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Symbiotic Sciences

1670-1870

Natural, Medical, Social and Economic

An Illustrated Shortlist

Man is, by nature, a political animal.

The maritime expansion of the seventeenth century led to a spectacular increase of international transfer and exchange of ideas and commodities in the eighteenth century. The relationship between trade and scientific discovery was the essence of the age, whether in agriculture, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, sociology, philosophy, geometry and measurement, classification systems, and plant discoveries. And with Enlightenment came a flourishing book trade which bore revolutionary ideas which led us to our modern commercial society. Here are a few rare items from that age.

1. Smellie, William The Philosophy of Natural History. Printed for the Heirs of Charles Elliot; and C. Elliot and T. Kay, T. Cadell, and G. G. J. & J. Robinsons, London. Edinburgh. 1790. Printed for Bell & Bradfute, et al. Edinburgh. 1799.

£400.00 Two volumes. Quarto. xiii, (1), 547pp; xii, 515pp. Later Quarter calf, marbled boards, spine in six, with gilt rules and lettering. Tiny marginal corner loss I, xiii, marginal stain to I, 544-7, II, 1-10. Slight toning. William Smellie (1740-1795), Naturalist, Antiquary, Master Printer, Compiler of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1768–71) founder of the Newtonian Society, member of the Scottish Enlightenment. Smellie's reputation as a natural historian was such that Charles Elliot paid £1000 for the copyright to volume one of Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History, which appeared in 1790, shortly after Elliot's death. It became the set text at Harvard University in the nineteenth Century. As a master printer he printed works by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Fergusson, James Beattie, Joseph Black, James Hutton and his great friend, Robert Burns. ODNB. ESTC: T306102, T106301. Freeman 3437.

2. Monceau, M. Duhamel du. Traite de la conservation des grains, et en particulier du froment. Nouvelle edition, corrigee et augmentee. Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin et Louis-Francis Delatour. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roi. 2nd ed. Paris. 1754.

£150.00 Small octavo. xlij, 311pp. 13 folding plates. Contemporary full calf, raised bands to spine, old label to top compartment, gilt motif and lettering. Silk bookmark. Rubbed to top and bottom of spine. Corners bumped. Very bright internally, 3 plates slightly chipped at margins. Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), physician, naval engineer and botanist. He developed his large estate into an experimental farm, using technological innovation to develop and test new methods of horticulture, agriculture and forestry. Thrice President of the French Academy of Sciences. Provenance Inscribed ‘Gayet de Sansale …SSS…1758’ on verso ffep. L’abbé Gayet de Sansale, Advisor to Parliament, Doctor and Librarian of the Sorbonne.

3. Middleton, John View of the Agriculture of Middlesex; with observations on the means of its improvement, and several essays on agriculture in general, drawn up for the consideration of The Board of Agriculture. Printed for B. MacMillan, Printer to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales; for G. Nichol, Pall Mall, Bookseller to His Majesty, and The Board of Agriculture. London. 1798.

£175.00 Octavo. Half title, title, xvii, (1: errata), 597pp. 2 hand coloured folding maps, one folding table. Later quarter calf, with uneven black rules, gilt lettering, sl. rubbed; faded, marked cloth boards. Front hinge cracked but firm. All edges speckled. Apart from a little sporadic foxing a crisp clean copy. John Middleton (1751–1833), surveyor, pioneering and inventive agriculturist, commissioner for enclosures. “The best of all the [board's] surveys of English Counties’”. ODNB. An all-encompassing work in the spirit of the age, including markets, commerce, trade, population, legislation, weights and measures, improvement, waste-land, manufactures, distilleries. Pre-Ricardo and Corn Laws analysis of corn and “manufacture of wheat”. ESTC: T50760

4. Phillips, Henry History of Cultivated Vegetables; comprising their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History; and Relation to Art, Science and Commerce. Second edition. Henry Colburn and Co. London. 1822.

