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1. [NEW BETHLEM HOSPITAL.] London Almanack for the Year of Chrt. 1816. Printed for the Company of Stationers. [1815.]

24mo (c. 52 x 32 mm), ff. [13], engraved throughout, on thick paper, the first and last leaves also serving as endpapers; title-page with tax-stamp; with a panoramic engraved ‘View of the New Bethlehem Hospital’ over four pages; a very good copy in the original decorated red morocco, gilt, with onlays in buff, blue and green and a central hot-air balloon motif (spine partly defective), in a matching slipcase. £300

A rare miniature almanac. Proposals for building a new Bethlem Hospital on a new site had finally gained traction in 1810 when land was obtained at St. George’s Fields in Southwark. A competition was held for the design (with the Bethlem patient James Tilly Matthews an entrant), and the final building, by James Lewis, was completed in 1815 (with a wing for the criminally insane added in 1816), none too soon – a Parliamentary enquiry of 1814-5 had exposed the terrible conditions of the old building. The New Bethlem Hospital building still survives as part of the Imperial War Museum. THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM, PRINTED IN LEEDS

2. ARMISTEAD, Wilson, and Roberts VAUX. Anthony Benezet from the original memoir: revised, with additions. London and Philadelphia; Alice Mann, Leeds for A. W. Bennett and Lippincott and Co., 1859.

8vo, pp. xvi, 144, with engraved frontispiece by S. Allen of the Indian Medal depicting William Penn, retaining tissue guard; unopened, upper edges dust-soiled; a very good copy, bound in the original purple textured cloth by Westleys & Co., London, both boards decorated in blind, with gilt lettering and illustration of the Medal to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, lemon-yellow endpapers; spine slightly faded, lower section skilfully repaired. £500

First edition thus. A tribute to Benezet (1713–84), one of the first American abolitionists, printed in England, where his arguments influenced the development of the British anti- slavery campaign. The Quaker Benezet’s writings, particularly Some Historical Account of Guinea (1772), had attracted interest from British abolitionists such as Granville Sharp, John Wesley and Thomas Clarkson, who corresponded with him and distributed his works in England.

Wilson Armistead, a Quaker anti-slavery campaigner from Leeds, wrote several publications on the subject of the slave trade and led the highly active Leeds Anti-Slavery Association. His enlarged edition of Vaux’s Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet (1817) would have struck a chord with the readership in Yorkshire, where the Quaker tradition, with its historical opposition to slavery, was well-established.

In addition to his abolitionist activities, Benezet is remembered as founder of America’s first public girls’ school, while the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was apparently the first of its kind to allow female campaigners. The work was printed by the radical Leeds author, bookseller and publisher Alice Mann.

Although COPAC locates 11 copies in UK libraries, good copies in original binding, as here, are notably uncommon the market.

Hogg 4039; Kemble 149 and 1123; Sabin 4694.

THE NEW WOMAN

3. CHIARI, Pietro. La viniziana di spirito, o sia le avventure d’una Viniziana ben nata, scritta da lei medesima, e ridotte in altrettante massime le più giovevoli a formare una donna di spirito. Parma, Carmignani, 1762.

Two vols bound in one, 8vo, pp. [viii], 224; [viii], 224; with an engraved frontispiece; small paper flaws in H5 (first part) not in the text, one or two rust spots, but a very clean, fresh copy in contemporary quarter sheep, flat spine decorated in gilt, morocco lettering-piece, boards covered with marbled paper; a little surface rubbing. £950

First edition, one of the earliest and rarest of Pietro Chiari’s novels. In the age of Goldoni the ‘woman of spirit’ became the subject of multifaceted literary exploration. The most successful novelist of the Venetian terraferma undertook a re-evaluation and re-modelling of women’s place in society: perhaps more explicitly here than in any other novels, as the Viniziana is written in the form of maxims and precepts, like a speculum for young ladies.

The eponymous Venetian lady stands in contrast with figures of passive acquiescence traditionally held as models of seemliness and propriety. She embodies a new ‘donna di spirito’, an enlightened woman who, in Chiari’s own words is ‘schooled in and by the world’, acts with courage and resilience, seizing opportunities and taking calculated risks to carve for herself an active role in society, and educates more women and successive generations to the pursuit of confidence and independence.

Three copies in the US (Columbia, Minnesota, Princeton), 2 in Canada (both in Toronto). In the UK only one copy, in the British Library. 4. COCTEAU, Jean, and André LHOTE. Escales [and Musée Secret]. Paris, Editions de la Sirène, 1920.

Large 4to, ff. [3, blank], [32], [6, Musée Secret], [2, limitation leaf]; with text and illustrations on facing pages (title-page vignette and 11 other illustrations pochoir-printed in colour by Atelier Marty); a fine copy, in modern quarter red morocco and plexi-glass preserving the original colour-printed stiff paper wrappers; slipcase. £7500

First edition, no. 4 of 5 copies on Japon impérial de Shidzuoka, with an original pen- and-ink drawing by Lhote, and with the additional 6-page Musée Secret (printed on Van Gelder) before the limitation leaf; inscribed on one of the initial blanks by Lhote to his friend and patron Jean Delgouffre of Brussels.

