RECENT ACQUISITIONS SINCE 1 SEPTEMBER 2011

1.        AESCHYLUS. Aeschyulii Tragoediae. Ad Optimorum Liborum Fiden recensuit, Integram Lectionis Varietatem Notasque adiecit Augustus Wellauer. Lipsiae, Sumptibus Frid. Chr. Guil. Vogelii,  1823 - 1831.   

3 volumes in 4.  8vo, 214 x 125 mms., pp. xii, [ii], 284; xii, 468 [469 - 470 errata]; viii, 326; [iv], 355 [356 errata], handsomely bound by J. Wright in later full crushed red morocco, gilt borders on covers, spines ornately gilt in compartments, titles blocked in gilt, all edges gilt.  A fine set, with the bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead (i. e., Frederick Edwin Smith [1872 - 1930], who took the title of Lord Birkenhead in February 1919).                                                                                                     £1,250

The scholar Augustus Wellauer (1789 - 1831) had a short-lived career as a classicist, but his work on Aeschylus and Apollonius Rhodius was widely admired and cited.  Sandys, incidentally, gives his dates (III, 115) as 1798 - 1830, which would make his achievement even more remarkable. 

2.        [AIKIN (John)]:  Essays on Song-Writing:  With a Collection of such English Songs as a most eminent for Poetical Merit.  To which are added, Some Original Pieces. London: Printed for Joseph Johnson...[no date], [1772].   

FIRST EDITION.   8vo, 186 x 113 mms., pp. xvi, 280, contemporary tree calf, gilt border on covers, rebacked, new red morocco label; large triangular piece cut from title-page with loss, facsimile of title-page tipped in.                                            £250

This work is usually attributed to John Aikin (1747 - 1822), a physician and author of various political and biographical works.  The genesis of this book came, Aikin says in his Preface, when he and various friends lamented the absence of a good collection of the excellent songs in which song-writing was taken seriously as an art form: "The chief sources of good songs, are the miscellany poems and plays from the time of Charles the second to the conclusion of Queen Ann's reign."  He was working in London in 1769-70 and moved to Warrington in 1771, and he might have made the acquaintance of the radical publisher, Johnson, during his brief sojourn in London.    His political leanings were liberal, and Johnson published his  An Address to the Dissidents of England on their Late Defeat (1790). 

3.        ALCIPHRON. Alciphron's Epistles; in which are described, The Domestic Manners, The Courtesans, and Parasites of Greece.  Now first Translated from the Greek [by William Beloe and Thomas Monroe]. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Leigh and Sotheby; and R. Faulder, 1791.   

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION.  8vo, 213 x 124, pp. [iv], 270, with errata on verso of half-title, contemporary calf; joints cracked (but holding), corners worn, spine slightly dried, top and base of spine chipped.  With the armorial bookplate of Hutches Trower on the front paste-down end-paper and in a contemporary hand on the recto of the front free end-paper, transcription of part of the review that appeared in November, 1791, in the Critical Review; and ms notes in a later hand in pencil in the text and on the verso of one of the rear free end-papers.                                  £250

Of the two translators, Beloe  is a good deal better known than Monroe, which might account for the preface's being written in the first person singular. Both male and female vanity seem to have attracted Alciphron's gift for satiric hyperbole; one of the courtesans writes to her lover, "Thus, it is a common artifice among coutezans to govern their followers by inspiring them with hopes, and ever deferring their gratification; but with you such conduct would be absurd, for I do not fear your being satiated." 

4.        ALMANAC. L'Espirt des Amans ou Les Amours du Siecle.  Almanach.  Orné de Jolies Gravures. A Paris, chez Janet successeur du R. Jubert, Rue S. Jacques, vis-a-vis Mathurins No. 36, [no date], [c. 1780].   

24mo, 93 x 58 mms., pp. 12, 24, engraved throughout, with engraved title-page, 12 engraved illustrations, one engraved plate of music (browned with engraving opposite also browned) "Le Fossé de Cythere," attractively bound in contemporary full vellum with gilt borders to a floral motif, gilt floral ornament in centre of each board, embroidered spine (slightly worn), all edges gilt, contained in a (probably later) slipcase or marbled boards within plain boards.                                           £950

One of many libertine almanacs for lovers, with several bawdy French songs, and appropriate engraved illustrations only two of which hint at any indelicacy.  A very attractive item.  I have not found any other copy.

The arrogant scholar of Utrecht

5.        ANACREON. Anacreontis Teii Ode et Fragmenta, Graece et Latine, cum notis Joannis Cornelii de Pauw. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht], Apud H. & J. Besseling [colophon: Trajecti ad Rhenum, typis Petri Muntendam, M.D.CC.XXXII],  1753.   

4to, 250 x 190 mms., pp. [xxxiv], [3], 4 - 313 [314 Errata and colophon], text in parallel in Greek (verso) and Latin (recto), engraved ornament on title-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, fine contemporary lemon vellum, with gilt borders on covers, fleurons in each corner,spine ornately gilt in compartments, black morocco labels; corners a little worn, spine faded with slightly loss of gilt, but otherwise a very good copy, beautifully printed with spacious margins, with the contemporary armorial bookplate of Robert Shatfo, Esq., Benwell (c. 1732 - 1797), landowner and politician, and often known in the 18th century as "Bonny Bobby Shaftoe," after the ballad by that name.  On the rear paste-down end-paper is the armorial bookplate of William Adair, Esq.                                                             £950

Jan Cornelis de Pauw (d. 1749) published this edition in Utrecht in 1732, and this reprint (or second edition) retains the original dedication, dated August 1731, to Joanni Clerico viro cl. S. P. D., who seems unlikely to be the 17th century philosopher Jonathan Clericus.  In fact, the scholar seems to be a schoolmaster in Hull, John Clarke. In a note on the scholar Jacques Philippe D'Orville, Sandys (History of Classical Scholarship) notes that D'Orville's first publication, Critica Vannus in inanes J. C. Pavonis paleas (1737), was "a scathing denunciation of the demerits of that arrogant scholar of Utrecht, Jan Cornelis de Pauw."  Nevertheless, the dedication to a Hull schoolmaster in a book that belonged to a member of a prominent family in the Newcastle area of England gives the volume a certain charm, and the binding even looks English.

6.        ANGERER (Margit). A scrapbook album containing ephemera about the Hungarian opera singer Margit Angerer (1903 - 1976)  1927 - 1928   

A large quarto album, 324 x 245 mms., of newspaper clippings, programmes, photographs, mounted on 36 thick paper card leaves, illustrating two years in the career of Angerer; bound in full contemporary sheepskin with a lyre on the front cover and the dates 1927 - 1928. She is seen in several works by Strauss, most notably Die ägyptische Helena  as well as Ariadne auf Naxos.  Most of the clippings are in German or Hungarian.                                                                                   £500

Margit Angerer (1903 - 1976) was born in Budapest and studied there.  She made her debut in Vienna in 1926, singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino.  She remained in Vienna until 1938, when she moved to London; thereafter, most of her appearances were on the concert platform rather than the operatic stage.

7.        APIANUS (Petrus):  Cosmographiae Introductio cum quibusdam Gaemetriae ac Astronomiae principijis ad eam rem necessariis. [From colophon]: Venetiis : Per Io. Antonium de Nicolinis de Sabio sumptu & requisitione D. Melchioris Sessæ, 1541.   

Small 8vo, 153 x 94 mms., ff. 24, woodcut illustrations on title-page and verso of title-page, other woodcut illustrations in text, map of the New World (North and South America) on folio 23, and on the verso of the last leaf an elaborate woodcut featuring Sessa's cat with a mouse in its mouth, later vellum boards. A very good copy                                                                                                                       £1,250

Apianus (1495 - 1552) first published this work in 1524, and this 1541 edition is one of several reprints in the 16th century.  Based on the work of Ptolemy, it attempted a short and lucid introduction to astronomy, cartography, celestial mechanics, cosmography, surveying, navigation, etc.  Although the work was short, it gave enough evidence of Apianus' abilities to lead to his appointment as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt in 1527.  It also promoted the purchase and collection of mathematical and scientific instruments.  The work was reprinted at least 30 times and translated into 14 other languages. 

8.        APOLLODORUS OF ATHENS. Apollorori Atheniensis Bibliotheces,  siue de deorum origine, tam graecè, qua`m latinè, luculentis pariter, ac doctis annotationibus illustrati, & nunc primum in lucem editi libri tres. Benedicto Aegio Spoletino Interprete, accessit etiam libris hisce nominum, rerumq éopulentissimus index. Quibus demum additus est Scipionis Tetti viri apprimedocti de Apollodoris ad Othonem Trvcsivm Cardinalem amplissimum commentarius. Romae in Aedibvs Antoni Bladi, Pontif. Max. Excvsoris de Campo Florae,  1555.   

8vo, 163 x 98 mms., unpaginated, foliated leaves: [40], 138, [38], with the index preceding the main body of the text, the variant issue recorded in various university libraries, contemporary Italian boards, paper label on upper spine; occasional water-staining, front hinge very slightly cracked, early ownership stamp on title-page but a very good to fine copy.                                                                                            £850

The mis-attribution of this comprehensive summary of Greek mythology to Apollodorus of Athens derives from the name "Apollodorus" on some surviving manuscripts of the text.  Other sources cite the Roman author Castor the Annalist.  The surviving manuscripts of the text are incomplete, and the division into three parts here was made by Benedetto Egio of Spoleto, who also made the Latin translation.   Aubrey Diller, in "The Text History of the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus" (Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 1935) describes this work as "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times." 

Adams A 1305. 

9.        APULIEUS. Psyche. Traduction nouvelle par Victor Develay De la Bibliotheque-SeGenevieve. Paris Librairie des Bibliophiles Rue Saint-Honore, 338. 1873.   

FIRST EDITION of this translation.  Small 8vo (in 4s), 106 x 62 mms., pp. 133 [134 printer's notice, 135 - 136 adverts], including half-title, title-page in red and black, handsomely bound in full contemporary red morocco, gilt borders on covers, floral ornaments in each corner of border, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, with the initials "P. W." in gilt on front cover.  A fine and attractive copy.                  £450

Victor Develay (1828 - ?) translated a number of works from Latin into French, but it is not clear if he ever translated Asinus Aureus in its entirety.

Limitation notice on verso of half-title: "10 exemplaires sor papier de Chine/  500 - sur papier vergé"; this is one of the latter (laid paper). 

10.      [ARMSTRONG (John)]:  The Oeconomy of Love.  A Poetical Essay. A New Edition London: Printed for M. Cooper...,  1749.   

8vo (in 4s), 194 x 118 mms.,  pp. [iv], 43 [44 blank], including half-title, recently half calf, marbled boards, blocked in gilt on spine.  A very good and attractive copy.                                                                                                                                   £150

First published in 1736, Armstrong’s poem was one of the more interesting pieces of poetic erotica in the 18th century, though Armstrong (1708 - 1779) excluded it from his collected Miscellanies in 1772. In 1768, Armstrong published a “revised and corrected” edition, which was shorter and left out some of the more lubricious and amusing lines.  This printing retains its classic exposition of a “wet dream”: “The Boy may wrestle, when/ Night-working Fancy steals him to the Arms/ Of Nymph oft wish’d awake, and, ‘mid the Rage/ Of the soft Tumult, every turgid Cell/ Spontaneous disembogues its lucid Store,/ Bland and of azure Tinct.”  The work concludes with an injunction to avoid that "foreign Vice," sodomy.

11.      BACON (Francis):   Sermones Fideles. Ethici. Politici. OEconomic. Sive Interiora Rerum.  Accedunt Faber Fortunae Colores Boni et Mali, &c.   Lugd. Batavorum, Apud Franciscum Hackium,  1644.   

Small 12mo, 126 x 68 mms., pp. 416 [417 - 419 Index, 420 blank], including engraved title-page, recently rebound in full antique-style calf, morocco label; lower margin slightly wormed throughout but a very good copy.                                    £450

Sermones Fideles, the Latin translation of Bacon's essays, was first published in 1641, and this second edition has been completely reset.  The text here consists of 62 essays.  William Hazlitt remarked of Bacon, "It is not easy to make room for him and his reputation together.  This great and celebrated man in some of his works recommends it to pour a bottle of claret into the ground of a morning, and to stand over it inhaling the perfumes.  So he sometimes enriched the dry and barren soil of speculation with the fine aromatic spirit of his genius."

Gibson 52a.

12.      BECCARIA (Cesare) An Essay on Crimes in Punishments; Translated from the Italian of Marquis Beccaria; With the Commentary by Voltaire, Translated from the French.  The Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Printed for H. D. Symonds..., 1804.   

8vo, 212 x 128 mms., pp. [ii], iii [iv blank, v - vi contents], 170, lxxvii [lxxviii blank], ex-library, bound in sturdy but unattractive library buckram, with pocket for library card on  rear paste-down end-paper; inner margin of title-page defective and partially detached and with library perforations at lower margin.  An insalubrious copy.                                                                                                                           £75

Beccaria (1738 - 1794) published this in Italian in 1764, and the first English translation appeared in 1767. 

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13.      BIBLE The Holy Bible  containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. Edinburgh, Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1726.   