£250.00 Two volumes. Octavo. vii, 383pp; 480pp. Contemporary half calf, spines in five compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather labels and gilt lettering, marbled boards. Some rubbing to boards. Foxing to endpapers and titles, but text is crisp and bright. Bookplates to feps. Includes sections on indigo, hemp, cotton, flax, tobacco, tea, sugar, saffron…&c. The first history of cultivated vegetables. Phillips, Henry (1779–1840), landscape gardener, writer on horticulture, banker, teacher, member of the Horticultural Society, Fellow of the Linnean Society. He advised his good friend, John Constable on the correct plants to paint in ‘The Cornfield’. ODNB. Alice M. Coats. A forgotten gardener: Henry Phillips 1779-1840. (1971). Provenance Armorial Bookplates of J Hyde, of Hyde End in the Parish of Brimpton, Berks. A Spear ppr with a Pennon gu.

5. Maund, B. The Floral Register; containing figures and descriptions of nearly all tender and hardy plants, which have been lately introduced to, and cultivated in Great Britain. Part I: Simkin and Marshall. London. n.d. Part II: Groombridge & Sons. London. n.d. [1825-1850].

£125.00 Two Parts in one volume. Small quarto. xvi, 240pp; 13, 144pp. Engraved half title to part one. Illustrated with woodcuts of each plant described. Half calf, gilt, raised bands to spine. Aeg. Marbled endpapers. Corners bumped. Front hinge cracked. Index to Part II and pp141-144 originally in smaller state (8vo), expertly relaid to quarto. Comprehensively cataloguing the origins, date of introduction and British gardens and their owners of foreign introductions during the golden age of plant-hunting, the Floral Register was the resource for all newly introduced plants. Benjamin Maund (1790-1864) botanist and horticulturist, “he prospered as a bookseller, stationer, printer, bookbinder, publisher, and chemist in a combination normal for the time”. He experimented with seeds and plants introduced from around the world and particularly with varieties of wheat. Fellow of the Linnean Society. ODNB. Provenance From the library of Enid Lucy Robertson, botanist, phycologist & ecologist, Australian plant collector, with her signature to half-title. Stafleu Taxonomic Literature (2nd) 5715. Journ. Soc. Bib. Nat. History 3:321.

6. Arbuthnot, John An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies. Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. London. 1733.

£200.00 Octavo. Half-title, title, xi, (4), 224pp. Wood engraved headpieces, tailpieces and ornamental initials. Later half calf, marbled boards, endpapers, gilt lettering and spine rules, blind stamped motifs to spine. Very slightly toned, occasional spotting. Parallel inked marks to title page. Neat ink corrections to margin p.128, 173, and 177. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), the Scottish Physician, satirist and polymath. A Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians, he served as Physician Extraordinary to Queen Anne. A member of the ‘Scriblerus Club’ together with Swift, Pope, Gay, and Parnell, Arbuthnot inspired the detailed parody of Royal Society projects in Gulliver’s Travels Book III, and invented the character “John Bull”. Arbuthnot makes the first scientific linkage between the adverse effects of pollution on humans. His thesis was strongly contested and the detrimental effects of pollution increased over the following centuries of industrial growth. Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson stated that “this essay is one of the most remarkable books in the literature of medicine.” (Disciples of Aesculapius. London, 1900. Vol. I, p. 220). Heirs of Hippocrates: The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa. ESTC: T132536

7. Andry [de Bois-Regard], Nicolas

An Account of the Breeding of Worms in Human Bodies; Their Nature, and several Sorts; Their Effects, Symptoms, and Prognostics. With the true Means to avoid them, and Medicines to cure them. With Letters to the Author on this Subject, from M. Nicholas Hartsoeker at Amsterdam, and M. George Baglivi at Rome. Printed for H. Rhodes at the Star…; and A. Bell at the Cross Keys… London. 1701.

