Library List No. 1: August 2016A selection of 33 items

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AESOP. Samuel Croxall, translator and editor. Fables of Aesop and others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable. Illustrated with Cuts. A new edition. London: for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York, 1795Duodecimo in half-sheets (129 × 82 mm). Contemporary Dutch floral boards. 148 woodcut illustrations in the text, two partly coloured by hand at an early date. Joints cracked but cords holding firm, extremities a little worn with slight loss of the floral paper. Pale damp mark to blank margins, still a very good copy.

An unrecorded edition of Croxall’s translation of Aesop’s Fables, first published in London in 1722, here in a format for young children, with a prefatory extract from Locke’s Treatise on Education: “When the child begins to be able to read, some easy pleasant book, suited to his capacity, should be put into his hands, wherein the entertainment that he finds might draw him on, and reward his pains in reading, and yet not such as would fill his head with perfectly useless trumpery, or lay the principles of vice and folly. To this purpose, I think Aesop’s Fables the best; which being stories apt to delight and entertain a child, may yet afford useful reflections to a grown man: and if his

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memory retain them all his life after, he will not repent to find them there, amongst his manly thoughts and serious business.” (p. 3).This would appear to be a re-issue of the 1789 edition, which shares the same format and pagination, and which according to ESTC, though carrying a London imprint, was probably printed in York. The London editions all comprise a different page count. Samuel Croxall (1688/9–1752), poet and Church of England clergyman, was baptized on 4 February 1689 at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. “He was educated at Eton College (1701–7), where he was elected a King's scholar on 4 August 1702, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted as a sizar on 5 May 1708, aged nineteen; he graduated BA in 1712, MA in 1717, and DD in 1728. He was ordained in London diocese in 1712, instituted as rector of Bradenham, Norfolk, in 1713, appointed chaplain-in-ordinary at Hampton Court in 1715, and succeeded his father as vicar of Hampton-on-Thames, a crown living, on 9 October 1716. He retained both Hampton preferments until he died... Fables of Aesop and Others ‘with applications and useful observations’ (1722), dedicated to Lord Sunbury, son of the earl of Halifax, was a work of morality and whiggish politics which enjoyed reprints until well into the twentieth century and must be reckoned Croxall's most successful publication. It was one of the first books to influence the poet Robert Browning” (ODNB).Not in ESTC.

£3,750 [109245]

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BARBETTE, Paul. The Practice of The Most Successful Physitian Paul Barbette, Doctour of Physick. With The Notes and Observations of Frederick Deckers, Doctour of Physick. Faithfully rendered into English. London: printed by T.R. for Henry Brome, 1675Octavo (171 × 109 mm). Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt in compartments, lacks label, sides with two-line rules in blind, marbled edges. With additional engraved title page engraved by Frederick Hendrick van Hove. Rather worn, sides with small

holes in leather in two places, front inner hinge neatly restored, first few leaves just a little frayed at fore edge, still a very good copy.

First edition in English, an English translation of Praxis Barbettiana, Dekkers’s Latin edition, which was first published in Leyden in 1669. Barbette (1620–1666?) was a celebrated Dutch physician. He was relatively unusual for his time in that he disapproved of bloodletting. The attractive frontispiece shows him taking the pulse of a female patient.Wing B698.

£1,750 [109779]

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BERTHELOT, [Claude-François.] Le Mécanique appliquée aux arts, aux manufactures, à l’agriculture et à la guerre; ouvrage orné de 120 planches. Paris: Chez l’Auteur; et Demonville, 17822 volumes, quarto (approx. 300 × 230 mm). Uncut in contemporary pink sprinkled paper wrappers, the spine of vol. 2 reinforced at an early date. With 132 plates, of which 2 are folding. Rubbed, vol. 1 spine faded, some visible over-sewing in the gutter in vol. 1, one or two spots, vol. 2 half-title with upper outer corner torn away (text not affected), still an excellent copy with untrimmed edges.

First edition. Described on the title as “Ingénieur-Mécanicien du Roi”, Berthelot (1718–1800) rose from humble origins to the professorship of mathematics in the Military School in Paris, where in 1763 he invented a famous gun carriage for use in coastal artillery, though the invention was generally credited to Gribeauval who was largely responsible for its adoption. Although the title in this collection of his designs calls for 120 plates, there are 132, with some in the second volume duplicated and with better explanations of the designs. Benjamin Franklin owned a copy of this work.£2,250 [108958]

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(BIBLE; English; Authorized.) The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the original tongues … [Together with:] The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David … London: by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas’d, 1692Two works together in one volume, duodecimo (152 × 85 mm). Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, covers with gilt frames, silver cornerpieces, central oval flat bosses, and clasps, engraved on the inside of the clasps “The gift of I.W. 1693”, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Ruled in red throughout. With 18th-century manuscript notes of the Bonnett family at front and rear. Rubbed, spine ends worn, a very good copy.

A charming William and Mary pocket-book Bible, complete with the Book of Common Prayer and Psalter, in an attractive red morocco gift binding with silver furniture.Wing B2359.

£2,500 [109822]

THE FIRST MOVEABLE SCENES IN THE HISTORY OF THE THEATRE5.

BONARELLI, Prospero. Il Solimano Tragedia. Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620Small quarto (220 × 160 mm). Contemporary Italian vellum over stiff pasteboards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt edges. Engraved title (second state with inscription below the Medici arms and the artist’s signature bottom left) and 5 double-page engraved plates by Callot after Giulio Parigi, woodcut printer’s device on last leaf verso. Small inkstamp at foot of title (BC). Vellum soiled, marginal hole to H2, short tear to top edge of H4, small wormhole to lower outer corner from L4 onward, widening from O4 to end, but text never affected, a few minor marks or stains, a very good copy.

First edition of this famous opera about Suleyman the Magnificent’s execution of his son Mustafa. “One of the earliest Turkish operas was written in 1619 by the Italian Prospero Bonarelli, whose Il Solimano became the blueprint for many eponymous operas and for other operas that employed elements of its plot” (Berman, German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000–1989, p. 115). The magnificent engravings are by Jacques Callot, after the designs of his tutor and colleague, Giulio Parigi, architect and chief designer of courtly festivities under the Grand Duke, Cosimo II de' Medici. "The dramatic finale shows the city of the tyrant Soliman in flames. The moveable scenes – the first in the history of the theatre – picture contemporary Florence. The whole of its effective contrasts of dark and light, seems fantastic, yet it is the rational and realistic portrait of a fantastic, imaginary subject" (Otto Benesch, Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier, Cambridge, 1942, p. 17). The book was a great success and went through six editions by 1636.Berlin 4112; Brunet I:1089; Cicognara 1086; Gamba 1810; Lieure 363–8.

£3,750 [109664]

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(CHARLES I.) [GAUDEN, John.] Eikon basilike [Greek characters]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and sufferings. [London: no publisher,] M.DC.XLVIII. [1648, i.e. 1649]Small octavo (151 × 90 mm), pp. [6], 208, 107–154, 255–302, [16]. Handsomely bound in late 18th-century blue straight-grain morocco, smooth spine divided in compartments with gilt Greek-key and dotted rolls, memorial cypher of Charles I in compartments and date in gilt at foot, sides gilt with outer Greek-key roll enclosing central panel, corners filled with massed dots and fleurons, cypher of Charles I in centre, turn-ins with Greek-key roll, yellow ochre endpapers, gilt edges. Double-page engraved plate as frontispiece, engraved portrait of the Prince of Wales; text continuous despite pagination, the explanation leaf folded in at fore edge. Somewhat closely trimmed, shaving the head of the frontispiece and one or two headlines, but a fine copy in an attractive binding.

Having lost both the pamphlet and the civil wars, Charles triumphed in death with the Eikon basilike, supposedly written by him but most likely ghost-written by his chaplain, John Gauden, who probably included some authentic writings of the king. First published on 9 February 1649, ten days after the king’s execution, the book was hugely successful, and within a year had been published in some 50 editions in various languages. On behalf of the council of state, John Milton published his reply in October, entitled Eikonoklastes, but it had nothing like the same popular appeal. With its image of a pious ruler, the book inspired a cult of Charles as martyr and a lengthy tradition of royalist memorial bindings, such as this.Provenance: inscribed on the first blank, “Thos. Singleton, the gilt of Lady Caroline Stanhope, 1838. Mem. The binding is the renewal of the old binding & the tradition in the Harrington family is that the book had once been in the possession of King Charles 2d.” Caroline Wyndham (d.1876) married Rev. Hon. FitzRoy Henry Richard Stanhope, son of the 3rd Earl of Harrington, on 8 November 1808. On the front pastedown is the small book label

of Lady Williams of Bodelwyddan and the larger armorial bookplate of Arthur Henry Pargeter of the Middle Temple and Sevenoaks, Co. Kent, and his pencilled note of acquisition dated 11 July 1930.Almack, 15; Madan, New bibl. of the Eikon basilike, 21; Wing E283.

