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1. [ALLESTREE, Richard?]. THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, laid down in a plain and familiarway for the use of all, but especially the meanest reader … Aberdeen: Printed by FrancisDouglas, and sold at his Shop in the End of Broadgate. 1759. £ 385

8vo, pp. [xvi], 503, [7] contents, [2] advertisements; a clean copy throughout, with near contemporaryownership signature of ‘Millicent Ellis Nov 28th 1772’ on front free endpaper; contemporary calf, upperjoint cracked (but holding firm), some chipping at head and tail of spine, and general surface wear, butstill a good copy.

Rare Aberdeen printing of The Whole Duty of Man, the bestselling devotional guide which wentthrough twelve editions by 1727, and attained an almost canonical authority in advice manuals of theeighteenth century. ‘The Whole Duty of Man was intended to show “the very meanest readers” how“to behave themselves so in this world that they may be happy for ever in the next”. This best-sellingmanual’s prescription of morality and effort was balanced by an emphasis on divine grace anddevotional practice: the result was sober, orthodox, common-sense advice pitched at the level ofordinary Anglican parishioners.’ [ODNB]

The work is attributed to Richard Allestree (1621/22-1681), noted divine, censor at Oxford and tutor,who was an enthusiastic royalist, working as a courier to the King. He was later canon of Christ Churchand provost of Eton College.

Three copies recorded worldwide, at the Bodleian (ESTC), NLS (OCLC) and Edinburgh University (COPAC).

2. [ANON]. THE RULE OF LIFE. A collection of select moral sentences, extracted from thegreatest authors, ancient and modern, and digested under proper heads. Edinburgh: Printedby and for Gavin Alston. 1772. £ 450

12mo, pp. vi, 259, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporarysheep, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, foot of spine chipped, and upper jointcracked, nevertheless still an appealing copy.

A rare Edinburgh printed compendium of moral precepts, covering topics such as law, justice,ambition, hope, fear, vanity, friendship, wealth, luxury, and ‘women, love and marriage’.

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‘My endeavour has been, to follow nature, and keep close to truth … It cannot be expected, that everysentence should have the authority of a maxim. Stars differ in brightness: yet those that shine theleast, may have their influences’ (p. iv).

ESTC records two copies, at the British Library and Illinois, OCLC adds one further copy at The HenryFord collection.

Rare ant i-mater ia l i s t work

3. ASZTALOS, Elise von. AN DIE DENKENDEN DEUTSCHEN FRAUEN. Leipzig, HeinrichMatthes, 1868. £ 225

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. xx, 284; a little browned due to paper stock; original very decorativeolive publisher’s cloth, lettered and ornamented in blind and gilt, all edges gilt; from the library ofFriedrich Freiherr Gross von Trockau with his lithographic armorial bookplate on paste-down.

First edition of this rare anti-materialist work by the little-known artist, actor, and writer Elise vonAsztalos, today better known for her memoirs published in 1901 under the title Aus meinemKünstlerleben als Primadonna in Deutschland, Österreich und Italien.

Here, Asztalos criticises the materialist tendencies in philosophy and sciences since the eighteenthcentury. In the preface, written in London the year before, she explains that the purpose of this bookis to let women participate in the debate about materialism against romantic, metaphysical andreligious views. She furnished her argument with references to, and quotations from, Voltaire, earlyGerman idealists, such as Schiller, Hölderlin and Hegel, and the romantic ‘natural philosophers’Novalis, Schleiermacher, Carl Gustav Carus and others. One passage is printed in French and one inEnglish.

OCLC locates only one copy, in the State Library in Berlin.

4. BURET, Eugène. DE LA MISERE DES CLASSES LABORIEUSES en Angleterre et en France;de la nature de la misère, de son existence, de ses effets, de ses causes, et de l’insuffisance desremèdes qu’on lui a opposés jusqu’ici; avec l’indication des moyens propres a en affranchir lessociétés … Tome I [-II]. Bruxelles, Societe Typographique Belge, 1842. £ 950

Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], vi, 7-284; [iv], 342; apart from some light foxing a clean copy throughout;uncut in recent half calf, spines ruled in gilt with green morocco labels lettered in gilt, with the originalprinted wraps bound in; a very good copy.

Scarce Belgian printing of Buret’s condemnation of the exploitation of the working classes in England.The first of its kind, it preceded that of Engels, and went further in theory and analysis than Villermé inhis study of France published the same year. In this book Buret expressed and accentuated theopinions of the rising socialist school. Buret perceived the vice of the industrial system to be caused

by the separation of capital and labour. Revolution is, in his view, too destructive a solution, but hisown proposals were hardly less profound in their call for social change.

The social consequences of intensive industrialisation were far more noticable and more extreme inEngland than anywhere else in Europe, and European social reformers tended to look to Britain for theillustration of their theories. Buret stands out from his contemporaries as a critical economist in directline from Sismondi to Marx, with a clear perception of the problems and well-developed and well-written theoretical solutions often found to be lacking in other writers of his time.

The work first appeared in Paris in 1840.

OCLC records two copies in North America, at Georgetown and Illinois; McCulloch, p. 305; see KressC5117 & Goldsmiths 31647 for first edition.

5. [COLE, Henry]. ‘Felix Summerly.’ TRAVELLING CHARTS: Or, Iron Road Books, forperusal on the journey: (By Felix Summerly.) In which are noted the towns, villages, churches,mansions, parks, stations, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, cuttings, gradients, &c., the scenery andits natural history, the antiquities and their historical associations, &c., passed by the line ofthe railway. With hundreds of Illustrations. Constituting a Novel and Complete Companion forthe Railway Carriage. London to Rugby and Birmingham (on the London and North-Western.)London, printed by James Holmes, 4, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. [1845]. £ 250

Folding printed ‘Travelling Chart’ [310 x 21cm] with 136 wood-engraved illustrations; some abradingbut no loss. folding down into original wrappers, now overlaid with contemporay brown paper.

The last and the longest of Cole’s inventive Travelling Charts.

Cole’s ‘personal railway mania then led him to produce “travelling charts” His innovation here was tomake the railway journey itself the central feature. The Railway Travelling Charts: or iron road books,for perusal on the journey included details not only of “towns, villages, churches, mansions, parks”, butalso of “stations, bridges, viaducts, tunnels, cuttings, gradients”. These features were all marked on asort of map, which adopted a traditional format for road maps, in which the road meandered downthe middle of a page, with details of places and landmarks on each side. In Cole’s charts the railwayline went vertically down the centre, flanked by text, and by illustrations in the form of charming littlewood engravings after such artists as Richard Cox, jun., Charles C. Pyne, and Fraser Redgrave, the half-brother of the painter Richard Redgrave. The charts were individually printed on long strips of paper,which folded up into handy pamphlets, and were published from the Railway Chronicle office. Theydescribed the lines from London to Brighton, Cambridge, Oxford, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells,Guildford and Birmingham, among others’ (Bonyton & Burton: The Great Exhibitor; The Life and Workof Henry Cole, London: V&A, 2003. p. 71).

6. CRUIKSHANK, Percy. THE LITTLE PEOPLES PANORAMA. WHITTINGTON & HIS CAT[cover title]. London, Darton & Co., [c. 1850]. £ 500

Lithographic strip panorama, consisting of three sheets conjoined, measuring 14 x 158cm, concertina-folding into illustrated boards, folding down to 15 x 11cm; old tape repairs to folds. covers worn anddetached.

Scarce panorama by Percy Cruikshank giving his take on the old London legend of the Lord Mayor’sadventurous cat.

Not in OCLC.

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7. [DICKENS]. CHEROOT CASE. Double slipcase for cheroots [c. 1837]. £ 450

12 x 7cm purple patterned leather slipcase within approx. 13.5 x 7.5cm lacquered slipcase; on the upperface appears a scene from Pickwick, after Onwhyn, in colour.

Unusual and well preserved spectacle case with the upper side depicting a scene from the PickwickPapers.

The illustration was included originally in The Pickwick Illustrations Thirty-Two Etchings by ThomasOnwhyn And “Sam Weller” published in 1837 and depicts the dramatic scene in chapter 1 from ‘TheMadman’s Manuscript’ where the ‘madman’ confronts his confessor exclaiming ‘“Damn you,” said I,starting up, and rushing upon him; “I killed her. I am a madman. Down with you. Blood, blood! I willhave it!”’ Probably not the most endearing subject for a cheroot case but an excellent topic forconversation.

An unusual item attesting to the early popularity of Dickens.

Fi rst Scot t i sh work on Scot t i sh Agr icul ture

8. DONALDSON, James. HUSBANDRY ANATOMISED, or, an enquiry into the presentmanner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part; and several rules andmeasures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part moreincrease may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way oflabouring thereof saved. Edinburgh, Printed by John Reid, in the Year M.DC.XC.VII. [1697].

£ 2,850

SECOND EDITION. 8vo (in ½ sheets), pp. [xvi], 136; tiny pinhole touchingone letter of date, contemporary ownership inscription in ink on title-page (of one James Bennet), later endpapers; contemporary morocco,the sides panelled in gilt in the Cambridge style, spine fully gilt withinthe compartments with an overall geometric pattern, all edges gilt,joints and extremities worn; a very good copy indeed.

Second edition, however a sole copy of the 1696 first edition survivesin the Signet Library (Wing D.1852: Aldis 3553). A brief supplement orpostscript was also published later in 1698 but is not present here.

The first printed work on agriculture in Scotland. ‘A rare little book …A high estimation has always been placed upon this work, as avaluable production of that early time, and it is considered fully equalto anything of that kind that had appeared to date. Copies areexceedingly scarce.’ [McDonald, Agricultural Writers, p. 142]. This wasthe first published work of James Donaldson (fl. 1713), who suppliesa brief biography describing his farming background in thededication. He takes a 60 acre holding as the basis for hisdiscussions, which include some calculations of estimated costs andreturns. As well as soil management and manuring, the author

provides advice on the keeping of horses, cattle and sheep with detailed instructions on Scottishmethods of making butter and cheese. Donaldson ends with advice on planting for the husbandmanand the ‘sowing and planting of several garden seeds, and roots’, in particular potatoes - at that timestill an unusual foodstuff.

Fussell (vol.I p.84) additionally notes that ‘the main novelty is that he [i.e. Donaldson] is one of the firstfarming authors to consider the cost of production.’

