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JOHN & SHAHIN WILBRAHAM
January 2015
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CONTENTS
LITERATURE PRINTED BEFORE 1800
1-51
LITERATURE PRINTED AFTER 1800
52-109
ILLUSTRATED ART ARCHITECTURE
110-123
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
124-132
TOPOGRAPHY, BRITISH AND FOREIGN
133-146
SCIENCE
147-150
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LITERATURE PRINTED BEFORE 1800.
1. BANCK, LORENZ.: Taxa S Cancellariae Romanae. In lucem emissa, & notis illustrata. Franeker,
Idzard Alberti, 1651. 8vo, pp [16], 410, [30], fine engraved extra title page, bound in contemporary yapped
vellum, a very good clean crisp copy, FIRST EDITION; the Papal State was of course paid for by the raising of
texts throughout Christendom; Banck's work describes and annotates taxation within the Church of Rome. This
excellent copy has a curious provenance, inscribed on the paste-down ' A Perle 1776. Nov, Eborac, in America.'
£100.00
2. BAYLE, PIERRE. DES MAIZEAUX, PIERRE.: La Vie de Mr Bayle.. Nouvelle Edition. A La Haye, P Gosse
& J Neaulme, 1732. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp [12], 345: [2], 407, title pages in red and black, bound in
contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with raised bands and double red/olive labels, small wormhole to one
joint, but a fine bright set throughout, NEW EDITION. Bayle was the central figure of Des Mauzeaux' literary
career. An early defender of Bayle especially in England, he had a hand in the second edition of the dictionary.
The present work, originally published 1730 as part of the edition of the dictionary published that year in
Amsterdam is the second of his two studies of Bayle and is considered his best biographical writing portraying
Bayle 'less as a systematic skeptic and more as a free thinker acutely aware of the limits of human reason.'
This is a particularly attractive copy of the first separate edition. £90.00
3. BAYLE, PIERRE. MONNOYE, BERNARD DE LA.: Histoire de Mr Bayle et de ses Ouvrages...Nouvelle
Edition augmentee... Amsterdam, Jaques Desbordes, 1716. 12mo, pp [14], 576, title in red and black, bound
in contemporary unlettered calf backed marbled boards, head of spine chipped, text a little browned, else a
food copy, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, the life by Monnoye, who had been a contributor to the Dictionaire, was
originally added to the Geneva edition of that publication, but revised for separate publication here, and with
new unpublished material added. £50.00
4. BEAUMARCHAIS, CARON DE.: La Folle Journee, ou Le Marriage de Figaro, Comedie en Cinq Actes
en Prose. [Kehl]. L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litteraire-Typographique... Chez Roult, 1785. 8vo, 2 parts in one
volume, pp li, [1], 199, [1], bound in slightly later quarter calf, spine gilt ruled with red label,, rubbed,
internally with light spotting and few light stains, but generally a very good copy, ?SECOND AUTHORIZED
EDITION; there were many printings of the play after its first performance in Paris in 1784, many of them
spurious. Ignoring the manifestly inaccurate Amsterdam printings which were based upon verbatim
performance notes, the Paris first edition is an illustrated volume issued shortly before by Roult, with 237
pages; after that,. this is the most significant of the early editions. £125.00
5. BRILLON, PIERRE JACQUES.: Suite des Caracteres de Theophraste et de Pensees de Pascal.
Amsterdam, Pierre Marteau, 1701. 8vo, pp [8], 272, title page in red and black, uncut in orignal milled boards,
a fine unsophisticated copy, FIRST AMSTERDAM EDITION; Brillon's contemporary enlargement of his own
Theophraste Moderne' which was first published at Paris in 1699 and subsequently became quite popular.
Format from the original was unchanged here, but the 'Avis au Lecteur' details the many corrections from the
edition 'faire....a Luxembourg sous le nom de Paris en 1700.' £45.00
6. BUNYAN, JOHN: The Holy War, made by Shaddai upon Diabolus; For the Regaining the Metropolis
of the World: or, The Losing and Taking again of the Town of Mansoul. London, W Johnston, 1752.
Small 12mo, pp [8], 280, woodcut frontispiece with 'Advertisment to the Reader' on verso, title within woodcut
border, crude woodcuts in text, some repeated, bound in 19th Century paneled calf, upper board detached,
light browning as usual, but a sound complete copy, EARLY EDITION, scarce in complete state. £85.00
7. CESARE, BONAVNET. AMADAEO: De Critices In Re praesertium Sacra; Recto Pravoque Usu. Napoli,
Joseph Severini, 1741. 12mo, pp [12], 164, title page in red and black, contemporary limp vellum, which is
slightly discolored or soiled, but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION; the critic here in the scholastic sense.
Scarce survey of critical texts. £60.00
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8. CIVIL WAR. CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT AND THOMAS BAYLY.: Certamen Religiosum: or, A
Conference Between The late King of England and the late Lord Marquesse of Worcester, concerning
Religion. Together with a Vindication of the Protestant Cause. London, W Lee [and R Royston], 1652.
Small 4to, pp [14], 366, 84, , engraved portrait of Charles I, bound in contemporary calf, sometime at an early
date rebacked, the spine again surface chipped and cracked at joints but holding well, Law Society bookplate,
internally a sound clean copy,
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE; the Certamen Religiosum, the work of Thomas Bayly, was first published in
1649; it is reprinted here in what is virtually a new work, together for the first time with reply and vindication
by Christopher Cartwright, who felt the original was too favorable to the Catholic Church, and so pleads here
the Protestant case; the original 'conference' between the King and Marquis of Worcester, was no-doubt
apocryphal, but served to inflame the religious sentiments of the time after the King's execution. The first
printing of Cartwright's text was in 1651, and the present edition is a reissue with an inserted leaf after the
title page 'The Book-seller to the Reader', drawing attention to Cartwright's name for the firts time on the title
page and giving a curious critique of Bayley's original work. Very scarce when complete with the portrait of a
seated Charles I pointing to Scotland on a globe of the World. £250.00
9. COATS, JAMES [EDITOR].: A New Dictionary of Heraldry, explaining the Terms us'd in that
Science...Containing al the Rules of Blazon. London, Jer Batley, 1725. 8vo, pp [14], 352, 7 folding
engraved plates showing 196 heraldic devices, bound in contemporary calf, lacking label, slightly rubbed, but a
good clean tight copy,
FIRST EDITION THUS, with contemporary ownership of Mary Peckham. £95.00
10. COMBER, THOMAS.: A Companion to the Temple: or a Help to Devotion in the Use of Common
Prayer. In Four Parts. London, Robert Clavell, 1701. Folio, pp [20], 8585, title in red and black, bound in
contemporary paneled calf, a bit chipped at spine ends, joints cracked but holding, a very good sound fresh
copy, FOURTH EDITION. Comber's major work on the Litany, originally published in separate parts in 8vo; 'the
most complete work extant on the Common Prayer, abounding in learned references'- Darling. A second
volume was published the year following this one, collecting together six of Comber's tracts, though it not
usually found with this one which is quite complete in itself. £75.00
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11. COTTON, SIR ROBERT.: Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary Sir
Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet, Preserved from the injury of Time, and Exposed to Publick
Light, for the benefit of Posterity. London, Richard Lowndes and Matthew Gilliflower, 1672. 8vo, pp [8],
351, 16 tracts, each except the first with separate title page, bound in 19th century paneled calf, worn to
corners, lacking spine, boards detached, occasional light browning else internally sound, a good copy for
rebacking,
SECOND EDITION of this interesting collection of essays speeches and tracts which also includes Francis
Walsingham's 'Anatomizing' and Sidney's 'Valour Anatomized in a Fancie'. One of the tracts by Cotton is a
substitute, as in all copies, for The Life and Reign of Henry the Third listed in the contents; this was later
published as a separate work. The collection as edited by James Howell was first published in 1651. £120.00
12. COWLEY, ABRAHAM.: The Third and Last Volume of the Works being the Second and Third Parts
thereof...Part III. His Six Books of Plants. London, Charles Harper, 1708. 8vo, pp [16, 495, [9],
frontispiece and 3 plates, separate title pages, bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands,
FIRST EDITION OF VOLUME THREE, comprising eighth and third editions of the two parts respectively, with a
separate entry in ESTC. Very useful of collectors requiring only the English translation of the History of Plants.
A very pleasant copy with bookplate of Patrick Hume, Lord Polworth [1641-1724] dated 1702 as well as his
?son Sir Alexander Campbell, 2nd Earl Marchmont. £60.00
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13. DODSLEY, JOHN [EDITOR].: A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands. London, J
Hughes for R & J Dodsley, 1768. 6 volumes, 8vo, engraved vignette titles and headpieces, with the half titles,
engraved plate of music in volume 4, plate in volume 3, bound in contemporary tree calf, spines gilt but
rubbed and with the labels chipped internally fine, clean and tight, but a good sound set,
FOURTH EDITION; originally published between 1748 and 1758, this is one of the earliest of complete 6
volume editions of this important and influential anthology of contemporary verse. £90.00
14. DRAMA. BANKS, JOHN.: The Unhappy Favourite: or the Earl of Essex. A Tragedy. Acted at the
Theatre Royal, By Their Majesties Servants. London, R Wellington, 1704. Small 4to, pp [8], 62, [2], bound
in 20th Century buckram cloth, title trimmed close at head but generally a clean well margined copy, LATER
EDITION, one of the most popular of Restoration Dramas, and including a prologue by Dryden. £75.00
15. DRAMA. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comedy. London, Tonson and
Draper, 1753. 12mo, pp 83, [1], title in red and black, frontispiece, disbound, good. £15.00
16. DRAMA. CENTLIVRE, SUSANA.: The Humours of Elections. By the Author of the Gamester.
London, W Feales, 1737. 12mo, pp 48, title in red and black, disbound, a good copy, FIRST EDITION UNDER
THIS TITLE. Scarce. When the play ridiculing electoral corruption was first written in 1714 under the title 'The
Gotham Election' it was declined by the theater management, but it was later produced in 1724. £15.00
17. DRAMA. CROWNE, JOHN.: Sir Courtly Nice: or, It Cannot Be. A Comedy. London, W Feales, 1735.
12mo, pp 108, frontispiece, title in red and black, disbound, good. £15.00
18. DUNTON, JOHN [EDITOR].: The Phenix: or, a revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces From the
Remotest Antiquity down to the Present Times. being a Collection of Manuscripts and Printed
Tracts, no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious. London, for J Morphew, 1707. 8vo, pp vi,
570, bound in contemporary calf, disbound with one board only, spine broken, a good working copy, FIRST
EDITION; interesting selection of historical tracts, mainly of the late 16th and early 17th Century, which had
been collected by the famous London bookseller John Dunton. The success of this publication led him to
published a second volume of tracts in the following year. £30.00
19. DUNTON, JOHN [EDITOR].: The Athenian Oracle: Being an Entire Collection Of all the Valuable
Questions and Answers in the Old Athenian Mercuries...To which is prefix'd, The History of the
Athenian Society...Vol IV. London, Knapton etc, 1728. 8vo, pp [1], 487, [16, including adverts],
contemporary calf, lightly rubbed and chipped at spine ends, but a very good copy, THIRD EDITION, volume 4
only, a supplementary volume, with history of the society. £60.00
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20. FERGUSON, JAMES.: A Brief Refutation of the Errors of Tolleration, Erastianism, Independency
and Separation. Delivered in some Sermons...Preach'd in the Year 1652. To which are Added Four
Sermons preach'd on several Occasions. Edinburgh, George Mosman, 1692. Small 8vo, pp [20], 365,
bound in early 19th Century calf, spine with raised bands and black label, rubbed, worn at head, a little soiled,
but a good sound copy,
FIRST EDITION, a rare Scottish Presbyterian work against toleration, published long after the author's death,
presumably edited by the author's son. Ferguson was minister at Kilwinning in Ayreshire, and died there in
1667. He was a very learned Presbyterian, forced to turn down the Chair of Divinity at Glasgow when his
patron, the Earl of Eglington, refused permission, an astonishing instance of aristocratic influence. £150.00
21. FONTENELLE, BERNARD DE.: Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead in Three Parts...Translated from
the French. With...The Judgment of Pluto etc and Two Original Dialogues. London, Jacob Tonson, 1730.
