Watts (Isaac) Divine Songs attempted in Easy Language, for the Use of Children, woodcut portrait, title with decorative wavy border, 36 woodcut illustrations, original pictorial wrappers printed in green with St.John and eagle on upper cover and St.Mark and lion on lower, by Robert Bassam, 1800 § Mother's Gift to her Daughter (A), contemporary red morocco with wavy gilt border, rubbed, spine ends worn and split at foot, L.B.Seeley, 1809 § Letter to Children (A), original printed buff wrappers, Newport, 1839 § Way to Convert a Cottage into a Palace (The), fifth edition, original printed brick-red wrappers, Wellington, Salop, F.Houlston & Son, n.d.; and 14 others, similar, mostly original wrappers, together in nineteenth century tree calf "book" box with hinged lid/spine, spine gilt with red morocco label "Dictionaries" and ownership crest "RJ" at head, a little rubbed, 12mo (18)⁂ The first is not listed by ESTC in this edition and Library Hub cites Oxford University only.
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Game.- Fox (George) New Moral & Entertaining Game of the Mansion of Happiness, folding hand-coloured engraved game of two rows of panels with virtues and vices spiralling around central view of "Oatlands, the Mansion of Happiness" with young women playing instruments flanked by explanation and rules, dissected and mounted on cloth, c.465 x 570mm., rather soiled, some sections a little creased at edges, verso mottled, original cloth slip-case, upper cover with ink manuscript label mounted on red paper panel edged in gilt, lower with red paper panel stamped with stag pierced by an arrow in gilt, rubbed and soiled, tight in slip-case, [Whitehouse p.51], 8vo, Robert Laurie & James Whittle, 1800.
Game.- Harris (John, publisher) Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George the Third, folding hand-coloured engraved sheet of clockwise spiral of small circular portraits and scenes around central portrait of George III, dissected and mounted on linen, c.560 x 530mm., contemporary ink signature "Ann Sophia Harvey" to verso, J.Harris & J.Wallis, 1803 § Historical Pastime..., folding hand-coloured engraved sheet with central portrait of George IV, c.495 x 485mm., E.Wallis and J.Harris & Son, [c.1828], both dissected and mounted on linen, rather soiled and stained, the first with a few creases to corners and pencil scribble to edge of image, [Whitehouse pp.27 & 29], small 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ The second is in the style of the first although with different scenes and portraits and with George IV at the centre.
Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) The New Game of Human Life, folding hand-coloured engraved game of two rows of 84 panels in anticlockwise spiral around central rules and with directions in corners, dissected and mounted on linen, c.480 x 690mm., soiled, a few small stains or smudges, wormtracks with some loss to a few panels on extreme left and right (nos.40 'Romance Writer', 42 'Orator', 16 'Obstinate Youth', 17 'Rebellious Youth' & 18 'Gallant') and to rules at centre, [Whitehouse p.46], 8vo, John Wallis & E.Newbery, 1790.⁂ Race game following the course of a man's life, from 'The Infant' to 'The Immortal Man', with 12 panels representing each of the seven ages: Infancy to Youth 1-12, Manhood 13-24, Prime of Life 25-36, Sedate Middle Age 37-48, Old Age 49-60, Decrepitude 61-72, Dotage 73-84. The moral tone of the game is enforced by the encouragement to use a spinning totum "to avoid introducing a Dice Box into private Families" while any player landing on no.63 'The Drunkard' has to move back to 'The Child' at no.2 and on no.77 'The Satyrist' back to 'The Malignant Boy' at no.8.Library Hub records only 2 UK copies (BL and University of Bristol).
Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) An Arithmetical Pastime; intended to Infuse the Rules of Arithmetic, under the idea of Amusement, folding hand-coloured stipple-engraved game of 100 circular spaces in spiral form, with facing letterpress directions, rules and verses, dissected and mounted on linen, the whole c.315 x 715mm., contemporary ink signature "Ann Sophia Grut 1813" to verso, very soiled, some stains, some sections creased and chipped at edges (mainly letterpress), J.Wallis, printed by F.Vigurs, [early 19th century] § Harris (John, publisher) Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England, folding hand-coloured engraved sheet of clockwise spiral of small circular portraits and scenes around central portrait of William IV, dissected and mounted on linen, c.490 x 480mm., contemporary ink inscription to upper left corner, light staining to corners, E.Wallis and J.Harris & Son, [c.1835] § Historical Pastime..., folding hand-coloured engraved sheet with central portrait of Queen Victoria, dissected and mounted on linen, c.480 x 475mm., some ink stains, original embossed green cloth slip-case, upper cover with title and decorations in gilt, E.Wallis and J.Harris & Son, [c.1837], [Whitehouse pp.33 & 29], small 4to (3)⁂ The third is a reprint of the second but with portrait of a young Queen Victoria replacing William IV and with 2 additional spaces for the succession of William IV and the Abolition of Slavery.
Game.- Wallis (John, publisher) Science in Sport or the Pleasures of Natural Philosophy; A New & Instructive Game, folding engraved sheet with 30 vignettes around larger central view of Niagara Falls with 4 small portraits of Boyle, Descartes, Franklin and Bacon flanked by descriptions and rules, dissected and mounted on linen, c.435 x 560mm., contemporary ink signature "P.J.?Grut 1814" to verso, a little soiled, a few stains, a few sections slightly creased at corners, [Whitehouse p.35], small 4to, John Wallis, 1805.⁂ Very rare game featuring scientific experiments, inventions and natural phenomena including fireworks, lightning, a camera obscura, diving bell, and volcano; a companion game to The Pleasures of Astronomy issued a year earlier. Library Hub lists only one copy in the UK (Queen's University Belfast).
Game.- Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise spiral around title and larger central view of London, dissected and mounted on linen, c.475 x 625mm., lightly soiled and browned, folding into original board slip-case with hand-coloured engraved pictorial title mounted on upper cover, rather worn, [Whitehouse p.37], tall 8vo, J. & E.Wallis and J.Wallis Junr., 1815.
Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) Wallis's New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of South America with pictorial cartouche of tiger, snakes, parrot, monkey and alligator by J.H.Banks, dissected and mounted on linen, c.680 x 515mm., lightly soiled, one or two small stains, split to linen between two sections, with the very rare booklet of rules and descriptions, original printed pink wrappers, slightly soiled and faded at edges, together in original embossed cloth slip-case, upper cover titled and with decorations in gilt, rubbed and a little faded, small stain and worn patch to upper cover, [Whitehouse p.16], small 4to, [c.1844].⁂ Charming game depicting scenes, geography, flora & fauna of South America including a jaguar, tapir, anacondas, llamas, condor, rhea, whales, collecting juice from an agave tree, washing margin diamonds in troughs, panning gold, a gaucho lassooing wild cattle, the towns of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Lima & Quito, and Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) on the island of Juan Fernandez. It is a companion game to Wallis's Game of the Star-Spangled Banner, or Emigrants to the United States of c.1842, a copy of which was sold in these rooms in November 2019 (lot 275). Library Hub records 3 UK copies of the present game (BL, Cambridge and Oxford) but only the British Library copy is complete with the rules booklet."No.22. Hark at the horrid sounds which proceed from the forest! It is the death roar of a Jaguar which an immense Boa-Constrictor is in the act of crushing to a jelly...You cannot pass him, but must return to No.7.No.66. I see the track of CAYMEN in the mud. Ah! there is one. He plunges in the stream with an unhappy negro whom he has surprised in his tremendous jaws. Now the shrieks of his struggling victim are stifled beneath the waves".
Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) European Travellers, an Instructive Game, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of Europe, dissected and mounted on linen, c.500 x 670mm., colouring rather crude, soiled and lightly worn, some pencil scribblings and scorings (partly erased causing abrasion), creased at edges, folding into original blind-stamped green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, lacking ties, rubbed, a few stains, spine faded, E.Wallis, [c.1845] § Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise spiral around title and larger central view of London, dissected and mounted on linen, c.475 x 630mm., rather soiled and browned, one or two stains, some sections creased at corners, lacking slip-case, J. & E.Wallis and J.Wallis Junr., 1815, [Whitehouse pp.16 & 37], small 4to & tall 8vo (2)⁂ The first is a scarce race game from the Arctic Sea to London via the Urals, depicting polar bears and whales, Cossacks, sledging and troikas in Russia, camels in the Holy Land, porcelain-making in Germany, bull-fighting, wine-making and various city views.
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[Combe (William)] The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial title and 29 plates by George Cruikshank, plates lightly browned, text foxed and with offsetting from plates, a few with nick to fore-edge, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, slight worming to head of joints,[Abbey, Life 356; Cohn 153; Tooley 151], T.Tegg, [1815]; The Tour Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, vignette title and 29 plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light soiling or browning, modern half morocco, Ackermann, 1813; [The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax], together 3 vol., vo1.1 with engraved title stating "ninth edition", hand-coloured aquatint vignette titles in vol.1 & 3 and 78 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Thomas Rowlandson, some light browning, pp.167-170 and one plate loose, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines pictorial gilt (a little faded), Nattali and Bond, [c.1850], [the last two cf.Abbey, Life 266-267 & Tooley 427-429], 8vo (5)
![[Combe (William)] The Dance of Life, a Poem, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional vignette title an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/4bceff8d-f628-4bbc-a29a-abbb01227325/468x382.jpg)
[Combe (William)] The Dance of Life, a Poem, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional vignette title and 24 plates by Thomas Rowlandson, paper guards, a good clean copy in handsome later burgundy morocco, gilt, by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., [Abbey, Life 264; Tooley 410], R.Ackermann, 1817; and another, 8vo (2)
![[Gaspey (Thomas)] Takings; or the Life of a Collegian. A Poem, first edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dagle](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/4a790893-5440-4d78-95a5-abbb011f4b71/468x382.jpg)
[Gaspey (Thomas)] Takings; or the Life of a Collegian. A Poem, first edition, 26 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dagley, light spotting or soiling, mostly to text, imprint of one plate shaved, later half red calf, by Bayntun Rivière, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, [Not in Abbey or Tooley], 1821 § Crowquill (Alfred) Seymour's Humorous Sketches, 2 vol. in 1, 2 additional etched vignette titles and 84 plates, tissue guards, occasional light foxing, later half blue morocco, gilt, by Root & Son, spine gilt, g.e., original pictorial cloth bound in at end (soiled), spine very slightly soiled, 1843, 8vo (2)
Gillray (James) The Caricatures of Gillray; with Historical and Political Illustrations..., bound from the parts with slip to subscribers regarding letterpress descriptions tipped in at p.36, title with ornamental border, 74 etchings with bright contemporary hand-colouring on 71 sheets only (of 86 on 82), some with aquatint, 4 folding and mounted on stubs, title foxed and a little smaller, some light foxing and soiling to plates, mostly marginal, one plate frayed at lower edge and reinforced not affecting image, folding plates with a few tears repaired (mostly to folds or edges), contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine, rather worn, oblong small folio, [London], John Miller...Rodwell & Martin [and] William Blackwood, Edinburgh, [c.1824].
![Laurie & Whittle (publishers) An Hieroglyphic Poetical Epistle, from [a Gentleman] to [a Lady]; The Answer, an Hieroglyph](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/e27bce18-c75f-41c3-bded-abbb011e5df3/468x382.jpg)
Laurie & Whittle (publishers) An Hieroglyphic Poetical Epistle, from [a Gentleman] to [a Lady]; The Answer, an Hieroglyphic Poetical Epistle, from [a Lady] to [a Gentleman], a pair of rhymed letters in the form of rebus, with words or parts of words in the text replaced with illustrations, engravings with original hand-colouring, on wove paper without watermarks, platemark 350 x 230 mm. (13 3/4 x 9 in), marginal cockling and handling creases, particularly to the corners, otherwise some spotting and surface dirt, unframed, 1799.⁂ Scarce. Another pair are held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale.
