[BLASCHE, Bernhard Heinrich, 1766-1832]; BOILEAU, D. (translates)

Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Young Persons of Both Sexes; [Offered with: ] the Art of Working in Pasteboard, Upon Scientific Principles : To Which Is Added, an Appendix, Containing Directions for Constructing Architectural Models: Intended As a Sequel to Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper

London, Boosey and Sons, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. Uncommon English translations of these two works by German educator Bernhard Heinrich Blasche, providing "Instructive Amusement for young persons," calculated to "introduce children to the most common and practical applications of geometry." (Preface) Papyro-Plastics: Second Edition, "greatly enlarged and improved." 16mo (141 x 116mm): xiii,[3],102,[2]pp, with hand-colored engraved frontispiece of castle, 21 further plates (seven folding) and final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's bluish gray paper-covered boards, original printed pictorial circular label with compass, ruler, and other draftsman's tools and title to front cover. Binding rubbed, lacking front blank (opens to half-title, top corner of which skillfully repaired), frontispiece and several plates lightly spotted, else an excellent survival,e securely bound and clean throughout. Osborne I, p. 224. Pasteboard: First Edition. 16mo (144 x 111mm): 114,[2]pp, with engraved frontispiece and seven further plates by J. Ellis (all folding) and final advertisement leaf. Publisher's green pasteboard, professionally rebacked to style, original printed paper label to front cover. Boards rubbed but an excellent example, securely bound and clean throughout. Papyro-Plastics, originally published in Germany (as Der Papparbeiter, oder Anleitung in Pappe zu arbeiten), in 1797, guided children on using compass, ruler, and geometry to construct elaborate buildings in paper, including a castle, a bridge, a house with gable front, a church, a thatched cottage, and a windmill. The Art of Working in Pasteboard, the sequel, enabled the construction of more ambitious and longer-lasting models; instruction was provided as well for constructing a basket, tea tray, work box, tea caddy, inkstand, candlesticks, watch stand, and an Ionic temple. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[BORCHT, Pieter van der, Illustrator], [Ovid]

[Ovidius Naso, Publius] [Juvenilia] Metamorphoses, Argumentis Brevioribus Ex Luctantio Grammatico Collectis Expositae: Una Cum Iconibus

Antwerp, Printed for the Plantins by Joannes Moretus, 1591. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Beautifully presented collection of 72 etchings by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (who signed the plate on p. 357), from one of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, a very early juvenilia, Ovid's Metamorphoses abbreviated. Oblong 16mo: 209-212,215-218,221-246,251-310,315-362,[17, index and approbatio]pp, with 72 full-page plates on 71 leaves (the versos of which carry the letterpress texts related to the plates on the rectos); the final plate is the full-page Plantin device, with the legend 'Labore et Constantinia.' Newly bound by Fitterer in full mottled calf with richly gilded spine. A defective copy (priced accordingly), but rich in beautiful plates and beautifully bound. Funck 374-375. Hollstein III, 100, nos. 200-377. Adams O-504 (misidentifuing the format as oblong 8vo]. Delen II, 92-93. The vast majority of pages are interleaved with period blanks, which are neither paginated nor signed. The missing plates and texts from this sequence would have appeared on O3 (Pictura), O6 (Hercules and Achelous), Q4 (Ganymede), Q5 (Hyacinth), V4 (The Destruction of Troy), and V5 (Polymnestor). In total there would have been 181 plates, which includes the etched title page through the plate illustrating the Plantin device. Our copy, p. 209 through the Plantin device plate woiuld have had 78 plates.Thus, 6 plates are missing from this sequence. Rare full-page plates from the first illustrated edition of this summary of stories from the Metamorphoses, once ascribed to the medieval grammarian Aelius Donatus and later to Lactantius Placidus, the ostensible author of a medieval Latin glossary, but both attributions proven incorrect by Gerlinde Bretzigheimer.) The etchings are by Pieter van der Borcht (c. 1530-1608), the Flemish Renaissance artist, who signed the plate on p. 357. (Van der Borcht went to work for Christopher Plantin at an early age and designed many of the printer's typographical ornaments.) "One of the gems of Renaissance illustrated books, adapted anonymously .from Ovid for the young and dedicated by the printer to two young boys, Luis and Martin Perez de Baron. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine .

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BOUGUER, Jean (d. 1714)

[Maritime] Traité Complet de la Navigation : Contenant Les Propositions & Pratiques de Geometrie, de la Sphere & D'Astronomie, Les Tables Du Mouvement Du Soleil... & Plusieurs Autres, Nouvellement Calculées, & Reformées Pour le Siecle Prochain... Les Regles Generales de la Navigation... Avec Des Cartes Marines... Le Tout Clairement Expliqué... [the Streeter Copy]

A Paris, et se vend à Nantes, chez P. de Heugueville, marchand libraire, à la Bible d'Or. Et chez l'auteur, au Croisic, 1698. First Edition. Full Calf. Rare First Edition of this early treatise on navigation (all of which, especially those of the Bougeurs, Jean and his son Pierre, have become increasingly scarce), including both celestial and nautical charts. 4to (232 x 184mm): [10] or [8], 224 pages, with etched additional title page, vignette on letterpress title, eleven folding engraved plates (including two constellation charts and three maps), and engraved head pieces and historiated initials. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments between raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Book plate of Frank S. Streeter (Christie's sale, 17 April 17, 2007, Lot 56) to front paste-down. A superlative, wide-margined copy (isolated minor spotting) with excellent provenance, tightly bound and clean throughout. Polak 1046. A second edition appeared in 1706. Bouguer was one of the finest hydrographers of his day. A former maritime pilot, he lost a leg at Bantry in the 1689 French invasion of Ireland, causing him to leave active service, and was appointed Regius professor of hydrography and navigation at the Royal School of Hydrography at Croisic in lower Brittany. One of the maps is of the North Atlantic, showing Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BROOKE, Rupert (1887-1915)

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1916. First Impression. Original Wrappers. First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly spotted, one corner bumped, but an excellent example, pages and plate virtually pristine. Keynes 29. Composed in May, 1912, at the Cafe des Westens, Berlin, in five lighthearted verse paragraphs of varying lengths and originally published the previous year in 1914 & Other Poems. The title refers to Brooke's occasional residence near Cambridge. "It is very much a poem of 'place': the place where Brooke composed the work, Berlin and the Café des Westens, and the contrast of that German world ("Here am I, sweating, sick, and hot") with his home in England. Yet it is more than just the longing of an exile for his home, nostalgically imagined. The landscape of Cambridgeshire is reproduced in the poem, but Brooke, the academic, populates this English world with allusions and references from history and myth." (wikipedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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BROOKE, Jocelyn (1908-1966)

Private View [with Wraparound Band]

London, James Barrie, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of these four character sketches "in that style of managed autobiography which Jocelyn Brooke has made so peculiarly his own" (from front flap). Crown 8vo (189 x 120mm): vii,[1],178pp. Publisher's maroon cloth, spine lettered in gold; lime green illustrated dust jacket printed in maroon and priced 10s / 6d, with the "Recommended by the Book Society" paper wraparound band. A superlative example, tightly bound and clean throughout; bright jacket moderately toned to spine panel. "Alison Vyse" and "Miss Wimpole" first appeared in The London magazine. The first line of the the first sketch, "Alison Vyse," sets the tone: "At the age of six I was, like most normally constituted children, a polymorphous pervert." It and "Miss Wimpole" draw upon childhood memories; the others ("Gerald Brockhurst" and "Kurt Schlegel"), from undergraduate and wartime experiences, respectively. Kingsley Amis, in his review, praised the third sketch in particular as "a brilliant performance, one of the best I can remember on the theme of getting to know a person." (The Spectator, January, 1955). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Near Fine+.

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BROWNE, D. J. [Daniel Jay, 1804-1867]

