New Acquisitions

March MMXVIBernard Quaritch Ltd

ACKERMANN’S OXFORD, WITH NOTABLE PROVENANCE

1. [ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publisher. William COMBE, author]. A history of theUniversity of Oxford, its colleges, halls, and public buildings. In two volumes. London, printed for R.Ackermann, 1814.

Two vols, 4to, pp. xiv, [2], xxv, [1], 275, [7], with half-title, list of subscribers, stipple portrait of LordGrenville and 30 coloured aquatint plates; [iv], 262, [6], with half-title and 51 coloured aquatint andstipple plates; occasional watermark to text ‘S. S. 1814’, nine plates with watermark ‘J Whatman 1812’;without the portraits of the founders issued in April 1815; light offsetting from plates onto facingpages, very occasional light spots and marks, light damp staining to fore-edge margins of a numberof plates in vol. II, otherwise a very good copy; 20th-century half red morocco over red cloth boardsby Zaehnsdorf, spines in compartments with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt;extremities slightly rubbed; from the library of Lord Quinton (see below).

£3000

A nice copy of Ackermann’s Oxford, comprising 64 coloured aquatint views after Pugin, Mackenzie,Westall, Nash, Turner, and Reynolds, and 17 coloured plates in line and stipple of the costume of theUniversity, with the list of plates in the first state (agreeing with the contents). Ackermann was bornin Saxony and spent his early career as a carriage designer, designing a state coach for GeorgeWashington and Lord Nelson’s funeral carriage. With the publication of the Microcosm of London andthe Repository of arts, Ackermann secured his reputation as a publisher of the very finest colour platebooks. His Oxford (originally issued in parts 1813-14) was followed by his History of the University ofCambridge (1814-15). The text was authored by William Combe, of Doctor Syntax fame.

Provenance: calligraphic inscription on leaf tipped in before half-title to vol. I recording thepresentation of this copy to Trinity College, Oxford, in memory of Melvin Young (1915-1943). Youngstudied at Trinity and rowed in the Oxford crew that won the 1938 Boat Race. He joined the RAF atthe outbreak of the Second World War, acquiring the nickname ‘dinghy’ after twice ditching hisaircraft into the sea. Young was one of the ‘dambusters’, flying the Avro Lancaster that made thefirst breach in the Möhne Dam in May 1943, only to be killed with his crew on the return journey byanti-aircraft fire. This copy was subsequently acquired by Anthony Meredith Quinton, BaronQuinton (1925-2010), political philosopher and metaphysician, president of Trinity College, Oxford,advisor to Margaret Thatcher, chairman of the board of the British Library, and host of Radio 4’sRound Britain Quiz.

Abbey, Scenery, 280; Tooley, 5 (in this copy all the variants listed by Tooley are in the second stateexcept for the Corpus Christi College plate, vol. II p. 35, which is in the first state).

2. BON, Ottaviano. [Relazione del Serraglio] [with]Massime essentiali del stato dell’Imperio Ottomano [with] Notadelli luoghi da’ quali si fanno le provis[ion]i delle cose necessariecosi per l’uso ordinario del vitto come per la guerra [with] Entrateordinarie dell’Imperio Ottomano. [Italy, c. 1700.]

Manuscript on paper, folio (300 x 200 mm), ff. [54], paginated inmodern pencil to 103, in a consistent and clear Italian scribal hand;light water stain in upper outer corners, but in excellent condition;old vellum; from the library of Luigi dal Pane (1903–1979), with hisownership stamp (sometimes erased) on several leaves.

£2500

Ottaviano Bon (1552–1623) held the post of Venetian bailo ordiplomatic envoy to Constantinople between 1604 and early in1608. His account of the inner workings of the Ottoman Empire,dwelling especially on the forbidden world of the Sultan’s harem,circulated widely in manuscript in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. An English translation, entitled A description of the GrandSignor’s seraglio, or Turkish emperours court, appeared in 1650, but theoriginal Italian text was not published until 1866 in N. Barozzi andN. Berchet, eds., Relazioni degli stati europei lette al Senato dagliambasciatori veneti nel secolo demiosettimo, ser. 5, Turchia, I, pp. 59–124.

The present manuscript contains two passages not found inBarozzi-Berchet’s publication. The first (pp. 77–78) describes theSultan’s sending of representatives bearing alms on the annual Hajjto Mecca. The second, considerably more extensive (pp. 83–97),comprises an account of the sources of the Ottoman empire’s food(rice from Egypt, the best oil and honey from Crete, wine, vinegarand so on), clothes, weaponry and so forth, together with muchinformation on military and naval matters.

BORROW’S ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS THROUGH THE IBERIAN PENINSULA IN THE EMPLOY OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY

3. BORROW, George. The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, andImprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula ... ThirdEdition. London: John Murray, 1843.

3 volumes, 8vo in 12s, pp. I: xxiii, [1 (advertisements)], 370; II: viii, 398, [2 (advertisements)]; III: viii,391, [1 (advertisements)]; retaining half-titles in all volumes, vol. I bound without final advertisementl. R6; some very light browning, a few light marks; late 19th/ early 20th-century full olive calf gilt byZaehnsdorf, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; minimal light rubbing on extremities, spines slightlyfaded, a few light marks on boards, nonetheless a very handsome set; provenance: Charles Harold StJohn Hornby (1867-1946, printer and bibliophile, founder of the Ashendene Press, bookplates onupper pastedowns) – Henry Sotheran Ltd, London (bookseller’s pencilled notes).

£250

Third edition. Borrow (1808-1881) was born in Norfolk and educated in Norwich, where he wasapprenticed to a lawyer until 1824, when he moved to London. A talented linguist who was proficientin numerous languages, Borrow attempted to live from his pen, writing articles and publishingtranslations, but only found secure employment in 1833 with the British and Foreign Bible Society,who ‘sent him to St Petersburg (1833-5) to oversee the printing of a Manchu version of the NewTestament, and then to Portugal and Spain (1835-40) to distribute the scriptures. In Russia and thePeninsula Borrow worked energetically, and sometimes heroically, on the society’s behalf. In Spain,civil war made his expeditions risky, while the hostile attitude of the authorities, coupled with hisown provocative approach, led twice to his imprisonment. He was still able to pursue his linguisticand translating interests. [...] In Madrid the Bible Society financed the printing of St Luke’s gospeltranslated into Spanish Romani by Borrow and Gypsy friends, and also a Basque version, whereBorrow’s editorial role was minor (both 1838)’ (ODNB).

