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1. [ANON. DEVOTION.] Il giovane angelico San Luigi Gonzaga, propostoin esemplare di ben vivere… da un religioso della Compagnia di Gesu….Milan, Mazzucchelli, [?ca. 1762].

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Apparecchio, e ringraziamento per avanti, e dopo la Santa Confessione, eComunione…Milan, Mazzucchelli, 1762.[And with:]

Pratiche di vera divozione per onorare il Sacratissimo Cuore… Milan,Mazzucchelli, 1768.

12mo, pp. 120; 72; 36, with woodcut emblematic frontispiece; very good copies, ina contemporary silk embroidered binding, each side with a large blooming flower(blue cornflower at the front, pink carnation at the back) surrounded by buds, flatspine decorated with bands of blue and green silk thread; minute hole in thespine, silk cover on the edges a little worn. £1250

A very attractive book for a lady’s private devotions, in a contemporaryembroidered binding.

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This charmingly bound volume gathers three apparently unrecorded imprints. Itbegins with a prayer book with the life of St. Aloysius Gonzaga at its centre,organized in weekly exemplary passages and prayers leading up to the Saint’sfeast day, written by a Jesuit. This is followed by a collection of prayers inpreparation and thanksgiving of taking Confession and Communion, also Jesuit inspirit. The third work, accompanied by an emblematic woodcut, gathersdevotions for the adoration of the Most Sacred Heart.

None of these imprints is found in Worldcat or the Italian collective catalogue.

2. [ANON. LEXICOGRAPHY.] [Manuscript Arabic-French dictionary andItalian-Arabic phrasebook.] [Last quarter of the 18th century.]

Small folio; French, Arabic, and Italian manuscript in black ink on European laidpaper; ff. [187] (paginated 1-362 in the author’s hand); a few ink smudges, butcrisp and clean in contemporary blind-ruled sheep, pastedowns of brightlypatterned paper; worn but sound, corners bumped, a few minute holes to theupper cover, and two digs to the lower cover, rear free endpaper torn away. £4500

Unusual; a very early Arabic-French dictionary, the earliest example we have beenable to trace, whether printed or manuscript. It precedes the first printed French-Arabic dictionaries by several decades. The present manuscript was most likelythe work of a French diplomat stationed in one of the Ottoman ports of theEastern Mediterranean.

Contents:1. Arabic-French dictionary of verbs (pp. 1-279).2. List of Muslim, Coptic, and Levantine months in Arabic (p. 280).3. Supplement to the dictionary (p. 281).4. Blanks (pp. 282-286).5. Alphabetical French index to the dictionary (pp. 287-342).6. Blanks (pp. 343-344).7. Italian-Arabic phrasebook (pp. 345-354).

The Arabic-French section is organised alphabetically, according to the trilateralroots of the Arabic verbs, in the modern convention, and employs the Westernconvention of Roman numerals to denote derived verb forms. Of particular note isthat it contains both formal Arabic and apparently colloquial vocabulary. Thedefinitions provided vary from terse to exhaustive, but the cumulative impressionis of a work composed by a French Orientalist of the day, writing solely for aliterate, bilingual audience, confident in Arabic, French, and Italian. Themanuscript is devoid of explanatory or prefatory material, and appears to have

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been compiled over a period of time, based on the variation of ink and penevident in the text.

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The Italian-Arabic phrasebook comprises innocuous, polite phrases generallyemployed to ease the flow of conversation. Piety, exclamatory remarks, and thestate of one’s health all figure in the phrases the author offers. The Italianemployed is less confident than either the Arabic or the French, suggesting thatthe author was not entirely fluent – there are intermittent spelling mistakes.Moreover, it is of a sufficiently archaic type to firmly place the manuscript in theeighteenth century; certainly no later than 1800. The Arabic employed heredisplays several phonetic patterns typical of Levantine Arabic, though none of theArabic phrases are distinctively colloquial in themselves.

The paper bears the watermarks and countermarks of C & I Honig, consistentwith production in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The binding isconsistent with production in the Levant or Egypt.

3. [ANON, MANUSCRIPT.] Tractatus de justitiae praecepto. [France,Clairvaux, 1779].