Napoleonic satire.- Roberts (Piercy, publisher) An English bull dog and a Corsican blood hound, early printing before Thomas Tegg scored through Roberts' inscription, etching with hand-colouring on wove paper without watermark, sheet 270 x 370 mm. (10 5/8 x 14 1/2 in), upper and lower edges trimmed to or just within platemark, two printers' creases and split to upper centre, some surface dirt and damp-stains, unframed, [BM Satires 10080], [circa 1803 or slightly later]; together with Joshua Smith's Playing at Bubbles [BM 10022], Little !!ships!! or John Bull very Inquisitive [BM 9995], both published by Piercy, and with William Holland's John Bull Firing at Mark [Not in BM Satires], and Laurie & Whittle's Johnny Bull, on the look-out [BM 10098], etchings with hand-colouring, various sizes, all but one trimmed to or just within the platemarks, some surface dirt and minor browning, unframed, 1803 (5)
Newton (Richard, 1777-1798), attributed to. More Visitors to John Bull, or the Assess'd Taxes!!!; A Visitor to John Bull for the Year 1799, or, The Assess'd Taxes taking their leave!!, two satires on Pitt's attempts at raising domestic taxation, etching and aquatints with original hand-colouring, 275 x 320 mm. (10 3/4 x 12 1/2 in) and 270 x 370 mm. (10 3/4 x 14 1/2 in), respectively, the former with repair to vertical split running through image, top to bottom, otherwise minor handling creases, unframed, William Holland, 1797-1798; together with Union between England & Ireland, a copy (or more likely the original) in reverse of Rowlandson's satire of the same name, etching and aquatint with hand-colouring, 290 x 255 mm. (11 1/2 x 10 in), handling creases, unframed, William Holland, 1799 (3)Literature:BM Satires 9043; 9280; and 9462.A
Mount Edgcumbe.- Mount Edgcumbe (George, first Earl of, naval officer, 1720-95) 3 Autograph Letters signed "Mt: Edg:" to Robert ?Birt, together 6pp. 2 with address panels, sm. 4to, Paris & Bath, 1783-85, referring to work in the garden at Mount Edgcumbe, "... the next great work to be taken in hand must be the new Green House, for Mt: Edgcumbe is very anxious the fine Orange Trees should be preserved... we will determine upon a plan, & begin the work shall be done this year, and perhaps it may not be amiss to employ some people to clean the Bricks and pull down some of the walls of the old Garden, if they can be of use in the new Green House... . The Gardner should survey well the Ground, that when we come to talk together about laying it out before the Green House he may be perfectly master of the business", folds, small tear where opened, slightly browned.
Bristol.- Jackson (Samuel, 1794-1869) View of the Avon Gorge from Clifton Downs, with Brunel's suspension bridge under construction, oil on board, 265 x 370 mm. (10 12 x 14 1/2 in), with Rowney & Forster 'Flemish Ground Pannel Board' manufacturers label on reverse, several pencil attributions verso to Jackson, and further inscribed 'From [?] Roekel Sale', craqelure and rubbing to extremities, surface dirt and some discolouration to varnish, unframed, [circa 1828-1864]⁂ The Clifton Observatory is visible to the upper left of the image, which the Bristol School artist William West rented in 1828 before installing telescopes and a camera obscura; the west tower of Brunel's Suspension Bridge can be seen to the right. The suspension bridge was completed in 1864.
Cambridgeshire.- Costumes of the Members of the University of Cambridge (The), 44 hand-coloured engraved costumes on 23 pages, folding concertina style, contemporary ink inscription to corner of title, folding into original cloth folder, faded, London and Cambridge, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, [c.1842] § [Harraden (R.)] A Guide through the University of Cambridge, a New Edition, half-title, folding engraved plan, 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, cutting mounted on pastedown, original boards, uncut, Cambridge, 1814 § Brief History of Christ's Hospital (A), fifth edition, half-title with inscriptions, hand-coloured title-vignette of blue-coat boy, engraved frontispiece and 2 plates, a few stains, with additional earlier engraving of Christ-Church Hospital tipped in at beginning, original pictorial boards printed in blue, uncut, 1830 § Descriptive Guide to the...Royal Pavilion at Brighton, hand-coloured frontispiece and 4 plates, original printed wrappers, Brighton, 1851, all a little rubbed; and 2 others, 8vo et infra (6)
Lake District.- Wordsworth (William) & others. A Complete Guide to the Lakes..., edited by the publishers, 3 engraved views, 5 cross-sections, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, some foxing, mostly to views, original green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, a little damp-spotted, 12mo, Kendal, Hudson & Nicholson; London..., 1842.⁂ First edition in this form of a guide to the lakes, containing descriptions of the scenery by Wordsworth and of geology by his friend Rev. Prof. Sedgwick.
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Germany.- [Voddigel (J.S.) & F.C.Klimsch.] [Album von Wiesbaden], suite of 10 engraved views, all finely hand-coloured and heightened with gum arabic, tipped to thick brown leaves with printed decorative borders and captions, one plate with small mark, another with faint stains at corners from adhesive on rear, contemporary ink inscription dated 1859 to front free endpaper, original decorated red cloth, gilt, rubbed and damp-stained, rebacked, new endpapers, oblong 4to, Wiesbaden, C.W.Kreidel, [c.1859].⁂ The number of plates appears to vary, from 10 to 14 plates.
![Cookery & other recipes.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c. 110pp., and 6pp. index at front, numerous other manuscr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/69e3a445-7f2f-4eb7-bed7-abbb011419ca/a4cd04d5-4b3b-4c17-80c0-abbb011e8f4c/468x382.jpg)
Cookery & other recipes.- [Collection of recipes], manuscript, c. 110pp., and 6pp. index at front, numerous other manuscript recipes loosely inserted, ff. loose and working loose, some water-staining affecting legibility, some edges with tears, slightly browned, remains of original boards without coverings, defective, folio, [late 18th century & dated 1840].⁂ Recipes include: "Rice Dumplins"; "a Bread Pudding with fruit"; "Mince Pyes"; "Curde Puffs"; "Metheglin"; "Raison Wine"; "Hedghog"; "Macroons"; "Whitstone Cakes"; "Jug'd Hare"; "Lemon Custards without Milk"; "To Stew Tench"; "Mrs Davies Green Pea Soup"; "Shrewsbury Cakes"; "Cherry Brandy"; "Maggots in Sheep"; "Green Oil"; "etc.
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Italy.- [?Ferrari (Filippo)] Costumi di Roma e di altri Paesi dello Stato Pontificio, etched and hand-coloured throughout with pictorial title & 35 plates, 6 conjoined sheets folding in concertina style, small tear to edge of title, some light spotting and soiling, split to one fold, original blue embossed boards, rubbed, spine and joints worn and slightly chipped, 32mo (c.90 x 65mm.), [Rome], [c.1825].⁂ Charming booklet of costumes of Rome and its surroundings including brigands, wine carriers, monks, Swiss guards, soldiers and many regional figures, particularly women; seemingly a smaller version of Colas 1046.
