SAAVEDRA Fajardo, Diego de (1584-1648)

[Emblem Book] [Courtesy Book] Idea de Un Príncipe Político Cristiano. Representada En Cien Empresas Por Don Diego Saavedra Faxardo Cavallero &C

Amstelodami [Amsterdam], apud Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem, 1659. Early Reprint. Vellum. Pocket edition of the most important anti-Machiavellian book of the seventeenth century, as well one of the most popular and most beautiful Spanish seventeenth-century emblem books. Text in Latin. 12mo (127 x 70mm): [24],832,[4]pp, with engraved title page, 101 nearly full-page copper-engraved emblems within borders of varying designs after Johannes Sadeler at the beginning of each chapter as pictorial statement of the chapter's lessons, and a final unnumbered plate beneath a brief obituary of the author ("Magni Politici"), showing skull, tomb, and other images of death with the banner "Ludibria Mortis." Contemporary vellum, faded title in manuscript to spine, page edges sprinkled blue; cloth-covered slipcase with brown morocco lettering piece gilt. An exceptionally crisp, clean copy. Modeled after the Milan issue of 1642, which corrects the errata discovered in the first edition of 1640. Not to be confused with another Amsterdam edition, dated 1659, with imprint of Jansonium Jr. Emblemata Hispanica SX19. Praz, p. 483. Ticknor III, 185. First published in Munich, in 1640, followed by more than twenty editions in the original Spanish as well as translations into French, Italian, English, German and Latin (as here). One of the finest Golden Age treatises on statecraft, covering the education of a prince, his relations with ministers and subjects, and his duties as head of state, written in reply to Machiavelli's cynicism, for Saaevdra was a diplomat and man of letters, but is best know as a political thinker and for this, his most erudite work. The Idea of a Christian Political Prince compiles more than a hundred short essays, or maxims, illustrated with emblems in the style of Andrea Alciato's Emblemata. Sententious, mainly moral, and philosophical in character, they were written for the education of Balthasar, son of Philip IV, who died too young to profit from its advice. 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 .

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Keywords: Political science Early works to 1800. Kings and rulers Duties Early works to 1800. Emblems Early works to 1800. Emblem books, Latin. Emblem books - Netherlands - 17th century

FELTON, S. (Samuel, active 1780-1792)

[Grangerized] on the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening with Biographical Notices [Francis Henry Cripps-Day's Copy]

London, Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Joseph Onwhyn, Catharine Street, Strand, 1830. Three-Quarter Calf. Scarce extra-illustrated copy of this work on English writers on gardening and landscape design (in effect, a bibliography). Demy 8vo (224 x 134mm): xxxviii [2],221,[1]pp. Small, trimmed eighteenth-century portrait engravings, after Hollar, of John Tradescant the Elder and John Tradescant the Younger tipped in. Bound by Sizer (stamp to front paste-down) in three-quarter green-dyed calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands, title direct in gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut, Prussian blue end papers. Provenance: Francis Henry Cripps-Day (gilt armorial stamp to bottom of spine), early twentieth-century historian of arms and armor; Charles A. Ward (engraved armorial book plate to front paste-down). For the portraits of the Tradescants, see New Hollstein (German) 1430 and 1431. Spine faded to brown, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Second Edition, "with considerable additions." According to specialist bookseller Charles Wood, "a mine of information," with biographical sketches of, among many others, Gabriel Plattes, John Beale, John Rea, Leonard Meager, Henry Wise, Steven Switzer, Richard Bradley, John Evelyn, George Mason, William Marshall, Gervaise Markham, and William Kent. 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: Horticulture bio. Gardening. Gardening Bio-bibliography. Garden writing. Gardening Great Britain ; Biography.

FENELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe (1651-1715)

[Greek Mythology] Les Avantures de Telemaque Fils D'Ulysse. Par Feu Messire François de Salignac de la Motte Fénelon, Précepteur de Messeigneurs Les Enfans de France, & Depuis Archevêque-Duc de Cambrai, Prince Du Saint Empire, &C. Nouvelle édition Conforme Au Manuscript Original. Enrichie D'Un Grand Nombre de Figures En Taille Douce. Avec Des Remarques Pour L'Eclaircissement de Cet Ouvrage

A Londres, chez J. Tonson, a l'enseigne de Shakespear dans le Strand; & J. Watts, a son Imprimerie dans Wild-Court pres de Lincolns-Inn-Fields, 1726. Full Calf. Second Edition of this didactic novel published in England, based upon the extensively corrected, enlarged, and reconceived Paris edition of 1717. 12mo (166 x 92mm): [18],xxviii,[4],468 [12]pp, with portrait frontispiece of Fenelon, title page in red and black, folding map tracing Telemachus's travels throughout the Mediterranean, and 24 full-page copper-engraved plates, one at the head of each book (in reconceiving the work for the Paris edition, the author's grandnephew divided the story into 24 books conforming to Homer's "Iliad"). Contemporary sprinkled calf, the spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands with a red morocco lettering piece gilt in the second. End papers lightly spotted, but all else generally clean and bright; archival repairs to tears on two leaves (no loss of text); joints very skillfully (almost invisibly) repaired, with the binding now sturdy and secure. Collated and complete with the often-suppressed "Ode" and the two leaves of advertisements at the start of the book. ESTC Citation No. T139621. OCLC Number: 504521029. A scarce edition, with OCLC locating only one copy (in the British Library) and ESTC just five others. First published anonymously, without the author's consent, in 1699. Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai and tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne (grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the throne) published this didactic novel anonymously in 1699. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey, recounting the educational travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysses, accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, the book's true hero. Mentor denounces war, luxury, and selfishness and proclaims the brotherhood of man. Though set in a far off place and ancient time, Télémaque (and Mentor's pronouncements) was immediately recognized as a satire on the autocratic reign of Louis XIV, whose wars and taxes on the peasantry had reduced the country to famine. Predictably, Louis banished Fénelon from Versailles, confining him to his diocese, where he remained, with few exceptions, for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, Télémaque was an immediate best seller, both in France and abroad, translated into every European language and even Latin verse. It inspired numerous imitations and supplied the plot for Mozart's opera, Idomeneo (1781). It was also a favorite of Thomas Jefferson, who reread it frequently. (adapted from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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FERGUSSON, Robert (1750-1774)

Poems on Various Subjects... In Two Parts [Charles Whibley's Copy]

Perth, Printed by R. Morison, Junr. For R. Romison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London, 1788. First Edition thus. Full Leather. First Printing of this uncommon edition (published for Morison's Edition of Scottish Poets), with no copies currently on the market and Rare Book Hub recording only one at auction, in 1977. 12mo (148 x 85mm): viii,104; [8],128pp, with portrait frontispiece and two further copper-engraved plates. "Although dated 1788 on the title-page, this volume was probably not issued until the succeeding year. The portrait frontispiece is dated March 18th 1789." (Fairley) Title page to part two adds the imprint: G. Mudie, Edinburgh. Modern period-style mottled brown leather, spine in six compartments decorated with Greek key roll, black leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. Book plate of bibliophile Charles Whibley (1859-1930): Sum Caroli Whibley. A handsome copy (few gatherings lightly toned), beautifully bound and generally clean throughout, with excellent provenance. Fairley 19. A scarce early posthumous edition of a title first published in 1773 (as Poems) and 1779 (Part II), Fairley 5 and 11, with second and third editions, respectively, in 1782 (Fairley 12) and 1785 (Fairley 14 and 15). "Fergusson was Robert Burns's favourite Scottish poet, and, though they never met, they had friends in common. When Burns was awaiting the publication of the Edinburgh edition of his own work in 1787 he complained about the lack of a headstone at Fergusson's grave; eventually he paid for and composed the inscription for such a memorial. Burns addressed several poems to Fergusson, calling him 'Heaven-taught Fergusson' and 'my elder brother in Misfortune / By far my elder Brother in the muse.' Several of Burns's poems, including 'The Cottar's Saturday Night', are modelled on works by Fergusson, who has continued to be revered by Scottish poets. Robert Louis Stevenson regarded him as 'so clever a boy, so wild . so like myself' and planned to add words to his tombstone 'as the gift of one Edinburgh lad to another' (Letters, 8.290-91)." (ODNB) Whibley is best known for bringing T. S. Eliot to the attention of Geoffrey Faber, resulting in Eliot's being hired as an editor at Faber and Gwyer. Eliot's essay "Charles Whibley" (1931) was published in his Selected Essays, 1917-1932. In Eliot's London Letter (June 1922) he says, "I prize . Mr. Whibley because he has read so many things that I have not read and because he is not a Whig." 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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FLORUS, L[ucius] Annaeus, c. 74 AD - c. 130 AD [Claude Saumaise, Joannes Georgius Graevius, Johan Heinrich Wetstein]

