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Lot 632
A rare and early English Perry & Co Dancing Scotsman automaton, The composition head with painted brown hair and mutton chops, carved wooden torso and articulated limbs, red cloth top, kilt and tassels at knees, dancing upon a green and purple paper covered wooden box housing the clockwork mechanism, a green label to the inside lid of box ‘Perry & Co. Patent Automaton Dancers. Sold by Dealers in Fancy Goods. Wholesale 37, Red Lion Square & 3 Cheapside London’, a white directions label to inside of box and circular label to underside ‘Perry & Co, London, Manufactures & Patentees, Patent Pens, Pencils, Paperbinders, Bostonitetablets, Scotch Goods, Aromatic Elastic Bands, Perennial Metallic Books - address as above - Caution - See Trade Mark’ —10¼in. (26cm.) high, 1860-70s (slight wear) — Formerly owned by the Hon Andalusia Molesworth circa 1860, the mother of Quinten Riley owner of lot 636.
Lot 636
A rare and early G & J Lines pedal car, Green painted wood with light green and yellow lining, tin radiator grille, L.457 number plate, mud-guards and step-boards, wooden steering wheel, bracket for headlamp, pedal and chain driven, spoked wheels with rubber tyres and brass hubs, thistle logo transfer to rear, circa 1912 —36¾in. (93.5cm.) long (original finish, where right mudguard is attached to bonnet, broken around attachment and repaired, general wear and rusting to grille); this was the last present Quintin Riley’s mother (Hon. Andalusia Molesworth) gave him before she died in 1911; he used to drive it around the base of the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, near the family home, Kensington Court
Lot 689
A rare Cassiobury Games of Badminton and Garden Tennis wooden box 1875, The painted pine box with original green Dean & Son printed label to inside of lid —36½in. (93cm.) long (wear, split to lid resulting in split through label) - Cassiobury House was the residence of the Earl of Essex in Watford, Hertfordshire; it was demolished in 1927, but a tennis club remains in the grounds today
Lot 463
America's Cup / Shamrock IV / J-Class Interest. A silver and enamel 'Shamrock' pendant-brooch, by Dieges & Clust, modelled a flag decorated with a green shamrock on yellow background within a green border, 22x18mm. This rare brooch was given to Benjamin Augustus Gawn, for his wife Ella Elsie Gawn, who was part of the Shamrock IV crew during the America's Cup challenge in 1920. Benjamin Gawn had also crewed the J-Class Yachts Endeavour I & II, and was once missing at sea without contact for 6 weeks on a return voyage from America. Provenance: From descent to Benjamin Gawn's granddaughter
Lot 3168
Meccano Dinky Toys model Ships - a rare cast iron painted two section curved coastal landscape and dock harbour wall, with swing gantry, electric light up ends, separate light house, ships inc 51c Italia Line Rex, 51d Empress of Britain, 51E P & O Strathaird 52c Cie Transatlantic Normandie, etc; others similar solid cast metal, part over painted, 21 ships total (23)
Lot 109
The Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum: Or his Companion for the Town, in Eighteen Letters, from a Gentleman in London, to his friend in the Country. Wherein he passionately disswades him against coming to London, and represents to him the advantages of a country life, in opposition to the follies and vices of the town. He discovers to him most of the humours, tricks and cheats of the town, which as a gentleman and a stranger he is most exposed to, 1st edition, printed for John Harris, 1699, 4 pp. advertisements at end, some light spotting and toning, one or two small tears and burn marks, small bookplate of Henry Davies and previous ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Wing C6533. Rare 'rogue-book' featuring characters such as the Sot, Beau, Gamester and Spunger, with letters on playhouses, tennis courts, gaming houses, bowling greens, horse races, cock matches, the 'tricks of bawds and jilts' among others.Note: The front board is now detached (but still present)
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Lot 110
['D. S.']. England's Happiness Improved: or, an Infalliable Way to get Riches, Encrease Plenty, and promote Pleasure. Containing The Art of making Wine of English Grapes, and other Fruit, equal to that of France and Spain ... The whole Art and Mistery of Distilling Brandy ... To make all Sorts of Plain and Purging Ales, Cyder, Mead, Matheglin, Rum, Rack, and many other useful Liquors. To Gather, Order, and Keep Fruit ... The Art and Mistery of Pickling Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Buds, Roots, Fish, Flesh ... The whole Art and Mistery of Confectioner ... The Compleat Market-man, or Woman ... Particular Rules for good and frugal House-keeping, 2nd edition, printed for Roger Clavill, and sold by T. Leigh and D. Midwinter, 1699, spotting and browning, leaf A4 closely trimmed in lower margin shaving catch-word and signature mark, contemporary mottled sheep ruled in blind, remnants of old paper spine-label, 8vo (13.7 x 8.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: engraved bookplate of Ambrose Isted (c.1718-1780/1), of Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire. ESTC R229812; Wing E2977A; cf. Gable G19820 (first edtion, 1697) & G42433 (third edition, 1700; Gable with the erroneous date 1672); not in Bitting, Cagle, Oxford or Vicaire. Very rare: ESTC traces two copies in libraries world-wide. 'This is one of the earliest books in English that describes the planting and culture of vines in England, and the making of wine from grapes grown in England' (Gable). It was first published in 1697, and a third edition appeared in 1700 with the title Vinetum angliae and the author identified by the initials 'D. S'.