Manuscript on paper, 8vo, pp. [ii], 444, [10 blanks]; written in a clear cursiveeighteenth century hand in brown and black ink; with an additional leaf tipped in,dated 1781, evidence of a further leaf once pasted on the title-page then removed;one small chip in the lower margin of the title-page, in the last page of text a shorterasure (most likely the compiler’s correction of the date of compilation of themanuscript); in very good condition and very clearly legible throughout, bound incontemporary mottled sheep, panelled spine gilt with fleurons, red edges;extremities lightly rubbed, one corner and head of spine a little worn; ownershipinscription of ‘Hugues ptre De Clairvaux. 1779’, who is most likely to have beenthe compiler. £750

A complete, apparently unpublished manuscript of civil and canon law, in Latin,compiled by 30 July 1779 by Hugues, priest, from Clairvaux, who writes his nameon the title-page and dates his work at the end. The treatise, articulated inquaestiones, addresses first the theory and nature of justice, its actors and theirprerogatives, then builds a comprehensive casuistic of civil law with particularattention to the law of property, contracts and credit. We were unable to locate apublished version of this text, or identify the compiler beyond his name andlocation.

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4. ARMSTRONG, William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside. A Visit toEgypt in 1872. Described in Four Lectures to the Literary and PhilosophicalSociety of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J.M. Carr [for theauthor], 1874.

8vo, pp. [4 (half-title, verso blank, title, verso blank)], iv, 176; lithographicfrontispiece plan printed in colours, 5 plates (including two copies of the first), oneplan and one map; occasional light spotting or marking, one plate trimmedtouching image; modern cloth-backed green boards, paper lettering-piece onspine; provenance: John Morton Strother, Newcastle (b. circa 1845, d. 1886,contemporary pencil ownership inscription on title). £300

First edition. The Newcastle industrialist and philanthropist William Armstrong(1810-1900) had become less involved in his businesses by the early 1860s, andconcentrated more on his private interests and pursuits, including hisphilanthropic interests and had particularly concentrated upon his art andsculpture collections between 1869 and 1876. Armstrong had taken a firm (orobstinate) position during the Newcastle strikes and lock-outs of 1871, whichcaused him to be seen as a tyrannical figure, and ‘There can be little doubt thatArmstrong was chastened by the course and outcome of the 1871 strike and ofpublic criticism of his role in it […] He would never again chance his hard-andwell-earned reputation in such a high-profile manner; the works could safely beleft in the hands of his capable lieutenants. In 1872 Armstrong journeyed to Egypt,on his first excursion outside of Europe. Ostensibly he went, with other eminentengineers, to advise on possible methods of securing traffic on the Nile from thedifficulties posed by its cataracts – not a field in which he had any experience –but he appears to have been more interested in the archaeological sites which he

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visited’ (ODNB). A Visit to Egypt in 1872 is an account based upon four lectureswhich Armstrong gave to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – a society which both he and his father William Armstrong (1778-1857), were members and benefactors of – and these perceptive and interestinglectures discuss the antiquities and archaeology of Egypt, and also everyday lifeand (perhaps unsurprisingly) the state of industry and technology in the country.The work only appeared in this edition, which was printed in Newcastle by J.M.Carr for the author’s private use, and it does not appear to have circulated widelyand is therefore uncommon in commerce.

Beinlich-Seeber, Bibliographie Altägypten, 1969.

5. AVEDON, Richard. In the American West. New York, Harry N. Abrams,1985.

Folio, unpaginated; full-page black & white illustrations, no title-page as issued;brown cloth lettered in black and with photographic illustrations on both covers; afine copy in a fine original plain acetate jacket; signed by Avedon and dated 1990.

£850

First edition. A fine signed copy of Avedon’s photographic commentary,commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum. Avedon was supposedly influencedby recent confrontations with his own mortality, having fallen ill with a heartcondition. These dark, almost voyeuristic portraits of the common man of theAmerican West – a contrast to his usual subjects – earned the five-year projectsome criticism, but the resulting exhibition and catalogue marked a significantjuncture in his career.

Parr & Badger, II, 38.

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6. [CHILD, Sir Josiah, Bart.] Traités sur le Commerce et sur les avantagesqui résultent de la réduction de l’interest de l’argent... avec un petit traitécontre l’usure; par le Chevalier Thomas Culpepper. Traduits de l’anglois[by Gournay and Butel-Dumont.] A Amsterdam et a Berlin, Chez JeanNeaulme. Et se vend à Paris, Chez Guérin & Delatour, 1754.

12mo, pp. xii, 482, [2]; a very fine copy, attractively bound in contemporaryFrench mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red edges. £1250

First French edition, translated from the English by Vincent de Gournay andGeorges-Marie Butel-Dumont. Gournay (1712-1759) was intendant of commercefrom 1751, and travelled around France, occasionally with Turgot, on his visits ofofficial inspection. Gournay ‘chafed at the trammels which harassed trade,recommended the study of economics, especially the writings of Cantillon,Tucker, Culpepper, Child, and other English authors, and was in favour ofinternal free trade and of light customs duties’ (Higgs). A disciple of FrançoisQuesnay, and a leader of the Physiocratic School, he wrote little of his own, buthis exchanges with fellow economists played a pivotal role in the development ofFrench economic thought, and his translations and popularizations wereinstrumental in the Continental diffusion of pioneering works by Englisheconomists. He is believed to have coined the expression ‘laissez faire, laissezpasser’.