Cocteau and Lhote had met in 1914 and began work on this collaboration two years later, the first time either had worked in this fashion. Both Cocteau’s lightly erotic poems, with their striking typography, and Lhote’s angular, colourful illustrations were inspired by the red light district of Marseilles.

We have not been able to trace another example on Japon. Musée Secret, a more graphically-illustrated supplement to Escales with three more poems, is also very scarce.

‘A HAPPY BLEND OF GOOD OBSERVATION AND GOOD WRITING’ INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CHIPS CHANNON

5. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The golden carpet. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943.

4to, pp. [6], 7-128; with a frontispiece of a bust of de Chair by Jenö Lányi; a good, crisp copy in the original green morocco-backed linen boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; spine sunned; authorial inscription to ‘Chips’, dated June 3rd 1943; from the library of Henry ‘Chips’ Channon; a review by Sir Ronald Storrs from the Sunday Times, dated August 1, 1943 in Channon’s hand pasted to the rear blank. £600

First edition, limited to 500 copies, this no. 70 of 470 normal copies. De Chair, an intelligence officer (and the Tory MP for South-West Norfolk), accompanied the British column which advanced to capture Baghdad in 1941, and his account of the advance is written with great flair; indeed, the campaign itself is so larded with figures such as Glubb Pasha, airmen in armoured cars, British officers in pyjamas, and, of course, all manner of Arabs – perfidious, loyal, noble, among others – as to swashbuckle even without the assistance of de Chair’s prose (and verses).

De Chair and Channon were contemporaries as Conservative MPs and both saw service in the eastern Mediterranean, though they seem only to have overlapped in London, where their social circles intersected; Channon’s unlikely friendship with Field Marshal Wavell may also have drawn them together. This copy of The golden carpet was inscribed for Channon on June 3rd, 1943, some eight weeks after it was printed (and so, presumably, shortly after binding and publication).

In the apt words of Storrs, who knew very well of what he wrote, ‘This young intelligence officer went prepared to be thrilled: wanted, greeted, and so savoured his thrill that in recording it he does communicate a real thrill to the reader, in a happy blend of good observation and good writing.’

Pertelote 155. A NEW EDITION PREPARED FROM THE AUTHOR’S OWN AMENDED COPY AND LIMITED TO 150 COPIES

6. FLEMING, Peter. Brazilian Adventure. London, Queen Anne Press, 2010.

8vo (210 x 132mm), pp. 364, [4 (blank ll., the last with limitation slip tipped onto recto)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 8 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first edition binding, map endpapers; fine. £125

First edition thus, no. 116 of 150 copies. ‘In April 1932 Fleming answered an advertisement in the agony column of The Times, which led him to take part in a crack- brained and amateurish expedition to the hinterland of Brazil, ostensibly to look for Colonel P.H. Fawcett, a missing explorer. Fleming persuaded The Times to appoint him their unpaid special correspondent. This mixture of farce, excitement, discomfort, and danger achieved nothing except to provide him with the subject matter for his first book, Brazilian Adventure, published in August 1933. In it he blew sky-high the excessive reverence and solemnity with which travel books had hitherto been treated, mocking the dangers and himself with infectious humour. People could not believe that a story of true adventure could be so funny, and the book had immense success at home and in America’ (ODNB). This new edition – limited to 150 copies – was published by the Queen Anne Press (of which the author’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director, and Peter Fleming’s daughter Kate Grimond and nephew Fergus Fleming now manage), and was edited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]). The text ‘is taken from a first edition that belonged to Peter Fleming and in which he had made hand- written corrections. These amendments have been incorporated. Some new photographs are included taken from Fleming’s album of the expedition’ (p. [6]). FLEMING’S CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS 3,500-MILE JOURNEY FROM BEIJING TO SRINAGAR, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES

7. FLEMING, Peter. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London, Queen Anne Press, 2010.

8vo (209 x 133mm), pp. 382, [2 (blank l.)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 16 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, and one full-page map in the text; original red cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first edition binding, colour-printed map endpapers; fine. £125

First edition thus, no. 116 of 150 copies. Fleming had first travelled to China in 1931 and returned in 1933 as the Special Correspondent of The Times, to cover the war between the nationalists and the communists; ‘After reaching Mukden (Shenyang) in Manchuria and taking part in a sortie against local bandits, he travelled south, achieving an interview with Chaing Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the nationalist forces, entering communist-held territory, and finally returning home via Japan and the United States’ (ODNB). In autumn 1934, 'Fleming once again set off for the Far East with a far-ranging commission from The Times. After a brief shooting trip with friends in the Caucasus he travelled on to Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the Swiss traveller Ella (Kini) Maillart. It transpired that they both wanted to walk and ride from China to India, and though they both preferred to travel alone, they agreed to join forces. This epic journey of some 3500 miles on foot or ponies, through the remote province of Sinkiang (Xinjiang), with many dangers, hardships, and hold-ups, took them seven months, from February to September 1935. This, the most arduous of Fleming’s long journeys, he chronicled in fourteen long articles in The Times and later in his book News from Tartary’ (loc. cit.). This new edition – limited to 150 copies – was published by the Queen Anne Press (of which Peter Fleming’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director and is now managed by his daughter Kate Grimond and his nephew Fergus Fleming) and was edited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]). The frontispiece portrait of Fleming and Maillart was not included in the first edition, and the photographs have been reproduced anew from the original negatives.

