1.ALBUMASAR (Abu Ma’shar Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Balkhi.) Kitab mawalid al-nisa’ wa’l-rijal (The Book of Nativities of Women and Men). [Possibly Iraq:] Thursday, 6th Shawwal 860 AH [1456 CE]Arabic manuscript in black ink on paper (207 × 150 mm), 384 pages numbered in pencil, containing 4 discrete texts and a section of fragments, the first 2 in the same hand, the later texts in a variety of hands, all apparently contemporary. Bound in contemporary goatskin decoratively blind-ruled with repeating interstitial floral devices, later decorative cloth tie. Frequent tables and occult symbols; full-page diagrams to pp. 321-33; frequent framed headings. 8 later (19th or early 20th century) leaves laid in at front and rear. Binding lightly rubbed overall with minor loss to head of spine and the leather apparently re-stitched along top edges of both boards, contents tanned, occasional smudging, marking and scribal, errata, a few later annotations or embellishments, tide-mark extending from fore edge, legibility only affected between pp. 305 & 320 (this section comprising textual fragments only; text on p. 318 sometime overwritten in blue ink), earlier and later leaves slightly nicked or crumpled at the

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fore edge with a few closed tears, a few leaves skilfully reinforced along gutter. Overall a very well-preserved Arabic manuscript in a pleasing contemporary binding.

A fascinating 15th-century Arabic manuscript compendium of astrological and occult texts. The bulk of the volume comprises an apparently unpublished work by the great astrologer Abu Ma’shar (786–886, known in the West as Albumasar). Named as the Kitab mawalid al-nisa’ wa’l-rijal in the colophon, which also gives the date of copying, it is a treatise on natal astrology in 24 sections, giving a systematic account of each of the twelve constellations, their interactions with other celestial bodies, and the effect on the characteristics and prospects of men and women born under each sign. Abu Ma’shar was born in Balkh (modern-day Afghanistan) and travelled to Baghdad during the caliphate of al-Ma’mum (813–33), where he became the main rival of al-Kindi, known as the father of Arab philosophy, though principally he “devoted himself to the account and justification of astrology … He drew together into one great synthesis many ancient traditions - Indian, Greek, and Iranian. The Greek influence consisted of the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Theon. Yet he also drew on Syriac Neoplatonic sources and on al-Kindi for a general metaphysics” (Hackett, “Albumasar”, in Gracia & Noone, eds, A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages, p. 102). Abu Ma’shar was an important influence on such thinkers as Albert the Great and Roger Bacon, who commonly referred to him as the “auctor in astronomia”, granting him the same status in astronomy that Aristotle had in philosophy. His immense introduction to astrology, the Kitab al-mudkhal al-kabir ila ‘ilm ahkam al-nujum, and his book on planetary conjunctions, the Kitab al-dalalat ‘ala ‘l-ittisalat wa-qiranat al-kawakib, were both translated into Latin in the 12th century and printed by Erhard Ratdolt in 1489. The present text was never published, and although Keiji Yamamoto claims that the “number of extant manuscripts suggests its high popularity in the Islamic world” (Hockey, ed. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, p. 11), we can trace no copies in any digitised library holdings world-wide, and none in commercial records. Abu Ma’shar’s work is preceded by another, otherwise untraced astrological text entitled al-Hikmah al-Sulaymaniyah (“The Wisdom of Solomon”, pp. 1-108). It is divided into six sections, the first of which provides a short summary of each sign of the Zodiac, followed by a fable in which Solomon approaches whichever ruler is associated with the given sign, and is provided with four differently inscribed amulets. The second treats naming of children. This is followed by passages on the treatment of illnesses depending on the star sign of the afflicted, treatment depending on the day that the illness arises, the auspicious days of each month according to the “Greek” calendar and then of the Arabic calendar, and finally a list of afflictions and curative talismanic inscriptions.The Kitab mawalid is followed firstly by various unnamed fragments containing occult maxims and passages of Qur’anic exegesis (pp. 300-26). These are in turn followed by an unnamed astrological text (pp. 327-48), in which each page is headed with the name of a celestial body and is followed by ten lines of stylistically formulaic divinatory maxims, for instance, “Mercury … You have asked me about marriage: it is blessed unto you … Moon … You have asked me about marriage: delay it until a later time” (pp. 340-1, cataloguer’s translation). Finally, there is a work entitled Hikmat al-huruf (“The Science of Letters”, pp. 349-84), an occult text detailing the nature of illnesses in accordance with the first letter of a person’s name. Like the first work in this volume, it also bears an apocryphal attribution to Solomon. The final leaf is signed “tamma tamma”, indicating completeness.£7,500 [112066]

2.ARISTOTLE. L’Ethica. Tradotta in lingua vulgare Fiorentina, et comentata per Bernardo Segni. Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550Quarto (215 × 140 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title inked to spine. Wood-engraved vignette title page incorporating the Medici arms, 12 allegorical initial figures, frequent line diagrams to the text. Contemporary Italian ownership inscription, inked annotation and underlining to pp. 301 & 311. Vellum lightly marked, shallow chip to fore edge of front cover, sigs. t, M and Ff lightly foxed, pale tide-mark to lower outer corner of a few gatherings and very occasionally to head of gutter. An excellent copy.

