MAGGS BROS LTD Winter Miscellany

MAGGS BROS LTD Rare Books, Autographs and Manuscripts Winter Miscellany A Selection of new stock from the Travel and Early British Departments

1. [AMERICAN VITICULTURE] BULL (Ephraim Wales). The Concord Grape. Folio broadside (502 x 356mm)., printed ornamental border containing an image of a large bunch of grapes above and between four columns of text. Laid down neatly on later card (some very light browning and a little damp staining to the upper part of the sheet). Concord, Mass, March, 1859. £1750 A scarce broadside advertising - and celebrating - the most iconic of all American grapes. Although numerous types of grapes had flourished in American soil none of them had ever proved resilient enough to survive the cold climates of New England. Bull, who was a gold beater and amateur horticulturalist, had long experimented with different types of vine in the New England area but it was not until he moved to a house in Concord in 1836 that he noticed the eponymous fruit beginning to flourish in his garden. The possibly apocryphal story is that young boys returning from playing in the Concord River had scattered various seeds in the area thus facilitating a fortuitous cross pollination and a resulting hardier grape. This handsome broadside advertises the sale of Bull’s own Concord vines and is a valuable document of American viticulture and the (greatly unsung) achievement of Bull to produce a grape that would go on to become hugely popular. Either side of the image of the grapes is a list of the superior qualities of the Concord grape including the boast that it appears “four weeks earlier than the Isabella’ and about two weeks earlier than the Diana”; the text also states that the grape is “an inch in diameter” with a “very dark” colour and “soft, tender and juicy” flesh. The appearance of the Concord grape has become synonymous with the grape itself in America and Thomas Pinney has suggested that it is “by far the most popular and widely planted grape ever introduced in this country, the Concord still defines ‘grape’ for most Americans” (Pinney, A History of Wine in America from the Beginnings to Prohibition, Vol. 1, p.212). The middle section of the broadside reproduces the testimonies of various horticulturalists and horticul- tural publications which attest to the superior taste and hardy nature; put simply, by the Horticulturalist, the Concord grape is described as “large, handsome and excellent.” The bottom section of the sheet supplies Bull’s contact details and an offer of “greatly reduced prices” and “liberal” discounts for trade supplies. Bull promises that all plants will be “carefully packed in moss and delivered in Boston free of charge”. Bull’s reasonably priced vines were quickly purchased by competing growers which meant that he saw little profit from his venture, his epitaph sadly stated: “He Sowed Others Reaped”. Not recorded in OCLC, Amerine & Borg or Gabler.

THE MACCLESFIELD COPY 2. [ANON.] An Authentic and accurate Jour- nal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar; being a cir- cumstantial Account of every material transaction relative to that memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that Garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis Frigate with the preliminary Articles of Peace. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, Macclesfield library plates to front pastedown & facing leaf, discreet Macclesfield blindstamp to title & 2 following leaves, some very light foxing to first few leaves. [iv], 173pp. London, [1783]. £1000 Beginning with the Spanish declaration of war on Great Britain in June 1779 through to Feb 20th 1783, the journal covers in great detail the block- ade and siege of Gibraltar, which saw General Augustus Eliott and his British troops under attack for over three years. Spain joined forces with France and the combined attack, involving 100,000 men and 48 ships, on September 13, 1782 is covered in great detail.

RARE UNAUTHORISED ACCOUNT ships. In a committed act of leadership, Anson 3. [ANSON (George).] An Authentic Account pursued his stated objectives as best he could and of Commodore Anson’s Expedition: Contain- took small small prizes. The Centurion then limped ing All that was Remarkable, Curious and Enter- across the Pacific to Macau, where the ship was taining, during that long and dangerous Voyage... repaired and he was able to recruit more men. taken from a private Journal. This coincided with the arrival of the westbound First edition. 8vo. Period style half calf, title galleon from Mexico, which Anson successfully page a little dusty, untrimmed. 60pp. London, M. intercepted and captured. This one act, heavy Cooper, 1744. in symbolism, redeemed the voyage and Anson £8500 returned to England as the hero of the hour. “An extremely rare and unauthorized account, published four years before Richard Walter’s of- Just three copies have appeared at auction in the ficial narrative of the voyage...” (Hill). past thirty years. Hill, 39; Sabin 1630.

Anson’s voyage commenced at a time of crisis in Anglo- Spanish relations. The prospect of a short war seemed unlikely and so Walpole and first lord of the Admiralty Sir Charles Wager adopted a strategy of harrassing the Spanish colo- nies. A large fleet was sent to the Carribean, while Anson’s smaller one was sent to the Pacific. He was to be ready to attack Panama should the larger force gain sufficient foothold on the other side. If the opportunity arose, he was also charged with capturing the annual galleon, linking Mexico and the Phillippines.

After long delays, a squadron of eight ships departed in 1740. They managed to elude the Spanish ships, who had learned of their objectives, on the coast of Patagonia and rounded Cape Horn. Assembling at Mas-a-Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands in mid-June, they eventually learned that only four ships remained - the Wager being wrecked and two others forced back in to the Atlantic. This was an unmitigated disaster, the squadron emerged with insuf- fucient hands to man even the Centurion properly and was very quickly reduced to just two 4. [ARMY LIST] [DUNDAS (Major General Sir his battlefield achievements included raids of St David)]. A List of the Officers of the Army Malo and Cherbourg in 1758 and the “brutal” and Marines with an index; a succession of rearguard action at St Cast in the same year. In Colonels; and a list of the Officers of the Army 1761 he accompanied Albermarle on his Cuban and Marines on Half-Pay; also with an index. expedition and was with him at the fall of Havana Forty-Third Edition. Large 8vo (222 x 140mm). in 1762. Dundas passed the American War of Very lightly browned in places, gilt edges have Independence on the Dublin staff - he was made bled onto a few leaves, dark stain to the inner Irish quartermaster-general in 1778. Later he margin of one leaf where a piece of paper (now joined with the Duke of York’s army in Flanders very browned) has been left in as a marker, some and took part in the heavy fighting at Tournai in manuscript annotations [see below]. Contempo- 1794. Dundas was also noted as an expert writer rary red morocco, covers with a handsome gilt on military drill strategies: as early as 1794 he had border, spine tooled in gilt, green morocco label, made a tour of France and Austria specifically to gilt edges, marbled endleaves (spine split down observe their training camps. In 1788 he pub- the centre (but still holding firm), a little rubbed lished Principles of Military Movememnts, Chiefly Ap- in places, some scuffing to the lower board, joints slightly worn). [?London], 1795. £650 ESTC records National Library of Wales, Meton College Oxford, Sand- hurst Military Academy, National Archives in UK; Boston Public Li- brary, Huntington, John Carter Brown Library, Newberry, Stanford in USA. There is also a copy at the Society of the Cincinnati. The same type-setting was also imposed in a quarto format, this setting is recorded in nine British libraries but only UC- Santa Barbara in USA.

Major General Sir David Dundas’s (?1735- plied to Infantry (a second edition appeared in 1795) 1820) handsome annotated copy of the British and the work was an “immediate success because Army List for 1795 - the year in which Dundas it not only laid bare the irregularity prevailing became Colonel of the 7th Light Dragoons in the army’s current training and drill, but also and commanded at the attack of Tuil and served as a critique of the widespread influence in Geldermalsen. the army of an unsound tactical doctrine deriving from its experience in the America” (ODNB). Dundas was born in Edinburgh and trained at the Dundas’s works became widespread throughout Royal Military Academy, Woolwich before ac- the army and he continued to observe training companying his uncle, Lieutenant Colonel David proceedures in order to improve his manuals and Watson on a pioneering cartographical study of in 1801 he presided over the creation of the Royal Scotland. His military career was wide and varied Military College. Dundas was made commander- and is discussed, at length, in the ODNB. In in-chief of the army from 18 March 1809 until 26 short, it can be divided into two main sections: May 1811 while the Duke of York was embroiled in the scandal involving his mistress, Mary Anne Clarke.

On the blank verso of the title-page Dundas has inscribed in manuscript the personnel of the 22nd foot regiment which he had been rewarded with on April 2nd 1791. Dundas has placed himself “D. Dundas” at the top as Colonel and then listed the forty-or-so men under his command (with a couple of names crossed through). There is another similiar list of brigades and cavalry on the blank recto of the rear flyleaf. Dundas has also changed some of the printed text, these are actual changes and not the corrections listed in the “alterations while printing” leaves at the end. They include the deletion of Henry Seymour Conway (1719-1795) from the head of the list of Field Marshalls as he had died suddenly on the 9th July 1795. The “D.of.Y” [Duke of York] is added to the list of Field Marshalls by Dundas. The death of Sir John Vaughan is also recorded by his deletion - Vaughan died in Martinique on 30 July 1795 of a bowel complaint - though poison was also suspected. The ODNB concludes that “the written work from his middle age and later years shows him to have been among the most intelligent and knowledgeable of his officer contemporaries. He assisted throughout in the Duke of York’s reforming efforts, which were of untold value to the British army. The Duke of Wellington’s superb Peninsular and Waterloo heavy infantry was his professional legacy”. Provenance: 1. Major General Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), his signature on the verso of the front flyleaf and with manuscript annotations by him on the blank verso of the title-page, the blank recto of the final flyleaf and a number of annotations / corrections within the text. 2. Victor S. Sandeman (d.1943), served in the 17th Lancers in the Boer War, engraved book label on the front pastedown.

5. BARRINGTON (George). The Memoirs of George Barrington, containing every remarkable circum- stance, from his birth to the present time, including the following trials... Engraved frontispiece. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. 40pp. London, J. Bird & Simmonds, [1790]. £1500 Barrington occupies a unique position in the The text is prefaced by two letters of recom- history of early Australia, being the most famous mendation by members of the Linnaean Society of all the transported convicts, with a near heroic both in Europe and the United States. The book status in England. He travelled with the Third is separated into six sections which provide clear Fleet in 1791 but so impressed Governor Phil- and concise information on the history of the lip that he was granted the first ever warrant of vine, the diseases which affect the vine, the art of emancipation the following year. making wine (and other drinks) and other uses “This work, one of the two biographies of Bar- of the vine crop. The handsome folding plate rington immediately after his sentence..., contains at the end shows various tools for managing the a significant proportion of material extracted vine - including “Bettinger’s Cutting Nippers” from newspaper reports of Barrington’s court and “Quentin Durand’s Girdler”. There is also an appearances, with the most likely source being impressive illustration of a machine for crushing the official Old Bailey Sessions paper,The Whole grape which was apparently originated by a M. Proceedings. Some letters by Barrington are also Acher of Chartres. included” (Garvey). Ferguson, 68; Garvey, B1b.

