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Catalogue One Hundred and Ninety-Six ______ Catalogue One Hundred and Ninety-six __________________________________________________________________________ PART I - Books published before 1716 1 [BRACCESCO, Giovanni] GEBER [Jabir ibn Hayyan] De Alchemia Dialogi II. Quorum prior, Genuinam, libroru[m] Gebri sententiam, de industria ab authore celatam, & figurato sermone involutam retegit, & certis argumentis probat. Alter Raimundi Lullii Maioricani, Mysteria in lucem producit. Norimbergae apud Johan. Petreium, 1548. £1,650 First Latin Edition; 4to. (190 x 150mm), pp.(128), signed A-Q4 (Q4v blank); title lightly soiled, intermittent light stain in lower gutter throughout, but generally well preserved in lightly crumpled early vellum; twenty leaves of good writing-paper bound in at end with seven pages of early ms. notes 'De Natura... Epistola quaedam Bernardi Germani...' & 'Fragmentum Bernardi Comitas [?]', evidently by 'Francisco Billiod in constancis Vittoria' who has signed pastedown & head of title; later(?) inscription on title, 'Ex Bibliotheca Joannis Boyum / Sinatoris Dolani 1617'. Later (18thC?) book label of 'Dervieu, Libraire, rue du Caire... près la rue Saint-Denis; a Paris' with extensive ms note in French of similar date regarding the authorship of these dialogues. The prefatory 'propositiones' are headed: Expositio librorum Gebri et Raimundi, ex Tuscanico idiomate traducta ... incerto authore. Dialogus primus, pp.(11-112), first appeared in Italian, Venice, 1544, as 'La espositione di Geber'. Lignum Vitae (pp.113-127) was first published Rome, 1542, as 'Il legno della vita'. These Latin versions by Guglielmo Grataroli were included in the translator's compilation 'Verae alchemiae ... doctrina certusque methodus', published in Basel, 1561. Whether a true translation from an Arabic text subsequently lost, or a later summary of Arabic chemistry, 'The works of Geber were the medieval alchemist's text-book and vade-mecum. They are very clear and free from mystery... [& may] be truly regarded as the most important means by which Arabic chemical knowledge became available to the alchemists of medieval Christendom.' F. Sherwood Taylor, The Alchemists. 2 [HARLAY-CHANVALLON, Francois de] Archbishop of Paris. The Condemnation of Monsieur Du Pin his History of Ecclesiastical Authors.... As also his own Retraction. Translated out of French... Charles Brome and Will. Keblewhite, 1696. £30 ONLY EDITION, 4to., pp.(2)31(3)adverts.; first & final leaves slightly browned but a good copy; disbound. Wing H776. 3 LOUIS XIV. A Memorial from his Most Christian Majesty, Presented by the Count de Briord, His Ambassador Extraordinary to the States General of the United Provinces, at the Hague, December 4. 1700. Containing his Reasons for Accepting the late King of Spain's Will, in Favour of the Duke of Anjou. Printed, and sold by J. Nutt, 1700. £45 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.15; disbound; numerals just cropped from head of a2 due to misalignment, light browning, otherwise well preserved. Wing L3128. UNRECORDED EDITION 4 [SEMPILL, Sir James. SEMPILL, Robert] A Pick-Tooth for the Pope: or The Pack-Mans Pater-Noster. Set down in a Dialogue, betwixt a Pack-man, and a Priest. Translated out of Dutch by S.I.S. and newly augmented and enlarged by his son R[obert] S[empill] Printed by Robert Sanders... Glasgow, 1695. £350 16mo. (123 x 75mm), pp.34; browned & soiled throughout with old repairs to bottom margins of many leaves, clipping several letters & catchwords but with loss of just two letters on A2v; 19thC half tan calf, drab boards, lettered along backstrip; upper hinge cracked but board secure. Book label and pencilled signature of the Scots antiquary 'D[avid] Laing' & the 1875 woodcut ex libris of Glaswegian lawyer, antiquary & bibliophile, David Murray; two old bookseller's descriptions pasted to fly-leaf. Sempill's 'clever satirical attack, outrageously partisan in tone, against the church of Rome', was first published for his son in 1642. Sanders printed a Glasgow edition in 1669 (Wing S2495) but we can find no record of this later edition. 5 WILLIAM III. The Treaty betwixt The Most Christian King, The King of Great Britain, and The States General of the United Provinces, for settling the Succession of the Crown of Spain... in case his Catholick Majesty die without issue. In English and French. Printed for A. Baldwin, 1700. £25 FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.(4)18; margins browned; disbound. Printed in columns with parallel French & English text. Wing W2488B. 6 WITHER, George. Abuses Stript, and Whipt: or Satyrical Essayes. Divided into two Bookes. Printed by Humfrey Lownes, for Francis Burton, 1615. £550 8vo., (148 x 98mm.), pp.