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1) A LADY. A short treatise on the passions, illustrative of the human mind. Londonq. Printed for B. Crosby and Co....By J. G. Barnard, 1810. First edition.
12mo. In two volumes. xlvii, 225, [3]; [4], 236pp. With half-titles, and a terminal advertisement leaf to Vol. I. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. Extremities a trifle rubbed, chipping to lettering-pieces. Paste- downs of Vol. II sprung, very occasional small holes to margins.
An unsophisticated copy, in the original boards, of this uncommon, wide-ranging and highly opinionated survey of mankind, our passions and character traits, apparently by an anonymous female author. Topics discussed include 'Education' (where study of the Bible is described as 'a flagrant mistake', and the work of Hannah More rejected), 'The Difference of Character between Man and Woman', 'Haughtiness', 'Apathy', 'Avarice', 'Friendship', 'Ambition', 'Love' and 'Sensuality'.
Contemporary reviewers, however, questioned whether the work was not in fact composed by a disgruntled man attempting, 'in the paltry artifice of emasculation' to hide behind feminine anonymity in 'such a dishonourable attempt to stay the proceedings of criticism...take the public by surprize and procure for the contraband cargo a premature and very undeserved circulation' (Eclectic Review).
COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, Queen's University Belfast, and Wellcome); OCLC adds five more (BNF, NYPL, Pennsylvania, Stanford and Waterloo).
£ 750
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UNRECORDED VERSE CHRONICLE?
2) A LADY. Chronology of the kings and queens of england, rendered into rhyme...for the use of children. Bath. Printed by Benj. Higman...and sold by Suttaby and Co. London, and other booksellers, 1843. Second edition.
16mo. iv, [1], 6-16pp. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's printed paper boards. Extremities marked, chipping to spine and board edges. Single instance of manuscript correction to text, some spotting.
An apparently unrecorded verse chronicle, for children, of English monarchs from William the Conqueror to Victoria (and including Cromwell).
The prefatory remarks of the anonymous female author explain that the work was initially published as a series of cards for the benefit of a sale held at Bath to raise funds for the building of a new church in the parish of St. Michael; we could locate no other copy of either this book, or that card-format edition, in the usual databases.
£ 600
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3) ABBOT, Robert. Antichristi Demonstratio, Contrafabulas pontificias, & ineptam Roberti Bellarmini de Antichristo Disputationem... Londini [i.e. London]. Excudebat Robertus Barkerus, 1608. Second edition.
8vo. [20], 582 [i.e. 482]pp, [2]. Recent red morocco, red cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Some marking to extremities. Marbled endpapers, paper repairs to small marginal worm-tracks, very occasional marking.
The second edition, expanded, of Bishop of Salisbury Robert Abbot's (1559/60-1618) anti-Catholic polemic, first published in 1603.
Very much in the apocalyptic tradition, Antichristi Demonstratio rejects Cardinal Bellarmine's Counter-Reformation views on the direct power of the papacy, and reasserted the Protestant view, popular in Tudor and Jacobean England, of the Pope as the antichrist of Revelation. This was a subject dear to King James I, who had composed in 1588 a meditation on the same theme. Such an opportunity to curry favour was not lost on Abbot, a royal Chaplain who owed his promotion to James' accession; and he thus included, as an appendix (pp.468-582 [i.e. 482]) to this second edition, the King's commentary on Chapter 20 of Revelation.
ESTC S113874, STC 44.
£ 450
4) ADANSON, Aglae. Catalogue des arbres, arbustes et plantes vivages, cultives en pleine terre. Baleine. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1830]. First edition?
12mo. 23pp, [1]. Unopened, stitched, as issued. Slight spotting, else fine.
A rare survival, in original state, of a catalogue of the plants, trees, and shrubs growing at the jardin anglaise of Aglae Adanson (1775-1852), daughter of noted French botanist and naturalist Michel Adanson (1727- 1806). Having spent her early life in self-imposed exile, escaping the tumult of the Revolution, Adanson returned to France and her inherited estate at Balaine, in Allier, Auvergne; here, from 1804, she began the cultivation of what would become an extensive and much lauded arboretum. Adanson was one of the founding members of the Horticultural Society of Paris and became a respected botanist in her own right. In 1822 she published the popular La Maison de Campagne, the fourth edition of which, appearing in 1836, included this catalogue.
£ 350
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5) [ALADDIN]. Webb's juvenile drama. Aladdin; Or, The Wonderful Lamp: a romantic drama, in two acts. Written expressly for and adapted only to webb's characters & secnes in the same. London. Printed and Published by W. Webb, [s.d., c.1885].
12mo. 18pp. Unopened, stitched, as issued. Together with 20 loose hand-coloured lithographed plates, as called for. Light spotting to plates, else fine.
A rare survival in near-immaculate condition of a complete play set, consisting of '6 Plates of Characters', '11 Scenes' and '3 Plates of Wings Nos 37, 38 and 39', with the 'Book adapted to the above', designed to be variously dissected or assembled to produce a toy theatre.
With a history going back to the Regency era, publishers of toy theatres appear to have largely operated from addresses in East London, and specifically in and around Hoxton, by the mid-Victorian period. The engraver and printer W.G. Webb appears to have been producing such works between 1847 and his death, in 1890; Aladdin appears to be one of his later works, although no cataloguer has moved beyond conjecture for the dating of this volume.
Between COPAC and OCLC we could only locate one complete set of this play set, at Toronto; amongst others, the V&A holds a part set of 14 plates, whilst Bristol and Oxford appear to hold the play-script only.
£ 650
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PRACTICAL HELP FOR DEBTORS
6) AN OLD PRACTITIONER. The debtor's Pocket Guide, In Cases of arrest; containing cautions and instructions against the imposition and extortion of the Serjeant at Mace, Bailiff, Gaoler, &c... London. Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall...For Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition.
8vo. vi, [2], 163pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, Rubbed and marked, without lettering-piece, short split splitting to head of lower joint, marbled paper separating from boards. Paste-downs sprung, very occasional light dust- soiling, small worm-track to gutter margins of final two gatherings.
A rare guide produced to extricate eighteenth-century debtors from the clutches of the law; including practical examples of avoiding imprisonment, securing bail and bringing the writ of Habeas Corpus, with reference to applicable case precedents and statutes. It was designed, according to the anonymous 'Old Practitioner' author, 'for those who would avoid the conveniences of the law' as well as 'a sure guide to such who from the casualties of life become subject to its power'.
ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and another in North America (Harvard).
ESTC N6515.
£ 950
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7) BACON, Francis. Considerations touching a Warre with spaine. Written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Vi. St. Alban. [s.i.]. [s.n.], Imprinted 1629. First edition.
Quarto. [2], 46pp. Uncut, handsomely bound by F. Bedford in nineteenth-century gilt-tooled polished tan calf, T.E.G., recently expertly rebacked to style by Aquarius of London, preserving contemporary backstrip and morocco lettering-piece, housed in custom brown morocco-backed slip-case. Marbled endpapers. Very light marking to extremities., recent bookplates of Harold Greenhill and David and Lulu Borowitz to FEP, earlier booksellers note tipped-in to recto of FFEP, small repaired hole to title- page - just clipping author's name, else a fine copy.
Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) vehemently militarist appeal, composed in 1624, for Britain to go to war with Spain in order to limit Habsburg dominance of the Continent; 'Their greatnesse consisteth in their treasure, their treasure in their Indies, and their Indies (if it be well weighed) are indeed but an accession to such as are Masters of the Sea, so as this axeltree whereupon their greatnesse turneth is soone cut in two, by any that shall be stronger than they by Sea whereas wars are generally cause of poverty or consumption, on the contrary part the special nature of this warre with Spaine (if it be made by Sea) is like to be a lucrative and a restorative war'. To bolster his advocacy of aggression, Bacon exploits the past victories of the British Navy in order to both ignite patriotic fervour and make triumph seem all the more likely. He thus keenly narrates the repelling of the 1601 Spanish invasion of Ireland, provides an account of the exploits of Drake and Hawkin in their expeditions against the enemy in the West Indies, and, in addition to relating the destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Bacon's amanuensis and hagiographer William Rawley, in the foreword to his compilation of Bacon's essays, Certaine miscellany works, published in the same year, scathingly refers to this edition as being 'corrupt and surreptitious' - nonetheless it is the sole printing in English of the work to be issued in the seventeenth-century.
ESTC S100335, STC 1126.
£ 2,000
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8) BONA, Giovanni. A guide to Eternity: Extracted out of the writings of the holy fathers, and Ancient Philosophers... London. Printed for Hen. Brome, 1680. Second edition in English.
[12], 188pp, [4]. With an additional engraved tile-page, and two terminal advertisement leaves. ESTC R23243, Wing B3545.
[Bound with:] BONA, Giovanni. Precepts and Practical Rules for A truly Christian Life. Being A Summary of Excellent Directions to follow the narrow way to bliss. In two Parts. London. Printed by M. Clark [and A.C.], for H. Brome, 1678. First edition in English. [48], 108, [2], 126pp. Part two has a separate dated title-page and pagination. With an additional engraved title-page and two terminal advertisement leaves. ESTC R17339, Wing B3553.
12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, short tear to fore-edge of leaf D4 of first bound work.
Two translations of devotional works by Italian Cistercian cardinal Giovanni Bona (1609-1674). The first, an ascetic manual on devotion as a means for attaining salvation, often likened, both in tone and sentiment, to Thomas a Kempis' (1379/80-1471) De imitatione Christi (Barcelona, 1482), is the foremost English translation of the work, adapted by author Roger L'Estrange (1616- 1707) and initially appeared in 1672. The second bound work is the first English edition of Bona’s guide to Christian conduct; the translation is generally attributed to Church of England clergyman and anti-Catholic writer Luke Beaulieu (1644/5-1723).
£ 750
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9) BOURCHIER, Thomas. Historia Ecclesiastica de martyrio fratrum ordinis minor um divi francisci, de observantia, qui partim in anglia sub Henrico IIX. Rge, partim in Belgio sub Principe Auriaco, partim & in Hybernia tempore Elizabethae regnantis Reginae, passi sunt. Ingolstadii [i.e. Ingolstadt]. Ex Officina Wollfgangi Ederi, 1583.
12mo. [20], 178ff, [2].
[Bound with:] LEYDANUS, Florentius. Historia Passionis novorum in germaniae inferioris provincia constantissinorum Martyrum Ordinis sancti Francisci ex observantia. Ingolstadii [i.e. Ingolstadt]. Ex Officina Wollfgangi Ederi, 1582. 95pp, [1].
12mo. Contemporary blind-stamped pig-skin over wooden boards, with different devotional panel designs to each board, title in manuscript to spine, metal clasps. Rubbed and discoloured, later library shelf-markings to foot of spine. Booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, ink annotations to title-page of first bound work, very occasional slight marginal chipping.
The second edition, printed in the year after the first, of Franciscan Friar and ecclesiastical historian Thomas Bourchier’s (d. c.1586) chronicle of Catholic Martyrs executed during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. In his only known surviving work. Bourchier provides the first published accounts of the tumultuous lives of martyrs in the Netherlands and the Spanish Netherlands; the martyrs of Flanders (that according to Allison and Rogers is by Florentinus van Oyen of Leiden); observant Franciscan martyrs in England; and two Irish martyrs, Bishop Patrick O'Healy and Conn O'Rourke (surviving records for these latter two attest to the validity of Bourchier's record - indeed he resided with the pair for a time in the Paris friary). The Franciscan concludes with an impassioned address on resisting oppression and the ramifications of defeat. Encapsulating the years between 1536 and 1582, Bourchier's detailed relation of the trials, tribulations, and tortures endured (and the subsequent attribution of miracles), provides an invaluable record of sixteenth-century persecution of Catholicism.
I. Adams B2595. II. Adams L613.
£ 1,250
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MRS BOWLDER'S SERMONS
10) [BOWDLER, Henrietta Maria]. Sermons, on the doctrines and duties of christianity: addressed to a country congregation. London. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. Third edition.
8vo. xv, [1], 246pp. With half-title. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, creasing to upper joint, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Cotsford Burdon (trimmed to image) to FEP.
As succinctly explained in the preface, 'the intention of the following Work is, to supply the ignorant, and those who wish to instruct them, with a plain and simple summary of the faith and duty of a Christian'.
Composed by Henrietta Maria Bowlder (1754-1830), English author and editor immortalised with the term 'Bowlderised' following her editorial involvement in the heavily expurgated The Family Shakspeare (London, 1807), these Sermons were first published, anonymously, in 1801. The plainspoken exposition of early nineteenth-century Anglicanism was tremendously popular; completing some 50 editions by 1853. Shortly after publication the publisher is reputed to have received a letter from Beilby Porteus (then Bishop of London) offering the author, who he had assumed to be a clergyman, a parish on the strength of the writing alone.
We could find no locations recorded for any edition earlier than this third edition in either COPAC or OCLC; which together identify a single location only, at Oxford.
£ 450
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WITH MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS
11) BROTHERTON, Mary. Poems. Brussels. J. H. Briard, 1855. Second edition.
12mo. vi, 120pp. With an ALS from the author to Lady Alwyne Compton presenting this 'Blue Book', and 21 further manuscript poems in the author's hand bound in, largely at the end but occasionally interspersed within the text. Handsomely bound by L. Claessens in contemporary crushed navy morocco, lettered in gilt, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed, bumping to corners. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate initialed 'F. C.' (presumably Lady Alwyne Florence Compton) to FEP, ownership inscription to recto of blank fly-leaf of 'Lady Alwyne Compton / Brussels 1894'.
A fabulous copy, with extensive manuscript additions, of the rare Brussel's printed collection of the poems of Calcutta-born British novelist and spiritualist Mary Isabella Irwin Brotherton (1820-1910). She married artist Augustus Hervey Brotherton, to whom this volume is dedicated, in 1851, after which the pair spent several years in Rome. It was whilst there that they became friends with Tennyson and the Browning families, with published correspondence indicating that Mary lent books (and indeed presented a copy of her first published poetry collection) to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
A lengthy obituary in the Spectator refers to her life-long devotion to composing poetry 'full of real music and deep feeling', yet it would seem that only three collections were published; this present work, The forest-house, and other poems (London, 1850, 84pp) and Rosemary for Remembrance (London, 1896). Although this is deemed a 'Second edition', we can find no earlier edition of a work with this title. The inclusion of the two-part 'The forest-house' within this collection instead suggests that Poems was a collection expanded from the authors 1850 work.
COPAC and OCLC together locate only three copies worldwide, at BL, National Trust and HRC Texas. Manuscript material relating to Brotherton (largely correspondence from Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Frederick Tennyson) is held at HRC Texas and the Lilly Library.
£ 1,500
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WATERFORD PRINTED STANDING ORDERS
12) [BULWER, William Earle]. The standing orders for the norwich; or, Hundred and Sixth Regiment. Waterford. Printed by James Ramsey, Jun., 1795. First edition.
8vo. 16, 19-20, 17-18, 23-24, 21-22, 25-75pp, [1]. Signature C misbound. Interleaved throughout. Contemporary mottled sheep. Rubbed, some surface loss, splitting to joints. Armorial bookplate of W. Earle Bulwer to FEP, later armorial bookplate of R. C. Fiske to FFEP, loss to top corner of FFEP.
