[CAPRANI (Giuseppe). STENDHAL. Marie-Henri Beyle]:

The Life of Haydn, In a Series of Letters Written at Vienna. Followed by The Life of Mozart, with Observations on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. Translated from the French of L. A. C. Bombet. With Notes by the Author of the Sacred Melodies.

London: John Murray..., 1817. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 130 mms., pp. xv [xvi translator's note], 496, including engraved leaf of music, contemporary half roan, gilt spine, marbled boards; some slight browning of text, joints and corners worn, some general overall wear to binding, with ownership inscription "M. L. Crawford. September 1835." on the top margin of the title-page Marie-Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842) apparently used over one hundred pseudonyms, but he is best-known as Stendhal, even though that pseudonym doesn't appear on the title-page. As Copac notes, "The life of Haydn is a plagiarism of G. Carpani's Le Haydine; the biographical part of the Mozart is, practically, a reproduction of Winckler's Notice biographique sur Jean-Chrysostom-Wolfgang-Théophile Mozart, which in turn is a translation of Schlichtegroll's Mozarts Leben; the last letter of the Mozart and the letter on Metastasio are Bombet." William Gardiner (1770 - 1853) was the compiler/author of Sacred Melodies (1812 - 1838).

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Book number: 8166

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography music prose

CARACCIOLI (Charles):

The Antiquities of Arundel; The Peculiar Privilege of its Castle and Lordship; With an Abstract of the Lives of the Earls of Arundel, From the Conquest to this Time. By the Master of the Grammar-School at Arundel. By the Master of the Gramar-School at Arundel.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by G. Robinson and T. Robets...[inter alia] 1766. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 123 mms., pp. [vi], 276 [277 - 280 list of subscribers, including Richard Nash], with two dedication leaves, one to the Duke of Norfolk and a second to Edward Howard, the heir apparent to the Duke of Norfolk. Bound in later calf, rebacked, red morocco label; ex-library with East Sussex Count Library stamp in blind on rear cover, A good to very good copyl. The topographer Charles Caraccioli (1722 - ?1783), though born in Le Mans, moved to England in the 1750s and published a number of books thereafter. Since there was no grammar school at Arundel in 1766, his self-description is a bit dubious. The work was reviewed in The Monthly Review for 1766: "The antiquities of Arundel employ but few pages of this volume; which is chiefly filled with Memoirs of the Earls of Arundel.... With respect to the work before us, however, it may afford amusements to those, who having some acquaintance with the town and castle of Arundel, in their present state, may be desirous of improving that acquaintance with an intimacy with the history and antiquities of the place: especially the history of those great men who have borne the title of Earls of Arundel; in which there are some entertaining anecdotes."

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Book number: 10017

Catalogue: Antiquities

Keywords: antiquities topography prose

[CARACCIOLI (Charles)]:

Chiron: Or, the Mental Optician.

London: Printed for J. Robinson..., 1758. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 169 x 95 mms., pp. [iii] - vi [with second leaf signed A2]. 188; [ii], 192, quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine. A good copy. The Monthly Review gave the work a brief notice in 1758: "This Mental Optician is an old gentleman, with a new-invented perspective, by the help of which he discerns the hearts, the real characters, and secret history, of every person he views through this extraordinary glass. - and sad devils he makes of us, sure enough. His plan, however, is rather hackneyed; and so are his strictures upon men and manners: In a word, the performance is altogether a fit companion for the noted Mr. Edward Ward's The London Spy; but by no means to be compared with the celebrated Diable Boitteaux of which this seems to be an imitation." The Critical Review took a slightly better view of the work in a longer notice: "Chiron is apparently written in imitation of the hitherto inimitable Gil Blas, and the Diable Boiteaux,or Devil upon Two Sticks, particularly the latter. Thought there appears in this performance some knowledge of human life, we meet with very little of that beautiful indirect satire, and that poignancy of true and chaste humour for which Le Sage is so eminently distinguished...." ESTC: "Attributed by Richard Gough to Charles Caraccioli but doubted by DNB on good evidence." The entry on Gough in the new ODNB makes no mention of Caraciolli. The entry for Caraciolli notes that Gough did make the attribution and adds, "Gough's interest in Caraccioli arose from the appearance, in 1766, of the Antiquities of Arundel, the subscription list of which shows signs of East Indies connections. The author, who describes himself as the master of the grammar school, states that 'he was educated, and, till within these few years, has lived abroad, totally unconversant in the English Tongue', and a random paragraph of the work is indeed printed in French (Caraccioli, 216). Arundel had no grammar school, but Caraccioli did live at substantial houses in the town between 1764 and 1769 and probably taught at the school conducted in the Fitzalan chapel in the parish church."