£2,000 [111933]

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CHESTERTON, G. K. Archive of his correspondence with A. G. Gardiner of the Daily News, including two autograph manuscripts – his poem “The March of the Black Mountain” and his article “The Saint and the Dragon” – and his resignation letter. 1907–13Together 13 items: (i) Autograph draft signed ("G. K. Chesterton") of his poem “The March of the Black Mountain”, with autograph revisions, especially to the middle section, marked up for printing in pencil ("leader page/ Brev.") and crayon ("15 caps"), 3 pages, irregular 4to [Daily News, 1913]; (ii) autograph manuscript of his article “The Saint and the Dragon” (here titled "The True Curse of Khaki"), with a preliminary note referring to the Khaki Election and quoting "a fine phrase of Mr W. B. Yeats", marked up or the printed in blue crayon, 6 pages, on irregular 8vo slips [Daily News, 8 July 1913; (iii) 11 autograph letters signed to A. G. Gardiner, editor of the Daily News, a fine series, at turns pugnacious and charming ("My conscience does not often bother you: just now the animal is awake & roaring. Your paper has always championed the rights of Conscience: so mine naturally goes to you..."), 16 pages, 4to and 8vo, Overstrand Mansions, Overroads and elsewhere, 1907–13 where dated.

Autograph manuscript of Chesterton’s well-known poem, “The March of the Black Mountain”, used for its first printing: this poem – often seen as a companion piece to “Lepanto” written not long afterwards – was published in the Daily News in 1913. Ours is Chesterton's final working draft and the copy-text used by the printer for its first publication. The poem was inspired by King Nicholas of Montenegro's declaration of war on the Sultan late in 1912 and the Austrian capture of Mount Lovcen in Montenegro that followed, events forming part of the Balkan Wars that were to lead into the First World War itself. Like “Lepanto”, Chesterton's poem is written in a rousing ballad metre and luxuriates in Eastern imagery ("His head was high as the crescent/ Of the moon that seemed his crown/ And on glory of past & present/ The light of his eyes looked down..."). It runs to 60 lines, beginning: "What will there be to remember / Of us in the days to be / Whose faith was a trodden ember / And even our doubt not free; / Parliaments built of paper, / And the soft swords of gold, / That twist like a waxen taper / In the weak aggressor's hold...".His article “The True Curse of Khaki” was first published, from our manuscript, in the Daily News on 19 September 1905, and likewise opens in his most striking manner: "The primary things in the universe, before all letters and all language are a note of exclamation and a note of interrogation. The very shapes of them are startlingly symbolic: the first straight & simple, the second crooked & looking like a sneer. The note of admiration is Man, erect and wondering, worshipping the wonderful sky. The note of interrogation is the only thinking thing that was with him in Eden from the first. The note of interrogation is the Serpent, curved and at once cowering and insinuating. The first appreciates; the second depreciates. The two have been allegorized & repeated in every bewildering blazon of mythology & heraldry. St George was the note of admiration; he was Adam in armour. The Dragon was the note of interrogation gorgeously engraved, like a capital in a Gothic missal. They have come together in many ages with the sound of steel, the, straight swords of simplicity and the curved scimitars of scepticism; nor has there been any other battle since the beginning of the world..."Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946) was editor of the Daily News from 1902, its circulation rising under him from 80,000 when he joined the paper to 151,000 in 1907 and 400,000 with the introduction of a Manchester edition in 1909. Although he would eventually resign over a disagreement with him, Gardiner was close to the owner of the Daily News, George Cadbury. Chesterton's last Saturday column appeared on 1 February 1913. A week before, his poem “A Song of Strange Drinks” had appeared in the New Witness. The third stanza of the poem attacks cocoa in notably personal terms: "Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast..." The Marconi scandal had completed Chesterton's total disillusion with the Liberal party, of which Cadbury was a leading supporter; Cadbury and his "Cocoa Press" were under constant attack in the New Witness. Although Chesterton truly disliked cocoa as a drink, he was perfectly aware of the political significance of attacking it.On 28 January, Gardiner wrote Chesterton what the latter characterized in his Autobiography as "a very sympathetic but rather sad letter, hoping that no personal attack was meant on some of the pillars of the Party" - Gardiner's retained copy of that letter is included here, along with Chesterton's reply, in which he writes, "it is quite impossible for me to continue taking the money of a man who may think I have insulted him. It is equally impossible for me to

permit him or anyone else to control what I choose to write in other places. Therefore I see no other course but to surrender my position on the paper quite finally."£7,500 [111365]

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CONNOLLY, Cyril. Original manuscript and corrected proofs of his introduction to Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light. [London: 1966]Comprising 11 pages of holograph manuscript, written on plain letter paper (177 × 135 mm) on one side only, the first page duplicated in an earlier draft; and 5 pages of printed proofs, with holograph corrections. Slight browning at lower corners of first page of printed proofs, very good.

Connolly’s essay is titled in manuscript “Bill Brandt – Cast a Cold Eye”, but the book was published as Shadow of Light (London: Bodley Head, 1966). Connolly had published Brandt's wartime bomb shelter photographs in Horizon in February 1942.£2,250 [111362]

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COOK, Andrew S. Survey of the Shores and Islands of the Persian Gulf 1820-1829. Prepared for publication and with an introduction by Andrew S. Cook. [London]: Archive Editions, 19905 volumes, octavo, comprising one volume of text and 55 folding charts, maps and tables in four book form boxes. Publisher’s boards, spines ruled and lettered gilt. Folding map in volume one, with 55 folding maps and charts. In excellent condition.

First edition of this important assemblage of texts and charts, reproduced from original material in the India Office Library and Records, London and in the Department of Manuscripts, the British Library. “This is a publication of sea charts, harbour plans, coastal views and topographical descriptions produced during the survey of the shores and islands of the Persian Gulf carried out between 1820 and 1829 by officers of the Bombay Marine on the orders of the Bombay Government. Despite the long time that Europeans had sailed in the Gulf, the 1820s survey was the

first systematic examination of its coastal topography” (Introduction). Cook here reproduces seven articles, drawn from Manuscripts and printed sources held in British institutions. The articles are:1. Draft Chapters for an unpublished Account of the Survey of the Persian Gulf by G. B. Brucks c. 1835 (BL: Add MS 14382].2. Plan for conducting the Survey of the South Coast of the Persian Gulf, by Philip Maughan 16 August 1821 [IOR: F/4/676, collection 18677].3. Account of Part of the Southern Coast or Arabian Side of the Persian Gulf between Ras Musandam and Dubai, by M. Houghton 1822 [IOR: X/10309]. Facsimile of the Original Manuscript followed by a Transcript.4. Memoir descriptive of the Navigation of the Gulf of Persia, by G. B. Brucks c. 1830 [From Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, new series vol. XXIV (Bombay 1856), pp. 531-634].5. Sailing Directions for the Gulf, 1836 [From James Horsburgh: India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from East Indies (London 1836), Vol. 1 pp. 305-377].6. Descriptive Sketch of the Islands and Coast situated at the Entrance of the Persian Gulf, by H. H. Whitelock [From Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 8 (1838) pp. 170-188].7. An Account of the Arabs who inhabit the Coast between Ras-el Kheimah and Abothubee [Abu Dhabi] in the Gulf of Persia, generally called the Pirate Coast, by H. H. Whitelock [From Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, vol. 1 (1836-1838) pp. 32-54].£2,250 [92989]

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DAWKINS, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket.

First edition, first impression of the author's first book. An examination of the ways that evolution acts on individual genes rather than on species, it was an immediate best-seller and revolutionised the way that the public viewed evolution.£575 [111014]

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GANDHI, Mahatma K. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Translated from the original in Gujarati by Mahadev Desai [and Pyarelal Nair for volume II]. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1927-1929Two volumes, octavo. Original khaki cloth, spines and front panels lettered black. Portrait frontispiece to each volume. Lower outer corner of rear cover of volume one with small section of cloth missing. Covers unevenly lightly sunned, volume one with a little worm damage to the front joint and cover, affecting the gutter and blank inner margin only; a very good copy.

First edition in English of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography, giving an account of his life up until 1921. The work was first serialised in Gujarati in the weekly newspaper Navajivan. Copies in this condition are remarkably scarce.£3,750 [110986]

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GÉNÉBRARD, Gilbert. Chronographiae libri quatuor; priores duo sunt de rebus veteris populi et praecipuis quatuor millium annorum gestis, posteriores e D. Arnaldi Pontaci, … chronographia aucti, recentes historias reliquorum annorum complectuntur … subjuncti sunt libri Hebraeorum chronologici, eodem interprete. Paris: In the shop of the widow of Martin Le Jeune, 1585Folio (358 × 225 mm), in two parts. Contemporary French calf, skilfully rebacked with original spine compartments laid down, compartments with gilt centre tools with gilt arms of St Albans School added either side, the second gilt-lettered, sides with leaf-form centrepieces in gilt, single gilt rule borders. St Albans School woodcut bookplate to front pastedown. Woodcut printer’s

device to title, roman and Hebrew types. Corners a little worn, a few trivial marks, but a very good, tall copy with wide margins all round.