First Segni edition, the first “full vernacular interpretation of Aristotle[’s Ethics], including both translation and chapter-by-chapter commentary” (Lines, “Rethinking Renaissance Aristotelianism”, in Renaissance Quarterly, 66.3 (Fall 2013), p. 838). “Practically unstudied, Segni’s work represents an important moment in the evolution of vernacular Aristotelianism (and philosophy more generally) in the Renaissance” (idem, p. 824). Segni (1504–1558) was a Florentine humanist best known for his Istorie fiorentine and the Vita de Niccolo Capponi. He entered the service of Cosimo II de Medici, the Duke of Florence, in 1535, and was sent on a number of diplomatic postings in Europe. In his introduction Segni exalts the Tuscan language and underlines the need for vernacular editions of Greek and Latin texts; he quotes frequently from Dante throughout his commentary. He also draws extensively on the earlier commentary tradition, including the works of Byzantine scholar Eustratius (c.1050–1121), English scholastic philosopher Walter Burley (c.1275–1344/45) and the fifteenth-century Florentine, Donato Acciaiuoli (1429–1478). Written at the height of the Counter-Reformation, during the Council of Trent, another notable feature of Segni’s interpretation is the frequent reference to Catholic doctrine, at the implied expense of Lutheran teachings. The first vernacular edition of the Nicomachean Ethics was a French translation by Nicolas Oresme, printed in 1488.£2,250 [112120]

3.BACCANTI, Alberto. Maometto, legislatore degli Arabi e fondatore dell’Impero musulmano. Poema. Casalmaggiore: Fratelli Bizzarri, 17912 volumes in one, quarto (235 172 mm). Contemporary half sheep vellum, marbled sides, twin morocco labels lettered in gilt and manuscript shelf-mark label to spine, edges speckled blue. 2 engraved portrait frontispieces and 12 similar numbered plates by Paolo Araldi, vignettes to title pages. Complete with the half-titles and imprimatur leaf. Boards slightly rubbed with light wear along fore edges, labels a touch chipped to minimal loss of lettering, very sporadic faint soiling chiefly to margins as usual, isolated portions of minor damp-staining to head of gutter. An excellent copy, preserved here in remarkably fresh condition in a pleasing contemporary binding.

First and only edition of this epic poem in Italian recounting the life of Muhammad in twelve cantos of ottava rima, each canto illustrated with a full-page engraved plate, in addition to two frontispiece portraits of the author and of Muhammad astride a rampant horse, all after original paintings by Paolo Araldi. Originally from Casalmaggiore, Araldi (d. 1811) studied at the Academy of Parma, where he taught Giuseppe Diotti (1779–1816), before returning to his native city. Alberto Baccanti (1718–1805), also from Casalmaggiore, studied theology at Cremona before travelling to Rome in 1741, under the auspices of the Gonzagas to work in the Vatican as a papal secretary. He returned to Casalmaggiore in 1755. Tipaldo lists an additional 10 printed and 11 manuscript works written by Baccanti, chiefly poems, orations, and exequies in verse. The twelve plates depict Muhammad in the stages of his prophecy: ascending with the archangel Gabriel to heaven (laylat al-mi’raj), preaching to his first followers in Mecca, leading his armies to battle and uniting the disparate tribes under his leadership. Baccanti explains in his foreword that he sought to characterise the Prophet as a statesman and general of “rare talents” who, regardless of the truth of the religion he founded, succeeded in creating a unified Arabian caliphate that laid the foundation for the rise of the Ottoman Empire: a contrast to other European works portraying him as “an odious impostor and a man of most dissolute morals”. “Scholars of the Enlightenment particularly struggled with dual impulses towards Muhammad’s depiction, aspiring both to a more historically-based, objective image of the Prophet, yet also perpetuating the public appetite for romantic, exotic details” (Shalem, ed., Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe, p. 3); Baccanti’s work perpetrates the common anachronisms of presenting Muhammad in contemporary Turkish dress, preaching in interiors more redolent of orientalist fantasy than seventh-century Arabia, and leading his troops against a conspicuously European-style fortress. An unusual and extremely uncommon work, with only seven copies held by libraries worldwide (none in the United Kingdom).Not in Atabey, Blackmer, Burrell or the Arcadian Library.

£8,750 [102633]

4.BATES, H. E. Death in Spring and A Flower Piece, manuscript drafts. 1932Octavo. 27 loose, ruled manuscript pages in pen. Housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Very lightly toned. Excellent condition.

Manuscript drafts for two of Bates’s stories that were published in The Black Boxer Tales in 1932.£1,800 [60259]

5.[BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di.] Traité des délits et des peines, traduit de l’italien, d’après la troisième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l’auteur. Avec les additions de l’auteur, qui n’ont pas encore paru en italien. Lausanne: n. p., 1766Octavo (164 × 95 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, raised bands, spine elaborately decorated in gilt with central floral tools, all edges red, marbled enddpapers. Tiny hole to fore edge of title, the occasional faint spot to contents. An excellent copy.

First edition in French of undoubtedly the most influential work on criminal justice in the 18th century, originally published in Italian in 1764, first published in English in London in 1767. Cesare Beccaria, Marchese Beccaria-Bonesana, a well-to-do Milanese professor of law and economics, had made many prison visits and was appalled at what he saw. His short book was immediately successful and widely influential in stimulating reform in many countries, including the nascent United States. “Beccaria maintained that the gravity of the crime should be measured by its injury to society and that the penalties should be related to this. The prevention of crime he held to be of greater importance than its punishment, and the certainty of punishment of greater effect than its severity. He denounced the use of torture and secret judicial proceedings. He opposed capital punishment, which should be replaced by life imprisonment; crimes against property should be in the first place punished by fines, political crimes by banishment; and the conditions in prisons should be radically improved. Beccaria believed that the publication of criminal proceedings, verdicts and sentences, as well as furthering general education, would help to prevent crime. These ideas have now become so commonplace that it is difficult to appreciate their revolutionary impact at the time” (PMM). Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the New York edition of 1809 (Sowerby 2349). Translator André Morellet was a French economist who contributed to the Encyclopédie. His translation is based on the third edition of Beccaria’s treatise and, according to the imprint, includes previously unpublished additions by the author. It was

criticised for diverting widely from the original text, leading Beccaria to seek out another translator, whom he found in librarian Chaillou de Lisy. There were nonetheless several editions of Morellet’s translation and it is this text on which Voltaire and Diderot based their commentaries and annotations.See Printing and the Mind of Man 209.