Wing D.1853; Aldis 3662; Goldsmiths 3384; Rothamsted p. 48; Perkins 497.

9. [DRUG JAR LABELS]. GUYARD ET HAGEMEYER. SAMPLE BOOK CONTAINING 171SAMPLES. Brussels: 31, rue Van Artevelde, [c. 1900]. £ 1,750

Oblong 8vo, [23 x 19cm] 80 leaves with 171 samples of colour, silver and gold printed labels; originalmorocco backed cloth; the inside upper cover chart for estimating the correct label for various sizes ofdrug jar; the inside back cover with list of ‘Modèles’ with prices per 100, the later examples priced inmanuscript.

Guyard et Hagemeyer were a major Belgium manufacturer of glassware, porcelain, appliances andutensils for pharmacies and laboratories. They carried away prizes for their work with gold medal, atBrussels in 1888, silver at Paris in 1880 and bronze at Antwerp in 1885, and probably a prize at the1900 Paris Exposition too.

The catalogue illustrates a dazzling variety of labels each designed to engender a certain amount ofawe to any visitor to a nineteenth century pharmacist with its rows of imposing drug jars each withtheir equally imposing Latin names.

The main design feature common to all is the boldness of the the name of the drug jars contents. Thisis then framed within a thick band of colour or mixture of colour and gold or silver with boldgeometric, renaissance or classical borders.

We have not found reference to, or handled a similar sample book before.

Employment of the Poor and Dishonourable Begging

10. FIRMIN, Thomas. SOME PROPOSALS FOR THE IMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR, and forthe prevention of idleness and the consequence thereof, begging. A practice sodishonourable to the nation, and to the Christian religion. In a letter to a friend by T.F.London, printed by J. Grover, and to be sold by Francis Smith, at the Elephant and Castle, andBrad. Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill. 1681. £ 3,000

SECOND, MUCH EXPANDED EDITION. 4to, pp. [ii], 46; with engraved frontispiece; a fine, crisp, copy withgood margins, in old (eighteenth century?) marbled wrappers.

Thomas Firmin (1632-1697) had learned to distrust merealmsgiving and made it his business to enquire into thecondition of the poor by personal investigation and to reducethe causes of social distress by economic effort. His firstphilanthropic experiment was occasioned by the tradedisorganisation of the plague year (1665). He providedemployment at making up clothing for hands thrown out ofwork. Other schemes involved the building of storage space bythe river for corn and coals to be retailed to the poor in hardtimes at cost price. Early in 1676 he had started a workhouse inLittle Britain, for the employment of the poor in the linenmanufacture. Firmin employed as many as 1,700 spinners,besides flax dressers and weavers. His arrangements for thecomfort and cleanliness of his hands and for the industrialtraining of children rescued from the streets was admirable. Butthe scheme never paid. Firmin sold his linens at cost price andthe annual loss on the venture was £200. In addition to hisphilanthropic efforts on behalf of the poor, Firmin was a prisonphilanthropist and worked hard to alleviate the condition ofprisoners, particularly those imprisoned for debt.

The present work is his most important and best known publication. It contains, amongst other things,an account of his own Work-House.

Wing F.972; Goldsmiths 2435; Kress 1534; Massie 1049.

The F i rs t Profess ional Jewish Woman Wri ter

11. FOA, Eugénie. SIX HISTOIRES DE JEUNE FILLES par Madame Eugénie Foa. Paris, LouisJanet, Libraire, [1836]. £ 450

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], ii, 294, [1] Table des Matieres, [1]blank; six lithograph plates, three by Louise Marigny; apart froma few minor marks and some light foxing in places, a clean copythroughout; in the original publisher’s calf backed printedboards, upper joint rubbed with short split (but holding firm),boards with minor dust-soiling, but still a very good copy.

Scarce first edition, and handsomely illustrated (in part by awoman), of these six stories for young girls by Eugénie Foa(1796-1852) ‘the first professional Jewish woman author,supporting herself entirely from her writings’.

Foa was by descent a Sephardi Jewess, her mother being amember of the Gradis family, and both parents being membersof the Bordeaux Jewish community. ‘She wrote children’sbooks, novels and short stories in the Romantic genre of herday, some of which treated of Jewish subjects. In addition, Foacontributed many articles to contemporary periodicals,sometimes under the pseudonym ‘Miss Maria Fitz-Clarence.’She was in all likelihood the founder of the Journal des enfants,

the first periodical aimed explicitly at a young readership. Foa also became involved in the emergingfeminist movement, contributing in 1848 to the movement’s journal La Voix des femmes (Women’sVoice). She was particularly concerned with the challenges faced by women writers, their difficulties infinding financial support and public recognition. In her own day, Foa’s books were extremely popular,going through numerous printings. Several of her children’s stories were translated into English andshe had a following in the United States as well as in France’ (seehttp://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/foa-eugenie).

Foa dedicates the present work to her sister Léonie, who became a noted sculptor, and married thecomposer Jacques-Fromenthal Halévy (1799-1862). The work proved very popular with several furthereditions appearing throughout the nineteenth century, and one more in the early twentieth century.

Her other works include, Le Kidouschim (1830); La Juive: histoire des temps de la régence (1835); LesMémoirés d’un polichinelle (1839); Le petit Robinson de Paris (1840) and Le vieux Paris (1840).

OCLC records three copies, at the BNF, NYPL and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

12. [GOLDSMITH]. DAMPMARTIN, Anne Henri Cabet, vicomte de. NOUVEAUX ESSAISD’EDUCATION DE GOLSDMITH [sic], Traduits de l’Anglais, et accompagnesde RemarquesParis, chez Ducauroy … Deterville … Bertrand, An XI - 1803. £ 450

FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, PRESENTATION COPY. 12mo, pp. [iv], 436, [2] blank, 12adverts; a clean crisp copy throughout; uncut in the original publisher’s wrappers, spine with printedlabel, some minor marking, but not detracting from this being a very appealing copy, inscribed on versoof half title by the author.

Scarce French edition of Goldsmith’s Essays, translated by the French nobleman, philosopher, andhistorian Anne-Henri Cabet, vicomte de Dampmartin (1755-1825).

‘In France, as at home, these Essays acquired considerable popularity; translations appeared by PrinceBoris de Galitzin in 1787, reprinted in 1805 under the title of Contes Moraux de Goldsmith; by M.Castena in 1788; by M. Dampmartin in 1803; and again anonymously in 1808 under the inappropriatetitle of Essais d’Education et de Morale a l’Usage de la Jeunesse.’ (Prior, Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 1837,vol. II, p. 99).

The English first edition appeared in 1765.

OCLC records six copies worldwide, two in North America (USC & Saint Norbert College), two inFrance (BNF & Mazarine) & at Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin.

13. GÜNZ, Justus Gottfried. COMMENTATIO MEDICO-CHIRURGICA de CommodoParientium Situ. Lipsiae, apud Iu. Christianum Langenhemium, 1742. £ 185

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 52, engraved vignette; light browning; plain wrappers with patternedbackstrip, as issued.

Of Günz’s many publications on various medical subject this work on obstetrics and the position ofthe women during labour and birth is his most important. In it, he discusses the relationship betweenmedicine and surgery, before examining the influence of the position of the foetus in childbirth on thesubsequent health of the child. Günz (1714-51) was professor of physiology, anatomy and surgery inLeipzig and physician to the Elector of Saxony.

Blake p. 188; Waller 3796; OCLC further North American copies at Chicago, Harvard, and the Collegeof Physicians of Philadelphia.

Hume arr ives in I ta ly

14. HUME, David. SAGGI POLITICI SOPRA IL COMMERCIO [POLITICAL ESSAYS ONCOMMERCE.] del Signor David Hume. Traduzione dall’Inglese di Matteo Dandolo… Tomoprimo [-secondo.] Venezia, appresso Giammaria Bassaglia e Luigi Pavini, MDCCLXVII [1767].

£ 2,500

FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 213, [3] blank; [viii], 165, [3] blank; apart fromevidence of a light stain in margin of first gathering a clean crisp copy, on thick paper; bound in laterhalf vellum over marbled boards, spine titled in ink, some surface wear and rubbing to extremities, butstill a very desirable copy.

Scarce first Italian translation of Political Discourses, with text in English and Italian on opposite pages,containing the first eight of Hume’s discourses..

‘In the Sixties translations in italian language begin to circulate. The one which deserves attention isthe previously mentioned edition by Matteo Dandolo in 1767. It is a bilingual edition. After the firstedition the English text disappears. The translation by Dandolo includes only eight essays, out of thetwelve written by Hume. His translation of Hume’s Essays included ‘Of Commerce’, ‘Of Refinement inthe Arts’, ‘Of Money’, ‘Of Interest’ (vol. I), ‘Of the Balance of Trade’, ‘Of the Jealousy of Trade’, ‘OfTaxes’ and ‘Of Public Credit’ (vol. II). ‘Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations’ was excluded, andalthough Dandolo had said he wanted to translate it, it never appeared: possibly he did not perceiveits relevance to current economic policy. The reviewers of the Political Discourses, one in theMagazzino italiano and the other in Francesco Grizelini’s Giornale d’Italia, liked both the introductionand the text very much. According to the Giornale d’Italia, Dandolo gives his peers one of those“useful works that tend to enlighten us, especially in the science of commerce”, a science which “is themost useful and necessary to improve the condition of the nations”. Dandolo’s edition seems to bethe Italian version of Le Blanc’s first volume. It also recalls the Essai sur le commerce printed in Lyon in1767’ (Giulia Bianchi Editions and Translations of David Hume’s Political Discourses (1752) a paper readat the University of Pisa).

A second Italian edition followed in 1774.

Goldsmiths 10268; Higgs 3970; Jessop, p. 25 (unseen); not in Chuo, Einaudi, or Kress; OCLC recordscopies at Minnesota, McGill, National Library of Scotland and two in Italy.

15. [JESUITS]. LETTERE D’UN VENEZIANO ad un prelato di Roma, contenenti La Storiad’una celebre Causa, che molto interessava l’inclita e sempre venerabile Compagnia di Gesu.Trattata a’ 20. Settembre 1766 dinanzi l’Eccellentissimo Consiglio di Quaranta Civil Nuovo, edeffinita con inapellabile sentenza del medesimo. Con in fine una Lettera del medesimoAutore sopra i nuovi Gianizzeri. In Venezia, appresso Paolo Colombani, MDCCLXVI [1766].