![Thumb Bible. Verbum Sempiternum, [by John Taylor], The Third Edition, with Amendments, 2 parts in one, printed for Tho James,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/0f7d0310-a4b7-4aaf-a354-aa5d00e423cc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 113
Thumb Bible. Verbum Sempiternum, [by John Taylor], The Third Edition, with Amendments, 2 parts in one, printed for Tho James, [1700?], title-page preceded by imprimatur leaf dated October 6 1693 (often lacking), half-title, and engraved portrait frontispiece depicting 'His Illustrious Highness William Duke of Glocester', New Testament half-title preceding title to second part (former with small nick in fore-edge), blank at rear with inscription on verso 'Tryphena Russell Her Book 1708/9', preliminary blank with inscription on recto 'Philip Doddridge his Book given him by Miss Russell ye:4th:of May 1709', and further inscription dated 1802 on verso, also relating to the Doddridge family, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original black morocco, slightly rubbed, tiny hole at head of spine, foot of spine a trifle bumped, raised bands, compartments gilt panelled, with quatrefoil tool in centre and roundels at corners, covers with border of gilt dotted roll between single fillets, enclosing a double fillet panel with central quatrefoil device surrounded by thistle and wheel tools, volute cornerpieces, brass clasp, 55 x 50 mm (2.25 x 2 ins) (Qty: 1)Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was an English nonconformist minister, author and hymn writer who did much to advance the education of the poor. Tryphena Russell was the daughter of Lord James Russell, son of the first Duke of Bedford, and Elizabeth Lloyd. In 1725 she married British politician Thomas Scawen (d.1774) who in 1722 had inherited the property of an uncle, which included Carshalton Park in Sutton. Their daughter Tryphena married Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst. There are several references to Lady Russell in The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge , edited by his great grandson John Doddridge Humphreys and published between 1829 and 1831. Doddridge refers to Lady Russell as a valuable friend, makes mention of a certain mysterious pecuniary embarrassment surrounding her, and describes her sudden death at Reading, on the road from Bath, on 1st September 1736. ESTC R184925; Wing T527; see Bondy, pp. 13-15. A rare early thumb Bible.
Lot 12
Gheyn (Jacob de). Maniement d'armes d'arquebuses, mousquets, et picques ... Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten ende spiessen ... The Exercise of Armes for Calivres, Muskettes, and Pikes. After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange, Counte of Nassau etc. Gouvernour and Capitaine Generall over the United Provinces, Zutphen: Andre Janssen, [1620], title in French, Dutch, English and German within woodcut border, parallel text in the same languages, preface dated 20 August 1619, 117 full-page woodcuts of musket and pike drills, occasional slight soiling, all edges gilt, modern brown morocco by Bernard Middleton, small 4to (Qty: 1)Cockle p. 65; ESTC S92680; STC 11812.5. 'A compact edition, in three parts of [Jacob de Gheyn's] Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen ' (ESTC). The work has a complex publishing history, with various Dutch, German, English, French and Danish editions appearing in Amsterdam and The Hague from 1607. This edition is extremely rare: ESTC traces three copies only (British Library, Ministry of Defence, and Oxford).
Lot 129
Hills (Henry, junior, printer). Sammelband of 30 poetry pamphlets, all but one Henry Hills pirate editions, 1708-10, including: Addison (Joseph), A Letter from Italy to the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax, 1709, [ Dryden, John], The Medal. A Satyr against Sedition, 1709, [ ibid.], Lucretius ... With an Ode in Memory of ... Mrs. Ann Killigrew, 1709, ibid., Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem, 1709, [Gay, John], Wine. A Poem. To which is added, Old England's New Triumph: Or, the Battle of Audenard. A Song, 1709, [Gould, Robert], Love given over: or, a Satyr against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, etc., of Woman. With Sylvia's Revenge, 1710, [Swift, Jonathan], Baucis and Philemon ... Together with Mrs. Harris's Earnest Petition: and an Admirable Recipe. As also an Ode upon Solitude: by the Earl of Roscommon, 1710, and 23 others, by John Philips, William Plaxton, Edward Ward, and other authors, variable browning, pagination shaved in a few leaves, price effaced from The Medal title-page, the paper worn through, one work (Philips's Pastorals, 1710) a little chipped in lower margins and with a long closed tear in leaf A7, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and relined, 8vo (17.8 x 10.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Foxon A40, D460, D458, D455, G92, G231, S803; Rothschild 2006-7 and Teerink 522 for Swift. 'Hills's notoriety stemmed from his activities during 1708–9 when he pirated a multitude of short literary works (including pieces by Dryden, Rochester, Congreve, Defoe, and Swift) and sermons—all sold very cheaply and claiming to be published for the benefit of the poor' (ODNB). He died in 1712, and in 1717 a number of his remainders were re-issued as A Collection of the Best English Poetry (1717). Wine was John Gay's first publication. The first edition, printed in 1708 by William Keble, in folio format, is famously rare.
Lot 131
'A Person of Quality'. Serious and Comical Essays, viz. On the Town, The Art of Pleasing in Women ... Swearing and Profane Jesting ... etc. With Ingenious Letters Amorous and Gallant. Occasional Thoughts and Reflections on Men and Manners. Also the English Epigrammatist, and the Instructive Library. To which is added, Satyrical and Panegyrical Characters. Fitted to the Humours of the Time, 2nd edition, J. King, 1710, spotting and browning, contemporary verse inscription signed Mary Palmer to rear blank, c.1900 maroon morocco gilt, joints and tips slightly rubbed, 8vo (18.5 x 10.9 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: John Webster Forbes and Ellert Webster Forbes (engraved bookplate). ESTC T131734. Rare: ESTC traces four copies in libraries world-wide. There was a first edition in 1707, of comparable scarcity.
Lot 137
Du Noyer (Anne Marguerite Petite). Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon. Containing a Particular Account of the City, the Politicks, Intrigues, Gallantry, and Secret History of the First Quality in France, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, for W. Mears and J. Browne, 1716-17, woodcut title-devices and head- and tailpieces, bound pink silk page-markers, contemporary panelled calf, richly gilt spines, twin red and green morocco labels, lion device gilt to sides, 8vo (Qty: 2)Provenance: Francis Longe of Spixworth Park, Norfolk (engraved bookplates by Hixon; armorial binding). ESTC N19972 (volume 1, calling for eight preliminary pages: probably ) & T141329 (volume 2). Rare first edition in English of this epistolary novel which gratified a taste for 'travels, scandals, and pseudo-histories' (Shipley, Dictionary of World Literature ) and influenced figures as diverse as Richard Steele and the Marquis de Sade. Rare: ESTC identifies four and six copies for each of the respective volumes; o ne copy, of the third edition (1716), traced in auction records.
