* Wolf (F.). Der Dampfwagen von London nach Birmingham von der Erfindung des Herrn Dr. Church, 1833, lithograph on wove by Justin Wien after F. Wolf, contemporary bright hand colouring, title in German & French, 260 x 360 mm, mounted, framed & glazedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The American inventor, William Church (circa 1778–1863) invented the first typesetting machine in 1822 while a resident of Boston. He secured English patents and then moved to Bordesley Green, near Birmingham to promote his invention. He took out patents for a number of other items and processes, including a marine engine patent in 1829. This apparently led him to patent his first steam carriage in 1832, which was never built. A second patent in 1835 led to the creation of the London and Birmingham Steam Carriage Company. The company prospectus described this vehicle as having a 60 HP engine and being heavy enough to carry 15 tons at 15 miles an hour. The lithograph shows the steam carriage as a large three-wheeled vehicle with passenger compartments to front and rear which was similar to conventional stagecoach bodies, with seating on top, and the driver mounted high at the front operating tiller steering. The central part contained the mechanism. An example of this lithograph has not been located, however, a similar print by Josiah Allen is held at the Science Museum.
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London. Visscher (Nicolas), Afbeeldinge vande Rivieren van London en Rochester, Amsterdam, 1667, uncoloured broadsheet with an engraved map with explanatory text in Dutch below the map, additional title below map 'Kaerte van de Rivieren van London en Rochester of Chetham...', trimmed to image, laid on contemporary paper, 410 x 290 mm, together with London W ard Plans. A collection of nine ward plans, published in 'The London Magazine', circa 1770, uncoloured engraved ward plans, old folds, each approximately 180 x 235 mm, with A Map of the Surrey side of the Thames from Westminster Bridge to the Borough. With a plan for laying out the Roads & Black Fryars Bridge, The London Magazine, circa 1770, uncoloured map, old folds, 260 x 205 mm with another copy similar, plus Hughes (W.). The Environs of London, circa 1848, two uncoloured engraved maps, published for James Barclay's/Thomas Moule's 'Barclay's Dictionary...', each 165 x 220 mm, and Weller (Edward). Suburbs of London, Sheet 3 Bromley, Blackwell &c [and] Suburbs of London, Sheet 4, Hammersmith &c, The Weekly Dispatch', circa 1860, two uncoloured plans of parts of London, some creasing, each approximately460 x 310 mmQty: (16)NOTESThe first described item celebrated 'The Raid on the Medway', during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667. This was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the "Gillingham Line" were supposed to protect the English ships. The Dutch, under the nominal command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded and captured the town of Sheerness, sailed up the Thames estuary to Gravesend, then sailed into the River Medway to Chatham and Gillingham, where they engaged fortifications with cannon fire, burned or captured three capital ships and ten more ships of the line, and captured and towed away the flagship of the English fleet, HMS Royal Charles. Politically, the raid was disastrous for King Charles's war plans and led to a quick end to the war and a favourable peace for the Dutch. It was one of the worst defeats in the Royal Navy's history, and one of the worst suffered by the British military. Horace George Franks called it the "most serious defeat it has ever had in its home waters."
* Gillray (James). Judge Thumb-or-Patent Sticks for Family Correction; Warranted Lawful!, W. Humphrey, Nov. 27th. 1782, uncoloured etching on laid, some spotting. slight staining and dust soiling, 350 x 250 mm, together with "Oh! that this too too solid flesh would melt, [1791] but a later impression by John Miller, London and William Blackwood, Edinburgh, [1824 - 27], etched caricature with contemporary hand colouring, slight mount staining, 210 x 240 mm, with Cruikshank (G. C.). The Wimbledon Hoax! or Waterloo Review!!! !!! June 18th 1816, etching with contemporary hand colouring, thread margins, old folds, 200 x 470 mm, plus Williams (Charles). Making a Compass at Sea - or the use of a Scotch Louse..., Thomas Tegg, circa 1815, etched caricature with bright contemporary hand colouring, one short closed tear affecting image, slight mount staining, 235 x 330 mm, with another four caricatures after Henry Alken and four others similar, various sizes and conditionQty: (12)NOTESThe first described item is an early Gillray caricature of Sir Francis Buller. Buller's conduct on the bench was often the subject of severe criticism, and he was accused of being very severe and prejudiced. He was the subject of controversy due to an alleged statement he made that "a husband could thrash his wife with impunity provided that he used a stick no bigger than his thumb" . This claim was widely circulated and led to Buller being caricatured as "Judge Thumb" and depicted carrying a bunch of 'rods'.
* Gillray (James). The Cabinetical-Balance. NB. The representation of, the astonishing strength & Influence of the Rays from the Rising-Sun, is taken from Sir Isaac Newtons Theory of Light, H. Humphrey, Feby. 16th. 1806, etched caricature with contemporary hand colouring, thread margins, slight toning, tipped on to later paper, 350 x 250 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Rowlandson (Thomas). Dr Syntax Taking Possession of his Living, 1812, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, slight staining, 120 x 190 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with The Dance on Dun-Can, originally published in 'the Picturesque Beauties of Boswell', circa 1786 but later 19th-century impression, hand-coloured etching with explanatory text below image, 240 x 265 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (3)NOTESThe first described caricature shows a pair of scales. Poised on the cross beam are Sidmouth and Ellenborough The former is depressing the balance with his foot whilst Ellenborough rides piggy-back on his shoulders. This lower scale contains the 'Broad-Bottomites' or New Opposition and the upper scale holds the 'No-Bottomites', the Foxites, or Old Opposition. Fox is the most prominent and is squeezed between Erskine and Grey with Moira, in a cocked hat and regimentals, stands stiffly behind. Fox and Grey have the revolutionary 'bonnets rouges' but do not wear them. The other bowl contains Grenville, one hand on his fat nephew Lord Temple and Windham waves his hat triumphantly. The scales are suspended above the curve of the globe on which Great Britain and Europe are mapped. On the distant horizon is a setting sun containing a royal crown through which the ghost of Pitt flies weeping. The setting sun's feeble rays are outshone by the heavy beams of the rising sun which are surmounted by the Prince of Wales's three feathers.
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* Pouncy (Benjamin Thomas). Building of a Cutter, Chace of a Cutter [and] Dissolution of a Cutter, 1783, three (of four) uncoloured etchings after J. Kitchingman, one repaired marginal closed tear to the first plate, slight spotting, each approximately 250 x 310 mm, uniformly framed and glazed in near-contemporary black and gilt mouldings, overall size 305 x 365 mmQty: (3)NOTESThere is a fourth print in this series 'Unlading of a Cutter' which is lacking.
* The South Sea Bubble and the Trial of the Earl of Macclesfield. Summary of abstracts and accounts of the Masters and Usher of the court of Chancery in respect of money in the form of securities, annuities, bonds, etc. for various suitors, 1724, a clerical manuscript of 52 pages, (pp. 45-46 omitted from pagination but all bifolia intact with conjugate leaves), pp. 1-27 being a written summary address to 'Right Honoble the Lords of the Committee of His Majestys' most Honorable Privy Council' and with the names of 6 signatories (Jeff: Gilbert, Alex: Denton, Rob: Raymond, Nath: Gould, W: Thompson and John Hanger), dated 16 December 1724, followed by various tables, 'No. 1. A General Abstract of the Accompts delivered in by the Masters in Chancery and Usher of Securitys and Money remaining in their hands', 'No. 2. A Particular of the Several Species of Securitys the totals whereof are mentioned in the foregoing Abstract no. 1', 'No. 2. The Totals of the Several Species of securitys contained in the foregoing Particulars No. 2', 'No. 3. Particulars delivered in by the Masters and Usher to answer the ballance of cash in their respective hands', etc., the final leaf of text summary in the words of William Kynaston, one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, noting he 'maketh oath that he hath delivered a true and full account of all the causes in which he hath received money and securitys belonging to those causes to the best of his knowledge and belief... ', with names of signatories William Kynaston and Robert Halford at end, dated 11 December 1724, some spotting, browning and dust-soiling throughout, some corner curling, original marbled wrappers, stitched as issued, wrappers worn, split along spine and covers detached, folio (37 x 24 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAn extraordinary document, no doubt one of the copies prepared for the trial and impeachment of the lord chancellor, the Earl of Macclesfield, this details the eye-watering sums of money that were being invested through the masters and usher of the Court of Chancery, with frequent mention of South Sea stock, annuities and bonds. The South Sea Company was a British joint stock company founded in 1711 to reduce the cost of the national debt. The company's dubious business practices resulted in a financial bubble and market collapse in 1720, though the company continued to manage part of the British national debt until 1853 when it was disestablished. The South Sea Bubble has since become synonymous with the world's first great financial scandal. Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, 1667-1732, was a lawyer and English Whig politician. Made a Privy Counsellor in 1710, he was Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1718 and Lord Chancellor from 1718 to 1725. In 1725 he was impeached for taking bribes and tried in the House of Lords. He was convicted by a unanimous vote for taking bribes. He was removed from the Privy Council, required to forfeit £100,000, fined an additional £30,000 and placed in the Tower of London until these sums were paid. Ruined financially, he retired to his home, Shirburn Castle, where he spent the rest of his life, never again holding public office. His magnificent library was dispersed and offered for sale by Sotheby's in twelve parts between 2004 and 2008. 'For some time there had been disturbing rumours that the masters in chancery had been misusing suitors' money in their custody, a practice which Macclesfield himself was believed to have encouraged. In November 1724, seemingly in response to what had developed into a public outcry, Walpole instigated an inquiry by committee of the privy council and by mid-December had produced a report. Its exposure of considerable financial abuse in several of the masters' offices implicated Macclesfield deeply and unequivocally. Walpole was now only too willing to assuage the rising tide of public indignation by discarding Macclesfield, and there was emphasis upon the ministry's wish to avoid being seen to harbour or ‘screen’ a corrupt colleague. It was in any case clear on less partisan grounds that Macclesfield could not remain as lord chancellor in the light of such grave accusations. He himself quickly acknowledged this, and on 4 January 1725 he surrendered his seals of office. But amid pressing demands for the restitution of missing funds, estimated at £60,000, the ministry's opponents ensured that he did not escape parliamentary trial. The ministry was ready to assist in this process, anxious that further investigations be kept within acceptable limits. A petition to the Commons on 23 January complaining of the disappearance of large sums placed in chancery belonging to the estate of one of the suitors, the dowager duchess of Montagu, commenced the process that led to his impeachment' ( ODNB ). 'The trial commenced on 6 May 1725, and lasted thirteen days. It took place in the House of Lords, and was presided over by Lord-chief-justice King. The articles of impeachment, which were twenty-one in number, charged Macclesfield with selling masterships in chancery; with receiving bribes for agreeing to the sale and transfer of offices; with admitting to the office of master several persons ‘who were of small substance and ability, very unfit to be trusted with the great sums of money and other effects of the suitors;’ with suffering the fraudulent practice of masters paying for their places out of the money of the suitors; with endeavouring to conceal the delinquencies of one Fleetwood Dormer, an absconding master; with encouraging the masters to traffic with the money of the suitors; with making use of it himself ‘for his own private service and advantage;’ with persuading the masters ‘to make false representations of their circumstances’ at the inquiry; and with assuming ‘an unjust and unlimited power of dispensing with, suspending, and controlling the statutes of this realm'' ( DNB , vol. 43, p. 280). Interestingly, Dormer's name appears in the manuscript for two of the final tables in the manuscript which are titled: 'Money received by Henry Edwards Esq. towards answering the demands upon Mr. Dormer's office since his admittance which was on the 18th May 1721' and 'An accompt of what money has been paid to the suitors of the court that was due from Mr. Dormer on his separate account and the names of the several causes in which the same has been paid'. In each case the total sums involved were around £23,000.