£ 850

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 200; some soiling and browning in places, and light staining to final fewleaves, but generally fresh; in contemporary carta rustica; a good copy.

First edition of this uncommon and waspish account of a controversy which arose in Venice andBergamo on the death of the priest Andrea Zucchi, a canon at Bergamo cathedral. Ostensibly aboutan inheritance dispute, the letters give a rare insight into the status of the Jesuits in enlightenmentItaly, and into questions of temporal and religious jurisdiction and power.

Although the Jesuits had been readmitted to the Venetian States in 1666, Bergamo maintained a banon any transfer of goods to the Jesuits through bequests and inheritance. The Society had already lostone case after; the present case was contested by the parents of the Archpriest of Bergamo cathedral,after his will had left his property to the Jesuits, with the intention that they might set up a Jesuitcollege in Bergamo. The case was heard not in Bergamo, but in Venice, in front of the quarantia, whofound in favour of the family, arguing that the Jesuits had no business trying to have the case heard inVenice, rather than in Bergamo where they knew they would lose.

The letters describing this case are throughout satirical in tone, and accuse the Jesuits of “occult plots”and hunger for temporal goods. Of particular interest is the bizarre last letter, linking (with referenceto Kepler and Maupertuis) the course of a recent comet to the role of the Jesuits as the Janissaries ofthe Church, at first guarding and protecting it, but latterly controlling it.

OCLC records three copies outside continental Europe, at Yale, Penn, and Cambridge.

16. [JOHNSON]. EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLICATIONS of Mr. Knox, Dr. Anderson, Mr.Pennant, and Dr. Johnson; relative to the northern and north-western coasts of Great-Britain.London: Printed by C. Macrae, Orange-Street, Leicester-Square. May, 1787. £ 150

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 31; apart from minor evidence of worming in outer margin to final few leaves,a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued in the original blue wraps, some minor loss to extremities,but still a very good copy.

Scarce pamphlet intended to promote public expenditure for the encouragement of the Scottishfisheries. The extract from Johnson is a short passage from the Journey to the Western Isles, on thedistress of the natives.

ESTC T77020; not listed in Courtney or Chapman.

17. [JUVENAL]. THE THIMBLE RESTORED, or The IdleGirl converted to Habits of Industry. London: Printedfor Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street. 1821.£ 450

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 67, [1] blank; four engravedplates within classical borders, slightly spotted; originalprinted pink wrappers, spine worn.

The protagonists of this delightful tale are Mrs Foresightand her god daughter Emily, and Mrs Faulty and Lucy hervery naughty daughter.

The story revolves around Lucy hiding Emily’s thimble sothat they can go ‘romping’ together. As can be imaginedEmily’s petticoat is torn and she falls from her swing with allkinds of moral instruction and teaching required to bringLucy round to become a good girl. Of course as a good girlLucy takes to her needle and pianoforte lessons and alsoprevents Emily from going astray.

An excellent and rare example of this moral work, atypical ofRegency propriety, something akin to the works of JaneAustin in Juvenile form.

OCLC records four copies, at the BL, UCLA, Florida, andBrigham Young.

18. KAMEN’SHCHIKOV, N. P. SOLNTSE. Astronomicheskii ocherk. Riga, P. P. Soikin, 1915. £ 285

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 32, with three colour plates and oneillustration in red and black mounted on front cover, 50 textillustrations (including tail-piece); clean and fresh in theoriginal printed and illustrated wrappers with the mountedillustration, front cover lightly rubbed.

A fine popular-astronomical publication on the sun, reflectingthe latest research and observations carried out in Russianand other observatories, including solar photography withdocumentations of eruptions and protuberances on thesurface of the sun and illustrations of observatories. Thecarefully executed colour illustrations are of a photo of aspectacular solar protuberance taken on the 21st of May,1907 (old style) on the front cover, a painting of a solareclipse over the Baltic coast, the solar eclipse of the 8thAugust 1914 (old style) above the rooftops of Riga and acomparative table of the solar spectrum and the spectra ofcertain chemical elements. - This beautiful work appeared inthe series “Znanie dla Vsekh” (“Knowledge for Everyman”)which covered subjects of both human and natural science.

‘Soikin was a major vehicle for bringing space exploration - in both its scientific and fantasy forms - tothe masses during the imperial era. His publishing company facilitated and engendered an internationalexchange of information on the fantastic possibilities of space exploration by publishing a stream offoreign space-themed fiction, translated mostly from English or French. The most important Soikinpublications in this regard were those by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, but others, such as Les AventuresExtraordinaires d’un Savant Russe by French authors Henry de Graffigny and Georges Le Faure, about ateam of French and Russian scientists who explore the solar system, were just as popular’ (Asif A. SiddiqiThe Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 CUP, 2010, p. 34). Not in OCLC.

19. [LACE]. SAMPLES OF LACE TRIMMING. A French travelling salesmen’s sample case.[France] [c. 1880]. £ 850

A shallow folding box (45 x 28 x 9cm folded) in four sections each of the sections divided into threecolumns in which the samples are set in vertical rows; original cloth covering, some later repairs.

An unusual and rare survival of samples of lace trimmings housed in the original travelling case whichallowed the salesmen to add to their wares as they were updated or fell out of production.

The samples are numbered 19698 to 19742, each with a pink paper manuscript marker identifying thename, length and variants of the individual pattern. Cost code information is provided for thetravelling salesman to make their calculations when discounting. Each of the patterns also have thesample code of the manufacturer or the wholesaler.

The samples include material to finish off the neckline, cuffs and fringes with such names as, ‘rucheencolun,’ ‘petit ruche mous’ and ‘brais mous’ and include examples made from cotton, silk and a fewof woven metal thread.

20. LALANDE, Jerome de. LADIES’ ASTRONOMY. Translated from the French … by Mrs. W.Pengree. London, Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1815. £ 300

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 12mo, pp. xxxi, [i] blank, 124, [1] errata, [1] blank; with engravedfrontispiece and one engraved plate; occasional light foxing, and one inch tear to foot of one leaf, butotherwise clean and fresh; in contemporary paper-backed boards; spine worn.

First English translation of Jerome de Lalande’s popular Astronomie des Dames, which first appeared in1795 with editions in French still being produced as late as 1900.

Lalande, in his preface, notes that ‘Since Newton’s time, every branch of astronomy has been broughtto still greater perfection. The figure of the Earth, the inequalities of the Moon, of the planets, and thesatellites of Jupiter, the small motions of the stars, the return of the comet in 1759, and the realdistances of the planets from the Sun and the Earth, have been correctly ascertained to which we mayadd, the discovery of five new planets, whose existence was not even suspected. All these subjects willbe explained in the little volume which I now offer to my fair readers. May they be induced by itsperusal, to seek, in a more extensive work, for a further knowledge of the sublime spectacle of theuniverse’.

To that end, Lalande discusses the motion of the heavens, the measurement of the earth, theconstellations, the apparent motion of the sun, the moon, the calendar, eclipses, gravity, measurementof distance in space, comets, the plurality of worlds (after Fontenelle), tides, and the discovery of newplanets.

The translator, Mrs. Pengree, is probably the lady in charge of a Ladies Boarding School situated inColehern-house, Earl’s Court near Brompton in London in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Rel ic of the Mary Rose

21. [MARY ROSE]. NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE MARY ROSE at Spithead, July 20,1545. From original manuscripts, &c. in the British Museum. Bound in the wood of the wreck.Portsea: Printed & Published by S. Horsey, Sen., 1842. £ 1,250

FIRST EDITION. 32mo (8.9 x 5.5cm), pp. v, iii-vi, 7-96; a clean copy throughout; original black sheep-backed wooden boards, title gilt to the spine, all edges gilt, pale pink endpapers, lower board detached,polished oak boards slightly warped, but otherwise in excellent condition.

Scarce relic of the mid nineteenth-century exploration of the wreck of the Mary Rose by ‘Mr [John]Dean, that indefatigable diver, [who] first descended in his diving dress in the year 1836’ and whoseoperations are described on pp. 89-96.

‘Henry VIII embarked upon a programme of ship buildingon his accession, including the Mary Rose which was builtbetween 1509 and 1511. As the English flagship, she tookpart in many of the naval conflicts of Henry’s reign. Her lastengagement was in the Solent against a French invasionfleet in July 1545. With Henry watching from SouthseaCastle on the mainland, the Mary Rose sank with the loss ofaround 500 men. The wreck of the Mary Rose layundiscovered for nearly 300 years until its accidentaldiscovery by fishermen in 1836, leading to diver JohnDeane recovering timbers and other relics over the next fewyears. A history of the ship’s demise was published bySamuel Horsey; copies of his book were bound usingsamples of wood recovered during Deane’s expeditions’(Henry VIII quincentenary exhibition catalogue, RoyalCollection).

There is a printed slip pasted opposite the title which reads:“The Wood from which the Covers of this Book are made,was purchased Nov. 12th, 1840, at Mr. Dean’s Public Sale ofArticles recovered by him from the Mary Rose. A certificateof which may be seen on application to the Publisher. ThePublic may confide on its being a Genuine Relic of thatunfortunate Ship”.

Further editions of the work appeared in 1844 and 1849.

Uncommon, OCLC locates just three copies, at the National Maritime Museum, Plymouth and the BL,with just three further copies of the 1844 and 1849 editions, all of them in the UK.

Scarce Victor ian Educat ional Handkerchie f

22. [MOTHER GOOSE]. VICTORIAN CHILD’SHANDKERCHIEF divided into eleven compartments depictinganimals and scenes of children at play, accompanied by fournursery rhymes from Mother Goose. [n.p., n.d., c. 1850].£ 450

Handkerchief printed on linen (36cm x 31cm), border unevenly cutin places, but this not affecting the printed area, otherwise in goodoriginal state.

23. [NAPOLEONIC WARS]. A SMALL, DIVERSE ARCHIVE OF MATERIAL. [London &elsewhere, 1790-1815]. £ 550

1. ALS from Major John Cochran to Doctor Polhill, Leghorn, requesting the return of Stevens,addressed Porto Ferrara (Elba), 24th Feb. 1794, with integral address leaf and wax seal. 1 page.