From the library of St Albans School, Hertfordshire, one of the oldest schools in the world. The school was founded within St Albans Abbey by Abbot Wulsin in 948 and was the first school in the world to accept lay students not intending to join a religious order.The bookplate here has the school motto Mediocra firma, used between the 16th and 20th centuries, meaning “the middle course is safe” (compare mediocritas aurea, “the golden mean”). The motto was adopted in the late 16th century by the Bacon family and used by Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, who spent most of his childhood at Gorhambury, near St Albans, in the substantial new house built by his father in the 1560s. Gorhambury was named after Geoffrey de Gorham [Gorron, near Le Mans, Maine, France], who was Master and subsequently Abbot of St Albans in the 12th century.The school coat of arms is composed of the cross of Saint Alban together with the school motto. The cross of Saint Alban is a saltire, signifying that Alban was martyred but beheaded, not crucified. As the meaning of “mediocrity” later took on a pejorative slant, the school has since changed its motto to Non nobis nati ("Born not for ourselves"), adapted from that of Geoffrey de Gorham.Gilbert Génébrard (1535–1597), Archbishop of Aix, was a French Benedictine exegete and Orientalist, who translated many rabbinic writings into Latin. His sacred chronology was first published as Genebrardus, Chronographia in duos libros distincta (Louvain: Johann Foulerum, 1572). It is continued here by Arnaud de Pontac (d. 1605). This is the second edition from the shop of Martin Le Jeune (Juvenis), one of the leading 16th-century Christian Hebrew printers in Paris, who died about 1584. The title to the second part has his name as the printer, dated 1584; the general title is dated 1585, “apud viduam”.£2,000 [111377]

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HAWKINS, John. Clavis Commercii: Or, the Key of Commerce: Shewing, The true Method of Keeping Merchants Books, after the Italian Manner of Debtor and Creditor; in One Hundred and Twenty Propositions, containing most Cases relating to Merchandize. With a Practical Waste Book, Journal and Ledger, and Directions how to Ballance the Ledger, and Transfer the Ballance thereof, as an Inventory, into a new Ledger. Designed for the Help and Assistance of Young Merchants, at their first Entrance on their Apprenticeship to their Masters. The Second Edition, Corrected and Amended by John Rayner,

Writing-Master, formerly Servant to Col. John. Ayres. London: For Eben. Tracy and John Wyat, 1704.Quarto (193 147 mm). Contemporary panelled sheep, neatly rebacked. Armorial bookplate of John, Earl of Loudon to front pastedown. Corners extensively worn away, covers with considerable surface erosion and wear, inner hinges strengthened. Paper stock lightly browned, lower outer corner of the first and last few leaves a little frayed, blank upper margin of title-page cut away, presumably removing a former owner’s signature, pen trials to the front free endpaper. Withal, still a very good copy.

Second, improved edition, first published in 1689, of John Hawkins’s guide to double-entry book-keeping according to the Italian method, here corrected and amended by John Rayner, who advertises his school for merchants near St. Paul’s Church in London.Hawkins, who dedicates his work to Thomas Pilkington, Lord Mayor of the City of London, writes in the Epistle to the reader that “The paths that lead to the practice of Merchants Accompts are rough and crooked, and though many Authors have very accurately endeavoured to conduct the industrious through those Meanders, yet very few have hitherto arrived at their intended perfection, but this Clavis I hope contains such plain Directions, as without any elaborate pains; (like a Clew) may guide the industrious Student through most of those Inticacies.”Hanson 429; ICAEW, p. 74. No edition in Herwood.

£2,750 [86363]

ON THE SPECIES OF DRUNKARDS14.

[HESSUS, Helius Eobanus.] De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda: cui adiecimus de meretricum in suos amatores, & concubinarum in sacerdotes fide: quaestiones salibus & facetijs plenae, laxandianimi, iociq; suscitandi causa, nuper editae. [Frankfurt: David Zöpfel,] 1557Duodecimo (127 78 mm), in three parts. Late 18th-century dark green vellum sewn on two cords, paper spine label, thick endpapers reused from an engraved book. Title within decorative border. Bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau. Title leaf frayed at fore edge with very slight loss of border, restored with tissue, small paper restorations to succeeding two leaves not affecting text, occasional staining or browning, some underlining, still a good copy.

The German humanist scholar Eobanus Koch (Coccius) (1488–1540) was considered the foremost Latin poet of his age. His prose work “On the species of drunkards” is a mock-quodlibetical speech that applies the scholastic method of argumentation, first printed anonymously in 1515. His first bestseller, the satire was reprinted in 1516 and 1550 and afterwards well into the 18th century. The book also includes two additional works, first published in

1505: Jakob Hartlieb, De fide meretricum; and Paul Olearius [Jakob Wimpfeling], De fide concubinarum in sacerdotes. Copac locates only a single copy of this edition in the British Isles, at Cambridge.BM STC German, 1455–1600, p. 337; VD16; E 1501. Imprint supplied from Benzing, "Ulrich von Hutten und seine Drucker", 1956, p. 139, no. 248. For the author’s biography, see under Eobanus in Contemporaries of Erasmus.

£950 [108213]

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HOBBES, Thomas. Elementorum philosophiae Sectio secunda de Homine. London: Andrew Crooke, 1658Quarto (208 × 156). Contemporary calf, double blind rule border to covers, spine with gilt rules and a red morocco label added at a later date. 8 engraved folding plates. Small private ownership stamp to title verso. Spine chipped at head and lower corner of front board worn, some surface wear and abrasions, free endpapers removed. Occasional light spotting and the odd stain, small paper flaw to blank margin of the title; a very good copy.

Very rare first edition of the second, but last published part of the Elements of Philosophy, “containing an account of optics (partly psychological and partly physiological) and … a condensed psychological introduction to politics” (Laird, quoted in MacDonald & Hargreaves).“When Hobbes returned with Devonshire to England in October 1636 he was in the grip of a furor philosophicus: ‘the extreame pleasure I take in study’, he wrote to Newcastle, ‘overcomes in me all other appetites’ (Correspondence, 1.37). Physics, optics, epistemology, psychology, metaphysics, and logic seem to have been his main concerns. In a letter to Newcastle in 1635 he had expressed a wish to be the first person to explain ‘the facultyes & passions of the soule’; by late 1636 he had informed Sir Kenelm Digby (who had been with him in Paris) of his plans to write a ‘Logike’ (ibid., 1.29, 42). His interest in optics received a special stimulus in October 1637 when Digby sent him a copy of Descartes's Discours de la méthode, the work which also contained an essay on refraction, the ‘Dioptrique’. Hobbes made a careful study of this essay, and sent a lengthy criticism of it to Mersenne (a 56-page letter, now lost) in November 1640, shortly before returning to Paris himself. He also wrote a treatise on optics in Latin, containing several criticisms of Descartes; this work may have been substantially completed before his move to Paris in late 1640, though the surviving manuscript is a fair copy made by a Parisian scribe, probably in 1641 or 1642.According to his verse autobiography, it was in the period 1637–40 that Hobbes began to organize his ideas in a tripartite scheme, dealing with ‘body’ (metaphysics and physics), ‘man’ (epistemology—including optics—and psychology), and ‘citizen’ (politics). The works eventually published under the titles De corpore, De homine, and De cive

would be described as the three ‘sections’ of his ‘elements of philosophy’. How fully worked out this scheme was during the late 1630s is not clear, though it may be significant that the Latin optical treatise contains a reference to the preceding section (‘sectione Antecedente’; Harley MS 6796, fol. 193v). Some manuscript notes on early chapters of De corpore do survive, but their dating is uncertain” (ODNB).According to a note in Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Sir William Petty, (who had studied anatomy at Paris and read Vesalius with Hobbes, who much enjoyed his company), “assisted Mr. Hobbes in draweing his schemes for his book of optiques, for he had a very fine hand in those days for draweing, which draughts Mr. Hobbes did much commend.” (cited in McDonald and Hargreaves).MacDonald & Hargreaves 58; Wing H2231.

£15,000 [109710]

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(JACQUARD, Joseph–Marie.) Visite de Mgr le Duc D’Aumale à la Croix-Rousse, dans l’atelier de M. Carquillat, le 24 Août 1841. Lyon: manufactured by Didier, Petit et Cie; woven by Michel–Marie Carquillat, 1844Woven image on silk (the whole 111 × 84 cm) using Jacquard’s punch-card method of weaving. Vertical surface abrasion to the lower half of the sheet where sometime centrally folded, causing a pale white line, the odd spot or stain but a remarkable survival in a very good state of preservation, mounted.

One of the first paintings woven on a Jacquard loom, using the punch-card system, extremely rare. “Jacquard, born into a Lyonnese family of weavers, was inspired by Vaucanson’s punched-card loom to invent the Jacquard attachment, which caused any loom that used it to be called a Jacquard loom. The attachment was an automatic device that for the first time allowed a single operator to control from the loom all the movements involved in the

production of complex woven patterns … Jacquard’s invention made use of a punched-card system for storing and generating patterns. In the production of designs different cards were tied together by ribbons and hundreds of cards could be used in elaborate designs. Charles Babbage later incorporated punched-card technology as a method of data and program input in the design of the Analytical Engine. For use in the United States Census of 1890, Herman Hollerith developed electrical machines for tabulating data stored on punched cards. Hollerith’s company eventually evolved into IBM. Punched-card tabulation remained a primary means of data processing until it was phased out around 1960” (Origins of Cyberspace, p. 261-262).“As well as patterned textiles for ordinary use, the technique was used to produce elaborate and complex images as exhibition pieces. One well-known piece was a shaded portrait of Jacquard seated at table with a small model of his loom. The portrait was woven in 1839 in fine silk by a firm in Lyon using a Jacquard punched-card loom. The image took 24,000 cards to produce, and each card had over 1,000 hole positions. Babbage was much taken with the portrait, which is so fine that it is difficult to tell with the naked eye that it is woven rather than engraved. He hung his own copy of the prized portrait in his drawing room and used it to explain his use of the punched cards in his Engine. The delicate shading, crafted shadows and fine resolution of the Jacquard portrait challenged existing notions that machines were incapable of subtlety. Gradations of shading were surely a matter of artistic taste rather than the province of machinery, and the portrait blurred the clear lines between industrial production and the arts. Just as the completed section of the Difference Engine played its role in reconciling science and religion through Babbage’s theory of miracles, the portrait played its part in inviting acceptance for the products of industry in a culture in which aesthetics was regarded as the rightful domain of manual craft and art” (Swade, The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer, pp. 107-8).The “Visite de Mgr le Duc D’Aumale” incorporates this portrait. Created after the painting by C. Bonnefond, drawn and card-punched by A. Manin, and woven by Carquillat in 1844, it demonstrates the same fineness of detail as the portrait. It shows the duke with entourage admiring the woven portrait of Jacquard, with the loom and the punched-card attachment towering over the visitors. These famous woven paintings are extremely rare in their original large format version, as here.£16,500 [93937]

17.