6. BERNEAUD (Thiebaut de). Vine-Dresser’s Theoretical and Practi- cal Manual, on the Art of Cultivating the Vine; and making Wine, Brandy and Vinegar. First Edition in English. Large 8vo., [2], 158, [2], iiii., with the folding plate bound at the end. Slightly foxed and browned in places, very small hole through one of the folds of the plate. Original publisher’s drab boards, cloth spine, printed paper spine label (boards and spine a little rubbed, marked and faded, endleaves foxed and browned). New York, by P. Canfield, 1829. £975 Not in Gabler. ABPC records only three copies of this book at auction, the last being in 1990. The title-page states that the translation was produced from the second French edition.

A good copy of an early American vine growing manual. IMPROVING THE ROADS OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND

7. B (A). Some observations on the use of broad wheels; with a proposal for a more general amend- ment of the roads Only Edition. Small 8vo., 16pp. Title-page and verso of the final leaf a little dusty, very small ink stain touching a single letter of the title. Single sheet, folded, uncut and unbound. London, 1765. £450

Very rare. ESTC records a single copy at the British Library only.

The author, who signs this little pamphlet “A.B”, notes that the use of broad wheels has improved the roads of Northern England but that the counties of Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Gloucester, Berkshire, Oxford, Buckinghamshire, Northampton, Warwickshire and Worcester still remain plagued by bad roads on account of their refusal to switch to broad wheel carriages. The author notes that the adoption of broad wheels will not only make travelling on roads more comfortable and ensure that the public highways look better but it will also improve their commercial efficiency. The pamphlet answers a number of criticism of the broad wheel before providing examples of how broad wheels have proved better than narrow in tests; one of these tests took place at Blenheim Park on December 23rd 1764 (“by the permission of the noble proprietor of that delightful place”).

A statute passed in 1753 ordered that carriages must have wheels of over nine inches wide in order to ease the strain on the already heavily worn roads. This statute was altered two years later and stated that carriages and wagons with broad wheels had reduced, or in some cases were exempt, from paying roads tolls. The alteration was made as the initial statute had proved unpopular with those who did not want to change the wheels they already had on their wagons (see Jackson, The Develop- ment of Transportation in Modern England, 1966). A facsimile of this work was produced by the Toucan Press in 1976 but not widely distributed.

BLIGH’S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY

8. BLIGH (Capt. William). A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty: and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. First edition. Engraved draught of the Bounty’s launch and 3 folding charts. 4to. Com- pletely unrestored in original boards, some minor, occas- sional spotting, in a modern quarter morocco drop-back box. iv, 88pp. London, 1790. £8500 “Just before sun-rising, Mr. Christian, with the master- at-arms, gunner’s mate and Thomas Burkett, seaman, came into my cabin while I was asleep, and seizing me, tied my hands with a cord behind my back, and threatened me with instant death if I spoke or made the least noise...”! So begins Captain Bligh’s account of the infamous events of 29th April, 1789, events which precipitated the extraor- dinary open-boat voyage, one of the most thrilling narratives in all naval history. Ferguson, 71; Hill p. 26. 9. BYRNE (William) & BARTOLOZZI (Francesco) after WEBBER (John). The Death of Captain Cook. Engraving measuring 340 by 457mm. London, W Byrne & J Webber, 1 July 1785. £3000 A particularly fine copy of this image; Webber’s most ambitious effort at history painting. Although crammed with figures, the eye is drawn directly to Cook, the tragic hero, who is symbolically dressed in white, and in contrast to the greater part of the image, which is dark and indistinct, the warriors and seamen arround him are highlighted in his reflected light.Joppien & Smith III, 3.305A.

10. CERVANTES (Saavedra, Miguel de). A Collection of Select Novels, Written Originally in Castil- lian, by Don Miguel Cervantes Saavedra, Author of the History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: In the Territory of the Imperial City of Toledo, in New Castile. Made English by Harry Bridges, Esq; under the Protection of His Excellency, John, Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Small 8vo., 343,[1] pp. Title-page a little dusty and with some slight soling in the blank fore-margin, small ink blot on D1v and D2r, ink smudge on F1r, some minor soiling in the blank lower margin of I4v and K1r, small circular damp stain in the lower fore-corner of M4-N1, small ink smudge in the lower blank margin of U1r, some light damp staining between Bb1-Cc4, Ff1-Ff4, Ii1-Uu4 (becoming darker towards the end of the volume), verso of the final leaf dusty, chipping to the edges throughout, some corners folded. Contemporary blind panelled calf (new endleaves, upper joint split but holding, corners worn and rubbed, headcaps a little ragged, damp staining to the pastedowns). Bristol, by S. Farley; and sold by F. Wall on the Tolzey [...] James Warriner in Bath [...] Henry Clements in Oxford [...]; Edward Score in Exeter; and John Palmer in Gloucester, 1728. £2400 ESTC records copies at BL, Bodley and Leeds University only in the U.K.; Harvard, Yale, Library of Congress, WACM, Kansas and Temple University in the USA.

An early 18th-century collection of six of Cervantes’s “exemplary” novels including “The Gypsie”, “The Dogs of Mahudez” and “The Deceitful Marriage”.

Provenance: Early pen trials on the verso of the final leaf and an inscription on the rear pastedown reading “a very pretty book”. Early 20th-century biographical account and portrait of Cervantes clipped and pasted to the front fly leaf. Old pencil price of 2/6 on the front pastedown.

11. [CHANNEL ISLANDS] G.Y. A Handbook to the Island of Sark. Sole edition. Frontispiece map. 12mo. Original wrappers with paper label to upper wrapper, slightly worn. 23, [1ads]pp. Jersey, Gosset & Co., 1859. £450 Rare. We can only locate two copies - one at the Toronto Public Library, the other at Leeds. Sark (or Serk) is the third of the Channel Islands. This charming guide to it provides a general overview before describing some of the geo- graphic landmarks such as Le Creux Terrible, Les Autelets, Port du Moulin and Ile des Marchands. The work concludes with six pages of historical remarks, the most important event being the discovery of silver in the early nineteenth century, which became known as “Sark’s Hope”, “[f]rom that moment Sark became notorious, and shortly afterwards was the resort of numerous engineers, workmen, and fortune hunters.” The frontispiece map is by Stevens.

A SUPPOSED CHILD ABUSE CASE IN DUBLIN

13. [CHILD ABUSE TRIAL] A Narrative of the most cuel and barbarous treatment of Miss Sarah Molloy, now in the Hospital of Incurables; who was kept confined, and almost starved from the year 1742 to January 1762, when she was found by a watchman, with her arms tied, at the door of a house in Ross-lane, about twelve o’clock at night. With all the different letters and affidavits published on that occasion. 8vo., 23, [1] pp. Title-page and blank verso of the final leaf a little dusty, small hole (possibly a paper flaw) through the blank fore-edge of the title-page, occasionally a little dusty at the edges, very light water staining to the final leaf, slightly frayed at the uncut edges. Disbound and largely uncut, partial remains of a cloth spine still visible. [London], Dublin printed: London re-printed; and sold by G. Kearsly, 1762. £550 ESTC records two editions of this title: our copy is recorded at BL [3 copies], Lambeth Palace Library, Bodley only in the U.K.; no recorded copies in North America. The oth- RARE PRESENTATION COPY er edition has a pagination of 18pp, is priced at four pence and the name is spelt “Molly” 12. CHAUNCY (Charles). All Nations of the rather than “Molloy” on the title-page; a single Earth blessed in Christ, the Seed of Abraham. copy of this edition is recorded at the British A Sermon Preached at Boston, at the Ordination Library. There were four other editions of of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Bowman, to the Work of this work published in 1762 but these had Mol- the Gospel-Ministry, More Especially Among loy’s name censored on the title-page and in the Mohawk-Indians, on the Western Borders of the text, these editions survive in a handful of New England. August 31, 1762. copies. A single edition from the previous year First edition. 12mo. A fine copy with a buckram (1761) is recorded at the Royal Irish Academy. slipcase. viii, 50pp. Boston, John Draper, 1762. £950 A collection of conflicting evidence relat- ing to the case of Sarah Molloy - a young Inscribed “The Gift of the Revd. Author” girl from Dublin who was supposed to have been starved and imprisoned by her Chauncy served with the First Church in Boston parents. for most of his life and became one of the most influential clergyman in New England. On behalf The case begins in 1752 with a gentleman hav- of the SPCK, this sermon provides a great deal ing dinner with William Gregory of Chancery of information on missionary work among Lane Dublin, who informs him that his next the Mohawks, an exhortation for such work to door neighbour, Neale Molloy, had “almost continue, and derides the “popish corruption” starved his only daughter to death” (5). The visited on the Indians. Chauncy was later a firm gentleman decided to write to one of the supporter of the American Revolution, which he Dublin newspapers and report that Sarah had promoted through sermons and pamphlets. Sabin been kept prisoner for seven years and that 12331; Evans 9088. she was compelled “a few days ago, to implore a servant in the neighbourhood to reach her a bit of bread which she saw lying in the common sewer” (6). The account then states that approaches were made to Neale Molloy and that the girl was taken from him and put into care in a home on Caple Street. Ten years later the supposed Sarah Molloy is then found by a gentleman (who signs his letter “PHILO-HUMANICUS”) in the Dublin Hospital for Incurables (what is today the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook). The girl claimed to have been found wandering the streets with marks on her that suggested she had been tied up. Sarah Molloy’s former nursemaid then came forward to testify that the young girl in the Hospital for Incurables was indeed the same Sarah that had been imprisoned by her father ten years ago (she signs her testimony with an “X”). These accusations are then countered by a demand, presumably made by Neale Molloy, for proof that the girl in the hospital is in fact his daughter, he warns those who have already accused him, “let it be remembered we live under a British Government, where every man ought to have as fair a trial for his reputation and character as for his life and fortune, and that calumny is a monster that often knocks at the door of the innocent as of the guilty” (13). Various pieces of evidence are then produced and made available for inspection at different coffee houses including that of Neale Molloy who claims that his daughter, far from being in the Hospital for Incurables, is actually at a boarding school in England. Calls are then made for the girl to be brought back from England and various other people come forward to claim that they witnessed the mistreatment of Sarah Molloy when she was imprisoned by her father in Chancery Lane. ESTC records that in the following year (1763) two issues (a London and Dublin) of The tryal of Neale Molloy Esq; and Vera Molloy, his wife appeared which recorded the full details of the case. According to this publication the jury took less than fifteen minutes to decide that Neale and Vera Molloy were not guilty and the court called for evidence given by Sarah Molloy’s supposed nursemaid to be re-examined on charged of perjury.

