First edition, an attractive copy, of an important work of

the Scottish Enlightenment: an analysis of Aristotle’s

politics and ethics which contributed to the intellectual

origins of modern democracy and the Constitution of the

United States. Thomas Jefferson, Madison and John

Adams had either direct acquaintance with Gillies’

Aristotle, and cited it, or indirect knowledge of it which

gave ground for comments. As well as providing a view of

republicanism which helped shape eighteenth-century

political theories on both sides of the Atlantic, ‘Gillies

attacks Hume’s principle of association, and points out

how Aristotle’s notion of money differs from Hume’s’

(Fieser).

Fieser, p. 382.

1. ARISTOTLE (J. Gillies, editor).

Aristotle’s ethics and politics… London, Strahan, Cadell, 1797.

2 vols, folio; a very good copy in contemporary half calf, spines lettered, numbered and

stamped in gilt, marbled sides; ownership inscription of J. H. Smyth, 1801. £600

B E R N A R D Q U A R I T C H L T D

N E W A C Q U I S I T I O N S ● J A N 2 0 1 5

Item 14. [ENGLISH CHINA.]

2. AUDUBON, John James.

The Original Water-Colour Paintings by John James Audubon for The

Birds of America. Reproduced in Colour for the First Time from the

Collection at the New-York Historical Society. Introduction by

Marshall B. Davidson. [?London], The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley &

Sons for Michael Joseph Ltd. and The Connoisseur, 1966.

2 volumes, 4to (335 x 270mm), pp. I: xxxi, [xxxii (blank)], [2 (section-

title, text on verso)]; II: [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, imprint on verso,

section-title, text on verso)], xxxiii-lv (‘Chronology’, ‘Appendix’ and

‘Index’), [1 (colophon)]; colour-printed portrait frontispiece after John

Syme and 431 colour-printed illustrations after Audubon printed by

Chanticleer Press on 362 ll. (20 folding) with text on versos, 54

illustrations double-page, colour-printed and monochrome illustrations

in the text, some full-page; a few ll. slightly creased on margins,

unobtrusive small marks on fore-edges; original full buckram by The

Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, upper boards with brown

panels blocked in gilt with facsimile of Audubon’s monogram, spines

with brown panels lettered and ruled in gilt, Cockerell-marbled

endpapers, original Cockerell-marbled paper slipcase with ribbon and

applied paper lettering-panel titled in gilt; extremities of slipcase a little

rubbed and chipped with small losses, otherwise a very good set.

£200

First British edition, issued in the same year as the American edition.

This work contains the first publication of Audubon’s watercolour

paintings for his masterpiece, The Birds of America, which was

published in London in four double-elephant folio volumes illustrated

with 435 hand-coloured engraved plates between 1827 and 1838. The

original watercolours published here are held by the New York

Historical Society, which acquired them in 1863 from Audubon’s

widow, and with the publication of the collection of 431 watercolours,

‘virtually the entire series of paintings created by John James Audubon

for The Birds of America is reproduced for the first time in full color’ (p.

xi).

The work is prefaced by an

introduction describing the genesis

and execution of The Birds of

America and a note on the artist’s

techniques, and each plate is

accompanied by a descriptive text,

which often incorporates notes from

Audubon’s Ornithological Biography

(Edinburgh: 1831-1839) – the text

volumes which accompanied the

original engravings.

THE RARE FIRST BOOK BY THE EMINENT BRITISH GEOLOGIST

BECHE, FROM THE LIBRARY OF ANOTHER FELLOW OF THE

ROYAL SOCIETY

3. BECHE, Sir Henry Thomas De la, editor.

A Selection of the Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales de

Mines, together with a Synoptical Table of Equivalent Formations, and

M. Brongniart’s Table of the Classification of Mixed Rocks. Translated,

with Notes, by H. T. De la Beche. London, William Phillips, 1824.

8vo (210 x 125 mm.), pp. xxii, [2 (contents)], 335, [1 (blank)], [2

(corrigenda and plates)]; 3 hand-coloured engraved folding maps and

plans by Pickett, 8 folding lithographic plates and plans by G. Scharf,

printed by C. Hullmandel, and one folding letterpress ‘Synoptical

Table’; occasional light spotting and offsetting, light marginal

browning, some light damp-marking in final quires, quire b misbound

after quire A; contemporary English half calf over marbled boards, the

spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, others

panelled in gilt with foliate cornerpieces, red-speckled edges;

extremities a little rubbed and bumped, skilfully rebacked, retaining the

original and darkened spine, hinges reinforced; provenance: Richard

Gregory, Coole Park and London (1761-1839, engraved armorial

bookplate on upper pastedown). £750

His greatest triumph came in 1851 when Prince Albert opened the

Museum of Practical Geology on Jermyn Street. This became one of the

wonders of imperial London, with a vast array of fossils, rocks, and

economically useful building stones. It also housed another of De la

Beche's great schemes, a government-funded School of Mines and of

Science applied to the Arts, modeled on the École des Mines in Paris

[...]. Later in the century the Royal School of Mines [...] emerge[d] as a

leading centre, especially in training geologists for work in the colonies.

In 1907 the school was separated from the survey and museum to

become part of Imperial College, where the student geology society

was subsequently called the De la Beche Club’ (op. cit.).

This copy is from the collection of the bibliophile Richard Gregory of

Coole Park, Ireland, and Berners Street London, who had inherited

Coole from his father Robert (the builder of the house) in 1810, and was

responsible for enlarging the house’s important library. Gregory was a

fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and – like De la Beche – was also a

fellow of the Royal Society; he was elected to the latter on 24 November

1803, as ‘a Gentleman well versed in various branches of natural

knowledge’, with the support of the Irish orientalist William Marsden,

the cartographer James Rennell, the hydrographer Alexander

Dalrymple, and other fellows.

BM(NH) I, p. 435; Lowndes p. 141; Ward and Carozzi 615.

First edition. De la Beche (1796-1855) attended the Royal Military

College at Marlow from 1809 to 1811, but was expelled for his political

opinions. He settled in Lyme Regis in 1812, where he pursued his

interests in geology and science, and searched for fossils with the

young Mary Anning (1799-1847), who would become one of the best-

known fossil collectors of the nineteenth century. Inherited wealth

enabled De la Beche to continue his researches into geology through a

tour of continental Europe, where he met Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-

Hilaire, and other eminent naturalists, in 1819: ‘[t]he tour, and others

which followed, laid the foundations for De la Beche's lifelong

admiration for French scientific institutions and ideas’ (ODNB). De la

Beche was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1823, and the

following year issued his first substantial publication, A Selection of the

Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales de Mines, which collected

pieces by distinguished geologists including Alexandre Brongniart and

Alexander von Humboldt, and was reissued in 1836. The work is rare

on the market in either edition, and we have not been able to trace any

copies of the 1824 edition in Anglo-American auction records since

1975 (and only one copy of the 1836 edition in the same period).

A series of further publications followed, and De la Beche became one

the foremost figures in British geological circles: ‘[he] was widely

honoured, being elected president of the Geological Society in 1847 and

awarded its Wollaston medal in 1855. He was knighted in 1842 and

made a companion of the Bath six years later.

4. BELLONI, Girolami, Marchese.

Del Commercio dissertazione. Rome, Niccolo and Marco

Pagliarini, 1757.

8vo, pp. xx, 154, [1] colophon, [1] blank; a clean, crisp

copy, uncut in contemporary marbled boards. £300

Second edition to be authorized by Belloni (first, 1750)

– the first edition to include the author’s

considerations on ‘imaginary money’ (pp. 135-154) –

of a work notable for its argument in favour of

restrictions on the export of money by the Vatican

banker Girolamo Belloni (1688-1760). The work

enjoyed great success: it received seventeen editions

between 1750 and 1788, was translated into several

languages (an English edition appeared in 1752) and

led to the ennoblement of Belloni by Benedict XIV.

See, for the first edition, Carpenter XIV (1); Einaudi 395;

Goldsmiths’ 8506; Kress Italian 266.

5. BOISSY D’ANGLAS, François Antoine de.

Anecdotes, souvenirs et pensees. [N. p., France,] 1827.

