JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since 1972 post office box 366 • princeton, new jersey 08542 usa tel (609 ) 924-0539 • fax (609 ) 924-9078 e-mail felcone @felcone.com • web site www.felcone.com È Loose Ends SOURCE OF THE GAMBIA AND SENEGAL 1. (AFRICA). Mollien, Gaspard Théodore, comte de. Resa i det inre Afrika, till Floderna Sene •als och Gambias K űllor... Stockholm: Ecksteinska, 1825. [8], xi, [1], 178 p. Neat modern calf-backed boards. A fine copy, with the final blank leaf. $300 Swedish edition of Mollien's travels in West Africa in 1818 and the account of his discovery of the source of both the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. THOMAS GOSDEN, BOOKBINDER: A FINE, FRESH COPY 2. ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING. An English XIX Century Sportsman Bibliopole and Binder of Angling Books . New York: Dodd, Mead, 1906. xvii, [1], 59, [11] p. Engraved title page and en- graved plates. Japan vellum over boards. A fine, fresh copy in a fine just jacket. $500 One of 125 copies of a total edition of 157 copies. The only major account of the nineteenth- century English sporting binder Thomas Gosden. A beautifully produced book, and very difficult to find in the gold-stamped dust jacket, particularly in the fine condition of this one. THE POLARIS EXPEDITION 3. (ARCTIC EXPLORATION). Davis, Charles H., ed. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U. S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding . Washington, 1876. 4to. [2], 696 p. Dbl. frontis, 46 plates. Cloth. Extremities lightly worn, spine ends chipped, but a clean and tight copy of a heavy book. $300 First edition. The official account of the Polaris's expedition to the North Pole during the years 1871 to 1873, under the command of Charles Francis Hall. This was Hall's third and last Arctic expedition. Arctic Bibliography 18382. WITH ENGRAVED PLATES OF ARMOR 4. (ARMOR). Grose, Francis. A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons . London: For S. Hooper, 1786. 4to. 118, xviii, [2] p. + inserted "Explanation/errata" leaf. Frontis., engraved title, 1 text engraving, and 48 engraved plates by John Hamilton. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt (hinges cracked but held by cords, extremities worn). Light scattered foxing, but a very good copy. $600 First edition. A profusely illustrated treatise on early English arms and armor. Colas 1337; Lipperheide 2401. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF BRUCE'S AFRICAN TRAVELS 5. BRUCE, JAMES. An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. Abridged . by Samuel Shaw . New York: For Berry and Rogers, 1790. 12mo. 380, 4 p. Engraved folding map, "Africa," by T. Jefferys. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked with original label laid down. Nineteenth-century signature of Benj. H. Smith, probably the Philadelphia cartographer. Usual moderate foxing common to American books of this period, else a very good copy. $550 First American edition of Samuel Shaw's popular abridged edition of Bruce's travels into Africa, first published in London earlier in the year. Evans 23228. NAVAL HISTORY 6. CAMPBELL, JOHN. Naval History of Great Britain, including the History and Lives of the British Admirals . London: For John Stockdale, 1813. 8 vols. 8 ports., 11 maps and charts. Modern cloth over contemporary boards, modern calf spines. Rather heavy offsetting from the plates, most noticeable on each titlepage, else a good tight and clean set. Armorial bookplate of Buckle. $650 The Stockdale edition of this classic naval history, first published between 1742 and 1744 as Lives of the British Admirals and revised and enlarged to continue through the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars to the close of 1812. Howes C94. SAMMELBAND OF 14 PAMPHLETS ON POPERY, 1686-1689 7. (CATHOLIC CHURCH). Sammelband of 14 pamphlets on the popery controversy, 1686-1689. Lon- don, 1686-1689. 4to. With a manuscript list of contents in an unidentified contemporary hand on a blank leaf at the front. All very good except as noted. Rebound in mid-nineteenth-century half morocco, front cover detached. $4500 Many of the pamphlets are answers, rebuttals, &c., to other pamphlets within the collection. The contents and Wing numbers: (1) [William Wake], A Discourse Concerning the Nature of Idolatry (1688), W-239; (2) [William Wake], The Missionarie's Arts Discovered (1688), W-246A; (3) [William Wake], A Defence of the Missionaries Arts (1689), W-238; (4) Vigne, Sure and Honest Means for the Conversion of all Hereticks (1688), V-379; (5) Wholsome Advices from the Blessed Virgin, to her Indiscreet Worshippers (1687), W-2090A (old repair in margin of E2 costing two letters); (6) [James Taylor], A Letter to the Misrepresenter of Papists (1687), T-285; (7) [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet], A Pastoral Letter from the Lord Bishop of Meaux, to the New Catholics of his Diocess (1686), B-3787 (lacks prelim. advt. leaf); (8) The Answer of the New Converts of France, to