Cf. Yakushi F103a (1st ed.). POLYGLOT ELEGY

8. GRAY, Thomas. L’Elegia … sopra un Cimitero di Campagna tradotto dall’inglese in più Lingue con varie cose finora inedite. In Verona, Dalla Tipografia Mainardi, 1817.

8vo, pp. 175, [1]; a fine copy, partly untrimmed and unopened in contemporary quarter mottled sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt with a floral motif, morocco label. £850

First edition thus, edited by Alessandro Torri: a bibliographic/bibliophilic tour-de-force, assembling 18 translations of Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard into Italian, French, German, Latin, Hebrew and Greek. It was printed in an edition of 350, of which 15 were large paper on carta velina reale; the present copy is on thick paper and 1.5-2.5 cm taller than other copies we can locate, though not on carta velina.

The opening translation is that of Giuseppe Torrelli, first published in 1776 and much reprinted. Here it is presented in parallel with the English original and with a new literal prose translation at the foot by the Irish-born Domenico Trant. Also previously unpublished is a commentary on the translation by Robert Richie, with responses by Torelli (pp. 49-67).

There follow six further Italian translations, in blank verse, terza rima, quatrains and prose, the last, by Michel Angelo Castellazzi, previously unpublished. The two French translations include one by Kerivalent that had only appeared in a periodical; and the German versions are by Wilhelm Mason and Ludwig Kosegarten. The volume closes with a group of previously unpublished translations – into Latin verse by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; into Latin Vulgate prose and Hebrew by Giuseppe Venturi; and into Greek by Giosafat Cipriani.

COPAC and OCLC show copies at BL, Cambridge, Bodley, Aberdeen, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, and Staatsbibliothek Berlin. 9. LOCKE, John. [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. Extrait d’un Livre Anglois qui n’est pas encore publié, intitulé Essai Philosophique concernant L’Entendement…communiqué par Mr Locke [in: ‘Bibliotheque universelle et historique de l’année 1688’, vol. 8]. Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, & van Someren, 1688.

12mo, pp. [viii], 454, [14]; the Locke: pp. 40-116; library ink stamp to the general title, some light water-staining in the initial and final quires (not in the Locke or in the Newton or Petty), but a very good copy in modern calf-backed marbled boards. £4000

A substantial and extremely influential extract, published two years before the appearance of the book, of Locke’s Essay concerning humane understanding: a publication of major consequence in the history of philosophy.

Two years before the full publication of Locke’s magnum opus, its diffusion began in an immediately bilingual context. The interaction between the French and English versions was complex and extremely fecund. In 1688 an advance copy of an early draft in French, sent to friends like Robert Boyle and Lord Pembroke and edited by Le Clerc, was sent to the editors of the Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique, who published it in that year’s issue. It was this publication which stimulated the attention, the reactions and philosophical developments of such thinkers as Pierre Bayle, William Molyneux and Leibniz, and that provided access to Locke’s ground-breaking theoretical innovations (which became the justification and premise for Condillac’s sensualism) for the French-speaking public, until a full French translation appeared in 1700. Le Clerc made also a separate impression, entitled Abregé d’un ouvrage intitulé… .

This volume also contains a substantial contemporary review of Newton’s Principia Mathematica (pp.363-375), and one of Petty’s Political arithmetic.

See Yolton 133-141; see PMM 164. ONE OF TWELVE COPIES OF THIS BIBLIOPHILE WORK, FINELY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY THE PUBLISHER

10. MANDEVILLE, Sir John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt., which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countries. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an Introduction, Additional Notes, and Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.A.S. London, J. Davy & Sons for F. S. Ellis, 1866.

8vo (220 x 138mm), pp. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 326, [2 (blank leaf)]; woodcut frontispiece and illustrations in the text; some occasional light spotting; original full English crushed green morocco gilt by W. Pratt for F.S. Ellis, boards with borders of gilt rules and rolls with gilt floral cornerpieces, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two, gilt-ruled board- edges, turn-ins richly gilt with a floral roll, rules and other tools, edges gilt; corners very lightly rubbed, light offsetting onto free endpapers; provenance: Henry Newman (autograph presentation inscription from F.S. Ellis on flyleaf: ‘One of twelve copies struck off on thick paper, Presented to Henry Newman Esqr. (the latest born of Bibliomaniacs) in memory of some days spent with him at Lancaster in October. 1866, by his obliged and faithful friend, the Publisher’). £700