12mo, pp [2], lxvi, 256, contemporary sheep, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed
and worn at spine ends, light crack to upper joint, but a neat clean sound copy, SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH
OF THIS TRANSLATION, A celebrated and much imitated work., translated by John Hughes, who adds 2
dialogues of his own at the end. £75.00
22. HABINGTON, WILLIAM.: The Historie of Edward the Fourth, King of England. London, Tho Cotes for
William Cooke, 1640. Small folio, pp [4], 232, bound in later library buckram, light library stamp on title verso,
a few marginal page repairs, a few stains, title page torn at one corner without loss of text and laid down, a
sound working copy,
FIRST EDITION, a cheap copy of this scarce historical study, lacking the portrait that is only sometimes
present. The work itself was said to have been written at the request of Charles I to whom it is dedicated, and
whilst it appeared under the name of William Habington, largely remembered as a minor poet, it is though to
be mainly based upon the writings of his historian father Sir Thomas Habington. £100.00
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23. HALL, THOMAS.: The Pulpit Guarded with XVII Arguments Proving The Unlawfulness, Sinfulness
and Danger of suffering Private persons to take upon them Publicke Preaching, and expounding the
Scriptures without a Call...Occasioned by a Dispute at Henly in Arden. London, J Cottrel for E
Blackmore, 1651. Small 4to, pp [24], 70, uncut in late 19th Century half calf, spine rubbed and chipped at
ends, joints cracked but sound, and internally a very good copy,
FIRST EDITION; a scarce and important Puritan attack upon the multiplicity of religious sects in England
immediately following the Civil War. These sects included the Quakers, mentioned twice in the text, the use of
the word here two years before that quoted in OED. £150.00
24. HAYLEY, WILLIAM.: The Life of John Milton, in Three Parts. To which is added, Conjecture on the
Origin of Paradise Lost: with an Appendix. London, T Cadell jun. and W Davies, 1796. 4to, pp xxiii, [1],
328, uncut in original boards which are worn and with boards detached, but internally sound and clean, a very
good copy for rebinding, SECOND EDITION; Hayley's life of Milton had originally been published as part of his
edition of the poetical works but with many passages suppressed and omitted; this present edition was the first
to restore all the original cuts and present it as originally intended. £60.00
25. HERODOTUS. BOUHIER, JEAN.: Recherches et Dissertations sur Herodote...Avec des Memoires
sur la vie de l'Auteur. Dijon, Pierre de Saint, 1746. 4to, pp [2], viii, [2, approbation], 259, [1], 48, well
bound in contemporary French polished sheep, spine gilt with raised bands and coronet and fleur de lys
decoration between, light wear to head of spine, a fine bright copy throughout, FIRST EDITION; posthumous
collection of studies on ancient geography and history by the great French jurist and book collector Jean
Bouhier [1673-1746], his work as a scholar honored in various pieces and orations printed at the end of the
volume. A very nice example of French binding of the period. £60.00
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26. HOADLY, BENJAMIN.: The Original and Institution of Civil Government Discuss'd. Viz. I. An
Examination of the Patriarchal Scheme of Government. II. A Defense of Mr Hooker's Judgment, etc
against the Objections of several late Writers...a Large Answer to Dr F Atterbury. London, James
Knapton, 1710. 8vo, pp [2], xiv, 200, 204, 11, [1, adverts], bound in contemporary paneled calf, spine richly
gilt with raised bands and red label, minor rubbing but an excellent bright copy with the Antrobus bookplate,
SECOND EDITION, a reissue of the first of the same year, Hoadly's most important excursion into constitutional
issues, regarding the limitations of the powers of monarchy and the defense of civil liberties, in part at least in
reaction to Atterbury's doctrine of 'non-resistance'. £100.00
27. JAMES I.: Basilikon doron. Or His Maiesties instructions to his dearest sonne, Henry the prince.
London, Felix Kyngston for John Norton, 1603. Small 80, pp [32], 128, 149-154, lacking the initial blank, and
first 2 leaves of 'To the reader', the following 2 leaves of 'To the Reader' defective at upper corners with loss of
text, leaf I defective with loss, title page cut and restored at head with loss of the Latin portion of the title,
some light soiling and tears, early 19th century plain calf, upper board detached,
FIRST LONDON EDITION, following the hardly extent Edinburgh printing of 1599, an important Stuart text of
kinship that circulated widely in 1603 in many printings and issues. In this issue the title page bears a large
woodcut Royal Coat of Arms. A poor copy of this significant text £100.00
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28. JONSON, BEN.: Part of the Kings Entertainment in Passing to his Coronation. WITH: A Panagyre
on the Happie Entrance of James. WITH: A Particular Entertainment...at Althorpe, at the...Lord
Spencers. London, [William Stanseby], 1616. 3 works, small folio, pp [841]- 890, extracted from the 1616
first folio, disbound, one or two margins stuck but in good clean well margined state.
The complete festival texts written Jonson for the coronation of James I in 1603, and published as a collection
in a 1604 quarto, then here in the first folio. £120.00
29. KETTLEWELL, JOHN.: A Companion for the Penitent, and for persons Troubled in Mind. London,
John Rivinton, 1768. 3 parts in one volumes [as issued], 12mo, pp 59, [1]; 32, [4]; 35, [1], with general title
pages and separate title pages to the parts, bound in contemporary sheep., spine a little worn and cracked at
joints, but a very good clean copy, FIRST EDITION THUS; these 3 devotional tracts, reprinted under the
auspices of the SPCK, may also have been issued separately, as each has its own collation. In this form the
edition is rare - ESTC and COPAC both suggest that recorded copies, other than the one in Chetham's Library
Manchester, which accords with ours, include the first part only. £25.00
30. LAW. WYNNE, EDWARD.: Eunomus: or Dialogues Concerning the Law and Constitution of
England. With an Essay on Dialogue. Dublin, James Moore, 1791. 8vo, pp xli, [3], 444, [8], bound in
contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, early stamp of Carlow College on title, paper flaw to Ee3 affecting a
few letters only, else a very good clean tight copy,
THIRD EDITION, but the first Dublin printing and scarce. A significant collection of essays on legal theory.
£85.00
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31. LE CROIX, CLAUDE DE.: Le Parfaict Ecclesiastique ou Diverses instructions sur toutes les
fonctions cléricales. Cy-devant disposées en Tables par Mre Claude de la Croix Lyons, Antoine Cellier,
1676. 4to, pp [16], 696, [16], title in red and black, engraved dedication, 2 large folding plates, these with
short tears, bound in contemporary calf, worn at spine ends and corners, joints cracked but sound, internally
lightly browned throughout else good. First published in Paris in 1665, this standard guide for Roman Catholic
priests was most comprehensive. £60.00
32. MARINE SOCIETY [JONAS HANWAY].: The Bye-Laws, and Regulations of the Marine Society,
incorporated in MDCCLXXII; with the several instructions forms of indentures & other instruments
used by it... an Historical Account of this Institution with remarks on the usefulness of it. London, J
March and son, 1792. 12mo, pp [4], ix-xxi, [1], 149, half title, engraved frontispiece, bound in contemporary
tree sheep, spine gilt, spine rubbed, else a very nice clean copy, FOURTH EDITION, first published in 1772,
though all editions are scarce, the rules of Jonas Hanway's Marine Society, formed by him with the
philanthropic intent of educating and preparing youth for the Navy; he himself wrote the historical introduction.
This copy collates according to ESTC although the Oxford copy has an explanation of the frontispiece within the
prelims. £125.00
33. MOLLINEUX, MARY.: Fruits of Retirement; or, Miscellaneous Poems Moral and Divine: being
Contemplations, Letters etc written on Variety of Subjects and Occasions...to which is prefix'd,
Some Account of the Author. London, Mary Hinde, 1772. 8vo, pp [40], 174, without the final advert leaf,
contemporary sheep, worn and with board detached, a few early pen inscriptions, but generally sound for a
rebind, SIXTH EDITION; the poems of the female Quaker Mary Mollineux, who died in 1696, were first
published after her death in 1702, compiled by her cousin Frances Owen, this sixth edition being the last. This
somewhat dilapidated copy belonged originally to the Quaker community at Waterford in Ireland and bears the
barely literate inscriptions of Benjamin and Sussana Moore. Apparently Moore was the builder of the Quaker
meeting house in the city. £85.00
34. MORE, HENRY. WARD, RICHARD.: The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr Henry More, Late Fellow
of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are annex'd Divers of his Useful and Excellent Letters.
London, John Downing, 1710. 8vo, pp [24], 362, [4], [2, adverts], engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title
page to the letters, bound in contemporary paneled calf, red label, old reback, the upper board now detached,
else a good sound copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, 'the only biographical account of him by one of his
contemporaries. Ward's almost hagiographical tone is ample testimony to the high regard in which More was
held by his admirers. Ward's Life is an important document of intellectual and cultural history which testifies to
the continuing impact of More's ideas in the Enlightenment'. [Sarah Hutton, editor of the modern reprint of this
title]. £125.00
35. MORE, SIR THOMAS.: Utopia: Containing an Impartial History of the Manners, Customs, Polity,
Government etc of that Island...Translated into English by Gilbert Burnet...revis'd, corrected...by
Thomas Williamson. Oxford, for J Newbery, London, 1751. 12mo, pp xxiv, viii, 168, [8, adverts], bound in
contemporary calf, spine gilt ruled, upper joint worn through but sound, label lacking, light marginal foxing in
places else sound and tight,
FIRST EDITION THUS, the Burnet translation revised by Williamson, and with 'A Short Account of Sir Thomas
More's Life and Trial; and a prayer made by him while he was a prisoner in the Tower.' £160.00
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36. MORGAN, SYLVANUS.: The Sphere of Gentry: Deduced from the Principles of Nature, Historical
and Genealogical Work, of Arms and Blazon in Four Books. London, William Leybourn, for the Author
'Living at the City Coat.' 1661. Folio, pp [16], 120, [2], 118, 119, [1], 116, [20], with fine engraved
frontispiece, plates, text engravings, apparently made up from two copies of slightly differing sizes, the
gatherings alternately bound up to produce a balanced effect, the title page and its verso coat of arms carefully
window mounted and restored, the dedication leaf in good old pen and ink facsimile, the first few plates
likewise in good pen facsimile, probably from the early 19th Century, otherwise apparently complete text wise,
bound in probably 17th Century morocco, the sides ornately gilt decorated, neatly rebacked to style, gilt with
raised bands, pen facsimile bookplate of George Booth, Baron Delamer, though no other evidence for it being
his copy,
FIRST EDITION; this copy of Morgan's strangely mystical take on heraldry has more charm than credibility,
rather like the text itself. But the making up from two copies and pen restoration has been done with great skill
and together with the binding gives this copy a rather nice period feel. £200.00
37. MURALT, BEAT LOUIS DE.: Letters Describing The Character and Customs of the English and
French Nations. With a curious Essay on Travelling; And a Criticism on Boileau's Description of
Paris. Translated from the French. London, Tho Edlin, 1726. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo, pp viii, 312; 74,
[8], [16], with 2 separate title pages [the first a cancel of the first edition title page], to each part, bound in
contemporary calf, a bit rubbed and worn at spine ends, joints cracked but sound, red label, internally sound
and clean,
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION IN ENGLISH, combining the second edition of the English translation with the
separate 'Remarks' and 'Essay on Travelling'. Muralt's original French edition first appeared the previous year
and seems to have been an immediate success all over Europe. Beat de Muralt, [1665-1749], Swiss scholar
and author, wrote his series of letters soon after visiting England in 1694; they paint a vivid picture of English
society and have become his most famous work, described by Voltaire as a 'livre tres sage et tres ingenieux..'
