CAESAR (Julius):

Commentarii di Caio Giulio Cesare Tradotti di latino in vulgar lingua: per Agostino Ortica de la porta Genovese. Con la tavola di nomi antiqui et moderni de la Gallia, Britannia, Germania, Italia, Grecai, Egypto, Asia, Africa et Hispagna Ultimamente con somma diligentia revisto, & corretto.

In Venetia per Alovise de Torti, 1539. Small 8vo, 144 x 97 mms., [ix] + 241 numbered leaves, engraved device with bust of Caesar on title-page, woodcut map on Aiiiir -A5v, 5 more woodcut illustrations Avr - A8v, colophon on verso of last leaf of text,18th century boards in vellum, red morocco label on spine. A very good copy, with the autograph "J. T. Coleridge/ 1814" on the recto of the upper margin of the front free end-paper. The judge Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790 - 1876) was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and this is almost certainly his autograph. The translation by Agostino Ortica della Porta of Caesar's commentaries was one of the best and most popular in the 16th century. It first appeared in 1512 and was frequently reprinted.

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Book number: 7033

Catalogue: Classics

Keywords: classics translation prose

CAESAR (Julius):

C. Julius Cæsar's Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and Civil War with Pompey. To which is added Aulus Hirtius or Oppius's Supplement of the Alexandrian, African and Spanish wars. With the Author's Life. Adorn'd with culptures from the Designs of the Famous Palladio. Made English from the Original Latin, by Martin Bladen, Gent.

London: Printed for Richard Smith..., 1705 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 120, pp. [xxxviii], 363 [364 - 370 Index, 371 - 374 adverts], engraved frontispiece, three folding engraved maps, 10 engraved pltaes (8 folding), later 18th century panelled calf, rebacked, new end-papers, title in gilt on spine; lower outer corner of title-page slight defective, corners worn, but a good copy. Colonel Martin Bladen (1680–1746) was born in 1680 attended Westminster School where he was a Queen's Scholar at St Peter's College and then attended St John's College in Cambridge.[3] He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1698[4] but did not pursue a legal career. He joined the military in December 1697 as Ensign to Captain Jos. Fletcher. He still found time to produce this well-illustrated and more than competent translation of Caesar, and another ten editions followed quickly.

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Book number: 10349

Catalogue: Classics

Keywords: classics translation

CAIRNS (William):

A Treatise on Moral Freedom; Containing Inquires into the Operations of the Intellectual Principles, in connexion generally with Moral Agency and Responsibility, but especially with Volition and Moral Freedom.

London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1844. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iii] - xxiv, 496, contemporary half binder's cloth, marbled boards; lacks half-title, boards and binding a little soiled and grubby.

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Book number: 2008

CALDWELL (Henry).

Memoir of the Services of Captain Henry Caldwell, Royal Navy, Companion of the Bath, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and Commodore.

[No Place] Printed for Private Distribution, 1869. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Large 4to, 269 x 204 mms., pp. [3] 4- 16 [17 - 28 blank], portrait photograph of Captain Caldwell tipped in before title-page, with tissue guard present, attractively bound in binder's navy blue cloth, title within blind borders on front cover, blue end-papers, all edges gilt. A fine copy. Caldwell (1815 - 1868) entered the Royal Navy when he was 13 and served as Commodore in the last nine years of his life. The anonymous author writes of him, "A man of commanding stature and appearance, with wonderful power of voice, he was the beau ideal of a naval officer. A thorough seaman and a good mechanic, with great aptitude for the direction of artificers, he was admirably fitted for the post which he was afterwards appointed to fill, in superintending the out of ships in Portsmouth Dockyard as Captain of the Steam Reserve." No other copy located: not in COPAC, KVK, WorldCat, British Library, or Library of Congress

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Book number: 8817

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography navy literature

CALLCOTT (John Wall):

A Musical Grammar, in Four Parts: I. Notation, II. Melody, III. Harmony, IV. Rhythm.

London: Printed by B. Macmillan...for Robert Birchall..., 1806. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxii [xxiii blank, xxiv, Errata], 308 [309 - 312 adverts], contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red leather label; joints a little rubbed, spine slightly dried but a very good copy. With the calligraphic initials "E B." on the front paste-down end-paper. Callcott (1766 - 1821) began composing and playing as a young boy, and in 1782 he played the oboe in the orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music. He compiled materials for a dictionary of music, but it was never published. The above work was often reprinted in the 19th century.

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Book number: 3519

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music aesthetics prose

CALLCOTT (John Wall):

A Musical Grammar, in Four Parts: I. Notation, II. Melody, III. Harmony, IV. Rhythm. Third Edition

London: Printed for Robert Birchall..., 1817. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [iii] - xix [xx blank], 327 [328 blank], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), red morocco label; binding a little dried. Callcott (1766 - 1821) began composing and playing as a young boy, and in 1782 he played the oboe in the orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music. He compiled materials for a dictionary of music, but it was never published. The above work was first published in 1806.