By 1840 he had married a widow, Mary Clarke, and returned to England, where the family settled inSuffolk and Borrow wrote his first book, The Zincali (1841). His second, The Bible in Spain, was basedon his experiences in the Peninsula and was ‘a runaway success’ (loc. cit.); the first edition of 1,000 wasissued in December 1842 (but dated 1843) and a further six editions followed in 1843. The present,third edition was also of 1,000 sets and was slightly reset to incorporate the changes introduced in thesecond editions, together with a few further minor changes.

Black A Gypsy Bibliography 474; Collie & Fraser A.2c.

EPISTOLOGRAPHY: AN UNPUBLISHED 17TH CENTURY MANUAL

4. CECCHINI, Domenico di Francesco. [A treatise on letter writing and relatedepistolary samples, in a collection of bilingual short essays]. De conscribendis epistolis [et al.].[Lucca?, 1662-1666].

Manuscript in Italian and Latin on paper, 4to (195 x 140 mm), ff. 196 (last 11 blank), erraticallynumbered, in the author’s elegant and highly legible seventeenth-century hand; a few minorinkblots, light marginal damp stain to final gatherings, otherwise a very good specimen boundin contemporary recovered vellum, somewhat cockled and stained, small loss to front coverand spine, recent vellum repair to lower cover, but with unspoiled original external sewing tospine.

£700

A very interesting seventeenth-century Italian set of instructions for letter-writing entitled Deconscribendis epistolis, recalling Erasmus’s famous manual, penned by an evidently adeptprofessional secretary who also authored some and copied others of the several further shortessays contained in this remarkable notebook. The manual on letter-writing providesinstructions for drafting missives for all sorts of occasions. There follows a thematic selection ofletters, both in Italian and Latin, partially copied from other correspondents, partiallycomposed by Cecchini himself and mainly sent (whether actually or fictitiously is difficult totell) from Lucca, Modena and Bologna. The first part of the notebook contains a seriescompositiones on religious subjects, ranging from the life of St Francis and other hagiographiesto a detailed chronology of Christ’s life. Each text is in Italian with a Latin translation.

While we know little about the author, whose signature crops up several times in the book, hemay have been a distant relative of Cardinal Domenico Cecchini (1589-1656) and was almostcertainly a skilled secretary. This appears to be his treasured notebook, bearing evidence of hisCatholic devotion and talent as a man of letters, and containing useful sources of inspiration forwriting on demand. Among the personalities named in the book are the Archbishop of CretePietro Valier (1574-1629) and the Reverend Domenico Baccini, perhaps the Dominican friar andfervent Ptolemaist who was indirectly attacked by Galileo in his Letter to the Grand DuchessChristina (1615). Cecchini’s attachment to this volume is shown in the epigraph he inscribed atthe foot of the first half-title: a vehement curse on would-be book thieves.

5. CHOUFFE, Jean-Baptiste-P. Des accidens et des maladiesqui surviennent à la cessation de la menstruation. Paris: Croullebois et Gabon,Floréal an X [April-May 1802].

8vo (191 x 125mm), pp. [iv (title, list of professors, dedication, verso blank)],56; mild foxing and very mild browning, especially on first and last ll., verysmall loss from lower corner of first l.; disbound [and probably extractedfrom a Sammelband]; a very good copy, with broad margins; provenance:‘[?]Diss. No 94’ (note in a contemporary hand on the title, for which videinfra; date ‘15’ inserted in a contemporary hand in the blank space before theletterpress text ‘floréal an 10’ on the title).

£750

First and only edition. This dissertation for the degree of medical doctor,completed at Paris in 1802, was written by Jean-Baptiste-P. Chouffe ofBesançon, formerly a military surgeon. It discusses the cessation ofmenstruation and its causes, beginning with the peculiarities of femalebodies, as opposed to their male counterparts, and the changes theyundergo from puberty to old age (pp. 1-14). Chouffe then focuses on tencase studies of individual patients in whom the menses had ceased, aged ca.36 to 54. Interestingly, these case studies derive from extant medicalliterature rather than clinical experience, and Chouffe comments on theevidence presented in his selection of cases in his footnotes, so that thedissertation is evidence of the thorough academic study upon which theParis medical course was built – a type of knowledge which wouldincreasingly be supplemented with the practical experience of midwives onmaternity wards in the following years. The case studies are followed bygeneral observations on the presentation and causes of menopause and adiscussion of hygiene measures to control the same. This prophylactic part,Chouffe’s original contribution to the subject, includes details on lifestyleand diet, the importance of healthy evacuation of the bowels and the vitalityof sound nerves for female health. The benefits of exercise and air asopposed to medication offered by charlatans, and patients’ enthusiasm forthe latter, make for particularly interesting insights into the medicalmarketplace of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century.

The clinical and intellectual context for Chouffe’s studies must have beendetermined to a significant extent by the Paris medical professors listed onthe reverse of the title, especially Jean-Louis Baudelocque (1745-1810), themost eminent obstetrician of his time, who was later named chair ofobstetrics by Napoleon in 1806 and introduced midwifery training, and thePort-Royal institution that would advance medical knowledge and practicessurrounding childbirth in France significantly. Also listed is Baudelocque’sadversary, the somewhat disputatious doctor Alphonse-Louis Leroy (1742-1816), who had strong, relatively archaic views on surgical proceduresduring childbirth. Both professors held chairs of obstetrics at the École deSanté, Paris, and their starkly contrasting opinions defined much of themedical debate on women’s health in Paris. Interestingly, Chouffe dedicatedhis dissertation to Jean-François Thomassin (1750-1828), military surgeon inthe French Army of the Rhine, doctor at the Besançon hospital, expert on theremoval of foreign objects from gunshot wounds and, famously, author oftwo works on anthrax infections.

