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JUSTIN CROFT Antiquarian exhibiting at the New York Antiquarian Fair 2016 booth A33 Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd, ABA, ILAB, 7 West Street, Faversham, Kent, ME137JE, UK, [email protected] +44 1795 591111 mobile: +44 7725 845275

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN KING 1. [ALLARD, Carel]. Koninglyke Almanach: beginnende, met den aanvang der oorlogh, van anno 1701... waer in... de loop der zon der ongeregtigheid... door XVIII zinnebeelden in koopere plaaten vertoond word...; Almanach Royal. Commencement avec la guerre de l’an 1701. ‘: Imprimerie Royale’, [but Amsterdam, c. 1706]. $4500

Small (319 × 200 mm), engraved title (in Dutch and French) and 18 plates (of which 12 are double page) with engraved or letterpress text, plus 6 additional plates loosely inserted, the called-for plates neatly mounted on guards in early (probably eighteenth-century) marbled wrappers. Former collector’s neat numbering to lower forecorners. Spine defective, a few plates slightly creased or dusty at margins. But overall very crisp and clean.

FIRST of this of violently satirical plates directed against Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon and Philip V of during the War of the Spanish Succession, several linking their fortunes to solar eclipse of 1706.

The plates are mostly by Carel Allard (1648-1709) and were etched and published separately as broadsides more or less simultaneously with the depicted contemporary events; and published as a collection c. 1706. Several of the plates have been attributed to Romeyn de Hooghe, though not securely. Both the broadsides and the collection are rare, held by only a few institutions. The Rijksmuseum holds a set apparently corresponding with ours (though theirs apparently without ); there is no copy in the British and OCLC lists no US locations. Bibliographically complex, Brunet, Graesse and Cohen (28) call for a frontispiece and 17 plates, though there is evidently some variation in the very few copies we have located, with plates and accompanying text (both engraved and letterpress) in different states. Our copy is especially interesting having been augmented by a connoisseur adding related plates and additional states.

Father and son Carel and Abraham Allard were based in Amsterdam with a shop among other publishers and sellers of books and prints in Kalverstraat. Carel was one of the major publishers of prints and maps of the Golden Age in the and after his death in 1709 his son Abraham took over the business.

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Both father and son acquired notoriety, with accusations of copyright infringement and publication of obscene images (the latter born out by the prints of the present collection). Contents:

Engraved title title in Dutch and French, followed by plates: 1. Kalendarium Regum Solis Cursum. 2. T Franse Hoff in Allarm. 3. Beklaaglyke Franse audientie. 4. Propheetise droon van de Zon-Eclips. 5. De Fransche en Spaansche huylebalken. 6. Castillen oostenryks. 7. Al-arm t Versailles. Letterpress text, double page. 8. Wapen-kreet van Ludofricus. Letterpress text, double page. 9. Boere-Ban en Arrier-Ban. Repeating the previous image, with letterpress text, double page. 10. Metamorphose Nouvelle, 1706. Letterpresss text below (minor repair to letterpress title with parts of 4 letters supplied in ), double page. 11. De Omkeringe van de Algemene Monarchie. Letterpresss text below, double page. 12. De Verschyninge van Jupiter. Letterpresss text below, double page. 13. De Groote Eclipsis in de Zon. Letterpresss text below, double page. 14. De Vervelde ban der heeer Van Beyeren. Letterpresss text, double page. Dated 1706. 15. Oostenryk zegen-praalende aan’t Hof van Spanje, 1706. Letterpresss text, double page. 16. Het Klaagend Vrankryk. Letterpresss text, double page. 17. De Papire Koning. Letterpresss text , double page. 18. Harpagon den Ouden Schrok. Letterpresss text, double page.

Additional plates:

—Triumfen in vlucht Kastelen inde Luchte, engraved (without letterpress text found in some versions). —Castillen oostenryks, engraved, variant version, the image from another plate to the above plate 6 without integral text. —Al-arm t Versailles, variant similar to plate 7 above, but without the Duke of Berwick and the Old Pretender, (numbered 6 & 7 on plate 7 above) and different letterpress ‘Vacarme au Trianon’. — [De Grooten Waereld Verdeelder] Engraved, letterpress text, from Der Groot Tafereel, [1706]. —Another version of 14 above entitled ‘Het hof van Magnus Augustus’. —Another version of 16 above with engraved text.

2. (AVIATION). LANUSSE, Jean. Quelques avions. Chartres, 1940-41. $980

4to (320 × 236 mm), title-page and 17 full-page ink drawings on 17 leaves, each signed, some dated. Paper covered wrappers. Slightly soiled.

British and German aircraft drawn by an accomplished amateur during the first year of the German occupation. The aircraft include a Vickers Wellington, Miles Magister, Westland Lysander, Short Sunderland seaplane, Fairey Battle, Messerschmidt 109 and Heinkel He. 112.

THE GAME OF PAUL ET VIRGINIE

3. [BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri]. Grand jeu de l’histoire de Paul et Virginie avec figures coloriées. [, c. 1830]. $3000

Single engraved sheet (535 × 445 mm) with 25 illustrated playing cards and one title cartouche in 4 rows, with contemporary hand-colouring. Lightly browned.

A RARE UNCUT SHEET OF ENGRAVED PLAYING CARDS for a game based on the story of Paul et Virginie (1787), two orphan children brought up in

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poverty and innocence among the native people of Mauritius. Hugely popular and influential in the French debate over slavery (which was not finally abolished in France until 1848) the produced numerous spin-offs, including many games. This set of playing cards is undated: the entry for the sole location in OCLC (Cary collection, Yale, also undated) suggests 1815 as a publication, but this is likely to be too early since the watermark (present in our sheet) is of the Dambricourt frères, whose papermill was not operational until the 1830s.

4. BERTALL (pseudonym of Charles Albert d’Arnoux.) [91 proof wood-engraved plates on fine paper]. [Paris: 1851-2]. $3000

4to (290 × 198 mm), pp. [32], to which are tipped 91 wood-engraved proofs on fine paper, various sizes (c. 75 × 65 to 195 × 136 mm), contemporary manuscript captions in French. Album leaves very slightly yellowed, the prints fine. Stitched in original blue paper wrappers, upper cover lettered in manuscript ‘Bertall’. Very slightly rubbed and soiled, but overall fine and fresh.

A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF CARICATURES IN PROOF, MANY OF LIFE IN , AT THE TIME OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION, by the celebrated comic artist Bertall. They were published in Le Journal pour Rire in 1851-2, but these examples are proofs (fumés) printed on fine paper without text, the latter added in contemporary manuscript on the album leaves. Using lamp black (encre de fumée) applied by hand to the block, fumés were habitually printed in a very few copies each (less than 5) usually for the benefit of the publisher and artist. They represent the best possible impressions of blocks then used for many thousands of subsequent impressions.

Of the 91 images here, 56 are scenes in London and environs and are from Bertall’s front-page series Voyage dans le rues de Londres. The first group shows tavern life and other low-life scenes, caricaturing the English taste for drink (beer, port, gin and champagne). There is a fine scene of the twin bores of the new Thames Tunnel designed by Brunel (’un des meilleurs charges qu’un français ait jamais faite aux anglais’), a chilly coach-ride to the racecourses of Royal Ascot, the Royal Family (glanced through a coach window), a Great Exhibition sequence and two boxing scenes. The Exhibition sequence provides Bertall with the opportunity to anatomise English society in depicting the members of the various admission-price entrants (gentry and at 5 shillings, magistrates and merchants at 2 shillings, cockneys and countrymen at 1 shilling). Charles Albert d’Arnoux (1820-1882), called ‘Bertall, was one of the most prolific illustrators of the day, providing thousands of images for contemporary books (including works of Balzac and Dumas) and newspapers. He later pioneered the use of photography in . Henri Beraldi wrote of him ‘Il nous est impossible de fixer le nombre de dessins publiés par cet artiste très original et sans méchanceté; un de ces hommes précieux qui ont eu le rare privilège de distraire et d’amuser leurs contemporains, ce dont il leur faut être bien reconnaissant; il y en a tant qui les ennuient!’ (Graveurs du XIXe siècle, II, 1885, p. 45-49).