[Original Cloth] Letters from the Canary Islands

Boston, George W. Light, Lyceum Press, 3 Cornhill, 1834. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition (rare both in commerce and in institutional collections) of this account of the Canary Islands by the nineteenth-century Boston naturalist. Crown 8vo (186 x 111mm): 140pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece ("Peak of Tenerife from Ycod del Alto"), full-page map of the Madeira and Canary islands, two woodcut vignettes, and several tables. Original floral-patterned forest-green cloth, red leather lettering piece gilt. Rear blanks largely torn away and now skillfully replaced with matching period end sheets, binding lightly rubbed, one page very skillfully mended (by careful sewing!), but a superb survival, with pages and plates virtually pristine. American Imprints 23586. Not in Smith (American Travelers Abroad). Browne, a polymath who wrote on a variety of scientific subjects, traveled to the Canary Islands 100 kilometers west of Morocco for several months in 1833 to explore the archipelago's geology and mineralogy, botany, zoology, mollusca and shells, meteorology, and social conditions, and report his findings to a group of Boston sponsors. His trip centered on Tenerife, the largest and most populous island, and included three ascents of Mount Teide, the highest peak in Spain and third tallest volcano in the world. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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[BROWNE, Sir Thomas, 1605-1682]; John Merryweather (translates)

[Religion] Religio, Medici

Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden], Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1650. Full Calf. Early issue of the first Latin edition of Browne's first and most celebrated work, a spiritual testament and meditative essay originally not intended for publication. 12mo (128 x 73mm): 235,[5]pp, with engraved title page after a design by William Marshall of a figure falling headlong into the sea (but reversed with figure falling to the left). A5 and K4 erroneously signed, respectively, D5 and C4). Contemporary calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands, titled in gilt direct to second compartment. An excellent example, securely bound and clean throughout. Keynes 62. First published, in 1642, in an unauthorized edition; the first Latin edition appeared in 1644. "This edition closely resembles Hackius' second edition of 1644 [Keynes 61] and is to a certain extent printed from the same type. Alterations have, however, been made and the orthography is modernized." (Keynes) Structured on the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, Religio, Medici expresses Browne's beliefs in the doctrine of sola fide, the existence of hell, the Last Judgment, the resurrection, and other tenets of Christianity. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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BURCKHARDT, Jacob (1818-1897)

[the Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy] Die Cultur Der Renaissance in Italien [Otto Wesendonck's Copy]

Basel, Druck und Verlag der Schweighauser'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1860. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this classics of Renaissance historiography, from the library of Otto Wesendonck, patron of the composer Richard Wagner. Demy 8vo (221 x 133mm): 4],576pp. Original moire-pattern purple cloth, covers blocked in blind with intricate oval device, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, brown patterned end papers. Wesendonck's engraved book plate to front paste-down, with his contemporary ownership inscription to front free fly-leaf and blind library stamp to tile page . Basel postage stamp laid in. Spine lightened a degree or two, very occasional foxing, otherwise an exemplary example, tightly bound, pages remarkably fresh and bright, virtually pristine. PMM 347. This milestone of cultural history, written by Burckhardt between 1855 and 1858, cast a "powerful spell . upon such widely different writers as Ruskin, Nietzsche and Gobineau, as well as upon innumerable lovers of the most magnificent period of European history." Lord Acton called it, "The most penetrating and subtle treatise on the history of civilization." (PMM) Divided into six parts: the State as a Work of Art, Development of the Individual, Revival of Antiquity, Discovery of the World and of Man, Society and Festivals, and Morality and Religion. A two-volume English translation appeared in 1878. Otto Wesendonck's (1815-1896) success as a silk merchant made him a generous patron of the arts and enabled him to provide significant financial support to one of his favorite composers, Richard Wagner, throughout the 1850s. For a time, the Wagner's lived in a villa on Wesendonck's estate in Zurich, and Otto would eventually purchase the copyright of the four Ring operas. Wagner became infatuated with Wesendonck's wife, the poet Agnes Mathilde Luckemeyer (1828-1902). She exerted considerable influence over his music and provided the words to the Wesendonck Lieder song cycle. Their passionate relationship (whether platonic or otherwise) came to an end in 1858 when Minna Wagner accused them of adultery. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797)

An Account of the European Settlements in America. In Six Parts. I. A Short History of the Discovery of That Part of the World. II. The Manners and Customs of the Original Inhabitants. III. Of the Spanish Settlements. IV. Of the Portuguese. V. Of the French, Dutch, and Danish. VI. Of the English. Each Part Contains an Accurate Description of the Settlements in It, Their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius and Disposition of Their Inhabitants: The Interests of the Several Powers of Europe with Respect to Those Settlements; and Their Political and Commercial Views with Regard to Each Other. In Two Volumes

London, printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, 1765. Early Printing. Full Calf. Fourth Edition, "with improvements," complete in two volumes, of the "best contemporary account" of European colonization of the New World. (Howes). Printed by William Bowyer, whose records show only 500 copies went through the press. Demy 8vo (201 x 122mm): [8],xii,324; xii,308pp, with folding frontispiece map in each volume by Emanuel Bowen (South America and North America). Continental speckled calf, spines in six compartments divided by gilt rules, red leather lettering pieces, volume numbers in gilt to third compartments. A handsome set, tightly bond, end sheets heavily foxed, text pages more lightly so, maps fine. Sabin 9282. Todd 4d. Howes B974. Hill 218 (for authorship). Maslen and Lancaster (Bowyer ledgers) 4536. Higgs 1499. TPL 254 (first edition). Goldsmiths' 9576. Europeans began establishing colonies in the Americas after 1600, on the Caribbean Islands and the eastern coast of North America (England, France, and the Netherlands) and in Central and South America (Spain and Portugal). By then, most Native Americans living in the region had died from diseases, earlier introduced by European explorers and sailors. The first volume of European Settlements deals largely with Hispanic America, including Mexico, New Mexico, and English claims to California, Peru, Chile, and Brazil. The second volume describes European colonies in the West Indies and North America. Authorship of this work remains in dispute. Edmund Burke told Boswell that he only "revised" it. But Todd concludes that it is mainly Edmund's work, though it may also have been a collaboration with his cousin, William Burke, and brother, Richard. Howes, however, think it was "actually written by William Burke, but usually ascribed to his more famous kinsman who gave substantial help." Interestingly, Higgs notes that at the sale of Dodsley's autographs in 1833 "was sold the original receipt for £240 for this book signed by [Edmund] Burke." Regardless, the work was extremely popular and frequently reprinted and translated. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Very Good+ .

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[BURNET, Sir Thomas, 1694-1753]

A Second Tale of a Tub: Or, the History of Robert Powel the Puppet-Show-Man [Hugh Selbourne's Copy]

London, Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1715. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of this wicked satire on statesman Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (political power-broker and patron of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Daniel Defoe), taking its title from Swift's celebrated Tale of a Tub (but not recorded by Teerink-Scouten in the list of spurious sequels to Swift's work). 8vo: [2],219,[5]pp, with frontispiece and imprimatur leaf. Variant with price 3s/6d on title page. Period calf ruled in blind, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. From the library of bibliophile Hugh Selbourne, M.D. (1906-1973), with his discreet ownership stamp on two pages. (In an appreciation of Shelbourne's diaries, Hilary Mantle noted in The Guardian: "His passion is for antiquarian books, and he owns them by the yard; we are not talking about first editions of Dickens, but first editions of Erasmus, 'printed Basle, 1517'. His regular beat takes him to his private consulting rooms at St. John Street in the centre of Manchester, then to Shaw's, the book dealer .".) A handsome copy, clean and sound, with several abrasions to boards, marginal toning to some leaves, occasional spots and soiling, inoffensive ink blot to p. 195 obscuring four or five letters but not affecting sense. ESTC Citation N22063. McBurney 79. Lowndes 325 (calling it a satire on Sir Robert Walpole, ascribed to Thomas Duffet). Probably written with the collaboration of George Duckett, it casts an account of Harley's life as an allegory of a Machiavellian scoundrel who betrays family and friends in his rise to power and practice of ruthless state craft. The vehicle for this allegory is Martin Powell (fl. 1709-29), the physically deformed showman who ran a celebrated puppet-show in Covent Garden (as shown in the frontispiece). The Tale portrays Harley as a puppet-master manipulating Swift and other hack writers in the service of the Tory faction. Though not a novel, per se, Second Tale of a Tub is seen by some as an important link between Swift's antecedent and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (Eugene Korkowskia, Studies in the Novel, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 470-474). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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BUTLER, Samuel (bap.1613, d.1680); William Hogarth [illustrates]

Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey LL. D. Adorn'd with a New Set of Cuts

London, printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson, 1764. Full Calf. Best edition" (Lowndes), with Grey's annotations and Hogarth's plates, of the most celebrated satire of the seventeenth century. Complete in two octavo volumes, with engraved half-length portrait of the author by Vertue and 16 full-page engravings (five folding) by Mynde after Hogarth. [2],xiv,xxxvi,424,[16]; [2],446,[24]pp. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments divided by gilt-ruled bands, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, all edges speckled red. Engraved armorial spade shield bookplates of J. G. Vernon on front paste-downs. A superlative set: endpapers and a few preliminaries and final leaves browned at margins but otherwise clean and bright; plates pristine, in deep, rich impressions; boards firmly attached, bindings tight and intact. Grolier (English 100) 32. Bland, pp. 216-19. Wither to Prior 137. Dibdin (Library Companion), p.731 ("the best critical edition, not only of this author, but doubtless of every other of the period"). Brunet I 1427-28. Lowndes 335. Maslen & Lancaster (Bowyer Ledgers) 4485. Paulson (Hogarth's Graphic Works) 73-84. Second Hogarth edition with Grey's notes (with "many emendations upon that of 1744," according to Lowndes). Originally published in three parts, between 1663 and 1678; the first edition with Hogarth's plates appeared in 1726, and the plates were re-engraved for this edition). Influenced by Rabelais and particularly Cervantes' Don Quixote, Butler's mock-heroic poem satirized Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians, and other factions of the English Civil War. "Although 'written in the time of the late Wars,' Hudibras was not licensed to be printed until 11 November 1662, two years after re-establishment of the monarchy, when a satire on Puritanism could no longer give offense to the ruling party. On the contrary, the satisfaction which it gave to the King and court had much to do with the great success it achieved." (Grolier English Literature 100, 32). Samuel Pepys bought a copy, and finding no humor in it, sold it the same day. Still, the book enjoyed enormous popularity, and on 5 November 1663, the Second Part appeared. Fourteen years passed before 'Hudibras: the Third and Last Part' (dated 1678) was entered in the Stationers' register on 22 August 1677 and put on sale. Multiple editions (as well as pirated issues) of the individual parts, as well as combined editions, were published by 1680. According to Bland, Hogarth's plates are a "landmark in English illustration and emphasize its divergence from an international style. nothing could be more different from French work of the time . Hogarth aims at the common man; where the French illustrator is salacious, he is coarse; where the French illustrator chooses a classical or aristocratic subject, he prefers a contemporary plebeian one; and he is moral where the Frenchman is amoral." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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CAMBRIDGE, Richard Owens (1717-1802)

The Scribleriad: An Heroic Poem. In Six Books

London, Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row, 1751. Six parts in one volume. 4to: xvi,31,[1]; 31,[1]; 31,[1]; 32; 32; 27,[9]pp, each book with separate title page, frontispiece, and pagination, the seven full-page plates engraved by Boitard after drawings by Boitard & J. Wall, the general title-page vignette engraved by Mosley after Gravelot, with wood-engraved ornaments. Period half calf (rebacked) over marbled boards (scuffed), spine divided into compartments by raised bands, red morocco letter-piece gilt. Variant text,with lines 168 and 169 omitted on p. 17 of Book IV but footnote to line 169 printed; p. 32 of Book V with tail-piece rather than note (stating that purchasers of the imperfect Book IV could obtain of the correctly printed pp. 17-18 from their bookseller. A Fine wide-margined copy in an early binding, with superb impressions of the plates and virtually pristine pages. NCBEL II 645. Lowndes 355. Cambridge's major work, a mock-epic poem, whose hero is Martinus Scriblerus, the brilliant creation of the Tory wits Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, and Jonathan Swift, founding members of the Scriblerus Club, an association of London authors. Working collaboratively, the group imagined the persona of Scriblerus, through whose writings they accomplished their satirical aims. Cambridge's poem, "intended to expose false taste and false science, replete with happy parodies of distinguished passages in the classics, particularly Virgil," is preceded by a dissertation on the mock epic, in which he avows Cervantes as his master. (Lowndes) "The versification is still elegant and finished, but the interest of the satire has evaporated." (DNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to that association's codes of ethics.). .