Chouffe’s was one of a number of dissertations passed by the Paris Faculty in1801/02; his was No 94, and this has been specified by an early hand in inkon the title. A review in the Journal de médicine, chirurgie, pharmacie, etc. 15 (Jan1808), pp. 309-10, found little original material in the dissertation, butpraised its use of extant material from the ancient to the modern, as well asChouffe’s style: ‘Il s’en faut bien, comme l’auteur en convient lui-même, quela question traitée dans cette Dissertation y soit complètement approfondie.C’eût été trop exiger que d’attendre de celui qui débute dans la carrièremédicale, ce que pourrait à peine executer un praticien consommé. On doitencore savoir gré à M. Choiffe d’avoir recueilli des metériaux qui pourrontserver un jour à l’Histoire des maladies des femmes. Les observations qui luisont propres sont eu petit nombre; mais il a mis avec avantage à contributionles anciens et les modernes. Sa Thèse est écrite d’un style coolant et facile;

cette espèce d’abandon serait très agréable, s’il n’était un peu trop voisin dela négligence’.

Despite this somewhat mixed review, Des accidens et des maladies enjoyed aninternational and surprisingly diverse reception. It was not only listed inFrench obstetrics text books very soon after its publication (for example,Jacques F. Schweighaeuser, Archives de l’art des accouchemens, 1802, vol. II, p.315), and appeared in French medical dictionaries under the heading ofmenstruation (e.g. in the Dictionnaire de medecine ou repertoire general dessciences medicales, which appeared in numerous editions in the 1830s); it wasalso included in a German biographical dictionary of ‘living medicalauthors’ (A.C.P. Callisen, Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon der jetzt lebendenAerzte, Wundarzte, Geburtshelfer, Apotheker, und Naturforscher aller gebildetenVolker, 1830-45, vol. 4, entry 360), and helped his contemporaries tounderstand diseases of ‘oxigenation’ better (i.e., diseases benefiting fromoxygen treatment; see Jean-Baptiste-Théodore Baumes, Fondemens de lascience methodique des maladies, 1801-2, p. 456; later repeated in Traiteelementaire de nosologie, 1806, p. 456). Most interestingly, it was both part ofthe Astor Library (apparently thanks to the gift and bequest of the son of thefounder, William B. Astor, from 1860 onwards, see catalogue of 1886) and inthe Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (1873).

This work is very rare: OCLC/WorldCat only records copies at the BritishLibrary and McGill University, and two in French medical institutions;similarly, it is very scarce in commerce.

6. [CRUSIUS, Thomas Theodorus.] Thomae Crenii de furibuslibrariis dissertatio epistolica ad eximii et singularis ingenii, doctrinae,virtutis et elegantiae virum Fridericum Danielem Knochium Moeno-Francofurtanum, elegantioribus studiis operam navantem. Leiden, [noprinter], 1705, 1708.

Two parts in one volume, small 8vo, pp. 121, [4]; 77; without the final blankfor each part; slightly browned, trimmed close at head and foot with loss ofa few catchwords at foot; modern vellum-backed boards.

£550

First edition of these two ‘dissertations’ on plagiarism by the literaryhistorian Thomas Crusius (1688–1740, writing here under the name‘Thomas Crenius’). Each dissertation comprises an alphabetical list ofauthors accused of plagiarism (the first listing 120, the second 104), withdetailed references to the works in which the accusations are made. Theauthors range from the ancients (Aristotle appropriating Hippocrates) toCrusius’s contemporaries. Among the plagiarists discussed in the firstdissertation are Alciati, Baronius, Grotius and Lipsius. Among those in thesecond are Descartes, Grotius (again), Kircher, Ramus and Symeon ofDurham.

Copies exist with the title of the first part dated 1704. A third dissertationappeared in 1709 and a second edition uniting all three appeared in 1715.

Provenance: the American historian and statesman George Bancroft (1800–1891), with bookplate.

Brunet II 413.

AESOP’S FABULOUS LIFE

7. DEL TUPPO, Francesco. La vita de Esopo hystoriata. [Venice?,Manfredo Bonelli?, after 1514?].

8vo, ff. [73], wanting leaves I8, K1 and blank K4; woodcut to title-page and 23woodcuts within the text (complete series); lightly washed, discreet repairs to topcorner of first two leaves with loss of a few letters (the final ‘a’ in the title replacedin manuscript with ‘o’), a few other discreet repairs, small closed tears to E1 and tofore-edge of G5, a few small marks, but a very good clean copy; 20th-century darkblue morocco by P.L. Martin, gilt-lettered spine (with imprint ‘Milano 1520’), giltedges, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, preserved in a slipcase.

£2500

A very rare edition of Francesco Del Tuppo’s adaptation of Rinuccio d’Arezzo’s lifeof Aesop, in Latin and Italian, wanting two text leaves but with a complete series ofwoodcuts. Based on a Greek original from the first century AD, Rinuccio’s LatinLife of Aesop was composed in 1448 and enjoyed wide popularity throughoutEurope. This adaptation, including a rendering in Italian, by the Neapolitan DelTuppo was first published in 1485. The Life recounts the fabulist’s numerousadventures: his travels to Ephesus and Samos as a slave, his life in the household ofthe philosopher Xanthus and his wife, the granting of his freedom for helping thepeople of Samos, his peace-making mission to king Croesus of Lydia, his visits tothe royal courts of Babylon and Egypt, and his death at Delphi after being falselyaccused of stealing a golden cup from the temple. While Aesop’s physicalappearance is wretched – a characteristic reflected in the woodcut illustrations here– his ugliness is counterbalanced by his ingeniousness and wisdom, by which hesaves Xanthus and the Samians.

Isaac attributes this edition to the Venetian printer Manfredo Bonelli and dates it toafter 1514. The charming woodcuts are reproduced from Bonelli’s earlier edition of1492.

EDIT16 77541; Essling 620; Isaac, An index to the early printed books in the BritishMuseum 12631; Sander 119. Rare: besides three copies in Italy, we have tracedcopies at the British Library, New York Public Library, and the Austrian NationalLibrary only.

