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View Catalogue MISCELLANY TWELVE MISCELLANY FOREST BOOKS FOREST BOOKS MISCELLANY TWELVE ForestMisc12Cover.qxp_Forest110cover 01/06/2021 11:47 Page 2 A CATALOGUE OF RARE AND CURIOUS BOOKS, PAMPHLETS & PRINTED EPHEMERA On a wide variety of subjects. Including: Agriculture, Architecture, Botany, Children’s Books, Crime & Law, Cookery, Economics, Education, English Literature, The Fine Arts, Geology, Horticulture, Ireland, Military & Naval, Natural History, Photography, Social Studies, Science & Medicine, Sporting Books, Technology, Trade Catalogues, Travel & Topography, etc. Offered for Sale, at the prices affixed, by Forest Books Normanton-on-Cliffe Summer, 2021 FOREST BOOKS Carlton View, 17 Main Street, Normanton-on-Cliffe, Grantham, Lincs. NG32 3BH. England. Telephone: 01400 251865 [International +44 1400 251865] e-mail: [email protected] website: www.forestbooks.co.uk 1. All the books in this catalogue are 8vo and published in London unless otherwise described. 2. A digital image of any item can be supplied on request. 3. Prices are net, and postal and insurance charges are extra. 4. Books for overseas will normally be despatched by air mail. 5. Any item found unsatisfactory may be returned within seven days of receipt. 6. Sterling cheques should be drawn on a bank based in the United Kingdom; otherwise bank transfer may be made to HSBC Bank plc, 88, Westgate, Grantham, Lincs, NG31 6LF, England. Sort Code: 40-22-19 Account No. 11285017. 7. Payment may be made by Mastercard or Visacard. Please state card number, name and statement address of cardholder, expiry date, and security number when ordering. 8. We are always interested in purchasing books, either individual items of merit, or collections, and are happy to call with a view to purchase. 9. Finally, we hope you will enjoy this catalogue and show it to any friends who are likely to have an interest in its contents. Front cover illustration 189; inside back cover 115 FOREST BOOKS MISCELLANY TWELVE 1. ADDINGTON (Anthony) An Essay on the Sea-Scurvy: Wherein is Proposed an Easy Method of Curing that Distemper at Sea; and of Preserving Water Sweet for any Cruize or Voyage. Reading: Printed by C. Micklewright, 1753. £475.00 First edition, 8vo (200 x 120 mm), vii, [1], 47, [1]pp., errata slip pasted to verso of A4, title page a little browned and stained, library call number to verso, recent blue cloth. Anthony Addington (1713-1790) was a physician who ministered to, among others, William Pitt the elder and George III. In this work he proposes adding hydrochloric acid to water to keep it fresh, but this proved to be of little practical value in preventing scurvy. Wellcome II, p.15; Blake, p.5. 2. [AIKIN (John) & BARBAULD (Anna Laetitia, Aikin)] Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget Opened. Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Intruction and Amusement of Young Persons. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794-98. £295.00 6 Vols., in two, vols., 1-3 are second editions, vol. 4-6 are presumed first editions, 12mo (140 x 85 mm), iv, 152; iv, 152; iv, 161, [1]; [2], 156; iv, 151, [1]; iv, 152pp., upper margin closely shaved touching several page numbers and running titles, near cont. half calf, rubbed, spine of vol. II peeling, leather spine labels a little chipped. "Maria Edgeworth praised this collection of stories, poems, and dialogues designed to provide entertainment for thirty evenings."—Osborne. Vols. 1-4 are dated 1794, vol. 5 & 6 dated 1796. Osborne Collection I, p.230. 3. ANDERSON (Elbert) The Skylight and the Dark-Room: A Complete Text-Book on Portrait Photography. Containing the Outlines of Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Acoustics, Heat, Optics, Chemistry, and a Full and Comprehensive System of the Art of Photographic. With Twelve Splendid Explanatory Photographs, and Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations. Philadelphia: Benerman & Wilson, 1872. £1,975.00 First edition, small 4to (220 x 165 mm), viii, [1], 10-234pp., 12 actual photographs laid- down of 5 plates, numerous illustrs., within the text, some light scattered spotting, mottling to endpapers, original publisher's bevelled green cloth, gilt vignette to upper cover, a very good copy. A rare and comprehensive guide to the science and method of portrait photography, illustrated with 12 original photographic examples of how to set up and mount the perfect portrait. It was described in an 1872 issue of The Photographic Times as "the most complete, elaborate, and comprehensive work on photography that has ever been published." FOREST BOOKS MISCELLANY TWELVE Elbert Anderson was employed by the Kurtz's Studio, New York. "Beginning in the 1860s, vignetted heads and upper torsos became a popular style of portrait photographs known as the "Rembrandt style". Kurtz perfected a process using a series of reflectors to concentrate and bounce sunlight onto the subject's face. With the subject seated against a dark background, the result emphasized strong features and masked weaker ones."