£850 [113070]

6.[BECCARIA, Cesare, marchese di; François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire.] Traité des délits et des peines. [Bound with:] Commentaire sur le livre des délits et des peines. Paris: chez J. F. Bastien, 17732 works bound in one volume, octavo (160 × 90 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, tan morocco label, raised bands, spine elaborately decorated in gilt with central floral tools, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Slight surface loss to board edges, small repair to leaf A, tiny loss due to production fault to edges of leaf Av of the Commentaire, the occasional minor blemish to contents. An excellent copy.

First edition of Chaillou de Lisy’s translation, endorsed by Beccaria (see previous item). Beccaria’s Dei delitti e delle pene was first published in French in 1766, in a translation by economist and Encyclopediste André Morellet. Morellet’s translation, based on the third edition of Beccaria’s treatise, was criticised for being unfaithful, leading Beccaria to seek out another translator, whom he found in librarian Chaillou de Lisy. Chaillou de Lisy’s translation was widely acclaimed and remained the standard text even when other translations followed. Included in this edition are the “Jugement d’un célèbre professeur sur le livre Des Délits & des Peines” and the author’s response to a monk (“un moine de Vallombreuse”) who had attacked his theories and denounced him to the authoroties, “Réponse à un écrit intitulé Notes et Observations sur le livre Des Délits & des Peines”.This copy is bound with Voltaire’s highly admirative Commentaire, which was first published anonymously in Geneva in 1766 (this copy being undated but most probably an early 1770s edition). In 1772 Voltaire wrote to Beccaria, forty years his junior: “Your book upon crimes and punishments opened the eyes of many of the lawyers of Europe who had been brought up in absurd and inhuman usages; and men began everywhere to blush at finding themselves still wearing their ancient dress of savages” (William F. Flemning, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. 11, p. 31).See Printing and the Mind of Man 209.

£550 [113080]

7.COUTO, Diogo do. Decada setima da Asia, dos feitos que os Portugueses fizeraõ no descobrimento dos mares, & conquista das terras do Oriente: em quanto gouernaraõ a India dom Pedro Mascarenhas, Francisco Barreto, dom Constantino, o Conde do Redondo dom Francisco Coutinho & Ioaõ de Mendoça. Composta por mandado dos muito Catholicos, & invenciveis Monarchas d’Espanha, & Reys de Portugal dom Felipe de gloriosa memoria, o primeiro deste nome; & de seu filho dom Felipe nosso senhor, o secundo do mesmo nome. Lisbon: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1616Folio (273 × 188 mm), ff. [10], 247. Contemporary limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, yapp edges, remains of ties. Woodcut portrait of the author on title verso, full-page woodcut in the text, 5-line woodcut initials. Occasional light dampstaining, sig. O6 with small hole affecting a letter either side, a few gatherings browned, overall an excellent copy, generally clean and fresh, the paper strong.

First edition. The Portuguese historian Diogo do Couto (c.1542–1616) was deputed to continue the Décadas of João de Barros, after the latter’s death. The Décadas form a detailed history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and south-east Africa at the height of their empire. Couto assumed the work from the fourth decade onwards. This Decada setima (seventh decade) covers the period from 1554 to 1564, and was the last published in Couto’s lifetime.This was a decade of significant Portuguese expansion in India from their capital at Goa, especially under Constantino of Braganza, who served as viceroy from 1558 to 1561, and extended Portuguese influence northward to Daman province and in the south by consolidating their control over the kingdom of Kotte in Ceylon. Goa was also the base for the apostolic mission to Ethiopia in 1556, sponsored by King John III and aiming to reconcile the Ethiopians to the Catholic church, which failed, although a short-lived Latin patriarchate was established.

During this period, the Portuguese were still the leading colonial power in the Persian Gulf, having successfully resisted the Ottoman attempt in 1552 to conquer their key possession of Hormuz. In 1559 the Turks made another attempt to drive back the Portuguese by attacking Bahrain, a campaign that Couto describes here in great detail. Once again, the Ottoman attempt ended in failure. The Portuguese would retain their hegemony in the Gulf until 1622, when Hormuz fell to a joint Anglo-Persian force.No copy of this edition appears in auction records. OCLC locates only six copies worldwide, adding two further locations for four-volume sets made up of the fourth to seventh decades. It is not clear from library records how many of these contain the approbation and index leaves found in the present copy. The complete Décadas da Ásia was published in a very long and disrupted series, from 1552 to 1736; sets approaching anything like completeness are exceedingly difficult to assemble.£9,500 [112879]

8.DUCPETIAUX, Edouard. De la peine de mort. Brussels: H. Tarlier, Libraire-Éditeur, 1827Octavo. Original blue paper wrappers printed in black. Italian bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine strengthened at foot with tape, slight foxing throughout; an excellent copy.

First edition. De la peine de mort was the Belgian journalist and prison reformer’s first book, written when he was twenty-three years old. Ducpétiaux earned himself a name and an official position as inspector general of prisons on the strength of this passionate and ambitious plea for the abolition of capital punishment. He argued that the alternative to capital punishment was a prison system centred on the improvement of the prisoner.£550 [91158]

9.FORREST, G.W. The Author’s own Copies of Eight Memoranda relating to the Establishment of the Imperial Record Office in Calcutta. Calcutta: Government of India Central Printing Office, 1887-92Foolscap quarto (328 × 208 mm) Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked to style, black morocco longitudinal label, double fillet panel in blind to the boards, hinges lined with linen. Somewhat rubbed, and scorched at the head of both boards, carefully restored, and not unattractive, light accession/de-acession marking to the front endpapers, some pale browning throughout, occasional soiling, but overall very good.