Second printing of James Halliwell’s 1839 edition. Halliwell (1820-1889; later Halliwell- Philipps) began to collect and critique books as a young man, and he edited Mandeville’s Travels at the age of nineteen, although he later claimed to be responsible only for the introduction to this edition of Mandeville, which has been often reprinted. He is best known for his works on William Shakespeare: the Life of William Shakespeare (1848); his series of volumes from 1853 of the magnificently-printed folio edition of Shakespeare, with notes, illustrations and complete critical apparatus, aiming, as he said, at ‘a greater elaboration of Shakespearean criticism than has yet been attempted’; and his Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare (1881) a work that in the last edition issued in his lifetime ran to 848 pages. The Travels, ostensibly written by the English knight Sir John Mandeville, were in fact probably written in Anglo-Norman French by the author assumed to have written the Voyages de Jehan de Mandeville chevalier, which appeared anonymously in France c.1357. The book followed the alleged travels of its narrator, a knight who declares that he was born and bred in St Albans and left England in 1322 to travel and make an account of the known world. The work purports to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, and China, during which Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan’s army, and to have travelled in ‘the lands beyond’ – countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, men with their faces in their chests, Amazons, and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo’s slightly earlier narrative was to prove more factually accurate, Mandeville’s was widely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspired writers as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge. It enjoyed great popularity, and translations from the French version were published in German, English, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, Danish, and Czech. Nine-tenths of the substance of the Travels can be traced directly to written sources, which range from Pliny to Vincent of Beauvais, and include the itineraries of genuine travellers like William of Boldensele and Odoric of Pordenone.

This very rare presentation copy was one of only twelve printed on thick paper by the bookseller and publisher F.S. Ellis (1830-1901) and the luxurious binding is signed on the lower turn-in of the upper board ‘Bound by W. Pratt for F.S. Ellis’. Pratt was one of the leading English bookbinders of the mid-late nineteenth century, and counted amongst his clientele such distinguished bibliophiles as William Henry Miller, John Bellingham Inglis and Henry Stevens. Ellis had published the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his literary friends included A.C. Swinburne, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and John Ruskin, whose Stray Letters to a London Bibliopole were addressed to Ellis and republished by him in 1892. Ellis’ own bibliophile interests may have led him to befriend the Henry Newman to whom the inscription is addressed, and who Ellis describes as ‘the latest born of Bibliomaniacs’.

Bibliomania had become prevalent at the beginning of the eighteenth century, paralleling the commercial restructuring of bookselling and the fashioning and equipping of domestic libraries, and this led to a fashion for producing critical editions of manuscripts by societies such as the Early English Text Society, founded in 1864 (two years prior to this edition’s printing) by Frederick James Furnivall to bring the mass of unprinted Early English literature within the reach of students. This fashion may have informed Ellis’s decision to publish this text, particularly because Halliwell’s introduction provides a survey of principal manuscripts and editions, both in English and other language translations. The illustrations, too, would have been attractive to bibliophiles, being facsimiles ‘by Mr. F.W. Fairholt, from the older editions, and from the MSS. in the Harleian collection’. Ellis’s involvement in publishing these early texts continued into his final years, when he worked on Morris’s Kelmscott Press editions of Chaucer’s Works (1896) and Caxton’s Golden Legend (1892), among others. The recipients of these twelve special copies were Ellis’ bibliophile friends and associates, and included Henry Huth (cf. W.C. Hazlitt and F.S. Ellis, The Huth Library (London: 1880), p. 897). SHADOW THEATRE

11. RENAUCOURT, Henri de. Théâtre d’Ombres de Père Castor. Represéntation de Gala. Paris, Flammarion, 1935.

Oblong folio, 326 x 280mm, ll. [12, including 8 leaves of plates]; with the cardboard stage set bound in at end; a fine clean copy, wire-sewn in the original printed card wrappers. £750

First edition, a rare intact survival, of this album containing everything needed to create a home shadow theatre, from scenery to accessories and actors, who in the words of the theatre’s founder to the theatre’s new ‘Director’ await ‘only a few snips of your scissors before being put to work’. The provided material does not include a choir, but it does provide the written music, with the introduction asserting that volunteers will no doubt appear to take part in the performance.

The stage is included at the end of the album, while the curtain appears on the back cover, and the programme is on the front, awaiting only the name of the budding director.

45 characters with a view to acting out 9 plays, including the Princess and the Pea, and the legend of St Nicholas, are included. Flammarion went on to publish a second such album, including Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, the following year. 12. [RENAZZI, Filippo Maria]. Analisi degli Elementi di Diritto Criminale. Modena, con approvazione, 1788.

8vo, pp. 86; very occasional slight spotting, but generally clean and crisp; in later magenta wrappers; extremities faded and with slight foxing, and one-inch tear to lower wrapper. £950

First edition thus, very rare. The writer of the preface discloses that this ‘picciol’ volume of Renazzi’s work was needed to make the concepts of his Elementa accessible to the layman, so that anyone could readily arrive at a full understanding of the work. It deserved being translated into Italian, he says, in order to make it ‘piú piana, piú utile, e piú adattata a commune vantaggio, ed a miglior istruzione degli Studiosi della Scienza del Diritto Criminale’ (p. 4).