5. (BERTHAULD, Claude-Louis, abbé). ALÉXANDRE, editor. Le Quadrille des Enfans, par feu M. Berthaud, avec lequel, par le moyen de quatre-vingt-quatre figures, & sans épeler, ils peuvent, à l’âge de quatre ou cinq ans, & au-dessous, être mis en état de lire à l’ouverture de toutes sortes de livres, en trois ou quatre mois, même plutôt ... nouvelle édition ... Paris: Imprimerie de Couturier, et se vend chez la veuve Berthaud, 1783. $900

8vo (230 × 160 mm), pp. [2], 124, [4], plus 4 engraved plates printed on heavy bluish paper. Uncut and partially unopened in original pain grey wrapper. Spine slightly torn without loss. An appealing unsophisticated copy.

Berthauld’s early-years system, using images proved influential. Les Quadrilles des Enfans was first published in 1773 and again in several eighteenth-century editions. This

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edition, by one Aléxandre used the same plates and was available for sale by Berthauld’s widow at the Pension Académique du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

6. (BLAKE, William). Illustrations of Milton’s Comus ... reproduced by William Griggs. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. $1400

4to (278 × 125 mm). 8 chromolithographed facsimile plates by W. Griggs after Blake. Green printed upper wrapper preserved, with title and contents. In ‘Quaritch’s Illustrations: Facsimiles of Choice Examples selected from Illuminated , unpublished Drawings and Illustrated Books of early Date’, 10 parts 1889-1892 (the Milton issued as part 2 of the series). Complete with a total of 112 fine plates reproducing medieval and renaissance manuscripts, all but two of which are in colour (including gold and silver). Each part, save the first, preserving one of the original green wrappers giving title/contents. Original publishers half morocco. Rubbed but an excellent copy.

William Griggs was a pioneer of photolithography and was instrumental in the late-Victorian flourishing of high quality colour reproduction of manuscripts. The Quaritch facsimile collection, comprising mainly European manuscripts included a fine series of facsimiles of a sixteenth-century Mexican picture chronicle. Blake’s Comus illustrations are now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thomas Butts (1757-1845), ; sold Foster’s, June 29, 1853, no. 98; C.J. Strange; B. Quaritch, Boston; acquired 28 April, 1890.Gift of Mrs. John

L. Gardner and George N. Black.

7. BORGO, Flaminio dal. Dissertazione epistolare sull’origine della Universitá di Pisa scritta al reverendiss. padre maestro Odoardo Corsini... Pisa: Francesco Polloni, 1765. $900

4to (242 × 170 mm), pp. xi, [i], 133, [3] complete with half-title and errata. Title printed in red and black, engraved vignette, initials and headpiece. Contemporary quarter sheep, elaborate coloured block printed paper covered boards, pink paper corners. Spine worn, with some slight worming, slight loss at head. A large and attractive copy.

FIRST EDITION of this work on the early history of the University of Pisa. Though a little younger than the University of , the university at Pisa is one of the oldest in , with origins in the city’s eleventh-century law school. Its importance to the early history of European law lay in part in its custody of the oldest surviving manuscript of Justinian’s Pandects, which it kept until it was taken by the Florentines at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Pisa attracted many in the eleventh century (prominent among them were Opitone and Sigerdo) while no less than four professors of the Bologna law school (Bulgarus, Burgundio, Uguccione, and Bandino) were educated there. Borgo, who published a separate work on the Pandects manuscript the previous year (Dissertazione sopra l’istoria dei Codici pisani delle Pandette di Giustiniano imperatore, Lucca 1764), here traces the origins of the university as a law school long before Papal recognition was granted in the fourteenth century. Borgo was born and educated at Pisa, graduating in law in 1726 and teaching Civil Law there from 1731. His life was devoted to the study of law and the early records of the city and university.

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8. [BOUTET, Claude, attributed to]. The Art of Painting in Miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect Acquisition of that Art without a Master. Done from the original French. London: for G. Smith, and sold by John Brotherton; Thomas Bowles; and John Marebeck, 1729. 1729. $2500

8vo (170 × 100 mm), pp. [10], 100, [6] (including adverts to final page). Woodcut vignette to title, ornamental head- and tailpieces, one small illustration (a ‘Mathematical Compass’ or a variety of pantograph). Some later pencil annotations. An excellent copy in modern panelled calf to style by Philip Dusel, preserving original with engraved bookplate of Edward Francklin of Rainham

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the most influential technical painting manuals of both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Traité de mignature (also École de la mignature). First printed by Christophe Ballard in 1673, the publisher’s initials perhaps giving rise to unproven attribution to one ‘Claude Boutet’, it appeared in over 30 editions in a variety of European languages over the next 200 years, often with additions and alterations by anonymous authors.

The English edition is dedicated to John Montagu, second duke of Montagu (1690–1749) by its anonymous translator. After an exposition of the available colours and materials, the chapters consider in turn: Draperies; Of Carnations [flesh], or the Naked Parts of Painting; Landskips and Flowers; followed by a

short treatise on the advantages of minitiature painting over other techniques.

ESTC: BL, , , Huntington and Clark Library only. OCLC adds Yale and National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum).

9. (BURNS, Robert.) The Merry Muses, a choice Collection of favourite Songs gathered from many Sources ... to which are added two of his Letters and a Poem—hitherto suppressed—never before reprinted. ‘Privately printed. [not for sale.], 1827’, but c. 1881. $750

16mo (168 × 110 mm), pp. [2], [i]-vi, [9]-90. Early twentieth-century, red half morocco. Upper joint repaired. Charles S. Dixwell inkstamp to front free endpaper.

A VERY RARE SPURIOUS EDITION OF BURNS’S EROTIC AND BAWDY POEMS, first published in 1799 (of which edition only 2 copies are known to survive). The title- page is headed ‘Not for maids, ministers or striplings’. The Roy collection of Robert Burns contains several similar reprints to ours (including our issue) each with differing title-pages giving ‘1827’. ‘Shepherds I have got the clap, Stroking of my Anna; My time’s filled up, oh sad mishap, With taking salts and senna. I for her King’s Place forsook, Where girls I had past telling; But now my pipe’s turned to a

crook, My b—, how they’re hanging...’

Roy collection of Robert Burns, p. 141 b.

10. (CARICATURE). Un Chapelet de Bêtises. [Paris, c. 1861]. $2400

Oblong folio (250 × 340 mm), ff. 60, including title title and 59 leaves bearing manuscript drawings in ink. Some browning, notably to title, the more heavily inked drawings showing through to blank versos, occasional minor offsetting and light foxing. Contemporary cloth, upper cover blindstamped ‘Album’, lower cover with gilt arms of the École municipale Turgot, Paris. Cloth slightly faded.

A SELECTION OF OVER 150 CARICATURES TRANSCRIBED BY HAND FROM CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS IN PEN AND INK BY AN EXPERT COPYIST. The subjects tend towards the bizarre and include examples

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of the work of most of the leading caricaturists: Bertall, Cham, Gavarni, Grandville, Grévin and Nadar, though many are unattributed. There are images from sequences including Gens de Paris, Paris en l’an 3000, Metamorphoses du jour, Fourberies de femmes and Les Enfants terribles. The most numerous group is from the futuristic science fiction fantasy Paris en l’an 3000, but there are good examples of caricatures on the subjects of fashion, women, and Parisian characters.

11. (CERAMICS). [Botanical and ornithological designs]. [France, probably Lunéville, c. 1850-60]. $3500

Watercolours on paper, oblong folio (230 × 305 mm), 32 leaves (watermarked (Lafuma Voiron) with images, plus several blanks at rear. 25 of the pages are fully coloured in watercolour, the remainder are pencil outlines. Occasional light thumbing. Original cloth backed green boards. Edges worn.

A FINE SERIES OF CHARACTERISTIC FLOWER, FRUIT AND BIRD DESIGNS FOR FAIENCE SERVICES, PROBABLY ASSOCIATED WITH FAMOUS FACTORIES OF LUNÉVILLE. Though unsigned, two later notes mention Gallé and Reheimer and another Lunéville - certainly these are very much in the fashionable Lunéville style. The designs are delicate arrangements, highly coloured, and often with a large central motif and subsidiary patterns typical of Lunéville plates.