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Book number: 5850

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music prose

CALLCOTT (John Wall):

A Musical Grammar, in Four Parts: I. Notation, II. Melody, III. Harmony, IV. Rhythm.

London: Printed by B. Macmillan...for Robert Birchall..., 1806. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 178 x 91 mms., pp. xxii [xxiii blank, xxiv, Errata], 308 [309 - 312 adverts], contemporary half calf, dark red morocco label; small ink-stain on half-title, which is bound after contents, small piece torn from blank margin of I6, just touching text and repaired with translucent paper, slight wear to binding, but a good to very good copy. Callcott (1766 - 1821) began composing and playing as a young boy, and in 1782 he played the oboe in the orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music. He compiled materials for a dictionary of music, but it was never published. The above work was often reprinted in the 19th century. A Musical Grammar was noticed in The Eclectic Review, with the reviewer asserting that the work would not disappoint the expectations of the public: "The author evinces a thorough knowledge of the science of music, and has certainly taken great paints to give correct and satisfactory information.... The work will prove a valuable acquisition to the student, and even to the proficient, in this interesting branch of human knowledge." The music theorist Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (1756-1829) also reviewed two later editions of Callcott's book at length in the first issue of The Quarterly Musical Register in January, 1812.

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Book number: 10388

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music aesthetics prose

CALONNE (Charles Alexandre de):

L'Etat de la France, présent & a venir.

A Londres: De l'Imprimerie de T. Spilsbury & Fils, October 1790. Large 8vo, 225 x 142 mms., pp. [ii], xvi, 96, 81 - 96, 97 - 126, 119 -126, 127 - 151, 154 - 440, Errata on page [442],original boards, uncut; some marginal worming in latter half of book, slight nicks to front joint, corners a little crushed but a fine copy of a book in its original condition as issued, with the armorial bookplate of Lord Walsingham (Thomas de Grey, second Baron Walsingham [1748–1818]), on the front paste-down end-paper. ESTC lists 12 separate issues or editions for 1790. This is T91446.

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Book number: 6333

Catalogue: France

Keywords: France revolution prose

[CAMBRIDGE (Richard Owen)]:

The Fable of Jotham: To the Borough-Hunters.

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1754. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 240 x 195 mms., pp 7 [8 blank], 19th century marbled wrappers; leaves very closely trimmed with lost of upper portion of "The" in top margin of title-page, as well as second line of imprint in lower margin. The fable of Jotham is recounted in Judges 9, 7-15, where Jotham mocks the choice of Abimelech as king. In this instance, two merchants are invited to stand for a borough in Cornwall and pass an instructive evening in Exeter.

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Book number: 6574

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics bible literature

CAMOENS (Luis de).

Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens: With Remarks on his Life and Writings. Notes, &c. &c. By Lord Viscount Strangford. The Second Ediiton

London: Printed for J. Carpenter..., 1803. Small 8vo, 1672x 107 mms., pp. [iv], 160 [161 - 164 adverts], engraved portrait of Camoens as frontispiece, engraved arms of Strangford on dedication page, entirely uncut, contemporary paper spine (soiled and faded), marbled boards (rubbed), but a good to very good copy. Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford (1780–1855) graduated from TCD in 1800, and he published this translation of Camoens shortly after entering the diplomatic service as secretary of the legation at Lisbon. "Because of Strangford's translations, the American American Monthly Anthology said, 'the minor poems of Camoens now attract admiration and applause, which they never before received.' But Strangford's Poems from the Portuguese was something more than a just a collection of translations introducing the lyrics of Camoens to English readers. The volume as a whole, that is, the lyrics taken together with Strangford's 'Remarks on the Life and Writings of Camoens' and the appended notes to the poems, was virtually a romanticized biography of the Portuguese poet himself" (Monica Letzring, "Strangford's Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens," Comparative Literature (1971).