BOUND WITH:  "The Psalms of David in Metre" [no title-page], 4to, 258 x 202 mms., unpaginated, pp. [936] + [32] + [52], collating A-3L4, a-d4, A-F4,G2, including index and table, engraved title-page "The Historical View of the Holy Bible or the Old and New Testament Exactly and Compleatly Deescrib'd in above Two Hundred Historys Curiously Engrav'd by J. Dole From Designs of ye best Master," followed by another engraved title-page, "The Holy Bible Mr. Tabor Matt. 1711. Printed and Sold by Richard Ware at ye Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Just Published to be fitted to Bind up with all Sorts of House Bibles a Brief Concordance for the more easy finding out the useful Places therein Contained, by I. Downame B D," and then the printed title-page (from which the transcription is taken), with engraved Royal vignette, with separate title-page for New Testament,  ruled in red red throughout, 204 engraved plates on 52 leaves, contemporary dark olive Scottish morocco, with the Christogram initials "I H S" (Jesus Hominum Salvator) in the centre of an oval with gilt faces and triangular shapes spiking out from the oval on each cover, spine ornate gilt roll on borders, spine ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, Dutch brocade end-papers, with various ownership inscriptins, the first on on the verso of the front free end-paper about an early 19th century family of Captain David Brown, his wife Munro, daughter of Major Alexander Munro, and their daughter, Helen, born on 24 August 1818, and their two sons, David, 8 September 1822; and Alexander Hepburn, 6 May 1826.  There are further ownership inscriptions on the rear free end-papers: "James Hepburn/ born 29th July 1754./ George Hepburn/ born 4 January 1756/ Adam Hepburn/ born 2 October 1758" and "John Hepburn/ Born August the 20th 1749/ Anna Hepburn/ Born Jully [sic] the 7th 1752."  There are several minor defects, including a cracked front hinge (not affecting front joint), crude repairs with tape to the end-papers with the provenance notes, small piece torn from margin of first title-page (not affecting plate), some soiling and fingering throughout, lower rear joint slightly cracked, corners slightly crushed, binding a bit rubbed with very slight loss of gilt, but generally a very good and attractive volume, with interesting Scottish provenance and a distinctive, almost certainly Scottish binding.                                                                                    £3,950

Baskett (1664/5 - 1742) became associated with Scottish printers in 1711, when he was granted one-third share in Robert Freebairn's patent as the sovereign's printer in Scotland; Baskett and Freebairn formed a partnership in 1725  

Darlow and Moule, 975.

14.      BIBLE The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the Original Greek; And with the Former Translations diligently compared and Revised.  By his Majesty's special Command.  Appointed to be read in Churches. Edinburgh: Printed by Mark and Charles Kerr, His Majesty's Printers,  1796.   

12mo, 129 x 69 mms., pp. [522], volume 2 only of 2 volumes,with title-page for New Testament after Old Testament text from Psalms to Malachi, bound in full red morocco, ornately tooled very much in the manner of James Scott, with bird figures, Britannia, urns, rolled gilt borders, spine ornately gilt, all edges, gilt; some loss of gilt, front joint very slightly rubbed, slight wear to top and base of spine, corners a little crushed, but a good example of late 18th century Scottish binding in very good condition.                                                                                                               £1,500

It is not uncommon to find these small 12mo volumes separated from their partners, as they were often given as gifts or otherwise disposed of separately.  This example is unlikely to be by James or William Scott, but it is a good imitation.

15.      BOURSAULT (Edme):   Theatre de Feu.  Nouvelle Edition, Revué, corrigeée & augmentée de plusieurs Piéces, qui n'ont point paru dans les précedentes. A Paris, Chez Francois Le Breton...,  1725.   

3 volumes.  12mo, 165 x 100 mms., pp. [xxxviii], 324; [ii], 50, [16], 75 [76 Privilege], [x], 70, [8], 91 [92 Privilege], [6], 64, 4, 385 - 391[ 392 blank]; [ii], 86, [6], 99 - 138, [20], 100, [12], 99 [100 blank], finely bound in contemporary French mottled calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; very slight loss of gilt on spines, corners slightly worn, but an attractive set.                                £350

Boursault (1638 - 1701) seems to have had more success with his two tragedies, Germanicus and Marie Stuart than with his other works.  The latter work may be an instance of the so-called "auld alliance" between France and Scotland.  Mary Stewart (1542 - 1587), Queen of Scots, spent 14 years in France, and her attempt to gain the throne of England, with all its permutations and her eventual execution, generated a vast quantity of literary and other artistic representations.  Boursault's play was first performed in 1684, but it is unlikely to have been the first dramatic representation in French of Mary.  It was certainly preceded by La Reina María Estuarda by the Spanish author Juan Bautista Diamante.

16.      BOYLE (Robert): An Essay about the Origine & Virtues of Gems. Wherein are Propos'd and Historically Illustrated some Conjectures about the Consistence of the Matter of Precious Stones, and the Subjects wherein their chiefest Virtues reside. London, Printed by William Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain,  1672.   

FIRST EDITION.  Small 8vo, 155 x 92 mms., pp. [xvi], 180, 182 - 185, recently rebound in quarter dark maroon morocco, olive morocco label, marbled boards; a good copy in a rather unsympathetic binding.                                                     £3,000

Boyle (1627 - 1691) came from a well-to-do family, and his early career was devoted to literature; he wrote an almost unreadable treatise called Aretology, devoted to moral theory and tried a number of literary genres.  His romance, The Martyrdom of Theodora and of Didymus, mixes moral sentiments with narrative tropes in an unconvincing manner.  However, when he turned to his science, he found his true metier, impressing the scientific community with his Sceptical Chymist (1661).  In this work, Boyle argues that gems were formed by crystallization from a liquid after the earth was formed.  He believed that metalline corpuscles were incorporated in the gems, which gave them colour and density. 

Fulton 96.  Wing B 3947.

17.      BRADSHAW (Penelope): The Family Jewel, And Compleat Housewife's Companion; or, the Whole Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy. In a Method entirely new, and suited to every Capacity; calculated for the Preservation of Health, and on the Principles of Frugality, including Things useful, substantial and splendid. Containing compleat Directions in Marketing, and other Branches of Housewifry, and above 400 Receipts. In Cookery, Pastry, Pickling, Preserving, Candying, Potting, Collaring; great Variety of Puddings, Soops, Broths, Sauces, Cake Soop for the Pocket; Jellies, Creams, Syrups, Cakes, and other Confectionary; English Wines; Cyder, Mead, Vinegar, Verjuice, Katchup; Brewing fine Beer and Ale; how to preserve a Stock of Yeast in the scarcest Season; to keep Ale very fine, and to restore sour or ropy Beer to Perfection; to dress British Pickled Herrings several Ways; also to dress a Turtle to the greatest Perfection, as in the Indies; Mrs. Stephens’s Receipt for the Stone...[etc.].  With an Index.... The Seventh Edition.  With Remarks by a London Pastry Cook, of long and extensive Practice.... London: Printed for R. Whitworth..., MDCCLIV 1754.   

12mo (in 6s), 165 x 95 mms., pp. [xii], 144, title-page and following leaf in facsimile, contemporary sheepskin with spine neatly restored.  A very good copy with the facsimile leaves obvious but at least sympathetic, with the bookplate of Mary Chadsey on the front paste-down end-paper.                                                 £600

Penelope Bradshaw (died 1753/54) seems to have left behind no trace of her life except for her cookery books.  Many of the recipes in the book originated with other authors. This edition was revised by "E. H." and contains much new material.

ESTC T119108 locating the BL copy only; another edition with the same publisher and same year but with the date not in Roman numerals is ESTC N31406, located in Lilly Library

18.      BRINE (John):  A Treatise on Various Subjects:  Viz. On the Original Purity of Human Nature.  On its present Depravity...Wherein various difficult Cases of Conscience are answered, as they occur, on the several Subjects treated of.  The Second Edition. London: Printed for John Ward...,  1756.   

8vo, pp. vii [viii adverts], 400, contemporary calf; lacks prelims, fore-margins of a few leaves wormed, ink-stain on front cover which also slightly affects upper fore-edge.                                                                                                                         £150

The Baptist minister John Brine (1703–1765) was the author of some 30 books.  He was regarded in his lifetime as a Calvinist and a supralapsarian, as well as an antinomian.  The present work was first published in 1750.

19.      BULSTRODE (Whitelocke): Essays upon the Following Subjects. Viz.1. Of generosity. 2. Of the New Man. 3. Of the Government of the Eye. 4. De Ratione Fidei, &c. 5. Of the Soul of Man. 6. Of Freedom or Liberty of Body and Mind. 7. Of the Passions and Affections. 8. Of Human Perfection. 9. Of the Origin of Sin, &c. 10. Of Gratitude. 11. Of the Blessed Trinity, and somewhat of the Mode. 12. Of Eternal Damnation for Temporal Sin; the Justice, and even Mercy of God therein, vindicated. 13. Of Dreams. 14. Of the Government of our Thoughts. 15. Of Happiness. 16. Of Sinful Ideas. 17. Of Families, and leaving a great Estate to Children. 18. A Letter to Sir R. Southwell, when President of the Royal Society, touching the Equivocal Generation of Plants and Insects; wherein the Creation of the World is particularly lookt into. 19. Of Reading the Holy Scriptures, &c. 20. Of Persons running in debt, and dying without Payment London: Printed for A. Bettesworth...and J. Clarke...,  1725.   

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION.  8vo, 200 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], xviii, 264 [265 adverts, 266 blank], engraved portrait, contemporary red sheepskin, with ornate gilt border on each cover, but with early reback; front joint starting to cracked, corners very worn, no label; at one time, probably an attractive binding at one time, but a rather botched repair.                                                                                               £450

Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652 - 1724) was called to the bar in 1702, but he is probably better-known for his writings and his work as an administrator.  His first published work was on the transmigration of souls, a curious but popular topic, in early modern theology, or at least with Cathars and the Alawi.  However, it is clear from the essay on the Soul of Man in this collection that he regarded the hypothesis as an elaborate metaphor. 

20.      BURGH (James): The Dignity of Human Nature.   Or, A brief Account of the certain and established Means for attaining the true End of our Existence.  In Four Books.  Of Prudence.  II. Of Knowledge.  III. Of Virtue.  IV. Of Revealed Religion. London, Printed by W. B. and sold by J. and P. Knapton..., 1754.  1754.   

FIRST EDITION.  4to, 233 x 178 mms., pp. xxii [xxii blank, xxiv Errata], 430, contemporary calf, falling to bits, with rear cover detached, front cover attached from earlier reback, corners worn, spine chipped, but a very good provenance:  Formerly the copy of the British artist Sir Stanley Spenser (1891 - 1959), inscribed on the front paste-down "Ex libris G R Carline, F.R.A.I. F.R.G.S. given to Stanley Spencer 1933 [after death of G R C] then on Stanley S's death 1959 to Richard Carline" ; it might seem from this that Spencer inherited the book from his first father-in-law, but it is also possible that this G R Carline was, in fact, his brother in law, and that the book later passed down to another brother in law, Richard, who was a fellow artist; whatever, this is an interesting association copy of the "Downshire Hill" set.  On the top margin of the title-page is the autograph and date of an earlier owner: "Mary Bethia Horton 1777."  Mary Bethia Scott (1705 - 1781) married Sir Joshua Horton.  The copy of the book is not  itself in wonderful condition, but I would be reluctant to destroy the integrity of the provenance by having the binding restored.                                                                                                                    £300

James Burgh(1714-1775), educational theorist and author, was "Master of an Academy at Newington-Green, Middlesex," according to the title-page.  His wife Hannah was friend of Mary Wollstonecraft and helped her to open a school at Newington Green in 1783.  The book is a curious mixture of testy self-righteousness and priggishness on one hand and sensible suggestions and practical advice on the other.  Citing the best English poets, Burgh names Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Waller, Rowe, Addison, and Pope, and then adds, "it is to the disgrace of our country and religion, that such stuff as the greatest parts of the works of a Dryden, or a Congreve, and such like, should be in print."  Later, he would gladden the hearts of many modern educational theorists when he says, "As to making Latin or Greek themes or verses, I would as soon have a son of mine taught to dance on a rope."

21.      BURNEY (Charles):   An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, And the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3d, and 5th, 1784.  In Commemoration of Handel. London, Printed for the Benefit of the Musical Fund; and Sold by T. Payne and Son...,  1785.   

FIRST EDITION.  4to, 268 x 202 mms., pp. [viii], xvi, 8, *1 - *8, 9 - 20, *19 - *24, 21 - 56, [1] - 41 [42 blank], [2], [43] - 139 [140 adverts, 141 Errata and Directions to the Binder, 142 blank], engraved frontispiece (lower margin slightly water-stained) and seven other full-page engraved plates, contemporary calf,, early reback, spine blocked in gilt; corners a bit worn, but a good to very good copy with autograph "F D Fenton" on the top margin of the title-page                                                         £850

Burney’s enthusiasm for these musical performances led to an invitation to prepare this account, though he was rather surprised not to be paid for it.  Two thousand copies of the work were printed, and it was widely praised in the journals.  Samuel Johnson wrote the dedication.

Fleeman 85.2BH/1a.  Rothschild 544.  Tinker 1377.  Hazen 30 - 33.

22.      [CANNING (George), et al]: The Microcosm, A Periodical Work, By Gregory Griffin, Of the College of Eton.  The Second Edition.  Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies.   Windsor: Published for C. Knight...and sold by Mess. Robinson...and Mr. Debrett...,  1788.   

8vo, 203 x 118 mms., pp. xv [xvi Names of the Authors], [3] - 451 [452 errata], additional engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, recently rebound in quarter calf, black morocco label, gilt spine, marbled boards; slight water-staining to title-page, but a good copy.                                                                                      £200

The first 40 numbers of The Microcosm were published at Eton, 6 November 1786 - 30 July 1787.  Among the subjects discussed one finds language, genius, poetics, novels, affectation, translation, imitation, government, genius, etc.

