Baskerville Press. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments... together with the The Psalter or Psalms of David..., 3rd edition, Cambridge, 1762, title-page with contemporary ownership name of Abijah Mellor, Nottingham, first and final leaves lightly spotted, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary blue-green morocco, lightly rubbed, raised bands, compartments filled with alternating flower and flower in lozenge tools, covers with gilt border of hound's tooth roll and wide urn and flower roll, upper cover with gilt morocco label, lettered 'Abijah Mellor', with repeated flower spray tool above and repeated bird tool below, enclosed in a scalloped seedhead roll border, large 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: Abijah Mellor was a jeweller and silversmith, who established his business in Derby in 1750, being the first to set up such an industry in the town. His output was apparently deemed superior to any other such establishment in the country, with the exception only of London manufacturers, and at one time he had 300 men in his employ. Gaskell 19.
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![[Bourgeois, Louise]. The Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged … The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. Practiti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/76b6e5d9-6ebf-43ba-a94e-aa5d00e3e5ad/468x382.jpg)
[Bourgeois, Louise]. The Compleat Midwife's Practice Enlarged … The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. Practitioners of the said Art. With a full supply of those rare secrets which Mr. Culpeper in his Brief Treatise of Midwifry, and other English writers, have kept close to themselves, concealed, or wholly omitted. Printed for Nath. Brook, 1659, [16], 309, [11], engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, including 2 folding, separate title-page to A Full Supply.., by T. Chamberlaine, very small hole to D1 not affecting text (generally a very good, clean copy), contemporary calf ruled in blind, 8vo (Qty: 1)Wing C1817D; Thomason E.1723[1]. Enlarged edition of the French midwife Louise Bourgeois’ book on obstetrics, Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz (Paris, 1609), in which she described herself as ‘the first woman practicing my art to take up the pen’. It was translated into German, Dutch, and English, and was influential throughout Europe in the 17th century.
Le Page du Pratz (Antoine Simon). The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that lye on both sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1763, half-titles, 2 folding engraved maps (one with short closed tear, the other with slightly frayed fore margin), a little minor soiling, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedowns, contemporary mottled calf, 8vo (Qty: 2)ESTC T141263; Howes L-266; Sabin 40122. First published in French in 1758; this first English edition is abridged and rearranged to advance British claims to Louisiana.
![[Dossie, Robert]. The Handmaid to the Arts, Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the Materia Pictoria ... II. The means of del](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/edd4af87-50f3-4862-8b02-aa5d00e476ea/468x382.jpg)
[Dossie, Robert]. The Handmaid to the Arts, Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the Materia Pictoria ... II. The means of delineation ... III. The various manners of Gilding, Silvering, Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, printed for J. Nourse, 1764, engraved tail-pieces, a few leaves browned and spotted (mainly first few leaves in each volume), occasional corner creasing, final three leaves in first volume with small nick in lower edge, modern half calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting leather labels, 8voFirst published in 1758.
![[Gunning, Susannah]. Family Pictures, a Novel. Containing Curious and Interesting Memoirs of Several Persons of Fashion in W—](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/eda887c0-db79-4ead-861a-aa5d00e4778d/468x382.jpg)
[Gunning, Susannah]. Family Pictures, a Novel. Containing Curious and Interesting Memoirs of Several Persons of Fashion in W—re. By a Lady, 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed for W. Nicoll and T. Durham, 1764, toning, occasional light spotting, marginal browning to outer leaves, contemporary speckled tan calf, gilt spines, double gilt frames to sides, light wear to headcaps and corners, 12mo (16.6 x 9.6 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 97; ESTC T125278. Very rare: ESTC traces four copies only in libraries; no other copy traced in auction records. This was Gunning's first novel of which she was the sole author, following The Histories of Lady Frances S— and Lady Caroline S— (1763) , co-written with her sister, Margaret; a later work, Anecdotes of the Delborough Family (1792) was published by the Minerva Press. She is known to have been from Fairwater in Somerset, and to have undergone an acrimonious separation from her husband, who subsequently retired with his mistress to Naples (Hartley, ed., A Historical Dictionary of British Women , p. 198).
Society of Upholsterers. The IId. Edition of Genteel Houshold Furniture, In the Present Taste with an addition of several Articles never before Executed, by a Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-Makers, &c. Containing Upwards of 350 Designs on 120 Plates ... printed for Robt. Sayer, [1765], engraved title-page and 120 copper engraved plates, very occasional spotting or toning, sprinkled edges, modern half calf gilt, spine a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC N64868 (four parts bound in one, 120 plates). Containing designs for a variety of domestic furniture, including firegrates and irons, with titles such as: 'Chinese Hall Lantern'; 'Commode Cloaths Press'; 'Toillets'; 'Frats for Frizes &c.'; 'Standard Sign Iron'; 'French Back Stools'; 'Ornamented Bed-posts'; 'Stair Case Lights'; 'Lady's Desk'; 'Linnen Chests'; 'Gothic Chairs'; 'Obelisks for Lamps &c.'; 'Girondoles'. There appears to be several issues of this rare 18th century pattern book which was first published in 1760 with 60 plates. Little appears to be known about the Society, but it is thought to have been a group of the most fashionable furniture makers and designers in London. Robert Manwaring probably contributed most of the chair designs (the first 28 plates were reprinted in his Chair-Makers Guide in 1766). Other designs have been attributed to Thomas Johnson, William Ince and John Mayhew, Thomas Chippendale, Matthias Lock and Matthias Darley.
Fransham (John). The Entertaining Traveller; or the World in Miniature. Giving a description of every thing necessary and curious... To this new edition is added, an account of the Gigantic Patagonians, lately discovered, 2 volumes, for Henry Holmes, 1767, 6 folding engraved costume plates, a little minor toning, bookplates, contemporary calf, a little rubbed and stained, 12mo (Qty: 2)ESTC N7772; Sabin 25670. First published in 1740 as The World in Miniature: or the Entertaining Traveller. This edition, with the account of the 'gigantic Patagonians', is rare: ESTC traces four copies only world-wide; no other copy traced in auction records.
Bossu (Jean Bernard). Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales; contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appelle vulgairement le Mississippi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs; leurs guerres et leur commerce, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Le Jay, 1768, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved plates, marginal toning to endpapers, bookplates of Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart (see note), contemporary sprinkled calf, volume 1 lower corners bumped, a little rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 2)Provenance: Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903; see lot 317). Howes B626; Sabin 6465 (for the second edition, published the same year: 'I find no record of the first edition'). A collection of 21 letters written by Bossu, a French army officer, recounting his life and travels from 1751 to 1762 in Louisiana, travelling as far north as Fort Chartres (now in Illinois) and as far east as the French post at Mobile. The author was imprisoned briefly for his criticism of the governor of New Orleans, and his book banned in France, which may account for the relative scarcity of this first edition.
Caus (Isaac de). New and Rare Inventions of Water-Works Shewing the Easiest waies to Raise Water higher then the Spring. By which Invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed Many hard Labours performd and Varieties of Motions and Sounds Produced … now Translated into English by John Leak, printed by Joseph Moxon, 1659, engraved architectural title, 26 numbered engraved plates, numerous woodcuts in text, woodcut initials, type ornament headpieces, minor soiling and marks to margins of title-page and plates, contemporary ownership inscription in ink to front endpaper ‘Mr Jn Emerson & L Margaret Lidell’, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, rubbed and slight wear, with spine renewed and repair to top margin of upper cover, folio (32.7 x 21.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Norman 417; Thorndike VII pp. 592-593; Wellcome II, p.315; Wing C1527. First edition in English, a translation of the Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau (Moxon, 1644) illustrated with the same plates. Isaac Caus's text and illustrations were adapted from his uncle or father Salomon de Caus's Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines (Frankfurt 1615), an important work for the development of technology and particularly that of the steam engine. Isaac de Caus was a pioneer in the construction of life-sized automata, several of which are illustrated here. The present treatise also includes descriptions of a fire engine, various pumps, several types of musical organs, and a sluice. He collaborated with Inigo Jones on the design of Wilton House and its gardens.
