HALL, Sir James (1761-1832)

[Geology] II. On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata, and Their Relation with Granite; [Bound with: ] IV. On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface, Parts I & II [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

Edinburgh, Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Cadell and Davies, London, 1815. First Edition. Wrappers. Two original articles disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding titles refer to order of sequence as published in the Transactions. Demy 4to (273 x 210mm): 79-108,139-211,[1]pp, complete with nine copper-plate engravings. Recently bound by Fitterer in stiff marbled wrappers. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Geology Emerging 994. Hall founded the field of experimental geology and was a supporter of Hutton's Theory of the Earth. In the first paper, "On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata" (see DSB, vol. 6, p. 55), he conjectured that series of closely packed folds in Lower Paleozoic rocks in southern Scotland had been formed by lateral pressure. To test the theory, he constructed a machine in which layers of clay, when subjected to lateral pressure from opposing directions, reproduced folds closely comparable to those found in the rocks. Hall concluded that the intrusion of large masses of granite had produced the folding, providing strong support for Hutton's idea that granite was an intrusive igneous rock and marking a stage in the advancement of geological thought. The second paper, "On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface," records a further attempt to reproduce a geological process experimentally. In it, Hall discussed certain surface features (later shown to have been caused by the ice sheets that covered Europe in the glacial period), and concluded that they were caused by the passage of enormous tidal waves (tsunamis). (Based upon the ideas of Horace Benedicte de Saussure and Peter Pallas, Hall came to believe that the earth's surface is reshaped and recycled, not by the ordinary processes of erosion, as Hutton had suggested, but by immense tidal waves.) Hall had examined numerous manifestations of glacial action in the region of Edinburgh, including deposits of boulder clay and fluvioglacial gravel, leading him to believe that a tidal wave, caused by some deep-seated and powerful submarine manifestation of igneous activity, had crossed mid- Scotland. He attempted to reproduce a tidal wave by exploding gunpowder under water, but the experiment appears to have done no more than produce a violent upheaval of the water above the explosion. 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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HANWAY, Jonas (1712-1786)

[Stonehenge] a Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston Upon Thames; Through Southampton, Wiltshire, &C. With Miscellaneous Thoughts, Moral and Religious; in a Series of Sixty-Four Letters: Addressed to Two Ladies of the Partie. To Which Is Added, an Essay on Tea, Considered As Pernicious to Health, Obstructing Industry, and Impoverishing the Nation: With an Account of Its Growth, and Great Consumption in These Kingdoms. With Several Political Reflections; and Thoughts on Public Love. In Twenty-Five Letters to the Same Ladies. By a Gentleman of the Partie

London, Printed by H. Woodfall, 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea, both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards, flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red, end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed, but contents otherwise clean and bright, the binding tight and firm. A splendid, wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library, p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I, p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant, with connections to the Russia Company, and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings, prostitutes, and the climbing apprentices of chimney sweeps. His mother's death, in 1755, prompted him to return to Portsmouth where she was buried, that sojourn served as inspiration for this, his second book, to which he appended An Essay on Tea. Hanway describes many of the places he visited (including Salisbury, with its great cathedral, and Stonehenge), with digressions on tombstones, sacred music and oratorios, divine poetry, temperance, lapdogs, false grief, the ruling passion of women, and much else. His Essay on Tea indicts the beverage for causing everything from insomnia, weak nerves, and scurvy to bad teeth, and proposes 'Herbs of our own growth in lieu of tea.' (Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, and other ardent tea-drinkers criticized these eccentric views in The Idler and other publications.) 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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HEWITT, John; John Pine (engraves)

[Interest Tables] Interest Compleated, in Three Parts, Viz. 1st. 48 Tables for Simple Interest, Ye Principal, from 1 Penny, to 100,000, Pounds Ye Time, for 365 Days, 11 Months, & 50 Years, at 3,4,5, & 6 Per Cent. 2d. 4 Tables, of Brokerage, or Commission, Ye Stock, or Value of Goods Sold, from 1 Pound, to 100,000, Pounds, at 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4, 2, 2 1/4, 2 1/2, 2 3/4, 3, 3 1/4, 3 1/2, 3 3/4, 4, 4 1/4, 4 1/2, 4 3/4 to 5 £ Per Cent. 3d. A Table of Time, for Ye Speedy Finding Ye Number of Days, between Any Two Days in Ye Year. All Calculated & Examined by John Hewitt, Gent