2. FOOLSCAP MS. (copy) order to the Vice Admiral of Kent ordering an embargo on Spanish portsand Spanish vessels trying to enter harbour; and on integral leaf, confirmation signed by Lord Dorset,dated Knole Sept 30th 1796; addressed verso ‘Mayor of Margate, Kent,’ ink stamp for Sevenoaks, andanother frank, folded where posted.

3. WAR OFFICE printed document, filled in ms., signed by Palmerston, 1816.

4. WAR OFFICE printed pay form (made out in ms.) in favour of Capt Adolphus F. Duncker of the 6thWest India Regt., date 2nd Dec. 1801. (a web search reveals that Duncker served as a 2nd Lieutenant,Ditfurth Unit, in the American Revolution); and four other pay documents for 1804, 1810, 1818,relating to other personnel, of which two relate to Lieut. Col. Baron Charles Hompesch for his half-payas a Colonel of Cavalry (presumably the same man whose German Mercenary Dragoons were guilty oflooting Wexford in 1798).

5. COMMISSION for a supernumerary military draughtsman and surveyor (John Hills, Gent.), onvellum, trimmed, signed by the Earl of Mulgrave, dated 1813.

6. A SMALL QUANTITY of Napoleonic era English newspapers and Parliamentary Acts.

24. [PAINE]. FRESTON, Rev. Anthony. A DISCOURSE ON LAWS. Intended to shew thatlegal institutions are necessary, not only to the happiness, but to the very existence of man …[London?] Printed for the author. And sold by Deighton, London; Robbins, Winchester;Collins, Salisbury; Baker, Southampton; Hollis, Romsey; and all other booksellers, 1792. £ 550

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 22; a little foxed throughout, due to paper stock; with authorial correctionsthroughout; in recent marbled boards.

Scarce first edition of this discourse by the Anglican clergymanAnthony Freston, né Brettingham (1757–1819) attempting toanswer Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man.

The publication of Rights of Man caused a furore in England andspawned an incredible amount of literature. Poor Freston isslightly out of his depth as he tries to use the tencommandments and the original sin in defending the status quo.Various sentiments are vented by Freston but all tend to longestablished principles of property and hereditary rights: ‘Butwere men thus originally equal, they could not long continueso… when the Increase of numbers, and extended Population,had raised the value of property by increasing the Demand for it… Without the Adherence to some Laws, not even Thieves canpreserve Society … and those writers who would bring themback to to a state of Nature, are certainly deceived themselves,or have some selfish End in deceiving others, and should betreated, not as the friends, but as the Enemies of Liberty.’

Freston’s later sermons all strongly reflect the contemporary concern that the teaching of theestablished church should support civil obedience and duty although possible evidence ofevangelical influence can be discerned towards the end of his life.

Freston matriculated at Oxford as a commoner of Christ Church, 26 December 1775, and proceededB.A. in 1780. Having married a Cambridge lady, the widow of Thomas Hyde, he removed in 1783 toClare Hall in that university, where he was incorporated B.A., and graduated M.A. the same year. In1792 he was licensed to the perpetual cure of Needham, Norfolk, in his own patronage, and in 1801he was presented by a college friend to the rectory of Edgworth, Gloucestershire. George Huntingford,bishop of Gloucester, appointed him rural dean of the deanery of Stonehouse. He died on 25December 1819.

ESTC records one copy only, at Cambridge, COPAC adds a further copy at the BL.

Don’t wake the S leeping Cat!?

25. [PARLOUR GAME]. DE SLAPENDE POES onder de Vogels. Lotterij-Spel. [Amsterdam,C.A. Arum, c. 1825]. £ 550

Original game consisting of twelve hand coloured cards, ten of which depict birds, one of a cat andanother of an empty bird cage, housed in the original cardboard box (11 x 9 cm) with printed labeldepicting a sleeping cat with a bird in foreground; accompanied by a part facsimile of the originalprinted rules; the game was originally sold with six dice, which are not present here; cards lightly dust-soiled and foxed, box similarly rather worn with bottom joint split, nevertheless, still an appealing copy.

Rare survival of this original lottery game whose title translates as ‘The Sleeping Cat Amongst theBirds’. We have been unable to decipher the original rules but the premise of the game would seemto be for the birds to make their way to the empty birdcage without waking the sleeping cat.Although standard reference works note it as just ‘an amusing parlor game’, evidently it was verypopular given the well used condition of the present copy, coupled with its rarity on the market. Wehave located only one other copy, at the Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem.

Pr ison and Lunat ic Asy lum reform in Gloucester

26. PAUL, Sir George Onesiphorus. A COLLECTION OF FIVE PAMPHLETS BY PAUL, allrelating to Gloucestershire (the new prison, lunatic asylum, the shire hall, prison regulation,and prisons in general). Gloucester, 1792-1809:

1. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, CLERGY,AND OTHERS, assessed to the county rate for the County of Glocester, convened by the High-Sheriff, for the purpose of receiving a statement of the proceedings of the committeeappointed to carry into execution the resolutions of the said County, to rebuild the gaol andbridewells thereof; - and held on Monday the 9th of July, 1792. n.p. [Gloucester], published bypermission of the author. 8vo., pp. vii, [i], 72; wanting the half title, but with a large foldingtable (A general abstract of the whole cost of building of the different prisons of the county ofGloucester - short closed tear at one fold), old dampstain at foot of title. FIRST EDITION: veryscarce. ESTC, OCLC & COPAC locate copies at five libraries (Cornell, BL, NLS, Gloucester R.O. ,and the Wellcome) together with a severely incomplete copy at Goldsmiths (15352).

2. MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENERAL LUNATICASYLUM, near the city of Glocester. Including a digest of a scheme for such an institution:addressed to a general meeting of subscribers, held at the Glocester Infirmary, on the 14th ofJuly, 1794. n.p. [Gloucester], Printed at the special request of the committee appointed tocarry the design into effect. 1796. 8vo, pp. 70, [2], 22. FIRST EDITION? Rare. Copies foundonly at Cambridge, Sir John Soane’s Mus. and Gloucester R.O. Not in BL.

3. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER:convened by the High Sheriff, and held on Tuesday, January 11, 1803; for the purpose ofconsidering the necessity or expediency of erecting a new Shire-Hall for the said county; or ofadopting such other measures as the dilapidated state of the present Booth-Hall mightrequire. Glocester, printed at the request of the general meeting; and (by permission of theauthor) sold for the county rate …… 1803. 8vo, pp. [ii], 128; wanting the half-title. FIRSTEDITION: very rare. The only copy listed by COPAC & OCLC is at the BL.

4. ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER,on the administration and practical effects of the system of prison regulation, established inthat County: delivered at their Epiphany General Quarter Sessions, 1809. Glocester: printed byD. Walker; published for the benefit of the Fund for Prison Charities in Glocester Gaol. 1809.8vo, pp. 158; including a folded table. FIRST EDITION: scarce.

5. RULES AND ORDERS FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROUL [sic] OF PRISONS. Revisedand recommended to the Magistrates of the County of Glocester. Glocester: printed by D.Walker, at the Office of the Glocester Journal. 1808. 8vo, pp. [ii], ii, 84. Rare: copies locatedonly at Princeton and Glasgow. Not in BL. £ 1,500

8vo., various paginations (see above); bound together in a single volume ca. 1810 in diced russia gilt,with the contemporary bookplate on front pastedown of John Paul Paul (1772-1828); in fine state ofpreservation.

This is altogether a particularly good and coherent group of material all written by the Gloucestershireprison reformer and philanthropist Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, Bart. (1746-1820).

A cautious political reformer, Paul had begun to have an influential role in the public life ofGloucestershire as early as 1780. Following damning visits to the county gaol by John Howard in 1777and 1784, when he found the inhuman and insanitary conditions typical of the period, Paul launchedhis campaign to reform the county prisons.

‘In 1785 a committee under his direction secured an act of parliament for building a new gaol atGloucester and four houses of correction in other parts of the county, the sites chosen beingLittledean for the Forest of Dean; Northleach for the central Cotswolds; Horsley for the populousclothmaking valleys of the west Cotswolds; and Lawfords Gate,Bristol, for south Gloucestershire. Work began in 1788 and thefive new buildings were completed in 1792 at a total cost of£46,438, raised mainly by loans on the credit of the county rate.They were designed by William Blackburn, the specialist prisonarchitect favoured by Howard, but Paul himself undertookmuch of the detailed planning and supervision, his labourmade more intense by Blackburn’s illness and death in 1790.That very personal involvement continued after the opening ofthe prisons: until almost the end of his life he paid closeattention to all aspects of their administration.

‘Paul’s scheme, having been brought to a successful conclusion,provided a model for the magistrates of other counties, whowere able to benefit from his printed addresses on the subjectand from his detailed rules and regulations for theGloucestershire prisons, published in the first of severaleditions in 1790. In 1810 Sir Samuel Romilly cited the newGloucestershire prisons, with that at Southwell, as the mostremarkable of recent improvements, and Paul was called togive evidence to the select committee of the Commonsconsidering the matter in 1811. He had won a nationalreputation in his field….

‘Having demonstrated a talent for analysing and planning complex matters, Paul found himselfconsulted by colleagues in various fields. For his fellow governors of the county infirmary atGloucester he reported in 1794 in his customary exhaustive detail on the possibility of admittinglunatics; a letter on the treatment of criminal and pauper lunatics he wrote to the home secretary in1806 influenced the drafting of an act on the subject in 1808.’ [Nicholas Herbert in ODNB].

27. [PAVIA]. DIZIONARIO DOMESTICO PAVESE-ITALIANO PartePrima [-Seconda]. Pavia, dalla tipografia Bizzoni, 1829. £ 600

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 129, [1] errata; some light foxing throughout; incontemporary blue mottled boards; some slight wear but still a good copy.

First edition of this uncommon dictionary of the Pavese dialect, spoken inthe province of Pavia in Italy.

OCLC records six copies, at the Newberry Library, Harvard, NYPL, ClevelandPublic Library, and the Universities of Illinois and Leeds.