Einaudi 1083; Goldsmiths’ 8910; Higgs 746; INED 4461 note; Kress 5335.

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7. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. My African Journey. London:Richard Clay & Sons, Limited for Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

8vo, pp. [2 (blank l.)], xiii, [1 (blank)], 226, [2 (catalogue fly-title)], [16 (publisher'scatalogue)]; half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard and 46 half-tone plates with60 photographs after Churchill and Gordon Wilson bound in the most commonpositions identified by Cohen, and 3 maps by J.G. Bartholomew (printed in blue)and Stanford's Geographical Establishment with routes in red; scattered lightspotting, a few minor, marginal tears or flaws, one map trimmed at lower edgeaffecting imprint (as often, due to its size); original red pictorial cloth, the upperboard blocked in colours after the frontispiece image of the author standing over adead rhinoceros, lettering and border blocked in black, spine lettered and ruled ingilt, late 20th-century red cloth Solander box by “Ex-Libris”; extremities lightlyrubbed and bumped, spine slightly faded and marked, skilfully reinforced withJapanese tissue on upper hinge; provenance: ‘C. Carter B.B.C.’ (inscription onfront free endpaper with inkstamp below ‘All Saints’ Clapham Park, SundaySchool Prize’). £500

First edition, first issue. Following hiselection as Member of Parliament forOldham in 1900, Churchill was givenhis first ministerial position asUnder-Secretary at the ColonialOffice by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in December 1905, and hequickly immersed himself in colonialmatters. In the autumn of 1907Churchill travelled to East Africa,ostensibly to take part in a safari, butnaturally Churchill the politician alsotook a keen interest in many otheraspects of East African life. As he haddone previously, Churchill sought todefray the expenses of the tripthrough journalism and, togetherwith his agent, A.P. Watt, he

negotiated a contract with The Strand to provide a series of reports on British EastAfrica and photographs to illustrate them, which eventually returned £1,050 to theauthor (Churchill's expenses for the expedition were accounted at £800). The ninearticles published in The Strand were then revised and enlarged by the addition ofa further 10,000 words, and this text was published in book-form as My AfricanJourney, for which Churchill was then paid a further £500. The finished workrecounts Churchill's travels, exploits as a huntsman, and his interest in Britain's

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political engagement with its East African colonies: 'these letters [...] present acontinuous narrative of the lighter side of what was to me a very delightful andinspiring journey; and it is in the hope that they may vivify and fortify the interestof the British people in the wonderful estates they have recently acquired in thenorth-eastern quarter of Africa, that I offer them in a connected form to theindulgence of the public' (p. vi).

Cohen states that 12,500 sets of first edition sheets were printed, of which 8,161were bound up for the British issue (291 of these were distributed gratis). A further2,879 sets were bound up for the colonial market (1976 in cloth and 903 in cardwrappers) and 1,400 formed the American issue (Cohen could not account for the60 remaining sets). This is an unusually bright copy of the work, in its originalcloth binding.

Cohen A27.1, Czech, African Big Game Hunting, p. 37.

8. DÉZÉ, Louis. Two bindings. Paris, c. 1910.

SASTRI, Natesa. Le porteur de Sachet. Paris, E. Dentu, 1892.VIOLLIS, Jean. L’Émoi. Paris, F. Guillaume, 1897.

Two volumes, 8vo; unusual art deco bindings of full cream calf with central insetpictorial tooled brown calf panels within blind-ruled borders, initialled LD inlower right-hand corners, spines tooled in gilt, later pattern of silver paint spotsapplied to boards; top edges gilt. £950

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Two examples of bindings executed using a pioneering technique developed byDézé himself, involving incision on the leather verso and embossing, in a naïve artdeco style. Some examples were over-painted after binding to add contrast, butthe present pair were not and remain in their original state.

Dézé typically took inspiration from the themes of the books he bound. L’Émoi isthe story of a lonely spinster whose world is turned upside down by the advent ofa love interest. The cover design reflects this, featuring a lone woman in perioddress gazing soulfully into the air. Le porteur de sachet is a Hindu romanticintrigue, the cover illustration depicting the heroine princess of the taledescending a ladder to join her false lover, in imitation of the illustration on page77.