In 1794, with the threat of invasion looming, British Army officer lieutenant colonel William Earle Bulwer (1757-1807) raised, at his own expense, an infantry unit dubbed the Norwich or the 106th Regiment of the Line. The first advertisement for recruits appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle of August 2nd 1794, in which Bulwer called for 'bold and spirited countrymen to be his companions in the present war.' A payment of 10 guineas was offered for each healthy man above 5ft 4in in height and not more than 35 years of age - though this extended only to the first 200 applicants, with the remittance declining swiftly thereafter. Nonetheless, emboldened by Bulwer's patriotic fervour, the Corps rapidly became 1000 strong. Shortly thereafter in 1795 the regiment was dispatched to Ireland, thus accounting for the provincial Irish printing of this manual of procedures and regulations. Later that same year the Corps was dispatched to the West Indies where, due to a severe bout of yellow fever, it lost half its strength. The regiment was soon after disbanded, with its soldiers drafted into other units. Bulwer subsequently attained the rank of Brigadier-General and became one of five officers (serving under Prince William of Gloucester) to be entrusted with the defence of the nation.
A loosely inserted manuscript note states this to be Bulwer's own copy of the regiment's standing orders; certainly the book bears his armorial bookplate, however no other identifying marks are present. The note is signed Bryan Hall, a noted bibliophile whose library at Banningham, Norfolk, was dispersed by Bonhams in 2004. Hall records purchasing the volume at Oxford Hall, Norwich on 6th September 1947.
ESTC records a single copy (BL).
ESTC T112159.
£ 750
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13) B[URTON], R[obert]. [i.e. CROUCH, Nathaniel]. The history of Oliver Cromwel: being an Impartial Account Of all the Battles, Sieges, and other Military Atchievements, wherein he was Ingaged, in England, Scotland, and Ireland... London. Printed for Nath. Crouch, 1693.
12mo. [4], 175pp, [11]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and five terminal advertisement leaves. Later blind-tooled calf, gilt. Lightly rubbed. Shelf-label of the Porkington Library to FEP, title- page and portrait frontispiece dust-soiled, the latter laid down. Some shaving, touching running-title, catch-words, and signatures at times, clipping text, slight loss and tearing to lower corner of leaf C12, leaves B5-6 trimmed (and perhaps supplied, at an early date, from another copy), all without loss of sense.
This history of the life and battles of Oliver Cromwell was one of several works of popular history by Nathaniel Crouch (c.1640- c.1725), writer and bookseller, issued under his pseudonym of Robert Burton from 1681 onwards. All were printed for a mass readership, on cheap paper, and many survive in only a handful of copies.
First published in 1692, ESTC locates only five copies of this second edition in the UK (Advocates, BL, Cambridge, Oxford All Souls and Ushaw), and just two elsewhere (Connecticut State and Harvard).
ESTC R27844, Wing C7332.
£ 450
PRESENTATION COPY
14) CAMPBELL, Thomas. Theodric; a domestic tale; and other poems. London. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. Second edition.
8vo. [8], 149pp, [1]. With half-title. Attractively bound in contemporary navy calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later ownership inscription (dated 1888) of Richenda Gurney to recto of front blank fly-leaf, very occasional light spotting. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Lady Anne M. Elliot / from the author.'
The second edition, printed in the same year of the first, of fugitive verse by Glaswegian poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844). The title work, ‘Theodric’, was Campbell's last substantial poem published, yet did not achieve the same immediate critical acclaim and commercial success as the likes of The pleasures of hope (Edinburgh, 1799) and Gertrude of Wyoming (London, 1809), that had led to the author being dubbed the 'Scottish Milton'.
£ 375
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"THE BANKER'S DAUGHTER" ARCHIVE
15) CHAMBERS. Simple ballads, humbly dedicated to the queen. London. Published for the Author by T. Boosey & Co., [s.d., c.1840s].
Folio. Musical score/libretto, engraved throughout. [4], 33pp, [1]. Original publisher's printed paper boards. Worn, with both boards detached and text block loose, some marking to boards and bumping to corners. Extra-illustrated, with the addition of nine beautifully executed vignette pen drawings to blank areas of title, contents and the libretti pages of the volume proper, with several signed 'F.C.' and dated 1845. Included amongst the seven pieces are two poems by Byron, set to music: 'When I roved a young Highlander' and 'To sit on Rocks'.
[With:] [An archive of manuscript and printed ephemera relating to Miss Chambers, her family, and the bankruptcy of her father]:
I. The performance career of Miss Chambers 'The Banker's Daughter', consisting of printed playbills (three, 1829-40) and a handbill (1840), manuscript performance licenses signed by the Lord Chamberlain (six, 1829-42), an annotated theatre diagram and a manuscript agreement relating to theatre alterations.
II. Family documents, comprising various copies of official records of baptism and marriage, in addition to a small envelope containing records of several transactions, 'sums of money lent by M.R.C. to her father and never repaid her'.
III. The financial distress and bankruptcy of Abraham Henry Chambers, providing information on the failure of his bank, Chambers and Son, during the Fauntleroy Panic of 1824, objections to the laws relating to bankruptcy as they related to directors of banks, and especially the bankruptcy commission, his lengthy imprisonment and efforts to make good his creditors. (Five printed items 1820s-50s, including the auction particulars and a map of his country estate at Chettle, Dorset, and one newspaper clipping.)
A fascinating archive of material relating to the late Regency-era performer Miss Chambers, who was commonly referred to as 'The Banker's Daughter', owing to the notorious failure of her father's bank, Chambers and Sons, and his protracted bankruptcy, which led her to the stage, and her once associates (including Queen Adelaide, the Princess Augusta and the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester) to become patronesses, supporting concerts in her benefit in London and the provinces.
[A detailed list of the contents of this archive is available on request.] £ 2,000
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CARTHUSIAN MARTYRDOM AND COLOGNE’S RELICS
16) CHAUNCY, Maurice. Innocentia et constantia victrix; Sive Commentariolus; De vitae ratione, et Martyrio 18. Cartusianorum; qui in Angliae Regno, sub Henrico octavo, ob Ecclesiae defensionem, et nesarii Schismatis detestationem, crudeliter trucidati sunt.. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1608.
[22], 111pp, [1]. With an engraved title-page, and two engravings in the text.
[Bound with:] HAVENS, Arnold. Historica relatio duodecim martyrum cartusianorum, qui ruraemunde in ducatu Geldriae Anno M.D.LXXII. Agonem suum foeliciter compleuerunt. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1608. [16], 77pp, [3]. With a single engraving in the text.
[And:] WINHEIM, Erhard. Peregrinatio quam vocant romana: sive, visitatio VII. capitalium ecclesiarum coloniensium, ex Vrbe mutuata. Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Bernhardi Gualtheri, 1607. 143pp, [1]. Slight loss to lower corner of leaves H1 and I1.
[And:] WINHEIM, Erhard. Sacrarium agrippinae Hoc est designatio ecclesiarum coloniensium: Praecipuarum Reliquiarum: Quarundam itidem Antiquitatum memorabilium, una cum Peregrinatione; quam vocant Romana, coronidis loco adiuncta; hinc inde partim ex peruetustis Monumentis partim relatione Virorum fide digniss: in gratiam tam Vbiogermanorum, quam pietatis causa ad Vrbem conuolantium. Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Bernhardi Gualteri, 1607. [32], 520 [i.e. 320]pp. With an engraved title-page.
8vo. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, lacking ties, gilt supra libros of Gaspar Dinghens to upper board, date 1611 to lower, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and discoloured. Booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, early ink annotations to recto of FFEP, ink-stamp of Milltown Park Library to recto of front blank fly-leaf, manuscript contents to verso, a trifle toned.
A sammelband, in a handsome contemporary binding, of four early seventeenth-century printings of ecclesiastical works. The first, edited and largely rewritten by Simon Weisser, who signs the preface, is one of several narratives by Carthusian matyrologist Maurice Chauncy (c.1509-1581) documenting the subjugation and sufferings of his brethren in England during the sixteenth- century, written in hopes of enlisting the support of the papacy. Following the accession of Elizabeth I, Chauncy fled to the Charterhouse at Louvain where he would reside with Carthusian clergyman and onetime rector of the University of Cologne Arnold Havens (1540-1610), the author of the second bound work, which again takes the martyrdom of the Carthusians as its subject. The final two works in this volume are by German theologian Erhard Winheim, of whom little is known, and concern pilgrimage to the churches of Cologne – with information regarding the relics housed there, and the prayers to be offered on the route.
The Chauncy and Havens titles, and indeed the two Winheim works respectively, are often to be found issued together - however records show separate distribution to be equally common.
£ 950
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17) CHOMEL, [Jean-Baptiste-Louis]. An Historical dissertation On a particular Species of Gangrenous sore Throat, which Reigned the last Year amongst young Children at Paris...To which are added, Some Corroborative cases, and other Medicinal tracts, by the Translator. London. Printed for E. Comyns...J. Robinson...P. Vaillant, 1753. First edition in English.
8vo. xvi, 128; 80pp. With half title. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf. Extremities rubbed. Small ink-stamps of the recently dispersed library of Hugh Selbourne to verso of title-page and foot of p.51, else a fine copy.
The first edition in English of French physician Jean-Baptiste-Louis Chomel's (1709- 1765) treatise, first printed in Paris in 1749, recording cases of a gangrenous sore throat observed within eight children at the Church of Sainte Marie de la Visitation - providing a detailed analysis of the symptoms and suggesting probable causes. The translation was undertaken by London based medical practitioner N. Torriano in hopes of ascertaining whether the distemper was comparable to that witnessed in the city in 1753 following an epidemic of small pox. Torriano appends his adaptation of the text with a short tract on the formation of the foetus, and the practice of midwifery - with particular attention paid to complications that may arise resulting in abortion, and proper methods for delivery.
ESTC locates copies at only six locations in the UK (Bristol, Edinburgh, Oxford, RCS Ireland, Rylands and Wellcome), and ten elsewhere.
ESTC T151968.
£ 450
FIRST CAMBRIDGE MINERALOGY PROFESSOR
18) CLARKE, Edward Daniel. A syllabus of lectures in mineralogy. Cambridge. Printed by R. Watts at the University Press, 1807. First edition.
8vo. [2], ii, 126pp, [10]. With a sectional title and four terminal leaves of tables 'Synopsis, exhibiting the classification of minerals according to the author's methodical distribution'. Uncut and largely unopened, in original two-tone paper boards. Worn, with loss to spine covering, bumping to corners, some light marking to boards. Internally immaculate but for some pencilled annotations at rear.
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), English clergyman, entrepreneurial traveller (who donated statuary to the Fitzwilliam and sold manuscripts to the Bodleian) and naturalist who was appointed the first Cambridge Professor of Mineralogy, when the position was instituted in 1808.
This rare volume contains an outline of Clarke's pioneering lectures on scientific mineralogy, which he deemed 'of considerable National Importance', delivered in Cambridge during the first decade of the nineteenth-century, and his Linnaean system (Class, Order, Genus, Species and Variety) of classification for rocks and minerals. Brief references to other mineralogical authorities, which were presumably expanded upon in Clarke's lectures, appear throughout. The work concludes with four well-designed terminal tables for easy reference.
Few copies of this remarkably handsomely printed first edition appear to have survived; COPAC locates only four in the UK (Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and NLS). OCLC adds just three more (Harvard, Melbourne and Peabody Essex Museum).
£ 2,000
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19) CLARKE, E[dward] G[oodman]. Medicinae praxeos compendium, symptomata, causas, diagnosion, prognosin, et medendi rationem, exhibens. Londini [i.e. London]. Pro J. Johnson, J. Callow, et T. Cox, Excudebant Wilson & Soc., 1800. Editio secunda [i.e. second edition].
12mo. [4], 224pp.
[Bound with:] [ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS]. Pharmacopoeia collegii regalis medicorum londinensis. Londini [i.e. London]. Apud Josephum Johnson, [s.d., 1788?]. xxiv, 166pp, [2]. ESTC N20375.
[And:] GRAVES, Robert. A Pocket Conspectus of the london and edinburgh pharmacopoeias... London. Printed for J. Murray and S. Highley, 1799. Second edition, corrected and improved. viii, 116pp. ESTC T119167.
[And:] [GUY'S HOSPITAL]. Pharmacopoeia, in usum valetudinarii a thoma guy armigero fundati, ad normam recensitae editionis pharmacopoeiae collegii regalis medicorum londinensis, reformata. Londini [i.e. London]. E Typis G. Phillips...T. Cox, 1803. [4], 123pp, [1].
[And:] [ST. THOMAS' HOSPITAL]. Pharmacopoeia in usum nosocomii londinensis sancti thomae. Londini [i.e. London]. Excudebat T. Bensley, 1800. [4], 59pp, [1]. With half-title.
[And:] General rules to be observed In raising and continuing a salivation: with the method of cure, and treatment of such dangerous symptoms, As may accidentally occur. London. [s.n.], 1775. 17pp, [1]. ESTC N6671.
12mo. Contemporary calf, lacking metal clasps. Extremities rubbed. Manuscript annotations to FEP and verso of title-page of first bound work, spotting to endpapers.
A coherent sammelband of London printed pharmacopoeias dating from the turn of the nineteenth-century – including those issued by the two of the capital’s leading medical institutions, Guy’s and St. Thomas’; and an overview of the contents of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias compiled by Irish physician Robert James Graves (1796-1849).
£ 650
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20) [CLASSICS]. [Poikile historia]. Sive novus historiarum fabularumque delectus. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]. Impensis J. Burdon. Second edition, thus.
8vo. 98pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. First two words of title transliterated from the Greek. Contemporary speckled calf. Rubbed, cracking to spine and partial cracking of joints, with a little chipping to head and foot. Recent armorial bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to FEP, without FFEP, else a remarkably clean and crisp, unpressed copy.
A rare, late eighteenth-century edition of a school-book selection of Greek stories and histories made from the works of Aelianus, Polyaenus, Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Maximus Tyrius and Herodotus, made by James Upton (1670-1749), English clergyman, educator and classicist.
Upton's work was first published, with a Latin translation, in 1701. An edition in this format, without the Latin translations and printed, but for the title and advertisements, entirely in Greek, first appeared with an Oxford imprint (but printed by Burdon in Winchester) in 1776. Both, perhaps produced for use at Winchester school, given the involvement of Burdon, are very rare; ESTC locates a single copy of the first edition (Oxford) and just two further of this second appearance, (BL and Harvard).
ESTC N11901.
£ 375
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PLEASURE TRANSCRIBED
21) [COLLIER, Jeremy]. The Nature of True Pleasure and The Evil Consequences of False Pleasure. Transcribed by B. Stones. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1695?]
8vo. Manuscript on paper. [2], 33pp, [1]. Early panelled reversed calf, with transcriber's name 'B. STONES' to morocco lettering- piece on upper board. Marbled endpapers. A.E.G., Slight loss at head and foot of spine, extremities a trifle rubbed. Neat biographical information on the transcriber, in another, eighteenth-century hand, to blank fly-leaf: 'This Book was wrote by Mrs Leesons Brother B. Stones about the year...1690. B. Stones was Mrs Tierry my wife's mothers, Brother, he went a Ship Board and was Drowend soon after writeing the said Book this account is give by me P. Terry. My wife mother was named Mary Leeson and Lived out against the new Church in the Strand, London'.
29 of the 33 pages of this manuscript consist of attractive calligraphic transcriptions of two essays by English non-juring bishop and moralist Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), which first appeared in the second part of his Miscellanies (London, 1695) as 'Of pleasure' and 'Against despair'. The final four pages consist of arithmetical exercises, presented with similar neatness.
We found a single historical reference to a seventeenth-century Bartholomew Stones; as the payee, on behalf of his master Sir Thomas Grosvenor (presumably of Eaton Hall, Cheshire) of a substantial sum of money to the Myddelton's in the Chirk Castle Accounts of 1687; but we cannot assume that this is our transcriber.
