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Oration on the Life and Character on OCLC – “the most comprehensive pedagogical treatise on women’s education in 18th-century Spain, which pays much of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette. Delivered at the request of attention to serious intellectual training and takes for granted both houses of the Congress of the United States, before gender equality of reason” (Mónica Bolufer, senior lecturer in them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on early modern history, University of Valencia, in her biographi- the 31st December, 1834. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835 cal essay on Amar y Borbón, Women Writers in History on-line Octavo (215 × 128 mm). Original presentation binding of red morocco- project). grain roan, flat spine decoratively gilt, single-line gilt border on sides, Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833), whose father and yellow edges, pale green endpapers. Spine ends and joints skilfully grandfather were physicians at the royal court, received an restored, a couple of surface scratches to covers, a few leaves toned, extraordinary education for a non-aristocratic woman of her without the tipped-in leaf bearing Adams’s presentation inscription era, learning Latin, Greek, French, Italian and, unusually, found in a number of copies. An attractive copy. English, and being encouraged in her freethinking intellectual first edition, printed on thick paper and in a style of pursuits. She married a like-minded lawyer, Joaquín Fuertes binding that was favoured by the Adams dynasty for decades. Piquer, and moved to Zaragoza, “where he served as a An important speech by a great American honouring the magistrate, [and] where she and her husband joined the memory of a great Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, hero reformist and Enlightened circles”. She read widely; was aware of the Revolutionary War, who had died in May 1834. Adams of, and openly influenced by, other women writers of the and Lafayette had been personally close. period such as Madame de Genlis, the marquise de Lambert, Sabin 295. and the Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi; and made numerous translations “on some of the £1,250 [109025] most pressing interests of her time: agronomic, pedagogical and erudite works by Griselini, Xavier Lampillas, John Locke, 2 some of which were published and earned her considerable AMAR Y BORBÓN, Josepha. Discurso sobre la educa- prestige, and others, never printed, are lost”. cion fisica y moral de las mugeres [sic] (Discourse on She also published her own essays and treatises on the Physical and Moral Education of Women). Madrid: D. science and medicine, literary culture, and eradication of Benito Cano, 1790 superstition, of which the present is the most substantial. Octavo (181 × 107 mm). Contemporary streaked sheep, red moroc- This focus on the essay is typical of Spanish letters of the co label, gilt foliate rolls to spine. Bound with the half-title. A little period and “these writings [were] much maligned by 19th- rubbed, corners slightly soft, label chipped with minor loss, light century Romantics who saw little of value produced during browning, attractive contemporary bookseller’s ticket of Puigrubi, the Spanish ‘enlightenment’” (Tesser, “Amar y Borbón, Josefa” Tarragona to front pastedown, overall a very good copy indeed. in Chevalier, Encyclopaedia of the Essay). However, with her 2 Peter Harrington 126 3 complex, discursive and fully synthesised style, Amar y Borbón Sir Frank Forbes Adam, first baronet (1846–1926), who had a was a major contributor to the development of the form of the distinguished career in Indian commerce and was President of modern essay. A little-known, but nonetheless important, the Bombay Chamber of Commerce 1884–88. Riddick gives a contribution to the 18th-century debate on women’s rights. potted biography of his Indian career: “[born] in Stirlingshire . 1872 went to India and entered firm of Graham & Co., £1,475 [99019] Bombay . 1884–90 selected Member, Bombay Legislative Council; for a period was Member, Bombay Port Trust”. 3 A comprehensive report dating from a fascinating point in (ANGLO-INDIAN RELATIONS.) Report of the Bombay Anglo-Indian relations: Victoria became Empress of India on 1 Chamber of Commerce for the Year 1876–77. Presented May 1876 and the Second Anglo–Afghan War began in Novem- to the annual general meeting held on the 30th October ber 1878; it was also the period of the terrible Southern India 1877. Bombay: Bombay Gazette Steam Press, 1878 famine of 1876–8 (covered in the current work under the head- Octavo (206 × 127 mm). Contemporary red hard-grain morocco over ing “Financial measure to be adopted providing for the fam- bevelled boards, richly gilt spine, black label, decorative gilt roll tool ine expenditure”). Other subjects covered include the newly border on sides, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing at opened Rajputana–Malwa railway (“Western Rajpootana Rail- extremities, closed-tear to one leaf (pp. 67–8) with an old but neat way”), the fall in the price of silver, the Opium Bill of 1876, the repair. A particularly handsome copy. trade in silk and cotton, “expediency of substituting cocoanut first and only edition, decidedly scarce: no copies cited for colza oil for lighthouses in India”, commercial fishing in in either Copac or OCLC. This attractive copy has an excellent the harbour of Bombay, and the shipment of grain. provenance: bearing, on the front cover, the gilt arms and motto Riddick, Who Was Who in British India, p. 3. (“crux mihi grata quies” – “the cross gives me welcome rest”) of the Adam family. This is almost certainly from the library of £1,500 [111938] 3 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk 5 was sent on a number of diplomatic postings in Europe. In his introduction Segni exalts the Tuscan language and underlines the need for vernacular editions of Greek and Latin texts; he quotes frequently from Dante throughout his commentary. He also draws extensively on the earlier commentary tradition, 4 including the works of Byzantine scholar Eustratius (c.1050– 1121), English scholastic philosopher Walter Burley (c.1275– 4 1344/45) and the 15th-century Florentine, Donato Acciaiuoli ARISTOTLE. L’Ethica. Tradotta in lingua vulgare (1429–1478). Written at the height of the Counter-Reformation, Fiorentina, et comentata per Bernardo Segni. Florence: during the Council of Trent, another notable feature of Segni’s Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550 interpretation is the frequent reference to Catholic doctrine, at Quarto (215 × 140 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title the implied expense of Lutheran teachings. The first vernacular inked to spine. Wood-engraved vignette title page incorporating the edition of the Nicomachean Ethics was a French translation by Medici arms, 12 allegorical initial figures, frequent line diagrams to Nicolas Oresme, printed in 1488. the text. Contemporary Italian ownership inscription, inked annota- tion and underlining to pp. 301 & 311. Vellum lightly marked, shallow £2,250 [112120] chip to fore edge of front cover, quires t, M and Ff lightly foxed, pale tide-mark to lower outer corner of a few gatherings and very occa- 5 sionally to head of gutter. An excellent copy.