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1.[ABC]. WAGNER, Johann Ernst. HISTORISCHES ABC eines vierzigjährigen Hennebergischen Fiebelschützen. Herausgegeben von Ernst Wagner. Ein Angang zu den Reisen aus der Fremde in die Heimath. Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung. 1810.£ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vii], [i] blank, xvi, 232; with library stamp on title; some light browning and foxing throughout; in contemporary boards, paper spine with paper hand-lettered label; some wear to boards and extremities.
First edition of this satirical ABC by the humorist and novelist Johann Ernst Wagner. Wagner’s first steps into literature had been observed and encouraged by Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter), which led to the erroneous assumption that the latter was the author of the preface, which is signed Jean Paul . It is Wagner’s fiction and sets the tone for this satirical ABC book with alphabethical entries on sentiments, reminiscences, impressions, feelings, social observations and childhood memories. Johann Ernst Wagner (c. 1769-1812), after an idyllic childhood (the only paradise no-one can expell us from, according to Jean Paul) lived as an administrator of a large agricultural estate near his birthplace in the duchy of Sachsen-Meiningen. He became a novelist around his thirtieth year, and published several works. He died two years after the present book, titled Historical ABC of a forty year old primary school pupil from Henneberg , after a long and painful disease, which he fought to the end with romantic irony, sarcasm and memories of happier times.
1 The text of this first edition is littered with typographical errors, very atypical of the publisher Cotta. Not even a word in the title, Fibelschütze , was spared. The title is followed by advice for the binder and three pages of errata. A note to the reader apologizes for the unusual amount of typos, which could not be avoided because of a ‘really unavoidable accident’. OCLC records just two copies outside contintental Europe, at Columbia and the British Library.
LASCIVIOUS DECORATION
2.[ALABASTER FIGURES]. COMPTOIR ITALIEN D’IMPORTATION [printed label on front cover ]. [Italy, c. 1925]. £ 500 Oblong 8vo album with 53 original silver gelatine photographs of alabaster, metal and onyx sculptures inserted into slots on grey cards; light oxidation to a few photographs; chord bound in blind-stamped flexible boards, printed label on front cover; tears and spots to front cover, marginally frayed.
The sculptures, which include a high proportion of lasciviously posing women, appear to have been made to order. The subjects were clearly chosen for their saleability and dwell strongly on sentimentality of a bygone era. Subjects include naked ladies in shells, by pools, in waterfalls or wearing diaphanous clinging and revealing outfits, even the lady atop a mountain decked out in her climbing gear leaves nothing to the imagination. Other figures of children and reworked head and shoulder busts based on renaissance models are less revealing. The skill involved in their production was evidently high and were doubtless bought and sold as ‘high art’ in that age before Freudian analysis.
ATTACK ON THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
3.[ARTAIZE, Henri de Feucher d’]. NOUVELLES RÉFLEXION D’UN JEUNE HOMME, ou, Suite à l’Essai sur la dégradation de l’homme en société… A Londres, et se trouve a Paris, chez Royez, Libraire, Quai des Augustins. 1787. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. iv, 208, [1] ‘Nota’, [1] blank; apart from some minor dust-soiling, a clean crisp copy throughout; uncut and stitched as issued in contemporary wraps, rather worn and dust-soiled, spine defective, but holding firm; a good copy.
First edition of this somewhat intemperate attack on the increasingly influential role of women in late eighteenth century France.
2 Artaize appears to have been a young man who had experienced more than his fair share of disappointment in his relations with women, and this was his second polemic against the female sex, the year after his Réflexion d’un jeune homme , which appears equally scarce. Here he continues the themes of the first work, railing against the increasing influence of women in politics and society, warning against their ambition and growing authority, and in particular complaining in exaggerated tones about the developing role and importance of women at court, at a time “quand les femmes dispensent l’honneur et les richesses, quand elles règnent despotiquement, quand tout est femme, et que je puis, en les blamant, me priber de tous les bienfaits du siècle”… OCLC records four copies, at UCLA, BNF, BL and Cambridge.
4.[AUSTRIAN CIVIL CODE]. SVEOBSHTII GRADJANSKII ZAKONIK ZA SVE NIEMATSKE NASLEDNE ZEMLE AUSTRIISKE MONARKHIE [DLC transliteration : Sveobshtii gradsianskii zakonik niemachke naslednie zemlie]. U Bechu [Vienna], Pismeny ts. k. Dvorne i Drzhavne Pechatne [Court and State Printers], 1849. £ 650
FFFIRST SSSERBIAN EEEDITION ... Three parts and index in one volume 8vo, pp. [xiii], 84; [ii], 318; [ii], 45; xlv, [1], woodengraved Imperial eagle on all four titles; apart from minimal spotting to a few leaves an fine copy in late 19 th -century half-cloth over marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt in German; a little rubbed; ownership inscription in ink, Dor Halavacek on front fly-leaf.
Rare first, and according to the catalogue of the Austrian National Library, only edition in Serbian of the codified Austrian Civil Law ( Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch ABGB) which was published first in 1811 (reprinted up to 1909 with that date). In the year 1849, after the defeat of the revolution, which saw Croats and Serbs (who lived on both sides of the Austro-Turkish border) uniting and rising up against their Hungarian and Austrian masters, the Austrian code was extended to regulate the societies of Hungary, Serbia and Croatia, leading to the present translation. The code was largely the work of Karl Anton Freiherr von Martini and Franz von Zeiller, and draws heavily on the ideals of equality before the law to be found in the Napoleonic code. Heavily revised during the First World War, it remains the basis for Austrian civil law to this day. The Serbs, however, already had a civil code, the work of Jovan Hadzic in 1844, which remains largely in place, explaining the lack of further Serbian editions of the present code. OCLC locates copies in the University of British Columbia and in Yale.
3 DIAGNOSING AND CURING ILLNESSES
5.BALARDINI, Lodovico. SULLA IMPORTANZA DELLO STUDIO DELLA CONDIZIONE PATOLOGICA nella diagnosi e cura delle malattie universali comprovata specialmente dalla facolta elettiva del remidj… In Padova, dalla tipografia della Minerva. 1820.£ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 20; lightly stained throughout, but still a good copy, stitched as issued in the original publisher’s wraps.
First editon of this uncommon essay on the importance of observing and studying pathological conditions when diagnosing and curing illnesses, presented as an address to the University of Padua on the occasion of his medical degree by the influential Brescia physician Lodovico Balardini (1796-1891). Balardini cites authors as diverse as Erasmus Darwin, Bondioli, Tommasini and Rubini in the work, his first. He went on to publish studies on the waters at Salino, mushroom poisoning, pellagra, and cholera. OCLC records one copy at the Berliner Staatsbibliothek.
POEMS BY A SHEPHERD BOY
6.BARHAM, George. PASTORAL AND OTHER POEMS, Brighton, printed for the Author by J.C.Dollman, 1854. £ 175 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 5-162; original cloth, stamped in blind with gilt centre panel, some surface wear to cloth (particularly at foot of upper board, with evidence of damp mark), nevertheless, still a good copy.
Rare first edition of Pastoral and other Poems , comprising a significant body of work by George Barham, ‘a Shepherd Boy’. As well as numerous poems, such as ‘The Cottager’s Song of the Seasons’, ‘The Lost Sheep, or Colin in Trouble’and ‘Love of Country; or, England the home of the world’, Epitaphs, Odes, Hymns and Prayers are also included We have found little on George Barham, other than what can be found in the preface: ‘Having been left an orphan early in life, I learned more in the field and fold than ever fell to my lot to learn at school; in truth, I have literally been my own teacher’ (p. iii). OCLC records one copy in North America, at Yale, and two in the UK, at the BL and East Sussex County Library.
7.BEAURIEU, Gaspard Guillard de. LE PORTE-FEUILLE FRANÇOIS, ou Choix nouveau et intéressant de différentes Piéces de Prose & de Poësie… En France, se vend à Paris, Chez Durand, Neveu, rue Saint Jacques, à la Sagesse. Rozet, rue Saint Severin, à la Rose d’or., 1766.£ 285 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], xxi, [iii] advertisements, A1 (blank) removed, as usual; paper fault in gutter of N1 (not affecting the text), otherwise, apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt with morocco label lettered in gilt, some surface wear and rubbing to extremities, nevertheless, still a handsome and appealing copy.
First edition of this collection of poems, essays, and stories, assembled, edited, and in some cases translated by the prolific French littérateur Gaspard Guillard de Beaurieu (1728-1795) Among the aphorisms and poems, there are letters to Mirabeau, an essay on the question of whether lying or truthfulness is more useful to society, a discourse on the philosophical spirit, an ode on the immortality of the soul, and a translation of Catullus 5. Also included is a “Dictionnaire portatif” compiled by a young soldier “qui s’amuse à réfléchir les matins, n’ayant rien de mieux à faire”, and a brief essay on the origins of card games. Beaurieu was the author and editor of numerous novels, compilations, and educational works, including a Cours d’histoire naturelle (1770), and L’Élève de la nature (1763). OCLC records just two copies, at the Taylor Institute in Oxford and the Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt Gotha.
4 NEW MEDICINES FROM A SWISS OBSTETRICIAN
8.BECHTEL, Johann Christoph. NACHRICHT VON ZWEY NEUENTDECKTEN MITTELN für Schwangere und Gebährende. Bern, in der Hallerische Buchhandlung, 1780.£ 350 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 109, [1] blank; clean and crisp throughout; a fine copy in contemporary drab boards.
First edition of this amusingly written appraisal of two medicines offered by the Bern obstetrician Bechtel, who published a French version of this work the following year in Lausanne. In the philosophical beginning he describes the human urge to seek pleasure, the highest degree of which is characterized ‘by exercising certain mechanical movements and unifications, which turn humans into parents’ (p. 5). He then describes complications during labour and birth and their causes, before advertising an ointment and another medicine for internal use. In describing how to administer these medicines Bechtel reveals himself as a practitioner, who clearly had experience in delivering babies. He gives very detailed descriptions of complications during birth, including cases of the mother having contracted syphilis and still births. At the end of the treatise Bechtel declares that the medicines can be ordered from the author’s address in Bern, and that they are only authentic with a label signed by him. He recommends ordering the medicines around the middle of the pregnancy; both together were priced 6 French livres . Blake p. 318 (under the title); OCLC adds no copies outside Germany and Switzerland.
DRAWING HEAVILY ON LOCKE AND WOLFF
9.[BELGRADO, Jacopo]. DELLA RAPIDITA’ DELLE IDEE. Dissertazione d’un Corrispondente dell’Accademia delle Scienze di Parigi… In Modena, dalla Stamperia di Giovanni Montanari, MDCCLXX [1770]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 106; aside from some occasional browning, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary carta rustica; remains of label on spine, but otherwise a good copy.
First edition of this uncommon work by the Italian Jesuit Jacopo Belgrado (1704-1789), on the thinking process and the nature of ideas.
5 Belgrado, who was professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Parma, draws heavily on John Locke and Christian Wolff in his treatment of the subject. He examines the nature of ideas, and their relationship to both the evidence of the senses, and to geometric and mathematical constructs, before turning to a discussion of the thinking process and the formation of ideas. Belgrado is, as the title suggests, especially concerned to establish ways in which we can establish, and account for, the ‘speed’ of ideas. By this he means not only the speed with which they establish themselves in the mind, but also the ways they link to form more complex ideas; he also suggests a sort of test to measure the number of ideas that occur within a given period. OCLC records copies at the BNF, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford.
10.BENTHAM, Jeremy. TACTICA DE LAS ASAMBLEAS LEJISLATIVAS, de Jeremias Bentham, traducia al castellano por F. C. de C. Madrid, Imprenta de Don Tomas Jordan, 1835.£ 950
FFFIRST SSSPANISH EEEDITION , S, S ECOND IIISSUE ... 8vo, pp. 270, [2] index; clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary Spanish sheep, spine tooled in gilt with morocco label lettered in gilt; some light wear, and small wormhole, to lower board, but still a very good copy.
A superb copy of the first translation, second issue, of Bentham’s Tactique des Assemblées Legislatives to have been published in Spain. First published in French in 1816, and translated into Spanish in 1824, the Tactique provides an extensive analysis of parliamentary procedures and practice. Previous Spanish editions of the work had all been printed in Paris and Bordeaux. OCLC records just one copy of this issue, at Minnesota.
A FRIEND OF THE AUSTEN FAMILY
11.BIRCH, Mary Newell. LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE MRS. BIRCH, of Barton Lodge, in the Ninety-Ninth and Hundredth Years of her Age. [London, privately printed by A. Spottiswoode, n. d., 1837]. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xvi, 152, with steel-engraved portrait by F. C. Lewis after a painting by J. F. Lewis of 1824 and four lithographic facsimiles; portrait a little foxed, otherwise light foxing at the beginning and end; well-preserved and with wide margins in near contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; armorial engraved bookplate of George Tuck inside front cover.
6 Mary Birch was a childhood friend of Jane Austen’s mother Cassandra (1739-1827). She is mentioned fleetingly in one of Jane’s letter’s of 1798 and also knew the members of the Cooper and Powys families, also intimates of the Austen’s. Mary would have doubtless been part of the an outer circle Austen family friends but with no surviving correspondence it is difficult to gauge what, if anything, of the Birch family intercourse Jane could make use of in her novels. A further connection lies in Jane’s father, George Austen, acting as private tutor to Mary’s son James Birch at Steventon in 1784. ‘Mrs. Birch died on March 29, 1837, aged 99 years and 4 months. She retained to the last her mental powers almost unimpaired, and her letters evince a lively interest in everything going on around her, as well as a kind, sympathetic, and cheerful disposition. It is a volume of considerable interest as showing how life may, under favourable conditions, be worth living, even at a hundred years’ (Dobell). Dobell, Catalogue of Books printed for private Circulation p. 9 (mentioning only three facsimiles); Martin Privately Printed Books p. 392 (dating the work about 1830); OCLC locates copies in the British Library, University of Waterloo, Berkeley, Library of Congress, Boston Pubic Library, Cambridge and Heidelberg.
12.BOOTH, William, General . IN DARKEST ENGLAND AND THE WAY OUT. London: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army… [1890]. [Together with :] BARNARDO, Thomas. ALS to General Booth offering his condolences on the death of Catherine Booth, Booth’s wife. 9th October 1890.£ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, folding chromolithograph frontispiece, pp. [viii], 285, [1] blank, xxxi, [1] blank, [6] advertisements; small tear to folding frontispiece; with the scarce ‘response’ form loosely inserted; original blue sand-grain cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper board, spine a trifle creased; a very good clean copy.
7 Fine copy of the first edition of General William Booth’s landmark work, together with a letter from the Irish philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children, Thomas Barnardo. In 1878 Booth founded the Salvation Army, and in 1890, the same year that Stanley’s In Darkest Africa was published, he issued In Darkest England and the Way Out , to draw attention to ‘darkness’ much closer to home. Through his ghost-writer W.T. Stead, he analysed the causes of poverty and vice of the period, and proposed a ten part program of action. This included land settlement, emigration, rescue and social work among prostitutes and prisoners, a poor man’s bank and a poor man’s lawyer. This timely appeal to Victorian conscience drew large support and money was liberally donated and a large part of the scheme was put into practice. Loosely inserted in the present copy is a good letter, probably written by a secretary, but certainly signed by Barnardo, shortly after his return from a visit to America. It is a poignant letter expressing Christian grief and the human fellowship from one Christian philanthropist to another at the death of Mrs Catherine Booth (1829-1890), the “mother of the Salvation Army”. Thomas John Barnardo (“Dr. Barnardo”), 1845-1905, was the founder of the East End juvenile mission for destitute children (1867), opening a boys’ home in Stepney in 1870, which developed into Dr. Barnardo’s Homes”. Catherine Booth had suffered from ill-health for some time and died at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex on 4th October 1890. ‘Her body ‘lay in state’ at the congress Hall of the Salvation Army, Clapton, and her funeral at Olympia was attended by a gathering supposed to number 36,000”. [DNB]. Printing and the Mind of Man 373; Marshall library p. 9
13.BOWIE, William and Cosmo INNES. Editor. THE BLACK BOOK OF TAYMOUTH, with other papers from the Breadalbane Charter Room. Edinburgh: [Bannatyne Club], MDCCCLV [1855]. £ 250
FFFIRST EEEDITION ... 4to, pp. [viii], xxxviii, [2] blank, [1-9], 10-443, [1] blank; frontispiece of Kilchurn Castle after John Clerk of Eldin and Horatio M’Culloch, engraved portrait, 9 coloured lithographs by W. H. Lizars and one facsimile; original dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
A major source book on the Highlands of Scotland in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In 1598, at Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy commanded Master William Bowie, a notary and one of his servitors, to write an account of the first seven lairds of Glenorchy; this became the substance of what is now known as the Black Book of Taymouth.. The work begins with prefatory verses in Latin and Scots, Duncan evidently had an interest in the medieval vernacular romances, particularly those whose subject was the matter of antiquity, followed by an history of his family and those connected with it. Campbell of Glenorchy, first baronet (1551 -1631) was variously known as Black Duncan of the Cowl (Donnachadh Dubh a’ Churraic) or Black Duncan of the Castles, and was laird for forty-eight years. A ruthless man he became a substantial landowner in Perthshire, who acquired many other estates during his lifetime, sometimes by nefarious and unscrupulous means. He was knighted in 1590 and became baronet of Nova Scotia in 1625. His dominance within his region and his clan gained him substantial wealth and property. When Duncan died at Balloch on 23 June 1631 his achievements were celebrated in a Gaelic elegy, and also in the family history known as The Black Book of Taymouth .
8 Early records for the Highlands rarely survived due to the almost continual warfare. The Black Book also includes other documents including ‘The Chronicle of Fortigall’, ‘Duncun Laideus alias Makgregouris Testiment’, ‘The Book of Bandis’ and various Rental, Court Books, Household Books and Inventories of Breadalbane all carefully edited under the great Scottish antiquary Cosmo Innes. The work was was published for the Bannatyne Club however this copy is one of a small number privately printed for distribution by the Marquis of Breadalbane here to R. Baillie Hamilton brother of the 11th Earl of Haddington.
14.BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. LONDINIANA; OR, REMINISCENCES OF THE BRITISH METROPOLIS: Including characteristic Sketches, Antiquarian, Topographical, descriptive, and Literary. London: Hurst, Chance, 1829. £ 350 Four volumes, small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 304 (*65-120*, *225-232* bis); xx, 312 (17*-56* bis); xx, 344; xx, 354, [2] adverts., 103 engraved plates and maps, some folding, uncut in the original green cloth backed drab boards, spines with printed paper labels; some hinges cracked; armorial book plates of John Bruce and Edward Jackson Barrow.
A good 19th century work that contains a wealth of information and reproduces many of the earlier maps and panoramas. In his introduction, written from the Russell Institution, Bayley states that ‘in the general design of this work, diversity of information, and accuracy in the details, have been the leading objects.’ Originally five volumes were planned with 150 engravings, but in the event only four were actually published. Adams 155.
15.[BROWN, Levinius]. THE PROTESTANT’S TRIAL (In Controverted Points of Faith) By the Written Word. Brussels: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXI [1771].£ 175
SSSECOND EEEDITION ... 12mo, pp. xxv, [i] blank, [iv] contents, 219, [1] blank; title only lightly browned; otherwise clean in contemporary speckled calf red manuscript lettering piece on spine; extremities a little worn.
Brown (1671–1764) was a Norfolk-born Jesuit, who was rector of the English College at Rome from 1723 to 1731, and was then appointed rector at Watten in the Netherlands. Chosen provincial of his order in 1733, he continued in that office until 1737, and then moved to the rectorship of Liège College. After 1740 he spent the last years of his life in the college of St Omer, and witnessed the forcible expulsion of the English Jesuits from that institution by the parliament of Paris in 1762. Being too old and infirm to be removed, he was allowed to remain in the house until his death on 7 November 1764. Brown was a friend of Alexander Pope’s, and it is probable that during his residence as missioner of Ladyholt he induced the poet to compose his version of St Francis Xavier’s hymn ‘O Deus, ego amo te’. He published a two-volume translation of Bossuet’s History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches (1742). See Sommervogel II, col. 224 for other editions only.
