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1) A CLERGYMAN [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. The christian hebdomad, or week of human life. A souvenir of the savior! And an occasional help to family devotion. London. Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1866. First edition.
8vo. 117pp, [3]. Original publisher's navy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and sunned, a trifle marked, some chipping to head and foot of spine. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to recto of FFEP, blank marriage certificate pasted to RFEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FEP: 'Ellen E. Henslowe / 29 April 1884 / from the author WHH'.
[Together with:] [HENSLOWE, William Henry]. In Memoriam. A sympathising protest in behalf of the naval knights of windsor, against the spoliation of their college institution, and perversion of the founder's will. King's Lynn. W. H. Taylor, 1890. First edition. 8vo. [2], ii, [3], 4-94pp, [12]. With a final errata leaf. Original publisher's brick-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of R. C. Ficke to FEP, several leaves protruding from text-block. Association copy, inked ownership inscription of Ellen Henslowe to verso of FFEP. OCLC records a single copy (Mariners Museum); COPAC adds no further.
[And:] [A clutch of 13 late nineteenth-century printed handbills and broadsides composed by members of the Henslowe family].
A collection of historical, religious, and poetical works, both bound and broadside, by Anglican clergyman William Henry Henslowe (d. 1890) and members of his family. A controversial figure, having been dismissed from numerous previous appointments (as acting chaplain to the Royal Artillery Regiment at Woolwich he had preached a series of sermons so vehement and critical of military discipline he was barred from the chapel), at the age of 38 Henslowe took the position of curate Wormegay Parish, Norfolk, where he would remain for life. Henslowe subsidised his meagre Church income through his prolific literary output. The ephemeral content of this collection includes several original, often nationalistic, hymns, a succinct history of Henslowe's parish, and six handbills and broadsides published under his anagrammatical pseudonym 'Owen Welsh'; these include a 4pp pamphlet titled 'A Plea for Ireland by an English Unionist' and another, dated 1888, vehemently opposing the proposal of a 'Channel Tunnel' linking England and France. Also present is a pamphlet soliciting funds for a memorial to Thomas Arne by Cecilia-Maria Henslowe (1767-1859), and a single leaf broadside devotional poem by Francis Hartwell Henslowe (1811-1878), William's brother. The apparently unrecorded second mentioned bound work, which seems to have been Henslowe's final publication, collects testimonies in support of the Naval Knights of Windsor, with whom Francis had served with distinction.
£ 375
2) A LADY. [STAVELY, Mrs]. The Housewife's guide, or a complete system of modern cookery; containing directions on how to roast and boil. Every thing necessary for the Table; to cure hams, bacon, &c... Otley. Printed by William Walker, Kirkgate, 1838.
8vo. 48pp. Woodcut tailpiece. Original wrappers. Corners and spine worn, lower outer corner of upper wrapper torn, some slight browning and spotting, lower outer corner of first gathering and upper outer corner of last gathering a trifle frayed.
A rare survival in the original wrappers of an Otley printed edition of Mrs. Staveley’s Housewife’s guide, and printed in several provincial towns and cities during the late Regency period (Blackburn 1828, Liverpool 1829, Bristol 1830, Belfast c.1830). Addressed to 'the middle class of society', it contains a wealth of instructions for choosing and curing sundry meats, and for preparing sauces, gravies and fricassees.
COPAC and OCLC together locate a single copy, at the BL.
Oxford, English Cookery Books, p.170.
£ 350
3) A TRAVELLER [HUGMAN, John]. Original poems, in the moral, heroic, pathetic, and other styles. Halesworth. Printed for the Author, by T. Tippell, 1832. Thirteenth edition.
8vo. [2], 42pp. Original publisher's green boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Extremities rubbed and marked. Later bookplate to FEP, very occasional light spotting.
An unsophisticated of the provincially published collected verse of Suffolk artist John Hugman (bap. 1770, d. 1846); including topical poems from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, such as 'Monody on the Death of the Ever to Be Lamented Lord Nelson' and 'On the Greatness and Fall of Buonaparte'.
Jackson p.569.
£ 125
4) ALEXANDROW, F. A new practical and easy method of learning russian language. London. Franz Thimm, 1867. First edition.
8vo. viii, 112pp. Contemporary red half-morocco, red cloth boards, gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, foxed.
The first edition of a Victorian primer to the Russian language, published as part of Franz Thimm's series of European Grammars after an easy and improved method.
Divided into four parts, the work introduces the reader first to the Cyrillic alphabet, the pronunciation of the letters, and a basic vocabulary, before moving on to grammatical form. The final chapter supplies a series of 37 exercises to test grammar, and 18 reading lessons.
£ 375
UNRECORDED IMPRINT
5) [ALMANAC]. Barba bianca Lunario vecchio per l'anno 1843 regolato coll'orologio oltramontano corredato Di un'elegante Novella in lezione ai Giuocatori. Bologna. Tipografia di S. Tommaso D'Aquino, [1842].
12mo. 48pp. With hand-coloured woodcut of bearded man (Barba Bianca) to frontispiece. Contemporary wrappers, a trifle rubbed, slight yellowing and mainly marginal spotting.
A rare Bolognese printed almanac for the year 1843. It begins with a short moralistic story set in the surroundings of Bologna, followed by more practical information including the arrival and departure times of mail couriers and coaches towards other parts of Italy and abroad. It concludes with a list mobile feasts, the seasons and saints' days.
OPAC locates three copies in Italy, none with this imprint. OCLC adds no further.
£ 125
DON GIOVANNI IN AN ALMANAC
6) [ALMANAC]. Il Gran convitato di pietra commedia novissima che serve d'Almanacco.. Milano. presso Pietro Agnelli, [c.1802].
64, 16pp. With a handsome woodcut frontispiece. Contemporary wrappers from printed document, edges worn, scattered ink splashes, small clean incision to lower wrapper and chip to corner of final leaf, with loss to heading on verso. Edges and corners occasionally frayed, slight browning. Ink inscription 'Questo libro apartiene alla (?)' dated 1811 to blank fly-leaf.
This apparently unrecorded almanac joins the full-text of a famous comedy, Il convitato di pietra, with a short journal for the year 1802, indicating eclipses, saints' days, mobile feasts, etc. The subject of the comedy was extremely famous: the story of Don Giovanni (or Don Juan). It was first printed in Spain in 1630, and rewritten by Molière in 1665, achieving great fame in the 18th century.
We could find no copy of this curious combination of drama and almanac in any of the usual databases.
£ 375
7) [ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY]. WHEALLER, J. E. A. A resume of the A.P.O.C. geology of persia. London. [s.n.], 1923. First edition.
12mo. 84pp. With half-title (giving more information on the contents than the title proper), folding chart and a folding geographical map of Persia. Original publisher's grey cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Slightest of rubbing/marking, else a fine copy. With a photographic portrait of the author, captioned 'Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentine', pasted to FEP.
A rare collection of papers on the geology of Iran composed by employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, summarised by Probationer-Geologist J. E. A. Whealler and published as 'a tribute to his memory' after his life was 'cut short as a result of an operation for appendicitis'. Included are studies of the stratigraphy, igneous activity, structure, sedimentary petrology and oil of the 'country explored geologically by the Anglo- Persian Oil Company' which 'may be said to stretch N.W. and S.E. of Maidan-i-Naftun'.