£ 650
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COLUMBUS AND NELSON
22) [COLUMBUS, Christopher]. [M.H.]. A miscellaneous collection: consisting of an original letter from the pen of columbus, never before published; some original poetry, and detached pieces of prose; interspersed with a few neat selections. The whole revised and corrected by a gentleman of the inner temple. London. Printed for the editor, by T. Davison...sold by J. Ginger, 1803. First edition.
Quarto. [12], 132pp, [4]. With half-title and a list of subscribers. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's blue paper wrappers. Loss to spine, upper wrapper almost detached, held by single cord only, some light marking. Internally clean and crisp, but for very occasional light spotting.
A particularly miscellaneous collection of poetry ('with some few exceptions...the juvenile productions of various friends'), prose ('partly selected from approved though obsolete authors') and memoir ('of Mrs. Yates...from the elegant pen of the late celebrated Mrs Brookes' and 'The Character of the late Lord Chatham') dedicated to the Countess of Winterton by a stubbornly anonymous 'Gentleman of the inner temple'.
Two items in particular are worthy of special mention. Firstly, the lengthy 'Translation of a Letter from Christopher Columbus, Jamaica, anno 1503, to Ferdinand, King of Spain', which was 'procured through the interest of a friend, and is copied from the records in Jamaica', relating the author's misfortune and refuge on Jamaica during his fourth voyage to the West Indies, 'so that he who gave Spain another world, had neither in that, or it, a cottage for himself and wretched family' and requesting the assistance of the Spanish King.
Secondly, a short, four-line 'Epigram on lord nelson', apparently celebrating the success of the admiral's assault on Copenhagen in 1801, entitled 'Veni, vidi, vici' and reading: 'Two thirds of Caesar's boasted fame/Thou, Nelson must resign:-/To come and see is Parker's claim;/ To conquer, only, thine.' Recent scholarship on an original manuscript version has suggested that this verse, by Emma Hamilton, has a double meaning; a racy allusion to Emma's own love for Nelson, with 'Parker' referring not to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, but the couple's naval officer go-between, Edward Thornbough Parker.
COPAC records just a single copy in British libraries (Oxford); OCLC adds 13 copies in North America and another, in the National Library of Jamaica.
Not in Jackson.
£ 750
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DON QUIXOTE FOR A TOY THEATRE
23) [DON QUIXOTE]. Pollock's juvenile drama. Don quixote, or the knight of the woeful countenance, a drama in two acts. [London]. Printed and Published by B. Pollock, [s.d., c.1895].
12mo. 16pp. Stitched, as issued. Together with 12 loose hand-coloured lithographic plates, as called for. Lightly spotted, occasional short marginal tears.
A rare survival of a complete play set for a two-act dramatic adaptation of George Macfarren's Don Quixote, itself an adaptation of Cervantes original novel, designed to be variously dissected and assembled to produce a toy theatre, consisting of '4 Plates Characters', '5 Scenes','1 Top Drop', and '2 Wings', with the play script 'Adapted only for Pollock's Characters and Scenes'.
Benjamin Pollock had married Eliza Reddington in 1877 and taken over the business of her father, John Reddington, who as well as producing his own engravings had bought the plates of his former supplier, the toy theatre publisher John Kilby Green. Many of Pollock's works issued from his 'Theatrical Print and Tinsel Warehouse', therefore, re-used earlier plates; thus the second of the scenes in this collection is headed 'Reddington's Scenes in Don Quixote' and bears an imprint 'Published by J. Reddington'; presumably reusing old stock from the Reddington edition (c.1850s), whilst the remainder are printed as Pollock's own. He also appears to have designed certain elements of his toy theatre sets to be interchangable with any play; thus one of the side wings in this set is entitled 'Pollock's Side Wings to suit any play', and the top drops plate 'Pollock's Top Drops to suit any play'.
Between COPAC and OCLC we could only locate one complete set, at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; although various locations hold copies of the play-script alone, and others solely the plates.
£ 650
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24) [ENGLISH COLLEGE OF DOUAI]. Exemplar literarum a quodam sacerdote collegii anglorum Duaceni quondam alumno ex anglia ad idem collegium transmissarum. De martyriis quatuor eiusdem collegii alumnorum ob sacerdotium hoc anno 1616. In anglia morte Damnatorum. Duaci [i.e. Douai]. Typis Petri Auroy, 1616. First edition.
8vo. 47pp, [1]. Later paper boards. Rubbed, loss to spine, slight splitting to joints, a trifle marked. Booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to front endpapers, ink-stamp of Milltown Park Library to title-page, light damp-staining to lower corners of all leaves, some spotting.
The rare first edition of a contemporary account of the martyrdom of four Roman Catholic priests in England in 1616, Thomas Atkinson, Thomas Maxfield, John Thulis, and Thomas Tunstall - each of them alumni of the English College of Douai, the Catholic seminary responsible for the Douai-Rheims Bible. Founded in 1568 as a haven for displaced English Catholics, the institution would see 158 ordained members of the clergy which they had trained executed upon their return to England beginning with St. Cuthbert Mayne in 1577 and ending with Thomas Thwing in 1680.
We could locate no other copies of this 1616 first edition in the usual databases.
£ 1,250
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FRANKENSTEIN AND THE VAMPIRE IN LONDON
25) [ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE]. [A large collection of 215 playbills for performances of plays at the 'Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand', featuring 16 performances of The Vampire and 22 of Presumption! Or, the fate of Frankenstein]. London. [s.n., 1820-7].
Folio, with varying dimensions. 210 single leaf broadsides, 5 double- width folded broadsides, consisting of playbills for:
15 performances of The Vampire, Or, the bride of the isles, between August 16 1820 and October 2 1827, one of which double-width with a central fold;
21 performances of Presumption! Or, the fate of Frankenstein, between September 8 1823 and September 10th 1827, one of which double- width with a central fold;
One performance of both The Vampire, Or, the bride of the isles, and Presumption! Or, the fate of Frankenstein, August 3 1827;
And:
One performance in 1820, October 4;
12 perfomances in 1821, between August 6 and September 21;
35 performances in 1822, between July 3 and October 7;
10 performances in 1823, between July 1 and September 22;
Six performances in 1824, between July 3 and October 5, three of which double width with a central fold;
One performance in 1825, August 27;
37 performances in 1826, between July 1 and September 15;
67 performances in 1827, between July 2 and September 27;
Occasional chipping to extremities, some marking and trimming to headlines, occasional tears, without loss of sense.
Chief amongst the successes of the Samuel Arnold's Theatre Royal, E nglish Opera House, on the Strand, during the first years of the reigof George IV were two dramatic adaptations from what were to become two of the most enduring works of the Gothic tradition.
The Vampire, or Bride of the Isles by James Robinson Planche (1796- 1880) is a two-act melodrama, adapted from Charles Nodier's Le Vampire, itself based on Polidori's novella The Vampyre (London, 1819), inspired by Byron's short horror: Fragment of a Novel (composed in 1816, published 1819). Planche was directly encouraged to adapt Le Vampire by Arnold, who exercised significant editorial control, preventing, for example, the author's attempts at relocating the setting from Scotland to Hungary. His innovations, including the use of aristocratic sophistication to conceal true demonic nature and the use of the first 'Vampire trap' on the stage allowing for swift entry to and exit from scenes, were nevertheless pivotal to the development of the vampire in the Gothic tradition, and the success of the play. As these playbills demonstrate, the play was sporadically revived over the 7 years following its initial run.
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Samuel Arnold's success with The Vampire must surely have influenced his support for another Gothic work: Presumption! Or, the Fate of Frankenstein, a two-act play adapted from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (London, 1818), which debuted in the same theatre on July 28 1823. The best known work of English dramatist Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847), his re- working of Shelley's controversial novel influenced dramatic and cinematic stagings of the story throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries; in Peake’s version the Monster is mute and named simply (-----); his character was initially played by Thomas Potter Cooke who had achieved acclaim in his role as the hero, Lord Ruthven, in the Vampire. Shelley approved of both the actor and his character, later remarking that ‘The playbill amused me extremely...this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good.’ A huge success, it proved more popular than the original triple-decker novel, but was not without controversy. Guardians of London morality distributed handbills labelling the play immoral, impious, horrid and unnatural; crowds nevertheless flocked to see it, raising awareness of Shelley’s creation to a wider audience in London and beyond. The first run consisted of 37 performances in three months, and by the end of the year five different versions of the tale had appeared in theatres throughout Europe. This collection includes five playbills from the original run (the 26th, 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd performances), and 17 from subsequent re-stagings; during the 1827 season, represented by six of our playbills, the the role of the Monster was taken over by Mr. O. Smith. The one double-width playbill (July 15 1824) includes a legnthy excerpt from the ‘Preface to the Novel of Frankenstein’, on the philosophical motivation for Shelley’s gothic story. The 1826 return was clearly eagerly anticipated; playbills in this collection (from August 1826) preceeding the run refer to the imminent arrival of Cooke ‘from his engagement in Paris’ to ‘perform in PRESUMPTION; or, The Fate of Frankenstein, the translation of which piece (originally produced at this Theatre,) has excited so unprecedented a sensation in the French Capital.’ The playbills from that September which feature the play suggest that the House didn’t shy away from variation, referring for the first time to the addition ‘an entirely new last scene, Conformably to the termination in the original story, representing a schooner in a violent storm’.
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The building which later housed the English Opera House had been used to stage exhibitions and performances of various types (including, at different, points those of the Royal Academy and Madam Tussauds) since 1765, but was not licensed as a patent theatre until 1809. Rebuilt in 1816 by Arnold, it re-opened and operated under this name until 1830, when it burned down and later replaced by the Lyceum Theatre, where Bram Stoker would later work.
This collection of playbills features not only, therefore, 37 performances of two of the most successful Gothic dramas of the decade; it also records a significant number of performances in the final decade of the original English Opera House. £ 9,500
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26) EPICTETUS. Epicteti enchiridion Made english. In a Poetical Paraphrase. By ellis walker, M. A.. London. Printed, for Sam. Keble, 1697. Third edition.
12mo. [32], 93pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt. Rubbed, slight surface loss to lower corner of upper board. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, contemporary ownership inscription to verso of title-page, occasional spotting/browning.
An English verse translation of the Enchiridon of Epictetus, first printed in 1692. The work, dedicated to the translator’s uncle, Samuel Walker of York, is prefaced by numerous commendatory poems, including one by antiquary Joshua Barnes (1654-1712) and another by Church of England clergyman Matthew Bryan (1645/6-1699). A further three editions were printed, the last as late as 1764, demonstrating the enduring appeal of stoic philosophy during the Enlightenment. A variant printing appeared concurrently, which bears the addition of Robert Clavel's name in the imprint (ESTC R469782).
ESTC R3220, c/f Wing E3151.
£ 450
SIGNET LIBRARY COPY
27) FALKNER, William. Libertas Ecclesiastica, or, a discourse, Vindicating the lawfulness of those things, which are chiefly excepted against in the Church of England, especially in its liturgy and worship. And manifesting their agreeableness with the Doctrine and practice both of Ancient and Modern Churches. London. Printed by J[ohn] M[acock] for Walter Kettilby, 1674. First edition.
8vo. [16], 552pp. With an initial imprimatur leaf. Handsomely bound in contemporary panelled morocco, richly tooled in gilt, gilt supra-libros of The Society of Writers to the Signet to both boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, slight loss to foot of spine. Marbled endpap ers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, printed shelf-label to verso of FFEP, very small hole to text of leaf F4 - without loss of sense, small hole to margin of S3.
The first edition of Church of England clergyman William Falkner's (d. 1682) treatise on religious uniformity. The preacher's primary contention is that devotional texts ought to be standardised and that the liturgy to be the keystone around which all services should to be constructed in order to promote national unity. Falkner further maintains that whilst the church is legitimated by the will of God alone it's vocation must extend to encompass the affirmation and legitimation of the monarchy, and indeed royal supremacy, for the betterment of the realm.
ESTC R25390, Wing F331.
£ 500
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FROM FARADAY'S LIBRARY?
28) [FARADAY, Michael]. REDDIE, James. Vis inertiae victa, or fallacies affecting science: an essay towards increasing our knowledge of some physical laws, and a review of certain mathematical principles of natural philosophy. London. Bradbury & Evans, 1862. First edition.
8vo. xii, 65pp, [1]. Original upper wrapper bound in. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Professor Faraday, F.R.S. With the author's respectful compliments'.
[Bound with:] KIRKMAN, Rev. Thos. P. A Paper was communicated on July 1st, entitled, "The Complete Theory of Groups, being the Solution of the Mathematical Prize Question of the French Academy for 1860..." [Drop-head title]. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d.] pp133-152. Extracted from the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society, No. 2, Session, 1863-4. Browned and marked, with damp-staining to margins and horizontal crease.
[And:] MARSH, Benjamin V. [From the American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol XXXI, May 1861.] The aurora, viewed as an electric discharge between the magnetic poles of the earth, modified by the earth's magnetism. [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1861. Offprint edition. 8pp. With two lithographic plates. With upper wrapper bound in, inscribed 'Prof. Faraday London'.
[And:] MARSH, Benjamin V. Remarks on the aurora of august 28, 1859. From the Journal of the Franklin Institute. [s.i]. [s.n., s.d.]. Offprint edition. 5pp, [3]. With terminal advertisement leaf.
[And:] [Four 'Society of Arts Examinations' papers, three of which folded folio broadsides dating from 1858 (Arithmetic, Mensuration, Algebra), the fourth, a 2pp 8vo, from 1863 (Arithmetic). Tears to folds.
Contemporary quarter roan, with decorated boards, sewn on four binding supports. Rubbed, with slight loss at head of spine.
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A contemporary, amateur-bound volume containing one book, one extract, two offprints and three examination papers, almost certainly from the library of Professor Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English chemist and natural philosopher, whose principle contributions were made in advancing our knowledge of the nature of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, notably the theory of magnetic force, which was the starting point for the revolutionary work of James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein.
The presence of two works inscribed to Faraday, and four examination papers for the Society of Arts, one of the institutions in which Faraday was most involved (he had chaired the chemistry committee for 12 years between 1826 and 1838, was awarded their highest honour, the Albert Medal, in 1866, for his 'discoveries in Chemistry, Electricity, and other branches of Physical Science'), are surely corroboration beyond all reasonable doubt that this volume once formed part of the Professor's library.
Faraday was of humble origins, and first encountered the scientific primers that would spark his interest in science whilst apprenticed to bookbinder George Riebau; it is tantalising to speculate as to whether this pamphlet volume, with its competent but amateur binding, was of his own making.
£ 2,500
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CHILD REARING AND LIBRARY BUILDING
29) FENN, Ellenor. Some hints to young women, engaged in rearing infants, or educating children, either in private families of schools. London. Printed for E. Newbery, 1799. First edition.
12mo in 6s. xv, [1], 164pp. With half-title and engraved frontispiece of 'The Grove House, Diss'. Contemporary black half-morocco, gilt, marbled boards. Extremities very slightly rubbed, bumping to corners. Tear to gutter margin of half title, neat paper repairs to gutter margin of frontispiece (just within plate) and title, which is presented at a slight angle, without any loss.
A rare guide to child rearing for young mothers, dedicated 'to young women' and, as explained in the dedicatory preface, 'designed to qualify the youthful and inexperienced Female to fulfil those maternal duties', by juvenile writer and educationalist Ellenor Fenn (1744-1813). Some hints to young women consists largely of excerpts and maxims taken from other authors, who are generally (but not always) referenced, and is divided relatively equally between physical and educational development. A short plea that 'every family ought to have an infantine and also a juvenile library' appears in a section headed 'choice of books', and impressed rather more seriously on the final 27 pages, which list hundreds of titles recommended by the author. Contemporary works are accompanied by their publication price, whilst older titles are not; 'in consequence of the variety of editions...and the chance whether many of the following Books can be procured but at second hand'.