9 16.CAPURON, Joseph. TRATTATO DELLE MALATTIE DELLE DONNE dalla Puberta’ sino all’ eta’ critica Inclusivamente del Sig J. Capuron… Vol. I [-III]. Napoli, da’ Torchi di Raffaello di Napoli, 1826. £ 200
SSSECOND IIITALIAN TTTRANSLATION ... Three volumes bound in two, 8vo, pp. [iv], 214, [2] index; [iv], 111 [ie 211], [1]; [iv], 112; apart from small stamp on titles and some light signs of use in places, a clean copy throughout; handsomely bound in contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, light surface wear to boards, but not detracting from this being a very appealing copy.
Second Italian translation, after the most recent expanded French edition, of this influential gynaecological work by the French physician Joseph Capuron (1767-1850). After an introduction in which he describes the physical state of women, and the causes and duration of menstruation, Capuron divides his work into three parts, dealing in turn with illnesses relating to menstruation (including hysteria and nymphomania), reproductive illnesses and complaints (including sterility, miscarriage, and problems during pregnancy such as circulatory disorders), and illnesses associated with breastfeeding. Throughout, the translator adds copious notes and observations, and corrects errors from the previous edition. No Italian editions before 1838 recorded by OCLC.
17.[CARRIAGE AUCTION]. A CATALOGUE OF THE STOCK IN TRADE OF MR. MESSER, COACH MAKER retiring from business, comprising Highly Finished Fashionable New & Second- Hand Carriages, Chariots, Britskas, Barouches, Broughams, Clarences, excellent Phaetons, Stanhopes, and other carriages. Converted ash, pine, & elm board, dry ash plank, varnish and colours, harness, lace painters’ utensils, Berry’s Heraldry, Fixtures, and Numerous Effects. Which will be sold by Auction, by Mr Hoadly, on the premises, No. 8, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, On Thursday, June the 1st, 1843 and following day, at twelve o’clock, by order of Mr. Messer. London: Imprint Geo. Nichols, Printer, 7 Earls Court, Leicester Square. 1843.£ 225 8vo, pp. 12; marked in manuscript on title ‘Reserved Prices’ and annotated through out in red and black ink, and pencil; stitched as issued.
10 The two day sale began with the Smiths Forge and included among the lots quantities of old lamps, pole, timber, anvils, axles, vice, bench, varnish, cans ‘ten pair of Chariot steps’ and ‘a quantity of useful stuff’ Lots 21 through 106 included all the carriages in the sale as given on the title-page and situated on the ground floor. each item is marked in both red ink and pencil with the name of the owner and the reserves where they apply. A number of lots were also imported into the sale seemingly under the aegis of of the auctioneer. The second day constituted the contents of the ‘Top loft’, ‘Painters’ loft’ ‘Trimmers’ loft’ with the last lots from the yard. Mr Messer would appear to be William F. Messer who appears in the Royal Calender of 1843. He is more than likely the father of Frederick William Messer who in 1859 became Master of The Worshipful Company of Coach makers & Coach Harness Makers of London whose firm of Messer and Co. also of Margaret Street who were still in business in the 1890s. Margaret Street from the end of the eighteenth century had a large number of cabinet makers, stables, timber yards, upholsterers, carvers and gilders, all ancillary to the Coach Makers trade. In 1825 Messer Coach Works were consumed in a fire which also destroyed a number of other local establishments. Messer seems to have successfully re established his business soon after this conflagration. We have been unable to find other catalogues held by Mr Hoadl in any library.
MEMENTO OF A VISIT TO THE FAIR
18.[CHATSWORTH & BUXTON]. ALABASTER PEEP EGG, with views in Derbyshire [c. 1850]. £ 285 The viewer is approximate height 128 mm and 72 mm in diameter; Opaque alabaster cylindrical egg-shaped body on a waisted stem, with ‘[P]resent from Stow Fair’ and hand-painted decorations, rubbed and dust- soiled, with early neat repair to base.
The egg fitted with twin alabaster handles rotating a spindle revealing a woodcut view of ‘Chatsworth Bridge’ and ‘Hot Baths Buxton’, another panel has a selection of crystals, stones and dried plant specimens, all viewed through a glass monocular lens. Stow Fair in Lincolnshire wsa inaugurated in 1233 and continues to this day as a horse fair where such souvenirs as peep eggs were often sold and inscribed.
SPLENDID AND ASTONISHING
19.[CIRCUS]. FELLER, Frank. AU CIRQUE Representation splendide et etonnante avec Le concours des Artistes les plus Celebres de l’Univers Paris: Nouveau Librairie de la Jeunesse circa 1910. £ 950 Panorama, [17 x 205 cm] mounted on cloth; folding into original glazed and decorated coloured boards.
11 Frank Feller (1848-1908) was a Swiss artist who settled in England and made a career as an illustrator and painter. His works were mainly of a military type, although it is clear from this example that he could turn his hand to much lighter subjects.
GOLD DIGGERS - LITERALLY
20.CLACY, Ellen. A LADY’S VISIT TO THE GOLD DIGGINGS OF AUSTRALIA. In 1852-53. London, [Schulze and Co.] for Hurst and Blackett, 1853.£ 200 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii, 302, [35] advertisements; with steel-engraved frontispiece; evenly a little browned due to paper stock, a few spots; original publisher’s plum cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, boards with blind-stamped ornaments; extremities a little bumped and worn.
The first book by a woman on the Australian goldfields giving a very vivid account of the rough and tumble of daily life in search of immense wealth. Ellen Sturmer who lived at Richmond, Surrey in 1831, ‘migrated to Australia with her brother, who intended to look for gold in Victoria, in 1852. There she married Charles Clacy… Mrs Clacy spent six months in Australia, describing conditions on the goldfields, and the difficulties faced by those who arrived in Melbourne from England, such as unobtainable accommodation, the high cost of living and the difficulty of finding tradesmen. She was an exceptional woman and adapted quickly, cooking, keeping camp and washing for gold, but also writing her diary, collecting facts and figures and recording stories. She outlined the benefits of women’s influence on tent life whilst noting that there often was a sort of heart beneath the rough exterior of the male digger. The worst danger to women was marriage - and finding themselves treated with twenty times the respect and consideration to be met with in England. The book provides a detailed and humorous account of Ellen Clacy’s adventures in a strange land’ (Theakstone). The frontispiece shows Bendigo Creek, possibly engraved after a sketch by the author. Ferguson 8280; Theakstone p. 52 f.
SCARBOROUGH HAS IT ALL
21.COLE, John. THE SCARBOROUGH ALBUM OF HISTORY AND POETRY, Scarborough: Published by John Cole Library, Newborough Street … 1825.£ 959595 12mo, pp 103 [104-131] 132-148 [2]; engraved addition title, 6 engraved plates by C.J. Smith; contemporary half roan; rebacked.
12 The work was originally published, as with many of Cole’s other works, in a limited edition. This ordinary edition was then successively extended with the addition including here his Cabinet Views of Scarborough. and further extended with a collection of poetical works drawn together as The Muse . Boyne 292.
CHEMISTRY FRENCHIFIED
22.COLIN, Jean-Jacques. CONSIDÉRATIONS ÉLÉMENTAIRES sur les proportions chimiques, les équivalents et les atomes, pour servir d’introduction à l’étude de la chimie. A Paris, chez Gauthier Laguoine, 1841. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iv, 63, [1] errata, [1] additions, [1] blank; some light browning and spotting, but otherwise clean in contemporary printed blue wrappers, with presentation inscription from the author at head of upper cover.
First edition of this uncommon introduction to chemistry and chemical theory, by Jean-Jacques Colin, who taught chemistry at the military school of Saint-Cyr. Colin had already published a well known chemistry course, and was in the process of revising it for a third edition when he published this short introduction. In his address to the reader, he cites Liebig’s Introduction à l’étude de la chimie as his model, but wishes to explain the concepts “in a manner that conforms better to our French ideas”. The principal change was a replacement of the word “atom” with the word “molecule”, Colin regarding the idea of divisible atoms as contradictions in terms. Not in Neville; OCLC records one copy outside France, at the University of Delaware.
23.[COLLARD, Paul]. INSTRUCTIONS PAR DEMANDES ET PAR RÉPONSES SUR L’HUMILITÉ, sur le rapport des actions a dieu, et sur la Priere. [n.p.] 1744.£ 285 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 320; some browning throughout, and marginal working, not affecting text, to a few leaves, but otherwise clean; in contemporary calf, spine gilt with morroco label lettered in gilt; boards, spine, and extremities worn
13 First edition of this uncommon treatise on the nature of humility, by the French priest Paul Collard. The work is written in the form of a catechism, and, largely following the Church Fathers, Collard discusses the characteristics of humility and its practice, before examining the obligation of relating all human actions to God and the rules that action should follow, and offering a daily plan of activity. The final section presents a guide to effective prayer in accordance with the principles of humility described earlier; here, prayer includes labour and watchfulness. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Harvard and the Newberry Library.
‘A KIND OF CONNECTING LINK , BETWEEN MAN AND MONKEY ’
24.[CUNNINGHAM, John William]. A WORLD WITHOUT SOULS. London, [Gosnell] for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to her Majesty, No. 190, Opposite Albany House, Piccadilly, 1805.£ 250 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 135, [1] blank, [2] advertisements; occasional browning or spotting; contemporary marbled boards; worn and re-backed; from Worcester Public Library.
Uncommon first edition of this unusual philosophical allegory. The lost race is a band of soul-less people where, according to the narrator, the theories of Lord Monboddo are confirmed in the way the inhabitants pick up ‘certain oblong papers, mysteriously spotted… for the very important purpose of laying down again,’ and fight duels for no better reason than someone insulting their dogs. Lord Monboddo’s proto-evolutionist theories are reflected upon repeatedly, for example in the assessment of the creatures populating the country O: ‘The creature which inhabits O. is so mysterious, that in discussing any points which concern his nature I am continually at a loss. A little superior to what a monkey is, he is far inferior to what a man should be. Take him now (for nature is ever greedy for gradations) as a kind of connecting link, between man and monkey, and I shall have some grounds on which to reason’ (p. 120). John William Cunningham (1780-1861) was an evangelical clergyman and vicar of Harrow. His book sometimes reads like Lautréamont’s Les chants de Maldoror , or an experimental surrealist text of the middle of the twentieth century; even Monty Python comes to mind. A contemporary review in the Monthly Mirror tried to make sense of the work, by judging ‘The object of the ingenious author of this little tract is to shew the inconsistency of the present race of civilized beings, who, in their professions, would seem to have souls, but in their actions none. The idea is managed with considerable cleverness, and may be read seriously [ italics in the original ] with advantage’ (vol. 21, 1806, p. 40). Block, p. 50; Halkett & Laing VI, p. 259; Wolff 6835d; OCLC records five copies, at Yale, Chicago, Brown, Texas and the Library of Congress; see also the on-line ‘Lost Race Checklist’ compiled by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, no. 60: ‘imaginary voyage to city of O inhabited by a soulless race allegorical’.
IN SUPPORT OF YELLOW FEVER VICTIMS
25.DALLAS, Alexander. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to William Jones, President of the Philadelphia Board of Managers Donating Money to the Poor. Philadelphia, November 2, 1798. .£ 300
MMMANUSCRIPT IN IIINKNKNK ... 4to, single leaf (24.1×19.6cm) written in a neat legible hand on one side, with address on verso; a little foxed, minor wear to one edge with small tear at upper outer corner and two unobtrusive holes (not touching text) along folds; evidence of folding as letter with remains of seal evident; a fine example.
14 A fine letter written during a critical moment in American medical history, and by the noted and prominent lawyer Alexander Dallas (1759-1817 - later to become secretary of the treasury under President Madison), to William Jones, President of the Board of Managers, in which Dallas donates $20 “for aid of the poor and disabled of Philadelphia”. During the final decade of the eighteenth century, the eastern seaboard of the United States was continually scourged by epidemics of yellow fever. Many cities were severely hit, but Philadelphia was subject to two memorable and dreadful visitations, firstly in 1793, vividly and famously described by Benjamin Rush and Jean Dévèze, in which nearly 4,000 people lost their lives, and then again in 1798, the year of the present letter, when a similar number perished. Philadelphia was at the time the capital city, and so the effects of the epidemics were particularly devastating. The city was abandoned by a large proportion of its inhabitants, and those who remained were often unable to sufficiently administer comfort to the sick or to bury the dead. It soon became apparent to the city government that an infirmary for yellow fever was necessary to house the ill, especially the poor, who could not afford medical attention. As a leading local government official, William Jones, the recipient of the present letter, was therefore instrumental in organising local support, and an ad hoc hospital was set up in an old mansion on the edge of the city - Bush Hall - under the medical supervision of Dr Dévèze. Together with a team of loyal attendants, many patients were admitted, but unfortunately the mortality rate was high due to the advanced stage of the disease in many of those initially admitted. Nevertheless it provided much needed care for many of the most vulnerable in the city. In addition to the hospital, an orphanage was also established under the auspices of the Board of Managers, and volunteers were also organised to distribute food, firewood, clothes and medicines, in addition to the grim task of burying the many dead. As the present letter suggests, charitable work in the response to such a public medical crisis required urgent and vital funding, and although not mention specifically, it seems reasonable to assume that Dallas’s generous contribution was intended, in particular, to help victims of the latest epidemic through the various welfare programmes in operation. Dallas goes on to congratulate Jones, who was also in charge of the City and Marine Hospitals, “on the restoration of health to the city” and praises his strong and benevolent character. A fine historical document.
NEAT AND IMAGINATIVELY ILLUSTRATED
26.[DEFOE, Daniel]. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, who lived twenty-eight years in an uninhabited island. With an account of his deliverance. London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street. 1842. £ 285 12mo, pp. [iv], 236; with six engraved plates; in the original blindstamped publisher’s cloth, spine and upper board lettered and tooled in gilt, minor stain to upper board affecting some of the gilt, otherwise still a very good copy.
Rare Darton printing of Defoe’s best known work (first 1719), here with Datron’s usual care over illustration and neatness. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous imitations in film, television and radio that its name was used to define a genre, Robinsonade. Darton G243 (4); OCLC records one copy, at Princeton; COPAC adds one further copy, in the National Trust library; Darton giving two further copies at Florida and UCLA apparently no copy in the British library;
15 WOM E N ’S ROLES IN WW1 SATIRISED
27.DENNYS, Joyce and Hampden GORDON. OUR GIRLS IN WARTIME. Rhymes by Hampden Gordon. Pictures by Joyce Dennys. London: John Lane the Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company; Toronto: S.B. Gundy, [1917]. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [viii], [50] numbered on verso’s only, including 26 leaves of coloured plates done in the style of posters; in the original cloth backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in gilt, lightly dust-soiled, but still a very appealing copy.
First edition of ‘Our Girls in Wartime’, a collection of light hearted if rather patronising rhymes on the roles performed by women during WW1. So for example Land Girls are dismissed as: ‘Lizzie Labours on the land, What she does I understand, Is to make the cattle dizzy, Running around… admiring Lizzie’ (p. 7) Other women lampooned are Winnie the window-cleaner; The flag-day girl; Martha the munition-maker; Pansy of the knitting-party; Penelope; Diana of the horses; The lift-girl; Clarissa the club waitress; Betty the bus girl; Maudie of Mayfair; The canteen-worker; Dora the van-driver; Dolly the bank girl; Cordelia the constable; Belinda the barber; Nesta the nurse; The taxi-girl; The women’s volunteer reserve; Pam of the telegrams; The war hospital supply worker; The B.P. girl guide; Trixie the ticket collector; The government office-girl; and The dispenser girl. The numerous delightful caricatures are by the noted illustrator Joyce Dennys. Before the war started Dennys was attending an art school in London and it was around 1915 that the publishers, John Lane, The Bodley Head, commissioned her to draw the pictures for Our Hospital ABC . She was well placed for she was herself a nurse in the V.A.D stationed at Budleigh Salterton Auxiliary Hospital from December 1914 until December 1915 before serving at Number Two Military Hospital in Exeter, from January to October 1916.
NOT A POPULIST COBBLED -TOGETHER GUIDE
28.DEPPING, Georg Bernard. GROß-BRITANNIEN UND IRLAND. [Wien, Anton Strauß], for Konrad Adolph Hartleben in Pesth 1827-28. £ 650 FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. 5 vols., 12mo, pp. [ii], 208; [ii], 248; [ii], 220; [ii], 180, [4, advertisements]; [ii], 178, [10, list of plates], [4, advertisements], with 27 engraved plates (five bound as frontispieces); occasional light foxing; marbled blue Biedermeier boards, spines numbered and ornamented in gilt with gilt-stamped green lettering pieces; original publisher’s illustrated wrappers bound in; bookplates of Franz Machain inside front covers.
A splendid copy of the first German translation of this exhaustive account of the British Isles, their culture, geography, industry, and folklore, by the German-born French historian and geographer Georges Bernard Depping (1784-1853). First published in Paris in 1824, the work is here translated by the Prague poet, dramatist, novelist and topographical writer Wolfgang Adolf Gerle. It is not a populist cobbled-together guide book for the traveller, but rather a carefully researched ethnographic economic, antiquarian and and political monograph on all parts of the British Isles, with more focus on the Celtic parts of the country than one would expect, containing much linguistic and folklore information.
16 OCLC locates four copies of the second, Leipzig, 1829 edition only, in Munich, Darmstadt, the Institut für Länderkunde, and at Northwestern University; not in COPAC; KVK locates a single copy of this first edition, in Cologne.
29.[DUCLOS, Charles Pinot]. RÉFLEXIONS SUR LA CORVÉE DES CHEMINS, ou Supplement à l’Essai sur la voierie, Pour servir de réponse à la Critique de l’Ami des Hommes. A la Haye; Chez Nyon et Barrois, MDCCLXII [1762]. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 377, [2] table des chapitres, [1] blank, [1] errata, [1] blank; with the contemporary signature of “Gombert architecte” in ink on title; a clean copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt
An attractive copy of this rare response to an attack by Mirabeau on the author’s earlier Essais sur les ponts et chausséees (1759), by Louis’ XV’s historiographer Charles Pinot Duclos (1704-1772). Duclos here argues in favour of the corvée , a remnant of feudalism that required peasants to devote a certain number of days a year, unpaid, to the construction, maintenance, and development of roads, bridges, and infrastructure. Resentment against the corvée was one of the driving forces behind the Revolution, and the practice was abolished shortly afterwards, on August 4, 1789, although its legacy lives on to this day in the Foreign Legion, and it was revived, under a different name, periodically throughout the nineteenth century. Writing in support of the practice, Duclos first explains the necessity of a proper network of roads for agriculture and trade, and the impossibility of the state’s being able to pay for repairs to every road in France, and the consequent necessity of the corvée . He goes on to argue that the imposition of the corvée is only problematic when it interferes with public liberties, that it is easy to ensure that no disruption to either lives or agriculture will result, and that the best way to ensure that the practice is both sustainable and useful is to be found in legislation regulating it, in a way that makes it both fair and universal. OCLC records five North American copies, at Illinois, Harvard, Maryland, Columbia, and Cornell.
17 EVER MORE INTEGRATION
30.[EDINBURGH]. SET OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH; with the Acts of Parliament and Council relative thereto. Edinburgh: Reprinted by authority of the magistrates and council, for the use of the city, by John Robertson. 1783. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. x, 145, [1] blank, [1] Table, [1] blank, without final advertisement leaf; a clean crisp copy; stitched as issued in contemporary marbled wraps, later reback using marbled paper, wrappers lightly dust-soiled, an attractive copy.
