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MINIATURE ALMANAC

1. [NEW BETHLEM HOSPITAL.] London Almanack for the Year of Chrt. 1816.Printed for the Company of Stationers. [1815.]

24mo (c. 52 x 32 mm), ff. [13], engraved throughout, on thick paper, the first and lastleaves also serving as endpapers; title-page with tax-stamp; with a panoramic engraved‘View of the New Bethlehem Hospital’ over four pages; a very good copy in the originaldecorated red morocco, gilt, with onlays in buff, blue and green and a central hot-airballoon motif (spine partly defective), in a matching slipcase. £300

A rare miniature almanac. Proposals for building a new Bethlem Hospital on a new sitehad finally gained traction in 1810 when land was obtained at St. George’s Fields inSouthwark. A competition was held for the design (with the Bethlem patient James TillyMatthews an entrant), and the final building, by James Lewis, was completed in 1815(with a wing for the criminally insane added in 1816), none too soon – a Parliamentaryenquiry of 1814-5 had exposed the terrible conditions of the old building. The NewBethlem Hospital building still survives as part of the Imperial War Museum.

THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM, PRINTED IN LEEDS

2. ARMISTEAD, Wilson, and Roberts VAUX. Anthony Benezet from the originalmemoir: revised, with additions. London and Philadelphia; Alice Mann, Leeds for A. W.Bennett and Lippincott and Co., 1859.

8vo, pp. xvi, 144, with engraved frontispiece by S. Allen of the Indian Medal depictingWilliam Penn, retaining tissue guard; unopened, upper edges dust-soiled; a very goodcopy, bound in the original purple textured cloth by Westleys & Co., London, both boardsdecorated in blind, with gilt lettering and illustration of the Medal to upper cover, spinelettered in gilt, lemon-yellow endpapers; spine slightly faded, lower section skilfullyrepaired. £500

First edition thus. A tribute to Benezet (1713–84), one of the first American abolitionists,printed in England, where his arguments influenced the development of the British anti-slavery campaign. The Quaker Benezet’s writings, particularly Some Historical Account ofGuinea (1772), had attracted interest from British abolitionists such as Granville Sharp,John Wesley and Thomas Clarkson, who corresponded with him and distributed hisworks in England.

Wilson Armistead, a Quaker anti-slavery campaigner from Leeds, wrote severalpublications on the subject of the slave trade and led the highly active Leeds Anti-SlaveryAssociation. His enlarged edition of Vaux’s Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet (1817)would have struck a chord with the readership in Yorkshire, where the Quaker tradition,with its historical opposition to slavery, was well-established.

In addition to his abolitionist activities, Benezet is remembered as founder of America’sfirst public girls’ school, while the Leeds Anti-Slavery Association was apparently the first

of its kind to allow female campaigners. The work was printed by the radical Leedsauthor, bookseller and publisher Alice Mann.

Although COPAC locates 11 copies in UK libraries, good copies in original binding, ashere, are notably uncommon the market.

Hogg 4039; Kemble 149 and 1123; Sabin 4694.

THE NEW WOMAN

3. CHIARI, Pietro. La viniziana di spirito, o sia le avventure d’una Viniziana bennata, scritta da lei medesima, e ridotte in altrettante massime le più giovevoli a formareuna donna di spirito. Parma, Carmignani, 1762.

Two vols bound in one, 8vo, pp. [viii], 224; [viii], 224; with an engraved frontispiece; smallpaper flaws in H5 (first part) not in the text, one or two rust spots, but a very clean, freshcopy in contemporary quarter sheep, flat spine decorated in gilt, morocco lettering-piece,boards covered with marbled paper; a little surface rubbing. £950

First edition, one of the earliest and rarest of Pietro Chiari’s novels. In the age of Goldonithe ‘woman of spirit’ became the subject of multifaceted literary exploration. The mostsuccessful novelist of the Venetian terraferma undertook a re-evaluation and re-modellingof women’s place in society: perhaps more explicitly here than in any other novels, as theViniziana is written in the form of maxims and precepts, like a speculum for young ladies.

The eponymous Venetian lady stands in contrast with figures of passive acquiescencetraditionally held as models of seemliness and propriety. She embodies a new ‘donna dispirito’, an enlightened woman who, in Chiari’s own words is ‘schooled in and by theworld’, acts with courage and resilience, seizing opportunities and taking calculated risksto carve for herself an active role in society, and educates more women and successivegenerations to the pursuit of confidence and independence.

Three copies in the US (Columbia, Minnesota, Princeton), 2 in Canada (both in Toronto).In the UK only one copy, in the British Library.

4. COCTEAU, Jean, and André LHOTE. Escales [and Musée Secret]. Paris, Editionsde la Sirène, 1920.

Large 4to, ff. [3, blank], [32], [6, Musée Secret], [2, limitation leaf]; with text and illustrationson facing pages (title-page vignette and 11 other illustrations pochoir-printed in colour byAtelier Marty); a fine copy, in modern quarter red morocco and plexi-glass preserving theoriginal colour-printed stiff paper wrappers; slipcase. £7500

First edition, no. 4 of 5 copies on Japon impérial de Shidzuoka, with an original pen-and-ink drawing by Lhote, and with the additional 6-page Musée Secret (printed on VanGelder) before the limitation leaf; inscribed on one of the initial blanks by Lhote to hisfriend and patron Jean Delgouffre of Brussels.