![[Menon, & Bernard Clermont]. The Professed Cook: or the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary, made Plain and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/36fe281e-e7f6-43be-a2a7-aa5d00e47c74/468x382.jpg)
[Menon, & Bernard Clermont]. The Professed Cook: or the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary, made Plain and Easy. Consisting of the most approved Methods in the French as well as English Cookery. In which the French Names of all the different Dishes are given and explained, whereby every Bill of Fare becomes intelligible and familiar...,Translated from Les Soupers de la Cour; with the Addition of the best Receipts..., 2 volumes in one, 2nd edition, London: R. Davis & T. Caslon, 1769, continuous pagination, repaired closed tear to gutter margin of title, with slight loss to a few letters and overlaid with letterpress from another volume, margins of first & last leaves a little browned, occasional marks, modern half calf, brown morocco title label to spine, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T90913; Maclean p. 99
Raffald (Elizabeth). The experienced English House-keeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, House-keepers, Cooks, &c. Wrote purely from Practice, And dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author lately served as House-Keeper. Consisting of near 800 Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print. Part First, Lemon Pickle, Browning for all Sorts of Made Dishes, Soups, Fish, plain Meat, Game, Made Dishes both hot and cold, Pyes, Puddings, &c. Part Second, All Kind of Confectionary, particularly the Gold and Silver Web for covering of Sweetmeats, and a Desert of Spun Sugar, with Directions to set out a Table in the most elegant Manner and in the modern Taste, Floating Islands, Fish Ponds, Transparent Puddings, Trifles, Whips, &c. Part Third, Pickling, Potting, and Collaring, Wines, Vinegars, Catchups, Distilling, with two most valuable Receipts, one for refining Malt Liquors, the other for curing Acid Wines, and a correct List of every Thing in Season in every Month of the Year, 1st edition, Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop, for the author, and sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Anderson, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London; and by Eliz. Raffald, Confectioner, near the Exchange, Manchester, 1769, author's signature to A1, two folding engraved plates of bills of fare, some general toning throughout, offsetting and occasional light dampstains to few leaves, contemporary speckled sheep, joints a little cracked, 8vo (Qty: 1)Cagle 944; ESTC T82678; Oxford p. 98; Simon, BG 1249. Mrs Raffald spent fifteen years as housekeeper to Lady Elizabeth Warburton, married the gardener, opened a confectioner's shop in Manchester and set up a cookery school. She went on to have fifteen daughters, run two inns, found Salford's first newspaper, establish a registry office for servants and compile Manchester's first Directory.
Pointon (Priscilla). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Birmingham: for the author by T. Warren, 1770, bound with : 'A Young Gentleman', Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Oxford: [no publisher], 1752, 2 works in 1 volume, half-title to the first work, a few trivial marks, contemporary half vellum, red morocco label, rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T125991 & 21270. Lichfield poet Priscilla Pointon (c.1740-1801) went blind 'in her thirteenth year' (preface, p. vi) yet secured some 1,500 subscribers, including a number of aristocrats, for her first book of verse (she published her second in 1784, by which time she was Mrs Pickering). The second work contains the posthumously published writings of an unidentified 'young gentleman of great worth ... [who] died before he was two and twenty' (preface, p. iv), seen through the press by an evidently distraught friend; in addition to poetry it contains two acts of an oriental tragedy set in the 'Palace of Akebar'. No other copy of either work traced in commerce. ESTC records 18 copies world-wide for Pointon's work (most of the UK copies being distributed between Birmingham libraries and Oxford), and six for the second.
Treyssac de Vergy (Pierre Henri). The Mistakes of the Heart: or, Memoirs of Lady Carolina Pelham and Lady Victoria Nevil. In a Series of Letters, 4 volumes, 2nd edition, printed for P. Shatwell, 1771, errata leaf for volume 1 bound at rear of third volume, scattered minor spotting and toning, occasional light marks (including a few ink blots in volume 1), endpapers stained by turn-ins, red sprinkled edges, contemporary sprinkled calf, lightly rubbed and marked in places, 8vo in 12s (Qty: 4)ESTC T231317. Rare four-decker epistolary novel, much taken up with the vices of women: 'When a woman is dead to the sense of shame and decency, she has lost the dignity of her sex, and is a being apart which belongs to no known society'. First published in London by J. Murdoch in 1769, there was a Dublin imprint dated the following year. Not in Block (which does however list three other works by the author); we have been unable to trace a copy of any edition at auction.
Bougainville (Louis de). A Voyage round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, 1st edition in English, printed for J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772, 5 folding maps and charts including frontispiece, folding plate, 2 maps (facing pp. 126 and 303) with discreet old repairs verso at inner edges, intermittent shallow tide-mark in lower margins, contemporary engraved book-label 'I. A. Aubert' pasted to title-page, modern tan half calf to style, 4to (24.6 x 18.9 cm) (Qty: 1)Cox I p. 55; ESTC T82890; Hill 165; Sabin 6869. The first official French circumnavigation. Bougainville travelled by way of the Falkland Islands (which he had been ordered to cede to the Spanish having previously established the first permanent settlement there), the Strait of Magellan, the South Seas, and the East Indies. His account contains important information on the inhabitants of Tahiti in particular.
Trade catalogue. Descriptions of some of the Utensils in Husbandry, Rolling Carriages, Cart Rollers, and Divided Rollers for Land or Gardens, Mills, Weighing Engines, etc. etc. Made and sold by James Sharp, No 15, Leadenhall-Street, London; which may be seen at his Manufactory, No 133, Tooley-Street, Southwark. Sold by Benjamin White, Henry Payne and James Dodsley, and Charles Dilly, [between 1779 and 1786], [34] pp. including letterpress title-page, 4 pp. advertisements and final leaf with blank recto and docket title verso, 19 engraved plates, 2 woodcuts in text, offsetting, letterpress title and one other plate ('Rolling Carts and Waggons') creased, first plate toned, final leaf partially browned, original half calf, red morocco label, printed paper label to front board, spine scuffed, light wear to extremities, oblong 4to (20.6 x 25.8 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: Sam Montgomery (contemporary engraved bookplate with motto 'honneur sans repos'). ESTC N8577; cf. Kress B.81 (another issue, with '27 l[eaves] ... incl. plates'). First published in 1773 (the date of one of the plates, 'Rolling Carts and Waggons'); bookseller Charles Dilly was in partnership with his brother Edward until 1779, so this issue presumably appeared aftewards. ESTC traces five copies world-wide; of the two earlier issues identified by ESTC one contains fewer leaves overall (27, with the exact plate count not stated) and the other 16 plates only (and 28 pages of text).
Lavoisier (Antoine-Laurent de). Essays, Physical and Chemical. Volume the First, translated from the French, with Notes, and an Appendix, by Thomas Henry, 1st edition in English, printed for Joseph Johnson, 1776, 3 engraved folding plates, light spotting and browning, heavier to plates, ownership inscription 'Dr Chauncey B. Forster, 1876' to title-page, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, rubbed, light craquelure to sides, corners, worn, 8vo (20.8 x 12.8 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC N9357; cf. Ferguson II pp. 12-13. All published of the first edition in English of Lavoisier's ground-breaking work. Uncommon.
![[Kilner, Dorothy]. The Histories of More Children than One; or, Goodness better than Beauty, 1st edition, printed by John Mar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/c78b61e5-12fb-4142-95d3-aa5d00e4876a/468x382.jpg)
[Kilner, Dorothy]. The Histories of More Children than One; or, Goodness better than Beauty, 1st edition, printed by John Marshall, circa 1777, pp. [iv] + vii-viii + 9-69 + [2], wood engraved frontispiece, reverse with near contemporary inscription: 'Miss Ellen Parker Her Book 1800. When this you see remember me/And keep me in your mind/Let all the world say what the[sic] will/Speak of me as you find' and below 'A friend to some A foe to none/Remember me when I am gone', 17 wood engraved plates on letterpress, no free endpapers (as issued), publisher's advertisements on verso of final text leaf and facing rear pastedown, one or two minor marks, but a clean copy, original Dutch floral boards, spine rubbed and chipped, 12mo (Qty: 1)A very good copy of the rare first edition (with three chapters and 17 engravings, as opposed to four chapters and 21 engravings in the second edition). This copy conforms to a first edition sold at auction in 1993, which had an ownership inscription dated 1777. No edition listed in Osborne or Gumuchian. Marjorie Moon had only the second edition in her collection (Christie's, The Marjorie Moon Collection of Early English Children's Books , 28 June 1995, lot 38). Containing three moralistic tales for the instruction of children, the first involves John's 'very kind' Mamma, Mrs. Strictum, tying her son to a tree as punishment for refusing to spell the word 'thought': 'She then took hold of his hand, and led him into the garden a great way from the house; where she tied him (with a rope which had that same day been taken off from a sugar loaf) to a tree, and there she told him he should stay without victuals or drink, and without going to-bed till he would be good, and spell the word'.