12. COGHLAN, Mrs. (Margaret MONCRIEFFE). Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, (Daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe,) written by herself, and dedicated to the British Nation; being interspersed with Anecdotes of the late American and present French War, with Remarks moral and political. London: Printed for the Author, and Dublin, reprinted by Z. Jackson, No. 5, New Buildings, Sackville-Street, 1794. $600

12mo ([x], x, 171, [1], including half-title. A few paper flaws (occasionally minimally affecting text), carefully repaired at time of binding. Early twentieth-century red smooth calf, gilt panelled spine, black morocco labels, gilt edges, by Root. Inkstamp of Charles S. Dixwell to free endpaper. An excellent copy.

Born in America of Scots parentage, Margaret Moncrieffe’s father was a major in the British Army serving under General Gage. She was educated in Dublin but married Coghlan, a British army officer in New York in 1777 in a forced marriage, she refer to as ‘honorable prostitution’ (p.39). She died in 1787, several years before the publication of her autobiography, which has been taken to be genuine, if embroidered to capitalise on the contemporary taste for mémoires scandaleuses. Nonetheless, Mrs. Coghlan probably did meet Washington and had affairs with Lord Thomas Clinton, Charles James Fox, Sir Robert Harland and the duke of York, her fortunes oscillating conspicuously between wealth and penury. First published in London (also 1794), the Memoirs were reprinted in two American and three British editions within the year. This Dublin edition is very scarce (ESTC: Lilly Library, Brown Library and NYPL only).

13. CONSCIENCE. Intemperence impairs the moral Sense. London: Sold by J.V. Quick, printer, 13, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell; J. Paul, 53, Paternoster Row, where may be also had ‘Grand View of the Times.’ ‘Hard Times.’ and ‘Vices of the Gin Shop.’ publications on Temperance. [n.d. c. 1830s]. $80

Single sheet (255 × 180 mm). Text within ruled . Spotted, uncut edges slightly fragile, small repair to verso.

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A RARE TEMPERANCE BROADSIDE directed against the iniquities of the wines and spirits trade. It comprises two anecdotes: one the confession of adulteration by a London dealer the other (the longer) a report on MALPRACTICE IN NEW YORK. ‘We are told that the quantity of spirit transported on the New York Canal is greater this year than last. What becomes of it? Much of it goes to New York under the name of Whisky; it is there manufactured, and put inot old casks, having a Custom-house brand, and a foreign look, and sent back by the same canal to be sold at a six or eight fold price to the very men, perhaps, that manufactured it. They would not drink it as plain country wiskey, but when by the infusion of noxious drugs, a fiery color, and a strange flavor have been given to it, they value it highly under the name of Coniac Brandy or Port Wine.’

14. (CUBA). CASA DE LAS AMÉRICAS. [Poster]. Biblioteca, libros, revistas, referencias de América Latina. Cuba: Havana, c. 1967. $680

Large (835 × 450 mm), silk screen poster on heavy paper. Slight creasing to lower margin.

A superb large-scale poster for the library of the Casa de las Américas, the Havana institute founded by the Cuban government in the aftermath of the revolution of 1959 to foster cultural links between the Caribbean and America.

15. DELAFAYE-BRÉHIER, Julie. Raoul ou le Disciple reconnaissant ... Paris: Librairie d’enfance et de la jeunesse, P.-C. Lehuby, [ 1836]. $450

16mo (135 × 80 mm), pp. [4], 208, engraved title, frontispiece and 2 plates, all four in three states: sepia watercolour, engraving before letters, and engraving with letters. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine gilt, red morocco label. Rubbed, upper joint cracked but secure, minor loss to head and foot of spine.

FIRST EDITION of a rare children’s book: this copy with the four plates in three states: sepia watercolour with manuscript captions, engraving before letters, and engraved with lettering. Presumbaly unique and perhaps prepared by or on behalf of the author or editor. Madame Delafaye published numerous moral tales for children; several were

translated into English and published in London and America.

OCLC lists no copies outside continental Europe.

16. [DENYS, Sir Francis. Game Book]. Yorkshire: 1858-1910. $1400

Manuscript on paper, large 4to (260 × 200 mm), pp. [182], almost all completed in neat and legible manuscript, evidence of a few leaves excised, but the record apparently continuous, numerous blanks at rear, 2 leaves pasted together, a few entries obscured/corrected with contemporary pasted paper slips, 3 early and related newspaper clipping pasted to endpaper. Nineteenth-century green parchment covered boards, wide bands with account book style parchment lacing. Armorial Bookplate of Sir Francis Denys. Slightly rubbed and soiled, but a handsome .

AN ENGLISH GAME BOOK giving detailed records of birds and mammals shot or otherwise slain on the Yorkshire Moors around the Wemmersgill Estate, one of the finest Grouse Moors in England. The record is at least partly in the hand of Sir Francis Denys. Entries consist of complete records of days shot, including personnel and the final ‘bag’, broken down into species, together with incidental detail of weather, events and reflections on quality. Yearly totals are also given.

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17. (EDUCATION). (Fondation de Messines). [Commonplace book]. Messines (Flanders), c. 1816. $1200

Manuscript on paper (190 × 160 mm), pp. [158], plus several blanks at rear. In French throughout. Bound in a wallet-style parchment wrapper cut from a large medieval illuminated psalter manuscript, text in a large gothic script with red and blue initials. The wrapper creased, probably wanting a tie, but most attractive.

An interesting commonplace and letter book compiled by a young girl at the ‘Fondation de Messines’ comprising forms of letters to family and friends, the principles of orthography and style, prayers and various notes on contemporary events (one notably on the battle of Waterloo).

18. (GAMES). ‘CAVENDISH’ [pseudonym of Henry JONES]. Patience Games with Examples played through. Illustrated with numerous diagrams. London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., 1890. $80

Oblong 4to (220 × 250 mm), pp. 216, [8] (adverts). Printed in red and black throughout, numerous diagrams. Original tan publisher’s cloth, gilt, upper cover with decorative border of hearts and title in gilt, gilt edges. Corners very slightly frayed, but an excellent copy.

FIRST EDITION of a handsome guide to Patience (or Solitaire), produced by the pre-eminent firm of playing card manufacturers (its founder Thomas de la Rue is recognised as the inventor of the modern British playing card). The adverts lists numerous packs, pens, diaries and books on games. Henry ‘Cavendish’ Jones (his pen-name derived from London’s Cavendish Club) was the leading Victorian authority on card games. Noted for his scientific treatment of games, his most famous work, Principles of Whist (1862), was many times reprinted.

19. (GEOMETRY). Elemens de Geometrie a lusage des enfans de France. [France, c. 1720]. $3800

Manuscript on paper, 4to (255 × 185 mm), pp. [2], 173, [1], plus 25 throwout geometric illustrations in pen and wash, calligraphic headings throughout. Some waterstaining towards front and rear, a few leaves frayed at outer margins or gutter, one or two loose. Contemporary mottled sheep. Worn, spine mostly absent, but cords secure. Preserved in a recent cloth folding case.

A VERY EXTENSIVE AND ADVANCED COURSE OF GEOMETRY DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN, with treatment of proportions, lines and angles, areas of plane figures, and of lines, planes and solid bodies.

The sections comprise: Livre I. Traité des proportions (Du tout et des parties, Des rapports et de la proportion géométrique, De la manière de changer deux quantités sans changer leur rapport, Manière de comparer ensemble les quatre termes d’une proportion, Propriété des quantités proportionnelles, Propriété des quantités proportionnelles, Du rapport et de la progression arithmétique) ; Des lignes tirées sur un plan (Des lignes en général, De la ligne circulaire, Des angles, Des lignes données dans le cercle et hors le cercle, Des lignes proportionnelles). Livre II. Des figures planes considérées par les lignes qui les bornent et qui sont tirées de dedans (Des figures planes en général, des Quadrilatères, Des poligones). Livre III. Des figures planes considérées par leur superficie ou par l’espace

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qu’elles renferment (des indivisibles pour les superficies, de la mesure des superficies de figures planes, du rapport qui est entre les figures planes considérées par leurs superficies.) Livre IV. De la rencontre des lignes et des plans (Des plans qui se coupent, des lignes et des plans parallèles à un plan, des angles solides). Livre V Des corps en général (de la superficie à la sphère définition, de la superficie du prisme et du cylindre, de la superficie de la pyramide et du cone, de l’égalité et de la mesure des surfaces des corps, du rapport de la surface des corps).