North America.- Domenech (Abbé Emmanuel) Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America, 2 vol., folding hand-coloured engraved map, 58 wood-engraved plates, many tinted or colour, lacking half-titles and final advertisements, contemporary green calf, spines gilt, 1860 § Murray (Hon. Charles Augustus) Travels in North America, 2 vol., half-title in vol.2 only as called for, 2 lithographed frontispieces, vol.1 with ink signature to head of title, contemporary tan calf, spines gilt, 1839, first editions, both a little rubbed with a few scuffs or marks to boards, [Sabin 20554 & 51490], 8vo (4)
Jenner (Edward).- Salisbury (William) Hints addressed to Proprietors of Orchards..., first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved plates, Edward Jenner's copy with his signature to half-title (also W.Davies), foxed, penultimate leaf with paper flaw to lower margin, original boards, uncut, rubbed and marked, spine worn at foot, 1816; and Part II only (of 2) of Ring's Treatise on Cow-Pox, first edition, original boards, 1803, 12mo & 8vo (2)
Livestock.- Lambert (James) The Country-Man's Treasure, woodcut frontispiece of cow, sheep and hog, with additional variant title, 3pp. advertisements at end, second title with tip of lower outer corner torn away not affecting text or border, E2 torn at upper outer corner with loss of a few letters to 4 lines (neatly supplied in ink manuscript), for Henry Twyford, 1683 bound with Treatise (A) of Oxen, Sheep, Hogs, and Dogs, tear to D7 but no loss, for Obadiah Blagrave, 1683, together 2 works in 1, several 18th century ink signatures and inscriptions (H.Sandford, David Blakway 1750, Thos. Collins 1762, 1763 & 1774) and with extensive annotations and remedies to text and endpapers (small wormtrack to front endpapers), staining, later calf, border of gilt rules and decoration in blind, rebacked and corners repaired, [Wing L232 & T2093; Fussell I, pp.87-88; Smith I p.343, first work only, "I cannot trace a copy"], 8vo ⁂ Two rare veterinary works. The first work, originally published in 1676, appeared in 2 variants with different title-pages; unusually both are present here. The first (ESTC R504352) is titled "The Country-Man's Treasure...by James Lambert" with imprint "for Henry Twyford" and is listed by ESTC as being in a private collection and Yale Beinecke library only, and not in Wing. The second (ESTC R30927) "The Countrymans Treasure...by James Lambart...for Henry Twyford...and Obadiah Blagrave..." appears with 4 UK copies listed - BL, Oxford Bodleian, Wellcome, and Rothamsted, of which the latter was sold in these rooms July 2018 lot 371 (although it was in fact the previous variant).The second work is also rare, with ESTC recording only 4 copies - BL, Wellcome, Rothamsted and Yale Beinecke (Rothamsted copy bound with the first work, sold as previously stated). The annotations concern additional treatments for ailments such as "for anything bitten with a mad dog", "a very good pissing drink for a beast", "for pissing blood" etc.
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Wood.- [Seligmann (Johann Michael)] Icones lignorum exoticorum et nostratium germanicorum ex arboribus, arbusculis et fructibus..., Parts I & II only (of 4) bound in 1 vol., titles with engraved vignettes of putti with trees, titles and text in Latin and German, 24 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, each with 9 samples of different species of wood, first title a little soiled, second with light water-staining at head, occasional spotting or staining, mostly marginal, a few plates with faint damp bloom, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, rubbed, hinges repaired, [Landwehr, Dutch Books with Coloured Plates 84; Nissen BBI 939], 4to, Nuremberg, 1773-74.⁂ Important work on wood featuring beautifully-illustrated cross-sections of European and exotic woods. Originally published with this title and 48 plates but later added to by J.C.Sepp and Martinus Houttuyn to comprise a frontispiece and total of 106 plates (with titles and text in Dutch, German, French, English and Latin).
Incunabula.- Haebler (Konrad) West-European Incunabula. 60 Original Leaves from the presses of the Netherlands, France, Iberia and Great Britain, translated from the German by André Barbey, one of 100 copies, single f. printed title, text volume, library stamp to verso of title, printed wrappers, lightly dusted, 60 window-mounted incunable leaves, each with mounted printed caption label, some ff. rubricated, some spotting or staining to original ff., original cloth drop-back box, frayed, folio, Munich, Weiss & Co., 1928.
Dance.- Caroso (Fabrizio) Il Ballarino, first edition, 2 parts in 1, collation: A-F4; a-z4, Aa-Zz4, †4, Roman and italic type, title with woodcut printer's device, repeated on separate title introducing part 2, engraved portrait by Giacomo Franco of the author within border including his coat-of-arms, 22 full-page engraved illustrations in text (partially repeated) likewise by Franco, within ornamental borders, woodcut decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, printed music and lute tablature, occasional light browning, later red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, covers within triple gilt fillets, spine with five raised bands, compartments richly tooled, title lettered in gilt, marbled pastedowns, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., 4to (233 x 172mm.), Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1581.⁂ A fine copy of the first edition of the most important 16th-century Italian treatise on dancing, and one of the most beautiful dance books ever produced. This copy is of the issue bearing Ziletti's device on the title. Born in Sermoneta, Fabrizio Caroso was a protégé of Felice Maria Orsini Caetani (d. 1596), Duchess of Sermoneta. He spent most of his life in Rome, where he was active as a dancer, 'inventore di scene', dance master, musician and composer. He was the last proponent of the Renaissance Italian dance style, opposing the French danse noble, which had begun to spread across Europe in the last decades of the 15th century. Caroso was not only a practicing dancer, but also a refined theorist, and this work, dedicated to Bianca Capello, provides a vast amount of detail about the dances of the period. The first part illustrates 55 rules for steps, while the more lengthy second part describes 76 separate dances, including the alta, bassa, balletto, pavan, cascarda, saltarello and spagnoletta. Each dance is supplemented with a poem in praise of a different woman, mostly members of Roman noble families, and includes musical notation for the lute. Each of the dances under discussion is designed for one or more pairs of dancers. Throughout the work, Caroso celebrates the concept of 'nobil vivere', and the figure of the well-educated dancer- courtesan. The 22 full-page copper engravings are executed by the renowned artist Giacomo Franco and depict the positions of dancers at the beginning of each of the various dances and cumulatively represent a precious iconographic source not only for the history of dance, but also for that of fashion and the culture of the period in general. Literature: Adams C-755; Mortimer Italian, 106; RISM C, p. 1233; Gregory & Bartlett I, 53; Lipperheide 3055; P. D. Magriel, A Bibliography of Dancing, pp. 42-44; A. Feves, "Fabrizio Caroso and the Changing Shape of the Dance, 1550-1600", Danse Chronicle, 14 (1991), pp. 159-174; P. Gargiulo (ed.), La danza italiana tra Cinque e Seicento. Studi per Fabrizio Caroso da Sermoneta, Roma 1997.