Cocteau and Lhote had met in 1914 and began work on this collaboration two years later,the first time either had worked in this fashion. Both Cocteau’s lightly erotic poems, withtheir striking typography, and Lhote’s angular, colourful illustrations were inspired bythe red light district of Marseilles.

We have not been able to trace another example on Japon. Musée Secret, a moregraphically-illustrated supplement to Escales with three more poems, is also very scarce.

‘A HAPPY BLEND OF GOOD OBSERVATION AND GOOD WRITING’INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CHIPS CHANNON

5. DE CHAIR, Somerset. The golden carpet. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1943.

4to, pp. [6], 7-128; with a frontispiece of a bust of de Chair by Jenö Lányi ; a good, crispcopy in the original green morocco-backed linen boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; spinesunned; authorial inscription to ‘Chips’, dated June 3rd 1943; from the library of Henry‘Chips’ Channon; a review by Sir Ronald Storrs from the Sunday Times, dated August 1,1943 in Channon’s hand pasted to the rear blank. £600

First edition, limited to 500 copies, this no. 70 of 470 normal copies. De Chair, anintelligence officer (and the Tory MP for South-West Norfolk), accompanied the Britishcolumn which advanced to capture Baghdad in 1941, and his account of the advance iswritten with great flair; indeed, the campaign itself is so larded with figures such as GlubbPasha, airmen in armoured cars, British officers in pyjamas, and, of course, all manner ofArabs – perfidious, loyal, noble, among others – as to swashbuckle even without theassistance of de Chair’s prose (and verses).

De Chair and Channon were contemporaries as Conservative MPs and both saw service inthe eastern Mediterranean, though they seem only to have overlapped in London, wheretheir social circles intersected; Channon’s unlikely friendship with Field Marshal Wavellmay also have drawn them together. This copy of The golden carpet was inscribed forChannon on June 3rd, 1943, some eight weeks after it was printed (and so, presumably,shortly after binding and publication).

In the apt words of Storrs, who knew very well of what he wrote, ‘This young intelligenceofficer went prepared to be thrilled: wanted, greeted, and so savoured his thrill that inrecording it he does communicate a real thrill to the reader, in a happy blend of goodobservation and good writing.’

Pertelote 155.

A NEW EDITION PREPARED FROM THE AUTHOR’S OWN AMENDED COPY ANDLIMITED TO 150 COPIES

6. FLEMING, Peter. Brazilian Adventure. London, Queen Anne Press, 2010.

8vo (210 x 132mm), pp. 364, [4 (blank ll., the last with limitation slip tipped onto recto)];half-tone portrait frontispiece, 8 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso,illustrations in the text; original green cloth, upper board and spine lettered and decoratedin gilt in the style of the first edition binding, map endpapers; fine. £125

First edition thus, no. 116 of 150 copies. ‘In April 1932 Fleming answered anadvertisement in the agony column of The Times, which led him to take part in a crack-brained and amateurish expedition to the hinterland of Brazil, ostensibly to look forColonel P.H. Fawcett, a missing explorer. Fleming persuaded The Times to appoint himtheir unpaid special correspondent. This mixture of farce, excitement, discomfort, anddanger achieved nothing except to provide him with the subject matter for his first book,Brazilian Adventure, published in August 1933. In it he blew sky-high the excessivereverence and solemnity with which travel books had hitherto been treated, mocking thedangers and himself with infectious humour. People could not believe that a story of trueadventure could be so funny, and the book had immense success at home and in America’(ODNB). This new edition – limited to 150 copies – was published by the Queen AnnePress (of which the author’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director, and PeterFleming’s daughter Kate Grimond and nephew Fergus Fleming now manage), and wasedited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]). The text ‘istaken from a first edition that belonged to Peter Fleming and in which he had made hand-written corrections. These amendments have been incorporated. Some new photographsare included taken from Fleming’s album of the expedition’ (p. [6]).

FLEMING’S CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS 3,500-MILE JOURNEY FROM BEIJING TOSRINAGAR, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES

7. FLEMING, Peter. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.London, Queen Anne Press, 2010.

8vo (209 x 133mm), pp. 382, [2 (blank l.)]; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 16 half-toneplates with illustrations recto-and-verso, and one full-page map in the text; original redcloth, upper board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt in the style of the first editionbinding, colour-printed map endpapers; fine. £125

First edition thus, no. 116 of 150 copies. Fleming had first travelled to China in 1931 andreturned in 1933 as the Special Correspondent of The Times, to cover the war between thenationalists and the communists; ‘After reaching Mukden (Shenyang) in Manchuria andtaking part in a sortie against local bandits, he travelled south, achieving an interviewwith Chaing Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief of the nationalist forces, enteringcommunist-held territory, and finally returning home via Japan and the United States’(ODNB). In autumn 1934, 'Fleming once again set off for the Far East with a far-rangingcommission from The Times. After a brief shooting trip with friends in the Caucasus hetravelled on to Harbin in Manchuria, where by chance he met the Swiss traveller Ella(Kini) Maillart. It transpired that they both wanted to walk and ride from China to India,and though they both preferred to travel alone, they agreed to join forces. This epicjourney of some 3500 miles on foot or ponies, through the remote province of Sinkiang(Xinjiang), with many dangers, hardships, and hold-ups, took them seven months, fromFebruary to September 1935. This, the most arduous of Fleming’s long journeys, hechronicled in fourteen long articles in The Times and later in his book News from Tartary’(loc. cit.). This new edition – limited to 150 copies – was published by the Queen AnnePress (of which Peter Fleming’s brother Ian Fleming was once Managing Director and isnow managed by his daughter Kate Grimond and his nephew Fergus Fleming) and wasedited by Kate Grimond who wrote a new introduction for it (pp. [5]-[6]). The frontispieceportrait of Fleming and Maillart was not included in the first edition, and the photographshave been reproduced anew from the original negatives.