‘Perhaps the first [work] in that age to reduce the material of crimes and punishment to a scientific system’, Renazzi’s Elementa expanded on his belief that what was needed was a purification of the criminal law which had become, as he found it, impeded by its own weight; he ‘commended Beccaria and, like him, called for greater attention to the prevention of evil than to sharpening punishments’, and was ‘clearly seen in his work as one who understood his age, […] marked by good judgment and dignity’ (Rome in the Age of Enlightenment, 1990, p. 219). Renazzi, professor at the Sapienza, was a conservative Roman jurist who is best known for his writings against Rousseau’s Du contrat social. A renowned thinker in eighteenth-century Italy, Renazzi wrote on a range of topics, from jurisprudence, criminal procedure and public morality, to poetry, magic and witchcraft. He published his celebrated work on criminal law, the Elementa juris criminalis, in four volumes (Rome, 1773-81), a collection which became influential in the Italian states and went through several editions in both Latin and Italian into the nineteenth century. ‘D’un nuovo metodo’ of criminal science, Renazzi intended his work to follow in the footsteps of Grotius, Puffendorff and Montesquieu.

This edition not found on COPAC or in any US institution. Worldcat records just one copy, in Heidelberg. LAOCOON ENGRAVED

13. REZZONICO, Carlo Castone della Torre di. Discorsi accademici del conte … segretario perpetuo della R. Accademia delle Belle Arti. Parma, [Bodoni], 1772.

8vo, pp. viii, 80; with 4 fine engraved plates (including the engraved title-page) by Bossi, and several finely-engraved vignettes; text within printed borders; a little faint age-toning, but a fine copy in contemporary mottled sheep, gilt triple fillet to sides, flat spine gilt with fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece; small chip to foot of spine, a couple of small abrasions to the sides, one touching the gilt fillets. £700

First and only edition of an exquisite little product of the Bodoni house: Count Rezzonico’s reflections on the fine arts, including a dissertation on the techniques of woodcut and engraving. The Neo-Classical aesthetics that inform this work are reflected in the illustrations, masterfully executed by the painter, engraver and stucco artist Benigno Bossi. Perhaps the most remarkable is the depiction of the marble Laocoon, which had been made by Lessing the symbol of the aesthetic autonomy of poetry and painting.

Brooks 25. COLOURED PLATES

14. ROBERTSON, James. A Collection of comic Songs, written, compil’d, Etch’d, and Engrav’d, by J. Robertson; and sung by him at the Theatres Nottingham, Derby, Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield, and Redford. Peterborough: Printed and sold by C. Robertson. Sold also by Crosby and Co. London, Burbage and Stretton, Nottingham; [and booksellers in Derby, Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield and Retford]. [c. 1805.]

8vo, pp. [2], ii, [3]-24, 26-53, [1], with 19 etched and engrav’d plates, with music below and hand-coloured satirical scenes above (some lightly foxed), some dated 1805, paper watermarked 1803; complete despite the pagination, and here bound even more erratically; withal a very good copy in contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked; armorial bookplate of Thomas Adam. £950

The first of several rare collections of comic songs issued under the same title; this collection, with 19 songs, can be distinguished by the presence of a London bookseller in the imprint, and a Preface.

John Robertson, co-manager of the theatres mentioned in the title, was ‘a bad poet, a bad dramatist, and doubtless a mediocre actor-manager’ (Bronson) who had published two collections of Poems and a musical drama, The Heroine of Love, in the 1770s. His Collection of Comic Songs, though, with its delightfully naïve coloured illustrations, is lively and not without merit. His Preface wryly notes that ‘I am indebted to the fertile genius of Messrs. Rawlinson and Woodward for the best of the charicatures I have etch’d; and to my friend Thomas Dibdin, and his brother Charles, for some of my best jokes ….’ COPAC and OCLC show copies at BL and Bodley only; they also have copies of another collection. Folger has a copy with pp. 40 (either incomplete or another collection); and Nottingham a collection with 37 plates but later, including a ‘Local Panegyrical Comic Song’ ‘Badly printed by J. Robertson 1820’.

See Bertrand Bronson, ‘Robertson: Poet and Playwright’, MLN 49:8, 1934.

15. SCUTENAIRE, Jean. La Santé. 1933. à Irene Hamoir. [Brussels, Brassa, 1977].

Large 16mo, pp. [52]; printed in red, blue, brown and purple, with 12 illustrations after photographic portraits; a fine copy in the original plain paper wrappers, with the subscription/advertisement leaf laid in loose (worn at head with short tears). £650

First edition, #45 of 50 copies on vergé Ingres d’Arches, signed by Scutenaire at the end and by his wife Irène Hamoir on the subscription leaf, correspondingly numbered.