8. [ELIZABETH I.] Letters patent granting property in East Hendred in Berkshire(now Oxfordshire) to John Doe and John Wilson of Wantage; very large document on vellum,715 x 880 mm, 74 lines in a good secretary hand, ruled in red, signed at foot by the scribeCartwright, large flourished initial ‘E’ containing a portrait of Elizabeth I enthroned holdingorb and sceptre, drawn in pen and ink with grey wash, the canopy of the throne headed ‘VivatRegina’, first line in a large formal gothic script with flourished capitals against a backgroundof stylized roses, a crowned Tudor rose, a crowned fleur de lys, a crowned harp, a crownedportcullis, a lion and a griffin bearing standards, a ladybird, and so on, all drawn in pen andink with grey wash, approximately half of the Great Seal of Elizabeth I in dark brown waxattached to the document with two cords; a few stains towards foot and some light soiling,creased where folded, ink of first line variably rubbed, remaining portion of seal broken intotwo pieces and slightly chipped, but the document generally in very good condition, with aclear and attractive portrait; accompanied by a full translation into English made in 1820 orshortly thereafter (manuscript on paper watermarked ‘Ruse & Turners 1820’, 410 x 335 mm, ff.[8] (last blank), tied at one corner with silk; folded, some localised dust-soiling, but generally ingood condition).

Westminster, 30 April 1599.£4750 + VAT in EU

An elaborately decorated letters patent from the end of Elizabeth I’s reign. The property,granted upon payment of £53 6s 8p, consisted of six virgates of land (approximately 180 acres)at East Hendred, about four miles east of Wantage. As the document states, the land hadpreviously belonged to the Crossed Brethren of Donnington (dissolved 1538), latterly called thePriory of the Brethren of the order of the Holy Cross in Donnington.

The Does were an old Berkshire family. A John Doe was among seven laymen arrested alongwith Edmund Campion and two other priests on 17 July 1581 at Lyford Grange, the Catholichousehold of Edward Yates just a few miles from East Hendred, but it is not certain that this isthe man named in the present document. John Wilson is recorded as a churchwarden ofWantage in 1600–1. His alabaster tablet dated 1621 is preserved in Wantage church.

‘SUPERB GLASS STEREOGRAPHS’ AND VIEWER – A GRAND TOUR OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA

9. FERRIER, Claude-Marie (FERRIER, SOULIER, LÉVY), DUBOSCQ &SOLEIL, photographers, possibly others. NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, stereoviewermanufacturers. A collection of glass stereographic views of Europe, from Edinburgh toMoscow, presented in a varnished dark wood box and with a fine Negretti & Zambra‘Rowsell’s Patent’ stereographoscope viewer, 1850s–1860s.

40 glass stereographic diapositives, images ranging from 2½ x 2⅛ inches to 3 x 3 inches (6.5x 5.5 cm. to 7 x 7 cm.), on plates 3⅜ x 6¾ inches (8.4 x 17.2 cm.), sealed with black paper,approximately half with black-painted, gilt-edged window, two signed in the negative‘Ferrier’ and ‘[?N]. Ferrier’, two initialled ‘D.S.’, all but six captioned on paper label, glassor in the negative; a couple with minor spotting in image and minor deterioration to blackmount or seal, otherwise condition very good; in heavy fitted dark wood box, lined withblue velvet, brass handle, latches and lock (lacking key); a few scuffs to surface; fine foldingwood viewer with bird’s eye and curl figures, possibly walnut, ‘Negretti & ZambraLondon’ label, in excellent condition.

£1800

A luxuriously presented visual journey of a European tour, from Calton Hill, Edinburgh,through the highlights of Paris and Rome, to St. Petersburg palaces and a panorama ofMoscow taken from the Holy Gate.

Firms such as Ferrier, Soulier, Lévy produced stereographic views in various mediums, but‘it was their superb glass stereographs which made the firm famous, and rich. Their viewswere universally regarded as the finest product of stereography’. The numbers of theRussian views in this set correspond to the firm’s numbering for Moscow and St.Petersburg (5001–5191). Duboscq, who had previously been Ferrier’s employer, wasintroduced to David Brewster in 1850 after Brewster had struggled to interest Britishinstrument makers in manufacturing his design for a stereoscope. Duboscq went on to doso, even incorporating improvements. The fine Negretti & Zambra viewer here holds thestereo in front of a glass panel which allows the light through and therefore is suitable forboth glass and paper stereographs. The large folding lens beneath would have been usedfor the fine detail in the small format images of cabinet cards, cartes de visite andstereographs.

The collector of this series has selected two British views (WindsorCastle and Edinburgh) and focused on France (15) and Italy (14). Themain features are landmarks of Paris, Rome and Venice, but alsoincluded are three French chateaux (including Maintenon andChenonceau) and Rouen’s market square, as well as views fromFlorence, Milan and Padua. The less common St Petersburg(Hermitage and nearby Peterhof) and Moscow represent Russia,which together with a view of Germany (Uelsen) and a handful ofidentified European locations, represent the broad range of viewswhich firms such as Ferrier, Soulier, & Lévy offered.

The Rowsell-type stereographoscope is based on an 1864 patent byCharles John Rowsell. It combines a hinged base with two lenses forstereo-viewing, a graphoscope lens for magnifying the detail of smallprints and a hinged photograph holder with a diffusing screen forviewing transparencies such as these. Each part is hinged so that thewhole folds flat when not in use.

A list of the labelled or identified places is available on request.

J. B. Cameron, ‘Leon, Moyse & Lévy, Issac; Ferrier, Claude-Marie; and Charles Soulier’, pp. 850–852; S. Herbert, ‘Duboscq, Louis Jules’, pp. 445–446 (in Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photograph).

10. GOFF, Frederick R. Incunabula in American Libraries. A Third Census ofFifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. New York: The AnthoensenPress for The Bibliographical Society of America, 1964.

8vo (250 x 175mm), pp. lxiii, [1 (blank)], 798, [2 (blank l.)]; occasional light marks, some ll. dog-eared; maroon buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; a very good copy; provenance:occasional marginal annotations in pencil or ink.