The Anglo Persian Oil Company, founded in 1908 after the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, was the first company to extract petroleum from modern-day Iran, and is one of the antecedent companies of the present day British Petroleum.
£ 750
WITH A 'MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY'
8) [AUCTION CATALOGUE]. Bell hotel assembly room, gloucester. Catalogue of a portion of the Superior well-made furniture, valuable oil paintings, Engravings, and miscellaneous library...of a gentleman leaving gloucester... Gloucester. W. Judd, [1879].
8vo. 13pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued. Horizontal fold through centre, lightly spotted. All lots priced in manuscript.
A priced catalogue for the sale by Bruton, Knowles, & Co. of the property of a 'Gentleman leaving Gloucester' on 9th July 1879; the greater part of which made up of a 'Miscellaneous Library, Including Nash's History of Worcestershire, and many finely-illustrated Books'. In excess of 100 books are listed, including, the works of Shakespeare, Byron, and Milton, and numerous volumes of The Monthly Review, The Sporting Magazine, and The Art Journal.
Unrecorded in the usual databases.
£ 150
A LEXIGOGRAPHER'S FIRST WORK
9) BAILEY, [Nathan]. An Universal English Etymological Dictionary: comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Antient or Modern... London. Printed for E. Bell et al., 1721. First edition.
8vo. [968]pp. Recent panelled calf, preserving (recently recornered) contemporary upper board. Upper board heavily worn. Upper hinge reinforced, recent book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, early inked and pencilled ownership inscriptions/notes to front endpapers, paper repairs to gutter of title page, foxed and browned.
The first edition of the first published work of influential lexicographer and schoolmaster Nathan Bailey (bap. 1691, d. 1742). One of the most successful reference works of the eighteenth-century, An Universal English Etymological Dictionary reached a thirtieth edition by 1802. It was followed by what claimed to be a second volume in 1727, which included an 'orthographical dictionary, shewing both the orthography and orthoepia of the English tongue' - this work introduced accentuation markings for the first time in a general English dictionary. The second edition of Bailey's next published work, Dictionarium Britannicum (1736), served Samuel Johnson as the basis for his own dictionary.
Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
ESTC T87493.
£ 500 A CRICKETER’S (ARTIFICIAL) LEG SIDE
10) BAIRD, Captain H[enry] H[ume] C[hisholm]. A government committee of enquiry and the light metal artificial leg. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1923]. First edition.
8vo. [2], 48pp, [2]. Original publisher's purple paper boards, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and a trifle sunned. Internally clean and crisp.
The sole edition of a British Army officer and cricketer Henry Hume Chisholm Baird’s (1878-1950) promotional work on the benefits of the Light Metal Limb, for amputees who lost legs during the First World War, adopted by the Ministry of Pensions as the result of a special Government Committee of Enquiry.
COPAC records a single copy, held by the Royal College of Surgeons (together with another lengthier work; presumably the 'Report of the Committee of Enquiry on Artificial Limbs' mentioned in the introductory remarks, that was available on request). OCLC adds no further copies.
£ 150
11) BARSTOW, D. A Secular Diary for ascertaining any day of the week or month, In either the Old or New Style, commencing 1601, and continued up to the year 1900.. [London?]. Printed for the author, [1836].
Dimensions (unfolded) 280 x 365mm. 1 folding folio sheet, mounted on linen and folded within 12mo cloth boards. Slight browning, some cracking at folds.
A scarce folding pocket calendar used to quickly to establish in which day of the week occurred on a specific date, between 1601 and 1900, that is, before and after the adoption of the New Style in 1752. It could be purchased as a single sheet (1s. 6d) or, as in this case, ‘mounted as a book’ (2s.).
COPAC locates eight copies in British libraries, however OCLC adds only Texas elsewhere.
£ 75
THE NAG’S HEAD UP FOR AUCTION
12) [BATTERSEA & WANDSWORTH]. Particulars and conditions of sale, of The Third Portion of very Valuable freehold property, in the Parishes of Battersea and Wandsworth, and county of Surrey. London. Printed by T. Brettell, [1836].
Quarto. 33pp., [3]. With a large, hand-coloured folding map. Original paper boards with printed title label. Worn, without paper covering to spine.
An unrecorded prospectus advertising the sale by auction (in 52 lots) of ‘very valuable freehold property’ in Battersea and Wandsworth, just South of the River Thames by Mr. Rainy, at no. 14 Regent St, on the 8th July 1836. The property included 'rich meadow, arable & garden ground', 'several excellent residencies', 'an extensive silk manufactory' and 'the Nag's Head public house'. Illustrated with a large hand-coloured map of the area.
Unrecorded by COPAC and OCLC.
£ 250
DUBLIN COFFEE HOUSE AUCTION
13) BEVERIDGE, William. Institutionum chronologicarum librii II. Una cum totidem arithmetices chronologicae libellis. Londini [i.e. London]. Typis Samuelis Roycroft, & prostant apud Gualterum Kettilby, 1705. Editio altera, priori emendatior.
Quarto. [8], 259pp, [5]. A handsome copy in contemporary panelled calf, with slight rubbing, crack to upper joint, and a little marking. Tear without loss to C4, else a crisp copy, with a manuscript inscription to recto of FFEP indicating that this was 'Bought at Dick's coffee house at the / auction of Dr. Elwood's Books. Novbr. 25. 1740 / Price - 0:2:8d'.
This well-preserved copy of the second edition of Bishop of St. Asaph William Beveridge's (bap 1637, d.1708) methodical and arithmetically accurate introduction to biblical chronology, first published in 1669, was, according to the inscription purchased from one of the many book auctions held at Dick's Coffee House, Dublin. A significant Irish institution, founded by bookseller and newspaperman Richard Pue, it hosted many sales between the 1690s and the 1760s.
We can find no record of any printed catalogue for this sale, but given that the Vice- Provost of Trinity College, Dr. John Elwood, left his alma mater a £1000 bequest in the same year, it is likely safe to assume that it was his library which came under the hammer. A near-identical inscription (recording the sale price at a mere 1s 2d), almost certainly made by the same (frustratingly unidentified) purchaser, features on a volume of Descartes De homine figuris (Leiden, 1662) sold at Christie's as lot 41 in the Courtiss Sale (9 February 2000).
ESTC T143139.
£ 750
PRINTED AT HOME IN WAKEFIELD?
14) [BIRDS]. A list of all the birds which inhabit, or visit, the British Isles. Wakefield. M. Stewart, York House, 1869. First edition.
12mo. 15pp., [1]. Original wrappers. Spine torn along fold but firm, some spotting, a few edges a bit frayed, uniform age browning. Presentation copy, inscribed 'To Lawson Tait From the Author and Printer' to title.
An unrecorded Wakefield-printed ornithological work both composed and (as revealed by the presentation inscription) printed, perhaps at home, by M. Stewart. The pocket-size guide lists 326 birds inhabiting or regularly migrating to the British Isles, with both their Latin and English designations, divided into orders, groups and families.
The recipient of this copy was presumably Lawson Tait (1845-1899), pioneering abdominal surgeon and resident at the Clayton Hospital between 1866 and 1870.
Unrecorded by OCLC and COPAC.
£ 375
WITH AN ALPHABET OF SIGN LANGUAGE
15) [BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE]. The British Deaf & Dumb Alphabet and Shadowgraph. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.]
Quarto. [4]pp. Single folded sheet. Central horizontal and vertical folds, some creasing, slight marginal chipping, lightly dust-soiled.