LAUNHARDT, Wilhelm. Die Steigungsverhältnisse der Strassen. Separat-Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift des Architekten- und Ingenieur-Vereins zu Hannover, Band XXVI. Heft 3. [Bound together with:] LAUNDHARDT, Wilhelm. Theorie des Trassirens. Heft I. Die kommerzielle Trassirung. Zweite Auflage.

Mit 19 Holzschnitten. Hannover: Schmorl & von Seefeld, 1880-1887Two works bound in one octavo volume (219 × 140 mm), pp. 49 & iv, 112. Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered gilt. With many figures, tables and charts in the text. Very good copies in a fine contemporary binding.

Presentation copies, inscribed to Professor Fischer by the author, the first work additionally with the ownership of Erich Schneider to the title. Like Dupuit, Launhardt began his professional life as a civil engineer, working for the public road administration. A professor of roads, railways and bridges at the Technische Hochschule (now the University) in Hanover, of which he later became director, Wilhelm Launhardt (1832–1918) was “a pioneer of mathematical economics, an important early contributor to the pure theory of welfare economics, a major figure in the history of location theory, and one of the few German engineer-economists of his day to carry on the tradition [of ] German Classical Economics” (Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, p. 122).In Die Steigungsverhältnisse, here offprinted from the Architects and Engineers Association’s Journal, Launhardt investigates the influence upon operating costs of gradients.Theorie des Trassirens is a re-working of Launhardt’s earlier “Kommercielle Tracirung der Verkehrswege” of 1872: “Practical problems of highway planning led Launhardt to the gradually more general analysis of efficient transportation networks. This work was later systematized in Theorie des Trassirens (Theory of Network Planning). Part I, entitled ‘Commercial Network Planning’, contains the derivation of efficiency criteria without regard to topography. This part is the second edition, much revised and enlarged, of the 1872 publication, and also incorporates sections from the 1885 book [Mathematische Begründung der Volkswirtschaftslehre]... The contributions to economics are found in part I. This begins with a discussion of investment criteria. From a social point of view, networks should be planned in such a way that the sum of operating and capital costs is a minimum. Private capitalists, however, try to maximize the internal rate of return on their capital. Under perfect competition the two criteria would coincide, since the internal rate of return, if duly maximized would equal the market rate of interest. In reality, however, since the railroad industry is inherently non-competitive, rates of return can be pushed above market rates of interest by keeping railroad investment below the social optimum. This was one of Launhardt’s basic arguments for government ownership of railroads. For his own analysis he uses, of course, the social criterion” (Jürg Niehans in The New Palgrave).£2,250 [93895]

18.

(LAW, John.) (Sir Humphrey Mackworth, attributed author.) Obervations on the Scheme of Mr. Law, in France, and of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, in Great-Britain: And Concerning the Establishing Paper-

Money, and Forcing Credit. London: for W. Boreham, [1720]Folio (302 × 202 mm). Sometime folded for insertion into a smaller volume, now disbound. Margins unevenly trimmed as part of the previous binding process, lightly creased in places, still very good.

First and only edition of a very scarce work comparing the financial schemes of John Law and Sir Humphrey Mackworth, two figures infamous in financial history for their activities in paper credit and speculation, apparently written by Mackworth himself in defence of his own projects and schemes, as outlined in his 1720 pamphlet “A Proposal for Payment of the Publick Debts by Appropriated Funds”. In defending his own proposals, Mackworth criticises those of John Law, saying that his monetary system was without any form of security or underlying value.Goldsmiths’ 5845; Hanson 2749; Sperling 222. ESTC lists only 5 copies worldwide.

£2,750 [109322]

19.

[MACDONALD, Andrew.] L’Indépendant, nouvelle anglaise imitée par M. Soulès. Londres: Cadell, et se trouve à Paris: chez Lagrange, 1788; [Bound after:] [CHARRIÈRE, Isabelle de.] Lettres écrites de Lausanne. Premiere partie. [Caliste ou Suite des lettres écrites de Lausanne. Second partie.] A Geneve, et se trouve a Paris, chez Prualt, 1788Together 2 works in 3 volumes bound as one, octavo (195 × 120 mm), L’Indépendant in two parts, the second part with separate pagination and register but no divisional title, as issued. Contemporary French marbled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments with CM cipher, red morocco label, sides with gilt roll borders, marbled endpapers and edges. With the half-titles. Skilful repair to headcaps and joints, occasional browning, L’Indépendant, pt 1, with 2 leaves (sigs. G1 and G2) bound out of order after sig. F4; very good.

First edition of each work. The Independent (1784) was an English-language novel in two volumes by the ill-fated Scottish poet and playwright Andrew Macdonald (1757–1790). It is here “imitated” by the French historian and translator François Soulés (1748–1809), author of the two-volume Histoire des troubles de l’Amérique anglaise (London, 1785), for the second edition of which Thomas Jefferson supplied Soulés with materials. In 1804, when he applied for Napoleon’s recently established Légion d’honneur, Soulés stated that he had been resident in England for 12 years and had worked for Whitworth, the British ambassador to France.The cipher on the spine is that of Caroline Bonaparte (1782–1839), third and youngest sister of Napoleon. In 1800/02 she married Joachim Murat (1767–1815), who became King of Naples in 1808. After her husband was court-martialled and shot in 1815, she was forced to leave the country, and styled herself as the Countess of Lipona. She settled in Trieste, North Italy, and married General MacDonald (no relation of the novelist), one of Marat’s ex-ministers.

The first work in the volume is the two-volume epistolary novel by Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), known in the Netherlands as Belle van Zuylen, the admirer and supporter of Rousseau and correspondent of David-Louis Constant d'Hermenches, James Boswell, Benjamin Constant, and her German translator Ludwig Ferdinand Huber.L’Indépendant is rare, with no copy in the British Library: OCLC locates two copies, at BnF and Augsburg, to which ESTC adds Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw.£1,500 [111406]

AN EARLY WORK ON COMPUTING MACHINES

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MARQUAND, Allan. A New Logical Machine. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXI.] Boston: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1886Octavo (242 × 157 mm), pp. 303-307 + 3 blank pages. Sewn as issued in printed stiff paper wrappers. Plate with 2 photographic images of the logical machine. Wrappers split along spine with a couple of tiny chips. Internally in excellent condition.

Original offprint of Allan Marquand’s presentation of his new logical machine to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in November, 1885. A student of Charles Sanders Peirce, Marquand (1853-1924) graduated from Princeton in 1874 and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1880 from Johns Hopkins University, returning to Princeton in 1881 to teach Latin and Logic.Inspired by the work of W. S. Jevons, during the year 1881 Marquand designed and “constructed a logical machine somewhat similar to the well-known machine of Prof. Jevons, and printed logical diagrams for problems involving as many as ten terms. This earlier instrument and the logical diagrams formed the basis of the machine illustrated on the accompanying plate. The new machine was constructed in Princeton during the winter of 1881-82 by my friend Prof. C. G. Rockwood, Jr., whose mechanical skill and untiring patience gave me invaluable assistance... Like the instrument of Prof. Jevons, and that of Prof. Venn, it is constructed for problems involving only four terms, but more readily than either of those instruments admits of being extended for problems involving a larger number of terms.”Martin Gardner, in his work Logic Machines and Diagrams, noted the following:“The machine is a decided improvement over Jevons's. By abandoning the clumsy equational form which Jevons used, Marquand was able to cut down the number of keys to less than half of the 21 keys required on Jevons's

model. In addition, the number of steps for feeding each premise to the machine is enormously reduced. A third advantage is that the simplified interior mechanism makes it possible to construct similar machines for more than four terms without enlarging the device to giant, unwieldy proportions. Charles Peirce, in an article on "Logical Machines" (American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 1, November 1887, p. 165), summarizes these advantages in the following interesting and characteristic manner: Mr. Marquand's machine is a vastly more clear-headed contrivance than that of Jevons. The nature of the problem has been grasped in a more masterly manner, and the directest possible means are chosen for the solution of it. In the machines actually constructed only four letters have been used, though there would have been no inconvenience in embracing six. Instead of using the cumbrous equations of Jevons, Mr. Marquand uses Professor Mitchell's method throughout. There are virtually no keys except the eight for the letters and their negatives, for two keys used in the process of erasing, etc., should not count. Any number of keys may be put down together, in which case the corresponding letters are added, or they may be put down successively, in which case the corresponding combinations are multiplied. There is a sort of diagram face, showing the combinations or logical products as in Jevons's machine, but with the very important difference that the two dimensions of the plane are taken advantage of to arrange the combinations in such a way that the substance of the result is instantly seen. To work a simple syllogism, two pressures of the keys only are necessary, two keys being pressed each time. A cord has also to be pulled each time so as to actualize the statement which the pressure of the keys only formulates. This is good logic: philosophers are too apt to forget this cord to be pulled, this element of brute force in existence, and thus to regard the solvet ambulando as illogical. To work the syllogism with Mr. Jevons's machine requires ten successive movements, owing to the relatively clumsy manner in which the problem has been conceived.”A rare early work on logical machines, precursor to the modern computer.OCLC locates only four copies, at Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton.