Cf. Yakushi F103a (1st ed.).

POLYGLOT ELEGY

8. GRAY, Thomas. L’Elegia … sopra un Cimitero di Campagna tradotto dall’inglesein più Lingue con varie cose finora inedite. In Verona, Dalla Tipografia Mainardi, 1817.

8vo, pp. 175, [1]; a fine copy, partly untrimmed and unopened in contemporary quartermottled sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt with a floral motif, morocco label. £850

First edition thus, edited by Alessandro Torri: a bibliographic/bibliophilic tour-de-force,assembling 18 translations of Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard into Italian, French,German, Latin, Hebrew and Greek. It was printed in an edition of 350, of which 15 werelarge paper on carta velina reale; the present copy is on thick paper and 1.5-2.5 cm tallerthan other copies we can locate, though not on carta velina.

The opening translation is that of Giuseppe Torrelli, first published in 1776 and muchreprinted. Here it is presented in parallel with the English original and with a new literalprose translation at the foot by the Irish-born Domenico Trant. Also previouslyunpublished is a commentary on the translation by Robert Richie, with responses byTorelli (pp. 49-67).

There follow six further Italian translations, in blank verse, terza rima, quatrains andprose, the last, by Michel Angelo Castellazzi, previously unpublished. The two Frenchtranslations include one by Kerivalent that had only appeared in a periodical; and theGerman versions are by Wilhelm Mason and Ludwig Kosegarten. The volume closes witha group of previously unpublished translations – into Latin verse by Giovanni FrancescoBarbieri; into Latin Vulgate prose and Hebrew by Giuseppe Venturi; and into Greek byGiosafat Cipriani.

COPAC and OCLC show copies at BL, Cambridge, Bodley, Aberdeen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Staatsbibliothek Berlin.

9. LOCKE, John. [An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding]. Extrait d’unLivre Anglois qui n’est pas encore publié, intitulé Essai Philosophique concernantL’Entendement…communiqué par Mr Locke [in: ‘Bibliotheque universelle et historiquede l’année 1688’, vol. 8]. Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, & van Someren, 1688.

12mo, pp. [viii], 454, [14]; the Locke: pp. 40-116; library ink stamp to the general title, somelight water-staining in the initial and final quires (not in the Locke or in the Newton orPetty), but a very good copy in modern calf-backed marbled boards. £4000

A substantial and extremely influential extract, published two years before the appearanceof the book, of Locke’s Essay concerning humane understanding: a publication of majorconsequence in the history of philosophy.

Two years before the full publication of Locke’s magnum opus, its diffusion began in animmediately bilingual context. The interaction between the French and English versionswas complex and extremely fecund. In 1688 an advance copy of an early draft in French,sent to friends like Robert Boyle and Lord Pembroke and edited by Le Clerc, was sent tothe editors of the Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique, who published it in that year’s issue.It was this publication which stimulated the attention, the reactions and philosophicaldevelopments of such thinkers as Pierre Bayle, William Molyneux and Leibniz, and thatprovided access to Locke’s ground-breaking theoretical innovations (which became thejustification and premise for Condillac’s sensualism) for the French-speaking public, untila full French translation appeared in 1700. Le Clerc made also a separate impression,entitled Abregé d’un ouvrage intitulé… .

This volume also contains a substantial contemporary review of Newton’s PrincipiaMathematica (pp.363-375), and one of Petty’s Political arithmetic.

See Yolton 133-141; see PMM 164.

ONE OF TWELVE COPIES OF THIS BIBLIOPHILE WORK, FINELY BOUND FORPRESENTATION BY THE PUBLISHER

10. MANDEVILLE, Sir John. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt.,which Treateth of the Way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands andCountries. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an Introduction, AdditionalNotes, and Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.A.S. London, J. Davy & Sons for F.S. Ellis, 1866.

8vo (220 x 138mm), pp. xxxi, [1 (blank)], 326, [2 (blank leaf)]; woodcut frontispiece andillustrations in the text; some occasional light spotting; original full English crushed greenmorocco gilt by W. Pratt for F.S. Ellis, boards with borders of gilt rules and rolls with giltfloral cornerpieces, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two, gilt-ruled board-edges, turn-ins richly gilt with a floral roll, rules and other tools, edges gilt; corners verylightly rubbed, light offsetting onto free endpapers; provenance: Henry Newman(autograph presentation inscription from F.S. Ellis on flyleaf: ‘One of twelve copiesstruck off on thick paper, Presented to Henry Newman Esqr. (the latest born ofBibliomaniacs) in memory of some days spent with him at Lancaster in October. 1866, byhis obliged and faithful friend, the Publisher’). £700

Second printing of James Halliwell’s 1839 edition. Halliwell (1820-1889; later Halliwell-Philipps) began to collect and critique books as a young man, and he edited Mandeville’sTravels at the age of nineteen, although he later claimed to be responsible only for theintroduction to this edition of Mandeville, which has been often reprinted. He is bestknown for his works on William Shakespeare: the Life of William Shakespeare (1848); hisseries of volumes from 1853 of the magnificently-printed folio edition of Shakespeare,with notes, illustrations and complete critical apparatus, aiming, as he said, at ‘a greaterelaboration of Shakespearean criticism than has yet been attempted’; and his Outlines ofthe Life of Shakespeare (1881) a work that in the last edition issued in his lifetime ran to 848pages.