In the eighteenth century the Royal Burghs of Scotland were reformed to align them with the constitution of English municipalities in regard of administration, councils, law courts, representation of guilds and elections. This volume reprints these regulations, decrees and laws issued since the 16 th century and gives the acts of parliament relating to elections to the House of Commons since the union of Scotland with England under Queen Mary. OCLC records North American copies at Toronto Public, University of Toronto, Western Ontario, Yale, the Huntington, and the Newberry Library.
‘H E HAD NO APTITUDE FOR MATHEMATICS ’
31.EWAN, William. DISCOURSES, ESSAYS, AND POEMS; selected from the writings of the late William Ewan, Student in Theology, Aberdeen. Aberdeen: G. Davidson. Edinburgh: Johnstone & Hunter. 1855. £ 757575 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. ix, [iii], 171, [3]; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in the original blindstamped publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lightly sunned, but not detracting from this being a very appealing copy, with the armorial bookplate of Alexander Thomson on front pastedown.
Rare first edition of this postumous collection by William Ewan, ‘student in Theology, Aberdeen’, who had died the previous year, aged just 20. The introductory notice provides a short account of the author’s life, concluding that ‘it is unnecessary to say anything of his personal characteristics. The more important of these have their best record in the following compositions, which, though comparatively few, and appearing with all the disadvantage of posthumous productions, give unmistakeable indications of an original, accomplished, loveable, and pious mind’ (p. viii). It is also noted that the proceeds of the sale of the work should ‘go to the Library of the Theological Institution, at which he was so promising a student’ (p. ix). OCLC records two copies only, at the National Library of Scotland and the British Library.
18 32.FONTANA, Niccola. OSSERVAZIONI INTORNO ALLE MALATTIE che Attaccano gli Europei ne’ Climi Caldi e nelle Lunghr Navigazioni… fatte nel suo Viaggio alle Indie Orientali dall’ anno 1776 al 1781. Livorno Per Giovanni Vincenzio Falorni… 1781.£ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii] blank, 163, [5] blank; with fine engraved vignette on title; paper fault to F3 resulting in loss two letters on pp. 77-78, minor stain in gutter at foot throughout, some occasional foxing and spotting; in later marbled wraps; with some contemporary marginalia on pp. 107-111.
First edition of this interesting and uncommon treatise on naval and tropical medicine. Fontana discusses the effects both of voyages to, and sojourns in, Oriental countries, on European sailors and travellers. He uses for his data a voyage made to India which began on November 1st 1776 and ended on May 13th 1781, the meteorological and directional charts of which are found in the work. He then discusses the illnesses to which the crew succumbed, giving their full individual case histories - 44 in all, covering fever, dysentry, cholera, hepatitis, rheumatism, scurvy, venereal disease and problems which needed surgical treatment. The book was important enough to be translated into German in 1790 and into French in 1818. Blake p. 150; OCLC records three copies, at Wisconsin, Goettingen, and the Wellcome.
FINEST SPORTING PANORAMA
33.[FOX HUNTING]. ALKEN, Henry. PANORAMA OF A FOX HUNT. Shewing a Large Scope of the Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire Counties; with all Sorts of Riders, Good, Bad, & Indifferent. R. Ackermann Junr. 191 Regent Street, London. Jany. 1st 1828.£ 3,500 Hand coloured etched panorama [13.5 x 335 cm] with running legend below printed on six sheets and folding into the original decorative gold paper and cloth backed folder; the upper cover with a label of a scene showing four huntsmen, three of them mounted, together with their hounds, preparing for the hunt to commence above a shortened version of the title; title label on inside upper cover; heraldic bookplate of Clarence S Bement; leather label of Joseph Widener and coloured label of Joseph Spitz, also an unobtrusive neat rubber stamp on the verso; contained in a red morocco slipcase, spine lettered in gilt.
19 Considered Alken’s finest sporting panorama. The story on the panorama advances from left to right in one continuous view, captions appearing in the bottom margin: ‘All horse Hunters, who never see the Hounds but once in the day’; ‘Some very doubtful ones’; ‘A good one - but behind from a fall, and Down again’; ‘Podge at a Gate - by some of all sorts, mostly bad’; ‘No Judgment at all’; ‘Excessive Polite’; ‘more Judgment than Pluck’; ‘With more Pluck than Judgment’; ‘Let’s take the Road’; ‘A perfect Snaffle horse’; ‘Steady she goes’; ‘A Horse caught’; ‘Catch my horse’; ‘Slap at anything’; ‘a check’; ‘a Roller’; ‘Have a care - 2 to 1 on a fall’; ‘a positive Railer’; ‘Down for a Dozen’; ‘Go along Bob - that pace will do the trick’; ‘See Ben - how they do push him along’; ‘Hold hard - dont ye cross the Scent’; ‘Wo-e Wo-e’; ‘Tally ho.’ Title and imprint on a sheet attached to extreme right of the panorama. Siltzer states that it was re-issued in 1837 at £1.11.6d on three sheets. Gee, in Sporting Panoramas, describes a state dated as late as Jan. 1st 1840. The panorama was still being advertised by Ackermann in the New Spring Magazine, 18 Mar. 1846, price 31s.6d.
20 THE LEGAL STATUS OF WOMEN
34.GABBA, Carlo Francesco. DELLA CONDIZIONE GIURIDICA DELLE DONNE studi e confronti. Torino, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1880. £ 350
SSSECOND EEEDITION ... 8vo, pp. [ii], 716, [1] index, [1] blank; some browning in places; in the original printed wrappers; some soiling, and chipping to extremities.
Second and significantly enlarged edition, after the first of 1861, of this historical survey of the legal status of women by the Pisan law professor Carlo Francesco Gabba (1838-1920). After a survey of the current laws concerning women, and a statement of the importance of a proper understanding of their peculiar legal standing, Gabba describes the history of women’s rights by drawing heavily on the work of John Stuart Mill and others contemporary writers. He then discusses the laws relating to women among eastern civilisations, in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Christendom, and in modern Italy with the addition of appendices that include a very useful bibliography. Gabba published several works on related subjects, including a study of Italian divorce law and Le donne non avvocate (1884). He is, however, best known for his principle of ‘acquired right,’ which was first promulgated in his most famous book Teoria della retroattività delle leggi (Turin, 1891). OCLC records one copy in North America, in Florida.
HUMAN FACULTIES AND DUTIES
35.GALLO, Pietro. IL POTERE, E IL DOVERE DELL’ UOMO. Dedicato al genio nobile di sua eccellenza la signora Teresa Palfy nata Contessa Daun. In Vienna, appresso Giorgio Lodovico Schulz, stampatore dell’universita. [c. 1765]. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 315, [5] blank, engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on p. [3], woodcut vignettes and initials in the text; stain to outer margin throughout, and in gutter to last two gatherings, otherwise, apart from some foxing in places, text clean; contemporary mottled wrappers, rather rubbed and worn, cracks to spine (but binding holding firm), still a good copy of a very rare work.
21 First edition of this unusual work on the human faculties and duties, by the Italian philosopher Pietro Gallo. Among the subjects covered are truth, God as an innate component of the human soul, the body and the awareness of it in the conscious mind, the intellectual capacities, and the possibility and nature of free will. In the second half of the volume Gallo includes a long section on human error, prejudice and the causes thereof. OCLC records just one copy only, at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (with a different heraldic illustration); not in ICCU, COPAC, KVK locates copies in the Austrian National Libary, the Municipal Library of Bamberg,
BIBLE GAME DEVISED BY FAR FLUNG SISTERS
36.[GAME] WHITNEY, Mary C. and Anna B. THOMAS, Designers . A BIBLE GAME for Sundays… London: S.W. Partridge & Co., Ltd., Paternoster House, Old Bailey. [c. 1905].£ 550 Folding sheet [49 x 49 cm.] mounted on linen and coloured in red and blue; folding down into the original card envelope [18.5 x 18.5], the upper side with a large red and black printed label; also 7 numbered card counters (of 8) together with a printed book of rules 8vo, pp. 32 in pink wrappers.
Mary Caroline Whitney (1867-?), the wife of a Christian missionary living in Japan and Anna Braithwaite Thomas (1869-1943), a British American Quaker living in Baltimore were sisters who appear to have devised their Bible Game around 1900. The game was then marketed by the Partridge company who were specialists in religious and other ‘suitable’ works for children. Modelled on the Wallis’s A New Game of the History of England of the 1820’s, each of the 118 places set in a concentric circle corresponding to questions in the set of rules. To avoid the use of dice, and any association with gambling, a group of numbered cards are used to advance play. As each player lands on an illustrated number the holder of the rule book reads out the associated question. No. 1 is ‘The Creation’; 2) ‘The first Man and Woman’; 3) ‘Who offers the first sacrifice’ - the fall apparently an unsuitable subject for explanation.
22 Some of the questions are unanswerable and are there chiefly for religious instruction. Jesus makes an entrance at no. 118 with the winner landing on the final number 119 that is illustrated with a father instructing a child with the Bible. One wonders if the game was issued to encourage study of the Old Testament as the Bible stories of the New Testament were possibly thought to be too well known.
37.[GARSAULT, François Alexandre Pierre de]. FAITS DES CAUSES CÉLEBRES ET INTERÉSSANTES, augmentés de quelques causes. Amsterdam, Chastelain [i.e. Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert], 1757. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [4], xcii, 408; apart from minor browning in places, a clean and fresh copy in contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands and compartments ornamented in gilt, gilt-stamped morocco lettering-piece, red edges, marbled endpapers; head of spine and corners a little worn.
Attributed, perhaps erroneously, to François Alexandre de Garsault, this collection of famous criminal cases opens with a long preface, where the author states that he is going to present famous cases without the obfuscating argumentations, digressions and quotations of lawyers. He presents plots and facts as straightforwardly as possible, ‘because the speed of a story of which one desires to know the end is more satisfying’ (p. i) than a long narrative interrupted by reflexions and excursions. The author explains further that the laconic style of Montesquieu’s De l’ésprit des lois serves a model to approach legal cases. He then criticizes his predecessor Pitaval, who had published a collection of causes célèbres , for being too poetic, before describing the procedures of criminal courts, from the beginning of the prosecution to all sorts of punishments usual in the ancien régime. The suggested author is more known for his books on horses, technology and natural history than for his interest in criminology and how to narrate criminal cases. The histories of the cases are devided into two groups, grandes causes and petites causes . Among the latter group are the cases of a danseuse at the opera, a cleric pretending to be hermaphrodite, a famous comic actress, or of Bussy-Rabutin, who had been thrown into the Bastille for the circulation of a scandalous chronicle of love affairs ( Histoire amoureuse des Gaules , written in 1660), which did not spare members of the Royal household. Barbier II, col. 422; Weller, Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte II, p. 148; OCLC records North American copies at McMaster, Harvard,
38.GILLOTTE, Colomban. LE DIRECTEUR DES CONSCIENCES SCRUPULEUSES; examinant tous leurs scrupules, & enseignant la maniere de les guérir, selon la doctrine de Gerson, des théologiens, & des Peres de la Vie spirituelle… Paris, chez Edme Couterot, rue S. Jacques, devant la rue du Platre, au Bon Pasteur. 1697. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [xxiv], 266, [2]; corner of L2 torn away one word on recto, and the last line on verso, but without loss of sentence gist; some spotting in places, and light dampstaining to upper half of last few gatherings, with extensive contemporary notes on endpapers, and the ownership signature of L.M. Fleury at head of title; in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, lightly chipped at head and tail, and upper joint cracked at head, nevertheless, still a very appealing copy.
First edition of this rare work on the theory of conscience, by the Francisican tertiary Colomban Gillotte. Writing in a throroughly anti-Jansenist vein, the work takes the form of a catechism. The eight chapters discuss in turn the definition of scruples, thos who are subject to scruples, possible remedies for scruples, scruples that precede distractions, scruples caused by bad thoughts and despair, scruples related to confession, and the necessity of overcoming misery, and ways of accomplishing it. Gillotte largely follows Gerson in his treatment of the matter, quoting him frequently. OCLC records two copies only, at the Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve and the BNF.
23 NOT A SUPPORTER OF FLOGGING
39.[GILLY, William Stephen]. ACADEMIC ERRORS; or, recollections of youth. By a member of the University of Cambridge. London: printed by A. J. Valpy; sold by Law and Co.; Longman and Co.; Baldwin and Co.; Rivington; Barret (Cambridge); Macredie and Co. (Edinburgh); Cuming (Dublin); and all other booksellers, 1817. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. iv, 213; lightly foxed throughout, due to paper stock; in recent marbled boards.
First edition of this account of the author’s childhood, intended as an indictment of the principles by which he was educated. The descriptions of his schooling are highly detailed, and vivid: “By retracing the courses of study pursued during his early years, and explaining the different modes of instruction by which knowledge was imparted to himself, the author has endeavoured to show, in the following pages, that much time is consumed, and an inadequate portion of learning acquired, by persevering in the system of education which is almost universally pursued at present, but that every advantage might be derived from a little innovation. He has been unreserved in his censure of public schools as they are now conducted.” Gilly is critical of unimaginative teaching methods and textbooks, flogging, and the rigidity of his schooling, and touches on Owen’s New Lanark experiments, and the opinions of Samuel Johnson, John Milton, and other. This was Gilly’s first book; he went on to become a curate, widely known for his books describing his many visits to the Vaudois. For some reason this book was once widely and mistakenly ascribed to Rev. Edward Valpy (e.g. in Halkett and Laing). OCLC records copies at Stanford, Delaware, Indiana, Harvard, Wayne State and Missouri.
40.GIOJA, Melchiorre. LOGICA STATISTICA ABBASSATA da Melchiorre Gioja, alla capacità de’giovani agricoltori, artisti, commercianti, novizi in ogni altra professione privata e pubblica… Milano, presso Pirotta e Maspero Stampatori-Librai, Settembre 1808.£ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 344; with large folding table bound in at the end; light foxing in places, otherwise a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf backed mottled boards, spine ruled in gilt with red label lettered in gilt (rather chipped at edges), joints cracked (but holding firm) and head chipped and extremities worn, nevertheless, still an appealing copy of this rare work.
24 First edition of this uncommon and important work on statistics, by the noted Italian economist and philosopher Melchiorre Gioja (1767-1829). This is the main fruit of Gioja’s statistical research, in which lies, according to Schumpeter, his greatest importance. He is notable for having pioneered more rigorous standards in statistics, in which he brought to bear his detailed knowledge of industry, agriculture, business practices and finance. In this, the present work compares favourably to Fourier’s Recherches Statistiques , which followed thirteen years later. Gioja’s work was much admired by later economists and statisticians, and he was a notable influence on McCulloch. Italian Economic Literature in the Kress Library 775; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’; OCLC records one copy only, at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
41.[GREAT EXHIBITION 1851]. EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS, 1851. Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided. Presentation Copy. London: Printed for the Royal Commission, by William Clowes & Sons, 1852. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. Large octavo; with three chromolithograph plates; original red ribbed cloth, boards stamped in gilt and blind, decorative gilt spine, all edges gilt, expertly recased with new endpapers; housed in a modern custom made slipcase red cloth slipcase; a very good copy.
First edition of this key contemporary document concerning the Great Exhibition of 1851, an exhaustive work giving the jury awards and details of the thirty categories of exhibit. “The total effect of The Great Exhibition was considerable, if incalculable” ( Printing and the Mind of Man ). Printing and the Mind of Man 331.
FOREIGN VISITORS TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION LAMPOONED
42.[GREAT EXHIBITION]. PHILLIPS, Watts. THE PALACE OF GLASS or London in 1851. Designed by Watts Phillips and Percy Cruikshank. Drawn & Etched by Watts Phillips.. Published by Ackermann & Co. Strand. [1851]. £ 1,850 Etched strip panorama printed on five sheets concertina-folding into board covers; [152 x 2640 mm]; folding in to original boards, with attractive printed scene (described below) on upper board, spine expertly repaired, lightly dust-soiled and foxed, but still a very appealing copy.
Rare comic British panorama issued to coincide with the Great Exhibition, lampooning the trials and tribulations encountered by foreign visitors. The front cover supplies the title, the names of the designers and artist, imprint, and prices (three shillings plain, five shillings coloured). This text surrounds a model of the Crystal Palace on a collapsable stand. From its roof the ensign flies, Mercury’s caduceus serving as its flagpole. To the right of it stands a showman, hands in pockets, with a trumpet and wearing Mercury’s petasus on his head. In the background are to be seen St Paul’s Cathedral and the Tower of London.
25 The panorama itself consists of nineteen vignettes, beginning with sea-sick foreign visitors arriving at Dover, and then showing the various problems these visitors encounter in an unfamiliar, unforgiving, and generally hostile London. The series concludes with the departure of a titled visitor without paying his bill. The panorama is xenophobic and panders to current fear of foreigners. The foreigners are treated as invaders. They are forced, it would seem, to use a wash house before being allowed entry. Their customs and habits are held up to ridicule. Outside the Crystal Palace, the proposed boarding of a native American and his squaw onto a Kensington omnibus alarms the lady passengers. Confused Indians worship the shop window display in Bramah’s (listed in Kelly’s Post Office London Street Directory as Bramah & Prestage, engineers, Patent locks and water closets, 124 Piccadilly). Chinese visitors cook the landlady’s dog. Friction between foreign visitors and lodging house keepers had appeared in the London press. The Royal Princess’s Theatre, Oxford Street staged a play on the subject entitled Accommodation, in which ‘the Chinese gent’ cooks the pet dog called Fido (see playbill for 3 Oct. 1851 in GL’s playbill colln.; and Theatre Notebook, 58 (2004), p. 128). OCLC records three copies, at Yale, Harvard and the Getty.
26 43.GUALDO PRIORATO, Conte Galleazzo. RELATIONE DELLA CITTÀ DI GENOVA. e suo dominio. Colonia: Pietro de la Place, [Brussels, F. Foppens], 1668.£ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 118, without initial and final blanks; small stains to A 5-6 and C 1, small hole in B 7’; only lightly browned. modern half vellum.
The rare First Edition of Conte Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato’s (1606-1678) history and guide of Genua. Here he lists with short descriptions the 47 churches and 33 principal piazze as well as recording the multitude of local saints and principal families of the region insisting upon their hospitality and splendour of residences. The imprint here, like that to his publication on Lucca issued in the same year, is false. It is entirely likely that this is a front used by the Belgian printer F. Foppens who had issued the French translation Priorato’s Histoire du Traité de Paix, conclue a Saint Jean de Luz entre les deux couronnes of 1659. Indeed the typographic characteristics of the present volume would seem to confirm this, pointing to a northern European origin. It was reissued in 1675 in a collected edition together with the same author’s descriptions of Lucca, Bologna and Florence. The first part of Priorato’s career was the one of a mercenary and military leader, known under the name Galeazzo Gualdo. During the 30-Years-War he was active as a recruiter of soldiers in England, ‘worked’ in the Netherlands, sought to conquer Portuguese trading posts on the Northern African coast, and lost a battle near the Southern German village of Alerheim in 1645. Galeazzo Gualdo finished his military career, and upon returning to his native Italy became a historian, and was in diplomatic service of the Swedish Queen Kristina in Rome. Lozzi, 2121; Parenti, Dizionario dei luoghi di stampa falsi, inventati o supposti , pp. 52-53; OCLC records 6 copies in America, at Universty of California (UCLA and Santa Barbara), Newberry, Harvard, National Gallery of Art, and at University of Cincinnati.
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAMED FOR DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION
44.HASSELL, John. TOUR OF THE GRAND JUNCTION, ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS with an Historical and Topographical Description of those parts of the Counties…Through which the Canal passes, London: J. Hassall, 1819.£ 850
FIRST EDITION. L ARGE PPPAPER CCCOPY ... 8vo, pp. viii, 147, [i] blank, [4] index and ‘Directions for placing the cuts’; 24 coloured aquatint plates, (some occasional offsetting); uncut in modern red straight-grained morocco, with wide gilt tooled border, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt by Bayntun, Bath.