Manuscript on paper, 8vo, pp. 206, [8, index]; written in brown ink, ca. 24 lines to a page, in

a very clear early nineteenth-century hand; occasional corrections; a very well-preserved

document bound in contemporary boards, gilt morocco label on the spine. £3000

Unpublished, fair and unique witness: a manuscript composed by the son of the French

statesman of the Revolution, First Republic and Empire F. A. de Boissy d’Anglas (1756-

1826) shortly after the death of his father, to assemble and record notes and thoughts left by

him.

A FRENCH STATESMAN CHAMPION OF FREE PRESS – UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT

Boissy d’Anglas was among those deputies who induced the Estates-General to call itself a

National Assembly on 17 June 1789. He publicly spoke in favour of the storming of the

Bastille and voted in the trial of Louis XVI for his detention and deportation. Though

initially a sympathizer of Robespierre, he distanced himself from him and joined the

Thermidorian Reaction. He was superintendent of the provisioning of Paris, and in 1795

played a major role in the establishment of the principle of freedom of religion. As a

member of the Council of Five Hundred, Boissy d’Anglas promoted measures in favour of

full liberty for the press, contrasted the outlawry of returned émigrés, and attacked the

Directory. Proscribed soon after the 18 Fructidor, he lived in Great Britain until the

establishment of the French Consulate. During the Napoleonic era his relationship with the

establishment remained uneasy, yet in the Chamber he still, persistently, fought for the

enshrining of liberty for the press.

In this manuscript witness of his thoughts (he published very little), anecdotes and

reflections on the Dauphin, Necker, Lafayette, Mme Dubarry, Mme de Stael, Talleyrand

and Mirabeau are included, along with thoughts on civil and political liberties, suicide,

public representation, tyranny, comparisons between Catholicism and Islam, notes on

despotism, and several remarks on the freedom of the press as the essence of French

Republican achievements.

INFINITY: ACTUAL AND THEORETICAL

6. CANTOR, Georg.

Über die verschidenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die

actualunendlichen Zahlen … Mitgetheilt den 9. Dezember 1885.

Stockholm, P. A. Norstedt and Sons, 1886.

8vo, pp. 10; a good copy in the original printed wrappers, a few

small chips to the front cover. £550

Rare original offprint of an article published in the Svenska

Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar vol. 11, no. 19. It is is extracted

from a letter written in 1885 to the Swedish mathematician

Gustav Eneström. Here, Cantor emphasises the necessity of

differentiating between theoretical and actual infinities, thereby

placing himself in direct opposition to contemporary German

philosophers such as Johann Friedrich Herbart and Wilhelm

Wundt. It seems that the extract was delivered at a lecture on the

9th December 1885 by Eneström.

Dauben 368; see also p. 125 for a translated extract of the original

letter; KVK locates two copies (the British Library and the

National Library of Sweden).

7. CAZES, J. E.

Modèles pour le Luminaire, études & projets pour intérieurs modernes. Vincennes, c. 1918.

48 original designs, pen, pencil and watercolour, on tracing paper and card, various sizes, from 900 x 345 mm. to 170 x 117

mm., many folding, a few signed by the artist, one dated at foot; a little wear to some designs and some small losses to

some folds; generally very good, in an oblong portfolio 504 x 355 mm., half black cloth with green paper boards, black

cloth ties, large central art nouveau style title piece on shaped card, central ornate manuscript lettering within a decorative

watercolour border. £950

An attractive collection of manuscript designs by the French Art Nouveau designer Cazes, who was based in Vincennes,

near Paris. Drawn with precision and skill, the collection includes designs for 17 lights, 14 plates of architectural details, 10

pieces of furniture, 5 building facades, and 2 lavish interiors, to provide the perfect finishing touches for the contemporary

wealthy home.

ART NOUVEAU

Incorporating a range of materials, including glass and crystal, cord, chain and metalwork, with designs for lamps and

candles, the lighting studies are both elegant and sophisticated. The architectural details include schemes for elaborate

escutcheons, cornicing, corbels, cartouches, and ceiling roses, employing a variety of naturalistic floral and foliage

elements that were typical of the art nouveau era. Many of the furniture designs, though still highly ornamental, are

drawn in a more technical style, incorporating measurements into the drawings. The designs cover all the furniture

requisite for an elegant bedroom, chairs and cabinets, wardrobes, dressing tables, occasional tables, and a sizeable bed. A

variant of the complete artistic vision appears in the one of the interiors, with a bedroom designed for a Madame Auday.

Also featured is a study in a complimentary style, complete with opulent drapery, furniture and ornament. The facades

include two shop frontages, with the most lavish design of all being for a sizeable building in Casablanca, incorporating a

wealth of ornament in stone, wood and metalwork, with decorative balustrades and balconies, doors and domes.

Cazes remains an enigmatic figure. However, two of the designs are marked ‘Casablanca’, where the airport was named

in honour of pioneer aviator Lieutenant Cazes, who flew to his doom at the start of the twentieth century. As it is an

unusual name, it is possible that Les Cazes were related.

A handsome illustration of the path of French design in the interwar period.

8. CHOYSELAT, Prudent le.

Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que récréatif,

monstrant comme de cinq cens livres pour une foys

employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens livres

de proffict honneste, qui est le moyen de faire profiter son

argent. Rouen, Martin le Menestrier 1612 [but ca. 1745].

16mo, pp. [ii], 45, [3]; a very good, crisp copy in

contemporary calf-backed boards, spine stamped in gilt, gilt

morocco lettering-piece; a few surface scuffs. £550

Early edition of an interesting ‘way to wealth’, in fact a

guide to the management of poultry, first published 1569. An

English translation was published in 1580 under the title A

Discourse of housebandrie, described by Mary Aslin

(Rothansted) as ‘the first book on poultry’. Brunet, Quérard

and Musset suggest the present edition is an 18th-century

piracy; ‘L’édition dont je parle est, selon M. Debure, une

contrefaçon, ce qui n'empêche pas qu'elle ne soit fort belle...’

(Musset).

Brunet I, col. 1852; Kress 319; Musset 468; Quérard VII, pp.

362-3; Goldsmiths' 8141 lists this edition as a facsimile; see

Aslin, Catalogue of the printed books on agriculture published

between 1471 and 1840 [in the library of Rothamsted

Experimental Station], p. 27.

‘THE FIRST BOOK ON POULTRY’

9. CULVERWELL, Ezekiel.

A Ready Way to remember the Scriptures. Or a Table of the old and new Testament … London, Printed

for John Clark, and are to bee sold at his Shop … 1637. [Bound with three other similar works.]

8vo, pp. [4], 76, 79-94; upper corner of E3 torn away, touching pagination, else a very good copy, bound

with copies of Eusebius Pagit, Historie of the Bible (1627), The Way to true Happinesse (1640?), and John

Downame, Briefe Concordance (1642), in early nineteenth-century quarter sheep and marbled boards; gift

inscription to first title-page (Pagit) ‘For M[ist]ris[s] Elizabeth Pye 1643. Pret: 2s–6d.’ £650

FOR CHILDREN OF TEN AND UPWARD

First and only edition, very scarce, of a simple mnemonic guide to the contents of the Bible, originally

concieved for the use of ‘Divines and young Students’, but also now envisaged as ‘a good Exercise for the

trayning up of Children of tenne years old and upward’. Genesis 1 is summarised, for example, as:

‘Creation, 1. Gods Image, 26. Mans soveraignty, 26. All very good, 31’. While John 13 comes out as

‘Washed, 5. If ye know, 17. Receive me, 20. Betray, 21. Sop, 26. Love, 24. Glorified, 31. Cock crew, 38.’

Born into a Protestant merchant family, Culverwell (1553/4-1631) became household chaplain to Robert,

Lord Rich, from 1586/7, and was linked to the nonconformist ministers around Braintree and Felsted

School in Essex. As he result of this he fell under heavy scrutiny from Aylmer in 1589, though survived

until he was eventually deprived in 1609, moving to London for the rest of his career. His links to the

following generation of America-bound non-conformists were strong. He officiated at the marriage of

John Winthrop, later governor of Massachusetts, and ‘converted him to godliness’, he and left a bequest

and books to New England’s most celebrated schoolmaster, Ezekiel Cheever.