a Pastoral Letter (1686), A-3297; (9) [John Gother], The Pope's Supremacy Asserted (1688), G- 1344; (10) [Thomas Watts?], Dialogues between Philerene and Philalethe . Concerning the Pope's Supremacy (1688), W-1156 (tiny burn hole in F3-4 costing a letter or two); (11) [Edward Gee], A Letter to the Superiours, (whether Bishops or Priests) which Approve or License the Popish Books in England (1688), G-457; (12) [Luke Beaulieu], A Discourse Shewing that Protestants are on the Safer Side (1687), B-1572; (13) Pierre Jurieu, The Reflections of the Reverend and Learned Monsieur Jurieu, upon the Strange and Miraculous Exstasies of Isabel Vincent (1689), J-1212; (14) [Thomas Tenison and William Clagett], The Present State of the Controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome (1687), C-4390 (lacks F1-2 at end). 8. (CHESS). Lewis, William. Elements of the Game of Chess, or A New Method of Instruction in that Celebrated Game... New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1827. 275 p. Illus. Original boards, uncut; ama- teurishly, but neatly, rebacked in buckram with new endsheets and a typewritten label. First and last few leaves noticeably foxed. $225 First American edition, "revised and corrected by an American amateur." First printed in London in 1822. Shoemaker 29494. FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF FRANKLIN'S "MORALS OF CHESS" 9. (CHESS). [Twiss, Richard]. Chess . London: For G.G.J. & J. Robinson and T. & J. Egerton, 1787 [-1789]. 2 vols. ii, 194, [1] p.; xv, [1], 272 p. Engraved title and one engraved plate in each volume. Contemporary tree calf, skillfully rebacked in period style. Boards crazed around the edges, scattered foxing in vol. 1. Very good copies. Armorial bookplate of George Barrington. $1200 First edition of a delightful eighteenth-century anthology and bibliography of the game of chess. The book has always been sought after by Franklin collectors as it contains the first book appearance of Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of Chess," published here shortly after its first appearance in print in the Columbian Magazine of December 1786. COKE ON MANORS AND MANORIAL LAW 10. COKE, EDWARD. The Compleate Copy-Holder wherein is contained a Learned Discourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Manors and Copy-holds.... London: For Matthew Walbanck, and Richard Best, 1644. [4], 16, 13-203 p. Neat modern full calf, in period style. Worm trail toward end of text but confined largely to margin, margins close on title page but ample, else very good. $750 Second edition, following the first edition of 1641. The great English legal mind on copyholds and manorial law. This work effectively marked the triumph of the king's courts over the feudal courts. Wing C-4913. DODSON'S TABLE'S FOR COMPUTATION 11. DODSON, JAMES. The Calculator: being, Correct and Necessary Tables for Computation, Adapted to Science, Business, and Pleasure . London: For John Wilcox, and James Dodson, 1747. 4to. [8], 174, [2] p. Contemporary calf, worn and dry at extremities; neatly but a bit unsympathetically rebacked. Scattered foxing, heavier on title page. Early stamps of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Mathematical Society, Spitalfields. A good copy. $1200 First edition. All manner of tables and calculations for ready reference. Goldsmiths' Library 8268; Wellcome II p. 476. IMPORTANT NINETEENTH-CENTURY EDITION OF FROISSART 12. FROISSART, JEAN. Les Chroniques de Sire Jean Froissart . Paris: Société du Panthéon Littéraire, 1953-52. 3 vols. Contemporary half morocco, spines gilt in compartments. Some dampstaining in gutter of vol. 3, some foxing, else a very good copy. $150 An important nineteenth-century edition of Froissart edited by J. A. C. Buchon. THE INSECTS OF FRANCE 13. GEOFFROY, ETIENNE L. Histoire Abrégée des Insectes . Paris: Calixte-Volland and Rémont, an VII [i.e., 1799]. 4to. 2 vols. [4], xxviii, 556 p.; [4], 744 p. Fold. table. 22 hand colored plates. Mid- nineteenth-century French half morocco, spines gilt. A very good copy, clean and fresh. $1200 Later edition, revised and enlarged. Chiefly a study of the insects of the Paris area. Nissen, ZBI , 1522. 14. GLASSTONE, SAMUEL, and MILTON C. EDLUND. The Elements of Nuclear Reactor Theory . New York, [1952].vii, [1], 416 p. Illus. Bound in full brown morocco, for the publisher, with his bookplate. Trifling rubbing of the hinges, else near fine. Signed by both authors. $125 First edition of an early work in the field. The publisher's own copy, specially bound. 15. GLASSTONE, SAMUEL. Principles of Nuclear Reactor Engineering . New York, [1955].ix, [1], 861 p. Illus. Bound in full crimson morocco, for the publisher, with his bookplate. Trifling rubbing of the hinges, else near fine. $125 First edition of an early work in the field. The publisher's own copy, specially bound. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, IN A LOVELY CONTEMPORARY BINDING 16. GODWIN, WILLIAM. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on Morals and Happiness .