27 ‘A book of considerable interest…with still better plates.’ A celebration of the Grand Union Canal, dedicated to the Proprietors, and a clever attempt to incorporate a commercial concern into the definition of ‘landscape’ and the Picturesque. John Hassell (1767-1825), was both watercolour painter and engraver, was born in Whitechapel, Stepney. He exhibited twenty paintings at the Royal Academy between 1789 and 1819, that including many scenes of waterfalls, castles, and salmon leaps in Wales, and of houses and cities, including a view of the city of Bath. He is best remembered today for the a number of delightful guidebooks, illustrated aquatint from his own drawings. Abbey, Scenery , 30; Tooley 252.
45.[HENRY, David]. AN HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY, its monuments and curiosities. :.. Designed chiefly as a guide to strangers. The new monuments are continued down to the present year. London: Printed at the Minerva Press, for A.K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall Street. 1814. £ 285 12mo, pp. iv, 183, [5] index; with engraved frontispiece, lightly browned and foxed in places; bound in the original printed publisher’s boards; upper board with stain, joints cracked and spine rubbed, extremities rubbed, but still an appealing copy.
Rare Minerva press edition and first edition thus, containing ‘The new Monuments… down to the present year’, of David Henry’s Historical Description of Westminster Abbey , first published in 1753. ‘In addition to numerous articles on antiquities, history, economics, and agriculture in the Gentleman’s Magazine, David Henry (1709-1792) wrote popular guidebooks to the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey (1753 and often revised and reissued). He also edited the first two volumes of An Historical Account of All the Voyages around the World (4 vols., 1773–4, originally published in 48 parts) and accounts of Cook’s second and third circumnavigations (1775 and 1786)’ (Oxford DNB). As the title suggests, the work was published specifically as a tourist guide, and includes much information to that end, including an account of its foundation, the various changes it had undergone, and a ‘general view of all the monuments and Characters, Anecdotes, and Memoirs of the Lives of the Kings and principal Personages interested in the enclosed Chapels, or open Parts of this Abbey’. The present edition is considerably enlarged from first Minerva press printing in 1800, which had 146 pages. OCLC records four copies in North America, at Columbia, Tennessee, Huntsville-Madison County Public Library and the Metropolitan Muesem of Art.
46.[HOMFRAY, Francis]. THOUGHTS ON HAPPINESS, A Poem, in Four Books. Kidderminster: Printed and sold by G. Gower… 1802. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], iii, [i] blank, 5-94, [14] list of subscribers; wanting the half-title, but including the list of subscribers; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with recent red morocco label lettered in gilt; a very good copy.
Scarce first edition of Homfray’s long and serious poem presenting his Thoughts on Happiness .
28 “Ye craggy steeps, whence nodding beeches throw Their chequer’d shadows on the flood below, Where the full river thro’ the valley glides, Crown’d with green alders down his shelving sides!” Francis Homfray (1757-1809) was a member of the family firm of ironmasters which, during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, played a major part in the development of the iron industry in Shropshire, Worcestershire and in South Wales. The subscribers’ list includes several Homfrays, their addresses including Broadwaters, Kidderminster, Hyde near Stourbridge, and Hill near Stourbridge. Johnson 457; Jackson p.267; COPAC & OCLC together locate copies only at BL, Birmingham, Cornell and NYPL.
EVERY POSSIBLE ENCOURAGEMENT
47.HORTON, Robert Forman. LYNDHURST ROAD NEWS SHEET. London: November 1887- October, 1902. £ 300 4to, 61 quarterly issues each of between 8 and 12 pages, earlier issues of 4 & 6 pages (approx. pp. 550); dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
Horton (1855-1934) was one of the leading lights in the revival of the Congregational Church at the turn of the twentieth century. His church newsletter, closely typeset in two columns, has an enormous wealth of social information on this period of social history. ‘Horton called for a meeting of ‘Modern Free Churchmen’ to present Christianity in a form equally removed ‘from Romanism and from Fundamentalism’, complementing the movement of Anglican Modern Churchmen; from this challenge there developed a series of annual theological conferences, in which he participated, and which did much to revitalize Congregational theology and churchmanship. His fifty books and pamphlets had wide circulation during his lifetime. Yale University awarded him an honorary DD.’ (ODNB)
29 Through the News Sheet Horton, reported on the activities of the church, issues settled down to a fairly regular series of articles and although Horton was not the editor he was nevertheless actively involved in planning the format and content of each number. Beginning with a pastoral address to his flock in ‘The Ministers Corner’ followed by ‘New Members,’ sometimes as many as 75 a quarter! ‘Bible Classes,’ ‘Women’s Guild,’ ‘Young Peoples Guild,’ ‘The Sunday School,’ ‘Happy Sunday Afternoons,’ ‘Church Library,’ ‘Lyndhurst Road Friendly Society,’ ‘Members Holiday Fund,’ ‘Kentish Town Mission,’ ‘Kentish Town Adult School,’ ‘The Boys Club,’ ‘Home Missionary Working Society,’ ‘Young Men’s Missionary Fund,’ ‘Children’s corner,’ ‘The Band of Hope’- in fact the number of projects and activities are seemingly endless. The News Sheet also afforded space for correspondence and advertisements, this latter section sometimes with pathetic pleas for work ‘A Young man desires to hear of occupation in cleaning, retaping, and webbing blinds, addressing and delivering envelopes, or other light work.’ ‘The widow of our late friend Mr W. Church… will be glad to undertake the making of children’s cloths or plain sewing.’ This activity was all centred around the Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead. Robert Horton, the driving force, was persuaded by T. T. Curwen, a Hampstead resident, to preach at Sunday services for six months in 1879, and for the whole of 1880. Under his inspiration enthusiastic followers began mission work in Kentish Town. The original iron church often held 600 in space for 440 and a new hexagonal redbrick church by the architect Alfred Waterhouse was built (seating 1500), with a lecture hall and school added later. We have been unable to locate a run of the publications and have found only two issues, one for July 1912 at the BL and another issue for 1935 at the Metropolitan Archives, London.
PUBLISHED TO INTRODUCE HUME TO THE FRENCH PUBLIC
48.HUME, David. PENSÉES PHILOSOPHIQUES, morales, critiques, litteraires et politiques… A Londres, et se trouve a Paris, chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire, rue St. Jacques, au Temple du Gout. 1767.££ 450 FIRST EDITION THUS. 12mo, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. [iv], xii, 416; minor stain just visible to foot of frontispiece, otherwise apart from a few light marks in places, a clean crisp copy throughout; uncut and stitched as issued in the publisher’s original marbled wraps, with paper label titled in ink on spine, wraps rather sunned and rubbed, nevertheless, a very appealing copy, rarely found in such original state. According to the preface, this scarce collection of extracts from Hume’s philosophical and moral essays was put together expressly to equip the French public with an introduction to Hume’s philosophy in the aftermath of the famous quarrel between Rousseau and Hume.
30 This volume contains nearly fifty extracts from Hume’s works translated by J.A.J. de Boulmiers, and contains his views on the freedom of the press, liberty and despotism, fanaticism, inequality, political society, human dignity, justice, poligamy and divorce among others. Jessop p. 10; ESTC records copies at Harvard, McGill, Chicago, Toronto and the Lilly Library in North America, with OCLC adding further copies at UCLA, Yale, Indiana, Princeton, Cornell and Maryland.
A ‘ REMARKABLE HISTORY OF HUMAN THOUGHT ’
49.[HUME]. GALLUPPI, Pasquale. LETTERE FILOSOFICHE SU LE VICENDE DELLA FILOSOFIA, relativamente a’principj delle conoscenze umane da Cartesio sino a Kant inclusivamente. Del Barone Pasquale Galluppi da Tropea. Autore del Saggio filosofico sulla critica della conoscenza. Messina, Presso Giuseppe Pappalardo. 1827. £ 350 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 290, [2] index, [1] errata, [3] blank; occasional foxing throughout (mainly light but stronger in places) due to paper quality, half-title with library label on verso; in recent boards, with the original front printed wrapper laid down and bound in.
Rare first edition of this ‘remarkable history of human thought’ ( Encyclopedia of Philosophy ) by the Italian philosopher Pasquale Galluppi (1770-1846). In the course of twelve letters, Galluppi charts the most important developments in philosophy (and particularly in epistemology) from Descartes to Kant. He examines in turn the direction in which philosophy was lead by Condillac, Locke, Descartes and d’Alembert, Leibniz’s criticisms of Locke, Kant’s adoption of Leibniz’s concept of necessary knowledge, the ways in which Kant construed visible nature (the world of phenomena), and the new problems brought to philosophy by Hume, comparing Hume’s doctines with those of his predecessors, including Malebranche, Bayle and Berkeley. Galluppi goes on to examine the ways in which Reid and his followers attacked Humean scepticism, and the influence of both Scottish schools on Kant’s transcendental idealism, before concluding with an analysis of Kant’s theories on the possibility of metaphysics, and his dialectic. One of Galluppi’s most important works, the Lettere have gone through many editions, being reprinted into the latter years of the last century. Pasquale Galluppi was initially much influenced by Wolff, before studying Kant in depth between 1807 and 1815. However, he was not convinced that Kant’s idealism ultimately amounted to anything more than scepticism, and arrived at a position not far removed from that of the Scottish common-sense school. He became professor of philosophy at the University of Naples in 1831. Jessop p. 69; OCLC records just three copies in North America, at Yale, Harvard, McGill and the University of Connecticut.
50.[ILLINY, György]. DER BETTEL-DICHTER ALS RECHTSFREUND, UND DIE GERICHTS-PFLEGE DES UNTERREICHS; oder: Die jüngste Verkündigung, und die Vertheidigung eines angeblichen Narren. Erster Theil [ all published ]. Miskolcz, gedruckt bei Ludwig Tóth v. Csögle, 1845. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 99; uncut and largely unopened in later Hungarian marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in; wrappers a bit dusty and with one small hole.
The Beggar-Poet as Legal Assistant and the Legal System of the Nether World was written by a mentally deranged messianic Hungarian author, who at the time lived in the North-Eastern Hungarian town of Miskolc. This play, which contains Hungarian verses, although largely written in German, opens with a scene of social realism: An impoverished merchant and poet in his only room with his four children is having breakfast. Other scenes are situated in prison, a hotel, or at a law court
31 in hell, the fantastic and realistic are mingling, a mockery of authoritarian politics and the liberating foreshadow of free-roaming creativity are alternating in this sequence of scenes, which ought to be tried out on the stage. The final scene, entitled The provisional Victory of the persecuted Innocence is a relentless celebration of Hungarian independence with twelve men and women singing a patriotic hymn, whilst the bad guys, the magistrates and other bureaucrats of the regime are in chains. Curtain. Not in MNE, Holzmann-Bohatta, or OCLC; KVK locates one copy, in the Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar.
51.[INDIAN EDUCATION]. MACLEANE, Arthur John. LONG ALS ON THE SUBJECT OF EDUCATION IN INDIA. Guildford, May 1846. £ 450
MMMANUSCRIPT IN INK ... 4to, pp. 31, [3] blank; one leaf damaged with no loss.
By the 1840s education in India had come into conflict within the European community; in one camp were the supporters of Munro and Elphinstone and the ‘Pro-Hindo’ establishment and in another camp the supporters of Lushington and Adam and others who were ‘anti-idolatry’ and pro-missionary. This conflict had spilled over into the workings of the Christian Mission Society of Madras by 1846 and Arthur Macleane (1813-1858), the Principle of Brighton College, gave his own views on how the Society could best cope with the developing situation. Macleane belonged to a branch of the Macleanes of Ardgour which migrated to India after the Jacobite rising of 1745 and achieved great prominence there. His son, also Arthur John Maclean but dropping the final ‘e’ reconnected with Scotland by becoming Episcopal bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness. His letter was drawn up on three points ‘1 The necessity of relieving the present Missionaries from a load of work they are not competent to bear; 2 The expediency of raising up native ministers of an order calculated to command the respect of their congregations; 3 The social claims of the native Christian bodies on the Society which has been the instrument of so materially changing their position.’ Having been born at Madras he clearly felt he could voice an opinion, that he was really up to spead with the current conflict, for he had left India before his teens to attend Winchester School, this did not seem to dissuade him. He had clearly no time for the sensibilities of the ‘Native’ or ‘Heathen’ as he consistently refers to the un- baptised population but instead saw the problem only from his evangilizing position. He suggests that a separate branch of the society should be created for ‘educational purposes in India, that they should secure gentlemen of liberal education on Liberal salary & form, Liberal establishment in their chief Mission that trough
32 these persons & not lately Missionary, that at least as long as the great mass of the population continues to be heathen, preachers should always be among them who shall be simply sent to the heathen & to move others, provision being made for the persons they may be instrumental in bringing to baptism falling into other hands when they shall become part & parcel of the Churches.’ The suggestions are entirely practical in isolation and are clearly a reflection of his educational ideas as they were expounded at Brighton College and later as headmaster of King Edward VI School, Bath. Clearly Macleane saw the need of educating the indian population, but only so for the rather prescriptive use of Christian evangelism. We are unsure of the recipient, but one likely candidate is Henry Venn (1796-1873) one of the foremost Protestant missions strategists of the nineteenth century and the outstanding administrator who served as honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873.
STAINES LITERARY & S CIENTIFIC SOCIETY
52.JONES, Rev. Robert. THREE ADDRESSES, DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY AT STAINES, MIDDLESEX, IN 1835 AND 1836… to which is added a copy of the laws and regulations of such institution. Republished, with a new preface, in the hope of encouraging Literary and Scientific Societies in the Principality of Wales. Bala: Printed by R. Saunderson; and sold by the Principal Booksellers in Wales, 1836.£ 125 FIRST WELSH PRINTING. 8vo, pp. v, [6-] 60; rather dust-soiled and worn, edges of title, prelims and final gathering chipped, but text still clean and readable throughout; stitched and disbound, as issued.
The Staines Literary and Scientific Society was in existence from 1834 until 1870. In the preface, Jones, the vicar of nearby Bedfont, confesses his Welshness: ‘I do not - cannot - forget the happy years of my early life, passed among the mountains of Wales. Memory will stray to the land of my forefathers, patriotism will prompt me to attempt that for the Principality, which I have already affected for Staines and its vicinities’. The first address was given at the first meeting of the Society on New Year’s Day 1835 and the Rev. Jones proves himself to be a talented orator, who embodies the spirit of progress and the urge for dissemination of knowledge and erudition driving the founding of many a learned society outside the capital. Throughout the three addresses Jones attacks the critics’ views that too much knowledge in the hands of the masses was a danger to society. ‘It almost surpasses belief, that a society like ours, whose objects are so pure and admirable - so worthy of universal cordial support - should have one single opponent. Yes so it is. At first, the cry amongst a few was, that we were political, or would inevitably become so. That charge was soon silenced. It is now insinuated, that we are a sectarian society. I would ask, does any man refuse to become guardian or shareholder of a public charity or library, a canal, gas, or rail- road company, because Christians of different denominations happen to belong to either?’ he asks on page 39. On the final six pages are the laws and rules of the Staines society. OCLC & COPAC record one copy, at Cardiff.
ATTRACTIVELY ILLUSTRATED WITH HER OWN DRAWINGS
53.[KNIGHT, Cornelia]. A DESCRIPTION OF LATIUM or la Campagna di Roma, with etchings by the author. London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row 1805.£ 850
33 4to, pp. xi, [1] blank, 268, printed errata slip; engraved map, 20 etched plates, printed in brown and lightly washed in yellow, contemporary green half calf over marbled boards; engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Kinnaird.
Rare first edition of Cornelia Knight’s principal illustrated work, most attractively illustrated with her own drawings. Cornelia and Lady Knight had moved abroad settling in Rome in order to economise, Cornelia devoted her time to drawing and amassed almost 1,800 drawings, learnt Swedish, apparently her tenth language and generally formed part of the intellectual British diaspora at Rome and Naples. On the death her mother Cornelia put herself under protection of the Hamilton’s at Rome. She returned to Britain in 1800 but by the time she dedicated A Description of Latium to Queen Charlotte she decided not to include any reference to the now notorious ménage à trois of the Hamiltons and Nelson. Her friends advised her that her association was damaging her reputation and so Cornelia immediately left and severed her connections with her erstwhile patrons, much to their disgust. ‘Emma gave vent to her feelings by writing in a copy of Molière she had been given by Knight: “Altho she is clever and learned She is dirty ill bred ungrateful bad mannered false and deceitful. But my Heart takes a noble vengeance I forgive her”.’ [ODNB]. Cornelia, artist and author, lived in Italy with her mother from 1777 until the death of the latter in 1799. She became then a companion to Queen Charlotte in 1805 and governess to Princess Charlotte in 1813, until her dismissal the following year. Cornelia went abroad again in 1816 where she remained until her death in Paris.
“ IT WILL HARDLY BE EXCELLED , IF IT BE EQUALLED , IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ” (WE SLE Y )
54.LAW, William. A SERIOUS CALL TO A DEVOUT AND HOLY LIFE. Adapted to the state and condition of all orders of Christians…. London: Printed for William Innys, at the West End of St Paul’s. 1729. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], vi, 499, [5] advertisements; minor stain just visible in gutter throughout, otherwise text clean; bound in contemporary panelled calf, with early reback, ruled in gilt with green morocco label lettered in gilt, upper board detached, some minor chipping to head, and rubbing to corners, but still an appealing copy.
First edition of William Law’s Serious Call , one of the major moral texts of the eighteenth century which was to have a profound effect on some of the major writers of the time.
34 ‘It is the Serious Call , a plea for a return to the practice of private individual piety, in an unadorned, lucid and deeply moving style, on which [Law’s] reputation chiefly stands. Its peculiar force is difficult to convey; authorities as different as Gibbon, Lord Lyttelton and George Whitefield spoke enthusiastically of it. Samuel Johnson attributed to it his first earnest attention to religion. But the most significant testimony is that of John Wesley, who reaped where Law had sown. Writing after they had parted company, he said: “it will hardly be excelled, if it be equalled, in the English language, either for beauty of expression or for justice and depth and thought”’ (PMM). Printing & the Mind of Man 187.
LOCKE & B ERKELEY EXAMINED
55.[LOCKE]. [TESTA, Giovanni Domenico]. RIFLESSIONI SULLE MEMORIE presentate alla Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Parigi dal Signor du Tour corrispondente della medesima intorno ad una questione d’ottica. A Roma, nella Stamperia Salomoni alla piazza di Sant’ Ignazio. 1780.£ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 138, [1] Imprimatur, [1] blank; with one folding engraved plate; apart from light dust-soiling to title and a few minor marks in places, a clean copy throughout; in recent mottled boards.
First edition of this response to Dutour’s Discussion d’une question d’optique of 1760, by the prolific Italian scientific and philosophical writer Domenico Testa (1746-1832). Dutour had reported that when two different images are shown to each eye, only one of them is seen at any time, with the visible image alternating every one or two seconds. This has come to be known as binocular rivalry. In assessing and criticizing Dutour’s article, which had appeared in the periodical of the Paris Academy, Testa he develops a physical theory of vision, based - as he says - on experiments and first-hand observation. He touches as well on the philosophy of sensualism, in refering to Locke, Malebranche, Leibniz and Gassendi. In a letter to a friend, beginning on page 90 Testa explains his Latin essay De sensuum usu in perquirenda veritate . This letter contains a philosophy of vision and the senses as a means to gain knowledge of the truth, in which the positions of Berkeley and Locke are examined. Blake p. 447; OCLC adds one further copy in America, at University of Miami Medical School.