—Jezierski, Enterprising Images, p.69. MADRAS PRINTING 4. ANDERSON (James) Letters for Promoting the Silk Manufacture on the Coast of Coromandel: by James Anderson, M. D. and A. M. Physician General, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and Member of the Society of Platers of St. Helena. Madras: Printed by J. D. Matthews, 1794. £875.00 First edition, small 4to (180 x 120), [2], 46pp., upper margins closely cropped, encroaching into "Letters" at head of title page, recent cloth-backed marbled boards, leather gilt titled label on upper cover. A rare Madras printing of one of several publications by the surgeon and horticulturist James Anderson (1738-1809) on his project of producing silk on the Coromandel Coast in India. Presented as a series of letters, it offers an interesting insight into the venture and silk production at the time in general. Not in Kraul. 5. ANDERTON PARK ESTATE, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM. Anderton Park Estate, Moseley. Particulars, Plans and Views of the Wake Green & Woodfield Estates Delightfully situated about 2½ miles from the centre of Birmingham... Lately the Property of the Devisees of Isaac Anderton, Esq. Deceased, Comprising the Commodious Family Residence & Pleasure Grounds in Belle Walk, known as "The Mansion House,"... also the Pleasantly situated Residence, called "Woodfield"... to be Sold by Auction by Messers. Grimley and Son, on 9th Aughust 1877. Birmingham: Moody Brothers, Caxton Steam Printing Works, 1877. £275.00 Slim folio (440 x 285 mm), 11, [3]pp., two tinted oval lithograph frontispieces (one of 'The Mansion House', the other 'Woodfield House'), 10 pages of details of 100 lots within the sale, 2 page conditions of sale and three folding coloured lithographic maps, publishers limp green card covers with calligraphic title to upper cover, lacks spine, some light dust soiling and a couple of chips to margins, but overall a very good copy. A rare auction catalogue, not listed on JISC. Forest12Pics052041.qxp_ForestBooks 01/06/2021 12:02 Page 1 Item 1 Item 3 Item 7 FOREST BOOKS MISCELLANY TWELVE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 6. ANGELO (Domenico Malevolti Tremamondo) The School of Fencing, with a General Explanation of the Principal Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art. Dedicated to their Royal Highnesses The Duke of Gloucester and Prince Henry-Frederic. London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1765. £3,450.00 Second edition, first English, oblong folio (295 x 480 mm), [6], 63, [5]pp., parallel English and French texts, with an additional French title page, 47 fine engraved plates by Ruyland and Hall after J. Gruyn, some foxing and spotting (worse to the first few text leaves and plates), also a little light offsetting, plate 16 with a closed tear just touch outer border of image, expertly rebound in half sprinkled tan calf, period marbled sides, red morocco label. Provenance: Unidentified bookplate with crest of an ass's head holding an arrow, the motto "Faire mon devoir." The first edition with English text of this most important and beautifully illustrated work on fencing, preceded by the French edition published in 1763 as L'ecole des armes avec l'explication générale des principales attitudes et positions concernant l'escrime. A later London edition appeared in 1787, but this was a reduced octavo rather than the more desirable folio format as here. The 47 finely engraved plates were drawn from life for which Angelo posed as principal model and "it was widely praised for its elegant style, the usefulness of its illustrations, and its original emphasis on fencing as a source of gentlemanly exercise rather than as a necessary preparation for duel... The success of his [fencing] school, together with his guide to fencing, guaranteed Angelo's place in a social circle which included men like David Garrick, Thomas Sheridan, Samuel Foote, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, and Christian Bach. Among his friends Angelo also counted the chevalier d'Eon, who stayed for a time at Carlisle House, where he gave fencing lessons."—(Oxford DNB). Cohen-de Ricci, p.83; Thimm, p.10. 7. ASTLEY (Philip) Astley's System of Equestrian Education, Exhibiting the Beauties and Defects of the Horse; with Serious and Important Observations on his General Excellence, Preserving him in Heath, Grooming, &c. Dublin: Printed and Published by Thomas Burnside, 1802. £345.00 Eighth edition, 8vo (205 x 120 mm), xvi, 197, [1]pp., frontispiece silhouette portrait of Astley and 9 engraved plates, in an elegant twentieth century half green morocco binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine lightly faded, spine lettered in gilt direct, t.e.g. Philip Astley (1742-1814), equestrian performer and circus proprietor. As well as being considered the creator of the modern circus (Astley's Amphitheatre), Astley also had a very successful career in the Army. At the age of 17 he enrolled in the 15th Light Dragons, a cavalry regiment newly formed by Colonel Granville Elliott.
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