Forrest’s copies of a fascinating series of extremely uncommon papers, print runs from 50 to 250 copies, relating to

his survey of the Government of India’s holdings of historic papers, and his recommendations for the establishment of a national archive. We have been unable to trace any other copies of these papers in on-line library resources, copies will almost certainly be found in the India Office Collection, BL, and the National Archives of India. Forrest’s ownership inscription, twice, to the front free endpaper, and a scatter of inked corrections, and pencilled marginalia. “In 1884 Forrest entered upon the real work of his life with the publication of Selections from the Official Writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone … after which he was seconded to examine the records preserved in the Bombay secretariat - a task which bore fruit in a Maratha (1885) and a home (1887) series of state papers. In April 1888, after some months as professor of English and history at Elphinstone College, Forrest was finally freed from teaching duties to become the first director of records at Bombay. Shortly afterwards he was summoned to investigate the official records at Calcutta, a duty from which he produced his first volume of Selections from the State Papers in the Foreign Department (1890). Under Lord Lansdowne’s viceregal patronage, Forrest went on to create and preside over the Imperial Record Office at Calcutta. He was acutely aware of the bureaucracy’s resistance to his brainchild and took every opportunity to press upon Lansdowne examples from the past that would illuminate contemporary conundrums” (ODNB). Although in his commentaries Forrest inevitably “celebrated imperial advance … in making so many documents available to the public he had opened the way for a new type of history of British India, one that broke with the privileged narratives of inside men such as J. W. Kaye: it was a lasting achievement”.The collection comprises of: 1. “No. 10 of 1885” - No imprint, no print-run; no copy traced. 12 + iipp. Forrest’s ownership stamp at the head of the first leaf. Report to the Bombay Government on Forrest’s examination of their records, and his recommendations relating to the cataloguing and selective publication of the documents; “These Diaries and Letter Books are fast perishing, and if we wish to preserve the historical matter they contain, the selection should be prepared without delay”.2. “No. of 1887” - No imprint, no print-run; no copy traced. 6pp. “I respectfully beg leave to submit a report of the work done by me during the second period that I have been employed on special duty in examining the records of the Bombay Government”. 3. Memorandum relating to Proposed Establishment of a Central Record Office and a Central Library for the Government of India. No. 481 F[oreign] D[epartment]. G.I.C.P.O., 1891. 4pp. Print-run of 10 copies, no copy traced. “ … a memorandum stating the practical measures requisite for carrying out the proposal … for the establishment of a General Record Office for the custody and preservation of the old records of all the Departments of the Government of India”.4. “No. of 1889”, No. 140 F.D. - G.I.C.P.O., 1889. 16pp. Print-run of 200 copies, no copy traced. “I have the honour to submit a report of the work done by me during the time I was employed on special duty in examining the records of the Foreign Office”.5. “No. - [of 1890]” - No imprint, no print-run; no copy traced. 23pp. “ … a report of the work done by me during the time i was employed on special duty in examining the records of the Military Department”.6. “No. [of 1891]”, No. 469 F.D. - G.I.C.P.O., 1891. 14pp. Print-run of 50 copies; no copy traced. Results of Forrest’s “investigation regarding the administration of the Record Offices in England and Scotland … to gather practical information which would be useful in the organization and administration of a Central Record Office of India”.7. “No. 64”, No. 798 F.D. - G.I.C.P.O., 1892. 27pp. Print-run of 100 copies; no copy traced. “ … as general report on the condition of the Government Records at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and the proposals I consider necessary to ensure their preservation and to render them more accessible to students of history”.8. Memorandum - Madras Records. No. 798, F.D. G.I.C.P.O., 1892. 34pp. Print-run of 250; no copy traced. “The muniments at the Madras Central Record Office are of unusual interest and importance … The most ancient muniment … is a letter dated 1670. The first volume examined by me were letters received during the year 1678-79 at Fort St. George. The condition of the paper is so bad and the ink has so spread that I found it almost impossible to decipher it … As the primary object of my visit to Madras was to examine all the papers relating to Clive I first asked for all the records relating to Fort St. David, as Clive’s earliest service was in that settlement. For many days it was impossible to get any trace of these documents, but, shortly before my departure, a few volumes were discovered in the corner of the office”.Fascinating documentation of the creation of what are now the National Archives of India.£3,750 [91488]

10.FORREST, G.W. Bengal Papers - a Series of Printed Transcriptions of Government Documents from the Bengal Archives. Calcutta: Government of India Central Printing Office, 1888-95Folio (326 × 212 mm). Rebound in half calf, marbled boards, to style, original red morocco label “Bengal Papers”. Interleaved throughout. Contents lightly browned, occasional marginal soiling, overall very good.