35 DISCOVERY OF X- RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
56.LODGE, Sir Oliver. THE DISCOVERY OF RADIOACTIVITY, and its influence on the course of physical science. Becquerel Memorial Lecture. (Delivered on October 17th, 1912). .£ 285 ORIGINAL OFFPRINT, PRESENTATION COPY. pp. [2005], 2006-2042 [2] blank; half tone portrait; original printed wrappers; extremities chipped. Inscribed ‘Major McMahon from the the author.’ probably the mathematician Major Percy Alexander MacMahon (1854-1929).
This neat summary, divided into two parts, includes a general history of modern science followed by an historical account of Henri Becquerel and members of this famous scientific family. The most interesting part, however, is Lodge’s discussion of X-Ray defraction. He had evidently talked with various scientists working on what turned out to be the discovery of X-ray crystallography and unconsciously wove this into his narrative. Lodge commented ‘This, if it be a fact, will have to be recognised as a striking and admirable ease of scientific production, the various crystalline structures and accuracy of characteristic facets having been indicated by theory long before there was any hope of actually seeing them; so that once more always assuming that the heralded discovery is substantiated the theoretical abstraction will have become concrete and visible’ (see André Author Early Days of X-ray Crystallography OUP, 2013, p. 3 Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), English physicist, obtained his BSc degree and his DSc from the University of London. After being Professor of Physics and Mathematics at University College, Liverpool, he became the first principal of the new Birmingham University in 1900, remaining there until his retirement in 1919. He elaborated on Maxwell’s other theory and is well known for his work on electrolysis, electromagnetic waves, and wireless telegraphy.
57.[LOGETTE]. REGNAULT-DELALANDE, François-Léandre. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ DE LA RARE ET PRÉCIEUSE COLLECTION D’ESTAMPES, et de quelques tableaux, bronzes, porcelaines, et meubles du cabinet de feu M. Logette, négociant. Paris, Leblanc for Guyot and Regnault-Delalande, 1817. £ 650 8vo, pp. x, 64, 3; a little foxed in places; later half-calf over marbled boards, spine ornamented in gilt, gilt- stamped green morocco lettering-piece on spine; prices and buyers’ names entered in ink.
The collection of 191 lots contained fine prints from the 15th century, including an example of Adam and Eve by Dürer which was purchased by Claussius for 372 francs; two works by Mantegna La Sainte Vierge and Les Disciples de Jésus-Christ , fetching 230 and 100 francs. Lucas van Leyden’s Pilate of 1510 making 300 francs; Rembrandt’s Résurrection du Lazare with a provenance of the cabinet de Valois was sold for 549.95 francs. Contemporary works by Raphaël Morghen were making as much if not more than the old masters in the sale, probably somewhat like ‘Brit Art’ today. Also included are a number of works Marcantonio Raimondi, Hollar, Vissher, and Bartolozzi together with some representatives of the English School, such as William Woollett and Robert Strange. Lugt 9131; OCLC locates a single copy, at University of Iowa.
36 RARE Z OOLOGICAL LOTTERY GAME
58.[LOTTERY GAME]. NEUES ZOOLOGISCHES LOTTOSPIEL - JEU DE LOTTERIE ZOOLOGIQUE. - THE ZOOLOGICAL LOTTERY. Germany: circa 1840.£ 3,000 Lottery game with two sets of six hand-coloured lithograph illustrated cards [each 21 x 14.5 cm]; 90 printed cards printed on yellow paper (text in German, French and English) in a cloth bag; 12 glass counters in a patterned cloth bag, and pp. 4 instruction leaflet in French and German; all contained in the original blue painted wooden box; the sliding lid with a label printed with the title in three languages in gilt [ 23 x 16.5 x 5.5 cm].
A fine and rare zoological lottery game, the instructions of which explain that it is based on the mammals according to the Classes of mammals as described in the natural histories of Buffon, Schreber, Cuvier, Schinz, etc. The game could be played with two to twelve players and two sets of 12 cards are provided in order to make the game both fun and instructive. One set of cards has the animals ordered in classes, the other set more random with the subdivisions of each class spread across the cards. Before the game starts it is decided if the winner will be the first to complete a horizontal line of three, four or five animals. Each card is illustrated with five columns each with three illustrations associated with one class of animal. One of the yellow cards describing a mammal is drawn from a bag and whoever has the animal on their card can place a glass circular counter matching the card. Quite a number of the animals are the more common badgers, rabbits, guinea pigs etc. together with the more exciting lion, leopard and then the more exotic kangaroo, giraffe, rat of Illinois or the duck billed platypus, here egregiously named as a ‘red palustris’ which is in fact a shrub! Of course the first class of ‘Two handed animals’ have a European, Mongal and lastly Negro in their historical hierarchy
MONARCHY , REPUBLICANISM , AND SOCIALISM
59.[MACHIAVELLI]. FONTANA, Bartolommeo. DEL PRINCIPE NELLE DOTTRINE POLITICHE del nostro tempo. Firenze Roma Torino, Fratelli Bocca Librai Ediori, 1883.£ 285 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vii], [i] blank, 160; some spotting and foxing throughout; uncut in the original printed wrappers, bound in recent maroon half calf over marbled boards, with spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
Rare first edition of this study of the role of the prince according to modern political thought.
37 Obviously drawing heavily on the work of Macchiavelli, the work is divided into four parts. In the first, Fontana presents his thesis, examining the various political needs of the late nineteenth century, and the solutions proposed by communists, legalists, socialists and nihilists. He then goes on to discuss the best form of government, the nature of supreme authority, and Macchiavelli’s Il Principe , both on its own and seen in the light of the work of Vico and Dante. In the third part, Fontana discusses the philosophy of history, while in the fourth, he examines practical matters, including whether a republic is preferable to a principality, the abolition of property rights, and the urgent reforms he sees as necessary. We have been unable to find any information about the author. OCLC records just one copy, at Harvard.
MAID WRONGLY ACCUSED
60.[MAID]. THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE, or, the real Thief detected. An Entertaining Tale. Founded upon a well-known fact an Amiable Girl who was sentenced to suffer upon strong circumstantial Evidence of stealing various Articles of Plate, which were afterwards found to have been stolen by a Magpie. London, printed and published by R. Harrild. [n.d., c. 1815].£ 385 FIRST EDITION THUS. 12mo, pp. 29 [ie. 28, final two pages misnumbered]; with hand-coloured frontispiece and hand-coloured engraved vignette to title; some light marking and occasional staining; small stain to the frontispiecel in later decorative paper wrappers, lightly rubbed to extremities, else very good. First edition under this title of this entertaining tale, with charming handcoloured frontispiece and title. ‘This dramatic piece, is founded on a trial in France, of a maid servant, who was accused of robbing her master of jewels, &c. to a considerable amount, and who was convicted and executed on PRESUMPTIVE EVIDENCE - The story, as here related in the following pages, is a brief narrative of piece, as first performed in Paris, under the title of La Pie Voleuse, or The Magpie Thief ; and, since that, at the Lyceum, under the name of the The Maid and the Magpie, or Which is the Thief! with unbounded and sympathetic applause, by crowded audiences, who seemed to apply several parts of the performance to the case of a late unfortunate female’ (p. 5). OCLC records two copies, at Princeton and the Morgan; Copac lists a similar title, issued by R. Pratt, around the same time.
38 61.MALAVASI, Luigi. MANUALE DEI CASI URGENTI IN MEDICINA … Con tavole sinottiche. Parte prima [-seconda]. Modena, tipografia Vincenzi e Rossi, 1840.£ 450 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. vi, 288; [i], [i] blank, 289-427, [1] blank, [1], [1] blank, with 17 leaves of synoptic tables; aside from some light spotting in places, and a tear to gutter of a few leaves, not affecting text, clean and fresh throughout; in the original pink printed wrappers; lower wrapper of volume one replaced with facsimile, spines repaired.
First edition of this uncommon survey of injury and acute disease, detailing the diagnosis and cure (based on herbal and mineral remedies) of some 234 illnesses and injuries. After an introduction in which Malavasi draws a distinction between serious and trivial acute diseases, and gives general advice on the administration of medicines, the work discusses life-threatening (and dangerous- seeming) conditions, including asphyxiation, syncope, lightning strikes, poisoning (with minerals, plants, and narcotics, as well as from snake bites), fevers, haemorrhages, neuralgia, convulsions, epilepsy, apoplexy, angina, colic, and finally cholera. The work concludes with four synoptic tables, dealing in turn with what to do when breathing stops and when the heart stops, with apoplexy, and with the identification of mineral poisons. OCLC records copies at Harvard, the National Library of Medicine, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the French National Library.
62.MANSION, Léon Larue. LETTRES SUR LA MINIATURE… A Paris, chez Louis Janet, Libraire, et chez l’Auteur… Londres, R. Ackermann… M. Mayaud… 1823.£ 185
SSSECOND EEEDITION ... 12mo, pp. [ii], 244; with folding handcoloured frontispiece; lightly foxed throughout, due to paper stock; contemporary morocco backed mottled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
Second edition, the year after the first, of this uncommon but influential work by the French miniaturist André Léon Larue (1785-1870), in which he describes in a series of letters the principles of miniature painting. Translated also into English and German, the work consists of 23 letters, which, in an almost novelistic style, explain the difficulties inherent in miniature painting, the techniques required, the dangers of wedding oneself to the style of a particular painter, the uses of materials such as gum arabic, the risks of polishing one’s work too soon, and a history of the principal French miniaturists and their work. Larue (often known as Mansion) was a pupil of Isabey and native of Nancy. OCLC records four copies in North America, at Yale, Northern Illinois, the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
39 BY A TRUE RENAISSANCE MA N
63.MANTEGAZZA, Paolo. LE DONNE DEL MIO TEMPO. Roma, Enrico Voghera, 1905.£ 150 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xv, 293, portrait-frontispiece within pagination; browned due to paper stock, a few brown spots in upper margins; contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, gilt-stamped brown morocco lettering piece; bookplate De Cosson inside front cover.
First edition of this rare collection of short stories by the politician, physician, anthropologist and novelist Paolo Mantegazza (1831–1910), dedicated to the “donne dell’oggi, perchè ci preparino la donna dell’avvenire”. The titles of the stories speak for themselves, and include “Due vergini modelle”, “Una venditrice di amore”, “Quant’era bella!”, and “Una contessa eccentrica”. The tenor of the stories echoes the enthusiasm for female beauty found in Mantegazza’s earlier Fisiologia della donna (1893). Mantegazza was a true renaissance man: he practiced medicine in South America before returning to Italy, where he became a deputy and then a Senator in the Italian parliament. He conducted research, enthusiastically, into the uses of cocaine, and corresponded with Darwin. His writings on women pay particular attention to the differences between the appearances of various European nationalities, and while he thought that while “civil progress will lead us gradually to demand other virtues from the daughters of Eve… as long as man walks the planet, the primary virtue of woman as far as he is concerned will be that of being beautiful”. Bound with the Mantegazza is Un Salotto Fiorentino del Secolo scorso , by Edmono de Amicis (Firenze, Barbèra, 1902). Cf. Gundle, S., Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy , Yale UP, 2007, p.55 ff; OCLC locates a single copy in America, in Berkeley.
FIRST HAND REPORT OF A TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
64.[MARCUS]. WEINTZ, Philipp Jacob. BERICHTIGUNG EINIGER SÄTZE in der so ebenen erschienenen Schrift des Hn. Medicinal-Director Marcus über den herrschenden contagiösen Typhus nebst Uebersichten des Krankenstandes vom 20. März bis letzten Juli der hiesigen Militärspitäler, und zwei Krankengeschichten mit eben soviel andern Belegen. Bamberg, 1813.£ 385
40 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 110, 2 folding tables, [1] errata, [1] blank; some light foxing in places, but otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary tree calf witth red gilt-stamped lettering-piece, spine ornamented in gilt; marbled endpapers; front cover with small area worm-damaged.
Weintz, a military physician, was led to publish this work by an insubstantial squabble with Marcus about the absence of some medical staff during the typhoid epidemic, which had infected the author himself whilst working. However, the value of the work lies in the frank first-hand report by Weintz, of the development of the epidemic and the reactions of the medical authorities and contradictory teachings on typhoid fever. On page 33 starts My Views on the present contagious Typhoid Fever , where Weintz, heavily influenced by philosophical idealism applied to medicine and Naturphilosophie of which Schelling was the local exponent, describes the nature and course of the disease, in the individual and in general, before giving two detailed case histories of diseased and cured soldiers. The recommended diet of convalescent patients seems to consist almost exclusively of veal, wine and beer. The folding tables at the end of the volume are statistics concerning the typhoid cases of two military hospital in the region of Bamberg. Weintz’s criticism was a repost to Adalberg Friedrich Marcus’s Über den jetzt herrschenden, ansteckenden Typhus , published earlier in the year separately and in his Ephemeriden der Heilkunde . Marcus (1753-1816) was a celebrated practitioner and organiser of the health system in Bamberg during the Napoleonic wars, benefactor of the local theatre and friendly with the Bamberg Romantic circle comprising E. T. A. Hoffmann, Jean Paul (Friedrich Richter), Rückert, Feuerbach, and Schelling, with whom he co-edited a medical periodical. OCLC records two copies outside Germany, at Florida State and McGill.
65.MARLBOROUGH, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of. RELATION DE LA CONDUITE QUE LA DUCHESSE DOUAIRIÈRE DE MARLBOROUGH, a tenuë à la cour, depuis qu’elle y entra, jusqu’a l’an 1710. écrite par elle-même dans une lettre à My Lord *** ; traduite de l’anglois. A La Haye, chez P. Paupie & A. Johnson, 1742. £ 350
41 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. 8vo, pp. xii, 368, [4]; a clean copy throughout; bound in contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink, lightly dust-soiled, but still a handsome and appealing copy.
Scarce first French translation of this racy autobiographical account of the life and conduct of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, written with the assistance of Nathaniel Hooke. The first edition, entitled An Account of the conduct of the Dowager Duchesse of Marlborough appeared in the same year, only two years before the Duchess’s death in 1744. Churchill was noted both for her wide influence at court, as a confidante of Queen Anne, and as a scion of the Marlborough dynasty, whose members were to include Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales.
66.[MARTIN, Père ]. REGNAULT-DELALANDE, François-Léandre. CATALOGUE D’ESTAMPES ANCIENNES ET MODERNES, oeuvres, recueils, galeries, antiquités, voyages, vies etc…. Paris, Leblanc for Chariot and Regnault-Delalande, 1816. £ 500 8vo, pp. [2], iii, 50; a little spotted in places, final leaf remargined at bottom; partly uncut in late 19 th -century cloth-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, minor scratches to covers; contemporary ownership inscription to title.
The printdealer’s stock was catalogued by Regnault-Delalande (1762-1824) an engraver, painter and writer on art, who specialized in well researched sales catalogues, As highlights of this sale, mainly of prints, he points out works by Annibale Caracci, Dürer, Hollar, the main work by Goltzius and a several Rembrandts. Lugt 8897; OCLC lists only a microfilm.
ALL HUMANITY DISSECTED
67.[METAMORPHOSES GAME]. COMICAL CHARACTER-METAMORPHOSES. Caratteri e metamorphosi jocosi - Komische Karakter Metamorphosen - Metamorphoses de Caracteres comiques - Caracteres y metamorphosis burlescos. [Germany, Nurnberg?] [n.d., c. 1860’s].£ 2,750 Complete with 60 trapezoid, triangular and rectangular pieces pieces, comprising 12 hand coloured lithograph figures, [12.5 x 8.3 cm] each heightened in gum arabic and dissected into 5 pieces to make 12 characters displaying different moods (listed below); contained in the original wooden box overlaid with patterned paper, the sliding lid with a hand coloured lithograph label displaying a group of characters and the title in five languages, some light wear and minor toning, but generally in fine condition.
42 A fine inventive metamorphous game probably designed by Georg Wolfgang Faber, one of the very best draughtsman of this form of distraction for bored children. The game consists of twelve sets of lithograph figures; each dissected into five shaped wooden pieces; a medley of the characters are also shown on the lid entering through a curtained doorway of a circus booth and handing in their tickets. The dissected figures include: 1) The Idleness: with a angry man with torn cloths seated on hay with a pitcher of beer spilling its contents; 2) The Humility: a priest in black, head bowed, with an alter behind him; 3) The Sagesse [sage]: comic figure of a quack in scarlet and gilt braided costume selling a bottle of medicine; 4) The Mourning: of a lady dressed all in black, with a sorrowful countenance behind her veil and holding a white handkerchief; 5) The anger: a rather angry man in a fur lined green jacket holding a dagger with his fierce dog at his side; 6) The Prodigality: an anamorphic figure of a bear in a long frock coat with a basket of bottle wine in one arm and the other with a tray of sausage and chicken in the other; 7) The Folly: and anamorphic character of a donkey with a wreath of corn and holding a book in one hand and holding a finger up to his audience in the act of giving bad advice; 8) The Pride: a gentleman strutting forth with his chain of office, ceremonial sword and medals; 9) The Avarice a thin man in a patched up dressing gown holding in one arm a sack of money with a chest of coins at his side; 10) The Deligence [sic]: of a cobbler puffing on his clay pipe and concentrating on stitching a boot in his lap with the tools of his trade about him; 11) The Joy: a man in a green coat alighting from a boat onto the terra firma; and 12) The sanftness [softness]; the only female figure, showing a young woman with a garland of flowers in her hair, a pet dog in one arm and a bird on her shoulder. The makers seem to have had difficulty in translating some of the subjects names and in one instance just gave up altogether. A copy of the game, alas incomplete with only 40 pieces, is held at the Joseph Johnson collection at the Bodleian, Oxford.
68.MILN, Robert. A COURSE OF PHYSICO- THEOLOGICAL LECTURES upon the state of the world, from the creation to the deluge. Carlisle: printed by J. Milliken: and sold by R. Faulder, Bookseller, New Bond Street, London, 1786. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxiv, [ii], 383, [1] blank; with a list of subscribers; apart from some minor light foxing in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a handsome and appealing copy.
First edition of this unusual attempt to combine recent geological discoveries by Deluc and Whitehurst with the biblical account of the Creation. Miln divides his work into twelve lectures, each taking as its cue an element of the Creation account in Genesis, from the Creation itself, through the Fall and Cain’s banishment, to the Flood, to articulate, as he states in the preface, “my theory of the curse upon the ground, and of the natural means employed by the Creator for the destruction of the old world”, the second of which is largely derived from the work of Deluc. In this way he seeks to explain the existence of fossil remains from a creationist viewpoint. Miln was a clergyman who graduated from Cambridge and worked in the North of England. The extensive list of subscribers is arranged according to town, and is, with the exception of London, almost entirely Northern. Among the subscribers is William Paley, whose work echoes some of the themes found here. ESTC records four copies in the UK, at the British Library, Liverpool University, Marsh’s Library and the National Library of Scotland, with three further copies recorded in North America, at the Library Company of Philadelphia, Union Theological Seminary and UCLA.
43 REGENCY PATTERN -BOOK
69.MIDDLETON, Charles. DESIGNS FOR GATES AND RAILS SUITABLE TO PARKS, PLEASURE GROUNDS, Balconys, &c., also some Designs for Trellis Work. London, Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn, [c. 1810]. £ 300 8vo, 27 engraved plates including decorative title; modern marbled boards, with cloth spine.
Charles Middleton (1756- c. 1820), architectural draughtsman, was a pupil of James Paine and superintended the reconstruction of Carlton House to the designs of Henry Holland. He published two collections of designs for smaller domestic buildings which appeared as Picturesque and Architectural Views for Cottages, Farm Houses and Country Villas , engraved by himself in 1793, and The Architect and Builders Miscellany which came out in 1795 and contained a series of plans and elevations “through all the gradation of Buildings, from the Primitive Hutt, to the superb Mansion”. The present title, though, is entirely devoted to miscellaneous designs for the embellishment of parks and gardens. The 26 plates, not counting the decorative title, illustrate a whole array of rustic fences and gates in wire work, iron and timber, some supported by simple wooden posts and others flanked by grand brick or stone pedestals. At the end are added six engravings of orangeries and other small garden buildings to which quite elaborate trellis work has been added as a support for vines or other climbers. A fine copy of this charming Regency pattern-book. Colvin, 3rd edition, p. 652; not in Archer or Berlin Katalog.