With contemporary signature of Annabella Craufurd [later Countess Lockhart, 1727-90], £145.00
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38. NEVILLE, ALEXANDER.: De Furoribus Norfolcensium Ketto Duce. Eiusdem Norvicus. London,
Henrici Binnemani Typographi, 1575. Small 4to, pp [16, including blank], 156; [10] 207 [13], two parts in one
volume, title page within ornate typographical border, full page arms of Archbishop Parker on verso, bound in
17th Century calf, rubbed, spine worn, upper board detached, a few damp patches to prelims, a few clean
tears, else generally sound and clean internally,
FIRST EDITION, a cheap copy lacking the title page to the second part and the two leaves pages 131-134,
which according to ESTC were sometimes suppressed because of the offense they gave to the Welsh. This
important account of Kett's rebellion of 1549, together with a history of Norwich, was written by Neville at the
behest of his mentor Matthew Parker whose coat of arms is finely displayed on the title page verso; naturally
the account favors the establishment line though it includes a valuable first hand account of the event.
£175.00
39.
NIEUPOORT,
G.H.:
Ritum
qui
Olim
Apud
Romanos
Obtinuerunt,
Succcincta
Explicatio...emendatior et recensione Gul Ottonis et Jo Fred Reitzii. Amstedam, Sumptibus Societatis,
1779. 8vo, pp xvi, 591, half title, frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, some folding, bound in contemporary paper
vellum backed patterned boards, upper joint a little split but sound, text generally rather browned and in
places foxed due to poor paper quality, else a sound copy, NEW EDITION; the most popular of 18th Century
textbooks on Roman rites and customs. £25.00
40. POPE, ALEXANDER.: [Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men]. An Epistle to the Right
Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham. London, for Lawton Gulliver, 1733. Tall folio, pp [4], 13, [1], [2,
advert leaf], half title, neatly bound in cloth backed boards, labelled to upper board, small hole in advert leaf
where folded, else in very good state, FIRST EDITION. £75.00
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41. PUFENDORF, SAMUEL VON.: Les Devoirs des Hommes et des Citoyens, suivant La Loi Naturelle.
Ouvrage compose en Latin...et mis en Francois Par Antoine Teissier. Berlin, Robert Roger, 1696. 12mo,
pp [8], 374, disbound, a binding copy,
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, translation of Pufendorf's highly influential 'De officio hominis et civis ("On the
Duty of Man and Citizen")' of 1673 which, among other topics, gave his analysis of just war theory. £60.00
42. RAY, JOHN.: A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs; Also the most celebrated Proverbs of
the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish And other Languages...To which is added...A Collection of
English Words Not Generally Used. London, J Hughs, for J Torbuck, 1737. 8vo, pp viii, 319; [1],150, [2,
adverts], the two parts with separate title pages here bound in reverse order, contemporary calf, spine gilt
ruled with raised bands and red label, joints cracked but sound, spine ends chipped, a fine clean copy
internally,
THIRD EDITION, 'Augmented with many Hundred Words, Observations, Letters etc.' This edition combines, for
the first time, two celebrated works by the great 17th Century scholar and writer on natural history, including
editorial material [but by another hand] not in the previous editions. Ray's in the largest and most complete of
early collections English proverbs, and was published in second edition in 1670; his 'English Words not
Generally Used', first published separately in 1674, includes Northern and Southern dialect words, as well as
'an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are found in England.' This is the first
issue with title page in black, rather with the red/black cancel title of the second. With bookplate of the Earl of
Roden. £150.00
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43. RICHARDSON, WILLIAM.: A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of some of Shakespeare's
Remarkable Characters. London, J Murray, 1784. Small 8vo, pp 207, [1, adverts], bound in contemporary
unlettered tree calf, spine rubbed, joints cracked but sound, a very good clean copy, THIRD EDITION, in fact a
reissue of the 'New Edition' of 1780 with cancel title page. First published in 1774 shortly after its author had
taken up the post of Professor of Humanity at the University of Glasgow, and he saw his work very much in the
sphere of the scientific Scottish enlightenment of the period rather than a work of literary criticism. £60.00
44. SECUNDUS, JOANNES.: Kisses: A Poetical Translation of the Basia...With the Original Latin, and
an Essay on his Life & Writings. London, J.Bew, 1790. 8vo, pp [4], iv, 252, engraved frontispiece & extra
engraved title page, both after Bartolozzi from the edition 1779, parallel Latin & English text, bound in
contemporary calf, lacking label and with short cracks to joints, a little rubbed and chipped at spine ends, but a
good copy,
FOURTH EDITION, translated by John Nott. £60.00
45. STRADA, FAMIANO.: Prolusiones Academicae. Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1745. Small 8vo, pp [12],
325, [23], engraved vignette on title, contemporary calf, spine attractively gilt with raised bands and red label,
slightly rubbed but a clean attractive copy. Famianus Strada (1572-1649),
FIRST EDITION THUS; Italian Jesuit poet and historian' these essays were first published in 1617 and in Oxford
in 1631; the book was an established Oxford text and this new edition was attractively printed by Jacob
Fletcher. £65.00
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46. TERENTIUS.: Publii Terentii Comoediae. Paris, Typographia Regia, 1642. Folio, pp [4], 286, half title,
fine engraved title page, engraved vignette head and tailpieces, bound in neat contemporary paneled calf,
rubbed and worn at corners, upper board detached, else good,
FIRST EDITION THUS, a magnificent example of printing from the Royal printer. £125.00
47. TIBULLUS.: A Poetical Translation of the Elegies of Tibullus; and the Poems of Sulpicia. With the
original text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory...by James Grainger. London, A Millar, 1759. 2
volumes, 12mo, pp xlvi, 165: [2], 263, parallel English/Latin texts, bound in contemporary calf, spines gilt with
raised bands, lacking labels but a very good sound clean and attractive set, FIRST EDITION of Grainger's
classic translation, famously ridiculed by Smollett, and successor to Dart's version of 1720, beside which it is
considered in every way superior. A recent study of Grainger's translation by John Gilmore has raised
interesting questions about the sensibilities of the English reading public of the time to Roman love poetry with
its explicit erotic content; Gilmore also raises the issue of patronage of Grainger by a West Indian slave owner,
suggesting that the revival of Roman cultural values may have bolstered up the pro slavery lobby. This seems
to have been the only 18th Century printing. £50.00
48. TOPHAM, GEORGE.: Romes tradition, the law and Gospel's destruction: being a sober defense of
the Church of England from the faction of the Romanists, and canons of the conventicle of Trent ...
London, Thomas Fox, 1682. Small 8vo, pp [8, including advert leaf], 232, contemporary calf, plainly rebacked
with raised bands, title page lightly soiled and first leaves a little stained, minor browning and spotting to the
rest, a tract removed from the rear, else good, FIRST EDITION, a rare anti Catholic tract by the rector of
Boston in Lincolnshire. Topham's only publication other than two sermons. £60.00
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49. WATSON, RICHARD / ARCHIBLAD MACLAINE.: An Apology for Christianity, in a series of letters
addressed to Edward Gibbon. BOUND WITH: A Series of Letters Addressed to Soame Jenyns Esq; on
occasion of his view of the Internal Evidence of Christianity. Cambridge, for T & J Merrill [and others],
1776/ London, Bathurst, 1777. 2 works bound in one volume, small think 8vo, pp [4], 295, [1], including half
title: [6], 274, neatly bound in contemporary half calf, spine with raised bands and red label, a little rubbed,
internally fine,
FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS; united by size and subject, the two authors were quite different. Watson's
early attack upon Gibbon's treatment of the rise of Christianity in the two final chapters of the 'Roman Empire'
published in the same year became a classic of theological argument and apologetics. Archibald Maclaine on
the other hand was a Scottish Presbyterian, brother of a highwayman, and fellow student of Adam Smith at
Glasgow. As a pastor in the Hague from 1747 he entertained Boswell to dinner in 1763, and they subsequently
became friends. Of the present work Hannah More wrote after reading it 'There is a good deal of wit and
learning...the Deists's will triumph at Maclaine's book...' £135.00
50. WHITAKER, REV JOHN.: The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted. In a Full and Candid
Refutation of Mr Macpherson's Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland. [London],
sold by Dodsley [and others], 1772. 8vo, pp [4], 308, bound in contemporary olive calf, sides with ornate floral
gilt borders, early reback with gilt and raised bands, rubbed and a little worn at head of spine, a good sound
copy,
FIRST EDITION. James Macpherson, better known for his Gaelic 'recreations' published in 1771 'Introduction to
the History of Great Britain', to which John Whitaker, author of the History of Manchester, published this
scathing reply the following year- vis a vis the 'Scottish Enlightenment' he writes 'Accustomed as the Scotch
have for ages been to believe implicitly in a fantastical history, they have lately emancipated their minds from
the bondage.' He does not, however credit Macpherson with such an enlightenment, quite the reverse.
Whitaker's work is particularly interesting with regard to the early histories of Ireland and Scotland as the 18th
Century perceived them. Printed by Bower and Nichols in an edition of 251 copies. £120.00
51. WHITING, JOHN.: Persecution Exposed in some Memoirs relating to the sufferings of John
Whiting, and Many others of the People called Quakers, For Conscience sake, in the West of
England, &c. London, James Philips, 1791. 8vo, pp [2], xvii, [1], 520, [16], bound in contemporary calf,
lacking label, rubbed and cracked to upper joint, internally sound and clean, SECOND EDITION; an important
Quaker memoir detailing events in the West of England during and following Monmouth's rebellion and the
subsequent 'Bloody Assizes.'. First published in 1715. £45.00
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LITERATURE PRINTED AFTER 1800
52. AGG, JOHN [PSUED HUMPHREY HEDGHOG].: The General-Post Bag; or News! Foreign and
Domestic. To which is added, La Bagatelle. London, J Johnston, 1814. Small 8vo, pp [8], [13]-123, uncut
in original boards, sometime early rebacked in paper which is now somewhat chipped, internally sound and
clean, FIRST EDITION; Agg was a Bristol printed who tried his hand at authorship, especially poetry, before
reverting to his own profession. This volumes of contemporary satires on figures of the time was most likely
the one that ran Agg into legal trouble for libel in the same year, and may account for the book passing
through several editions. It includes a highly facetious dedication to Lord Byron. £35.00
53. ARMENIAN LITURGY.: Liturgie de la Mess Armenienne Traduite en Francaise de la Version
Italienne par Monseigneur Lapostolest. Venice, Saint Lazare, 1851. 8vo, pp [16], 60, 8 engraved plates
depicting scenes from the mass, original printed wrappers, a little frayed and lacking spine, else good, plates
are clean,
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. £25.00
54. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES.: Festus A Poem. London, William Pickering, 1848. Small 8vo, pp xvi, 367, [1],
[1, single line erratum, enlarged with long pencil list or errata], bound in original cloth, decorated in blind to
sides and gilt to spine, a little rubbed but a very good copy,
THIRD EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO EDWIN ATHERTONE. Based upon the Faust
legend, this was a celebrated mystical poem that became highly popular in mid Victorian England, and
enlarged, as here, by the author several times. It was Bailey's only success as a poet. £75.00
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55. BLUNT, WILFRED SCAWEN.: The Love Sonnets of Proteus. London, Kegan Paul, 1881. Small 8vo, pp
x, [2], 120, frontispiece by the author, uncut in original bevel-edged decorated creamy gray cloth, gilt, a very
good tight clean copy, FIRST EDITION, based upon Blunt's first and rather scarce 'Sonnets and Songs by
Proteus' this is his most enduring and popular volume of love poetry, later enlarged in several further printings.