[Binding] Epitome Rerum Romanarum Cum Notis Integris CL. Salmasii, & Selectis Variorum. Accedunt Jo. Georgii Graevii Annotationes Longe Auctiores & Correctiores; Nec Non Numismata Et Antiqua Monumenta... In Fine Additus Est L. Ampelius Ex Bibiotheca CL. Salmasii

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], apud H. Westenium, 1692. Early Reprint. Full Calf. So-called second edition of "by far the most critical edition of Florus that appeared in the seventeenth century." (Dibdin) Edited by the German classical scholar Johann Georg Graevius, with extensive notes by the French classical scholar Claudius Salmasius at the foot of each page. Small, thick 8vo: [22],672,[673-674],561-588,[108],46pp, with engraved title page (by Romeyn de Hooghe) depicting the goddess Roma enthroned and adored by peoples of the world, letterpress title page in red and black with vignette, 29 copper-engraved full-page plates depicting medals and coins, folding table, ornamental borders, and decorative initials. Full contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in five compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, covers ruled with corner pieces in blind, edges speckled red, plain period end papers with engraved armorial book plate of E[dwarf]. W[iliac]. Steakhouse (Franks 27808), a second plate just barely visible beneath. Binding tight and square; contents remarkably crisp, clean and bright. A spectacular example of this scarce and important edition (WorldCat lists only four copies). Dibdin (Greek and Roman classics), p. 349. Bibliotheca Splendidissima Rendorpiana 496. Landwehr (de Hooghe) 54. Moss I, p. 446, for first edition of 1680, calling it a "very learned and valuable edition, containing a critical and accurate text, and a very judicious selection of notes; it is undoubtedly the best edition which has yet been published." Gibson's Library, p. 126 (for later, Amsterdam edition). Brueggemann, pp. 7004-06, and Wing F1378, for various English editions. Florus's rapid sketch of Roman military history, in four books, from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janis by Augusts (25 BC), tracing the rise and fall of Rome's military might. Often identified as the second edition (reprinted from the Utrecht edition of 1680), though Dibdin says erroneously so, this being a reprint of the Elusive edition of 1674, with additional notes and Graveness' preface. We have not been able to confirm either claim with certainty, but our search of bibliographic records that have come to light since Disdain's judgment, in 1808, make his pronouncement seem unlikely. 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 .

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Keywords: Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C. Rome (Empire) History.

FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de (1657-1757)

Dialogues of the Dead, in Three Parts. I. Dialogues of the Antients. II. The Antients with the Moderns. III. The Moderns. Translated from the French. With a Reply to Some Remarks in a Critique, Call'd the Judgment of Pluto, &C. And Two Original Dialogues

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn, 1708. Full Calf. First edition of this translation, by John Hughes, superseding that of Dryden, of Nouveaux dialogues des morts. 8vo; [2], l, [2], 209 [1]pp, with a finely engraved frontispiece. Bound in contemporary or slightly later 18th-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, the spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, with a red leather lettering piece in the second. The joints very skillfully mended, a Near Fine copy, pages bright and fresh. ESTC Citation No. T139460. The Dialogues, modeled on the dialogues of Lucian, unite in conversation figures from antiquity, such as Socrates and Aristotle, with more recent personages, including Erasmus and Montaigne, to discuss the literary and philosophical developments of Fontenelle's day. First published anonymously in 1683, Dialogues des morts and Nouveaux dialogues des morts were Fontenelle's first works and ignited his reputation, which was consolidated three years later with Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, through which he popularized Copernicus's heliocentric model of the Universe. To this edition, John Hughes contributes both an appreciation and assessment of Fontenelle as well as two dialogues of his own. 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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DU FRESNOY, Charles Alphonse (1611-1668); John Dryden (translates)

[de Arte Graphica] the Art of Painting : With Remarks: Translated Into English, with an Original Preface, Containing a Parallel between Painting and Poetry: By Mr. Dryden. As Also a Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters, Both Ancient and Modern: By R.G. [Richard Graham]

London, printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates, in Fleetstreet, 1716. Cambridge-style Calf. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of Dryden's prose translation of du Fresnoy's poem on the art of painting, prefaced by Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting and with Richard Graham's biographical chronology of painters, "A short account of the most eminent painters," with separate title page. Foolscap 8vo (171 x 107mm): [16],lxviii,[4],397,[7]pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece and armorial headpiece, both by S. Gribelin. Cambridge-style paneled calf, calf lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, title page printed in red and black. Provenance: Jacobean armorial book plate of Thomas Lloyd of Aston to front paste-down (Frank Bequest 18506). An excellent example in contemporary binding, fresh and bright. Griffith 46 (for another 1716 edition with different imprint). MacDonald 139 b. Maslen & Lancaster 286 (Issue A). Parallel texts of du Fresnoy's Latin poem, "De arte graphica," and Dryden's translation, modified by Charles Jervas (who corrected the errors in Dryden's translation for this edition, possibly with the assistance of Pope). Written during du Fresnoy's 24-year Italian sojourn and published in Latin, in Paris, as L'art de peinture, in 1668; the first English edition appeared in 1695 (MacDonald 139 a). "To Mr. Jervas, with Frensoy's [sic] Art of painting', in verse, is by Alexander Pope. Printed by William Bowyer (1500 ordinary and 50 fine-paper copies "with margin alter'd"). Samuel Johnson admired the translation, including several hundred quotations from it in his Dictionary. 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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FRÉZIER, Amédée François (1682-1773)

Relation Du Voyage de la Mer Du Sud Aux Côtes Du Chily Et Du Perou, Fait Pendant Les Années 1712, 1713 & 1714 : Dediée à S.A. R. Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans, Regent Du Royaume / Par M. Frézier, Ingenieur Ordinaire Du Roy ; Ouvrage Enrichi de Quantité de Planches En Taille-Douce

Paris, chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin, Jacque Quillau, imprimeur-juré-libraire, rue Galande, aux Armes de l'Université, 1716. First Edition. A defective first edition (missing one map and one plate) of this classic in the literature of Pacific voyages of exploration. 4to: xiv,298,[2]pp, with 35 (of 37) maps, plans, and plates (18 of which are folding); ornamental engraved vignettes, and woodcut musical notation in the text (never bound in were the map of Détroit de le Maire, no. v, and the plate of Indiens en habits simples, no. ix); plate xvi was bound in twice). Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments, brown leather lettering piece gilt, "Caissotti" in gilt script on upper board, all edges stained red, marbled end papers, red silk page marker. An exceptional, wide-margined copy, text, maps, and plates fresh and clean, marred only by a stain in the gutter of first three leaves. Provenance: copper-engraved bookplate, "Il Cittadino / Carlo Giac. Caissotti." Sabin 25924. Borba de Moraes 328. Hill, p. 115. Leclerc 1736. Palau 94964. Gibson's Library, p. 128. Item #BB0841. Frézier set sail in 1712 with a French commission to assess the strength of Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast and to revise existing charts. According to Hill, he "brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value" to later navigators, and his account is today appreciated for its keen observations of the customs, commerce, and natural history—including the cotton and strawberry plants—of Chile, Peru and Tierra del Fuego. (It's interesting to note that Frezier's surname was itself derived from fraise, the French for strawberry.) The chapters on Indian and Creole life include descriptions of costume and architecture, as well as musical instruments. The folding plans of cities visited are often enhanced by panoramic views, as in the case of Callao, Concepción, Valparaíso, La Serena, Salvador de Bahía, and Angra (Azores). Amongst the most important plates are the general map of the expedition, the Strait of Lemaire, Valdivia, Bahía de an Vicente, Santiago de Chile, Lima and Bahía de Todos los Santos. An immediate success, the work was soon translated into English and German and republished several times in the eighteenth century. 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.). .