Although entered in the Stationers’ register during Culverwell’s lifetime, in 1624, A Ready Way was only

published posthumously. Here it is bound with three similar works. Pagit’s Historie and The Way to true

Happinesse both taught the Bible using a catechistical structure; Downame’s famous Condordance was

essentially a dictionary of Biblical quotations.

ESTC shows five copies only: BL, Dr Williams’s Library, Bodley; Folger and Huntington.

STC 6111.

10. FALKENER, Edward, and Owen WILLIAMS,

photographer.

Games ancient and oriental and how to play them.

Being the games of the Ancient Egyptians, the Hiera

Gramme of the Greeks, the Ludus Latrunculorum of

the Roman and the oriental games of chess, draughts,

backgammon and magic squares. London; New York,

Longmans, Green and Co, 1892.

8vo, pp. [iv (blank)], [iv], 366, [2 (advertisement)]

with numerous illustrations to the text + 11 plates of

albumen print photographs and 7 plates (three

colour, one double-page) of illustration, with

advertisement leaf loosely inserted; a fine copy, clean

The photographic plates comprise: a portrait of the

author; Queen Hatasu; Chaturanga; Indian, Chinese,

Japanese, and Burmese chess-boards; Turkish chess-

cloth; Game of enclosing; Bead-work Pachisi-board; and a

reproduction of an artwork depicting a game of

Pachisi.

Reconstructions of four games described in the book

were manufactured and available for purchase at 7s

6d. The merchandise is publicised on the illustrated

advertising leaf loosely inserted, and in Appendix I,

pp. 358–361, which lists the rules for the available

games, which were: Ludus latrunculorum, the game of

Senat, the game of the Bowl, and the game of the

Sacred Way.

Beinlich-Seeber, Bibliographie Altägypten: 1822–1946,

7779; see the 1961 Annual Egyptological Bibliography,

61227 for the republished, unabridged edition printed

by Dover Publications in New York in that year.

See Gernsheim 132 for Falkener’s Daedalus, or, The

Causes and Principles of the Excellence of Greek

Sculpture [1860], illustrated with 8 albumen prints.

and crisp, with just little foxing to edges; bound in

publisher’s grey cloth with text and illustration of

Queen Hatasu in gilt to covers and spine.

£550

First edition of what is considered a pioneering

study of board games, by architect and classical

archaeologist Edward Falkener (1814–1896),

illustrated with original photographs.

BOARD GAMES OF ANCIENT EGYPT

11. FRANK, Louis.

Mémoire sur le commerce des Nègres au Kaire, et sur

les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.

Paris, Migneret and Mathe, an X 1802.

8vo, pp. [ii], 52; very light uniform browning, but a

very good copy, preserving its half-title, unbound,

with a contemporary paper spine. £1100

Goldsmiths’ 18565. Scarce. OCLC lists 3 copies in

the US (NLM, Oregon and Northwestern), 2 at the

BL, and no more than a handful in European

institutions.

First edition, very scarce, of an important study

documenting the condition of slaves in Cairo. Frank

was a medical officer of German extraction who

served in Egypt under Napoleon.

Though preponderantly medical, the pamphlet also

includes sociological observations on the causes and

circumstances which historically have fostered the

enslavement of African natives, with particular

regard to Egypt, and a ‘price list’. One of the cultural,

as well as medical issues, which Frank addresses

with remarkable openness is that of female genital

mutilation (pp. 26-31). The diseases most frequently

exhibited by slaves arriving at Cairo, Frank finds, are

respiratory complaints, eye diseases, smallpox, skin

illnesses, dysentery, plague, dracunculiasis and

venereal diseases, all of which Frank examines.

SLAVES IN CAIRO: A DOCTOR’S ACCOUNT

– INCLUDING A DISCUSSION ON FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

12. GRAY, Thomas.

Poems and letters by Thomas Gray. London, Chiswick

Press, 1867.

4to, pp. xvi, 146 + albumen photograph frontispiece

portrait of the author after a painting + 3 albumen

print photographs, mounted one per leaf, minor

contemporary retouching of prints with ink; all edges

gilt; a little foxing (limited to title and leaves with, or

near, photographs), otherwise very clean and crisp;

bound in contemporary full tan calf, gilt double fillet

and floral border on covers, double fillet decorated

compartments with floral motifs in gilt on spine,

raised bands with chain decoration in gilt, title gilt

on red lettering piece, elaborate gilt dentelles,

marbled endpapers; a few small marks and rubs to

boards and edges, a little gilt lost. £225

Second edition (first 1863), with an introduction by

Horace Walpole. A photographically illustrated

collection of poems, extracts and letters, depicting

views to accompany the ‘Ode on a distant prospect

of Eton College’; ‘Elegy written in a country church-

yard’; and ‘A long story’.

This is not one of the special presentation copies

from Eton College to graduating students, which are

most commonly found.

The Hume copy of a pastoral

drama best-seller, ‘the most

popular work of secular

literature in Europe for almost

two hundred years…Too

richly ambivalent to be

dismissed as a mere example

of sensually idyllic escape

literature, [it] reveals an

epistemological crisis that

reflects the crisis of values

characteristic of the Counter-

Reformation age’ (N. J. Perella,

The Critical Fortune of Battista

Guarini’s ‘Il Pastor Fido’,

Florence, 1973, passim).

FROM THE DAVID HUME LIBRARY

13. GUARINI, Gian Battista. Il pastor fido. Paris, Praul, 1766.

Small 8vo, pp. 379, [1 blank]; with an engraved title-page and five engraved

vignettes to text; eighteenth-century ownership inscription ‘David Hume’ to

the front free end-paper, additional later inscription ‘baron Hume’, dated

1829, erased inscription to the head of the title; a very good copy in

contemporary calf, gilt triple fillet to sides, rebacked with the original spine

laid on, flat spine decorated in gilt with gilt morocco lettering-piece. £2500

This is the Hume family copy, almost certainly originating from the

library of David Hume the philosopher (1711-1776).

The earliest of the inscriptions found in the book is that which appears

almost completely erased at the head of the title: it is the ownership mark of

Joseph Hume (1752-1832), nephew of the philosopher. The ‘Baron Hume

1829’ inscription on the free end-paper belongs to David Hume, also nephew

of the philosopher, younger brother of Joseph, and Chancellor of the Scottish

Exchequer; the signature ‘David Hume’ does not belong to the philosopher

or to the Chancellor, as the hand is unmistakeably different from both, and

could be a secretarial record.

Although two copies of this edition of Il Pastor fido were listed in Norton’s

David Hume Library, one, that which was auctioned by Elliot in May 1801, is

very unlikely to have been from the philosopher’s library: the auctioneer’s

description notes the signature as ‘Home’, but there are no known instances

of David Hume using this form or spelling any time after 1734. The other

copy recorded in Norton, on the other hand, is described in the catalogue of

Baron Hume’s library edited by T. Stevenson in 1840, and in Stevenson’s sale

catalogue of 1851: its description corresponds beyond doubt to our copy.

It is possible that Joseph Hume, the elder brother of the later Baron, might

have inscribed the book on taking it along when he left for a Grand Tour, in

1788; at any rate, the history of the dispersal of David Hume’s library shows

that all his books were reunited in Baron Hume’s possession.

Norton & Norton, 559; Cohen-de Ricci col. 464.

14. [ENGLISH CHINA.] JARRETT, Ernest.

[Six original designs]. Coalbrookdale and Burslem, 1890-1900.

6 original individual designs, each measuring approx. 300 x

240mm; pencil underdrawing with watercolour, gilt

highlights; on paper backed with card; a few very small

marks, else fine; authorial monogram EJ at foot of all but

one design. £550

From the 1890s onwards, much of the firm’s

substantial output was geared at the ornamental

export market to the USA and Canada. The

present designs are strictly decorative rather than

practical, featuring the firm’s typical multi-

coloured three-dimensional flowers, indicating

that they may have been intended for this export

market.