* Kruger (Paul, 1825-1904, President of the Transvaal, 1883-1900). Document signed, Pretoria, 30 January 1894, a pre-printed receipt completed in manuscript, for 'tien shillings', signed by Kruger as President of the Independent South African Republic, two embossed blind stamps, a little browning and horizontal fold, one page, 13 x 21.5 cm, tipped on to an old album sheet, together with; Jameson (Leander Starr, 1853-1917) , autograph letter signed, 'L.S. Jameson', 2 Down Street, Piccadilly, no date, late 19th century, to (?)Smuts, saying that he is leaving in the morning for Wiesbaden and so won't have time to see him, asking whether he has seen Grey, Jones, Hawksley &c., ending with talk about clothes and saying that 'a rifle for game shooting is about the only extra necessary', 2 pages on the first and fourth page of a bifolium, 8vo, plus autographs of Willem Eduard Bok (1846-1904) and Willem Johannes Leyds (1859-1940), both items in Afrikaans, possibly both from the same document, August 1886, and signed as secretary of state and state attorney of the Independent Republic of South Africa respectivelyQty: (4)
* Livingstone (David, 1813-1873). Autograph end of a letter signed, 'David Livingstone', no date, in full, 'all. Let me hear from you soon please and believe me ever yours, David Livingstone', taken from the foot of a letter with further autograph lines by Livingstone to verso, '... her for lately leaving Miss Mackenzie. PS. It may be well to recollect that if continuing to work connected with Government in the way proposed you would be in the way of being remembered should anything better turn up.', paper size 6 x 11.5 cmQty: (1)NOTESMiss Mackenzie is probably Ann Mackenzie (1818-1877), sister of Bishop Charles Mackenzie who became the first missionary bishop in Nyasaland following David Livingstone's request to Cambridge. Ann was to join her brother at mission schools in South Africa.
* Shackleton (Ernest Henry, 1874-1922). A pencil autograph signature 'E.H. Shackleton', on ruled paper (33 x 76 mm), pasted above the ink autograph of 'F.A. Worsley, Commander' on a slightly smaller piece of paper, and both pasted on to an autograph album page with contemporary ink inscription identifying the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition onboard RYS Quest which sailed from St Katherine's Dock, London, 17 September 1921, noting Shackleton's death on 5 January 1922 onboard ship, the facing page with the news cutting showing Shackleton's grave and the caption below, the remainder of the album containing various mostly First World War signed quotations, pen and ink sketches, etc., in various hands, a few old pencil scribbles, contemporary padded morocco, oblong 8voQty: (1)NOTESThe Shackleton-Rowett Expedition (1921-22) was Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project. After his death from a heart attack Frank Wild took over command and continued with the expedition. Frank Arthur Worsley (1872-1943) was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916, as captain of the Endurance .
Beacon or Becon (Richard). Solon h is Follie, or a Politique Discourse, touching the Reformation of common-weales conquered, declined or corrupted. By Richard Beacon, Gent., Student of Grayes Inne, and sometimes her Maiesties Attorney of the Province of Mounster in Irelande, 1st edition, Oxford: Ioseph Barnes, Printer to the Universitie, 1594, [12], 114, [2] pp., first leaf blank except for signature between two ornaments, last leaf blank, some small tissue and paper repairs to worming in outer margins and upper outer corners, not affecting text, minor tissue repairs to both outer corners of first leaf verso, top edge gilt, modern red half morocco gilt, small 4to (200 x 155 mm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. STC 1653. One of the three great Elizabethan socio-political treatises on Ireland by Englishmen who were or had been resident there. The last identified copy (possibly this one) of this rarity at auction was sold in 1998.
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Bible [Latin]. Biblia ad Vetustissima Exemplaria Nunc recens castigata. In quibus, præterea, quæ subsequens Præfatio indicat, capita singula ita versibus distincta sunt, ut numeri præfixi, lectorem non remorentur, & loca quæsita tanquam digito demonstrent, Venice: Apud Haeredes Nicolai Bevilaquae & socios, 1576, elaborate woodcut architectural title page with vignette of St Jerome and the lion below title (repeated on *4r,) the borders with scroll work and grotesques, woodcut decorative headpieces, large historiated initials & numerous small decorative initials, tailpieces and other decorations, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout including some repetitions (includes some after Holbein, Bernard Salomon and Pierre Eskrich), lacking 1 leaf of OT (from Marks Gospel, pages 655/656) and also lacking 24 leaves of index and final colophon leaf at end, some light toning, occasional dampstains and minor spotting, few small worm trails to upper margins of few leaves, two leaves with repaired closed tears, modern dark blue morocco, title & date in gilt to spine, some darkening and discolouration, folio (385 x 255 mmQty: (1)NOTESRuth Mortimer, Harvard College Library, Italian 16th Century Books, Volume 1, pages 86-88, No. 62. According to Mortimer the xylographic title indicates an earlier setting in which the vertical columns are also transposed, and our copy conforms to all her points for the first issue. "The Old Testament blocks measure 55 x 78 mm (2¼" x 3 1/8") extended to column width by ornamental side-strips, with a few larger blocks, 115 x 73 mm, in Exodus and Kings. The New Testament blocks are 55 x 48 mm. The artist of these illustrations worked from various sources, notably the three sets of woodcuts by Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon, and Pierre Eskrich, introduced at Lyons from 1538 to 1562 and widely used in Bibles and picture books. This Venetian set also has scenes not usually illustrated". Not listed in Darlow and Moule who only list the Louvain Latin Bible of 1547 (6129) on whose text this Venetian printing is based, and the 1572 Junta Venice edition also based on the Louvain version (6157).
Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Aberistwith on the Sea Coast com. Cardigan Wherein are Included the Roads to Oxford and Worcester..., [and] The Road from London to Buckingham Continued to Banbury in com. Oxford..., circa 1675, two hand-coloured engraved strip road maps, both commencing at London, some staining and dust soiling to the first described map, each approximately 310 x 435 mmQty: (2)NOTESThe first map commences in London and passes through Acton, Uxbridge, Beaconsfield, High Wickham, Stokenchurch and Tetsworth and finishes at Islip, with an inset map to Oxford. The second map commences in London and passes through Acton, Uxbridge, Amersham, Aylesbury and Buckingham and finishes at Banbury.
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* Caxton (William, printer). [Leaf from the first edition of Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon], Westminster: William Caxton, 18 August 1480, signature [A3], 40 lines, lettre bâtarde, spotting, a few marginal holes, folio (39.4 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESDuff 113; GW 6670 (II); ESTC S106519; STC 13440a; not in Goff. A single leaf from Caxton's thirty-leaf excerpt of the sections relating to Britain from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon , the first edition of the work in any form (and often catalogued under the title Here endeth the discripcion of Britayne , taken from the colophon); Caxton did not print the full text until 1482. This leaf contains the end of the third chapter, 'Of the worthynes and prerogatives', and the beginning of the fourth chapter, 'Of the mervailles & wondres'.