(346); first section (title & epistle A2-5) have been trimmed & mounted and perhaps inserted from another copy (c1820); title & final leaf browned, a few corners repaired (without loss); LACKING engraved frontispiece & preliminary blanks; early ms. notes on blank title verso & final page; handsome early 19thC tan calf, morocco label, backstrip gilt. Armorial bookplate of Henry Francis Lyte (author of 'Abide with Me' & many other hymns) whose extensive library of old English poetry & theology took seventeen days to sell in 1848. Later oval library mark of John Fricker. STC 25896. PART II - Books published 1716-1832 7 ARISTOTLE. [pseud. William SALMON?] The Works of Aristotle, The Famous Philosopher. In Four Parts... A New and Improved Edition. Printed [by W. Sears] for Miller, Law and Carter, [1820s] £45 12mo., pp.300; frontispiece & several woodcut illustrations; two page corners singed just clipping one letter of text, otherwise a remarkably good copy of a book often read to death; contemporary (publishers'?) 'tree' sheep, ruled in gold on backstrip. Comprises: His Complete Master Piece... to which is added The Family Physician; His Experienced Midwife; His Book of Problems (concerning) Man's Body; His Last Legacy. 8 BECKFORD. STORER, James. A Description of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. Illustrated by Views, drawn and engraved by James Storer. W. Clarke...[& others] 1812. £350 FIRST EDITION, Large Paper Copy, folio (330 x 230mm), pp.(2)24; extra-engraved pictorial title, six engraved plates & vignette at end; faint staining across lower margins but a well preserved copy of this deluxe edition on heavy wove paper of Storer's pictorial record of Wyatt & Beckford's string & sealing-wax folly; the letterpress extracted from John Neale's Views of the Seats; contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in tan calf. 9 BERKELEY, George. Alciphron: or, The Minute Philosopher. In seven dialogues. Containing, An Apology for the Christian Religion, against those who are called Free-Thinkers. Printed for William Williamson, Dublin, 1757. £75 Pp.(12)370 + 'Just publish'd' advert. leaf at end, title verso, eccentrically, also lists 31 'Books Published by Wm. Williamson'; woodcut vignette & head-piece; a good copy in contemporary calf (worn but serviceable), re-backed with morocco label; ms. book-label of John Fricker. Written during Berkeley's residence in Newport, Rhode Island, 1728-31, and clearly influenced by his experience of the American scene. 10 BROOME, William. Poems on several occasions. The second edition, with large alterations and additions. Printed for Henry Lintot, 1750. £120 Pp.xiii(3)adverts.,248; engraved frontispiece by Vertue; woodcut initials and decorations; first & final leaves a little browned, otherwise a good crisp copy in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. Despite the claim of the title, this is actually a re-issue with cancel title-page of the first edition of 1727 for which Lintot had paid Broome £35. Confusingly, an augmented second edition had appeared in 1739. Broome's literary fame rests largely on the eight books of the Odyssey which he had translated for Pope, earning Johnson's praise for his smooth versification. He fell out with Pope over the £500 paid for his work & gained a place in the Dunciad for his pains. 11 [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. £950 FIRST EDITION, pp.viii(8)184; with the half-title; some spotting of first & final leaves and light soiling of title & half-title but generally well preserved with large margins; contemporary calf, morocco label & head of backstrip sometime expertly renewed, short split in upper hinge but reinforced & secure; old ownership signatures of Mary Cecil & Anne Campbell. Burke's first work of importance winning praise from Johnson, Hume & Reynolds, while Kant describes Burke as 'the foremost author [in] the empirical exposition of aesthetic judgments'. 'His enduring achievement was to have tackled a difficult subject in a fashion accessible to any educated reader.' DNB. Todd 5a, 500 copies printed. 12 [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. The Fourth Edition. With an introductory Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additiona. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764 £220 Pp.ix(7)342; title lightly browned, otherwise a very nice large copy in contemporary full calf, old inked titling on two sections of backstrip; contemporary inscription from 'John Curling to Captn. Wm. Curling' at head of title. [Captain William Curling died in 1788 and is buried in the Church of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.] 13 BYRON, Lord George Gordon. Werner, a tragedy. John Murray, 1823. £55 FIRST EDITION, second issue; pp.viii,188; slight browning but a good copy with the half-title in later half calf; hinges worn but serviceable. Originally intended to be issued with 'Heaven & Earth, a drama', this second issue adds 'The End' to the final page. 14 [COLLIER, Jane] An Essay on the Art of ingeniously Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Pleasant Art... The Second Edition, Corrected. A. Millar, 1757. £165 Pp.(2)iv,234; engraved frontispiece; title slightly age-browned but a good copy in contemporary calf, extremities worn but sound, neatly rebacked with morocco label. Arguably the first extended prose satire by an English woman, this wicked pastiche of 18thC. courtesy books takes the form of a mock manual of advice which instructs the reader in the arts of tormenting.
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