![[Pratt, Samuel Jackson]. Shenstone-Green; or, The New Paradise Lost. Being a History of Human Nature, written by the Propriet](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/2dc2d314-da4b-4be6-a11e-aa5d00e488b0/468x382.jpg)
[Pratt, Samuel Jackson]. Shenstone-Green; or, The New Paradise Lost. Being a History of Human Nature, written by the Proprietor of the Green. The editor Courtney Melmoth, 3 volumes in 1, 1st edition, printed for R. Baldwin, 1779, half-title to each volume, engraved frontispiece to first volume by Page after Bonnor, contemporary armorial engraved bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed, some wear to spine and joints, upper joint re-strengthened, 8vo (Qty: 1)Block p. 177; ESTC T57352. Uncommon satire on sensibility by the prolific writer, actor and social activist, published under his pseudonym Courtney Melmoth. Despite his gentle authorial persona and well-publicised humanitarian interests Pratt was 'personally insupportable to many of his acquaintances' (ODNB) and loathed by figures as diverse as Lord Byron, Charles Lamb and Sarah Siddons. No other copy traced in auction records. See lot 324 for another work by the author.
![Poetry. Sammelband of 18th-century poetry pamphlets, comprising: [Macdonald, Andrew], Velina: a Poetical Fragment, 1st editio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/090b203a-6e94-4067-bbd5-aa5d00e48951/468x382.jpg)
Poetry. Sammelband of 18th-century poetry pamphlets, comprising: [Macdonald, Andrew], Velina: a Poetical Fragment, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for C. Elliot and T. Longman, Paternoster-row, London, 1782, 58, [2] pp., contemporary ownership inscription ('F Shute, Queen's, Oxo[n]') to title-page, [Defoe, Daniel], The True-Born Englishman, a Satire, 25th edition, [no publisher], 1777, 30 p. , Blair (Robert), The Grave. A Poem. To which is added, an Elegy written in a Country Church-yard by Mr Gray, 2nd edition, Sunderland: James Graham, 1780, 36 pp., damp-staining in lower margins, [Croxall, Samuel], The Fair Circassan ... the Seventh Edition Corrected, Glasgow: A. Donaldson, 1756, [2], iv, viii, 45, [1] pp., ownership inscription 'Thos.. Shute A. B. Queen's Oxon' to title, [Mendez, Moses], The Chaplet. A Music Entertainment. As it is Perform'd by His Majesty's Company of Comedians, at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, printed for T. Lowndes [and others], 1757, engraved frontispiece after Wale, 36 pp., and [Lewis, Matthew Gregory, parody], Tales of Terror: with an Introductory Dialogue, 1st edition, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801, additional engraved title-page (section torn away at head), without the 3 engraved plates, early-19th-century tan half calf, 8vo (17.1 x 10 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: ownership inscriptions of Thomas Shute MA, of the Queen's College, Oxford, sometime curate of Hebburn, and by 1831 of Morpeth. ESTC T138025 (Macdonald), T163582 (Blair), T219547 (Croxall), (Mendez) T101102. Velina was the first published work by Scottish clergyman Andrew Macdonald (c.1755-1790); ESTC traces eleven copies world-wide, and one copy for this edition of Blair's work.
Plat (Sir Hugh). The Garden of Eden. Or, An accurate Description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England, with particular Rules how to advance their Nature and Growth, as well in Seeds and Hearbs, as the secret ordering of Trees and Plants, The Fifth Edition, printed for William Leake, 1660, bound with as issued: The Second Part of the Garden of Eden, 1st edition, 1660 [i.e. 1659], 2 parts in 1 volume, woodcut initial letters, some minor toning and spotting, I8-K6 in first part with short worm trail to blank fore-margin (and several preceding leaves with single hole), hinges splitting, near-contemporary sheep, rubbed, a few single worm holes at foot of spine (not penetrating into text), small 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC R33968 & R203175; Henrey 296 & 297; Wing P2387A & P2392. Fifth edition of the first part and first edition of the second, here issued together; a variant issue of the former is known, with the title-page dated 1659.
The British Jewell, or Complete Housewife's best Companion; Containing, I. A number of the most uncommon and useful Receipts in Cookery ... II. The best and most fashionable Receipts for all Manner of Pastry, Pickling, etc ... III. Directions for making all Sorts of English Wines ... IV. A Table to cast up Expences ... V. Every Man his own Physician ... VI. The Manner of preparing the Elixir of Life ... VII. Directions for destroying Rats, Mice, Bugs, Fleas &c. &c. and a choice Variety of useful Family Receipts. Together with A Method of restoring to Life People drowned, or in any other Manner suffocated. Also, The Complete Farrier... To which is added, The Royal Gardener, or Monthly Calendar ... A New Edition, Printed and Sold by J. Miller, 1782, pp.104, engraved frontispiece, letterpress engravings, title-page with contemporary ownership signatures of Ann Booth and Ann Hobson dated 1783 and 1785 respectively, the former name repeated on recto of frontispiece with the additional place name of Sheffield (showing through to verso), frontispiece and first four leaves with marginal loss repaired (to lower and fore-margin of former, and gutter tail of latter), untrimmed, later rebound in old paper wrappers, soiled and a little frayed with slight loss, printed title label on front cover, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC N32685; Oxford, p. 113. First published in 1769, all editions are uncommon. ESTC calls for 112 pages, and no frontispiece, but ours conforms to the Oxford University copy, which lists 104 pages and one plate. Oxford describes this edition thus: 'A new edition (1782) has a rude frontispiece representing the Good Samaritan and a kitchen.'
Faujas de Saint-Fond (Barthélémy). Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier, 2nd edition, Paris: Cuchet, 1784, 9 engraved plates, folding table, a little minor spotting and toning, bookplate of Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart (see note), contemporary tree calf gilt, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903; see lot 317). Cf. Dibner 169 & PMM 229. 'The first serious treatise on aerostation as a practical possibility' (PMM), describing the Montgolfier brothers' balloon journey from the Bois de Boulogne to Paris in June 1783, the first human aerial voyage in history.
Adams (George). An Essay on Electricity; in which the theory and practice of that useful science, are Illustrated by a variety of experiments, arranged in a methodical manner. To which is added, an essay on magnetism, 1st edition, printed and sold by the author, at Tycho Brahe's Head, 1784, 6 engraved plates (5 folding), 4 pp. instruments catalogue, light offsetting to title, prize label at front, later calf gilt, spine a little rubbed, a few small stains, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC N7266. George Adams (1750-1795) was mathematical instrument maker to George III, an appointment he inherited from his father. This was his first in a series of illustrated textbooks on the physical sciences, with others concerning the microscope, optics, and the barometer. His writings had a religious emphasis which helped 'combat the growing errors of materialism, infidelity and anarchy', according to The Gentleman's Magazine.
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Eniautos Terastion [Greek title]. Mirabilis Annus , or The Year of Prodigies and Wonders, being a faithful and impartial collection of several signs that have been seen in the heavens, in the earth, and in the waters; together with many remarkable accidents and judgements befalling divers persons, according as they have been testified by very credible hands; all which have happened within the space of one year last past, and are now made publick for a seasonable warning to the people of these three kingdoms speedily to repent and turn to the Lord..., [London], printed in the year 1661, double-page engraved frontispiece depicting twelve wonders, [viii], 88 pages, bound with Luther (Martin), The Signs of Christ's Coming, and of the Last Day, being the substance of a very choice and excellent sermon, London, 1661, title, 34 pages, bound with Mirabilis Annus Secundus; Or, the Second Year of Prodigies. Being a true and impartial collection of many strange signes and apparitions, which at this last year been seen in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the waters, [London], printed in the year 1662, [viii], 1-25, 40-89, two blanks, bound with Mirabilis Annus Secundus: or, The Second Part of the Second Year's Prodigies..., 1662, [vi], 54 pages, first and last leaf with some light marginal browning, a few minor marks (generally in good condition), early ownership inscription to blank recto of the double-page engraved plate 'Mary Wherwood given me by my father: 1699', contemporary blind-ruled full plain calf, rubbed and some wear to spine, recased with original spine laid down, outer corners with some wear, small 4to (Qty: 1)Wing E3127a, L3516, M2204, M2205. A collection of astronomical and meteorological observations, including meteors, a comet, a spaceship, earthquakes in Leicestershire, freak tides at London Bridge, whirlwinds, fatal accidents, etc.