An apparently unrecorded primer, originally priced at twopence., designed to 'teach your children to speak on their fingers'. Two pages are dedicated to pictorial demonstrations of 56 'shadowgraphs' (the positioning of the hands to cast a shadow upon a wall), with the final page providing the British Sign Language fingerspelling alphabet along with the respective symbols for 'good' and 'bad'.
£ 200
16) CHAMBAUD, [Louis]. Chambaud's dictionary, french and english and english and french... London. Printed by A. Strahan; T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, and P. Elmsley, 1797. New edition, corrected and improved.
Oblong 12mo. [4], 320pp, 348pp. In two parts. With an additional title page in French. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked. Without free-endpapers, inked ownership inscriptions and pen-trials to FEP, small hole to final leaf ('Table of Monies') - with slight loss of sense, naive painting to REP and final page of text.
A fresh copy, in a contemporary unsophisticated binding that in this cataloguer’s experience rarely survived regular use, of the revised and expanded edition of Louis Chambaud's (d. 1776) popular French and English dictionary, abridged by tutor and educational author Jean Perrin (f. 1767-1798).
ESTC records copies of this edition at just two locations in the British Isles (NLW and Oxford); and two further in North America (Harvard and Nova Scotia Public Archives).
ESTC T163526.
£ 150
LIVING IN A FLORENTINE HOLE IN THE WALL
17) [CHAPBOOK]. Breve compendio della vita di Valentino Meucci detto Mascherino. [s.i., Florence?]. [s.n., c.1800?].
8pp. Stitched as issued, slightly toned, a trifle spotted.
An apparently unrecorded early 19th-century chapbook examination of the life of Valentino Meucci, nicknamed Mascherino. This popular figure was a 18th-century hermit, inspired by the medieval penitent tradition, who lived for over fifty years in a hole in the city walls of Florence, near the Church of San Pietro in Gattolino. Near the wall he also built his vegetable allotment. He undertook pilgrimages to important religious places in Italy, and lived off alms. He died, by his wall-residence, in 1795.
Unrecorded in the usual databases.
£ 150
USING FRENCH CHIMNEYS EFFICIENTLY
18) COINTERAUX, François. Avis au peuple sur l'économie de son bois, par Cointeraux. Paris. chez le sieur Cointeraux, 1806. First edition.
8vo. 40pp. With two folding engraved plates. Contemporary wrappers. A trifle spotted, all edges uncut. A very good copy.
A rare study of the most efficient use of chimneys in private homes, written by one of France's major architects, François Cointeraux (1740-1830). This is one of several pamphlets he wrote concerning architectural issues in everyday life. It provides, upon request of the Municipality of Paris, a method to reduce the use of firewood in private homes, whilst maintaining the same amount of heat, and reducing smoke and smell. It also includes a chapter on the frequent faults of house-building that resulted in heat-loss.
OCLC locates a single copy (BNF).
£ 200
SPEEDY JUSTICE IN WESTPHALIA
19) [COXE, William]. A letter on the secret tribunals of Westphalia, addressed to Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke.. Salisbury. Printed and Sold by J. Easton, 1796. First edition.
8vo. [2], 33pp, [1]. With half-title. The variant without parentheses in the imprint. Uncut, stitched as issued, in original publisher's blue paper wrappers. Extremities slightly creased and marked, very occasional spotting, single inked correction to text.
An interesting provincially printed account of an obscure German judicial institution, by the historian William Coxe (1748-1828), tutor of the scions of several English noble families, among them Lord Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke, hence the dedication of this work to the Countess of Pembroke. The secret tribunals of Westphalia, already mentioned in writing by Pope Julius II in the 16th century, were courts in which, 'instead of trial by acclamation, a secret form was given to the Judges, of a mixed nature, both accusatorial and inquisitorial...for the purpose of administering speedy justice'.
ESTC T133959.
£ 250
RHYMES AGAINST RESOLUTION
20) [DIALOGUS]. Dialogus Ofte t'Samenspreeckinge tusschen Jan Andersorgh ende Govert Eygen-sin, over den huydendaeghschen handel van Treves met den Koningh van Spangien te maecken, ofte tegen hem in den Oorlogh te blijven. Gedrruckt in’t laer]. [s.n.], 1630. First edition.
Quarto. [32]pp. Recent cloth-backed drab paper boards, printed paper lettering- pieces to upper board and spine. Extremities rubbed. Leaves lightly browned.
A scarce West Frisian rhymed dialogue against the truce negotiations between the United Provinces and Spain during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648). The years prior to the publication of the present work had seen the United Provinces gain significant ground. In 1624, the Dutch West India Company, having been formed to promote trade and war in Latin America, occupied Bahia, capital of Brazil. In 1630 they occupied the province of Pernambuco, centre of the colony's sugar production. These notable conquests helped to turn the tide of the conflict, though, despite the weakening of Spain, negotiations would continue to proceeded slowly. Peace was not declared until 1648.
Outside of the Netherlands OCLC records a single copy in Europe (BSB), one in North America (Michigan), and none in the British Isles. COPAC adds no further.
£ 250
EARLY ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY
21) [DICTIONARY]. Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, a dictionary, interpreting Such Hard Words of whatever Language, as are at present used in the English Tongue, with their Etymologies, Definitions, &c... London. Printed for Dan. Brown et al., 1707. First edition.
8vo. [584]pp. Numerous woodcut illustrations in the text depicting armorial devices. Recent calf-backed tan cloth boards, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Book-label of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank fly-leaves, slight loss to margin of leaf L2, occasional light spotting.
The first edition of an anonymous, yet significant early English dictionary, placing emphasis on scientific terminology, and the first to make any considerable use of woodcuts, a contrivance not used again until the publication of the second volume of Bailey's An Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1727). A second edition appeared in 1719.
Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
ESTC T96984.
£ 450
STEAM PROPULSION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
22) DOUGLAS, Sir Howard. On naval warfare with steam. London. John Murray, 1858. First edition.
8vo. 155, 32pp. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's blind-stamped navy cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, lightly spotted.
The first edition of an important study of the application of steam propulsion and tactics for the Royal Navy, by British Army officer and colonial official Sir Howard Douglas (1776-1861). In his introductory remarks, Douglas makes clear his motives: 'The employment of steam as a motive power in the warlike navies of all maritime nations, is a vast and sudden change in the means of engaging in action on the seas, which must produce an entire revolution in naval warfare, and must render necessary the immediate adoption of new measures in tactics, and new material resources; these should be forthwith studied and provided, with all the mental and physical energies which the talent and wealth of this country can exert'. Written in retirement, when Douglas became an unofficial advisor to prime minister Lord Palmerston, this work analyses the use of steam to propel ships, considering engineering and design constraints on speed and manoeuvrability; and goes on to examine tactics, fuel economy, and fleet arrangement.
£ 250
TREATING EARS IN BRISTOL
23) DOWNING, Michael. The nature and modern treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear, illustrated by numerous cases. Bristol. S. Reader, 1852. Fifth edition.
16mo. viii, [1], 10-104pp. With an engraved folding plate of medical apparatus. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board. Extremities rubbed and sunned, slight splitting to head of upper joint. Lightly spotted, lower hinge exposed.
A revised edition of surgeon Michael Downing's authoritative treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of deafness and diseases of the ear, first published circa 1844.