The first edition of this small, practical work for women survives in few known copies. ESTC locates only two, at Oxford and Columbia. OCLC adds two further, at LSE and Princeton.
ESTC N23444.
£ 2,500
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ENGLISH RECUSANT IN ROME
30) FITZHERBERT, Nicholas. Nicolai fizerberti De Antiquitate & Continuatione Catholicae Religionis in Anglia, & de alani cardinalis vita libellus. Ad Sanctissimum d.n. paulum quintum pontificem maximum. Romae, [i.e. Rome]. Apud Guillelmum Facciottum, 1608.
8vo. [8], 100pp, [4]. With terminal colophon and blank. Finely bound in nineteenth-century hard-grained green morocco, gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine copy, with small marginal tear to C2. From the Milltown Park library, with bookplates to FEP, and neat ink-stamp to blank fly-leaf, further armorial bookplate, with motto 'RYDE THROUGH' of 'The Right Honourable John Lord Belhaven' to verso of title.
A history of the early Catholic Church in England, by Nicholas Fitzherbert (1550-1612), Anglo-Catholic recusant and secretary to Cardinal William Allen. After matriculating at Exeter College Oxford (1571), where his religion would have prevented his ever receiving a degree, Fitzherbert pursued his studies and his faith on the continent; at Douai and later Bologna. Attainted for treason in his absence in 1580, he was also involved in raising funds for the English College at Rheims, and later critical of the administration of Richard Barret. Fitzherbert settled in Rome during the 1580s, became a papal pensioner on a monthly income of 10 golden scudi, and served Allen from 1587, for seven years, until the latter's death; he was thus perfectly placed to compose the 45pp biography of the cardinal which is included in this volume.
£ 950
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MOURNING QUEEN MARY
31) FOWLER, Edward. A discourse Of the Great Disingenuity & Unreasonableness Of Repining at Afflicting Providences: And of the Influences which they ought to have upon us, on Job 2. 10. Publish'd upon the Occasion of the Death of Our Gracious Sovereign, Queen Mary Of Most Blessed Memory... London. Printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1695. First edition; reissue title.
8vo. 45, [1], 104pp. Title within mourning border. Contemporary sheep, with 'M O' gilt initials to centre of each board. Rubbed, with slight loss to extremities. Some damp-staining to and adhesion endpapers, very faint damp-staining to prelims, else a crisp, unpressed copy. Remains of old fore-edge title label to margin of E2.
The rare variant issue, with a reset title page which also features a mourning border, of Anglican clergyman Edward Fowler's (1632-1714) providential discourse, with an extensive devotional/biographical preface on the late Queen Mary, the first monarch mourned since the Glorious Revolution.
ESTC locates only two copies in this setting (Edinburgh, and Huntington).
ESTC R226792, c/f Wing F1703.
£ 450
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32) [FOX HUNTING]. A list of sir richard sutton's hounds. November, 1824. Lincoln. Printed by W. Brooke, 1824.
16mo. 10pp. Original publisher's roan-backed and vellum- tipped paper boards, with printed '1824' within an oval cartouche. A trifle rubbed. Lightly spotted, contemporary manuscript deletions to text, 5pp of additional manuscript additions of further hounds to added blanks at end.
A rare printed list, with manuscript additions, of the state of English baronet and sportsman Sir Richard Sutton's (1798- 1855) hounds during his early tenure as Master of the Burton Hunt. Printed in a tabular format, the list includes details of the hounds’ names (frequently majestic; 'Arrogant', 'Commodore', 'Flourisher', but sometimes rather less so; 'Ringworm', 'Malice' and 'Woeful') and ages, in addition to their lineage; 'Sires.' and 'Dams.'
We could not locate any editions of any lists of Sutton's hounds, which were presumably printed in a very small number for private use, in the usual databases.
£ 250
33) [FOX HUNTING]. List of sir richard sutton's hounds. November 8th, 1833. Lincoln. Printed by Brooke and Sons, 1833.
16mo. 11pp, [1]. Interleaved throughout. Original publisher's roan-backed marbled boards, date in manuscript to upper board. Rubbed, lower hinge split. Marbled endpapers.
In addition to listing hounds in the same format as the previous item, this 1833 edition includes a cumulative total: 'Old Hounds 53 1/2 Couples', 'Young Hounds 15 1/2 Couples'; 'Total Working Hounds 69 Couples'.
We could not locate any editions of any lists of Sutton's hounds, which were presumably printed in a very small number for private use, in the usual databases.
£ 250
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PRESENTATION COPY, ON VELLUM
34) FRY, Matilda F. Paul of tarsus: a poem. Bristol. Not published, 1862. First edition.
8vo. [4], 16pp. With an engraved frontispiece of Cotham Tower. Printed on vellum. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt- tooled blue morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marking to endpapers, else internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inscribed to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Sarah Matilda Barclay / with the dear love of her / mother. M. F. Fry / Cotham. 7.12.1866', with gift inscription beneath: 'P. A. Barclay / from S. M. B. / Sept. 1909'.
The only lifetime published work of Matilda Fry (1808-1888), daughter of the Penroses of Brittass, County Wicklow, wife of Francis Fry, noted nineteenth-century collector of and authority on early English Bibles, to whom it is dedicated. Paul of Tarsus is a verse biography of Paul the Apostle, considered by the Catholic Church to be the ‘Herald in the West’ for his latter day preaching in Rome.
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This copy, presented by the author to her eldest child (and later re-presented to another member of the Barclay family, into which Sarah Matilda married), is clearly a special production; printed entirely on vellum, with a title that prints the author’s full name, instead of her initials (as in most copies we could locate), and, of course, beautifully bound by the binder to the Queen.
The ‘Not published’ imprint recorded on all editions located suggest that this was privately produced; nevertheless, OCLC locates only four copies with the full author’s name, at Baylor, Glasgow, NYPL and Texas.
£ 1,250
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BEES, ANTS AND VINES
35) [GARDEN AMUSEMENTS]. Garden amusements, for improving the minds of little children. London. Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey...Sold also by T. Williams, 1803. First edition.
16mo in 4s. 36pp. With copper engraved title vignette and seven further copper engravings within the text. Original publisher's marbled paper wrappers. A trifle rubbed and a little marked, with some creasing/wear to extremities. One quire neatly reinforced with an early pin at gutter margin.
A rare early nineteenth-century educational tour of a garden, illustrated with exquisite copper engravings, in which the adult narrator directs the attention of Henry, 'a fine, engaging boy, of about ten years' and his two 'younger sisters' Jane and Ann, toward the flora and fauna of a garden. Included are discussions of grape vines, butterflies, ants, snails, nesting birds, and some five pages (and two vignettes) devoted to bees and beehives. The work closes with a reprinting of Cowper's 'Jackdaw'.
COPAC locates no copies of this first edition in British libraries; OCLC records copies at only Indiana, North Texas, Toronto and UCLA, elsewhere.
Darton G.371(1).
£ 1,500
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LIVERPUDDLIAN NAVIGATIONAL GUIDE
36) [HADLEY, John]. The theory of hadley's quadrant Demonstrated; and the Nature, Construction, and Uses of its several Parts, Fully shewn and explained: with Proper Instructions for adjusting the Glasses, taking and correcting Altitudes of the Sun, Moon, or Stars, For finding the Latitude of the Place. To which are added, All the necessary Tables. Liverpool. Printed by W. Nevett and Co...for J. Leverton, 1771.
8vo. 31pp, [1]. In original publisher's powder blue paper wrappers. Wrappers detached, with loss, chipping, and marking. Text-block separated into component gatherings, leaves creased, toned and spotted.
A rare survival, in original state, of an unrecorded Liverpool printed work on the practical application of John Hadley's (1682-1744) reflecting quadrant, or octant. The instrument, invented by Hadley in 1730 and first trialled by the Royal Navy in 1732, proved eminently superior to all other existing nautical navigation devices in the measurement of angles between two points. The concept was not, however, an entirely original one; Hooke had designed a quadrant upon which Newton had proposed improvements in correspondence with Halley. However, there is no evidence that Hadley knew of Newton's innovation. Thomas Godfrey of Philadelphia later laid claim to the invention, though it is clear the two arrived at the design independently. In 1757 naval officer John Campbell (1720-1790) enlarged the octant to a sixth of a circle, thus inventing the (somewhat better known) sextant.
Numerous publications appeared throughout the latter half of the eighteenth-century providing instruction on the proper use of the device, all with analogous titles, including one by instrument maker Benjamin Martin (bap. 1705, d. 1782), first printed circa 1760, and another by mathematician and clergyman William Ludlam (bap. 1717, d.1788), published in 1771. This title echoes the intention and presentation of those publications, and though anonymous is clearly the contrivance of Liverpudlian mathematical instrument maker John Leverton, given both the imprint and the advertisement for his premises on the verso of the title-page.
Not in ESTC.
£ 1,250
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DARTON'S CONVERSATION CARDS
37) [INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION CARDS]. Instructive conversation cards, Consisting of 32 biographical sketches of eminent British Characters. London. Printed & Sold by W. & T. Darton, 68 Holborn Hill, [s.d., c.1810s].
Dimensions 80 x 115mm. 36 printed cards, 4 of which containing 32 questions, and 32 answer cards. Contained within the original publisher's slipcase, with oval title piece and rectangular 'advertisement', explaining the purpose of the cards and instructions for their use. Cards with slight browning, else fine, slipcase with some wear and chipping, price to imprint inked out.
A rare survival of an early educational activity card game, published by W. and T. Darton, whilst the esteemed publishing dynasty resided at Holborn Hill (1808-1866). As the short 'advertisement' to the rear of the slipcase explains, 'the Questions in this pack of Cards are framed in such a way as is thought will be most likely to impress the memory with the chief circumstances of each person's life. - The Cards containing the Questions should be kept by the President, who should read them in rotation, till all have been answered.'
The short questions include '5. Who first introduced the art of Printing into this Country', '9. Who constructed the first Map of England', '11. Who discovered Virginia', and '15. Who founded the City of Philadelphia', whilst the answer cards provide instructive biographical detail on, for these examples, Caxton, George Lilly, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Penn, and for others, Captain Cook, Isaac Newton and John Locke.
We could locate several copies of this work (including the BL only in Britain, and Columbia, Harvard, Indiana, Maryland, Stanford and Toronto elsewhere) issued by W. Darton Jnr. and in a differently formatted slipcase, but no reference to this undated W. and T. Darton edition.
Not in Darton.
£ 1,250
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ON DIVINE APPARITIONS
38) J. W. P. A letter To Some divines, Concerning the Question, Whether god since Christ's Ascension, doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind by the means of Divine Apparitions? With an Exact Account of what God hath bestowed upon a Noble Maid, from her Seventh Year, until Now, MDCXCI. Written Originally in High-Dutch, and now set forth in English by the Editor of the laws of paradise, newly Published. London. Printed, and Sold by John Whitlock, 1695. First edition.
8vo. [44], 129pp, [1]. Late nineteenth-century calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting black morocco lettering- piece. Lightly rubbed and marked. Contemporary ink annotations to foot of title-page and margin of p.65, errata on terminal page struck-through in ink, some occasional shaving to affecting running-titles, signatures, and catch-words, very occasionally touching text, without loss of sense.
A rare treatise on divine apparitions based upon the accounts of the revelations that Rosamond Julianna, Countess of Asseburg, had claimed to have witnessed, translated from the German ('High Dutch') of Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1649-1727), Lutheran pastor in Lunenberg, who was deposed over his belief of these claims.
The English translator of this work is unknown, whilst the lengthy English 'preface to the reader' is attributed to English physician and founding member of the Philadelphians Francis Lee (1661 – 1719). Lee, like Petersen had studied the writings of English Christian mystic Jane Lead, whilst studying at Leyden. It seems, however, unlikely that the claim set out on the title page (and mentioned in an early ink note to the foot of the same leaf) as to the translator's identity, 'now set forth in English by the Editor of the LAWS of PARADISE, newly Published', i.e. Jane Lead herself, has any veracity.
ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Lambeth, and Oxford), and one in North America (California).
ESTC R222652, Wing P72.
£ 1,250
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FRANKFURT PRINTED WOMAN'S GUIDEBOOK
39) JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]. Sketches of germany. Art - literature - character. Frankfort [i.e. Frankfurt]. Printed for Charles Jugel, 1837. First edition.
12mo. [2], 356pp. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ink gift inscription to FEP, near contemporary pencil ownership inscription to front blank fly-leaf, some light browning and spotting.
A rare Frankfurt printed edition, presumably designed for the increasing numbers of British visitors to the Low Countries and Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, of the erudite 'Sketches of Art, Literature and Character' which formed the majority of the first two volumes of English art historian feminist and traveller Mrs Anna Jameson's (1794-1860) Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (London, 1834). It is somewhat unusually structured; part first-person travelogue of visits to notable sights and museums, part dialogue between 'Alda' and 'Medon', and part biographical catalogue of minor German artists.
COPAC records copies at three locations (BL, Senate House, and V&A); outside of continental Europe, OCLC adds copies at California State, Harvard and Toronto.
£ 375
JOSEPH IN ENGLAND
40) [JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA]. The history Of that Holy Disciple joseph of Arimathea. Wherein is contained, The true Account of his Birth...Also the Occasion of his coming to england, where he first preached the Gospel at Glastonbury in Somersetshire...With a full Relation of his Death and Burial. [s.i., London?]. [s.n.], [s.d., 1710?]. First edition.
12mo. 8pp. Nineteenth-century half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Lightly rubbed, sunned. Armorial bookplate of Ernest E. Baker to FEP, bookplate of R. J. Dickinson to verso of FFEP, small paper repairs to head of all gutter margins, leaves toned, light damp-staining, some staining to text.
An uncommon, though judging by the several recorded printings, contemporarily popular chapbook of religious fiction based on the legend of Joseph of Arimathea’s preaching in pre-Christian Glastonbury.
Of all the editions of a work variously title The history of that holy disciple Joseph of Arimathea or The holy disciple; or the history of Joseph of Arimathea, apparently based on two rare sixteenth-century works by the successors to Caxton, de Worde and Pynson, this is one of only two to not feature any indication of the printer or place of printing. One, as here, appears to be early eighteenth-century (likely one of the earliest appearances of a work frequently reprinted in the second half of the eighteenth-century), another, with a slightly differing title, is tentatively dated by the NLS to 1800.
ESTC locates only three copies of this edition, at Cambridge, NLS and Somerset Natural History Society.
ESTC T167718.
£ 375
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HORNBY'S COPY OF DANIEL'S KEATS
41) KEATS, John. Odes, Sonnets & Lyrics. Oxford. Daniel, 1895. Limited edition, Number 184 of 350 copies printed.
8vo. [8], 64pp. With half-title, and a photogravure portrait frontispiece of Keats. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-ruled crushed citron morocco, by J. Larkins, with original publisher's printed paper wrappers bound in. Extremities a trifle marked and sunned. Bookplate of C. H. St. John Hornby to FEP, lightly foxed. With an A.LS. tipped-in to recto of FFEP, from publisher Daniel to Hornby.
A beautifully presented copy of the Daniel Press Keats from the library of C. H. St. John Hornby (1867-1946), founder of the Ashendene Press, with an autograph letter from the founder of the Charles Henry Olive Daniel (1836-1919), dated Dec. 22 1895, which refers to 'Your Sir Thos Browne', a work discussed in their correspondence (Matrix 33) but never published by the Ashendene Press.