Lot 147
Smedley (Jonathan). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, printed by S. Richardson, for the author, 1721, with the initial blank [A1], half-title, woodcut title vignette and head- and tailpieces, small stain to A5 and adjacent leaves, ink-stain to top margins of pp. 174-5, p. 176 browned, contemporary sheep, spine refurbished, tips worn, 8vo (22.3 x 12.9 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: 'Revd John Rocke' (engraved armorial bookplate); contemporary ownership inscription 'John Rocke' with possible shelfmark '48 49' upside-down to rear free endpaper. This is probably the John Rocke (1755-1824) who was vicar of Wellington and rector of Clungunford, Shropshire. ESTC N20805; Foxon S496. Very rare: ESTC traces three copies world-wide. Smedley (1670/1-1729) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and a long-standing antagonist of Jonathan Swift. His Poems were re-issued in 1723.
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Lot 150
[Swift, Jonathan, attributed]. The Benefit of Farting Explain'd: Or, the Fundament-All cause of the distempers incident to the Fair-Sex, enquired into. Proving a posteriori most of the dis-ordures in-tail'd upon them, are owing to flatulencies not seasonably vented. Wrote in Spanish by Don Fartinando Puff-indorst Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow. And translated into English at the request, and for the use of the Lady Damp-fart of Her-fart-shire, by Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arsimini Sardinia, 1st London edition?, Long-Fart: (Longford in Ireland), printed by Simon Bumbubbard, at the Sign of the Wind-Mill opposite Twattling-Street, 1722, 15 pp., woodcut initials and tailpiece, a little minor toning, later half calf, edges slightly rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 1)ESTC T21525; cf. Teerink 19. Very rare anonymous satire, often attributed to Swift. There was an eight page quarto edition published in Dublin the same year. Teerink, discussing the fourth edition of Swift's Miscellanies , remarks 'some copies contain ... two pieces that do not belong to this volume, namely: The Benefit of Farting and The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders , both separately paged'.
Lot 160
Auction Catalogue. A Catalogue of the Library, Antiquities, &c. of the Late Learned Dr. Woodward, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; and Professor of Physick in Gresham-College. Which will begin to be Sold by Auction, at Mr. Cooper's, in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 11th Day of November, 1728... By Mr. Christopher Bateman, Bookseller; and Mr. John Cooper... , [printed by Henry Woodfall, 1728], engraved initial letters and head and tail-pieces, toned and some staining to last few leaves, title-page dusty, contemporary ink prices to margins, bound with [Woodward, John] , Remarks Upon the Antient and present State of London, Occasion'd by some Roman Urns, Coins, and other Antiquities, Lately discover'd..., The Third Edition, Printed for A. Bettesworth and W. Taylor, 1723, advertisement leaf at rear, title-page with contemporary manuscript numerals to lower margin (dusty and slightly torn at foot of gutter), binder's blank at front with ink inscription dated 1848, and that at rear with later manuscript notes, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with book ticket 'The Collection of Frank Marcham 1899', top edges gilt, early 20th century black half morocco, gilt decorated spine rubbed and with slight loss at head, 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)ESTC T61373 & T145805. The first title is rare: the last copy we have found sold at auction was at Sotheby's in 1965. This copy belonged to London bookseller and collector Frank Marcham (circa 1880-1941).
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Lot 166
[Tyssot de Patot, Simon]. The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, Translated from the French [by Stephen Whatley], 1st edition in English, John Watson, 1733, engraved frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black, some light browning, armorial bookplates of Docket Hall and Panshanger, browning from turn-ins, front free endpaper near detached, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine with morocco spine label, rubbed, some slight wear and bruising at head and foot of spine, 12mo (Qty: 1)First published in French in The Hague circa 1714-17 with a false imprint dated 1710, this is the rare and influential first English edition of this celebrated imaginary voyage. The Huguenot free thinker author gives an account of the voyage of Jacques Masse, a French surgeon, who is shipwrecked on an island in the South Sea with 85 survivors. As much a work of libertine philosophy as an imaginary or utopian voyage, Tyssot de Patot describes how the survivors set about establishing an encampment and building a raft, giving also an account of the island and its natural productions. When exploring the interior Masse and a companion encounter an advanced civilisation in a land of plenty. The dangerously free thinking, anti-clerical nature of much of the discussion that then takes place between the hero and his hosts partly explains the false imprints on the several early editions of the book, which continued to be read, reprinted, and translated well into the century.
Lot 170
Rowe (Jacob). All Sorts of Wheel-Carriage, Improved. Wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual Draught of Horses, &c. will be requir'd, in Waggons, Carts, Coaches, and all other Wheel Vehicles, as likewise all Water-Mills, Wind-Mills and Horse-Mills. This Method being found good in Practice, by the trial of a Coach and Cart already made, shews of what great Advantage it may be to all Farmers, Carriers, Masons, Miners, &c. and to the Publick in general, by having them one half of the Expences they are now at in the Draught of these Vehicles, according to the common Method. The whole illustrated with Copper Plates. And an Explanation of the Structure of a Coach and Cart, according to this Method, 1st edition, printed for Alexander Lyon under Tom's Coffee-house in Russel Street Covent Garden, 1734, pp.[iv]+38, five folding engraved plates (a little creased to edges in places), some toning and marginal spotting throughout, a minor mark to Advertisement on verso of title-page, untrimmed, near contemporary marbled wrappers, slightly creased and frayed to corners, initials partially obliterated from rear cover, 4to (Qty: 1)Rare.