THE INSPIRATIONAL QUALITIES OF PLANTS
70.MONTOLIEU, Maria Henrietta. THE ENCHANTED PLANTS, Fables in Verse. Inscribed to Miss Montolieu, and Miss Julia Montolieu. London, Printed by Thomas Bensley, 1800. £ 450 FIRST EDITIONEDITION.... 8vo, pp. [vi], 93, [1] imprint; with engraved frontispiece, but without the half-title; with 13 original hand- coloured illustrations of flowers at chapter ends and in bottom margins, each signed ‘CH’; some light dust-soiling in places, but generally clean throughout; in contemporary continental? half sheep over mottled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, spine, joints and boards a bit rubbed, nevertheless, still an appealing copy.
First edition this series of moral verses by Maria Henrietta Montolieu on subjects such as gambling, scandal and vulgarity drawing on the inspirational qualities of plants and dedicated to her two children. ‘One of the most popular of these flower personification books for children was a collection of fables entitled The Enchanted Plants, by Maria Henrietta Montolieu (1800). Flora grants the narrator’s wish to understand the speech of the flowers, and the narrator proceeds to teach a number of moral lessons using flowers. In Montolieu’s poems, the flowers are much more humanized than in the older fables’ (Seaton). Maria Henrietta Montolieu was the wife of the wonderfully named Louis Montolieu de St. Hippolite, a partner in Hammersley’s Bank, Pall Mall. Descended from a line that escaped France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he married our author at St. George’s, Hanover Square, 3 March 1786. They had a son, Charles, who died a student at Oxford in 1809, and two daughters, the dedicatees of this work, one of whom Maria Georgina married in 1822, Hugh Hammersley of Pall Mall, and the other Julia Fanny who married, firstly William Wilbraham, Capt. R.N., and secondly Sir Henry Bouverie, Governor of Malta. Maria’s husband was, coincidentally, the first cousin once removed of the authoress, Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832), who wrote Caroline de Lichfield and translated The Swiss Family Robinson and several works by Jane Austen in to French.
44 The work has the bookplate of George Martin Barnard (1799-1859) a Clerk in the Treasury who retired and died at Nice, hence the continental binding. The illustrations are each signed C.H. but we have no idea who this may be, although it may well be the precocious and prolific Charles Heath (1785-1848) who had produced his first etching aged six. ESTC records five copies in North America, at Cornell, Florida State, Oregon State, Alberta and UCLA; See ‘Towards a Historical Semiotics of Literary Flower Personification’ Beverly Seaton: Poetics Today , Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 679-701.
BY A MEMOIRIST & P ROSTITUTE
71.MUILMAN, Teresia Constantia. A LETTER HUMBLY ADDRESS’D TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. by Mrs. Teresia Constantia Muilman. London: Printed for the Author; and sold at her House in White-Hart-Street, Queen Square. 1750.£ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 41, [1] blank; in recent marbled wraps.
The author, a rather notorious courtesan, who claims to have been a youthful lover of Chesterfield’s, here attempts to blackmail him with her ‘Letter Humbly Address’d’, in which she contrasts the moral standards of the Whole Duty of Man with the practices of a ‘highborn debauchee’. Memoirist and prostitute Teresa Constantia Phillips (1709-65), was ruined by a man whom she referred to as “Mr Grimes” whilst still in her teens. In 1750 she addressed a printed letter to Lord Chesterfield and the writer in ODNB deduces that Chesterfield was Grimes. In 1723 she married Henry Muilman but Henry’s father threatened him with financial ruin unless he left her. From 1724 to 1748 she was ‘kept’ by various aristocratic paramours. Her notorious career was the subject of numerous contemporary satires and lampoons. ESTC T82111.
FEMALE LUXURY
72.NADAL, Augustin. DEL LUSSO DELLE GENTILDONNE ROMANE del Signor Abate Nadal. Dissertazione prima Dell’acconciatura del capo, e de belletti. Dissertazione seconda Intorna alle vesti… In Venezia, per Antonio Groppo, 1754. £ 250
SSSECOND IIITALIAN EEEDITION ... Small 4to, pp. 22; a clean fresh copy; in modern mottled wraps, to style.
45 A superb copy of these two rare dissertations by the French historian and playwright Augustin Nadal, on the subject of female luxury in ancient Rome,. Nadal’s two dissertations deal in turn with hairdressing and cosmetics and with clothing, and describe the habits of Roman women, drawing heavily on the writings of Tertullian (not the most impartial guide), as well as Ovid, Augustine, Plautus, and Seneca. The work first appeared in Italian as part of Dissertazioni tratte da’ registri della Reale Accademia delle Iscrizioni, e Belle Lettere di Parigi , having previously been published as Luxe des dames romaines in volume 4 of the Mémoires de l’Académie d’Inscriptions . Aside from his academic dissertations and his Histoire des Vestales (1725), Nadal composed five tragedies: Saül (1705), Hérode (1709), Antiochus, ou les Machabées (1722), Marianne (1725) and Osarphis , all on classical or biblical subjects. OCLC records only microform copies.
NA POLE ON ’S FINAL JOURNEY
73.[NAPOLEON]. ‘NAPOLÉON AUX INVALIDES - NAPOLEON AT THE INVALIDES’ [The ‘Retour des Cendres’] [Paris, 1840]. £ 1,500
TTTHE FUNERAL SERVICE IS SHOWN IN PROGRESS ... Strip panorama measuring [15 x 306 cm] and made up of four sheets conjoined, some spotting and occasion minor tears to a few folds; folding into original stiff boards [16.5 x 22.5 cm] lined with lime green paper; the front cover with a lithograph entitled ‘Napoléon aux Invalides/ Napoleon at the Invalides,; the rather macabre English steel engraving, ‘The Opening of the Coffin of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena October 16th 1840’, has been pasted to the inside of the back cover.
The story of the ‘retour’ unfolds on the panorama from left to right in a sequence of scenes forming a more or less a seamless image that takes the viewer from the grave at St Helena to Les Invalides at Paris. The scenes that form the tableau are identified in the bottom margin in French and English. The first scene shows the ‘Tomb of Napoleon at St Helena’ where exhumation took place which are followed with scenes of the embarkation with the French frigate the Belle-Poule; the arrival at Cherbourg; and the transportation of the body from Rouen to the Courbevoie Wharf where disembarkation occurred. Then comes the procession to the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Élysées as far as the Place de la Concorde. In the final scene the procession continues towards the Pont de la Concorde. Les Invalides and the Chambre des Députés, in the distance and on the other side of the Seine, can be distinguished. A long textual description of the ‘retour’ and the ceremony is pasted down inside the front cover.
COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE
74.PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti. RURAL RESIDENCES, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings; accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement, and decoration… interspersed with observations on landscape gardening. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, by Sedding and Turtle, 30, Arundal Street, 1832. £ 1,250
46 SSSECOND EEEDITION ... Large 8vo, pp. [i-] viii, [9]-108 [2] ‘index of plates’ and imprint; 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates (light stain at foot of title and frontispiece and a few minor marks in places; original green cloth, upper and lower covers decorated with dolphin and fountain design; spine blocked and lettered in gilt (chips to head & foot).
One of the most attractive and charming of the ‘cottage architecture’ books, a triumph of the picturesque imagination over mundane necessity. The versatile author Papworth provides a host of ornamental and picturesque designs for peasant dwellings, farm houses, dairies, thatched and flowered cottages ornés, fishing lodges, garden seats, and verandahs. The accompanying text explains the underlying theories, and encourages - through example and sound architectural guidance - the liberal, moral and aesthetic transformation of a gentleman’s estate in all its aspects. Abbey, Life , 45; Archer 246.2 (first edition); Colvin, p. 437.
BY A PUPIL OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
75.PHILLIPS, Watts. AN ACCOMMODATION BILL [cover title ]. [London], D. Bogue, [c. 1840].££ 500 12mo, one continuous etched strip composed of 18 concertina folded leaves; a little browned, a few minor spots; original illustrated boards; a little worn and spotted, rebacked.
Fine panoramic cartoon strip by Phillip Watts describing a case of one bill of exchange (accommodation bill, - paper, -note, or windbill) endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor as a favour and without compensation. The story ends with a Grand Tableau - Burning of the Bill . Phillip Watts (1825-1874) was a pupil of George Cruikshank and published caricatures in Punch in the mid- 1840s. He lived some years in Paris, where he closely observed the political upheavals before settling in London as a playwright and novelist, virtually abandoning art.
47 76.[PITSCHAFT, George]. ÉLIE, Charles. CATALOGUE DE LA COLLECTION DE TABLEAUX, de feu George Pitschaft… Paris, Charles Élie and Jolusot, 1811.£ 550 8vo, pp. [iv], 64; occasional light browning; late 19 th -century brown half-cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt.
Pitschaft was ‘premier Conseiller des Finances, et Directeur des Douanes’ to the elector of Mayance/Mainz but later went to Paris where he enhanced his collection, featuring ‘des grands noms’ of the history of painting. His sons appear to have placed the collection in the hands of Élie for this sale. The three-page note on item 163, a Raphael of 1513, had been researched and written by the deceased collector himself. Lugt 7968; OCLC locates a single copy, at the Bavarian State Library.
PRIVATELY PRINTED AT THE AUTH OR ’S OWN PRESS IN BRECKNOCK
77.POOLE, Edwin. OLD WELSH CHIPS. January to December, 1888. Brecknock, Printed and published by the author, at his Press, 1888. £ 285 8vo, pp. xi, 378, [2, advertisements], (issue 9 misbound), Welsh coat-of-arms on half-title; the initial seven and the final, advertisement leaf a little foxed, inner margin of p. 249 a little discoloured; uncut in contemporary half-calf over cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped red morocco lettering-pice on spine; extremities rubbed, but stable; ink inscription Charles L. Breese from Robert G. Geach. May. 28. 1899 on verso of front fly-leaf, armorial bookplate Charles Arthur Wynne Finch on front paste-down.
Scarce privately published and printed antiquarian, biographical and bibliographic periodical written and produced by the Welsh journalist, printer, and local historian Edwin Poole (1851-1895). ‘About 1866 he went to Brecon to work in the Brecon County Times office, but in 1889 he started the Brecon and Radnor Express , which he edited. He interested himself in the history of Brecon and of Brecknock, and published a number of books, of which the best-known are History of the Breconshire Charities (1880), Military Annals of the County of Brecknock (1885), The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire (1886), and John Penry (1893). He also brought out a short-lived but very useful antiquarian journal, Old Brecon Chips …’ ( Welsh Biography online). BUCOP III, p. 446.
48 78.POPE, Alexander. AN ESSAY ON MAN. in four epistles to H. Saint-John, Lord Bolingbroke. By Alexander Pope, Esq. Kennebunk: Printed, James K. Remich 1823.£ 125 12mo, pp. 52; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued with original blue upper wrapper inscribed by previous owner, lower missing.
Rare Kennebunk printing of Pope’s Essay on Man , his rationalistic effort to use philosophy in order to, as John Milton attempted, justify the ways of God to man. OCLC records two copies only, at the Peabody Essex Museum and the American Antiquarian Society.
79.[POPE, Alexander]. LETTRES CHOISIES DE POPE sur differens sujets de morale et de littérature. Traduites de l’anglois, par Mr. Genet. Premiere Partie [-Seconde]. A Paris, chez R. Davidts, Libraire a l’Image St. Jacques Quay des Augustins. Et a Strasbourg, chez Jean Godefroi Bauer. 1753.££ 285 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. Two parts bound in one, 12mo, pp. [xii], 196, [2] contents; [iv], 184; with three unrelated botanical plates bound in; a clean copy throughout; in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, head and tail chipped, and some surface wear, but still a very appealing copy.
Uncommon first French edition of The Letters of Mr Alexander Pope and Several of his Friends , first published in London in 1737, and here translated by Edme-Jacques Genêt (1726-1781). Genêt, in addition to his activities as a writer and translator, was also a civil servant, who became head clerk in the French ministry of foreign affairs. OCLC records copies at Toronto, UCLA, Harvard and Cambridge.
80.[RABASSE]. CATALOGUE DE TABLEAUX, DESSINS ENCADRÉS ET EN FEUILLES, MINIATURES, ESTAMPES, TERRES CUITES, etc., etc., don’t la vente aura lieu apres de deces de M. Rabasse. Paris, [Moreau] for Dufossé and Perignon, 1829.£ 550 8vo, pp. 21; late 19 th -century half cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; prices entered in ink.
The paintings in this auction catalogue are partly only loosely connectable to the schools and followers of Hobbema, Wouvermans, Teniers, Rubens, or Caracci, whereas the collection of drawings is particularly strong on works by the painter of architecture and interiors Victor Jean Nicolle, who had died just three years before the auction. Lugt 12023; only a microfilm in OCLC.
49 FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE NEW PARK
81.[REGENT’S PARK - PEEPSHOW]. THE AREAORAMA. A View in the Regent’s Park. London, S. & J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place. May 1, 1825. £ 1,500 Upper hand-coloured engraved view of a ruined mausoleum, with irregular peephole, 6 hand-coloured engraved scenes with central part cut away, hand-coloured engraved back scene, all mounted concertina style, folding down into original slipcase with printed label; some surface wear and rubbing to extremities, otherwise in very good original condition.
The peepshow itself is in very fresh, bright condition, and shows Regents Park as a distant prospect through a series of bucolic frames, appropriately peopled and attired in rural dress; the latter frames with the newly built Park Circus and York Terrace. An excellent subject with more than the usual number of scenes, and scarce. Hyde/Gestetner 193.
EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
82.RHODE, Peter. EPISTOLA PETRI RHODII… AD N. H. VIRUM CELEBERRIMUM HISTORIOGRAPHUM: Adjuncta oratione plane fatidica, laudatissimi Trevirensium electoris: cum carmine prophetico a clerico quodam Coloniae Joannitarum Ordinis, accepto: quod ille in aliqua veteri bibliotheca antiquis literis scriptum invenerat: & annexo prognostico Hungari Anno, etc. 1444. reperto. [No place or printer], 1621. £ 285 FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE. 4to, pp. 19, woodcut printer’s device, woodcut head- and tailpieces; browned due to paperstock, final leaf with minor flaws to inner margin; early 20 th -century morocco-backed cloth-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt; light wear, bookplate Philip S. Henry inside front cover.
First issued in December 1620, this letter deals with the European politics of the time and how this affects the author’s homeland, the Palatinate. Two years into the Thiry-Years War the first protestant refugees arrived from Bohemia, and Peter Rhode tries to understand the ‘inextricabiles Labyrinthos’ (p. 4) of the interference of the European powers in Germany. The text was written in Frankenthal and must have been printed in the area of Mainz, Worms, or Heidelberg.
50 The second text (pp. 7-10) deals with the advancement of the Ottoman Empire in Hungary and the involvement of the Western European powers in the defense or neglect of the Holy Roman Empire. Appended is a long poem, purportedly old and retrieved from a library, which deals in a hermetic and allegorical manner with the threats to the Empire and Christianity, and the Prognosticon Hungaricum , a description and interpretation of an emblematic female figure divinating the future of the Hungarian-Turkish conflict. The printer’s device of this work is the upper half of the the Strassbourg printer’s Krafft Müller’s (or Crato Mylius; mid-16 th century) woodcut device. How this ended up to adorn this printing without printer’s name or printing place can only be explained by the chaos resulting from the military activities in the early 1620s in the Rhineland around Mainz and Trier. Not in Apponyi; both OCLC and VD17 locate copies in Heidelberg, the BNF, in Weimar, Berlin, Munich, Wolfenbüttel, Gotha and Dresden.
83.RICHTER, Karl Thomas. DAS RECHT DER FRAUEN auf Arbeit und die Organisation der Frauen-Arbeit. Ein Vortrag, gehalten am 10. Dezember 1866 im Frauen-Erwerbs-Verein zu Wien. Wien, A Pichlers Witwe & Sohn, 1867. £ 125 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [v], [i] blank; 59, [1] blank; some light spotting in places; in the original printed drab wrappers; spine slightly chipped, covers lightly soiled, but still a good copy.
Scarce first edition of this public lecture given at the assembly of the association of working women of Vienna, on The Women’s Right of Employment . The lecture begins with emphasising the lasting impact of the cry for egality of the French revolution, which changed the relation of political subjects for ever. As much as the priviliges of the two leading pillars of the ancien régime deprived the masses from equal economic activity, the assumed hegemony of men deprives women of equal rights in the economy and all fields of social life. Richter concludes with a passage on education of women as the main task for society as a whole, in order to further equality for women as self- determined workers, employees and entrepreneurs. The economist, novelist, essayist and historian of the constitutional and legal history of the French revolution Karl Thomas Richter (1838-1878) was clearly one of the most progressive social thinkers of Austria during the second third of the 19 th century. OCLC records copies at Alberta, Cincinnati, Groningen and Bremen.
51 84.RIVINUS, Eduard Florens. HISTORISCH-STATISTISCHE DARSTELLUNG des nördlichen Englands nebst vergleichenden Bemerkungen auf einer Reise durch die südwestlichen Grafschaften. In Briefen von E.F. Rivinus. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1824.£ 650 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 468; attractive lithograph title page; library stamp on title, but otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary speckled boards, with gilt-lettered green label on spine; a good copy.
First edition of this survey of the towns, industries, and people of northern England by the German-American physician Eduard Florens Rivinus (1801-1873). Rivinus’ work consists of twelve letters. The first two describe his journey from Leipzig to England, via Hamburg, with remarks on seasickness, a comparison of earlier seamen with present-day ones, a description of the lighthouse at Flamborough Head, and notes on Scarborough and Bridlington. The remaining letters are principally devoted to the topography, buildings, populations, and industry of notable towns and cities in the North, including Hull, York, Pontefract, Doncaster (the “Schönheit dieser Stadt” is noted), Sheffield, Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, Kendal, Manchester, and Liverpool. Among the buildings and institutions described are York Minster, the York lunatic asylum, and York races, while the author also travels around Lake Windermere, offers a history of Liverpool’s role in the colonisation of America, and travels by steamship from Liverpool to North Wales, and then down, via Chester, to Birmingham, Bath, Salisbury, and finally Portsmouth. Rivinus was the author of numerous medical works, and became resident physician at the Philadelphia Alms- House, whose medical library he also catalogued in 1831. OCLC records seven copies outside continental Europe, at Kansas, Free Library of Philadelphia, the German Society of Pennsylvania, the Lutheran Theological Seminary, the American Philosophical Society, the British Library, and the University of Manchester.
85.SABELLI CARTARI, Costanzo de. LE INTERNE AFFEZIONI DELL’ UOMO si Costanzo de Sabelli Cartari, Patrizio Bresciano. In Padova, Presso i Conzatti. 1774.£ 500 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [ii], xlvii, [i], 275, [1] errata; with finely engraved head and tail-pieces, and initials throughout; minor stain to bottom corner throughout (a little more pronounced from p. 190 onwards), otherwise a clean copy throughout; in contemporary paper backed boards, green spine with gilt lettered paste paper label, boards with nineteenth century repairs using marbled paper, some rubbing to joints and extremities, nevertheless, still a very good copy.
52 First and only edition of this rare essay on “internal affections”, by the Brescia nobleman Costanzo de Sabelli Cartari. Combining a mixture of natural theology, psychology, and epistemology, Cartari seeks to establish a theory of ideas, and explain the basis of the moral sense and its role in ethical behaviour. In the first section he explains the origin of ideas, drawing heavily on Seneca and others, before discussing the search for happiness, and the innate knowledge of ethical principles, the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul. OCLC records three copies, one at the Bibliotheque Nationale, and two at the University of California.