This is a facsimile of an original collage notebook put together in 1933 by the Belgian Surrealist Jean (later Louis) Scutenaire; found portrait photographs are paired with typographically unusual verses. SWEDEN INTRODUCED TO THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

16. [SMITH, Adam.] ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning i blandade ämnen. Första [– Femte och Sista] Årgången. Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797–1801.

Fifty parts bound in nine vols, small 8vo; complete with 5 folding tables, a folding engraved map, and 3 folding engraved plates of agricultural implements; woodcut vignettes on divisional titles; deaccessioned library stamp to the front free endpaper in each vol.; slight waterstaining to the third vol., else a very good, clean set in contemporary blue paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed, gilt-lettered labels to spines. £1750

First edition of all 50 parts of the Swedish literary periodical Läsning i blandade ämnen, containing over 200 pages of passages from various sections of the Wealth of Nations, making it the first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. Georg Sartorius’s abridgement of the Wealth of Nations, the Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft …, would appear in a Swedish translation in 1800, but a complete translation of Smith’s important work of economics did not appear until recently.

There are many other translations from English in the periodical, including biographies of Samuel Johnson and William Blackstone, and poetry by Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray.

Vanderblue, p. 32; OCLC lists copies at Yale, Minnesota, and Texas. On the influence of Smith in Sweden, see Torbjörn Vallinder, ‘University Professors and Amateur Writers: The Wealth of Nations in Sweden up to 1990’, in Cheng-chung Lai’s Adam Smith Across Nations (OUP, 2000). 17. STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa or The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London, William Clowes and Sons, Limited for Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890.

2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 140mm), pp. I: xv, [1 (blank)], 529, [1 (imprint)]; II: xv, [1 (blank)], 472, [2 (publisher’s advertisement)]; wood-engraved frontispiece in vol. I and photographic portrait frontispiece by Waterlow & Sons after Walery in vol. II, both retaining tissue guards, 36 wood-engraved plates by Barbant, Chiriat, Cooper, Davey, Meaulle, et al. after Riou, Schonberg, Forestier, Montbard, et al., 3 folding colour-printed lithographic maps by Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, one colour-printed lithographic geological profile by Stanford’s, one wood-engraved map by Stanford’s after W.G. Stairs, one folding letterpress table, and wood-engraved illustrations and plans, and letterpress tables, in the text, some full-page; occasional light spotting or marking, skilfully-repaired short tears on 2 folding maps, the other map lightly browned (as often), II, 2G1 with small marginal loss; original brick-red pictorial cloth, upper boards and spines decorated and lettered in black and gilt, map endpapers printed in green; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, some light marking, spines slightly dulled, short splits on lower hinges, nonetheless a very good set in the original pictorial cloth; provenance: Joseph Hutchinson (contemporary booklabels on front free endpapers of both volumes). £500

First edition. Written in fifty days at Cairo and published shortly after, In Darkest Africa is the celebrated account of Stanley’s 1887-1889 expedition to Lake Albert, to relieve the German physician and scientist Eduard Schnitzer (known as Emin Pasha). Following the Mahdist uprising, which had led to the death of Gordon in 1885, Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatorial Sudan, had fled Sudan for Wadelai, close to Lake Albert, where he was trapped. However, he had been able to send letters back to Europe to alert friends to his plight, and these letters had provoked great concern for Emin’s safety and an expedition was proposed by William Mackinnon, the Chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company, which Stanley was asked to lead. In 1887, Stanley arrived at Zanzibar and then travelled around the Cape to the mouth of the Congo, from where he made his way to Leopoldville and thence along the Congo into the centre of the continent, to the river’s confluence with the Aruwimi River. From there Stanley journeyed to the village of Yambuya, which he reached on 15 June 1887, and, leaving a rearguard party at Yambuya, Stanley and an advance party of some 400 embarked upon a 450-mile, five- month-long journey through the Ituri rain forest to Lake Albert.

‘Stanley’s descriptions of the tortuous passage through the dense forest rank among the most celebrated of all his writings. Ravaged by the effects of disease, hunger, and warfare, his party reached Lake Albert in December 1887. Failing to find Emin (who was at Wadelai), they retreated to Ibwiri, where a camp (known as Fort Bodo) was constructed. On 29 April 1888 Stanley himself finally met Emin Pasha, drinking champagne with him on the shores of Lake Albert, as he had with Livingstone at Ujiji in 1871. Unable to persuade Emin to leave immediately, he decided to return to find his rear column, leaving Jephson with Emin. In August 1888, at Banalya, just 90 miles from Yambuya, he found the rear column in a state of disarray [...] The rear column began the arduous journey on to Fort Bodo in August 1888, suffering further casualties on the way. On his arrival, in December 1888, Stanley learned that Emin had suffered the combined threat of a mutiny within his forces and renewed hostilities with the Mahdists. Emin’s position appeared to be under threat, though he himself privately described Stanley’s motives as "egoism under the guise of philanthropy" [...] After much cajoling, Stanley at last persuaded him to leave Equatoria, the party setting out from the shores of Lake Albert on 10 April 1889. They travelled near the Ruwenzori range [...] then through the lakes region, reaching the coast on 4 December 1889. By now, Stanley’s relationship with Emin was at a low ebb, and he left Bagamoyo for Zanzibar without his prize. From there Stanley travelled to Cairo, where he spent two months writing his famous account of the expedition, In Darkest Africa’ (ODNB). On his return to London in April 1890, Stanley was feted by society and academia, and a reception held for him by the Royal Geographical Society at the Albert Hall on 5 May 1890 attracted 10,000 people, including the Prince of Wales.