£45.00
56. BRADDON, M.E.: Ishmael. A Novel. Stereotyped Edition. London, John and Robert Maxwell, circa
1885. 8vo, pp iv, 445, bound in contemporary half red roan calf, rubbed but sound, a good copy, FIRST
SINGLE VOLUME EDITION, first published by Maxwell in three volumes in 1884, this printing later transferred
to Simpkin Marshall. £15.00
57. BYRON, LORD GEORGE.: Fare Thee Well! A Sketch etc. Napoleon's Farewell. On the Star of the
Legion of Honour. And an Ode. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1816. 8vo, pp 23, [1], disbound, very
good,
FIRST EDITION, a pirated collection of genuine Byron poems. Scarce. £75.00
58. CHENEVIX, RICHARD.: Two Plays: Mantuan Revels, a comedy in Five Acts; Henry the Seventh, an
Historical Tragedy in Five Acts. London, J Johnson and co, 1812. 8vo, pp [8], 319, bound in contemporary
full tan calf, spine gilt with raised bands, rubbed, chipped at spine ends, joints cracked but sound, a fine clean
copy internally,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, one of the few literary works from the pen of the
famous Irish chemist who discovered the element Palladium, although he did not identify it as such. The two
plays printed here are in imitation of Shakespeare and were apparently never performed but form part of the
Irish literature of the early Romantic period. The recipient of this copy was 'Professor Playfair', presumably the
Scottish scientist John Playfair who died in 1819. £85.00
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59. COOPER, THOMAS.: The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-Rhyme. In Ten Books. London, Jeremiah
How, 1845. Small 8vo, pp viii, 344, original blind stamped cloth, contemporary stamp of William Salt Library,
Stafford to title and last leaf, a very good copy indeed,
FIRST EDITION, a celebrated Chartist poem by this self-educated shoemaker. The provenance is telling Cooper was imprisoned for tow years at Stafford jail from 1842 and where he wrote this poem; the speech for
which he was imprisoned for seditious libel, in verse form commences the volume. The poem concludes with a
dream vision of a peaceful republican revolution. £85.00
60. DAVIDSON, JOHN.: Plays by John Davidson. London, Elkin Mattews and John Lane, 1894. Small 4to,
pp [8], 294, [16, publisher's catalogue dated 1894], frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley, original bevel-edged
cloth, pictorial gilt, uncut, lightly rubbed, but a good copy,
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION , LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. The rather fine and famous frontispiece by Beardsley
depicts -irrelevantly to Davison's plays -a group that includes Oscar Wilde dressed as Bacchus and his own
sister Mabel in the nude. This must have gone down well at the family Christmas. £45.00
61. DE VERE, AUBREY.: Poems. London, Bruns & Lambert, 1855. Small 8vo, pp xii, 319, [1], [4, adverts],
bound in original cream blind stamped cloth, which is just a little dust soiled and necessarily discolored to
spine, else a fine clean copy, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, which though usually held a such, is in fact, as the
author points out, largely original and previously unpublished, comprising mainly shorter lyrics, religious poems
and sonnets that constitute a major part of De Vere's early poetical output. Very scarce in this condition.
£50.00
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62. DE VERE, AUBREY.: The Search after Prosperine, Recolletcions of Greece, and other Poems.
Oxford, Henry Parker, 1843. Small 8vo, pp xii, 308, complete with both errata slip and advertisement slip at
the rear, original blind stamped deep lilac cloth, paper label which is rubbed but still in part legible, cloth
slightly discolored in places, with early library paper label at foot of spine and early stamps of St Patrick's
College, Maynooth to endpapers and dedication leaf, else a good sound tight copy,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY , inscribed ' Eleanor Ashworth Taylor from A de V. De Vere's second
volume of verse, following the Waldenses of the precious year, and somewhat scarcer than that volume. This
collection id dedicated to the poet dramatist Henry Taylor, and the presentation is apparently to his daughter
Eleanor. [1847-1911], who under her married name of Towle would go on to write a number novels, as well as
memoirs of the Coleridge children. An important inscribed copy of a scarce work of Irish poetry. £75.00
63. DE VERE, AUBREY.: May Carols. London, Longman etc, 1857. Small 8vo, pp xii, [4], 126, [2], [24,
publishers' catalogue], original blind stamped sage green cloth, spine rubbed and faded, worn and frayed at
head, but still a good sound copy,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 'J M Herbert esq from the Author July 10.60.' One of the most
important of De Vere's early collections of devotional verse. Scarce. £60.00
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64. DRAMA. DUNLAP WILLIAM.: Memoirs of George Fred Cooke, Esq. Late of the Theatre Royal,
Covent Garden...composed from the personal knowledge of the author, and from the manuscript
journals left ny Mr Cooke. London, Henry Colburn, 1813. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp xiv, 344: vi, 362, with portrait
frontispiece in volume one, bound in contemporary half calf, rubbed and lacking labels, boards of first volume
detached, else a sound clean set for rebacking, FIRST EDITION, a highly significant theatrical memoir based
upon original material. Cooke was an influential figure in the theatrical profession; he died of alcoholism in New
York and has been described as 'the first fully romantic actor in England.' £60.00
65. DRAMA. SERLE, THOMAS JAMES.: Tender Precautions; or the Romanc eof Marriage. A New and
Original Comedy in One Act. London, Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1851]. 12mo, pp 28, bound in contemporary half
red roan calf, slightly rubbed but sound, a very good copy,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS WIFE, Cecilia, nee Novello, sister of Cowden
Clarke who had fond and detailed memoirs of Serle and the literary and theatrical circle who met together in
his house. Clarke quotes also from a similar inscribed copy of Serle's first drama 'The Shadow on the Wall' of
1835. A very charming association copy of a rare Victorian play £45.00
66. EDUCATION. THIERSCH, FRIEDRICH.: Aphorismen in der Schrift...uber gelehrte Schulen mit
besonderer ruchsischt auf Bauern. Frankfurt, Ludwig Reinberg, 1827. Small 8vo, pp 94, contemporary
flush boards, old library bookplate but no stamps, a fine copy, FIRST EDITION, an important account of
Thiersch's important education reforms in the schools of Bavaria. £25.00
67. GARNETT, RICHARD.: Poems from the German. London, Bell and Daldy, 1862. Small 8vo, pp vi, 119,
[1], with advert leaf and half title, bound in original blind stamped cloth, occasional light foxing, but a very
good bright copy, FIRST EDITION. A scarce collection of translations, Garnett's second publication after
'Primula' / '10 in Egypt.'; since 1851 he had been an assistant in the reading room of the British Museum,
rising eventually to become Keeper of Printed Books. A scarce volume that was poorly received at the time.
£35.00
68. GREENWELL, DORA.: Carmina Crucis. London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. Small 8vo, pp xii, 136, [4], a few
small illustrations as head or tailpieces, bound in original decorated bevel edged cloth, gilt, faded to spine, else
fine, FIRST EDITION; a religious mystical poet in the same vein as Christina Rossetti and George Macdonald.
This volumes is said to shoe her at her best. £45.00
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69. HOWARD, PHILIP, [OF CORBY CASTLE].: A Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer. By Philip Howard of
Corby Castle, 1808. Carlisle, Printed by Charles Thurnam, 1845. Small 8vo, pp 10, printed in red and black
within lined borders, bound in contemporary full calf, a fine copy,
FIRST EDITION; possibly unique; at least apparently unrecorded. Philip Howard, prominent English Catholic of
Corby Castle [1730 -1810] apparently wrote this paraphrase in 1808. His widow has inscribed this copy to her
son Philip H Howard thus: '...from his loving mother Catherine Mary Howard who had this paraphrase printed
Jan 18 '46.' Bound at the end of this copy is a neatly calligraphically written manuscript of the Latin Dies Irae
with English translation beneath, 12 pages, this not attributed but one assumes by Philip Howard also. £85.00
70. IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY.: All the Blocks! or an Antidote to 'All the Talents' A Satirical Poem.
In Three Dialogues. By Flagellum. London, for Matthews and Leigh, 1807, 8vo, pp xix, [1], 76, [4, adverts],
half title, uncut in later wrappers, a very good copy,
FIRST EDITION, a political satire. £35.00
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71. IRISH POETRY. FERGUSON, SAMUEL.: Lays of the Western Gael, and other Poems. London, Bell
and Daldy, 1865. Small 8vo, pp vi, 248, bound in original cloth, decorative gilt, spine a little faded and with
small nick to upper joint, else a very good clean bright copy,
FIRST EDITION; this first collection of Ferguson's verse represents an important landmark in the Gaelic revival
that W B Yeats would come to represent slightly later in the century; Ferguson gad long been a distinguished
Irish antiquarian and scholar, but this publication led to his honorary doctorate from Trinity. £75.00
72. JAMESON, ANNA.: Memoirs and Essays Illustrative of Art, Literature and Social Morals. London,
Richard Bentley, 1846. 8vo, pp [6], 298, well bound in contemporary half calf, spine gilt decorated with raised
bands, slightly rubbing but an excellent attractive copy, FIRST EDITION, Mrs Jameson's collection of essays
includes her most famous essay 'The House of Titian' as well as a valuable study of Adelaide Kemble. £35.00
73. JESUITS. MORSE, SAMUEL B.: The Proscribed German Student: being a sketch of the some
interesting incidents in the life and melancholy death of the late Lewis Clausing...to which is added
a Treatise on the Jesuits. New-York, Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1836. Small 12mo, pp 244, original blind
stamped cloth, joints in places worn through, else a good clean copy, FIRST EDITION; the curious story of the
paranoid Clausing who, believing himself to be pursued by Jesuit spies, shot himself in New York in 1836,
despite the ministrations of Samuel Morse, who published this tract afterwards - an early tribute to conspiracy
theory. £10.00
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74. LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN.: The Poems of Joseph Sheridan le Fanu edited by Alfred Perceval
Graves. London, Downey and co, 1896. Small 8vo, pp xxviii, 165, [3], portrait frontispiece, uncut in original
decorated sage green cloth, gilt, endpapers lightly browned, minor rubbing, but a very good copy,
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, including le Fanu's early and uncollected periodical work. Though hardy know in
the field of poetry Le Fanu did make a minor contribution to the romantic poetry of Ireland, all of it contained