Maritime.- Naval tactics.- Mathematics.- Hoste (Paul) L'Art des armees navales, ou Traite des Evolutions navales, qui contient des regles utiles aux officiers generaux et particuliers d'une armee navale, second edition, title with woodcut floral ornament, engraved arms to head of dedication, 134 plates depicting naval manoeuvres and formations off the coast and out at sea, detailed vignettes and historiated initials, lacking half-title, Bruyset Brothers, 1727 bound with, as often Hoste (Paul) Théorie de la Construction des Vaisseaux, qui contient plusieurs traitez de Mathématique, first edition, engraved large title vignette, 11 folding plates, detailed vignettes and historiated initials, Lyon, Anison & Posuel, 1697, together 2 works in 1 vol., lightly browned throughout, occasional spotting or staining, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, upper joint neatly repaired, rubbed at extremities, [Polak 4512 (note)], small folio⁂ Important works on maritime and naval matters by this French Jesuit mathematician. The first work takes historical naval battles as a basis for the study, including Lepanto (1571).
Maritime.- Rigging.- Lescalier (Daniel) Traité pratique du Gréement des Vaisseaux et autres batimens de mer, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 34 engraved plates, some folding, 'Avertissement' and errata ff. to vol.2, plate 23 with marginal stain, plate 31 with short closed tear, occasional spotting, the odd small stain, contemporary tree calf, richly gilt spines in compartments and with red and dark green morocco labels, heads of spines repaired, rubbed, [Polak 5883], 4to, Paris, Clousier & Firmin Didot, 1791. ⁂ A very good set of the first edition of this classic treatise on the rigging of ships. Lescallier held a number of senior diplomatic posts and wrote extensively on maritime matters, including in 1790 the first French edition of a history of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Jenner (Edward, surgeon and pioneer of smallpox vaccination, 1749-1823) Autograph Letter third person to Mr Long, 1p., 8vo, [London], Bond Street, 26th June [1801], Dr Jenner presents his Compliments to Mr Long & is sorry it is not in his power to send him today any vaccine Virus he can depend upon; but Mr Long may be assured of its being sent as soon as possible. Dr J is happy to find his little Patient has gone thro the Cowpox so pleasantly", endorsed on verso by ?Mr Long and dated 1801, folds, browned; and another, an engraved portrait of Jenner, v.s., v.d. (2).⁂ Probably William Long (1747-1818), surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
Sermons.- Bristow (Samuel, son of Simon Bristow, from later inscription dated 1703 in another hand, fl. 1680) Volume of sermons and religious notes, manuscript in Latin and English, 229pp. excluding blanks, reverse entries, a few ff. excised, a few ink stains, slightly browned, original calf, some surface wear, edges rubbed, 92 x 154mm., dated in text Derby 26th July 1680.⁂ "Suppose ye former Part, to be Heads of Sermons & other Parts his own Thoughts, appears to have been written in Hurry as there are some words mis, spelt, tho' he thoroughly understood as many gt: scholars have said who knew him, the Latin, Greek & Hebrew Languages." -
Wordsworth (William, poet, 1770-1850) Autograph Letter signed to Basil Montagu in Bedford Square, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel, 8vo, n.d. [c. 1810], explaining that "yesterday on returning from the Central School, Mary & I in vain attempted to find out your Bedford Square, having forgotten the number", and asking Montagu's influence on behalf of his brother, who wished to be appointed preacher at Gray's Inn", hole where opened and 2 small holes in the text, folds, slightly browned.
18th century Navigation.- Navigation, manuscript, 174pp., partially ruled in red, 2 folding pen and ink maps hand-coloured in outline, numerous pen and ink diagrams, slightly browned, new endpapers, modern cloth, some edges slightly chipped, folio, dated in text and map at end 1791.⁂ A manual for teaching navigation. Headings include: "A Journal of a Voyage... In the Henry of Whitby... A.B. Commander... Kept by J. Breckon... November 17th 1791"; "Mercator's Sailing. The Construction & Use of the Meridional Parts"; "To work an Observation, or to find the Latitude of a Place by the Tables of the Sun, or Stars..."; "To find the Time of High Water"; "Construction of Mercator's Chart"; "Parallel Sailing" etc. Maps comprise: "A Mercator's Chart... Drawn by Joseph Wilson 1791"; "A Plane Chart" [showing the UK and Europe and its seas].
Richmond Solicitor's diary.- Chapman (Thomas, Richmond solicitor, father of Edward Chapman, bookseller and publisher, 1804-80, co-founder of the publisher Chapman & Hall, 1771-1833) Memorandum Book No. 1 [Diaries], 2 vol., autograph manuscript, together 140pp., second vol. a few ff. with small slash holes, browned, original wrappers, lettered direct on covers, covers with tears and small loss, first vol. upper cover laid down on modern paper, 8vo, 1804 & 1806. ⁂ Diaries of both business and social life. Business transactions include valuing and selling property, mostly in London and Surrey. Social life includes: recording the birth of his son Edward Chapman (later the publisher of Charles Dickens): "Friday 13th January [1804] Mrs Chapman Confined in Bed, a fine Boy born about half past 5 - O'Clock in the Evening - Gave Mr. Smith for attending her - £3", and visiting the theatre, "Tuesday 24th January [1804] Went to Drury Lane in the Evening and saw the Comedy of the Wife of two Husbands; and the Entertainment of Cinderella - Paid for Myself and Mr Barrett 7/10 - Slept at Wills's Coffee House."
Tichborne Claimant.- [Orton (Arthur, perjuror, sentenced to prison, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, of Tichborne Park, Alresford, Hampshire, 1834-98)] Archive of letters and printed works relating to the "Tichborne Claimant", including: (1). 9 Autograph Letters signed "R.C.D. Tichborne" to his legal counsel Edward Kenealy, together 34pp., 8vo, 16th April - 19th November 1873, relating to his trial for perjury, "The small slip of paper I gave you this evening was thrown into my Carriage last evening with some printed letters. Mrs Skipworth was with me at the time, but I did not open the parcel until late last night - there were several printed letters with it. I saw Gibbes of Wagga Wagga [where Orton had worked as a butcher calling himself Tomas Castro] as I left the Court but of course I did not speak to him. I am much pleased with the able manner you handled those two witnesses today, you certainly did all you could, considering that such people use every subterfuge to gain their mean ends - they do not even hesitate to belie a dead Benefactress", and an endorsement of his strategy at court, "I leave my case entirely in your hands for you to conduct to the best of your ability. I have every confidence in your judgement and I trust you will not alter your plans"; (2). Tichborne Estate. Mortgage Debenture 1871, issued by Arthur Orton to raise money for his claim, printed form signed R.C.D. Tichborne, mounted, folio, 1871; and 7 other pieces of printed matter and a folder of printed ephemera (7 pieces) on the Tichborne Claimant, including: (3). The Englishman, weekly newspaper edited by Edward Kenealy, 2 vol., nos. 1-27 & nos. 28-52, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1874-75; (4). Lord Nugent. Ye Dole of Tichborne, second edition, illustrations by V.H. Darwin, browned, ink ownership inscription at head of title, hinges breaking, original cloth, gilt, 1871, v.s., v.d. (c. 23).⁂ Edward Kenealy (1819-80), barrister and writer; famous for his intemperate language as leading counsel for the Tichborne Claimant. In the course of his defence he employed groundless accusations against both the Catholic Church and the witnesses and after the trial was largely ostracised by the legal profession.