Masonic binding. Constitutions of the Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons ... by James Anderson. A New Edition, revised, enlarged, and brought down to the year 1784, under the Direction of the Hall Committee, by John Noorthouck, printed by J. Rozea, 1784, engraved frontispiece by F. Bartolozzi and T. Fitler after G. B. Cipriani and P. Sandby, engraved arms to dedication, 'Explanation of the Frontispiece' leaf , frontispiece slightly spotted, helix roll gilt to turn-ins, all edges gilt, contemporary blue-green morocco, smoot spine richly gilt in compartments with central devices comprising a Bible, square and compasses, square and compasses and ladder devices to corners, concentric floriate and helix borders gilt to covers, spine sunned, front joint rubbed, 4to (26.6 x 20.4 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC T86301 (seven copies in UK libraries). First published in 1723.
Potter (T.). The Moralist; or Portraits of the Human Mind, exhibited in a Series of Novelettes, Partly Original and Partly Compiled, 1st edition, printed for the editor, 1785, half-titles, bound silk page-markers, without engraved portrait, intermittent tide-mark in lower margins extending into text, volume 2 with small damp-stain in fore margins of half-title and title-page, pp. 18-19 and leaves F1-2 stained, a few other marks, contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt with star motifs, twin morocco labels, gilt frames to sides, tips bumped and worn, 12mo (17.5 x 9.9 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 197; ESTC T55923. Rare: ESTC traces two copies world-wide (British Library and University of Chigaco); one copy of a 1786 edition found in auction records (in 1969). The author is identified on the title page as 'the late T. Potter, surgeon, at North Shields, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne'. The first volume consists almost entirely of oriental tales, including 'Amurath, an Eastern Tale', 'Choang and Hansi, a Chinese Tale', 'The Hermit of Lebanon', 'History of Abraoulf', and others.
Heckle (Augustin). Bowles's Drawing Book for Ladies; or Complete Florist: being An Extensive and Curious Collection of the most Beautiful Flowers, All drawn after Nature by A. Heckle. With a short Introduction to Drawing, and Directions for Mixing and Using of Colours. Also Several Proper and Easy Examples. The Whole adapted for the Improvement of Ladies in Needle-Work, Printed for the Proprietor Carington Bowles, [1785?], 24 engraved plates, 20 hand-coloured, three partially hand-coloured, and one uncoloured, toned throughout (especially to title) and some spotting, some corner curling, plate 4 with upper outer blank corner torn away, title and front free endpaper with contemporary ownership name of Mildred Clark, former with additional ink name of Juliana B. Clark, contemporary marbled wrappers, soiled and worn, oblong folio (20 x 32.5 cm), housed in a custom-made brown cloth solander box, with gilt lettered red morocco label on upper cover (Qty: 1)ESTC T117556; Henrey 795. First published as The Lady's Drawing Book in 1755, there appears to have been several issues of this work, all of which are uncommon.
Type Specimen. A Specimen of Printing Types, by William Caslon, letter-founder to His Majesty, first edition, Galabin & Baker, 1785, title, dedication and preface leaves plus 64 specimen leaves, all printed to rectos only, a little scattered spotting and light browning, armorial bookplate of Joseph Lane Manby (a little surface loss), all edges gilt, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked and restored with red leather spine label, rubbed, some edge wear, tall 8vo (24 x 15 cm) (Qty: 1)Berry & Johnson, Catalogue of Specimens of Printing Types , p. 19; Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 107; Mosley 55. Copies of this scarce and attractive specimen vary from 63 to 67 leaves.
Moseley (Benjamin). A Treatise of Tropical Diseases; and of the Climate of the West Indies, 1st edition, for T. Cadell, 1787, half-title, errata slip pasted to contents leaf verso, some light spotting, bookplate, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T135744; Sabin 51050. Benjamin Moseley (1742-1819) was surgeon-general of Jamaica from 1768 to 1784. His treatise was reprinted several times; the first edition is uncommon.
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[Rabisha, William]. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught, and fully manifested, Methodically, Artificially, and according to the best Tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. Or, A Sympathie of all varieties in Naturall Compounds in that Mysterie. Wherein is contained certain Bills of Fare for the Seasons of the year, for Feasts and Common Diets. Whereunto is annexed a Second Part of Rare Receipts of Cookery: with certain useful Traditions. With a Book of Preserving, Conserving and Candying, after the most Exquisite and Newest manner: Delectable for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1st edition, printed by R. W. for Giles Calvert, 1661, front blank with early inscription 'James Broomans Book the valuable gift of his Dear Daughter Sarah Slodden' (soiled, browned and repaired to margins), browning and some soiling throughout volume, some leaves repaired to margins particularly to last few leaves, loosely inserted 20th century bookplate of Gordon Ward, modern panelled calf to style, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: James Brooman (1754-1839), recorded as a gentleman of Margate (Kent Wills, Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, volume 110, f. 307). Bitting pp. 386-387 ; ESTC R20908; Oxford p. 30; Simon, BG 1248 ; Vicaire 727 ; Wing R114; cf. Cagle 943 (fourth edition,1682). Rare. Only three UK institutional locations found on Copac (British Library, Bodleian and Leeds University Library), with two other copies traced worldwide on ESTC (Harvard University and University of Chicago). Rabisha was a Cornishman who claimed to have worked for many noble families. The first part deals with pickles, fish, meats and fruit; the second part 'Rare recipes in Cookery'; and the third part preserving, conserving and candying. It includes recipes 'to pickle Sleep-at-noon', to make 'Punnado' and 'Andolians', 'to fry Primrose-leaves in March with eggs', and 'to Spitchcoch an Eel'. Near the end are 'Certain old useful Traditions of Carving and Sewing, &c.' which come from the 'Book of Carving' of 1508, and a recipe 'to roast a shoulder of Mutton in blood' (see Oxford).
Cole (Mary). The Lady's Complete Guide; or Cookery and Confectionary in all their Branches. Containing the most approved Receipts, confirmed by Observations and Practice, in every reputable English Book of Cookery now extant ... To which is added ... The Complete Brewer ... also The Family Physician ... new edition improved, London: G. Kearsley, 1789, light dampstaining to title, scattered spotting throughout, hinges split, contemporary sheep, repairs to joints and head & foot of spine, recent red morocco title label, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting, p. 94; Cagle 623; ESTC T123422; Maclean, p. 29; (third edition, 1791). The author is described on the title-page as 'cook to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Drogheda'. 'Mrs Mary Cole deserves praise for being among the first cookery writers to cite in a systematic way the sources of her recipes' (Maclean). Names from earlier in the century, such as Glasse, Raffald, Dalrymple, Clemont, Mason, and Farley appear frequently within the text.
Lavater (Johann Caspar). Essays on Physiognomy; for the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind. Written in the German Language ... and translated into English by Thomas Holcroft, 3 volumes, 1st edition thus, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789, half-titles, 360 engraved plates by William Blake and others, occasional spotting and offsetting, marbled edges, contemporary green goatskin, spines ruled in gilt, red goatksin labels, rolled floral border gilt to sides, a few scuffs, mid-length scrape to volume 2 front board, 8vo (23 x 13.6 cm) (Qty: 3)Provenance: a pencilled noted attributes the binding to William McKenzie of Dublin, of whom Ramsden remarks: 'There is reason to suppose that not all McKenzie's best bindings were ticketed. Perhaps he only used the ticket for a few years, from about 1784. He worked mainly in green morocco and tree calf. The sides of his bindings are rarely decorated with more than a roll and perhaps a tool in the corners' ( Outside London , p. 242). ESTC N9351; cf. Garrison-Morton 154. 'Lavater was the last of the descriptive physiognomists' (Garrison-Morton). The work was first published in German as Physiognomische Fragmente (1775-8). Another English translation, by Henry Hunter, was published between 1789 and 1799.