‘Ses oeuvres… sont peut-être moins parfaits techniquement parlant que celles desmaiteres de l’heure… mais elles sont autrement surprenantes, et elles vontinfiniment plus loin dans notre sensibilité… Génie véritable, génie surabondant, ilinventa ou perfectionna une technique très particulierè, très savante…. Exceptionparmi ses collègues, il lisait sûrement les livres avant de les habiller, et avec quellesomptuosité!’ (Hervé: Reliures de la donation Henri Pollès: Musée du livre et des lettres.Qu’est-ce donc qu’une reliure originale? Hommage à Louis Dézé, pp.27-9).

9. [FRANCE.] DOUANÉS ROYALES DE FRANCE. Tableau des quantiteset de la valeur approximative des marchandises étrangères importées enFrance pour la consommation pendant l'année 1821, et des produits du solou de l'industrie française exportés pendant ladite année. [N. p., n. p.,]1821.

Folio, pp. [24]; creased across in the middle due to folding, resulting in short tearswith minimal loss of paper in the last leaf (no textual loss), some spotting, the firstand last leaf detached, still a very good copy, stitched as issued. £400

An interesting table detailing nature, size, price and related tax revenues of Frenchimports and exports (including from and to American and African colonies) forthe year 1821. Products are ordered according to their use (food, drinks, chemicalsubstances, furniture, musical instruments etc.), then according to whether theyare natural resources or result of manufactures, then listed in subcategories. Toeach item (e.g. sugar, or violins) there correspond columns first of import andthen of export indicating number of units, price, and tax revenue per unit. Afascinating snapshot where commodities and numbers eloquently speak ofRestoration France and its colonial relations.

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10. GALTON, Sir Francis. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Development.London, R. & R. Clark for Macmillan and Co., 1883.

8vo, pp. xii, [2 (plates, verso blank)], 387, [1 (blank)]; mounted photographicfrontispiece, retaining tissue guard, one double-page, colour-printed lithographicplate by Hodson & Co., 3 lithographic plates by Hodson & Co., and illustrations,diagrams and letterpress tables in the text; scattered light spotting, C5 withmarginal paper-flaw; original maroon cloth, blind-ruled borders, spine letteredand decorated in gilt, coated black endpapers; spine slightly faded, extremitiesvery lightly rubbed and bumped, short cracks on lower joint, nonetheless a veryfresh and clean copy in the original cloth. £750

First edition. The polymath English biostatistician, human geneticist, andeugenicist Galton (1822-1911) gained a wide audience for his ideas on theheritability of intellectual, artistic and other talents with Hereditary Genius(London: 1869), and the present work is composed of heavily revised papers onthe subject, which enlarge upon the earlier book. In his introduction, Galtonexplains that, ‘My general object has been to take note of the varied hereditaryfaculties of different men, and of the great differences in different families andraces, to learn how far history may have shown the practicability of supplantinginefficient human stock by better strains, and to consider whether it might not beour duty to do so by such efforts as may be reasonable, thus exerting ourselves tofurther the ends of evolution more rapidly and with less distress than if eventswere left to their own course’ (p. 1). Galton introduces the word ‘eugenics’ – bywhich the discipline that he created would be known – on p. 24, explaining it in afootnote thus: ‘We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improvingstock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which,especially in the case of man, takes cognisance of all influences that tend inhowever remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood abetter chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwisewould have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea; it is atleast a neater word and a more generalised one than viriculture, which I onceventured to use’ (p. 25).

The well-known photographic frontispiece, ‘Specimens of Composite Portraiture’,shows portraits produced by photographing a series of similar photographs ofdifferent subjects at low exposures, which emphasises recurrent features andobscures unusual ones. Interestingly, the composite portrait titled ‘Health’ isformed of images of twelve officers and eleven privates of the Royal Engineers,taken by Galton’s second cousin, Lieutenant Leonard Darwin of the RoyalEngineers (1850-1943), the son of Galton’s cousin Charles Darwin. Followingdistinguished service in the Royal Engineers, Leonard Darwin became a memberof the Council and then President of the Royal Geographical Society, and also

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became the Member of Parliament for Litchfield (1892-1895). In 1911, followingGalton’s death, Leonard Darwin succeeded him as President of the EugenicsEducation Society, and ‘He held the presidency until 1928 […] In 1926 his bookThe Need for Eugenic Reform had appeared, shortly followed by the more popularWhat is Eugenics? His greatest influence was through his support andencouragement of the young R. A. Fisher. The friendship between the two men,forty years apart in age, formed the intellectual link between Charles Darwin andFrancis Galton on the one hand and Fisher on the other, and thus to neo-Darwinism and the foundations of modern statistics’ (ODNB).