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CAMDEN, William (1551-1623)

Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: And Translated Into English, with Additions and Improvements. The Second Edition. Revised, Digested, and Published, with Large Additions, by Edmund Gibson, D.D. Rector of Lambeth; and Now Bishop of Lincoln, and Dean of His Majesty's Chapel-Royal

London, printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722. Full Calf. A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices, index and errata]pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Camden, 10 plates of coins and antiquities, 51 folding or double-page uncolored maps (including 42 county maps and maps of north and south Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and "The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean) "all new engrav'd," additional engravings and woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf (joints very neatly repaired), spine in seven compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces gilt; title pages in red and black. An unusually Fine set, original binding with handsome patina; pages bright, fresh and unmarked; plates and maps in deep, rich impressions. PMM 101 and Gibson's Library, p. 87 (for first edition). Challinor 2. Goldsmiths' 6088. Chubb CXV. ESTC Citation No. T144701. Second (and best) Edition revised by Edmund Gibson of the first successful transcription into English, with maps by Robert Morden. "Not a history, the Britannia attempts (in the words of Gibson's translation of Camden's preface) ‘to restore Britain to Antiquity, and Antiquity to Britain'—the charge that Camden says was given him by the ‘great Restorer of old Geography', [Abraham] Ortelius himself. It does so by documenting the ancient pre-Roman British past using every kind of primary historical evidence imaginable, whether written records, inscriptions, literary remains, material both historical and mythological, or testimony drawn from the physical landscape. In his use of non-literary evidence Camden was a leading figure in his generation, and his work in numismatics . has been described as ‘of pioneering importance' (Piggott, 204). Recognizing the imperfection of the written record, particularly the scarcity of genuine British material, Camden looks to multiple kinds of evidence to push the record as far back as possible and to trace continuities through the different periods of British history." Britannia made its début, in Latin, on 2 May 1586, with enlarged editions following in 1587, 1590, 1594, 1600 and 1607, the final Latin edition in Camden's lifetime, published in folio and containing an index, maps by Saxton and Norden, and engravings of coins, monuments, and topographical sites—all in all, an impressive and editorially sophisticated work of scholarship. The first translation into English came in 1610 , at the hand of Philemon Holland . Yet despite Camden's collaboration, "the translation is often inaccurate and takes liberties with the material, and for this reason is regarded as inferior to Edmund Gibson's translation of 1695 (ours is the second, enlarged edition of that essential translation, published in 1722). Gibson was assisted in his efforts by numerous scholars, including Samuel Pepys, and his translation was held in high esteem for the better part of the 18th century until It was finally superseded in 1789 by the edition of Richard Gough. (Literary Encyclopedia) "If Camden was not the first English historian (in the modern sense of the word), topographer, and antiquarian, he was certainly the first to relate the three studies, and his Britannia, primarily topographical, is the first book which shows, even in a rudimentary form, the need to evaluate sources. It was the revolutionary subject matter, and its even more revolutionary treatment of the subject, which made it at once the vehicle and the model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fifty years." (PMM). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Great Britain—Description and travel—Early works to 1800. XIX CENTURY

CAMPBELL, Joseph (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, 1879-1944)

[Travel] [Ireland] Mearing Stones; Leaves from My Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal

Dublin, Maunsel & Company, 1911. Paper-Covered Boards. Scarce First Edition of the Irish poet's reminiscences of wanderings about Donegal, beautifully illustrated. 8vo (215 x 169mm): viii,[2],56pp, with 16 full-page plates (including frontispiece) after pencil drawings by the author. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards, paper labels printed in black to spine and front cover, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, matching blue-grey end papers; attractive Gaelic book plate and Sidney bookseller's ticket to front paste-down. Joints skillfully re-enforced, minor marks to boards, light (occasionally moderate) spotting to pages, else a collectible copy in original binding with both paper labels intact. Text and drawings extracted from the author's notebook. Campbell wrote under the Gaelic form of his name, Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil. He took part in the Easter Rising of 1916, becoming a Sinn Féin Councillor, in Wicklow, in 1921. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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CARTER, Robert (1819-1879)

[Angling] a Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England

Boston / New York, Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt, 1865. Decorative Cloth. Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Original green pebbled cloth, covers paneled in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, brown coated end papers. Lightly rubbed, but a handsome copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Bruns C66 ("Salt water fishing on the New England Coast from sand dabs to pollack"). Bartlett, p. 16. First published the previous year. According to the preface, Carter's narrative originally appeared in the form of letters to the New York Tribune. His account was immensely popular, going through subsequent editions in 1870, 1888, and 1889. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: Saltwater fishing. Travel. Maine. New England. XIX CENTURY