£ 1,500
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LAWRENCE'S COPY, FROM CLOUD'S HILL
42) KIPLING, Rudyard. Rudyard kipling's verse. Inclusive edition 1885-1918. New York. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
8vo. xiii, [1], 783pp, [1]. With half-title. Handsomely bound by Hardy, Maillard and Pilon at the French Binders, Garden City, N.Y. in contemporary gilt-ruled crushed navy morocco, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Elizabeth J. Mitchell to verso of FFEP. From the library of T. E. Lawrence at Clouds Hill, with his bookplate to verso of FFEP and pencilled initials 'T.E.L.' to recto of blank fly-leaf at front.
T. E. Lawrence's (1888-1935) copy, finely bound, of the New York edition of the collected verse of his friend and literary encourager Rudyard Kipling, who not only suggested that Lawrence compose a history of the Arab Revolt, but also offered to serve as one of several editors to the 1922 Oxford Times edition.
The contents of the library at Cloud's Hill, Dorset, an isolated cottage where Lawrence lived during the final years of his life, was diligently recorded after his death and published in T. E. Lawrence by his friends (London, 1937). It was, nevertheless, dispersed in a series of sales between the '30s and 50s. This copy, with the binding of 'Blue morocco; French Binders', is one of five recorded under Kipling, including the 12 volume New York edition of his Works.
T. E. Lawrence by his friends p.444.
£ 1,500
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ONE OF THIRTY COPIES
43) [KNIGHT, Ellis Cornelia]. Translations from the german in prose and verse. Frogmore Lodge, Windsor. Printed by E[dward] Harding, 1812. First edition.
8vo. [6], 111pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece of Frogmore Lodge. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, tooled in gilt and blind. A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Albert Ehrman to FEP, pencilled note signed 'A.E.' to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'only 30 copies printed / for Queen Charlotte', light offsetting to title-page.
A rare collection of 12 prayers and ten hymns translated from the original German (of Dr. Seiler, and others) by Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757-1837), daughter of a Rear Admiral of the White, friend of Lord Nelson (and sometimes referred to as 'Nelson's poet laureate') and the Hamiltons during her time in Naples and Palermo, and later a reader to Queen Charlotte.
Translations from the German was one of very few privately printed works to have emanated from the short-lived press set up at Frogmore Lodge, the retreat of Queen Charlotte, at her own request. Both the Gentleman's Magazine and Martin's Bibliographical Catalogue of Privately Printed Books agree that only thirty copies of this work were struck off.
Not in Jackson, Martin p.132.
£ 950
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44) LA FONTAINE, Jean de. La fontaine's fables. Now first translated from the french; Whit Elegant Engraved Figures. By robert thomson. Paris. Imprimerie et Fonderie de G. Doyen, [1806].
8vo. In four volumes. [4], 32, 105, [3]; [4], 133, [2], 138-139, [1]; [4], 147, [1]; [4], 128pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. With half-titles and an engraved frontispiece to each volume. Uncut in original publisher's salmon paper wrappers, printed paper lettering-pieces. Extremities dust-soiled, wear to spines, slight chipping to lettering-pieces. Occasional marginal loss, light spotting.
A rare survival, in original state, of the first English verse edition of Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) fables - initially translated into English prose in 1734. Of the translator of this edition, Robert Thomson, little is known – indeed this would appear to be his only contribution to literature..
COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, Glasgow, Oxford, and V&A).
£ 325
MILBANK MALADIES
45) LATHAM, P[eter] Mere. An account of the disease lately prevalent at the general penitentiary. London. Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, 1825. First edition.
8vo. [5], viii-xvi, 286pp, [2]. Without half-title, with a terminal errata leaf. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Spine lightly sunned, else a fine copy. Armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt to FEP.
The first printing of the findings of a government sanctioned investigation, led by physician Peter Mere Latham (1789- 1875), into an epidemic of scurvy and dysentery afflicting those incarcerated at the General Penitentiary at Milbank, London. Conducted in 1823, the report discovered symptoms in 448 of the total 858 male and female prisoners, concluding that the cause of the outbreak was due to the poor diet of the inmates, though modern scholarship would suggest the underlying cause to be an outbreak of cholera.
£ 325
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46) [LITURGY - English]. The book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, According to the Use of The church of england: together with the psalter or psalms of david, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Cambridge. Printed by John Baskerville, 1762.
8vo. [704]pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. Very slight rubbing and marking. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, very occasional light spotting, overall a fine copy.
A fabulously, if somewhat unusually, finished copy of this liturgical constant produced by John Baskerville, during the brief period (1759-1763) when he held the office of University Printer at Cambridge. Having been rather well bound it was then decorated rather unusually, using only a Greek key roll in a double border; not only to each board but also to form six spine compartments
ESTC T87227.
£ 950
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LIBRARIES & LIBATIONS, HOSPITALS & HIGHWAYMEN
47) [LONDON]. [Manuscript travel journal of two eighteenth-century excursions to London]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1755].
Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 24 leaves. Stitched. Text-block separated into three parts. A trifle spotted, very occasional slight chipping to margins.
A lively manuscript journal, written in a single legible hand, of two journeys, undertaken in 1755 and 1759 respectively, by an unnamed gentleman from his residence in Devon to London and Oxfordshire. The first, and by far most comprehensively recorded excursion, sees our tourist depart Plymouth on October 22nd and travel via Portsmouth, Salisbury, and Windsor (here inspecting the recent improvements made by the Duke of Cumberland to the environs of Windsor), before arriving in the City on the 29th.
The opening days of November passed largely without incident, with our gentleman attending church, playing at cards (often rather poorly), carousing in coffee houses (supping oysters and numerous bottles of wine), and visiting notable attractions - including St. Pauls, Old London Bridge, and, on the 7th the 'pleasantly situated' Bedlam and neighbouring St. Luke's Hospital - 'another place for lunatics'. The entry for the following day is eminently more dramatic and records only a single event. Having dined with a certain Colonel Carr, the pair then set off for town at half past six when misadventure strikes; 'about 2 miles this side Acton was robbed by a genteel Highwayman, who behaved very civill, took from me my watch, & six shillings in money, a little surprized, but not at all afraid, if a family watch he told me I ought hear of it again, at Amsterdam'. A month later, on the morning of Saturday 6th December, our protagonist attends the Old Bailey where he witnesses the conviction of a clergyman 'for marrying contrary to Act of Parliament' in excess of 1400 couples 'which were all disannulled, & their children bastards' - his punishment, transportation. He recounts that the afternoon session witnessed the trial of 'the young highwayman...I'm certain robbed us...there were 3 indictments against him, & each proved very evidently he was acquitted.' Reviewing the records for the Central Criminal Court for that day, it would appear our gentleman observed the hearing of an unnamed defendant who was accused of operating in the Shepherd's Bush area at that time, but who was indeed found to be not guilty.
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On Sunday 7th December our gentleman attends a service at St. Paul's where he observes a sermon delivered by the Bishop of Oxford who makes remarks regarding the 'present calamity at Lisbon' reminding those present to be 'allways in expectation of the same dreadful catastrophe', being of course a reference to the cataclysmic earthquake that tore the city apart on 1st November 1755.
When neither sightseeing nor being set upon our well-heeled diarist often spends his evenings attending the theatre - including performances given by Garrick, the first of which clearly leaves a remarkable impression; '...adjourned to the play, where the inimitable Garrick, to my great pleasure played the part of Bays in the Rehearsals, the various passions he expresses when pleased or displeased at the performance of the Actors in his new wrote play are beyond expression, one could swear twas his natural character, he alters every muscle of his face so surprizingly, that there are none but must admire him'. Our gentlemen sees the renowned actor tread the boards on three more occasions; in Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife, as the Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemist, and finally as Lear. He is also privy to a performance by Signora Regina Mingotti - the Austrian-Italian opera impresario - in one of her earliest London appearances.
On Tuesday 19th November our gentleman sets out for Oxford; there he visits both the Radcliffe Library and the Bodleian, the latter shrewdly described as 'a large building entirely full of books' where he is shown 'some very curious a Bible printed on vellum, the Proverbs wrote by a Lady each chapter a different hand most exquisitely fine'.
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Returning to London our traveller once more indulges his seemingly inexhaustible pleasure in touring hospitals. He meets with the 'charity-boys' of Christ Hospital, all 1400 of whom are 'maintained & educated, at a very great expense [and] instructed in all the usefull sciences', and travels to Greenwich where he is 'highly entertained with the grandeur and magnificence of the hospital beyond description', remarking on the cleanliness of the 'prettily furnished' wards where the 1700 residents 'must live very happily', with the 1200 boys 'which are to be educated in the art of navigation' bunk in 'little hammocks'.
The account of the second journey is far more succinct, and concerned primarily with visiting the estates of acquaintances in more provincial destinations. It is appended by an itinerary, with the distance travelled between each destination recorded, making for 'An agreeable jaunt of 555 miles' on which 'the chaise horses performed nobly'.
In all the manuscript provides a charming and spirited insight into the life of a (frustratingly unidentified) member of high society in the midst of the eighteenth-century - with all its myriad pleasures, delightful entertainments, grandiose surroundings, and indeed detachment from the struggles of the majority. This unique journal benefits from a distinctive voice which, unlike comparable contemporaneously published works, is unfettered by either formality or consciousness towards an audience.
£ 3,000
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TABULATING AMERICAN LOSSES
48) [LUFFMAN, John]. A Table, Exhibiting the Fifteen Administrations of Great Britain and Ireland, during the Reign of King Geo: III. With their Principal Acts and the Time that each Administration continued in Office: Also the Data of Parliaments, Amount of Public Debt taken at Various periods, &c.. London. Published Dec. 17, 1809, by Luffman.
Dimensions 420 x 340mm. Folding, hand-coloured, printed table, housed in original publisher's red straight-grained morocco slipcase ('Price 2s.6d. in a Case'), lettered in gilt. Numbered 'Plate I' bottom left, but complete in one sheet. Slipcase lightly rubbed, with slight loss at foot. Two splits and several small holes at folds.
A rare survival, in the original lettered red morocco slipcase, of an attractive folding record of the fifteen governments of King George III up to the date of publication. In addition to the durations of administrations and details of cabinet ministers are 'Principal Events, Public Debt, Remarks, &c', including, perhaps most notably, several references to the American revolution: 'American Stamp Duties, imposed' (1764), 'American Stamp Act repealed' (1765), 'New Project for Taxing America' (1766), 'The American War commences April 19. National Debt 125 millions' (1775) and 'The American Colonies declared independent. The British Empire on the decline' (1782).
COPAC records a single copy (Oxford); OCLC adds no further.
£ 500
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49) [MAGDALEN CHAPEL]. The Psalms & Hymns with the Ode or Anthem sung at the Magdalen Chapel. Adapted for the Voice, Harpsichord, &c.. London. Printed for Button & Whitaker, [s.d., c.1810?]. New edition.
Quarto. In two parts. [2], 32, [2], 33-62pp. Contemporary red half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities a little rubbed, else a handsome copy.
A revised edition, 'the words corrected from the Chapel edition', of devotional songs for the Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. Founded in 1758 following the proposal of merchants Robert Dingley (c.1710-1781) and Jonas Hanway (bap. 1712, d. 1786) and magistrate John Fielding (1721-1780) (half-brother of novelist Henry Fielding), the charity aimed to provide a safe and clean environment where, as a means towards encouraging rehabilitation, women were employed in manufacturing tasks for which they would receive a fee - a stark contrast to like organisations of the era that more resembled penitentiaries and sought to punish rather than reform. Funds for the upkeep of the institution were provided through the sale of songbooks, such as here, and by charging the public admission as to the premises as a tourist attraction (Horace Walpole was a notable attendee). Such was the success of the hospital that further locations appeared across England, later expanding to the Continent and the United States, with a similar organisation operating in Ireland.
£ 500
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MALTA AND THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER
50) [MALTA]. Historisch-Geographische Beschreibung der Insel Malta und des hohen Ritterordens daselbst. Frankfurt und Leipzig. [s.n.], 1782. First edition.
8vo. 39pp, [1]. As issued, in three unstitched, uncut and unopened gatherings. Housed in custom recent red buckram case. Leaves a trifle toned and spotted, light dust-soiling to margins.
The first edition, in original state, of a succinct description the history and geography of Malta - together with an account of the chivalric Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, which continues to have strong links to Germany today. Hellwald suggests that the imprint is false, suggesting that the work's true origins lie with Montag at Regensberg
Hellwald, Bibliographic Methodique de l'Ordre Souv. de St. Jean de Jerusalem, 280.
£ 450
51) [MANCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB]. May flowers freshly gathered for the bazaar at the free trade hall, in aid of funds for the extension of the Manchester School for the Deaf and Dumb and the erection of an infants' school. Manchester. Printed by Thos. Sowler and Sons , 1859. First edition.
8vo. 54pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green buckram, stamped in gilt and blind. Somewhat marked, extremities bumped. A trifle dust-soiled internally.
An anthology of original verse sold for the benefit of the Manchester School for the Deaf and Dumb. Founded in 1823, the institution, devoted to the education of infants, expanded rapidly, with branches being established across the city throughout the nineteenth-century - the necessity of raising funds in support the venture was thus paramount. The compilation of 30 poems includes four by esteemed Manchester based poet and engraver Charles Swain (1801- 1874), one entitled 'Lines on the Deaf and Dumb' which opens the miscellany, and another, 'The Young Cottagers', for which Swain designed the frontispiece as an accompaniment.
COPAC records a single copy (Manchester); OCLC adds California, Cornell and UCLA.
£ 250
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DEDICATED TO THE VIRGINIA PLANTERS
52) MARKHAM, Gervase. Hungers Prevention: Or, The whole Art of fowling By Water and Land. Containing all the Secrets belonging to that Art, and brought into a true Forme or Method, by which the most Ignorant may know how to take any kind of Fowle, either by Land or Water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as travell by Sea, and come into uninhabited places: Especially, all those that have any thing to doe with the New Plantations. London. Printed for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison, 1655. Second edition.
8vo. [16], 285pp, [1]. An unsophisticated copy in contemporary blind-ruled sheep, later paper/manuscript lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed and a trifle marked, with slight loss to extremities, surfaces. Paste downs spring, with ink inscription of 'J. Cooke Gaiborough' to verso of upper board.
A handsome copy of one of the most significant works of Gervase Markham (c1568-1637), poet and natural history writer. Hungers prevention, the earliest English treatise wholly concerned with bird-catching, was an important seventeenth-century falconry title, and is extensively illustrated with woodcuts. It includes descriptions of the use of various tools for the purpose; nets, springs, dogs and guns amongst others. Chapter XII is devoted to the taking of Hawks of all kinds, and includes two handsome woodcuts entitled 'The forme and fashion of a Haggard Faulcon' (p.182) and 'The shape and fashion of the Goshawke' (p.183).
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As referred to by the title (and a second dedication to 'To all the most worthy and noble Lords, Knights, Gentlemen and Merchants, Counsellors, and Adventurers for the blessed Plantation of Virginia'), this work was intended for use in the British Isles and newly established colonies in the Americas.
An eminently practical volume, it is, perhaps understandably, rarely encountered in such crisp condition and an intact contemporary binding.
ESTC R12445, Schwerdt II, p.12, Wing M657.
£ 2,500
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53) [MILITARY DISCIPLINE]. An abridgment of the english Military Discipline. Reprinted by His Majesties special Command. London. Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, 1682.
8vo. 116, 119-136pp. Leaf H3 is cancelled, as issued. With a woodcut folding plate. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, marbled edges. Rubbed and marked, slight splitting to lower joint. Pastedowns sprung, near contemporary ownership inscriptions to verso of FEP and recto of REP, ink initials to head of title-page, occasional light marginal damp-staining, spotting.
