PAMPHLETS FROM NEWBATTLE ABBEY 2019 (+44) 01929 556 656 | [email protected] | www.antiquates.co.uk ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS The following 60 pamphlets were recently dispersed from an accumulation of books at Newbattle Abbey, Midlothian, Scotland. A former Cistercian monastery, Newbattle became the seat of the Kerr family when the son of the commendator of the Abbey, Mark Kerr, was created Lord Newbattle (1591) and Earl Lothian (1606). Later courtesy titles were bestowed upon the same family, including the Earldom of Ancram, and in 1701 the fourth Earl, Robert Kerr, was further ennobled, becoming the first Marquess Lothian. The Abbey remained in the family until it became a College of Education in 1937. The inclusion of presentation copies in this list is unsurprising. The family’s position amongst the British, Scottish and Irish landed gentry, connections with Scotland, England (where several Marquesses were MPs before taking their titles) and Ireland, and the military and constitutional roles of several of the Marquesses ensured access to vast social networks and interest in a wide-range of political events. Topics included in this list therefore include the French Revolution, British radicalism, the Irish Act of Union, various royal and constitutional crises, and even the American Civil War. Recipients of several volumes, and likely earlier owners of the works contained herein include: General William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian KT (1737-1815) was a British soldier and peer, styled Lord Newbottle until 1767 and the Earl of Ancram from 1767 to 1775, when he succeeded his father as Marquess. William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, KT, FRSE (1763-1824) was also a soldier, landowner and representative peer between 1817-1824. John William Robert Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian PC (1794-1841), styled Lord Newbottle until 1815, and Earl of Ancram 1815- 1824, was a Scottish Tory politician. He briefly served as a government official in Peel’s second ministry. William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (1832-1870). The pamphlets are generally in tremendously unsophisticated state, largely stitched, as issued, and variously with and without wrappers. 2 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS 1) [ADAIR, Robert, Sir]. A whig's apology for his consistency; in a letter from a member of parliament to his friend in the borough of ****. London. Printed for J. Debrett, 1795. First edition. 8vo. [4], 72, 161-192, 73-160, 193-198pp, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal publisher's advertisement leaf. Several gathering misbound. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Contemporary inked annotation to title- page, inked inscription to head of p.1, gathering 'G' (p.41-48) detached, lightly spotted/dust-soiled, some creasing. The sole edition of Whig politician Sir Robert Adair's (1763-1855) impassioned defence of Charles James Fox (1749-1806) and his opposition to Britain's involvement in the French Revolutionary Wars. ESTC T28306. £ 125 2) BARRUEL, [Augustin]. Lettrer d'un voyageur a l'abbe barruel ou nouveaux documens pour ses memoires, nouvelles decouvertes faites en allemange, anecdotes sur quelques grands personnages de ce pays, chronique de la secte, &c. [London]. Se vend chez A. Dulau et Co. et al., 1800. First edition. 8vo. [2], iv, [2], 191pp, [2]. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued, in original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly spotted, significant loss to spine panel. Short tear to upper margin of leaf L3, some worming to gutter margins throughout. The sole printing of a series of letters on the politics, customs, and prominent figures of the German territories of the late eighteenth-century, that though claiming to be written by a 'Voyageur' to Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel (1741-1820), are likely the work of Barruel himself. The composition of the letters (and the lengthy appendix) would seem to suggest Barruel is more concerned with furthering his own agenda rather than providing an accurate account of the region. In his Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire du Jacobinisme (1797-99), Barruel set forth his anti-revolutionary conspiracy theory, asserting that the Jacobins, in league with the Bavarian Illuminati and Freemasons, had designs to overthrow Christianity and as such had instigated the French Revolution - ideas that are once more referenced in the present work. ESTC record copies at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and a further five worldwide (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Harvard, Philadelphia, Wayne State, and Yale). ESTC T80011. £ 200 3 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS RISE OF NAPOLEON 3) [BESCHER, Rene-Francois]. Causes de la chute de louis XVIII. A Paris. Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, [1815]. First edition. 8vo. 15pp, [1].With a half-title. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Lightly dust-soiled, some creasing. The sole edition of a rare pamphlet by French journalist Rene- Francois Bescher (1763-c.1830) recounting the events surrounding the exile of Louis XVIII and the rise of Napoleon following the French Revolution. OCLC records copies at only two locations (BnF and Strasbourg). £ 150 4) BIGOT DE SAINTE-CROIX, L[ouis] C[laude]. Histoire de la conspiration du 10 aout 1792. Londres [i.e. London]. [R. Edwards], [1793]. 8vo. [8], 161pp, [1], vi, [2]. With a half-title and a terminal errata leaf. Uncut, stitched into original publisher's plain blue paper wrappers. Extremities lightly marked. Contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to half-title and title-page, worming to gutter margins throughout. Louis Claude Bigot de Sainte-Croix's (1744-1803) account of the tumultuous events of the Insurrection of 10th August 1792, the decisive blow by the Paris Commune which saw the downfall of the French monarchy. The author had been appointed Foreign Minister just 10 days previously, and as a dedicated Royalist was forced into self-imposed exile. ESTC T6296. £ 100 4 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS PRESENTATION COPY 5) [BLANE, Gilbert]. Inquiry into the causes and remedies of the late and present scarcity and high price of provisions, in a letter to the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, K. G. first lord of the admiralty &c. &c. &c. London. Printed for J. Wright, 1800. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued. Lightly creased and spotted, inked correction to text of p.4, small hole to page numbers of leaf E4. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of half-title; 'To the Countess of Carnarvon / with Dr. Blanes kind compliments.' An inquiry by physician Sir Gilbert Blane (1749-1834) into the cause of food shortages in Britain at the turn of the nineteenth-century. Blane, with extensive reference to Adam Smith’s (1723-1790) The Wealth of Nations (London, 1776), concludes that the scarcity of resources is the result of adverse weather throughout 1799, and subsequent failure for agricultural supply to meet demands, the reduction of imports and increased consumption due to conflict on the Continent during the French Revolutionary Wars, and, less directly, the continued assize of bread - not to be addressed until the Bread Acts of 1822 and 1836. Blane had been directly appointed by Lord Spencer to the service of the Royal Navy as commissioner for sick and wounded seamen, a position he held from 1795 until the treaty of Amiens in 1802. The focus of the letter upon the detrimental effects of the food shortages on military personnel is testament to his devotion to the services which had most clearly be evidenced in his Treatise on the Scurvy (1753) and his instrumental role in the rationing of anti- scorbutic lemon juice to sailors. ESTC T37243. £ 450 PREDICTIONS OF THE FRENCH REVOLLUTION 6) [BONNAY, Charles-Francois, marquis de]. Le prophete jonas. Juillet 1793 par un emigre. A Ninive. [s.n.], [1793]. Seconde edition. 8vo. [2], 38pp. Uncut, stitched into original publisher's drab paper wrappers. Lightly dust-soiled, contemporary inked ownership inscription to upper wrapper; 'Monsieur De la Galailiere / a Moleubeck', likely the Marquis de la Galailiere, state councillor and intendant of justice and finances in Lorraine province. A revised edition of politician Charles-Francois Bonnay's (1750- 1825) predictions on the course of French Revolution, presented in the form of a dialogue between the author and the 'Thinker'. £ 100 5 ANTIQUATES – FINE & RARE BOOKS 7) BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, J[acques] P[ierre]. J. P. brissot, deputy of eure and loire, to his constituents, on the situation of the national convention; on the influence of the anarchists, and the evils it has caused; and on the necessity of annihilating that influence in order to save the republic. London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1794. New edition. 8vo. xl, 121pp, [15]. With a 14pp terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue, ESTC calls for 15 terminal advertisement leaves, but other copies appear to be known as here. Uncut and partially unopened, stitched, as issued. Inked ownership inscription to title-page, else clean and crisp. Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754-1793), was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution. He became a leading Abolitionist, and founded in Paris an anti- slavery group Society of the Friends of the Blacks, of which he was president. ESTC T126841. £ 75 8) [BROUGHAM AND VAUX, Henry Brougham, Baron]. Observations on Mr. brougham's bill "for better providing the means of education for his majesty's subjects;" shewing it's inadequacy to the end proposed, and the danger which will arise from it to the causes of religious liberty. London. Printed by T. Bensley, 1821. First edition. 8vo. 30pp, [2]. With half-title. Stitched, as issued. Lightly creased, spotted, and dust-soiled. An anonymous attack of Chancellor Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux's (1778-1868) bill of 1820 calling for education to be state- supported. The bill was ultimately unsuccessful, failing due to sectarian religious divisions.