Forrest, ‘Bibliography of Galton’s Published Work’, p. 309; Garrison-Morton 230;Heirs of Hippocrates 1903; Norman 866.

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11. [JESUIT, CENSORSHIP]. Arrest de la Cour de Parlement, Du 6 Août1761. Paris, chez P. G. Simon, 1761.

4to, pp. [8]; creased where once folded, one or two light spots, but a very goodcopy, uncut, formerly stitched now disbound; substantial contemporaryannotations in the lower margin of the first two pages and more sporadic furthercontemporary marks elsewhere. £550

A very interesting survival: a list oftwenty-four Jesuit books which wereto be ‘lacerés et brûlés en la Cour duPalais, au pied du grand escalierd’icelui’ in August 1761, having beendeemed ‘seditious, destructive inrespect to the principles of Christianmorals, proposing abominabledoctrines not only against the life ofcommon citizens but against the lifeof the sacred person of the sovereign’(our translation).

12. LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. The Mint. A Day-Book of the R.A.F.Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes, by 352087A/c Ross. Edited by A.W. Lawrence. London: The Alden Press for JonathanCape, 1955.

4to in 8s, pp. [2 (half-title)], 206; title printed in red and black; early ownershipsignature on front free endpaper; original RAF-blue buckram boards by A.W. Bain& Co. Ltd., spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper board blocked in blind withRAF eagle device, top edges blue, dustwrapper, unclipped and retaining prices onboth flaps; spine slightly faded, corners very lightly bumped, dustwrapperslightly marked and with slight creasing and chipping, otherwise a very good,clean copy. £120

First British edition, the trade issue. 'One of Lawrence’s avowed purposes injoining the RAF, though not the only one, was to write of the ranks from theinside. He began immediately making notes when he enlisted in 1922. With hisdismissal in January 1923, because of unfavourable publicity, the project was setaside, not to be taken up again until he was posted to India in 1927 [...] While in

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India he edited the text of his earlier notes and began revisions. In March 1928 hesent a clean copy of the revised text to Edward Garnett. Garnett had copies typedwhich were circulated to a small circle, among them Air Marshal Trenchard [...]Trenchard’s concerned response led Lawrence to guarantee that it would not bepublished at least until 1950. Later revisions were made by Lawrence in the lastmonths of his life with a possible view to publication in a private edition on ahandpress' (O’Brien, pp. 119-120). Although an American edition was printed in1936 to forestall a possible piracy, the present edition was printed from a later,revised version of the text and the type was set up by Cape in 1948. However,publication was delayed until 1955, when an officer described unfavourably byLawrence died. The British edition appeared in two issues: the limited issue andthe present trade issue 'which had all objectionable words lifted out of the text,leaving blank spaces' (loc. cit.).

O'Brien A173.

13. LOCKE, John. Johan Lockes oförgripelige tankar om werldslig regeringsrätta ursprung/gräntsor och ändamål. Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1726.

8vo, pp. [viii], 382, [2]; title-page printed in red and black; a few pale stains on p. 1,but a very good copy in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spineblind-tooled in four compartments; corners rubbed; two contemporarymanuscript inscriptions on the title-page. £850

First edition in Swedish. The first translation into Swedish of Locke’s TwoTreatises of Government, this edition – of the Second treatise – was translated,following an order of the Swedish Ricksdag, by Hans Harmens from Mazel’s 1691French edition. It was only the second time that any of Locke’s work had been

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translated into Swedish. Significantly, the Ricksdag’s interests focussed on thepart of Locke’s work which addressed the topics of natural rights and the socialcontract.

Attig 216; Yolton 60.

14. MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de.Histoire véritable, publiée d’après un nouveau manuscrit avec uneintroduction et des notes par Louis de Bordes de Fortage. Bordeaux, G.Gounouilhou, 1902.

Small 4to, pp. xvi, 80; printed on pink paper; a very good copy bound in Frenchaubergine half morocco by Champs-Stroobants preserving the original printedwrappers, front wrapper a little foxed, one or two very light marginal stains intext; the editor’s dedication inscription to the bookseller and bibliophile MarcelMounastre-Picamilh on the front blank. £750

Fine copy, printed on pink paper,with the editor’s inscription and in asigned binding, of a landmarkpublication of the Society ofBibliophiles of Guyenne.Montesquieu wrote the Histoirevéritable between 1734 and 1754. Itwas not published, however, until1892, in the second volume of theOeuvres inédites: even then, the textwas incomplete and incoherent, andhas been more recently found toreflect a much later redaction of theHistoire. This is the secondappearance in print, but the first tobear the original version of the text,established on the basis of amanuscript which was discoveredamong the papers of Joachim Laînéand his family.