28. [PEEPSHOW]. LE MARCHÉ AU BEURRE DE PARIS. / Der Butter Markt / The Butter-market of Paris. [Germany? c. 1836.]. £ 1,500

Hand coloured lithograph concertina-folding peepshow with four cut-out sections. Front-face,measuring 14 x 19.6 cm, forms lid of cardboard box containing peepshow; extending by paper bellows,left and right to approximately 66 cm, some wear to box lid with some loss of border, but still a veryappealing item.

The peepshow shows a typical day at the Paris Butter Market (presumably Marché au Beurre, auxŒufs, et au Fromage, St Germain). The coloured label on front of the box consists of the titles withinthree arches, a scene of the exterior of the market with vendors and customers, and an oval peephole.

‘Peering through the peep-hole reveals the scene within the market building. Galignani’s New ParisGuide (1837) describes the Marché au Beurre’ as a triangular building in the Marchés des Innocentscomplex erected in 1822. It was open every day from 6 to 11 in the summer and from 7 to 11 in thewinter. Despite the title, fish are on sale, as well as ducks and geese’ (Gestetner-Hyde Paper Peephows,p. 131).

Gestetner-Hyde 97.

An important rar i ty in text i le des ign and colour theory

29. PERSOZ, Jean-François. TRAITÉ THÉORIQUE ET PRACTIQUE DE L’IMPRESSION DESTISSUES … Ouvrage avec 165 figures et 429 échantillons intercalés dans le texte, etaccompagné d’un Atlas in-4 de 20 planches. Tome Premier [-Quatrieme]. Paris: VictorMasson, 1846. £ 2,750

FIRST EDITION. Four text volumes, 8vo, pp. [viii], lx, 569, [1] blank; [iv], 558; [iv], 458; [iv], 560;illustrated with 429 fabric samples mounted throughout; Atlas volume: 4to, pp. [vi], with 20 plates ofwhich three are chromolithographs; lightly foxed in places due to paper stock; text volumes bound incontemporary red morocco backed marbled boards, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, smallchip to head of vol. IV, and light rubbing to boards and extremities, Atlas volume in calf backed marbledboards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, light surface wear and rubbing to extremities, otherwise anappealing copy.

Persoz (1805-1868), a chemist and Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Strasbourg, wrote this workfor the Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale (founded 1802) for which he won a medal,but more importantly they agreed to publish his work.

The first volume describes the technical aspects of colouring and chemistry, while the followingvolumes include vibrant fabric samples from the principal calico printers in England, Scotland, Alsace,Switzerland, Normandy and Paris.

George Seurat, the famed pointillist painter, was an early adherent of Persoz’s work. Martin Kemp, inhis book The Science of Art, wrote that ‘Persoz’s brilliantly illustrated Traite attracted Seurat’s attention,to the extent that the painter transcribed a section of the text.’ He was much taken by the Indianorigins of the dyes used and the patterns created with them. Seurat regarded them in terms of themystical and the occult rather than in the western ideas light and dark and scientific theory, althoughhe was also well acquainted with the writings of Chevreul.

The present copy, although having the Atlas volume bound differently, is still a nice set with all fourhundred and twenty-nine fabric samples present.

Poggendorff II, 109; Bolton I, 732; Darmstaedter 440.

30. [POPE]. [COLARDEAU, Charles-Pierre, translator]. LETTRE D’HELOISE À ABAILARD,traduction libre de M. Pope. Par M. C***. Au Paraclet. MDCCLVIII [1758]. £ 400

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 23, [1] blank; in recent wraps.

First edition of this loose translation by Colardeau of Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard (1717).

The translator, Charles-Pierre Colardeau (1732-1776), was a poet made famous by the present workand a translation of the first two sections of Night-Thoughts by Edward Young (1770). ‘In 1755, withthe recall of the Parliaments, Colardeau was able to return to Paris where he finished his tragedyAstarbé which he read to the Comédiens-Français in July 1756. Before the welcome given to his work,he decided to abandon the law to devote himself entirely to his literary career. Astarbé however, wasnot performed immediately, and the assassination of Damiens led Colardeau to withdraw it, however,he composed an imitation of Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard, which was a great success and made himimmediately famous’ (Wikipedia).

OCLC records four copies in North America, at Loyola Marymount, UCLA, Florida State and DartmouthCollege.

Referr ing to Newton & Locke

31. [PRANDI, Girolamo]. LETTERA CRITICA INTORNO AL SENSO MORALE Scritta ad unAmico da Girolamo Prandi, P. Professore nella R. Universita di Bologna e membro del CollegioElettorale dei Dotti … [Colophon:] In Bologna per Giuseppe Lucchesini. [1808]. £ 285

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 28; a clean crisp copy inrecent mottled boards.

First edition of this rare essay on the moral sense bythe Bolognese philosopher and historian GirolamoPrandi, in which he examines and criticises the idea,paying particular attention to its use by John Locke,Isaac Newton, Frances Hutcheson and by MicheleAraldi, whose Pensieri sulla credulità appeared theprevious year.

Not in OCLC.

The Whitby Quaker - Scarce f i r s t Engl i sh Pr int ing

32. RIPLEY, Dorothy. THE BANK OF FAITH and Works United. By Dorothy Ripley, Citizen ofthis World, but Gone Above to the New Jerusalem. Whitby, Printed for the Authoress by GClark, 1822. £ 225

SECOND EDITION. 12mo, pp vi, 306, woodcut of an iceberg in text on p. 35; apart from a few minormarks, a clean copy throughout; in modern boards; spine with printed label; a little dusted.

‘Second edition’ but the first English printing, previously published in Philadelphia in 1819. The workdescribes missionary travels in America, with visits to the Oneida Indians, during 1805 by DorothyRipley, the Whitby quaker, including some interesting observations on slavery.

OCLC records just four copies, at Earlham College, Sunnyvale Public Library, Kent State, and theUniversity of Manchester; see Smales, G. Whitby Authors 1867, pp. 44-46 for an account of this authorand her works.

33. [ROUSSEAU]. CHAILLET, Samuel. INFORMATION DE LA COMPAGNIE DES PASTEURSde la Principauté de Neuchatel & Valangin, pour l’édification du public. [n.p., Neuchâtel?]MDCCLXV [1765]. £ 450

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 26, [2]; title lightly dust-soiled, otherwise a clean copy throughout, withcontemporary ownership signature on title; in later marbled wraps.

This rare pamphlet, by the Serrières cleric Samuel Chaillet, attempts to calm the theologicalcontroversies between the Compagnie des pasteurs of Neuchatel and Rousseau, while Rousseau wasstaying at Val-de-Travers. The Compagnie had been accused of treating Rousseau excessively harshlyin response to his criticisms of them; Chaillet attempts a moderate response, condemning the attackson Rousseau: “Quant aux violences éxercées contre M. Rousseau, au mépris de la Protectionimmédiate de sa majesté dont il étoit honoré, au mépris des Loix, et au mépris de la Réligion, nous nesaurions assez dire combien nous détestons ces atentats. C’est trahir la Réligion que de prétendre ladéfendre par de telles armes” (p. 24).

Conlon 320; OCLC records four copies, at UC Berkeley, Augsburg and two in Switzerland (Geneva &Neuchâtel).

34. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. DISCOURS QUI A REMPORTE LE PRIX A L’ACADEMIE DEDIJON. En l’annee 1750. Sur cette question proposee par la meme Academie: Si leretablissement des Sciences & des Arts a contribue a epurer les moeurs. Par un Citoyen deGeneve. A Geneve, chez Barillot & fils. [1750]. £ 1,500

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [vi], 66; with engraved frontispiece; in recent marbled boards.

Uncommon first edition of the prize winning essay which made Jean-Jacques Rousseau famous. In hisDiscours, written in response to the Dijon prize question for 1750: Has the progress of the sciences andarts contributed to the purification of morals, Rousseau denied moral progress and proclaimed the wellknown ‘paradox’ that mankind deteriorates as civilization advances. This was to start a controversythat lasted for the next three years and prompted a number of refutations from a ‘tribe’ of writersrushing to defend the arts against slander.

‘One day, I took the Mercury, of France, and, in walking along, while looking over it, I fell on thisquestion proposed by the Academy of Dijon as the prize for the following year … The moment I readthis I beheld another universe, and I became another man … On arriving at Vincennes, I was inexcitement which bordered on delirium. Diderot perceived it, and I told him the cause. He exhortedme to give my thoughts to the essay, and contend for the prize. I promised to do so, and from thatmoment I was ruined. All the rest of my life and my misfortunes were inevitable effects of thismoment of mistake’ (Craddock: Rousseau, As Described by Himself [1877], pp. 28-29).

Dufour 13; Cioranescu 54709; Tchemerzine X, p. 25.

35. [ROUSSEAU]. [LENORMANT, Charles-François]. J.J.ROUSSEAU, Aristocrate. A Paris, chez les Marchands deNouveautés. 1790. £ 550

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 109; a clean copy throughout; incontemporary mottled calf, boards ruled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt withred morocco label lettered in gilt; a handsome copy.

First edition of this uncommon work by Charles-François Lenormant(d. 1816), in which he argues that Rousseau’s arguments in the ContratSocial were essentially counter-revolutionary, and could be used toattack the justification given for the new Assemblée nationale.

The work was prompted by seeing a bust of Rousseau among those ofWashington and Franklin in the hall of the Assemblée; what could haveprompted this? Rousseau, Lenormant argues, ‘loin d’être l’auteur de larévolution de 1789, en [a] été l’adversaire et le fléau’ (p. 5), and fallssquarely under the designation of “aristocrat”; Lenormant illustrateswith passages from both the Contrat Social and other works, showing

that Rousseau would have had little sympathy for the Revolution - in common with Ferrand,Lenormand argues “that Rousseau’s conception of the inalienability of sovereignty rendered theoperations of a representative democracy fundamentally illegitimate” (Swenson, p. 172).

See James Swenson, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stanford University Press, 2000; OCLC records fourcopies in North America, at Syracuse, Michigan State, NYPL and the Newberry Library.

A Darwinian miss ing l ink

36. SCROPE, George Julius Poulett. PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY deduced fromthe Natural Laws of social Welfare, and applied to the Present State of Britain… London:Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster-Row, MDCCXXXIII [1833].

£ 850

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 457 [1] imprint; engraved frontispiece map (see above); contemporarypolished calf, spine decorated in gllt with red skiver label; ex library from Queen’s College, Oxford withdiscreet ink stamps.

