention. As of 1655 Desjardins was living alone in Paris ‘answering to no one’. The only recorded ‘scandal’ involves her open liaison with a soldier, Boisset de Villedieu, who broke off his formal promise of marriage. He even sold her letters to the publisher Barbin, who published them, despite her protests, as Lettres et billets galants (1668). After Villedieu’s death later that year she simply adopted his name as her official signature, apparently with some degree of consent from his family. She subsequently married Claude de Chaste and had a child by him. Villedieu’s collected works fill 12 volumes … She helped launch two major late seventeenth century sub-genres, the historical novel (especially with Les Désordres de l’amour, her best-known work today) and the sentimental or ‘gallant’ novel (Annales galantes, 1670)’ (See New Oxford Companion to Literature in French 1995). The present work was first published in Paris in 1672/3. Wing D1193; see The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (1999) and The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (1995) for further information on Madame Villedieu.

Forming ‘an ideological counterpart to Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication’

55 WEST, Jane. LETTERS TO A YOUNG LADY; in Which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions. London: Longman, Hust, Rees, and Orme, 1806. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION. Three volumes,12mo, pp. xiv, 336; [ii], 514; [ii], 466; some worming to foot of first gathering of vol. I (not affecting the text) and from pp. 467-514 of vol. II with loss of a significant number of letters, but no loss of sentence gist, foot of first gathering also with minor worming at foot (not affecting the text), otherwise copies clean throughout; in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt with morocco labels lettered in gilt, rather dry and worn with loss of numbering pieces and chipping at head and foot, nevertheless still a good copy of an important feminist text, housed in a custom made cloth box. Uncommon first edition of Letters to a Young Lady, by novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts, Jane West (1758-1752). ‘West’s conservative views on woman’s role are particularly strident in her popular conduct literature: Letters to a Young Man (1801), written to her son and dedicated to Percy, went through six editions by 1818. This was followed by Letters to a Young Lady (1806), which was dedicated to Queen Charlotte and addressed to Miss Maunsell, who died in 1808. In many respects Letters to a Young Lady forms an ideological counterpart to Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Where Wollstonecraft advocates ‘Rights’, West insists on ‘Duties’. However both, as feminist critics have pointed out, were involved in the debate on the ‘Woman’s question’ and foregrounded the necessity of improved education for women, although not for the same ends’ (Oxford DNB). OCLC: 507341.

56 [WIESENHÜTTEN, Friederike Henriette von]. LYDIE DE GERSIN, ou, Histoire d’une jeune Angloise de huit ans, pour servir à l’instruction & l’amusement des jeunes Françoises du même âge. Traduction libre de l’anglois par M.e. de V…. A Paris, Au Bureau de l’Ami des Enfans. 1789. £ 350 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 160; without the half-title; lightly foxed in places, but otherwise clean; in later cloth, spine with morocco label lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed.

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First edition of this very rare children’s novel by the German aristocrat Friederike Henriette von Wiesenhütten (née Forstner, 1754-1815). The novel tells the story of Lydie, an eight year old girl, her various adventures, and her conversations with her mother, and is, as the title suggests, aimed at girls of a similar age to the protagonist. Von Wiesenhütten was the author of a number of novels, including Hélène (1797). OCLC records one copy in North America, at Texas A&M.

57 WILSON, Mrs. A BRIEF COMPENDIUM OF JUVENILE INSTRUCTION, or a progressive Introduction to useful Knowledge. Accompanied with an Elementary Map … The Second Edition, Corrected. London, [Law and Gilbert] for the Author. 1808. £ 585 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii, [5], 131, [1, advertisements], with folding engraved world map (Western Sahara coloured in red) and two full-page geometrical diagrams in the text; some margins spotted; entirely uncut in the original plain boards; hinges weakened, extremities worn; presentation inscription to one Emily Harris, dated 1830 on front paste- down. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of this very rare educational work, which was written in Poplar and printed in Clerkenwell, both rather working class areas of London, and presumably aimed at parents of the lower classes, who wanted to give their children a good educational foundation in life. Parts of the book could also be used as a primary reader, written in the form of a catechism. The first edition appeared in 1803. This second enlarged edition, as far as we are aware, is unrecorded. OCLC locates only copies of the first edition, in the BL and in the National Library of Scotland.

