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Items Marked with an Asterisk * Are Subject to 20% Additional VAT in the UK and EU 1 Items marked with an asterisk * are subject to 20% additional VAT in the UK and EU 1. ‘BERGER, Louis, astrologue’. Almanach historique, nommé le Postillion de la paix et de la guerre, calculé selon le stile nouveau, pour l’an de grâce MDCCLXIII contenant les propriétés & la température des quatre saisons & des douze mois, l’accroissement & le déclin de la lune avec les autres observations astrologiques … avec une description des événemens les plus mémorables, arrivés en Europe, Asie, Afrique & Amérique. Publié pour la trente-huitième fois. Basel: Jean Henry Decker, [1762 or 3]. £600 Small 4to (200 × 150 mm), pp. [58], including wrappers (the first with a full-page woodcut) and 3 further full-page woodcuts (one folding), small calendrical woodcuts depicting the occupations of the month, title and calendar partly printed in red. Stitched with paper backstrip. Lightly browned, leaves at front and rear quite fragile at lower corners with a few short tears, usually without loss. A VERY RARE SWISS ALMANAC , INCLUDING FOUR LARGE WOODCUTS AND NEWS REPORTS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE . The Postillion was issued simultaneously in French and German issues: Der Kriegs- und Friedens-Postillion , but both are very rare, recorded in only a handful of copies each of any yearly issue. The woodcut on the first leaf depicts the postillion riding through an emblematic landscape, the three others are: a spectacular sea battle between a French and English ship; the deathbed of Elisabeth II or Russia (folding, c. 185 × 320 mm); and two murders (one from a tragic account from Ireland), each with accompanying descriptions in the text. The news reports have been gleaned from a wide variety of sources. Added them are the familiar elements of an amanac: calendars, astronomical, astrological and meteorological data, with typically charming woodcut vignettes. 2. BOND, William. The Supernatural Philosopher: or, the Mysteries of Magick,... All exemplified in the History of the Life and surprizing Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell, a Scots gentleman; who, though deaf and dumb, writes down any Stranger’s Name at first Sight, with their future Contingencies of Fortune... The Second Edition. London: for E. Curll, 1728. £800 8vo (194 × 120 mm), pp. ix, [5], 33, 320, [1], plus 16 pages of Curll’s adverts. Engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, label renewed to style. Rubbed, joints starting, head of spine chipped and mostly absent, traces of an old armorial bookplate removed. A very good copy. THE LIFE STORY OF A DEAF -MUTE SCOTS SOOTHSAYER . The Supernatural Philosopher is a reissue of The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell (1720) with the addition of ‘Verses to Mr. Campbell. On the History of his Life and Adventures’ and ‘A remarkable passage of an apparition. 1665’. The author evidently lodged for a while in the same London house as the Scots-born soothsayer Duncan Campbell (d. 1730), who was a well-known figure in the city. Deaf and mute, he was probably educated at Glasgow using the finger system devised by John Wallis in the seventeenth century. The History of the Life was persistently attributed, until relatively recently, to Defoe. 3. BRUCE, George. Poems, Ballads, and Songs, on various Occasions. Edinburgh: printed by Oliver & Boyd, and sold by all the booksellers there; also by William Turnbull, Glasgow; and A.K. Newman & Co. London, 1813. £300 8vo (207 × 120 mm), pp. xvi, [1], 10-215, [1] (prelims mispaginated). Woodcut ornaments. Closed tear (no loss) to gutter of pp. 147-8. Contemporary half morocco. Joints and corners rubbed. Bookplate and shelf mark of Archibald Earl of Eglinton. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION , the second of two verse collections by a successful Edinburgh miniature and silhouette painter. Several poems are in Scots dialect and at least two are on artistic subJects: ‘Song, The Enamoured Painter’ and ‘Epistle to a Friend, on the Decay of Taste for the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1812’. This is a subscriber’s copy, one of two copies ordered by Archibald, twelfth Earl of Eglinton (restorer of Eglinton Castle). Painter Henry Raeburn is among the other subscribers. Not in Jackson, English Verse, 1770-1835. 4. CAREY, David. Craig Phadrig, Visions of Sensibility, with legendary Tales, and occasional Pieces, [Inverness: J. Young] for the author, and sold by J. Young, L. Grant & Co. and Smith & Clark, Inverness; I. Forsyth, and W. Young, Elgin; Arc[hibal]d Constable & Co. and W. Creech, Edinburgh; and Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, London, 1811. £300 8vo (210 × 122 mm), pp. 8, [2], [9-] 225, [1]. Slightly dusty and thumbed. Early half calf, rebacked to style. Boards soiled, corners a little worn. Early Bookplate and ownership inscription (McCrae), the latter trimmed. A good copy. FIRST EDITION — Highland poetry inspired by the mountain landscape of Craig Phadrig, which is topped by an ancient Pictish hillfort. Carey muses on the legends of Macbeth (including the Weird Sisters), on the parallel between Macbeth and Napoleon Bonaparte), and Scottish history up to Culloden. Jackson, p. 348; Johnson, Provincial Poetry , 163; Aubin, p. 373. 