First edition of Principles of Political economy, called by McCulloch “a work of considerable talent andacuteness”, in which Scrope “proposed to correct the legal standard of value, (or at least, to afford toindividuals the means of ascertaining its errors) by the periodical publication of an authentic price-current, containing a list of a large number of articles in general use, arranged in quantitiescorresponding to their relative consumption, so as to give the rise or fall, from time to time, of themean of prices; which will indicate, with all the exactness desirable for commercial purposes, thevariations in the value of money; and to enable individuals, if they shall think fit, to regulate theirpecuniary engagements by reference to this Tabular Standard” (pp. 406-407). Scrope wrote numerouspamphlets on economical questions; his opposition to the Malthusian theory of population, defendedthe Poor laws, advocated unemployment insurance and criticised the gold standard.

‘It has been argued forcefully, and I believe correctly, that the application of “population thinking” toliving organisms (as opposed to “essentialist” or “typological” thinking) was a major element in the“Darwinian revolution” … . Hence he may have derived his “population thinking” about organisms, atleast in part, from Lyellian biogeography … But I would suggest in addition that Lyell may havederived his “population thinking” about lava-flows, mountains, islands, and organisms from thegeology of Scrope’ (Rudwick, p. 210).

George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797-1876) geologist and political economist, was the leading volcanoexpert in Britain. After his scientific travels on the Continent ‘Scrope had become increasinglyconcerned with economic and social affairs since his return to England in 1823. Settling at CastleCombe, which his father-in-law had vacated, Scrope’s duties as a magistrate made him acutely awareof the social problems of rural poverty, and he became a forceful critic of the poor laws’ (Oxford DNB).‘Scrope spoke only rarely in parliament: “a parliamentary reputation is like a woman’s”, he once said;

“it must be exposed as little as possible” (Sturges, 25, n. 26). He preferred to make his points in essaysfor the Quarterly Review and in brief pamphlets, the profusion of which earned him his nickname ofPamphlet Scrope. His earlier pamphlets exposed the iniquities of the poor laws in England; later, hevehemently criticized government and absentee landlords for the still worse problems of Irish poverty.On the local level he was, in the aristocratic manner, an enlightened landlord and a compassionatemagistrate; on the national level, a vehement critic of the poor laws and of Malthusian doctrines’(ibid.).

Einaudi 5198; Goldsmiths 27877; Kress C.3610; McCulloch p. 19; Palgrave III, p. 369; Schumpeter 489-90; Sturges 58. See ‘Poulett Scrope on the Volcanoes of Auvergne: Lyellian Time and PoliticalEconomy’ Martin J. S. Rudwick The British Journal for the History of Science Vol. 7, No. 3 (Nov., 1974),pp. 205-242.

I s the fa i r sex more beaut i ful?

37. SECKENDORFF, Christian Adolph Freiherr von. IST DASSCHÖNE GESCHLECHT AUCH WIRKLICH DAS SCHÖNE? AllenSchönen gewidment … Leipzig, im Comptoir für Literatur, 1810.

£ 385

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. iv, 60; clean and fresh throughout, stitchedas issued, with later marbled backstrip.

Rare first separate edition of this humorist essay on the questionwhether the fair sex is also the more beautiful. Adolph Freiherr vonSeckendorff (1767-1833), a writer on various subjects, had written anearly version in 1802 for private circulation, which a friend of hisreworked and published in a rare periodical Der Widersprecher (TheContradictor). Seckendorf now re-established the original form of theessay where he ‘proves’ that actually men should be called the fairsex and where he deals with gender differences at various stages oflife.

Not in OCLC.

The L iv ing Ske leton : A Cur ios i ty of Nature

38. SEURAT, Claude Ambrose. THE LIVING SKELETON, now exhibiting at the ChineseSaloon, Pall Mall. An account of that most extraordinary and interesting phenomenon, ClaudeSeurat, called the Living Skeleton; giving an accurate description of his person, and everyparticular relative to his singular habits, customs, &c. &c. Embellished with a whole-lengthportrait of this curiosity of nature. London: J. Limbird. [n.d., c. 1826]. £ 850

8vo, pp. 24; woodcut frontispiece portrait, finished in colour; neatly bound recently in cloth, gilt lettered;a good, uncut, copy.

Claude Ambrose Seurat (1798-c. 1832), better known as ‘The Living Skeleton’. This pamplet, publishedwhen Seurat was 27 and was one of a number of similar accounts published, no doubt to accompanyhis self-promotional journey across Europe, and provides a number of observations about his life,physiognomy and characteristics, together with a brief synopsis of professional observations upon hiscondition.

Seurat was one of a number of ‘human skeletons’ (notably Harry V. Lewis, J. W. Coffey, Isaac W.Sprague at Barnum’s American Museum, and George Anderson) who gained notoriety for theirextreme emaciation. The Frenchman Seurat travelled throughout Europe during the 1820s and 30s,and became not only a popular attraction with audiences and royalty alike, but was the wonder ofartists, naturalists and physiologists, being examined by leading physicians such as Astley Cooper inLondon and Dupuytren and Dubois in Paris in 1828 and 1829, and the subject of a crayon drawing byGoya who saw him at the Bordeaux fair in 1826, parading his bony frame for a fee of 10 sous.Unsurprisingly he also came to the attention of Dickens and warranted a brief mention in ‘PickwickPapers’.

It is likely that Seurat’s condition was physiological and that he was suffering from acute musculatatrophy which resulted in withered limp arms and legs, but a normal head. His appearance clearly

alarmed and amazed spectators, however for although feeble and with a weak voice, he wasotherwise perfectly healthy. ‘His show was described by the British medical journal ‘Lancet’ as ‘one ofthe most impudent and disgusting attempts to make profit of the public appetite for novelty.’ YetSeurat countered that he was making money in order to retire in his homeland, adn that exhibitorshad saved him ‘from a profitless, wandering life of self-exposure in France’ (Jay, ExtraordinaryExhibitions, p. 68).

Other accounts published around the same time include ’A Living Skeleton’ (London, Fairburn, 1825,20pp and with three engravings drawn by Robert Cruikshank), described as ‘an authentic memoir ofthat singular human prodigy Claude Seurat, denominated the living skeleton, who arrived in Londonfrom the continent in July 1825’; and Interesting Account and Anatomical Description of ClaudeAmbroise Seurat (London, Glindon, 1825, 16pp).

Cohn 494; OCLC records three copies at Harvard, Indiana, and Pittsburgh; see Jay, ExtraordinaryExhibitions, p. 68 and 138; see Nickell, Secrets of the Sideshow, pp. 102-3.

39. [SHAKESPEARE]. ORIGINAL FRAGMENT OF WOOD FROM SHAKESPEARE’S MULBERRYTREE. Bearing the seal of John Doubleday and inscribed with manuscript note added to theface above by Doubleday, [Stratford-upon-Avon] [n.d., c. 1800]. £ 1,000

Wood measures 26.2 x 8.5cm, approx 2mm thick, snapped in half but sympathetically repaired, andmounted in a custom made modern frame.

Rare survival of a fragment of wood from Shakespeare’s Mulberry tree, bearing the seal of JohnDoubleday and with a manuscript note added to the face above by him: ‘A fragment of the MulberryTree planted by Wm. Shakespeare at Stratford upon Avon, given me by the Revd. Thos. Rackett, oneof David Garrick’s executors’.

John Doubleday produced a number of relics commemorating the burning down of the Houses ofParliament in 1834. On one of these he describes himself as J. DOUBLEDAY DEALER IN CAST OF OLDSEALS/ GREEKS COINS ETC, 18, LITTLE RUSSELL STREET BLOOMSBURY, LONDON. His image is in theNational Portrait Gallery where it is noted: ‘Originally a printer, John Doubleday took up business as acopyist of coins, medals and ancient seals and was employed by the British Museum as an antiquitiesrestorer. His greatest triumph was the restoration of the Portland Vase, after it had been wilfullybroken into numerous pieces in 1845.’

The Rev. Thomas Rackett, ( 1757-1841), was a man of wide interests, archaeological, scientific andliterary. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a protégée of David Garrick, and his correspondencewith a varied circle of friends and ‘kindred spirits’ produces much interesting material.

40. [SHAKESPEARE]. FINELY CARVED PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE executed atthe turn of the nineteenth century. [n.d., c. 1800]. £ 750

Oval portrait measures 9 x 6.5 cm, carved in bone? and set on glass, backed in blue, depicting the sitterin profile, head to the left; portrait mounted in modern glazed oval wooden frame, a very desirable item.

Finely carved portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the English poet and playwright widelyregarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.

Although never revered in his lifetime, by 1800 Shakespeare was firmly enshrined as the national poetand it is likely that the present portrait was carved around this time. In the eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies, his reputation also spread abroad and among those who championed him were Voltaire,Goethe, Stendhal and Victor Hugo. During the Romantic era, Shakespeare was praised by the poetand literary philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge; and the critic August Wilhelm Schlegel translatedhis plays in the spirit of German Romanticism. In the nineteenth century, critical admiration forShakespeare’s genius often bordered on adulation. “That King Shakespeare,” the essayist ThomasCarlyle wrote in 1840, “does not he shine, in crowned sovereignty, over us all, as the noblest, gentlest,yet strongest of rallying signs; indestructible”.

Miss Hi l ton ’s Benef i t Concer t , Pr inted on S i lk

41. [SILK PRINTING]. BROADSIDE PRINTED ONSILK FOR A BENEFIT CONCERT “Most RespectfullyPresented to R. Gaunt Esq. For the Benefit of MissHilton” [Leek?] J. Thornhill, Printer [1829]. £ 185

Broadside printed on silk, approximately 15.5 x 29cm insize; worn and frayed to right hand edge, small amountof wear towards head just catching text, but without lossof sense.

Unusual printing on silk of this broadside advertisingthe second benefit concert for Miss Hilton, including aversion of Sheridan’s The Rivals, but perhaps mostintriguing is the ‘celebrated comic dwarf dance …including the whimsical transformation of the dwarf, 3feet high to that of Mad Moll, 6 feet high’. It is likelythat Thornhill, the printer, was local, but the only printerwith that surname in the BBTI is located in Hanley (nearLeek) in 1815. Several of the actors also have thesurname Thornhill, so he was probably a relative.