Many books were published in this period following a similar plan, though none (as far was we can determine) precisely the same. For comparison, contemporary printed geometrical works include those of Charles de Bovelle, François Besson, Michel Mourgues, Bernard Lamy, l’abbé Catelan, le sieur Du Torar, le sieur Le Blanc, Antoine Moitoiret de Blainville, Allain Manesson-Mallet, Nicolas de Malezieu, the Élémens de géométrie by the duc de Bourgogne (1722), the Elémens de géométrie by Fischbachof the following year, together with those of, Jean-Antoine Duclos, Le Ratz de Lanthenée, Fréard Du Castel, Clairaut, La Caille, Pierre Blaise, Pierre Liger, Panckoucke and Charles-Étienne-Louis Camus.

20. (HERALDRY). The Baronage of England since the Norman Conquest thereof with the beginin[n]ing of each Barony Viscounty, Dukedome & Principallity under his Souveraigne. All which treateth of the Temporall Nobillity onely. [England]. 1627 $15,000

Manuscript on parchment, 8vo (144 × 84 mm), 114 leaves (early foliation gives, 112 but ff. 49 and 57 erroneously repeated in this sequence), 20 large painted Royal arms and 810 small painted arms, many surmounted by coronets, all in gold and colours, captions in a neat English hand, title within illuminated border with 4 further devices. Light finger soiling, occasional light rubbing and flaking and odd small stain. Several coronets deleted in ink. Seventeenth-century red morocco gilt, panelled sides and spine, seven slightly later silver clasps, central shield-shaped boss to each cover, gilt edges. Slightly rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, one small wormhole to foot of spine, hinges cracked but secure. Later bookplate (R. Vernon Harcourt).

A superb and intriguing . The devices on the title page are from the Coke and Waldegrave family, including the Coke crest of an ostrich argent holding in its beak a horseshoe, the Coke arms and the arms of Coke impaling Waldegrave (Sir Edmund Coke’s son Arthur married a Suffolk Waldegrave shortly before this manuscript was made) Deletions to coronets include: Edward North, William Knolles, John Digby, while female peers include Ladies Elizabeth Finch, Mary Compton, Mary Fiennes.

21. (HOTTEN, John Camden, publisher). ‘COLEMAN, George’ [pseud.] The Rodiad. ‘London: Cadell & Murray, 1810’ [but John Camden Hotten, c. 1871]. $900

Small 8vo (171 × 130 mm), pp. 62, including half title. Vignette of an arm and birch as a frontispiece. Contemporary publisher’s quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt. An excellent copy.

FIRST EDITION, very scarce. Spuriously attributed to George Coleman the younger, but actually a new work, perhaps attributable to Richar Mockton Milnes. The head of the title bears the ‘Library illustrative of Social Progress’ headline. The publisher Hotten ‘had a particular line in flagellation , which ranged from A History of the Rod (1870) to a collection of mostly eighteenth-

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century flagellation pamphlets under the general title of Library Illustrative of Social Progress (1873)’ ( DNB). This rare 1871 edition was reprinted in 1898.

22. (IRELAND). COLLIS, F.P (?Miss). [A watercolour sketchbook]. London and Ireland, c. 1890. $1800

Oblong 16mo (85 × 115 mm), 40 leaves with 78 pages bearing images, mostly full page watercolours some forming part of a double-page view, one additional loose watercolour. Some pencil captions and later numbering. Original linen covered boards. Binding rather worn, contents very fresh. Manuscript notes to cover and prelims.

A charming and accomplished series of diminutive watercolours of views in Ireland, including rugged landscapes, seascapes, woodland and buildings. Most are captioned and denote locations in Wicklow and Kerry. The owner has added initials ‘F.P.C. and an address in Hackney to the upper cover, and another inscription ‘Miss Collis’ gives an address in Harlesden.

23. JADIN, Louis Emmanuel. La Grande Bataille d’Austerlitz, surnommée La Bataille des trois Empereurs. Fait historique arrangé pour le piano forte. [and two other works by Jadin]/ Paris, c. 1806]. $980

Manuscript on paper, folio (335 × 255 mm), pp. 13, [5], 13, [1], 44, [4]. Musical notation pages ruled with 16 staves, captions in French. Contemporary green half vellum, blue boards. Contemporary stationers ticket (A Egasse, Rue du Petit-Lion-Sait Sulpice, Paris. Rubbed, corners inturned.

Louis Emmanuel Jadin’s La Grande Bataille d’Austerlitz was written to celebrate the Napoleon and the Grand Armée’s 1805 victory over the Russians and Austrians. Published in 1806 it was a notable success. Written for the piano-forte, Jadin also adapted it for full orchestra and it became a set-piece for pianists at the Conservatoire, where the composer taught. Programmatic in structure, the captions describe the action of the battle: ‘Les soldats courent aux armes’, ‘Roulement de tambour’, ‘L’empereur des Françaises traversant le camp’, ‘Départ de la grande armée’, ‘Les russes avancent’, ‘mélée générale’ etc. It is here presented in what appears to be a contemporary manuscript copy with two further pieces by Jadin: Fantaisie sur la valse du Balet de Vénus et Adonis (for fortepiano) and Fantaisie

for piano and horn.

RISM A/I; J410 (the printed version).

24. (LACASSAGNE, Jean). Auguste BROYER. [Prison albums]. [, 1935]. $4500

20 crayon drawings on paper, captions in ink and pencil, in two large 4to drawing books (310 × 235 mm), printed wrappers. Each with manuscript annotation to verso of front wrappers by Lacassagne. One leaf loose. Plus two contemporary issues of Lacassagne’s ‘Albums du Crocodile’ and a copy of Émile Simonet’s ‘Dessin de Prison’, 2004.

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A COLLECTION OF ‘ART BRUT’ CRIMINAL DRAWINGS, COLLECTED BY CRIMINOLOGIST AND REFORMER JEAN LACASSAGNE. Auguste Broyer’s crude crayon images include several crime scenes (burglary, safe- breaking, a hold-up at gunpoint and the aftermath of brutal assault), as well as images of prostitutes, dancers, courting couples, an accordion player, a bull fight and a leopard. Each fills a page of the drawing book and is captioned with the artist’s name, while elsewhere Lacassagne notes the reason for Broyer’s incarceration: ‘vol et cambriolage’. Jean Lacassagne is an interesting figure. Son of the great Lyon forensic criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne (1843-1924), he became head of the Lyon prison medical service and took a lifelong interest in the darker side of human nature publishing several studies of criminal culture, including tattoo art and the language of slang. He believed that art provided relaxation and catharsis for prisoners and pioneered a form of art therapy in which he supplied materials and encouraged prisoners to express their feelings and something of the crimes they had committed. He acknowledged that the prison stifled creativity and it is obvious that the subjects here are very limited in their horizons. To what extent Lacassagne suggested subjects or compositions is arguable, and it strikes me that some of the scenes in these albums are very similar to those by other prisoner-artists in the examples he published in his ‘Album de Crocodile’ in 1937 (a copy is included here). The similarity of costume, of street and room details, and of subject matter could all be explained by circumstance, by fashion, or by format and materials, but there is surely more to be said about the prison doctor’s methods.

Offered with: LACASSAGNE, Jean and J. COUTY. L’Art en prison. Albums du Crocodile. Septième Année, I. Lyon, 1939. 4to, pp. 72, including illustrations, some coloured. Original wrappers. LACASSAGNE, Jean. À Lyon avec les filles. Albums du Crocodile. Cinquième Année, VII. Lyon, 1937. 4to, pp. 56, plus plates. Original wrappers. SIMONET, Émile. Le Kangarou du Bois-noir. Dessins de prison de la collection Lacassagne. Paris: Ceros, 2004. Small square 8vo (138 × 120 mm), pp. 46. Pictorial boards.