23.      [CAPRANI (Giuseppe).  STENDHAL.  Marie-Henri Beyle]: The Life of Haydn,  In a Series of Letters Written at Vienna.  Followed by The Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy.  Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet.  With Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies. London: John Murray...,  1817.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 212 x 130 mms., pp. xv [xvi translator's note], 496, including engraved leaf of music, contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black morocco label, marbled boards; some light foxing but a very good copy.                                      £450

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842) apparently used over one hundred pseudonyms, but he is best-known as Stendhal, even though that pseudonym doesn't appear on the title-page.  As Copac notes, "The life of Haydn is a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine; the biographical part of the Mozart is, practically, a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostom-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart, which in turn is a translation of Schlichtegroll's Mozarts Leben; the last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are Bombet."  William Gardiner (1770 - 1853) was the compiler/author of Sacred Melodies (1812 - 1838).

24.      CHEYNE (George):  Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion:  Containing the Elements of Natural Philosophy, And the Proofs for Natural Religion, Arising from them. London: Printed for George Strahan...,  1705.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xxxii], 118 [119 -120 blank], 282, 68, contemporary calf; joints, corners, and spine restored; no leaves before title-page, text stained and fingered, lacks final leaf of errata, a rather modest copy.            £500

Cheyne uses the principles of Newton to argue for the existence of a non-mechanistic deity.  He maintains that since gravity cannot be explained by any hypothesis or physical principle, it must not be innate and depends on a deity for its existence.  The work attracted little notice, but Cheyne published revised and expanded versions in 1715, 1724, and 1736.  In recent years, he seems to have attracted more interest from scholars and historians of ideas than he enjoyed in his lifetime

25.      CHURCH OF ENGLAND.   The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be sung or said in churches. London: Published for John Reeves, Esq. One of ht Patentees of the Office of King's Printer. [Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland Row, St. James's]  Sold by G. and W. Nicol...,  1802.   

12mo (in 6s), 152 x 93 mms., unpaginated, but pp. vi, 492, collating [a4] b-o6 B-R6 S5 B-O6 P1 *A-*G6 *H2 A-D12, including half-title, separate title-page dated 1804 for the Psalms, engraved frontispiece, dated 1 January 1773, and  51 other engraved plates, many with two illustrations, attractively bound in full contemporary straight-grain red morocco, with gilt panels and borders on covers, spine richly gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles.  A very good to fine copy with contemporary autograph bookplate on recto of first blank leaf, partly over-written but not obscured by later inscription, viz., "Presented by/ Mrs. Crowder/ to her Friend/ Sophia Hurlock/ 1808" and with the further inscription "A gift of love from/ Sophia  Lady  [illegible, ending in 'lock'] to her beloved Husband/ James Murray Lacey/ January 1st 1870/ Niece of the above."  With a further holograph verse inscription of six lines on the half-title.                                                                  £950

The plates are by G. L. Smith and were first issued by William Dawson in 1773; see ESTC N470974. The engraved frontispiece has Dawson's full imprint; it and the plates are re-impressions of the plates as originally issued.

Copac lists  copies at TCD, Manchester, National Trust, St. Andrews, and one of 238 pages at NLS; no plates are listed for any of these copies.  ESTC N470974 locates only the copy at Southern Methodist University. 

26.      COLSON (Nathaniel): The Mariner's New Calendar. Containing The Principles of Arithmetic and Practical Geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots: Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same.  Together with Exact Tables of the Sun's place, Declination, and Right-Scension....  Also The Use of the Sea-Quadrant...With Directions for sailing into some Principal Habours....  The whole revis'd, and adjusted to the New Stile, By William Mountaine. London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page & Son...,  1759.   

Small 4to, 200 x 142 mms., pp. 136, including half-title, old ownership notice loosely inserted, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, black leather label; text browned, with some water-staining in first 25 leaves, outer margins a bit worn.                                                                                                                         £300

The first edition of this work appears to have been published in 1676, and there were at least another 38 editions published in the 18th century.  Although ESTC records printings in 1758 and 1760, this printing with 1759 in the imprint does not appear. 

FINE RED MOROCCO BINDING

27.      COMBE (Taylor): A Description of the Collection  of Ancient Terracottas in the British Museum; with engravings. London: Printed by W. Bulmer...and sold at the British Museum; and by G. and W. Nicol...,  1810.   

FIRST EDITION.  4to, 345 x 275 mms., a large-paper copy, pp. vii [viii explanation of title-page vignette], 39 [40 blank], 40 full-page engraved (several by George Cooke and James Neagle) plates (two folding) after drawings by William Alexander, very attractively bound in contemporary full straight-grain red morocco, bordered in gilt and blind on covers, gilt spine, all edges gilt.  A fine copy with an equally good provenance, with the armorial bookplate of John Duke of Bedford (1766 - 1839) on the front paste-down end-paper.                                                                              £950

The numismatist and archaeologist, Taylor Combe (1774 - 1826), worked in the British Museum from 1803 until his death and was responsible for some of the most useful and finely-printed works on his specialist subjects.  

Lowndes, in  A Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, notes that "Twelve copies [were] printed in folio for presents to Royal Personages only," without making clear the measurements of the so-called folio.  This copy is certainly printed in 4s, but it is larger than any copy traced on Copac or WorldCat.

28.      [d'AULNOY (Marie-Catherine, Baroness ].  ENCHANTER. The Enchanter; or Wonderful Story Teller. In which is contained A Series of Adventures, curious, surprising, and uncommon; calculated to Amuse, Instruct, and Improve Younger Minds. London: Printed for William Lane, at the Minerva Press...,  1795.   

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION.  12mo, 152 x 98 mms., pp. 127 [128 adverts], original printed boards; lacks frontispiece, some soiling of title-page and other signs of having been well-read, lacks spine, crudely oversewn and holding by one cord, boards very rubbed and soiled, corners worn.  Rather a poor copy of an uncommon books                                                                                                                        £300

The first story in the work is the "History of the Princess Hebe and the Fairy Anguiletta," attributed to Marie-Catherine, Baroness d'Aulnoy, which Lane had printed in 1790 in The Pleasing Companion.  The next story is "The Royal Ram, or, The Wishes," also derived from Madame d'Aulnoy, as are the remaining stories, "Graciosa and Percinet," "The Curious Story of Finetta," and "The Story of the White Cat."

ESTC N6978 locates only the copies at UCLA and Alberta. 

29.      DAUBENY (Charles):   An Appendix to the "Guide to the Church:"  In which the Principles advanced in that work are more fully maintained; in Answer to Objections brought against them by Sir Richard Hill, Bart.  In his Letters address to the Author, under the Title of  "An Apology for Brotherly Love."  Vol. I. London: Printed for Hatchard...and F & C Rivington...,  1799.   

FIRST EDITION.  2 volumes. 8vo, 227 x 138 mms., pp. vii [vii blank], 344; 345 - 644 [645 - 653 Index, 654 - 655 blank, 656 advert], original boards (slightly soiled), uncut; no title-page in volume 2, but first leaf is signed *A and is a half-sheet, slight wear to joints, ex-library with the bookplate of the Scottish Episcopal Church Library on the front paste-down end-paper in each volume.                                  £150

Charles Daubeny (bap. 1745 - d. 1827) made little secret of his high church principles, which were steadfastly affirmed in his various books.  They were much admired by Anglicans in Britain and by Episcopal churchmen in America and Scotland.

Copies of both books are numerous in UK libraries, but rather less common in north America.  For the Guide, ESTC T85232 locates copies in the College of William and Mary, General Theological Seminary, Saint Mark's Library, Iowa, Virginia, and Washington and Lee.  For the Appendix, T85305, copies in General Theological Seminary, Saint Mark's Library, Harvard, Iowa, and Washington and Lee.

30.      DAVID.  BRADY.  TATE. A New Version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches.  By N. Brady...and N. Tate. London: Printed by Richard Hett, For the Company of Stationers, M.DCC.LXXVIII. 1778.   

8vo, 296 x 125 mms., pp. 236 [237 Gloria Patri, 238 - 239 index, 240 Directions about the Tunes], attractively bound in full red morocco, gilt scroll border on each cover, spine ornately gilt to an urn motif, marbled end-papers, a very good to fine copy (two minor flaws on lower front cover), with the ownership inscription "Mary Poulets/ Stinton St. George 1814" on the recto of the first blank leaf.                   £350

Richard Hett published this edition of the Psalms of David first in 1771, followed by another eight printings.  This is ESTC T206585 (Marsh's Library, Ripley Castle Library, Sit John Soane's Museum, St. Deiniol's Library, Winchester College). 

31.      DAVID, PSALMS OF Les Pseaumes de David, Mis en Vers Francois, Revus et approuves par le Synode Walon, des Provinces-Unies.  Nouvelle Edition. A Jersey, De l'Imprimerie de Matthieu Alexandre, 1786.   

8vo, 172 x 89 mms., pp. 334, engraved frontispiece of David playing the harp, engraved throughout with words and music, recently rebound in full panelled calf, ornaments in blind on spine, black morocco label.  A very good copy.              £1,250

This translation was by Valentin Conrart (1603 - 1675) and consists of the psalms and twelve canticles. 

ESTC T126174 locates copies in BL, Glasgow, Lambeth, Bodleian,  John Rylands, Brotherton Collection Leeds; Amsterdam Universiteitsbibliothek; McGill. There is also a copy in Cambridge.  

32.      DAVID, PSALMS OF Psalmi Davidis ex hebraica veritate latins  versibus expressi A Io. Matthaeo Toscano, I. V. D.  Quibus praefixa sunt Argumenta singulis distichis comprehensa, opera Io. Avrati Poetae Regij. Parisiis.  Ex Officina Federici Morelli Typographi Regij. 1575.   

FIRST EDITIONS.  2 volumes in 1, 8vo, 176 x 105 mms., fol. [8], 141, [7], title within woodcut border.  [BOUND WITH]  Octo Cantica Sacra e Sacris Bibliis latino carmine expressa a Io. Matthae A Toscano: praefixit argumentis I. Avrati Poetae Regij.  Eivsdem Toscani Hymni, & Poemata ad Ampliss. V. Renatum Biragum Franciae Cancellarium.  Parisii. Ex Officina Federici Morelli Typographi Regij. 1757.  8vo, 176 x105 mms., fol. 60, title within woodcut border, later calf (probably 18th century, rebacked with old spine laid down, new black morocco label, oval gilt ornament on each cover; contemporary name on title-page of first items obscured, various contemporary names and scribblings on front paste-down end-paper, slight worming of top margin of text throughout occasionally affecting one or two letters of a word, but a reasonable copy.                                                                            £850

Giovanni Matteo Toscano (?1500 - 1576) translated the psalms from the Hebrew, and the first item includes a poem in Greek dedicated to Toscano.  The text was edited by Federic Morel (1523 - 1583).  Jean Dorat (1508 - 1588) introduces the psalms and canticles with a couplet in Latin in the first item, while Morel discusses the metres used by Toscano in the second part, which contains Toscano's poems.  Toscano met Dorat at the court of Catherine de Medicis (1519 - 1589), and Dorat, effectively his mentor, assisted him with the preparation of these texts. 

Adams B1464 and T843. 

33.      DE COURCY (Richard):  Sermons,  by the late Rev. Richard De Courcy, Vicar of Saint Alkmond, Shrewsbury.  To which is prefixed, An Essay on the nature, &c. of pure and undefiled religion. Shrewsbury: Printed and Sold by M. Wood, St. John's Hill; Sold also by Hatchard...and all other booksellers, 1805.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 227 x 132 mms., pp. xxix [xxx blank], 322 [333 Errata, 334 blank, 335 - 336 adverts], engraved portrait frontispiece (by Collyer after Russell), small printed notice to subscribers, dated March 8, 1805, tipped onto recto of front free end-paper,original boards, uncut, inscription on recto of front free end-paper, "Peter Clubbe/ Newbolt/ 1805"; small piece torn from lower margin of first leaf of Preface,joints cracked and tender, spine defective with some loss of paper and cords exposed, corners a bit worn.                                                                                    £200

The subscribers' list includes Mr. Benjamin Club, Mr. Newbold Club and Mr. Joseph Clubbe; presumably one is related to Peter Clubbe.  The politician and reformer William Wilberforce subscribed for five copies.  A second edition was published in 1810.

Copac locates copies in BL (2) and Bodleian only; no copies located in North American libraries.

FINE ASSOCIATION COPY

34.      DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIANUS D. Dionysii Carthusinan, in omnes beati Pauli epistolas Commentaria, cui quidem in compondensis sacrarum literarum libris vix alter similis successit [ed. by P. Blomevenna and G. Vredis]. Colonaie apud Petrum Quentell 1532.   