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Book number: 9706

CARBONELL Y BRAVO (Francisco):

Elemens de Pharmacie, Fondes sur Les Principes de la Chimie Moderne. Traduite de l'original Latin. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee par l'auteur, revue et corrigee. Par P. Poncet.

Paris, Chez Mequignon..., An xi, - 1803. 8vo, pp. xxxv [xxxvi blank], 212, uncut, stitched as issued in original wrappers; last few leaves mis-numbered, edges a little worn.

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Book number: 1596

Catalogue: Medicine

Keywords: medicine French prose French

CAREL (Jacques, sieur de Sainte-Garde):

Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme heroïqve. Premiere partie.

Paris, Chez Clavde Barbin, sur le second Perron de la sainte Chappelle. 1667. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 147 x 78 mms., pp. [xxxii]. 130, handsomely bound in later full green morocco, with gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt to a fleur-de-lys motif, gilt dentelles and turn-ins, marbled end-papers, with French bookseller's catalogue slip pasted to to top margin of front paste-down end-paper, with comment "Exemp. original très-rare, un peut court de marges." NO IMAGES YET FEB 2024 OCLC: Avec privilege du roi./ Contains only 4 books. In his L'art poétique (chant 3), Boileau ridiculed the author's choice of Childebrand as hero of this poem. Carel changed the title to Charle Martel ou Les Sarrazins chassez de France (1668) and extended the poem to 16 books in a later ed. (1679) under the new title. OCLC locates several copies with imprints dated 1668 and 1669 but only one copy of this 1667 imprint, in Harvard; but there is also a copy in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

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Book number: 10307

Catalogue: Binding

Keywords: binding poetry literature

CAREW (Richard):

The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now first Published from the Manuscript. With the Life of the Author, By H*** C***** Eaq. [Pierre Des Maizeaux].

London, Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pallmall; Daniel Brown jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and James Woodman, at Cambden's-Head in Bowstreet, Covent-Garden. 1723. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 172 mms., pp. [ii] [ii] iii - xix [xx blank], [viii], then foliated, [1] - 159 [160 - 163 indexes], followed by "An Epistle of Richard Carew Esq: concerning the Excellencies of the Engllsh Tongue," with separate title-page, pp. [2] 3 - 13 [14 blank], title-page in red and black, contemporary calf, rebacked in lighter calf, red morocco label; last six leaves (the "Epistle" stained a lower margin, but a good copy, with the armorial bookplate of Henry Waymouth on the front paste-down endp-paper, the autograph "J Harry Cook/1895" on the upper margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, an ownship inscription dated 1727 scored out on top margin of recto of adverts leaf, with adverts on verso. "Carew became a member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries, where his scholarship was clearly valued. He assisted Sir Henry Spelman with the latter's researches into the history of tithes, and was rewarded with the dedication of the resulting treatise. Greatly interested in language, and particularly in etymology, Carew's panegyric on 'The excellencie of the English tongue' was first published in the second edition of William Camden's Remaines (1614). It constituted a qualified rebuttal of Richard Verstegan's Restitution of Decayed Intelligence of Antiquities (1605), which rejected the British contribution to England's history and languages in favour of Germanic elements. Carew thereby became entangled in a dispute which involved (among others) Verstegan, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, over the extent to which English should either assimilate foreign words or attempt to maintain a degree of linguistic integrity. Carew accepted Saxon as the 'natural language' of England (Jones, 220), but he was much more willing to recognize the contributions of foreign tongues and cultures than Verstegan was" (ODNB).