42. SMITH, Adam. RICERCHE SOPRA LA NATURA E LE CAUSE DELLA RICCHEZZA DELLENAZIONI di Adamo Smith. Traduzione eseguita sull’ultima edizione inglese del sig.MacCulloch preceduta dalla vita dell’autore, del sig. V. Cousin. Torino, cugini Pomba e. comp.Editori-Librai. 1851. £ 850

FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, SECOND ITALIAN TRANSLATION. 8vo, pp. lxxx, 704; apart fromsome light browning just visible in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary green moroccobacked mottled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, light rubbing to extremities, nevertheless, still agood copy of this rare translation.

Rare second Italian edition, and a new translation, of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, published aspart of the economic journal Biblioteca dell’ Economista.

The Wealth of Nations, the greatest classic of modern economic thought, did more than any otherbook on economics in the West to create the subject of political economy and develop it into anautonomous systematic discipline. Its publication was a mile-stone in the economic progress of Britainand subsequently the rest of the world. Here are developed the theory of laissez-faire and the right ofindividuals and States to carry on their economic activity unimpeded. Moreover, it also contains ahistory of economic development, a virtual demolition of the mercantile system and some propheticspeculations on the limits of economic reform.

‘Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith’s achievementwas to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work … The certainty of itscriticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of moderneconomic thought’(PMM 221).

The present translation is taken from the 1828 J.R. McCulloch edition, and particularly interesting as itcontains a lengthy ‘Discorso di Vittorio Cousin’ on the life of Adam Smith, as well as Italiantranslations of the introductions by Blanqui and Garnier for their editions of the Wealth.

As far as we are aware the Biblioteca dell’ Economista, printed in Torino, ran from 1850 to 1923. Thepresent work, whilst published as volume II of this series, is complete in itself and was also intended tobe sold separately.

The first Italian translation, published under the title Ricerche sulla Natura, e le cagione della ricchezzadelle nazioni, appeared in Naples in 1790-91.

OCLC records three copies, at Yale, Kansas and the National Library of Scotland.

The Hunt Copy

43. SMITH, John. ENGLAND’S IMPROVEMENT REVIV’D: In a Treatise of all manner ofHusbandry & Trade by Land and Sea. Plainly discovering the several ways of improveing allsorts of waste and barren grounds, and enriching all earths; with the natural quality of alllands, and the several seeds and plants which most naturally thrive therein. Together with themanner of planting all sorts of timber-trees, and under-woods, with two several chains toplant seeds or sets by; with several directions to make walks, groves, orchards, gardens,planting of hops and good fences; with the vertue of trees, plants, and herbs, and theirphysical use; with an alphabet of all herbs growing in the kitchin, and physick-gardens; andphysical directions. Also the way of ordering cattel, with several observations about sheep,and choice of cows for the dairy, all sorts of dear, tame conies, variety of fowles, bees, silk-worms, pigeons, fish-ponds, decoys: with directions to make an aviary. And with accounts ofdigging, delving, and all charges and profits arising in all fore-mentioned: and a particularview of every part of the pleasant land: with many other remarks never before extant.Experienced in thirty years practise, and digested into six books, by John Smith, Gent.Published for the common good. London, printed by Tho. Newcomb, for BenjaminSouthwood, at the Star next to Sergeants-Inn in Chancery lane; and Israel Harrison nearLincolns-Inn. 1673. £ 1,250

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE WITH CANCELLED TITLE. 4to, pp. [xiv], 270; wanting the initial blank,Bookseller to the Reader leaf & title-page laid down, title-page with critique of book around margins inink (‘a most excellent work considering when it was written’), cut close at head very occasionallytouching the running title, some paper browning, well bound in the late 19th/early 20th century in darkblue crushed morocco, spine gilt and lettered with raised bands, all edges gilt. A very good copy.

A reissue of the 1670 edition with a new title. Amongst other things, Smith drew attention to ‘thegreat wastes and decay of all woods and timber in England’, and the need for replanting. ‘Besidesdealing with forestry, the book is concerned with livestock and the reclamation of waste land. Thesixth “book” contains an interesting description of the islands of Orkney and Shetland and the fishingindustry in those parts’ (Henrey). The work is prefaced by a report by John Evelyn, written at therequest of the Royal Society.

‘The present work [was] completed in 1668, but not published until 1670 for lack of means. Evelyn inhis commendatory letter refers to the second edition of his Sylva, then preparing, but observes thatthe two books may be published ‘without the least prejudice to each other’. Smith’s book was re-issued with a cancel title in 1673’ (Keynes).

Hunt 328 (this copy); Keynes John Evelyn 145; Kress 1345; Sabin 82865; Wing S4093.

A ‘Profound’ contr ibut ion to 18th Century Feminist Thought

44. [“SOPHIA, A PERSON OF QUALITY”]. WOMAN NOT INFERIOR TO MAN: or, a shortand modest vindication of the natural right of the fair-sex to a perfect equality of power,dignity, and esteem, with the men. By Sophia, a Person of Quality. London: Printed for JohnHawkins, at the Falcon in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1739. £ 4,250

FIRST EDITION. 8vo., pp. [iv], 62; including the half-title but without the final leaf of advertisements,the half-title a little soiled, a few leaves creased; recently bound by Trevor Lloyd in contemporary stylehalf calf over marbled boards, spine gilt and lettered with raised bands; a very good uncut copy, with theearly ownership signature of John Calcraft, dated 1789 on half title.

Scarce first edition: Authorship not agreed: suggestions includeLady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the Earl of Pontefract’sdaughter, Sophia Fermor, later Countess Grenville (who wouldhowever have been only 18 years old in 1739).

Whoever the author, this is a significant, and some would sayimportant, text in the history of feminism. The author evidentlyshared many of Mary Astell’s ideas about the nature of societyand the fallacy of male superiority. The author W. Lyon Bleasethought it “a most remarkable pamphlet” (The emancipation ofEnglish women, 1910, p.43). A much more recent scholar, PhillipHicks, acknowledges the “profound” role that the Sophia essay(and its sequels) has played in 18th century feminist thought.(Women worthies and feminist argument in 18th century Britain,2014.

Woman not inferior to man presents a powerful and carefully-resourced case for equal opportunities for women in all walks ofpublic life, including the law, Parliament and the Army (but not, Ibelieve, the Church!). Set custom and prejudice aside, the authordeclares (and it seems almost certain that the author is indeed awoman), and true equality will be possible.

Having mentioned the army, the government, the judiciary, magistracy, teaching, medicine, universityprofessorships &c. &c., where it was then extremely “odd” to imagine women being in such positions,she suggests that ‘if women are but consider’d as rational creatures, abstracted from thedisadvantages imposed upon them by the unjust usurpation and tyranny of the Men, they will befound, to the full, as capable as the Men, of filling these offices’ (pp. 36-7).

Having disposed of the long-held prejudices with which all men have been conditioned, she bringsher case to the measured conclusion that it would be to the joint interest of both men and women forthere to be an equality of esteem and opportunity. The greatest stumbling block, though, to anypractical equality was women’s minimal opportunities for a proper education.

‘Men, by thinking us incapable of improving our intellects, have entirely thrown us out of all theadvantages of education; and thereby contributed as much as possible to make up the senselesscreatures they imagine us …’ (pp. 56-7).

Woman not inferior to man was republished twelve years later (in 1751), together with two furthercomplementary essays by the same author. Together, these three essays were given the new,composite, title: Beauty’s triumph: or, the superiority of the fair sex invincibly proved.

ESTC T2977.

The bad in f luence of Br i t i sh phi losophy

45. TABARAUD, Mathieu Mathurin. HISTOIRE CRITIQUE DU PHILOSOPHISME ANGLOIS,depuis son origine jusqu’à son introduction en France, inclusivement … Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris, chez L. Duprat-Duverger, rue des Grands-Augustins, 1806. £ 225

FIRST EDITION. Two vols, 8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 504; [iv], 466, [1] Table, [1] blank; lightly foxed in places,otherwise clean throughout; uncut in the original pink publisher’s wrappers, spines with labels titled inink, some rubbing and a few minor marks, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this comprehensive survey of British philosophy and “philosophism” by the Frenchtheologian and philosopher Mathieu Mathurin Tabaraud. Originally planned merely to be a section ofa projected Histoire du philosophisme François, the work is designed as a survey of the influence ofEnglish philosophy on French thought, and a study of the characters of several notable Englishphilosophers.

The Jansenist theologian and writer Mathieu Mathurin Tabaraud (1744-1832) is characterized in theNouvelle biographie Française as a ‘controversiste’ who emigrated to England after the revolution, andcontributed articles to the Times and anti-republican periodicals. In the present work he accusesBritish philosophers (many of the ‘English’ philosophers were actually Scots) of having underminedreligion in France, and thus paved they way for the revolution. He uses the term ‘philosophisme’ as anopposite to ‘christianisme’.

46. WAGRET, J-F. REMEDE SPECIFIQUE Pour guerir seurement les Pluresies, donné auPublic par ordre de S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans Regent du Royaume, pour lesHôpitaux du Roy. … A Beziers, Chez Estienne Barbut. MDCCXVIII [1718]. £ 250

4to, pp. 8; with attractive wood-cut headpiece; clean and fresh throughout; in modern marbled boards,morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt.

An attractive and very rare provincial printing, in the same year as the first edition, of this guide to thetreatment of pleurisy. The author, who also published works on smallpox, as well as Observations demedecine et chirurgie: faites dans les hôpitaux du Roy (1717), and was a doctor at the royal hospitals atValenciennes, gives instructions for the production of his remedy, before describing its application inpatients at various stages of the disease.

The work is recommended to be printed and distributed “à tous les Hopitaux des Places du Roy”. Theprinter of the present copy was active at Béziers between 1692 and 1735.

This edition not in OCLC, which records a Paris edition of the same year, at the National Library ofMedicine.

Working Sketchbooks of the ‘C i ty ’ Ar t i s t

47. WATT, Frances. A LARGE COLLECTION OF SKETCHBOOKS, comprising over a 1,000drawings, largely dating from the 1960’s and early 1970’s, and including some ephemera andpersonal items. [London and elsewhere]. 1960-1992. £ 1,500

Comprising 28 Sketchbooks with over a 1,000 drawings mostly relating to the City, but some of Scottishplaces she visited, nearly all in graphite, a few in pen and ink and several with watercolour washes,often several on one sheet of paper, condition is generally excellent, some pages, and parts of pageshave been excised, some are simply rough sketches; also included are some personal items includingsketches and newspaper clippings, mostly about her father; some wear and tear, sunning to sketchbooksand with some leaves loose, but generally in very good state.