All editions are rare; the first, second, and third editions are apparently unrecorded. This fifth edition is no exception, with OCLC recording a single copy, at the BL only. A ninth edition is also recorded (1863), though copies of the sixth, seventh, and eighth are not.
£ 150
24) [ENGRAVINGS] GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang. Umrisse zu Goethe's Faust, gezeichnet von Retsch. Stuttgart Und Tubingen. in der J.G. Gotta'schen Buchandlung, 1820.
Oblong quarto. 2 volumes. 12pp; 26 engraved plates. Text volume with paper lining to spine, very minor spotting to title and last leaf, erased inscription to title. Plates, stitched as issued, minimal spotting to first plate. Both housed within publisher's original folder, erased inked inscription to upper wrapper.
This collection of excerpts (or outlines) from Goethe's Faust was handsomely illustrated by Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857), a German painter and draughtsman. They were much praised: 'Retzsch has succeeded beyond anything that could be anticipated, in embodying those ideas and images of the poet which were most spiritual' (Monthly Review, 1825, p.522).
£ 200 25) [ENGRAVINGS] SCHILLER, Friedrich. Acht Umrisse zu Schiller's Fridolin oder der Gang dem Eisenhammer von Moris Resch. [with] Acht Umrisse zu Schiller's Fridolin / Eight Outlines to Schiller's Fridolin [a booklet with engraved scenes from the play]. In der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1823 [and] London [and] Stuttgart Und Tubingen. J.H. Bohte 1824.
Oblong quarto. Three volumes, within publisher's folder with paper title label. 10; [4], 11pp, [1]; 8 full-page engravings. Two text volumes sewn with small cloth strip glued to spine, the plates stitched, as issued. Occasional spotting.
The beautifully illustrated first illustrated edition of Schiller's 'Fridolin, or the Road to the Iron Forge' - a ballad which the German poet Schiller (1759-1805) composed for a poetry competition against Goethe in 1797, with the text volume of the parallel German-English edition, published in London by Bohte, ‘foreign bookseller to his majesty’. The engravings by Moritz Retzsch (1779-1857) German painter and draughtsman, were much praised: accompanied by the illustrations, the ballad 'assume[s] a new and more exalted character', provided by Retzsch's ability to give them 'an airy dimness that softens what is beautiful, and deepens all that is terrific' (Monthly Review, 1825, p.522).
OCLC locates a single copy in the British Isles (BL) and three in North America.
£ 375 ENIGMATIC EAST ANGLIAN WORD PUZZLES
26) [ENIGMATICAL REPOSITORY]. The enigmatical repository, or museum of entertainment, containing enigmas, charades, rebuses, queries, anagrams, transpositions, logogriphs, acrostics, &c. Norwich. Printed and sold by J. Dawson, [1827]. First edition.
8vo. 12 monthly parts in one volume, all published. 288pp. Recent navy cloth-backed pale blue paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Very minor wear to extremities. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to FEP, lightly spotted.
A complete 12 part run of the first (and apparently only) volume of a Norwich printed collection of entertaining and instructive word puzzles published with the aim of 'providing an original and select Fund of Amusement, for the juvenile branches of Society'.
COPAC records a single copy (BL); OCLC adds one further (Norwich County Council).
£ 250
LAMPOONING A PARASITICAL GOURMAND
27) FERAMUSIUS, Carolus. Epulum parasiticum, Quod eruditi conditores, instructoresque... Norimbergae [i.e. Nuremberg]. [s.n.], 1665.
[56], 315pp, [1]. With an additional engraved title page and five engraved plates.
[Bound with:] PINCIER, Johann. Johan pincieri m. d. Aenigmatum libri tres, cum Solutionibus... Hagae-Comitum [i.e. The Hague]. Ex Typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655. [20], 345pp, [19].
12mo. Bound by Ihrig (signed to the foot of spine, in gilt) in later blind-ruled red morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, upper hinge exposed, lightly toned, occasional spotting.
A beautifully bound collection of seventeenth-century gastronomic satires, in prose and verse, predominantly lampooning Pierre de Montmaur (1576-1648), professor of Greek at the Sorbonne and a notorious gourmand, who described himself as 'The largest parasite that the world has ever seen!' Contributors include, Carolus Feramusius (d.1653), Gilles Menage (1613-1692), Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654), and Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597-1654).
£ 500
UNRECORDED YORKSHIRE RULES
28) [FORESTERS]. Rules to be observed by members of the order of ancient foresters, in the Hull and Lindsey District. Epworth. Printed by Bro. John Pearson, Market-Place, 1838.
8vo. 11pp., [1] + one single leaf stapled to lower wrapper. Contemporary wrappers, slight yellowing and spotting. Title inked to upper wrapper.
This unrecorded pamphlet gathers the regulations of the Ancient Order of Foresters in the Hull and Lindsey district, in Yorkshire, with an additional leaf listing the revisions of 1842. Established in 1834, the Order, a friendly society, soon became greatly concerned with the relief of member-families whose breadwinner died or was incapacitated by illness.
Neither COPAC nor OCLC locate any copies of this work.
£ 150
29) [FORESTERS]. Laws for the general government of the ancient order of foresters. Wakefield. printed by Bro. Thomas Nichols, Northgate, 1838.
8vo. [xi], [1], 36pp. Original wrappers, stitched as issued. Light water stain to upper margin, a little spotting. A couple of contemporary marginal annotations.
A very scarce pamphlet with the regulations of the Ancient Order of Foresters in the area of Wakefield, Yorkshire. Established in 1834, the Order soon became greatly concerned with the relief of member-families whose breadwinner died or was incapacitated by illness. The regulations concern membership, the functioning of the courts which granted benefices, and travelling.
COPAC locates a single copy at Leeds; OCLC adds no further.
£ 150
30) [GAY, John]. Acis and galatea, a serenata...set to music by mr. handel. London. Printed for J. Bell, 1787.
8vo. 19pp, [1]. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's drab paper wrappers, later paper label with title in manuscript to upper wrapper. Extremities creased, chipped, and a trifle marked. Title page browned, occasional dust-soiling and dog-earing.
A late eighteenth-century edition of poet and playwright John Gay's (1685-1732) libretto for composer George Friderich Handel's (1685-1759) first dramatic work in English, a pastoral masque based on a tale extracted from Ovid's Metamorphosis. Written 1718, Acis and Galatea was first published (partially) in 1722, first publicly performed in 1731, and thereafter regularly revised and adapted (including an arrangement by Mozart).
ESTC T13766.
£ 125
31) GRAEME, William. Historia morbi Quo nuper mortuus est Thomas Hurdman, Londinensis. Londini [i.e. London]. Apud T. Warner, ad insigne Aethiopis, in Pater-Noster Row, 1730. First edition.
Quarto. [4], 28pp. With the half-title, woodcut initial and ornaments. Uncut, stitched as issued. Half-title spotted, edges dusty and uncut, slight age browning.
A scarce study, in unsophisticated condition, of the sickness of the 32-year-old Thomas Hurdman, with mention of his daily condition, including pulse, temperature and urine colour. Of the several treatments attempted, a substantial discussion is devoted to phlebotomy, which could not nevertheless prevent Hurdman's tragic demise.
Outside of the British Isles, ESTC locates just two copies in Europe (The Dutch State Library and Warsaw) and two further in North America (Folger and NLM).
ESTC T140293.