A sometime artist for Doulton, here in his Coalbrookdale

phase, artist Ernest Jarrett produces six designs for delicate

bone china vases. The Coalport porcelain factory was

founded in Coalbrookdale in 1795, the first ceramics

manufacturer in the area, and went on to pioneer new

glazes and time-saving techniques that were soon adopted

industry-wide, including the application of transfer outlines

to speed up the hand painting process.

15. [IRELAND.] MARES, Frederick H., and John HUDSON,

photographers.

Gems of Irish Scenery with Descriptive Letterpress [cover title:

Photographic Gems of Irish Scenery]. Glasgow, Andrew Duthie;

London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Dublin, W. H. Smith & Son, [1868].

4to, pp. [ii (blank)], [54], [2 (advertisements)] + 12 albumen print

photographs, mounted one per leaf, each ranging between approx.

4¼ x 7 inches (10.8 x 17.7 cm.) and 4⅝ x 6½ inches (11.7 x 16.5 cm.),

four numbered and titled in the negative; all edges gilt;

contemporary presentation inscription in ink on front free

endpaper, very faint offsetting on versos facing photographs, three

prints are coming partly away from the pages, but are undamaged,

hinges a little weak; in original green cloth, gilt decoration and

lettering to upper cover, bevelled edges; a few minor marks to

extremities and boards. £950

First edition.

Frederick Holland Mares was one of the handful of Irish

professional photographers whose work was included in the

Dublin International Exhibition of 1865, alongside such

internationally-recognised names as Bedford, Cameron, Hawarden,

Mayall, Rejlander, Robinson and Silvy. He showed views of Irish

scenery including stereoscopic studies. John Hudson of Killarney

is best-known for his own series of 1860s Irish stereo views, having

agents distributing his work in several American cities. Mares

worked with the Glasgow publisher, Duthie, on a series of at least

five volumes, all published in 1867-8, focusing on Dublin,

Killarney, Wicklow and the Giant’s Causeway as well as this book

of scenic ‘gems’. His name is perhaps less known today than that

of William Lawrence who began working around five years later

and was to be Ireland’s most prolific view photographer of the 19th

century (see Chandler & Walsh, Through the brass lidded

eye/Photography in Ireland, 1839-1900, pp. 22 and 32-34). The volume

offered here indicates the high quality of these two early

photographers’ outputs, albeit in modest format, this quality

reflected also in Duthie’s elegant little publications.

The advertisements list the other photographically illustrated

books on both Scotland and Ireland published by Andrew Duthie,

including prices and reviews.

Not in Imagining Paradise: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at

George Eastman House, Rochester, p. 78, which features three works

by Mares: Photographs of Dublin; Photographs of Co. Wicklow; and

Photographs of the Giant’s Causway.

Gernsheim 375. The note ‘12 photos by F. H. Mares’ makes no

mention of Hudson. In the book offered here the twelve views are

listed, eight of which are recorded as being photographed by

Hudson.

COPAC lists 3 copies in UK.

16. [IRELAND.] MARES, Frederick H., photographer.

Photographs of Dublin with Descriptive Letterpress [cover title:

Photographs of Irish Scenery. Dublin]. Glasgow, Andrew Duthie;

London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Dublin, W. H. Smith and Son, [1867].

8vo, pp. [ii (blank)], [60] [4 (advertisements)], [2 (blank)] + 12

albumen print photographs, mounted one per leaf, each approx.

3⅞ x 3¼ inches (9.8 x 8.3 cm.), two photographs coming loose at

foot, one with tear in sky (repaired); printed on rectos only;

A PHOTOGRAPHIC SOUVENIR OF FRANCO–IRISH RELATIONS IN 1870

all edges gilt; a few areas of light foxing, not affecting images,

otherwise clean; in the original green publisher’s cloth, with border

and lettering in gilt to upper cover, border in blind to lower cover,

bevelled boards; crease to back free endpaper, generally very clean;

yellow binder’s label of Hunter, Edinburgh to back pastedown;

provenance: presentation inscription in ink on first recto, ‘À

Monsieur Le Comte de Flavigny avec les compliments respectueux

de Auguste E. Lesage. Dublin 20 Août 1871’. £1250

First edition, inscribed from an Irish volunteer to the President of

the French Red Cross visiting Dublin to thank the Irish for their

help in the Franco-Prussian War.

The photographs include two views of Kingstown, where the

President arrived by boat on 15th December 1871. The views are

captioned: ‘Sackville Street’; ‘Trinity College’; ‘The Bank of Ireland’;

‘The Four Courts’; ‘The Custom House’; ‘St Patrick’s Cathedral

(exterior)’; ‘St. Patrick’s Cathedral (interior)’; ‘The Chapel Royal’; ‘The

Viceregal Lodge’; ‘The Winter Garden Palace’; ‘Kingstown’; and

‘Kingstown Harbour’. The advertisements list other

photographically illustrated books on both Scotland and Ireland

published by Andrew Duthie, including prices and physical

descriptions, with a note that the views can be purchased

separately.

The book was given by an Auguste E. Lesage, likely the A. E.

Lesage who was the Honourable Secretary of the Committee at the

time the Irish volunteers left Dublin. By 1879 a ‘Photographer,

Printseller, and Publisher’ of the same name is listed at 40 Sackville

Street, Dublin. He appears to have gone in to partnership in or

continued the printselling business that an Adolphe Lesage was

running at that address from approximately the late 1840s.

See Imagining Paradise: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at

George Eastman House, Rochester, p. 78. The 8vo binding offered

here differs from the 4to binding illustrated there – it features the

same bevelled edges, compartment and text on the upper cover,

back lacks the floral decoration of rose, thistle, and clover which

encircles the text. See Gernsheim 373 for Dublin and Kingstown, of

which we have not been able to trace a copy to compare contents

with the book offered.

For a note on Mares and his work, see item 15.

The Comte de Flavigny served as President of the Société de

Secours aux Blessés Militaires from 1870 to 1873. The Society (now

the Croix-Rouge française) sent a deputation to Ireland in response

to Irish support during the Franco-Prussian War the previous year.

As well as Dublin, they visited Cork, Bantry, Glengarriff and

Killarney.

Days after France had declared war on Prussia in July 1870, in

Dublin a subscription list was opened for the relief of the French

army. In September the ‘Committee for the Relief of the Sick and

Wounded of the French Army and Navy’ was formed and the

volunteers departed in early October. They comprised some 250

medics and ambulance drivers, who served alongside the French in

the Franco-Irish ambulance unit. For background on the Irish

volunteers, see Reminiscences of the Franco-Irish Ambulance 1870–

1871, by M. A. Leeson.

FOUR FOLIOS, AND FORGED FORGERIES

17. [IRELAND, William Henry.]

Catalogue of the miscellaneous and dramatic Library, engraved theatrical Portraits, dramatic and

literary autograph Letters, and Collection of theatrical Relics, the Property of the late Charles

Mathews … at the End of the autograph Letters are, with Permission, added the unpublished

Writings and literary Productions of the late Mr William Henry Ireland, Author of the Shaksperian

[sic] Forgeries, &c. which will be sold by Auction, by Mr Sotheby and Son … on Wednesday,

August 19th 1835, and three following Days … [London, Compton & Ritchie, Printers, 1835].

8vo, pp. 48; as issued in self-wrappers, spine perished, stitching wanting, edges of first few leaves

chipped; occasional sale prices in a contemporary hand. £750

First edition, the auction catalogue of the library of Charles Mathews (1776-1835), whose collection

of theatrical portraits forms the basis of the present Garrick Club collection.

As well as copies of all four Shakespeare folios, Mathews’s library included as lot 567 ‘Shakspeare

(The) Forgeries, by W. H. Ireland, the original documents, in 1 vol. russia, gilt leaves’, which are

claimed here as ‘the greater portion of the original documents forged by W. H. Ireland’, and were

apparently purchased by Mathews from Ireland ‘as early as 1812’, with a letter to that effect from

Ireland. Mathews knew Ireland through their mutual friend, Irish fellow-actor Montague Talbot,

who was complicit in the forgeries, allowing Ireland to name him as the source of the manuscripts.