The Travels, ostensibly written by the English knight Sir John Mandeville, were in factprobably written in Anglo-Norman French by the author assumed to have written theVoyages de Jehan de Mandeville chevalier, which appeared anonymously in France c.1357.The book followed the alleged travels of its narrator, a knight who declares that he wasborn and bred in St Albans and left England in 1322 to travel and make an account of theknown world. The work purports to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India,and China, during which Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan’s army, andto have travelled in ‘the lands beyond’ – countries populated by dog-headed men,cannibals, men with their faces in their chests, Amazons, and Pygmies. Although MarcoPolo’s slightly earlier narrative was to prove more factually accurate, Mandeville’s waswidely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspiredwriters as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge. It enjoyed great popularity, andtranslations from the French version were published in German, English, Italian, Dutch,Spanish, Irish, Danish, and Czech. Nine-tenths of the substance of the Travels can betraced directly to written sources, which range from Pliny to Vincent of Beauvais, andinclude the itineraries of genuine travellers like William of Boldensele and Odoric ofPordenone.

This very rare presentation copy was one of only twelve printed on thick paper by thebookseller and publisher F.S. Ellis (1830-1901) and the luxurious binding is signed on thelower turn-in of the upper board ‘Bound by W. Pratt for F.S. Ellis’. Pratt was one of theleading English bookbinders of the mid-late nineteenth century, and counted amongst hisclientele such distinguished bibliophiles as William Henry Miller, John Bellingham Inglisand Henry Stevens. Ellis had published the works of William Morris and Dante GabrielRossetti, and his literary friends included A.C. Swinburne, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, andJohn Ruskin, whose Stray Letters to a London Bibliopole were addressed to Ellis andrepublished by him in 1892. Ellis’ own bibliophile interests may have led him to befriendthe Henry Newman to whom the inscription is addressed, and who Ellis describes as ‘thelatest born of Bibliomaniacs’.

Bibliomania had become prevalent at the beginning of the eighteenth century, parallelingthe commercial restructuring of bookselling and the fashioning and equipping ofdomestic libraries, and this led to a fashion for producing critical editions of manuscriptsby societies such as the Early English Text Society, founded in 1864 (two years prior to thisedition’s printing) by Frederick James Furnivall to bring the mass of unprinted EarlyEnglish literature within the reach of students. This fashion may have informed Ellis’sdecision to publish this text, particularly because Halliwell’s introduction provides asurvey of principal manuscripts and editions, both in English and other languagetranslations. The illustrations, too, would have been attractive to bibliophiles, beingfacsimiles ‘by Mr. F.W. Fairholt, from the older editions, and from the MSS. in theHarleian collection’. Ellis’s involvement in publishing these early texts continued into hisfinal years, when he worked on Morris’s Kelmscott Press editions of Chaucer’s Works(1896) and Caxton’s Golden Legend (1892), among others. The recipients of these twelvespecial copies were Ellis’ bibliophile friends and associates, and included Henry Huth (cf.W.C. Hazlitt and F.S. Ellis, The Huth Library (London: 1880), p. 897).

SHADOW THEATRE

11. RENAUCOURT, Henri de. Théâtre d’Ombres de Père Castor. Represéntation deGala. Paris, Flammarion, 1935.

Oblong folio, 326 x 280mm, ll. [12, including 8 leaves of plates]; with the cardboard stageset bound in at end; a fine clean copy, wire-sewn in the original printed card wrappers.

£750

First edition, a rare intact survival, of this album containing everything needed to create ahome shadow theatre, from scenery to accessories and actors, who in the words of thetheatre’s founder to the theatre’s new ‘Director’ await ‘only a few snips of your scissorsbefore being put to work’. The provided material does not include a choir, but it doesprovide the written music, with the introduction asserting that volunteers will no doubtappear to take part in the performance.

The stage is included at the end of the album, while the curtain appears on the back cover,and the programme is on the front, awaiting only the name of the budding director.

45 characters with a view to acting out 9 plays, including the Princess and the Pea, and thelegend of St Nicholas, are included. Flammarion went on to publish a second such album,including Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, the following year.

12. [RENAZZI, Filippo Maria]. Analisi degli Elementi di Diritto Criminale. Modena,con approvazione, 1788.

8vo, pp. 86; very occasional slight spotting, but generally clean and crisp; in later magentawrappers; extremities faded and with slight foxing, and one-inch tear to lower wrapper.