£95

Goff’s monumental catalogue of incunabula in American libraries, which concludes with anindex of printers and publishers, concordances of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Hain’sRepertorium bibliographicum, Proctor’s Index, and the numerical sequence of Goff’s Second Census(1940), which was changed for the Third Census. In his review of it for Renaissance News, PaulOskar Kristeller wrote, ‘[t]he second census, edited by Margaret B. Stillwell in 1940 and longout of print, served for nearly a quarter of a century as an indispensable tool for scholars,collectors, and dealers in America and abroad. They all now owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Goffand to the Bibliographical Society of America for supplying them, not merely with a newedition of the second census, but with a thoroughly revised and enlarged second census whichwill take the place of its predecessor and will prove equally indispensable for the rich andreliable information it contains’ (vol. 19, no. 2 (1966), p. 133).

11. GRIMANI, Marino, Doge. Dogal decree infavour of the Lion family. Venice, 4 July 1603.

Manuscript document in Latin on vellum, (150 x 252 mm),written in a scribal hand in brown ink, addressed on back ‘S.riConti da lion’, lead bulla attached to the document with twocords; some creasing where once folded, but in excellentcondition.

£400 + VAT in EU

The present letter grants tax privileges to the Lion, a powerfulnoble family from Padua. Details are not specified as they wereapparently laid out in a previous deed promulgated on 9 May1603 and referred to here.

Marino Grimani (1532–1605) was a wealthy patrician who waselected Doge in 1595 after long and distinguished service for theVenetian Republic. His peaceful reign is mostly remembered forthe munificence of his gifts to the hailing crowd upon hiselection and the lavish celebration for the coronation of his wife,Morosina Morosini, as Dogaressa. At the end of his life, Grimaniwitnessed the hardening of the relationship between Venice andthe Papacy, foreshadowing the Interdict of 1606–1607.

The present letter retains the lead bulla of the Doge, the obversedepicting St Mark bestowing the ceremonial sword, symbol ofpower and justice, on Grimani as ‘Dux Venetorum’. The use oflead bullae by the Serenissima began in the twelfth century; atthe time, lead (as opposed to wax) was generally employed forsealing only by popes and Byzantine emperors.

GROSE AND VULGAR

12. [GROSE, Francis]. A classical dictionary of the vulgartongue. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. London, printed forHooper and Wigstead, 1796.

8vo, pp. xvi, [236]; a few small spots, short closed tear to fore-edge oftitle-page; a very good uncut copy in 20th-century half dark bluemorocco over blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edgegilt, marbled endpapers; extremities a little rubbed; inscribed on the frontfree endpaper ‘Tony from Hugh 19.6.61’.

£400

The third enlarged edition (first 1785) of this slang dictionary by theantiquary Francis Grose (1731-91) which he produced as a supplement toJohnson’s Dictionary. It was one of the first such works to include slangfrom all levels of society, not just underworld cant. As Jonathon Greenputs it: ‘in Grose the reader has moved beyond the surreptitiouswhispering of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century villainy and into thewider arena, where “civilians” as well as crooks use the “parallel”vocabulary of slang’ (Chasing the Sun, p. 334). Aside from the coarse andthe rude (Grose had walked the streets at night collecting words), we findculinary terminology (bubble and squeak, Welch rabbit, a number ofsynonyms for ‘gin’), plus ‘Exchange-alley terms’ such as bull, bear, andlame duck.

Provenance: from the library of Anthony Meredith Quinton, BaronQuinton (1925-2010), political philosopher and metaphysician, presidentof Trinity College, Oxford, advisor to Margaret Thatcher, chairman of theboard of the British Library, and host of Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz.

ESTC N4993; O’Neill G-42 (‘the most complete dictionary of vulgar andcant words for the eighteenth century’).

LANDSCAPES IN WORDS AND IN PAINT

A DELIGHTFUL ASSOCIATION

13. HORACE. Poemata. Orleans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1767.

8vo, pp. [2], vi, 231, [1 blank]; text in a central column surrounded by scholia in a smaller type;occasional light spotting, but a very good copy in contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, thesides filleted in gilt; some scratches and abrasions to sides; ownership inscriptions of Leightonand George Heming Mason on the front free endpaper.

£350

A very attractive association: the Horace owned by two important English painters: SirFrederic Leighton, by descent from his father, and George Heming Mason.

The date of George Heming Mason’s inscription, 1855, adds a delightful significance to thepassing of this book from the hands of Frederic Leighton to his: in the early 1850s Masontoured the Horatian region of Sabine in Central Italy, spending much time in the company oflocals and painting the unchanged landscape which Horace had depicted in his poetry almosttwo millennia before. His compositions, by his admission, often originated in literary subjects.Mason’s life-long friendship with Leighton begun when the latter made Rome his winterheadquarters. The gift of this book marks therefore the dawn of a firm and very significantrelationship, and the nature of the book would forever nod to the natural and literarylandscape which the two friends would have shared on becoming acquainted.

Sir Frederic Leighton would have found himself in the possession of this Horace from hisfather’s library: the inscription which precedes Mason’s is that of Dr. Frederic Leighton, thepainter’s father, with his address at 22 Argyll Street.

RARE CATALOGUE OF INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHS

14. [INDIA. PHOTOGRAPHS.] THOMASON CIVILENGINEERING COLLEGE, ROORKEE. Descriptive catalogue of photographsobtainable at the Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee. Application tobe made to Instructor in Photography. Roorkee, Thomason Civil Engineering CollegePress, 1886.

8vo, pp. [iv], 42, 42a, 42b, 43, [1 blank]; initial and final leaves a little foxed ordust-soiled; in the original green printed wrappers; some wear to wrappersincluding two tears and some loss to lower wrapper, spine weak.

£850

A scarce catalogue of 1150 photographs of India, including titles, sizes, andannotated price lists, with historical and geographical notes to the text.

This catalogue possibly represents a commercial opportunity which the Collegeidentified: to sell prints from their large stock of photographs, presumably heldfor academic purposes. A footnote to the index explains that 250 photographs‘were taken for Archaeological purposes, and are not such good or artistic viewsas those of the same places between Nos. 751 and 1000’. Since the College trainedengineers in public works such as the maintenance of the Ganges canal, extensivevisual material on the local landscape was certainly a useful resource.