Mathews’s Ireland forgeries were of course not the ‘original’ forgeries, but among a number of

refabrications produced by Ireland after his exposure. The ‘Complete Collection of Shakespearian

Papers’ was consigned after Samuel Ireland’s death to Sotheby’s and appeared in a sale of May

1801, where the iconic volumes of forgeries were bought in and later sold en bloc to the MP and

bibliophile John Dent. Meanwhile William Henry began forging the forgeries, selling a set first to

Albany Wallis.

‘These re-fabrications were the pattern for a long and fairly lucrative sideline in forged forgeries,

which stretched over four decades and hundreds of manufactured artefacts, often claimed by

Ireland to be the famous “originals” of 1794-96 – none of which, of course, existed outside of the

collection now owned by Dent … Dozens of such artful assemblies, executed between 1797 and the

mid-1830s, survive today …’ (Freeman). At Dent’s library sale in 1827 the ‘original’ forgeries were

purchased by Robert Tunno; they are now in the Hyde Collection at Harvard.

The volume of forged forgeries being sold in the Mathews collection included, as well as

Shakespeariana, a selection of portraits of and by Ireland, and two ‘original’(?) Queen Elizabeth

documents, claimed by Ireland as those from which he copied Elizabeth’s signature. Other Ireland-

related lots in Mathews’ library (lots 430-434) included Isaac Reed’s copies of Vortigern and Henry

the Second.

Ireland himself died in April 1835. Quick to capitalise, Sotheby’s inserted twenty-eight lots ‘with

permission’ at the end of the Mathews sale, comprising both original manuscripts and forgeries.

They include: 887, a volume of forged historical autographs; 888, ‘Part of the MSS of Lear, one of

the Shaksperian Fabrications’; lots 898 and 899, the manuscripts of Ireland’s ‘Chatterton, a

Tragedy’, and ‘Rizzio’ (‘finished by W. H. I. a few days only previous to his decease’ and not

published until 1849); and lot 890, ‘Ireland’s Confessions, with Col. George’s notes and some

Answers by W. H. I’ (see Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva 503:3).

OCLC records copies at Yale, Harvard, Bodley, State Library of Victoria, the BL (2), and Berlin State

Library. COPAC adds Manchester University.

Arnott and Robinson, 133. See Arthur Freeman; ‘William Henry Ireland’s “Authentic Original

Forgeries”: An Overdue Rediscovery’ (2012, online).

THE EDITION OWNED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON

18. [KAMES, Henry Home].

Elements of criticism. With additions and improvements.

Edinburgh, printed for A. Millar and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, 1765.

Two vols, 8vo, some scattered inoffensive foxing, but a very

good copy, uncut in the original boards; tears to paper

spines, the spine in vol. I partly detached from the text block,

but sound and stable. £750

Third edition, expanded and amended, of perhaps the most

notable and influential product of the Scottish aesthetic

movement. Thomas Jefferson had a copy of this edition in

his library.

First published in 1762, the book immediately established

itself as ‘a textbook in rhetoric and belles-lettres for a century,

not least in America’ (The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century

Philosophers).

Jessop, p. 141; Sowerby 4699.

THE VALE PRESS KEATS

19. KEATS, John.

The Poems … [Colophon: Printed at the Ballantyne Press. Published by Messrs.

Hacon & Ricketts … London 1898.]

2 vols, 8vo, pp. 173, [3]; 173, [3], with woodcut decorations and initials by

Charles Ricketts; a fine copy, uncut, in contemporary dark blue morocco, spine

gilt, top edge gilt. £750

First edition thus, one of 210 copies on paper (8 were also printed on vellum).

A very handsome edition, edited by C. J. Holmes and printed for Charles

Ricketts’s Vale Press. The Vale Press employed founts, decoration, watermarks,

and wood engravings all by Ricketts, on a press set aside for his use at the

Ballantyne Press. ‘It is doubtful if, in the history of printing, books have been

made which reflect the invention and work of one man more explicitly than do

the Vale books.’ The initials here employed two alphabets, one cut specially for

this publication.

A Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon and Ricketts (1904), pp. xxiv.

Tomkinson 20.

20. [MIDWIFERY.]

A series of seven notebooks titled ‘Cours d’Accouchement dirigé par Mr Grynfeltt [II:

... Mr Vallois] et Mlle J Bazin rédigé par Mlle Julia David élève sage-femme année 97-

98 [II: [s.a.]; III: ... Année 98-99] Montpellier’ (3 vols.) [and] ‘Cours d’Anatomie dirigé

par Mr Vallois [VI and VII: ... Mr Puech] et Mlle Jenny Bazin rédigé par Mlle Julia

David élève sage-femme [VI and VII: ... à la Maternité] Année 97-98 [VI and VII: ...

Année 1898-99] Montpellier’ (4 vols.). Montpellier, 1897-1899.

7 volumes, 4to (220 x 175mm), ff. I: 105; II: 99; III: 102; IV: 102; V: 112; VI: 120; VII: 106;

all in black and purple ink on ruled paper in a French hand of the late 19th century;

illustrated with 3 pencil-and-ink sketches of the gravid uterus (‘Varietés de Positions

de la Présentation du sommet’ (2 sketches) and ‘Présentation de l’epaule’) and 22

coloured pencil-and-ink drawings of the cardiovascular, pulmonary and gastro-

intestinal systems, abdominal region and pelvis, development of the zygote and

female reproductive system; offsetting affecting first and last ll. of each vol.,

occasional marginal creasing and short tears, c. 10 ll. removed without loss to text,

some ink- or glue-marking on a few ll.; all similarly bound in vari-coloured half cloth

over marbled boards, patterned endpapers, all edges red; extremities somewhat

rubbed and bumped, some ink marks, some hinges cracked, one reinforced with tape,

vol. IV damp-marked causing small surface losses; provenance: Librairie Jh. Calas,

Montpellier (bookseller’s ticket in 3 vols.) — Julia David (recorded on title pages) —

illegible pairs of stickers on most upper boards — ‘10’ (ink stamp on free endpapers).

£2700

A RARE SEVEN-VOLUME SERIES OF LECTURE NOTES FOR THE COURS D’ACCOUCHEMENTAT MONTPELLIER IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

These lecture notes, taken by student midwife Julia David in Montpellier during

the two-year qualification course of 1897 to 1899, cover full lectures on midwifery

and anatomy. They provide rare insights into the careful preparation of young French

midwives in both the theory and practice of assisting childbirth, and especially the

complications that they would doubtless face in the course of their careers. The course

was led by Jenny Bazin (b. 1868), one of Montpellier’s leading midwives, who was

appointed sage-femme en chef at the Maternité in 1888 and was named a chevalier of the

Légion d’Honneur in 1934. As the only lecturer teaching all parts of the course

recorded in the notebooks, Bazin worked closely with three professors at the medical

faculty of Montpellier: surgeon Joseph-Casimir Grynfeltt; (1840-1913), after whom the

lumbar ‘Grynfellt hernias’ were named; Léon Vallois (1856-1939), Professeur agrégé

d’accouchements (like Grynfeltt and several other famous physicians in Montpellier of

the period of Polish origin); and gynaecologist Paul Puech (b. 1863), who published

prolifically on, among other things, obstetrics and hysterectomy, and gastro-intestinal

and urological diseases.

Two illustrations accompanying the final parts of the script in volume II are finely-

drawn depictions of the foetus in utero. The twenty-two coloured illustrations

distributed throughout the anatomical notebooks range from small depictions of

organs to full-page diagrams of the inner workings of the human body.

This record of the Montpellier midwifery course is a rare document, because it

provides comprehensive details on midwives’ education at the end of the nineteenth

century (a period in which French midwifery courses had been revived and reformed

significantly, and during which no obstetrics textbooks for midwives were published).

Interestingly, its relevance extends into the early twentieth century, since the final

volume contains Julia David’s records of her patients and fees paid for the year 1910.

We have not been able to trace any similar manuscripts in libraries internationally.

First edition, one of 250 copies on papier de

hollande. The Greek classical scholar and poet

Mynas (1788 or 1790-1860) was born in

Macedonia, and studied under the

distinguished theologian and philosopher

Athanasios Parios, before teaching rhetoric and

philosophy in Serres and Thessalonika.