A scarce late seventeenth-century manual on the English army line infantry formations. First printed in 1676, the work is primarily devoted to the correct battlefield positioning of pikes and muskets; detailed instruction is provided for the efficient command of personnel in order to maximise damage inflicted and minimise friendly losses. The information is presented in an efficient and accessible manner, the directions for the 'exercise of the musquet', for example, are arranged as a list of succinct stages easily comprehended: 'Handle you Charger / Open it with your Teeth / Charge with Powder...' Three further editions appeared in 1684, 1685, and 1686 - each a revision on the last accommodating advances in military technology, such as the introduction of flintlock firing mechanisms and the wide-spread employment of the bayonet.
ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, NMS, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (California, Folger, Huntington, and Yale).
ESTC R200818, Wing A104.
£ 600
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GAINSBOROUGH MINIATURE
54) [MINIATURE BIBLE]. The bible in miniature; Or, a concise history of the Old & New testament. Gainsborough. Printed by H. & G. Mozley, 1798.
64mo. 128, [2], 129-220pp. With a woodcut frontispiece, and seven woodcut plates - one of which included within the pagination as pp.23-4. Contemporary, perhaps original ('Price Sixpence in neat Gilt Covers') gilt-tooled red roan . Somewhat splayed, a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, slight shaving to border of title-page at head, front hinge split and repaired, with first quire a trifle dog-eared and protruding slightly in consequence.
A rare eighteenth-century printing by the Mozleys of Gainsborough, not recorded by ESTC, of a miniature or 'thumb' format abridgement of the Bible which had persisted in various settings since the early seventeenth-century.
An edition dated 1795 and with the Mozley imprint, but in only 184pp, is also recorded (at Manchester). Another undated edition of this title, in 220p, as here, (reduced from the 256pp of the most popular Newberry and Harris editions of the 1770s/80s) is also known, with an anonymous London imprint. Although not recorded by ESTC, there was a 1797 edition set identically to this edition, with a woodcut plate placed as pp-23-4; copies of both are held in the Adomeit collection at the Lilly Library Indiana; a further copy of this 1798 edition is also recorded by OCLC at Virginia.
Not in ESTC.
£ 750
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HOWE RELIEVING GIBRALTAR
55) [NAVAL SIGNALS BOOK]. [Manuscript signal book of Lord Howe's Gibraltar relief fleet of 1782, with descriptions of the figureheads of HMS Victory and a separate reference signals/order of battle/sailing card]. [s.i.]. [s.n., s.d., 1782].
Dimensions 125 x 150mm. Manuscript on paper. [26]ff. Slight chipping, a little rubbing/creasing to wrappers.
[With:] Double-sided manuscript pocket reference signals/order of battle card. Dimensions 125 x 80mm. Manuscript on stiff card. Slightly marked, with diagonal crease.
Both contained within a recent red roan-backed marbled folding case.
A well-preserved signal book compiled in 1782 for the fleet taken to the third, final and successful relief of Gibraltar, which had been under Spanish blockade since 1779, by Admiral Richard Howe (1726-1799).
The main signal book contains 23 hand-coloured flags, above manuscript tables relating the intended signal contingent upon the flag's position, followed by 'Signals denoting the Squadrons, Divisions, &c’ and a table of hand-coloured pennants distinguishing the ships making up the fleet's six squadrons. The work is prefaced by two pages describing the figureheads and technical details of the 2165 tons flagship, HMS Victory, and followed by a full listing (with rating and number of guns noted) of ships making up the fleet and five outline sketches of areas of coastline around Gibraltar (two of 'M. Calpe', two of 'M. Simiae' and one of Ceuta).
The accompanying easy reference card illustrates the distinguishing pennants of specific squadrons in the fleet to recto, and with order of battle/order of sailing, detailing the starboard/larboard division of the fleets and referencing appropriate responsible admirals.
The inclusion within this manuscript of the technical details of the 100-gun HMS Victory, Howe's flagship for this expedition, and later (following reconditioning) Nelson's during the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), makes this cataloguer wonder whether this signal book was that ship's own copy. Either way, it is of particular interest given Howe's own interest in reforming the system of signals within the Royal Navy; a rare survival of one of the key fleets of the Anglo-Spanish Wars.
£ 4,500
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HORATIA NELSON'S COPY
56) [NELSON, Horatia]. GOUDAR, Lodovico. Nuova grammatica italiana, e francese di lodovico goudar. Accresciuta dall'Autore d'una Raccolta di Verbi, e Voci Francesi, che hanno vari significati. Novissima Eizione piu corretta... In Nizza, [i.e. Nice]. Apresso Gabriele Floteront, 1776. New edition.
8vo. [4], 452pp. Contemporary continental marbled calf, recently rebacked and refurbished to style, with contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt, with date to foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, all edges red. Some rubbing to extremities, boards. Some dampstaining to text block, occasional small worm holes/tears, without loss of sense. Horatia N. Nelson's copy, with her ink inscription to head of title.
This eighteenth-century Nice edition of Lodovico Goudar's Italian/French grammar was once owned by the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Lord Nelson and his mistress, Emma Hamilton. Horatia Nelson Nelson (1801-81), baptised Horatia Nelson Thompson, was permitted by royal license to take the surname of her father in, following requests in her father's will. Several books bearing her inscription, as here, are known, including a manuscript poetical commonplace now held at the Folger.
Provenance: Part of lot 597, Sotheby’s, February 13th 1957; sold to Maggs, for £12.
£ 950
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THE FIRST GRAND TOUR
57) NUGENT, [Thomas]. The grand tour. Containing an Exact description Of most of the Cities, Towns, and Remarkable Places of europe. Together with A Distinct Account of the Post-Roads and Stages, with their respective Distances...Likewise Directions relating to the Manner and Expence of Travelling from one Place and Country to another. As also Occasional Remarks on the Present State of Trade, as well as of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, in each respective Country. London. Printed for S. Birt...D. Browne...A. Millar...and G. Hawkins, 1749. First edition.
12mo. In four volumes. viii, [4], 348, [4]; [2], 382; [4], 384, [4]; vii, [1], iv, 360pp. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-pieces, gilt. Rubbed, some splitting to joints, surface loss, sympathetic repair to foot of Vol. I spine. Contemporary armorial bookplates of Rolle to FEPs, later armorial bookplates of R. E. W. Maddison to recto of all FFEPs, leaves toned, spotting.
The first edition of the first work to employ the term 'Grand Tour' in its title. A remarkably prolific writer and translator, Thomas Nugent (c.1700-1772) was arguably most well known in his lifetime for his New Pocket dictionary of the French and English languages (1767) and for his Travels through Germany (1768). Unlike the latter of these titles, which presents an entertaining and personal account of the German people and their customs, The Grand Tour is a travelling companion in a more familiar mode. Utilising the design later popularised by Murray and the Blue Guides, Nugent compartmentalises the visiting of sights into a series of trips setting out from each countries respective capital. Primary landmarks and curiosities are detailed, alongside information on convenient road and water connections, and recommended inns at which to stay. Compiling his own personal experience with the anecdotes of other travellers, Nugent provides a lively guide for the eighteenth-century touring gentleman in a convenient duodecimo format.
ESTC T166460.
£ 750
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58) OVID. GOWER, John. Ovid's festivalls, or Romane Calendar, Translated into English verse equinumerally. [Cambridge]. Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the University of Cambridge: And are to be sold by M[ichael] S[parke] junior, 1640.
8vo. [42], 146pp, [2]. With an initial leaf, blank except for a fleuron, and a terminal imprimatur leaf. Title in red and black. Later blind-tooled calf, gilt. Extremities worn, insect damage, surface loss, and marking to boards. Shelf-label of the Porkington Library to FEP, occasional ink-spotting, family chronology to recto of initial blank leaf, pen-trials to title-page, p.146, and imprimatur leaf.
The first translation into English of Ovid's Fasti, done by Master of Arts John Gower, graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge. The dedication, to John Etheridge (1615-1626), Vicar of Halstead, Essex and former fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, is signed Edward Alliston, suggesting that the work was printed posthumously. Thereafter follows an epistle in tribute to the translator, signed Isaac Tinckler, which contains the somewhat condescending line: 'Now Ovid hath his wish, that he may be / In English read upon a Ladies knee.' The work includes a life of the Roman poet, as well as an adaptation of 'Clio's complaint for the death of Ovid'. A concurrently printed variant (STC 18948.5) omits Sparke's name in imprint.
ESTC S113673, Grolier, Wither to Prior 405, STC 18948.
£ 750
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WITH THE AUTHOR'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE PRESENTATION
59) PAINE, D.G. Temperance lays and poems. London. Steill, 20, Paternoster Row; and all booksellers, 1841. First edition.
12mo in 6s. viii, 136pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Rubbed, and a little worn to spine, corners, slight loss at head and foot. Internally immaculate. With a white metal eight-pointed star shaped badge, containing a glazed coin/medal, the former inscribed to verso: 'Presented to Mr. D.G. Paine. by the Committee & Friends of the Deptford Total Abstinence Society, January 20th 1847, As a token of respect for his useful services'.
A rare collection of anti-drink ('Wine is a Mocker', 'Strong Drink is Raging', 'The Patriot and the Malt') and pro- temperance ('Caution to the Working Man', 'The Banner of Temperance, 'The Temperance War Song') verse, by leading Gloucestershire anti-Temperance figure D.G. Paine.
The author notes in a short preface that this was his first publication, but that 'a few of the shorter poems are not entirely new to readers of Temperance literature, having appeared through the medium of one of the leading periodicals'.
COPAC locates copies at BL, Senate House and Sheffield, only; OCLC adds no further.
£ 350
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60) PALINGENIO STELLATO, Marcello. Marcelli palingenii stellati, poetae doctissimi, Zodiacus vitae; Hoc est, De hominis vita, studio, ac moribus optime instituendis Libri XII... Londini [i.e. London]. Excudebat Robertus Robinsonus, 1592.
8vo. 255, 255-288pp, [58]. Recent gilt-tooled crushed blue morocco. Marbled endpapers, very occasional annotations to margins, lightly dust-soiled/spotted.
A late sixteenth-century London printed edition of an astrological verse first printed in Venice around 1536. The initial letters of the opening 29 lines of the first part ‘Aires’ form the acrostic of ‘Marcellus Palingenius Stellatus’, commonly thought to be the anagrammatic pseudonym of Pier Angelo Manzolli, of Stellata in Ferrare. The erudite didactic poem advocates the pursuit of tangible knowledge (comparable to Platonic ideals) as being the path to the contentment of humanity, and vehemently satirises ecclesiastical hypocrisy - particularly with regard to the Papacy. The text proved a sensation throughout Europe, and a plethora of printings and translations were produced, including a 1565 edition in English by Barnabe Googe (scholarship has suggested Zodiacus vitae as an inspiration for Shakespeare in the writing of the ‘seven ages of man’ monologue featured in As You Like It). The official reception in Italy however was far, somewhat unsurprisingly, less enthusiastic; the Inquisition deemed the work heretical, burned the mortal remains of the author and in 1559 a papal command placed the book on the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
ESTC S121699, STC 19143.
£ 750
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61) PEREFIXE DE BEAUMONT, Paul Philippe Hardouin de. The life of henry the fourth of france, Translated from the French of Perefix. A Paris. Printed by Didot L'aine, 1785.
8vo. [8], 456pp. With half-title. Contemporary elaborately panelled calf (executed in the Etruscan style similar to that of Edwards of Halifax), tooled in gilt, black morocco lettering-piece, neatly rebacked and recornered, contemporary spine laid-on, A.E.G. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, shelf-label of Minto library to FEP, manuscript shelf-marks to verso of FFEP, very occasional slight marginal chipping, lightly foxed.
A scarce English translation of L'histoire du roy Henry le Grand (Amsterdam, 1661) by bishop of Rodez, and later archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Perefixe (1606-1671) who composed the work for the gratification of Henry's grandson, Louis XIV, to whom he was preceptor. The initial translation into English, first printed in 1663 and commonly attributed to James Dauncey, was undertaken for another grandson, King Charles II. This later translation is remarkable for being the only English language edition printed on the Continent.
ESTC locates six copies worldwide of this Paris printed English edition, none of which in the British Isles.
ESTC T211106.
£ 500
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A RACY DISGUISE
62) [POMPADOUR, Madam de]. Advice to a female friend. London. Printed for William Meyer...and Thomas Wilcox, 1750. First edition.
12mo. xv, [1], 120, 145-212pp. Complete despite mis- pagination, with no gap in register. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, with contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, cracking to upper joint (board remains firmly attached), some marking, some browning to text. Contemporary ink inscription of Elizabeth Burrow to FFEP; another of 'EM Burrow', and a third, indecipherable, accompanied by a shelf mark A/22.
A rare, beautifully written and quite superbly executed attempt at an engaging, fashionable conduct of life guide for women that nevertheless advocates bourgeois attitudes to femininity. Issued as if from the pen of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), mistress of Louis XV, it is in fact nothing of the sort. A racy, italicised preface promises much, as it explains in first person the source of the text as maxims shared to the narrator, then a convent girl, by an elder woman with 'a great deal of wit, a consummate Knowledge of the World'. Contrasting this present volume to the dry, moral conduct of life works usually encountered, the narrator instead offers 'The Maxims of the World', and goes further, concluding that 'this work shall not be dedicated' owing to a division of her own sex into 'Prudes' and 'Women of Intrigue', neither group of whom would be satisfied with the contents.
The main text, interspersed with hinted reference to noted French ladies, continues in the same vein; using the promise of modern femininity, a racy attitude towards romance in general and men in particular, and the whiff of sexuality provided by a text supposedly written by a royal courtesan, to reinforce prevailing social norms. Examples abound, from advice on fashion ('it is the Air along that can distinguish the vulgar of Women from the others') to the selection of books (where 'Books of piety will be succeeded by the newest Pamphlets', but modern entertainments or 'Nothings' are not deemed 'by any Means fit for you'). One section that perfectly encapsulates the tone of this unusual volume is found in advice on seeking the right company; 'Let no Considerations whatever engage you to see bad Company. By bad Company I mean Women of Intriuge, Female Hypocrites, Coxcombs, Fops, Men of no Principles, or Conduct...the World judges a Man by the Choice of his Mistress, his Friends, and his Books, and of a Woman by that of her Company, and her Lover'.
One can imagine that these 'Maxims of the World' were devoured in the drawing rooms of a certain mid-Eighteenth century demographic, yet few copies appear to have survived; ESTC locates only two copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge) and just two further in North America (Cornell and Yale).
ESTC T146307.
£ 1,250
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OPPOSING ROYAL CATHOLIC MARRIAGE
63) [POWEL, Gabriel]. A consideration of the papist Reasons of State and Religion, for toleration of Poperie in England, intimated in their Supplication unto the Kings Maiestie, & the States of the Present Parliament. At Oxford. Printed by Joseph Barnes, 1604. First edition.
Quarto. [4], 128pp. Recent red half-morocco, red cloth boards, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities a trifle marked, otherwise a crisp copy.
A consideration of the Papist Reasons is a typical work of virulent Catholicism by Gabriel Powel (bap. 1576, d.1611), Jesus College educated Welsh Anglican clergyman, and strident Calvinist. It examines, critically, and rejects, wholeheartedly, English Catholics’ efforts to secure increased toleration of their faith in the early years of James I's reign based on two arguments: reasons of state and reasons of religion. However, it is best known for its warning against the idea, promoted by James I's Catholic Queen Anne, of securing Prince Henry's marriage to the Spanish infanta, Princess Anne, eldest daughter of Philip III of Spain.
Outside of the UK, ESTC locates copies at only four libraries: Folger, Huntington, Union Theological and Texas.