within this small posthumous publication. £85.00
75. LEVY, JOHN [ATTRIB].: Bob Norberry or Sketches from the Note Book of an Irish Reporter.
Dublin, James Duffy, 1844 [engraved title dated 1846]. 8vo, pp viii, 360, with frontispiece, extra vignette title
an 16 etched plates, by Henry Macmanus [and others], original blind stamped green cloth, rubbed and with
worn patches to lower joint, one gather slightly pulled, but a nice clean copy, FIRST EDITION, said to be edited
by 'Captain Prout' probably a pseudonym for John Levy. £25.00
76. LEWIS, M.G.: Tales of Wonder; Written and Collected by M G Lewis. Dublin, P Wogan, 1805. 8vo, pp
[6], 376, bound in contemporary half calf, spine gilt with black label, a little rubbed and chipped at foot of
spine, joints cracked but sound, a good copy, SECOND DUBLIN EDITION, the first edition having been in two
volumes; A collection of Gothic ballads, many of them translations from continental sources by Lewis himself,
as well as Robert Southey and Walter Scott. £25.00
77. LILLY, WILLIAM [AND ELIAS ASHMOLE].: Mr William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, From
the Year 1602, to 1681. Writtne by himself in the 66th Year of his Age, to his worthy Friend Elias
Ashmole, Esq. Published from the Original Manuscript. London, reprinted by Charles Baldwyn, 1822. 8vo,
pp [4], 260, with frontispiece portrait, [lightly foxed] and 11 engraved portrait plates, bound in contemporary
half calf, spine gilt paneled with black label, top panel of spine chipped away, else a good sound clean copy,
FIRST EDITION of this reprint, which includes a good series of portraits; Ashmole's tribute to his old friend
comprised editing the manuscript of his autobiography [now in the Bodleian] and completing it down to Lilly's
death. Though not much of a literary effort it throws much light on the life of this 17th Century astrologer, who
by some was blamed for the Great Fire of London [which supposedly he predicted]. first printed in 1715 it was
reprinted as part of Ashmole's autobiography in 1771. £25.00
78. LORD DUNDREARY.: Lord Dundreary and His Brother Sam: The Strange Story of their
Adventures and Family History. London, J B Thomson, 1862. 8vo, pp 95, half title with dedication, 15
plates, including frontispiece bound in contemporary binders cloth, spine slightly faded, but a very good copy,
SIXTH EDITION; Lord Dundreary was the creation of Thomas Taylor in a play acted by the comedian actor
Edward Sothern, to whom this short novella is dedicated and who appears in the illustrations. Apparently based
upon Sothern's monologues from the play this is a spin off of a spin off by an anonymous hand. Dundreary is
the prototype of all upper class idiots in comic portrayal to the present day, and his brother Sam matched his
idiocy. Dundreary also gave his name to a kind of profuse side whiskers popular in Victorian times as well as a
species of malapropism, making him at least historically of interest. The present novella passed through
several editions in the same year though none are common. £20.00
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79. MAURICE, THOMAS.: Brahminical Fraud Detected; or the Attempts of the Sacerdopal Tribe of
India to invent their fabulous deities and heroes with the honors and attributes of the Christian
Messiah, Examined, Exposed, and Defeated. I n a series of letters. London, for the Author, 1812. 8vo,
pp [4], viii, 140, [4, adverts], uncut in original boards, upper board detached, Law Society Bookplates , the
Mendham copy inscribed 'From the Author', FIRST EDITION. Maurice was an eminent oriental scholar but
somewhat narrow minded in his religious beliefs. He gives a detailed and knowledgeable argument here for
presenting the Brahmin religion as having derived directly from Christianity, and against 'a new pretender,
Salivahana, to the honors of the Christian Messiah.' £20.00
80. MAXWELL, W.H.: The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his man Mark Anthony O'Toole. London,
William Tegg, circa 1870. 8vo, pp [4], 412, with 8 etched plates by John Leech, well bound by Whitelaw and
Fensham in contemporary half green calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and red label,
A fine bright copy of this later printing. £35.00
81. MELVILLE, HERMAN.: Typee. A Peep at Polynesian Life, during a Four Months' Residence in a
Valley of the Marquesas...the revised edition, with a sequel. New York, Wiley and Putnam, 1847. 8vo, pp
xiv, 307, [4], xvi-xxiii, frontispiece map, original slate gray blind-stamped cloth, lightly faded to spine, one leaf
with small brown stain, else a fine copy,
FOURTH PRINTING; the revised version with The Story of Toby added. A common enough book that was first
published the previous year, but not so common in this condition. £75.00
82. MIFORD, JOHN.: The Suppressed Poem. A Peep into W______r Castle, after the Lost Mutton.
With Additions and Notes by Mr J Mitford of Mitford Castle. London, W Benbow, 1820. 8vo, pp 24,
disbound, very good, FIRST EDITION, a satire on George IV. £35.00
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83. MINOR POETRY. JOHNSTON, CHARLES OF DANSON.: Sonnets, Original and Translated, by the
late Charles Johnston, Esq of Danson, Kent, and formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge. London, John
Murray, 1823. 8vo, pp [12], 173, [7], with lithographed portrait frontispiece, well bound in contemporary calf,
side with gilt panelling, spine gilt with raised bands and olive label, slightly rubbed, but a very good copy,
FIRST EDITION; the sonnets of this poet who died in 1823 at the age of 31 and which were edited for
publication by his uncle are either translated from, or in imitation of, the Italian, and the former have printed
their original Italian texts facing. £45.00
84. MINSTREL SONG BOOK.: Christy's Panorama Songster; containing the Songs sung by The
Christy, Campbell, Pierce's Minstrels, and Sable Brothers. New York, William B Murphy, circa 1850. Small
12mo, pp [4], 71-137, 36-37, wood-engraved frontispiece and text wood-engravings, original printed pale
yellow wrappers, a little rubbed and used but a very good copy,
?FIRST EDITION, certainly the only edition we have been able to trace, all copies having the same peculiar
pagination. A standard and well known collection of early American minstrel songs with amusing woodcut
illustrations. Scarce in good complete state. £75.00
85. MOIR, DAVID MACBEATH.: The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith. Written by Himself.
Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1828. Small 8vo, pp [2], 374, [2], nicely bound in contemporary half black calf,
spine gilt with dark green label, lightly rubbed but a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; parts of this classic of
Scottish fiction had appeared in Blackwood's magazine. £25.00
86. MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY [EDITED MARY ASTELL].: The Letters and Works of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu. Edited by Her Great Grandson Lord Wharncliffe. London, Richard Bentley, 1837. 3
volumes, 8vo, 5 engraved portraits, bound in contemporary half calf, spines gilt and blind, rubbed, and with
labels chipped or missing, else a sound set, SECOND EDITION; the first printing of the famous letters by this
female traveler to the East to be edited from the originals, with a valuable account of her life. £30.00
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87. MOORE, THOMAS.: Irish Melodies...with an Appendix, containing the original advertisements,
and the prefatory letter on music. London, J Power, 1821. Small 8vo, pp xii, 259, vignette text woodengravings, uncut in original boards, paper label, spine rubbed and surface chipped in parts, but a sound clean
and tight copy, scarce in this original state, FIRST EDITION THUS, with the words alone printed for the first
time without the music, a great classic or Irish romantic poetry, almost always found rebound, here in good
original boards, uncut. £25.00
88. MORALITY PLAYS.: The Digby Plays with an incomplete 'Morality' of Wisdom, who is Christ [Part
of one of the Macro Moralies]....edited by F J Furnivall. London, Kegan Paul, 1896. 8vo, pp xxxii, 239,
uncut, well bound in contemporary prize half red morocco for Manchester Grammar School, a very good copy,
SECOND EDITION, reissued from the plates of the first issued in 1882. An Early English Text Society
publication; With supreme scholarly obfuscation Furnival places a note at the front explaining how and why the
'Morality of Wisdom' is not printed here though mentioned on the title page!. £35.00
89. MUSIC. CUSINS, WILLIAM G. [EDITOR].: Songs from the Published Writings of Alfred Tennyson
Poet Laureate set to music by various composers. London, C Kegan Paul and co, 1880. 4tp, pp viii, 356,
music throughout, finely bound in contemporary full dark green morocco, sides and spine gilt, raised bands, a
little rubbed at joints and edges, head of spine with a very small chip, still a very good copy, FIRST EDITION;
this collection of 45 song settings to words by the Poet Laureate was appropriately enough edited by the
William Cusins, a long forgotten Master of the Queen's Music. Whilst most of the contributions were original it
is noticeable that the more prominent English composers represented -Sullivan, Stanford, Parry - all provided
old material from their voluminous stables. Not a possibility for the foreign contributors we find original English
song contributions by international figures like Joseph Joachim [one wonders if Brahms was first approached],
Raff, Saint Saens and Massenet, who contributed a now neglected version of 'Come into the Garden Maud.'
Remarkably perhaps the aged Franz Liszt was induced to write his only English song setting - 'Go not, happy
day.' - one of the simplest settings in the whole collection. £50.00
90. NAPOLEONIC WARS.: Memoirs of the Marchioness de Larochejaquelein. With a Map of the
Theatre of War in La Vendee. Translated from the French. Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1816. 8vo, pp
viii, 535, folding hand-coloured map, bound in contemporary half roan calf, spine gilt ruled, but worn and
cracked at joints, internally slightly browned but sound, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, a significant Napoleonic
memoir. £15.00
91. NICOLAS, SIR HARRIS.: The History of the Battle of Agincourt, and of the Expedition of Henry
the Fifth into France, in 1415; to Which is Added, the Roll of the Men at Arms, in the English Army.
London, Johnson & Co, 1832. 8vo, pp xvi, 404, [2], 106, wood-engraved colour frontispiece, 1 plate on India
paper, 2 hand coloured plans, 3 folding maps, original blindstamped cloth with paper label, label and joints a
little rubbed, but an excellent clean bright copy,
SECOND AND BEST EDITION; first published in 1827, a classic account of this battle, much enlarged and rewritten here. £60.00
92. PIOZZI, HESTER. HAYWARD, A. [EDITOR].: Autobiography Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs
Piozzi [Thrale]. Edited with notes...by A Hayward. London, Longmans, 1861. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp [8],
358: [8], 407, [1], 2 frontispieces, bound in contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands and
double red/black labels, three of which are neat replacements, a little rubbed but a very good attractive set,
FIRST EDITION; from the library of Joseph Morant with his bookplates. £40.00
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93. RADICALS.: The North of England Magazine, a Monthly Journal of Politics, Literature, Science
and Art. Vol I. Manchester, Simpson and Gillett, 1842. 8vo, pp [8], 576, with several etched plates, bound in
contemporary half calf, light foxing to plates else a very good clean tight copy, FIRST EDITION, comprising the
first nine numbers of this rather high brow Manchester periodical with many radical contributors which ran to
only one further volume before changing its name and format. The six etched illustrations are by Charles Allan
Du Val and include his own etching from his popular painting 'The Ruined Gamester.' £35.00
94. REEVE, CLARA.: The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story. London, J Mawman, 1802. 12mo, pp xi, [1],
264, engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, bound in contemporary half red roan with black label, rubbed and
worn to head of spine, light spotting and stains, but a sound tight copy, SEVENTH EDITION, a seminal Gothic
novel, first published in 1777 as 'The Champion of Virtue', and under this title the following year. The set of
plates, described as 'new designs' was evidently added to the sixth edition of 1799. £60.00
95. RUNCIMAN, JAMES.: The Chequers: being the Natural History of a Public-House, set forth in a
Loafer's Diary edited by James Runciman. London, Ward and Downey, [1888]. 8vo, pp [8], 232, well
bound in contemporary half maroon smooth calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands and olive green label,
slightly rubbed but a nice copy,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HIS NEPHEW, Walter Runciman. Coming from a
Methodist background it is hardly surprising to find that Runciman's pub tales have a certain temperance
advocacy about them, but he writes with a curiously appealing wit that may not always be quite intentional.
Runciman died of over-work a few years later. £60.00
96. RUSSELL, GEORGE. 'A.E.': Deidre A Drama in Three Acts by A.E. Dublin, Mansel and co, 1907. Square
12mo, pp 53, [1], uncut in original printed yapped wrappers, last leaf foxed, else a very good copy, FIRST
EDITION THUS, in the series of Tower Press Booklets, previously published in magazine form. An Irish
mythological subject also commandeered by Yeats. £25.00
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97. SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL. .: A Poet's Harvest Home. being One Hundred Short Poems. London, Elliot
Stock, 1882. Small 8vo, pp xi, [1], 155, [1], with wood-engraved title vignette and colophon vignette by the
author, uncut in original pictorial vellum stamped in orange brown, lightly soiled but a very good tight sound
copy,
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'J H Shorthouse with kindest compliments from WBS May 1882.'