London, printed, for A. Bettesworth in Pater noster Row, & J. Clarke under the Royal Exchange, 1723. Full Calf. Unusually scarce first edition of Hewett's book of tables for calculating simple interest, brokerage commissions, and time, entirely engraved throughout by John Pine. Squarish 8vo (149 x 124mm): [64]pp, with engraved frontispiece and armorial vignette. Full calf, spine in five compartments divided by gilt-ruled raised bands, covers with double gilt line border. There appear two extraordinary manuscript ex-libris entries, each filling an entire page: to verso of frontispiece, in elegant calligraphic flourishes, is written "John / Townsend / Newbury / Berks / 1775" and to verso of title page, in black letter, appears "Frederic Calder [?] / Donnington / near Newbury Berks / England." Tightly bound and clean and unmarked throughout, excepting end sheets, which are rubbed and stained, those to rear heavily so. Still, an exceptional survival. Goldsmiths' 6233. Hanson 3247. BM 8533. Sotheby's, The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing, Lot 641. By the dawn of the eighteenth century, questions concerning the "present value" of future wealth were becoming matters of practical concern, as business people and governments began issuing mortgages, bonds, and annuities (the first British consol [bond] was issued in 1752). Hewitt's was not the first publication to answer this computing need, but his preface claims it was the best: the easiest to use (because it had four rates in each of the 48 interest tables); most copious (in respect to principal, from a penny to £100,000, and time, for 365 days, 11 months, and 50 years); most compendious (in regard to the small number of tables required), and most correct (because the tables are engraved, "and so not liable to error."). The DNB describes the engraving style of John Pine as "dry and formal, but of great precision and excellence," exactly what was wanted for such a book as Hewitt's. 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.). Very Good+ .

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HIBBERD, Shirley (1825-1890)

The Town Garden : A Manual for the Management of City and Suburban Gardens

Groombridge & Sons, 5, Paternoster Row, 1855. Original Cloth. Scarce First Edition of Hibberd's first book, with extensive tables of annuals and perennials. Foolscap 8vo (142 x 91mm): 172,20pp. Publisher's olive-green pebbled grain cloth paneled in blind and lettered and decorated with vine motif in gilt. Handsome bookseller's and binder's tickets to front (Fry, Chelmsford) and rear (Bound by Westley's, London) paste-downs. An excellent example (spine lightened a degree or two), tightly bound in original cloth and virtually pristine throughout. James Shirley Hibberd was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era; The Town Garden was his first book. "Sensing a market among the advice books and gardening manuals of the era, Hibberd followed up with the very successful Rustic Adornments (1856) and Garden Favourites (1858). In 1858 he became the first editor of the newly established magazine Floral World. In Stoke Newington he created one garden for fruit, another for vegetables, another for roses, and so on. Eventually lack of space encouraged him to move to 74 The Hermitage, a private road in Muswell Hill." (ODNB) 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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HOGG, Thomas (1771-1841)

A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus,Tulip, and Other Flowers; Including a Dissertation on Soils and Manures, and Containing Catalogues of the Finest and Most Esteemed Varieties of Each Flower

London, Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. Second Edition, very considerably enlarged, of this florist's treatise on "the finest and most esteemed varieties of each flower." Crown 8vo (189 x 112mm): [2],12,xxvii,[1],304pp, with six hand-colored plates (five lithographs and one engraving). Original sage green paper-covered boards, paper label printed in black to spine, uncut. A handsome, unsophisticated example (title label nicked, with loss of several letters) uncut in original boards, tightly bound and clean throughout, with richly colored plates. Payne, p. 34. Dunthorne 137. First published in 1820, in an edition barely half the size (with only one engraved plate), with further editions following in 1823 and 1824. Hogg's first florist shop was at Paddington Green, Middlesex. 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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[Baron Ludvig Holberg, writing as:] KLIMIUS, Nicolaus (1684-1754)

[Utopian Literature] Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam Ac Historiam Quintae Monarchiae Adhuc Nobis Incognitae Exhibens E Bibliotheca B. Abelini

Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig], Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian, 1766. Early Reprint. Full Leather. Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different languages. Small 8vo: [10],360pp, with portrait frontispiece, engraved title-page, folding map and six full-page plates engraved by Brühl (the 1741 first edition, published in Copenhagen, contained only 3 three plates in addition to the frontispiece; the first English edition, none). Contemporary dark brown mottled sheep, elaborately gilded spine sewn on five bands, green and tan lettering pieces gilt, red paste-paper end papers, marbled edges. Spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, else an extremely pleasing and collectible copy of this satirical romance in the style of Gulliver's Travels (although Bleiler notes that "Holberg's satire is wider in scope, more penetrating in analysis, and less local than Swift's") by the father of Danish literature ("Holberg found Denmark with no books, and he wrote a library for her."—Encyclopedia Britannica). Internally fine and bright with excellent plate impressions. Hoover 425. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1114 (of "international importance"). Gove, pp. 303-305; Stammhammer II, p. 171. Brunet III, 260. Originally published in 1741, this highly imaginative Swiftian journey to a fifth underground continent is set in the Norwegian town of Bergen, where a penniless student visits a strange cave, falls into a void, and ends up on the subterranean planet Nazar, which is inhabited by sentient monkeys, thinking trees, goat philosophers, and double basses that communicate musically. According to Lewis (Utopian Literature, p. 92), Niels Klim is the first important fictional use of the astronomer Edmond Haley's theory (suggested in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1692) that three concentric hollow balls nested inside the earth account for the magnetism of the poles through their movement, and that openings at the poles provide access to hidden worlds through a series of caves. Nor was Haley alone: from the 1600s to the early 1900s, the notion of a hollow earth was treated seriously by leading scientists, including Johannes Kepler and Athanasius Kircher. 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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HOLDEN, Horace (1810-?)

A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute : Who Were Cast Away in the American Ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the Year 1832; and for Two Years Afterwards Were Subjected to Unheard of Sufferings Among the Barbarous Inhabitants of Lord North's Island

Boston, Russell, Shattuck, and Co, 1836. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Small, slim 8vo: xii,13-133,[1]pp, with wood-engraved frontispiece of tattooing and full-page wood-engraved plate of native canoes approaching the British barque Britannia following p. 114. Original, elaborately embossed brown cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. End papers spotted, else an excellent, unsophisticated copy. Sabin 32473. Hill 818. Taylor, p. 548. The Mentor sailed from New Bedford under Captain Edward Barnard in 1831. "Holden, a farm boy from New Hampshire, was aboard the whaleship when it was wrecked. Only half the crew survived; they were ultimately captured by natives, who tattooed, starved, and mistreated their prisoners. Holden and his friend Nute were rescued in 1834 by the British barque Britannia . This work includes a 'Vocabulary of the language of Lord North's Island' ." (Hill) Melville's description of tattooing in Typee apparently derives from this account. 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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HOOPER, W. H. (William Hulme, 1827-1854)

[Inuit] [Northwest Passage] [Arctic] Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski : With Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, As Far As the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst

London, Published by John Murray, 1853. First Edition. Morocco. First Edition of this truly fascinating account, important for its descriptions of the manners, customs, and culture of the Inuit and other native tribes, particularly the Chukchi (Tuski) people. Thick 8vo: xv,[1],417,[1]pp, with 4 full-page tinted lithographs (by J. Brandard after P. Skill), 3 line drawings (2 full-page), 4 woodcut vignettes, and folding partially colored lithographed map. Bound without half-title. Contemporary elaborately paneled (in gilt and blind) full green morocco, ornate gilt central ornament on upper cover, richly gilt spine in compartments between five raised bands; all edges gilt, pale yellow end papers, brown silk page marker. Elegantly inscribed in fountain pen to front fly-leaf: [To] "Alfred F. A. Hanbury Tracy [presumably a close relation of the British politician Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy, 1848-1906] / with the best wishes / of his affectionate friend / John Hetherington / on his leaving Eton / Election. 1863." A superlative copy, barely used, in bespoke binding. Preliminaries foxed, else virtually spotless; all plates pristine; raised bands lightly rubbed. Sabin 32883. Abbey, Travel, 641. Arctic Bibliography I, 7395. Field, Indian Bibliography 713. Lada-Mocarski 140. Lande 1238. National Maritime Museum I 903. Smith, Pacific Northwest Americana 4615. TPL 3176. Wickersham, Bibliography of Alaskan Literature, 6591. Cooke & Holland, Exploration of Northern Canada, pp. 183 and 473. Hooper sailed out of Plymouth as mate of the H.M.S. Plover on January 30, 1848, on a three-year mission to search for and relieve Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845. Hooper led a party along the coast of the Bering Strait as far as Cape Atcheen, and through the winter mixed with the local people, whom he called Tuski, and whose language he learned. The following summer, in one of the Plover's boats, explored as far as the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Finally, in 1851, abandoning the Plover, the entire search party traveled overland to New York, and reached England in October. "Hooper's health had given way under the hardships of three Arctic winters, and he became a confirmed invalid, relieving the tedium of his illness by writing [this] account of the expedition." He died the following year, aged twenty-seven. (ODNB) 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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[STOWE HOUSE]; [JACKSON STOPS]