£950

First edition thus, very rare. The writer of the preface discloses that this ‘picciol’ volumeof Renazzi’s work was needed to make the concepts of his Elementa accessible to thelayman, so that anyone could readily arrive at a full understanding of the work. Itdeserved being translated into Italian, he says, in order to make it ‘piú piana, piú utile, epiú adattata a commune vantaggio, ed a miglior istruzione degli Studiosi della Scienza delDiritto Criminale’ (p. 4).

‘Perhaps the first [work] in that age to reduce the material of crimes and punishment toa scientific system’, Renazzi’s Elementa expanded on his belief that what was needed wasa purification of the criminal law which had become, as he found it, impeded by its ownweight; he ‘commended Beccaria and, like him, called for greater attention to theprevention of evil than to sharpening punishments’, and was ‘clearly seen in his work asone who understood his age, […] marked by good judgment and dignity’ (Rome in the Ageof Enlightenment, 1990, p. 219). Renazzi, professor at the Sapienza, was a conservativeRoman jurist who is best known for his writings against Rousseau’s Du contrat social. Arenowned thinker in eighteenth-century Italy, Renazzi wrote on a range of topics, fromjurisprudence, criminal procedure and public morality, to poetry, magic and witchcraft.He published his celebrated work on criminal law, the Elementa juris criminalis, in fourvolumes (Rome, 1773-81), a collection which became influential in the Italian states andwent through several editions in both Latin and Italian into the nineteenth century. ‘D’unnuovo metodo’ of criminal science, Renazzi intended his work to follow in the footsteps ofGrotius, Puffendorff and Montesquieu.

This edition not found on COPAC or in any US institution. Worldcat records just onecopy, in Heidelberg.

LAOCOON ENGRAVED

13. REZZONICO, Carlo Castone della Torre di. Discorsi accademici del conte …segretario perpetuo della R. Accademia delle Belle Arti. Parma, [Bodoni], 1772.

8vo, pp. viii, 80; with 4 fine engraved plates (including the engraved title-page) by Bossi,and several finely-engraved vignettes; text within printed borders; a little faint age-toning,but a fine copy in contemporary mottled sheep, gilt triple fillet to sides, flat spine gilt withfleurons, red morocco lettering-piece; small chip to foot of spine, a couple of smallabrasions to the sides, one touching the gilt fillets. £700

First and only edition of an exquisite little product of the Bodoni house: CountRezzonico’s reflections on the fine arts, including a dissertation on the techniques ofwoodcut and engraving. The Neo-Classical aesthetics that inform this work are reflectedin the illustrations, masterfully executed by the painter, engraver and stucco artistBenigno Bossi. Perhaps the most remarkable is the depiction of the marble Laocoon,which had been made by Lessing the symbol of the aesthetic autonomy of poetry andpainting.

Brooks 25.

COLOURED PLATES

14. ROBERTSON, James. A Collection of comic Songs, written, compil’d, Etch’d, andEngrav’d, by J. Robertson; and sung by him at the Theatres Nottingham, Derby, Stamford,Halifax, Chesterfield, and Redford. Peterborough: Printed and sold by C. Robertson. Sold alsoby Crosby and Co. London, Burbage and Stretton, Nottingham; [and booksellers in Derby,Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield and Retford]. [c. 1805.]

8vo, pp. [2], ii, [3]-24, 26-53, [1], with 19 etched and engrav’d plates, with music below andhand-coloured satirical scenes above (some lightly foxed), some dated 1805, paperwatermarked 1803; complete despite the pagination, and here bound even moreerratically; withal a very good copy in contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked; armorialbookplate of Thomas Adam. £950

The first of several rare collections of comic songs issued under the same title; thiscollection, with 19 songs, can be distinguished by the presence of a London bookseller inthe imprint, and a Preface.

John Robertson, co-manager of the theatres mentioned in the title, was ‘a bad poet, a baddramatist, and doubtless a mediocre actor-manager’ (Bronson) who had published twocollections of Poems and a musical drama, The Heroine of Love, in the 1770s. His Collectionof Comic Songs, though, with its delightfully naïve coloured illustrations, is lively and notwithout merit. His Preface wryly notes that ‘I am indebted to the fertile genius of Messrs.Rawlinson and Woodward for the best of the charicatures I have etch’d; and to my friendThomas Dibdin, and his brother Charles, for some of my best jokes ….’

COPAC and OCLC show copies at BL and Bodley only; they also have copies of anothercollection. Folger has a copy with pp. 40 (either incomplete or another collection); andNottingham a collection with 37 plates but later, including a ‘Local Panegyrical ComicSong’ ‘Badly printed by J. Robertson 1820’.

See Bertrand Bronson, ‘Robertson: Poet and Playwright’, MLN 49:8, 1934.

15. SCUTENAIRE, Jean. La Santé. 1933. à Irene Hamoir. [Brussels, Brassa, 1977].

Large 16mo, pp. [52]; printed in red, blue, brown and purple, with 12 illustrations afterphotographic portraits; a fine copy in the original plain paper wrappers, with thesubscription/advertisement leaf laid in loose (worn at head with short tears). £650

First edition, #45 of 50 copies on vergé Ingres d’Arches, signed by Scutenaire at the endand by his wife Irène Hamoir on the subscription leaf, correspondingly numbered.

This is a facsimile of an original collage notebook put together in 1933 by the BelgianSurrealist Jean (later Louis) Scutenaire; found portrait photographs are paired withtypographically unusual verses.