Chevreau (Urbain). Histoire du monde, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: widow of Edmé Martin, and Jean Boudot, 1686, engraved frontispiece, title-vignettes, headpieces and initials, variable toning, occasional damp-staining, closed tear to volume 1 title-pag,e contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines, rubbed and marked, tips worn, 4to (24.8 x 17.5 cm), together with: Larrey (Isaac de). L'heritière de Guyenne, ou histoire d'Eleonor, fille de Guillaume, dernier duc de Guyenne, femme de Louis VII, roy de France, et en-suite de Henri II roy d'angleterre, 1st edition, Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1691, marginal repair to H3, contemporary marbled calf gilt, gilt arms effaced from covers, 8vo (18.5 x 11.8 cm), Bouhours (Dominique). Histoire de P. d'Aubusson-la-Feuillade, grand maître de Rhodes, 4th edition ('augmentée'), Paris: Goujoun, Brunot, 1806, half-title, closed tear in pp. 21/2, contemporary marbled calf gilt, 4to (25.6 x 18.4 cm), [Versailles]. Versailles. Salle des croisades, Paris: Ch. Gavard, c.1840, 3 parts in 1 volume, 28 hand-coloured plates depicting coats of arms heightened in silver and gold, 16 engraved portrait plates ( collation unknown), ink stamp to part 1 plate 9, gilt edges, contemporary red half morocco, folio (35.8 x 27.4 cm), Pomponius Mela & Gaius Julius Solinus. De situ orbis. Aethici cosmographia. Cum notis variorum, Leiden: Hieronymus de Vogel, 1646, engraved title-page, damp-staining, contemporary vellum, 12mo (12.5 x 7 cm), Cesnola (Luigi Palma di). Cypern, seine alten Städte, Gräber und Tempel, 1st edition in German, Jena: Hermann Costenoble, 1879, 108 plates, 2 maps, original cloth, 8vo, Letronne (Antoine Jean). Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de l'Egypte pendant la domination des Grecs et des Romains, 1st edition, Paris: Boulland-Tardiue, 1823, 3 epigraphic facsimile plates of which 1 folding, pp. 125/6 torn without loss, contemporary quarter morocco, green vellum tips, 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm)Qty: (9)NOTESCobham-Jeffery p. 59 for Palma di Cesnola's work, which was first published in 1877.
Greco (Gioachino). Chess made Easy. With Additional Games and Openings, illustrated with Remarks and General Rules. The whole so contrived, that any Person may Learn to play in a few Days, without any farther Assistance, 1st edition in English, London: for J. and P. Knapton, 1750, engraved frontispiece, engraved folding plate of a chess board, small tide-mark to foot of first few leaves, folding plate trimmed with loss of columns A-B, modern panelled calf, gilt spine, 12mo (11.9 x 7 cm), together with: Walker (George). A New Treatise on Chess, 1st edition, London: Walker and Son, 1832, engraved frontispiece, spotting, original glazed cloth, rebacked, paper label to front board (chipped), large 12mo in 6s (19 x 11 cm), ibid. Chess and Chess-Players: consisting of Original Stories and Sketches, 1st collected edition, London: Charles J. Skeet, 1850, marginal repairs to M1-2, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, large 16mo (19.4 x 12 cm), Lewis (William). A Series of Progessive Lessons of the Game of Chess [and:] A Second Series of Lessons on the Game of Chess, 2 works, 2nd and 1st editions, London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1833 & 1832, half-title and list of errata to the Second Series, a little marginal damp-staining, bookplates of Aberdeen Chess Club, contemporary red half calf, rubbed and marked, 8vo (21 x 13 cm), Murray (H. J. R.). A History of Chess, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913, 18 plates, ex libris Brighton Public Library with blind-stamp to title-page, first leaf of main text and final leaf of index, ink-stamps to plate versos, label removed from front pastedown, and gilt call number to spine, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth gilt, large 8vo Macklin (A.). The Macklin Double-Pocket-Chess-Board, London: Mead & Coy, c.1870, 2 engraved or lithographic chessboards, each printed on 2 sheets of glazed paper pasted into separate original gilt red cloth wallet, pieces printed on tabs inserted via slits into boards, one piece (black bishop) lacking, housed in original red cloth slipcase (faded and chipped), 18.7 x 12.2 cmQty: (7)NOTESESTC T128171 (Greco). No other copy of the Macklin Double-Pocket-Chess-Board traced.
Johnson (Samuel). The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, 1747, pp. [2] 34, contents washed and pressed, all edges gilt, 19th-century tan calf by F. Bedford, rebacked at an early date, French fillet frames gilt to sides, wear to tips, 4to (23.8 x 18 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller; thence by descent. Chapman & Hazen p. 130; ESTC T42414; Rothschild 1228-30. In this issue page 1 begins 'My Lord', with Chesterfield's name omitted. 'But if the "Chesterfield" state is accepted as the first, there is yet reason for regarding the "non-Chesterfield" state as "right. For the numbered copies ... are all of this variety, and it seems clear that they were for presentation' (Chapman & Hazen). Rothschild notes that 'non-Chesterfield' are sometimes found on thick paper, which may be the case for our copy. Our copy belongs to the variant with the repeated 'the' on page 34 corrected.
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[Kenrick, William]. The Whole Duty of Woman. By a Lady. Written at the Desire of a Noble Lord, 1st edition, London: for R. Baldwin, 1753, half-title, woodcut tailpieces, occasional light spotting and soiling to margins, leaves B6-7 and C1-3 clumsily opened with shallow tears to head of gutter, contemporary ownership inscription 'Ar. Thornhagh' to front pastedown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked, boards marked, tips worn, 8vo (19.4 x 12.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T91229 (six copies in UK libraries). 'In February 1753 Kenrick published his most popular work, The Whole Duty of Woman . Resurrecting a late seventeenth-century title to capitalize on the success of Dodsley's Oeconomy of Human Life , Kenrick's guide to female conduct went through at least five editions in his lifetime and remained popular well into the next century' (ODNB). All editions are rare. We trace one other copy of the first edition in auction records, sold in 1975.
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Rowlandson (Thomas, illustrator). The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem, [by William Combe], early issue, London: R. Ackermann, circa 1812, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette , 30 hand-coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson (complete), first issue text headed by 'Chapter I' (as opposed to 'Canto I' in the second issue), lacking 'directions to the binder leaf', plate 5, opposite p. 14 in the second state (with the girl on the donkey with raised bent arm), plate opposite p. 80 trimmed and laid down, plates opposite pp. 10 & 56 with repaired tears, a few plates close-trimmed shaving imprints, some light spotting and offsetting, p. iii of advertisement with early manuscript 'William Coombe' beneath 'The Author', presentation inscription dated 1944 to front endpaper, all edges gilt, later red straight-grained morocco gilt by Bayntun, Bath, spine slightly faded, joints lightly rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESTooley 427.
Southey (Robert). Madoc, A Poem, in two parts, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme; Edinburgh: A. Constable & Co., 1805, half-title, all edges gilt, contemporary red straight grain morocco, gilt decorated spine, joints rubbed and spine slightly faded, 4to, together with: Russell ( Rachel ) . Letters o f Lady Rachel Russell; from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Vindicating the Character of Lord Russell against Sir John Dalrymple, London: Edward & Charles Dilly, 1773 , light scattered spotting, pencil note to front pastedown 'Belonging to Percy Salmons Library, lent to Mrs Lucas', contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine with gilt crest of an arm in armour embowed holding a club (possibly Cogger or Elsworth family), joints cracked, 4to, Churchill (Charles) , Poems, London: printed for the author, by Dryden Leach, 1763, some staining/browning to last few leaves, together with a second volume containing seven other poems by Churchill and others, initial leaves with some staining/browning, few leaves torn & frayed, bookplate of Hugh Williams of Ty-fry to upper pastedowns, contemporary uniform calf, morocco title labels to spines, upper joint of first volume cracked, 4toQty: (4)
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Type Specimen. Specimen of Book and Newspaper Types, from the Foundry of Vincent and James Figgins, London, 1838, [4] pp., 122 leaves of type specimens printed rectos only, variable spotting and browning, one specimen leaf (no. [104], 'English Greek, No. 2') with section excised, marbled endpapers and edges, contemporary calf, blind palmette roll to covers, 'V & J. Figgins, London' gilt to front, rubbed and worn, bottom spine-compartment perished, 4to (29 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESBigmore & Wyman p. 218. This appears to be the first specimen book issued by Vincent the younger and James Figgins following the retirement of their father Vincent Figgins the elder (1766-1844).
Lullus (Raimundus). Opera ... accessit huic editioni Valerii de Valeriis ... aureum in artem Lulli generalem opus, 3rd edition, Strassburg: Lazarus Zetzner, 1617, bound with: Alsted (Johann Heinrich). Clavis artis Lullianae et verae logices duos in libellos tributa, 2nd edition, Strassburg: Lazarus Zeztner heirs, 1633, 2 works in 1 volume, Lullus signatures *8 A-4C8 (4C8=blank), pp. [8] 1109 [22], several errors in pagination, folding tables facing pp. 1, 44 and 219, woodcuts in text, variable browning, closed tear in N1, ink-stamps of Ain Shams university, Cairo to title-page, p. 3 and versos of folding tables, Alsted signatures A-M8, pp. [8] 182 [2], woodcuts in text, heavily browned, holes in G1 and H1, ink-stamp to p. 182, final leaf chipped, later vellum, 8vo (18.1 x 11 cm), and 1 other (Lettres de Mr. De St. André ... au sujet de la magie, des malefices, et des sorciers, 1st edition, Paris, 1725)Qty: (3)NOTESVD17 23:287653F (Lullus), 23:287663N (Alsted); cf. Ferguson II p. 49 for Lullus, 1609 edition. VD17 calls for four folding tables in Lullus's work; a copy in auction record has two volvelles in addition to the four folding tables. This anthology of works by and attributed to Lullus (as well as commentaries by Bruno) was first printed by Zetzner in 1598; another edition appeared in 1609. Alsted's work first appeared in 1609.