£5,500 [100212]

21.

MORELLET, Abbé André. Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes: seconde édition, augmentée d'une Historie de la Compagnie... Bound with: [NECKER, Jacques.] Réponse au Mémoire de M. L'Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes, imprimeé en exécution de la Délibération de M.rs les

Actionnaires, prise dans l'Assemblée générale du 8 Août 1769. A Paris, de l'imprimerie Royale, 1769. [and:] [MORELLET, André, Abbé.] Examen de la Réponse de M. N** au Mémoire de M. l'Abbé Morellet, sur la Compagnie des Indes; par l'Auteur du Mémoire... A Paris, Chez Desaint, 1769. Paris: Desaint, 17693 works bound in one quarto volume (255 190 mm). Contemporary calf-backed drab boards, spine stamped gilt in compartments, red morocco label, gilt arms of La Rochefoucauld to upper panel. Library stamp of the Chateau de la Roche Guyon to title. With a folding table. In excellent condition.

Second enlarged and best edition of the first work, first published in the same year, first edition of the other works. The Abbé Morellet (1727-1819), by conviction a persistent supporter of free trade, wrote many pamphlets and

polemics attacking privilege and monopoly. In his Mémoire, Morellet gives a succinct history of the Compagnie des Indes and shows how the directors of the company were benefitting to the detriment of the state. This work was a triumph for Morellet and led to the suspension of the privileges of the Compagnie des Indes, on 13th August 1769. Necker, at that time clerk in a Swiss bank, took up the defence of the company in his Réponse to which Morellet responded with his Examen, both dated the same year. “Morellet... was no doubt employed to make out a particular case; but in none of the contemporary replies that his pamplet brought forth, though one was from the able pen of Necker, is any serious attempt found to discredit his chief facts. No sound economist can deny his main conclusions: that a commercial enterprise which is not self-supporting ought to be abandoned, and that there are infinitely more legitimate and more important uses to which the public revenue can be put than in maintaining a Company which is bankrupt if left to itself ” (Cambridge Modern History VI, p. 549-550).1st work: Einaudi 4023; Goldsmiths 10546; Higgs 4700n; Kress 6662.2nd work: Kress 6665; INED 3370; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths.3rd work: Einaudi 4021; Goldsmiths 10543; Higgs 4702; INED 3300; Kress 6660.

£6,750 [93593]

22.

[NORTH, Roger.] The Gentleman Accomptant, or, An essay to unfold the mystery of accompts : by way of debtor and creditor, commonly called merchants accompts, and applying the same to the concerns of the nobility and gentry of England... London: E. Curll, 1714Octavo (175 × 108 mm), pp. [4], iv, 263, [26 + 8pp., contents]. Contemporary blind panelled calf, paper spine label. Folding table at p. 72. Ownership inscription “E. Barber” and “John Barber” to free endpaper. Joints cracked, spine ends and corners worn, paper label chipped; small printing flaw to page 261 where a loose piece of paper pulp carrying letterpress has separated from the leaf below, still present and now pasted down without any loss of text; a crisp, clean copy in original state.

First edition, by the youngest son of Sir Dudley North. The style of North’s discourse sets it apart from other literature of the period, being amusing and entertaining but nevertheless intelligent and informative. “North begins his work by explaining that through accidents he had discovered ‘the wonderful virtue of a Regular Accompt’ and as a result fallen in love with accounts .... North does not present bookkeeping as an easy subject to master and he stresses that it is practice rather than learning rules that is the guide to understanding” (Bywater and Yamey).Goldsmiths’ 5155; Hanson 2085; Herwood 37; ICAEW, p. 76; Kress 2916. See Bywater & Yamey, p. 148ff.

£3,250 [109959]

A KEY SOURCE FOR SHAKESPEARE’S WITTY HEROINES23.

OVID. The Heroycall Epistles of the learned poet Publius Ovidius Naso, in English verse: set out and translated by George Turbervile Gent. With Aulus Sabinus aunswers to certaine of the same. London: By John Charlewoode, [c.1584]Octavo (138 × 89 mm). Later, probably 17th-century sheep, double blind rules, unlettered. Without the first leaf, blank except for signature-mark. Ownership inscriptions of William Willis, 1681, on rear blank; and William Squire, mid 19th-century, his inscription on the front pastedown and the addition of “Auckland, New Zealand” on the blank recto of sig. A6. Paper loss to upper outer corner of title leaf affecting typographic border but not the text, lesser paper loss in same place to next two leaves not affecting text, early colouring to the initials and ornaments, some occasional staining, worming to last couple of quires, still a good copy.

Turbervile's translation of Ovid’s Heroides, the first in English, is a notable influence on both Shakespeare and Marlowe. Shakespeare’s familiarity with Golding’s translation of the Metamorphosis is well known, but he also drew inspiration from this work. “Ovid’s Heroides, imaginary verse-epistles from women in mythology who are deserted by their lovers (e.g. Ariadne on Naxos, Dido after the departure of Aeneas from Carthage), were widely studied in school, where a frequent exercise was to imitate them. They are cited in the tutoring scene in The Taming of the Shrew (3.1.28–9), which also alludes playfully to Ovid’s notorious Ars amatoria or ‘art of love’. Like Lyly and Marlowe, Shakespeare found in the Heroides modes for a character’s solitary self-examination at moments of emotional crisis” (Oxford Companion to Shakespeare). “Recently, critics have also taken interest in the influence of Ovid’s Heroides on comic heroines such as Katherina (The Taming of the Shrew) and Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), who claim for themselves many of the same ‘expressive liberties Ovid takes with erotic, rhetorical, and social conventions’. The epistolary exchanges in the Heroides inspire the rhetorical virtuosity displayed by these and other comic heroines, who ‘put verbal wit in the service of love’, but they also give shape to the ‘rhetoric of a divided mind’ in tragedies and problem plays such as Measure for Measure, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida” (Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare). Turbervile's translation was originally printed in 1567, three years after Shakespeare’s birth, by Henry Denham. It includes six poems in blank verse, a significant early use of that metre. The printer of this edition, John Charlewood (d. 1593), and Richard Jones took over rights in a number of works from Henry Denham in 1579. “Charlewood may have had Roman Catholic connections. In 1581 and again in 1583 he styled himself servant or printer ‘to the right honourable Earl of Arundel’; in one of the Martin Marprelate tracts in 1587 he is identified as the earl of Arundel's man and was said to have been printing in the Charterhouse. He continued a substantial trade, however, and secured on 30 October 1587 an exclusive licence from the Stationers' Company for the printing of ‘all manner of Billes for players’ (Arber, Regs. Stationers, 2.477). This was the earliest entry in the registers of any playbills, and was presumably a lucrative extension of a fast-moving business in popular material: after Charlewood's death William

Jaggard tried but failed to obtain the right” (ODNB). As Shakespeare was beginning to make his way in the world of London theatre in the 1580s, it seems most likely that this was the edition he knew.STC 18943.

£5,250 [109810]

24.

PLATO. The Works of Plato, viz. his fifty-five Dialogues, and twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with occasional annotations on the nine dialogues translated by Sydenham, and copious notes, by the latter translator, in which is given the substance of nearly all the existing Greek Ms. commentaries on the philosophy of Plato, and a considerable portion of such as are already published, In five volumes. London: printed for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks, and sold by E. Jeffery and R. H. Evans, 1804Five volumes, quarto (295 × 230 mm). Recent full speckled calf, boards with two double-line gilt rule borders and a single line border in black, spines decorated gilt in compartments, direct lettered and numbered gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, blue silk ribbon place markers. Engraved plate of geometrical figures in volume one, errata leaf in volume three. Occasional light spotting and the odd marginal stain, short tear to one leaf in volumes two and five; an excellent set.

First edition of the philosopher Thomas Taylor’s masterful translation of Plato, the first English translation of the complete works of Plato, revising and completing the work begun by Floyer Sydenham, together with his extensive notes on contemporary Greek manuscript commentaries. “It was through Taylor's translations that the Romantic poets had access to Platonism: they are probably one of the sources of Blake's mythology, as well as his repudiation of the natural science of Bacon and Newton, and his late tempera painting The Arlington Court Picture was almost certainly inspired by Taylor's translation of Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs; there is no doubt that Coleridge's acquaintance with Proclus was assisted by Taylor's translation and commentary, though Coleridge's appreciation of Taylor is invariably laced with acid criticism. Taylor's immediate influence in England was short-lived; only at the end of the century did those with an enthusiasm for ancient Gnosticism, such as G. R. S. Mead, revive his memory. His fate in America was very different. R. W. Emerson read Taylor's translations enthusiastically, and Taylor's influence was felt among Emerson's disciples, adepts of ‘transcendental philosophy’ such as Amos Bronson Alcott, William T. Harris, Thomas M. Johnson, Hiram K. Jones, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, though that influence had waned by the end of the century. Emily Dickinson, who was a friend of Higginson, therefore probably owed her Platonism ultimately to Thomas Taylor” (ODNB).Lowndes 1877.

