{"title":"New Acquisitions","description":"\u003ch6\u003eRare books and manuscripts covering all fields, including first editions and copies in fine bindings, recently acquired and now offered for sale. We hope you appreciate the wide range and fine exemplars made available. Enquiries are welcome.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-of-dante-alighieri-1842-1843-finely-bound-ugo-foscolo-illustrations","title":"THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 1842-1843 FINELY BOUND, UGO FOSCOLO ILLUSTRATIONS","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ALIGHIERI, DANTE]. \u003cstrong\u003eLa Commedia. Illustrata da Ugo Foscolo.\u003c\/strong\u003e Londra [London]: Pietro Rolandi, 1842-1843.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Full leather. Octavo (230 x 140mm), pp. (8), [xxx]-[i.e. xxviii], (4), 468; (8), 395; (8), 560; (8), 418. Italian text. Exquisite contemporary full morocco, bound and signed by Wiseman, with intricate gilt ruled and tooled covers, edges and inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Half-titles present. Illustrated by Ugo Foscolo with 10 plates outside the text (portrait of Foscolo, view of the Chiswick cemetery, where Foscolo was buried, portrait of Dante, interior of Dante's tomb, Dante's tomb in Ravenna, and plans of Hell, Purgatory and Paradiso, portrait of Dante at the age of 25 and a facsimile of a manuscript by Foscolo). \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: A near immaculate set and exquisitely bound. Collated complete. The covers are excellent with all hinges intact, and gilt remaining bright. The textblock is largely very clean, with some light toning and foxing restricted mostly to initial and terminal leaves. Contemporary owner signature neatly inked to front endpaper of each volume. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eListing note: This wonderful edition is due to the endeavours of Giuseppe Mazzini, who signed in the introduction \"Un' Italiano\" [\"An Italian\"]. In 1825 Foscolo had published, also in London, for the publisher Pickering, the \"Discourse on the text and on the different opinions prevailing on the history and critical amendment of Dante's Comedy\", it was to be a large edition of the \"Commedia\", designed in five volumes. Foscolo presented the commentary on the \"Inferno\" to the editor, but as regards \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\" he handed over incomplete manuscripts and in some parts barely sketched. Foscolo's death in 1827 finally brought the project to a halt, and the manuscripts remained in Pickering's warehouses. Ten years later, Mazzini came into possession of Foscolo's papers and, after a long process of reworking, was able to publish the work: the first volume (1842), contains the 1825 \"Discourse\", preceded by an unpublished \"Prefazioncella\" by Foscolo; the second (1842) the \"Inferno\"; the third (1843) \"Purgatorio\" and \"Paradiso\", in a single volume, given the smallness of the Foscolian notes; the fourth (1843) the chronology, the life of Dante, the list and description of the codes found in bookshops and libraries, and the index. 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Urbes \u0026amp; coloniae maritimae, periplus orbis antiqui, \u0026amp; novi. Magistratus, praefecturae \u0026amp; officia classica apud omnes gentes. Leges navales, lustrationes classium, causae \u0026amp; genera ventorum, usus pixidis nauticae, histiodromice, marium diversi motus, aestúque, atque exundationes, aliáque omnia ad rem maritimam pertinentia. Opus unicâ centuriâ contentum, quae in duos libros divisa \u0026amp; partita est : Primus : res in mari, aut circa mare gestas continet, ab initio navigationum ad Constantini magni obitum, cum descriptione littorum antiquis cosmographis cognitorum. Secundus : a Constantino magno ad hanc usque diem res pelago, \u0026amp; in oris gestas complectitur, cum descriptione littorum antiquis incognitorum. Authore Claudio Bartholomaeo Morisoto Divionensi.\u003c\/strong\u003e Diuione [Dijon]: Apud Petrum Palliot [Pierre Palliot], typographum Regis, bibliopolam \u0026amp; calcographum, sub signo Reginæ Pacis ante Palatium., M. DC. XLIII. [1643].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. In two parts. Folio (350 x 220mm.), [26], 725, [19] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates: illustrations (maps). Signatures: *⁴ **² ***⁶ A-5A⁴. Additional engraved title, title printed in red and black, additional printed dedication to Pierre Séguier (leaf â) inserted at end of preliminaries, folding engraved plate, 44 engravings in the text from De Bry, with maps. Initials, head- and tail-pieces. Includes indexes. Pages 592-612 contain a description of America. Colophon at leaf 5A4v. Old vellum with fore-edge cover extensions, spine title in later manuscript. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Title with minor repair to top left corner, occasional dampstaining, vellum slightly soiled. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: THE FIRST NAVAL HISTORY. \"Claude Barthélemy Morisot (1592-1661) was one of the great intellectuals of his time, and his works enjoyed great success. Orbis maritimi is his best book... It is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to ancient times, and the second is concerned with \"modern\" times, and the deeds of the British, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese\" (Borba de Moraes). The folding plate depicts a staged naval battle in a Roman arena, and the illustrations show coins, maps and types of native vessel. The work was dedicated to Louis XIII, with the preface dated January 1643. This copy also has a printed dedication to Chancelier Séguier, dated April 1643, inserted before the start of the text (and interrupting the catchwords), indicating that this is the second issue. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Borba de Moraes II, pp. 597-598; Sabin 50723; USTC 6810141.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claude Morisot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37745992138923,"sku":"MORISOT1643","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zxzxz.png?v=1608757354"},{"product_id":"peter-and-wendy-by-j-m-barrie-illustrated-by-f-d-bedford-1911-first-edition","title":"PETER AND WENDY BY J. M. BARRIE ILLUSTRATED BY F. D. BEDFORD 1911 FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[BARRIE, J. M.]. \u003cstrong\u003ePeter and Wendy, Illustrated by F. D. Bedford.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton, 1911.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo (210 x 150 mm), pp. [viii], 267. Bound in publisher's original cloth, spine and front cover elaborately gilt decorated. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. 13 b\u0026amp;w plates including frontispiece and decorative title-page. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Slight bumping and rubbing to spine ends and points. Covers and contents very clean. Some intermittent light scattered foxing. Neatly inked contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. M. 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Contents: Foreword by Kim le Hwan; Un viellard plein de vie by Alexandre Guillemoz (written in French); The Works (Shamanism, Buddhism, Traditional Women, Folk Customs, Historical Painting); Aestheticizing Korean Culture: Park Saeng Kwang's Painting Since 1981 by Kim Yeonjin; On Park Saeng Kwang: Languages of Contemporary Korean Art and the Real World by Jeong Yongdo; Work Description by Kim Yeonjin; Chronology. Inscribed by the President of le-Young Contemporary Art Museum. Condition: NEAR FINE. Very minor shelf wear, otherwise immaculate. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37776829874347,"sku":"KWANG8995573112","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/ZZZZ_04bb5084-12ee-43c9-ac7d-b8aa94c98110.jpg?v=1608006778"},{"product_id":"j-s-bachs-precepts-principles-for-playing-the-thorough-bass-1994-hardcover","title":"J. S. BACH'S PRECEPTS \u0026 PRINCIPLES FOR PLAYING THE THOROUGH BASS 1994 HARDCOVER","description":"\u003cp\u003e[BACH, JOHAN SEBASTIAN].\u003cstrong\u003e Precepts and Principles for Playing the Thorough-Bass or Accompanying in Four Parts, Leipzig 1738. Translation with Facsimile, Introduction, and Explanatory Notes by Pamela L. Poulin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst edition, first impression. Hardcover with dust jacket. Quarto (250 x 195 mm), pp. [xxvii],112. Hardly used and in excellent condition. Scarce.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Believed to have been dictated by J.S. Bach to one of his students at the Leipzig Thomas-Schule, the Precepts and Principles for Playing the Thorough Bass or Accompanying in Four Parts is the most important teaching document of Bach's to have survived, providing insights into his teaching of harmony and fugue, and perhaps on his compositional process as well. Heinrich Schenker made use of Precepts (which he called Bach's Generalbassibuchlein ) in the formulation of his analytical system. Here is a translation, commentary, transcription of the music examples into modern notation, and complete facsimile of this treatise. The 48-leaved manuscript, in which the hand of Bach's pupil Carl August Thieme (1721-95) has been identified, consists of thorough basses, studies in fugue writing, as well as figured basses and cadence patterns suitable for keyboard practice. This book is intended for scholars and students of baroque music theory and keyboard performance practice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37787748499627,"sku":"BACH1994","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zs_2.jpg?v=1608137438"},{"product_id":"lisole-piu-famose-del-mondo-by-thomas-porcacchi-1590","title":"L'ISOLE PIU FAMOSE DEL MONDO BY THOMAS PORCACCHI 1590","description":"\u003cp\u003e[PORCACCHI, Thomas (c.1530-1585)]. \u003cstrong\u003eL'Isole piu famose del mondo.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Venetia: apresso gli heredi di Simon Galignani, 1590.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover.  Third edition. Three parts in one volume. Published by Georgio Angelieri for the heirs of Simone Galignan, Venice. In-folio (11 6\/8 x 8 1\/8 inches), (3) ff.bl., (12) ff., 201 pp., (1) p., (1) f.bl. Printed on thick paper. Engraved architectural title-page and 49 fine engraved maps in the text, including two world maps, by Girolamo Porro of Padua, wood-engraved printer's device on the last leaf, wood-engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces. Re-bound in antique-style blind-stamped calf. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete, binding tight and secure, contents very well preserved.