Victorian Travel Letters.- Murray (Cecil, of The Grange, Old Windsor, son of Sir Charles Augustus Murray, Sir Charles Augustus, diplomatist and author, 1806-95, died by drinking poison at sea, 1866-96) c. 50 Autograph Letters signed "Cecil" to his mother Edith Murray, a few incomplete, together c. 300pp., 8vo, from on board Yacht Nerine, London, Paris, Algiers, Seville, Corfu and elsewhere, [1886-94], on a variety of subjects including: sea sickness, asking for money, visiting various destinations etc., "You would have laughed our last day at Algiers to see Dallimore; Pulton & myself careering over the hills and far away on Arab steeds - D[allimore] clutching the mane tight whenever we put on full speed", some ff. excised, all with folds, slight browning, ink inscription by Edith Murray leaving the volume to her sister after her death, bound in contemporary morocco, gilt, spine faded, by R. Ingalton Drake.
Autograph Album.- Album assembled by Beatrice Capel, later Lady Michelham, c. 90pp. excluding blanks, including letters, photographs, drawings and inscriptions of many of Europe's high society, politicians, artists and writers, some items crudely mounted with coloured tape, front free silk endpaper loose, hinges weak, bound in contemporary crushed and polished morocco, gilt, "Bertie" stamped in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed, large stain on lower cover, gilt panelled spine, g.e., by Hatchards of Piccadilly, rubbed, oblong 4to, 1895-1911 & 1952.⁂ Items include: various Grace Kelly wedding ephemera, Croation royalty, Madelaine Lemaire watercolour, Suzette Lemaire watercolour, François Coppee poem, Robert de Montesquuou poem, Anatole France poem, Anita Loos postcard and letter, sketches and notes by Robert Hitchens, Princess Mathilde, Maurice de Rothschild, James Armand de Rothschild etc.Beatrice (Berthe, or Bertie) Capel was the daughter of Arthur Capel, shipping merchant, and the sister of Coco Chanel's lover "Boy" Capel. In 1919 she married Herman Alfred Stern, second Baron Michelham of Hellingly (1900-84), of the Stern banking firm.
Kipling (Rudyard, writer and poet, 1865-1936) Autograph Letter signed to J.H. Grieve, in Kassala, Sudan, 3pp. & envelope, sm. 8vo, The Woolsack, Cape Town, [South Africa], 3rd April 1906, answering questions on his short story They, and starting humorously, "I could not read the name of the White Man that sent me the letter from Kassala... May Allah teach him to write perspicuously for at present he is a calamity to the stranger", and continuing gives a response to three questions, "The man would not see the women again because there were spirits in her presence and he would have no traffic with spirits. For it is manifest that the dead are dead and the living are the living and They cannot meet yet the woman being a virgin and blind was permitted to entertain those innocent spirits. To him a man it was forbidden", small tears along folds.⁂ "This strange haunting story of the limbo of lost children not yet ready to feel at home in Heaven ." - Roger Lancelyn Green. There are strong echoes of Kipling's own life in this ethereal story of children who have died. In 1899 his daughter Josephine caught pneumonia in New York and died, a loss from which he never really came to terms with.
Whistler (Rex, artist, 1905-1944).- Whistler (Sir Laurence, glass engraver, writer, and architectural historian, 1912-2000) 15 Autograph Letters signed, Typed Letter signed & 3 Autograph Postcard signed to Gertrude Hill, collector of the works of Rex Whistler, together 32pp. & 1 side and 8 envelopes, 8vo & 90 x 140mm., Holland Park, & Lyme Regis, 8th January 1947 - 18th July 1961, concerning the publication by Laurence Whistler of a book on his brother Rex Whistler, "I wonder whether you would be so kind as to look through the proof of the Appendix to the book on my brother Rex?" and various other aspects of Rex Whistler's work, "My brother Rex made a set of drawings of Clovelly much were used both on chintz and on china... but I can't... remember which firm made the articles...", wrappers designed by Rex Whistler etc., folds; and a quantity of others, including: 3 autograph lists by Laurence Whistler of Rex Whistler's books and dust-jackets, and 24 printed pamphlets and ephemera with illustrations by Rex Whistler (4 nos. only of The Masque, Christmas Card, bookplate, invitation to the Lewis Carroll Centenary Exhibition at Christ Church, Oxford etc.), v.s., v.d. (qty).
Shaw (George Bernard, playwright and polemicist, 1856-1950) Corrected proofs of three plays as part of a collected edition, "Geneva"; "Cymbeline Refinished"; "In Good King Charles's Golden Days", all stamped "First Proof", printed proofs, "Geneva" with long correction by Shaw and with date corrections in all three by GBS, slightly browned, unbound, 8vo, 1948; ALs from Shaw to R. & R. Clark publisher's, making a correction, "On p. 163 of the Preface to Getting Married, line 2, the word "avoid" should be "make". Please correct plate accordingly. It has taken 20 years to discover this glaring error. I wonder do people ever really read my prefaces! GBS", 10th April 1929, v.s., v.d. (4).
Lewis (Cecil Day) Good group of autograph material from when he was a Director at Chatto & Windus, comprising: Readers' Reports, draft letters, blurbs etc, including various rejections, suggestions regarding revisions etc., the blurbs for new publications or re-issues including Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and other works by William Sanson, V.S. Pritchett, Richard Hughes etc., c.25 items on c.50pp. in total, 1950s.⁂ Rare to find such a batch of original manuscript material by C. Day Lewis. Such manuscripts would have been passed to a typist and then discarded. A young Spaniard working for the publishers from 1948-54 obtained permission to rescue some pieces for his own collection, where they remained until recently.