Hosken p. 189.

A RARE SIGNED COPY

18. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Among the Mountains. Travels Through Asia. London, Caledonian International Book Manufacturing Ltd for HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.

4to (246 x 167mm), pp. [2 (blank l.)], xvi, 250, [4 (blank ll.)]; photographic illustrations after Thesiger, 36 full-page and 10 double-page, 6 full- and one double-page maps; original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, dustwrapper reproducing photographs by Thesiger; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges and price-clipped, slight marking to fore-edges of a few final ll., otherwise a very good copy. £300 First edition. With label signed by the author ‘Wilfred Thesiger’ tipped onto the title and Stanford’s 'Signed Copy' label on the upper panel of the dustwrapper. An account of Thesiger’s travels in the mountains of the Middle East and Asia, describing expeditions in Iraqi Kurdistan (1950-1951), Chitral (1952), Hunza (1953), Hazarajat (1954), Nuristan (1956 and 1965), and Ladakh (1983), based on the author’s diaries and extensively illustrated with his photographs. Among the Mountains was published around the time when age compelled Thesiger to leave his Chelsea flat for Orford House retirement home in Woodcote Park, near Coulsdon, Surrey, and consequently it is believed that only one book-signing had been arranged at Stanford’s, for which bookplates were sent to Thesiger for signature and then returned to Stanford’s, to be tipped in to the volumes (as here). Certainly, signed or inscribed copies of the first edition of Among the Mountains are unusually scarce on the market.

P.N. Grover, ‘Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger’ in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, p. 272.

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19. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Desert Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad. London, W. & J. Mackay Limited for William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.

4to (269 x 207mm), pp. 3-304, [2 (blank)], numerous photographic illustrations after Thesiger et al., some full- or double-page, maps after Tom Stalker-Miller, some full- or double-page; original brown boards, spine titled in gilt, photographically-illustrated dustwrapper after Thesiger; dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at edges and price-clipped, very light mark on lower board, otherwise a very good copy. £100

First edition. A superbly-illustrated record of Thesiger’s travels in Abyssinia, Yemen, Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, which is prefaced by a ‘Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78’ and a short- title list of ‘Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger’. STYLISH SHIP INTERIORS IN PHOTOGRAPHS

20. [T.S.S. OLYMPIA.] A pair of photograph albums depicting the interiors of T.S.S. Olympia, October 1953.

86 gelatin silver prints, approximately 8¾ x 11½ inches (22 x 29.5 cm.), each stamped W. Wralston, Glasgow with a negative number in pencil on verso, captions stencilled in black below, black paper corner-mounts, in two contemporary faux-snakeskin ringbinders (some mounts loose), black lettering to upper boards and spine (a little rubbed), oblong folio. £6500

A singular visual record of the ultra-modern interiors of the Clyde-built passenger ship T.S.S. Olympia in the year of its maiden voyage. The design project was executed by Patrick McBride, Theodore E. Alexander, and Athens-based Emmanuel Lazaridis, with others, including Tibor Reich and Stafford Unwin, participating. The fabricants were McInnes Gardner & Partners of Glasgow.

The finely-detailed black and white prints suggest the use of large-format negatives, an expensive luxury in this decade of austerity. Unpopulated by either passengers or staff, the precision of the photographs complements the bold post-war contrasts and angles, such as in the jazzy ‘Mycenaean’ and ‘Derby’ rooms. Vibrant upholstery and geometry in the ‘Bookworm’ reading room and ‘The Scribe’ writing room are balanced against a classic wood-panelled library and card room.

Each image boasts of the state-of-the-art luxury of this new ship: Olympic athletes adorn the walls of the modern gymnasium, complete with horseriding equipment and contemporary cycle machines; there are two childrens’ rooms, ‘Wonderland’ and ‘Neverland’, fitted with playground toys; and even the up-to-date amenities in the first- class ‘stateroom toilet’ are considered worthy of inclusion in this record.

Manuscript notes in pencil on the mounts beneath the photographs, matching the captions later stencilled in black below, are testament that these two albums were compiled with much care and consideration, most likely as a presentation gift. It is unlikely that a similarly extensive set of images exist in such a format.

Having changed hands and been renamed several times, the ship was fully broken up in early 2010. ‘A CLASSIC WORK ON THE AMAZON’

21. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley. London, John Edward Taylor for Reeve and Co., 1853.