£10,500 [109979]

THE ENTSCHEIDUNGSPROBLEM25.

RAMSEY, F. P. On a Problem of Formal Logic (reprinted from:) Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Series 2, Volume 30, Part 4. London: The London Mathematical Society, 1928Octavo (273 × 180 mm)., pp. (1), 264-286 + final blank leaf. Uncut and largely unopened, wire-stitched in the original printed grey wrappers. Housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers darkened in places and a little chipped. An excellent copy.

Original offprint of a paper read by Ramsey to the London Mathematical Society on December 13 1928, “primarily concerned with a special case of one of the problems of mathematical logic, the problem of finding a regular procedure to determine the truth or falsity of any given logical formula”, p. 264.) This problem is commonly known as the Entscheidungsproblem, or “decision problem”, and had been a source of keen debate among logicians before it was proven by Kurt Gödel in 1931 and Alonzo Church in 1936 that David Hilbert, and the other members of the formalist school of anti-logistic mathematics, were mistaken: all arithmetic systems must contain propositions which are not provable in that system.“Ramsey's main interest in mathematics was in its foundations. His ‘The foundations of mathematics’, read to the London Mathematical Society on 12 November 1925, was the culmination of the reduction of mathematics to logic undertaken in Russell's and Whitehead's Principia mathematica (1913). On mathematics itself he published only eight pages, ‘On a problem of formal logic’ (read to the London Mathematical Society on 13 December 1928), but this has since become the basis of a branch of mathematics known as Ramsey theory” (OBNB).Risse III, 132.

£4,000 [99878]

26.

(ROCKETRY.) TODD, John, & others. Applied Mathematical Research in Germany, with particular Reference to Naval Applications. Report No. 79. British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee. London: H.M. Stationer’s Office, (1945)Folio (195 × 255 mm), [iv], 65 pp., stapled roneoed typescript in printed wrappers as issued (2 early leaves bound out of sequence but complete), marked “Copy No. 438” and stamped “Restricted” in red, later stamped “Unclassified” in blue (with, however, one paragraph on p. 2 blacked out), covers discoloured towards edges, considerable fraying around spine, internally very good.

First edition, the report of an investigation carried out in Germany during June-July 1945, which included visits to A. Walther at the IPM, Darmstadt, and to the University of Göttingen. Page 63 gives a brief account of “Ing. Zuse’s calculating machines”, written before direct contact had been established with him. As the war in Europe was drawing to a close, the Allies planned to find out as much information as possible about the work of German scientists and mathematicians, particularly those engaged in rocketry and atomic weapons. This report documents an intelligence mission to Germany by a six-man team of mathematicians in June, July and August 1945. Eight 'targets' were selected for investigation, each of which is the subject of a section in the report (see Table of Contents). Notable among them was the 'Peenemünde Group’ working on the trajectories of V2 rockets at Niederhausen near Darmstadt (Section 1, Group 1), and the Mathematisches Reichsinstitut at Oberwolfach, founded in 1944 by Wilhelm Süss, then Rektor of Freiburg University. Pages 63-4 give a brief account of Konrad Zuse’s electro-mechanical binary computer (the Z4), evacuated to Göttingen in February 1945.The team was led by the British mathematician John Todd (1911-2007), who would go on to end his distinguished career at Caltech, after doing pioneering work in numerical analysis and playing a key role in the development of some of the first large computers. In 1943 he had founded the Admiralty Computing Service, from which he recruited this team. Fred Hoyle was added for his expertise with radar.'There is no possibility of “controlling” mathematical research, i.e. preventing work being carried out on "war" subjects. It is abundantly clear from our observations in Germany and from information obtained from U.S.A. (and, to a much less extent, from our experience in U.K.) that almost any top-class mathematician practising in the most abstract fields can very quickly make substantial contributions in the mathematics of technology' (pp. 2-3).Elsewhere Todd recounted how on this mission he earned the title 'The Saviour of Oberwolfach', by preventing Moroccan soldiers from burning the entire mathematical library of Freiburg which Süss had evacuated to the Black Forest for safe-keeping (interview with Don Albers, 'John Todd—Numerical Mathematics Pioneer', The College Mathematics Journal, Volume 38, Number 1, January 2007 , pp. 2-23)£7,500 [90437]

INSCRIBED COPY27.

RUSSELL, Bertrand. On some Difficulties in the Theory of Transfinite Numbers and Order Types. (Extracted from the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Ser. 2, Vol. 4, Part 1.) London: The London Mathematical Society, 1905Octavo (275 182 mm), pp. 29-53, (1). contemporary plain paper wrappers, lettered in manuscript. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Presentation inscription “James Ward from B. R.” to blank upper margin of the first leaf, with Ward’s pencil annotation throughout, later ownership inscription of Samuel Skulsky to front wrapper. Wrappers split along spine and detatched; an excellent copy.

Original offprint. Russell had been working on trying to articulate “a theory of logic in which there were no classes, or denoting concepts, or even propositional functions, but only complex entities called ‘propositions’, which were to be analysed into their constituents: individuals and predicates. ‘It seems to me broadly possible’, he wrote to G. E. Moore on 25 October [1905], ‘to maintain that there is nothing complex except propositions.’ On 14 December he read to the London Mathematical Society a paper called ‘On some difficulties in the theory of transfinite numbers and order types’, in which he first publicly suggested the ‘no classes’ approach to the Paradox. Soon afterwards, the idea that ‘propositions’ rather than ‘classes’ should be the primitive notion of his theory of logic was developed into what he called the ‘substantiation theory’, which he first outlined in an unpublished paper called ‘On Substitution’ .The theory had something of the beautiful simplicity of the first draft of The Principles of Mathematics, and Russell was, temporarily, quite delighted by it. On the first day of the new year of 1906, he felt able to declare to Lucy Donnelly that: ‘My work during 1905 was certainly better in quality and quantity than any I have done in a year before, unless perhaps in 1900. The difficulty which I came upon in 1901 … has come out at last, completely and finally, so far as I can judge …’” (Monk, p. 185).James Ward, philosopher and psychologist, was made a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1875, and in 1897 was appointed to the newly founded professorship of mental philosophy and logic. “During the First World War, Ward protested at the dismissal of Bertrand Russell - who later called Ward ‘my chief teacher’ - from his Trinity lectureship” (ODNB).Blackwell & Ruja C.06.02; Church, A Bibliography of Symbolic Logic, 111.11.

£2,250 [99896]

THE DARIEN COMPANY28.

(SCOTLAND: PARLIAMENT.) An Act of the Parliament of Scotland for Erecting an East-India Company in that Kingdom. [London:] Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to His Most Excellent Majesty, 1695; and re-printed at London, for Sam. Manship, and Hugh Newman, 1695Folio (307 × 197 mm), pp. [4],8. Sometime overcast sewn, now disbound, preserved in a blue cloth folder, spine lettered gilt. Complete with the initial blank leaf. Stab marks from sewing in the gutter, lightly browned throughout; a very good copy.

First London edition of this important act “for a Company trading to Africa and the Indies”, the document creating the Company of Scotland, later to become the Darien Company. “The originator of this disastrous enterprise was William Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England... Without divulging the details of his scheme, he succeeded in exciting the speculative interest of his countrymen, and a bill to establish the new company was carried through the Scotch Parliament and received the sanction of the Lord High Commissioner on 26th June 1695. The ‘Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies,’ was authorised to seize unoccupied territories in Asia, Africa, and America, to plant colonies, construct forts, wage war and conclude treaties; while the king was pledged to obtain reparation from any foreign state which molested the company. The company received a monopoly of the trade with Asia, Africa, and America for thirty-one years, and for twenty-one years their imports, except sugar and tobacco, were to be free of all duties. Scotchmen hastened to invest their scanty savings in the new venture, and £220,000 was actually contributed towards a nominal capital of £400,000” (Palgrave). English opposition to the company and Scottish determination to establish a colony at Darien, (with some 1200 colonists including Paterson and his wife departing Leith for Darien in 1698), resulted in the collapse of the company in 1700, ultimately leading to the Act of Union of 1707 and the payment by England to Scotland of £398,000 (the Equivalent) in compensation for the losses.Sabin 18545; Wing S 1145. See Palgrave I, p. 481

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SINCLAIR, George. The Principles of Astronomy and Navigation: Or, A Clear, Short, yet Full Explanation, of all Circles of the Celestial, and Terrestrial Globes, and of their Uses, being the whole Doctrine of the Sphere, and Hypotheses to the Phenomena of the Primum Mobile. To which is Added A Discovery of the Secrets of Nature, which are found in the Mercurial-Weather-Glass, &c. As also A New Proposal for Buoying up a Ship of any Burden from the Bottom of the Sea. Edinburgh: by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, 1688Octavo (147 × 90 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, with two (of four) deerskin ties. Woodcut initials. Contemporary ownership inscription and pen trials of James Stewart to front and rear endleaves with some sketches of a face, early purchase note to front free endpaper stub. Lower outer corner of front board worn away, two ties missing. Some general wear to covers, title page with 2 mm of lower margin cut away, lower corner a little dog eared, pale damp mark to the last few leaves; withal a very good copy.