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15. MORRIS, William. The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems.Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1892.

4to, pp. [2 (blank)], [2 (half-title, contents)], 169, [1 (colophon with wood-engravedpress device after Morris, Peterson 1)], [2 (blank)]; printed in Golden type in redand black; 2 full wood-engraved borders and one corner-border, and six- and ten-line initials, all after Morris; minimal light spotting or offsetting; original limpvellum with light blue silk ties [by J. & J. Leighton], yapp edges, spinecalligraphically lettered in black ink [by Herbert M. Ellis]; ties lightly faded andfrayed at ends, nonetheless a fine copy retaining all deckles. £3500

First Kelmscott edition, limited to 310 copies, this one of 300 on ‘Flower’ paper.Morris’ first book, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, collected poems fromhis youth and was published at his own expense in March 1858, just before histwenty-fifth birthday. His biographer Fiona McCarthy judges that, ‘These aredifficult poems, unsettling and demanding. Not all are successful [...] But at theirbest they have a brilliance, a freshness and a quirkiness that Morris’s poetry didnot achieve again’ (William Morris: a Life for our Time (London: 1994), p. 143), andin the nineteenth century their admirers included Algernon Swinburne andGerard Manley Hopkins, and in the twentieth Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. Thefirst edition was followed by a number of reprints and the Kelmscott Press editionwas set from a Reeves & Turner reprint of 1889, with minor alterations. The

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Defence of Guenevere was the fifth book to be published by the press, the first to bebound in limp vellum, and the only one to have a hand-lettered title on the spine,which was executed by H.M. Ellis, the son of Morris’ friend, literary associate, andexecutor, F.S. Ellis.

Le Mire A-2.04; Peterson A5; Scott pp. 84-85; Sparling, ‘Annotated List’, 5;Tomkinson p. 109, no. 5.

16. MOSCA, Gaetano. Elementi di scienza politica. Rome, Bocca, 1896.

8vo, pp. [ii], 400; one or two short marginal blue or red pencil marks, edges verylightly and uniformly toned; a very good copy in contemporary boards covered inpurple embossed paper, dark brown roan spine; hinges cracked but holding,corners and extremities worn, some surface scratches to sides. £2250

First edition, very rare, of Gaetano Mosca’s The Ruling class, the most importantwork of political science published by one of the three exponents of theclassical elite theory.

Mosca, (1858-1941) was a ‘jurist and political theorist who, by applying a historicalmethod to political ideas and institutions, elaborated the concept of a rulingminority (classe politica) present in all societies. … His work, along with that ofVilfredo Pareto and Robert Michels, inspired subsequent studies by politicalscientists of the process of the “circulation of elites” within democracies and otherpolitical systems.

‘[…] Mosca’s Sulla teorica dei governi e sul governo parlamentare (1884; “Theory ofGovernments and Parliamentary Government”) was followed by The Ruling Class(originally published in Italian, 1896). In these and other writings, but especiallyin The Ruling Class, he asserted—contrary to theories of majority rule—thatsocieties are necessarily governed by minorities: by military, priestly, orhereditary oligarchies or by aristocracies of wealth or of merit. He showed animpartial indifference to the most diverse political philosophies. For him the willof God, the will of the people, the sovereign will of the state, and the dictatorshipof the proletariat were all mythical.

‘Although sometimes called “Machiavellian,” Mosca actually considered most ofthe political ideas of Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) impractical. He opposed theracist elitism preached by the Nazi Party in Germany, condemned Marxism,which in his view expressed the hatred within Karl Marx, and mistrusteddemocracy, seeing the greatest threat to liberal institutions in “the extension of thesuffrage to the most uncultured strata of the population.” Mosca viewed the most

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enduring social organization as a mixed government (partly autocratic, partlyliberal) in which “the aristocratic tendency is tempered by a gradual butcontinuous renewal of the ruling class” by the addition of men of lowersocioeconomic origin who have the will and the ability to rule’ (EncyclopaediaBritannica).

Mosca’s final speech in the Senate was an attack on the Italian fascist leader BenitoMussolini.

Extremely rare: two copies in the US (NYPL, University of Wisconsin), none inCOPAC.

17. [ROMAN LAW. FRANCE]. LAGARDERE, Matthieu. Les Institutes dudroit François, ou Notes du droit François appliquées à chaque titre desInstitutes du droit Romain, où l’on remarque les paragraphes de ce droitqui sont en usage en France, ceux qui ne le sont qu’en parties, et enfin ceuxqui sont entièrement abrogés. [Followed by:] Traitté du bail à cens, ou bailemphiteotique. [N. p., n. p.,] 1733.