OWNED BY A REVOLUTIONARY WAR RENNELL’S COPY SOLDIER 15. DALRYMPLE (Alexander). An Historical 14. CUTHBERTSON (Bennett). Cuthbertson’s Collection of the Several Voyages and Discov- System for the Complete Interior Manage- eries in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. I. Being ment and Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infan- chiefly a Literal Translation from the Spanish try. Writers. [Volume II. Containing the Dutch Voy- A new edition with corrections. 16 tables (fold- ages.] ing). 8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco label First edition (second issue of Vol. I as usual). to spine, gilt, Macclesfield library plates to front 2 vols. in 1. 4 folding maps & 12 plates (mostly pastedown. viii, 192pp. Bristol, Rouths & Nelson, folding). 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked. xxx, 1776. £1500 [2], 24, 24, 204, [4]; [iv], 124, 20, [58]pp. London, A fine copy of this scarce work with a distin- 1770-71. £9500 guished provenance. It bears the additional plate With the neat ownership signature of the noted of the Hon. Lt. Gen. George Lane Parker, who geographer James Rennell (1742-1830) to the was the younger son of the second Earl of Mac- upper margin of the title page, and his book plate clesfield. Parker served in the American Revolu- on the front pastedown. tion and later became the MP for Tregony. The Historical Collection is a work of far reaching “... many military Treatises have appeared within importance; its author was the leading English the present Century, from French and German, hydrographer of his day, a man of great dedica- and some few the Production of British Officers; tion and prolific output. Passionately involved all designed, at once for forming Generals, but in the argument over the possible existence of a as scarcely one (except that of Bland) has been southern continent, Dalrymple partially translates wrote for the Instruction of the Subaltern Part of here some twelve accounts which support his the Profession...” Popular manual for the instruc- belief in its existence. tion of junior officers, first published in 1768. Dalrymple had wanted command of the official South Seas Expedition sent in 1768. He was much aggrieved not to have been given the appointment, feeling that his preeminence as a hydrographical scholar should have outweighed his relative inexperience of nautical command. Understandably the Admiralty thought otherwise, and Lieut. James Cook was given his chance. A much embittered man, Dalrymple immersed himself in the research which finally led to the publication of this book, which was issued before the return of Cook’s expedition. Hill, p.389; Sabin, 18338; Hocken, p7.

THE GLORY OF BRITAIN

16. DRAYTON (Michael). A Chorographical description of all the tracts, rivers, mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle of Great Britain, with intermixture of the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the same. Divided into two bookes; the latter containing twelve songs, never before imprinted. Digested into a poem by Michael Drayton. Esquire. With a table added, for direction of those occurrences of story and antiquitie, whereunto the course of the volume easily leades not. Reissue of the sheets of the first edition of 1613 with a new title page. Folio, [20], 303, [1] pp. With an elaborate engraved allegorical title by William Hole depicting Britannia seated triumphal arch, with figures of the conquerors at the sides and additional full length portrait of Prince Henry holding lance and with a helmet (second state of the portrait with “HENRICUS PRINCEPS” inscribed at upper left) bound after the dedication to Henry and 18 folding plates depicting the regions celebrated in the work (these 18 plates are in the second state with page numbers inscribed). The allegorical engraved title-page and letterpress title are likely inserted from other copies as both have wormholes that do not match the leaves that precede and fol- low them. For the same reason a number of the folding plates may also be inserted. Additionally the dedication to the Prince of Wales and plate depicting the Price also also likely inserted. Allegorical title-page soiled along inner margin and with a repaired tear to the centre of the leaf, a small wormhole and remargined along the foreedge, most plates remargined along inner margin, folding plate facing the first page of text remounted and repaired along the inner gutter, small paper flaw to B3 (loss of a letter or two per page), two small repaired tears to the head and foot of B6, folding plate bound after E1 remargined at outer margins, folding plate bound after H1 remargined at one edge, light worming to E2-K2 affecting a letter or two per page, small hole to the blank foremargin of Aa6 repaired without loss. A clean copy bound in early twentieth century olive morocco, covers paneled in gilt, spine divided into six compartments with gilt lettering to the second and third compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (spine very lightly chipped, corners bumped). London, Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622 £7500 STC 7228 (+,+)

A fresh copy of Michael Drayton’s poetic celebration of the British Isles.

The beautiful engraved frontispiece of Polyolbion reveals much about Drayton’s purpose for the work. “The title-page shows an enthroned ‘Great Britain’ with a faint smirk on her face, positioned so as to give her the same shape as her nation. Draped in a map of the lands she personifies, she is as prettily blonde as any Petrarchan mistress but with a cornucopia symbolizing fertility. She is surrounded by four lovers/conquerors: the Trojan Brute (Drayton affected to believe the legend that Britain was first settled by Trojans and hence shared in the legacy of Rome’s ancient empire), the Roman Caesar, the Saxon Hengst, and the Nor- man William. It is she who holds a sceptre, though, for Drayton’s celebration of British history, legends, cities, hills, vales, and rivers suggests a nation with an identity, realized or potential, beyond any one conqueror’s scope” (ODNB).

In this copy the plates (i.e. the portrait of Prince Henry and the 18 maps) are in the second state and the text is of the first or second issue as confirmed by the final sheet being mis-signed “D” and the word “FINIS.” appearing between a headpiece and tailpiece on p. 303. According to William Jackson in the Pforzheimer Library catalogue, “In the third issue, which has the 1622 general-title, the signature is corrected to “Dd” and “FINIS.” is omitted” (302). The syndicate of John Marriot, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe purchased the unsold copies of the 1613 edition of Polyolbion from the original syndicate of publishers (i.e. Matthew Lownes, John Browne, John Helme and John Busbie) that produced it and reissued it in 1622 after cancelling the earlier title-page and having Augustine Mathewes print a new one. The syndicate of Marriot et alia also jointly published the second part of Polyolbion (found below). [bound with]

DRAYTON, (Michael).

The second part, or a continuance of Polyolbion from the eighteenth song. Containing all the tracts, rivers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the East, and Northerne parts of this Isle, lying betwixt the two famous rivers of Thames and Tweed. By Michael Drayton, Esq.

Folio, [10], 168 pp. With 12 leaves of folding plates (most of which have been remounted). Repaired tear to the blank inner margin of L1 and L2, small stain to the lower blank margin of N1-N4 and repair to N2 and N3 (no loss of text), verso of the final leaf lightly soiled. London, Printed by Augustine Mathewes for John Marriott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.

STC 7229 (+,+).

“Drayton had considerable difficulty in finding a publisher for this second part and even contemplated going to Edinburgh to have it printed, a practice very common since the Union, but then unheard of except for surreptitious matter” (Jackson, Pforzheimer Library, 304). 17. EXQUEMELING (A.O.). Bucaniers of America: Or, a true Account of the most remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of the West-Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, the unparallel’d Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sack’d Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c... “Second English” edition, [actually the third] corrected and Inlarged with two Additional Relations, viz., the one of Captain Cook, and the other of Captain Sharp. 2 vols in 1. 3 maps (the folding map torn and repaired) & 8 plates (one folding plate with a small piece missing just touching the engraved surface, with further coastal profiles in the text. Small 4to. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. [xii], 47, 80, 84, [12], [xvi], 212, [24]pp. London, Crooke, 1684-85. £9500 “Frequently described as the greatest early book on piracy” (NMM). The first complete edition. The first three parts are entirely reprinted in this edition in smaller type with new material added, and bound in is the original edition of the fourth part of 1685. The barber-surgeon Exquemeling originally wrote in his native Dutch and this work appeared in Amsterdam in 1678. A Spanish doctor, Alonso de Bueno Maison, translated the book into Spanish and published it at Cologne in 1681, and from this version it was anonymously translated into English and published by Crooke in 1684. The following year Crooke issued part four (ie vol 2) and re-issued the first three parts with additions. Part four tells Ringrose’s account of the Sharp expedition; it is illustrated with a splendid map of Latin America. The text of the second Crooke edition, of vol 1, is to be preferred as it has appended text from Sharp’s own journal concerning exploits in the Pacific (23pp) that was suppressed in all later editions. Amongst much of interest, the material considered too sensitive contains an account of the famous ms. volume of charts taken from the Rosario and subsequently much copied by Hack. The publisher, William Crooke, was sued for libel by Sir Henry Morgan, on account of the description of him as a pirate in the London Gazette, June 8, 1685, and the publisher made this public apology: “Westmin- ster, June 1. There have been lately Printed and Published two Books, one by Will. Crook, the other by Tho. Malthus, both Intitiled The History of the Bucaniers: both which Books contained many False, Scandalous and Malitious Reflection on the Life and Actions of Sir Henry Morgan, of Jamaica, Kt. The said Sir Henry Morgan hath by Judgment had in the Kingsbaench-Court, recovered against the said Libel 200L. Damages. And on the humble Solicitation and Request of William Crook, hath been pleased to withdraw his Action against the said Crook, and accept of his Submission and Acknowledgement in Print”.

WITH THE MAPS OF AUSTRALIA & GEORGIA

18. HARRIS (John). Navigatium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most Authentic Writ- ers... Containing whatever has been observed Worth of notice in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America;.. including particular accounts of the manufac- tures and commerce of each country. Second (and best) edition. 2 vols. 2 frontispieces and 60 further engraved charts, maps and plates. Large folio. Period style sheep, original calf spines laid down, gilt. [ix], xviii, 984; [x], 1056, [22](index & list of plates)pp. London, T. Woodward, 1744. £9000

According to Dibdin, the reader had only to inspect the “curious contents” of the first volume of this work to realise that it is a work of great importance. This is the second and best edition of Harris, farming equipment and a farmer leading two bulls which includes Emanuel Bowen’s important maps pulling a plow to the verso of CXII. Light soiling of Georgia and Australia. Both are present in fine to the blank margins of the title-page, soiling to condition. the blank upper margin of the verso of [three- “A New Map of Georgia, with Part of Carolina, leaves2] and the blank upper margin of the recto Florida and Louisiana” extends from Charles of [clover3], intermittent light damp staining to Town to the Mississippi River and as far as Cape the lower margin throughout becoming more Canaveral. Its significance is enhanced by the pronounced to the final seven gatherings.Bound inclusion of colonial forts (both French and in an attractive binding of English calf of the English), settlements, and native villages. The second quarter of the seventeenth century, chapter it accompanies, “The History of the Rise, covers ruled with a single gilt rule and double Progress, and Present State of the Colony of blind rule, gilt stamped arabesque centred Georgia” is also new to this edition. on both covers, author’s name and ‘schol[ia]’ Bowen’s other contribution, “A Complete Map written in on the foreedge in an early hand of the Southern Continent Survey’d by Capt. (corners and edges chipped, imperceivably re- Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East backed). Venice, In aedibus Bartholomaei Zanetti india Company in Holland in the Stadt House at Casterzagensis ... Ioannis Francisci Trincaveli ..., Amsterdam” is the first English map of Australia. 1537. £1800 “This is the revised and enlarged version of the 1705 first edition .[This] edition, especially prized Adams H-470. for its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities. Particularly valuable is With a Latin dedicatory epistle written by the the inclusion of Tasman’s original map and Italian physician and editor of the editio princeps two short articles printed on the map. To the of a number of Greek texts, Vettore Trincavelli original extensive collection are added accounts (1491-1563) to his countryman the humanist completed since the first publication: Christopher Pietro Vettori (1499-1585). Middleton to Hudson’s Bay, 1741-42; Bering to the Northeast, 1725-6; Woodes Roger’s circumnavigation, 1708-11; Clipperton and Shevlocke’s circumnavigation, 1719-22; Roggeveen to the Pacific, 1721-33; and the various travels of Lord Anson, 1740-44” (Hill). Cox I, p10; Hill, 775; Lada-Mocarski 3; Sabin, 30483.