Folio, 332 x 192, folios [4], CXL, title surrounded by woodcuts.   BOUND WITH:  D. Dionysiii Carthusiani, In Quatuor Euangelistas ennartiones, peclarae admodum & ab eruditissimis atqe optimis viris in hunc usque diem quamdivtissime desideratae, atqe nunc primum ad studiorum omnium utilitate diligeter eccusae.  Coloniae P. Quentell, suis impensis excudebat. Anno M. D. XXXII [1532].  Folios [8] + CCCLXXXIII + colophon leaf, title surrounded by woodcuts,slightly later blind-panelled calf, with distinctive ornaments in blind, morocco label probably a Carthusian binding, certainly a monastic binding, to judge from the inscription on the first title-page below the imprint, "Liber domus Castri Mariae prope Dulmanium Ordinis Carthusienis"; front joint a little cracked and tender, remnants of two brass clasps.  Formerly the copy of Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), the writer and literary editor, with his autograph on the recto of the front free end-paper, with the following later inscription in the hand of J. T. Coleridge (1790 - 1876), "J. T. Coleridge/ Park Crescent/ Feb. 17. 1857/ From the library of my dear, treasured friend/ Thomas Bowdler."                                                                                                               £2,500

Dionysius the Carthusian (1402/03 - 1471), the Flemish or Rhenish theologian, was as industrious as he was pious, and his works took up 25 folio volumes.  The edition in progress of his collected works will comprise 41 quarto volumes when complete.  He died on 12 March 1471, and his remains were disinterred on 12 March 1608, when, according to legend or whatever you wish to call it, "his skull emitted a sweet perfume and the fingers he had most used in writing, i.e. the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, were found in a perfect state of preservation."  Conlige suspectos semper habitos.

35.      DIONYSIUS CARTHUSIANUS. Elucidissima in divi Pauli Epistolas commentaria  Dionysis, olim Carthusiani apud celebrem Ruremunda, ducatus Geldriae urbem cui in componendis sacrarum literarum libris vix alter similis successit.  Vita authoris, simul & operum illius cathalogus, cum indice, & ... Caroli, ducis Geldriæ &c. epistola hortatoria, necnon & sacræ facultatis theologicæ Coloniensis approbatione, co[m]mentarijs ipsis præmittuntur. Paris [apud Petrum Gaudoul],  1531.   

8vo, 164 x 103 mms., foliation irregular, but no missing leaves, [28], 394 [i.e. 392] leaves, or, ff. 1-290, 293-394, a few contemporary marginal comments,  portion of contemporary sheepskin binding remaining part of boards, but with later 18th century rebacked, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; lower portion (38 mms.) of imprint cut from title-page (date retained, but publisher missing) with consequent loss of text on verso, early library stamp with holy monogram, IHS, on title-page as well as Petit's printer's device, ink name obscured on title-page, wormed throughout, fairly severely in first few leaves, but almost entirely in the margins, occasional staining, front hing cracked, top of spine chipped, corners very worn; a well-used copy.e                                                                                         £950

Dionysius the Carthusian (1402/03 - 1471), the Flemish or Rhenish theologian, was as industrious as he was pious, and this early commentary on the life of St. Paul  is like many of his works a compilation.  The work was edited by Petrus Blomevenna (1436 - 1536).

Referenced by: Adams, D592.

36.      ENTICK (John): Entick's New Spelling Dictionary,  Teaching to Write and Pronounce The English Tongue with Ease and Propriety; In which each Word is accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; the Part of Speech is properly distinguished, and the various Significations are in general ranged in one Line; With a list of proper names Of Men And Women. The Whole compiled and digested in a Manner entirely new, So as to make it A Complete Pocket Companion For those who read Milton, Pope, Addison, Shakespeare, Tillotson, and Locke, or other English Authors of Repute in Prose or Verse; And in particular to assist young People, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, desirous of understanding what they speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, a comprehensive Grammar Of The English Tongue; And a Catalogue of Words of similar Sounds, but of different Spellings and Significations. By William Crakelt, M. A. Rector of Nursted and Ifield in Kent London: Printed for C. Dilly..., T. Longman, B. Law and Son....[et al], 1795.   

Small 12mo, 132 x 81 mms., pp. xxxi [xxxii - xliv], 316, early 19th century calf, gilt spine (rubbed); front joint cracked and tender.  Inscribed on verso of leaf before title-page, "Emma Fink/ a present from/ her grandmother/ from London/ Sept 1st 1822" and on recto of front free end-paper, "Caroline Mitchell/ 1854."                £150

The classical scholar William Crakelt (1740/41–1812) published his edition of Entick's famous New Spelling Dictionary (1764) in 1784, and the work was frequently reprinted.

Alston, V. 271.  ESTC T190062 locating copies in the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales.

37.      [ESTIENNE (Robert)]: Hebraea, chaldaea, graeca et latina nomina  virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, urbium, fluviorum, montium, caeterorumque locorum quae in Bibliis leguntur, restituta, cum Latina interpretatione. Locorum descriptio ex Cosmographis. Index praeterea rerum & sententiarum, quae in iisdem Biblis continentur. Parisiis Ex officinia Roberti Stephani. 1537.   

8vo, 159 x 97 mms., pp. [iv], 542 [543 note, 544 blank], woodcut vignette on title-page, later vellum boards (soiled); spine slightly creased, but a good copy with the autograph and dated "Joshua Allen 1750" on the title-page and inscribed in a later hand on the recto of the front free end-paper, "Thos. H. Callso/ from his friend/ A Farrow Sr."                                                                                                               £650

Estienne (1503 - 1559) used four languages and thus fonts in this glossary of proper names in the Bible, Latin, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek.  It proved to be a useful and much-needed lexicon. The 18th century owner, John Allen, is possibly John Allen, 3rd Viscount Allen. 

38.      FALEREO (Demetrio), i. e., Demetrius of Phaleron:  Della Locuzione Volgarizato da Pier Segni Accademico della Crusca Detto L'Agghiacciato.  Con postille al testo, ed esempli Foscani, conformati a' Greci.  Al Sereniss. Signore, il Sig. Don Cosimo Medici, Principe di Toscana, suo Signore. In Firenze, Nella Stamperia di Cosimo Giunti,  1603.   

FIRST EDITION of this translation.  Small 4to, 205 x 148 mms., pp. [viiii], 280, contemporary vellum, letter in ink on spine, paste-down end-papers with notes in an 18th century hand; front hinge cracked, exposing spine, binding a little soiled.   £500

The orator Demetrius of Phaleron (c. 350 B. C. - c. 280 B. C.) was one of the most prolific authors of antiquity, noted in particular for his historical works  and those on rhetoric.  De Elocutione was first published in 15808, edited by A. P. Manutius.  The translator here is Pier Segni, with numerous annotations to the text.  The attribution of this work on style to Demetrius has been disputed and is sometimes attributed to an unknown writer in the second century A. D.  Most libraries, however, catalogue the work under Demetrius' name.

39.      FERGUSSON (David): A Select Collection of Scots Poems, Chiefly in the Broad Buchan Dialect.  To which is added, A Collection of Scots Proverbs.  By the Reverend Mr David Fergusson, some time Minister at Dunfermline. Edinburgh: Printed in the Year M,DCC,LXXVII. [?1824].   

8vo (in 4s), 167 x 95 mms., pp. [ii], 59 [60 blank], [3], 4 - 35 [36 blank], early 19th century quarter roan, marbled boards; title-page a bit soiled, with two small pieces missing from fore-margin, upper fore-margins of last five leaves defective, with small pieces missing and the occasional loss of a letter or two from the words, three fore-margins repaired, text fingered and slightly soiled, corners worn.  Contemporary inscriptions on the title-page include "Ms Campbell" at the top margin, and below, a slightly illegible  ascription of authorship, "By J. Orphat & Mrs. Campbell."  The autograph "J. Orphat," in a different hand is on the verso of the title-page.                                                                                                           £350

Among the works included are "Ajax’s speech to the Grecian Knabbs"; "Ulysses’ Answer to Ajax’s Speech"; "A Journal from London to Portsmouth"; "A shop-bill", by Robert Forbes; "The Dominie Depos’d", by William Forbes; "Polemo-Middinia," by William Drummond; "Praelium Gillicrankianum Cantilena."

ESTC N24448 gives the date 1824 in brackets, but without citing any evidence for it; it is printed on watermarked paper, with horizontal chain-lines, which does appear to date from the first quarter of the 19th century.  Copies in  Aberdeen, BL, Cambridge, NLS, Bodleian, St. Andrews; California State Library Sutro, Rice, Stanford, and Colorado

40.      FLORIAN (Claris de, Jean Pierre): Galatee, Roman Pastoral; Imité de Cervantes par M. De Florian, de l'Académie Francoise, &c.  Edition ornée de Figures en couleur, d'aprés les Dessins de M. Monsiau. A Paris, Chez Defer  de Maisonneuve.., 1793.   

Large 4to, 333 x 242 mms., pp. [5], 6 - 125 [126 blank], four engraved colour-printed plates (by Nicolas Monsiau after Cazenave and Colibert), contemporary quarter plum sheepskin, marbled boards, gilt spine; repair to fore-margin and very small part of illustration to book 3 some slight general rubbing of binding, but a very good copy.                                                                                                     £1,500

Unlike most illustrated books from this period (and earlier), this work is an example of the newly-developed technique of colour printing, with the ink applied directly to the surface of the plate with a cotton daub.  The artist Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754-1837) provided the illustrations for a number of works published at the end of the 18th century; Gordon Ray, in The Art of the French Illustrated Book (1982) locates this example of colour printing among the most successful with illustrations by Monsiau.  Florian's Galatée was first published in Paris in 1783; the first three sections of the work are indeed imitations of Cervantes, but the last is entirely Florian's creation.

41.      FORDYCE (David):  Dialogues concerning Education.  London: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLV.  M.DCC.XLVIII. 1745.  1748.   

FIRST EDITION.  2 volumes.  8vo, 210 x 126 mms., pp. iv, 435 [436 Errata]; [viii], 464, engraved vignette on each title-page, contemporary calf, gilt borders on covers, raised band between gilt rules on spines, red morocco label; some loss of gilt, top of spine volume 1 slightly chipped, front joint volume 1 slightly cracked, but a very good set with the bookplate of Arnold Muirhead on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume above contemporary ink library shelf marks.                                £500

David Fordyce (1711 - 1751) was born at Broadford, near Aberdeen and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and later enrolled in Marischal College, Aberdeen.  He received his MA degree in 1728.  He held the chair of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College from 1742 until his early death, by drowning at sea, in 1751.  Fordyce's approach to education is an archetype of enlightenment, with a strong awareness of and emphasis on civic duty and the academic values and virtues.  He clearly thinks of education as a commitment not primarily to the life of the mind, but to the life of the mind in so far as it can serve the larger and more comprehensive imperatives and perquisites of one's country and mankind in general.  Casting his work in the eighteenth century's most popular genre, the dialogue, Fordyce effectively dilutes some of the didacticism of his view, but in any case the values and duties that he extols would have been unexceptionable to his contemporaries: few would disagree that self-improvement is a desirable goal. 

42.      [FORTEGUERRI (Niccolo),  Bishop of Ancyra]:  Ricciardetto di Niccolo Carteromaco.  In Parigi A spese di Francesco Pitteri Libraio Viniziano, 1738.   

FIRST EDITION.  2 volumes.  4to, 275 x 200 mms., pp. [ii], xxxvi, 420; [ii], 412, including half-title to volume 2 but no title-page (as issued), engraved portrait frontispiece of "Niccolo Carteromaco," title-page in red and black, with engraved vignette (by F. Zucchi after G. Ghedini), engraved head- and tail-pieces, by F. Zucchi, C. Orsolini, M. Pitteri, G. Cattini after designs by Ghedini,  for each of the 30 cantos, attractively bound in contemporary vellum, red morocco labels; natural flaw in paper of frontispiece, slightly affecting portrait, slight chip to lower fore-margin of binding of volume 1, but  very good to fine set, from the library of the 19th century collector George Wilbraham, and inscribed on recto of front free end-paper of both volumes, "comprato alla vendita dei libri di G. Wilbraham in Londara il 13 di Giungno 1829."                                                                                         £1,850

Niccolò Forteguerri (1674 - 1735) lived in Rome and worked in the Vatican.  An accomplished poet, he contributed to anthologies and collections, but this posthumously-published work is his greatest achievement.  A slightly satiric and mock-heroic chivalric narrative in octets (ottava rima), it occasionally verges on the risque.

43.      FOULIS PRESS.  EUCLID. Euclidis Elementorum Libri Priores Sex, item Undicimus et Duodecimus, ex Versione Latina Frederici Commandini; Sublatis iis quibus olim Libri hi a Theone, aliifve, Vitiati sunt, Et quibusdam Euclidis Demonstrationibus Restintutis A Roberto Simson, M. D. Glasguae, in Aedibus Academicis Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi,  1756.   

FIRST LATIN EDITION.  4to, 273 x 212 mms., pp. [viii], 411 [412 blank], numerous illustrations in text, uncut, original wrappers, paper label on spine; small wedge-shaped tear in upper margin of title-page, just affecting the "E" of Euclidis, spine defective with cords exposed, some soiling of wrappers, but an unusual survival of a book issued in wrappers from this period; and with the book label on the verso of the front free end-paper of a Paris bookseller: "Chez Mme. Courcier,/  Imprimeur-Libraire pour Les Sciences,/ Rue du Jardin-Saint-Andre-des-Arcs/ A Paris."       £950

Robert Simson (1687 - 1768) was one of Scotland's most gifted mathematicians in the 18th century.  He began his career as a classical scholar but turned to mathematics and was appointed to the chair of mathematics at Glasgow University in 1711.  Professor G. A. Gibson, in his lecture on Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to the end of the 18th Century [1926] wrote: "It is a very striking fact not merely that Euclid became predominant but that one particular edition ousted all rivals for so long. Simson had no really good original to work upon, and he was in no real sense of the word a competent textual critic; but he had a clear conception of the general trend of Euclid's development, and he stuck to that with almost fanatical tenacity. He was simply steeped in the ancient geometry and one should be very sure of one's ground before questioning any deliberate judgment of Simson's on the facts of any Greek textbook."

Gaskell 315.  The survival of a book in original wrappers sent from Glasgow to Paris is not, in my experience, all that common.