£ 350
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
32) GROSSETESTE, Robert. The Castle of Love: A Poem...Now first printed from Inedited Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century. Brixton Hill. [Printed by C. & J. Adlard] For private circulation only, 1849.
Quarto. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the publisher (ten of which printed on thick paper); this copy is number 66, on thin paper. vii, [1], 80pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, short tear to margin of p.51-52, else internally clean and crisp.
A limited edition, printed for private circulation, of an early English translation of the Anglo-Norman original manuscript of theologian and Bishop of Lincoln Robert Grosseteste's (c.1170-1253) 'Chasteau d'amour'; edited by antiquary and literary scholar James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889). The Castle of Love is an allegorical poem on Genesis and redemption designed to provide a lay audience with an outline of Christian theology.
Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
£ 250
WHITECHAPEL MURDER
33) [HARRIET LANE]. The murder of Harriet Lane. London. H. P. Such, [s.d., c. 1875].
Dimensions 190 x 250 mm. Single leaf broadside. Creased, some chipping to margins, a few small burn-holes - not touching text.
A gruesome (and apparently unrecorded) seven stanza broadside verse on the murder in 1875 on Whitechapel Road, London, of 20-year-old milliner's apprentice Harriet Lane by local brushmaker Henry Wainwright. The pair had met in 1871. Wainwright, utterly infatuated, had installed Lane as his mistress in a property in Mile End. The strain of continuing the affair, imminent bankruptcy, and Lane's propensity for drink led Wainwright to murder. On 11 September 1874 he killed Lane at his warehouse, burying her body in a shallow grave beneath the floorboards. Twelve months passed, and Wainwright, needing to sell his property, exhumed the decomposing body and dismembered it, wrapping the remains in two parcels. Enlisting the help of an unwitting employee, Alfred Stokes, he arranged a cab to take them across town to dispose of the evidence. Stokes, in Wainwrights brief absence, stole a look at the contents, duly horrified when Wainwright later departed, he fetched the police. Wainwright was apprehended, found guilty, and hanged at Newgate of 21st December 1875. The murder caused a sensation across London and was given more publicity at the time than the later crimes of Jack the Ripper; the sheer brutality of act led to members of the military dubbing their corned beef rations 'Harriet Lane'.
£ 450 MIDLANDS MURDER BALLAD
34) [HARRIET LANE]. Whitechapel murder. A Lament for Harriet Lane. Leicester. [s.n.], 1875.
Dimensions 150 x 245 mm. Single leaf broadside, printed on stiff card. Two small holes to head, crease to lower corner, lightly spotted.
An apparently unrecorded, mournful verse, tribute to Whitechapel murder victim Harriet Lane. The horrifying circumstances of her death caused a sensation in London, which soon spread across the country, leading to the composition of numerous murder ballads, such as this unrelentingly dour provincially published example in which 'a nation weeps for poor lost Harriet Lane'.
£ 250
35) [HARTUNG, Tuisca]. Potpourri d'enfantines par une amie des enfants. Dresde [i.e. Dresden]. C. C. Meinhold & Fil, [s.d., c. 1855].
8vo. [19] leaves. With 11 coloured lithograph illustrations in the text. Recent green cloth, original publisher's pictorial cover pasted to upper board. Extremities very lightly marked. Slight chipping to margins of final leaf, foxed.
A charming series of French verses for children, printed in Germany, one of only two documented published works attributed to Tuisca Hartung; the other being Le marchand d'images, also printed by Meinhold at Dresden in the late nineteenth-century. Three editions of the present work are recorded, all undated.
£ 250
36) IRELAND, W[illiam] H[enry]. An authentic account of the shaksperian manuscripts, &c.. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. First edition.
[2], 43pp, [1]. Leaf C7 missigned C14, a cancel, as issued. ESTC T5915.
[Bound with:] IRELAND, [Samuel]. Mr. ireland's Vindication of his Conduct respecting the publication of the Supposed Shakspeare MSS. Being a preface or introduction to a reply to the critical labors of Mr. Malone, in his "enquiry into the authenticity of certain papers, &c. &c." London. Published by Mr. Faulder and Mr. Robson, 1796. First edition. iv, 48pp. ESTC T5914.
[And:] VOLNEY, [Constantin-Francois]. Catechism of French Citizens. The law of nature; or, catechism of reason. London. Printed for W. Tooke, [1796]. [2], 31 [i.e. 33]pp, [1]. ESTC N507143.
[And:] FOX, Charles James. Westminster election. Speeches (Out of Parliament) Addressed to the Electors of the City of Westminster... [London]. Printed for J. Smith, [1796]. First edition. [4], 64pp. ESTC N25784.
[And:] [HARRISON, John]. [A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas...] [London]. [Printed for the author, and sold by J. Smith], [1794]. First edition. 45pp, [1]. Without title-page. ESTC T38374.
[And:] MILES, William [Augustus]. A letter to henry duncombe, Esq... London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1796. Third edition. xii, 100pp, [4]. With two terminal publisher's advertisement leaves. ESTC T109963.
[And:] [COOPER, Thomas]. [A reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons, on the 30th of April, 1792]. [Manchester], [Printed by M. Falkner and Co.], [1792]. [1], 4-109pp, [3]. Without title-page. With terminal errata leaf. ESTC T44627. 8vo. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and discoloured, some surface loss to upper board. Occasional spotting, toning, and marginal annotations.
A sammelband of late eighteenth-century pamphlets, predominantly political, but notably including two publications concerning the notorious forger of Shakespearean documents, William Henry Ireland (1775-1835).
In 1794 Ireland began devising forgeries of legal and personal documents belonging to the Bard. The acceptance of the papers as authentic by his father, respected London engraver, Samuel Ireland (d. 1800) and by estemmed literary figures such as James Boswell, emboldened his manufacture of two new plays, Vortigern and Rowena and Henry II. The latter was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre on 2nd April, 1796, where it met with a poor reception; by that time, however, there was mounting evidence that the papers were fake, thanks primarily to the efforts of Irish Shakespearean scholar Edmund Malone (1741- 1812). Ireland publicly admitted to his deceptions before the year was out. He spent the remainder of his days living in ignonimy and penury, writing poetry and fiction, and, in 1805 publishing his confession. His father attempted to defend his own reputation (as many had believed him to be the chief perpetrator of the fraud following his publication of facsimile texts of the documents) through the publication of Mr. Ireland's Vindication of his Conduct, here present. He died shortly thereafter, still proclaiming his ignorance of the deceit.
£ 950
37) [JURIEN DE LA GRAVIERE, Jean Pierre Edmond]. Sketches of the last naval war. London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. First edition in English.
8vo. In two volumes. xxxvii, [3], 240, 32; [4], 300pp. With nine engraved folding charts/maps predominantly depicting the battles of St. Vincent and Trafalgar. Original publisher's blind-stamped burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked, spines sunned. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, occasional spotting.
The first edition in English of Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Graviere's (1812-1892) Guerres maritimes sous la république et l'empire (originally published in the Revue des Deux Mondes), a surprisingly impartial account of the operations of the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, that is in essence a life of Nelson. The author gives account of the Admiral’s youth, his service in the Mediterranean, and his achievements in the War of the First Coalition, concluding, naturally with his death at Trafalgar.
£ 325
GILT BROCADE ENDPAPERS
38) JUSTINUS, Marcus Julianus. Justini historiae philippicae. Cum Versione Anglica. Ad Verbum, quantum sieri potuit, facta. Or, the history of Justin... London. Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1735. Second edition.