[Auction Catalog] the Ducal Estate of Stowe, Near Buckingham. The Historical Seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and for Some Years the Residence of the Late Comte de Paris. Messrs. Jackson Stops Will Sell by Auction, at Stowe House, on Monday, July 4th, 1921, at 1 O'Clock the Freehold of the Historic Mansion & Estate... On the Eighteen Days Following (from July 5th to July 28th... Will Be Sold the Contents of the Mansion

Northampton and Towcester Buckingham; London, Messrs. Jackson Stops [and others], 1921. Limited Edition. Cloth-Backed Boards. Catalog of the auctioneer Jackson Stops announcing the sale of the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, the "most magnificent of [Britain's] private estates" and the "most celebrated English landscape of the day," (Jellicoe) No. 769, Colonel Seton of Mounie's copy, with his armorial book plate to front paste-down and letters relating to the sale tipped in. Royal 8vo (374 x 249mm): 232,[2]pp, extensively illustrated with map, four colored plans (two folding), and 59 full-page plates from photographs on glossy stock inserted. Original cloth-backed buff boards printed in black, upper cover inset with armorial coat of arms, stamped with copy number, and signed by Seton. Green broadsheet sale advertisement printed in black laid in; one of two permits to view estate removed from rear (presumably by Seton). Some prices realized neatly noted (generally for furniture and decorative arts lots), light foxing to end papers and edges, but a superior copy with important provenance and related ephemera, securely bound and clean throughout. Jellicoe (Oxford Companion to Gardens), pp. 72-75, 537. This remarkable sale extended to nineteen days, commencing on July 4, 1921, with the selling of 1400 acres (including the village of Dadford) and the mansion house, designed by William Cleare. In total, it comprised 3,955 lots of "heirloom pictures, tapestries and historic furniture, by the world's greatest masters, superb statuary and metal work, important collection of rare china, porcelain, an immense assortment of other objets d'art, the contents of the magnificent library [lots 2,000 to 2,499, including letters and manuscripts, sold on days 11 and 12], the valuable gold plate, carvings and panellings by Grinling Gibbons, famous classic temples and other buildings and bridges luxuriously built to designs by famous architects." The garden at Stowe, transformed by four successive owners (Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham, and Richard and George Grenville) "had enormous influence on garden design, especially after experiments there in 'natural' gardening in the 1730s. It is historically important because it remained at the growing point of taste throughout the 18th c. exhibiting every stage of the garden revolution. Its final phase of idealized landscape survives relatively intact." (Jellicoe). 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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HUNT, Robert (1807-1887)

Researches on Light: An Examination of All the Phenomena Connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes Produced by the Influence of the Solar Rays; Embracing All the Known Photographic Processes, and New Discoveries in the Art [Robert Were Fox's Copy]