£750.00 First English edition. Octavo. xl, (4), 266, (26) pp. Sigs.I4 and N1 (pp.121 and 177) sigs. I5-M8, [N]-P[8], [Q]4, are paginated on the recto only. 5 copper engraved plates, one of which is the large folding plate. Later full morocco, with renewed endpapers. Spine in five compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. Lightly toned, with occasional spotting. A few minor marginal tears, and a short tear to joined edge of folding plate. Slightly rubbed to corners. Birmingham Medical Institute stamps to title and plates. BMI Presentation Bookplate to fep. Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard, physician, microscopist, the father of parasitology, and the originator of the term “orthopaedics”. The first published work on medical parasitology, this was the key work in its field. Advocating the medicinal use of tobacco, amongst the remedies against worms, he adds here the Chapter, ‘Concerning the Frequent use of Tobacco’; probably the earliest physician’s caution to this ‘fatal Herb’ which he concludes ‘shortens the Life’. Provenance: From the Birmingham Medical Institute. Founded as a Library in 1875, financial stringency led to its sale at auction in 2012. It held 5,000 rare medical and scientific works donated by notable physicians. This copy presented to the library by Dr Blackall. Thomas Blackall (1814-1899) MA, MD, FRCP. Son of John Blackall (1771-1860) of Exeter, and descendant of Offspring Blackall, he presented a number of valuable and rare books to the Birmingham Medical Institute. ESTC: T88348; Garrison & Morton: 2448.2

8. Godwin, William Of Population: an enquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, being an answer to Mr Malthus’s Essay on That Subject. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. London. 1820.

£600.00 First edition. Large octavo. 22, 626pp. Later full calf, Spine in six compartments, divided with gilt rules, leather label with gilt lettering. Blind border rules to covers. More recent endpapers. Marginal date correction to p.193. p.267/8 corner folded with excess untrimmed. Light Royal Institution of South Wales imprints to verso of title, and last page. Lightly toned with very occasional spotting. William Godwin (1756-1836), Journalist, Political Philosopher, Novelist. Husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, and father of Mary Shelley. Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in rejection of Godwin’s views on the perfectibility of society. “Of Population” was written as an extensively researched rebuttal. “The most interesting subject in the whole science of political economy”. “His philosophical anarchism had a profound influence on Robert Owen, William Thompson and other utopians in the nineteenth century”. “The founder of philosophical anarchism” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

9. Harris, Joseph The description and use of the Globes and the Orrery. To which is prefix’d by way of introduction, a brief account of the Solar System. The seventh edition. Printed for B Cole at the Orrery, near Water Lane, in Fleet Street, late the shop of Mr Thomas Wright, Instrument Maker to His Majesty. London. 1751.

£225.00 Octavo. viii, 190pp. 2pp Cole adverts. 7 folding engraved plates. Recent full calf, spine in six with raised bands, gilt rules and leather label. Minor marginal worm nibbles. A few corners chipped. Uniformly toned. Stamped initials to title page. Harris, Joseph (1704-1764), polymath, natural philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, economist, navigational expert, and from 1748 assay-master at the Royal Mint, the eldest son of Howel ap Howel, and brother of Howel Harris of Trefeca, Brecknockshire. In 1724 Joseph moved to London. Here he met the Governor of New England, and was introduced to Edmond Halley. (Trefeca Letters NLW) His magnetic and eclipse observations made in Vera Cruz in 1726 and 1727 were published as Astronomical Observations made at Vera Cruz by the Royal Society, to whom they were submitted by Halley. He made his own observations of the 6 June 1761 Transit of Venus, at Trefeca, creating a meridian line there (which was unfortunately more recently destroyed during renovations). The Royal Society copy of his observations was mislaid, and so the first publication of Joseph's "Account of the Transit of Venus over the Sun 6th June 1761" was in January 2010 in ‘Brycheiniog’. In 1762 Joseph joined, and was Membership Secretary of, the newly founded Boodle's Club. Other contemporary members included Adam Smith and David Hume. ESTC: T113353