8vo. xvi, 312pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Gilt brocade ('Dutch') endpapers, remnants of bookplate to FEP, near contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Scott to recto of front blank fly-leaf, light damp-staining to fore-edge.
An English translation by schollmaster John Clarke (1687-1734), first printed in 1732, of the only surviving work of Roman historian Marcus Julianus Justinus (fl. 3rd Century AD), an epitome of an earlier and larger work (in 44 books) by Pompeius Trogus, written during the reign of Augustus but no longer extant. Popular during the humanist revival of the late middle ages, Justinus excerpts those parts of the works of Trogus detailing the successes of Alexander the Great. Commencing at the foundation of the Macedonian Empire by his father Philip of Macedon, it concludes in 20 BC with the peace treaty between Rome and Parthia signed during the reign of Augustus.
ESTC N2661.
£ 275
PRESENTATION COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS
39) K. L. H. [HOARE, Katherine Louisa Hart] Verses. Bedford. The Beds. Times Publishing Co., Ltd., 1914. First edition.
8vo. 76pp, [4]. Uncut in original publisher's drab wrappers, lettered in black. Very lightly marked, spine sunned. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to verso to upper wrapper, foxed. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'C. M. H. from K. L. H., Christmas 1914'. With five loosely inserted contemporary leaves of manuscript verse initialed by the author, a later (1921) printed single leaf poem, and a further three manuscript leaves, also initialed, tipped-in to gutters of final three leaves.
An apparently unrecorded collection of poetry by Katherine Louisa Hart Hoare (1846-1931), wife of Conservative Politician Sir Samuel Hoare (1841-1915). The book would appear to be her only published work. The verses, composed between 1911 and 1914, are predominantly sentimental or devotional. The additional manuscript poems included within this copy are comparable, with the exception of a mournful and moving verse written shortly after the second anniversary of the death of her husband. The presentation inscription is likely to her daughter, Christabel Mary Hoare.
£ 250 PROVINCIAL CELEBRATION OF WHITBY SCHOOLMASTER
40) [KEARD, Thomas]. [Drop-head title:] Thomas Keard, A.M. [Whitby]. [R. Kirby, s.d., c.1839].
15pp., [1]. With frontispiece showing engraved portrait of Thomas Keard. Original printed wrappers, stitched as issued within. A trifle spotted at margins, slight browning.
A brief Whitby-printed commemoration of local personality, the 'literatus' Thomas Kearne (1756-1828). It provides an anecdotal account of his life, from his studies at Eton to his career as a teacher of classics at Mr Routh's academy in Whitby. Versed in Latin, Greek and Music, he was fondly remembered by his pupils and friends alike.
OCLC locates a single copy worldwide, at York Minster.
£ 150
41) KENNEDY, Rev. R[ann]. A tribute in verse, to the character of the late right honourable george canning, first lord commissioner of his majesty's treasury. With prefatory observations, as also with notes relating to the same subject, and to present political circumstances. London. Sold by Longman and Co. et al., 1827. First edition.
8vo. [4], 21, [3], 44pp, [2]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary (original?) navy moire sillk, lettered in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, some marking, chipping to head and foot of spine. From the Fasque Library of the Gladstone family, with the book-label to FEP, occasional spotting.
The scarce first edition of a laudatory verse tribute, with explanatory notes, to Prime Minister George Canning (1770-1827) by schoolmaster and poet Rann Kennedy (1772-1851). Kennedy's poetry was highly regarded in his day, and he enjoyed the friendship of a great many people in intellectual circles, chief among them being S. T. Coleridge, Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Charles Kemble, and Sarah Siddons. The provenance of this present copy makes for an interesting association; Sir John Gladstone of Fasque (1764-1851), father of Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809- 1898), successfully supported Canning as the Tory candidate for Liverpool in the 1812 general election. William, for his part, idolised Canning and was greatly influenced by his politics. He remained a hero to the younger Gladstone, who said of him in 1886 that he had: 'emancipated this country from its servitude to the Holy Alliance; and for so doing he was more detested by the upper classes of this country than any man has been during the present century'.
COPAC records copies at four locations (Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, and NLS); OCLC adds three further (Newberry, Stanford, and Texas).
Jackson p. 534.
£ 175 INSCRIBED BY THE DEDICATEE
42) LEIGHTON, John. A Sonnet seguence of the great adventure of John Leighton for over 16 years Hon Sec & Late Master of the Art Workers Guild London. [Florence]. [Gualandi's Deaf and dumb Institute Typographic School], [1920s]. First edition.
Quarto. 40pp. Original wrappers. Slight browning, edges uncut. Embossed stamp '1. Costa Scarpuccia Florence' to second leaf. Presentation copy, inscribed by the dedicatee 'To my ever dear Arthur from Sister Margaret', followed by a short note and five lines of verse.
An unrecorded commemorative poetic anthology produced by John Leighton, Master and Honorary Secretary of the Arts Workers' Guild in London in the 1910s and 1920s. Inspired by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Guild was established in 1884, advocating no distinction between the arts. The dedicatee, who presented this copy to an acquaintance, was Sister Margaret, a nurse first at Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, and later probably at the Deaf and Dumb Institute in Florence, at the typography of which this pamphlet was printed.
Neither COPAC nor OCLC locate any copies of this work.
£ 250
PRESENTATION COPY
43) MACKINNON, [Lauchlan Bellingham]. Atlantic and transatlantic sketches, afloat and ashore. London. Colburn and Co., 1852. First edition.
8vo. In two volumes. x, x*-xi*, [1], xii-xv, [1], 288, 7, [1], 16; ix, [1], 292, 16pp. With publisher's advertisement catalogues to the rear of each volume. Contemporary navy cloth, lettered in gilt. The binding shows the publisher as Hurst & Blackett, whilst the text is the first edition printed by Colburn. Extremities rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP of Vol. I, occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inscribed to FEP of Vol. I: 'Baillie Robertson / from his friend / The Author.'
The first edition of Royal Navy officer Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon's (1815-1877) observations made during his extensive travels along the east and west coasts of America, including upstate New York, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, the Caribbean, and the archipelagos of the South Atlantic. Mackinnon remarks on numerous experiences, including a devastating hurricane in Antigua, a visit to a Mormon community, and an excursion to the Falkland Islands (recently acquired by Britain). Sections of the work, including 'Wild sports of the Falklands', were republished in various journals.
£ 500
44) [NORFOLK REMEMBRANCER]. The norfolk & norwich Remembrancer, and vade mecum... Norwich. Printed and sold by Stevenson and Matchett, [1801]. First edition.
12mo. viii, 80pp, [2]. With an engraved folding map, a folding table showing parish populations of Norwich, and final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Oversewn in original publishers marbled wrappers, printed paper lettering- piece to upper wrapper. Extremities rubbed, faded, and a trifle creased. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to verso of upper wrapper, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Edward D. Payne to lettering-piece and head of title page, some chipping and loss to upper corner of map, lightly spotted.
A rare survival, in original state, of the first edition of a late Georgian guide to Norfolk and Norwich, containing a brief description of the area, a chronology of significant events of the eighteenth-century, registers of High Sheriffs, Bishops, Deans, and Mayors, notes on population statistics, and a list of the noblemen of the county and their respective seats. A second edition appeared in 1822.
COPAC records copies at a single location (BL); OCLC adds one further (Yale).