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1844. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the original binding. Demy 8vo (222 x 139mm): vii,[1],303,[1],32pp, with folding hand-coloured frontispiece and the publisher's advertisements dated April 1844. Original brown blind-stamped ribbed cloth by Edmonds & Remnants (their ticket to lower inside corner of rear paste-down), pale yellow end papers. Book plate of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth (1789-1877), geologist, natural philosopher, inventor, and fellow of the Royal Society. A spectacular example, soundly bound and virtually pristine. Gernsheim 668. Sennett 96. Eder, pp. 269, 325-26. Johnson (Nineteenth-Century Photography) H1157. Bolton, p. 547 (citing second edition). Boni, p. 140. Roosens & Salu 7952 (noting second [1854] and third editions [1862]). In the preface, Hunt acknowledges help on the early history of photography he has received from Sir J. F. W. Herschel and Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone. He had already written, in 1841, the first general treatise on photography, A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography and carried out numerous photographic and photochemical experiments. He was a founder of the Calotype Club, of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, and of the London Photographic Society, and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1854. Hunt, who lived in Falmouth, was a friend of the Fox family; both he and Robert Fox were members of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, and Hunt went into business with Fox's brother Charles. Hunt probably presented this copy to Robert Fox, who, in view of its fine, unopened, and unread state, evidently did not share Hunt's interest in the new art form of photography. 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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CHARLES I, King of England [GAUDEN, John, 1605-1662]

Eikon Basilike [in Greek]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings [Madan 66]

London, Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty [from 1649], 1681. Morocco. Later seventeenth-century edition of this purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Crown 8vo (181 x 101mm): [16],256pp, with frontispiece engraved by William Marshall (Madan 47) and full-page portrait of Charles II facing Chapter XXVII. Beautifully bound to period style by Fitterer in black morocco, spine in six compartments divided by raised bands ruled in blind, covers paneled in gilt with curlicue corner devices, burgundy red leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. An exceptional copy, tightly bound and clean throughout with crisp impressions of the plates. Madan 66. Almack 62. ESTC R204383. Wing E311A. Originally attributed to Charles I, but, according to Madan, composed by John Gauden, Bishop of Worcester, who probably included some authentic writings of the King and may even have collaborated with him. The first edition was in print on the day of Charles I's execution, on 30 January 1649, followed by many editions, with various erroneous dates and publishing details. The Eikon reviews the course of the civil wars from the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640 to Charles's imprisonment at Carisbrooke Castle in 1647, and defends the King's policies. It is part political memoir and part spiritual autobiography, presenting Charles as the defender of both Church and State. Written in a moving, straightforward style in diary form, the Eikon combines irenic prayers urging forgiveness of Charles's executioners with a justification of royalism. The poem "Majesty in Misery," said to have been written by the King at Carisbrooke, first appeared in the 1676 edition of Perinchief's Life of King Charles, but this is the first edition of the Eikon in which it was printed. 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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JACSON [Jackson], Maria Elizabetha (1755-1829)

The Florist's Manual, or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower-Garden; with Directions for Preventing the Depredations of Insects, Observations on the Treatment and Growth of Bulbous Plants, Curious Facts Respecting Their Management, and Directions for the Culture of the Guernsey Lily

London, Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. Paper-Covered Boards. New [third] Edition, enlarged, of this pioneering publication, one of the earliest horticultural works written specifically for women. Tall 12mo (186 x 109mm): viii,136 pp, with six hand-colored aquatints, including folding frontispiece (engraved by I. Clark with imprint: "Published for Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1824"). Publisher's advertisement leaf precedes frontispiece. Recent brown paper-covered boards, putty-colored paper spine, and paper spine label printed in black (original label laid in), end papers renewed, edges untrimmed. An excellent wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout with richly colored plates. Henrey II, pp. 583-4 and III, 873. Abbey (Life) 17. Percy, "Maria Elizabeth Jackson and her Floral Manual" (Garden History, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 1992), pp. 45-56 ("commands attention principally because of the very rarity of any gardening book written not only by a woman but for women before Jane Louden"). First published in 1816 (with only two plates), this third edition is a reissue of sheets of the 1822 enlarged edition with new title printed by Shackell and Baylis and one plate engraved by H. W. Timms with imprint "Published May 29. 1822 by Henry Colburn." Jackson's Botanical Dialogues Designed for the Use of Schools (1797) was praised by Erasmus Darwin, who listed it in his Plan for the conduct of Female Education, but The Florist's Manual was her most popular work. In it, she recommends color groupings, shaped borders, and methods of pest control. Included is a "Catalogue of Common Herbaceous Plants, with their Colours as they appear in each Season from February to August." 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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JAMES, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936)