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Agricola (Georgius). [De re metallica, in German] Bergwerck Buch: Darinnen nicht allein alle Empter, Instrument, Gezeug, und alles so zu disem Handel gehörig mit Figuren vorgebildet und klärlich beschrieben ... Nachmals aber durch den achtbarn und auch hochgelehrten Philippum Bechium ... verteutscht, Basel: Ludwig König, 1621, 2 folding woodcut plates, woodcut vignettes throughout (many full-page), lacking 29 leaves (c4-6, g1-3, g6, h2, h5, l2, l6, m1, s6, z5, A2-3, D5-6, E1-4, F6, G1, M2, P4-5, Q2, Q5), spotting and browning, bookplate (Robert Chambers, motto 'spero'), contemporary vellum, soiled, folio in 6s (32 x 20.5 cm), together with: Mercuriale (Girolamo). Variarum lectionum, in medicinae scriptoribus et aliis, libri sex, Venice: Giunta, 1588, with medial blank R8, occasional tide-marks, C1-2 stained, free endpapers excised, contemporary limp vellum, marked, ties perished, 4to (23.4 x 16.5 cm), Hartsoeker (Nicolas). Conjectures physiques, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1706, engraved folding map including 'Nouvelle Hollande', 2 engraved headpieces, woodcut head-and tailpieces and diagrams throughout, ink-stamps to title-page (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique), a few stains, front free endpaper excised, contemporary sprinkled sheep, joints cracked, extremities worn, 4to (24.6 x 18.5 cm) Cartari (Vincenzo). Imagini delli dei de gl'antichi, Venice: Nicolo Pezzana, 1674, woodcut vignettes throughout, 1 folding plate (of 2), occasional soiling and staining, 19th-century tree calf by Townsend, Greek key roll gilt to sides, 4to (22 x 16 cm)Qty: (4)NOTESAdams M1340 (Mercuriale); VD17 3:623123F (Agricola); cf. Norman 20 & PMM 79 for the first edition of Agricola (1556). De re metallica is 'the first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times' (PMM).
Wallis (John, 1616-1703). ‘A Collection of Letters and other Papers, intercepted in Cipher, during the late warres in England. Deciphered by John Wallis D. D. Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Being a Transcript of a like Collection presented by him to the Bodleyan Library, in the University of Oxford', 1 July 1653, holograph manuscript in brown and red ink on laid paper (with stylised ‘Pot II’ watermark containing initials ‘EDC’), pp. [24] 1-221 [i.e. 223] + initial blank and 32 rear blanks, with box-rules, pagination and catch-words throughout, old staining to title-page, a little light browning to margins, contemporary mottled calf, twin rules gilt to spine-compartments and covers, extremities rubbed, headcap worn away, front joint cracked but firm, a few abrasions to rear cover, tips showing through, 4to (18.7 x 14 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Wallis, great-great-grandson of John Wallis, inscribed by him ‘I Wm Wallis had this book with some others from Mr Hayes executor to the late Taverner Wallis deceased, April 14 1784’ on the first rear blank. William wrote a lengthy biography of John, printed in the 1791 edition of John Wallis’s Sermons . For the will of Taverner (or Tavernor) Wallis, of Hampstead, Middlesex, see National Archives, Prob 11/1059/24. 2) 'No. 3 MSS of Dr Wallis’ (18th-century inscription to front pastedown). 3) John Lawson (1932-2019), bookseller. 4) Thence by descent. A substantial and highly important document in the history of cryptography, an unpublished holograph manuscript by one of the leading mathematicians of the 17th century, revealing his sui generis contribution to the science of code-breaking and to the parliamentarian cause in the English civil war. Wallis, a clergyman’s son who claimed to be self-taught in mathematics, was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford in 1649, and keeper of the university archives in 1658, remaining in both posts until his death half a century later. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society, and his published works, including Arithmetica infinitorum (1655), Mechanica (1670-71), and A Treatise of Algebra (1685) have established his reputation as the most important English mathematician before Newton, on whom his Arithmetica was a major influence. Wallis’s feats in cryptography provoked both hostility and admiration from his contemporaries, on the one side Thomas Hobbes, who accused him of having deciphered the King’s cabinet (captured after the battle of Naseby in 1645), and on the other, Leibniz, who made repeated attempts to persuade Wallis to reveal his methods to the wider world. In the third edition of his Clavis mathematicae (1652) William Oughtred made passing mention of Wallis’s skill in 'explicating secret writing hidden behind the most intricate ciphers', but Wallis himself appears never to have referred to such matters in print until his final years, when he included two examples of deciphered letters in the third volume of his Opera mathematica (1699, pp. 660-72), two years before he became the first to hold the position of official decipherer to the secretary of state. Leibniz saw an affinity between code-breaking and algebra, and modern scholars have identified a close relationship between Wallis’s cryptographic and mathematical techniques, in particular in the ‘ingenious series of interpolations’ in the Arithmetica by which he found an infinite series expressing the value of 4/? (Domenico Bertoloni Meli in ODNB ). Nevertheless it is an aspect of his career entirely ignored by his modern biographer, who remarks that ‘although Wallis’s deciphering activity would be a fascinating story, in the interests of space, it has been left out of this book’ (Rampelt, Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions: The Academic Life of John Wallis (1616-1703) (2009) p. 10). The manuscript begins with a remarkable introduction in which Wallis argues for the importance of ciphers, in particular during civil wars, ‘where the intermingling of opposite parties makes it difficult if not impossible to distinguish friends & foes’ (p. [i]). He outlines the history of his involvement in code-breaking, which began over supper at the residence of his spiritual charge Lady Mary Vere. The following transcriptions of fifty-three coded letters exchanged by royalists between 1640 and 1658 are all accompanied by the deciphered text and a detailed key, except for the last four, which are left unsolved as exercises for aspirant cryptographers. Wallis revealed in an autobiography written towards the end of his life that ‘of such deciphered Letters, there be copies of divers remaining in the Archives of the Bodleyan Library in Oxford ; and many more in my own Custody, and with the Secretaries of State’ (Scriba, ‘The Autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London , Volume 25 Number 1, June 1970, p. 38) . His master copy of intercepted civil war letters is now Bodleian MS e Musaeo 203, and is titled ‘A Collection of Letters and Other Papers, which were at severall times intercepted, written in Cipher. Deciphered by John Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. Given to the Library there, Anno Domini, 1653’. In addition to our copy Wallis made another transcript which is now Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. e. 475, and which contains a note by Wallis recording its donation to the ‘Savilian mathematical study at Oxford’. Both the Bodleian manuscripts contain fifty-two letters; ours appears to be one he kept back for his own personal use, in light of its provenance to a descendant and the presence of a fifty-third letter evidently added later (‘A Letter from Flanders intercepted in May 1658’, by one Pe[ter] Townesend). The Bodleian holds a further volume by Wallis containing deciphered letters dating from 1669 to 1703 (MS Eng. misc. e. 382) and the annotation 'No. 4. Dr. Wallis's MSS' similar to that in our copy. There is also manuscript in the British Library titled ‘Letter Book of Dr. John Wallis, 1651-1701’ (Add. MS 32499), selections from which have been printed in Smith, ‘John Wallis as a Cryptographer’ ( Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 24, Number 2, 1917, pp. 82-96), some being letters from Wallis containing summaries of deciphered communications, but the coded originals (if any are present in the manuscript) are not included. In the ODNB it is implied that the present work was published by John Davys in An Essay on the Art of Decyphering (1737); in fact Davys included only Wallis’s introduction and the letter from Duke of Buckingham (the fifty-second in our manuscript) originally left unsolved. Further reading: Beeley, ‘Breaking the Code: John Wallis and the Politics of Concealment’, in Li and Noreik, eds, G. W. Leibniz und der Gelehrtenhabitus (2016), pp. 49-81. Please note this is an abridged description: for a full description please see the Dominic Winter website.
Thomson (George). Loimotomia: or the Pest Anatomized in these following particulars, viz. 1. The Material Cause, 2. The Efficient Cause, 3. The Subject Part, 4. The Signs of the Pest, 5. An Historical Account of the Dissection of a Pestilential Body by the Author; and the Consequents thereof, 6. Reflections and Observations on the foresaid Dissection, 7. Directions Preservative and Curative Against the Pest, together with the Authors Apology against the Calumnies of the Galenists: and a Word to Mr. Nath: Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae Medicinae, 1st edition, London, Printed for Nath: Crouch, at the Rose and Crown in Exchange-Alley, near Lombard-street, 1666, engraved frontispiece (close-trimmed to fore-edge, just touching engraved area) [xvi] + 189 + [iiii], A-N8, including 3-page publisher's list at end, very small burn mark to page 13, affecting one letter, engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Franceys to front and rear pastedowns, later armorial bookplate of Cunliffe to front endpaper, contemporary calf, with gilt decorated spine and red spine label, rubbed and some marks, upper joint partly cracked and tender, 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Probably Alderman Henry Franceys (died 1st January 1747), son of William Franceys (1650-1703), Derby apothecary, who was elected Mayor of Derby for 1747, but died on New Year's Day of that same year. He was educated at Derby School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is believed to have entertained Bonny Prince Charlie during his visit to Derby in 1745. Cunliffe sale, May 26, 1946, lot 862. Wing T1027; Krivatsy 11830. The first account of an autopsy on a plague victim. The physician George Thomson (flourished 1648-1679) was present in London during the outbreak of the Great Plague in 1665. The present work includes an account of his own illness and subsequent recovery.