Law.- Stanford (Sir William) Les plees del coron: diuisees in plusiours titles & common lieux, some black letter, title within ornate woodcut border, woodcut criblé and historiated initials, couple of neat short splits to title, very minor loss, [par.]2-5 short tears at head, with loss to woodcut initial and of a few letters, without loss of sense, water-stained / stained, lightly browned, modern calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in compartments and with burgundy morocco label, [STC 23221], small 4to, Richard Tottell, [1567].
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Bible, English. [The Bible...,], Geneva Version, black letter, double column, New Testament title within woodcut pictorial border dated 1583 (soiled and with a few ink marks), woodcut initials, lacks all before A1 (including general title) and 2G4 & 5, bound with Herrey's Two Right Profitable and Fruitfull Concordances, defective ff. towards end, and defective title only of Sternhold & Hopkins The Whole Booke Psalmes, 1583 bound in at end, numerous tears mostly in margins, margins shaved slightly affecting notes, some staining in places, browned, some foxing, a few contemporary and later ink ownership inscriptions, hinges broken, contemporary panelled calf over thick wooden boards, brass centre and corner ornaments, remains of clasps, calf worn with some loss at edges, spine torn and defective, 4to, [?Herbert 179; STC 2136.5 or STC 2138], [Christopher Barker], [1583 or 1584]; sold not subject to return.
Canada & Germany.- Gardiner (General Sir Henry Lynedoch, KCVO, CB, general in the Royal Artillery, served on the Royal Commission for the Defence of Canada in 1861, son of General Sir Robert Gardiner, equerry to Queen Victoria 1872-96, 1820-97) 62 Autograph Letters to his parents and brother, all but three signed, c. 550pp., folio, 4to & 8vo, Montreal, Gotha, Rotterdam, Amerbach and elsewhere, 1838 - 41 & n.d., extensive correspondence with his family, including: Canada: "The feeling among the [French] Canadians is worse than ever, I hear & it is well known that they drill in the mountains frequently. Ld Durham's return makes the ministers more than ever unpopular with the royalists. It was only the other night that they burnt Lords Melbourne, Glenly & Brougham in effigy after having dragged them through the streets in donkey carts, but as they at the same time burnt Hume & one or two of the rebel chiefs, an attack was expected from the Canadian rebels..."; Europe: [Germany] "We started... for Reinhartsbrunn - Hence into the Thuringer Wald... . We arrived at Fusterherzen... without fatigue, as I had varied my amusement from giving my arm to the young ladies to carrying Master Carl on my back: having seen them in safety at the village, I began to be rather alarmed at the non arrival of the other good people, and accordingly put myself in a regimental double, and trotted back alone four miles to Spiessherz on whose summit stands a hut, which had been agreed on as a rendevous; - having climbed the mountain and entered the hut, I found that the party had been there & had left it half an hour before... on my arrival... found the whole party there... . The ass of a guide, whom Ewald had hired had led them a wrong way...", some letters marked "Copy" in pencil, folds, browned; and a small quantity others including an ALs from Robert Gardiner to his son, v.s., v.d. (qty).
Law.- Doddridge (Sir John) The English Lawyer, first & only edition, woodcut initials and ornaments, a few contemporary ink underlinings and marginalia, contemporary sprinkled calf with triple rule border in blind, a little rubbed at edges, [STC 6981], small 4to, by [Miles Flesher for] the Assignes of I.More, 1631.
Arthurian literature.- Malory (Sir Thomas) The most ancient and famous history of the renowned prince Arthur King of Britaine, vvherein is declared his life and death, with all his glorious battailes against the Saxons, Saracens and pagans, 3 parts in 1, sixth edition, mostly black letter, 3 repeated woodcut frontispieces to each part depicting King Arthur encircled by the Knights of the Round Table, with the names of 30 knights at head and foot, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, first frontispiece with minor repairs to corners, first title with neat repair to inner margin and closely trimmed at foot, just touching date, second frontispiece with repair to upper margin and corners, 2D1-4 and 2E1&2 with small area of worming at head, just touching the odd letter, without loss, sigs. 2I-2M worm trace in lower margin, affecting the odd letter of a catchword, browned, occasional ink staining (including a few spots to third frontispiece), some other staining, 20th century blind-stamped and gilt calf, covers divided into four sections, oval rampant lion centre-pieces enclosed in author's name and title of the work, that of upper cover in gilt, foliage decorations to sections, spine in compartments and with gilt title and date, [STC 806], small 4to, Printed by William Stansby, for Iacob Bloome, 1634. ⁂ The sixth edition, and last to be printed before the 19th century. Malory apparently began work on Le Morte d'Arthur while imprisoned in the early 1450s; completing it some 20 years later. First printed by Caxton in 1485 its popularity was such that subsequent editions were issued by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 and 1529. Three more editions followed: William Copland's (1557), Thomas East's (1585), and the present. Stansby's was the last edition before the revival of interest in medieval literature in the early 19th century. Until the discovery of the Winchester manuscript in the 1930s this 1634 printing was the textual basis for most editions. Only some 15-or-so copies in total are extant of all these 5 prior editions, and realistically this edition is the earliest obtainable edition of Malory.
Greek printing.- Bible, Greek. Vetus Testamentum Graecum, 1 vol. in 2, first edition of the Greek Septuagint Bible printed in England, title in red and black with engraved vignette, title in Latin and Greek, preface in Latin, text in double-column in Greek, minor soiling and light staining, handsome early 18th century red morocco, gilt, spines gilt in compartments with 3 green morocco labels, g.e., fine decorative endpapers a little discoloured round edges, bookplate of Bibliotheca Lamoniana, later bookplate of the Bishop of Salisbury, [Darlow & Moule 4692], 4to, Roger Daniel, 1653.⁂ A lovely copy of the rare first printing in England of the Septuagint, the earliest translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek. Edited by the Unitarian controversialist John Biddle (1615-1662), who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious opinions. "Roger Daniel's version of the text of the Sixtine edition [was] prepared for the use of the scholars at Westminster School. This appeared in 1653 and was edited by the Socinian, John Biddle. Its publication may have owed something to the interest in the Septuagint generated by Codex Alexandrinus and the frustration produced by the failure of Young's attempts to edit it" (S. Mandelbrote, "English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the Old Testament", p. 87).