8vo (215 x 137mm), pp. viii, 541, [1 (imprint)]; colour-printed lithographic plate printed by Hullmandel and Walton bound as a frontispiece with later tissue guard, 8 lithographic plates and diagrams by and after Wallace, printed by F. Reeve, one lithographic map by C. Achilles, and one folding letterpress table, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; occasional light spotting, table with skilfully-repaired tear, map tightly bound; half speckled calf over marbled boards by Bayntun, Bath [circa 1930-1939], spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, lettered directly with date at the foot of the spine, top edges gilt; bound without final l. of advertisements, nonetheless a very good copy of this increasingly uncommon work; provenance: Francis Reeve Cope, jr, Woodbourne Orchard and Forest (1878-1962, bookplate on upper pastedown). £4000

First edition. Inspired by William H. Edwards’ book A Voyage up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Pará which was published in 1847, Wallace (1823-1913) and his friend the naturalist Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) planned an expedition to South America, and departed from Liverpool on 25 April 1848 for Pará (now Belém), at the mouth of the Amazon. As the ODNB states, ‘Apart from meeting their immediate goal of earning a living through natural history collecting, Wallace and Bates had a broader purpose for travelling to the Amazon: solving the mystery of the causes of organic evolution. Though Wallace had unreservedly embraced the notion of social progress from his early teens and apparently leaned toward a uniformitarianism-based but progressive view of change in physical nature even before turning twenty, he had not been a convert to biological evolution until he read Robert Chambers’s controversial, anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation about 1845, the year it was published. That one might demonstrate the fact of evolution through a detailed tracing out of individual phylogenies over time and space was apparent to him early on, and the Amazon was to afford a natural laboratory to this end. He would eventually stay in the area four years, gaining invaluable field experience and sending home a sizeable quantity of biological specimens, largely of birds and insects.

The two men split up in March 1850 (or possibly earlier), Wallace choosing to concentrate on the central Amazon and Rio Negro regions. There he first came into contact with native peoples unaffected by European influence, an experience that left an indelible positive impression on him. A map he prepared of the Rio Negro proved reliable and became a standard reference for many years. Most of his time was spent studying the area’s ornithology, entomology, physical geography, primatology, botany, and ichthyology, and he soon became fascinated by two problems in particular: first, how geography influenced species distribution boundaries, and second, the way the adaptive suites of many populations seemed more attuned to ecological station than to closeness of affinity with other forms.

By early 1852 the stresses of tropical exploration had undermined Wallace’s health to the extent that he decided to leave the region [...] Earlier he had discovered that through an unfortunate misunderstanding his collections from the year before had not been forwarded on to England. Passage for both himself and his treasures (including a number of living specimens) was arranged, but after several days at sea the brig on which he was sailing caught fire. Although everyone on board was safely evacuated to a pair of lifeboats all of Wallace’s possessions, save a few drawings, notes, and odds and ends, perished. The party was finally rescued – after ten anxious days of paddling and bailing – by a passing cargo vessel making a return run to England […]

The Amazon experience left Wallace, now twenty-nine, with a solid reputation as a naturalist. But the sea disaster had robbed him of materials for further study, and – most significantly – the mechanism of organic change had eluded him. He was initially undecided as to what course to pursue next. While making up his mind he made good use of what was to be an eighteen-month stay in London; in addition to vacationing briefly in Paris and Switzerland and reading several papers at professional society meetings, he put together two reasonably well-received books: Palm Trees of the Amazon (1853), a short systematic ethnobotanical survey, and A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853)’.

Wallace’s researches would eventually direct him to the concept of natural selection some years later, and this would lead to his celebrated joint paper with Charles Darwin (whose thinking on the subject had been formed by his own travels in South America some ten years earlier), ‘On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection’, which was given to the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858.

This copy is from the library of the natural historian and conservationist Francis R. Cope, Jr. (1878-1962), who was educated at Haverford College, Harvard University (where he held the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship in 1903) and then travelled in Germany and England as an honorary John Harvard Fellow in 1904. He established a farm at Woodbourne in Dimock, PA, where he studied arboriculture, grafting, and other aspects of forestry. A vice-president of the American Forestry Association, in 1934 Cope helped to save the Tionesta Forest in Pennsylvania and in 1956 he deeded 500 acres of Woodbourne forest to the Nature Conservancy.

As Michael Shermer records, the cost of publishing Wallace’s Narrative was split equally between the author and the publisher, and only 750 copies were printed (cf. In Darwin’s Shadow; the Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace (Oxford: 2002), p. 75), and the work has become increasingly scarce on the market in recent years.

Abbey, Travel, 712; Borba de Moraes p. 933 (‘Wallace’s book is a classic work on the Amazon and appeared in many editions’); BM(NH) V, p. 2256 (erroneous collation of plates); Koppel, Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert-Bosch-GmbH, I, 467; Naylor 170; Wood p. 617 (‘One of the earliest scientific explorations of this noted naturalist. He describes many species of vertebrates’).

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