A series of 34 papers containing transcriptions of key documents from the archives of the Bengal Government, drawn from the period of Forrest’s employment on “special duty” carrying out investigations into the content and condition of India’s archives with a view to the the conservation of documentary material, the publication of key sources, and of the creation of a national repository, which was established in 1891 as the Imperial Record Office, now the National Archives of India. Evidently bound for Forrest’s own use, interleaved throughout, but the interleaves unused. We have been unable to trace listings for any of these nonce papers, copies are certainly held in the India Office Collection at the BL, and no doubt the National Archive of India also. Contains much on Clive - including a substantial portion of his correspondence issued in just 50 copies - a life of whom Forrest was to publish in 1918 after over 30 years of accumulating material; “in The Life of Lord Clive Forrest allows his subject’s letters to speak for themselves, with little authorial intervention”.The collection comprises of, imprint GICPO and print-runs of 500 copies, except where noted.1. Bengal Public Consulations, 1747-48. 491 F[oreign] D[epartment]. 1891. 30pp. 2. Bengal Public Consultations, 1749. 565 F.D. No imprint, no date, no print run. 26pp.3. “To the Honourable The Court of Directors …”. 131 F.D. 1892. 18pp. 4. Bengal Public Consultations, 1750. No imprint, no date, no print run. 2pp.5. Bengal Public Consultations, 1751. 589 F.D. No imprint, no date, no print run. 25pp.6. Fort William, the 25th September 1752. At a Consultation … 60 F.D. 1891. 23pp. 7. Public Proceedings Fort William … 11th October, 1752. 112 F.D. 1891. 44pp.8. Fort William, the 1st January, 1753. At a Consultation … 363 F.D. 1892. 31pp. 9. Our President and Council at Fort William in Bengal. 107 F.D. 1892. 21pp. 10. Our President and Council at Fort William in Bengal. 108 FD. 1891. 2pp.11. Our President and Council at Fort William in Bengal. 109 F.D. 1891. 3pp.12. “To the Honorable George Pigot, Esqr. … & Council”. 826 F.D. 1892.9pp.13. “Letter from Messrs. John Davidson & John Douglas to Robert Clive … 1756”. 954 F.D. 1893. 6pp.14. “To the Hon’ble the Court of Directors …”. 112 F.D. 1894. 90pp.15. Colonel Clive’s Correspondence. Military Sundry Book No. 10, 1756 to 1758. 268 F.D. 1893. 105pp. 50 copies only.

16. “To the Hon’ble George Pigot, Members of the Select Secret Committee at Fort St. George”. 145 F.D. 1892. 22pp.17. Colonel Clive to Cola Wazeed. 820 F.D. 1893. 10pp. 15 copies only.18. Admiralty Despatches (East Indies) (S) 1754-1761. 749 F.D. 1892. 9pp.19. Admiralty Records Log Books “Kent” 1755-1757 Vol. 4778. 749 F.D. 1892. 6pp.. 20. Admiralty Records Log Books “Tyger” 1757-1761. Vol. 5414. 749 F.D. 1892. 2pp.21. A General Return of all the Troops under the Command of Lieutenant-Colonel Clive, 22 February 1757.956 F.D. 1894. 9pp.22. “To the Hon’ble the Secret Committee for Affairs of the … Company …” 147 F.D. 1894. 26pp.23. Fort William, 25th July 1757, at a Consultation … 175 F.D. 1894. 10pp.24. Account of the Revolution in Bengal in the Year 1757. 140 F.D. 1891. 11pp.25. “To the Honorable George Pigot, Esqr. … & Council”. 824 F.D. 1892. 2pp.26. Bengal Public Consultations, 1758. 652 F.D. 1892. 62pp.27. Colonel Clive’s Correspondence with the Country Powers in Bengal from 16th February to 23rd June 1758. 141 F.D. 1892. 26pp.28. Extract from the Proceedings of the Committee appointed for the Administration of Bengal. 743 F.D. 1888. 17pp.29. Proceedings of the Secret Select Committee from 5th January to 28th December 1761. 1000 F.D. 1888. 66pp. 30. Extract from the Proceedings of the Committee appointed for the Administration of Bengal, 1763-64. 1 F.D. 1888. 40pp.31. Extract from the Proceedings of the Committee appointed for the Administration of Bengal, 1764. 1 F.D. 1888. 34pp.32. Proceedings of Select Committee from 6th January 1767. 30 F.D. 1888. 17pp.33. Fort William, 9th November 1767. At a Consulation … 175 F.D. 1895. 6pp.34. Proceedings of the Secret Select Committee from 3rd to 19th February 1785. 402 F.D. 1893. 20pp.A fascinating selection of papers, printed at Forrest’s behest in support of his researches, and documenting Clive’s rise, and the consolidation of company power.£7,500 [111463]

11.(FRENCH LITERATURE.) Fables, lettres, et variétés historiques. Londres: chez E. et C. Dilly, et P. Elmsly, 1777Duodecimo (170 × 100 mm). Contemporary red morocco, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments, green morocco label, sides with wide gilt borders, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With an initial leaf of advertisements for schoolbooks published by E. and C. Dilly. A fine copy.

Second edition (first published by Elmsly alone in 1771) of this compendium of passages for students of French, here handsomely bound in red morocco, an English binding making considerable effort to match the generally higher

standards of contemporary French binders. Peter Elmsly, or Emlsley, was principally involved in importing foreign books and was often described as a French bookseller, although he was born in Aberdeenshire. Elmsley served as bookseller and shipping agent for Edward Gibbon, assisting in the management of his affairs in London when Gibbon was in Lausanne. He was also the first named of the conger of booksellers who conceived and published The Works of the English Poets with Prefaces, Biographical, and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. For this edition he was joined by Edward and Charles Dilly, notorious in many circles for their republican sympathies. They published a further three editions before the end of the century.£750 [100358]

12.HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. London: for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1651Small folio (295 × 180 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, covers with an elaborate geometrical blindstamp decoration, rebacked, spine ruled and stamped in blind in compartments, raised bands, red morocco label. Ornament of a bear on title page, with engraved title-page and folding printed table. Ownership inscription of J. Watson of the Middle Temple dated 1752 on front free endpaper, with his stencilled ownership staamp in red aat head of title. Engraved armorial bookplate of one “N. W. M. Brunton” with the motto “Fax mentis incendium gloriae”. Neatly rebacked and recornered, inner hinges strengthened. Some surface wear to covers. Small marginal hole to final three leaves, affecting one word on the final leaf. Pale damp mark to gutter of the first few leaves, and to the upper outer corner throughout