10. Moxon, Joseph A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie. Or an Easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terrestrial. In six Books. The first teaching the Rudiments of Astronomie and Geographie. Shewing by the Globe the solution of 2. Astronomie and Geographical Prob. 3. Problemes in Navigation. 4. Arstological [sic]. 5. Gnomonical Problemes. 6. Trigonometrical Probelemes. More fully and amply than hath yet been set forth either by Gemma Frisius, Metius, Hues, Wright, Blaew, or any others that have taught the Use of the Globes: And that so plainly and methodically that the meanest Capacity may at first reading apprehend it, and with a little practice grow expert in these Divine Sciences. With an Appendix shewing the use of the Ptolomaick Shere. The Second Edition, Corrected and enlarged. By Joseph Moxon, Hydrogapher to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. Whereunto is added the Antient Poetical Stories of the Stars: shewing Reasons Why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the Celestial Globe. As also a Discourse of the Antiquity, Progress and Augmentation of Astronomies. Printed for Joseph Moxon: and sold at his Shop in Russel Street, at the signe of Atlas. London. 1670.

£680.00 Small quarto. (8), 272, (8)pp. Engraved frontis., further copperplate and woodcut illus. Later Quarter calf, marbled boards, vellum tipped corners. Some browning and chipping. Precise and detailed Manuscript Eighteenth Century Astrological Diagrams and Notes to rear free endpapers dated 1776: Mr Jones nephew Hatton Wall and Mrs Davenport, Astrologer, Chick Lane. (4pp). Moxon, Joseph (1627–1691), printer and globe maker. Hydrographer to Charles II ‘for the making of Globes, Maps and Sea-Platts’. The first tradesman to be elected to the Royal Society in November 1678. The refinement of Moxon's beliefs would later influence Captain Cook’s Third Voyage in search of the Northwest Passage. WING M3023. ESTC: R32090.

11. Kelly, P. A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy; being an attempt to simplify those useful sciences, with an Appendix on Time, Time-Keepers, Transit Instruments, &c. Part The Second. Nautical Astronomy; being the Application of Spherics to those Problems of Astronomy, that are most useful at sea: such as finding the Azimuth, Amplitude, Time, Latitude, Longitude, &c. All of which are solved by Projection and Calculation, and Likewise Illustrated by the Globes. A view is also given of the most approved methods of working The Lunar Observations with New Projections and Calculations, for solving this important Problem. To which is added, An Appendix on Time, including Directions for the Use and Management of Chronometers, Transit Instruments, and other Apparatus of an Observatory. The Fourth Edition. Printed for J. Johnson & Co. London. 1813.

£200.00 Royal octavo. xvi, 231pp + 1p adverts. 19 plates, of which 7 are folding (figs 33 & 34 not present, and nor are they referenced in the text). Contemporary full calf, spine in seven compartments with gilt rules, lacking leather label. More recent endpapers. Rubbed, with wear. Toned, with occasional spotting. Some corners creased. Patrick Kelly (1756-1842) mathematician and astronomer. A friend of Neville Maskelyne, to whom this work is dedicated, John Herschel and James Hutton, he introduced the Imperial System of measurement. “We cannot but applaud this successful attempt to facilitate an abstruse and useful science; a science so essential to the perfection of that art by which the trade of this country has been carried to an extent far beyond that of any other age or nation” Tobias Smollett. Of this edition: No copies in US. Only one copy in UK – University of Glasgow. Not held in BL.

12. Burney, William [Falconer, William] A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine; being, a copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases usually employed in the construction, equipment, machinery, movements, and military, as well as Naval, operations of ships: With such parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as will be found useful to Practical Navigators. Illustrated with a variety of modern designs of shipping &c. Together with separate views of the Masts, Yards, Sails, and Rigging. To which is annexed, a Vocabulary of French Sea-Phrases and Terms of Art, collected from the best authorities. Originally compiled by William Falconer… now modernized and much enlarged. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand; and J. Murray. London. 1815.

£600.00 Quarto. xv, (bl), 707, (1), 87pp. 35 plates, of which 7 are folding, 4 of which are partially hand-coloured. Later half calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and lettering. Rubbed to top rear hinge and corner. Title page soiled and restored at edges. Light toning and minor spotting throughout, dampstaining to plates. William Falconer (1732-1769) seafarer, poet and lexicographer. The publication of the dictionary in 1769, had its origins in the copious notes of technical explanation he had attached to his poem ‘The Shipwreck.’ He was presumed dead in 1770 after the Aurora went missing off the coast of Madagascar. Dr. William Burney (1762-1832). Dr Burney’s Academy (Later the Royal Academy) prepared young men for the Royal Navy.