Digby (Kenelm). Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also Cordial and Distilled Waters and Spirits, Perfumes, and other Curiosities. Collected by the Honorable and Truly Learned Sir Kenelm Digby Kt. Chancellour to her Majesty the Queen Mother. Translated out of several Languages by G[eorge] H[artman], 1st edition, London, printed for the Author, and are to be sold by H. Brome at the Star in Litte-Britain, 1668, [8], 308, [12], with longitudinal half-title, etched portrait by Thomas Cross, title within woodcut decorative border, occasional handling marks and minor water stains to extreme outer edges, early ink annotations to K3 recto and verso, and to index at rear, later endpapers, contemporary calf neat antique-style reback, incorporating old gilt morocco spine label, rubbed to edges, small 8voQty: (1)NOTESWing D1423; Oxford, page 34; Landis European Americana 668/44. The first edition, first issue of this compilation of Kenelm Digby's medical, culinary and chemical recipes by the author's laboratory assistant George Hartman. American recipes include cochineal, sassafras, sarsaparilla, aloes and Peruvian balsam, as well as a 2-page Distillation of Tobacco.
Blochwitz (Martin). Anatomia Sambuci: or, The Anatomie of the Elder. Cutting out of it, plain, approved, and specifick remedies for most and chiefest maladies; confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history. Collected in Latine, by Dr. Martin Blochwich, Physician Ordinary of Oshatin. Translated for the benefit of all, and recommended by the Royal Society, London, Printed for Tho. Sawbridge, and to be sold by H. Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls, 1670, [12], 230, title with faint red ruling, ink signature of Charles Walmesley, dated 1799 to front endpaper, and armorial bookplate to front pastedown, small rust mark to K11 (page 215/16), touching one letter, L5 with minor loss to upper portion of blank fore-edge, not affecting text, contemporary plain sheep, with morocco spine label, rubbed and a little wear with joints partially cracked, later leather repair to head of spine, 12moQty: (1)NOTESWing B3200; Wellcome II, 181; Krivatsy 1386. German physician Martin Blochwitz's Anatomy of the Elder was first translated into English by the Scottish physician Christopher Irvine in 1655, and was written as a practical guide for provincial doctors, beginning with botanical identification, and the preparation of remedies, and finishing with treatments for a variety of illnesses. The preface by the printer refers to the usefulness of the present work in the aftermath of the Great Plague, as well as the Fire of London, stating that the re-issue of this work brings 'a new sight of that translation, which, with many other things of great value, seem'd lately buried in the rubbish of our cities ruines... conducing to the Service of my Countrymen; and hope that this second appearance of so useful a Piece will be no less acceptable to them, than the first.'
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[Hale, Thomas]. An Account of several New Inventions and Improvements now necessary for England, in a Discourse by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to Building of our English Shipping, Planting of Oaken Timber in the Forrests, Apportioning of Taxes, the Conservacy of all our Royal Rivers, in Particular that of the Thames, the Surveys of the Thames, etc. Herewith is also published at large. The Proceedings relating to the Mill'd-Lead-sheathing ... Also a Treatise of Naval Philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty, 1st edition, London: printed for James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson, 1691, imprimatur leaf, 2 folding tables, somewhat tightly bound, light browning, closely trimmed along top edge frequently shaving pagination, and along fore edges of last few leaves not affecting text, a few spots to imprimatur leaf and title-page, small spill-burns in e11, B3 and C8 touching a few letters, the folding tables each with closed handling tears to inner folds (repaired in the first), contemporary ink marginalia to leaves f12 and D12-F1, modern blind-tooled calf to style, red morocco spine-label, 12mo (14.2 x 7.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC R28685; Keynes Petty 39; Kress S.1729; Wing H265.
Huygens (Christian). The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets, Written in Latin, London: for Timothy Childe, 1698, pp. [6] 120, 5 engraved folding plates, title-page browned and with slightly later ownership inscription 'B Barnes' to head, leaves of quire F sometime creased at lower outer corners (now turned back up), a few other trivial marks, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, worn, 8vo (17.2 x 10.7 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESDSB VI pp. 611-13; ESTC R5990; Wing H3859. First edition in English of one of the first scientific inquiries into the possibility of extra-terrestrial life, first published in Latin earlier the same year as Kosmotheros, sive de terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae . 'Huygens's reasoning is that it is in the creation of life and living beings that the wisdom and providence of God are most manifest. In the Copernican world system ... the earth holds no privilieged position among the other planets. It would therefore be unreasonable to suppose that life shoudl be restricted to earth alone' (DSB).
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Newton (Isaac). The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, London: Benjamin Motte, 1729, [38], 320; [2], 393, [13], viii, 71, [1 errata] pp., "The Laws of the Moon's Motion" section by John Machin bound at the end of volume 2, with 2 engraved allegorical frontispieces, 47 engraved folding charts on full aprons, 2 folding tables, other illustrations and tables in text, some occasional spotting and light browning, mostly affecting plates and margins of adjacent text leaves, title and frontispiece to volume 1 browned, upper inner hinges to volume 1 cracked and several leaves starting, 18th-century ink ownership signature of Wm. Mayhew to title of volume 1 and unidentifiable old ink ownership signatures erased from blank upper margins of both titles, armorial bookplates of Henry Robertson Sandbach, contemporary calf, some edge and corner wear, modern amateur calf gilt rebacks with original spine labels preserved, 8vo (190 x 115 mm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance: 1) William Mayhew is possibly a Colchester attorney of that name (1706-1764), whose handwriting appears similar and whose will noted that he had 'old manuscripts, coins and writings'. 2) Henry Robertson Sandbach (1807-1895), Liverpool ship owner and West Indies merchant. First edition of the Principia in English. First published in Latin in 1687, followed by a second edition in 1713, this translation was made by Andrew Motte, the brother of the printer Benjamin Motte and the author of A Treatise of the Mechanical Powers (1727). 'The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying laws' (PMM 161). Babson 20; Gray 23; Norman 1587; Wallis 23.
Albinus (Bernhard Siegfried). Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Balfour & Smellie, 1778-79, titles with engraved vignettes, 41 engraved plates, including 13 key plates in outline by Andrew Bell, some offsetting and spotting , small marginal closed tear to first title , later calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, folioQty: (1)NOTESGarrison & Morton 399; Russell (2nd edition) 7. First published in English in 1749, the plates were re-engraved for this present edition, being smaller in size and without the backgrounds to the skeletal figures.
Maclise (Joseph). Surgical Anatomy, 2nd edition, London: John Churchill, 1856, 52 lithographed plates, most with hand-colouring, plate 42 with closed tear, occasional light spotting and soiling, tile and first few leaves a little frayed at fore edges, original cloth, paper label to upper cover, spine torn with losses, some edge wear and stains, folio, together with Ellis (George Viner & G.H. Ford). Illustrations of Dissections in a Series of Original Coloured Plates the size of life, representing the dissection of the human body, atlas volume only, 1st edition, 1867, 58 colour lithographed plates, title and front endpaper detached, some spotting, University of Bristol Medical Library label and two small ink stamps, contemporary half calf, lacking most of spine, some wear, folioQty: (2)
Newton (Isaac). Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English, and Illustrated, with a Commentary, by Robert Thorp. The Second Edition, London: by A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, 21 engraved folding plates (of 22: lacking plate 16, replaced with a duplicate of plate 17), damp-staining to quires M-N, S, 2D-2F, 2L-2M, pale damp-staining to plate stubs to very slight effect to a few images, a few plates closely trimmed along fore edges, pencilled gift inscription 'W. H. Freeman from Rev. J. Shuldham, August 1879' to front free endpaper, contemporary tan half calf, front joint cracked, rear joint partially cracked, 4to (27.5 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESGray 29; Wallis 29. Although described as a second edition on the title-page, both Gray and Wallis identify the work as a reissue of the first edition, which appeared in 1777.
Siren (Osvald). Early Chinese Paintings from A.W. Bahr Collection, London: Chiswick Press, 1938, 27 tipped-in plates, a few colour, a few minor spots front and rear, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, a few water stains to upper cover, slipcase (some splits and edge wear), folio, limited edition 145/750, presentation copy, inscribed to half title: 'To my old friend A.E. Cooper, with good wishes A.E. Bahr, London, 10 October 1938', together with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ch'ing Ming Shang Ho. Spring Festival on the River, A Scroll Painting (ex coll. A.W. Bahr) of the Ming Dynasty after a Sung Dynasty Subject reproduced in its entirety and in its original size in a portfolio of twenty-three collotype plates and twelve enlarged details, with an introduction and notes by Alan Priest, curator of Far Eastern Art, New York, 1948, 30 collotype plates and text loosely contained in original cloth-backed portfolio, with cloth tie and bone toggle (spine faded), folio, limited edition of 500, with two presentation inscriptions to Abel William "Billie" Bahr to front pastedown, and two copies of a typescript letter on Metropolitan Museum of Art New York headed paper, dated November 17, 1948, from Marshall B. Davidson, Editor of Publications, announcing the publication of this work, and one other typescript letter to A.W. Bahr from the librarian of the Art Association of Montreal, January 21, 1949, thanking him on behalf of the President, F. Cleveland Morgan for his gift of this publication to the Library of the Association, loosely insertedQty: (2)NOTESFirst work inscribed from Chinese art collector and authority Abel William Bahr (1877-1959) to British artist Alfred Egerton Cooper (1883-1974). Siren's work above illustrates Bahr's collection of Chinese paintings, most of which were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1947.