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Book number: 10219

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: language philology prose

CARLYLE (Joseph Daker). [CARLYLE (Susannah Maria, editor)]:

Poems, suggested chiefly by scenes in Asia-Minor, Syria, and Greece, with Prefaces extracted from the author's journal. Embellished with Two Views of the Source of the Scamder, and the Aqueduct over the Simois. By the Late J. D. Carlyle.

London: Printed by William Bulmr and Co. Shakespeare Printing Office; fro John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. 1805 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 239 x 175 mms., pp. [iv], xvi [xvii - xx contents and drop-title], 149 [150 blank], including half-title and list of subscribers, with acquatint view as frontispiece, with one further acquatint plate, contemporary half calf, dull marbled boards, spine rubbed and chipped at foot, joints cracked but sound, some damp rippling to first few leaves, else a clean copy. Joseph Dacre Carlyle, some time Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and afterwards Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was born at Carlisle, June 4, 1758. In 1799 he accompanied the Earl of Elgin to Constantinople with the object of exploring the literary treasures of the public library of that city. He extended his journey into Asia Minor, and the islands and shores of the Archipelago. He died at Newcastle, April 12, 1804. A lot of the verse is pedestrian, but I ws intrigued by one entitled, "The Salted Cherry, A Tale. To bae written in Mrs. Woolstencroft's [sic] Rights of Women."

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Book number: 10147

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry topography literature

CAROLINE-MATILDA, QUEEN OF DENMARK.

Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen. Interspersed with Letters (Written by Herself) to several of Her illustrious Relations and Friends, on Various Subject and Occasions. The Second Edition.

London: Printed for J. Bew..., 1776. 12mo, 167 x 96 mms., pp. [ii], 260, engraved portrait as frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin; joints cracked and tender, corners worn and, overall, not a wonderful copy, with the autograph and date "R. M. Vevers/ Feb. 21/1794" on the front past-down end-paper, with the name and date repeated on the title-page. Thes memoirs were presumably suppressed, as Queen Caroline was a sister of the King of England and while married to Christian VII of Denmark entered into a notorious love affair with her husband's doctor called Struensee. It eventually led to his execution and her banishment to Celle where she died of Scarlet Fever in 1775 at the age of 23. Her later biographer Wraxall was at first inclined to doubt the authenticity of the book, but on reflection he decided that the circumstantial evidence pointed to it being written by one of her circle, avoiding the displeasure of George III by remaining anonymous. The work would also appear in French and German translations with spurious imprints. There have been several more fictionalized biographies since, including film adaptations. The work was reviewed in The Monthly Review in 1776, with an abrupt opening: "In this truly Grubean, though not ill-written performance, poor Mathilda is made to turn Authoress.... These Sketches are tolerably drawn, after pretty good originals; and, on the whole, it is evident, from the promising specimens before us, that if Carolina Matilda had not, unfortunately for herself, been made a Queen, she might, in time, have arrived at the honour of being even a Monthly Reviewer. N. B. The honest Grub is a warm advocate for the virtue and innocence of his heroine; in which he may be right; though it does not appear he ever travelled to Copenhagen." The work was also translated into French, with London as the location and Bew as the printer, buth the French version was published in The Netherlands. This second edition is not a re-issue of the first also printed in London. ESTC locates copies of the first edition in BL, and Cambridge; and California State Library. The present, second edition is found in BL (three copies) and the Bodleian in these islands; and Harvard, Huntington, and Library of Congress in the United States.

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Book number: 10000

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography women literature

CARRACCI (Annibale), and Michelangelo Monsagrati; Carlo Gesi:

Aedium Farnesiarum Tabulae ab Annibale Caraccio AEdium Farnesiarum tabulae ab Annibale Caraccio depictae: a Carolo Caesio aeri insculptae, atque a Lucio Philarchaeo explicationibus illustratae.