The financial details with their contemporary annotations are enlightening: thesizes of the prints and prices in rupees are given with the manuscript note‘Englargements on bromide paper opal etc. at low rates’ and an altered price foreach size, representing a discount for the substituted papers. The ‘Portraits’section of the catalogue also lists prices for cartes de visite and cabinet cards by thehalf- or full-dozen. Readers are reminded that large orders will be issued with areduction in the charges.

Not located in OCLC or COPAC.

TINY, IN AN EMBOSSED PICTORIAL METAL BINDING

15. [MINIATURE BOOK]. El libro de la misa para uso de lainfancia. Paris, Firmin-Didot, [c.1860].

Miniature book, 28 x 22mm., pp. 96, with 10 lithographed plates included inthe pagination; a very good copy in the original pictorial metallic boards, thefront portraying an enthroned Our Lady of Montserrat, the rear with fleur-de-lys within a double frame, backed in blue cloth, with the original clasp andcatch; part of the rear paste-down peeled off, part of rear pastedown missing.

£390

A delightful, finely bound miniature Catholic service book purportedly ‘forthe use of children’, including the Order of the Mass and the Sunday Vespers,printed in Spanish by Didot in Paris.

This uncommon survival is (scarcely) represented institutionally in varyingstates: the Osborne collection copy, for instance, is recorded with 95 pages and5 illustrations, whilst the record of the National Library of Spain cites 96 pagesand 4 illustrations. A copy has recently appeared on the market with a clothbinding.

Our copy is encased in a lovely original cloth-backed metallic binding, theupper plaque embossed with an image of Our Lady of Montserrat,enthroned with the baby Christ facing a crowd of kneeling faithful against amountainous backdrop.

Not in Bondy or Welsh.

FEMALE EDUCATION

16. [MORE, Hannah]. Essays on various subjects, principallydesigned for young ladies. The fifth edition. London, for T. Cadell, 1791.

8vo, pp. [viii], 214, [2], with half-title and final advertisement leaf; a few lightspots to the first quire; a very good, clean copy in contemporary quarter calf overmarbled boards, vellum corners, gilt decoration and red morocco lettering-pieceto spine; small chips to head and foot of spine; engraved book label of WilliamLeatham to front pastedown.

£150

The fifth edition of Hannah More’s popular collection of philosophical essays,derived from her experience teaching at her sister’s school and first published in1777. It paved the way for her Strictures on Female Education, and went throughfive London editions and several American printings by 1800.

The eight essays, dedicated to that scion of an earlier generation of bluestockings,Elizabeth Montagu, ‘dealt with many of the favourite topics of moralists – such asdissipation, conversation, sentimental connections, education, and religion – andalso addressed a subject close to More’s bluestocking heart: “Miscellaneousthoughts on wit”. In the introduction she counselled her sex to succeed as womenrather than to aspire as men, and throughout the essays she upheld sexualdifference, both in terms of natural abilities and of social roles … Convinced ofthe reciprocal relationship between female education and conduct, she called forgreater attention to be paid to the intellectual, sentimental, and religiouseducation of girls, and described female conduct as “one of the principal hingeson which the great machine of human society turns” (p. 19)’ (Oxford DNB).

Provenance: this copy carries the book label of William Leatham (1785-1842),banker and author of Letters on the currency (1840), Quaker, and delegate at the1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention (he is pictured behind Thomas Clarkson inBenjamin Haydon’s oil painting of the convention).

ESTC T86080.

17. NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French –‘Napoléon’. A set of 10 postcards forming a full-length portrait.[France]: Rex, [early 20th century].

A set of 10 hand-coloured monochrome postcards depictingscenes in Napoleon’s life, which also form a full-length portrait ofNapoleon, each card 90 x 138mm (the total size of the full-lengthportrait 450 x 276mm), captioned on the recto and with printedtext ‘Fabrication Française’ on the blank versos; a few light spotsor marks on versos, otherwise very good.

£200 + VAT in EU

An unusual and attractive set of hand-coloured postcards, whichdepict the following scenes from Napoleon’s life: ‘Bataille deRivoli. 1797’; ‘Campagne d’Egypte 1798’; ‘La Sentinelle endormie(1799); ‘Sacre de Napoléon 1er à Notre-Dame 1804’; ‘Napoléon1er & François II apres Austerlitz. 1805’; ‘Bataille de Iéna 1806’;‘Bataille de Friedland 1807’; ‘Bataille de Wagram 1809’;‘Campagne de Russie 1812’; and ‘Campagne de France 1814’. Theimages are based upon well-known paintings of Napoleon byPhilipotteaux, David, Vernet, et al. and, when arranged in twocolumns of five cards each, form a full-length portrait ofNapoleon.

18. [SATIRICAL PLAYBILL.] Acted but once this seven Years. At the greattheatrical Booth in the old Pig Market, in Pontefract, some time next Spring will be revived,the Comedy of All in the Wrong, or, the Sham Election … Tickets and Places to be Taken atthe Sign of the Sham Burgess … [Pontefract, Yorkshire, 1767]. [Offered with:]

REGULUS. To the Sham Burgesses of Pontefract … [Pontefract, Yorkshire, 1767].

BY-STANDER, A. To the Real Burgess of Pontefract … [Pontefract, Yorkshire, 1767].

Three broadsides, 4to and folio, printed on one side only; creased where folded, To the RealBurgesses with some small holes along the folds, else in good condition.

£950

Three very rare broadsides, the first not in ESTC, the others at British Library only.

Since 1741 the controlling stake in Pontefract politics had been owned by the Pitt andMonckton families. ‘Although [Viscount] Galway and Pitt jointly had an absolute majority ofthe burgages, at elections they always canvassed the independent burgesses, treated thepopulace, and never transferred their own burgages to dummy voters. In short, they went outof their way to cultivate the goodwill of the borough; and until 1767 there was no sign ofopposition to the proprietary interest …’ (History of Parliament online). However, in 1766John Walsh bought the Pitt burgages for £16,000, and in the following year Thomas Taylortook over management of the borough. ‘This change … led to new methods of conductingelections at Pontefract. Walsh and Taylor determined to assert proprietary control, and to beno longer dependent upon the goodwill of the burgesses. They persuaded Galway to fall inwith their plans. These included a complete survey of the burgages, the preparation of faggotvotes against the forthcoming general election, and the refusal to canvass the independentburgesses or to treat the populace. When the news leaked out there was considerabledissatisfaction in the borough, directed mainly against Walsh as a stranger and a nabob’.