86.[SAINT-CHAMOND, Claire Marie de la Vieuville, MarquMarquiseise de]. ÉLOGE DE MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE DUC DE SULLY, Sur-Intendant des Finances sous Henri IV. Par Mlle. Mazarelli. A Paris, chez Duchesne, Libraire, rue S. Jacques… MDCCLXIV [1764]. [bound after :] THOMAS, Antoine Léonard. ELOGE DE MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE DUC DE SULLY, surintendant des finances, &c. principal ministre sous Henri IV. Discours qui a remporté le prix de l’Académie françoise en 1763… A Paris, chez Regnard, Imprimeur de l’Académie Françoise,… MDCCLXIII [1763]. [bound with :] RICARD, Dominique. ELOGE FUNEBRE de très-haut, très-puissant et très-excellent prince Monseigneur Louis dauphin de France. A Auxerre, chez F. Fournier, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Ville & du College. Et A Paris, chez Villette, Libraire… MDCCLXVI [1766].£ 450 FIRST EDITIONS. Three works in one volume, 8vo, pp. 32; [ii], 91, [1] blank; vii, [i] blank, 63; with engraved frontispiece; apart from some occasional light marginal foxing, clean and crisp copies; in contemporary mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, part of label missing, and head and tail chipped, but still an appealing copy.
This sammelband unites two eulogies of one of the most forward-thinking finance ministers and economists of France in the seventeenth century, and a text documenting the pompe funebre for a son of the French King. The author of the first eulogy was the dramatist and writer of Italian extraction, the Marquise de Saint-Chamond (1732-after 1797), who also wrote a eulogy in praise of Descartes (1765) and an open letter to Rousseau, which was published in L’ Annee litteraire of 1763. ‘Saint- Chamond (1731 - ?) often used her writing to criticize a society governed by outdated laws and traditions, one in which women had few rights’ ( the Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature ). The second eulogy, by Antoine Léonard Thomas (1732-1785), something of a specialist in eulogies, best remembered today for his Essai sur les éloges of 1773) is written in a very clear, almost laconic style, characterized by short sentences, and concise summaries of complex political and economic processes. The third text is a eulogy and the description of the Baroque funeral pomp for the son of the French King Louis XV, the Dauphin Louis (1729-1766), as it was somberly celebrated in Auxerres, a small town in Burgundy, with the frontispiece showing the event in the College d’Auxerre of January, 28, 1766. I. OCLC records three copies in North America, at Yale, Pennsylvania and Michigan; II. OCLC: 17751145; III. OCLC records two copies only, at the BNF and the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve.
SAME QUALITY BUT CHEAPER
87.[SAINT-RÉAL, César Vichard, abbé de ]. THE HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF THE SPANIARDS AGAINST THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE. In the Year MDCXVIII. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1767. £ 185
53 Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 232, [12], [2, advertisements]; marginal offsetting from the size of the paste-down to title, waterstaining to a few leaves, evenly lightly browned; contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped red morocco lettering-piece, spine ruled in gilt; extremities a little worn.
After an appearance in a 1729 Select collection of novels and histories and a Glasgow Foulis edition of 1752, this fine Urie printing in a rather large type has a preliminary leaf of Voltaire’s appraisal of the historical essay, written by the French novelist and historiographer César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692). It had been published first in 1674 and was highly esteemed as a model for good historiographic prose up to the end of the 18 th century. Voltaire called the work a ‘masterpiece’ and compared the author to Sallust. The Glasgow printer and bookseller Robert Urie (c. 1731-1771) competed in quality of type design and uncluttered layout with Foulis, without challenging his competitor’s folios of classical text editions. Urie embraced the French Enlightenment and disseminated their texts in good English editions, but at a cheaper price. Both ESTC and OCLC locate four copies in America, at Colby College, Lake Forest College, Library Company of Philadelphia, Rutger, and University of Texas, Austin.
88.[SCHOEN, Hermann]. DIE FLURGARDEROBE 1914. [Fürth, 1914].£ 350 4to, title in brown and black and 23 numbered colour plates; one with a correction in blue crayon; original wrappers printed in black, white and red on green boards; slight vertical fold.
The design of the wardrobes and and hall stands are rather solid art nouveau, with brass applications, umbrella stands and - naturally - mirrors. The hallstand was still a fairly new type of compact and functional piece of furniture that was much in demand due to the rise in flat and suburban living that did not entertain space for a cloak room. Schoen, a manufacturer of mirrors in Fürth near Nürnberg left his stamp on the title; there is no printer indicated. No copy recorded in OCLC.
54 ‘I F UNHAPPY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA SHALL … CONTINUE MUCH LONGER ’
89.[SCOTTISH SOCIETY]. A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. Shewing the importance of the institution;… and the aid necessary to enable them to carry on their beneficent designs. Edinburgh: Printed for the Society. M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783].£ 125 8vo, pp. 54, [2] blank; modern wrappers.
The purpose of the Society was really to bring Protestantism to the people: ‘In the highlands the poor labour under disadvantage peculiar to themselves, arising chiefly from the nature of their country, and their language… they either remain uninstructed, or, perverted by Romish priests, embrace the errors of the Popish superstition.’ After tabulating, at length, the hold of ‘superstition’ in ‘their country’ the society then considers their other objects. They were also conscious of continuing to give give help to the American Indian however ‘If unhappy differences between Britain and America shall, contrary to their hopes and wishes, continue much longer, the Society have it in contemplation to establish missions among the Indians in the vicinity of the colonies connected with the mother country.’ Only on the penultimate page is space given to the society’s third object: ‘on the civilizing of the Highlands by encouraging industry and manufactures. industry is subservient to the interest of religion. When a people are idle or slothful, we can hardly expect that any principles will render them virtuous or useful members of the state.’ That said the directors maintained ‘upwards of 20 spinning schools, to which they give, not only a salary to a teaching mistress.’ OCLC records copies in North America at Guelph, Columbia, Yale, NYPL, South Carolina, the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and the Huntington.
‘E DIMBOURG EST ADMIABLE ’
90.SÈZE, Etienne-Romain, Comte de . SOUVENIRS DE LULWORTH D’HOLY-ROOD ET DE BATH. Paris: chez G.A. Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue du Colombier, N° 21; et Palais-Royal, Galeries d’Orléans, n° 13. 1831. £ 120 12mo, pp. [4], iii, [1] blank, 152; uncut in original printed wrappers.
Etienne-Romain was an ardent royalist and heir of Raymond Romain, Comte de Sèze the eloquent lawyer who defended Louis XVI. The main reason for his tour was to visit the exiled Charles X of France then living at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. Sèze travels to, and describes London with it’s enormous breakfasts and large newspapers, then on to Edinburgh where he is received by the exiled French family. He enthuses about the city of girls in plaid who bare foot traverse the wet pavements and also the tall buildings, but really finds Bath much most congenial to his refined taste. Barbier IV p. 548.
55 HIS FIRST WORK , PUBLISHED AT HIS OWN EXPENSE
91.SMIRKE, Sydney. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE WESTERN PART OF LONDON. London: Priestly and Weale, MDCCCXXXIV [1834].£ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 117 [1] imprint; folding engraved plan, coloured in outline, and two aquatint plates; original red printed boards, a bit worn; bookplate of Richard Lane Freer and label of ‘C.T.J. Hiatt, Wellington’
The work contains far-reaching plans for several major cross-routes through the West End of London besides designs for new Houses of Parliament in Green Park and a gothic Pantheon in the middle of the Serpentine of Hyde Park! ‘Citing problems of communication, ventilation, disease, poverty, and vice, as well as a desire to beautify the city, Smirke proposed several new avenues, sewers, and other improvements in the areas of Bloomsbury to Pimlico. With particular zeal he called for the demolition of slums, viewing them as cancerous blight on commerce and health: ‘let the rotten core therefore be cut out,’ he urged, and at one location recommended that a market or ‘military depot’ be built in their place’ (Archer). This was the first publication of Sidney Smirke (1798-1877), today best remembered for the construction of the famous round reading-room at the British Museum and the galleries of the Royal Academy. Issued at the authors expense Weale recorded that the publication cost Smirke £75 to publish. OCLC: 833033.
ALPINE ADVENTURES
92.SMITH, Albert. THE STORY OF MONT BLANC, London: David Bogue, Fleet Street MDCCCLIII [1853]. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xii, 219, [1] blank, [8] advertisements; hand coloured engraved frontispiece;
A clean fresh copy of Albert Smith’s (1816-60) book in which he both popularised the ascent of Mont Blanc and caused mountaineering in the Alps became a sport.
56 ‘On 12 August 1851 Smith climbed Mont Blanc with three Oxford students and sixteen guides. On 15 March 1852 ‘Mr. Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc’ opened at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, on a stage resembling a Swiss chalet. He interspersed descriptions of his journey to Chamonix with patter songs lampooning British tourists in Europe, and St Bernard dogs roamed the hall during the intermission. The show culminated in his dramatic account of the ascent, again illustrated by Beverley. ‘Mont Blanc’ was a sensational success and ran for six years. Smith gave several command performances - on 24 August 1854 he put on a performance before the queen and the prince consort at Osborne House - and even acted as guide for the prince of Wales at Chamonix. He earned a fortune from his show, much of it from Mont Blanc merchandise, including colouring- books, fans, games, and miniature replicas of the mountain. He also published The Story of Mont Blanc (1853), describing his own and earlier ascents. The lecture programme was changed each year by adding new characters, varying the route to Chamonix, and inserting fresh references to contemporary events. ‘Mont Blanc’ closed after its 2000th performance on 6 July 1858.’ (DNB) King Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 152.
PANORAMIC ENTERTAINMENT
93.[SMITH, Albert]. A HAND-BOOK TO MR. ALBERT SMITH’S ENTERTAINMENT, ENTITLED THE OVERLAND MAIL being a reminiscence of travel on the homeward route from Suez to Boulogne, via the Desert, Cairo, the Pyramids, Malta, Marseilles, and Paris. [London] Published for the Author. 1850. £ 450 8vo, pp. vi, 7-47, [1] advertisement; with 13 illustrations; stitched as issued in the original printed wraps, rather worn and dust-soiled, minor loss to corners, and some dog-earing to first gathering, and light stain in margin at end.
Albert Smith performed his panorama at Willis’s Rooms, King Street, St. James’s, 28 May 1850-10 July 1850. In his Preface he tells us ‘the materials and sketches for the Entertainment were collected by the author towards the close of 1849 when travelling on the route’. The panorama’s tableaux were painted by William Beverley. Smith’s lecture for ‘The Overland Mail’ consisted of a mixture of education and comic entertainment, the formula he would use for panoramas thenceforth. Between 28 June and 12 Dec. 1851 he took his ‘Overland Mail’ on a tour of the provinces, visiting 48 towns. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Yale and Indiana.
57 94.[SMITH, Albert]. COPPER COIN SOUVENIR FOR CHINA AND BACK Obverse: Bust portrait of Albert Smith - Reverse: legend ‘Albert Smith’s Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly 1859’. £ 757575 Copper ‘farthing’ [22.3 mm diam.]
Bell No. 2810.
HELP FOR LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES
95.SPOTTISWOOD, John. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STILE OF WRITS, simple and compound, made use of in Scotland; Containing Directions for Drawing Securities, In Cases which most commonly occur; with Examples; according to the best Modern Practice. Written for the use of the students in Spottiswood’s colledge of law, and now publish’d for the common good. The second edition with additions, by John Spotiswood of Spotswood Advocat. Edinburgh, Printed by John Moncur, and sold by William Broun Bookseller, at his shop, on the North- side of the Street, a litle above the Cross. 1715. £ 225
SSSECOND EEEDITION WITH AAADDITIONS ... 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 408, [27] index, [1] advertisement; apart from a very minor stain at foot (not affecting the text), a clean fresh copy throughout; in contemporary polished calf, spine with remains of label lettered in gilt and label at foot, some rubbing at head and to extremities, but still a very good copy.
A handier edition for students than the quarto printed by Robert Freebairn in 1707. Spottiswood, or more probably his printer Moncur, having dropped the black letter typography and given the work a much simpler and better form. Freebairn ‘The Pretender’s Printer’ had in any case left the scene in 1715 and was soon to escape to France until things cooled down a bit. John Spottiswood (1667-1728), lawyer and jurist, decided in 1701 ‘to offer classes in Scots law and civil (Roman) law, which he started to teach in 1702. His classes on Scots law covered the form of process, the styles of documents, and the substance of the law. The first two of these led to his publishing Introduction to the Knowledge of the Style of Writs (1708) and The Form of Process, before the Lords of Council and Session (1711), both of which went through several editions. He relied on Sir George Mackenzie’s Institutions of the Law of Scotland to teach the substance of the law, publishing an edition with notes deriving from his classes in 1723. In Roman law he taught a course on Justinian’s Institutes, using as his textbook Böckelmann’s Compendium Institutionum Justiniani . Spottiswoode’s classes were initially very successful (his pupils included Duncan Forbes of Culloden), but he seems to have stopped teaching between 1706 and 1710, because of the success of a rival private teacher. After 1710 he taught only his classes on Scots law, probably teaching most years until 1722. Again his classes were successful’ (Oxford DNB). ESTC records three copies in North America, at Harvard, UCLA and the Los Angeles County Law Library.
96.STEAD, William Thomas. THE ARMSTRONG CASE. Mr. Stead’s Defence in Full. London, Printed and published for W. T. Stead, 1885. £ 125 FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, EXPANDED. 4to, pp. 16; minor spotting to title and final page; self-wrappers; vertical fold.
58 Rare privately printed statement by the defendant in the famous Armstrong Case, a major scandal of the Victorian era. The investigative journalist Stead supported the movement for the abolition of prostitution and prevention of sexual exploitation of children, one of the focal points of early British feminism. In order to show that ‘white slavery’ actually exists he bought Eliza Armstrong, a 13-year old, for £5 and published a series of scandalous articles in the Pall Mall Gazette on child prostitution taking place under the watchful eye of law and society. When his ‘method’ of investigation became known Stead was sentenced to six months imprisonment for child abduction. This is his defence statement, including the entire history of this case. A shorter version had appeared earlier the same year in the Pall Mall Gazette . OCLC records copies at University of Iowa, Indiana, Harvard, Cleveland Public Library, Berkeley and University of Kansas.
97.[SURREY]. BOWEN, Emanuel. AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY Divided into its Hundreds; Drawn from late Surveys, and Illustrated with various additional Improvements: also historical extracts relating to Natural History, manufactures, Trade and present State of its principal Towns. Printed for T. Bowles in St. Paul’s Church Yard, John Bowles & Son in Cornhill, John Tinney & Robt Sayer in Fleet Street, [1760].£ 500 Engraved map, hand coloured in outline, 545 ×725 mm, dissected in 16 sections and mounted on linen; only the linen a bit foxed, otherwise fine; original marbled slipcase with printed label ‘Surry’; worn but still doing the job.
Engraved in 1749, this is the second issue of this fine and detailed Surrey map. It was issued separately and could be incorporated in Bowen’s Large English Atlas . ‘Bowen’s contribution to eighteenth-century world and British atlases was substantial… Over the period 1749–60, together with Kitchin, who had married his daughter Sarah in 1739, Bowen used the most recent surveys to compile and engrave a set of county maps for his Large English Atlas (1760). The commercial success of this important and influential work, the first to cover England and Wales on a large scale, led to the maps being reduced and modified by Bowen and Kitchin for their Royal English Atlas (c.1763) and then by Emanuel and Thomas Bowen for Atlas Anglicanus (1767–8), published after Emanuel Bowen’s death by Kitchin. All three works are characterized by detailed texts in the spaces surrounding the maps and by elegant rococo decoration, which became the hallmark of his engraving’ (Oxford DNB ). Chubb p. 161, 32.
98.[THAMES TUNNEL]. TOLLENARE, Louis Francois de. PASSAGE SOUS LA TAMISE A LONDRES. [n.p., n.d, but Paris? c. 1826]. £ 285
59 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 15, [1] blank; with an engraved plate loosely inserted; minor light waterstain to plate, and text lightly and evenly browned due to paper stock; in recent boards.
Tollenare, a prominent French engineer, came to England in 1825-26, where he met Marc Brunel and visited the Rotherhithe site of the Thames Tunnel excavations. He describes in some detail Brunel’s tunnelling techniques, in particular the tunnelling shield, and contrasts the apparent ease with which a major project such as this could be financed and started in Britain, with the hurdles facing engineers in France. It is interesting that in this paper, Brunel is referred to throughout as ‘Brunet’! The engraved plate shows a cross-section of the Tunnel, with horses and carts, and shipping, including a steam-powered paddle steamer, on the river above. Tollenare was one of the first French engineers to appreciate the significance of MacAdam’s road construction techniques, which he saw while visiting England, and to introduce them into France. A rare and unrecorded work on the Thames Tunnel, demonstrating the interest generated by the project throughout Europe. Not in The Triumphant Bore .
99.[THAMES TUNNEL]. [THE RIVER FROM WAPPING & THE THAMES TUNNEL] [title on front cover ]. [London: Published by Azulay, Thames Tunnel, after March 1846].£ 550 114 × 182 mm, hand-coloured wood-engraved peepshow, top view on white paper with double peeps revealing views, 2 cut-away sheets and back scene, pasted down;
This version of Azulay closely conforms to Elton 169 but the printed title label on the upper cover is an unrecorded variant. The printed text inside the front cover ( A brief Account of the Thames Tunnel History of the Thames Tunnel ) records the attendance figures to ‘March 28t, 1846, was 4,767,899, the amount at one penny each is £19,899, 4s 11d.’ Elton, Triumphant Bore , see item 169.
60 100.[UVAROV, Sergey Semionovich]. STEIN ET POZZO DI BORGO. St.-Petersbourg, 1846.£ 325 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 36; lightly foxed throughout (due to paper stock); bound in contemporary calf backed mottled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, minor rubbing to extremities, but still a very appealing copy.
Count Sergey Semionovich Uvarov (1786-1855), a leading Russian diplomat during the Napoleonic period, analyzes and justaposes two political characters of that era, the reformist Prussian minister Freiherr von Stein, whom he describes as a republican with the air of an aristocrat, who worked, although a Prussian civil servant, towards the utopia of a unified Germany, and the Corsican-born Carlo Andrea Count Pozzo di Borgo, whose hatred of Napoleon, dating back to his upbringing in Corsica, had driven him into Russian diplomatic service. The conservative and highly educated Uvarov assesses both characters, which were deeply influenced by the enlightenment ; however, one tending towards republicanism, the other - Pozzo del Borgo - defending the aristocratic principle. He had this work printed, because, as he writes at the end of the book, he sees ‘ces grandes intelligences’ about to be forgotten in Russia. The work was translated the following year into English and was re-published in Paris in the same year by Martinet, editions similarly rare to this. Bound in before is a prize-winning essay, which was read in 1844 before the Académie Française , titled Discours de Voltaire by François Antoine Harel. OCLC records two copies only, at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin and in Greifswald.
101.[VACHINI, Lorenzo]. DELLA SALUBRITÀ DEL CLIMA DI TORTONA in confutazione dell’opinione contraria d’alcuni dedicata agli illustrissimi amministratori della detta città da un medico patrizio. Carmagnola, Pietro Barbiè, 1789. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 110, [2]; evenly very lightly browned; partly uncut in contemporary blue interim wrappers, stitched as issued; a little rubbed and worn.