A Guide to the Windows of King's College Chapel Cambridge

London, C. J. Clay and Sons, 1899. Wrappers. Scarce First Edition of this description and brief history of the stained-glass windows in King's College chapel, together with explanations of their symbolism. 8vo (): 38pp. Publisher's sage green paper wrappers printed in black. A Fine copy (excepting two staple-sized rust stains to lower wrapper). Pfaff, p. 94. Rogers 52. James is best remembered as the author of highly cultivated ghost stories, but he also was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography (the bibliography of his learned publications extends to some thirty pages), who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. His detailed descriptive catalogs of manuscripts are still of value to scholars today, and he also published a detailed description of the sculptured ceiling bosses of the cloisters of Norwich Cathedral. This guide to the windows of King's College Chapel also includes descriptions of the remains of painted glass in the side chapels of this great late Gothic church. 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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[JONG, Dirk de (active 1779-1805)]

[Whaling] de Walvischvangst, Met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met Plaaten

Amsterdam / Harlingen, Peter Conrad / Volkert van der Plaats [through 1786], 1784. First Edition. Quarter-Calf. Rare complete copy of this early classic in the literature of whaling, illustrated with finely engraved maps of the polar regions, including one of the earliest maps showing the whole of the Arctic and perhaps the first map of Nova Zembla. Four volumes bound in one, each with title page and separate pagination. 4to (250 x 202mm): vii,[1],96, with four plates (three folding) and two folding maps; iii,[1],116, with one plate and three folding maps; [4],116, with nine plates (one folding), and folding map; [4],116pp, with one folding plate, the magnificent lifting of the nets, depicting the fleet of ships and sloops used in the fishery. Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, tan leather lettering piece gilt, all edges speckled brown. A Fine, wide-margined example, tightly bound in contemporary (probably original) boards, virtually pristine, with bright, fresh pages and strong impressions of type and plates. Sabin 101231. Cat. BM (Natural History) v, p. 2262. Dean II, p. 701. The first three parts on the whale fishery and the fourth part on the herring fishery also were published separately, in 1786. The whole was reissued in 1791 with a new title: Nieuwe Beschryving der Walvisvangst en Haringvisschery (Sabin 36634 and 55284). A French version, with the title "Histoiree des Pêches . des Hollandois dans les Mers du Nord," translated by Bernard de Reste, appeared in Paris, in 1791 and again in 1801. The author of this whaling manual is unknown. The names on the title pages of later editions are those of the engravers: Dirk de Jong, Hendrik Kobell (1751-1779), and Matthias de Sallieth (1749-1791). Sabin raises the possibility of attribution to Van der Plaat, based on Barbier, who suggests that the Dutch original was based on Zorgdrager's work. De walvischvangst stands out for its attention to the wider context in which whaling took place. Apart from the practical aspects of whaling and herring fishing, it describes not only the seas where fishing occurred, but also the surrounding lands, the people that lived there, and the flora and fauna. One expert on Dutch whaling history, Joop Schokkenbroek, wonders whether the author's intention was to revive interest in the whaling industry, which, by the final years of the eighteenth century, was in steep decline. 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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KELSALL, Charles (1782-1857)

[Capri] Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino

Geneva, Printed for the author by Manget and Cherbuliez, 1820. Three-Quarter Calf. First Edition of this rare, privately printed homage to Cicero, with account of his villas and proposals for a monument in the Amalthea at Arpino and a footbridge in his honor over the Fibrenus (both illustrated). Crown 8vo (201 x 126mm): [4],254,[2]pp, with large folding frontispiece, two maps, and two plates. Period three-quarter leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled bands (red leather lettering piece gilt to second compartment, others with gilt floral device), edges stained red, French blue end papers. Occasional light spotting (blanks more so), but a handsome copy, tightly bound and generally clean throughout. RIBA 1645. Lowndes 1258. Borroni 3357. Not in Pine-Coffin or Coxe. In 1812, Kelsall translated Cicero's The Last Two Pleadings . Against Caius Verres. 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.). .

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Keywords: Italy -- Antiquities. Italy -- Description and travel. Italy. XIX CENTURY