First edition, comprising three separately paginated texts, each with their own title page or drop-head title, but with a continuous register. The second work is titled “Proteus Bound with Chains”, the third simply headed “Postscript. To Buoy up a ship, of any Burden, from the Ground of the Sea”. The natural philosopher George Sinclair (d. 1696?) “described himself as from the Lothians and possessed property in Haddington, Haddingtonshire. He and his brother John were probably educated at the University of St Andrews... George Sinclair taught at St Andrews before moving to Glasgow in 1655, where he was admitted master and appointed professor of philosophy. In 1656 he gave 100 marks towards the building of Glasgow College, and lent a larger sum which was repaid with interest in 1659. During this time the marquess of Argyll obtained rights to the wreck of the Spanish vessel Florida, which had foundered in Tobermory Bay after the defeat of the Armada. Sinclair, ‘almost the only cultivator of physics during this age’ as Stevenson generously described him (Stevenson, xi), assisted when a diving bell was brought to the site, possibly by Archibald Millar of Greenock. Several pieces of ordnance were recovered before stormy weather ended the exercise. Sinclair subsequently devised his own diving bell and described its use in a stylized classical debate in his Ars nova et magna gravitatis et levitatis (1669, pp. 220–44)” (ODNB). Sinclair published several works on mathematics and practical physics, much of it based upon his own experience as a surveyor and engineer.Wing S 3857.

£6,750 [109217]

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[TUCKER, George.] ATTERLEY, Joseph, pseud. A Voyage to the Moon: with some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the people of Morosofia, and other Lunarians. New York: Elam Bliss, 1827Octavo (190 × 106 mm). Contemporary tree sheep, red morocco label. Ownership inscription “J. Beatty Jenning” to the front free endpaper in pencil. Joints cracking and corners lightly worn, intermittent foxing, more severe in places, but a very fine copy in unrestored condition.

First edition of a scarce lunar imaginary voyage, “regarded by many as the first genuine work of science fiction to emanate from an American author” (Howgego), written by George Tucker, an American lawyer born in Bermuda, appointed by Thomas Jefferson in 1825 as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia.In A Voyage to the Moon, “the hero and pseudonymous author Joseph Atterley, a native of Long Island, takes a voyage to the Orient in one of his father’s ships. The ship founders off the Burmese coast and Atterley is captured and taken inland. While under a sort of house arrest, he meets Gurameer, a Brahmin who has been to the moon. With the help of some natives they construct an air-tight vessel made partly of lunarium (a metal that repels the earth and is attracted to the moon), and after a three-day voyage the two travellers land in the lunar region of Morosofia. The moon, together with its Mongoloid population and its flora and fauna, is a dislocated fragment of the earth. The progress of the two men through the lunar society, and their meeting with the excessively foolish Glonglins, becomes a vehicle for satire, prediction and social comment, many familiar personalitites being represented by anagrams and puns (e.g. Vindar is Darwin; Lozzi Pozzi is Pestalozzi; and Wighurd is William Godwin). The travellers eventually return to earth, landing in South America where the Brahmin travels the Andes to confirm certain theories about the moon’s origin and Atterley returns by ship to New York” (Howgego).Shoemaker 30846; Howgego T22.

£6,250 [110261]

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VALDES, Ramon. Metodo de llevar y uniformar la cuenta y razon en las contadurias principales del reino, y tratado teorico-practico para las casas de comercio: Ordenado por Don Ramon Valdés, Oficial del Real Giro de la Tesorería general de S. M. [With:] Adicion á los principios de Cuenta y Razon. Madrid: D. Mateo Repullés, 1821. Madrid: Imprenta de Repulles, 1817Folio (302 × 202 mm). Contemporary tree sheep, spine ruled and decorated gilt, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges. Small scuff mark to rear cover; some gatherings somewhat browned due to paper stock; a very good copy.

First edition of a scarce work introducing a standard method of accounting for use by the main Comptrollers of the kingdom of Spain, with a theoretical and practical treatise for business houses, illustrated with examples, complete with the 4-page Adicion.Palau 347653. Not in ICAEW or Herwood. OCLC finds only 6 copies in Spain, and one in Chile.

£650 [111621]

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WEINBERG, Robert S. Collection of materials on Computer Science and Operations Research. Various 1950s–60sA superb collection of mid-20th century computer science, atomic warfare, and military documents from the early career of one of America’s leading figures in the application of computers to high-level operations research. The archive is particularly strong in the history of computing, and includes many rare documents from the development of UNIVAC and other early commercial and military computers, including important work by pioneers such as Grace Murray Hopper, Wallace Eckert, Claude Shannon, Betty Holberton, Herman Goldstine, and John von Neumann. It also contains important material on mathematics, particularly game theory and linear programming; nuclear weapons and Cold War strategy; and the early development of logistics and operations research, combining some of the most important themes in the history of American technology.Robert Weinberg began his career as an economist, earning degrees from New York University and Columbia before being called to active duty as an Air Force reservist in 1951. He was assigned to the groundbreaking Project SCOOP (Scientific Computation of Optimum Programs), where he was first exposed to the use of electronic computers for operations research. Project SCOOP was “a major Air Force scientific task force established in 1948 for formulating and solving a wide range of Air Force planning and programming problems” (Assad, Profiles in Operations Research, p. 579). It was headed by mathematician George Dantzig, a pioneer of operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Project SCOOP was the birthplace of linear programming, a method of optimising the outcome of a problem (such as maximising profit or minimising costs) in which the inputs have a linear (as opposed to exponential) relationship. Today it is a primary tool in logistics and corporate planning.“As a management analysis officer, Weinberg was concerned with the application of the computer to very large models. He developed a multiple factor model for measuring the efficiency of advertising expenditures and to determine the optimum level of advertising expense. Weinberg believes that this was the first instance in which a comprehensive business problem was solved with an electronic computer” (Wright, “Leaders in Marketing: Robert Stanley Weinberg”, The Journal of Marketing, Vol. 35, January 1971). During the early 1950s he also worked on a large

project to evaluate the use of computers for calculating Air Force budgets, with some related documents appearing in this collection.Budget cuts closed Project SCOOP in 1948, (though it was not entirely disbanded until 1955), but many of its staff went on to prominent positions at the Pentagon, the RAND Corporation, and private industry, where they continued to do important work applying mathematics and computer science to operations research. Weinberg left the Air Force in 1953 and spent some time with MIT’s Operations Evaluation Group before joining IBM as a planning representative in 1956.Weinberg was “responsible for finding ways in which IBM computer customers could broaden their needs for and use of electronic data processing equipment. Within a matter of months his work came to the attention of IBM’s senior management, and Weinberg was transferred to New York as a member of the newly formed corporate staff. He worked at IBM as a manager of market research for the next seven years. Directly or indirectly his arm reached into more than 200 of the country’s largest corporations” (Wright).In 1966 Weinberg joined Anheuser Busch as Vice President of Corporate Planning. “He established AB's long term strategic planning programs, built the first three generations of their planning models, and spearheaded key strategic shifts. His efforts are credited by Beer Marketers Insights editor Ben Steinman for helping AB lead beer industry growth for decades. ‘Bob came to AB from IBM at a time when the company was moving from family management to a more professional management structure. He brought along many innovations, a fresh way of thinking and was responsible for recruiting many of AB's future leaders…’ During the following 34 years, Robert became the foremost analyst for the brewing industry. Beer industry economist Lester Jones said ‘There are literally decades of research and insights from Bob in the Beer Institute archives. His work on the beer industry will be a must have... for a long time to come’” (New York Times obituary, March 22, 2014).For much of his career Weinberg was also a part-time university lecturer, first at the Management Science Center of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and later serving as Professor of Marketing and Management at Washington University. Over the course of this long and fruitful career he was a careful collector of the documents, books, periodicals, offprints, and other works that he obtained while in the military and at IBM. His archive comprises just over seven bankers boxes of material, most of it extremely well-preserved in excellent or fine condition.The heart of the archive comprises three and a half boxes of computer science incunabula dating primarily from the late 1940s through the early 60s. It forms a superb record of the development of electronic computing, from its origin in the military (and military-funded projects) during and immediately after the Second World War through the rise of commercial computing companies such as Remington Rand and IBM. Many of the publications are printed typescripts produced in small quantities for just a handful of specialists, and a number of the research papers are in the form of rare offprints or pre-publication working copies produced for internal IBM use.Weinberg’s collection includes important documentation for a variety of early military and commercial machines. Perhaps the most significant piece in the archive is a rare copy of the UNIVAC I programming manual from 1951 (2.69). Remington Rand’s UNIVAC was the first commercial computer, and this informal typescript, written in part by Grace Murray Hopper, was published in very small small numbers. Copies on the market today are essentially unheard of. Two other women did work of great significance on UNIVAC. The archive contains rare copies of Collation Methods for the UNIVAC System Volume I by Betty Holberton and Jean Bartik, which includes “the first major software routine ever developed for automatic programming” and UNIVAC Instruction Code C-10 [fourth revision] by Holberton, which describes “the first software to allow a computer to be operated by keyboarded commands rather than dials and switches” (both 2.65).Represented in the collection is a great deal of early theoretical work, including journal articles, books, and offprints by leading computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians. Of particular interest are: • A first edition of Wallace Eckert’s highly influential Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation, published in 1940 and considered one of the earliest computer books (2.9).• A second edition of Goldstine, von Neumann, & Burks’ Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument (1947), the first published formal conceptual paper on the stored-program computer (2.34).• A second edition of C. B. Tompkins’s High-Speed Computing Devices, “the first genuine textbook on computing techniques and computer hardware” (1950) (2.12).