Hepplewhite (Alice). The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; or a Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and most Approved Taste, 2nd edition, I. and J. Taylor, 1789, 125 engraved plates, some light spotting, marginal toning to title, large bookplate ('Freiherrlich Moritz von Bethmann'sche', evidently a member of the Bethmann banking dynasty), contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, a little rubbed, folio (Qty: 1)ESTC N43593. Hepplewhite's guide, first published the previous year, was the first furniture pattern-book to have appeared in England since the third edition of Chippendale's Director in 1762, and despite criticism from Sheraton it achieved popularity in America and continental Europe. Rare. ESTC traces nine copies only in libraries world-wide (in addition to six for the first edition.
Type Specimen. A Specimen of Printing Types Cast in the Letter Foundery of Alexander Wilson and Sons, Glasgow, 1789, 52 leaves, including title-page (dusty), printed on rectos only, some spotting and marks, verso of one leaf with mounted dictionary leaf annotated in contemporary manuscript (adhesive showing though to head and foot of blank margins on recto), facing recto with contemporary marginalia, hinges strengthened, label removed from front pastedown, ownership inscription of M. Orskey to rear pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, tall 8vo (Qty: 1)Bigmore & Wyman III, p. 86; Mosley 214. Rare. Alexander Wilson (1714-1786) was a Scottish astronomer as well as type founder. After graduating from St Andrews University in 1733 he spent some time apprenticed to a surgeon and apothecary in London. In 1742 he set up a letter foundry in St Andrews, transferring his operations to Glasgow in 1744. The elegance of his lettering became renowned, especially his Greek fonts which were used by the Foulis Press. In 1760 he was appointed the first Regius Professor of Astronomy at Glasgow University. In 1769 he noticed changes in the shape of sunspots near the edge of the sun's visible disk that became known as the Wilson Effect.
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Zahrawi (Abu'l-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-, & [Theodorus Priscianus]). Octavii Horatiani Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor.I. Logicus, De curationibus omnium ferme morborum ... II. De acutis & chronicis passionibus ... III. Gynecia ... IIII. De physica scientia ... Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium primarii, lib. tres. I. Cauterio cum igne, & medicinis acutis per singula corporis humani membra. Cum instrumentorum delimatione. II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis. De vulneribus, & extractione sagittarum, & ceteris similibus. Cum formis instrumentorum. III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis membrorum. Cum typis item instrumentorum, 2 parts in one volume, Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 26 February 1532, [4 leaves] + 319 pages, title within decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments throughout the text, title-page slightly browned and marked, small early ink inscription at foot ‘R 1 . (.) .’ later ownership inscription (‘Geo. Bell’) to head of title, 18th-century engraved bookplate of one Angelo M. Sisinni verso, title restrengthened with archival tissue to margins verso, following leaf with minor repair to upper right corner, bookplate removed from front endpaper, fine modern antique-style blind-decorated full calf gilt, folio ( 29.5 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Adams P2119; Choulant 217; Durling 3764; Hirsch-H. IV, 677; Parkinson 1965; STC 415; Stillwell, Awakening, 532; Waller 7646; Wellcome I, 5256. 'The most attractive printed edition' of the chapter on surgery and surgical instruments from the Kitab al-Tasrif (Vrolijk & van Leeuwen, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, p. 6), the foundational Arabic medical treatise by 10th-century Andalusian physician Abu'l-Qasim al-Zahrawi (circa 936-1013), 'the greatest surgeon of the medieval ages', and known in the Latin West as Albucasis (Meri, ed., Medieval Islamic Civilisation: an Encyclopaedia, I p. 783). The Kitab al-Tasrif is divided into thirty chapters, of which the first (on general principles of medicine), the second (on symptoms and treatments of diseases), and the thirtieth (the present chapter, on surgery) account for more than half the book's entire length. The chapter on surgery is 'the first comprehensive and illustrated treatment on its subject' (Library of Congress cataloguing, online), and is itself divided into three sections: on cauterization, on phlebotomy, dissection, wounds, and the extraction of arrows, and on bone-setting. It was translated into Latin from the Arabic by Gerard of Cremona in the 13th century, and first printed, in Latin, in 1497. In this edition al-Zahrawi's text is proceeded by a companion work, Rerum medicarum libri quatuor, which is the Latin translation by Byzantine physician Theodorus Priscianus (fl. 4th century CE) of his own compendium of medical remedies, the Euporista, originally written in Greek. It is attributed here to 'Octavianus Horatianus'.
Prévost (Jean). Medicaments For the Poor; or, Physick for the Common People ... Hereunto is added an Excellent Book, called Health for the Rich and Poor, by Dyet without Physick.The second edtion, by Nich. Culpeper, printed by Peter Cole, 1662, A-C4, D-O8-Z8, Aa8, A4, D-E8, F, G1, 2 parts in one volume, with separate title-page for the second part (dated 1656), title with neat ownership signature Jn: Glaspole to top margin, Y5 (page 349-50) with printing flaw to final two lines to verso, with loss of legibility of a few words, a few minor marks (generally a good, clean copy), 19th-century bookplate of Jane Brooke to front blank, and an additional 19th-century bookplate of the Castle Freke Library to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled plain calf, rubbed and some marks, minor wear to head of rear joint, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: Castle Freke Library, Castle Freke, County Cork, Ireland ( seat of the Evans-Freke baronets and subsequently the barons Carbery; redesigned in the early 19th century for John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery). ESTC R227435; Wing P3325. Second edition in English of Jean Prévost's Medicina pauperum (the first was printed in 1656). The translator was Nicholas Culpeper, whose own work, 'Health for the Rich and Poor', is printed with its own title-page. Rare: ESTC traces nine copies world-wide, of which only two in the United Kingdom.
Briggs (Richard). The English Art of Cookery, according to the present practice, 2nd edition, 1791, half-title present, 12 engraved plates of bills of fare, some scattered spotting, contemporary ownership inscription 'Mary Bunow' to front free endpaper, upper hinge split, contemporary sheep, rebacked, maroon morocco title label to spine, upper board repaired at head, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting p. 60; Maclean 15; Vicaire 116; cf. Oxford, pp. 115-116, and Cagle 577 (first edition). On the title page Richard Briggs describes himself as being 'many Years Cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-street, the White-Hart Tavern, Holborn, and now at the Temple Coffee-house'. The volume is strictly organised into 38 chapters with clearly distinct themes, covering poultry, soups and broths, fish dressings, sauces, stews and hashes, ragous and fricassees, roots and vegetables, puddings, pies and tarts, pancakes and fritters, cheesecakes and custards, blancmanges, jellies and syllabubs, potting and little cold dishes, carving, garden vegetables, brewing, wines and cordial wines, and more. The twelve plates depict selected bills of fare for each month of the year.
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[Bage, Robert]. Man As He Is. A Novel. In Four Volumes, 1st edition, printed for William Lane, at the Minerva Press, Leadenhall-Street, 1792, half-titles present, publisher's advertisements on final page of second and third volumes (that to volume 3 with 1.5" closed tear in blank fore-margin), front pastedowns with printed bookplate of the 'English reading Society' annotated in manuscript and dated '6 January 1796' (rubbed with some slight losses), volume 2 with small piece missing from fore-margin on front free endpaper, volume 3 with lower portion of rear free endpaper torn away, untrimmed, original boards, rubbed and soiled, joints split, final volume with lower board just holding on two cords, deficient spines with ink volume number, large 12mo (Qty: 4)Provenance: the English Reading Society was established in Groningen, Netherlands, in 1792 to promote the reading of English texts. It is the oldest known English reading society in the Netherlands, and its early membership included a number of university professors and other social elites. Existing records of the society's purchase refer to a wide variety of books and periodicals covering politics, economics, geography, history, poetry and fiction. A society of the same name still existed in 1904, although at the time its members were reading French and German texts as well. Block p.13. Rare Minerva Press title, no other set in the original boards traced at auction. The author's fifth novel, it is is a satirical work which 'narrates the rescue of a well-meaning young baronet from fashionable aristocratic vices by his love for a virtuous and independent woman, good friends, and his encounters in France with leaders of the earlier, moderate phase of the revolution' (ODNB). Robert Bage (1728-1801) was a businessman who did not publish his first novel until the age of 53, and who began writing partly to recoup his financial losses. He was influenced by Thomas Paine, Voltaire and Rousseau, and the ideals of the American and French revolutions. His novels display a sympathy for the rights of women and opposition to slavery, cruelty, war and duelling. He was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society, founded in 1784 by Erasmus Darwin. William Godwin was a follower of Bage, and Percy Bysshe Shelley was also an enthusiast of his work.