5. (CHANSONS). Recueil des ariettes. [France or Flanders]. 1787 and after. £750 Manuscript, small 4to (180 × 118 mm), pp. [2], 65, [14], [numerous blanks], [10]. Single leaf with additional contemprary song inserted in pocket at rear. Mainly in French with some Flemish. Original parchment wallet binding. Soiled, wants original tie, but very attractive. THE MARSEILLAISE AND A GASTRONOMIC PARODY . A manuscript chanson notebook of the French Revolutionary era. It is typical of many such manuscripts, only partially completed, but is of special interest for containing an early manuscript copy of the Marseillaise , plus a spoof drinking song on the same song, and (on a folded sheet found in the rear pocket) the song ‘Louise seize aux François’ (‘O mon peuple! que vous ai-Je’), all from the 1790s. The earlier chansons from the 1780s are typical popular songs, but the 1790s additions are by far the most interesting. The Marseillaise , originally composed in 1792 by Rouget de Lisle became the French national anthem in 1795. Opening with the lines: ‘Allons enfans de la patrie / Le Jour de gloire est arrivé’; it is here paired with a line-for-line parody sung to the same tune, expressing only the patriotism of the stomach, opening: ‘Allons enfants de La Courtille, Le jour de boire est arrivé, C'est pour nous que le boudin grille, C'est pour nous qu’on l’a conservé (bis) Ne vois-tu pas dans la cuisine Rôtir des Dindons et Gigots! Ma foi, nous serions bien nigauds Si nous leur faisions triste mine.’ Other songs reflect a fervent Royalist patriotism, none more so than the 9 verse ‘Louis seize aux François’ tucked into the rear pocket. The song first appeared at the time of the execution of Louis in January 1793 and was (according to contemporary commentators) sung all over Paris. Opening ‘My people, what have you done...’ it was widely published both in France and abroad. 6. (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND). LEE, Robert. The reform of the Church of Scotland in Worship, Government, & Doctrine. Part I.-Worship. Edinburgh: Edmonstone and Douglas, 1866. pp. x, [2], 182, [2] (advert). £50 [bound with :] ― The clerical Profession some of its Difficulties and Hindrances an Address delivered at the opening of the Theological Classes in the University of Edinburgh, November 8, 1866. Edinburgh: Edmonstone & Douglas, 1866. pp. 32. [and: ] ― Thou art Peter. A Discourse on Papal Infallibility and the causes of the late Conversions to Romanism. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1851. pp. vi, [2], 118. [and: ] ERSKINE, Thomas. The Purpose of God in the Creation of man. Edinburgh: Edmonstone and Douglas, 1870. pp. 15. Four works bound together, 8vo (165 × 105 mm.). Half calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. Sprinkled edges. Bookplate, neat later inscription. Rubbed, minor wear to corners, upper joint cracked but firm. Good. A collection of nineteenth century Scottish ecclesiastical pamphlets, principally by Robert Lee, the reforming Church of Scotland minister. Lee’s contribution was primarily in the reform of worship rather than theological debate, believing that worship should comprise three elements: word, prayer and praise. His controversial stance on a variety of topics led him to frequent clashes with conservative clergy and in 1859 he was unsuccessfully charged with unlawful innovations in worship. 7. DARWIN, Charles. [and Francis DARWIN]. The Power of Movement in Plants. London: John Murray, 1880. £950 8vo (188 × 122 mm), pp. x, 592, plus 32 pages of ‘Mr Murray’s General List of Work’. Including numerous printed illustrations. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Expert and unobtrusive repairs to spine and corners. Bookplates (W.H. Smith & Sons circulating library, Newark Stock Library), numerical stamps to half-title and title, small blindstamp (Faversham Institute) to upper forecorner of title and 4 following leaves, pencil notes to recto of rear free endpapers. A very good copy. FIRST EDITION , FIRST ISSUE , with 32 pp. inserted adverts dated May 1878 and with two lines of errata at the foot of page x. One of Darwin’s last books, on the subJect of phototropism, complete with illustrations and diagrams. It was widely reviewed and gained much interest from the general public, referred to as ‘the scientific report that most clearly marks the beginning of the modern study of plant growth.’ (Pickard, pp. v–xviii, preface to the 1966 edition). This copy, with very minor recent restoration, has survived well, given its passage from Smith’s circulating library, to Newark Stock Library and the Faversham Institute (the latter closed in 1979 and its library dispersed). Freeman 1325. 8. DUNBAR, William. Select Poems of Wil. Dunbar. Part First [all published in this form] from the M.S.
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