A FINE COPY GIVEN BY BISHOP YORKE TO ELY CATHEDRAL

19. HESIOD [In Greek] Hesiodou tou Askraiou Erga kai hemerai; Theogonia; Aspis Her- akleous: apanta de meta pollon kai kaliston exegeseon. Hesiodi ascraei opera et dies. Theogonia. Scutum Herculis. Omnia vero cu[m] multis optimisq[ue] expositionibus. 4to., [4], lxxxviii [i.e. clxxxviii] leaves. Leaves CVII-CX mistakenly bound after CXIIII, leaves CXV-CXVIII mistakenly bound after CVI. Leaf alpha1 printed in red and black. Elaborate woodcut head and tail pieces. Title-page in Latin and Greek. With the exception of the dedicatory epistle, the text is printed in Greek. Test of Hesiod surrounded by scholia. A small woodcut diagram to the verso of CXVI and also to the verso of CXIII. Beautiful full-paged woodcut of A fine fresh copy of the important and beautiful Zanetti edition of Hesiod in the original Greek bound in seventeenth century English calf.

This is a complete edition of all of the work traditionally ascribed to Hesiod: Works and Days, Theogony, and Shield of Herakles. This edition is the first to include Greek scholia by the Byzantine grammarians Johannes Tzetzes (cir. 1110- 1180) and Manuel Moscholulus (fl. 13th cent.). The scholia and accurate Greek text have formed the basis for nearly every subsequent edition of Hesiod. This copy has occasional annotations and underlining in red crayon more often to the text of Hesiod than the scholia. Frequently, the annotations are line numbers and less frequently, varient readings or corrections of grammatical errors. The underlining is very dense on folios 24r, 32r, 44v, 51r, and 127/28. Provenance: 1. James Yorke (1730-1808), Bishop of Ely, bookplate noting his gift of the book to his succes- sors at the see of Ely. Yorke was the fifth son of “one of Britain’s greatest lawyers” (ODNB), Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), lord chancellor and founder of the Yorke dynasty. James Yorke was initially bishop of St David’s in Gloucester before his appointment as bishop of Ely. 2. Late 18th-century shelfmark of Ely cathedral, G.4.15, to the front pastedown. In 1952 nearly 2000 volumes from the Yorke collection were deposited at Cambridge University and others sold when the greater part of the library of Ely Cathedral was sold in 1972.

20. HULME (Eleanor). An Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1830 adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of London containing mathematical demonstrations of the highest branches of Chronology, Geography and practical Astronomy calculated by Eleanor Hulme at Mrs Lovekin’s Seminary, Hermitage House Kensington during the year 1828. Manuscript. Small 4to., 64pp. Neat manuscript hand on thick paper comprising of month-by-month astronomical tables with explanatory text, a number of astronomical diagrams and a lengthy list of important days in the year. Contemporary speckled calf (neatly rebacked, a little rubbed and bumped in places). 1828. £500 and about London” got to “neighbouring country A 19th-century astronomical manuscript by a villages in search of what they call palm branch- young girl studying at a London school. es...” and April Fools Day: “the origin of the jokes and tricks played on that day on the weak Presumably the text of this work was directly the vulgar, and on children would be difficult to copied from a printed source or put together trace”. from a number of other almanacs. We have been The site occupied by Hermitage House was re- unable to directly link the manuscript to a printed developed as Linden Gardens which today is on source but the multiple eclipses (“the greatest the north side of Notting Hill Gate. number that can happen in one year” according to Hulme) in 1830 made the year a popular WITCHCRAFT subject of study in the late 1820s. It is still somewhat surprising that a girls seminary in the 21. HUTCHINSON (Francis). An Historical early 19th-century should have felt it necessary to Essay concerning Witchcraft teach a young girl the rudiments of astronomy. with observations upon Matters of Fact; tending Mrs Lovekin’s Seminary (the address is given as to clear the texts of the sacred scriptures, and Hermitage House, Kensington - an 1851 census confute the vulgar errors about that point. And lists 23 pupils) suggests Thackery’s Miss Pinker- also two Sermons: one in proof of the Christian ton’s Academy or perhaps the sort of place that Religion; the other concerning Good and Evil would later have been lampooned by Dickens. Angels. The New Monthly Magazine for 1826 records that Second Edition “with considerable additons”. 8vo in February of that year a “P. Lovekin” (perhaps (195 x 120mm)., with the half-title. Some minor Mrs Lovekin’s husband?) a “builder, dealer and soiling and a few spots in places. Contemporary chapman” of Hermitage House, Kensington was calf (neatly rebacked with a new spine, slightly declared bankrupt, a situation that hardly suggests rubbed in places). London, for R. Knaplock [...] a stable school establishment. and D. Midwinter, 1720. £450

The BL catalogue lists a copy of The Mental Calculator (1821) by a P. Lovekin of which the title promises “solutions of various problems in astronomy”. The Ladies’ Monthly Museum for 1821 has a review of the book (with the author listed as “R. Lovekin”) which states that the work “forms a complete epitome of that science, and a guide to constellations; and is arranged with cleverness and ability; and saves the trouble both to the tutors and the pupils, of frequent reference to the celestial globe”.

The main body of the text is made up of a printed almanac calendar. The table and headings of the calendar have been presumably printed by the school for the exclusive use of the pupils - each double page has “Mrs Lovekin’s Seminary / Kensington Gravel Pits” printed in small type in the lower margin. The table has been completed in red and black ink by Hulme with information on high water times at London Bridge, important days and the phases of the moon.

The final section of the text is a little more light hearted and lists important days in the year such as Palm Sunday when “the common people in First published in a shorter form in 1718. with his sermons in support of the Hanoverians, “Hutchinson’s first preferment was the vicar- aligned him clearly with the whig and latitudi- age of Hoxne, Suffolk. Before 1692 he became narian groups in the church, and assisted his perpetual curate of St James’s, Bury St Edmunds, advancement” (ODNB). Suffolk. On 3 July 1698 he commenced DD at Cambridge. His residence in Suffolk turned Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, armorial blind his attention to the earlier proceedings against stamp to the title-page and South Library book- witches in that county and resulted in his treatise plate to the front pastedown. An old signature on the history of witchcraft (1718), with many has been deleted from the front flyleaf and the particulars collected by personal inquiry from bookplate conceals another older signature. survivors. Although the work was prepared more than a decade earlier, Hutchinson delayed publica- ASTRONOMY tion out of deference to the anxieties of Arch- bishop Tenison. The treatise applied a consciously 22. KIRCH (Gottfried). Alter und neuer rechter rational approach to the phenomenon and astronomische Wunder=Kalender daruin- deprecated how witchcraft prosecutions divided nen nich allein zu finden die merckwürdige and unsettled communities. At the same time, wahrhaftige Himmels=Begenbenheiten oder Hutchinson was obliged to concede the existence natürliche Wunder an Sonne, Mond und Sternen of both good and evil spirits in the world, so welche geschen werden in gegenwartigem Jahre weakening his arguments against the existence of nach Christi Geburt MDCLXXX, usw. (Andere witches. Nevertheless, this contribution, together Theil des...Wunder-Calenders...) ff. [32], partly printed in red, title within woodcut frame shewing an astronomer with telescope and a queenly figure holding the globe, both standing on clouds in the tarry heavens, woodcuts, contemporary German mss. additions on F1v and G4v, with other small corrections in text, modern calf- backed boards. Leipzig, Kaspar Lunitz, [1680]. £900

An extremely rare German astronomical calendar with a wonderful frontispiece showing two 17th-century astrono- mers.

The continuous text located in the middle column (A2-D2) in the first part of the calender by the hugely prolific Kirch (1639- 1710) contains an account of Montezuma and the conquest of Mexico, together with attendant ‘wonders’ (‘Etlicher Wunder- Geschichte. Wunderzeichen welchevor dem Untergange des letzten mexicanischen Königs in West-Indien geschehen’). It is taken from parts 3 of a work by Erasmus Francisci (1627-9) Ost- und West-Indischer wie auch Sinesischer Lust- und Stats-Garten : Mit einem Vorgespräch Von mancherley lustigen Discursen ; In Drey Haupt-Theile unterschieden, published by Endter in Nuremberg in 1668. The second part of the work is more astronomical or astrological in character. The work also contains items of economic interest: H1v-I2r contains the alphabetic table of livestock and markets in various German cities, and on I2v are the details of the post from Leipzig both by horse and on foot (‘Wie die Posten in Leipzig ankommen und ablauffen’). On the title-page to Part 2 Lunitz is described also as a Bookbinder as well as a publisher. He was active in Leipzig 1668-169, and published prayerbooks, roadbooks, works on singing and other popular books, including three editions of this Calendar. There are a couple of contemporary manuscript ink notes in and around the text. VD 17 23: 653283L (HAB and Nürnberg only.) Provenance: Earls of Macclesfield, armorial blind stamp at the head of the first couple of leaves.

COFFEE PRODUCTION

23. LABORIE (P.J.) The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo; with an Appendix containing a view of the constitution, government, laws and state of the Colony, previous to the year 1789. To which are added some hints on the present state of the island, under the British Government. First edition. 22 plates (on 21 sheets, 18 folding). 8vo. Full tree calf, recased, spine elaborately gilt. Contem- porary ink marks at top of title and ownership inscription to first & final pages of text. xii, 198, 145, [4]pp. London, T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1798. £3000 Rare. The author was a planter on the north side of the island and a member of the superior council. At the time of publication, Saint Domingue and Haiti produced 60% of the global coffee market. This extensive treatise on the production of coffee was written for the benefit of fellow British coffee planters on Jamaica. The plates all illustrate the machinery used in the process from extracting the beans to grinding them. The 145 page appendix is also of interest providing much detail on the area under British control during the Haiti revolution, the sole successful eighteenth century anti-slavery revolution. Divided into ten sections, they describe the government, law and constitution, judiciary, the “different orders of inhabitants and the population”, taxation, Culture, commerce, religion, the military and, lastly the revolution. Dated March 1, 1797, this final section is thirty pages long. Just a single copy appears on auction records (Swann, 1978). Coffee: A Bilbiography, p839; Sabin, 38430.