Scott was a minor poet and artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and closely associated with D G Rossetti in
his later years. This neatly printed volume of late verse is dedicated to W M Rossetti, 'in memory of the
friendship of half a lifetime.' £50.00
98. SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM.: Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. Published
according to the True Originall Copies. London, Isaac Jaggard and Ed Blount 1623 [reprinted by J Wright,
1807]. Tall large folio, Shakespeare portrait on title page with 'To the Reader' facing, type facsimile text, bound
in contemporary diced morocco, sides gilt paneled, boards detached, internally a clean fine copy for rebacking.
The first attempt to reproduce the great First Folio for the benefit of Shakespeare scholars and fans, of whom
Keats apparently was one. Unfortunately the text, attractively presented as it is, proved not very accurate
typographically speaking. Upcott who went to some lengths to enumerate the corrections was rewarded with
no more than a 5 guinea copy of the original faulty text.
Nevertheless is it is a breathtaking production in terms of size, later to be excelled by the Victorians, and
possibly the first attempt to put Shakespeare back into folio since the 17th Century. £200.00
99. SHARP, WILLIAM [PSEUD FIONA MACLEOD].: The Immortal Hour. A Drama in Two Acts.
Edinburgh, T N Foulis, 1908. 8vo, pp xi, [3], 53, [1], title in red and black, original hessian backed boards, gilt,
paper label, spine and edges a bit rubbed as usual, else a good copy, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500
COPIES. This Celtic based supernatural drama would form the basis for Rutland' Boughton's highly successful
1914 opera of the same name. £25.00
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100. SASSOON, SIEGFRIED [ASSOCIATION COPY].: The Amulet, a Christian and Literary
Remembrancer. Edited by S C Hall. London, Frederick Westley and A H Davis, 1832. Small 8vo, pp318, [6],
12 engraved plates, original dark green morocco, slightly rubbed but a very good copy,
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM SIEGFRIED SASSOON, 'To P Morrell accompanied by the
most Christian & Literary sentiments of Cyprian Oyde. Dec 25 1922.' Sassoon was evidently in the habit of
giving these kind of small offerings to the Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell as Christmas presents. The light
hearted inscription mocks the book's title and reflects Sassoon's Garsington nickname 'Cyprian Oyde' -always
'carping' on about small matters. See lot 136 Christies sale of Books from the Library of Lady Ottoline Morrell,
Nov 1st 2006. £120.00
101. SOUTHEY, ROBERT.: A Letter to William Smith, Esq. M.P. from Robert Southey. London, John
Murray, 1817. 8vo, pp [2], 45, disbound, corners a little dog-earred, the last with a short tear, else good,
FIRST EDITION. 'Southey addresses the attacks of William Smith against him. Rising to speak during the
debate on the Seditious Meetings Bill on 14 March 1817, Smith had theatrically produced from one pocket a
copy of Wat Tyler; from his other pocket, he pulled out the October 1816 Quarterly Review, with the page
marked at Southey's article on parliamentary reform. After reading an excerpt from each, Smith then
magisterially concluded: "It must remain with the government, and their legal advisers, to take what steps
they might deem most advisable to repress this seditious work, and punish its author." £35.00
102. SPAIN, DENNIS, GEORGE.: The Cid: A Short Chronicle founded on the Early Poetry of Spain.
London, Charles Knight, 1845. 12mo, pp 220, with wood-engraved frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations,
pleasantly bound in contemporary full red calf, sides with gilt borders, spine gilt with raised bands and slightly
chipped olive label, a little rubbed, but a nice copy,
FIRST EDITION, a popular but scholarly contribution to the knowledge of Spanish literature fashionable at the
time in England. £25.00
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103. SPAIN. LLORENTE, JEAN ANTOINE.: The History of the Inquisition of Spain, from the time of its
establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII, composed from the original documents of the archives
of the Supreme Council...abridged and translated. London, G B Whittaker, 1826. 8vo, pp xx, 583, [1],
uncut in original pink boards, upper board detached, spine chipped, else a very good copy for rebacking, FIRST
EDITION IN ENGLISH, a standard study, translated from the Spanish original, 'a free translation of a complex
and voluminous history', its author 'formerly secretary of the inquisition'. Scarce. £35.00
104. SPENCE, JOSEPH.: Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men. Collected from
the Conversation of Mr.Pope, and other Eminent Persons of his Time...Now First Published from the
Original Papers. London, W.H. Carpenter, 1820. 8vo, pp xxxix, [1], 501, [1, errata], engraved portrait
frontispiece, well bound in contemporary half straight grained morocco, a little rubbed to the sides but sound,
frontispiece a little waterstained and offset onto title, but a very good copy, FIRST EDITION; this is in fact one
of two editions which appeared about the same time, this edited by Samuel Weller Singer being greatly
superior to the other by Edmund Malone. A valuable source on early 18th Century literature in England.
£45.00
105. STONESTREET, GEORGE [ATTRIB].: Bodiam Castle. A Poem in Six Cantos. With Notes. London,
Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818. 8vo, pp [4], 300, with half title, well bound in contemporary full tan calf,
sides with triple gilt fillet borders and inner panelling, spine gilt with raised bands and black label, a little
rubbed but a very pleasant copy,
FIRST EDITION; the attribution to this historical poem in the style of Scott to Stonestreet seems likely as he
wrote similar poetry about this locality in Sussex. £75.00
106. STRICKLAND, AGNES.: The Seven Ages of Woman, and Other Poems. London, Hurst, Chance and
co, 1827. Small 8vo, pp viii, 152, half title, uncut in original boards, sometime early respined in paper, rubbed,
else a good copy, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 'To J B Kirby Esq from the Author.'. The
second of this author's three volumes of verse, written before she turned towards historical writing. £60.00
107. TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD.: Maud and other Poems. London, Moxon, 1855. Small 8vo, pp [5], 154,
[1, adverts], 8 page publisher's catalogue inserted at front, dated August 1855, uncut in original blind stamped
cloth, slight faded and chaffing to spine at head, else a very nice bright clean copy, FIRST EDITION, second
issue adverts. £20.00
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108. TIN MINING. SMITH, GEORGE.: The Cassiterides: an inquiry into the Commercial Operations of
the Phoenicians in Western Europe, with particular reference to the British tin trade. London,
Longman etc, 1863. 8vo, pp vii, [1], 154, [2, adverts], original cloth, gilt, uncut and unopened, spine slightly
faded else fine, FIRST EDITION; scarce; the work of a West Country historian and industrialist who had a
particular interest in the Cornish tin trade, believing it to be the original site of the 'Cassiterides' in opposition
to other historians such as W D Cooley. Scarce. £35.00
109. TROLLOPE, ANTHONY [ET AL].: The Cornhill Magazine. Vol I [-Vol IV]. London, Smith, Elder and
Co, Jan 1860- Dec 1861. 4 volumes, stout 8vo, with plates, including some by Millais, folding plates by Richard
Doyle, finely bound in contemporary half tan calf, spines gilt with raised bands and black labels, a fine bright
set throughout, FIRST EDITION of the first four volumes, cover two years of publication of this, the most
important English literary periodicla of the period with contributions by , amongst others Thackeray and George
Macdonald, and most notably in the present run, the complete serialization of Trollope's Framley Parsonage,
with the original illustrations. Though quite commonly met with, this is an unusually fine and attractively bound
set free from foxing, and with the original folding plates of Richard Doyle, as well as other illustrations intact,
some still with their original loose tissue guards. £75.00
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ILLUSTRATED, ART AND ARCHITECTURE.
110. BELLAMY, DANIEL.: Ethic Amusements. By Mr Bellamy. Revised by his son D Bellamy, M.A.
Chaplain of Petersham and Kew, in Surry. London, Printed by W Faden for the Author, 1768. 4to, pp [6],
iii-ix, [3], 260 with 50 engraved plates by George Bickham, including 5 in text, including frontispiece, bound in
contemporary half calf, spine gilt ruled with raised bands, rubbed at corners and edges and to the marbled
sides, light offsetting from the plates, minor faults only, generally a sound clean tight copy, FIRST EDITION;
"The two chief sections of the book are: 1. pp. 1-150. The comforts of philosophy ... from the Latin of ...
Boetius. By William Causton and Mr. Bellamy. -- 2. pp. 209-251. Aesop at Court; or, the Labyrinth of
Versailles. The Fables of Aesop translated into French verse by Isaac de Benserade and inscribed on the
fountains in the Labyrinth at Versailles, with notes and an English translation by D. Bellamy." £150.00
111. CLAXTON, FLORENCE [ILLUSTRATOR].: 'Married Off' A Satirical Poem by H.B. London, Ward and
Lock, 1860. 8vo, pp 75, [1], 8 wood-engraved plates by Florence Claxton, original blind-stamped cloth,
lettered in gilt, minor rubbing only, a fine clean copy, FIRST EDITION, very scarce and likely to be Florence
Claxton's only excursion in book illustration [as opposed to collections of illustrations]. The subject of this
pseudonymous poem would of course suit the feminist interests displayed elsewhere in her work, although her
satire on the Pre-Raphaelites 'The Choice of Paris', from about the same period as this book, remains her most
famous piece. This title is scarce, especially in such a nice copy. £60.00
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112. COBBOLD, RICHARD.: Valentine Verses; or, Lines of Truth, Love and Virtue. Ipswich, printed and
sold by E Shalders, 1827. 8vo, pp xv, [1], 262, etched frontispiece, 2 portraits and a colophon leaf, 99 etchings
by the author illustrating 99 poems, errata slip at the end, uncut, bound in later buckram cloth backed marbled
boards, rubbed and a little worn at edges, paper label, occasional light soiling, but generally sound and clean
internally,
FIRST EDITION; PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Miss Haworth from the Author.'; the work of an Ipswich
curate, now largely remembered for his novel 'The History of Margaret Catchpole', but at this stage of his
career evidently torn between art and poetry, at neither of which did he excel, although the imaginative range
and treatment of subjects displayed in his early Valentine Verses is quite remarkable, suggesting a man with a
great deal of times, as well as funds, on his hands. 'Never without a pen, pencil or paint-brush in his hand'
says DNB, which describes the illustrations here as 'spirited pen and ink etchings.' COPAC describes copies as
having 104 plates, although there are only 103 here, but the book appears to be complete. One of the plates a hunting scene -is folding. £125.00
113. COLLIER, JOHN.: The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin, Esq; Containing his View of the
Lancashire Dialect; with large additions and Improvements. Also...the Flying Dragon and the Man of
Heaton. Together with other his Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse. Manchester, Printed for
the Author and Mr Hastingden, 1775. 12mo [in '6's], pp 69, [1], [44], 115-201, [1], 33, without the final
errata leaf found in some copies, with engraved frontispiece portrait of 'Tim Bobbin' and 10 engraved plates [as
called for on the title page], bound in slightly later half calf, neatly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down,
lightly browned but a good copy, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION THUS, the first of several early collective
editions, preceded by Tim Bobin's Toy Shop, a collection with differing content; this dialect poetry and humor
in the form of various pieces originally printed in the 1730's onwards by 'Tim Bobin', i.e. John Collier, whose
popularity continued well into the 18th century. The frontispiece of this edition is dated 1773. Collier was as
much a humorous artist in the style of Hogarth as he was a poet, and the illustrations for all the editions are
charming and lively. As with all popular literature of the period decent copies such as this are hard to find.