Taylor (Thomas). Father Malebranche's Treatise concerning the search after truth ...To which is added the author's treatise of nature, and grace ... together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume, his defence against the accusations of Mr De La Ville [ie. Louis Le Valois],&c. relating to the same subject, Oxford: L. Lichfield for Thomas Bennet, 1694, dampstaining to inner margins of initial leaves, contemporary blind panelled calf, joints split and spine worn with some loss, folio, together with: Gibson (Edmund) , Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani..., 2 volumes, London: printed by J. Baskett & by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1713, titles in red & black, worm trail to lower margins of initial leaves in volume 1, some toning and spotting, contemporary panelled calf, joints split, volume 1 without morocco title label, worn, folio, Ussher (James) , The Annals of the World..., London: printed by E. Tyler for J. Crook & G. Bedell, 1658, engraved portrait frontispiece with large ink initials to lower left corner, additional engraved title with large portion excised at head, letterpress title in red & black, late 19th century half morocco, rebacled, boards worn, folio, and other 17th & 18th century antiquarianQty: (a carton)
Ackroyd (Peter) . London, The Biography, 1st edition, Chatto & Windus, 2000, The History of England, Volume 1, Foundation, Macmillan, 2001, both signed by the author to the title pages, colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with; Dimbleby (Jonathan) , Destiny In The Desert, The Road to El-Alamein - The Battle That Turned The Tide, 1st edition, Profile Books, 2012, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Martel (Yann) , Life of Pi, 1st edition, Canongate, 2002, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus Middleton (Ant) , First Man In, Leading From The Front, 1st edition, Harper Collins, 2018, signed by the author to the title page, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern 1st edition non-fiction & literature, including P. D. James, Michael Palin, Roy Strong, all original cloth in dust jackets, VG, 8voQty: (6 shelves)
Seller (John). The History of England ... from the coming of Julius Caesar into Britain. With an Account of all the Plots, Conspiracies, Insurrections, and Rebellions. Likewise a Relation of the Wonderful Prodigies, Monstrous Births, Terrible Earth-Quakes, Dreadful Sights in the Air, Lamentable Famines, Plagues, Thunders, Lightningts, and Fires, etc. to the Year 1696 ... Together with a Particular Description of the Rarities in the several Counties of England and Wales: with Exact Maps of each County, 1st edition, London: by Job and John How, for John Gwillim, 1696, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 double-page hand-coloured plates ('The Idols of the Ancient Saxons'), 42 engraved double-page maps mounted on stubs and hand-coloured in outline (of 44: see note), variable browning, lacking text-leaves T4-5, small hole to foot of 2I8 to loss of a few letters, first quire closely trimmed shaving frame of title-page and a few headlines, closed tear to Hertfordshire map, short splits to central fold of Kent, Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, 8vo (16.2 x 9.5 cm), and 1 other (The Elements or Principles of Geometrie, London: for J. Seller [and others], 1684, defective)Qty: (2)NOTESESTC R15220 (erroneously citing 49 plates and maps); Skelton 119; Wing S2474. ESTC traces six copies world-wide; the work was apparently 'issued a sheet at a time' (Skelton). The maps are all from Seller's Anglia Contracta (c.1689-95). This copy lacks the general maps 'Insulae Albion et Hibernia' and 'England as it was divided in the time of the English Saxons', but retains 'A New Mapp of England and Wales', 'The Principality of Wales', and the 40 English county maps. It also contains the map of Monmouthshire, which according to Skelton is not called for in this edition.
Bligh (William). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying of the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board said ship, and the subsequent voyage of the part of the crew in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies, 1st Dublin edition, printed by H. Fitzpatrick, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne..., 1792, [xvi], 376, single engraved plate of the Bread Fruit, lacking the portrait frontispiece of Captain Bligh, early manuscript annotations and corrections, including crossing out, mostly in ink, but including some in pencil, associated minor marginal soiling and several small stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf with 20th century reback, rubbed and some marks, 8voQty: (1)NOTESFerguson 127; Sabin 5910. First Dublin edition of Bligh's official account of his voyage and the celebrated mutiny. The text was written and prepared by James Burney and Sir Joseph Banks from Bligh's journal, while the latter was on his second Bread Fruit voyage. The interesting manuscript annotations suggest that they were written by someone acquainted with the content of Bligh's journal, from which James Burney had prepared this abridgment.
Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Voyage au Levant, c'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, & Chypre &c., De meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, Syrie, & Terre Sainte, [and Voyages de Corneille le Bruyn par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales], 5 volumes, 1st collected edition, Paris: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Bauche, 1725, 2 works in one, titles printed in red & black, with early ink ownership inscription at head, each title and page 1 with contemporary ink booksellers stamp?, 4 maps (correct as list, including 3 folding), 80 engraved plates (of 85), including 10 folding, several plates partly detached, and 4 detached (1 with small loss affecting upper right corner of plate, 1 a trifle edge-frayed), some sections protruding (not fully caught-up in sewing), some light spotting and occasional marks or stains (mainly to text), volume 4: title & single-page map detached, with some edge-fraying and creasing (title with tear at gutter); some worming to gutter pp.113-136; 2 plates with a small loss centrally; 1 folding plate with crayon on blank verso (affecting facing page), uniform contemporary calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines (most defective), somewhat worn, 4toQty: (5)NOTESAtabey 161; Blackmer 225 (second French edition). The first collected edition of the travels of Cornelius Le Bruyn, a Dutch painter who travelled to the Levant between 1678-1693. The publication of his voyages, accompanied by plates taken from his own drawings, was a success and he followed this by undertaking another journey, this time to Russia, Persia and the East Indies. In addition to landscapes and scenes of cities, Le Bruyn drew depictions of the costumes, animals and fruits he saw on his travels.
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* Canada. Journal of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and the Red River Settlement, [Manitoba, Canada], British North America, from May the 27th 1820 to May the 27th 1821, [by] John West, a manuscript journal on 23 folio pages, a total of approximately 8,000 words written in diary form with date entries for approximately 130 days of West's first missionary year, the entries of varying length, endorsed on final blank and addressed to the Rev Mr Pratt, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, note on first page 'rec[eive]d October 20/[18]21', paper watermarked 'Snelgrove 1818' [a Somerset papermaker], a little spotting and soiling, some dust-soiling and browning to folds of final blank, stitched as issued, slim folio (30.5 x 18.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: John Lawson (1923-2019), bookseller. The Manitoba Red River Colony, also known as the Selkirk Settlement, was founded in 1811 when Thomas Douglas, 5th Early of Selkirk, received a grant 120,000 square miles of land from the Hudson's Bay Company (known as the Selkirk Concession). On the west of the Selkirk Concession, it is roughly formed by the current boundary between Saskatchewan and Manitoba. John West (1778-1845) was the first Anglican priest in western Canada and a teacher, reformer and author. A missionary of the Church Missionary Society and a chaplain for the Hudson’s Bay Company. At the Red River Settlement West located his mission three miles north of Fort Douglas and here constructed a chapel, a school and residences for himself and his Indian pupils. The chapel would eventually come to be known as ‘The Upper Church’ and later as St John’s Cathedral. West returned to England in June 1823 and his account of his time was published as The Substance of a Journal during a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America; and Frequent Excursions among the North-West American Indians, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823 (1824). The account of this first year is covered in chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1-60. While there are some identical sentences, the published account is not presented in such a specific diary form and differs greatly, some of the published account being more lengthy and descriptive of certain incidents. The journal ends before he was soon to mentor 'Henry Budd', the first North American Indian to be ordained to the ministry, in 1850. West's published Journal is dedicated to Budd. Josiah Pratt (1768-1844) was an English evangelical clergyman, involved in publications and the administration of missionary work. He was elected secretary of the Church Missionary Society on 8 December 1802 keeping that post until 23 April 1824. The journal begins with embarkation at Gravesend on board the Eddystone , with West travelling to take up an appointment as Chaplain to the Honourable the Hudson’s Bay Company, at the Red River Settlement [Manitoba], the journal continuing with entries from May, June and July as they sailed up the east coast of England and around the north coast of Scotland before leaving the Orkneys for Hudson’s Straits, the entry for Sunday 23rd July at the top of page 4 noting that they had entered Hudson’s Straits. For a selection of journal entries please see the extended description on the Dominic Winter website.
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Dihlawi (Munshi Bulaqi Das Sahib). Tawarikh-i Ghuri [Urdu title, i.e. 'Histories of the Ghurids'], Delhi: Mayur Press, 1881, 48 pp. ( p. 20 misnumbered 28), text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, 9 albumen print photographs from miniatures of Indian sultans, each 10 x 6 cm and mounted on separate leaf within lithographic floral border and caption, and with rubricated manuscript title to head within lithographic cartouche, adhesive staining in gutter, a few other marks, text-block somewhat shaken and many leaves working loose at foot, modern annotations in English to front pastedown and free endpaper (free endpaper, chipped torn and crudely repaired), contemporary red cloth, embossed cloth panels onlaid to covers with traces of gilt, crude repairs to spine and inner hinges, 8vo (24.2 x 14.5 cm), together with: [Devi Mahatmya]. The Sapta-Shati, or Chandi-Pat; being a Portion of the Markandeya Puran; translated from the Sanskrit into English, wiht Explanatory Notes, by Cavali Venkar Ramasswami, Pandit. Reprinted by Janardan Ramchandraji, Bombay: printed at the "Frere" Press, 1868, pp. xii 44 viii, 13 albumen print photographs by Indian photographers M. R. Talpade and M. C. Settna from miniature paintings, each mounted to separate leaf with printed captions, first quire (4 leaves) detached, ex libris Meadville Theological School with bookplate to front pastedown and perforation stamps to title-page and pp. 43/4, original glazed pink printed boards, black cloth backstrip, contemporary ink inscription ('The editor, Bombay Gazette, with the publisher's compts') and modern shelfmark number to front cover, 8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), Kipling (John Lockwood, illustrator). T'alim ul Mubtadi, or Urdu Edition of the Indian Vernacular Series for Elementary Schools. Edited by Colonel W. R. M. Holroyd. The First Reader. Lahore: Government Central Book Depot, 1884, [1] 1-37 pp. Urdu text, lithographed throughout, 7 lithographic plates after John Lockwood Kipling printed on both sides, original wrappers with English and Urdu titles, English title with publisher's ink-stamp, paper perished along spine but binding sound, small 4to (17 x 13 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESThe first work is otherwise untraced, but the Digital Library of Pakistan holds a copy of another work by Munshi Bulaqi Das entitled Tarikh-i Nadir , which is probably a history of Nadir Shah (their catalogue number 48944). In spite of its title, only the first ruler depicted, Shihab al-Din Muhammad, was a member of the short-lived Ghurid dynasty. The other albumen prints depict Aram Shah, Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Mu'Izz al-Din Bahram, 'Ala' al-Din Mas'ud, Nasir al-Din and Muhammad Ghiyath al-Din Balban of the Mamluk dynasty, and Jalal al-Din and Qutb al-Din Mubarak of the Khilji dynasty that followed. For the second work we trace six copies in libraries world-wide, and none of the first edition; the slightly altered wording of the title on the front cover implies that the first edition was not illustrated. It is an unusual example of a work with photographs explicitly attributed to Indian photographers. The third work is the first known book wholly illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard and illustrator of The Jungle Book (see John Lockwood Kipling, Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London , p. 363).