BASED ON A REAL LIFE BIGAMY SCANDAL

24. LADY OF SHROPSHIRE Love and Avarice: or, the fatal effects of preferring Wealth to Beauty. Exemplified in this history of a young gentleman of fortune and two ladies, to both of whom he was- mar ried; to the first for love, and to the other for her money; and unhappy consequences the knowledge of it produc’d. Interspers’d with a variety of entertaining incidents; particularly the manner in which the first lady was induc’d to part with her honour, how she persuaded him to marry her privately, and by what means she was bought to consent to his matching with another; and their living together afterwards, till the whole affair became publick. Only Edition. 8vo (97x165mm)., 245, [1] pp. Browned and foxed throughout with a large ink stain across K1v-K2r (touching approximately five lines but not completely ob- scuring the text), fore-edge of final leaf very slightly shorter near the lower edge than the rest of the leaves. 20th- century morocco backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. London, printed for T. Ward in the Old-Bailey, 1748. £4500

ESTC records BL only.

An extremely scarce serialised novel intended was offered for sale in November 1997 at Chris- for the “fair sex” and based on the real life tie’s South Kensington and was sold for £1,900, bigamy scandal of Thomas Cresswell (1712- this copy was presumably returned as defective 1788). as it was offered again three months later with a note stating that “2H1v and 2H2r badly im- The serialisation of this novel was advertised pressed, rendering the first or last word on each in the Penny London Post or The Morning Advertiser line of text illegible, L3 torn at upper and Y1 at in 1748 with a note stating that the reason for lower margin”. This (defective) copy was sold “writing this story in the manner of a novel, is to for £1,000 (Christie’s South Kensington, Feb 13, disguise the real names of the persons concerned; 1998, lot 29). though the Truth of the Facts related is well known in the West of England”. The basis of 25. LE ROY DE BOSROGER The Elementary the novel is the scandal concerning the English Principles of Tactics; with new obervations politician, Thomas Creswell. Creswell married the on the Military Art. wealthy heiress, Anne Waterford in 1744 but it First English edition. 12 folding plates. 8vo. A emerged that he had previously conducted a Fleet fine copy in contemporary calf, red morocco label Marriage with a Miss Elizabeth Scrope. Creswell to spine, gilt, Macclesfield library plates to front later claimed that his relationship with Scrope pastedown. 217, [blank, 5, 1ad]pp. London, S. had been due to her suffering a hysterical mental Hooper, 1771. £1500 illness and his belief that this could be cured by A fine copy of this scarce work with a distin- him having sex with her. The story caused a great guished provenance. It bears the additional plate scandal, in 1747 Cresswell published his own A of the Hon. Lt. Gen. George Lane Parker, who Narrative of the Affair between Mr. Cresswell, and was the younger son of the second Earl of Mac- Miss Sc---e to which Scrope herself responded clesfield. Parker served in the American Revolu- with Miss Scrope’s Answer to Mr. Cresswell (1749). tion and later became the MP for Tregony. The account of the affair in Love and Avarice is set forward as a didactic tale for “young Ladies who are single, and whose hearts; as well as their fortunes, are yet in their own possession” (iii). It appears that Love and Avarice was rushed through the press in order to capitalise on the scandal and the account abruptly ends with the author reporting that the case is “as yet undecided in the proper Court. When a final decision is given, we may, very probably, resume it again [...]” (132). Although the advertisement states that the names have been changed it was clearly not felt necessary to change the name of Cresswell’s home of “Pinkney” which remains the same in the narrative. The rest of the book is given over to “Virtue Triumphant; and the Footman hang’d”, the story of a footman who pretends to his mistress that he is actually a nobleman with a large country estate in the north of England. The footman even ar- ranges a mock wedding (with his friend posing as a vicar) so that he is able to consummate the marriage before fleeing and leaving her in disgrace. The serialisation signatures are visible at the foot of every fourth quires [see illustration]. Apart from the BL copy we have only been able to trace one other copy of Love and Avarice. ABPC records the Marquis of Crewe copy that “THE FIRST TRULY INDIGENOUS BOTANICAL ESSAY PUBLISHED IN THE WESTERN HEMI- SPHERE”

26. [MARSHALL (Humphry)]. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, or, an Alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States [...] containing the particular distin- guishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties. Also, some hints of their use in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy. A remarkable interleaved and annotated copy of an important early American botanical book 8vo., 174 [2] pp. Some minor staining to the fore-edge of the first few leaves but overall an excellent copy bound in modern green quarter calf and marbled boards. Philadelphia, Joseph Cruikshank, 1785. £3000

An excellent copy of Marshall’s magnum opus with important evidence for its use ‘in the field’.

Marshall’s ‘catalogue’ sold only a handful of copies in the first few months after publication, but the work was subsequently popular in Europe and was translated into French and German. Marshall hoped that his work would spur other botanists into eventually compiling a complete botanical record of the United States, he claimed that such a study ‘cannot be compiled at once, or by one man; but it is the duty of everyone to contribute what he can towards it’. The work tends to concentrate, but not exclusively, on the flora and fauna of the American south. A careful annotation on the blank leaf next to Magnolia grandiflora’ records that the ‘boundary line between N & S Carolina [has] the most northern settlement of M.G’. Another hand (in pencil) also appears to have ticked or marked each entry in the catalogue as they have observed it. Perhaps most surprising though are two specimens which have been carefully pressed between the leaves on which their corresponding entries appear. 27. MAULEN (Vdr) delin. WILSON (T) fecit. The Greenland Whale Fishery. Mezzotint. 260 by 355mm [London, c.1759 - 1775]. £1750

An engaging Greenland scene, derived from Sieuwert van der Meulen’s classic set of sixteen Dutch images of hunting in the Arctic, here engraved by T. Willson. “It is believed that Sieuwert van der Meulen made the original drawings for the set around 1720, just after the Dutch entered Davis Strait, opening vast new whaling grounds and bringing new vitality, prosperity, and interest to the industry” (Lothrop). The present variation combines three images from that set, showing the killing of a snarling polar bear, the harpooning of a breaching whale, and two whaleboats being dragged on what would come to be known as a “Nantucket sleigh ride.” It was originally paired with another scene showing walrus hunting, though both readily stand on their own. Arctic savagery in striking detail. Scarce. Lothrop Collection, p9, 73a; Brewington, 112.

EMPLOYING BEGGARS TO IMPROVE ENG- LISH ROADS

P (J). For Mending the Roads of England: It’s Proposed Only Edition. Small 8vo., 4 pp., drop head title. Recto of first leaf a little dusty, holes in the inner margin where the pamphlet has been disbound from a larger volume (not touching the text), manuscript number in the upper right fore-corner of the first leaf, neatly folded in half at some point. Disbound. [?London, ?1715] £400 Rare. ESTC records copies at the BL only in the U.K; Folger only in the US. The Folger copy is apparently “stained, affecting the text” and bound with a copy of Thomas Mace’s Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation (1675). An unusual proposal to employ beggars to set up road blocks at five mile intervals where the driver would pay a toll and every cart, wagon or coach who have fitted “an empty basket containing as much gravel as will weigh forty-pounds” (2). The gravel would be scattered from the basket on to the road, the author states that using this method “in four or five years, all the roads of England may be mended” (3). This scheme also has the added advantage of providing work for the homeless.

“AWFUL SITUATION OF PERIL. WE ARE ATTACKED BY WILD BEASTS ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPIS”

28. [PARKER (Lucy)]. An album of drawings by the young Lucy Parker illustrating a family holiday to Scarborough and the surrounding area. Oblong 4to., 120 manuscript drawings in ink and pencil pasted on to the verso and recto of nineteen leaves. Album leaves heavily browned and occasionaly torn at the edges, some scattered foxing, drawings a little dusty but otherwise well preserved. Late 19th-century blue roan and pebbled cloth boards (large piece torn but still attached to the spine, edges and corners rubbed and bumped, some staining to the boards, headcaps torn away, endleaves foxed). c.1860s? £2500

A series of amusing and surprisingly artistic sketches by a young woman documenting a late 19th- century family holiday in the North of England; the drawings display the keen sense of humour of three (probably adolescent) girls in the Victorian period.

The album contains numerous sketches and records the adventures of Lucy Parker and her two sisters on a family holiday to Scarborough and the surrounding Yorkshire coast. The drawings depict their various activities - coastal walks, bathing, sightseeing, socialising, etc. - but also provide portraits (often satirical or comedic) of their fellow holidaymakers. In 1984 the 17th Earl of Perth chose to produce a facsimile of another manuscript by Lucy Parker as his Roxburghe Club book, A Tour in Scotland in 1863. It reproduced Lucy’s lengthy prose account of the Parker family holiday to Scotland alongside numerous similar drawings showing unusual aspects of Scottish life including the appalling weather and the eccentric people they encountered on the trip. At the time of publication the identity of the author was unknown but further investigation, aided by descendents of the Parker family who came forward after publication, enabled them to be identified as the Parkers of White Lodge, East Barnet (North London). Henry Parker (Lucy’s father) was a notable solicitor and her mother, Susannah, the daughter of an admiral. The three girls were called Caroline (“Sissy”), Helen (“Nellie”) and Lucy (“Lulu”) and their three brothers were Henry, Frederick and William. The family firm was Parkers of Bedford Row which was initially successful but in 1884 was declared bankrupt and two of the Parker brothers emigrated to America. Lucy never married but helped in the education of her nieces and neph- ews and wrote a considerable number of books for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (see The Scotsman, 8th September, 1990). Our album does not contain a prose account of the Scarborough holiday but the drawings - and their often witty cap- tions - illustrate in detail many of the most interesting points of the trip. Lucy depicts herself and her sisters as in one sense removed from the usual Scarborough holidaymakers and notes that their clothes are more fashionable than the “anti- crinoline movement” on the seafront promenade. Like their Scottish holiday, the weather appears to have been against them, and the girls are shown fleeing the waves as their bathing carriages are washed around in the sea water below (the caption reads: “Is it fit for Bathing this morning?”). Many of the portraits in the album appear to be the product of long tedious evenings before and after dinner in their hotel. Their fellow residents are satirised and comical stories invented around them including an illustration of an older plump lady playing the piano as her gentleman friend turns the pages of her music book, the caption reads: “Miss Bilten’s Courtship. 3 vols”. As well as Scarborough the children visit Whitby, where they see the famous herrings being prepared for the smoke house. The drawings have been clipped and pasted into the book from another source and it is possible that not all of the drawings are from the Scarborough holiday. Six of the drawings on a single page centre around the infant Master Hugh Rawlinson Ford who was the son of Lucy’s eldest sister, Susannah who married John Walker Ford in 1864 and gave birth to Hugh Rawlinson Ford in 1866. John Walker Ford is shown playing with his son (who is more interested in the suspended carriage lamp) and Hugh’s grandfather (presumably Lucy’s father) is shown reclining on a sofa reading the newspaper. In most of the other drawings Susan- nah still appears to be one of the three “young” Parker sisters and so perhaps the drawings of her son and husband were done some years later. There is also a quick sketch of a woman kneeling by a fireside while a man, who looks much like John Walker Ford, looks on. Many of the drawings of non-family members give the name of the subject (“The Morgan Family”, “Mr Hare and the ‘Three Little Girls’ from Clifton”, “Miss Balfour”, “Mrs and Miss Claremont”), a few of the names - including a rotund and haughty woman labelled “Baroness Rothschild” - may be joke nicknames made up by the sisters. Provenance: (John) David Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth (1907-2002); by descent to his grandson Vis- count Strathallan, sale, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 29/8/2012, lot 290 to Maggs where it was described as a scrapbook of drawings “apparently by the Misses Parker who accompanied their parents on a holiday to Scarborough and Whitby”; the four-line catalogue description does not note the connection to the Earl of Perth’s Roxburghe Club book. This album was presumably acquired by the Earl with the manuscript of A Tour of Scotland in 1863 but not used or referred to when the facsimile was produced. The introduction to the facsimile states that A Tour of Scotland in 1863 was acquired in the 1970s through the bookdealer Dudley Massey of Pickering & Chatto and has never been publically offered for sale since. publisher’s had hope to capitalise on Byron’s name but the resulting scandal mean that his name was removed from later issues. The story had been written during the famous residency at Villa Diodati when Mary Shelly first conceived her own tale of horror, Frankestein. Despite its troubled genesis, The Vampyre went through five editions in 1819 alone and achieved spectacular success in Europe, where Byron’s disavowal was less well known; Goethe described The Vampyre as Byron’s masterpiece. Although by no means the first appearance of the vampire in European literature, Polidori’s tale established the prototype later developed in Sheridan Lefanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. This copy is now in rather delicate condition but remains an important and unsophisticated example of this publishing sensation.