Manuscript on paper, 2 parts in continuous pagination, small 4to, pp. 398 [399-414numbered but blank + 14 ff., blank]; in a neat scribal hand in brown ink, ca. 50lines to a page; a very good, crisp and completely legible manuscript, bound incontemporary speckled calf, panelled spine gilt in compartment, red moroccolettering-piece; a few abrasion on the sides, more so to the lower side; the name ofthe compiler inscribed on the verso of the front free end-paper. £1250

Apparently unpublished, complete and very attractive legal manuscriptsystematically addressing the relationship between the Roman law and early-modern French legal theory and practice.

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18. SAUTERIUS (or SAUTER), Daniel. Praxis banccae-ruptorum huiusseculi; quae 1. Secundum fallaces actiones depingitur; 2. Secundum malaadiuncta expenditur; 3. Secundum poenas in eam sancitas, aestimatur; 4.Secundum charitatem emendatur. Leiden, Basson, 1615.

Small 8vo, pp. [xvi], 94, [1 + 1 blank]; woodcut device on the title, woodcut initial,typographical diagram with a table of contents; a very good, crisp copy incontemporary limp vellum, ink titling on spine, remains of a paper libraryshelfmark on spine and a later printed shelfmark on the front paste-down. £1850

First edition of a rare early work on bankruptcy. The fact that a second editionwas published in the same year and translations in the vernaculars soon followedtestifies to the appetite in contemporary Europe for a treatise that tackled thephenomenon of bankruptcy from an economic-commercial, juridical, and moralperspective. The event is described as on the rise, with negligent accounting,fraud and deception as the most frequent causes. Sauter provides the plan of afitting legal framework for dealing with bankruptcy, setting out proposals for theregulation of finance, sanctions for offenders, and a series of avenues whichcreditors might be able to pursue to minimize their losses. Daniel Sauter, a Dutchclergyman and man of letters, published in the same year a treatise on businessethics. An English translation (The practise of the banckrupts of these times) waspublished in 1640.

See Goldsmiths’ 713 (the English translation) and Kress S 445 (the Germantranslation).

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19. SMITH, Adam. Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse desNations, traduites de l'anglois de M. Smith, sur la quatrième édition, par M.Roucher (Jean Antoine). Paris, Buisson, 1790 -1791.

Four vols, 8vo, pp. xi-[1 bl.], 570; [iv], 312; [iv], 602; [iv], 591, [1]; all volumes withhalf title; occasional very minor spots, but a very good, crisp and very large copy,uncut in the original orange interim wrappers, the insides reinforced withprinter’s waste, paper labels on spine; spines a little discoloured with a few smallchips in the cover, wrappers with some wear. £750

First edition, an uncut copy in its interim wrappers, of the Roucher translation.‘The 1790-91 edition of Roucher’s translation was announced with great éclat.Much was made of the name of the translator, and his acclaim translates to thetitle page. […] Roucher’s was the “French translation” that reviewers had longcalled for, with “French meaning” not just language but also transformation intothe style and the culture. […] Whereas the economistes had given the impetus toresearch on the practical truths of political economy, England had “given to theworld a complete system of social economy” [from the Avertissement dutraducteur]’ (Carpenter, p. xlvii). The volume with Condorcet’s notes which,according to the title, should have formed the fifth tome, was not published. Atthe end of the fourth volume the printer writes ‘Fin du quatrième et derniervolume de Smith’. Gilbert Faccarello suggests that such notes were never written.

Carpenter, The dissemination of the Wealth of Nations…p. xlvii, and 85ff; Tribe 38.

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20. STRETTON, W. G. Calcutta. [1870s].

Album of twelve albumen prints, each around 6 or 8 x 10½ inches (16.5 to 20.3 x26.5 cm.), eleven signed in the negative, of which ten are numbered also (someslight streaking, likely caused by glue), captioned in pencil on mounts; incontemporary purple cloth, gilt title ‘Calcutta’ to upper board (cloth faded inplaces with a few marks, extremities rubbed), binder’s label ‘Wyman & Co., 10,Hare Street, CALCUTTA’ to front pastedown, oblong folio. £1500 + VAT

Although primarily architectural, this album also includes views towards the cityfrom Fort Point and from the river, providing a backdrop for the more detailedstudies documenting several ‘new’ buildings in the city. A fine street scene showsthe corner of Wellesley Place with shop signs for an unnamed bookseller, thepremises of ‘J. Dawson & Co. Drapers, Milliners….’ and ‘Mesdames Piccin & Cie.Modes Parisiennes’. An animated dockside view includes a mass of small andlarger craft as well as a cow reflecting Stretton’s description of himself by 1880 asan 'outdoor group and marine photographer'. W. G. Stretton had a studio inBombay in 1870-72 and is mentioned in Thacker’s Bengal Almanac in Calcutta from1875 to 1885, recording studios at 5 Chowringhee Road (1875); 4 1/2 EsplanadeEast (1876-77); and 7 Dacres Lane (1878-80). He went on to manage the 'CalcuttaLanding and Shipping Company’ from 1881-1885 (seehttp://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/).