Forster (Johann Reinhold). History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North. Translated from the German, Dublin: for Luke White and Pat. Byrne, 1786, engraved folding map of the Arctic, light browning, small hole in 2F8, Sparrman (Andreas). A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the World: but chiefy into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776. Translated from the Swedish Original, 2 volumes, Dublin: White, Cash, and Byrne, 1785, pp. xxxvi 395, xi 382, 10 engraved plates including frontispiece (of which 2 folding; mainly zoological), engraved folding map, Cook (James). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1782, volumes 2-3 of 3, Dublin: H. Chamberlaine [and others], 1784, large engraved folding map ('Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia', opening to 40 x 65 cm), 2 folding letterpress tables (collation for these 2 volumes only not established), all with dyed green edges, uniformly bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco labels and nonce volume numbers (5-10) to spines, one label on Forster slightly chipped, 8vo (20.5 x 12 cm)Qty: (5)NOTESBeddie 1276 (Sparrman), 1546 (Cook); ESTC N737 (Forster: six UK copies), T129107 (Sparrman: five UK copies), N21787 (Cook); Sabin 25138 (Forster: 'A learned account of the various expeditions for discovering the North-West and North-East Passages'), 16250 (Cook). First Dublin editions, each printed in the same year as the London editions.
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[Hakluyt, Richard]. [The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compassed of these 1500 Yeeres, 1st edition, London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589], text mainly in blackletter, woodcut headpiece and initials, lacking the folding map (as usual) and 20 leaves (entire first quire *1-8, signatures H1, H6, blank X4, 3A1, 4B6, and all 7 signatures after 4E3 except one index leaf, signature unknown), many replaced in photographic facsimile, archival tissue-repairs and paper-restoration throughout frequently affecting headlines, text and side-notes, including to quires A-B and 2X-2Y and signatures 2B6, 2C4, 2P1, 2X1, 3E3, 3P6, 4B1-2, 4E3, 4A3-4 (the list not exhaustive), old finger-soiling and other staining, top edge gilt, modern dark red crushed morocco, folio in 6s (27.9 x 18 cm), together with: Medina (Pedro de). L'art de naviguer ... traduict de castillan en françois, avec augmentations et illustration de plusieurs figures et annotations, par Nicolas de Nicolai, Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1569, woodcuts throughout including full-page illustration of the celestial spheres, full-page world map with cherubic windheads, and similar, without folding map frontispiece and 4 text-leaves (*4, K4, F1, F4), title-page laid down and with old ink inscriptions and marginal repairs, modern limp vellum, housed in a custom green cloth solander box, 4to (24.1 x 17 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESAlden/Landis 589/31 (Hakluyt) & 569/32 (Medina); Church 139A (Hakluyt); ESTC S106735 (Hakluyt); PMM 105 (Hakluyt); Sabin 29594 (Hakluyt) & 47345n (Medina); this edition of Medina not in Adams but cf. M1027-8 for other Rouillé editions. This copy of Hakluyt contains the Bowes leaves in their second state, with the original eight leaves 2X5-2Y6 replaced by a six-leaf cancel signed 2Y1-6 in which the narrative is rewritten in the third person, but it retains the six inserted leaves after 3M3, containing the 'The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea', often suppressed. Medina's work was first published in Spanish in 1545 (that edition being almost unobtainably rare), the French translation appearing in 1554.
India. Three privately printed journals, 1914-31, comprising: 1. Houstoun-Boswall (Phoebe). My Diary. A Trip to the East, [Frome & London]: printed for private circulation [by Butler & Tanner Ltd], 1931, xii 243 pp., 30 gelatin silver print photographs (on 18 card mounts), inscribed by the author 'My first effort in print but not the last we hope. To Nini with much love, Christmas 1931, Phoebe' on front free endpaper, rear inner hinge cracked but holding, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, 2. Roberts (Sir James R.). More Wanderings in India [cover-title], Gwalior: for private circulation, Alijah Darbar Press, c.1931, 131 pp., light spotting, original printed wrappers (a few chips), 4to, 3. [Ricketts, George Henry Mildmay]. Extracts from the Diary of a Bengal Civilian in 1857-59. And Further Notes of Services and Experiences in Bengal, the Punjab and the United Provinces, [no place]: for private circulation only, [1914], 114 pp., inscribed 'A. W. Cruickshank late B.C.S. [i.e. Bengal Civil Service], from George H M Ricketts, a general practitioner also in B.C.S.' on front free endpaper, with laid-in autograph letter signed from Ricketts to Crucikshank dated 7 March 1914 and presenting the work (4 pp.), original cloth, 8voQty: (3)NOTESLibrary Hub cites three copies only of Ricketts's work; the first two works are otherwise untraced. The first concerns a journey to Ceylon, Burma and India and was written by the author, the daughter of Sir George Reginald Houstoun-Boswall, 4th Baronet (a Great War casualty), at the age of fourteen; the photographs include elephants, locals including tea-plantation workers and the maharaja of Dholpur, and views. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James R. Roberts was an officer in the Indian Medical Service.
India; Goa. Collecçao das leis peculiares das communidades agricolas das aldeas dos concelhos das ilhas Salcete e Bardez. Parte 1a, 5o volume do Gabinette litterario das Fontainhas por Felippe Néry Xavier, Nova Goa [Panjim]: Imprensa nacional, 1852, pp. [8] 477 [1] 16, damp-staining, a few small worm-tracks (touching a few letters in pp. 43-60 and errata leaf), contemporary marbled sheep, spine torn at head, 4to (18.1 x 14.1 cm), together with: ibid. O tratado anglo-portuguez de 26 de dezembro de 1878. O Sr. João de Andrade Corvo e os povos da India Portugueza. Seguido da traducçao do Bombay Abkary Act 1878 por Constancio Roque da Costa, Margão: Typographia do "Ultramar", 1879, pp. 48 (front wrapper counted as pp. 1-2; rear wrapper lacking), browned and marked, 8vo, and 1 other (Cugnot, Theorie de la fortification, Paris: C. A. Jombert, 1778, pp. x [2] 215 [1], 9 engraved folding plates, slightly browned, marginal repairs to A1 and H6, French ducal ink-stamp to title-page, contemporary marbled sheep, spine worn and wormed, 12mo)Qty: (3)NOTESFirst work: uncommon early Goanese imprint; the second part appeared in 1855 but apparently the work remained incomplete as four parts were intended. Between 1846 and 1848 Filipe Neri Xavier published a journal titled Gabinette Literario das Fontainhas (note the variant spelling of Litterario ), in 36 numbers; this appears to be a separate work from the Gabinette Litterario of which the present work is part.
Irwin (Eyles). A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year MDCCLXXVII. In Letters to a Lady, 1st edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1780, half-title, 2 sepia aquatint plates, engraved plan ('Yambo' i.e. Yanbu, modern-day Saudi Arabia), 3 folding engraved maps, marks to few fore-edge blank margins, edges untrimmed, modern red half morocco, 4to, together with: Sonnini (Charles Nicholas) , Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, undertaken by order of the old government of France, London: J. Debrett, 1800, engraved portrait frontispiece, 28 engraved plates and maps (correct as list, including folding linen-backed engraved map with repaired closed tear), few plates bound out of sequence, browning and some spotting, 20th century half calf, 4to, Napoleon , Copies of original letters from the army of General Bonaparte in Egypt : intercepted by the fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson. Part the first. With an English translation, 2 volumes in one, 7th edition, London: J. Wright, 1798-99, folding map frontispiece, folding engraved facsimile letter (stained), contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked, 8vo, and two others, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T.E. Lawrence, 1st trade edition, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935, original cloth, 4to, and Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, by Bertram Thomas, reprinted, London: Jonathan Cape, 1932, original cloth, 8voQty: (5)NOTESIrwin - Atabey 609; Blackmer 865 (second edition; one plate only); Cox I p. 232; Macro 1293 (second edition); not in Abbey. 'This work is chiefly valuable for the information which his personal adventures necessarily give of the manners, etc., of the Arabians' (Cox).
Jones (Henry). The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, volume V only, 1721, 29 folding engraved plates and table, including the folding engraved map 'A Passage by Land to California Discover'd by ye Rev. Fath. Eusebius Francis Kino, Jesuit between ye Years 1698 & 1701', occasional light spotting and toning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed with some worming to upper joint and covers, 4toQty: (1)NOTESContains Eusebio Francisco Kino's map of California, first drawn in 1702, the first map to show California as a peninsula and not an island, as had previously been supposed. "A Jesuit, Father Eusebio Kino, was the first European to cross from the mainland to the peninsula of California, and to point out the fallacy of the island theory. His map, compiled in 1698, was printed in 1705. This map, however, was not generally accepted: in fact it provoked a fairly strong reaction. Herman Moll in 1711 wrote indignantly that California was undoubtedly an island. 'Why,' he said, 'I have had in my office mariners who have sailed round it.' Finally in 1746 Father Consag sailed completely round the Gulf of California and at last settled the vexed question..." (Tooley, The Mapping of America , p. 111).