13. Mascall, Edward James A statement of the Duties of Customs, and those of the Excise, payable upon all foreign articles imported into or exported from Great Britain. Also, the Duties Outwards; the Bounties and Allowances on British goods, and those on the Fisheries; the Duties Coastwise; the Quarantine and Tonnage Duties; together with tables of Scavage, Baillage, Levant and Russia Dues. The whole brought up to the 5th September 1808. Published by Edward James Mascall. Sold by Samuel Tipper. London. 1808.

£180.00 Octavo. vii, 163pp. Contemporary full calf, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt sailing ship motifs, lettering and rules, blind tooled covers, with gilt rules and inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Extremities rubbed, covers marked, spine relaid. Booksellers plate to fep. Bookplate to fep. Edward James Mascall (1757-1832) Collector of Customs Duties at the Port of London. Only one copy held in UK (at University of London). Not held in the BL. None held in USA libraries. Provenance Armorial Bookplate of M Sainsbury (Froyle) to fep, with demi antelope and three lozenges.

14. Yeo, William The Method of Ullaging and Inching all Sorts of Casks and other Utensils, used by Common Brewers, Victuallers, Distillers, &c. Printed for the Author by E. Owen. London. 1749.

£450.00 Octavo. iv, 231 pp + errata. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and red leather label, gilt rules and lettering. Double gilt border rules to covers. Worn to top and tail of spine and corners. Covers marked, with small area of surface loss to lower board. Ffep pasted down over old bookplate. Small hole and inked emphasis to title. Stamp to verso title. Ornamental headpiece and historiated initial. Inscribed Owen Jones, 1753 to title page. Inscribed Edward Evans not His Book 1761 to last blank. Historic bookseller’s catalogue entry for this copy tipped in to fep. First and only edition of this scarce work on gauging casks “being agreeable to the Principles of Solid Geometry”. William Yeo, Excise Officer, ‘Cousin Yeo’s son’ to John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, the Welsh politician. Correspondence between them held at the National Library of Wales includes references to Pickled Oysters and Puffins, Brandy and Salmon, and Excise Appointments. Scarce: ESTC locates only 5 library holdings worldwide. ESTC: T129446

15. Long, Joseph Tables for ascertaining the strength of spirits with Sikes’s Hydrometer; with an abstract of The Act of Parliament. By Authority of Parliament. Printed for the Proprietor. London. 1843.

£150.00 Octavo. Unpaginated [114pp]. Contemporary full tree calf. Gilt lettering, motifs, floral embellishment, rules and dentelles. Brass clasp. Marbled endpapers. Bumped to corners. Some browning. “Made and Sold by T Bedwell, Mathematical and Philosophical Instrument Maker…” tipped in to title page, over Joseph Long. Final page partially relaid. Joseph Long, mathematical, optical and hydrometer instrument maker. The mathematical instrument maker Thomas Bedwell was established

in the sixteenth century.

16. Uztariz, Don Geronymo de. (Kippax, John, transl.) The theory and practice of commerce and maritime affairs. Written originally in Spanish by Don Geronymo de Uztariz, Knight of the Order of St. Jago, Member of his Catholick Majesty’s Privy Council, of the Royal Board of Trade and The Mint, and His Majesty’s Secretary in the Council and Chamber of the Indies. Translated from the Original, by John Kippax, B.D. Fellow of Clare-hall, and Master of the Academy in Little Tower Street. Printed for John and James Rivington, in St Paul’s Churchyard, London; and John Crofts, Bookseller, in Bristol. London. 1751.