SWEDEN INTRODUCED TO THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

16. [SMITH, Adam.] ADLERSPARRE, Georg, et al., editors. Läsning i blandadeämnen. Första [– Femte och Sista] Årgången. Stockholm, Henrik A. Nordström, 1797–1801.

Fifty parts bound in nine vols, small 8vo; complete with 5 folding tables, a foldingengraved map, and 3 folding engraved plates of agricultural implements; woodcutvignettes on divisional titles; deaccessioned library stamp to the front free endpaper ineach vol.; slight waterstaining to the third vol., else a very good, clean set in contemporaryblue paper-covered boards, extremities rubbed, gilt-lettered labels to spines. £1750

First edition of all 50 parts of the Swedish literary periodical Läsning i blandade ämnen,containing over 200 pages of passages from various sections of the Wealth of Nations,making it the first opportunity for Swedish speakers to study Adam Smith. GeorgSartorius’s abridgement of the Wealth of Nations, the Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft …,would appear in a Swedish translation in 1800, but a complete translation of Smith’simportant work of economics did not appear until recently.

There are many other translations from English in the periodical, including biographies ofSamuel Johnson and William Blackstone, and poetry by Alexander Pope and ThomasGray.

Vanderblue, p. 32; OCLC lists copies at Yale, Minnesota, and Texas. On the influence ofSmith in Sweden, see Torbjörn Vallinder, ‘University Professors and Amateur Writers: TheWealth of Nations in Sweden up to 1990’, in Cheng-chung Lai’s Adam Smith Across Nations(OUP, 2000).

17. STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa or The Quest, Rescue and Retreat ofEmin, Governor of Equatoria. London, William Clowes and Sons, Limited for Sampson Low,Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890.

2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 140mm), pp. I: xv, [1 (blank)], 529, [1 (imprint)]; II: xv, [1 (blank)],472, [2 (publisher’s advertisement)]; wood-engraved frontispiece in vol. I andphotographic portrait frontispiece by Waterlow & Sons after Walery in vol. II, bothretaining tissue guards, 36 wood-engraved plates by Barbant, Chiriat, Cooper, Davey,Meaulle, et al. after Riou, Schonberg, Forestier, Montbard, et al., 3 folding colour-printedlithographic maps by Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, one colour-printedlithographic geological profile by Stanford’s, one wood-engraved map by Stanford’s afterW.G. Stairs, one folding letterpress table, and wood-engraved illustrations and plans, andletterpress tables, in the text, some full-page; occasional light spotting or marking,skilfully-repaired short tears on 2 folding maps, the other map lightly browned (as often),II, 2G1 with small marginal loss; original brick-red pictorial cloth, upper boards andspines decorated and lettered in black and gilt, map endpapers printed in green;extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, some light marking, spines slightly dulled,short splits on lower hinges, nonetheless a very good set in the original pictorial cloth;provenance: Joseph Hutchinson (contemporary booklabels on front free endpapers of bothvolumes). £500

First edition. Written in fifty days at Cairo and published shortly after, In Darkest Africa isthe celebrated account of Stanley’s 1887-1889 expedition to Lake Albert, to relieve theGerman physician and scientist Eduard Schnitzer (known as Emin Pasha). Following theMahdist uprising, which had led to the death of Gordon in 1885, Emin Pasha, the

governor of Equatorial Sudan, had fled Sudan for Wadelai, close to Lake Albert, where hewas trapped. However, he had been able to send letters back to Europe to alert friends tohis plight, and these letters had provoked great concern for Emin’s safety and anexpedition was proposed by William Mackinnon, the Chairman of the British India SteamNavigation Company, which Stanley was asked to lead. In 1887, Stanley arrived atZanzibar and then travelled around the Cape to the mouth of the Congo, from where hemade his way to Leopoldville and thence along the Congo into the centre of the continent,to the river’s confluence with the Aruwimi River. From there Stanley journeyed to thevillage of Yambuya, which he reached on 15 June 1887, and, leaving a rearguard party atYambuya, Stanley and an advance party of some 400 embarked upon a 450-mile, five-month-long journey through the Ituri rain forest to Lake Albert.

‘Stanley’s descriptions of the tortuous passage through the dense forest rank among themost celebrated of all his writings. Ravaged by the effects of disease, hunger, and warfare,his party reached Lake Albert in December 1887. Failing to find Emin (who was atWadelai), they retreated to Ibwiri, where a camp (known as Fort Bodo) was constructed.On 29 April 1888 Stanley himself finally met Emin Pasha, drinking champagne with himon the shores of Lake Albert, as he had with Livingstone at Ujiji in 1871. Unable topersuade Emin to leave immediately, he decided to return to find his rear column, leavingJephson with Emin. In August 1888, at Banalya, just 90 miles from Yambuya, he found therear column in a state of disarray [...] The rear column began the arduous journey on toFort Bodo in August 1888, suffering further casualties on the way. On his arrival, inDecember 1888, Stanley learned that Emin had suffered the combined threat of a mutinywithin his forces and renewed hostilities with the Mahdists. Emin’s position appeared tobe under threat, though he himself privately described Stanley’s motives as "egoismunder the guise of philanthropy" [...] After much cajoling, Stanley at last persuaded him toleave Equatoria, the party setting out from the shores of Lake Albert on 10 April 1889.They travelled near the Ruwenzori range [...] then through the lakes region, reaching thecoast on 4 December 1889. By now, Stanley’s relationship with Emin was at a low ebb, andhe left Bagamoyo for Zanzibar without his prize. From there Stanley travelled to Cairo,where he spent two months writing his famous account of the expedition, In DarkestAfrica’ (ODNB). On his return to London in April 1890, Stanley was feted by society andacademia, and a reception held for him by the Royal Geographical Society at the AlbertHall on 5 May 1890 attracted 10,000 people, including the Prince of Wales.