Romae: Sumptibus Venantii Monaldini Bibliopolae in via Cursus, 1753. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 435 x 305 mms., 7 preliminary leaves, followed by lxxiv pages, with engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, and thirty-three engraved plates (15 folding), engraved tail-pieces, contemporary vellum; small paper flaw in one plate, but a fine copy of these superbly engraved plates. These engravings (by Carlo Cesi) of the frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese that Carracci (1560 - 1609) are the result of Carracci's being "recommended by the Duke of Parma, Ranuccio I Farnese, to his brother, the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, who wished to decorate the piano nobile of the cavernous Roman Palazzo Farnese. In November–December of 1595, Annibale and Agostino traveled to Rome to begin decorating the Camerino with stories of Hercules, appropriate since the room housed the famous Greco-Roman antique sculpture of the hypermuscular Farnese Hercules. Annibale meanwhile developed hundreds of preparatory sketches for the major work, wherein he led a team painting frescoes on the ceiling of the grand salon with the secular quadri riportati of The Loves of the Gods, or as the biographer Giovanni Bellori described it, Human Love governed by Celestial Love. Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as well as Raphael's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina frescoes. His work would later inspire the untrammelled stream of Baroque illusionism and energy that would emerge in the grand frescoes of Cortona, Lanfranco, and in later decades Andrea Pozzo and Gaulli.Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Farnese Ceiling was considered the unrivaled masterpiece of fresco painting for its age. They were not only seen as a pattern book of heroic figure design, but also as a model of technical procedure; Annibale's hundreds of preparatory drawings for the ceiling became a fundamental step in composing any ambitious history painting" (Wikipedia). The tail-pieces of small children, one or two of which could be construed as rather naughty, are by Giacinto Gimignani (1611 - 1681). Leopoldo Cicognara: Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal Conte Cicognara (1821), 3376: "L'autore del testo pose grandissima cura a impinguarlo di erudizione, e l'editore v'aggiunse quantita d'altri rami, e vignette prese da altre opera, ma le 33 tavolo di Carlo Cesio sono in questa ristampa alquanto logore per quata sia fresco e nitido l'esemplare."

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Book number: 8223

Catalogue: Illustration

Keywords: illustration art prose

CARRICK (John D.):

Whistle-Binkie; a Collection of Songs for Social Circle. BOUND WITH: Songs for the Nursery.

Glasgow, David Robertson...., 1853, 1846. 6 volumes bound in 2. 16mo, 118 x 74 mms., pp. lxxvi, 124 [3] - 124, [3] - 124; xiv, 124, [3] - 182, x, 191 [192 blank], each part with separate paginations, but general title pages dated 1853, with extra woodcut vignette portraits at the front of each volume, and a separate title page to the last part, dated 1846, facsimile signatures of authors in the text, bound in original sage green cloth, stamped in blind to sides and pictorial gilt to spines; a little shaken in casing and cloth slightly faded, but a good set. This is the second collected edition of these works, comprising the first five series of the anthology, together with the supplemental 'Songs for the Nursery', which includes the immortal nursery rhyme 'Wee Willie Winkie'. Carrick commenced publication of this hugely popular anthology of popular Scottish songs in 1832, the term 'Whistle-Binkie' being here applied to any kind of popular entertainer, whether singer, story-teller, or indeed whistler; Carrick helpfully supplied an erudite dissertation on the subject to the 1839 edition; subsequent series were edited by Alexander Roger, eventually running to the five series presented here, the work competed in 1843 with a sixth part called "Songs for the Nursery," a very valuable and curious collection of modern nursery rhymes and songs; there was also a "Supplement to Whistle-Binkie" not included in the present collection, which is, however complete as issued.

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Book number: 6899

Catalogue: Song

Keywords: song anthology literature Scottish Enlightenment

CARRINGTON (John):

Gems of British Poesy, on Various Subjects, intended to Enforce the Practice of Virtue.