Stretton’s photographs are considerably less common than those of many of hisbetter-known contemporaries such as Bourne or Saché and signature albums areparticularly scarce.

The photographs are titled as follows (with signatures and numbers in thenegative indicated where present):

1. View of Calcutta from East Point2. Dalhousie Square…. Stretton 813. Western View of Calcutta from the River. Stretton 664. Government Place…. Stretton 695. New Calcutta. Court of Small Causes. Stretton 656. Statue of Sir Jas. Outram. Stretton 527. New Building – High Court. Stretton 498. View of the Shipping. Stretton 469. St. Paul’s Cathedral. Stretton 5310. Eden Gardens. Stretton 5911. View of Government House from the Maidan. Stretton12. Post Office - Dalhousie Square. Stretton 42

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21. WHITEHEAD, Alfred North. On mathematical concepts of the materialworld [in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, SeriesA, Vol. 205,]. London, Dulau & Co, 1906.

4to, pp. 465-525, [1]; a fine copy, wholly unmarked, in the original printedwrappers, preserved in glassine. £1750

First edition of one of the earliest of Whitehead’s works, the first attempt to tacklethe question of the nature of the material world through the symbolism of formallogic.

‘The importance of this paper is frequently overlooked or underestimated as anantecedent of Whitehead’s later work. […] In the paper Whitehead comes veryclose to enunciating a possible world view that bears a strong resemblance to theone that finally emerged in Process and Reality (1929). Whitehead wrote “OnMathematical Concepts” in 1905, at a time when he was two years into writing thePrincipia […] Not surprisingly therefore much of the paper deals with logicalformalisms’ (R. A. Ariel).

In the same year, while working on the Principia, Russell also independentlypublished a paper, On denoting. ‘Both Whitehead and Russell, looking back laterin life, regarded their respective essays as among the finest pieces of work theyhad produced (UW 466; LK 39). Both employed their common work inmathematical logic ... as a guide in the formulation of their respective papers. Yetbecause of the difference in outlook between the two men, one essay becomes apenetrating analysis of common language, while the other becomes a synthesis ofpossible world views and, indeed, a stepping stone to a cosmology’ (Robert A.Ariel, A Mathematical Root of Whitehead’s Cosmological Thought, ‘Process Studies’,vol. 4, no. 2, 1974, pp. 107-113).

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EDWARDS, A. S. G. Nicolas Barker at Eighty: A List of his Publications to markhis 80th Birthday in 2012. London and New Castle, DE, Bernard Quaritch and OakKnoll Press, 2013.

8vo; pp. 96; six black and white illustrations; in printed paper wrappers. £25

Published in celebration of Nicolas Barker's eightieth birthday, this bibliographyserves both as a collection of his writings and as a tribute to one who has inspiredso wide and deep affection in so many.

Nicolas Barker's first bibliographical articles and reviews appeared in 1959. JohnHayward, then the Editor of The Book Collector, was quick to grasp his potential.His first reviews appeared in that journal, and his first article for the journal, 'TheAesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values. An Essay in Bibliometry',had, Hayward reported, "called forth more favourable comment than almost

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anything we've published." It was the beginning of an unbroken association witha journal that he has made so distinctively an extension of himself, particularlysince he became Editor in 1965. The extraordinary number of his articles, reviews,leaders, obituaries, and 'News and Comment' pieces in the journal has oftenshaped current bibliographical thinking.

But Nicolas's writings have increasingly ramified in their range and form. He haswritten extensively for more than fifty years for the Times Literary Supplement andfor the Roxburghe Club, the bibliography of whose publications formed his firstbook. He has been a prolific obituarist, chiefly, but by no means only, forthe Independent. The range of topics that has engaged him in other books andarticles is astonishingly wide: medieval manuscripts, calligraphy, forgery, thebook trade, typography, bibliophily, bookbinding are simply some of the morerecurrent interests that his publications reflect. The cumulated record of hispublications represents an achievement of extraordinary scope.

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