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Book number: 9206

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry translation literature

CAMPBELL (George):

The Philosophy of Rhetoric.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell...and W. Creech at Edinburgh, 1776. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 203 x 123 mms., pp. xv [xvi blank], 511 [512 Errata]; vi [vii Errata, viii blank], 445 [446 blank, 447 - 448 adverts], including half-title in each volume, contemporary tree calf, gilt rules, red leather labels; bookplates removed from front paste-down end-papers, spines rubbed and darkened, but a good to very good set, with the ownership inscription "John Charles Jones/ Shrewesbury, !822" on the recto of the front free end-paper in each volume The importance of Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric was recognized immediately. Writing in The Monthly Review, October 1776, William Enfield claimed that Campbell had "discovered a clearness of discernment and accuracy of observation, which justly entitle him to be ranked among the most judicious critics." Adam Smith was also aware of its merits but was dubious about its popularity. He wrote to the publisher William Strahan, on 6 July 1776, that "There is good sense, and learning, and philosophy in Campbells Book. But it is so unfashioned that I am afraid you will not be a great gainer by it." In some sense, Smith was right: no second edition appeared in Campbell's lifetime. It was only five years after Campbell's death in 1796, and twenty-five years after the first edition, that a second edition appeared in 1801. Thereafter, some 40 editions were published in the 19th century and it was widely used as a textbook. In the 20th century, William Samuel Howell, in Eighteenth-Century British Logic and Rhetoric (1971), asserted that, "Campbell's Rhetoric must be called the leading British, and indeed the leading European, work on its subject to appear in the eighteenth century."

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Book number: 9982

Catalogue: Rhetoric

Keywords: rhetoric philosophy prose Scottish Enlightenment

[CAMPBELL (John)]:

The Present State of Europe; Explaining The Interests, Connections, Political And Commercial Views Of Its Several Powers, Comprehending A Clear and Concise History of each Country, so far as to shew the Nature of the Present Constitutions. The Third Edition. Revised, corrected, and continued by the Author.

London: Printed for Thomas Longman, and Charles Hitch..., 1752. 8vo, pp. viii, 517 [518 - 520 Index], newly rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, black morocco label; ex-library with library stamp in blind on title-page and shelf marks on verso.

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Book number: 4735

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politics Europe prose

[CANNING (George), et al]:

The Microcosm, A Periodical Work, By Gregory Griffin, Of the College of Eton. The Second Edition. Inscribed to the Rev. Dr. Davies.

Windsor: Published for C. Knight...and sold by Mess. Robinson...and Mr. Debrett..., 1788. 8vo, 203 x 118 mms., pp. xv [xvi Names of the Authors], [3] - 451 [452 errata], additional engraved title-page preceding printed title-page, recently rebound in quarter calf, black morocco label, gilt spine, marbled boards; slight water-staining to title-page, but a good copy. The first 40 numbers of The Microcosm were published at Eton, 6 November 1786 - 30 July 1787. Among the subjects discussed one finds language, genius, poetics, novels, affectation, translation, imitation, government, genius, etc.

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Book number: 7146

Catalogue: Essays

Keywords: essays prose

[CAPELL (Edward)]:

Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry,-- compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and offer'd to the Publick as Specimens of the Integrity that should be found in the Editions of worthy Authors,-- in three Parts; containing, I. The notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile's Induction; and, Overbury's Wife: II. Edward the third, a Play, thought to be writ by Shakespeare: III. Those excellent didactic Poems, intitl'd -- Nosce teipsum, written by Sir John Davis: with a Preface.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson..., 1760. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 181 x 110 mms., pp. [iv], xi [xii blank], 23 [24 - 26 notes], 23 [24 -26 notes], 13 [14 - 15 notes, 16 blank], 93 [94 - 101 notes, 102 blank], [6], 81 [82 - 84 notes], contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, black leather label; front joint slightly cracked, upper rear joint very slightly cracked, but a good copy with the armorial bookplate of Hugo (1738-1808) master of the royal staghounds in 1770 and 1772 as well as fox-hunting, a sport that he effectively transformed, and he was unanimously hailed as the foremost fox-hunter in the kingdom. He was also MP of Quarn Hall. Capell's edition was one of the first books printed in England to omit catchwords and to be printed on wove paper. Capell's rigorous editorial standards have more in common with modern textual criticism than the editorial attitudes of most of his contemporaries; his was the first text of Edward III to be published since 1599, though it seems unlikely that Shakespeare wrote it, even in part. Capell published his edition of Shakespeare in 1767 - 1768; his editorial procedures there and in Prolusions are the starting-point for modern editions of Shakespeare. The distinguished Shakespearian (and it was Capell who coined the word "Shakespearian") scholar, Alice Walker, in a superb commentary on Capell, concluded of his work, that "A lifetime's work on the methods to be used in editing our best authors, had, in fact, qualified Capell to speak with authority on many subjects, and his opinions were neither rashly formed nor lightly held. Nonetheless he has never had the general recognition he merits. It is understandable that contemporaries with less exacting standards should find it easier to scoff at his aims than to emulate them, but it is less understandable that his originality and perception should still receive so little attention" (Proceedings of the British Academy, 46 [1960], 131 - 145).

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Book number: 10251

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry scholarship literature

[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 calf, gilt spine, black morocco label, marbled boards; some light foxing but a very good copy. 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: 7163

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography music prose