London: Printed for the Author, By W. Day, 17, Goswell Streeet; Sold by G. Ford..., 1826, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo,, 160 x 96 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii blank], [9] 10 - 188, including half-title, engraved portrait (by J. Shurry after J. Palmen) as frontispiece, last two leaves printed as doubleton, contemporary half red morocco, gray boards, silver label on spine. A very good to fine copy, with ms. corrections which might be in Carrington's hand; the ones on pages 18 - 21 annotating Byron, are those stanzas 178 to 184 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and appear to be reversing printer's errors rather than being authorial substantive variants. How's this for a diffident opening to a preface: "The author of this Volume, has not much to say on this occasion." True to his word, the preface is less than two pages, affirming the principle enunciated in the title, "It is the peculiar property of Poetry to do good by stealth; to hid the thorny paths of instruction by covering it with flowers; and the veriest infidel in polite learning, must be something more than abandoned, if he will not visit the Temple of Instruction, when Pleasure leads the way to it." The volume appears to be mostly an anthology, though none of the original author's are credited, e. g., Cowper's poem, "The Negro's Complaint" (1788) is included, though without credit given to the author; the same is true of Wordsworth's "Crazy Jane." Carrington's preface is virtually identical to that in Thomas Tomkins Poems on Various Subjects (1804): "The Editor of this Collection has not much to say on the present occasion...[etc]." The only copy that I know of in a public repository is the one in the BL.

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Book number: 9071

Catalogue: Anthology

Keywords: anthology poetry literature

CARRINGTON (Noel Thomas):

My Native Village; And Other Poems.

London: John Murray..., 1830. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 218 x 131 mms., pp. [iv] [5] - 160 [161 - 168 adverts], original boards (worn); front cover detached, but a presentation copy, with this presentation inscription on the recto of the first blank leaf: "Presented to the Bath Literary/ Institution/ by/ Henry E. Carrington/ Oct. 1830," the author's son; and with a book label on the front paste-down end-paper, also signed by H. E. Carrington. Carrington (1770 - 1830) was a school master for many years and contributed verses to various magazines and newspapers. ODNB records that "His poems are chiefly descriptive of the scenery and traditions of his native county and possess literary grace, but lack any striking individuality in matter or manner."

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Book number: 9349

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry topography literature

CARSWELL (Douglas):

The Venusiad and other Poems.

London; A. B. Hampson & Co., Ltd. Printers., 50a Barbican, London, E. C. 1904. Large 12mo, 183 x 113, pp. [11] 12 - 120, green publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt on spine. Inscribed by author on verso of front free end-paper, "Aunt, from her affectionate nephew/ Douglas./ Evensham Day. 6th. July 1904." With numerous corrections in pencil, perhaps by the aunt.

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Book number: 10278

CARTWRIGHT (Edmund):

Armine and Elvira, A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts. The Sixth Edition.

London: Printed for J. Murray..., 1777. 4to, pp. 40, including half-title, engraved vignette (by Isaac Taylor) on frontispiece, recently rebound rather heavily in half calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Cartwright published three editions of this work in 1771, and, according to W. Zachs in his biography of John Murray, "two thousand copies of the poem were printed, making it one of Murray's better selling publications." Zachs, The First John Murray, no. 147.

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Book number: 2166

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry literature

CASTÉRA (Jean-Henri):

The Life of Catharine II. of Russia. Translated from the French and Enlarged with Explanatory Notes and Brief Memoirs of Illustrious Persons. A New Edition. By the Rev. W. W. Dakins.

London: Printed for George Cawthorn, British Library..., Messrs Richardson..., H. D. Symonds, J. Wallis, West and Hughes..., J. Wring; and P. Hill, Edinburgh, 1799. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xx, 365 [366 blank]; vi, 411 [412 blank], engraved portrait in each volume, with one additional engraved portrait in volume 1 and two engraved portraits in volume 2, contemporary half calf, marbled boards; ex-library (Reading Library, Pennsylvania) with library perforations on each portrait, title-page, and last page of text in each volume, portraits foxed, binding falling to bits and lacking rear cover on volume 1. A sorry copy. Dakins' translation was published the year after an anonymous translation printed and published by G. Cawthorn; a second edition, enlarged to three volumes by W. Tooke was also published in 1798, with a third edition in 1799. Dakins does not allude to or mention these earlier translations. ESTC T168522 locates 5 copies: L, BMp, WNS; CaOHM, TxLT.

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Book number: 4867

Catalogue: Russia

Keywords: Russia biography prose women