The present broadsides are part of the backlash against the ‘Agents of Mr W[als]h’, appealingto the ‘sham burgesses’ to divest themselves of their falsely acquired privileges and to the ‘realburgesses’ to make known their displeasure. The satirical playbill turns the forthcomingelection of spring 1768 into a comedic drama, listing the various characters – ‘AldermanWeathercock, by Will Cabbage, once an honest fellow, but since he has entered himself intothis stroling Company, hath forfeited that Title’. After the main show will follows a‘Pantomime, called the Baronet [i.e. Galway?] outwitted’. At the end is a thrust against therigging of the election – ‘It being impossible to get a sufficient Number of Men (the Companycan trust to) for Electors, it is hoped the Town will excuse their being made of Broomsticksand Pasteboard; great Pains shall be taken to make them as nearly represent Life as possible.’

‘In December 1767 a group of independent burgesses decided to run a candidate againstWalsh, and in February 1768 Sir Rowland Winn accepted their invitation to stand … Onpolling day Winn was escorted by a large mob, who “in a riotous and tumultuous manner”occupied the entrances to the town hall and prevented supporters of the proprietary interestfrom voting. The mayor was intimidated into keeping open the poll until Winn had amajority, and then was forced to close it and declare Winn and Galway elected. Galway stoodby his agreement with Walsh, and joined him in preparations for a petition; and in November1768 the House of Commons declared the election void on account of the riot, the ringleadershaving already been convicted at York assizes’ (ibid.).

ESTC misdates To the Sham Burgesses and To the Real Burgesses ‘1717?’, and records copies atthe British Library only. The ‘playbill’ is not in ESTC, COPAC or OCLC.

FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE 1823 DEMERARA SLAVE REBELLION

19. SMITH, Jane. Autograph letter signed(‘Jane Smith’) to Peter Jackson (‘At Mr Fisher’s booksellers, Newgate Street, London’). Demerara, December1823.

Folio bifolium (325 x 205 mm), pp. [3], with a further 6lines and the address panel to the fourth page; blackstamp ‘Ship letter Plymouth’, faint red circular stampdated 5 Feb 1824, and remains of red wax seal to addresspanel; browned, fragile, some tears to folds, some areas ofloss especially to the second leaf (sense recoverable).

£1200 + VAT in EU

A remarkable survival: a letter from Jane Smith, wife ofthe missionary John Smith (c.1792-1824), giving an eye-witness account of the slave rebellion in Demerara(present day Guyana) in August 1823, and of thesubsequent arrest, trial and conviction of her husband forencouraging the revolt, ending with a plea for supportfrom the recipient, Peter Jackson, a London publisher.Mrs Smith’s letter was written under the most tryingcircumstances, with her husband sentenced to be hangedand ‘confined in the colony jail’, and when she herself hadbeen a ‘prisoner in close confinement for thirteen, orfourteen weeks’.

In October 1816 the London Missionary Society appointed John Smith to a vacant post atthe Le Resouvenir estate in Demerara, and he and his wife arrived there the followingFebruary. Smith’s work was warmly received by the slaves but made him enemies amongthe local white population. On 18 August 1823 a slave revolt broke out, which Mrs Smithrecalls in this letter. When the slaves in the vicinity of their chapel rose in ‘open rebellion’,Mr Smith encouraged them to stop, in spite of their ‘brandishing their cutlasses in hisface’. The slaves replied that they did not wish to hurt anyone, discharged the guns theyfound ‘to keep the manager from shooting them’, and left. Because he remained on theplantation, Mr Smith was accused of ‘aiding and assisting the rebels’, charges which MrsSmith answers in her letter. Three days later infantry and cavalry under the command ofCaptain McTurk surrounded their house and took the Smiths and their papers away,accusing Mr Smith of being party to the revolt and of refusing to enrol in the militia.Using evidence extracted from slaves promised a pardon in return, Smith was convicted:‘How the Court Martial could justify a conviction on such evidence’, Mrs Smith writes,‘must I think be a wonder to every unprejudiced person’. Smith’s journal, confiscated andcirculated in court, played a key role in the prosecution, since it contained ‘manyreflections on the evils and iniquity of slavery’. Turning to the causes of the revolt, MrsSmith pinpoints two factors: a new regulation by which slaves required a written pass toattend chapel, and confusion and rumours following a British Government proposal toabolish field whipping which led to frustrated hopes of emancipation. Regarding thecolonists’ suspicion of missionary instruction, Mrs Smith remarks, ‘the fact is they knowthat religion will change the slaves from beasts to men, and they will consequently requireto be ruled by reason instead of terror’. Turning to her husband, Mrs Smith protests hisinnocence, reports that a fellow-missionary, Mr Elliot, is sailing to England to fight hiscause, and ends in hope: ‘I trust the religious public will take up Mr Smith’s cause, andmay the Lord crown their endevours [sic] with success, and bless them for the deliveranceof my dear partner whose only crime has been devotedness to the object of his mission’. Inher postscript, Mrs Smith asks Jackson to write to her via William Arrindell, a GeorgeTown barrister who assisted in Smith’s defence at his trial.

The largely non-violent Demerara rebellion involved more than 10,000 slaves and washarshly crushed by the colonists. Smith’s trial lasted 27 days and he died in jail on 6February 1824, of pulmonary consumption, before hearing the government’s decision togrant him mercy. The postmark on this letter is dated the day after his death. Smith’s casecaused a considerable stir in England and more than 200 petitions on his behalf werepresented to parliament, Lord Brougham later remarking that ‘in Smith’s trial there hadbeen more violation of justice, in form as well as in substance, than in any other inquiry inmodern times that could be called a judicial proceeding’.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM

20. [SYKES, Godfrey, sculptor.] POLLEN, John Hungerford. Photographs of Terra Cotta Columns modelledfor the lecture theatre at the South Kensington Museum by Godfrey Sykes with descriptions and a brief memoir of theartist's life (By Authority of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education). London, ArundelSociety for promoting the knowledge of art, 1866.