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Keywords: Brazil — Description and travel. Jesuits — Chile — Early works to 1800. Jesuits — Peru — Early works to 1800. Voyages and travels — Early works to 1800. Natural history — Chile — Early works to 1800. Na

FULLER, Thomas (1608-1661)

Abel Redevivus : Or, the Dead Yet Speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the Moderne Divines. Written by Severall Able and Learned Men (Whose Names Ye Shall Finde in the Epistle to the Reader. ) and Now Digested Into One Volumne, for the Benefit and Satisfaction of All Those That Desire to Be Acquainted with the Paths of Piety and Virtue

London, printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet, 1651. First Edition. First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596pp, with additional engraved title page and forty-three engraved portraits in the text. There are numerous errors in paging, including: final page misnumbered 599, p. 221 misnumbered 211, p. 22 misnumbered 21. The section on Lancelot Andrewes (including blank page and portrait plate) covers 10 unpaged leaves, inserted between pp. 440-441. (The "Life & Death of Lancelot Andrews" was also issued separately, in 1650 [Wing / I-1058]). The engraved portrait of Jerome of Prague on page 21. often missing, is present. The portrait of Thomas Fuller, according to Bibliotheca Bibliographici, was only was added in later editions. Contemporary calf, covers framed with gilt roll, respined to match in six compartments between raised bands, green morocco lettering piece gilt, old marbled end papers, title page printed in red and black. An absolutely superb example, crisp, clean and bright, and very securely bound. McAlpin Collection, p. 743. Wither to Prior 389. Bailey 12 ("Perfect copies of the original editions rarely rarely now occur on sale; and, when occurring, are highly priced."). Lowdnes II, 848. Wing / F2400. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 2152. Biographical sketches of Protestant divines and theologians (including Calvin, Erasmus, Knox, Luther, and Wicklief) with occasional verse by Francis and John Quarles. "The interregnum, which brought many radical and unwelcome changes as far as Fuller was concerned, was, paradoxically, a remarkably productive period for him as a scholar and writer. His Pisgah-Sight of Palestine (1650), a historical and geographical description of the Holy Land, was well received. It carried perhaps an implied message: if ancient Jerusalem and its temple could be rebuilt, so, too, could the nearly shattered Church of England. His biographical sketches of key figures in the English Reformation in Abel redevivus provided possible patterns for that rebuilding." (ODNB) 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 .

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FULLER, Thomas (1608-1661)

The Historie of the Holy Warre; by Thomas Fuller, B.D. Prebendarie of Sarum, Late of Sidney Colledge in Cambridge; [Bound with] the Holy State [and the Profane State]

Cambridge, printed by Roger Daniel, and are to be sold by John Williams at the signe of the Crown in Pauls Church-yard [through 1648], 1647. Full Calf. Small Folio: [16], 286, [28, chronological table and index]pp, with additional engraved title page depicting the crusades and folding map of Palestine; [8],189 [124 mis-numbered 104], 200-394,435-510 (pagination is irregular, per ESTC Citation No. R6571, but text is continuous), with additional engraved title-page and 20 engraved portraits. The Profane State has separate title page, dated 1642. Contemporary full calf boards paneled in gilt, spine rebacked in period style with red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges and end papers. A Fine copy, tightly bound, pages fresh and bright, with excellent impressions of the plates; minor marginal staining to first few leaves, repairs to explanatory leaf opposite first frontispiece. Pforzheimer 390 and 92 (for first editions). Lowndes 847 (citing this edition of The Holy State as "best"). Wither to Prior 386 and 387. Wing F2438 and F2444. Allibone, p. 643. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 2191 and 2196. The Holy War is the third edition, with re-engraved title page (Pforzheimer). The Holy State is the second edition, enlarged. Based on Fuller's extensive reading in medieval sources, The Holy War is the first modern history of the crusades in English. In his judgment, the Papacy, in waging them, had spent European lives and wealth for nothing more than a faraway plot of land and a few relics. The Holy State and The Profane State, Fuller's celebrated studies in virtue and vice—"the most popular and characteristic of all his books" (ODNB)—provides rule of conduct, offering as exemplars a rich collection of model characters, along with short biographies of historical figures from Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis Drake to St. Augustine and Joan of Arc. Allibone calls it, "Perhaps . the best of his works; and certainly [it] displays to better advantage than any his original and vigorous powers of thinking." Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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GALLOTTI, Jean (1881-1972); Albert Laprade (Illustrates); Lucien Vogel, 1886-1954 (Photographs)

[Islamic Architecture] [Moorish Houses and Gardens of Morocco] le Jardin Et la Maison Arabes Au Maroc, Avec 160 [Sic] Dessins de Albert Laprade Et 136 Planches En Heliogravure D'Apres Les Photographies de Lucien Vogel, FéLIX, Vve P.R. Schmitt, G. Fauré Et Canu