Heraldry.- Mysticism.- Morgan (Sylvanus) Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world, first edition, full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee Edward, Earl of Manchester, to verso of title, full-page engraved table of Egyptian and mystical symbols to D4, numerous woodcut and engraved coats-of-arms in text, lacking 2I4, small worm traces to head and foot of title, A2&3 repaired at head, affecting headlines, occasional spotting, stained, lightly browned in places, an engraved portrait from another work mounted on front free endpaper, antique style calf, [Wing M2738], small 4to, printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil, and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1666. ⁂ A rare copy of this work that views heraldry from a symbolic and mystical point of view, paralleling the alchemical interest and literature of the period. Most copies of this book are thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
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Sports.- H[owlett] (R[obert]) The school of recreation: or, The gentlemans tutor, to those most ingenious exercises of hunting. Racing. Hawking. Riding. Cock-fighting. Fowling. Fishing. Shooting. Bowling. Tennis. Ringing. Billiards, first edition, engraved frontispiece, advertisement f. at end, woodcut head-piece and decorative initial, frontispiece worn at fore-edge with loss, preliminaries little chipped, a few small wormholes / trace to upper outer margins, affecting some page numbers and the odd letter, closely trimmed at head, just touching the odd headline, some creasing and soiling, lightly browned, disbound, [Schwerdt I, p.225; Thacher p.451; W&S p.110; Wing H3194], 12mo, printed for H. Rodes, next door to the Bear-Tavern near Bride-Lane in Fleet-Street, 1684. sold not subject to return. ⁂ 'a scarce and comprehensive booklet on a great variety of British sports' (Schwerdt). The section on tennis includes a poem 'The Tennis-Court'. Also included are billiards, bell-ringing, bowling, racing and angling. Provenance: 'Samuel Baker bought this book by Bedlam Wall Morefields November ye 24 1736'.
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?Woman writer.- Novel.- [Herberts (Mary)] The adventures of Proteus, &c. A sett of novels, never before publish'd, first edition, sigs Q & R erratic with a leaf or more seemingly removed after Q1, but with catchwords matching and pagination continuous, other pagination errors as ESTC, foxing, large printed label for Blagden's Circulating Library to front pastedown, numbering the volume 1249, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments, upper joint split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, lacking spine label, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, printed for Tho. Combes, James Lacy, and John Clarke, 1727.⁂ Scarce only novel by this ?woman writer. ESTC suggests Herberts is a pseudonym and records only eight copies, of which only two in UK (BL and Chawton). A second edition and a Dublin edition were also published, both rare, with ESTC recording one and two copies, respectively.
Austen (Jane).- Knight (Montagu George).- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis, large engraved device of the Royal College to title, lightly foxed, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, Edinburgh, W. Sands, A. Murray, & J. Cochran, 1744.⁂ Provenance: Montagu George Knight of Chawton (1844-1914), son of Jane Austen's nephew Edward Knight (large circular armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Man-Midwife.- Mackenzie (Colin, physician and man-midwife, 1697/8-1775) Certificate signed "That Mr Richard Drinkwater Surgeon has diligently attended my Lectures on the Theory & Practice of Midwifery...", engraved portrait of Hippocrates above letter-press certificate, with manuscript insertions, slightly creased and browned, some marginal soiling, by Francis Perry, [not in ESTC; cf. N71139 a similar certificate issued by William Smellie], 380 x 260mm., 25th October 1757.⁂ Extremely rare.Richard Drinkwater, apothecary and surgeon of Farnham, and Chichester.
Music.- Handel (George Frederick) The Occasional Oratorio in Score, engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece of Handel by Houbraken, list of subscribers, portrait and pp.155-176 detached with front or rear board, water-stained, spotting, old calf-backed boards, covers detached, worn, folio, rare in commerce, Printed for Wright & Co. , [c.1784]. sold not subject to return.
Economics.- Eden (Sir Frederic Morton) The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles to each vol., Directions to the Binder f. at end of vol. 1, folding table in vol. 3, the odd spot, but generally a clean and excellent copy, antique-style modern half calf, spines gilt, [Kress B3384; Goldsmiths 17107; PMM 249; Wellcome II, p.510], 4to, by J.Davis, for B. & J. White [& others], 1797.⁂ Eden's important work on poverty and the working classes, difficult to find complete with half-titles. '"The State of the Poor is one of the classical works in the history of economics. Eden was led to embark on the subject by the high prices brought on by the war in 1794 and 1795, and the effect they had on the living conditions of the poorer classes... Eden's own work, notwithstanding its originality, might now be forgotten if it were not for the invaluable collection of facts attached to it, which can never cease to be of importance... it has proved the basis of sociological investigation ever since." - PMM.
Montefiore (Sir Moses) Report of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., on his Mission to the Holy Land, 5626--1866, first edition, slightly browned, title and endpapers slightly foxed, ink signature of C.G. Montefiore on a Truslove and Hanson compliments slip on front pastedown, original cloth, gilt, g.e., [not in BL], 8vo, Printed by J. Wertheimer & Co., 1866.⁂ Rare.
Blackmore (Richard) Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles and advertisements, occasional foxing, modern green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines gilt, t.e.g., [Sadleir 227; Wolff 536], 8vo, 1869.⁂ A handsomely bound set of the author's most famous work and a major romantic highlight of 19th century fiction.
Borneo.- McDougall (Francis Thomas, Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak, 1817-1886) Autograph Letter signed to "My dear Sir", 6pp. with 2 engraved letterheads of St Thomas Missionary Church at Sarawak, 4to, Pinang Hill [Penang Hill, Straits Settlement], 3rd April n.d. [c. 1851], regarding the Christian mission to Sarawak set up at the behest of the Rajah of Sarawak [Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, 1803-68] "As you always evinced so kind an interest in my missionary undertaking & so liberally & materially assisted me in getting the Communion Service & other things for our Church in Sarawak , I am glad to be able to send you a representation of the first Xtian Church ever raised to the Glory of God in the Island of Borneo... The Rajah shews his determination in all things to protect & assist our Church by all the means in his power, his revenues which do not by any means defray the the expenses of the State are far too small to allow of his giving pecuniary help", folds, slightly browned.⁂ A lengthy letter giving an account of the first Christian mission to Sarawak under the rule of the "White Rajah".
James (Henry) Stories Revived, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol.2 & 3 with initial blank, vol.3 with advertisement leaf at end, some very light spotting at beginning and ends, one or two minor marks, variant binding of original dark green cloth, boards with three rules in black, blue & white patterned endpapers (slightly browned), spine ends and corners a little bumped, slight wear to edges, [Edel and Laurence A27a; Sadleir 1290; Wolff 3584], 8vo, 1885.
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