£ 250
45) NURSEY, Perry. Evening, with other poems. Norwich. Printed by John Stacy, 1829. First edition.
8vo. xviii, 175pp, [1]. With a tipped-in corrigenda slip and a list of subscribers. Later green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Very minor wear to extremities. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, lightly foxed. A pencilled note to the FEP claims this copy to by 'From Ketton-Cremer's Library'.
The sole edition of the only published work of Anglican clergyman Perry Nursey (1799- 1867), son of influential landscape painter Perry Nursey [Snr.] (bap. 1771, d. 1840). The poems include 'The Prisoner's Lament', 'Lapland', and 'Reflections on Africa'.
Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969), literary biographer and writer on Norfolk history.
Not in Jackson.
£ 150
REJECTING ENGLISH GOVERNMENT
46) PAINE, Thomas. Letter addressed to the addressers, on the late proclamation.. London. Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1792. First edition.
8vo. 78pp., [2]. Disbound, traces of sewing. First and last two leaves somewhat spotted, slight yellowing. A couple of maniculae inked to margins.
The first edition of an influential (and oft reprinted!) work on taxation, human rights and revolution, by the radical and political theorist Thomas Paine (1737-1809). A native of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the American colonies where he composed several significant works defending the values of the French Revolutionaries. This Letter was published in answer to accusations against the second parts of his fiery Rights of Man, in which he suggested, among other reforms, progressive tax measures to reduce poverty in Britain. Paine's anti-British stance and ideas can be summarised by the following, from the 'Letter': 'Two Revolutions have taken place, those of America and France; and both of them have rejected the unnatural compounded system of the English government'.
ESTC T5837.
£ 200
MARGINALIA FROM PETRARCH
47) PERION, Joachim. Ioachimi Perioni Cormoeriaceni In omnes T. Livii conciones, ut breviusculae, ita cum primis eruditae annotationes. Basileae [i.e. Basle]. [ex officina Roberti Winteri], 1545.
8vo. [32], 590pp, [18]. Nineteenth-century calf-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed, small scattered worm holes to upper joint. Slight browning, title and a handful of other leaves lightly spotted, small paper flaw to lower blank margin of X1, small tear at gutter of title. Early shelf-mark in manuscript to front pastedown, occasional sixteenth-century marginal inscriptions or underlining.
The second edition of Joachim Perion's (1499-1559) text and commentary on the 'conciones' (speeches) delivered by ancient figures in Livy's Historiae Romanae. Perion was a French Benedictine theologian with a gift for Latin prose. This work, likely conceived as a reference book for the study of Roman history and the Latin language, is prefaced by diagrammatic summaries of types of orations and their elements. Manuscript evidence suggests that the annotator of this copy knew his Petrarch well: glossing a Latin passage on Hannibal ('quod risisset in communi fletu') with the Italian poet's loose translation 'Rise fra gente lacrimosa e mesta'.
Adams P703; VD 16 L2139.
£ 375
ADAPTED FROM RACINE
48) PHILIPS, [Ambrose]. The Distrest Mother. A tragedy... London. Printed for S. Buckley...and J. Tonson, 1712. First edition.
Quarto. [10], 57pp, [3]. Without half-title. Later half-vellum, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Leaves browned.
The first edition of a tragedy of the Trojan War adapted by poet and playwright Ambrose Philips (bap. 1674, d. 1749) from Racine's Andromaque (1667), which, according to Johnson in his Lives of the English Poets, is more an almost direct translation of the source material.
ESTC T34725.
£ 250
EARLY ENGLISH OWNERSHIP
49) PROCLUS. Procli De sphaera liber. Cleomedis de mvndo...Arati Solensis Phaenomena...Dionysii Afri Descriptio orbis habitabilis. Basileae [i.e. Basle]. [Per Henricum Petri], 1547. First edition.
8vo. [16], 606pp. Without final leaf (colophon). Modern vellum over boards, gilt. A couple of small tears at gutter of title, occasional mainly marginal spotting, edges dusty and a trifle softened, small clean tear to outer lower corner of leaf T1, contemporary inscription 'Isaac Bedford possessor estis mi Bos(?)' to title page.
The first edition of a collection of works on ancient cosmography, probably intended as a portable student textbook, with early English ownership. They were translated from the Greek (here provided) by great scholars like the English physician and humanist Thomas Linacre and the Italian Lorenzo Valla. De Sphaera by the so-called Pseudo-Proclus was a fundamental and much studied astronomy work in 16th-century universities. Cleomedes's 'De mundo' discusses the nature of the earth, including its circumference, using theories by Posidonius which only survived in fragments. The last two works are in verse: Aratus's 'Phoenomena' describes constellations and planetary movements, with poetic licence, whilst Dionysius Periegetes's 'De orbis' is a description of the world known to the Greeks of the first century AD.
Adams P2132.
£ 500
RHYMES OF A SYRIAN SLAVE
50) PUBLILUS SYRUS. Publii syri mimi aucti et ex codice ms. frisingensi; cum notis viri docti, et variis lectionibus. Patavii [i.e. Padua]. Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1749.
8vo. 80pp. Later vellum, lettered in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed and discoloured. Occasional light spotting.
A mid eighteenth-century Italian printing of versified aphorisms extracted from the mimes of Latin writer Publilius Syrus (fl. 1st Century BCE). A slave of Syrian origin, Syrus was granted manumission on the strength of his wit and literary talent, becoming a member of the gens Publilia.
£ 100
ONE OF FIFTY COPIES
51) REYNOLDS, John. [Drop-head title:] A display of herauldry Of the particular Coat Armours now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, and several others Elsewhere... Chester. Printed by Roger Adams, for the Author, 1739, [i.e. c. 1860] Facsimile edition.
Quarto. 13pp, [1]. With 11 leaves of plates (numbered 14-21), each showing six engraved shields. Original publisher's black roan-backed red paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, and a trifle sunned. Later bookplate of Reginald Bladen to FEP, very occasional light spotting.
A remarkably well-executed Victorian facsimile, one of 50 copies printed on old paper by nineteenth-century English publisher John Camden Hotten (1832-1873), of a rare work documenting the armorial bearings of the nobility of North Wales.
£ 150
PROVINCIAL RESPONSE TO THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
52) [ROYAL ADELPHI THEATRE]. Royal Adelphi Theatre. On wednesday, May 9th, 1832. The Performance will commence with the Laughable Petit Comedy entitled Physic, versus Brandy; or, a cure for the cholera morbus...To conclude with the grand Melo-Dramatic Spectacle of don juan, or, the libertine, destroyed... Hull. Wilkinson, [1832].
Dimensions 170 x 360 mm. Single leaf broadside. A trifle creased, manuscript number '260' to head.
A playbill advertising the performance at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, Hull of a 'petit comedy' - apparently now lost to time - Physic, versus Brandy; or, a cure for the cholera morbus; presumably written in response to the 1832 cholera epidemic which claimed the lives of over 55,000 people in England.
£ 200
BIOGRAPHY OF AN ECCENTRIC TEACHER
53) SAINT, W[illiam]. Memoirs of the life, character, opinions, and writings, of that learned and eccentric man, the late John Fransham, of Norwich. Norwich. Printed by C. Berry, Jun., [1811]. First edition.
8vo. viii, 158pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed and marked, some chipping to lettering-piece. Recent bookplate of R. C. Fiske to FEP, internally clean and crisp.