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[Menon]. The French Family Cook: being a complete System of French Cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of moderate Fortune and Condition. Containing Directions for choosing, dressing, and serving up all Sorts of Butcher Meat, Poultry, &c. The different Modes of making all kinds of Soups, Ragouts, Fricandeaus, Creams, Ratafias..., a great Variety of cheap and elegant Side Dishes, calculated to grace a Table at a small Expence. Instructions for making out Bills of Fare for the four Seasons of the Year..., Translated from the French, 1st edition in English, J. Bell, 1793, final advert leaf present, few pencil markings to margins, bookplate of Arthur Conolly Gage Heygate (1862-1935) and Frances Evelyn Rowley Harvey (d.1931) to upper pastedown, 20th-century cloth, slightly scuffed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: Arthur Conolly Gage Heygate (1862-1935) and Frances Evelyn Rowley Harvey (d.1931). Arthur was the son of Sir Frederick William Heygate, 2nd Baronet, and Marianne Gage. Sir Frederick was member of parliament for Londonderry between 1859 and 1874. Axford, p. 172; Bitting, p. 554; Cagle 872; ESTC T91239; Maclean, p. 101; Oxford, p. 121; Simon, BG 714. The first English edition of Menon's La Cuisinière bourgeoise , originally published in French (Paris, 1746), and 'the first book to appear in France directed specifically to female cooks' (Barbara Wheaton, Savoring the Past , p. 98).
Miller (John). The Country Gentleman's Architect, in a Great Variety of New Designs; for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; with plans of the offices belonging each design, distributed with a strict attention to convenience, elegance, and economy, printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1793, printed title, 32 copper-engraved plates, printed explanatory leaf to plates 3-15 only (as issued), 4-page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear (folded), light spotting to title and margins of several plates, modern antique-style half calf, with gilt morocco label to spine, 4to (Qty: 1)Abbey Life 38; Harris 555; Berlin Katalog 2302. First published in 1787, Miller's Country Gentleman's Architect was designed to appeal to the landed gentry and newly-affluent middle class looking for a country retreat, and includes designs for farmhouses and offices, gentlemen's villas, and six designs for park gate lodges, which established a standard for country estate entrances.
Bartram (William). Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscoculges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, 1st Dublin edition, for J. Moore [and others], 1793, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map of East Florida, 7 engraved plates (one folding), occasional minor offsetting and spotting, contemporary previous owner signature of Marcus Gage to title, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T121441; Howes B223; Sabin 3870. First published in Philadelphia in 1791 and London in 1792, the work records the author's extensive travels in the territories of the Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, as far west as the Mississippi River. The author had great interest in the customs and manners of the Indian tribes, fur traders and forest life. 'A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem' (Howes).
Campbell (Patrick). Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America, 1st edition, Edinburgh: for the author, 1793, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (partly hand-coloured with manuscript caption at foot 'Canadian Indian'), 2 engraved plates (one folding, with small stain), folding table, a little light spotting and soiling, untrimmed in original paper-backed marbled boards, a little soiling, light wear to extremities, recent clamshell cloth case, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC N13837; Howes C101; Sabin 10264. 'A curious and entertaining book' (Sabin), containing much first-hand information on Canada's First Nations. A Scottish farmer and merchant, Campbell claims to have sailed from Greenock in July 1791 with the intention of exploring for its own sake. Landing at St John's, he travelled on through New Brunswick, Frederick Town, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Niagara, Grand River, Genesee County, the Mowhawk River, Albany, New York and New Jersey. Rare: ESTC records only the National Library of Scotland's copy in British and Irish libraries.
Leeds Pottery Pattern Book. Designs of Sundry Articles of Queen's or Cream-colour'd Earthen-Ware, manufactured by Hartley, Greens, and Co. at Leeds Pottery: with a great variety of other articles. The same enamel'd, Printed or Ornamented with Gold to any Pattern; also with Coats of Arms, Cyphers, Landscapes, &c. &c., Leeds, 1794, 3 printed titles in German, French and English, each with 6-page list of plates in German, French and English (forming 24 pages of preliminary text in all), 45 copper-engraved plates (including one folding), paper watermarked with a fleur-de-lys and shield with capital letters L V G below (Lubertus van Gerrevink), some light scattered spotting and offsetting, plate 20 with closed tear to top margin, touching plate area, without loss, folding plate 26 repaired, (without loss), contemporary annotations in ink (in Italian?), to verso of the final plate 45, modern endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary gilt-decorated full tree calf, with gilt morocco label to spine, very slightly rubbed to extremities, large 4to (30.8 x 23.75 cm) (Qty: 1)Rare. A variant issue of the edition published in Leeds in 1794 (although this was undated), which contains 12 pages of text, and 71 plates. The present work lists 152 sauce boats, dishes, table plates, salad and dessert dishes, jugs, mugs, bowls, candlesticks, cutlery, baskets and stands, etc, and a separately numbered sequence of 32 designs for tea ware. First issued in 1783 with only 40 plates, and thus 'one of the earliest pattern books published in England by pottery manufacturers for the use of their travellers', or salesmen, overseas (Solon, Ceramic Literature, 1910, page 196). Given the Italian manuscript notes at the end of the volume, most likely for use in Switzerland or Italy.
Boyle (Robert). New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun. To which are added an Examen of Antiperistasis, and an Examen of Mr. Hob's Doctrine about Cold. Whereunto is annexed an account of freezing, brought in to the Royal Society, by the learned Dr. C. Merret, 1st edition, John Crook, 1665, title printed in red and black, 2 folding engraved plates at end, engraved bookplate of Thomas Vernon M.D. to front pastedown, contemporary blind-ruled full calf, blind-stamped rose motif to edges of covers, gilt morocco label to spine, a few minor marks, 8vo (Qty: 1)Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas Vernon M.D. (with three garbs of wheat and a maiden above holding a scythe, the Vernon family crest). This may be the lawyer and M.P. Thomas Vernon (1654-1721) or Thomas Vernon (1724-1771), landowner and M.P., of Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire. Fulton 70; Honeyman 465; Wing B3996. ' Cold is a milestone in the history of chemistry since it applies a quantitative tool, namely the thermometer, to study of the interaction of elemental substances and mixtures. This … gives Boyle just claim to a place in the early history of ideas concerning the kinetics of chemical reactions (i.e. modern thermodynamics) ... The treatise on Cold contains the first description of a graduated thermometer, termed by Boyle a thermoscope ... He was aware that extreme cold prevented the putrefaction of animal tissues, and realized that cold could be utilized for the preservaton of meat ' (Fulton).
Hearne (Samuel). A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772, 1st edition, A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795, large folding engraved map with routes coloured in outline, 4 folding enraved plans, 4 folding engraved plates, publisher's advertisement leaf with Directions to Binder to verso at end, small marginal repair to one plan, contents leaf and at gutter of page 241, occasional light spotting, top edge gilt, later maroon half morocco gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1)ESTC T146967; Hill I p.141; Sabin 31181 (with incorrect plate count). Large-paper copy. 'It was the first of a long series of Arctic voyages and travels which reflect so much honor on the British Press. Its publication is due to the celebrated explorer La Perouse who captured Fort Albany, Hudson's Bay and found the MS. of Hearne. The fort was afterwards surrendered to the British, but La Perouse stipulated for the publication of this work by the Hudson's Bay Company, which stipulation was honorably fulfilled in this beautiful volume ... The author will always be remembered as the first white man that ever gazed on the dreary expanse of the Arctic or Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the Continent of America' (Sabin).
Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy; Which far excels any Thing of the Kind yet published... In which are included, One Hundred and Fifty new and useful Receipts, not inserted in any former Edition. With a copious Index. New edition. With all the modern Improvements; And also the Order of a Bill of Fare for each Month; the Dishes arranged on the Table in the most fashionable Style, London, 1796, half-title with faint contemporary ownership inscription 'Mrs Mary Saker her book', some dampstaining mostly to first & last few leaves, top edge gilt, 20th-century marbled half calf by Bickers & Son, gilt decorated spine with contrasting morocco label in red and green, upper joint a little slit at head, 8vo, together with: [Kettilby, Mary]. A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses, by Several Hands. The Fourth Edition. To which is Added, a Second Part, Containing a great Number of Excellent Receipts, for Preserving and Conserving of Sweet-Meats, &c., London: Printed for Mary Kettilby, and Sold by Richard Wilkin, 1728, title to second part stating third edition and imprint date of 1728, some browning, spotting and few marks, 20th century sheep with morocco title label to spine, 8vo, Mason (Charlotte). The Ladies' Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table; being a Complete System of Cookery, &c. containing the most Select Bills of Fare ... and several Deserts ... likewise Directions for Brewing, Making English Wines, Raspberry, Orange, and Lemon-Brandies, &c. also remarks on Kitchen-Poisons, and necessary Cautions thereon, 6th edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved to the present time, London: J. Walter, 1787, half-title present, closed tears to lower margins of index leaves 2I8, 2K1-2K3 , scattered spotting throughout, contemporary calf, morocco title label to spine, joints slightly cracked at head & foot, worn at head & foot of spine and to board corners, 8vo, [King, William] , The Art of Cookery, In imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry. With some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others: Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients. With an Extract of the greatest Curiosities contain'd in that Book. To which is added, Horace's Art of Poetry, in Latin. By the Author of the Journey to London. Humbly inscrib'd to the Honourable Beef Steak Club, 1st edition, London: Bernard Lintott, [1708], half-title, some browning and scattered spotting, contemporary panelled sheep, gilt decorated spine, joint cracked, some adhesive residue to spine and boards, 8vo (Qty: 4)Glasse: Cagle 706; Maclean, p. 60; Oxford, p. 77 (note); Simon, BG 771. Kettilby: Cagle 791; Maclean, p. 82; Oxford, p. 54 (note); Simon, BG 904. Mason: cf. Cagle 863 (first edition with this title, 1786; the work was first published in 1773 as The lady’s assistant for regulating and supplying her table ). King: Bitting p. 260; Cagle 794; Maclean p.84; Oxford p.51; Simon, BG 908; Vicaire 475.
Silver Filigree Binding. An empty silver miniature binding, early 19th century, ornate filigree hinged case for an almanack, with clasp, 53 x 36 cm (2 x 1.5 ins), together with: Gold binding , Holy Bible [cover-title], mid 20th century, micro miniature, with books of the Bible printed on concertina leaf, several at front adhered together, 9 carat gold hinged binding with hanging loop and ring, rear cover impressed with hallmark and maker's mark 'G & H Ltd.', 15 x 15 mm (1 x 1 in), plus two other miniature books, comprising a blank book in blind panelled calf with raised bands, gilt tooled 'J & M' in second compartment of spine, inscribed on first page 'To Josie & Martin Christmas 1976 from Eileen & Adrian', 53 x 40 mm (2 x 1.5 ins), and a facsimile edition of Food for the Mind: or, a New Riddle-book... by John-the-Giant-Killer, T. Carnan and E. Newbery, 1778, 53 x 41 mm (2 x 1.5 ins) (Qty: 4)
Smith (Charlotte Turner). Rural Walks: in Dialogues. Intended for the Use of Young Persons, 2 volumes in 1, 4th edition, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800, together with: ibid., Rambles Farther: a Continuation of Rural Walks: in Dialogues. Intended for the Use of Young Persons, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800, 2 advertisement leaves to rear of Rambles Farther a little light spotting to each, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, front cover of each lettered 'Reward of Merit' within octagonal panel , rear covers respectively lettered 'Anna Maria Wigley 1806' and 'Edmund Wigley 1806' within similar panels, a little rubbing to joints and tips, 12mo (14.6 x 8 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 230 (for the first editions, 1795 and 1796 respectively); ESTC T165740 ( Rural Walks ; four copies traced) & T98235 ( Rambles Farther; one copy traced, at the British Library); Osborne I p. 305 (first edition of Rural Walks ; second edition of Rambles Farther ). A splendid pair of matching Regency bindings evidently done for two young siblings.
Hornbook Mould. A wooden gingerbread hornbook mould, circa 1800 , block of beech wood, hand-carved in intaglio to one side with an alphabet hornbook, metal hanging ring to top edge, unexceptionable split in wood to lower edge, 23 x 14.5 x 3.5 cm (Qty: 1)Extremely rare mould for making gingerbread in the form of a hornbook. Columbia University Libraries hold a similar wooden mould, but very few are still in existence, and none traced by us at auction. Andrew Tuer, in his book History of the Horn-Book (first published by the Leadenhall Press in 1896), devotes a chapter to gingerbread hornbooks and mentions the moulds used to make them. The art of making hot spiced gingerbread was taken very seriously, and this popular delicacy was sold by bakers, street hawkers, and at markets and fairs. Gingerbread moulds in various shapes and sizes exist, and it is easy to see why gingerbread hornbooks would have been favoured amongst those buying such a treat for an infant, hoping thereby to both encourage literacy and reward the child. Such items are described in an early children's book entitled Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread, published by John Newbery in 1764 (Roscoe, John Newbery and His Successors 1740-1814, J267): 'Old Gingerbread, with Wisdom found/Sells useful Knowledge by the Pound,/feeds the little Folks, who're good,/At once with Learning and with Food.'
Auction Catalogue. A Catalogue of a Large, Extensive, and Valuable Parcel of Books, in Every Science, and in Most Languages; being the Genuine Library of George Galwey Mills, Esq. (gone to the West Indies,) removed from Slaughter-House in the County of Gloucester... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Jeffery, at No. 11 Pall-Mall, on Monday, the 24th of February, 1800, and the twelve following days, (Sundays excepted.) Beginning each day exactly at one o'clock, [1800], ordinary paper edition (with 4 lines of lot description on title-page, as opposed to 5 lines on that of the large paper edition), lacking A1 (blank?), first two leaves adhered to front blank along gutter (with some consequent tears), occasional ink and pencil marginalia, title-page spotted, stab holes to gutter margins, marbled endpapers, remboîtage binding of late 18th century scarlet morocco, some marks and extremities rubbed, smooth spine gilt panelled and with musical trophy tool in centre of each compartment, covers with wide gilt border of hound's tooth roll, metope and pentaglyph roll, ribbon and fleuron roll, and scrolling fern roll, metope and pentaglyph roll repeated on edges and turn-ins, tall 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)ESTC T7945. Rare and important sale catalogue; no other copy found at auction. The library of George Galwey Mills MP (1765-1828) was an impressive one by any standards, and yet he died in debt and at his own hand. Mills was born on St. Kitts, and inherited his father's plantations, although he appeared to spend much of his life in England. He served as a Member of Parliament for Wallingford, Mitchell and Winchelsea. In 1806 he was imprisoned for debt, amounting to some £43,000. He committed suicide in 1828, shooting himself through the head, whilst in New South Wales serving as Registrar of the Supreme Court. The inquest reported that Mills had showed signs of derangement before he died, and had made mention of monetary difficulties. Amongst the treasures listed in this library sale, which was presumably an attempt by Mills to raise funds, is the Sherborne Missal, and a Shakespeare First Folio (lots 1459 and 166 respectively). Mills was the first recorded English owner of the Sherborne Missal, the largest and most lavishly decorated English service book to survive from the Middle Ages, now in the British Library. He acquired the volume in 1797 (it bears his bookplate), and it was purchased at Jeffery's auction by Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland for £215. It remained in the possession of the Dukes of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle until deposited on loan at the British Library by the 10th Duke in 1983, and obtained for the nation in July 1998. Mills's copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (with portrait) fetched £10 10 shillings (Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book , 2002, p.301). The volume merits only two lines of letterpress in the catalogue, compared to six lines devoted to the following lot, a Johnson and Steevens 1793 set of Shakespeare's Plays .
Davy (Humphry). Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration, 1st edition, printed for J. Johnson, 1800, engraved frontispiece, errata leaf at end, some light spotting and water stains, bookplate, contemporary half calf, spine and edges a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Dibner Heralds of Science 128; Garrison-Morton 5646; Norman 607, Waller 11113; Wellcome II, p. 436. The author's first important work. 'Davy, apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary, published the above at age 22. Two years earlier, he experimented with various gases at the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, to deternine their medical properties. He discovered that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) was respirable and himself breathed large quantities of it with exhilarating effect. He observed that 'it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations' (Dibner).