La Pérouse (Jean-François Galaup, comte de). A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, 3 volumes, London: for J. Johnson, 1798, complete with engraved portrait frontispiece and 41 maps, charts and plates, many folding, some with a tear or a split fold (one long tear pinned and one split fold neatly stitched), a couple guarded-in, nautical charts at rear of final colume, variable spotting and toning, occasional minor dampstain to some lower blank corners, each title blank verso with ink library stamp, volumes 1 & 3 front free endpapers each with library slip, 20th century cloth-backed boards, rubbed and a trifle soiled, some wear to extremities, volume 3 joints cracked, 8voQty: (3)NOTESHowes L93; Sabin 38963. See also Hill (1974) p.174 for the supposition that this Johnson edition slightly preceedes the Stockdale edition published in the same year, making this the first edition in English.
* Machell (Thomas, 1824-1862). Two autograph letters signed, 1850 & 1851, both written to Mrs John Ditmas, from Rooderpore Factory, Bongong: the first dated November 12th 1850, apologising for tardiness in writing, reminiscing that it was 2 years to the day since the writer was staying with Mrs Ditmas on his birthday, mentioning the enduring of trials, disappointments, and being "neglected and almost insulted by those at whose hands I had a right to expect at least courtesy", before detailing a change of fortune whereby "I am again an Indigo planter and have just been given the charge of six factories", going on to paint a picture in words of the remote terrain of plains, swamps, howling jackals, native huts, rice and indigo crops, with details such as a grim looking old alligator eyeing up the local children, and describing in detail the lonely life of the "much abused Planter" and his numerous responsibilities and yearnings for home, first page with border of vignettes in brown ink, depicting various sights pertaining to the writer's travels, including a tiger, a whale, elephants, a view of Tenerife, a large sailing ship in the Bay of Bengal, stormy seas at The Cape of Good Hope, etc., mostly captioned beneath, e.g. '"Adieu my native Land"', 'Land ho! Maderia', 'Round the Cape', etc., written in black ink to all 4 sides of a bifolium, several folds, with address 'Minster Yard, York, England' on final page, accompanied by various indistinct ink postal stamps, first leaf splitting slightly at one fold, second leaf with several small holes, and subsequent loss of a number of letters, leaf size 24.8 x 20cm, the second undated, but with ink postal stamp 'Bongong' dated 1 Decr 1851 in manuscript, and reference made to the letter again being written on 12th November, the writer's birthday, followed by childhood memories of "the young Machells" visiting the "little Miss Ditmases", and their antics in the nursery, e.g. hanging "their playfellows dolls out of the window", going on to write of the onerous duties of supervising a mixed race of "Mohammedans and Hindus" - "exercising an almost patriarchal sway over them I find myself in the position of Father Priest and Physician", and describing the widely varied nature and attitudes of his fellow Planters, first page headed with a pen, ink, & wash sketch of a large 2-storey thatched building with verandahs, beside a tree, written in brown ink to most of the 4 sides of a bifolium, with oval blindstamp 'Rolland Frères Fabr. Bordeaux', several folds, with address on final page as above, and ink postal stamps, including Calcutta and York, some small splits in folds, leaf size 26.6 x 21.2cmQty: (2)NOTESProvenance: Mrs Mary Ann Ditmas (born circa 1802), wife of John Ditmas; passed to her daughter Georgiana Townesend née Ditmas, wife of George Fyler Townesend; and thence by descent. These two interesting letters give a fascinating insight into the period explorer Thomas Machell spent as manager of the Rooderpore indigo estate in India in the middle of the 19th century. The British Library holds a collection of letters, many of them illustrated, written by Machell to his father over the course of his eventful lifetime of travel. These "Talking Papers" as Machell called them, totalling almost 3000 pages, describe such exploits as: witnessing the first Opium War in Hong Kong; a narrow escape from the wrath of a Polynesian cannibal whose daughter he had seduced on the Marquesas Islands; presiding over coffee plantations; travels with Muslim merchants; and managing bullock trains transporting goods across Central India. In these two letters to an old family friend, as well as describing details of the surrounding terrain and his occupation, the explorer writes sensitively about the indigenous people amongst whom he works, and wistfully of the people back home. Mrs Ditmas had two daughters who never married, Mary Henrietta and Fanny, both of whom lived with her all their lives as did her servant Mrs Radcliffe. All three are mentioned by Machell in his letters, and he seems to make especial mention of Fanny in particular. Thomas Machell would no doubt be delighted that these two letters have come to light; he had aspirations to be a travel writer, and had planned to write a book on indigo as well an autobiographical novel. Presciently, in 1851 he wrote: "…mayhap the words carelessly written at Rooderpore factory will be lighted upon in some musty library in the twentieth century". (Jenny Balfour-Paul, Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer , 2015)
Maxwell (William Hamilton). Life of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: A. H. Baily, 1839-41, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispieces and vignette titles, engraved dedication, all engraved plates, maps and battle-plans as called for (the latter with dispositions hand-coloured), spotting, browning and offsetting, contemporary tan half calf, gilt spines with twin morocco labels, 8vo (21.4 x 13 cm), Gleig (George Robert). Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of Bengal, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1841, engraved portrait frontispiece to volumes 1-2 (browned, volume 2 frontispiece damp-stained), contemporary tan half calf, gilt spines with twin morocco labels, 8vo (21.2 x 12.7 cm), Martineau (John). The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, 1895, half-titles, frontispieces, all plates and maps as called for, top edges gilt, contemporary blue half morocco gilt original original cloth front covers, engraved bookplates of a member of the Montefiore family (with motto 'Think and Thank'), 8vo (21.7 x 13.7 cm)Qty: (8)
Mazell (Peter, 1733-1808). A North West View of the Chohoes, or Great Cataract of the Mohawk River, in the Province of New York in North America, [London, 1768], uncoloured copper engraving on thick laid paper, by Peter Mazell after Thomas Davies, short wormtrack to upper left blank margin, not affecting image (approximately 15 mm), plate size 38 x 52.5 cm (15 x 20.7 ins), sheet size 44 x 58.5 cm (17.3 x 23 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESFrom the rare series 'Six Views of North American Waterfalls, dedicated to His Excellency Lieut. General Sir Jeffrey Amherst... by Thos. Davies, Captain Lieutenant...... Regiment of Artillery'. The six engravings comprise Great Cataract of Niagara, Lower Cataract on the Casconchiagon or Little Seneca's River, on Lake Ontario, Great Cataract on the Casconchiagon, and others...... Thomas Davies (circa 1737-1812) is today recognised as one of the pioneering topographical artists in the depiction of Canada and North America. His ...East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara is the first view of Niagara Falls, both drawn from the motif, and topographically accurate.
* Middle East, India & Far East. Group of documents and ephemera, 19th-20th century, comprising: 1. Nubar Pasha (1825-1890). Autograph letter signed in French, Paris, 12 June 1882, 2 pp., signed 'M. Nubar', mentioning French engineer Joseph-Pons d'Arnaud ('D'Arnaud Bey', 1811-1884), annotated at head 'Ecrit le 12 juine 1882 à M. D'Arnaud Bey à Chatou' (presumably by the recipient), 8vo, 2. Aga Khan III (1877-1957). Autograph sentiment signed, 'I am the same person as Aga Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan', 3. A single sheet with signatures in English and Persian of Nawab Mir Mookurrum Hussein Khan Bahadur, Nawab Mir Sufdar Hussein Khan Bahadur, and. Nawab Meer Ikram Hussein Khan Bahadur, all dated Park Hill, 1 October 1896, annotated in pencil 'Indian princes' 4. Seal impressions of Muhammad Jamal al-A'zam, Sultan of Sulu (r.1862-81), Philippines, and of Muhammad Badr al-Din, Sultan of Sulu (r. 1881-4), both in red ink, mounted, contemporary annotations in English to mount, and 9 others, including Persian manuscript document (with English docket 'From Gov. of Meshed to subordinate Gov. between Meshed and [?]Bijand'), a printed Ottoman tezkere (passport) to one Thomas Stevens (splits and repairs), a hand-coloured etched portrait of Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh (title 'A Reminiscence of Ferozepore'), and clipped signature in envelope with 19th-century inscription 'Autograph of Nana Sahib' (i.e. leader of the Sepoy Mutiny)Qty: (13)NOTESNubar Pasha was the first prime minister of Egypt. Regarding item 3, the Royal Collection (RCIN 2907531) holds a portrait photograph of a group of boys at Park Hill school (at Torquay according to their cataloguing, but in fact at Lyndhurst, Hampshire), dated January 1896 and including the three nawabs who have signed their names here, in addition to Charles Edward, Duke of Albany (1884-1954) and the children of other notables; their names suggest that they may have belonged to the ruling family of Bangapanalle.
Four Reproduction Hunting Prints titled Full Cry, The Death, The Meet and Breaking Cover, mounted and framed, measurements 39 x 58 cm (i), frame 55 x 73 cm together with a reproduction print after Alfred de Breanski, Anglers on the Dee Near Balmoral, mounted and framed, measurements 32 x 40 cm (i), frame 32 x 40 cm and two further reproduction prints after George Morland, The First of September Evening, measurements 40 x 52 cm (i), frame 53 x 64 cm and Fisherfolk, measurements 41 x 52 cm, frame 56 x 63 cm
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