Hosken p. 189.

A RARE SIGNED COPY

18. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Among the Mountains. Travels Through Asia.London, Caledonian International Book Manufacturing Ltd for HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.

4to (246 x 167mm), pp. [2 (blank l.)], xvi, 250, [4 (blank ll.)]; photographic illustrations afterThesiger, 36 full-page and 10 double-page, 6 full- and one double-page maps; originalblack boards, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers, dustwrapper reproducingphotographs by Thesiger; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges and price-clipped,slight marking to fore-edges of a few final ll., otherwise a very good copy. £300

First edition. With label signed by the author ‘Wilfred Thesiger’ tipped onto the titleand Stanford’s 'Signed Copy' label on the upper panel of the dustwrapper. An account ofThesiger’s travels in the mountains of the Middle East and Asia, describing expeditions inIraqi Kurdistan (1950-1951), Chitral (1952), Hunza (1953), Hazarajat (1954), Nuristan (1956and 1965), and Ladakh (1983), based on the author’s diaries and extensively illustratedwith his photographs. Among the Mountains was published around the time when agecompelled Thesiger to leave his Chelsea flat for Orford House retirement home inWoodcote Park, near Coulsdon, Surrey, and consequently it is believed that only onebook-signing had been arranged at Stanford’s, for which bookplates were sent to Thesigerfor signature and then returned to Stanford’s, to be tipped in to the volumes (as here).Certainly, signed or inscribed copies of the first edition of Among the Mountains areunusually scarce on the market.

P.N. Grover, ‘Bibliography of Works by Sir Wilfred Thesiger’ in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa,p. 272.

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19. THESIGER, Sir Wilfred Patrick. Desert Marsh and Mountain. The World of aNomad. London, W. & J. Mackay Limited for William Collins Sons and Co Ltd, 1979.

4to (269 x 207mm), pp. 3-304, [2 (blank)], numerous photographic illustrations afterThesiger et al., some full- or double-page, maps after Tom Stalker-Miller, some full- ordouble-page; original brown boards, spine titled in gilt, photographically-illustrateddustwrapper after Thesiger; dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at edges and price-clipped,very light mark on lower board, otherwise a very good copy. £100

First edition. A superbly-illustrated record of Thesiger’s travels in Abyssinia, Yemen,Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chitral, dating from his birth in 1910 to 1978, which isprefaced by a ‘Biographical Summary and List of Principal Travels, 1910-78’ and a short-title list of ‘Other Books and Articles by Wilfred Thesiger’.

STYLISH SHIP INTERIORS IN PHOTOGRAPHS

20. [T.S.S. OLYMPIA.] A pair of photograph albums depicting the interiors of T.S.S.Olympia, October 1953.

86 gelatin silver prints, approximately 8¾ x 11½ inches (22 x 29.5 cm.), each stamped W.Wralston, Glasgow with a negative number in pencil on verso, captions stencilled in blackbelow, black paper corner-mounts, in two contemporary faux-snakeskin ringbinders(some mounts loose), black lettering to upper boards and spine (a little rubbed), oblongfolio. £6500

A singular visual record of the ultra-modern interiors of the Clyde-built passenger shipT.S.S. Olympia in the year of its maiden voyage. The design project was executed byPatrick McBride, Theodore E. Alexander, and Athens-based Emmanuel Lazaridis, withothers, including Tibor Reich and Stafford Unwin, participating. The fabricants wereMcInnes Gardner & Partners of Glasgow.

The finely-detailed black and white prints suggest the use of large-format negatives, anexpensive luxury in this decade of austerity. Unpopulated by either passengers or staff,the precision of the photographs complements the bold post-war contrasts and angles,such as in the jazzy ‘Mycenaean’ and ‘Derby’ rooms. Vibrant upholstery and geometry inthe ‘Bookworm’ reading room and ‘The Scribe’ writing room are balanced against a classicwood-panelled library and card room.

Each image boasts of the state-of-the-art luxury of this new ship: Olympic athletes adornthe walls of the modern gymnasium, complete with horseriding equipment andcontemporary cycle machines; there are two childrens’ rooms, ‘Wonderland’ and

‘Neverland’, fitted with playground toys; and even the up-to-date amenities in the first-class ‘stateroom toilet’ are considered worthy of inclusion in this record.

Manuscript notes in pencil on the mounts beneath the photographs, matching the captionslater stencilled in black below, are testament that these two albums were compiled withmuch care and consideration, most likely as a presentation gift. It is unlikely that asimilarly extensive set of images exist in such a format.

Having changed hands and been renamed several times, the ship was fully broken up inearly 2010.

‘A CLASSIC WORK ON THE AMAZON’

21. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, andNatural History of the Amazon Valley. London, John Edward Taylor for Reeve and Co., 1853.