Mollard (John). The Art of Cookery made easy and refined; comprising ample directions for preparing every article requisite for furnishing the tables, 2nd edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1802, half-title present, 12 engraved plates of bills of fare for each month of the year, front blank with ownership signature S. Wharton dated 1805, some light toning and occasional spotting, edges untrimmed, 20th century navy blue half calf gilt by P.B. Sanford, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting, p.328; Cagle 881; Oxford, p.131; Vicaire 601. First published in 1801. John Mollard, 'lately one of the proprietors of Freemasons' tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields; now removed to Dover Street, Piccadilly, formerly Thomas's'. Page vii of the preface lists the qualities of an accomplished cook in the preface, "acute taste, a fertile invention, and a rigid attention to cleanliness".
Malton (James). An Essay on British Cottage Architecture. Being an Attempt to perpetuate on Principal that Peculiar Mode of Building which was originally the Effect of Chance, 2nd edition, large-paper issue, Thomas Malton, 1804, half-title, 23 aquatint plates and plans, a little marginal soiling, later half calf retaining original boards, label removed and a few stains to covers, 4to (Qty: 1)Cf. Abbey Life 34. Large-paper copy of the second edition, which contains two plates not in the first.
Phillips (Richard, publisher). Modern London; being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis, printed for Richard Phillips, 1805, engraved folding panorama as frontispiece, folding map, 21 engraved plates, section-title 'Description of the Plates, representing the Itinerant Trades of London in their Ordinary Costume; with Notices of the Remarkable Places Given in the Background', followed by 31 hand-coloured etched plates each with accompanying description leaf (these plates with Ivy Mill watermarks 1807, the description leaves watermarked 1803), all other text-leaves present as called for including final advertisement leaf, text (aside from description leaves) slightly browned and with occasional marginal spotting, coloured plates s lightly offset, one (Mackerel') spotted, all other text-leaves present as called for small marginal worm-track to last few leaves, attempted repair to final advertisement leaf, contemporary tan calf gilt by J. Forsyth of Elgin (oval ticket to front pastedown), 4to (26.2 x 19.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Abbey 271 (for the colour plates only); Tooley 370; binder not in Ramsden, Outside London . Tooley identifies six issues of the colour plates, which are by William Marshall Craig, and describes three of them as having been issued separately from Modern London , but none of them conforms exactly to the plates in this copy. Abbey describes the colour plates as a 'supplement' to Phillip's work, which was first published in 1804.
Edgeworth (Maria). The Match Girl. A Novel, in Three Volumes, 1st edition, printed by J. Dennett for J. F. Hughes, 1808, half-titles present, publisher's advertisements at rear of each volume (volume 1 with single leaf; volume 2 with 12pp. advertisements; volume 3 with 36pp. catalogue dated May 1, 1808), occasional spotting and marks, E9 in first volume with horizontal closed tear, some splitting to hinges, volume 3 lacking rear free endpaper, untrimmed, original boards, sometime rebacked with white paper, spines with manuscript volume number, somewhat soiled and edges rubbed, large 12mo (Qty: 1)Rare three-decker in the original boards. Not in Sadleir or Wolff; two copies only on Copac, British Library and Oxford (the latter defective). The last copy which we have traced at auction was in 1951 (bound in half calf).
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[Maturin, Charles Robert]. The Wild Irish Boy. In Three Volumes. By the Author of Montorio, 1st edition, printed for Longman et al, 1808, half-titles present, publisher's advertisement leaf at rear of second and third volumes, occasional toning, some spotting and staining to endpapers, front pastedowns with pencilled shelfmark number, untrimmed, contemporary sprinkled half calf with red morocco spine labels, rubbed, and some minor wear to extremities (slight chipping to head of spines, corners showing), 8vo in 12s (Qty: 3)Block, p. 162; Sadleir 1669; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography , p.557. Rare: Copac lists the Oxford University copy only; not listed in Wolff. We have not traced a copy sold at auction since 1993. All first editions of Maturin's works are uncommon. The Wild Irish Boy, the author's second novel, concerns the adventures of Irish nationalist hero Ormsby Bethel. In The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel , ranks Charles Maturin with Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis as one of the four most prominent Gothic novelists (p. 400).
Cadet de Gassicourt (Charles-Louis). Cours Gastronomique, ou les diners de Manant-ville, Ouvrage Anecdotique, Philosophique et Litte?raire, 2nd edition, Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1809, folding engraved plate of the gastranomic areas of France, lacking half-title, short repaired closed tear to page 361/362 of index, bound with: [ Grimod de La Reynie?re, Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent] , Manuel des Amphitryons; contenant un traite? de la dissection des viandes a? table, la nomenclature des menus les plus nouveaux pour chaque saison, et des éle?mens de politesse gourmande, 1st edition, Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1808, engraved frontispiece and 16 plates, occasional light scattered spotting, marbled endpapers with gilt morocco ownership label of Ann Dixon of Newtown to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine with morocco labels, bumped, front joint slightly cracked at head, 8vo (Qty: 1)Cadet de Gassicourt: Cagle 112; Bitting, p.71; Vicaire 137. Grimod de la Reynière; Simon BG 305; Bitting p.203; Vicaire 427. First and only edition, divided into three parts, the first containing dissection of meats and illustrated with 16 plates, the second part including chapters on menus, and the third chapter outlining the well-bred gourmand.
Fuller (S. and J., publisher). Ellen, or The Naughty Girl Reclaimed, A Story, Exemplified in a Series of Figures, 2nd edition, 1811, nine cut-out hand-coloured figures in aquatint loosely inserted, with original interchangeable head, and five head-pieces, complete, letterpress lightly toned, original sewn printed wrappers, with original turquoise silk tie through spine slot, almost always absent, frayed at ends, in original printed slipcase, toned and some joints split or splitting especially to lower edge (some adhesive remains), 16mo (Qty: 1)Osborne p. 1051 for the first edition, also published in 1811 (lacking the five head-pieces and the slipcase); not in Gumuchian. Such paper doll books rarely survive complete and in good condition, as here; we have never seen a copy with the original ribbon tie, and this small, yet significant, point is probably why Martin Orskey added the item to his collection.
![Burney [Sarah Harriet]. Traits of Nature. In Five Volumes, 1st edition, for Henry Colburn, 1812, bound without half-titles, r](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/e44cc22c-ad7d-49cb-bf11-aa5d00e4bb55/468x382.jpg)
Burney [Sarah Harriet]. Traits of Nature. In Five Volumes, 1st edition, for Henry Colburn, 1812, bound without half-titles, retaining advertisement leaf to rear of volume 1, very occasional light spotting, volume 3 leaves C6-7 loosening, volume 5 final leaf closely trimmed along bottom edges shaving a few letters of advertisement verso, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines, twin morocco labels, ribbon border gilt to sides, superficial crack to foot of front joint of volume 2, 12mo (17.6 x 10.2 cm) (Qty: 5)Provenance: bookplates of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), 'England's earliest female bibliophile' (De Ricci, English Collectors of Books and Manuscripts , p. 141) and the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym, Currer Bell. At her family seat of Eshton Hall, Yorkshire, Currer built a library which according to Dibdin placed her 'at the head of all female collectors in Europe' ( Reminiscences of a Literary Life, II, p. 949). She was also a prolific local benefactress, donating to the school attended by the Brontë siblings and possibly helping their father Patrick pay off his debts in 1821. Block pp. 31-2 (with the erroneous date 1813); not in Sadleir or Wolff. Burney's first novel to be published under her own name, and her third overall. Its success encouraged Colburn to offer £100 per volume for her next work, though generally her 'contemporary and posthumous reputation suffered by comparison with that of her more famous sister novelist, Mme D'Arblay, and her work, about which she herself was diffident, has been too much undervalued' (ODNB).
Bentham (Jeremy). Chrestomathia: being a Collection of Papers, explanatory of the Design of an Institution, proposed to be set on Foot, under the name of the Chrestomathic Day School, 1st collected edition, Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, 1816-17, 2 parts in 1 volume, half-title, duplicate half-title after p. [xxii], advertisement leaf, section-title to 'Chrestomathic Tables,Table II', corrigenda leaf to part 2, 5 folding tables, light spotting to outer leaves, tables variably spotted and offset, one of them with short closed tear to inner fold, occasional marginal finger-soiling, engraved bookplate of Richard Davey with motto 'E perseverantia honor', contemporary tan calf, front joint rubbed, short crack to foot, surface-abrasion to front board, 8vo (21.6 x 13.1 cm) (Qty: 1)Second edition of the first part (originally published privately the year before), first edition of the second part.
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