30. [SALISBURY (James Cecil, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of)] A Narrative of the Preparations made at Hatfield for their Majesties and the Royal Family to Review the Volunteer Corps of the County of Hartford, on Friday, 13 June, 1800.

29. POLIDORI (John William). The Vampyre; A Tale. First Edition, Viets III Issue. 8vo [224 x 140mm], 84, [14 advertisements] pp., with the half-title. A couple of very minor marks in places but otherwise clean and uncut. Original grey paper wrappers (most of the paper missing from the spine, first couple of gatherings split from the rest of the block, corners and edges slightly chipped and folded in places, a couple of small circular stains to the upper cover, pastedowns and endleaves a little foxed). London, printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819 £1100 Viets, “The London Editions of Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’”, Bibliographical Society of America (1969) issue III - “only the half-title and the title are reset, omitting Byron’s name. This copy has the advertisements dated 2nd November 1818 and “almost” has been corrected in the final line of p.36.

A good unsophisticated copy of this important work of vampire fiction in the original drab paper wrappers.

The Vampyre was an immediate success largely due to the name “Byron” on the title-page. The First edition. Folding Field Return and hand-coloured plan of the seating arrangements at the banquet, strikes of the admission tickets to the text, two in eau de nil, one sanguine. 4to. Light browning, but otherwise very good in the original pink publisher’s boards, rubbed, upper board creased, rebacked rather tightly in vellum, in dun cloth-covered drop-back box with leather label to the upper panel. 28pp. London, Printed by J. Young, Brydges Street, Covent Garden, n.d. [1800]. £1000

Scarce, not on NSTC, OCLC or RLIN. A second issue was printed by Stockdale in 1818. The Hertfordshire Volunteer Cavalry and Infantry were raised in 1798 in response to the perceived worsen- ing of the invasion threat. Already in 1793 James Cecil, 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of Salisbury had raised the Hertfordshire Regiment of Militia which had been posted in Kent, Suffolk and Buckinghamshire in the years that followed. In May 1800 it was stationed at St. Albans to enable it to take part in the Great Review at Hatfield planned by Salisbury as Lord Lieutenant of the county. The combined volunteer forces were to be reviewed by George III, accompanied by Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales, the Dukes of York and Cumberland, the Royal Princesses and the Prince and Princess of Orange. [See JSAHR Vol. XXXI, pp.15-24 for an informative article by Major J.H. Busby on the local military forces of Hertfordshire].

Salisbury had been created Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household in 1793 - a position he held until 1804 - living in some splendour at court. Overall Salis- bury seems to have been a fairly colourless character leaving few traces and taking no part in public affairs. His wife, however, was considered a notable eccentric, a fearless horsewoman who round to hounds with her own pack, and a pioneer toxophilite - patroness of the Hertfordshire Archers. The Narrative... sets out in great detail the arrangements for this highly important ceremonial occasion, personally important for Salisbury as a public demonstration of his status and consequently significant to the dignity of the Hert- fordshire élite. The orders to the various corps are reprinted together with the correspondence to the Royal Household and Horse-Guards. The provision of tickets is explained with printed examples of the tickets issued for the admission of waggons ,”... to accommodate [Officer’s] friends at the review... “; those issued to local families, five tickets per family sent to nearly two hundred families; and the ticket issued to the police officers patrolling the house and grounds.

However, the greater part is dedicated to the organization of the sumptuous banquet given following the review, excluding the Royal Party over 1600 members of the volunteers were fed. The troops were seated at tables in the square outside the house, “On a gun being fired they drank the Kings’ health, standing up, with repeated marks of the most expressive loyalty, during which period, His Majesty rose from table, shewed himself at the centre window and remained there some time.” The coloured table plan shows the positions of the tables allocated to the various corps present, no table being too far from the butts of beer which are clearly marked on the diagram.

This copy has been inscribed “This Copy is authentick” and signed by Salisbury beneath the Preface. There are extensive notes, by way of correction and amplification of the text, to the end papers and in the margins, these also appear to be in Salisbury’s hand, despite references to the Lord Lieutenant in the third person. For example, on the front free endpaper there is a list of the meats provided for the dinner, “120 Pieces of Boiled Beef; 96 [Pieces of] Roast [Beef]; 110 Joints of Veal; 104 Quarters of Lamb; 70 Hams; 70 Tongues; 60 Meat Pies.” Similarly an itemized list of the 1300 bottles of wine consumed including “1008 [Bottles of] Port for Park, Marquees & House”. In addition five butts of ale were provided, three “in the Park” and two “in the House”, this not taking account of the six for the troops themselves.

The leftovers were used to further underline the local heirarchy, being charitably apportioned amongst the local populace, “In the afternoon of the next day the Remnants were distributed to near a Thousand Persons, exclusive of the Joints clandestinely carried off the Evening before.” Salisbury seems to have been well pleased with the impression made on the King. On the final blank a conversation between the King and the Lord Lieutenant is recorded in which George remarks that, “... where ever He had been, He had always found the Master of the House in a Bustle, but that he had considered him that day as a Visitor, as not having any thing to do. Surely this was the highest Compliment His Majesty could pay him!” The occasion was recorded by Richard Livesay in a large painting which hung at Hatfield House of which an aquatint print was produced engraved by Stadler and published by Livesay himself. [AMOT 1720].

A splendidly transparent display of the social function of the Volunteer Corps, exhibiting the stratification and linkage throughout society from the Monarchy to the agricultural workforce. A powerful demonstration of the multiform manifestations of patronage that on the threshold of a new century clearly looks back to the C18th rather than forward to the C19th. Near contemporary ownership inscription of W.M. Smith, Sleap Hyde Farm. Smith does not appear in the text in connection with the volunteers, but Sleap’s Hyde is close to St. Albans.

HEALTH AND SAFETY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON

31. SHARP (James). General Directions for the Driver of the Rolling Waggon. Single Sheet (220x222mm)., large (196x77mm) woodcut of a four wheel wagon labelled “James Sharp Leadenhall Street London / Common Stage” being pulled by eight horses while their master walks alongside with a raised whip; seventeen lines of text regarding the care and proper loading of a wagon with a small advertisement for Sharp’s own “Great Variety of Rolling Carriages” (one single neat fold, very lightly spotted in places. [London, 1770?] £750 ESTC records BL, British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings [x2] and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, California. An illustrated advertisement for James Sharp’s (1730-1783) wagons and coaches with notes on their proper use. The text is primarily concerned with the proper use and care of wagons; instructions are given for the frequent greasing of moving parts and the careful replacing of “rings or washers”. The wagon master is reminded to “hook up the back bands of the thiller horses very short” for fear that if they are not short enough it “the thill and body horses will soon be gall’d upon the top of the neck, by the too great pressure of the collars”. Users are also cautioned to load the forward part of the wagon with heavier items and leave the back as light as possible. Sharp states that if these instructions are followed then “every owner will find his account in such carriages, from the very first; for no road or country can prevent their being used with advantage”. The final part of the text is given over to a small advertisement of Sharp’s business informing potential customers that a “great variety of rolling carriages, according to Act of Parliament, and also Gar- den and Land Rollers of a new construction, are ready for inspection; and are built by James Sharp, No. 15, Leadenhall-street, London”. James Sharp was the brother of the slavery abolitionist Granville Sharp and can be seen prominently placed third from left in the famous Zoffany painting of the Sharp family, James is holding the unusual “serpent” instrument. James was a noted London ironmaster and inventor who published a number of works including a much republished pamphlet on the “American stove” - so called because they were said to have been invented by Benjamin Franklin. ESTC records ten publications by Sharp on the subject of wagons including an investigation into the best height and size of wheels (1772), a report on the testing of carts on a “few journies [sic] into Warwickshire and Staffordshire” (1773) and the best preservation of the public highways (1773). All of these publications are a similar mix of both apparent concern for public safety and blatant advertising of Sharp’s business.

32. SIMES (Thomas). A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion, designed for the Regulations in Quarter, Camp, or Garrison; with useful Observations and Instructions for their manner of Attack and Defence. Ornamneted with a Frontispiece and twenty copper-plate plans. First Edition., 8vo., [32 (subscribers list has been bound before the text rather than at end)], 286, [2 (advertisement)]., with the hand-coloured frontispiece and seventeen hand-coloured engraved plans at the end. Contemporary speckled calf, spine rule in gilt, black morocco label in the second panel (very lightly rubbed, small chip to the upper headcap, small scuff to a couple of corners). London, printed for the Author, and sold by Almon [...], Hooper [...], Richardson [...], Urquhard [...] and Walter, 1777 £850

A very beautiful copy of the much scarcer first edition of Simes’s illustrated military manual.