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Third edition. The Isole piu famose del mondo was one of the most popular atlases of the late sixteenth century, treating the world as a collection of islands. Much enlarged, including 19 maps not included in the first edition of 1572, and with two additional maps not included in the second edition of 1576: \"Descrittione dell'Istria\" and \"Descrittione dell'isolla d'Elandia, isola de Gotti\". The New World is represented from page 157: \"Descrittione della Gran Citta e isola Temistitan,\" with a plan; \"Descrittione dell'isola et terra di Santa Croce, overo Mondo Nuouo,\" with a reduced version of Forlani's very important map of North America first published in Venice in 1565, which was the first to show America as a single geographic entity, and is the second map to show the Strait of Anian in any detail; there are descriptions of the islands of \"Spagnvola\", \"Cvba\", \"Iamaica\" or \"S. Iacopo\", \"S. Lorenzo\", and \"S. Giovanni\"or \"Borichen,\" with five maps. The islands of the Pacific are depicted in \"dell'Isole Molucche\". The two world maps at the end illustrate \"Descrittione del Mappamondo,\" and \"Discorso intorno alla Carta da navigare\". The isolario, or book of islands, was a popular genre that had first appeared in manuscript examples by Cristoforo Buondelmonte dating from the early fifteenth century, then in printed versions by Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti from the late 1400s. More so than its predecessors, the isolario first published in 1528 by Venice-based cartographer Benedetto Bordone was formative for Renaissance geographical conceptions. Porcacchi, who was a prolific author of classical translations, genealogies, and poetry, gives detailed accounts of the geography and the history of each island. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferences: Adams P-1906; Alden and Landis 590\/54; BMC Italian, p.534; Edit16 37349; Nordenskiöld Collection 2, 189; Phillips, Atlases 3327, Burden The Mapping of America 42; JCB (3) I:324; Sabin 64151; Shirley The Mapping of the World, pp. 127-128. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomaso Porcacchi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37802549805227,"sku":"DELMONDO1590","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/ZZZZZZZZXXXXXXXXXZZZZ.jpg?v=1608755581"},{"product_id":"fine-riviere-binding-the-golden-treasury-selected-by-francis-turner-palgrave","title":"FINE RIVIERE EXHIBITION BINDING - THE GOLDEN TREASURY SELECTED BY FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE","description":"\u003cp\u003e[PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER (ed.)]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. [The Golden Treasury Series] - early reprint - eleventh thousand. Leather-bound. Small octavo (155 x 100 mm.), pp. (12), 332. Exquisitely bound and signed by Riviere in contemporary binding of crushed morocco, the covers with a gilt border of twinned double fillets with corner-pieces, enclosing a gilt blocked elaborate repeat designed. The spine divided into six panels, the five bands gilt ruled, lettered in the second panel, the others elaborately gilt tooled in repeat pattern, the edges of the boards and turn-ins ruled and tooled in gilt, page edges gilt and heavily gauffered, plain endpapers, half-title present, title-page vignette. Condition: FINE. The binding is near pristine, bright and clean with almost no wear. The contents are suited to the binding, notably crisp and bright. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A beautifully bound book and a magnificent example of the high-end exhibition grade bindings that Riviere produced at this time. First published in 1861, The Golden Treasury was \"an anthology so successful that, as J. W. Mackail wrote in the Dictionary of National Biography, 'it remains one of those rare instances in which a critical work has substantive imaginative value, and entitles its author to rank among creative artists'\" (ODNB). It includes lyrics and songs from Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Tennyson, who originally suggested the project to Palgrave.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francis Turner Palgrave","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37807576481963,"sku":"PALRIVIERE1862","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_6167_2.jpg?v=1608413626"},{"product_id":"on-the-polar-star-in-the-arctic-sea-luigi-amedeo-of-savoy-1903-in-two-volumes-1","title":"ON THE \"POLAR STAR\" IN THE ARCTIC SEA, LUIGI AMEDEO OF SAVOY 1903 In Two Volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003e[AMEDEO, Luigi, of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi]. \u003cstrong\u003eOn the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea; with the Statements of Commander U. Cagni Upon the Sledge Expedition to 86° 34' North, and of Dr. A. Cavalli Molinelli Upon His Return to the Bay of Teplitz. Translated by William Le Queux.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Hutchinson \u0026amp; Co., 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition, first impression. Complete in two volumes. Full cloth. Thick quarto (260 x 200 mm), pp. xvi, 346, xvii-xxii; viii, [1], 349-702, ix-xii. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines, front covers with gilt stamped vignettes. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Title-pages in red and black. 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 coloured maps (2 folding at rear of vol. II) \u0026amp; 212 text illustrations (many full-page). Index in double column to rear of both volumes. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings secure and square. Covers clean and well preserved with faintest touch of bumping at spine ends. The text-blocks are very clean. Without inking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition in English, originally published in Italian in the same year. Abruzzi was one of the last of the aristocrat-explorers whose access to vast personal fortunes allowed them to mount expeditions \"untrammelled by the need for government approval or public subscription.\" (Howgego) At home he was a quiet and reserved man, but once abroad he became \" a man of daring and courage for whom no challenge was insurmountable.\" His expeditions were meticulously planned, and executed with almost military precision, often calling upon the same group of \"like-minded friends, an army of scientists and guides, and immense stores of provisions and equipment.\" The Duke's first expedition of 1897 had scaled the previously unconquered peak of Mount St. Elias on the border between Canada and Alaska. The present work is an account of his arctic assault of 1898-1900; \"An important attempt at the North Pole with descriptions of conditions, wildlife, nature, food, weather, equipment with the second section written by U. Cagni on the sledge march. Amedeo reached the closest to the North Pole at that time. Some of his men froze to death while pulling their sleds over the ice. A richly illustrated work, beautifully photographed and described.\" (Arctic Bibliography). Abruzzi later led expeditions to the Ruwenzori and the Himalayas; commanded the Italian Adriatic fleet during World War I; and founded an experimental agricultural community in Somaliland during the 20s. 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Volume I with a frontispiece folding map. 27 folding sketch diagrams throughout the set. Exquisitely bound in contemporary half-calf signed by Mudie. Five raised spine bands. Compartments and bands ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. Twin morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled boards, page edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Publisher's device to title-pages. Index in double columns to rear of volume II. Condition: NEAR FINE. Bindings very well preserved. Contents and covers clean. Without previous ownership markings. Author's compliments slip inserted into volume I. A scarce set. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lewis Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813916565675,"sku":"WELLINGTON1904","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zzzz_ee97c642-f23f-4f9f-b71b-5c3a47df5f82.jpg?v=1608522625"},{"product_id":"sketches-of-field-sports-as-followed-by-the-natives-of-india-by-d-johnson-1822","title":"SKETCHES OF FIELD SPORTS AS FOLLOWED BY THE NATIVES OF INDIA BY D. JOHNSON 1822","description":"\u003cp\u003e[JOHNSON, DANIEL]. \u003cstrong\u003eSketches of Field Sports as followed by the Natives of India. With observations on the animals. Also an account of some of the customs of the inhabitants, and natural productions, interspersed with various anecdotes. Likewise the late nawab vizier Asoph ul Dowlah's grand style of sporting and character. A description of the art of catching serpents, as practised by people in India, known by the appellation of Cunjoors, and their method of curing themselves when bitten. With remarks on hydrophobia, \u0026amp; rabid animals.\u003c\/strong\u003e Published for the author by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, and Thomas Fowler, Great Torrington, Devon, 1822.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Hardcover. First edition. Octavo (235 x 150mm), pp. [x], 261. Publisher's original paper covered boards with spine label. Slip entitled \"Description of the Frontispiece\" bound in before the Introduction. Engraved frontispiece after Ann Elizabeth Palmer. Rough cut fore edge and bottom edge. Private owner bookplates. Preserved in a custom morocco-backed drop-back box. Binding secure. Spine rubbed and creased. Points rubbed. Covers slightly marked. Very light scattered foxing. Scarce, especially in its original state.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Rare first edition (in good to very good condition); a second appeared in 1827. Daniel Johnson (1766\/7-1835), surgeon and author, \"was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bengal medical service on 22 January 1789. He conducted experiments on snakebite, and later communicated his findings to his fellow Bengal surgeon James Johnson. He was promoted to surgeon on 11 March 1805, and retired from the service in 1809. He settled at Great Torrington, Devon, and in 1822 printed, with the aid of a daughter of the local bookseller, 'not more than eight and a half years old', his Sketches of Indian Field-Sports [actually the title of the second edition]. The book was dedicated to the court of directors of the Hon. East India Company\" (ODNB). \"In this early work detailing Indian sport, Johnson provides notes on elephant, buffalo, and other game, but of primary importance are his chapters on hunting tiger and leopard principally in the jungle ares of Ramghur, Rogonautpore, and Bundbissunpore\" (Czech).