Lot 174
Bailey (Nathan). Dictionarium Domesticum, Being a New and Compleat Household Dictionary. For the use both of City and Country, Shewing I. The Whole Arts of Brewing, Baking ... II. The Management of the Kitchen, Pantry ... III. The Herdsman ... IV. The English Vineyard ... V. The Apiary ... VI. The Family Physician and Herbalist, 1st edition, C. Hitch, C. Davis & S. Austen, 1736, engraved frontispiece showing domestic scenes with early manuscript inscriptions to verso, frontispiece, title and first leaf of preface repaired to lower inner corner, some dust-soiling, light dampstains and few marks, later free endpapers, contemporary sheep, insect damage to joints and extremities, old repairs to joints, , 8vo, together with: Salmon (William). The Family-Dictionary; Or, Houshold Companion: Containing in an Alphabetical Method, I. Directions for Cookery ... II. Making all sorts of Pastry Ware ... III. Making of Conserves ... IV. The Making all kinds of Potable Liquors ... V. The Making of all sorts of Rare Perfumes ... VI. The Virtues and Uses of the most usual Herbs and Plants ... VII. The Preparations of several choice Medicines, 2nd edition ('corrected and much enlarged'), London: H. Rhodes, 1696, upper outer corner of title torn with slight loss to corner of ruled border, browning and scattered spotting, contemporary reversed calf, worn paper labels to spine, joints cracked, 8vo (Qty: 2)Bailey: Cagle 555; Bitting p. 24. Salmon: Cagle 981 (for the first edition of 1695); Oxford, p. 45; Wing S429.
Lot 180
Conduct book. The Mysteries of Love Reveal'd: or, Rules for the Conduct of Ladies and Gentlemen in their Amours, 1st edition, printed for W. Lloyd, [c.1740], stab-holes visible in gutter, light browning, shallow chip to upper outer corner of signatures A5-6, early-20th-century blue marbled calf gilt, 12mo (14.8 x 9.4 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC T128073. Very rare: ESTC traces five copies world-wide; one other copy in auction records. The preface laments that 'a vertuous and reasonable love is so rarely found, that I cannot wonder that it is confounded with lust' (p. iii).
Lot 185
Moxon (Elizabeth). English Housewifry. Exemplified in above four Hundred Receits, Never before printed; giving Directions in most Parts of Cookery; and how to prepare various Sorts of Soops, Made-Dishes, Pasts, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made-Wines, &c. With Sculptures for the orderly placing the Dishes, and Courses; and also Bills of Fare, for every Month in the Year. A Book necessary for Mistresses of Families, higher and lower Women Servants, and confined to Things Useful, Substantial and Spelendid, and calculated for the Preservation of Health, and upon the Measures of Frugality, being the Result of thirty Years Practice and Experience, 1st edition, Leeds: Printed by J. Lister, and sold by J. Swale, J. Ogle, and S. Howgate, at Leeds; J. Lord at Wakefield; and the author at Pontefract, [1741?], [4], 209, [23]pp., early signature 'Mrs Firths' to title, seven woodcut plates of bills of fare for every season of the year including one folding, each plate printed with letterpress explanations, occasional light marginal dust-soiling, scattered spotting including few ink spots mostly to bills of fare at rear, 19th-century bookplate of James Watson of Manchester to front pastedown (see John Rylands collection, R183838), contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, slight wear to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T63975; Maclean, p.105; cf. Cagle 888 (second edition of circa 1743). Rare. Only two UK institutional locations found (British Library & Brotherton Library, Leeds).
Lot 186
Parry (James). The True Anti-Pamela: or, Memoirs of Mr. James Parry, Late Organist of Ross in Herefordshire. In which are inserted his Amours with the Celebrated Miss — of Monmouthshire, 1st edition, printed for the author, 1741, engraved portrait frontispiece, separate dated title-page to 'Love Letters that passed between Mr. James Parry and Parthenissa', woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked retaining most of original spine, label renewed, 12mo (16.4 x 9.6 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC N63317; not in Block. Very rare early parody of Richardson's Pamela , which had appeared the previous year. ESTC traces five copies in libraries world-wide. Parry had advertised the work before publication with the title Anti-Pamela; or Memoirs of Mr. James Parry , which seems to have been lifted by Eliza Haywood for her own Pamela parody, published eleven days before Parry's, prompting him to adopt the present title.
Lot 189
'Fantosme'. Memoirs of the Nobility, Gentry, etc. of Thule: or, the Island of Love. Being a Secret History of their Amours, Artifices and Intrigues, 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed for W. Webb, 1742-4, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, toning, title-pages and outer leaves browned along edges, a few marks and stains, closed marginal tear in volume 1 E2, closed tear in F10 just touching text, lower outer corner of H2 chipped, extensive closed tear in N11, small marginal chip to volume 2 B2, 20th-century sheep to style, 8vo (16.9 x 9.5 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 165; ESTC T75813. Extremely rare anonymous novel set on the mythical island here located north-north-west of Scotland and purportedly found among 'the papers of a Gentleman lately deceased who in his Youth had used the sea' ('To the Reader', p. 12); the dedication is signed 'Fantosme'. ESTC traces six copies in libraries worldwide, of which only the British Library copy in the United Kingdom; we find no reference to the work in scholarly literature.
Lot 196
Langley (Batty). The Builder's Bench-Mate: or Inestimable Pocket Companion, Making Easy to the meanest Capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick Orders of Architecture, By near Five Hundred Examples taken from the Ancients ... wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroneous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c., 1st edition, for Archimedes Langley, 1747, 184 copper engravings on 92 leaves, lightly toned, second half of page block with ink stain to top edge (penetrating slightly into blank margins of some plates), endpapers browned, contemporary calf, rubbed and with some surface wear, 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T114293. A reissue of The Builder’s Director , 1747, with a new title-page, but still a rare book, although later editions have turned up occasionally.