25. LANCASTER, Joseph. Méthode Lancastérienne, ou Systême d’éducation britannique: épitome complet des inventions et améliorations faites dans l’éducation de la jeunesse, et mises en pratique dans toutes les écoles publiques de la Grand-Bretagne ... traduite par Th. F. A. Jouenne et J.R. Jones. Brussels: P. J. De Mat, 1816. $1400

8vo (192 × 115 mm), pp. vi, [2], 110, including half-title, plus engraved frontispiece and 5 plates (one folding), verso of half-title signed by the publisher (against counterfeits). Uncut in original blue publisher’s boards with printed spine label. Rubbed, foot of spine rather worn, label chipped, but an excellent copy.

A very rare French translation of Lancaster’s The British System of Education (1810). In French it is apparently preceded only by Système anglais dinstruction (1815) a translation by the duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, also rare. Lancaster’s ‘monitorial system’, in which huge groups of 100 pupils were educated in factory- inspired classes was widely adopted in Britain and the United State; with Dickens its most effective detractor via the Coketown schoolrooms of Hard Times. The plates of this Brussels edition reproduce those of the English editions, with plans of the schoolroom workstations and plate illustrating group reading from a board (saving the purchase of books). Born in London in 1778 the Quaker Joseph Lancaster founded several schools there, before introducing the system to North and South America. He died in New York in

1838 afer being run over by a carriage.

OCLC locates the Lyon and Amsterdam University Library copies only worldwide. COPAC adds no UK copies.

26. [LE PRINCE, Thomas-Nicolas]. Essai historique sur la Bibliotheque du roi, et sur chacun des depôtś qui la composent, avec la description des bâtimens, & des objets les plus curieux a ̀ voir dans ces differenś depôts.́ Paris: Belin, 1782. $900

12mo (137 × 78 mm), pp. xxi, [3], 372, complete with half-title. 14 leaves (different sizes) of additional later manuscript material tipped in at front. Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt panelled spine. Rubbed, but a very good copy.

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FIRST EDITION of this important survey of the Royal , which includes notes on other Parisian libraries: ecclesiastical, public and private. The manuscript notes appear to have been added in the early nineteenth-century and extend the work with notices of other French and European libraries (including

Uppsala, Göttingen, the Royal Library in and of the the Société typographique).

Cioranescu 39395.

27. (LISEUX, Isidore, publisher). SINISTRARI, Ludovico Maria. Peccatum mutum (the mute Sin, alias Sodomy) a theological Treatise. For the first Time translated from the Latin of Father Sinistrari. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1893. $750

12mo (158 × 100 mm), pp. ix, [3], 76, original printed blue wrappers, preserved in early twentieth- centruy green half morocco. Upper joint repaired.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Liseux was a pioneering figure in the publication of clandestine literature in English, working from Paris, but evidently supplying an English market. His publications were frequently scholarly texts in the history of sexuality and found their way onto the shelves of bibliophiles and collectors of erotica. It has not generally been noted that the title here finds an echo the following year with the famous phrase ‘The love that dare not speak its name’ in the poem ‘Two Loves’ by Lord Alfred Douglas, published in 1894, later discussed at length in the Wilde trial.

28. (LONDON SIGNS). 95 Hand Pen and Ink Sketches of Old London Signs, &c. An original Collection. London: F.H. Hutt, Bookseller. Clement’s Inn Passage, W.C. [n.d., c. 1905]. $980

Illustrated manuscript on paper, square folio (335 × 256 mm), 8 leaves including calligraphic title, key and the signs themselves. Contemporary limp boards, the upper cover lettered in stencil, early bookplate (1907) of Herbert John Gladstone, preserved in modern boards.

The manuscript comprises 95 vignettes of London signs, often dated, including street signs dating from as early as 1623 and inn and shop signs. The key provides their original location. The fine bookplate by William P. Barrett is of Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, youngest son of the British Prime Minister.

29. (MEDICINE). Recueil de quelques préparations galeniques et chimiques avec quelques recettes utiles et curieuses pour servir aux pharmaciens, chirurgiens, aux personnes charitables, et aux curieux. Le tout tiré des meilleurs auteurs, tant anciens que modernes ... Alsace, 1786. $2600

Manuscript on paper, 8vo (187 × 110 mm), pp. [2], 140, [24], plus one final written page on recto of rear endpaper. Title in red and black ink, verso with quasi-armorial device in gold and colours with crossed gun, sword and bassoon (yes, bassoon). Text within ruled borders, most, perhaps all in a single hand, but that on final unnumbered pages are slightly later additions, calligraphic headings. Contemporary sheep, gilt spine, parchment label lettered in gilt à la grotesque. Rubbed, corners worn, owner/maker’s name scratched into upper cover. Slightly later inscriptions ‘Hippolyte Penchenier’, and this name lightly

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AN ECCENTRIC MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT which includes numerous recipes of the ‘book of secrets’ variety for paints, inks and varnishes. The title suggests the text was originally composed in 1758 (an author’s name was provided but later obscured) and then augmented (and by implication rewritten) through practice and experiment in the town of Huningue (Geneva) and bound by Samuël Haag of Geneva. The medical preparations include remedies for tapeworm, hysterical vapours, the eyes, various stones, gonorrhea and small pox, interspersed with other recipes for perfumes, sweets and tisaines. The coloured arms, with crossed sword, gun and bassoon, with the initials HD are both amusing and mysterious, probably a fanciful creation of the writer.

30. MELZO, Lodovico. Traitté de la cavallerie du cavalier Melze... [drophead title]. [France, early seventeenth century]. $3800

Manuscript, small folio (298 × 190 mm), 35 leaves, most written in a neat French scribal hand with calligraphic headings, within red ruled borders. Old waterstain affecting upper forecorners throughout. Preserved in recent wrappers to style.

A very early French abridgement of Melzo’s infuential military cavalry treatise: Regoli militari sopra il governo e servitio della cavalleria (, 1611). Though also published in French at an early date (1615) as Des règles militaires du chevalier Melzo this manuscript is not a copy of either version but probably a version compiled by a French student of the military arts. It follows the arrangement of the printed texts, with its five books and numerous sub-headings, but without the illustrations found in both Italian and French printed volumes. The five books cover: I. The composition of a cavalry regiment; II. Accompanying other regiments and companies; III. Orders; IV. Combat; V. Generalities.

31. (NAPOLEON). ‘BUONAPARTE et CARNOT’ [manuscript title:] $1,300

‘MOUTON-FONTENILLE DE LA CLOTTE, Marie Jacques Phillippe. La France en delire,́ pendant les deux usurpations de Buonaparte, ... avec une gravure allegorique.́ Paris: Saint-Michel and Lyon: Guyot frères, 1815. pp. xx, 62, [1], plus hand-coloured engraved allegorical frontispiece; [bound after:] L’Optimiste [drophead title]. [Chalon: DeJussieu-Delorme, n.d.] pp. 8; Il fallait Ça, ou le Barnier optimiste [drophead title]. [Paris: L.-P. Sétier fils ... se trouve chez A. Opigez l’aîné, n.d.], pp. 16; Le Carabin patriote ou Le miroir politique. Esquisse de la revolutioń depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1815. Paris: Schreff [for] Dealunay, 1815. pp. [2], ii, 31, [1]; DESAUGIERS, [Marc-Antoine]. Le Terme d’un règne, ou le Règne d’un terme; relation véridique écrite en forme de pot-pourri ... seconde édition corrigée et augmentée de Vive le Roi! chanson inédite. Paris: Rosa, 1815, pp. 47, [1]; [and before:] CARNOT, Lazare. Memoiré adresse ́ au Roi, en juillet 1814 ... suivi de son discours prononce ́ au tribunat ... le xi floreaĺ an 12. Paris: [Mme. V. Perronneau for] Arnauld, April, 1815. pp. [iii]-124, bound without half-title; (CARNOT, Lazare). Expose ́ de la conduite politique de M. le Lieutenant-Gené raĺ Carnot depuis le 1er Juillet 1814. Paris: Mme. V. Courcier, 1815. pp. [2], 51, [1]; (CARNOT, Lazare). Lettre à M. Le Comte Carnot, sur l’exposé de sa conduite politique despuis le premier juillet 1814. Paris. C.-F. Patris, Octobre 1815. pp. [2], 48; (CARNOT, Lazare). GAUTIER, Isidore Marie Brignole. Réfutation de l’exposé de la conduite politique de M. Carnot, par M. Gautier (du Var) ... nouvelle édition augmentée d’un supplement. Paris: C.-F. Patris. October, 1815. pp. [2], 70, author’s manuscript signature on p. 70; (CARNOT, Lazare). FLEURY, A.M. Réponse au mémoire de M. Carnot. Paris: Patris, June 1815. pp. [2], 21, [1]. Errata slip pasted to p. 21; (CARNOT, Lazare). L’Effronterie de Carnot signalée, par Cles****. Paris: Patris, October, 1815, pp. [2], 23, [1]; GUICHARD, J.C.M. De la légitimité des Gouvernements, ou réfutation du Mémoire de M. Carnot ... Mai 1815. Paris: Michaud, 1815; pp. 27, [1].