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37813928820907,"sku":"SKETFEILDSPORTS1822","price":450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/zx.jpg?v=1608523043"},{"product_id":"shifts-expedients-of-camp-life-travel-exploration-by-lord-baines-1876","title":"SHIFTS \u0026 EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL \u0026 EXPLORATION BY LORD \u0026 BAINES 1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e[LORD, WILLIAM BARRY; BAINES, THOMAS (1820-1875)]. \u003cstrong\u003eShifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel, \u0026amp; Exploration.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Horace Cox, 1876.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. 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Poisoned Weapons, Arrows, Spears, \u0026amp;c.; XVII. Tracking, Hunting, and Trapping; XVIII. Palanquins, Stretchers, Ambulances, \u0026amp;c; XIX. On Sketching and Painting under the ordinary Difficulties of Travel; XX. The Estimation of Distances and Hints on Field Observing; XXI. Hints to Explorers on Collecting and Preserving Objects of Natural History; XXII. Ropes and Twine; XXIII. Bush Veterinary Surgery and Medicine; Appendix; Index. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: GOOD. Binding secure. Slight repairs to spine ends. Covers generally clean. Apparently lacking frontispiece but otherwise complete. Contents largely clean with just a few fox spots. Without bookplates or inking. 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Cloth-bound with original dust jacket. Thick octavo (240 x 160 x 60 mm.), pp. [xxiv], 860. Publisher's original green cloth with titles to spine silver. Charts and tables throughout, some fold-out. Footnotes. Rear index in double columns. Supplied with original dust jacket. Contents: The Greenback Period -- Silver politics and the secular decline in prices, 1879-97 -- Gold inflation and banking reform, 1897-1914 -- Early years of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-21 -- The high tide of the Reserve System, 1921-29 -- The Great Contraction, 1929-33 -- New Deal changes in the banking structure and monetary standard -- Cyclical changes, 1933-41 -- World War II inflation, September 1939-August 1948 -- Revival of monetary policy, 1948-60 -- The postwar rise of velocity -- A summing up. Contents: FAIR to GOOD. 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Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. The additional notes at the end of vol. I include a description of the Portland Vase. \"The botanic garden. Vol. I. Containing the economy of vegetation, a poem. With philosophical notes\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf A6r of vol. I. \"The botanic garden. Vol. II. Containing the loves of the plants\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf A7r of vol. II. \"The temple of nature\" has divisional half-t.p. on leaf [A]4r of vol. III. \"Origin of society. Canto I. Production of life\", \"Origin of society. Canto II. Reproduction of life\", \"Origin of society. Canto III. Progress of the mind\" and \"Origin of society. Canto IV. Of good and evil\" each have divisional half-t.p. on leaves B1r, D7r, G5r and K6r respectively of vol. III. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Collated complete. The bindings somewhat worn with some hinges starting but I'll holding very well. Covers with some rubbing to extremities, there are also some marks and abrasions to the boards, spine title plates eroded. The textblock is largely well preserved, however there are various amounts of toning and browning in places, the plates are complete and in good order. Each volume has the armorial bookplate of Michael Pepper to the front pastedown. Volumes I\u0026amp; II title-pages have some inking from the first owner. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of this posthumous collection placing Darwin's exuberant and eccentric inquiry into the Linnaean system in rhyming couplets alongside his poetic speculations on evolution, the whole much enlivened by numerous plates including a number by Blake and Fuseli. A handsome Regency binding from the library of Michael Pepper of Bigods Manor, Essex. Darwin's reputation declined rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, attacked as a crank, certainly an atheist, and perhaps a spy, and has never really recovered. In her argument for a revival, Jenny Uglow, historian of the Lunar society, one of the three learned societies of which Darwin was a founder member, speaks vividly in favour of the work of this \"polymathic genius\"; \"Arching between two eras, it was a final exuberant flowering of Enlightenment experiment and optimism but also a glittering treasure trove of images and ideas for the coming Romantic generation, plundered by Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth. Four thousand lines of rhyming couplets humming above thickets of footnotes, with engravings by Blake, Fuseli and others. With wit and sly humour it mixed poetry, science and startling radical notions: a sheaf of \"Additional Notes\" explored everything from meteors to Wedgwood's Portland vase, from clouds and coal to shell-fish and steam-engines. Most disturbing of all to contemporaries was the hint of a new theory of biological evolution - 50 years before his grandson Charles published Origin of Species\" (\"Sexing the Plants\", the Guardian, 21\/09\/2002). Uncommon in such an original and complete state.