• The first appearance in print of Grace Murray Hopper’s visionary paper “The Education of a Computer”, in which she describes her “seven-month creative journey” to the invention of the compiler (2.63), as well as her important 1954 publication First Glossary of Programming Terminology (2.55).• The first edition of Claude Shannon’s Automata Studies (1956), a significant publication in the field of artificial intelligence (2.18).• “Punched Card Calculation of Resonance Energies”, the important PhD dissertation of Margaret B. Dayhoff, a founder of the field of bioinformatics (2.74).A key focus of the archive is the application of electronic computing to operations research and logistics, including a 1965 paper by Weinberg titled Top Management Planning and the Computer. Weinberg had a keen interest in game theory, and there are significant books and journal articles in this field throughout the collection.The archive also contains early user manuals and advertising and marketing material for Remington Rand and IBM machines, as well as specialist books and journals for early computer developers and operators. Of note are the printed records of a number of important computing conferences, particularly the influential and long-running Joint Computer Conferences. Weinberg kept several copies of Computers and Automation, the first computing magazine (2.56 & 2.57), and he also obtained copies of some of the earliest general surveys of electronic computing systems, including three of the four editions of Martin Weik’s highly detailed surveys produced for the Moore School’s Ballistics Research Laboratory, home of the ENIAC (2.6, 2.7, 2.8). There are also early papers by Benoit Mandelbrot (who also worked at IBM), work by Linus Pauling, and even a first edition, in the dust jacket, of the rare biography of Alan Turing by his mother Sara - the first and only biography of the computing genius written before his cryptographic work was declassified in the 1980s (2.28).The next largest portion of the archive comprises three boxes of military records. Much of it pertains to Weinberg’s work on Project SCOOP and the application of new computing and logistics techniques to military budgeting and supply chains. There are works on game theory, linear programming, and other new mathematics; large collections of classified military statistics, most issued by the Navy and the Air Force during and immediately after the Second World War; analyses of military and civilian preparedness during the late 1940s and 50s, particularly the ability of the manufacturing sector to ramp up production in the event of renewed hostilities; and important publications on theoretical models for operations planning. As with the computing material, many of the items present are printed typescripts, offprints, and pre-publication copies. Some of the key items are:• Collections of original notes, typescripts, reports, and memoranda for Project SCOOP (3.2, 3.71, 3.78).• A classified description of the structure and operation of the Office of Naval Research relay computer used for for logistics research, including a small sample of punched tape (3.38).• A complete or nearly complete run of Statistics of War Production, a classified monthly publication of key statistical data relating to the production sector of the war economy (3.50-3.53 and 3.55-3.70).• Papers by Weinberg on computing and logistics, including The Uses and Limitations of Mathematical Models for Requirement Computations (3.78b) and The Problem Called Distribution. Action to be Taken to Prepare Characteristics for Electronic Devices Pertinent to Logistical Support (3.78c).• Large portions of one of Weinberg’s main Air Force projects, The Application of High Speed Computers to Air Materiel Command Budget Computations (3.114).• A significant early paper on game theory by mathematician David Blackwell, the first African American tenured professor at Berkeley and the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (3.102b).• A complete issue of the Naval Research Logistics Quarterly in the original wrappers containing papers on mathematics, logistics, and game theory, including mathematician Marguerite Frank’s key discovery, “An Algorithm for Quadratic Programming” and a paper by Nobel Prize winner Harry Markowitz (3.107).• Pre-publication printed typescripts of papers by operations research pioneers Hugh J. Miser (3.101c) and Murray A. Geisler (3.101g).Finally, the archive includes a box of interesting material related to atomic warfare and research, most dating from the late 1940s through the early 60s. As with other parts of the archive, the nuclear material has a strong focus on corporate and military operations planning. There are numerous documents describing the effects of both conventional and atomic bombing on military facilities and civilian populations. Much of the material deals with civil defense planning, the prediction of destruction and casualties, and how the US would recover from a nuclear war. Many of the documents are in the form of reports to Congress, and include important publications on the all-

nuclear Navy and the transition of US atomic research from the control of the military to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission. It is likely that Weinberg’s interest in this subject began during his time in the Air Force and continued in his role as a corporate operations planner responsible for anticipating disaster scenarios. Among the significant items are:• The rare technical documentation for one of the first computer simulations of nuclear warfare, highly classified and completed in 1963 - Annex A. Background and Procedures for Applications. Nuclear Attack Hazard in Continental U.S. - 1963 (1.1).• The first edition of Eilene Galloway’s important report to the Committee on Armed Services, Guided Missiles in Foreign Countries, which initiated the space race and the formation of NASA (1.11).• The first three official reports to Congress on the handover of the US atomic weapons and energy program to the civilian-led Atomic Energy Commission (1.22, 1.23, 1.25).• RAND analyst and game theorist Herman Khan’s influential 1960 report to Congress, The Nature and Feasibility of War and Deterrence (1.24).• The first scientific study of the contamination of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon) by thermonuclear testing in 1954 (1.41).• The first official US report on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, published as part of the US Strategic Bombing Survey in June 1946 (1.42).• A pristine nuclear damage calculator designed by the RAND Corporation in 1974, still in its original folder with instructions (1.50).This is a remarkable collection, capturing the intersection of the major historic and scientific developments of the 20th-century - the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rise of the military-industrial complex; the development of electronic computing; and the application of new mathematics such as game theory and linear programming to warfare, logistics, and corporate planning. From the perspective of one man at the centre of these movements we see their complex connections. How, for instance, increased computing power led to the development of thermonuclear weapons, which created the need for better military planning and new ways of understanding the mathematics of military strategy, which in turn created new uses for the computer. An unparalleled archive of 20th-century science and technology, the like of which is rarely seen outside institutional collections.£75,000 [107288]

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(WORCESTER MURDERS.) A full and true Account of the horrid Murders, Robberies, and Burnings, Committed at Bradforton and Upton Snodsbury, in the County of Worcester; and of the Apprehension, Examination, Trial, and Conviction of John Palmer and Thomas Symonds, Gents. and William Hobbins and John Allen, Labourers, For the said Crimes. To which is added, An Account of the Bishop of Oxford’s going to the Prisoners after their Condemnation, and of his Lordship’s whole Transaction with them:– Together with what passed between the Ordinary and the said Prisoners; and Remarks on their Dying Speeches. –– With an Account of a Charity School founded by Dr. Lloyd, the Bishop of Worcester, out of a forfeited Estate of Mr. Palmer’s, which fell to the said Bishop. Likewise, The Memoirs Of the Life and Death of Sir John Dineley Goodere, Bart. Who was murdered by the Contrivance of his own Brother … Worcester: printed and sold by J. Butler, 1782Quarto (258 × 187 mm), in two parts. Uncut in contemporary drab paper backed boards. Engraved frontispiece to each part. Spine defective but holding, rather worn at edges, still a very good copy of this provincial publication.

First edition thus, an interesting pairing of two notoriously shocking local murders, one a matricide, the other parricide. The first occurred on 7 November 1707, when Mrs Alice Palmer and her maid-servant were murdered, and her house burnt, by a gang led by her son and Thomas Symonds, his brother-in-law. The first account of the case was published in 1708 and republished in 1758 with the title, The Truth of the Case. John Palmer’s estate was confiscated and used to endow Bishop Lloyd's Charity School, Worcester.The second case, described in the Memoirs written by the victim’s nephew, the future playwright Samuel Foote, has a separate title page, pagination and register, and was also issued separately. Sir John Dineley Goodere, 2nd Baronet was born John Goodere in about 1680, the son of Sir Edward Goodere, 1st Baronet. His mother, Helen née Dineley, was the granddaughter of Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham. He embarked on a career at sea in the merchant

navy, and was a volunteer on HMS Diamond in 1708. About that time, he inherited the Charleton, Worcestershire, estate of his maternal ancestors, and took their name of Dineley. He was already on bad terms with his younger brother Samuel when their father died on 29 March 1739, leaving more to Samuel than John considered fair, but less than Samuel expected. In November 1740 Samuel was appointed to the command of the Ruby, then lying in King Road, at the mouth of the River Avon, and she was still there on Sunday 18 January, when Samuel, being on shore, learned that his brother, now Sir John, was dining in Bristol. Samuel met with Sir John and pretended to make up their quarrel, but afterwards had him seized and carried back to his ship, where he was locked in a cabin and strangled on Samuel’s orders. Samuel and his accomplices were apprehended on a charge of wilful murder, were tried on 26 March, found guilty, and sentenced to death. They were all three hanged on 15 April 1741.£2,000 [111385]

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