Political upheavals around the time of the

outbreak of the Greek War of Independence

caused Mynas to leave Greece for France,

where he settled and published a number of

works on Greek philology and also a series of

patriotic works promoting the cause of Greek

independence.

MYNAS’ PINDARIC ODE TO CANARIS, A HERO OF THE GREEK WAR OF

INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF 250 COPIES

21. MYNAS, Constant Minoïde.

Canaris, chant pindarique. Paris, Imprimerie de Poussielgue-Rusand for Bobée et Hingray,

‘1830’ [but dated 1831 on upper wrapper].

12mo in 4s (186 x 108 mm.), pp. 71, [1 (blank)]; Greek and French types; woodcut

laurel-wreath vignette on titles; occasional light spotting; original printed yellow

wrappers with wood-engraved designs, uncut; wrappers a little marked, edges

slightly creased and chipped with small losses, nonetheless a very good copy of a rare

work. £950

Canaris falls into the latter category and is a Pindaric ode praising the exploits of the

Greek hero Constantine Kanaris (1793 or 1795-1877), who was famous at the time of

its publication for his audacious and successful attacks on the Turkish navy with fire-

ships; after the War of Independence, Canaris would follow a naval career before

becoming minister of the navy and then serving as premier from 1848 to 1849. In 1862

he led the bloodless revolution that overthrew King Otto and replaced him with

George I, and went on to serve as premier on two further occasions before his death.

The poem was dedicated to Jean Gabriel Eynard, the celebrated French philhellene

and supporter of Greek independence, and Mynas’ address to Eynard opens with the

words, ‘Si dans la Grèce ceux qui s’honorent du nom d’Hellènes avaient égalé la

valeur de Canaris, et si les riches de l’Europe s’étaient montré les imitateurs de votre

générosité, l’indépendance de la Grèce ne serait pas restée incomplète et le Mars des

Musulmans destructeurs eût été depuis long-temps repoussé vers l’Asie, non pas

pour regagner l’olympe, mais pour se voir clouer sur le Caucace’ (p. [7]).

The address to the dedicatee is printed in parallel Greek and French texts on facing

pages, and the poem is printed in Greek with a French prose translation on the facing

pages. The advertisement for the author’s works on p. [12], states that Canaris was

printed in an edition of 250 copies on papier de hollande and priced at 2fr. 50c. (this

example is on paper bearing the watermark of the Dutch papermaker D. & C. Blauw).

Due to the small limitation, the work is rare and COPAC only locates one copy in the

UK (British Library), to which WorldCat and KVK add copies in France and

Switzerland at the Bibliothèque national de France, the Bibliothèque nationale et

universitaire de Strasbourg, the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, and the Bibliothèque de

Genève.

K. Van Bragt, Bibliographie des traductions françaises (1810-1840) (Louvain, 1995), 6830;

Quérard VI, p. 376.

‘ALMURKA AND SNIVENUS, A STORY ROMANTICAL’

22. P[ASCOLI], L[ivio.]

Novella romantica col testo originale Inglese post in versi Italiani sopra traduzzione

letterale, e poesie diverse … Seconda edizione … Bologna. 1823 [altered from 1821].

Tipografia Marsigli. [Bound (issued?) with:]

P[ASCOLI], L[ivio.] Improvvisi con altre produzioni non estemporanee … Bologna.

1823 [also altered from 1821]. Tipografia Marsigli. [and with:]

[PASCOLI, Livio?]. Il Buon capo d’anno … Bologna. Tipografia Marsigli … 1822.

Three works in one, small 4to, pp. [32], with English and Italian on facing pages; pp.

[24]; and pp. [8]; in the second piece the divisional title-page Rime faacile-morali is

hand-stamped ‘Extamporanee’; very good copies, bound together in contemporary

blue paper boards, gilt, edges rubbed. £450

Second editions of the first two items, first edition of the third, probably issued

together.

Pascoli’s Novella romantica is an odd Ossianic confection, with a supposed prose

original in English, ‘Almurka and Snivenus’, printed alongside an Italian ‘translation’

in terza rima, ‘Alminda e Sniveno’. Despite the bizarre and vaguely oriental title, the

story is set in medieval Norway, where the titular couple reign as happy and

enlightened monarchs. Snivenus is sent for by the King of Britain, ‘who had prevailed

to every body in his strength, and had destroyed in his thought every principle of

reason’. The seas are dangerous, Almurka fears the worst, and indeed ‘the ship was

flinged up and down by the waves and beated at once by winds, hail and rain.’

Snivenus and many others drown; ‘the surpassing and raged waves fluttered around

the bodys of agonizing and dead men’; his spirit ‘assumes the form of the drowned

King’ and returns in a dream to Almurka; in grief she goes to the shore, where she

finds Snivenus’s corpse and then dies. The Italian poem clearly precedes the non-

native English; the context and indeed the motive for the production remain, sadly,

obscure.

Alminda e Sniveno was first published in Milan in 1818 (one copy recorded), and is

here reprinted with several pieces of Italian verse on historical themes. The title-page

can be dated 1821, 1822 or 1823 (as here), the additional Roman numerals added by

stamp. Improvvisi was first published in ‘1812’ (actually 1821), but with slightly

different contents. The last item is a New Year’s poem for 1823. It is not recorded as

by Pascoli, but its presence here, and the fact that he published at least one other such

poem, suggest his authorship.

COPAC and OCLC shows only two copies of Novella romantica (Bodley and

Bibliothèque nationale) and none of the other two items.

PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE MILKY WAY

THE ONLY WORK PUBLISHED BY THE FOUNDER OF PRAGMATISM DURING HIS LIFETIME

23. PEIRCE, Charles Sanders.

Photometric Researches. Made in the Years

1872-1875. Annals of the Astronomical

Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. IX. Leipzig,

Wilhelm Engelmann, 1878.

4to, pp. vi, 181, [1], erratum slip; with 5 plates; a

fine copy, in later red cloth gilt-stamped

‘McMath-Hulbert Observatory’, with the library

bookplate to the front pastedown; spine lightly

sunned. £13,000

PEIRCE, Charles Sanders.

Collected papers. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1931-35 and 1966.

8 vols in 7, large 8vo; with illustrations and diagrams throughout; a very good set in the

original publisher’s cloth; the last, supplementary volume preserving the dust jacket

(chipped); a very appealing complete set.

First edition of the original six volumes of Peirce’s collected works, with the

supplementary two volumes edited by Burks in second impression (first 1958).

‘The editorial task of organizing the Peirce papers did not continue smoothly after Royce’s

death, but eventually passed to a young C. I. Lewis, who had already shown some

appreciation of Peirce’s work in the development of logic in his 1918 publication A Survey

of Symbolic Logic. Although Lewis quickly found the task of editing Peirce’s manuscripts

not to his taste, his contact with them allowed him to develop answers to his own

philosophical problems and much of Peirce’s systematicity is reflected in Lewis’ work.

Instead, the Peirce papers that inspired both Royce and Lewis came to fruition under the

joint editorship of Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss. Their editorial work culminated in

six volumes of The Collected Papers of C.S. Peirce between 1931 and 1935, and for fifty years

this was the most important primary source in Peirce scholarship. Hartshorne and Weiss

remained interested in Peirce’s work throughout their working lives. Further, both men

supervised the young Richard Rorty, which may account for some of his early favorable

accounts of Peirce. Of course, Rorty later rejected the value and status of Peirce as a

pragmatist.

‘In the late 1950’s, The Collected Papers, begun by Hartshorne and Weiss, were completed

with two volumes, edited by Arthur Burks. Burks had, prior to his editorship of The

Collected Papers, worked on some Peirce inspired accounts of names and indexical

reference’ (IEP).