44.      [GALLY (Henry): A Dissertation against pronouncing the Greek Language according to Accents. London, Printed for A. Millar...,  1754.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 194 x 117 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 149 [150 Errata].  BOUND WITH:  RUHNKENIUS (David):  Epistola Criticai. In Homeridarum Hymnos et Hesiodum, ad Virum Clarissimyum Ludov. Casp. Valcknarium.  Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Conrelium de Pekker, 1749.  FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 194 xx 117 mms., pp. 78 [79 Addenda, 80 colophon], title-page in red and black.  BOUND WITH:  RUHNKENIUS (David):  Epistola Critica II. In Callimachum et Apollonium Rhodium, ad Virum Clarissimum,  Joan. Augustum Ernesti.  Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Cornelium de Pecker, 1751.  FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 194 x 117 mms., pp. 89 [90 colophon], title-page in red and black.  3 volumes in one, attractively bound in full contemporary lightly speckled calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red morocco label; lower front joint very slightly cracked, but a very good copy.      £500

Gally (1696 - 1769) made a name for himself as a reformer with his publication of Some Considerations upon Clandestine Marriages.  This rather more recondite work nevertheless attracted some scholarly attention and replies, with a second edition being published in 1768 in reply to John Foster's Essay on the Different Nature of Accent and Quality.  David Ruhnkenius (1723 - 1798) was professor of history and eloquence at the University of Leiden. as well as lecturer in Greek.  His two works are also on Greek philology and accents.

45.      GREENWOOD (James):  The London Vocabulary,  English and Latin: Put into a New Method, proper to acquaint the Learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words.  Adorned with Twenty-six Pictures.  For the Use of Schools.  The Twentieth Edition. London: Printed for J. F. & C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, R Baldwin, S. Bladon, and G. & T. Wilkie,  1791.   

12mo, 147 x 84 mms., pp. viii, 123 [124 adverts], 26 vignette woodcuts, contemporary sheepskin; recent repair to small hole in B1, front joint very slightly cracked, but a good copy.                                                                                         £350

Greenwood (?1683 - 1737) was probably published in 1711, though the earliest copy traced was printed in 1713.  The work was reprinted well into the 19th century. 

46.      HALL (Samuel Carter): Book of Gems The Poets and Artists of Great Britain.  Edited by S. C. Hall. [ 2 volumes].  The Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain. [1 volume]. London:: Saunders and Otley,  1836, 1837, 1838.   

FIRST EDITIONS.  3 volumes.  8vo, 210 x 131 mms., pp. xvi, 304 [305 - 308 facsimiles of poets' autographs]; xvi, 304 [305 - 308 facsimiles of poets' autographs]; xvi, 304 [305 - 308 facsimiles of poets' autographs], engraved title-pages, engraved vignettes and head-pieces throughout all three volumes, contemporary diced roan, spines ornately gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; lacks labels, but a very good set.                                                                                       £450

Hall (1800 - 18890 was probably one of the busiest and most industrious authors, compilers, and editors of the 19th century.  Peter Mandler in ODNB concludes his entry on Hall, with this observation: "And yet his life as a whole stands as a model of Victorian energy and uprightness, and his work as editor and animateur did much to popularize art and literature and thus to support the mass market for high culture so characteristic of the middle third of the nineteenth century."  He was careful to use contemporary or recent artists for the illustrations - Constable, Gainsborough, Landseer, Reynolds. among others.  To this one must add that he was also regarded as something of a prig with a high-mindedness that was more judgmental than practical; he was almost certainly the model for Mr. Pecksniff in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit.

47.      HELVETIUS (Claude Adrien): OEuvres Completes de M. Helvetius.  A Londres,  1777.   

4 volumes.  8vo, 206 x 120 mms., pp. [iv], 484; [ii], xx, 513 [ 514 - 515 Approbation and Privilege, 516 blank]; xxviii, 586; xiv, 416, including half-title in each volume, attractively bound in full contemporary tree calf, gilt tooled borders on covers, spines richly gilt in compartments with oval sunburst motif, red and green morocco labels, marbled end-papers.  A fine and attractive set,  A bookplate loosely inserted in volume 4 claims "From Croom Court/ Roger Payne binder/ 1738 - 97 used a tool/ used in this binding."                                                                                            £1,750

Helvetius (1715 - 1771) is probably best-known for his De l'Esprit (1758) and its successor De l'Homme (1772).  Although the imprint claims London for the place of publication, it is clearly a French, and probably, Parisian printing.  De l'Esprit had been condemned by the French parliament soon after it was published and was burnt, so Helvetius was clearly still considered dangerous to the structure of the state in 1777.

48.      HUME (David):  The Life of David Hume, Esq.   Written by Himself. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell...,  1777.   

FIRST EDITION, first issue.  Small 8vo, 159 x 96 mms.,  pp. [iv], iv, 62, contemporary marbled boards, new leather spine; short tear in fore-margin of half-title,  issued without portrait, lacks final adverts leaf.  With the small rectangular bookplate of John Sparrow on the upper margin of the front paste-down end-paper.                                                                                                                                £1,250

The first issue of Hume's autobiography with the correct reading "myself" on page 27, line 3. 

Todd's "a" edition.

49.      HUSBANDRY. Select Essays on Husbandry. Extracted from the Museum Rusticum, and Foreign Essays on Agriculture.  Containing A Variety of Experiments, all of which have been found to succeed in Scotland. Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour,  1767.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo (in 4s),  202 x 122 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 408, 2 engraved plates, one folding chart at end, contemporary calf,, spine richly gilt in compartments; front joint cracked and tender, lacks label, corners worn, with the contemporary autograph "Henry Williams" on title-page.                                                                              £250

John Balfour (1715 - 1795) was one half of the Hamilton and Balfour printing and publishing firm; the partnership was dissolved in 1762, and Balfour continued to publish by himself and became a well-known importer of French books.  The first essay in the volume, "Reasons why farming so often proves unprofitable," is probably as relevant in the 21st century as it was in the late 18th.

50.      JAPANESE PHOTO ALBUM Photograph Album of 50 photographs, probably black and white albumen photographs, which have been tinted and coloured by hand, dating from about 1880.      

The photographs measure 135 x 90 mms. mounted on leaves measuring 182 x 134 mms., folded accordion style, with photographs mounted recto and verso, contained within a black lacquered boards, with rickshaw scene (slightly defective with faces of characters absent or removed) on one over and floral motif on the other cover; some photographs with marginal staining, but most in good condition.                £850

Many of the scenes are landscapes or cityscapes, while others are of geishas and of a tea service. 

51.      JOHNSON (Samuel): A Dictionary of the English Language: in which The Words are deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.  To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and An English Grammar.  The Second Edition. London: Printed by W. Strahan, For J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley,  1755, 1756.   

2 volumes.  Folio, 400 x 245 mms., unpaginated, volume 1 580 leaves, volume 2, 580 leaves, title-pages in red and black, title-page in volume 2 in facsimile letterpress polymer plate on old paper, newly rebound in period-style half calf, raised bands on gilt spine, morocco labels, marbled boards; some fraying of lower margin on title-page volume 1,and repaired at inner margin, edges a bit soiled, but an attractive copy with text in good to very condition.                                        £5,000

Johnson made several revisions to his text for this second edition.  W. R. Keast argues in his Studies in Bibliography essay (1952 - 1953) on the textual history of the Dictionary, that any editor base his copy-text on the first edition but would include Johnson's revisions in the second and fourth editions.

52.      KAMES (Henry Home), Lord: Loose Hints upon Education,  Chiefly Concerning the Culture of the Heart.  Second Edition, Enlarged.   Edinburgh: Printed for John Bell..., Geo Robinson..., and John Murray, London, 1782.   

8vo, 213 x 120 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 419 [420 blank], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; early repair to front joint, spine a little rubbed and chipped, corners worn, but a very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of John Smith Burges Esqr/ Havering Bower, Essex on the front paste-down end-paper, and his autograph on the top margin of the title-page.  Smith-Burgess (1734 - 1803) was an officer in the East India Volunteers; he was created first Baronet of Eastham. county Essex in 1793                                                     £300

James Boswell records in his diary (22 July 1781) that he had read some of the book and referred to it “slightingly” to Adam Smith, whose assessment he noted: “Every man fails soonest in his weak part.  Lord Kames’s weak part is writing.  Some write above their parts, some under them.  Lord Kames writes much worse than one should expect from his conversation.”  One of Kames’s 20th-century biographers was more enthusiastic about the work: William Lehmann in 1971 described it as a “most fascinating piece,” adding “it is interesting for its insight into child psychology and advanced educational method...and even more, for what it reveals of Kames the man.  Perhaps nothing he ever wrote reveals more of his personality, his understanding of human nature, his religious feelings, his concern for education.”

Zachs, The First John Murray (1998), 309.

53.      KANT (Immanuel): Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst.  Königsberg bey Friedrich Nicolovius 1798.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 196 x 113 mms., pp. xiv [xv - xvi blank],334, original boards, paper label on spine; first gathering mis-folded with final blank leaf preceding pp. xii - xiv, binding slightly soiled, some nicks to front joint, lower spine very slightly defective, corners slightly crushed. but a decent copy with the bookplate of Aloysius Guillelmus Denner on the Front paste-down end-paper and on the rector of the front free end-paper the Ex Libris of Sigmund Blau.                   £500

Kant (1724 - 1804) published this, his last significant work, after a tussle with the ecclesiastical authorities about his writings on religion.  The word "Anthropologie" does not have its modern meaning; instead Kant is writing about mental processes and psychology.  His interest in classifying and defining mental disorders began with an examination of the effect of puberty on thought processes.

Garrison-Morton 4969; Norman 1201; Warda 195; Zilboorg, pages 308 - 09.

54.      KANT (Immanuel): Critik der reinen Vernunft, Dritte verbesserte Auflage. Riga, bey Johann Friedrich Hartknoch,  1790.   

8vo, 193 x 107 mms., pp. [vii], viii - xliv, 884, recently quarter sheepskin, red morocco label, gilt spine, plain boards; a very good copy.                                  £1,250

Kant published his brain-breaking masterpiece in 1781, and a second edition appeared in 1787.  Kant revised the work substantially for the second edition, and this third edition consolidates those changes.

This is the first issue of the third editions; a later issue is "Dritte unveraenderte Auflage."

55.      LAMB (Patrick): Royal Cookery: Or, the Compleat Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the several Branches of Cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio’s, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc’d-Meats, Sauces, Pattys, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added, Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year.  The Second Edition, with the Addition of several new Cuts, and above five Hundred new Receipts, all disposed Alphabetically. London: Printed for J. Nutt, and A. Roper; and to be sold by E. Nutt...,  1716.   

8vo, 194 x 120 mms., pp. [viii], 302 [303 - 313 bills of fare and index to recipes not in alphabetical order], K[1] signed H, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked in much lighter calf, morocco label; title-page mounted and soiled, blank verso of several plates annotated by previous owner indicating amount owed for shoes by customers (perhaps owned by a cobbler who liked his grub), one folding leaf torn with no loss, some marginal water-staining on several leaves, but a decent copy, with amusing annotations.                                                                                                           £1,500

In August 1677, Lamb (c.1650–1708/9) was appointed as master cook to the queen consort, a post that he held jointly with that of office of Sergeant of His Majesty's Pastry in Ordinary, to which he was appointed in November 1677; he became Master Cook to the monarch in February 1683.  Like many famous chefs today, Lamb made his reputation with spectacular layouts and preparations which he equalled in the quality of his cooking.  At a time when French chefs were more-or-less de rigeur in households of the wealthy and titled, Lamb was unusual in being English born and bred.  The work was published after Lamb’s death and probably edited by one or more of the publishers.  The price of 6s. appears in the imprint; the first edition and later editions did not have prices in the imprint.

Cagle 810. 

56.      LIVY, Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab Urbe Condita Libri qui Supersunt.  Cum Omnium Epitomis, ac Deperditorum Fragmentis: Ad optimas editiones castigati, Accurante Tho. Ruddimano. Edinburghi, In aedibus T. & W. Ruddimani, Veneunt autem apud G. Hamiliton, A. Kincaid,  1751.   

4 volumes.  Small 8vo, 155 x 92 mms., pp. viii, 491 [492 blank]; [ii], 552; [ii], 511 [512 blank]; [ii], 457 [458 - 593 Index, 594 blank], later 18th century straight-grained dark blue morocco, gilt borders on cover, spines blocked in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; corners worn, a few abrasions to binding, but generally a very good set, with the 19th century armorial bookplate of George Cavendish (probably William George Spencer Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, 1790 - 1858) and the later, and rather fetching, bookplate of the collector Stephen D. Winkworth.                                                                                                                                   £350

The printer, classical scholar, and librarian Thomas Ruddiman (1674 - 1757) worked with the Edinburgh printer Robert Fairbairn and later became librarian of The Advocates' Library.  His Latin grammar,  Rudiments of the Latin Tongue, was published in 1714 and was the standard Latin grammar for the rest of the 18th century.  This edition of Livy was his last serious essay in classical scholarship, and he went out with a bang rather than a whimper: Harwood recorded that it was "'one of the most accurate editions of Livy ever published. Edinburgh has...great reason to triumph in the immaculate purity of this edition....;" while Dibdin said that it owed "its reputation to the typographical skill and erudition of Ruddiman."

57.      [MACKENZIE (James)]: Essays: On Retirement from Business; on Old Age; and on the Employment of the Soul after Death; to which are added Meditations on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.  By a Physician.  The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington...,  1812.   