61 First edition of this rare topographical medical and meteorological study of the public health and climate of the Piemontese town of Tortona, whose inhabitants and medical authorities held the firm belief ever since, that the climate there was unhealthy. Dysentery was rife among the soldiers stationed in the area and blamed on the air. In referring to many a contemporary authority, such as Priestley, Tissot, Pringle and Volta, the local physician Vachini recommends circulation of air in courtyards and dwellings, points out the benefits of the high quality of foodstuffs and wines available in Tortona, all of which are beneficial and healthy. This, together with hygiene and airing, especially in the local hospital, is bound to reduce mortality. Vachi then turns towards scurvy, similarly affecting the soldatesca in the region and rules out a connection with air, in having studied Captain Cook’s observations of scurvy and his nutritional advice as well as the works of the Edinburgh navy physician James Lind, who extensively wrote on scurvy and diseases of sailors in different climes. Bonino, Biografia medica piemontese , p. 488; OCLC locates a single copy, at University of Illinois.
102.[VENICE]. MARCUS-PLATZ AT VENICE. [Germany, c.1835].£ 950 Concertina-folding hand-coloured lithographic peepshow, with three cut-out sections, front-face measuring 98 × 137 mm; the peepshow extends, by paper bellows to approximately 275 mm. Hand-coloured lithograph.
This German peepshow of St Mark’s Square is rather naive and resembles the illustrations found in chapbooks of the time. The front-face consists of the title, a view of St Mark’s Square viewed from an architectural arrangement at the west end of the square, symbols of carnival - a tambourine, masks, and a jester’s bauble - and a circular peephole. The staffage on the cut-outs and backboard consist of commedia del arte figures, including a dancing man with a mandolin, and two dwarfs. The campanile, hopelessly represented and wrongly positioned, features on the third cut-out, and St Mark’s on the backboard. Hyde/Gestetner 109
62 TH E ARITHMETIC OF SENSATIONS
103.[VOGLI, Marco Antonio]. LA NATURA DEL PIACERE E DEL DOLORE. All’ Altezza reale di Pietro Leopoldo. Livorno, 1772. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 107, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in recent mottled boards, to style.
Preceeding Pietro Verri’s famous treatise on the same suject (Discorso sull’indole del piacere e del dolore , published in Livorno as well) by one year this investigation into the nature of pleasure and pain was written the director of the communal library of Bologna, who was the author of works on moral philosophy, government, and law. Vogli (1736-1821) discusses in three letters, adressed to one Marchese, the intensity, duration, and measuring these contrary sensations, which he compares to positive and negative numbers in mathematics. He further considers pleasure and discomfort in music and the causes of these sensations depending on the surrounding signals and stimulations. Volgi is fascinated by the idea of measuring sensations and devises a numeric scale, with which one can carry out arithmetic operations. He further considers possible applications in surgery, penal law and philosophy, with a zero balance of pleasure and pain as the ideal. OCLC records four copies, at Augsburg, Bamberg, BNF and in the National Library of Medicine.
TO STRENGTHEN THE MIND AND FORM THE CHARACTER
104.[W., S.]. DIRECTIONS FOR CUTTING OUT AND MAKING ARTICLES OF CLOTHING, with practical rules and suggestions on needlework, chiefly applicable to villages. London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1854. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 36; including 9 ‘plates’ of diagrammatic figures, some old crayon scribbled on 3 or 4 pages, some creasing of a few leaves, one marginal tear with loss (not affecting the text); original printed linen covers, somewhat stained and worn, stitching loosening, nevertheless, still a good copy of a rare work.
Rare first edition of this charming little handbook exemplifying the essence of Victorian philanthropic work with the poor. “The great object of all instruction is to strengthen the mind and form the character. Even needlework, humble as the employment may appear, may be made conducive to this end” [Preface]. And so this little manual gives instructions on: “Cutting out of shirts, shifts, women’s aprons, night jackets and dresses, night-caps, pocket-handkerchiefs, smock-frocks, trowsers for little boys, collars for boys, flap shirts, pinafores for girls and infants, flannel coats and stays for girls and women, frocks for girls and infants, sun bonnets, infants’ bedgowns, robe blankets, caps, and shirts”. There is also advice on supply and sale of work, purchase of materials, employment of older girls, employment in the parish generally, and assistance of ladies. OCLC & COPAC record copies at the BL and Cambridge only [there is also a later (1860) printing at Chicago + Cambridge]; not in Attar (Household books 1800-1914); not in Colas (Bibl. Générale du Costume et de la Mode); not in Hiler (Bibliography of Costume).
63 INTENDED TO RAISE “ THE NATIONAL TONE IN WHATEVER CONCERNS US SOCIALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY ”
105.WALKER, Thomas. THE ORIGINAL… Vol. I [ all published ]. London: Henry Renshaw, 356, Strand, 1835. £ 180 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 408, 36; apart from some light dust-soiling (where individual parts folded) in places, a clean copy throughout; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with red morocco label lettered in gilt, minor rubbing, but still a very appealing copy with the ownership signature of William Harness (1790-1869), friend of Byron and Shakespeare editor, on front free endpaper.
Written by the police magistrate at Lambeth Court, Thomas Walker (1784–1836), it is ‘a collection of his thoughts on many subjects, intended to raise “the national tone in whatever concerns us socially or individually”; the papers on health and gastronomy, however, were the chief attraction of the work. Many editions of The Original were published: one, with memoirs of the two Walkers (the other being the author’s father, also Thomas, the political reformer) by William Blanchard Jerrold, came out in 1874; another, edited by William Augustus Guy, in 1875; and one, with an introduction by Henry Morley, in 1887. A selection, entitled The Art of Dining and of Attaining High Health , was printed at Philadelphia in 1837, and another selection, by Felix Summerley (Sir Henry Cole), was published in 1881 under the title Aristology, or, The Art of Dining . Indeed, these are two series of articles, the first with 11 appearances, the second published in nine issues. Other articles are on the Domestic Economy of the Labouring Classes , an revealing text about the micro-economics of poverty, malnutrition and deprivation. This periodical appeared from May 20 to December 2, 1835 only; however, it was reprinted over ten times before 1890. BUCOP III, p. 462.
A G OOD INVESTMENT
106.[WEST INDIA DOCKS]. AT A GENERAL COURT OF PROPRIETORS OF THE WEST-INDIA DOCK COMPANY Held at their house in Billiter Square on Friday the 5th January, 1810, George Hibbert, Esq. in the Chair… London: Printed for J. Bryan, Grocers’ Hall Court, Poultry, [1810]. 8vo, pp. [ii], 34; original drab wrappers. DIRECTORS OF THE WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY, London C. Whittingham, Printer, Dean Street, Fetter Lane, 8th august, 1799. Folio, stitched as issued, pp. 15 [1] blank. WEST INDIA DOCKS at the Isle of Dogs [Notice to an original subscriber requesting their attendance at meeting]. 4to, pp. 4, as issued. [London] 20th July 1799.£ 500 A interesting group of documents belonging to one of the original subscribers, Edward Venn Esq., of 15 Bow Lane. ‘The Import Dock is the northernmost rectangular wet dock across the Isle of Dogs. The hub of the original dock system, it was built in 1800–2 for the unloading of West India shipping. It originally measured 2,600ft by 510ft and impounded 30 acres of water to a depth of 23ft. At the time of its construction it was by far the biggest dock ever built.’ The docks were soon named West India Docks and today form the hub of the London financial district Canary wharf.
64 Edward Venn (1752-1830) was born in Ipswich but was of Devon stock, he was by the time of this purchase a widower and the £2,000 that he subscribed towards total capital of £500,000 capital require for the project, very likely represented a considerable slice of his personal fortune. I. OCLC records one copy, at the University of London library; II. OCLC records one copy, at Staatsbibliothek Bamberg; III. Not in OCLC.
COMPREHENSIVE
107.[WARWICKSHIRE]. WHITE, Francis & Co. FRANCIS WHITE & CO.’S HISTORY, GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE, COMPRISING GENERAL SURVEYS OF THE COUNTY, AND SEPARATE HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS … AND A SPECIAL ARTICLE ON THE GEOLOGY OF WARWICKSHIRE. Sheffield, Francis White & Co., 1874. £ 757575 Large thick 8vo, pp. [4], x, 9 - 1432, publisher’s half calf, spine lettered gilt by T. Bushill, Cow Lane, Steam Works, Coventry; upper inner joint sprung and separated from the text block.
Third edition of White’s comprehensive gazetteer of Warwickshire as interesting for the short histories of the key towns and cities as it is for the lists of trades folk, local residents and topographical details. Covers Warwick, Coventry, Tamworth and a whole host of smaller settlements. Although the title-page states that this is published “with a large coloured sheet map of the county” there is no evidence of such a map ever having been bound in. Presumably, as was often the case, copies would have been offered originally both with or without the map and possibly even in a variety of bindings.
108.[WIGAN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY]. FOLKARD, Henry TennysoTennyson.n. INDEX CATALOGUE of the Books and Papers relating to Mining, Metallurgy and Manufactures… Reference Department. Southport: Robert Johnson & Co. Limited, Printers and Bookbinders, 149, Lord Street. 1880.£ 125
65 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 158, [2]; a clean and fresh copy in later red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, spine lightly dust-soiled, but still a very good copy.
The history of this library goes back to the early 1870s, when Thomas Taylor, the wealthy owner of the Victoria Cotton Mills donated £12,000 to pay for a library building, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, reknown for the Natural History Museum in London and Manchester Town Hall. The first librarian and compilor of this catalogue was the 27-year old Henry Tennyson Folkard, who had previously been sub-librarian at the Royal Academy of Arts. His aim was to assemble a reference library of rare and important works, and with the help of experts from all over Britain, and donations this library was one of the fastest growing in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. One of the largest groups of library users, which was open on Sundays as well, were the Wigan colliers. Consequentially ‘works in any manner relating to Coal, although not strictly of a practical nature, have been carefully noted’ (Folkard’s introductory note).
LETTERS TO A SISTER , WRITTEN ON A EUROPEAN TOUR
109.WILSON, Daniel. LETTERS FROM AN ABSENT BROTHER. London: S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street. 1823. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], 265, [1] errata; library stamps at head of title and on last page, otherwise a clean copy throughout, with later ownership signature at head of front free endpaper; in contemporary half calf over cloth boards, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, some rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.
Rare first edition of this collection of letters from a European tour by the later Bishop of Calcutta Daniel Wilson (1778-1858).
66 In some ways this is a typical evangelical clergyman’s correspondence with his sister. Travelling through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France, Wilson describes the people he meets, the architecture of the towns, the idiosyncracies of the religious practices he encounters (“Thank God for the Reformation!”). Wilson’s churchmanship and prejudices shine through like a beacon - writing of a church in Koblenz, he notes that it was the only one in the town he visited, “for the beauties and simple majesty of the divine works in creation, gave us no great taste for the corruptions and superstitions of a church which has been employed one thousand two hundred years in deforming the greatest of all the works of God - redemption”. Among the other towns visited are Spa, Zurich, Basle, Lausanne, Brig, Milan, and Lyon. Wilson’s tour of the continent was prompted by a breakdown due to overwork; he was active in the Church Missionary Society, and published a number of pamphlets. He became Bishop of Calcutta in 1832, and was notable for his attacks on India’s caste system, which he termed “a cancer”. COPAC records two copies, at the British Library and the Bodleian; not in OCLC, which only records the second edition of 1824.
110.WILSON, Rev. R. Wodrow. BEN RHYDDING: the Asclepia of England: its Beauties, its Ways, and its Water-cure… Ilkley: Published by John Shuttleworth; Edinburgh: Paton and ritchie; London: Kent and Co., 1862. £ 175
SSSECOND EEEDITION ... 12mo, pp. [viii], [ii], 85, [1], [6] Appendix, [3] advertisments, [1] blank; with seven woodcuts, one with a stain in the margin; lightly foxed and marked in places; in the original blindstamped blue publisher’s cloth, recased, cloth lightly sunned and rubbed, but still a good copy.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of this pocket guide to the health resort of Ben Rhydding , particularly aimed at visitors intending to take advantage of the hydropathic treatment (indeed an Appendix of treatments, costs, and bed and board is provided). ‘Everything of importance relating to Ben Rhydding, is in this brochure described, as shortly, and as simply as possible’ (p. viii) Amongst the woodcuts are a ‘Compressed-Air Bath’, ‘Roman Bath’ ‘Roman Bath-Interior’ and a ‘Racket Court’. The author has added a chapter on “Ben Rhydding as a Winter Residence” to this second edition, as well as enlarging ‘on other points on which some explanation had been deemed necessary’ (p. [ix]). Not in Boyne; OCLC records two copies in North America, at Yale and NYPL.
67 ‘P RIDE , POM P , AND CIRCUMSTANCE ’
111.[WINDSOR]. THE INSTALLATION OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER IN THE CHAPEL OF ST. GEORGE, WINDSOR. With a View of the Choir. Interior View of Cathedral and Collegiate Buildings. Drawn and etched by I.R. Thompson. Published by Charles Essex, Wells Street, Grays Inn Road, London, [c. 1830]. £ 1,500 Concertina-folding etched, aquatinted and hand-coloured peepshow, with seven cut-out sections; front-face measuring 149 × 112 mm; he peepshow extends, by paper bellows to approximately 690 mm; front face a little worn and spotted, internally fresh and bright; original defective slip-case with engraved and hand- coloured label with a view of the exterior of the chapel; housed in a custom-made cloth box.
The front-face provides the title as above, a view of the entrance, and the artist’s name and publisher’s details. The doors recede when the peepshow is extended. The peepshow itself consists of a view of the installation ceremony, looking West. Members of the order meet at Windsor Castle every June for the annual Garter Service. After lunch in the State Apartments in the Upper Ward of the Castle they process on foot, wearing their robes and insignia, down to St George’s Chapel where the service is held. If any new members have been admitted to the Order they are installed at the service. The artist is very probably James Roberts Thompson (c. 1799-c.1845) a pupil and assistant of John Britton, the architectural topographer. In 1807 he was employed to survey Henry VII’s Chapel at Westminster in connection with a proposed restoration and exhibited fairly regularly at the Royal Academy until 1843. A similar peepshow The Coronation in the Abbey of St Peter’s Westminster, of His Majesty King William IVth and Queen Adelaide of 1831 is also credited to Thompson, and would appear to support our attribution. Gestetner-Hyde 218.
‘WOOD ’S FINEST ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION ’
112.WOOD, John, the Elder . A DESCRIPTION OF THE EXCHANGE OF BRISTOL: wherein the ceremony of laying the First Stone of that structure; together with that of opening the building for publick use, is particularly recited. Bath: Sold by J. Leake; C. Hitch, in Pater-noster-Row, London; and B. Hickley, in Bristol, MDCCXLV [ 1745]. £ 1,450
LLLIMITED TO 300 COPIES ... 8vo, pp. [1-4] [4] ‘Advertisement’ and ‘Subscribers’ [5]-36 [2] ‘Advertisement’, 8 engraved plates by P. Fourdrinier, of which 6 double-page; modern marbled boards, with printed label to spine; this copy appears to have been Earl Cowper’s copy.
68 Although John Wood (1704-1754) is chiefly known for his work at Bath, his finest building is generally thought to be his design of the Exchange of Bristol. Wood gives an account of the building together with information on the site, discussions with the town council, alterations to his original plan and the festivities occasioned by the opening of the exchange. The work is finely illustrated with plans, elevations, and sections of the work carried out by Wood. ‘The appointment [of Wood as architect] together with that of several prominent craftsmen from Bath, gave rise to local resentment, and Wood failed to have his full scheme, centred on an Egyptian hall, accepted; but the principal elevation of the exchange, a tauter version of the Queen Square design [Bath], perfectly proportioned and enriched by Thomas Paty’s superb carving, it is arguably Wood’s finest architectural composition and one of the most distinguished examples of English Palladianism. Its success led Bristol’s great rival, Liverpool, to commission Wood in 1749 to design a combined exchange and town hall, a further development of the same scheme, the building of which was supervised by his eldest son; following a fire in 1795 it was much altered by James Wyatt and John Foster.’ [ODNB] ESTC records five copies in North America at Columbia, Carnell, Harvard, NYPL & UC Clark.
113.WYLD, James. PLAN OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER with the Borough of Southwark 1825. London, James Wild, 1825. £ 450 Folding engraved linen-backed map, original hand-colouring in outline and full (455 x 920 mm), dissected into 27 segments and folding into the original brown marbled slipcase with publisher’s engraved label on front cover; map here and there lightly spotted or browned, slipcase with wear to upper edge and corners, remnants of 20 th -century label on rear cover.
Wyld, the successor to William Faden, continued to issue these London maps, the present example covering the area from Regent’s Park in the North West to Bethnal Green in the North East and Chelsea in the South West to Rotherhithe in the South East. Faden had started issuing the popular and useful maps somewhat before 1818; in August 1823 Wyld took over his Charing Cross map business. Howgego 272 (6).
69 ‘R OTTE N ’ BOROUGHS
114.WYLD, James. A MAP SHEWING THE PLACES IN ENGLAND AND WALES, SENDING MEMBERS TO PARLIAMENT Together with the Alterations proposed of the People. London: Published by James Wyld, geographer to His Majesty, 5 Charing Cross. 1831.£ 450 Hand coloured lithograph map [56 x 39cm], mounted on linen highlighted to show changes that would occur to the franchise with a printed tabulation below; folding into original green cloth slip case, upper cover with a printed and manuscript label.
Rare map showing in an elegant and easily understandable form the extent of ‘Rotten’ boroughs throughout England and Wales. Each of the places that were either to lose or gain the representation by a Member of Parliament in the Commons under the new Bill are neatly differentiated in colour. The expanding cities of Birmingham, Manchester and Sheffield of the industrial North gained the most from the legislation, with many ‘rotten boroughs,’ especially in the southern counties, subsumed into neighbouring districts that better represented their populations. It appears that a copy of this map was used by Sir Robert Peel in his efforts to placate the worst effects of Reform during the its long journey through both Houses of Parliament in 1831.
70 On the 27th of July 1831 ‘[Sir Robert] held in his hand a small map which had been lately published, entitled, A map shewing the places in England and Wales sending members to parliament heretofore, with the alterations proposed to be made by the bill for amending the representation. In this map he would draw a line, not exactly across the centre of the country, but from the indenture made in the coast by the Severn to the indenture made on the opposite coast by the Wash. … This line was not a fanciful one, but one which divided with tolerable accuracy the agricultural from the manufacturing districts. On the north of this line were situated the great coal-fields of England, with all the manufactures which depended on them. Taking this line for his guide, he would attempt to prove that the bill gave an immense preponderance to the northern or manufacturing district, and greatly and unduly lessened the weight and distinction of the southern district, which comprised the chief agricultural counties of England.’ (Hansard House of Commons Debate , 27 July 1831, vol. 5 cc. 405-57..
115.[YELLOW FEVER]. PROSPETTO SULLA ORIGINE, NATURA, E CARATTERI DELLA PESTE, de’contagj della febbre gialla di Americae e della malattia attualmente dominante nella città di Livorno Contenente i migliori metodi di cura, i preservativi, e i profumi praticati da i piu dotti Medici e Chimici dell’ Europa le Regole di Polizia e di Sanita… In Lucca, per il Marescandoli. 1804. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 93, [3] blank; minor worming in outer margin throughout, only touching the text in two places (without loss), otherwise a clean copy throughout; in recent patterned wrappers to style; a very good copy.
First edition of this rare study of yellow fever, written during the epidemic which affected the Italian port city of Livorno in the late summer of 1804, killing 650 people, and giving instructions for the cure and prevention of the disease, assembled from the “most learned physicians and chemists of Europe”. The volume starts with an historical and medical survey of epidemics from ancient times onwards, before discussing yellow fever specifically, and the Livorno outbreak in particular. There then follow a set of general rules for cleanliness and health, a discussion of the use of perfumes and inhalable medicines, and an examination of the species that are susceptible to yellow fever, and those which are immune. OCLC records copies at Yale, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Wellcome
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