Very rare first edition of the only book which Peirce published in his lifetime. Unlike

his ground-breaking and enormously influential contributions to logic, philosophy of mind

and metaphysics, which – abundant as they were – remained scattered in the form of

journal articles, incomplete manuscript notes and reviews until the publication of the

colossal Collective papers after his death in the 1930s, Peirce’s account of his experimental

science work saw the light as early as 1878 as vol. IX of the prestigious Annals of the

Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. At the time, Peirce worked as an Assistant in

the United States Coastal and Geodetic Survey. This publication includes his study of a

new ‘photometric’ technique (using light waves to measure distances) in what was the first

attempt to determine the shape of the Milky Way from the brightness of the stars.

‘By 1875, the greater part of the photometric researches was completed, but he wanted still

to make a more thorough study of earlier star catalogues. During his second Coast Survey

assignment in Europe (1875-76), he examined medieval and renaissance manuscripts of

Ptolemy's star catalogue in several libraries. He also made inquiries as to the methods

used in the preparation of the most recent star catalogue, the Durchmusterung of

Argelander and Schönfeld at the Bonn Observatory. Peirce’s book, Photometric Researches

(1878), included his own edition of Ptolemy’s catalogue, as well as a long letter from

Schönfeld concerning the methods of the Durchmusterung’ (Peirce Edition Project:

Introduction to Volume 3 of The Writings of Charles S. Peirce).

[offered with:]

24. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.

Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis. London, T. Longman, T.

Shewell & J. Nourse, 1746.

4to (260 x 198mm), pp. xvi, 174, [2 (final blank)]; engraved frontispiece of the Royal

College of Physicians by J. Mynde, title with woodcut vignette; occasional light

spotting, a few light marginal marks, one possibly traces of a dried plant;

contemporary English full black goatskin gilt, boards with outer borders of gilt rules

and dog-tooth rolls, enclosing two mitred panels, the outer of gilt rules and dog-

tooth rolls with crown-and-sceptre corner-pieces, the inner formed of multiple rules

and dog-tooth and foliate rolls, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-

piece in one, others decorated with floral and foliate tools, board-edges and turn-ins

roll-tooled in gilt, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk marker (end

torn with small loss); extremities a little rubbed with small losses at corners, skilfully

rebacked retaining original spine, possibly missing front flyleaf, but otherwise a very

good, crisp copy, retaining the final blank Y4; provenance: Thomas Corbyn (1711-

1791, clerical inscription on front free endpaper, presenting the book to:) — ‘E.

Laurence’ (possibly the American apothecary Effingham Lawrence, vide infra). £1250

Fifth, revised edition, large-paper issue. The London Pharmacopeia, the first

standard list of medicines and their ingredients to be published in England, was first

issued by the Royal College of Physicians in 1618, and governed the composition of

medicines until 1864.

The successive editions of the Pharmacopoeia document the development of pharmacy

and the R.C.P.’s regulation of the medical marketplace, and this fifth edition, revised

under the leadership of the R.C.P.’s president Dr. Henry Plumptre, represents the

most significant contribution to the development of pharmaceutical standards in

London in the eighteenth century. During ‘the whole of the period that Dr. Plumptre

was president [1740-1745] the fifth Pharmacopoeia Londinensis was in course of

revision and re-construction’ (W. Munk, Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London

(London: 1878), II, p. 24), and this edition addressed discrepancies between

preparations traditionally included in earlier editions and current medical

knowledge, and also marked the introduction of further mineral and chemical cures.

Above and beyond this, however, it is the ‘simplification in the formulae that

distinguished [the fifth edition] from all its predecessors’ (loc. cit). Its critics (among

them Nicholas Culpeper) mostly took issue with the Pharmacopoeia’s bias towards

items they perceived to be highly priced. Generally, however, this fifth edition was

considered to be a handbook of the safest and most effective medication of the time:

drugs officially approved to be prepared and dispensed by doctors and apothecaries

to patients within the London area and, it was hoped, the whole of England.

AN IMPORTANT PHARMACOPOEIA FINELY-BOUND FOR PRESENTATION BY

THE EMINENT QUAKER APOTHECARY THOMAS CORBYN

This large-paper copy was in a handsome, contemporary English goatskin binding,

which was presumably commissioned by Thomas Corbyn, for presentation on his

behalf. Corbyn was a Quaker apothecary known for his scrupulous production of

high-quality drugs to the standard of the London Pharmacopoeia. By the time the 1746

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis was published, Corbyn had received his freedom from the

Society of Apothecaries and established an international trade that extended as far as

the American colonies, and by the early 1750s his business was growing rapidly, in

spite of his comparatively high production costs. In a letter of 1750 to American

clients, he wrote: ‘Perhaps some will say ye compositions are too dear, thou must

insist on their goodness. I know there are a great many very bad and adulterated

medicines sent to America, which are sold cheap but have much larger profit than

those who are conscientious in preparing them true according to ye London

dispensatory’ (R. and D. Porter, ‘The Rise of the English Drugs Industry: The Role of

Thomas Corbyn’, inMedical History, 33 (1989), pp. 277-295, at pp. 287-288).

Corbyn presumably considered this finely-bound, large-paper copy of the fifth

edition of the Pharmacopoeia a particularly suitable work to present to an important

client – an expensive gift and a valuable scientific text, which associated his business

with high professional standards in medical matters, and identified him as successful

merchant and an apothecary committed to modern science. It is most probable that

the recipient of this copy would have been a professional Quaker contact, since

‘almost all’ of Corbyn’s business associates were Quakers (op. cit, p. 291), due to ‘the

moral and business codes of the Quaker International which made long-distance,

indeed trans-Atlantic, trade in drugs a viable enterprise’ (op. cit., p. 293). On this basis,

it is possible that the recipient of this copy was the American Quaker apothecary

Effingham Lawrence (or Laurence, 1760-1800) of New York, who established his

business in 1781 and would become apothecary to the New York Medical Society.

Effingham’s brother John B. Lawrence was also an apothecary, and in 1794 he entered

into partnership with Jacob Schieffelin, who had married their sister Hannah

Lawrence in 1794 and would give his name to one of the major American drugs

businesses. Although Effingham Lawrence established his business some thirty-five

years after this edition was published, Corbyn may have hoarded quarto copies of the

fifth edition for presentation, since all five London reprints of the fifth edition were in

duodecimo format, and therefore unsuitable for presentation (the next quarto edition

was the sixth of 1788).

Blake p. 349; ESTC T94945; Norman 1692 (lacking Y4); Wellcome IV, p. 363.

WOMEN’S WORKING LIVES IN WW1 – DOCUMENTED IN PHOTOGRAPHS

25. REAVIL, Arthur L. P.

‘Some photographs of Women’s Work in Wartime, taken during The Great War 1914–

1919’, 1919.

164 gelatin silver print photographs, the majority matt-surfaced and toned a rich reddish-

brown, approximately 3⅞ x 2⅞ inches (9.7 x 7.3 cm.) or the reverse; in an album of thirty

leaves of grey-green card, four leaves of typescript index tipped in on front free endpaper,

each photograph numbered on typescript label below (numbers cross-referenced in index),

typescript dedication note to front paste-down, signed A.L.P.R. and dated 1919; bound in

burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover (rubbed area of staining and a few little marks

to upper cover, a crack to joint of spine affecting cloth only, rubbing to foot of spine, still

holding firm), oblong 4to, 10⅞ x 14 inches (27.7 x 35.5 cm.). £6500

A significant and remarkably coherent photographic account of women’s working lives

during the First World War, with well-considered photographs meticulously printed and

laid down in sequences describing the women’s occupations in some depth. Reavil, more

used to photographing trains, has carefully posed his sitters and managed the light in

many interior shots to provide an unusually detailed account of real women doing real

work in wartime.

Rail workers comprise approximately one third of the album and a multitude of jobs is

represented, including ticket collector, travelling library attendant, and porters. The index

specifies the railway company employers: London, North Western, Metropolitan, Great

Central, Great Western, Great Eastern, Midland, South Eastern and Chatham, District, and

the London Underground, the photographs having some emphasis on Birmingham and

Staffordshire as well as Gloucester and London.