Folio, pp. 9 (title-page, contents and preface), [1 blank] + 15 albumen print photographs (one after a drawing), rangingbetween 5½ x 7½ to 8½ x 10⅝ inches (14.4 x 19 to 21.5 x 27 cm.), or the reverse, each numbered and with printed captionand ‘Science & Art Department South Kensington Museum Loan’ stamp to mount (affecting print on number 14 only);with some foxing throughout (not on photographs); in original thick printed card boards, brown cloth spine; rubbed,repaired, but sturdy.

£1200

A photographic study of Godfrey Sykes’ last work – before the columns were assembled and just prior to his prematuredeath that year: ‘the last directions he gave were for their arrangement in front of the Lecture Theatre’ (p. 7), thoughSykes did leave designs for further projects including the majolica refreshment room at the Museum. One unusual viewhere shows the ‘Counter-changing of the drums’, with the columns being assembled in front of the Museum, which issurrounded by scaffolding.

Pollen writes a brief memoir of Sykes and background on the Museum’s architecture; he describes Sykes as ‘a child of theNational Art tradition’ (p. 5). Pollen was the assistant keeper at the Museum and editor to the science and art departmentsthere. Together with Henry Cole, who had recruited Sykes for the project, he produced the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art(1870). The site where the columns stand is now called the Henry Cole Wing.

The Arundel Society’s main aim was to promote the work of the European Masters through publishing works reproducingthe art. Three years after the Society formed in 1849 they began using chromolithography as a more attractive method thanwoodcut for their art-reproduction, and with further developments in the colour quality in the 1960s this process remainedthe favourite method until the Society dissolved in 1897. They did sometimes use photographs for their plates in the late1860s and early 1870s. The series here does not tie in to the Society’s more commonly reproduced works on earlier artmovements. Instead it appears to be a one-off – a dedication to the artist whose loss was keenly felt by his peers at theMuseum on which he left a significant architectural hallmark.

WorldCat lists three copies worldwide: Clark Art Institute, Chicago, Glasgow School of Art, and National Art Library, V&A.COPAC lists only the V&A copy.

See Classified list of photographs taken for the Department of Science and Art: Pottery, Porcelain, and Glass…, vol. 3, 1360 to 1373(does not seem to include images 14 and 15 as seen here).

‘THE REVOLUTION OF 1789 WAS BORN OF THE BRAIN AND THE HEART OF THE NATION. BUT THIS ONE…’

21. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Autograph letter, signed, to Louis Bouchitté. Paris ,May 1st 1848.

Manuscript on paper, 8vo, pp. [3], [1 blank]; written in brown ink in Tocqueville’s clear hand,approximately 18 lines to a page; in excellent condition.

£4000

A remarkable political and philosophical letter, sent by Tocqueville to his friend LouisBouchitté after Tocqueville had been elected deputy of the Manche in the first elections to beheld with general suffrage. His advice is not to rush in congratulating him on his success: ‘Ithas never been wiser to postpone congratulations’, he muses. The only thing worth rejoicing atpresent is the mass demonstration of trust which he has obtained from the citizens of hisdistrict. Perhaps a little stunned, he reckons ‘I have had more than 110,000 votes out of 123,000;it would be hard to obtain a better result’.

Politics by now is to Tocqueville not a source of excitement as much of anxiety. The letterreveals in clear terms some of the major traits of his philosophy of history, notably hispersuasion, that passions, far from being a danger to society, are necessary, and that whatmodernity lacks is individuals animated by strong enough passions : ‘The darkness whichsurrounds our immediate future is, right now, impenetrable. The nation has shown herselfwell worthy of freedom. But where are the men who are worthy of leading a free nation? Likeyou, I see bad omens for Education, particularly if left much longer in the hands of the foolsand simpletons who are running it now’, Hyppolyte Carnot’s ministry being a cleardemonstration of such foolishness. ‘Inexperience and ignorance […] are equally spreadamongst all ministries […] You are right in saying that you fear the materialistic interests of theRevolution which has just occurred. The Revolution of 1789 was born of the brain and theheart of the nation; but this one has embraced a view born in its stomach, and a taste formaterial pleasures has played a huge role’.

Louis Bouchitté (1795-1861) was a Catholic philosopher, friend and correspondent ofTocqueville (his correspondence, including this letter, in OC Bmt VII).

THE MOST IMPORTANT SPANISH ECONOMIST OF HIS TIMESOURCE FOR SMITH’S WEALTH OF NATIONS

22. UZTARIZ, Don Geronymo de. The Theory and practice of Commerce andmaritime affairs... Translated from the original by John Kippax. In two volumes... London, Johnand James Rivington, 1751.

Two vols, 8vo, pp. [4], vi, xxxix, [1], 430; [2], 446 + errata leaf; lightly browned, but a very goodcopy in full contemporary calf, raised bands, red morocco numbering-pieces; spine ends neatlyrepaired, hinges cracked but sound, corners a little bumped; contemporary ownershipinscription to front free end-paper and title.

£1250

First English edition of the principal work of the most important Spanish economist of theperiod. This English translation supplied Adam Smith with some material on Spain that heused in the Wealth of Nations. Uztariz’s Theorica y pratica de Comercio was first published in1724. During the last years of his life Uztariz improved and corrected his treatise and his sonpublished a second edition in 1742, which, unlike the first, was widely read.

‘The Theory and Practice of Commerce was the most accurate and solidly-documented handbookof its day. Until quite recently Uztariz’s estimate of the population and revenues of Spain, andof the quantity of precious metals shipped from the New World, were accepted withoutquestion and reproduced by writers in many countries. The merit of the work resides chieflyin the vast mass of factual information it presents rather than in its doctrinal content...’ (Grice-Hutchinson, Early economic thought in Spain, pp. 161-62).

The book also is a valuable Americanum and a source for the history of tobacco industry. It wastranslated by command of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), who died just beforethe work was published, therefore a second dedication to His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales(subsequently George III) was added.

Einaudi 5795; Goldsmiths 8623; Higgs 78; Kress 5174; Sabin 98252.

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