Lot 2
Marbodus of Rennes. De lapidibus pretiosis Encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eivsdem Pictorii de lapide molari carmen, [Freiburg: Faber], 1531, 55, [1] ff., neat old ink notes in Latin to title and final leaf verso, bound as fourth and final item, after: Paul of Aegina , Pharmaca Simplicia, Othone Brunfelsio interprete. Item de Ratione Victus, Guilelmo Copo ... interprete, Strasbourg: Georgius Ulricher Andlanus, 1531 , device on title and final blank verso, blank M7 present, woodcut initials, title dust-soiled and with old ink inscriptions partly erased, old ink notes in German to final three blank pages, bound before Valla (Giorgio) , De simplicium natura liber unus, Strasbourg: Heinrich Seybold, 1528, 104 unnumbered leaves, title within ornamental woodcut border (small damp stain to centre of leaf), errata on final leaf recto, bound before [Odo de Meudon] , Aemilius Macer De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani com[m]entariis longe utilissimis, & nu[m]quam antea impressis, [and] Strabo (Walafrid) , Poetae et Theologi clarissimi, Hortulus vernantissimus, 2 parts in one volume, Freiburg: Johann Faber, 1530, neat old ink notes to lower margins of two preliminary leaves and final leaf blank verso (in the same hand as Marbodus), Hebrew characters in red ink to title, manuscript contents list in a later hand to front free endpaper, contemporary blind-stamped vellum with two brass clasps, upper cover with ownership monogram blind-stamp 'A.W.], remains of later paper library spine label, rubbed, some edge wear, 8vo (15 x 10 cm) (Qty: 1)1) Ferguson II, 74; STC 593; Krivatsy 152; Thorndike I, 775; VD16 M 931; Wellcome I, 4039. The first edition of this work by Marbodus, bishop of Rennes (c.1035-1123), describing 60 stones and precious stones and their miraculous powers in 743 hexameters, was published in 1511; the second in his 'Opera' (Rennes, 1524); then in the present edition which was reprinted in the same year in Paris. It is the first edition edited by Pictorius. 'Of medieval Latin Lapidaries the earliest and what also seems to have been the classic on the subject of the marvelous properties of stones' (Thorndike). 2) Adams P496; VD16 ZV 12239; Wellcome I, 4874. 3) VD16 V 195; Wellcome I, 6437. Rare compendium of herbs and their medicinal properties. 4) Adams O62; Durling 2892; Pritzel 5711 (under Macer Floridus); VD16 O 270. This is the second edition to contain the commentary of Johannes Atrocianus, a professor of mathematics at Basel. It was revised and expanded from that which appeared in 1527. Strabo was the Abbot of Reichenau. The poem is the first known gardening book of the medieval period and was written about 842, the first printed edition appearing in 1510.
Lot 203
Prostitution broadsides. Four broadsides advertising the 'wares' of prostitutes, no publisher or place, possibly Lichfield, circa 1780, drop-head titles: 'The only True List, of those celebrated Sporting Ladies, or Petticoat Amblers, who afford the Bucks and Bloods an amorous Felicity every Evening during the Races', 'An Entire List of all the Sporting Ladies, Entered to run here;-- with a particular Account of their Pedigrees and Performances', 'A True List of the Sporting Ladies', and 'Correct List of the Sporting Ladies, Who are just arriv'd at these Races', all but second incorporating a woodcut illustration at head, each with lines of satirical text printed in a single column describing the attributes of available prostitutes, two broadsides mentioning rates or prices ('Plain, with Ruffles, 5 [shillings]'; 'for a flying stroke, 6d. all night 2s.'), printed on laid paper, versos blank, some spotting, approximately 29 x 17 cm and similar sizes, tipped onto modern paper rectos of a purpose-made album by Bernard Middleton, gilt-titled and decorated red quarter morocco with Cockerell marbled boards and vellum tips, bookplate of Martin & Josephine Orskey, with additional dated ownership signature and binder note dated 1963 to front pastedown, slim folio (Qty: 1)Extremely rare survivals, no other copies of these are recorded by ESTC online which only lists four similar 'sporting ladies' broadsides: 1) 'List of the Sporting Ladies', [Oxford, 1770?], ESTC T41080 (BL and private collection, North America); 2) 'A list of the sporting ladies, who are arrived in Edinburgh, from all different towns in the three kingdoms, to take their pleasure at Kelso races', [Edinburgh?, 1789], ESTC T173516 (NLS only); 3) 'Races extraordinary; or a curious list of sporting ladies: entered to run for a pair of velvet breeches, with golden buttons. The horses belonging to sporting ladies, and jockied by celebrated riding lasses, [Newcastle upon Tyne?, 1800?], ESTC T224875 (BL only); 4) 'A true list of all the sporting ladie's [sic] that are enter'd to run at the present races at Carlisle', [Carlisle, 1775?], ESTC T228508 (BL only). Copac locates two others, a second issue of the Oxford broadside with a suggested date of 1775 (BL), and 'A list of the sporting ladies who is [sic] arrived from all the principal towns in Great Britain and Ireland, to take their pleasure at Leith races, on Monday the 3d June 1776', [Edinburgh, 1776], an 86-line poem in double columns (NLS). The broadsides are 'advertisements' for prostitutes who will be attending unspecified race meetings, but believed by Martin Orskey to originate from Lichfield, Martin having extracted them from a bound volume of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s. The sheets describe in ribald prose form the various attributes and skills of individual ladies, who are given comical sobriquets such as Jenny Foreyard, Cleopatra Tickleback, Polly Trim, Jenny Spruce and Lucy Pleasant. These names appear on both the second and third broadsides, along with Diana Trapes, a direct reference to the eponymous character and companion to Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera , first performed and first published in 1728. There is a suggestion that these sporting ladies now trying their 'fortunes in the jockeying trade' came from diverse places in England and Scotland: those formerly 'preparing Fruit to make Wooden drink in Cyder-Land', and those 'From the other side of the Tweed are likewise come a numerous string of brimstones who may be heard of at the Oatmeal Grinder's in Water-Gruel Square … They are all now warranted clear of the Scrub, having been well fumigated since their arrival in England'. In another we are rudely told that Miss Diana G---y and Miss Di-dg-se 'may be heard of at Cunny-Hall, in Cock-Alley'.