The sole edition of a biography of East Anglian scholar, freethinker, and eccentric John Fransham (bap. 1730, d. 1810). Except for one brief period, Fransham lived continuously in or near Norwich, and spent much of his life in a state of extreme penury. He began acting as a preliminary tutor for the universities about 1750. Though he possessed little formal education he had an enquiring mind and devoted much of his time to intellectual pursuits. In philosophy he idolized David Hume, but developed strong Platonic leanings. He was critical of religion, instead taking a psychological interest in the earliest myths and legends which led to champion a polytheistic world- view. He published little, his Essay on the Oestrum, or, Enthusiasm of Orpheus (Norwich, 1760) being the only work of note in which his philosophy is conveyed. He would have little influence of his contemporaries despite his originality as a scholar. His reputation as an eccentric appears to have been the product of his obsessional neurosis. The author, William Saint, a former pupil of Fransham's, taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy between 1807 and 1810. His biography of Fransham is gentle and affectionate, though overly anecdotal; it is however, but for a number of obituary notices and an article in the Monthly Magazine, the only source for Fransham's life.
£ 200
54) SEWARD, Anna. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from horace. London. Printed for G. Sael, 1799. First edition.
Quarto. [2], vi, [4], 179pp, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, lightly marked, a trifle sunned. Recent bookplate of Eric Gerald Stanley to FEP, half-title heavily spotted, else internally clean and crisp.
The first edition of a well-received collection of 100 sonnets, with additional paraphrases and imitations of Horace, by Anna Seward (1742- 1809). The poems date from the 1770s to 1799, some of which had previously been published in periodicals. In her prefatory remarks Seward defends the sonnet form against the contempt of Johnson and other critics as a 'highly valuable species of verse'; subsequently, in a long footnote, she justifies her poetic 'translations' of Horace, despite her limited knowledge of Latin, by claiming that a literal prose translation is not as true to the 'essence' of Horace.
Eric Gerald Stanley (1923-2018), scholar of Old English literature, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford.
ESTC T169217.
£ 375
55) [STREET LITERATURE]. Batchelar's finsbury Collection of popular Songs. London. Printed and sold by T. Batchelar, [s.d., c. 1817-1828].
8vo. 8pp. Single folded uncut sheet. Lightly spotted.
A remarkable survival, in original state, of a chapbook collecting fourteen popular English folk songs, including; 'Joe the Marine', 'Lawyer Flam's Ghost', and 'Shipwreckt Tar'.
COPAC records a single copy (Oxford); OCLC adds two further (NLS and Yale).
£ 250
PROVINCIAL ROBINSON CRUSOE
56) [THEATRE ROYAL, HULL]. Benefit of Mr. hope, Box-Keeper. Theatre-Royal, Hull. On monday Evening, February 1st, 1819, His Majesty's Servants will perform a Melo-Dramatic Romance, (never performed here) called Robinson Crusoe; Or, The Bold Bucaniers... Hull. William Rawson, [1819].
Dimensions 130 x 210 mm. Single leaf broadside. One edge uncut, shaving to head - touching text without loss of sense, lightly dust-soiled.
A provincial playbill for the Theathre Royal, Hull, advertising a performance of Isaac Pocock's (1781-1835) Robinson Crusoe; Or, The Bold Bucaniers, first performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1817. The play is a remarkably loose adaptation of Defoe's celebrated novel, notably introducing numerous characters, including Crusoe's wife and son, who rather miraculously find themselves on the castaway's island years after he was thought lost.
£ 125
57) WAGSTAFFE, William. The story of the St. Alb-ns ghost, or the apparition of Mother Haggy. Collected from the best Manuscripts. . London. [s.n.], 1712.
8vo. 16pp. Stitched as issued. Slight age browning, edges and spine dusty.
A fascinating verse tale which uses the ghost story genre as a vehicle for satire, attributed variously to William Wastgaffe, Jonathan Swift and John Arbuthnot, attacking leading Whigs by suggesting their abuse of public funds and lax morality. The satirical references and characters, featuring the Duke of Marlborough, were deemed so complex that in the same year a pamphlet with 'keys' to the poem was issued in order to assist readers.
ESTC T48713; Teerink-Scouten, 861.
£ 150
AN EAST ANGLIAN TRAVELLER
58) WANHOPE, Y. H. C. P. Obiter Scripta: the excursions of an improvident philosopher. [Surface Impressions for Casual Readers]. Norwich. Agas H. Goose, [1904]. First edition in book form.
8vo. [6], ii, 115pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed pale blue wrappers. Title inked in manuscript to sunned spine, rubbed and spotted. Leaves browned.
The first appearance in book form of a series of articles by a Norwich author recounting his travels in Russia, North Africa, Italy, and Switzerland, originally published in the Granta and Eastern Daily Press.
COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, Cambridge, NLS, and Oxford); OCLC adds no further.
£ 100
59) YORICK, Mr. [STERNE, Laurence]. A sentimental journey through france and italy by Mr. yorick. London. Printed for H. D. Symonds, 1793. New edition.
12mo. 165pp, [1]. With a half-title. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, short closed tear to margin to title page, else internally clean and crisp.
A remarkably crisp example of a scarce late eighteenth-century edition of Laurence Sterne's (1713-1768) immensely popular semi-autobiographical novel, written and first published in 1768 as the author faced death. The work has been considered both as an epilogue to the (possibly) unfinished The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (London, 1759) and as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels through France and Italy (London, 1766). The novel was exceedingly influential and aided in establishing travel writing as the dominant genre of the latter half of the eighteenth-century.
ESTC records a single copy of this edition printed by Symonds in North America (George Washington), and none elsewhere.
ESTC N65512.
£ 200
A DRUNKEN HERALD
60) YORKE, James. The union of honour. Containing the armes, matches And Issues of the Kings, Dukes, Marquesses and Earles of England from the Conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640... London. Printed by Edward Griffin, 1640 [i.e. 1641].
Folio. [16], 331, [1], 76, 52pp, [4]. A variant edition, not featuring Leake’s name on the letterpress title page. With an engraved title page, a final errata leaf, and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text depicting armorial bearings - with some occasional colouring and gilding. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, metal clasps, recently rebacked and recornered, recent contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Boards worn. Later armorial bookplate of Thomas Thornbery to FEP, marginal repairs to dust-soiled engraved title page, title proper laid-down, short tear to leaf Q4 - touching text without loss of sense, marginal repairs to final two leaves, occasional spotting.
The only published work of Lincoln based blacksmith and heraldic writer James Yorke (fl. 1640), The Union of Honour records the genealogical histories of the nobility and gentry of England, placing them within the chivalric tradition by appending a list of battles in which they participated. The book is mostly based on works by Thomas Milles, John Guillim, Ralph Brooke, and Augustine Vincent, with Yorke claiming responsibility for material between 1622 and 1640. It is prefaced by a dedicatory epistle to Henry Frederick (1608-1652), son and heir apparent of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646), in which Yorke claimed he was long in 'forging and hammering it to this perfection' and that it was 'a Master-piece, not yet matched by any of my trade'.
Thomas Thornbery (b. c. 1719), Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London (1746-1757). Officer of arms, Stephen Martin Leake (1702-1773), who recommended his appointment, said he had good qualifications, but took to drink; and fellow officer Charles Townley (1713-1774) called him 'a very drunken, sorry fellow'.
ESTC S1166, STC 26102.5. £ 450
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