(Edith) Frances Watt (1923-2009) was an immensely talented artist who never received the attentionshe deserved. Born in Falkirk in 1923 she moved to Geneva at the age of 3 where she lived until 1936.Her father was the Reverend Thomas M Watt, D.D. a minister of the Scots Church in Geneva and alsothe League of Nations correspondent for British Weekly. They then moved back to Ballater, Scotlanduntil 1938 when her father died.

Watt then aged 15 moved to Highgate in London (Southwood Lawn Road) with her mother, withwhom she lived for the rest of her life. By then she was calling herself Frances. She attended theHornsey School of Art (1946) and the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting. Things then wentquiet and we have found no works dated between 1946 and 1953. She then began work on a series ofworks with religious themes - unsurprising, in that her father and two of her uncles were prominentchurchmen. She was active in the Highgate Choral Society.

‘Watt’s big break apparently came when she was commissioned by the Council of the Stock Exchangeto record the daily life in the Square Mile. This commission seemingly suited Watt, seen in the finesseof the works, as well as the sheer quantity. The paintings are largely monochrome – grey, black andwhite – perhaps a result of their ‘documentary’ function and the fact that many of the pictures wereintended for the Times newspaper, where colour would not feature. But it does also seem apt for thesubject, the city traders, the trading floor, and also the city architecture; cool, stylish and confidentlyexecuted, they seem to embody the 1960s, masculine world they depict, where deals are done andstakes are high’ (see http://www.sulisfineart.com/blog/cat/articles/post/artist-spotlight-discovering-frances-watt/#.VS0PHPnF_A9).

During the 1960s her paintings and illustrations of the “old” Stock Exchange were included in theStock Exchange Journal, The Times newspaper and the Lord Mayor’s Art Awards exhibition. The presentcollection includes views of Lloyds, The Royal Exchange, and also The Discount Market together withare a large number of drawings that were used as illustrations to The Times.

‘Over the next 20 years she was brilliantly placed to observe the enormous changes taking place in thegreat institutions of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London. She exhibited at the Royal Academy,her first exhibit being Stockbrokers Talking, 1961’ (see http://www.tathagallery.com/artist/frances-watt/#biography). She also exhibited at other institutions including The Glasgow Institute at PaisleyArt Institute and at Kensington Artists Group. Today, Watt has two works in public collections: Interiorof Lloyds, 1963 (City of London Corporation) and Park with a Boating Lake, 1952 (Bruce CastleMuseum, Tottenham).

Watt moved back to Perth (Myrtle Cottage, Main St, Bankfoot) in November 1992. The latest work inthe collection is dated 1992 and we have no information after that date. One wonders why she wasnot better known in her lifetime. It was certainly not for lack of ability. Raised in a patriarchal home,never married, always lived with her mother, was never represented by a gallery, and never properlypromoted her own work, probably goes some way to account for her anonymity. Hopefully with theemergence of the present sketchbooks her time has now come.

48. WILSON, Thomas. A DESCRIPTION OF THE CORRECT METHOD OF WALTZING , THETRULY FASHIONABLE SPECIES OF DANCING that, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of itsmovements, has obtained an ascendancy over every other department of that public branchof education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movementsand attitudes in German and French waltzing…Illustrated by engravings, from original designsand drawings, by J.H.A. Randall. London: printed for the author, 2, Greville Street, HattonGarden: published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. 1816. £ 2,750

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, printed on rectos only, ff. [i], lxi [1], 63-113, [1], [4], folding coloured engravedfrontispiece showing couples waltzing, and six engraved plates, (without the inserted final advertisementfor New Works referred to by Abbey); original pink boards with green glazed paper spine, printed titlelabel, some wear to head and foot of spine, entirely uncut.

Scarce first edition of this milestone in the history of English dance.

Thomas Wilson (fl. 1800-1839), dancing-master and writer, was active in London during the early 19thcentury. His career probably began at the King’s Theatre Opera House; from the early 1800s he taughtat his own dancing academy, variously based at Bedford Row, Ludgate Hill, and Hatton Garden, wherehe was assisted by his wife and sufficient staff to form sets for any of the social dances then popular.When in 1816 Wilson published A description of the correct method of waltzing, it ‘probably followedthe appearance of the shocking new dance at the Prince Regent’s ball on 13 July 1816*, and itsintroduction to Almack’s assembly rooms by one of its patronesses, Princess Lieven, a leading Londonsociety hostess. …… Wilson’s work at the theatre - where he would have helped to train many of theopera dancers-together with his teaching and writing activities, had a direct impact on the style and

performance of social dancing. He was very much a traditionalist, preferring the allemande or Germanstyle of waltz, in which the dancers had intertwining arms, to the close hold which so scandalizedsections of society, and which became beloved of the aristocracy.

Wilson’s manuals explain the figures in text and illustration, and several are accompanied by musicsuitable for each dance, and all fully describe the correct style and manner of performance, togetherwith the correct ballroom etiquette expected of both ladies and gentlemen. This was an issue onwhich Wilson was at great pains to instruct his readers, as he feared standards of dancing would be‘perverted into a chaos of riot and confusion’ if left to decline any further. … Some modern writershave commented that Wilson’s figure descriptions can be difficult to follow, and that the morecomplicated, balletic steps that Wilson included were in fact the province of only a few extremelyaccomplished dancers. Despite Wilson’s traditional and conservative stance, later generations areindebted to him for a comprehensive description of the most popular social dances of this period’(Gail Ford in ODNB).

The plates in this book are worth noting. The extended coloured frontispiece of a ballroom with ninecouples dancing the waltz, with a seven-piece orchestra in a box at the side of the room, the womenin a variety of most elegant and colourful Empire-style dresses, the men in white cravats and tails. Theother engravings include one showing “the five positions (of the feet) in dancing”, another a “sketchshewing the movements performed within the circle formed in waltzing”, while the remaining fourplates are of music adapted to various named waltzes.

* It is worth noting that the coloured plate here was published by Sherwood & Co. of London on July14th 1816.

C.W. Beaumont, Bibliography of dancing 1929), pp. 194-195. Abbey, Life, 420; Magriel, Bibliography ofDancing, 1936, p. 107.

A Working School for Poor Chi ldren in London

49. [WORKING SCHOOL]. A PLAN FOR THE ESTABLISHING A WORKING-SCHOOL, for theMaintenance, Education, and Employment of Poor Children, especially Orphans. And alsoRules for the Execution and good Government thereof. Proposed to the Consideration of allwho are or may be Subscribers thereto. London, John Ward, 1758. £ 2,250

FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 15, [1]; margins a little dusted inplaces, printed on heavy paper; in early nineteenth centuryhalf calf over marbled boards, rebacked with spine letteredin gilt; with the armorial bookplate of Ferguson of Raith onfront pastedown; a very appealing copy.

Rare first edition of the Plan for the establishing aWorking-School in which the author proposes a school forpoor children, especially orphans, from the ages of six tofourteen years old, the plan containing the rules coveringsuch matters as diet, medical inspection, education, workto be undertaken etc.

The Orphan Working School was established by a group ofnonconformists in 1758, at Hoxton, for the reception of 20destitute boys. In 1771 it moved to the City Road and twoyears later a building was erected for 35 boys and 35 girls.By 1846 1,236 children, both boys and girls, had beenreceived into the institution when it was proposed to movethe school again, this time to a healthier position atHaverstock Hill, in the vicinity of Belsize Park. In 1988 theschool, now called the Royal Alexandra and Albert School,was relocated in Reigate (Surrey).

This was one of several similar proposals for social reform, including the establishment of charitableinstitutions for poor children in London during the 1750s. [See, e.g. others by Fielding, Hanway,Massie and Saunders Welch]. The present proposal was evidently based on purely philanthropic andChristian (but non-denominational) motives.

‘Amongst the various objects calling for compassion, and the aids of charity, poor children, especiallyorphans, always have been justly esteemed some of the principal,’ claims the author of the presentPlan. ‘Witness, amongst other excellent institutions, the great number of charity schools, in and aboutthis city, erected and supported with the kindest design, and at no small expence. And yet experiencehas long shown, how ineffectual these are to promote their valuable intention; how little they answerthe expence at which they are carried on. Their defects are too obvious to need enumerating; thesubject of daily complaint; and lamented most by those who are most conversant in such matters.Children are formed for stations above what Providence designed them, or the public good requires.In the intervals between learning, they are left exposed to all the snares of indigence, evil example,and bad company. And for want of being trained to industry and diligence, contract habits of slothand idleness, and are sadly exposed to the temptations thereof. Strange therefore it would be, if in anage so distinguished for charity as the present is, this important object of it should alone beneglected: and that while so many are wishing for something further to be done, none should attemptit. Such an attempt is now made…’.

Goldsmiths’ 9415.13; Higgs1817; Kress 5747; ESTC records two copies, at Harvard and MassachusettsState; COPAC adds copies in the National Library of Scotland, in Durham and at London University,not in the British Library, OCLC does not give additional locations.

50. [YELLOW FEVER]. OPUSCOLO INTERESSANTISSIMO a forma di Lettera d’un CelebreMedico d’Italia sull’ Attuale Febbre Petecchiale e sui Preservativi contro di Essa. Milano, 1817.

£ 185

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 19, [1] blank; a clean fresh copy, in recent marbled wraps.

First edition of this anonymous letter on the treatment of yellow fever.

The author (who initials the text at the end “G. P.”) recalls how he tried to cure yellow fever during theepidemic of 1803 with very basic remedies, such as tartar emetic to induce vomiting, purgatives basedon tamarind, and by forcing the patients to drink large amounts of water, or water with vinegar. Hethen points out widespread erroneous beliefs about yellow fever, such as that the disease is caused bya disorder of the humoral system, which has to be corrected by stimulating medicines and‘substantial’ (i.e. alcoholic) drinks, that the disease is caused by poisonous atmosphere, or that it canbe prevented by wearing certain amulets.

Not in OCLC; ICCU locates a single copy, in Rome.