8vo (215 x 137mm), pp. viii, 541, [1 (imprint)]; colour-printed lithographic plate printed byHullmandel and Walton bound as a frontispiece with later tissue guard, 8 lithographicplates and diagrams by and after Wallace, printed by F. Reeve, one lithographic map by C.Achilles, and one folding letterpress table, wood-engraved illustrations in the text;occasional light spotting, table with skilfully-repaired tear, map tightly bound; halfspeckled calf over marbled boards by Bayntun, Bath [circa 1930-1939], spine gilt incompartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, lettered directly with date at the foot ofthe spine, top edges gilt; bound without final l. of advertisements, nonetheless a verygood copy of this increasingly uncommon work; provenance: Francis Reeve Cope, jr,Woodbourne Orchard and Forest (1878-1962, bookplate on upper pastedown). £4000

First edition. Inspired by William H. Edwards’ book A Voyage up the River Amazon,Including a Residence at Pará which was published in 1847, Wallace (1823-1913) and hisfriend the naturalist Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) planned an expedition to SouthAmerica, and departed from Liverpool on 25 April 1848 for Pará (now Belém), at themouth of the Amazon.

As the ODNB states, ‘Apart from meeting their immediate goal of earning a livingthrough natural history collecting, Wallace and Bates had a broader purpose for travellingto the Amazon: solving the mystery of the causes of organic evolution. Though Wallacehad unreservedly embraced the notion of social progress from his early teens andapparently leaned toward a uniformitarianism-based but progressive view of change inphysical nature even before turning twenty, he had not been a convert to biologicalevolution until he read Robert Chambers’s controversial, anonymously published Vestigesof the Natural History of Creation about 1845, the year it was published. That one mightdemonstrate the fact of evolution through a detailed tracing out of individual phylogeniesover time and space was apparent to him early on, and the Amazon was to afford anatural laboratory to this end. He would eventually stay in the area four years, gaininginvaluable field experience and sending home a sizeable quantity of biological specimens,largely of birds and insects.

The two men split up in March 1850 (or possibly earlier), Wallace choosing to concentrateon the central Amazon and Rio Negro regions. There he first came into contact with nativepeoples unaffected by European influence, an experience that left an indelible positiveimpression on him. A map he prepared of the Rio Negro proved reliable and became astandard reference for many years. Most of his time was spent studying the area’sornithology, entomology, physical geography, primatology, botany, and ichthyology, andhe soon became fascinated by two problems in particular: first, how geography influencedspecies distribution boundaries, and second, the way the adaptive suites of manypopulations seemed more attuned to ecological station than to closeness of affinity withother forms.

By early 1852 the stresses of tropical exploration had undermined Wallace’s health to theextent that he decided to leave the region [...] Earlier he had discovered that through anunfortunate misunderstanding his collections from the year before had not beenforwarded on to England. Passage for both himself and his treasures (including a numberof living specimens) was arranged, but after several days at sea the brig on which he wassailing caught fire. Although everyone on board was safely evacuated to a pair of lifeboatsall of Wallace’s possessions, save a few drawings, notes, and odds and ends, perished. Theparty was finally rescued – after ten anxious days of paddling and bailing – by a passingcargo vessel making a return run to England […]

The Amazon experience left Wallace, now twenty-nine, with a solid reputation as anaturalist. But the sea disaster had robbed him of materials for further study, and – mostsignificantly – the mechanism of organic change had eluded him. He was initiallyundecided as to what course to pursue next. While making up his mind he made good useof what was to be an eighteen-month stay in London; in addition to vacationing briefly inParis and Switzerland and reading several papers at professional society meetings, he puttogether two reasonably well-received books: Palm Trees of the Amazon (1853), a shortsystematic ethnobotanical survey, and A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro(1853)’.

Wallace’s researches would eventually direct him to the concept of natural selection someyears later, and this would lead to his celebrated joint paper with Charles Darwin (whosethinking on the subject had been formed by his own travels in South America some tenyears earlier), ‘On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of

Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection’, which was given to the LinneanSociety on 1 July 1858.

This copy is from the library of the natural historian and conservationist Francis R. Cope,Jr. (1878-1962), who was educated at Haverford College, Harvard University (where heheld the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship in 1903) and then travelled in Germany andEngland as an honorary John Harvard Fellow in 1904. He established a farm atWoodbourne in Dimock, PA, where he studied arboriculture, grafting, and other aspectsof forestry. A vice-president of the American Forestry Association, in 1934 Cope helped tosave the Tionesta Forest in Pennsylvania and in 1956 he deeded 500 acres of Woodbourneforest to the Nature Conservancy.

As Michael Shermer records, the cost of publishing Wallace’s Narrative was split equallybetween the author and the publisher, and only 750 copies were printed (cf. In Darwin’sShadow; the Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace (Oxford: 2002), p. 75), and the work hasbecome increasingly scarce on the market in recent years.

Abbey, Travel, 712; Borba de Moraes p. 933 (‘Wallace’s book is a classic work on theAmazon and appeared in many editions’); BM(NH) V, p. 2256 (erroneous collation ofplates); Koppel, Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert-Bosch-GmbH, I, 467; Naylor 170; Wood p. 617(‘One of the earliest scientific explorations of this noted naturalist. He describes manyspecies of vertebrates’).

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