8vo, 190 x 95 mms., pp. [xii], 180, including half-title, with adverts dated October 1812 for books by Longman [et al] tipped in before initial blank leaf, original boards, uncut; front joint very slightly cracked, but a very good copy of a book as issued.  With the contemporary autograph "Mrs. [?Newman ?Nerson]" on the top margin of the title-page.                                                                                          £150

James Mackenzie ((1680 - 1761) is probably best known for his book, The History of Health and the Art of Preserving it (1758).  The present book was first published in 1762 with the title Essays and Meditations on Various Subjects.  The publisher notes that the 1780 third edition was the last to be printed before this one. 

Copac locates only the BL copy of this printing. 

58.      MAITLAND (John Alexander Fuller) and SQUIRE (William Barclay): The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.   Edited from the Original Manuscript with an Introduction and Notes (translated into German by John Bernhoff). London & Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel,  1899.   

FIRST EDITION.  2 volumes.  Folio, 340 x 260 mms., pp. xxvi, 436; ix [x blank], frontispiece facsimile of the original manuscript in each volume, sturdily bound in half red morocco, binder's cloth, titles in gilt on spine; spines and corners slightly rubbed, but generally a very good set.                                                                     £300

Maitland (1853 - 1936) was the first editor of Grove's Dictionary, and this collaboration with Squire (1855 - 1927) was one of many of his musicological endeavours.  The work was published in parts 1892 - 1899, and it can be accurately called a landmark publication, transforming knowledge both about the quantity of sixteenth century English keyboard music and and its performance. Maitland and Squire transcribed some 291 pieces of music covering the period from circa 1550 to 1660. The work is still in use today.

N. B.  These are heavy volumes, and the set weighs 6.5 kilos (just over 14 pounds).

59.      MARTIN (Benjamin): Bibliotheca Technologica:  Or a Philological Library of Literary Arts and Sciences.  Viz. I. Theology....  II. Ethics....  III. Christianity.... [etc., concluding with].  XXIII. Jurisprudence...  XXIV.  Heraldry.... XXV.  Miscellaneous.  The Second Edition; with an Alphabetical Index of the principal Matters. London, Printed for James Hodges...,  1740.   

Large 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. viii, 513 [514 notice about entry on Quakers, 515 - 530 Index, 531 - 534 adverts], including half-title, contemporary calf, red leather label; corners worn, joints slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, but a reasonably good copy, with the contemporary autograph "G. Anderton" on the recto of the front free end-paper.                                                                                      £450

Martin (1705 - 1782) was one of the 18th century's many polymaths, as skilled at explaining logarithms as he was in discussing history.  His first published work, The Philosophical Grammar (1735) was a compendium of current knowledge about scientific matters, while this work, first published in 1737, gives the self-educating reader a useful overview of numerous topics in the arts.  Despite his numerous skills and his wide-ranging activities and retailer of scientific apparatuses, he was made bankrupt in 1782. 

60.      MILTON (John): Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.  The Fourteenth Edition.  To which is prefix'd An Account of his Life. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson...,  1730   

12mo, 165 x 94 mms., pp. xxviii [xxix - xlvi Postscript, etc.], 350 [351 - 393 Index, 394 blank], title-page in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 12 engraved plates,, contemporary sheepskin; title-page and frontispiece a little soiled, front cover detached, spine worn.                                                                                     £100

The life is by Elijah Fenton.  This appears to be a new printing and is not a reimpression or reissue of the 1725 edition. 

61.      MILTON (John).  GILLIES (John), editor:  Milton's Paradise Lost Illustrated with Texts of Scripture by John Gillies, D. D.  The Second Edition, with Additions. London: Printed for White and son ... [et al, including E. Newbery], M.DCC.XCII. 1793.   

12mo, 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ix], x - xxxi [xxxii "The Verse"], 378 [379 "Allusions to the Classics," 380 blank, 381 - 400 index], a8 in cancelled state, contemporary sheepskin, gilt rules across spine; front joint cracked (but firm), top and base of spine chipped, but a good copy with the small black booksellers ticket of James Black, 150 Leadenhall St. on the upper corner of the front paste-down end-paper and the contemporary bookplate of "Eliza Farnaby" below, and the autograph "J. Wastell 1800" on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper.                          £250

The Church of Scotland minister John Gillies (1712 - 1796) was unusual in that he invited the Methodists George Whitefield and John Wesley to preach in his church.  He also wrote the first account of Whitefield's life.  This appears to be his only excursion into literary scholarship, and virtually every page of the text has biblical corollaries cited in footnotes.

Gillies' edition was first published in 1788, and there was a further reprint in 1797.  This edition not in Roscoe, although the 1788 is, A361 (4). 

62.      MORGAN (Sydney Owenson), Lady: St. Clair; or the Heiress of Desmond. By S. O. London: Printed for E. Harding, Crown and Mitre, No. 100, Pall Mall...; and J. Archer, Dame Street, Dublin, 1803.   

12mo, 174 x 101 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 248, contemporary tree calf, red leather label; joints cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners a little worn.                  £1,650

Sydney Owenson (bap. 1783 - 1859) was the daughter of the Irish actor Robert Owenson; she left the family home in 1798 to work in Dublin as a governess, though it seems unlikely that she was a great deal older than her young charges.  Nevertheless, she found time to write this, her first novel, published in Dublin in late 1802 (title-page 1803).  It enjoyed a very favourable reception, and Alice LeFanu, to whom she sent a copy admired it; Owenson replied, "Have you, indeed, read St. Clair a third time? You have touched me where I am most vulnerable. I cannot conceive how you can think my hero and heroine dangerous; to have rendered them such I must have been myself not a little so; yet you know long since I am the most harmless of all human beings." 

63.      [MOTTLEY (John), compiler]: Joe Miller's Jests:  Or, the Wits Vade-Mecum.  Being a Collection of the most Brilliant Jests; the Politest Repartees; the most Elegant Bons Mots, and most pleasant short Stories in the English Language.... London: Printed and Sold by T. Read...,  1739.   

8vo, 223 x 150 mms., pp. [ii], 70, 19th century quarter morocco, reddish boards (rubbed); ex-library, with a circular ownership stamp of Chas. W. Banks, San Francisco, May 21 1876 on the title-page, and the bookplate of the Ferniehield Library on the front paste-down end-paper; spine worn with joints slightly cracked, newspaper clippings removed from front free end-paper.                                        £75

This is not, of course, the original edition, but a 19th century facsimile; a watermark - "Michallet" is distinguishable in the lower margins of B3, C3,  and D4; vertical chains are also visible, but the book is unlikely to have been printed on laid paper.  This is possibly the facsimile printed by John Camden Hotten in 1862. 

64.      MUZIO (Girolamo [Pietro Paolo Vergerio]): Le Vergerian del Mutio Iustinopolitano.   Discorse se si Convenga Ragunar Concilio.  Trattato della Comunione de'laici: & delle mogli de' Cherici.  Con  Privilegio de Sommo Pontefice Guilio III. & delle Illustriss. Senato Veneto, & d'altri Principi. In Vinegia Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari et Fratelli. 1550.   

FIRST EDITION.  Small 8vo, 163 x 97 mms., unpaginated, collating A-2D8 2E4, foliated as 217 leaves  plus final leaf of errata on recto and the ornithological printer's ornament of the Gioliti on verso, with similar ornament on title-page, historiated initials throughout, early 19th century quarter maroon sheepskin, spine ruled in gilt, marbled boards (very slightly rubbed); leaves 61 and 63 numbered 71 and 73, contemporary ms notes on leaves 59r and 61v, some underlining; lower margin wormed from leaf 44 to leaf 122, small piece torn from lower margin of leaf 72,  but in all a very good copy.                                                                               £850

Girolamo Muzio (1496 - 1576), an Italian courtier, poet, and polemicist published this disagreement with the theology of Pietro Paolo Vergerio (1498 - 1565), who later became a Bishop and Papal Nuncio.  Muzio was also a zealous advocate of writing in Italian rather than Latin.  He also wrote works on poetics as well as a book rather unhelpfully titled Il Gentilhuomo, but which is basically a guideline to obtaining true virtue.  The publisher, Giolito de Gabriele Ferrari, shared Muzio's preference for publishing in vernacular Italian.  The printer's ornament, of a Phoenix rising from flames with the motto "Semper Eaden" is at least curious and presumably has some iconic or cultural significance.

A second edition was published in 1551. 

65.      PARIS.  MONDHARE ET JEAN: Plan de la Ville et Faubourg de Paris avec tous ses accroissements et la Nouvelle Enceinte des Barrières de cette Capitale.  Paris, chez Mondhare et Jean,  1788   

Folding map in 24 sections, 980 x 635 mms., mounted on orange linen, with a fine cartouche, in the origianal uncoloured state, and enclosed in a contemporary slipcase, 218 x 133 mms., coloured boards to a gilt border and black morocco label on front; slipcase a little worn at extremities, somewhat soiled and faded, map in fine condition.                                                                                                          £850

The map includes a table of street names, parishes, opening days of public libraries, and a small map of the "banlieues" of Paris.  This was one of the last detailed maps of Paris to be published before the revolution in the following year. 

66.      PEURBACH (Georg von): Novae Theoricae Planetarum Georgii Peurbachii Astronomi celeberrimi: Tenporis importunitate & hominum iniuria locis compluribus conspuraetae, a Petro Ariano Mathematicae rei Ordinario Ingolstandiano iam ad omnem ueritatum redacte, & eruditis figuris illustratae. Venetiss per Ioan. Anto de Nicolinis de Sabio Sumptu & requisitione D. Melchioris Sessae. Anno domin.  MDXXXVII Mensis Martij. 1537.   

Small 8vo, 40 leaves, with engraved vignette on title-page, engraved mathematical and astronomical vignettes on 33 of the leaves, with on the verso of the last leaf Sessa's cat biting a good chunk out of a rat, contemporary vellum; front paste-down end-paper slightly wormed in lower margin, illustration on 25v and 26r slightly stained, vellum a little soiled, but generally a very good copy.                          £2,250

Georg von Peurbach (1423 - 1461), the inventor, mathematician, and astronomer, was born probably near Linz in Germany; he is sometimes considered to be the "father" (no one ever seems to bother about the "mother") of mathematical and observational astronomy.  He worked at the observatory of Varadinum in Transylvania.  This work was first published after his death in 1472 and was frequently reprinted.  The present edition, with new mathematical calculations and illustrations, was prepared by the German scholar, mathematician, and printer Petrus Apianus (1495 - 1552).   This appears to be a reprint of the edition published by Sessa in 1534

67.      PLANTIN PRESS, 18TH CENTURY Officium in Epiphania Domini, et per Totatm Octavam: Juxta Missale & Breviarium Romanum PII V. Pontis. Max jussu editum, Clementis VIII, primum, ac denuo Urbani VIII auctoritate recognitum. Antverpiae, Ex Architypographia Plantiniana,  1743.   

12mo, 158 x 87 mms., pp. 164, title-page in red and black, printed in red and black throughout, handsomely bound in contemporary dark olive green hard grain morocco, gilt roll border on each cover, spine ornately gilt in compartments, both to a thistle motif, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; slight rubbing of front joint, but a fine copy, with a circular bookplate, with cardinal's hat above shield, "Ex Libris Alfraede White Presbyteri," on the front paste-down end-paper, and the circular library stamp of a monastery in Erith, Kent                                                                                   £750

68.      PLATO. The Banquet A Dialogue of Plato concerning Love.  The First Part.  [Translated by Floyer Sydenham.] London: Printed by H. Woodfall; And Sold by S. Sandby...; and R. and J. Dodsley.... MDCCLXI. 1761.   

FIRST EDITION.  4to, 310 x 236 mms., pp. [6], 5 - 120, with price in brackets [Four Shillings below imprint on title-page] entirely uncut, recently recased in quarter linen, boards; title-page soiled, with small piece of upper corner missing, edges soiled and occasionally frayed, but the text is for the most part very clean.         £500

Sydenham (1710–1787) began work on his translation of Plato in 1757, with some financial support from James Harris.  This was the first result of his efforts, and while another eight books were translated, the complete translation was not realized.  The subscription proposals were not taken up as enthusiastically by the book-buying public as the proposers hoped, with the Monthly Review noting acidly that "Plato is unfashionable" (1762; 26; 192). with  The completed translations were published in two volumes, 1767 - 1780.  The project was completed by Thomas Taylor, who revised the extant nine translations and incorporated them into his work.

ESTC T164349 locates copies in Birmingham, Cambridge, Bodleian, NLS, Sir John Soane's Museum; and Johns Hopkins, Library Company of Philadelphia.

69.      PLUMPTRE (James): A Collection of Songs, Moral, Sentimental, Instructive, and Amusing.  Selected and Revised by The Rev. James Plumptre. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington...,  1806.   

12mo, 190 x 108 mms., pp. xxvii [xxviii Errata], 400, uncut, recently recased in gray boards, paper label on spine.                                                                                    £150

Plumptre (1771 - 1832) includes a number of his own compositions in this anthology, but somewhat extraordinarily includes a poem by Charlotte Richardson [née Smith; 1775 - 1825] that had just been published in the same year.  The volume was a success, and he extended it to three volumes in 1808.

70.      PLUTARCH. Alcuni Opusculi de le Cose Morali del Divino Plutarco in Questa Nostra lingua tradotti.  Nuovamente ristampati, & corretti.  Con la gionta di una tavola delle sentenze piu notabilii, che in esso si constengono. In Venetia, Per Comin da Trino di Monserrato,  1567.   