£75.00
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114. COX, EDWARD YOUNG.: The Art of Garnishing Churches at Christmas and other Times. A
Manuel of Directions. Edited and re-written by the Rev Ernest Geldart. London, Cox sons, Buckley and
co, 1884. Large 8vo, pp 70, with frontispiece and 25 lithographed plates, plus 14 leaf illustrated catalogue of
materials supplied by Cox at the end, original decorated black on cream cloth, a little soiled, a couple of ex
library stamps, else a good clean copy, SECOND EDITION, NEW ISSUE; a useful guide to the Victorian art of
church festival decoration. £25.00
115. FAIRHOLT, F.W.: Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the Close
of the Eighteenth Century. To Which is Appended an Illustrated Glossary of Terms for all Articles of
Use of Ornament Worn About the Person. London, Chapman & Hall, 1846. 8vo, pp xv, 618, C. 600 wood
engravings in text by the author, bound in slightly later half calf, spine with raised bands, edges gilt, minor
rubbing to joints else a fine clean copy,
FIRST EDITION, the worthy successor to Planche as the authority on English costume. £50.00
116. GOOD, ARTHUR 'TOM TIT'.: Caricatures. London, New Age Press, 1913. Tall folio, title page, index and
61 full page caricature plates printed by off-set litho, orignal buckram cloth, a very good copy, with a colour
Tom Tit plate extracted from the Sphere mounted at the end,
FIRST EDITION. Despite the very English nature of his subjects in this book the author was in fact French and
largely know for his French illustrated publications of a scientific nature that were later taken up by the
surrealists for purposes of collage. This present collection includes political social and artist celebrities of the
day and is not common. £45.00
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117. HONE, WILLIAM.: The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, a National Toy, with Fourteen Step Scenes,
and Illustrations in Verse with eighteen other cuts. London, William Hone, 1820. 8vo, pp 22, [2,
adverts], 18 wood-engraved text illustrations by George Cruikshank, bound in later neat half calf, gilt lettered,
corner of one leaf torn without loss of text, else a good copy, EIGHTEEN EDITION; as often without the
cardboard toy ladder referred to in the title. £35.00
118. MACDOUGALL, W.B. [ILLUSTRATOR].: The Blessed Damozel by D.G. Rossetti Introduction by W
M Rossetti Decorations by W B Macdougall. London, Duckworth and Co, 1898. Small 4to, pp xvii, [1],
[36], with photogravure frontispiece after D G Rossetti, page decorations in wood engraved wide borders
throughout by W B MacDougall, uncut in original linen backed cloth, with gilt decoration to upper board, minor
rubbing to spine, minor spotting, but a very good to near fine copy, FIRST EDITION, a very desirable Art
Nouveau title, with a profusion of plant inspired decorations to the page borders. One of a series of illustrated
poems by Macdougall from this period, all somewhat hard to find in this kind of condition. £45.00
119. NERSIS CLAJENSIS, ST.: Preces Niersis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae: Viginti quatuor
linguis editae. Venice, In Insula S Lazari, 1823. Small 12mo, pp [6], 422, [2], engraved title page, portrait
frontispiece of St Nerses IV, his prayer printed in 24 different languages as edited by P Aucher including many
different typefaces, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and black label, slightly rubbed,
short splits to upper joints, but a clean tight copy,
SECOND EDITION of this beautifully printed collection of typographical specimens of the prayer of St Nersis, in
24 languages, printed by the Mechitharist monks at the Armenian island monastery of St Lazzaro, Venice. The
island was a favorite destination for tourists at this time, Byron included, and it is likely that visitors were
offered [for sale] copies of this book as a demonstration of the quality and versatility of the monastery's
printing presses which produced many fine Armenian books. The original printing of 1818 displayed only 16
languages in mainly European typefaces, but this second edition, enlarged by almost as much again, includes
24 languages, with several non European typefaces including Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Russian and Syriac.
£85.00
120. SEYMOUR, ROBERT [ILLUSTRATOR].: Comic Readings of Byron and Shakespear. Designed and
Drawn on Stone by the Late Robert Seymour. London, David Bogue, circa 1845. 5 parts in one volume
with general title page to the parts, each part with letter-press title page and adverts on the verso, followed by
10 lithographed humorous plates by Seymour, bound in slightly later half calf with black label, several plates
damaged at an early period by probably glue adherence in inner gutter and restored, some damage impinging
upon the plates, but most in good state throughout and with just minor marginal foxing, FIRST EDITION THUS,
the collective form of five of Seymour's 'New Readings of Old Authors' issued as a monthly publication in the
early 1830's each devoted to a different play by Shakespeare [and exceptionally the Giaour by Byon, included
here] and with 10 lithographed plates. These charming and witty collections are quite rare, but the Bodleian
possess a set of 15 of them with the plates hand-coloured, a set which does not feature 'Pericles' included
here. The other numbers apart from this and the Byron are: Tit Andronicus, Anthony & Cleopatra and King
Lear. £50.00
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121. SOLOMON, FREDERICK [ILLUSTRATOR].: Leider und Balladen aus dem Harz mit Zeichnungen
von Fritz Salomonski. [?Berlin, 1917]. Square 8vo, pp 21, [3], recto typescript, with 3 full page pencil
drawings by Fritz Salmononski [i.e. Fredreick Solomon] dated June 1917, bound in contemporary cloth gilt
lettered on the upper board. The poems in this unique copy are by Georg Salomonski, who we surmise, with no
other evidence to go on, to have been the artist's brother. The three original drawings of densely wooded
German landscapes are by the German Expressionist artist, later Rabbi, Frederick Salomon, as he was known
when he later emigrated to America, having escaped Nazi persecution as a refugee coming to England in 1938.
Berlin based he was a distinguished singer as well as pupil of Max Liebermann and whose style can be
observed in these very early examples of his art. He later became a Rabbi and leading member of the Jewish
community; he died in 1980 at the age of 81 and his papers are now housed in the Milen Special Collections
Library at New Hampshire University. £35.00
122. SPANISH CIVIL WAR. CREIXAMS, PERE.: Infants. Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, circa 1936.
Set of 12 lithographed plates with 1 page of letterpress introduction, scenes of chidren in the Spanish Civil
War, enclosed in original printed pictorial folder, slightly torn and chipped at yapped edges, else in very good
state, FIRST EDITION; the regular edition -there was also a limited one, which was sold, apparently quite
widely, to supporters of the Republican cause in England and elsewhere, naively propagandist and left wing in
its sentiments, the work of a Catalan illustrator of the period. £35.00
123. TYPOGRAPHY. THIBAUDEAU, F.: Manuel Francais de Typographie Moderne faisant suite a La
Lettre d'Imprimerie. Paris, au Beaureau de l'Edition, [1924]. Thick small 4to, pp xvi, 583, [7], illustrated
throughout with type specimens, printers ornaments, specimen pages including some in colour, uncut in
original printed wrappers, minor rubbing only, a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, a popular manual for the
French jobbing printer of the period, illustrating the many decorative styles prevalent in French commercial
printing at this period. £45.00
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
124. HANWAY, JONAS.: Advice from Farmer Trueman, to his Daughter Mary, upon her going to
service. In a series of Discourses, designed to promote the welfare and true interest of
servants...abridged by consent of the Author, from the works of Jonas Hanway. Pontefract, B
Bookthroyd, 1805. 12mo, pp [4], 208, disbound, a good sound copy. Numerous editions of this abridgment for
servants of Hanway's 'Advice from a Farmer to his Daughter' [or 'Virtue in Private Life '] appeared towards the
end of the 18th century, the earliest recorded in COPAC being the Edinburgh edition of 1789. All editions are
rare, however and this Pontefract is not recorded in COPAC, although Stanford, US, appear to have a copy.
The title page state 'A New Edition with Corrections and Attempts towards further Improvements.' Hanway
had died in 1789 but this tract continued to be put out by the Unitarians well into the 19th Century. £60.00
125. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL.: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. London, Henry G Bohn, 1852
[i.e.1851]. Small 8vo, pp vi, 213, wood engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, edges gilt, original decorated red
cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, a little rubbed and frayed at spine ends, light corner rubbing, light occasional
foxing to plates, but a very good bright copy, FIRST LONDON EDITION, from one month after the first
American. A classic collection of children's tales based upon Greek mythology. Scarce in this condition. £75.00
126. HOOD, THOMAS.: The Headlong Career and Woful Ending of Precocious Piggy. By the Late
Thomas Hood. Illustrated by his son. London, Griffith and Farran, 1864. 4to, 20 leaves, including final
advert leaf, hand coloured illustrations throughout, original cloth backed pictorial pink boards, a little marked,
slight corner wear, internally with minor soiling only but generally bright and clean, a good copy,
FOURTH EDITION; a popular hand-coloured picture book that went through several printings from its first
appearance in 1859. £80.00
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127. HUGHES, THOMAS.: The Scouring of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a
London Clerk. Cambridge, Macmillan, 1859. Square 8vo, pp xi, [1], 228, [16, adverts, dated 1858], edges
gilt, double-page extra pictorial title, wood-engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle, original pictorial cloth, gilt
to upper board, blind to lower, minor rubbing only else a fine copy,
FIRST EDITION; a particularly bright example of Doyle's remarkable binding design. This copy was presented
on Han 6th 1859 by Professor [Adam] Sedgwick, who is considered to be one of the father figures of British
geology and guide to the young Darwin. Whether he had a hand or an interest in the scouring of White Horse
Hill in 1857, which gave rise to this story, one cannot know. The recipient was one Edward Francis Miller, who
was perhaps the son of Sedgwick's fellow professor -William Hallowes Miller, [Minerology]; the boy would have
been eleven years old at the time. £45.00
128. MURRY, ANN.: Mentoria: or, the Young Ladies Instructor, in Familiar Conversations on Moral
and Entertaining Subjects: Calculated to improve Young Minds In the Essential, as well as
Ornamental Parts of Female Education. London, C Dilly, 1794. 12mo, pp [14], 282, without the half title, 2
engraved plates, contemporary tree calf, boards detached, spine chipped, contents leaves misbound, a good
copy for rebacking, SEVENTH EDITION, early edition of this influential educational work for girls; ESTC records
2 copies UK and 3 copies North America. £45.00
129. NORTON, HON MRS. CAROLINE.: Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children...Adventures of a Wood
Sprite. The Story of Blanche and Brutikin. With Illustrations by John Absolon. London, Joseph Cundall,
1847. Small 4to, pp 53, [1], 8 tinted chalk lithograph plates by John Absolon, bound in contemporary half calf,
spine chipped at top portion, else very good internally, FIRST EDITION; although rebound and in a slightly
damaged contemporary binding, this is still a scarce children's fairy tale title [in verse] by Mrs Norton. This is
perhaps John Abolun's earliest and best work as book illustrator. £15.00
130. PENNY DREADFUL.: Tyburn Dick, the Prince of the Highwaymen. BOUND WITH: Will Dudley; or
the Scarlet Riders of Hounslow Heath. By W L Emmett. London, Hogarth House, circa 1880. 2 works in
one volume, bound from parts, pp 622; 210, numerous text wood-engravings, bound in contemporary binders
cloth, a bit worn and split to upper joint, spine faded, but internally sound and clean, EARLY EDITIONS from
the parts of two of the most popular Victorian highwayman penny dreadfuls. £50.00
131. POLLOCK'S JUVENILE DRAMA.: A collection of 6 Pantomimes, including Cinderella, Sleeping
Beauty, Forty Thieves, Whittington etc. London, B Pollock, 73 Hoxton Steet , 20th Century. 6 texts of 16
pages each, sewn as issued, in fine state, together with 13 miscellaneous sheets of scenery from various
productions, these a little tattered and torn, some in colour. These libretti for children was sold from Hoxton
Street over a long period of time, Opie suggests 1873-1937, but these look to be 20th century. £25.00
132. W., S.: A Visit to a Farm House; or, an Introduction to Various Subjects connected with Rural
Economy...by S.W. ..revised and corrected by T.H. London, William Darton, 1820. Small 12mo, pp iv, 168,
[169-176, adverts], with 10 engraved plates dated 1815, original roan backed marbled bards, rubbed and with
a little corner wear, text a little spotted and shaken, but a good copy, SEVENTH EDITION; the author of this
popular little work is unrecorded, but she wrote it originally in 1804 as a companion to 'A Visit to London'; the
significance of the revisions to this edition by 'T.H.' is not clear. £25.00
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TOPOGRAPHY, BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
133. CENSUS OF 1811.: Abstract of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to...'An Act for taking
an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof.' Preliminary
Observations. Enumeration Abstract. Parish-Register Abstract. MDCCCXI. [London, Luke Handsard],
'Ordered to be printed 2 July 1812.' Folio, pp xxxi, [3], 511, [3], 200, printed in tabular form throughout,
uncut in original printed boards, the boards detached, the paper of the sides and spine chipped at edges,
internally a fine copy, FIRST EDITION; the early census enumerations, from 1801 onwards, are valuable
largely for their detailed parish records which give valuable information of the social conditions of the time.