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12 pamphlets bound together. Several manuscript annotations in a neat contemporary hand, manuscript table of contents on one leaf at rear. Contemporary mottled quarter calf, spine gilt, black morocco label. Slightly rubbed but otherwise in an excellent state of preservation.

12 RARE PAMPHLETS ISSUED IN THE WEEKS SURROUNDING THE SECOND RESTORATION IN THE SUMMER OF 1815, CONCERNING THE FALL OF NAPOLEON AND (PARTICULARLY) OF HIS INTERIOR MINISTER, LAZARE CARNOT. The most substantial pamphlet is La France en delire pendant les deux usurpations de Buonaparte which includes an allegorical frontispiece explained on the final page: his face is composed of the corpses of the cities he destroyed (, , Cairo, Zaragoza and Jaffa), his hat of the eagle of the allied victors, his collar a river of blood, the hand of justice on his shoulders and so on. Carnot, who is the object of the latter pamphlets had been an important member of the Directoire. Though his republican ideals did not allow him to take office in Napoleon’s first government he was appointed Interior Minister in the Hundred Days. He died in exile. An early annotator has added several remarks to some 8 pages, including the comment: ‘Ce livre a été conservé pour faire voir jusqu’ou peut construire l’esprit de parti quand il n’est alimenté que par les passions et le vengeances. —’ to the verso of the title to La France en délire.

32. (O’CRUOLY, Marian). O’DINNIN, Thaddeus, of Munster. [Genealogy]. Genealogia illustrissimi ac nobilissimi domini D. Mariani Ô Cruolii caribreo-hiberni è comitatu Corcagensi ex antiquissimis ac fide dignissimis Regni genealogistarum Archivis deprompta studio et opera Thadaei Ô Dinnin Momoniae Antiquarii. [France, c. 1676]. $11,000

Manuscript on paper, small 4to (190 × 125 mm), ff. [111], evidence of deliberate removal of leaves in 3 separate places and 2 leaves pasted together (see note), text in Latin, French and Gaelic, pedigree presented in multiple red and blue roundels (usually 3 per page), several contemporary paper slips loosely inserted, one with manuscript text. Contemporary calf, elaborately gilt, sides with ruled borders and massed scroll tools, central lozenges lettered ‘MILES / DE CRUOLY’, panelled spine, marbled , gilt edges. Rubbed with small portions of abrasion, bus still handsome. Early ownership inscription: ‘Ô Shee, Gentilhomme Irlandais, officier au service de S.M. le roi de France’ and printed ticket to front pastedown: ‘M. O’Shea, Colonel en Retraite’.

A VERY UNUSUAL MANUSCRIPT GENEALOGY SUCCESSIVELY IN LATIN, FRENCH AND GAELIC, MADE FOR AN IRISH EMIGRÉ, PRESUMABLY SERVING IN THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY. The genealoger (and probably scribe) names himself as Thaddeus O’Dinnin of Munster and he certifies that the genealogy is the true record drawn from the ancient Royal archives (presumably of Ireland, but this is not explicit). His genealogy, repeated in each language, works backwards from Marian O’Cruoly, through 106 generations far back into antiquity, with Anno mundi dates often provided (i.e. years numbered from the supposed date of creation in c. 5500BC). At the end of each genealogy 2 or more leaves have been deliberately excised, so the earliest generation is that of one Gathel, son of Nule, a name etymologically significant in being considered a joint root of both Celt and Gael. Each genealogy is concluded with O’Dinnin’s declaration of authenticity in the appropriate language, the French version including the statement: ‘La censure de pieces d’escriture appartenant au pairs et premier de ce royaume selon les constitutions judicieusement establis pour les matières de genealogiers par le Roÿ Ossame environ l’an 3057 apres la Creation du Monde’. Marian O’Cruoly of Cork was one of many Irishmen who sought his fortune in the armies of France. Though the date of his emigration is not certain, it seems to have been prior to 1672 and thus considerably before the celebrated ‘Flight of the Wild Geese’ from Ireland in support of the Stuart monarchy in exile. He died in France in 1700 and his status there is suggested by the monument raised to him in the Scots College at Paris. He was not alone among his countrymen in seeking social advance in France by adopting a ‘de’ before his surname in translation of his native ‘O’, a linguistic slight of hand which underlined a noble heritage, perhaps not entirely honestly. Indeed, his genealogy suggests precisely this aspiration and can be interpreted as an invention of tradition. The identity of scribe Thaddeus O’Dinnin of Munster remains mysterious, but his command of Gaelic language and script in a French context is, of course, remarkable.

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33. PAVINI, Gianfrancesco and Jean CHAPPUIS. Baculus pastoralis ad dirige[n]dos in via[m] pacis pedes visita[n]tiu[m et] visitatoru[m] cu[m] sit lucerna q[uon]da[m] pedib[us] eoru[m]. [Paris: and , 20 January 1508]. ff. [10], lxxxiii;

[bound with:] SUBERTUS, Petrus and Jean Chappuis. De cultu vinee d[omi]ni : liber i[n]numere plenus co[m]oditatis. nedu[m] presulib[us] quos circa visitatio[n]es instruit veru[m] etia[m] p[er]sonis o[mn]ib[us] eccl[es]iasticis. [Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 8 March, 1508]. ff. cxvi. 2 works bound together, 4to (200 × 140 mm). Large woodcut printer’s device (Rembolt’s) to each title, numerous decorated initials, text in two columns. First title rather soiled, but otherwise very clean and crisp. $2500

Later (?nineteenth-century) limp vellum, exposed cords at joints, maroon morocco label, slightly soiled. Ownership inscription ‘Robert Hare’ (probably later sixteenth-century) to head of first title, early shelfmark to blank prelim ‘Juridici (97)’.

TWO MANUALS FOR PASTORAL VISITATIONS, first printed by Gering (Paris’s first printer) and Rembolt in 1503 and 1504 respectively. These copies from the collection of Robert Hare (c.1530–1611), antiquary and benefactor of Cambridge University. ‘Hare amassed a considerable collection of manuscripts, all of which he seems to have disposed of during his lifetime. In 1594 he returned to Cambridge University the collection of university records made by Thomas Markaunt, proctor in 1417/18, and presented manuscripts to several colleges, twelve of them to Trinity Hall ... Many of his printed books are also to

be found in Cambridge libraries’ (Oxford DNB).

Adams P528 and S2018; Renouard, I, p. 293 and 297.

34. (RACEHORSES). Thoroughbred portraits. , 1891-1911. $1800

Folio (400 × 280 mm), 165 photographs (85 × 110 & 11.5 × 14.5 mm), mounted on pp. 41, plus several blanks at rear, German captions in manuscript, plus 2 larger mounted photographs loosely inserted. Occasional very light fading and dust-staining, but overall clear and crisp. Full morocco bound album, edges gilt. Rubbed, a little more wear to corners. Large contemporary circular bookplate (Lang-Puchhof).