£680.00 First edition. Two volumes. Octavo. (2), vi, xl, 430; 446, errata (1). Full contemporary calf, raised bands to spine, red leather title labels, simple numeric identification to each volume in gilt. Tops and tails of spines expertly repaired. Corners bumped. Ffep to Vol.I creased. Previous owners’ signatures to ffep and title. p 65 corner folded pre-trimming. Date added by hand. Some browning. Hinges cracked. Geronymo de Uztariz (1670-1732) “This valuable treatise was first printed in the year 1724. Apprehended by the Court of Madrid not to be a proper season to make it publick. The printed copies were accordingly destroyed.” It was subsequently translated into English (1751) and is considered to be the most important Spanish economic work of the eighteenth century. Cited by Adam Smith in An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Contains valuable references to the tobacco industry. Translated by Command of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), who died just before the work was published, therefore a second dedication to His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales (subsequently George III) was added. ESTC T138240. Sabin 98252. Higgs 78.

17. Ker, John The Memoirs of John Ker, of Kersland, in North Britain, Esq; Relating to Politicks, Trade, and History. In Three Parts. Part I. Containing His Secret Transactions and Negotiations in Scotland, England, The Courts of Vienna, Hanover, and other Foreign Parts. With an Account of the rise and Progress of the Ostend Company in the Austrian Netherlands. Published by Himself. The Third Edition. [Edmund Curll]. London. 1727. Part II. Published by His Express Direction. [Edmund Curll]. London. [First Edition] 1726. Part IIIᵈ and Last. To which is added, A Copy of the Information exhibited by the Attorney-General against the First Part of these Memoirs. Published by his express Direction. [Edmund Curll]. London. [First Edition] 1726. Ker, William [Carr, William] Remarks on the Government of several Parts of Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Hamburgh, Lubek, and Hanseatick-Towns, but more particularly of the United Provinces, with some few Directions how to Travel in the States Dominions. Together with A List of the most considerable Cities in Europe, and the Number of Houses in each City. Printed in Amsterdam Anno Dom. 1688. Reprinted at London. 1727.

£380.00 Four volumes bound in three. Octavo. viii, viii, 180, (4) pp; vii, (1), 184, (6) pp; (1), vi, 221, 157, (3), 16 pp. Engraved headpieces and tailpieces. Full contemporary calf, spines in six compartments with raised bands, foliar gilt embellishment and lettering, leather labels. Gilt border rules to covers. Rubbed with wear to extremities and spine. Short tear to top edge of Vol II title page, no loss. Very minor occasional spotting. Ker, John, of Kersland [formerly John Crawfurd] (1673–1726), spy, was granted royal licence by Queen Anne to associate with disaffected individuals in order to gather intelligence. The revelations in these volumes were considered damaging to the government. “The publisher, Edmund Curll, incurred the wrath of the government for publishing ‘a False, Scandalous and Malicious Libel’…. Curll, however, had the last word, publishing the government's accusations against him as an appendix to the third volume.” ODNB. A scarce set. A map is variably present in some copies, but there is no evidence that one was ever bound in this set. Provenance Armorial Bookplates of the Ker family, with Unicorn’s Head, initialled DK, to second and third volumes. ESTC: T111121, T111124, T111123. Sabin 37600.

18. Anon The Gentleman’s Assistant, Tradesman’s Lawyer, and Countryman’s Friend. Directing them in Contracts, Bargains and Agreements, whereby they may learn to buy and contract safely, and cautiously avoid being over-reached in their bargains, &c. Concerning borrowing, lending and restoring, and of Goods pledged and pawned. Setting forth several other adjudged Cases relating to Tradesmen, &c. Cases relating to Farmers, and concerning Stoppage of Ways, Water-courses, Lights, Commons, and several other Nuisances. Concerning Scandalous Words, purposely spoken to the Prejudice of a Man, &c. Concerning Leases, Mortgages, Corn, Waste, Distresses, &c. Also many other Matters relating to Landlord and Tenant. Concerning discharging and ending of Actions, Suits and Controversies, and therein largely concerning Arbitrements, Awards and Umpirage, with all their Circumstances. Certain Statute-Laws, concerning Labourers, Tradesmen, Artificers, Apprentices, Petty Chapmen, &c. Collected from the Ancient and Modern Law-Books, and confirmed by several Authorities; and therefore may be useful as well to the Professors of the Law, as to Gentlemen, Tradesmen and others. The Third Edition, corrected and enlarged, with an appendix and many other proper Additions; with a Table to the whole. Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (Assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for Fr. Clay, at the Bible without Temple Bar; and W. Battersby, at Staple’s Inn Gate next the Bars in Holborn. In the Savoy. 1720.