A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion is the third of five books published by Thomas Simes in the 18th century. The first three - The Medley (1767), The Guide (1772), and The Course (1777) - are described by Houlding, in his study of the eighteenth century training texts of the British Army, Fit for Service, as “massive but ill-organized compendia of material dealing with all aspects of regimental administration and routine, together with reprints of all current regulations and reproductions of most of the regular printed administrative forms (such as muster rolls and the like) used throughout the army” (p.219). These three publications, however, do not “differ much, one from another, in the contents; each was essentially a rehash of the volume preceding it, though distinguished by a steadily improving format” (ibid). Regardless, “Simes’s publications represented the most voluminous collection of basic material on regimental administration and daily routine to be prepared by anyone - private or public - during the century” (ibid) and enjoyed consider- 33. [SLAVERY] L’Esclave Negre, Relation Interes- sante et Authentique. No.14. Engraved vignette of the classic kneeling slave “Am I not a Man and a Brother” in French. 8vo. Original printed self-wraps, some tiny marginal stains not affecting text. 24pp. Guernesey, Duma- resq et Mauger, 1823. £1250

A fine copy of this rare Guernsey imprint, featuring Josiah Wedgewood’s famous design for the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. This was published as a part of an unnamed series for the Societe des Traites Religieax, comprising at least 22 issues.

This short tale is set on Guernsey and is narrated by a Protestant minister. It concerns a slave brought before him to be baptised by his owner - a naval officer whose ship had stopped at the island. The bulk of the narrative is a dialogue between the minister and slave.

No copies are listed on OCLC.

PRESENTED BY A “WORKING MAN” TO THE TORQUAY MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE

34. SMITH (Adam). An Inquiry in the Nature and able popularity at the time of its publication. A Causes of the Wealth of Nations. great deal of the books success, however, can be Sixth Edition. Three Volumes. 8vo (215 x 135mm). attributed to its timely publication, coinciding Some foxing in places (less so in the second and with the American Revolution; as even Simes third volumes). Contemporary tree calf, spines notes in his second dedication, “To the officers panelled in gilt with red and green morocco labels of the Army, From the rebellious conduct of the (expertly rebacked and repaired preserving the Americans it appears to me there is a great neces- original spines, new green morocco labels). London, sity of publishing something of this kind, for for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1791. £3500 the instruction of the young and unexperienced First published in 1776 this is the first edition to be officer...”. Although, Houlding was highly critical published after Smith’s death. of Simes’s value as a writer, branding him “at best merely derivative and at worst an outright plagia- A pleasing copy of the sixth edition of Smiths rist” and describing his success as “undeserved” monumental work on economics with an apt he did concede his works fulfilled their purpose: inscription from a “working man”. “Although his works were heavy-handed affairs, it must be admitted that they served their purpose “The annual labour of every nation is the fund which of providing young officers with a fairly complete originally supplies it with the necessaries and conveniences catalogue of their duties. Even [Col. Edward] of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always Harvey, though unimpressed, acknowledged the either in the immediate produce of that labour or in what trouble Simes had put himself to in ‘Collecting is purchased with that produce from other nations” (from Several Regulations & Forms of Returns etc & Smith’s introduction). publishing them together’; and he knew this to be ‘of Some Convenience to Young Officers’“. This “The Wealth of Nations had no rival in scope or view is reflected in the extensive subscribers list, depth when published and is still one of the few which spans fourteen pages in this edition, includ- works in its field to have achieved classic status, ing some impressive names of the day. meaning simply that it has sustained yet survived repeated reading, critical and adulatory, long after the circumstances which prompted it have become the object of historical enquiry” (ODNB).

On the front flyleaf of the first volume is a presentation inscription reading: “Given [this is deleted and replaced with the grander] Presented to the / Torquay / Mechanics Institute / by a Working Man”, there is also a large 19th-century Torquay Mechanics’ Institute book label on each front pastedown with the rules and regulations of the institution; the first rule being that “the Library shall not contain any work on Controversial Divinity, Party Politics, or that has an immoral tendency”. We have had the book labels professionally lifted a little to reveal another inscription underneath the label in the first volume that reads: “Torquay / Mechanics’ Institute / 3 weeks for Reading / Geo-?Lawill / Librarian”. Under the labels in the second and third volume we found the presentation inscription by a “working man” but in a different hand, presumably the donor inscribed the first volume and it was then felt it should be copied into the other volumes.

The first meeting of the Torquay Mechanics’ Institute was reported on 6 February 1834 when the library was opened. It was still active in 1860 when it received the library and property of a less successful body, the Torquay Working Men’s Improvement Society. Contemporary newspapers report that a variety of lectures were delivered at the Institute ranging from a paper on Macbeth to a talk on Palestine. We have been unable to trace the librarian but the dates of service of the subsequent two librarian at the Institute suggest that Geo-?Lawill was the first librarian when the library opened in 1834. There is also an old pencilled bookseller’s price of 7/6 “for 3 vols” on the front pastedown.

THE FIRST HISTORY OF NEW YORK

35. SMITH (WIlliam). The History of the Province of New York from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. To which is annexed, A Description of the Country, with a short Account of the Inhabit- ants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in that Colony. First edition. Folding frontispiece. 4to. Later red morocco, spine gilt. xii, 255pp. London, Thomas Wilcox, 1757. £4250 A beautiful copy of this important work. “Within the period subsequent to the English Revolution, Smith is still without a successful rival. This work ranks with Smith’s Virginia and Hutchinson’s Massachusetts as one of the worthiest examples of historical literature produced in later colonial times” Larnard. Smith, a distinguished lawyer and Chief Justice of New York, supported the Loyalist cause during the American Revolution and was forced to move to Canada at its conclusion, taking up the same post there. His history of the colony as published here only ran to 1736, however he anticipated some of the events of the 1754-1760 war, some of which were taking place as he wrote. The plate bound as a frontispiece is an engraved view of Oswego on Lake Ontario. Sabin, 84566; Church, 1023; Howes, S703; Larnard, 1109.

36. STILLINGFLEET (Edward). A Letter to a Deist, in answer to several Objections against the Truth and Authority of the Scriptures. First Edition. 8vo., [8], [9] pp. First few leaves a little grubby, some early green col- ouring to the imprimatur leaf decoration, a number of ink annotations, signatures and ownership marks throughout, ink ownership stamp on the title-page (touching one line of the title). Contemporary sheep, covers panelled in blind and with a repeated “HM” [see below] blind stamp on both covers (in the centre of the upper eighteenth century ownership signature in pencil on cover and at the head, foot and twice in the title page of J. Taverner, M.D., with occasional early centre of the lower), spine divided by five raised pen and pencil mark in the margins, a.e.g. [xvi], 149, bands (upper headcap slightly torn, small hole [3]ads.pp. London, R. Boulter, 1679. £5500 near the foot of the spine, covers and edges a little rubbed and bumped, upper blind stamped Trapham’s father was a licensed surgeon in Oxford, initials on the rear covers eaten away by an insect, who acted during the Civil war as “body-surgeon” some slight scuffing to the boards). London, by to Oliver Cromwell. He is chiefly remembered for W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt, 1677. £750 sewing back the head to the body of the executed Wing S5600 (+;+). King. Thomas Trapham junior is known to have studied firstly at Magdalene Oxford then at Leyden, Provenance: 1. Humphrey Morgan, signature in finally obtaining his MD at Caen. In 1664 he was the upper margin of the the title-page, preface practising in London and was accorded an honorary leaf, and B1 and a number of manuscript annota- fellowship of the College of surgeons. It seems that tions throughout. Possibly the Humphrey Mor- he made his way to Jamaica and practised there from gan, paup, of St. Alban Hall [later incorporated as 1673 until his death in about 1702. part of Merton College, Oxford], matric. 25 June, 1641 (Foster Alumni Oxonienses Vol III). Morgan “Like all doctors of his time, his understanding of signs his name with “Cleric” and a includes a date aetiology is dismayingly erroneous. Most diseases of 1716/7, he has also noted repeatedly much he he believes are caused by factors such as sudden paid for the book (“2s = 6d”), inscribed his Latin chilling, exposure to night airs, and intemperance, motto “perpetuo vigeat veritas” [Truth Lives and are influenced by changes in the lunar cycle. His Forever] and has copied a section of Stillingfleet’s treatment included the use of emetics, cathartics, biography from Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses on venesection, mercurials, and various herbal rem- to the initial flyleaf. There are also a handfull of edies, which when not positively injurious, would interesting annotations and pointing hands in the have been ineffectual...” (Ashcroft) text. 2. John Eyton, eighteenth-century ink ownership It seems probably that the book was written both to stamp in the centre of the title-page. 3. Prof. ensure Trapham’s pre-eminence in his chosen prac- David Arthur Pailin, Emeritus Proffesor of The- ology at Manchester University, mid 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. This volume is no.787 in Rachel Lee’s enormous catalogue of Pailin’s library, the library was offered as a complete collection but later broken up and sold through Dominic Winters book auctions. Pailin put together a large “working collection” of books on the nature and content of faith. Pailin also owned a copy of Thomas Bennet’s An Answer to the Dissenters Pleas for Seperartion (1707) which has the ownership stamp of John Eyton on the title-page.

THE FIRST ENGLISH BOOK ON TROPI- CAL MEDICINE

37. TRAPHAM (Thomas, M.D.) A discourse of the state of health in the Island of Jamaica with a provision therefore Calculated from the Air the Place and the Watrer: the Customs and Manners of the Living. First edition. Small 8vo. Nineteenth century morocco, rebacked the original spine, gilt, laid-down, little soiled). Oxonii, E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1713. £650

ESTC records only two copies of this book in North America at the College of Charleston and Yale and nine copies in the U.K. (six of which are at Oxford).

An interleaved and heavily annotated copy of Edward Welchman study of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.

Welchman (1665-1739) was educated at Oxford and late presented the rectory of Lapworth in Warwick- shire. He was ordained archdeacon of Cardigan in 1727 and later made chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield. He published a number of books on religious subjects. XXXIX Articuli Ecclesiae proved popular and the sixth edition of 1740 was translated into English, further editions appeared into the 18th-century.