A SPLENDID ALBUM OF RACEHORSE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A GOLDEN AGE OF EUROPEAN RACING before breeding was disrupted and almost destroyed by the Great War. Most of the photographs are of mares, often with foals, in each case fully named with the identity of the sire provided. The mares include Balblair, Nellie Blair, Creeper, Mocassin, Hyères, Lilly Thorpe, Migräne and Nabob, the sires mentioned include Barn Dance and Flageolet, reminding us of the pan-European character of horse breeding, with English, German and French thoroughbreds inextricably mixed. The two additional photographs loosely inserted are of Nebelstern and Doucette: ‘Englisches Vollbluts’. The album was apparently compiled by or for owner and breeder Carl von Lang-Puchhof.

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35. REMNANT, Richard Morgan. [Freedom of the City of London]. London: 28 October 1856. $1200

Document on parchment (400 × 80 mm), printed, with engraved and embossed arms, completed in manuscript. Rolled, in original turned wooden canister (100 mm high) with printed label. Canister and label rather chipped and soiled, the document a little creased and thumbed.

Grant of the freedom of the City of London to Richard Morgan Remnant, who was partner in the firm Edmonds and Remnants in Lovell’s Court, Paternoster Row until the firm was dissolved in 1872. One of several members of the Remnant family involved in this prolific firm, Richard Morgan (son of founder Frederick Remnant) is, curiously, not listed in the British Book Trade Index. Edmonds and Remnants produced high quality blindstamped bindings (often in the ‘Cathedral’ style) and trade cloth bindings: the

most famous of which must be the original green cloth binding of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859).

Bookbinders of Victorian London, p. 48.

36. (RIGHTS OF MAN). Declaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen. [France, 1789 or soon after. $3000

Single sheet (550 × 420 mm), the text of the Declaration in manuscript within a series of decorative pendant cartouches, each depicted with yellow/gold frames and a blue or pink ribbon. The title is arranged on a scroll at the, topped with a revolutionary bonnet.

A SUPERB CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT VERSION of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the foundation document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights. Though there numerous contemporary engraved printed broadside versions of the Declaration, we have been unable to find any from which the format of our version has been copied.

37. SALTMARSH, Anne. [Manuscript pedigree]. [France, c. 1800]. $1800

Illustrated manuscript on paper, 8vo (154 × 104 mm), pp. [6], 1-46, 49-60, 65-70, 73-76, [6] (blank), 4 leaves (8 pages) excised. 21 finely-painted full-page armorial devices, plus one further device added at a later date, text in French. Contemporary red morocco, gilt panelled spine, gilt edges, upper cover lettered ‘A Mylady Ann Saltmarsh’. Slightly rubbed and stained but an attractive volume.

Anne Saltmarsh was one seven children of the York Catholic family of William Saltmarsh and Lady Anne Fingall. This pedigree tracing the origins of the family to the Norman Conquest, was evidently made in France after the family genealogy made by York antiquary Thomas Beckwith FSA (1731-1786). Lady Anne appears to have married in France around 1800, perhaps providing the occasion for this charming pedigree. The manuscript contains several blank or

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unfinished leaves and the excised leaves may or may not have born painted arms. The one device added in the later nineteenth century is that of one Henriette Gastaldi (married to Antoine Victoire Alphonse Vicomte de Guelen, 1786-1866).

38. (SHAKESPEARE). HAMPEL, Sigmund Walter. Romeo and Juliet. [, early twentieth century). $4200

Watercolour (c. 200 × 250 mm) on paper with bodycolour and gold, signed and inscribed verso ‘Romeo + Juliet’.

A Viennese artist working at the height of the Austrian golden age, Hampel (1867-1949) embraced fin de siècle Secessionism, producing dreamlike paintings grounded in literary and musical history. Juliet, eerily lit by flickering candlelight, has taken Friar Lawrence’s draught and is somnolent, but alive, lightly gripping a yellow primrose, symbol of young love.

39. (SILHOUETTE BOOK). France, n.d. [late eighteenth century]. $2300

Small 4to (185 × 125 mm), 36 leaves, each with elaborate engraved cartouche border (to several different designs, some signed ‘Ricarte’), a neat silhouette of cut black paper applied to each blank centre, a name given as a manuscript caption below. Contemporary marbled calf, sides gilt with attractive central cartouche with urn and flowers, panelled spine, labelled ‘Code noir’. Expert repair to spine.

AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SILHOUETTE BOOK, a nice example of blank engraved sheets sold as album leaves for completion with drawings, manuscript or silhouette. The subjects of the silhouettes are all noble men and women and include Monsieur et Madame la Princesse de Savoye-Carignan, the Duc de Bourbon, the Duc d’Enghien, the Comtesse d’Arnaud, the Marquis and Marquise du Bourg, Marquis and Marquise de Cambian, the Comte de Caramelli and Madame de Caravana. The contemporary spine title ‘Code Noir’ is a witty reference to the black paper heads contained within. The collecting principle is hard to discern and may simply be a matter of style: these are all fashionable figures, the women often with spectacular coiffure. The charming tooled marbled calf binding completes the ensemble.

40. THEURIET, André and Émile MONCHAU [illustrator]. Bouquet de Fleurs. Paris: A. Ferroud, n.d. [c. 1907]. $675

8vo (250 × 180 mm), pp. [158], most pages with elaborate art nouveau borders in gold and coloured inks. Original decorative wrappers. Contemporary bookseller’s label inside front cover. A fine copy, as issued.

FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies. A delightful illustrated book in the purest art nouveau style: a celebration of the fashionable flowers of the era, including irises, orchids, waterlilies, roses, orange blossom, lilies and cyclamens. Though evidently conceived in the 1890s, it only appeared in the year of Theuriet’s death. COPAC/OCLC lists no UK or US copies.

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41. UZANNE, Octave. La femme à Paris. Nos contemporaines, notes successives sur les parisiennes de ce temps dans leurs divers milieux, états et conditions. Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1894. $750

4to (276 × 185 mm), pp. [iv], 328, [8], plus several blanks at front and rear. 20 hand- coloured engraved plates plus numerous illustrations to text, many hand coloured, all by Pierre Vidal. Printed on floral paper. Original decorative wraps by Leon Rudnicki (very slightly rubbed with minimal creasing to the spine), without the original chemise, but the wrappers remarkably fresh.

FIRST EDITION of this celebrated study of women in ‘nineties Paris, whose sumptuous illustration and presentation perhaps eclipses the usefulness of this encyclopaedic text. Under four headings: Physiologie de la contemporaine; La femme à Paris, dans ses différents milieux, états et conditions; La femme hors des lois morales and Psychologie de la contemporaine, Uzanne surveys the condition of women of all classes and occupations (including servants, factory workers, tradeswomen, merchants, artists, authors, civil servants, actresses, and prostitutes). He is as concerned with the operation of ‘basse prostitution’ as with glittering Belle Époque society and of the many occupations open to women. The plates and illustrations are arresting throughout. The silk covered chemise not present here is rare.

THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED ARGONAUTICON

42. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Gaius; Gilles de MAIZIÈRES, editor. C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri octo cum eruditissimus Aegidii Maserii Parrhisien[sis] commentariis. Paris: Josse Bade for Jean Petit, [19th January 1519]. $12,000

ff. [8], CXIIII. Title with Bade’s woodcut device (depicting the Ascensian press) within 4-part architectural borders (including a scribe within a roundel at the head) and 8 woodcut illustrations (1 of 175 × 140 mm, the others c. 120 × 80 mm), 7-line initials to text, 4-line initials to gloss. Minor waterstain to upper margins of just a few leaves towards the end, not affecting text. A clean, crisp and well-margined copy.

[bound after:] PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus. Auli Flacci Persii satyrici ingeniosissimi & doctissimi satyræ cum quinque commentariis, & eorum indice amplissimo: ac satyrarum argumentis. Jodoci Badii Ascensii. Joannis Britannici Brixiani. Joannis Baptistæ Plautii. Aelii Antonii Nebrissensis. Joannis Murmellii Ruremundensis. Additis ad calcem L. Joannis Scoppæ in eundem adnotationibus. [Paris]: Josse Bade, [1523]. ff. [16], CLXIIII. Title with Bade’s woodcut device (depicting the Ascensian press, and dated 1520) within 4-part architectural borders (slightly cropped at head and right hand side), 7-line initials to text, 4-line initials to gloss. Very occasional spots and stains. 2 works bound together, folio (315 × 202 mm), bound upside-down in seventeenth-century French sheep, gilt panelled sides, spine with massed fleurs-de-lys, ARMS TO UPPER COVER.