Paris, Editions Albert Lévy, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 2, rue de l'Echelle, 1926. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition, complete in two volumes, of this treatise on Moroccan domestic architecture, as interpreted by Gallotti and his collaborators. Text in French. Royal 8vo (250 x 193mm): viii,120,[8]x; 94,[8]pp, with 136 plates in heliogravure from photographs by Lucien Vogel and others and 157 line drawings by Albert Laprade. Publisher's saffron yellow percaline-backed paper-covered boards, front covers with architectural vignette in silver gilt, spines lettered in silver, pale blue end papers, fore- and bottom edges uncut. A handsome set, securely bound and clean throughout. Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises, Vol. 19, No. 80 (March-April 1931), pp. 201-202. The French architect Albert Laprade helped design two of Morocco's best known twentieth-century monuments: the French Protectorate Residence (résidence générale), in Rabat, and the New Medina (Quartier des Habous), in Casablanca. He also also collaborated with Gallotti on this monograph, with photographs depicting an array of traditional Moroccan residences, principally by Lucien Vogel. According to Gallotti, the two volumes provide a primer on Moroccan domestic architecture as interpreted by sympathetic French architects and gave a guide for foreigners on methods for designing houses in the traditional manner. Both volumes are organized according to formal elements and typologies (plan, windows, stairs, decoration, kiosks, palaces, and the like). The houses are exemplars of a synthetic "Arab" architecture invented by Gallotti and his collaborators, largely inspired by "traditional" Moroccan architecture in Fez, recombining elements into a unified amalgam, a hybrid architecture. (See Maison Arabes au Maroc: Fez and French Colonial Architecture, a paper presented by Patricia Morton at the conference "Fez, Morocco, Crossroads of Knowledge and Power: Celebrating 1,200 Years of Urban Life") 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: Architecture, Domestic—Morocco. Islamic architecture. Gardens—Morocco. Architecture, Domestic. Gardens. Islamic architecture. XIX CENTURY MODERN FIRSTS

GARTH, Samuel Sir (1661-1719)

A Compleat Key to the Dispensary

London, printed for T. Wotton, at the three Daggers, and Queen's-Head; J. Lacy, at the Ship; J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun; and C. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate, all in Fleet-Street, 1726. First Edition thus. Half-Calf. The first edition of the key to interpreting Garth's famous and widely reprinted poem to include "A Continuation to the Key." 12mo (156 x 94mm): 35,[1]pp (29-30 misbound following 31-31). Handsomely bound in period-style half calf, marbled paper-covered boards, end papers renewed. Pages lightly toned, else an excellent example of a title very scarce in commerce. NCBEL II 474. Not in Foxon or Lowndes. Fifth Edition (originally published in 1706), including "Verses omitted in the late editions of The dispensary" and "A prologue designed for Tamerlane. written by Dr. Garth." The Dispensary concerns itself with a dispute between the College of Physicians and the Society of Apothecaries. The physicians were learned professionals able to write prescriptions designed to cure a specific ailment, while the apothecaries were lowly tradesmen who simply mixed ingredients together. The poem describes a mock Homeric battle between the two, and records the first attempt to establish outpatient rooms where poor people could obtain advice and prescriptions from the best physicians. The scheme had the strong support of most of the city's physicians, including Sir Samuel Garth, physician in ordinary to George I and physician-general to the British army, but was opposed by the apothecaries, who tried to defeat the plan by charging excessive prices for prescribed drugs. Garth's poem, ridiculing the apothecaries, was extremely popular, going through three editions in its first year of publication, 1699. The key identifies many of individuals (and there were swarms of them) alluded to anonymously in the poem. 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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GAY, John (1685-1732)

The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals [Provenance]