Lot 204
Edwards (George). Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals... from designs copied immediately from nature, and curiously coloured after life... to which is added, a brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aquafortis: likewise some thoughts on the passsage of birds; and additions to many of the subjects described in this work, 4 volumes, printed for Author, at the College of Physicians, in Warwick-Lane, 1743-51, & Gleanings of Natural History, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c. most of which have not, til now, been either figured or described, 3 volumes, printed for the author, at the Royal College of Physicians, in Warwick-Lane, 1758-64, 7 volumes in all, containing 362 fine hand-coloured copper engraved plates (210 and 152 plates respectively to each work), uncoloured engraved portrait of the author by Johann Sebastian Muller after Bartholomew Dandridge, 4 uncoloured engraved plates (including 3 folding) to first volume, single uncoloured engraved plate of Un Samojeed facing page 118 in the second volume, each of the first 4 volumes with printed French translation bound at rear, the 3 volumes of Gleanings of Natural History with parallel English and French printed text in double column, some offsetting from the plates to facing tissue-guard (as usual), the second volume with first issue misprint 'Afrer' to title-page, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Charles 1st Viscount Eversley of Heckfield (1794-1888) to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary uniform full tree calf, with Greek-key design to outer border of each cover, spines with gilt motifs between compartments and contrasting red and green morocco title and volume labels, very slightly rubbed and minor wear to extreme head and foot of spines, several volumes with joints partly cracked or tender, edges lightly rubbed, 4to (29 x 23 cm) (Qty: 7)Provenance: Charles Shaw-Lefevre (1794-1888), 1st Viscount Eversley of Heckfield, MP for North Hampshire from 1832 to 1857, and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1839 to 1857, the second-longest serving speaker of the House of Commons after Arthur Onslow. Anker 124-126; Fine Bird Books (1990) 93; Jeanson, Ornithologie (1988) 27; Lisney pp. 128-144; Nissen IVB 286-289; Zimmer pp. 192-4 & 196-9. A fine set in contemporary uniform binding of 'one of the most important of all bird books, both as a fine bird book and a work of ornithology' (Sitwell, Fine Bird Books). The father of British ornithology, George Edwards (1694-1773) was appointed librarian at the College of Physicians, with the assistance of Sir Hans Sloane, who also employed him to draw curiosities from his own collection. These drawings, as well as others made by Edwards from the collections of his circle, including Mark Catesby, and the Dutchman Gideon Loten, formed the basis of his Natural History. Amongst the species described, some of which appear in print for the first time, are many from India and North America. Edwards personally oversaw the colouring of the engravings - 316 of which are of birds - carefully supervising the colourists who worked from twelve model copies coloured by the author himself. The work includes 'some brief instructions for etching on engraving on copper-plates', Edwards having been encouraged to etch his own plates by Catesby, and 'A Brief Idea of Drawing and Painting in Water-Colours'.
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Lot 207
[Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis de]. The Chinese Spy, being a series of letters between a Chinese Traveller at Paris, and his countrymen in China, Muscovy, Persia and Japan. Wherein the Government, Customs, Religion and Learning of those several Nations are described and compared with the Europeans, With a preface by the author of the Jewish Spy, 2nd edition in English, for J. Whiston [and others], 1752, half-title, marginal toning front and rear, contemporary calf gilt, joints cracking, a little rubbed, 8vo (Qty: 1)Cf. Cordier Sinica 1855 (listing the work under ' œuvres d'imagination '); ESTC N27860. A reissue of the 1741 first edition in English (which was titled Chinese Letters ), with a cancel half-title and title-page. Rare: ESTC traces only the British Library copy in UK libraries. The work was first published in French as Lettres chinoises (1739-42).
![[Refuge, Eustache de]. Arcana Aulica: or, Walsingham's Manual; of Prudential Maxims, for the States-Man and the Courtier, 2nd](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/cccc114e-b0ce-4215-84a4-aa5d00e3e377/468x382.jpg)
Lot 21
[Refuge, Eustache de]. Arcana Aulica: or, Walsingham's Manual; of Prudential Maxims, for the States-Man and the Courtier, 2nd edition in English, printed by T. C., and are to be sold by John Wright, 1655, lacking signature A1 (probably the initial blank), retaining H6 (blank but for longitudinal half-title verso), p. 52 untidily printed slightly affecting legibility of a few words, contemporary sheep, very slightly rubbed, 12mo (12.2 x 7 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC R208601 (eleven copies world-wide); Wing D2685. 'Translated into English by Edward Walsingham from a French manuscript copy of the second part of Traité de la cour ... first published anonymously in Paris in 1617' (ESTC). The work is known to have been read by Samuel Pepys, and the original author was once presumed to be Francis Walsingham, a distant relative of Edward's (see Loveman, Samuel Pepys and his Books, p. 70) . The translation first appeared in 1652; both that edition and the 1655 edition (probably better described as a re-issue) are rare, with no copy of either traced in auction records since 1977.
Lot 220
Phillips (Sarah). The Ladies Handmaid: or, a Complete System of Cookery; on the Principals of Elegance and Frugality. Wherein the useful Art of Cookery is rendered plain, easy and familiar: containing the best approved, yet least expensive Receipts in every Branch of Housewifry ... together with Instructions for Carving and Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, 1st edition, J. Coote, 1758, engraved portrait frontispiece and four engraved plates showing table settings and trussing of fowls, erratic pagination, slight worming to lower blank corners of frontispiece, title and following leaf, each with neat repairs, few other leaves with minor worming to lower margins, toning, occasional dust-soiling and minor spotting, 20th-century dark brown sheep, maroon morocco title label to spine, 8vo (Qty: 1)Axford, p.243; Bitting, p. 369; Cagle 926; ESTC N34079; Maclean, p. 115; Simon, BG 1167. Rare, only four UK institutional locations found (British Library, John Rylands Manchester, Brotherton Library Leeds and National Library of Scotland).
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Lot 221
[Lennox, Charlotte]. Henrietta. By the Author of the Female Quixote. In two volumes, 1st edition, for A. Millar, 1758, marginal browning to outer leaves of each volume including title-pages, contemporary ownership inscriptions ('Palmer, William Moore') to front pastedowns, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked to style, a few scuffs and abrasions to covers, light wear to extremities, 12mo (16.5 x 9.9 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 142; ESTC T71279 (noting five copies in UK libraries). Lennox's third novel 'was a modest success, reprinted in Harrison's series and twice translated into French, but it was a succès d'estime and Lennox indignantly complained that the booksellers reaped most of the benefit from her "slavery"' (ODNB). Rare: one other copy traced at auction in the last 80 years.