£325.00 Octavo. 523, [15]pp table, 51pp appendix, 1pp publisher’s adverts. Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather label, gilt tooling to edges. Shelf wear and rubbing, particularly to head and tail of spine, hinges cracked but firm. Slight soiling/foxing to endpapers. A worm has voyaged through the margin, text unaffected. Handwritten instructions to locate the table to ffep’s. Signature of W[illiam] Stonestreet to fep and ffep. Signature of Margaret D. McQueen to edge of title page. Armorial bookplate of Edward Boyd of Merton Hall to fep. ESTC: T130091.

19. Smith, G[odfrey] The Laboratory; or School of Arts: in which are Faithfully Exhibited, and fully Explained, A variety of curious and valuable Experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assaying, Casting, Alloying, and Toughening of Gold; with several other Curiosities relating to Gold and Silver. Choice secrets for Jewellers in the Management of Gold; in Enamelling, and the Preparation of Enamel Colours, with the Art of Copying precious Stones; of preparing colours for Doublets; of Colouring Foyles for Jewels; together with other rare Secrets. Several uncommon Experiments for Casting in Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Steel, and other Metals; Likewise in Wax, Plaster of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. With the Management of the respective Moulds. The Art of making Glass: Exhibiting withal the Art of Painting and making Impressions upon Glass, and of laying thereon Gold or Silver; together with the Method of preparing the Colours for Potters Work, or Delf Ware. A collection of very valuable Secrets, for the use of Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joiners, Turners, Japanners, Book Binders, Distillers, Lapidaries, Limners, &c. together with the Art of Marbling Books or Paper. A Dissertation on the Nature and Growth of Salt-petre; Also, several other choice and uncommon Chymical Experiments. The Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire Globes, Stars, Sparks, &c. for Recreative Fire Works. The Art and Management of Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cotton, &c in various Colours. The Fourth Edition, With Additions of a great Number of invaluable Receipts; particularly, a short, plain and easy Introduction to the Art of drawing in Perspective. Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking Glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London Bridge. 1755.

£350.00 8vo. [6], 352, [8]pp. Unusual allegorical frontispiece depicts a multi-breasted goddess with winged caduceus, holding the sun and the hand of philosophy with bridled lion, engraved by James Hulett, 16 further copper plates of which 2 are folding (one with partial fold tear, V mis-numbered VI). Later full calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather labels, gilt and blind tooling. Tear to p.157/8 no loss. Pages show variable browning and offsetting. “Godfrey Smith published a substantial collection of recipes for making fireworks in his Laboratory, or School of Arts”*. He also published and illustrated the Memoirs of the Royal Society. *Werrett, Simon. Fireworks: Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History. Chicago. 2010. ESTC: T7211

20. Colwell, Stephen The Ways and Means of Payment: a Full Analysis of the Credit System, with its Various Modes of Adjustment. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia. 1859.

£150.00 First edition. Large Octavo. xii, 644pp. Neatly rebacked using the original embossed cloth. Corners bumped and rubbed. Renewed endpapers. Lane Library Association Bookplate to fep, accession stamp to lower margin iii, Brandeis University Library stamp to lower margin 15. Lightly toned, but generally very crisp and clean. Stephen Colwell (1800-1871), Philadelphia Ironmaster, socialist, philanthropist and economic radical. He opposed the theories of Malthus and Smith, and argued that Free Trade was fundamentally flawed through its principle of selfishness. “The whole subject is man, and yet humanity…is excluded from consideration.” He returned to the US appalled by the wretched lives of the working class in Britain. A close friend of the political economist Henry C. Carey. He bequeathed his collection of 6,000 books and pamphlets on political economy to Pennsylvania University. Sabin 14917.

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