ESTC S105148, Madan I, p.59/60, STC 20144.
£ 600
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PARALLEL FRENCH AND ENGLISH
64) RAMSAY, Sr. Andrew. A new cyropaedia, or the travels of cyrus. With a Discourse on the Theology & Mythology of the Ancients. Rouen. Pinted [sic] for Peter Macheul, 1779. A new edition, with many emendations et additions.
8vo. In two volumes. xxi, [2], 4-247, [1]; 301pp, [1]. With half-titles. Parallel French and English text. Uncut in original tan paper wrappers, manuscript lettering-pieces. Extremities worn and marked, loss to spines, some worming. Without endpapers, terminal leaves of both volumes pasted to lower boards, very occasional short marginal tears/chipping, some spotting.
A revised edition, with parallel English and French text, of philosopher and Jacobite sympathiser Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay's (1686-1743) Les voyages des Cyrus, originally published in 1727. The work, an adaptation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, provides a largely fictionalised account of the founder of the Achaemenid Empire Cyrus II and his travels and education within the Grecian world. Ramsay employs this framework as a stage upon which to present his own notions regarding Christianity and disavow those with which disagrees; launching, for example, a veiled attack on Spinoza, defending the existence of an imponderable ether - the medium by which God interacts with the physical realm; and in relation suggests a theory of metempsychosis. Most impressively, Ramsay attempts to reconcile the philosophy of Descartes with that of Newton under the banner of a mystical Christian doctrine.
The publication of the first English edition was as much a sensation as the original French - indeed in 1729, at the request of Catholic advocates, Ramsay was invited to London where he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and awarded a degree from Oxford University. Numerous subsequent editions appeared throughout the British Isles and the Continent, with the work still being published at the close of the eighteenth-century.
Rare. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, NLS, and NT), and none elsewhere.
ESTC T210919.
£ 450
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65) [REGICIDES]. Rebels no saints: or a collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters and Prayers of those Persons lately executed...with observations on the same. Wherein their pretended Sanctity is Refuted, and a further Inspection made into the Lives and Practices of those Unhappy and Traiterous Politicians. By a Person of Quality. London. Printed, and are to be sold by the severall Book-sellers in London, and Westminster Hall, 1661. Second edition.
8vo. [8], 96, 95-155pp, [3]. With engraved frontispiece displaying an execution, and terminal blank. Handsomely bound in early nineteenth-century blind-stamped polished tan calf, with gilt lettering/ruling to spine. Rubbed, some cracking to joints, bumping to corners. Frontispiece shaved at foot. Early shelf-label of the Porkington Library to FEP.
An avowedly pro-Monarchist work, first published in 1660 as The speeches and prayers of some of the late King’s judges, Rebels no saints purports to present the scaffold speeches and prayers of the ten regicides of Charles I executed in October 1660; Thomas Harrison, John Carew, John Cook, Hugh Peters, Thomas Scott, Gregory Clements, Anthony Scroope, John Jones, Daniel Axtell and Francis Hacker. They are, however, entirely spurious, and were designed, to borrow of a phrase from the preface of this volume, to highlight the 'Horrid Cruelties of these Matchless Regicides', for whom the heady Restoration 'Hand of Justice' had deemed 'Traytor'.
ESTC R25111, Wing S204aA.
£ 450
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PARALLEL FRENCH LETTERS
66) RERESBY, Tamworth. A collection of letters, Extracted from the most Celebrated French authors. Viz. The Chevalier de Mere, Boursault, Fontenelle, Balzac, Count Buffy, Voiture, Costar, Boileau. Adorn'd with that Variety of Subjects, as will not serve only for the entertainment of those who have made some advances in the French Language, but also for their Instruction in a polite manner of writing. Made English by Tamworth Reresby, Esq. London. Printed by T. Howlatt, for J. Graves, 1715. First edition.
8vo. [16], 309pp, [10]. With five preliminary contents leaves (Aa-5) bound at end. Contemporary panelled sheep. Rubbed, with some surface loss, short split to upper joint at head of spine. Early ink inscription 'Glynn' to FEP, some browning/marginal staining to text.
The second published work of Tamworth Reresby (b.1670), the second son of Sir John Reresby, English politician, traveller and diarist, A collection of letters includes English translations, with the French original in parallel, of correspondence by 'Some French Authors, who excell'd most in this Manner of writing', including Vincent Voiture (1597-1648) and Fontenelle (1657- 1757). The younger Reresby had previously published New dialogues of the gods; or, reflections upon the passions: with a discourse upon the nature of dialogue (London, 1713), also 'Translated from the French'; both of which explore the nature of writing (in the case of this work, letters, in the earlier, dialogue). He is better known for his third: A miscellany of ingenious thoughts and reflections, in verse and prose; with some useful remarks (London, 1721).
Rare, with ESTC locating only five copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge x 2, NLS and Oxford), and just three elsewhere (Chicago, Rice and UCLA).
ESTC T167256.
£ 450
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SWIFTIAN SATIRE SCOLDED
67) [RIDICULE]. A discourse on ridicule. London. Printed for R. Knaplock, 1716. First edition.
Quarto. 22pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf and an additional order-to-print leaf dated 1680 and signed Will. Goldesbrough bound to rear. Recent half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Light marking to extremities. Leaves toned and a trifle dust-soiled.
An anonymous discourse railing against ridicule, profanity, and mockery as wellsprings of laughter and delight. In the prefatory remarks the author sets forth his reasons for the publication of his treatise, claiming that; ‘Ridicule is grown so prevalent, that it falls foul upon every Thing without Distinction, upon Church, and State, upon Virtue, and Wisdom, upon God, and Man. It has indeed attained to so high a Pitch of Reputation, that it seems to obscure all other talents.’ The primary contention of the work is that prevalence of unchristian sentiment towards the less fortunate results in both the degradation of society and the denigration of the individual soul. The author further bemoans the rising trend in derision levelled at the church, lamenting in horror that the Lord should be ‘derided by wicked Libertines!’ The vitriol levelled at these attacks upon religion is not merely confined to public acts, the author makes mention of the satirical writing of Jonathan Swift with at least a soupcon of begrudging respect; ‘The Tale of a Tub is indeed a very masterly Book in the Kind. The Author has far exceeded Rabelais, whom he imitates, and had he not been now and then prophane, he would have diverted the World with an entertaining Work in that Way of Writing, which as I do not altogether disrelish, so I cannot so highly admire, as a great many seem to do.’ In all an entertaining, well expressed, addition to the early eighteenth-century canon of invective against Swiftian satire and its progeny.
Rare. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (Oxford, Sion, and Trinity), and one in North America (Huntington).
ESTC N46207.
£ 750
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68) [ROULETTE]. Rules of roulette. [London]. The Army & Navy Co-operative Society, [1896]. First edition.
12mo. 10pp, [2]. With two plates, providing plans the wheel and cloth respectively, and a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf (price list of articles required for Roulette). Original publisher's gilt-tooled red morocco. A trifle marked and bowed, neat repair to head of spine. With free-endpapers, title-page lightly dust-soiled, else internally clean and crisp.
The sole edition of a succinct rule book for the playing of roulette issued by the flagship branch of The Army & Navy Co-operative Society, located on Victoria Street, London, for the promotion of their games department.
COPAC records copies at two locations (BL and Oxford).
£ 250
RUBENS’ ESTATE, AT DEATH
69) RUBENS, Peter Paul. TURNER, Dawson. Catalogue of the works of art In the Possession of sir peter paul rubens, at the time of his decease; together with a fac-simile of an original unpublished letter from himself, and with two letters from sir balthazar gerbier. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1832]. First edition.
8vo. [2], iv, 18pp. With a folding facsimile example of the artist's handwriting. Finely bound in slightly later terracotta half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy. Fine twentieth-century bookplate of Arthur Holland-Hibbert, Viscount Knutsford of Munden (1855-1935) to FEP.
A handsome copy of the rare English translation, transcribed from the original manuscript and edited by English banker, botanist and antiquary Dawson Turner (1775-1858), of the catalogue of Ruben's possessions made at his death. It was privately printed in 'a small number of copies...for the amusement of those who may, like myself, take pleasure in what relates to the history of art'.
As Turner explains in his introduction, the remarkable estate, which consisted of more than 300 pictures (including ten Titians), 'left by Rubens, are a proof of a life spent in the fullest and most lucrative employment: those enumerated in the Catalogue are said to have produced the sum of £25,000).
COPAC locates only two copies, at BL and Oxford; OCLC adds only two further, at the national libraries of Denmark and Holland.
£ 650
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70) [SAEL, George]. Mental amusement; or, the Juvenile Moralist: consisting of moral essays, allegories, and tales, interspersed with poetical pieces. Calculated for the use of private families and public schools. London. Printed for G. Sael...and sold by M. Poole and Son, 1798. Second edition, revised.
12mo. viii, 136pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting paper lettering-piece ('1s 6d'). A trifle rubbed, slight chipping to lettering-piece. Both free endpapers torn away, with later manuscript inscription to verso of frontispiece, leaves F3-F4 protruding from text block, occasional light spotting.
First published in 1797 for George Sael, antiquarian bookseller, circulating library keeper and publisher of moral tracts, Mental amusement is a collection of short juvenile pieces designed 'to form an additional series of lessons for the service of families and schools'. Aiming at 'moral instruction' and variety as a 'vehicle for the communication of it'. Only six of the 29 tales, verses and essays are attributed to specific authors: including three by Anna Seward and two by Sael's long-time collaborator Thomas Park. Of the anonymous pieces, Chapter XVIII, 'On Education and Books A dialogue' is perhaps worth nothing; it recounts a fictional dialogue on religious works between two 'female friends' of Mrs Day, 'a widow lady' hosting a small party.
All editions are scarce, with this second being no exception. ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and one further in North America (Toronto).
ESTC T147383.
£ 1,250
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71) [SANDABAR]. Roman stories; or the history of the Seven Wise Masters of rome: containing seven days entertainment, in many pleasant narrations wherein The Treachery of evil Counsellors is discovered, Innocency cleared, and the Wisdom of the Seven Wise Masters displayed. London. Printed by T. Sabine and Son, [1800?]. Fifth edition.
12mo. 84pp. With a pair of woodcuts as frontispiece, and 12 woodcut illustrations in the text. Uncut and partially unopened, recently stitched into original publisher's printed paper wrappers, housed in recent calf-backed marbled box. Some marking to wrappers, loss to margins of leaves E1-E3 - touching text, with slight loss of sense.
A remarkable survival of this turn of the nineteenth-century printing of 'The history of the seven wise masters of Rome', a collection of tales, interwoven into a single cohesive narrative in the manner of Arabian Nights, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Boccacio’s Decameron. The origins of the work are vague, with scholarship suggesting the parables of Indian philosopher Sandabar as a potential source, though similar texts are recorded in Persian, Greek and Hebrew tradition. What is certain is that Westernised ‘Roman’ adaptation of these tales, first appearing in the early sixteenth-century, was immensely popular and frequently reprinted both in prose and verse throughout Europe.
We can find no earlier Sabine imprinted edition of this title than this supposed ‘fifth’.
ESTC N71628 (BL only), and ESTC T300965 (Oxford only).
£ 500
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THE HENRICIAN SCHISM
72) SANDER, Nicholas. Nicolai sanderi angli doct. theol. De origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani, Libri Tres: quibus historia continetur maxime ecclesiastica, Annorum circiter 60. lectu dignissima; Aucti prius per edovardum rishtonum... Coloniae Agrippinae [i.e. Cologne]. Sumptibus Petri Henningi, 1610.
8vo. [16], 456, [24], 182pp, [2]. Contemporary vellum, lacking ties, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities marked and discoloured, a trifle rubbed. Upper board and initial gathering separating from text-block, booklabels of Gulielmi O'Brien and Milltown Park Library to FEP, ink initial to head of title-page, loss to lower corner of leaf T1, very occasional marginal chipping, some spotting.
The most influential work of English Catholic priest and controversialist Nicholas Sander (c.1530-1581), De origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani is a detailed narrative, told from the perspective of a recusant, of the religious schism caused by the actions of Henry VIII. Unfinished by Sander on his death, the manuscript for the work was first published posthumously at Ingolstadt in 1585, edited and completed by fellow priest Edward Rishton (later editions would benefit from further material additions, ultimately incorporating the rule of Elizabeth I). The work proved immensely popular, and supremely influential to Reformation histories and Catholic historiography - with six Latin editions and translations into French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Polish appearing prior to 1628.
£ 650
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73) SAUNDERS, William. A syllabus of lectures on chymistry. [s.i., London?]. [s.n.], [s.d., c.1770]. First edition.
8vo. In two parts. 15, [1], 56pp. Interleaved throughout. The second part contains: 'Of the chemical properties of bodies', with a drop-head title, separate pagination and register. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Extremities worn. Ink and pencil ownership inscriptions to front endpapers and blank fly-leaves, sporadic manuscript annotations to interstitial blank leaves, heavy ink-spotting to text.
A rare survival of an introductory guide to the qualities of chemistry known to Enlightenment academia by Scottish physician William Saunders (1743-1817). Educated at the University of Edinburgh, Saunders began his practice in London in around 1766, giving lectures on chemistry alongside W. Keir at the Red Lion Court and Guy's Hospital, the first to advertise lectures on clinical medicine in London. A well-respected practitioner and scholar, he was appointed extra-physician to the prince regent in 1807, and served as the first president of the Medical and Chirurgical Society.
Saunders succinct syllabus is appended by a catalogue of chemical substances attributed to Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman (1735-1784). The successor of his mentor John Gottschalk Wallerius to the chair of professor of chemistry at Uppsala University, Bergman was lionised by his contemporaries for his magnum opus Disquisitio de Attractionibus Electivis (Uppsala, 1775) - which contained the most extensive affinity table published up to that time, a forerunner to Mendeleev's periodic table of elements. If the attribution of the work to Bergman is indeed accurate then this volume would mark the first appearance in English of his writing.
ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Oxford, and Wellcome), and two in North America (Huntington and Rochester). COPAC adds Cardiff, Leicester, Manchester, and NLS.
ESTC T138765.
£ 1,500
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MANUCSCRIPT EXCHANGE AND FINANCE
74) SHIPTON, Thomas. [Manuscript workbook on eighteenth-century arithmetic, exchange rates and trade finance]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [1759].
Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 40 leaves. All but two leaves used. Part of a contemporary superfine, pro-patria ream wrapper used as wrappers. Extremities dust-soiled and a trifle marked. Later evidence of tape removal to hinges, a single leaf with small piece removed - without apparent loss to text. Inscribed 'Thomas Shipton, Book Bought January 23 1759' to recto of terminal leaf, later inscription 'William Edward's Book 1770' to verso of first leaf.
An interesting and attractive example, especially given that it is bound in an early paper ream wrapper, of a school-boy's manuscript arithmetical school-book, with worked examples, following a syllabus with particular emphasis on exchange, barter, accountancy and trade finance.
Included is a table comparing the exchange rate of 11 European currencies to the British Pound, and topics such as 'Alligation' ('Alligation is the compounding of many examples Into one mass according to any required price or proportion') and 'Equation of Payments' ('When several sorts of Money to be at Different Times are Reduced to one mean Time for the Payments of the whole Without Loss to Debtor').
£ 650
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FIRST LOCATED EDITION
75) SMITH, Samuel. The great assize, or day of jubilee. Delivered in foure Sermons, upon the 20. chapter of the Revel. ver. 12.13.14.15. Whereunto are annexed two Sermons upon the I. chapter of the Canticles, verse 6.7. The second Impression, corrected and amended by the Authour. London. Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1617. Second edition.