8vo, 159 x 105 mms., folios [1], 163, [5], 289, [2], including blank leaf before title-page for second part, engraved vignette on title-page,  recent rather amateurish calf, green morocco label; some notes in a later hand on end-papers, later presentation note on lower margin of title-page obscured, edges buffeted, but text clean and a fair to good copy, with a mid-20th century Italian ownership inscription on the recto of the front free end-paper.                                                                                          £850

This compendium contains a reprint of Plutarch's Moralia, as well as works on ethics, politics, and literature, including those in which he advocates vegetarianism and the humane treatment of animals.  W. E. H. Lecky, in his History of European Morals, notes, "The moral duty of kindness to animals was in the first instance based upon a dogmatic assertion of the transmigration of souls, and the doctrine that animals are within the circle of human duty...Seneca for a time practised abstinence from the flesh. But the most remarkable figure in this movement is unquestionably Plutarch. Casting aside the dogma of transmigration...he places the duty of kindness to animals on the broad on the broad ground of the affections, and he urges that duty with an emphasis and a detail to which no adequate parallel can..be found in the Christian writings for at least seventeen hundred years. He condemns absolutely the games of the amphitheatres, dwells with great force upon the effect of such spectacles in hardening the character, enumerates in detail, and denounces with unqualified energy, the refined cruelties which gastronomic fancies had produced, and asserts in the strongest language that every man has duties to the animal world as truly as to his fellow-man."  More recently, Stephen Newmyer, in Animals in Greek and Roman Thought (2011), observes that, " Plutarch is the earliest classical author from whom there survives a work devoted entirely to the defence of the vegetarian lifestyle...His treatise 'De esu carnium' (On the Eating of Flesh)...is...invaluable for the insights it provides...into the breadth and variety of arguments that were marshaled in antiquity in defense of abstention. Not the least interest that the treatise holds...is its surprisingly 'modern' tone, since Plutarch builds a case for abstention that employs a number of arguments commonly encountered in the literature of the modern animal rights movement...."  The translations are by Antonio Massa and Giovanni Tarcagnota.

WorldCat locates 4 copies, and Copac a copy at the BL. 

71.      POPE (Alexander):    Les Principes de la Morale et du Gout.  Traduits de l'Anglois de M. Pope Par M. du Resnel .... Nouvelle edition, Augmentee de la Boucle de Cheveux Enlevee, Poeme Heroi-Comique. [And] Examen de l'Essay de M.Pope sur l'Homme, Par M. de Crousaz. A Paris, Chez Briasson...,   1748.   

2 volumes in 1.  12mo, 162 x 88 mms., pp. [viii], lvi, [4], 296, 168, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; top of spine chipped.  With the name "Daureillan" in a contemporary hand on the title-page.    Contained in a late 18th or an early 19th century pull-off case (or slipcase) of sheepskin, 173 x 115 mms., gilt border on back and front of case, and within a gilt lozenge the name "Maria Miccioni," spine gilt.  An attractive item.                                                  £650

These translations of Pope's Essay on Man, Essay on Criticism, and The Rape of the Lock seem to proliferate exponentially after about 1727, when du Resnel's translations were published

72.      PSALMS.  DAVID. The Whole Book of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins. W. Whittingham, and others: conferred with the Hebrew. . Newly set forth, and allowed to be sung in all Churches of all the people together, before and after Morning and Evening prayer, and also before and after Sermons. Moreover, in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort: laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which may tend only to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth Edinburgh, Printed by Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie,  1644.   

24mo, 108 x 48 mms., pp.  [xxii], 230 [231 - 246 additional text and index], contemporary dark olive sheepskin, gilt ornaments (faded) on each cover, title and date on spine; title-page affected by ink burn, mostly in the blank space between "Hebrew" and "Newly set forth," text a bit fingered and thumbed, lower joint very slightly cracked, bookplate dated 1850 of James Dix, Bristol on front paste-down end-paper, ownership autograph "E. Gordon Duff/  Nov. 1917" on recto of front free end-paper.  Edward Gordon Duff (1863 - 1924), a bibliographer and book collector, compiled the first catalogue of the John Rylands Library in Manchester.             £450

ESTC R231218 locates copies in BL, NLS, Bodleian, and John Rylands.  Tyler also issued another similar title in 1644, The Psalmes of David in Meeter and Prose, ESTC R170558, 16mo, pp. [480], with locations in BL, NLS, Bodleian; Huntington, NYPL. 

73.      [RALLING (John)]: The Poor Man's Spiritual Instructor,  In a Letter From a Young Man to his Sister, containing The Sum and Substance of Religion, in a Small Compass, Which will not keep you from reading your Bibles.  To which is added, A Letter to the Author's Nephew, who makes no Profession of Religion; And a Little Piece to those People who attend Gospel, and have only a Profession: Also a Short View of the Author's Experience, and a Passage out of Dr. Martin Luther's Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galations: To which is added, his excellent Hymn, O Earth, Earth, Earth, hear the Word of the Lord.... London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Buckland...; W. Otridge..., W. Watts...; and J. Plummer...,  1755.   

12mo (in 6s), 168 x 100 mms., pp. vi, 7 - 167 [168 blank] later quarter sheepskin, very shabby condition, but with covers  attached, bookplate of the United Associate Congregation, St. Nicholas Lane, Aberdeen, the autograph "James Duthie" and date of 1814 on top margin of recto of front free end-paper, "James Duthie," and "Wm. Strahan" on the top margin of the title-page, which is itself fingered and soiled; small hole in blank leaf before title-page.                                                               £450

The advise to his sister might just, or even justly, be said to have a tinge of misogyny in it:  "IF Women do not take heed to these Threatening, and reform, such impending Judgments will fall upon them: For the greater Part of these mind nothing but their cursed Pride, Idleness, gadding abroad, and dressing in a superfluous Manner; in which they appear more like common Women of the Town than Christians: For truly they go the right Way to make the Devil fall in love with them, and Men, i. e., every wise, judicious and rational Man, to despise their Conduct: And by their Dress they likewise ridicule their Nature...."

Apparently unrecorded.  ESTC T82654 locates two copies of a second edition of 1780 (BL and Emory).

74.      ROME.  MAP. Pianta della Citta di Roma con la indication di tutee El Antioch e nuovi abbellimenti. In Roma Publicata a spese di Venanzio Monaldini Librario e Carlotta in Piazza. de Sprang No. 19 ann. 1824. 1824   

Folding map in 24 sections, 1170 x 750 mms., mounted on linen, with engravings of 8 notable buildings on each side of the map, for a total of 16, index of places and street names, in the original uncoloured state and enclosed within a slip case, 193 x 150 mms., of gold-coloured boards (now slightly faded and soiled), with a printed label in French, "Venance Mondaldini/ Libraire...[etc.]" offering a selection of books in French and English and with a "Reading Room."  The ms. name "Bloomfield" appears above the label, and on the label is a ms. note in French describing the map, and finally the price: "30 Scudi."  An attractive item in very good condition, unusual with the slipcase.                                                                                                   £1,500

At the top of the map the a slightly different publication date is given: "Publicata in Roma Nell Nano MDCCCXXVII [1827]."  Venanzio Monaldini was a 19th century book and map publisher based in Rome, Italy. His cartographic opus consists of several plans of Rome in ancient and modern times. Most of Monaldini work was designed with the foreign tourist in mind.

75.      ROSEN DE ROSENSTEIN (Nils):   Traite des Maladies des Enfans.   Ouvrage qui est le fruit d’une longue observation, & appuye sur les faits les plus authentiques.  Traduit du Suedois...Par M. Lebvre de Villebrune. Paris, Chez Pierre-Guillaume Cavelier...,  1778.      

FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION.  8vo, pp. xii, 582 [583 - 584 Approbation], contemporary mottled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, morocco label; top of spine chipped, but generally a very good and attractive copy.                           £300

De Villebrune provides a brief biography of Rosen (1706 - 1773), as well as a list of his writings (without dates).  Rosen’s book was first published in Swedish in 1765.  The first book in English to survey diseases of children was that of Michael Underwood,  Treatise on the Diseases of Children (1784).

76.      RUDDIMAN (Walter), editor:  A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Valuable Pieces, Both in Verse and Prose; Chiefly selected From the fugitive Productions of The most eminent Wits of the present Age. Edinburgh: Printed by W. Ruddiman. 1773   

12mo (in 6s), 165 x 95 mms., pp. [ii], iv, 411 [412 unnumbered], bound in rather garish marbled boards, black leather label.                                                             £200

Ruddiman (1719 - 1781) has indeed chosen a number of recondite literary pieces for inclusion in this eclectic but very interesting anthology.  Unfortunately he doesn't always identify the authors, but the volume includes Rodondo; Or the State Jugglers by Hugh Dalrymple; The Art of Politics by James Bramston; The Art of Cookery by William King; The Art of Dancing by Soame Jenyns (identified as S. J.), etc.

77.      SHAKESPEARE.  DOUCE (Francis):  Illustrations of Shakspeare [sic], and Ancient Manners. With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on the Collection of Popular Tales entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance.  The Engravings on Wood by J. Berryman. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme....,  1807.   

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION.  2 volumes.  Large 8vo, 218 x 132 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 526; [ii], 499 [500 Errata], title-pages in red and black, 9 wood-engraved plates (folding plate of "An Ancient Morris Dance" included), woodcut illustrations in text, contemporary straight-grain plum morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; joints a bit rubbed, some slight general wear to binding, but a very good set, with the bookplate of the politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen [Rab] Butler (1902 - 1982) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume.                                                                                       £250

Even with a patrimony somewhat less than that of his brother, Douce (1757 - 1834) managed to accumulate an impressive library.  This was his first major publication, and it was generally very well received - except by Francis Jeffrey, who reviewed it rather vituperatively for the Edinburgh Review, in which he concluded, "There are undoubtedly many little items of information in these volumes; but they have in general no pretension to the title Illustrations of Shakspeare, nor any right to the popularity which such a title may procure for them.  With reference to Shakspeare, they are an overwhelming and confounding mass of heavy, trifling, and bewildering interpretation; and, considered as detailed notices of antient books, manners, and language, no arrangement could be more preposterous than that of the acts and scenes of Shakspeare's plays."

78.      SHAKESPEARE.  [HEATH (Benjamin)]:   A Revisal of Shakespear's Text,  wherein The Alterations introduced into it by the modern Editors and Critics, are particularly considered.  London: Printed for W. Johnston...,  1765.   

FIRST EDITION.  8vo, 216 x 135 mms., pp. xiv, [iv Contents and Errata], 573 [574 blank], dedication (to Henry Home, Lord Kames) leaf in cancelled state,contemporary straight-grain plum morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; joints a bit rubbed, some slight general wear to binding, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of the politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen [Rab] Butler (1902 - 1982) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume.                                                                                       £250

Heath (1704 - 1766) approves of Theobald's emendations but is rather less enthusiastic about those of Warburton.  He was a notable literary scholar and book collector, and most of his publications were on classical literature.  His book was one of two on Shakespeare to be purchased in 1770 by the Library Company of Philadelphia for its collection.  Dr. Johnson made use of a number of Heath's comments for his own edition of Shakespeare. 

79.      SHAKESPEARE.  SEYMOUR (E. H.): Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory,  upon the Plays of Shakespeare; resulting from A Collation of the Early Copies, with that of Johnson and Steevens, edited by Isaac Reed.  Together with Some Valuable Extracs from the Mss. of the Late Right Honourable Joh, Lord Chedworth.  Dedicated to Richard Brinsely Sheridan. London: Printed by J. Wright...for Lacking, Allen & Co...[35 al],  1805.   

FIRST EDITION.  2 volumes. 8vo,225 x 135 mms., pp. [ii], viii, 480; [ii], 436, ii, [2 -Errata and adverts], including list of subscribers in volume 1, contemporary straight-grain plum morocco, spine gilt in compartments with titles blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; joints a bit rubbed, some slight general wear to binding, but a very good set, with the bookplate of the politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen [Rab] Butler (1902 - 1982) on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume.                                                                                                            £250

Seymour sent these notes to Isaac Reed as early as 1794, which were derived from his work as an actor in Norwich and Cambridge.  The subscribers include a "Mrs. Blake" (unlikely to be the poet's wife), Charles James Fox, Capel Loft, Professor John Ogilvie, Mrs. Siddons, and a number of other theatrical folk.  When Seymour died on 15 January 1819, an anonymous notice in the Gentleman's Magazine described him as "well known in the theatrical circles, and for many years upon the provincial stage...," adding that his "annotations exhibit shrewdness, judgment, and knowledge.  He was well informed on most subjects, and was gentlemanly and amiable in private life."

80.      [SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley), inter alia]: [The Rival Beauties:  A Poetical Contest. Containing, The Bath Picture; or, a sketch of its beauties in 1771. Clio’s protest, or, the picture varnished. And Pindar’s reply. To which is added, The Ridotto of Bath, a panegyric.] [Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell...,  1773.]   

Folio, 291 x 175 mms., pp. [5] - 20, recent buckram; imperfect, lacking first two leaves [title-page and following leaf] and last two leaves [text of "The Ridotto of Bath"].                                                                                                                      £150

The work was issued as described in the title, transcribed from ESTC N26065, locating only the copy at Princeton.  Job lots from auctions produce some curiosities.

81.      SIMPSON (Christopher):  A Compendium: Or Introduction to Practical Musick In Five Parts.  Teaching, by a New, and Easie Method, 1. The Rudiments of Song. 2. The Principles of Composition. 3. The Use of Discords. 4. The Form of Figurate Descant. 5. The Contrivance of Cannon.  The Fifth Edition with Additions: Much more Correct than any former, the Examples being put in the most useful Cliffs. London, Printed by W. P. for John Young..., 1714.   