First edition, second printing of one of the foundation works in the field of political theory, with the bear ornament on the title-leaf, printed outside England (probably at Amsterdam).Leviathan details Hobbes’s notion of the origin of the State as a product of human reason meeting human need, through to its destruction as a consequence of human passions. According to Hobbes, the State, as an aggregate of individual men (so well portrayed in the famous engraved title), should always be tendered the obedience of the individual, as any government, in his view, is better than the natural anarchic state. Needless to say, this view elicited a storm of controversy, putting Hobbes at odds with proponents of individual liberties. Through conflict, Leviathan has been the catalyst of much productive thought in succeeding centuries, from Spinoza to the school of Bentham, “who reinstated [Hobbes] in his position as the most original political philosopher of his time” (PMM). This book “produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the advent of Darwinism” (op. cit.)Macdonald & Hargreaves 43; Printing and the Mind of Man 138; Wing H2246.

£3,750 [112717]

13.(HUME, David.) BROWN, Iain Gordon, ed. My Own Life 1776. Edited from the original manuscript, the property of The Royal Society of Edinburgh on deposit in The National Library of Scotland, and with an

Introduction, Notes and Commentary by Iain Gordon Brown. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2014Quarto. Publisher’s boards, cream paper backstrip lettered in Green, with the dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait, 3 further portraits, 3 plates and 14-page facsimile of Hume’s original manuscript included in the pagination.

First edition of the facsimile of Hume’s original manuscript of “My Own Life”, written shortly before his death in 1776 and first published in 1777. The editor has added a complete transcription, introduction and notes. Published in an edition of 500 copies.£35 [112145]

14.(INDIA.) Indian Tract XLI - Pamphlet Volume from the Library of G.W. Forrest. London: 1779Octavo (204 × 127 mm). Contemporary half calf, drab boards, green morocco label, flat spine, compartments formed by triple fillets. Boards slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked to style, corners repaired, typed contents leaf tipped onto the front free endpaper, light browning, but overall very good.

Pamphlet volume containing four extremely uncommon contributions to various East India Company controversies of the time, two attributed to Alexander Dalrymple, first hydrographer to the Admiralty, who was centrally involved in the disputes in question, being dispatched to London to plead Lord Pigot’s case following the coup which removed his from his post as governor of Madras. With the ownership inscription of historian G.W. Forrest to the front pastedown. Forrest was particularly noted for his respect for primary source material, and his tireless work in making the early records of British India more widely available: “In his commentaries Forrest always celebrated imperial advance. Nevertheless, in making so many documents available to the public he had opened the way for a new type of history of British India, one that broke with the privileged narratives of inside men such as J. W. Kaye: it was a lasting achievement” (ODNB).1. [?DALRYMPLE, Alexander.] Remarks on a Late Address to the Proprietors of East-India Stock. London: J. Almon, 1779. Uncommon, single copy traced at Columbia. Relates to the savings that the Company could make by building and navigating their own ships.2. The Necessity of the Suspension and Arrest of Lord Pigot, Late Governor of Madrass for the East India Company … The First Part [all published]. In which an Account is given of the Rights and Political Situation of the Company in India; a Subject hitherto Unexplained. London: T. Cadell, 1779. Uncommon, Copac lists BL and Manchester only, OCLC adds BnF, and ESTC lists State Library of California.3. HALHED, Nathaniel Brassey. A Narrative on the Events which have happened in Bombay and Bengal, relative to the Maharatta Empire, since July 1777. London: 1779. Copac lists just BL and KCL, ESTC adds Oxford, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Bryn Mawr and JCB, and OCLC Bibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin. Defence of Hastings’ Maratha policy

published anonymously by the noted Orientalist. 4. [DALRYMPLE, Alexander.] Considerations on the East-India Bill now depending in Parliament. London: P. Elmsly and J. Sewell, 1779. Copac has BL, NLS, Senate House, Manchester and Newcastle, OCLC adds copies in BnF, National Library of Australia, Universities of Illinois and Minnesota.The last Goldsmith 11816.

£2,000 [111452]

15.KNOLLES, Richard. The Turkish History, comprehending The Origin of that Nation, and the Growth of the Othoman Empire, with the Lives and Conquests of thir Several Kings and Emperors. Written by Mr. Knolls, continued by Sir Paul Rycaut to the Peace of Carlowitz in the Year 1699 and abridg’d by Mr. Savage. Revised and Approved by the late Sir Paul Rycaut, and adorn’d with Nine and Twenty Copper Plates of the Effigies of the Several Princes, &c. The Second Edition carefully Corrected, Improv’d and brought down to the Present Year 1704. With and Addition of the Life of Mahomet, by the same Author. London: Isaac Cleave, Abel Roper, A. Bosvile, and Ric. Basset, 17042 volumes octavo (193 × 120 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, tan morocco labels, low bands framed by double fillets, gilt, similar panels to the boards, edges sprinkled red. Portrait frontispiece of Paul Rycaut to volume I, that of John Savage to volume II, and 24 other portraits. Slightly rubbed, front joints cracked but holding, slight chipping at the heads of the spines, tan-burn to the front pastedowns, light browning throughout and occasional marginal soiling, but overall a very good set.

First published in the present form in 1687. A pretty copy of this attractive and uncommon abridgement of this classic, Knolles’ “the greatest of English works of the Renaissance dealing with Turkey” (Chew, p.111), and Rycaut’s work a “fitting adjunct to Knolles’ great work in a publication that brings together the two men most associated in the English literary world with Turkey” (Blackmer).£1,500 [112669]

16.LAW, John. Œuvres. Contenant les principes sur le numéraire, le commerce, le crédit et les banques. Avec des notes. Paris: Buisson, 1790Octavo. Original marbled paper wrappers stitched as issued, paper spine label with manuscript titling, uncut. Occasional light spotting. A remarkably well preserved copy.