![[Novel]. The Virtuous Criminal; or, the History of Lord Stanley. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes, 1st edition, pri](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/f429a9f6-a221-48ea-9cf0-aa5d00e46d9c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 228
[Novel]. The Virtuous Criminal; or, the History of Lord Stanley. Translated from the French. In Two Volumes, 1st edition, printed for F. Noble and J. Noble, 1759, initial advertisement leaf to volume 2, toning, marginal browning to outer leaves including title-pages, a few other minor spots and marks, contemporary speckled calf, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, spines and joints rubbed, tips bumped and worn, 12mo (16.4 x 9.6 cm) (Qty: 2)ESTC T179092; not in Block. Extremely rare: ESTC traces two copies in libraries world-wide (John Rylands and Harvard); t h e French original is unidentified and presumably spurious . The 'French editor's preface' presents the work as the memoirs of an English aristocrat 'born in London, about the beginning of the century' (volume 1, p. 7). He flees to Gibraltar a fter his lover is murdered by his father on catching the couple in flagrante . Once there he vies for the hand of Seraphina, the daughter of an Andalusian nobleman, with the blood-soaked denouement taking place in Mexico. T he work appears to be entirely unmentioned in secondary literature, with the exception of a two-word notice in the Monthly Review (XX, p. 81) pronouncing the work 'Absurdity throughout!'.
Lot 23
Account of a Murder. The Unhappy Marksman. Or, A Perfect and Impartial Discovery of that late Barbarous and Unparallel'd Murther committed by Mr. George Strangwayes, formerly a Major in the Kings Army, on his brother-in-law Mr. John Fussel an Attorney, on Friday the Eleventh of February. Together with a full discovery of the fatal cause of those unhappy differences which first occasioned the suits in law betwixt them. Also the behavior of Mr. Strangways at his Tryal. The dreadful sentence pronounced against him, 1st edition, printed by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for R[ichard]. Clavell, 1659, woodcut frontispiece of a gallows not present, 32 pages (A-D4), some early ink underlining, bound with: The Bloody Husband, and Cruell Neighbour. Or, A True Historie of Two Murthers, lately committed in Laurence Parish, in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, neer Sandwich: One Murther by the hands of Adam Sprackling Esquire, who… cut, mangled, and murthered his own wife… the other The Murther of Richard Langly…, printed by Tho. Warren, 1653 , title and 14 pages (A-B4), old ink underlining, light soiling to last leaf, engraved bookplate of John Lethieullier Esqr. Remembrancer of the City of London to front pastedown, 18th century half red morocco gilt, slightly rubbed, small 4to (Qty: 1)Provenance: John Lethieullier, Remembrancer of the City of London from 1727 to 1743, eldest son of William Lethieullier who died in 1739. He is listed as a subscriber to Conyers Middleton’s History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1741). The second work, according to an old pencil note to a leaf preceding the title, is ‘Part of the Stourhead Heir Looms’, above which is written in ink ‘The original rare Edition’. An additional clipped catalogue entry for this volume is attached to the rear pastedown, indicating that this volume was lot 3800 in the Prideaux sale of February 1917, where it fetched £4 10s.
Lot 230
Nihell (Elizabeth). A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. Setting forth Various Abuses therein, especially as to the Practice with Instruments: the whole serving to put all Rational Inquirer in a Fair Way of very safely forming their own Judgment upon the Question; which it is best to employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-Midwife; or, a Midwife, 1st ediition, printed for A. Morley, 1760, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, a little spotting and staining to title-page, stains in text of pp. 40-1 and margins of pp. 222-3, contemporary calf, red morocco label, spine-compartments and covers double ruled in gilt, rubbed and scuffed overall, 8vo (20 x 12.3 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC T152318; Wellcome IV p. 239. First and only edition of the author's only book. ' E lizabeth Nihell's defence of her profession helped to raise public awareness of an important problem' (ODNB), criticising the growing fashion for male midwives and the practices of obstetrician William Smellie, and thereby incurring the ridicule of Smellie's student Tobias Smollett . In spite of its influential trail the book is rare at auction; ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries.
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Lot 231
[Allen, Charles]. The Polite Lady: or, a Course of Female Education. In a Series of Letters, from a Mother to her Daugher, 1st edition, printed for J. Newbery, 1760, engraved frontispiece by Le Pautre, half-title, contemporary calf, spine refurbished, front joint partially cracked, 12mo (16.2 x 9.4 cm) (Qty: 1)Block p. 195; ESTC T95315; Roscoe J8; Osborne p. 693. This anonymously-published courtesy book was reprinted several times. The first edition is very rare, ESTC tracing five copies world-wide, of which two in the UK.
Lot 232
Chapbook. The History of Jack and the Giants, 2 parts in one, Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-yard, between circa 1754 and 1770, each part 24pp., 28 woodcuts on the letterpress, toned and some show-through from illustrations, a few marks, title-page with slight loss to lower blank edge due to paper flaw, top edges gilt, early 20th century red half calf gilt, spine darkened and slightly rubbed, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)ESTC T36389 & T160958. Rare early edition of this title: no edition listed in Osborne or Gumuchian. ESTC states that The Aldermary Churchyard Press was founded in 1754/55 by William and Cluer Dicey, and operated until November 1806 by Richard and John Marshall.
Lot 233
Sayer (Robert, publisher). The Florist. Containing Sixty Plates of the most beautiful Flowers regularly dispos'd in their Succession of Blowing, printed for Rob[er]t Sayer, T. Bowles and John Bowles and Son, [between 1753 and 1764], engraved title-page, 16 pp., 60 engraved plates, toning, text-leaves spotted, a few plates moderately browned or marginally spotted, marginal stain to plate 37, 'by Parkinson' added in manuscript to foot of title-page, contemporary quarter calf, comb-marbled sides, rubbed and worn, 4to (23.9 x 15.5 cm) (Qty: 1)Provenance: Thomas Baskerfeild FSA (1752-1816; bookplate); 'F Cavendish' (ownership inscription and elaborate pencilled monogram 'F C' dated 1809). Baskerfeild, from a Bedfordshire family, was able to live on the wealth of his father, a drysalter in partnership with Sir Richard Glyn in Hatton Garden. 'His library was sold at Sotheby's on the 13th November 1817, the sale taking seven days and realising £1,426' (University of Toronto, 'British Armorial Bindings', online). ESTC T470741; Dunthorne 272; Henrey 708; Nissen BBI 1734. 'One of the earlist of the drawing and colouring books' (Dunthorne). 'The text and plates were later copies and published under the title of Bowles's Florist' (Henrey). Very rare: ESTC traces two copies only (British Library and Wellcome).