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erasmus Darwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38003575718059,"sku":"ERASMUSDARWIN1806","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_7323.jpg?v=1611445002"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-napoleon-i-by-john-holland-rose-1934-fine-leather-binding","title":"THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I BY JOHN HOLLAND ROSE 1934 FINE LEATHER BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[ROSE, JOHN HOLLAND]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Life of Napoleon I. Including Materials from the British Official Records.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: G. Bell and Sons, 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. 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Printed by A. Spottiswoode. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges perfect, some light rubbing to extremities. Contents near immaculate with faintest touch of browning to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Second edition of one of the most popular and influential works of science of the 19th century, and now considered a scarce work to obtain. On The Connexion Of The Physical Sciences was originally published in 1834 by Scottish polymath, and science writer Mary Somerville (1780-1872). Alongside her contemporary Caroline Herschel, she was jointly nominated as Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1835. \"Perhaps no woman of science until Marie Curie was as widely recognized in her own time. Not only did [Somerville's works] bring scientific knowledge in a broad range of fields to a wide audience, but thanks to her exceptional talents for analysis, organization, and presentation, they provided definition and shape for an impressive spread of scientific work\" (ODNB). In 1835, she became one of the first two female members of the Royal Astronomical Society - On the Connexion of the Sciences preceded that accolade by a year. In it, Somerville urges an interdisciplinary approach to science, arguing that new discoveries can be made when research \"unites detached branches by general principles.\" To truly advance human understandings of the world, a researcher must consider how astronomy, physics, meteorology and geology tackle overlapping problems to create a fully three-dimensional picture of the universe. \"In all there exists such a bond and a union that proficiency cannot be attained in any one without a knowledge of the others.\" Incorporating the most up to date research of the time, in consultation with leading scientists such as Faraday, Lyell, and Ampere, it was \"soon established as a scientific classic and bestseller, functioning for a time as an annual progress report for physical sciences\" as updated editions were released in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (ODNB). While Somerville's work was addressed to the professional scientific community as opposed to focusing on the education of women or children in the sciences; and in this sense she broke through a glass ceiling to be taken seriously by mathematicians including Laplace. And the philosopher John Stuart Mill so highly valued her work that he requested hers to be the first signature on his Parliamentary petition advocating for women's suffrage. The Morning Post upon her death proclaimed her the undisputed \"Queen of Science\". Ogilvie 245. 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Each part with a frontispiece and decorative title-page printed in red and black, with ornamental border. Engraved illustrations throughout. Shoulder-notes. Sections with Notes and Chronology, plus Indexes to maps, plates and tables. Printed by Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh. Edited by Mr H. Oelsner, M.A., Ph.D. Contents: part I, Inferno, Canto I-XXXIV; part II, Purgatorio, Canto I-XXXIII; Part III, Paradiso, Canto I-XXXIII. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure. Covers vey well preserved with very light rubbing to extremities and mild mottling. The textblock is excellent and clean with some spotting to fore edge. 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Near-contemporary full vellum by Roger de Coverly, smooth spines with gilt banding and titles, gilt ruled frame to covers, inner gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Includes a brief publishing history of Malory; also Caxton's prologue and preface. With the bookplate of artist G. F. Watts, R.A., to front pastedown of volume I. Condition: The bindings are tight and secure, with the hinges perfectly preserved. Some light browning to fore edges and a few leaves, however the textblock is nicely preserved. Lacking the folding frontispiece of King Arthur and his Knights at the Round Table in volume I, but otherwise complete.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The Morte d'Arthur was first printed by Caxton in 1485 and was followed by editions in 1498, 1529, 1557 and 1634. 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