£30.00
134. ESSEX. NORDEN, JOHN.: Speculi Britanniae Pars: an Historical and Chorographical Description
of the County of Essex, by John Norden, 1594. Edited from the Original manuscript in the marquess
of Salisbury's library at Hatfield by Sir Henry Ellis. London, Camden Society, 1840. Small 4to, pp xliv, 42,
plus report, folding engraved map, original blind stamped cloth, slightly rubbed but a very good copy of the
FIRST EDITION; the map appears here for the first time. £15.00
135. ETHIOPIA. JUNCKER, CHRISTIAN.: Commentarius de vita, scriptisqve ac meritis illustris viri
Iobi Ludolfi, . adjectae sunt epistolae aliquot clarorum viorum, tum etiam specimen linguae
Hottentotticae. Leipzig & Frankfurt, 1710. 8vo, pp [14[, 228, [20, including errata leaf at end], engraved
portrait, folding genealogical table, bound in later cats'-paw calf, spine gilt with red label, upper board
detached else a fine copy,
FIRST EDITION, the very scarce life of Ludolph the great linguist of Ethiopian, including a vocabulary of
Hottentot translated to Latin and Dutch. £175.00
136. HEREFORDSHIRE. LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL.: A Glossary of Provincial Words used in
Herefordshire and some of the Adjoining Counties. London, John Murray, 1839. 12mo, pp x, 132,
disbound, duplicate stamp of London Library, a good binding copy, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy to the
London Library from the author. £30.00
137. LEWIS, SAMUEL.: A Topographical Dictionary of England...a Supplementary volume, comprising
a Representative History of England, with plans describing the Electoral Divisions of the Several
Counties, and the Former and Present Boundaries of the Cities and Boroughs. London, S Lewis, 1835.
Volume 5 [only, of 5], large 4to, pp viii, 81, [2], 5, with 116 full page maps of the county and borough
electoral boundaries as redrawn by the Act, the latter often with multiple maps per page, each hand-coloured
in outline, engraved borders, uncut in original silked cloth, neatly rebacked with original label laid down, title
page slightly creased and frayed but a very good sound clean copy, FIRST EDITION of this specially produced
atlas, required in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, with its redrawn boundaries; it formed volume five
of Lewis's Topographical Dictionary, third edition, the four volumes of which contained the usual series of
county maps, plan of London etc which occur in all editions. On its own, however, this volume constitutes a
quite separate and historically valuable work, here well preserved as a complete atlas. £200.00
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138. LONDON ILLUMINATION CONGRESS.: A London Symphony...Prepared and Published by the
London Committee of the International Illumination Congress, London, 1931. London, 1931. 8vo, pp
123, plates and text illustrations by Walter James throughout, folding map at end, bound in original smooth
red calf, with gilt design on upper board, light foxing but a very good copy, FIRST EDITION, a rare private
production guide book to London for visitors to the 1931 Congress, in specially designed binding. For the event
the major historical buildings of London were temporarily illuminated to show off the technical abilities of
British electrical engineering. £35.00
139. NORFOLK. ROOD-SCREENS. WINTER, C.J.W.: Illustrations of the Rood-Screen at Randworth
published under the direction of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. [ -Barton Turf Fritton]. Norwich, Miller and Leavens, 1867, 69, 72. 3 works bound in one volume, each with title page and
letterpress introductory descriptions, first work with 23 plates [29 images, some 2 to a plate] including one
chromolithograph, the second with 9 plates, the third with 4 plates, all lithographed by C J W Winter, bound in
later 19th Century binders' cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board, fore edge of boards slightly damp spotted,
slight spotting and creasing to one or two plates, but generally a good copy, FIRST EDITIONS of all three of
Winter's important studies of Norfolk rood-screens, and a valuable contribution to the iconography of the
mediaeval English church. £25.00
140. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. BAKER, ANNE ELIZABETH.: Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and
Phrases, with Examples of Their Colloquial Use...to which are added, The Customs of the County.
London, John Russell Smith, 1854. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp xviii, [2, errata], 410, [2]: [2], 439, [1], bound in
original blind stamped cloth, very slightly faded and chaffed to spine ends, but a fine tight set,
FIRST EDITION, based on the author's notes and researches when accompanying her brother, George Baker,
on his antiquarian travels around Northamptonshire. The resulting dictionary is one of the most complete
dialect lexicons of the period; and although a common enough title, is rarely met with in this condition. £85.00
141. RUSSIA. LACOMBE, JACQUES.: Histoire des Revolutions de l'Empire de Russie. Paris, Herissant,
1760. 12mo, pp viii, 412, bound in contemporary sheep, corners and spine worn, spine partly missing,
internally sound and clean, a good working or binding copy, FIRST EDITION. £45.00
142. RUSSIA. MRS VIGOR.: Letters from a Lady, who resided some years in Russia, to her friend in
England. With Historical Notes. London, J Dodsley, 1775. Small 8vo, pp viii, 207, [1], folding genealogical
chart of the Romanov family at the end, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands and red label,
but several chipped and flaking, internally lightly browned with light waterstains to lower margins, else a good
copy for rebacking, FIRST EDITION; a scarce and curious female memoir, by the wife of an English merchant
who traveled in Russia during the 1730's and who recounts many interesting anecdotes of the court of the
Empress Anne. A second edition appeared in 177 and a supplement of further letters at a later date. This is not
a brilliant copy, and would benefit from restoration. It does however bear the bookplate of Sir William
Jerningham, a family with strong literary connections. £125.00
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143. SOMERSET DIALECT. JENNINGS, JAMES.: The Dialect of the West of England. Particularly
Somersetshire; with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces
exemplifying the dialect. London, John Russell Smith, 1869. Small 8vo, pp xxiv, 167, original blind stamped
cloth, a little faded but a very good copy indeed, SECOND EDITION, based on the earlier work of 1825, much
revised. £45.00
144. SOMERSET DIALECT. JENNINGS, JAMES.: Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of
England, particularly Somersetshire: with a Glossary of Words now in use there; and poems and
other pieces exemplifying the dialect. London, Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1825. Small 8vo, pp xxiv, 191,
original cloth with paper label, upper joint split and repaired, a good clean copy, FIRST EDITION; an important
early contribution to dialect studies of the West of England. £50.00
145. WALES. BATTY, CAPTAIN ROBERT.: Welsh Scenery. London, John Murray, 1823. 8vo, pp viii, 35
small engraved plates with facing letterpress descriptions, well bound in contemporary straight grained dark
green morocco, sides elaborately decorated in gilt and blind paneling with central blind ornament, spine gilt
paneled within flat bands, rubbed, slight wear to corners and spine ends, a little offsetting and foxing as usual,
but generally a very good neat attractive copy, FIRST EDITION. The small format and printing of this Batty
collection make it a more charming and pleasing publication than many of his larger quarto format productions,
especially when so pleasantly bound as this. £35.00
146. YORKSHIRE PERIODICAL.: The Northern Star, or Monthly Magazine...of the Statistics,
Literature, Biography, Arts, Commerce, and Manufactures of Yorkshire and the Adjoining Counties.
July -December 1818. London, Baldwin Cradock and Joy [and John Ray, Sheffield], 1818. 8vo, pp [4], 472,
[4], advert leaf at front, 6 engraved plates of views including frontispiece, bound in contemporary half black
calf, spine gilt paneled, a little rubbed, front endpaper a little stained but a good sound copy, FIRST EDITION,
volume three only, of a Sheffield printed Yorkshire periodical that apparently ran to only three volumes under
this title. It contains a great deal of topographical interest. £35.00
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SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY.
147. BERKENHOUT, JOHN.: Clavis Anglica Linguae Botanicae; or, a Botanical Lexicon; in which The
Terms of Botany, particularly those occuring in the Works of Linnaeus, and other modern writers,
are applied, derived, explained, contrasted and exemplified. London, Printed for the Author, Soldd by T
Becket and A de Hondt etc, 1764. Small 8vo, pp xii, [216], bound in contemporary unlettered calf, spine with
raised bands, joints part cracked but sound, spine ends chipped, a good sound copy internally,
FIRST EDITION, the fruits of Berkhout's early medical studies at Edinburgh, and the first such lexicon of
Linnaean based botany in the English language. £120.00
148. BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM.: Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II. Una cum totidem Arithmetices
Chronologicae Libellis. London, Samuel Roycroft for Walter Kettilby, 1705. 4to, pp [8], 259, [5], tables of
different oriental types, disbound, early Patent Office stamps, else a clean crisp copy for rebinding,
SECOND EDITION, Beveridge's most interesting mathematical work, an account of chronologies and
arithmetical systems of calculation of various nations of the world, including accounts of the systems of the
Romans, Hebrews, Sumarians, Greeks, Arabs, Persians etc and employing some curious typeface examples of
their numbering systems. First published in 1669, this edition corrected, but apparently otherwise the same as
the first. £85.00
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149. MEDICINE. STORER, JOHN.: Hints On the Constitution of Dispensaries, with the View of Their
Being Rendered of More Extensive Benefit to the Labouring Population [bound with 2 other works].
London, J Hartchard, 1832. Small 8vo, pp [4], 92, bound with: On Blood Letter. By James Wardop. London
1835. Pp 148. and: Philip. The Influence of Minute Does of Mercury. Combined with the treatment of various
diseases. London, 1834. Pp [6], 112. Bound together in contemporary half calf, maroon label, early stamps of
Edinburgh Medical Society, a very good copy,
FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL THREE WORKS, of which the tract above seems the more interesting, the work of a
Nottingham physician doubting the effectiveness of the current Poor Laws to deal with the provision of
medicines for the poor. £85.00
150. MEDICINE. WHYTT, ROBERT.: Observation son the Nature, Causes and Cure of those Disorders
which have been commonly called Nervouse, Hypochondriac or Hysteric. Edinburgh, for T Becket and P
A de Hondt [London] and J Balfour [Edinburgh], 1767. 8vo, pp xiii, [3, including blank], 507, [25], bound in
contemporary polished calf, spine gilt ruled with red label, spine rubbed and slightly worn and chipped at ends,
joints cracked but holding OK, else a very good copy, THIRD EDITION; Whytt was Professor of Medicine at
Edinburgh University and this was his most important work, first published in 1764. In relation to this subject,
the study of which Whytt was a ground braking pioneer, it is interesting to note that Whytt was physician to
King George III in Scotland till his death in 1766. £150.00
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