Amusing Fortune-telling game for Ladies

58 [WOMEN]. THE YOUNG LADY’S ORACLE. A Fireside Amusement. [London] D. Bogue, Fleet Street. [1850]. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 80; with folding handcoloured frontispiece, engraved title and original red card of numbers to be cut out bound in at rear; apart from some minor dust-soiling in places a clean copy throughout; in the original blue blindstamped publisher’s cloth, spine and upper boards lettered and tooled in gilt, light rubbing to head of spine, but still a near fine copy. Charming parlour game for ladies, in unusually fine state with the rarely found original cards still uncut and bound in at the end. ‘The mode of consulting the Oracle is extremely simple. The Card, which will be found at the end of the volume, having been cut into separate pieces, each containing a single number (Nos. 3 to 18), the pieces are to be deposited in a reticule or other convenient receptable, so that the drawer may choose at random without being able to see the number chosen. The person who wishes to consult the Oracle having selected the question to which she wishes a reply, then withdraws one of the cards from the reticule, which gives the answer to her question’ (p. v). Thus, for example, supposing the question were no. 67: ‘What is a good husband?’ and the card chosen were no. 13, the answer would be as follows. Turn to the ‘Table of Answers’ (pp. xiii-xvi) and in the first column you find the number of the question to which a reply is required (67), and in the top line the number of the card (13): at the point of intersection of these two lines the number 52 is found, which indicates the page containing the answer. Thus, turning to page 52, we find the reply of the Oracle No. 13 is “A Simple Man”. Certainly an answer

28 P ICKERING & C HATTO which would have caused much amusement amongst the female participants! OCLC records three copies in North America, at Harvard, Princeton and Indiana.

A Land Girl’s Possessions

59 [WOMEN’S LAND ARMY]. COLLECTION OF ITEMS OWNED BY THE LAND GIRL, MISS FRANCES M.R. PATON. Comprising: 1. A National Service certificate for the Womens Land Army from the Secretary of State for Scotland thanking the lady for entering her name on the role, dated 11th October 1939. 2. Two badges by H.W.M. and Marples & Beasley, Birmingham. 3. Corduroy breeches, label stating ‘Breeches Corduroy, Women’s Land Army. Size 9. Height: 5ft 5in to 5ft 6in; Waist 24in to 26in; Hips 36in to 38in. Redman Bros., January 1943’. With leather reinforcing patches at the knees - though the knees were not worn through and do not show any wear on the inside. 4. Two brassards, both embroidered with the same motifs (crown and ‘WLA’), one in red on green wool, the other in green on red wool, original buttons, the red brassard missing one of the two buttons. 5. A Certificate from the Queen thanking her for her wartime service, 11th October 1939 to 10th October 1945. 6. Photograph, presumably of Frances Paton, though with names ‘Mave’ and ‘Mary’ on verso - presumably she was known by her second name(?), and dated ‘Freiburg ‘37’. . £ 750 A poignant group of items belonging to Frances Paton, a member of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War. ‘The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. In effect the Land Army operated to place women with farms that needed workers, the farmers being their employers … As the prospect of war became increasingly likely, the government wanted to increase the amount of food grown within Britain. In order to grow more food, more help was needed on the farms and so the government started the Women’s Land Army in June 1939. The majority of the Land Girls already lived in the countryside but more than a third came from London and the industrial cities of the north of England. In the Second World War, though under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, it was given an honorary head - Lady Denman. At first it asked for volunteers. This was supplemented by conscription, so that by 1944 it had over 80,000 members. The WLA lasted until its official disbandment on 21 October 1950’ (Wikipedia).

60 [WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE]. A MEMORANDUM Showing cause why women should take part in the election of the parliament which is to deal with problems of reconstruction arising out of the war. London: Issued by the National Union of women’s Suffrage Societies, 14 great Smith street, Westminster, S.W. November, 1916. £ 300 Folio, pp. 34; original brown wrappers; resewn. The Memorandum contains a synthesis of the NUWSS case as it stood in the uncertain weeks prior to the collapse in December 1916 of the Second Asquith Ministry. The NUWSS, then under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett, had a membership principally drawn from the middle-classes who hoped to gain the vote by non-violent means. Colloquially know as Suffragists they had stance at variance to their sisters the Suffragettes.

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Knowing that Asquith’s majority Liberal coalition government was treading on thin ice they probably hoped to persuade them to act on giving women the franchise. To this purpose the work gathers together all key issues and tabulates these in a series of five schedules and associated comments: I. Women in Industry II. Statements of Opinion on Women’s War work by Employers and Others. III.Statements of opinions in favour of Women Suffrage by Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, and Others. IV.Statements of Opinion in the Press in favour of Women Suffrage. V. Women’s Suffrage in Practice; and Parliamentary History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Great Britain. The introduction includes a veiled threat on the continuing vacillation of that the Liberal majority ‘Women have always shown themselves ready to make all reasonable sacrifice - and often to make sacrifices which were not reasonable - for their men. But with their quickened and deepened sense of citizenship they are not willing that their interests should be bargained away by a Parliament over which they have no control, or that they should be treated as a football in a game between Capital and labour, with the Government acting as Umpire’ A new a coalition government, now having a Tory majority under Lloyd George being formed on the collapse of Second Asquith Ministry, precluded any notion of extending the franchise to women until the end of the war.

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