First collected edition of Law’s works, edited by Gabriel-Étienne de Sénovert, “[who] made a point of highlighting its current relevance. ‘Credit,’ he wrote at the beginning of his [lengthy] introduction to the edition, citing [Sir James] Steuart for corroboration, ‘plays so considerable a role in the political economy of modern nations, and is connected so intimately to their prosperity, and even to their existence, that it could be said that the science of government is nothing but the science of credit itself.’ Sénovert’s assessment of Law was, however, judiciously neutral. As he went on to emphasise, both in the rest of his introduction and in the notes that he added to Law’s own works, it was difficult to decide whether Law’s system was a real example or a dreadful warning” (Michael Sonenscher, Sans-Culottes: An eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution, Princeton UP 2008, pp. 314-15). Decidedly uncommon in commerce and thinly represented in British and Irish institutional libraries: Copac locates only Cambridge, Leeds, and Senate House; OCLC adds a little over two dozen locations worldwide.Goldsmiths’ 14361; Kress B.1919.

£2,000 [111753]

17.LEWIS, C. S. Lecture notes, “Prolegomena to Medieval Poetry”, transcribed by Rodney Hilton. Oxford: 1935Manuscript, 24 sheets, lined notepaper hole-punched in the left margin, written on both sides. Some spotting to outer leaves, very good.

Lewis’s most famous lectures at Oxford were his twice weekly “Prolegomena lectures”, which formed the basis of The Discarded Image (published posthumously in 1964). Lewis’s trademark style was to speak so slowly and clearly, in such well-planned sections, that his lectures virtually invited being transcribed. George Watson, who attended Lewis’s lectures in 1948, recalls, “You could have taken dictation from his lectures, and some (including myself ) did” (Watson, “The Art of Disagreement: C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)”, The Hudson Review 48, 2 (Summer 1995): 229.This transcription was taken by Rodney Howard Hilton (1916–2002), an English Marxist historian of the late medieval period and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. He later gave them to his colleague, Geoffrey Shepherd, at the University of Birmingham. Hilton and Shepherd were highly influential in cross-disciplinary studies, facilitating meetings for much of the 1960s and 1970s between Birmingham medieval history postgraduates and their counterparts in English to discuss matters of common interest. The Bodleian Library has a similar, later transcription of the same lecture series, catalogued as “Notes on C. S. Lewis’s lectures for undergraduates, ‘Prolegomena to the Study of Medieval Poetry,’ taken by William Jarvis, 1936” (shelfmark: MS. Eng. D. 2567).£3,750 [104937]

18.(MACHIAVELLI.) GENTILLET, Innocent. A Discourse upon the meanes of wel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie. Divided into three parts, namely, the counsell, the religion, and the policie, which a prince ought to hold and follow. Against Nicholas Machiavell the Florentine. Translated into English by Simon Patericke. London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1608Folio (255 × 180 mm). Contemporary blind-panelled calf, rebacked and recornered. Without initial and final blanks, but textually complete, with two final leaves bearing “A table of the maximes”. Bookplate of Wittersham House. Worn in places, outer leaves somewhat darkened, small paper restorations at head and foot of title affecting the frame in two small places but not the text, trimmed a little closely at head shaving the frame in places and very occasionally just touching the headline, a good copy.

Second edition in English of the work popularly known as Antimachievel, a translation of Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner et maintenir en bonne paix un royaume ou autre principauté (1576). Despite being widely discussed in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Machiavelli’s Il principe was not published in a complete English translation until 1640, a remarkable delay partly explained by the existence of Patericke’s translation, first published in 1602, which cited enough of Machiavelli’s original to serve as a substitute for it.STC 11744.

£2,750 [111921]

19.(QUR’AN; German.) Der Koran. Oder, Das Gesetz der Moslemen durch Muhammed, den Sohn Abdallahs. Auf den Grund der vormaligen Verdeutschung F. E. Boysen’s von neuem aus dem Arabischen übersetzt, durchaus mit erläuternden Anmerkungen, mit einer historischen Einleitung, auch einen vollständigen Register versehen, von Samuel Friedrich Günther Wahl. Halle: Gebauer, 1828Octavo (215 × 125 mm). Original boards, brown paper backstrip, inked manuscript title to spine. Title-page printed in red and black, folding genealogical table. Extremities and joints slightly rubbed, a few pale markings to spine, contents toned, small spill-burn to sig. G7 costing half a letter on each side. An excellent copy, largely unopened in the second half.

First edition thus, based on Friedrich Boysen’s German translation (1773), which alongside Sale’s English and Savary’s French was one of three eighteenth-century translations to inspire almost all further editions in these languages throughout the nineteenth century (Leaman, ed. The Qur’an: An Encyclopaedia, p. 667). Samuel Wahl (1760-1834), editor of the present iteration, was professor of oriental languages at Halle. Uncommon: Copac traces two copies only in British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library and Oxford); OCLC adds twelve worldwide. Rare in original boards.£450 [110723]

20.RIVET, André. Instruction du Prince Chrestien. Par Dialogues, Entre un jeune Prince, & son directeur. Avec une Meditation Sur Le Voeu de David, Au Pseaume CI. Leyden: Joannes Maire, 1642Octavo (147 × 93 mm). Contemporary vellum sewn on three cords, manuscript title to spine, with two (of four) tawed skin ties. Vellum somewhat soiled, a good clean copy.