This copy has been extensively annotated by John Witherston who signs his name in the upper fore-corner of the title-page: “John. Witherston / e. Coll. Ball^i^ Oxon / 1812. Witherston was the son tice and to encourage potential settlers deterred of John Witherston of Bengal, East Indies (armiger, by the prospect of tropical malady. Trapham promoted Major 1 March 1791; Lieutenant-Colonel paints a rosy picture of Jamaica while counselling 25 Oct. 1797; retired to England in October 1797). his readers to adopt the mores of the tropics The junior John Witherston matriculated from Bal- rather than importing habits of colder climes. In liol College, Oxford on 14 June 1809, aged 18, B.A. his work the black population hardly figure except 1813, M.A. 1817, he was ordained deacon in 1813, where their customs have inadvertently contib- made a minor canon at Rochester Cathedral in 1825, uted to their health to good or ill. vicar of Allhallows, Rochester in 1827, and vicar of Kingsdown with Mapiscombe, Kent in 1835. The Norman and Macclesfield copies are the only ones at auction in the last 30 years. See British The majority of the annotations are based on the Medical Journal 25th August 1975: “Tercentenary Biblical passages referenced by Welchman in the of the first English book on tropical medicine” notes which accompany each article. Witherston has (M.T. Ashcroft). Wing, T-2030; Sabin, 96473. neatly copied out the corresponding section showing how he must have carefully studied each portion 38. WELCHMAN (Edward). XXXIX Articuli of the book and presumably repeatedly returned Ecclesiae Anglcanae, to the text. In total there are over forty passages Textibus è Sarca Scriptura depromptis confirmati, provided on the blank interleaved pages. At the start Brevibusque Notis illustrati. Adjects insuper No- of the volume Witherston has copied out two long minibus Auctorum Locisque in quibus Doctrina sections from Strype’s Memorials of the most reverend in Articulis Contenta susius explicatur. Father in God, Thomas Cranmer (1694) concerning First Edition. 8vo., [8], 40 pp., interleaved and Cranmer’s role in the drawing up the Articles. annotated throughout. Spotted and browned in places (heavily on A1r), small rust hole through In addition to these manuscript additions Wither- the blank lover section of C4. 18th-century ston has also annotated around the text, in Latin, vellum backed marbled boards (boards faded and in three distinct passages. These passages concern worn at the edges, spine split near the head and a Article XII on good works and the outwards signs of faith. Witherston discusses the nature of good works and notes that one must be justified in front of Christ before these works can have meaning.

[Bound with]. WELCHMAN (Edward). Concentus Veterum sive Appendix ad XXXIX Articulos Ecclesiae Anglicanae First Edition. 8vo., [4], 32 pp., interleaved throughout. Title-page very light foxed around the edges. Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldonian, 1713. Rare. ESTC records Cambridge and Bodley in the U.K.; Folger and Yale in the USA. Although this book has also been interleaved it has not been annotated. The title-page has a manuscript tract volume number “4” in the upper margin and an early price in the lower blank fore-corner of “6d”. The manuscript tract volume numbers at the head of the title-page of each publication show that they were clearly part of a large volume at some point. One of the blank interleaved pages has a distinct watermark date of 1797 which may suggest when the two works were bound together in the present volume.

39. WELD (Charles Richard). A heavily revised and reworked portion (chapters I-XX) of the manuscript of Last Winter in Rome. Manuscript. 4to., 76 pp., with numerous additional overslips and inserts and a couple of simple manuscript diagrams. First few leaves a little torn near the inner margin (not deleting the text), some light soiling to the final few leaves, a couple of grubby marks in places where items have been pasted in. Original mauve pebbled cloth boards, some evidence of pages been torn from the end of the volume (faded, spine worn and torn at the head and foot, some marks to both boards, edges and corners rubbed and bumped). c.1864 £1500

A working draft of an Italian travel account by a former librarian of the Royal Society.

Charles Richard Weld (1813-1869) was born at Windsor to a family with extensive estates in Ireland and named after his father’s close friend, Charles James Fox. Weld’s childhood was nomadic (he lived at times at Dijon, Ireland, North Wales and the Isle of Cromwell had ordered to be removed from the Wight) and in 1836 aged twenty-three he went on House of Commons, although The Athenaeum’s the grand tour with his companion John Potter; reviewer took exception to Weld’s version of the this trip, sparked a passion for travel which gossip surrounding Newton’s patrons” (ODNB). remained with Weld for the rest of his life. Weld return to London in 1839 and took up the Weld undertook frequent trips with his wife which position of secretary to the Statistical Society; spawned a series of travel accounts including during this period he compiled the much-reprint- descriptions of Auvergne, Piedmont, Saxony and a ed Statistical Companion to the Pocket Book (1848). trip to North America. In 1861 Weld was forced to Charles married Anne Selwood in 1842; the leave the Royal Society after having introduced a marriage introduced him to a distinguished circle female companion to his rooms at Burlington which included Sir John Franklin (his wife’s uncle) House. Weld continued to travel and write and this and Alfred Tennyson (his wife’s eldest sisters account of Rome was the result of one of his final husband). Through the help of Sir John Barrow, expeditions. Weld was also introduced to the Royal Society and in December 1843 he was appointed assistant This manuscript a large portion of Weld’s secretary and librarian to the Society. Anita working draft and notes for Last Winter in Rome McConnell states that: which was published in 1865. A number of pages (presumably at least some of the remaining chap- “The Royal Society at this time was in a fever for ters) appear to have been torn from the end of the reform and Weld was frequently asked for details journal. concerning its past organization. Encouraged by Dr Peter Mark Roget, its then secretary, Weld Weld states at the outset of this manuscript that it decided to compile an administrative history, a was “commenced May 17. 1864 - 9 o’c. P.M”. From task which, as he pursued his researches well the beginning the work shows numerous corrections beyond the society’s archives, absorbed four years and re-workings - Weld deliberates over the opening of his spare time. The two volumes, published in line, “When a man goes to bed with the conscious- 1848, with illustrations by his wife, combined ness that he has to rise on a dark December morn- accuracy with style and were well received. Weld ing at five a.m” with an initial attempt crossed had demolished the myth surrounding the soci- through, a number of words added and a re-draft of ety’s mace, erroneously said to be that which the line on the facing blank leaf. Words, place names and phrases are often abbreviated which suggests that this was intended for revision by Weld - presumably this is a first working draft which was then copied out in a fair hand at a later date.

Weld often seems to be trying out approaches to subjects and significantly re-working various sections. At the end of the volume Weld has chosen to isolate a section of the book on Pope Pius IX (1792-1878), presumably as he felt he could slot it into the rest of the text where necessary. In the printed book this section begins at p.69 “Towards the end of the sixteenth-century...”. Weld adjusts the tone of his manuscript to make the rise of the future Pope seem more interesting - the prosaic “in a few years” is deleted leaving the description of a young man who “flourished” and “became so rich”. This section of the manuscript has numerous deletions, arrows and asterisk and there is significantly more text than the 9pp of printed text in the book.

There are numerous pieces of paper tipped in or loosely inserted into the manuscript with extra passages and notes for where the additional text should be inserted. There is also a small pencil sketch of an unidenti- fied Italian building and a red chalk sketch of an elegant extended and slippered foot (presumably not the foot of a Roman woman who Weld states “have not pretty feet” (p.41). One of the inserts appears to have been torn from a Longman book catalogue. Weld has also tipped in a cutting of article he has written from The Athenaeum, a Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts (1864) signed “C.R.W”) which gives some information about events and gossip in Rome and the excavations beenath St Clemente - this corresponds with the printed text of Chapter IX.

TRADE IN CHINA AND “... STOCK-JOBBERS WHO DEVOUR MEN ON OUR EXCHANGE ...”

WHITE (George). An Account of the trade to the East-Indies, together with the State of the Present Company, and the best method for establishing and managing that trade to the honor and advantage of the nation. Written by Mr. George White, of London, Merchant. At the desire of several Members of Both Houses of Parliament: and Now made Publick, for General Information in an affair of so great concern to the whole kingdom. Only edition. Folio. [2], 13, [1] pp. Disbound. Title-page and verso of last leaf lightly soiled, otherwise a very clean and crisp copy. London, in the Year 1691. £2500 Wing W1768. ESTC records seven copies in the U.K. and seven in North America.

Only edition of an informative account of trade in the East Indies and the East India Company by an “insider” merchant, George White, who calls for a refounding of the company by a national subscription and an act of parliament.

White writes “at the desire of several Members of Both Houses of Parliament” and responds to three of their questions: “Whether the trade to the East-Indies was really such a great advantage to the nation, as general discourse represented it?”, what is the “constitution, management, and condition of the present company” ... and “my opinion of the most proper manner and method for settling that trade to the honour and interest of the kingdom” (1).

White argues that the East-Indian trade is a linchpin in the wheel of English commerce: “This trade do’[e]s not only supply us with varieties of goods for our necessary use and ornament; but the greater part of the commodities brought from India are exported to sundry parts in Europe, Africa, and America, which does further advance our navigation and commerce” (1) and that this trade is best carried out under the auspicies of a joint stock company “for by that means it will not be engross’d into the hands of those who are profess’d merchants, but our nobility and gentry may partake of the profit, without any diminution of their dignity” (2). The issue then becomes is the East-India Company as it currently stands the best means to carry out trade?

In describing the “constitution, management, and condition of the present [East-India] Company” (3), White outlines the history of the company beginning with its incorporation in 1657. He describes the initial successes as a consequence of the Company’s “just and punctual dealings” which produced the result that “we were preferr’d in their [the natives] esteem, before any other Europeans” (3). He then describes various internal problems, such as the innovation that shareholder’s votes were weighted according to how much stock in the company they owned, and the resulting decision to initiate a conflict “with the Great Mogul and the King of Syam” (5). White spends a number of pages describing the conflict and providing the back- ground financial information. One of the consequences of the conflict is that “we have lost that invaluable jewel, our reputation and respect; and the most belov’d and favour’d are justly become most abhorr’d and infamous in the esteem of the people” (7). To remedy the situation, White calls for a refounding of the East-India Company funded by a national subscription and “incorporated and confirm’d by Act of Parlia- ment” (9). He warns that the measure will be opposed by those individuals who profited by the current organization of the East-India Company. He writes in language that could be as true today as it was then: “These are a sort of men, who act as if ‘twere a principal article of their creed that their main business in this world is to aggrandize their families, though they raise their fortunes by the ruin of their country” (9). White plan was successful. In 1698 a new East-India Company was founded along the lines he describes in this work, but as he warned, the large shareholders in the original company bought a dominating share in the new company which set off years of conflict before both companies merged in 1708. George White (fl.c.1665-1702) joined the East India Company as a young man and in the 1660s travelled to India with a Cephalonian adventurer named Constant Phaulkon. “George White detached himself from the East India Company and worked as an independent trader. He was not strictly an ‘interloper’ as he did not encroach on the company’s monopoly of trade with Europe, but sold his goods at ports from the Persian Gulf to Indochina and established a good reputation in Siam” (ODNB). A number of studies have linked White with the Dowgate Adventurers “a group who sought to challenge the East India Company’s monopoly by legitimate means” (ibid).

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