London, Jacob Tonson, 1721. Third Edition. Small, slim 8vo: [16],60,[4]pp, with frontispiece, six full-page copper-engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail pieces. Later polished calf, flat spine (rebacked) lettered in gilt, speckled boards framed with French fillet, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled end papers (end papers and fly leaves renewed). An excellent copy, several engravings and a few pages with very light marginal stains, else clean and bright. Provenance: bookplate of the collector Horace Noble Pym (1844-1896) to front paste-down, with his red ink library stamp to front fly-leaf. Foxon G74. Rothschild 922 (calling this the fourth edition). Third edition (originally published 1714). In April 1713, a series of articles in The Guardian launched a debate concerning the nature of pastoral poetry, by praising the verse of Ambrose Philips at the expense of Alexander Pope, who had claimed the mantle of first pastoral writer of his age and the true English Theocritus. Gay's contribution to this literary skirmish, intended to ridicule Philips, was this mock pastoral, a series of six poems modeled on Virgil's Eclogues, which in turn had been influenced by the idylls of Theocritus. The poems are composed in a pseudo-archaic dialect "explained"` in a glossary at the foot of each page. "These glosses are masterpieces of false learning . all deliberately chosen to draw attention to the false simplicity of Philips's verses. Yet amid all this Gay inserts some genuinely lyrical moments, before bathetically undermining them, reminding us of the rhythmic beauty of the country, quite separate from the town and its ambitions." (ODNB). .

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GAY, John (1685-1732)

Trivia: Or the Art of Walking the Streets of London [Large-Paper Copy]

London, printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet, 1716. First Edition. Morocco. First Issue, large-paper copy (engraved headpiece on p. 1 depicts a street scene, not a phoenix, with elaborate engraved ornaments, not printer's ornaments, on pp. 21 and 53) of John Gay's Gay's best remembered poem and perhaps the greatest poem written on life in London. 8vo: [4],80,[12]pp. Full maroon morocco by Riviere, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands and lettered in gilt, renewed marbled end papers, plain paper fly leaves, all edges gilt. Lintott printed 2000 ordinary copies and a further 250 on fine paper, of which our copy is one. A Dublin edition and three other London editions appeared the same year. Fine. Hayward 142. Foxon G82 (fine-paper). Ashley II, p. 135. Rothschild 914 (the statement in Haywood, that "there are two leaves, G7 and G8, blank and genuine, is incorrect"). Bowyer Ledgers 281. Faber, p. 57. Dearing (ed), John Gay. Poetry and Prose 546. Trivia (after the goddess of streets, not the modern meaning, of trifles or unimportant matters) takes Virgil's Georgics as an ironic model for a mock account of outdoor life in London to satirise the noise, stench and danger of contemporary life on its streets. "Though there had been imitations of Virgil's didactics, there had been nothing of the scope, nor any that had hit upon the real idea, of Trivia: to imitate in mock, not just one or another of Virgil's prescriptions, but the entire work." (Dearing). "Gay's satiric thrust is aimed both at idle aristocratic Londoners of the day, at one extreme of the class system, and at loud and aggressive labourers at the other. The playful irony that runs through the poem is intended to appeal to educated readers, who would appreciate the poet's witty allusions to the classics. Gay treats London's streets as a mock parallel to Virgil's farm in the Mantuan countryside, contrasting the contemporary foot-traveller in London, struggling against his surroundings, with Virgil's rural farmer in full accord with his." (Literary Encyclopedia) 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 .

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GEORGE, H. B. (Hereford Brooke, 1838-1910) and Ernest Edwards (Illustrates)

[Photobooks] the Oberland and Its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera

London, Alfred W. Bennett A. W. 1866. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this foundation work on the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, and one of the earliest books illustrated with original photographs. Royal 8vo (267 x 209mm): xii,243,[1]pp, with 28 albumen silver prints by Ernest Edwards, including frontispiece and title vignette (eleven of which are full-page, with tissue guards, mounted on separate leaves), and double-page lithographed map of the Oberland. Publisher's green pebbled cloth (also issued in maroon and blue cloth), spine ruled and lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind, front cover framed and lettered in gilt with central gilt motif of ice-axe and camera, beveled boards, all edges gilt. An excellent example (light, occasional spotting, more so to first few pages), tightly bound in original decorative cloth and generally clean throughout. Gernsheim 327. Neate G13 ("prized for its illustrations"). Boni, p. 143. Truthful Lens 74. Perret, p. 235. George was editor of the Alpine Journal and one of the greatest English mountaineers. He made the first ascents of the Great Viescherhorn and of the Jungfrau from Wengeralp. Edwards's seven-page "Notes by the Photographer" (p. 237-243) describes the difficulty of making wet-collodion photographs under field conditions. He is thought to be the best of the early amateur Alpine photographers. 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: Photographically illustrated books -- 1860-1870. Albumen prints. Expedition photographs -- 1860-1870. XIX CENTURY MODERN FIRSTS