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Lot 236
[Ridley, James]. The History of James Lovegrove, Esq; in Four Books, 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed for John Wilkie, 1761, marginal browning to outer leaves, volume 2 signature O5 with and 2 closed longitudinal splits and small paper-flaw costing a few letters in one word, contemporary speckled calf, twin morocco labels, spines darkened and rubbed, shallow chips to headcaps, 12mo (16.8 x 9.5 cm) (Qty: 2)Block p. 207; ESTC T57349 (under 'Sir Charles Morrell'). Extremely rare first edition of the author's first book, which stylistically anticipated his highly popular Tales of the Genii (1764), published under the pseudonym Sir Charles Morrell. ESTC traces eight copies only in libraries world-wide, and only the British Library copy in the UK.
![[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)
Lot 24
[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.
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Lot 243
[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).
Lot 245
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.
Lot 248
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.
Lot 25
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.
Lot 255
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.
![[Fleming, Francis]. The Life and Extraordinary Adventures, the Perils, and Critical Escapades of Timothy Ginnadrake, that Chi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/743f0bc2-9e54-4e80-b1cf-aa5d00bda42e/edd12e95-a25f-4a12-8f8d-aa5d00e48078/468x382.jpg)
Lot 256
[Fleming, Francis]. The Life and Extraordinary Adventures, the Perils, and Critical Escapades of Timothy Ginnadrake, that Child of Chequer'd Fortune. In three volumes, 1st edition, Bath: printed by R. Cruttwell, for the author, 1771, engraved portrait frontispieces to volumes 1 and 2, list of subscribers to volumes 1 and 3, small hole partially repaired to volume 1 [pi]4 (in list of subscribers) affecting text verso, staining to leaves G1-2 and G5-6, gilt gauffered edges, contemporary red morocco, floral devices gilt to spine compartments, green morocco labels, floral and dogtooth roll-borders to sides gilt, spines consolidated at feet, volume 1 spine also chipped at heat, label perished, the compartment re-lettered, tips slightly bumped and worn, 12mo (16.6 x 9 cm) (Qty: 3)Provenance: 'W. Murray' (contemporary ownership inscriptions; additional ownership inscription 'J. T. Wadman' to volume three initial blank scored out); William John Mercer of Huntingtower, Perthshire (armorial bookplates). Block p. 78 (calling for two portraits); ESTC T98989 (tracing twelve copies world-wide). Irish musician Francis Fleming (1715-1778) was leader of Bath's Pump Room orchestra from the early 1730s until his death; his satirical, partly autobiographical novel has been identified as an important source for the social life of Georgian Bath. Rare: no other copy traced at auction since 1984.
Lot 262
Trades. Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades: or Approved Directions, from the best Artists, for the Various Methods Of engraving on Brass, Copper, or Steel. Of the Composition of Metals. - of Varnishes. Of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-Wax. &c. &c. Of the Glass Manufactory. Various Imitations of Precious Stones, and French Paste. Of Colours and Painting, useful for Carriage Painters. Of Painting on Paper. Of Compositions for Limners. Of transparent Colours. Colours to dye Skins or Gloves. To colour or varnish Copper-Plate Prints. Of Painting on Glass. Of Colours of all Sorts, for Oil, Water, and Crayons. Of preparing the Lapis Lazuli, to make Ultramarine. Of the Art of Gilding. The Art of dying Woods, Bones, &c. The Art of Casting in Moulds. Of making useful Sorts of Ink. The Art of making Wines. Of the Composition of Vinegars. Of Liquors, Essential Oils, &c. Of the Confectionary Business. The Art of preparing Snuffs. Of taking out Spots and Stains. Art of Fishing, Angling, Bird-Catching, &c. And Subjects curious, entertaining, and useful. Containing upwards of One Thousand approved Receipts relative to Arts and Trades, London: Printed and sold by Will. Hay, Printer and Bookseller to the Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1775, [8], xxxiv, [2], 312pp., occasional light dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary sheep, joints & spine cracked with evidence of some refurbishment, title label partly lacking, some wear, 12mo, together with: Smith (Godfrey) , The Laboratory; or, School of Arts: in which are faithfully exhibited, and fully explain’d, I. A variety of curious and valuable Experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assaying, Casting, Allaying, and Toughening of Gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. II. Choice Secrets for Jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying precious Stones; of preparing Colours for Doublets; of Colouring Foyles for Jewels, together with other rare Secrets. III. Several uncommon Experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals: Likewise in Wax, Plaister of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. IV. The Art of making Glass: Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass, and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Potters Work, or Delf-Ware. V. A Collection of very valuable Secrets, for the Use of Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Book-Binders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. together with the Art of Marbling Books or Paper. VI. A Dissertation on the Nature and Growth of Salt-Petre: Also, Several other choice and uncommon Chymical Experiments. Vii. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-Globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire-Works. Viii. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cottons, &c. in various Colours. Compiled from German, and other foreign Authors, 3rd edition, with Additions of a great Number of valuable Receipts; particularly, a short, plain, and easy Introduction to the Art of drawing in Perspective, London: James Hodges & T. Astley, 1750, engraved frontispiece (offset to title), 16 engraved plates (including 2 folding), some toning and occasional spotting, 20th century sheep, red morocco title label, upper joint splitting, 8vo (Qty: 2)ESTC T69155 & T72113.
![[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)
Lot 266
[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'.
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