Reavil’s customary photographic subject of choice was

locomotives. He gave a lecture to the Royal

Photographic Society on November 2nd, 1926, titled

‘The photography of locomotives and trains in

motion’, earning thanks from the President for ‘a

romantic and interesting account of what had

promised to be a somewhat boring subject’ (The

Photographic Journal, Jan. 1927, pp. 2–6). Reavil, of 19

Dawson Place, London, was a member of the Royal

Photographic Society from 1920 to 1944 (the Society

does not hold membership information for 1945 or

1946, so it seems likely that Reavil died during this

period, as his name is not listed in the 1947

membership list). The National Railway Museum

holds a collection of 120 of Reavil’s negatives,

featuring French, German, Belgian, Dutch and Swiss

locomotives in the 1920s, as well as other photographs

(in the ‘Clapham’ collection).

This album was loaned to the Imperial War Museum

and a small number of copy prints were made, now

listed on their website (see catalogue numbers 8503–

18). We have found no other record of any prints of

these images, vintage or modern.

Provenance: presented by the photographer to Mr. &

Mrs. S. W. Burleigh, henceforth by descent.

Women are shown fulfilling roles traditionally

considered men’s: the ‘Signal Lamp Cleaner, Annesley’

is balanced precariously half-way up the signal pole;

Gloucester ‘Carriage Cleaners’, ‘Locomotive Cleaners’,

and ‘Wagon Painter’ are kitted out to get dirty;

Willenhall women are road sweepers; Westminster

ladies are ‘loading wood blocks’; and the Army

Remount Depot representatives are picking horses’

hooves. The outfits and uniforms recorded are various:

surprisingly a London Bridge porter is smartly dressed

in a feminine uniform resembling that of a housemaid,

still donning a pair of small heels despite the nature of

the job.

Eight photographs describe the contribution of female

munitions workers in North Cheshire, at Halesowen in

the West Midlands and in Coventry. Other in-depth

sequences relate to women land workers (some on the

Marquis of Downshire’s estate), others feeding calves

and milking near Kelmscott, baling hay, hop-picking,

gardening and working as foresters. One group of

photographs shows women delivering cakes, driving

and maintaining the fleet for the J. Lyons catering

company. The range of other jobs extends to post office

staff, brewery workers, police women, oxy-acetylene

welders, motor cycle and other drivers, bus mechanics,

a butcher, a draughtswoman and members of the

Womens’ Royal Naval Service.

26. RUSSELL, Bertrand.

In praise of idleness and other essays. London, George Allen & Unwin, [1935].

8vo, pp. 231, [1] imprint; light spotting to first and final few leaves and edges; original

publisher’s cloth, spine lettered gilt; with Russell’s signature on the front free endpaper. £280

First edition of this collection of essays on sociology, economics and politics, a copy signed by

the author. It was in the eponymous essay contained here that Russell argued the social

benefits of a four-hour working day.

‘This book contains essays on such aspects of social questions as tend to be ignored in the clash

of politics. It emphasizes the dangers of too much organization in the realm of thought and too

much strenuousness in action. It explains why I cannot agree with either Communism or

Fascism, and wherein I dissent from what both have in common. It maintains that the

importance of knowledge consists not only in its direct practical utility but also in the fact that

it promotes a widely contemplative habit of mind; on this ground, utility is to be found in much

of the knowledge that is nowadays labelled “useless”. There is a discussion of the connection

of architecture with various social questions, more particularly the welfare of young children

and the position of women’ (the author’s preface).

Blackwell & Ruja A66.1a.

27. STIRLING, James Hutchison, Sir.

The secret of Hegel. London, Longman, Green…, 1865.

Two vols, 8vo, pp. lxxiv, 465, [1], [28 publisher’s catalogue]; viii, 624; a

very good copy in the original publisher’s orange cloth, sides blind-

stamped, the front sides with the added prize gilt stamps of

Edinburgh University; spine ends a little bumped, some fading to

spines; prize labels to front paste-down. £180

First edition of the Scottish philosopher’s first book, which

‘revealed for the first time to the English public the significance and

import of Hegel’s idealistic philosophy…’ (DNB). The book had a

notable impact in America too.

‘On Stirling’s interpretation Hegel was seen to be reintroducing an

element of the ‘spiritual’ back into history. Stirling was also interested

in the linkage between Kant’s epistemological categories in particular

his notion of ‘pure reason’ and Hegel’s dialectic philosophy. Stirling

argued Kant and Hegel go hand-in-hand Hegel being nothing but the

realization in history of Kant’s notion of ‘universal’ truth. By referring

to the ‘secret’ of Hegel Stirling was alluding to these Kantian

underpinnings in Hegel’s writing’ (Gifford Lectures, biographical

introduction, www.giffordlectures.org).

CBEL III, 1593.

A SCARCE POEM ON THE 1824 ST PETERSBURG FLOOD

28. ST-THOMAS, Auguste de.

L’inondation de Saint-Pétersbourg. Le 7 Novembre 1824. St Petersburg, de l’imprimerie du

Département de l’Instruction Publique (to front cover: chez MM. de St-Florent et Hauer), 1824.

8vo, pp. 8; a fine copy in the original publisher’s printed wrappers; with mss. authorial

correction and addition on page 7. £850

First edition, and the only copy recorded, of a scarce eyewitness account in verse of the

flooding which hit St Petersburg on 7th of November 1824, and peaked on the 19th, when

the Neva breached its embankments and destroyed large parts of St. Petersburg, killing

several hundred people.

The original wrapper bears the dedication, dated 10 November 1824, to Alexander von

Benckendorff, Adjutant General of Tsar Alexander I, who was involved in the rescue

operation and evacuation of flood victims.

Auguste de St-Thomas’ pamphlet was not the only verse written about the inundation:

the 1824 flood, the largest in St Petersburg’s history, served as inspiration for Alexander

Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman.

No copies found in Worldcat, OCLC, COPAC, KVK or the Bibliothèque Nationale.

First edition, no. 105 of 225 copies. This volume collects twenty-five

letters from Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas (which had been formerly

been in the celebrated Wilde collection of John B. Stetson, jr prior to

their acquisition by the Californian bibliophile William Andrews

Clark), and reproduces them in finely-executed facsimiles, together

with one from Douglas to Wilde. The text comprises a preface by

Andrews on the history of the letters, an ‘Essay’ by Rosenbach, and

letterpress transcriptions of the letters and notes upon them.

29. WILDE, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills.

Some Letters from Oscar Wilde to Alfred Douglas 1892-1897

[Heretofore Unpublished]. With Illustrative Notes by Arthur C.

Dennison, Jr., & Harrison Post and an Essay by A.S.W. Rosenbach. San

Francisco, John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr, 1924.

Folio (316 x 242 mm.), pp. [8 (blank ll.)], xli, [1 (blank)], [2 (section-title,

text on verso)], [2 (section-title, verso blank)], [2 (colophon, verso

blank)], [6 (blank ll.)]; title printed in red and black, mounted portrait

frontispiece, and 26 facsimile letters on octavo bifolia or quarto

broadsheets mounted on blank ll. with captions printed on the versos;

light offsetting from frontispiece onto title; original vellum-backed

boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges cut, others

retaining deckles, original slipcase; extremities slightly rubbed and

bumped, slipcase faded and chipped at extremities, otherwise a very

good example; provenance: William Andrews Clark, jr, Christmas 1924

(letterpress presentation slip tipped onto front free endpaper,

presumably a gift to:) – Elmer Belt (1893-1980, his ‘House of Belt’

bookplate on upper pastedown) – Bromer Booksellers, Boston, MA

(catalogue 32, item 225, loosely-inserted invoice dated 10 November

1984, addressed to:) – Quentin George Keynes (1921-2003).

£350

A PRESENTATION COPY FROM WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK

The edition was privately printed for

Clark, and this copy was presumably

given by Clark to the Los Angeles

urologist and bibliophile Elmer Belt,

who had studied with the physician

and bibliophile Harvey Cushing in

Boston, MA and then established a

urological practice in Los Angeles in the

1920s. Belt’s Florence Nightingale

Collection was gifted to UCLA’s Louis

M. Darling Biomedical Library in 1958,

and his library of works on Leonardo

da Vinci was donated to UCLA in 1961.

Klinefelter, Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books, p. 19; Mikhail,

Oscar Wilde, p. 25.

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