8vo. [14], 332pp. Without blanks A1, Y7-8. Nineteenth-century half-sheep, decorated in gilt and blind, paper-covered boards. Rubbed, with some wear to joints and lower board, bumping to corners. Nineteenth-century ink inscriptions to blank fly-leaf and title. Some marking and occasional worm-tracks to text; mostly marginal, but occasionally clipping text, paper flaw to K6 and V2, with slight loss of sense to the former.
Described as the 'second impression', this is the first located edition in any database, of Anglican clergyman Samuel Smith's third published work. The great assize, an exposition on Revelation 20:12-15, was one of the most frequently reprinted works of the seventeenth-century, and reached a 47th edition by the mid-eighteenth century. The puritanical Smith, Vicar of Prittlewell, Essex, later a Presbyterian and friend and taming influence on Richard Baxter, foretells, predictably an imminent Apocalypse; 'an end to be put unto these sinnefull daies'.
Despite their popularity, early copies are rare - presumably many were literally read to pieces. ESTC records a single copy of this edition, at Folger; neither COPAC nor OCLC add any further copies of this edition, or any earlier.
ESTC S95246. STC 22847.7.
£ 950
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF SIMEON SOLOMON'S WORK
76) SOLOMON, Simeon. Photographs, after ten drawings, of jewish ceremonials. [London]. [Cundall, Downes and Co.], [1862].
Folio. Original terracotta paper-covered folio, silk ties, lettered in gilt, containing 10 photographic illustrations (dimensions 95 x 130mm), mounted on stiff card (dimensions 250 x 330mm) and a folded advertisement brochure (3pp, [1]) advertising the sale of this 'Series of ten photographs after drawings of Jewish Ceremonials by Simeon Solomon' by the 'Photographic Institution, 168, New Bond Street, next the Clarendon. June 1862', at a price of 'One Guinea'.
Rubbed, with some loss to spine, cracking to joints, a little marking to surfaces. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hart to FEP. Mounts, with pencilled titles at foot, are heavily foxed and somewhat warped; the photographs themselves are remarkably clean.
A rare collection, issued in the early history of photography by the Photographic Institution of 168 New Bond Street, of ten photographs of a series of early drawings of Jewish Ceremonials by the emergent Anglo-Jewish pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon (1840-1905):
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I. The Presentation of the Child for Circumcision II. The Marriage Ceremony III. The Week of Mourning IV. Carrying the Scrolls of the Law in the Synagogue V. The Eve of the Sabbath VI. The Eve of the Passover VII. The Fast for the Destruction of Jersualem VIII. The Day of Atonement IX. The Feast of Tabernacles X. The Feast of the Dedication of the Temple
Solomon, after studying at the Royal Academy Schools, had staged his first exhibition at the RA in 1858, and was well known for his depictions of Jewish life by the time a review of these photographs (not altogether favourable of the production, but recognising the artist's talent) appeared in The Jewish Chronicle and Hebrew Observer (1 August 1862). This series of 10 drawings was later engraved for reproduction in Leisure Hour, to illustrate an article on Jewish customs.
The Photographic Institution was founded in 1852 by Joseph Cundall (1818-1895), included Philip Delamotte and George Downes amongst its staff, and was the first commercial gallery to market photographs as art. This expensive production was well marketed, with a detailed description of the contents featuring on the advertising brochure, and classified advertisements in contemporary art periodicals.
Rare; we could find no other copy of this item in COPAC or OCLC, nor any records of any auction sale. Indeed, the only early references to this production that we could locate were in contemporary advertisements, reviews (such as that referenced above) and the catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition held at the Albert Hall in 1887, where it formed item no. 1283.
£ 9,500 +VAT (within the E.U.)
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SOUTH SEA BUBBLE REVISITED IN 1825
77) [SOUTH SEA BUBBLE]. The south sea bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it gave rise in 1720, historically detailed as a beacon to the unwary against modern schemes (enumerated in an appendix) equally visionary and nefarious. London. For Thomas Boys, 1825. Second edition, with additions.
12mo in 6s. 180pp. With engraved frontispiece and extra-engraved title, both depicting contemporary images relating to the Bubble. Uncut, in original publisher's attractive printed boards. Rubbed and a trifle marked, with loss to head of spine. FFEP torn away. Armorial bookplate of James Whatman to FEP.
An unsophisticated copy of the second edition, extended with the addition of some 37 pages of additional appendices, of a timely examination, published in the year of the repeal of the 1720 Bubble Act, and of the first modern financial crisis, of the delusional speculation that accompanied the remarkable growth in value of stock of the South Sea Company in the early eighteenth century.
First published in the same year, also by Boys, the anonymous The South sea bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it gave rise in 1720 provides a potted history of the Bubble and reprints eight contemporary satirical verses on the matter, alongside legal opinions, a reprinting of an 1825 London Magazine article, 'Bubbles', and lists of the numerous loans and joint-stock companies launched in 1824-5. In so doing, the author leaves little to the imagination in drawing a parallel between fervent contemporary financial speculation and that of the South Sea delusion just over a century earlier.
£ 950
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FINELY BOUND MANUCSRIPT
78) STREICHER, Ignatius. Tagliche Pflicht Des Menschen den Allerhochsten Gott anzu-betten, zuloben, und zudancken Zum Gebrauch der hochgebohmen Frauen Frauen Maria Walburga.... [s.i.]. [s.n.], 1774.
8vo. Manuscript on paper, with finely executed vignette ink sketch. [2], 224pp. With engraved frontispiece, twenty engraved plates, and within engraved borders throughout. Exquisitely bound in contemporary German red morocco, richly gilt, highlighted in black paint, with borders surrounding large central compartment displaying extensive tooling (volutes, rosettes, and drawer- handle). Marbled pastedowns. A.E.G with subtle gauffering. The slightest of rubbing, else a fine copy, preserved in what is likely the original calf, gilt, pull-off slipcase, worn, with marbled paper interior matching the pastedowns.
A fabulously bound handsome German Catholic calligraphic devotional volume, signed 'Ignatius Streicher Sec:1774' at foot of an elaborate sketch to verso of title, and 'Ignatrius Streicher Fr: Ad: (?) 1774' at end. The engraved borders and plates suggest that this volume was manufactured for such endeavours.
£ 1,250
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QUACK 'CHEVALIER' SATIRISED
79) [TAYLOR, John]. The English impostor detected. Or, the history of the life and fumigation Of the Renown'd Mr. J---- T----, Occulist. Dublin. [s.n.], 1732. First edition.
8vo. 16pp. Recent calf-backed buckram boards. Extremities rubbed and marked. Extensive manuscript bibliographical notes to blank fly-leaves, ink-stamps of the recently dispersed library of Hugh Selbourne to verso of title-page and foot of p.11, a single small worm-hole to text block, without loss of sense.
The sole edition of a rare and sharply satirical biographical sketch of John Taylor (1703-1772), quack oculist and, according to Samuel Johnson, 'the most ignorant man I ever knew'. Despite the rich vein of material provided by the self-promoting 'Chevalier' Taylor, who was later to reportedly blind Bach and hasten the death of Handel, the anonymous author of The English impostor detected, a self-confessed 'Native of Grub Street', does not let fact get the way of a good story or turn of phrase; thus he suggests that Taylor was born in the year of astrologer Doctor Partridge's death; 'so from the Ashes of the old Phoenix arises a Second like in Colour and Beauty'. The satire closes with a (rather good) neo-Latin verse, which is also translated into English.
ESTC records copies at just two locations in the British Isles (BL and Royal College of Physicians), and two further in North America (Illinois and Washington).
ESTC T104204.
£ 650
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NEEDLEWORK FOR POOR GIRLS
80) [TEACHER'S ASSISTANT]. The teacher's assistant in Needle-Work, for the use of schools and private families. London. Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1824. Fifth edition.
16mo. 47pp, [1]. Stitched within original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked, some loss to lower corner of lower wrapper. Ink-stamp 'Sold by Roake & Varty 31 Strand' to verso of upper wrapper, title a trifle marked, some creasing to corners, else a crisp copy.
A rare early instructional guide to needlework, dedicated 'to the patronesses of schools in union with the National Society for promoting the education of the poor' and first produced, as the 'advertisement to the first edition' states, 'for the use of Broadwater National School for Girls'. The syllabus, presented in the form of a continual catechism, appears to have been designed for practical use in the household as well as education in the school-room; in addition to basic tasks such as hemming, sewing, stitching and making button holes, much space is dedicated to repairs: 'darning', 'running stockings', 'mending a ladder in a stocking' and 'strengthening thin places in stockings'.
The preface suggests that the first edition was published in 1815 or 1816; but of all preceding editions OCLC locates a single copy of the 1820 edition (Yale), and none of this 1826 fifth edition; COPAC adds no further of any edition.
£ 950
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VICTORIAN CRIMEAN WAR POETRY
81) TILT, Julia. Lays of alma, And other Poems. London. L. Booth, 1856. First edition.
8vo. xvi, 176pp. Original publisher's richly gilt-tooled red cloth, A.E.G., by Westley's & Co. of London. Very slight rubbing, short tear to head of lower joint. Internally clean and crisp, a fine copy.
A rare collection of verse by Victorian English popular novelist and poet Julia Tilt, which features twelve pieces on the then recent Crimean Wars amongst the title selection of martial verse, and perhaps most notably a celebration of 'The Hospital at Scutari', which is 'Dedicated to Miss Nightingale'.
Included amongst the subscribers' list of nobles and notables is the Viscountess Palmerston, whose husband later awarded Tilt, much to the surprise of the literary establishment, a Civil List pension of £30.
Although OCLC locates several copies in North America, COPAC locates no copies of this early collection of war poetry in the British Isles.
£ 750
82) [WARD, Edward]. The Tipling Philosophers. A Lyrick Poem. To which is subjoin'd, A short Abstract of their Lives and most memorable Actions. London. Printed: And Sold by J. Woodward, 1710.
8vo. [8], 40pp. With an additional title-page 'Wine and wisdom: or, the Tipling Philosophers...' (seemingly extracted from the later reissue, ESTC T124665), bound in place of leaf A4, which should be an advertisement leaf - with the imprint date of both titles altered in manuscript to 1719. Contemporary half-calf, recently rebacked. Rubbing to boards. Ownership inscription of 'Robt. Holden' to FEP, later armorial bookplate to recto of FFEP, later ownership inscription of 'H. Slopes / Sept. 16th 1887' to head of same, occasional marginal ink-staining, foxed.
A spirited satire of classical philosophers by Edward Ward (1667- 1731), a controversial writer known for numerous humorous works in both prose and verse, primarily the immensely popular caricatures and racy anecdotes of England's capital contained in within The London Spy (1698-1702). The work is comprised of 58 line sketches in verse of various classical figures, each followed by a brief biographical prose note. Those lambasted included Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato - the ridicule focused upon facetious critiques of their excessive imbibing of alcohol, for example; 'Copernicus, like to the rest, / Believ'd there was Wisdom in Wine, / And fancy'd a Cup of the best / Made Reason the brighter to shine.'
ESTC T60813.
£ 450
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FIRST ENGLISH FORTUNE TELLING BOOK
83) WARDE, William. The most excellent, profitable, and pleasant, booke of the famous Doctor and expert Astrologian, Arcandam, or Alcandrin, to finde the fatall destiny, constellation, omplection, and naturall inclination of every man and childe by his birth: with an addition of Phisiognomie, very pleasant to reade. Now newly turned out of French into our vulgar Tongue. At London. Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1634.
8vo. [182]pp. With 12 large woodcuts of zodiacal signs, within text. Without A1, presumably, as with preceding and subsequent issues in the same setting, a blank. Later calf, with modern reback. Some marginal repairs to title and final leaf, bibliographical description tipped to gutter of title, bookplate of Joseph Lyon Miller M.D. to FEP.
A rare seventeenth-century edition, printed largely in black letter, of English physician and translator William Ward's (1534-1604) Arcandam, a translation of De veritatibus et praedictionibus astrologiae, a medieval treatise on the zodiac dating back to the tenth century, with traces of both Hebrew and Arabic influences edited by Richard Roussat (Paris, 1541). Ward's translation was initially published around 1562, and was the first vernacular publication to treat on fortune telling; based on elaborate calculations of the numerical values of the component letters in people's names, as well as an early study of physiognomic features, sometimes attributed to R. Hall.
This popular work of superstition is now rare, and was presumably read to pieces. Very few copies of any edition have appeared in the rooms in recent decades, or can be located in institutional holdings. For this, the seventh known (and third seventeenth-century) edition ESTC locates copies in only three British locations (Cambridge, Oxford and Wellcome) and two elsewhere (Folger and Harvard).
ESTC S124179, STC 729.
£ 2,000
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DIALOGUES FOR GERMANS IN REGENCY ENGLAND
84) WILLIAMS, T[homas] S[idney]. CRUGER, C[arl]. Modern English and German Dialogues and elementary phrases for the use of the two nations. By T.S. Williams, the German revised and corrected by C. Cruger, director of the commercial academy in hamburg.. Hamburg. bei Herold Junior, 1826. Second edition.
12mo. [2], viii, [4], 249pp, [5]. Contemporary, perhaps original two-tone paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, else a crisp and clean copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of Priscilla Maria Hopfer (?) to FFEP.
A rare bi-lingual English/German vocabulary and phrase book composed by Thomas Sidney Williams, sometime lecturer at the Johanneum College, Hamburg. Printed in Germany, it was published in the year that the first regular, direct steam ship link between Hamburg and London was introduced. Given the presence of an advertisement in German, and an extensive second part consisting of 36 dialogues 'founded on the foregoing examples' making reference to English locations and goods/services, the work was clearly designed to service the emergent market of German tourists and commercial visitors to England.
The aforementioned dialogues, under headings such as 'Shipping' ('He has been accustomed to the West-India trade all his life'), 'In the Country' ('I went with my friend G. yesterday down to his new place at Brotherton') and 'At a booksellers' ('Pray, let me see them; they are indeed very neatly bound; though I should have preferred them, had they been bound in Russia'), are remarkably detailed and occasionally (inadvertently) amusing.
This second edition, which a preface suggests was necessitated by the 'rapid sale' of the first edition, is the earliest that we can locate in the usual databases. COPAC locates only two copies (BL and Oxford); OCLC adds just two more (Alabama and Stanford).
£ 450
WARS OF THE ROSES REVISITED
85) [YORK AND LANCASTER]. A Compendious history of the Royal Families of york and lancaster; From the Time of k. henry IV. Until the reign of k. henry VIII. Giving an account of The most Remarkable Passages, Battles, Sieges and Stratagems of War that happened during the time those two Noble Houses contended for the Crown of england. London. Printed, and are to be sold by J. Taylor, 1688. First edition.
12mo. [12], 228pp. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, slight surface loss to lower board, cracking to upper joint at foot. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, ink shelf-reference to recto of FFEP, very occasional marking, slight loss to margin of leaf K11.
A rare historical survey of the Wars of the Roses, pointedly issued, as the lengthy preface to the reader indicates, to remind contemporary readers of the importance of having but one claimant to the English throne, warning against 'MOCK-PRINCES and WOULD-BE-KINGS, as Symnel and Perkin', and of the lineage of 'our Present Sovereign, James the Second', who derived 'his Title from the happy Union of the two Houses'.
Most likely published in the first ten or 11 months of 1688, before the landing of William of Orange, it is perhaps unsurprising, given the events of the Glorious Revolution, that few copies of such an historical justification for the reign of a deposed King appear to have survived. ESTC records a single in the British Isles (Cambridge), and two in North America (Private Collection and Yale).
ESTC R174198, Wing C5607A. £ 950
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