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE ARGONAUTICON WITH A FINE SEQUENCE OF 8 BY AN UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST, paired with Bade’s 1523 edition of the Satyrae of the Roman poet Persius. Together, the two works display examples of Bade’s two earliest woodcut devices depicting the Ascensian press and his two earliest title borders. The Argonauticon is a first century AD version of the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the island of Colchis. Derived in part from Apollonius Rhodius’ earlier Argonautica (from the third century BC) Argonauticon was dedicated to the Emperor Vespasian on his setting out for Britain. The (Bologna, 1474) used a text from a ninth-century manuscript, and it was followed by

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several and early post-incunable editions, none of which were illustrated. Our Argonauticon is actually the third Bade edition, but both his previous editions (1512, edited by Gervais Aumen and 1517, edited by Gilles de Maizières) were unillustrated. Our 1519 volume was a new edition of the Gilles de Maizières text, with his commentary much extended; a new preface dedicated to Jacques Du Moulin added and, most importantly, the 8 fine woodcuts illustrating Jason and Argonauts’ quest included. In the 1517 Bade edition the commentaries had preceded the unglossed text, while in the 1519 edition they are integrated as surrounding glosses. The work was shared with Jean Petit, and copies bear either the woodcut device of Bade or of Petit on the title-page. Ours contains Bade’s device, in its earliest version (Renouard no. 1, used from 1507 and subsequently throughout Bade’s career) within an elaborate four-part architectural border (in its second version, Renouard B). The book is paired here with a Bade edition of Persius’ Satyrae. Bade had first printed the Satyrae in 1506 with another edition appearing quickly the following year. Our 1523 edition is again much enlarged with a new preface by Bade himself (considered

sufficiently interesting by Renourd to merit complete transcription in his ).

North American copies of Argonauticon: at Harvard, Morgan Library, Williams College (MA), Dartmouth College (NH) and Toronto (Thomas Fisher Library) and of Satyrae: Harvard, Ohio State and Laval (Canada)

43. (VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de). [Manuscript commonplace book]. [France: c. 1750s]. $2300

Manuscript on paper (260 × 178 mm), pp. [4], 90. In a single legible, if occasionally untidy hand. Some corrections and additions in the same hand. Contemporary mottled sheep, panelled spine. Some expert repair to the binding.

A contemporary manuscript collection of verse and prose by or about Voltaire, the majority dating from the 1750s, which accords with the style of the hand. Including: Vers de Voltaire à Madame de Pompadour; Sur la mort de la marquise du Châtelet; Epitre au prince de Virtemberg, Ingratitude, Lettre à M. Algarot[t]i, Sur la Déstruction de Lisbonne; Epître de Bélebus [Beelzebub] à Voltaire à l’occasion de la Pucelle d’Orléans; Epître a Monsieur de Richelieu; Lettre à M. J. Rousseau de Genève à l’occasion de son nouvueau livre (’J'ai reçu, Monsieur, votre nouveau livre contre le genre humain ; je vous en remercie’); Réponse de M. Rousseau; Sur la Morte de Monsieur de Fontenelle; Vers sur la Morte de M. de Fontenelle.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF PRINCESS SOPHIA

44. (WARS OF THE ROSES). [drop-head title:] Tableau historique de la guerre des deux Roses. [France or England, end of the eighteenth century]. $5300

Manuscript on paper, 4to (220 × 174 mm), pp. 740 (the last 2 pages blank), text in French, in a neat and legible hand, 18 lines per page, within red ruled borders, numerous underlinings (usually of names), occasional minor corrections. Eighteenth-century straight grained red morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind with cornerpiece sprays, spine in compartments between double raised bands, lettered direct, 3 panels with roundel tools, 2 with armorial or emblematic device incorporating the union flag on a shield, an eagle upon a sceptre and scales of justice, marbled and gilt edges. Joints and spine (at head and tail) rubbed. Provenance: Princess Sophia (1777-1848): bookplate; Henry, seventh Baron Farnham (1799–1868): bookplate; A.H. Bright: bookplate and letter laid in from a family member, Clara S. Thompson.

AN EXTENSIVE FRENCH MANUSCRIPT OF OVER 100,000 WORDS DEVOTED TO THE SUBJECT OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES AND, MORE GENERALLY, THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TURBULENCE OF THE IN THE BRITISH ISLES. This is a long and highly discursive view, beginning with the reign of Edward III and with as much as a third of the

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text devoted to the period before the reign of Henry III. The manuscript is neat, with only rare corrections. We have not been able to locate any published version. The origin is unclear, and though there are many traces of the work of historian Rapin de Thoyras, the organization of the text is largely original. Among the numerous asides are found discussions of court culture under Richard II, a mention of Chaucer’s Absalom (in the Miller’s Tale), with his pointed shoes cut in the shape of the windows of St. Paul’s, English drama (the Mysteries), the Peasant’s Revolt, Wyclif and the Lollards, Scotland and Wales (Druids are mentioned), there is a long discourse on Joan of Arc, a discussion of Scots royal poetry (Christ’s Kirk of the Green, Peebles to the Play and The King’s Quair), Cade’s Rebellion, and even Shakespeare and the reputation of Richard III. As might be expected in a French treatment of the subject there is evidence of strong interest in the wider question of the English kings in France From the library of Princess Sophia, fifth daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte, which was sold by Christie’s at her death.

45. WORTH, Thomas (1834-1917). Brer Thuldy’s Statue; Liberty Frightenin de World. New York: Currier & Ive, [1884]. $2300

(395 × 265 mm; sheet 450 x 340 mm). Colour lithograph. Signed in the stone lower right. Excellent condition. Lettered ‘Copyright 1884, by Currier & Ives, N.Y. / Pub. by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St. New York’, with title followed by ‘To be stuck up on Bedbug’s Island – Jarsey Flats, opposite de United States. / (Only Authorized Edition)’

This notorious caricature was issued as part of the segregation era ‘Darktown Comic’ series. A black woman wearing a tattered brown dress and worn shoes, with an apron decorated in the stars and stripes, and a tall bonnet with a wide brim and white frill, standing on a plinth in the manner of the Statue of Liberty though looking far from serene, but rather clamouring; she holds a flaming torch and a book labelled ‘New York Port Charges’; at her feet is a cockerel crowing; she has her back to the city, shown behind her across the water, with a distant bridge.

The partnership of Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) grew into one of the largest and most prolific companies of all time, at one point responsible for 95% of all lithographs in circulation in America. Beginning as a lithographer, Currier recognized the market for topical prints and news and became successful as an independent lithographer and later print publisher, before taking on his bookkeeper and accountant Ives as a partner. With hand-operated presses on one floor, artists, stone grinders and lithographers on the floor above and a team of others colouring the finished lithographs by hand on the floor above that, the firm extended well beyond its New York offices, selling retail and wholesale, from street-carts and through booksellers, nationally and internationally, including by mail-order. They flourished on their populist approach, promoting themselves as ‘The Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints’, and ‘the best, cheapest, and most popular firm in a democratic country’, providing ‘colored engravings for the people’ and issuing over 7000 prints in countless copies. According to Byran Le Beau, after initially depicting the horrors of slavery in the 1840s, the company began instead to focus on African Americans as the cause of divisive politics and civil war, until by the end of the century, they were portraying them as incapable of living in anything but a condition of servitude. If in this they were, as described by a prominent collector of Currier & Ives material, Harry T. Peters, ‘businessmen and craftsmen … but primarily mirrors of the national taste, weather vanes of popular opinion, reflectors of American attitudes’, they were in equal measure responsible for endorsing and establishing the distorted views they both targeted and marketed so well (cf. Bryan F. Le Beau, African Americans in Currier and Ives’s America: The Darktown Series, in Journal of American & Comparative Cultures).

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