Small 8vo, 174 x 105 mms., pp. [xiv], 144, engraved portrait of Simpson as frontispiece, music illustrations throughout text, later panelled calf (wormed); joints cracked with front cover holding on for dear life, spine worn.                               £950

Simpson (1605 - 1669) published this work in 1665, and it was frequently revised and reprinted.  New Grove declares him to be “the most important English writer on music of his time,” and no less a figure than John Locke praised this work as a “new, plain and rational; omitting nothing necessary, nor adding any thing superfluous.” 

A reissue of the fourth edition with cancel titlepage and second preliminary leaf.

82.      SONGS. Songs. Descriptive, Moral, and Pastoral. Humorous.   Manchester, Printed at the Office of G. Nicholson...Sold by T. Knott...and Champante & Whitrow...London,  1796.     

12mo (in 6s), 132 x 76 mms., pp. [ii], 28, 12, 54, 26, with separate title-pages for "Scottish Ballads and Songs" and  "Songs, Elegiac. Sea."  BOUND WITH: [Hector Macneill]: Scotland's Skaith; or, The History of Will and Jean, an owre true tale.  The Tenth Edition.  Carlisle, Printed and Sold by J. Mitchell, 1797.  Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. 15 [16 blank].  AND: The Waes o' War; or, the Upshot o' the History of Will and Jean.  In Four Parts.  London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1799.  Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. 123 [24 blank], both items with top margins closely trimmed and partial loss of letters or page numbers.  5 separately-paginated items, bound in contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments to a lyre  motif (but severely affected by acid in leather and most of lower portion of spine gone), a bit rubbed but a good copy of an eclectic collection.                                                                                                   £250

Words only, with no music.  The "Songs" were also issued in The Literary Miscellany, Manchester, 1797 - 1798.

ESTC N33797 locates 4 copies of the first item: Bodleian (3) and Kansas.  ESTC N33796 records a separate entry for "Songs, Elegiac. Sea," (Bodleian; Kansas).  For "Scotland's Skaith,"  ESTC N21243 (Cambridge; UCLA, Missouri).  For "The Waes o' War," ESTC N35513 (Cambridge; Missouri).

83.      SWIFT (Jonathan):  The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift,  Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin, Accurately revised In Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, By John Hawkesworth. London, Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis. C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer. 1755, 1754, 1764.   

14 volumes.  8vo, 213 x 130 mms., pp. [ii], 80, 16, xxix [xxx adverts], 340, engraved frontispiece and 7 other engraved plates;  [ii], xii, 542, 10 engraved plates; [xiv], 411 [412 blank]; [iv], 307 [308 blank]; xii, 344, 4 engraved plates; [viii], [3] 4 - 307 [308 blank]; [x], 430, 4 pages engraved music at end; [ii], ii, 440; [iv], [3] 4 - 473 [474 blank]; [iv], [iv], 374; iv, 383 [384 blank]; [iii], viii, 424, ix - x, 47 - 428 [erratic but complete]; iv, 379 [380 blank], with volumes 13 and 14 dated 1764, title-pages printed in red and black, contemporary calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels (several missing); front joint volume 1 cracked and tender, some wear to other joints, but generally a good set, with an armorial bookplate (motto: "patria cara carior libertas," probably the Bouverie-Folkstone-Radnor family) on the front paste-down end-paper of most volumes.                                                                                                                                £1,650

The "large octavo" edition of Swift's works, edited by John Hawkesworth went through several states in its publication, just as the quarto edition had.  The last volume contains an index composed by John Nichols to the 14 volume set. 

Teerink, rev. Scouten 88. 

84.      TASSO (Torquato):  La Gierusalemme Liberta Del Signor Torquato Tasso.  Ad Jr. Stanza di Calisto Ferrante.  In Roma, Appresso Manelso Manelsi,  1646.   

24mo, 113 x 55 mms., pp. [xiv], 531 [532 colophon], engraved title-page, 20 engraved plates, contemporary maroon morocco, spine ornately gilt in compartments to a floral motif, title blocked in gilt, gilt borders on covers, all edges gilt, Dutch end-papers.  A fine and attractive copy.                                                £750

The dedication is signed by the editor, Calisto Ferrante.

Uncommon.  Two copies located in Netherlands libraries only.

85.      THENOT (Jean Pierre): Les Regles du Lavis et La Peinture a l'Aquarelle, appliquees au paysage, au lavis de l'architecture et du plan, a la topographie, dedies a son eleve Madame Melanie Waldor, Par Thenot, Peintre, professeur de Peinture, de Dessin et Perspective, auteur du premier systeme de Dessin raisonne de plusieurs traites de Perspective, de Paysage, Aquarelle, Lithographie, Fleurs, etc., nomme premier candidat pour la chair de professeur de perspective a l'Ecole royal des Beaux-Arts; professeur a l'Athenee royal de Paris et redacteur a plusieurs journaux et revues periodiques. A Paris, Danlos, Marchand d'Estampes et de Cartes Geographiques...,  1842.   

8vo, 235 x 155 mms., pp. 60, 8 plates at end neatly water-coloured, original printed pink wrappers with woodcut on front cover; spine defective.  SOLD WITH: THENOT (Jean Pierre):  Traite de la Peinture a l'Aquarelle et du lavies, dedie a son eleve Mme. Constance Aubert, (nee d'Abrantes.)  Paris, Danlos, Marchan d'Estampes et de Cartes Geographique..., [no date; c. 1836].  8vo, 235 x 155 mms., pp. [iv], 91 [92 blank], 16, 24 coloured plates, original wrappers (a little worn), with woodcut on rear wrapper.                                                                                         £750

Jean Pierre Thenot (1803 - 1857) published a number of treatises and essays on the practical issues that painters and artists would encounter; these two works seem to be uncommon.  The coloured illustrations are exceptionally clear and bright, but I cannot tell whether they are hand-coloured or printed, though I suspect the latter.  Melanie Waldor (1796 - 1871) published a number of books in the 19th century; Constance Aubert (1803 - 1838) is possibly her daughter or relative of  Madame Laure Junot, the Duchesse d'Abrantes (1784 - 1838), Balzac's mistress.

UNRECORDED BUT IMPERFECT

86.      THOMSON (William) Bowles's School Masters Assistant For Elegant Writing;  Containing Four Sets of Alphabetical Copies in Large Text Word, Round Text, Round Hand Running Hand.  By William Thomson, Professor of  Writing and Accompts.  And carefully Engraved on 22 Copper-Plates by J. Ellis. London. Printed for & Sold by the Proprietors Bowles & Carver..., 1898.   

?FIRST EDITION.  4to, 226 x 209 mms., engraved title-page and 19 (ex 22) engraved plates, original boards; one plate detached at inner margin, all plates very slightly fingered, boards soiled, spine defective.                                                    £150

No copy of this item traced in ESTC, Copac, or WorldCat.

87.      TUPPER [James Perchard]: An Essay on the Probability of Sensation in Vegetables; With Additional Observations on Instinct, Sensation, Irritability, &c.  The Second Edition. London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor...for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown...,  1817.   

Tall 8vo, 226 x 138 mms., pp. ix [sic for xi, xii blank], 142, original boards, uncut; spine slightly defective, front joint tender, some wear to edges, but a reasonably good copy, with the Worcester Public Library book plate on the front paste-down end-paper, and on the recto of the front free end-paper, the inscription, "Worcestershire Natural History Society/ Presented by/ Sir  Chs. Throckmorton Bt".                                                                                                                                     £600

Tupper published the first edition of this work in 1811; this second edition appears to be slightly longer, with B8, C2, C6-7, E4, E7 in cancelled state.  Having looked at analogies between animals and vegetables, Tupper concludes, "we shall be led to infer that vegetables, like animals, are endued with sensation, of such kind, in such degree, as is best adapted to their own sphere of existence."  If vegetables do turn out of have sensations analogous to those of animals, what should vegetarians eat? 

88.      VALLA (Lorenzo):   Laurentii Vallae Elegantiarum Libri Sex, decque Reciprocatione Sui & Suus, multis, diversiscci. Prototypis diligenter collatis, emedati, atq; in pristinam illam aded genuinamq[ue; faciem haud aestimandia sidoribus ia[m] accuratius restitui.  Index copiosus. Moguntiae in Aedibus io Annis Schoeffer Mense Septemberm Anno MCXXIX. 1529.   

8vo, 158 x 98 mms., pp. [xxxvi], 655 [666 blank], title within woodcut border of various human figures, with two inscriptions in lower margin of title-page, library stamp of Donaueschingen Library on front paste-down end-paper and verso of last leaf,  annotations on rear paste-down end-paper, printed throughout in italic, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin (soiled), remnants of clasps; rear end-paper slightly wormed.  The lower margin inscriptions are as follow: "Sum ex libris Frederici [?Prumaly] Anno 1572"; and "[Insemio] Bibliotheca F. F. Min: Con: / Sr Francisci V: [?Viaryue]."  This latter inscription is probably that for Die Fürstlich Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek.                                                                          £2,250

The Italian scholar and humanist Lorenzo Valla (1406 - 1457) led something of a peripatetic life as university lecturer and professor.  The present work, first published in 1471, though ms. copies were well-known during his lifetime, under the title De Elegantiis Latinae Linguae.  The article on Valla in Wikipedia notes, "This work subjected the forms of Latin grammar and the rules of Latin style and rhetoric to a critical examination, and placed the practice of composition upon a foundation of analysis and inductive reasoning. It was a basis for the movement of the Humanists to reform Latin prose style to a more classical and Ciceronian direction on a scientific basis. Valla's work was controversial when it appeared, but its arguments carried the day. As a result, humanistic Latin sought to purge itself of post-Classical words and features, and became stylistically very different from the Christian Latin of the European Middle Ages. This was thought to be a major improvement in style and elegance in Latin usage."  This copy is of particular interest, as is comes from the no longer extant Donaueschingen Court Library, whose holdings were sold at auctions between 1982 and  the early part of this century. 

89.      VINTNER'S COMPANY.  MILBOURN (Thomas): The Vintner's Company,  Their Muniments, Plate, and eminent Members, with some account of The Ward of Vintry.  Revised and Edited by Thomas Milbourn. [London], Printed for the Vintners' Company, for Private Circulation,  1888.   

4to, 260 x 192 mms., pp. [iv], 136, engraved frontispiece, 3 other plates, contemporary cream buckram, gilt spine, red morocco label; ex-library, from the Guildhall Library London, with its bookplate (overstamped "withdrawn") on the front paste-down end-paper and several other ownership stamps, pp. 9 - 28 printed on poorer quality paper, now fading, small piece torn from lower margin of E2. £100

90.      WINE. Report from the Select Committee of Import Duties on Wines; together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. [London] Order by The House of Commons to be Printed, 18 June 1852. 1852.   

Thick 8vo, 230 x 135 x 80, pp. xvi, 1253 [1254 blank], folding engraved map (two short tears) of the wine district of Alto Douro by James Joseph Forrester, folding plan of the River Douro, also by Forrester, 2 folding charts of wine imports, various tables and charts in text, manuscript leaf before printed title-page, contemporary buckram, linen spine, paper label; inner spine visible between leaves in first few pages of book, but a good copy.                                                                               £300

James Joseph Forrester (1809 - 1861) was a wine merchant and topographer, and he took a survey of the Douro district and its river in Portugal  while he was there during a civil war in the 1830s.  ODNB notes, "His map, completed in 1843, was published by Weale of London in 1848. It measured 116 by 24 inches, with English and Portuguese texts explaining its origins and the astronomical bearings upon which it was based, a declaration of the Portuguese government's approval of the map, and was embellished with vignettes depicting typical river craft and the more notorious of the rapids. Forrester dedicated and signed a coloured copy, which he presented to the London Geographical Society of which he was also a member. A smaller map of the demarcated port wine district of the Upper Douro, published by Wyld in 1843, was republished by Weale, and was included in a parliamentary committee report of 1852 on import duties on wines."

UNRECORDED IMPRINT BY KENDREW OF YORK

91.      YORKSHIRE SONGSTER The Yorkshire Songster, and Loyal Briton's Vocal Companion; Being A Collection of favorite Old Songs.  1 The Storm. 2 Patrick O'Neal. 3. The Scouts of the City. 4 Lass of Ocram.  5 Hessey and Moor Battle. 6 Vicar and Moses. 7 Where is my Love. J. Kendrew, Printer, Collier-Gate, York, no date. [c. 1805].   

A broadside, 368 x 245 mms., folded twice to make 8 pages, with woodcut illustration on title-page; a little bruised about the fore-edge and lower edge, and slightly soiled, but about as good a survival of this kind of ephemera as one is likely to find.                                                                                                                      £250

James Kendrew was born in the 1770s and died 20 January 1841; he probably began his printing business around the turn of the century.  The first poem listed on the title-page, "The Storm," appeared in a broadside with two other poems around 1803 [Copac gives "?1803"].  The letterpress suggests a date for this item around that time, as Kendrew is still using the long "s," usually as a ligature on at the beginning of a word., and occasional in the middle of a word, e. g. in  "jesamine" in the last poem.

Roger Davis: Kendrew of York and his chapbooks for children doesn't mention any of songs in this broadsheet, nor are any of the woodcuts that he reproduces, similar to the one on the title-page.  No copy traced in Copac or WorldCat, but there is a copy in the York Minster collection.-