First edition of this work on the education of princes, itself apparently influenced by François de la Mothe le Voyer’s De l’instruction de Monsieur le Dauphin (Paris, 1640). Andre Rivet, a French Huguenot Biblical scholar, was recruited by the University of Leiden in 1620. His advice on the education of princes was to leave an influential trail. The prince to whom this book is dedicated was William II of Orange (1626–1650), father of the future William III of England. André Rivet and his son Frédéric, who would become tutor to William III, travelled to England in 1641 to assist in the arrangement of the marriage between William II of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. Frédéric Rivet’s later work, De l’éducation des enfants and particulièrement de celles princes (Amsterdam, 1679), a development of his father’s thinking, has been demonstrated to have influenced John Locke’s ideas on education, formulated during his five-year sojourn in the Netherlands in the 1680s. It was William of Orange’s accession that made it safe for Locke to return to England, where Some Thoughts Concerning Education was published in July 1693.Brita Rang, “An unidentified source of John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 9:2, 249–278, 2001.

£1,650 [108892]

21.(ROMAN MISSAL.) Missale Romanum. Ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentii restitutum, S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, Clementis VIII. & Urbani VIII. Auctoritate recognitum, in quo missae novissimae sanctorum accuratè sunt dispositae. Venice: Typographia Balleoniana, 1725Folio in eights (350 × 242 mm). Contemporary brown goatskin over heavy reverse-bevelled boards, raised bands to spine enclosed by dot-and-zig-zag roll gilt, floral centrepieces gilt to compartments, covers elaborately gilt with single-fillet border enclosing a composite frame incorporating dog-tooth and floral rolls with stylised fleur-de-lys lobes and cornerpieces, intermediate quatrefoil formed from back-to-back dogtooth rolls, spandrels gilt with feather, floral and fleur-de-lys tools, central vignettes of Christ crucified (front) and the Virgin and Child (rear) within elaborate rolled floral border, interstitial blind rules, decoratively gilt-gauffered edges. Text in double-column, rubrication throughout; frequent music score. Engraved vignette title page and 4 full-page engravings by Elisabetta Piccini (signed Suor Isabella P. F.) depicting the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and Pentecost, profuse woodcut initial figures and tailpieces throughout, mostly incorporating cherubim and of which 5 hand-rubricated, Maltese cross tools to the text. Green silk tabs laid down to fore edge of sigs. M1-6 (one tab frayed, sigs. 4 & 5 with later, 19th c. paper restoration to margins); 4 pink silk page-markers laid in. Tips worn, joints rubbed and head and foot, a few shallow worm-tracks to rear board not reaching text-block, short closed tear to bottom edge sig. L4 & shallow chip to the same on sig. L6, neither affecting text, bound without sig. Ee1 (final leaf ) in the main text (though the only institutional copy traced giving the same pagination, pp. 432) and sigs. e4-f1, hinge between sigs d & e strengthened with linen. A handsomely bound copy.

A striking eighteenth-century Roman Missal, attractively printed in Venice and apparently bound in Brescia in the year of publication. A note on p. lxxxiii reads “Brixiae-Conglutinator est Ioseph Goltius in Via Pallade iuxta Xenodochium Mercaturae. Die 13. Decembris 1725” (The Brescian binder is Joseph Goltius on the Via Pallade, next to the marketplace of the Xenodochium). There are also four two-page orders of service for various occasions bound in between signatures Dd8 and a, all printed in Brescia at the shop of Giovanni Maria Ricciardi in 1725 (one of these is a missal for the feast days of the martyrs of Brescia), and bound in at the rear is a later Brescian missal, printed by F. Luchi in 1856. The only other copy of this edition traced (University of Saint Bonaventure, New York) is bound with a similar array of shorter texts, all printed in Parma, suggesting that Balleoni’s presswork enjoyed a degree of popularity across northern Italy. The engravings by Piccini are especially appealing. “Elisabetta Piccini (1644–1734) was the daughter of the Venetian engraver Giacomo Piccini (d. 1669), who trained her in the art of drawing and engraving in the styles of the great masters, particularly Titian and Peter Paul Rubens. In 1666 she entered the Convent of Santa Croce in Venice and took the name Suor (Sister) Isabella. She continued to work as an engraver, accepting numerous commissions from Venetian publishers to illustrate liturgical books, biographies of saints, and prayer manuals” (SMU, online). Balleoni included Piccini’s engravings for his first Roman Missal, printed in 1704.£1,500 [112562]

22.SANDINI, Antonio. Disputationes Historicae ad Vitas Pontificum Romanorum ab eodem Descriptas. Trnava: Typis Collegii Academici Soc. Jesu, 1767

Small octavo (165 × 95 mm). Contemporary marbled sheep, smooth spine gilt with repeating ropework fillets, tan morocco label, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Woodcut vignette title page, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank. Extremities lightly rubbed, tips bumped, a few small worm-tracks to joints and front board not affecting text-block, small abrasion to lower outer corner of front pastedown, pale tide-mark to top edge of gutter until p. 21, occasional foxing. A good copy.

First and only Trnava edition of this account of twenty formative events in the history of the early Church, from the Apostolic Age to the papacy of Saint Paschal I (817-24). Rare: just three copies traced in libraries world-wide (Leipzig, Berkeley and Szeged, Hungary). Trnava, Slovakia, was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric from 1541 until 1820, during which time it was one of the centres of European Catholicism (the archbishopric was restored in 1977). Originally published in Ferrara in 1742.£95 [112373]

23.SHARP, Granville. Three Tracts on the Syntax and Pronunciation of the Hebrew Tongue; With an appendix addressed to the Hebrew nation. London: by W. Calvert for Vernor and Hood, F. and C. Rivington, J. White, J. Hatchard, W. Dwyer, and L. Pennington, at Durham, 1804Octavo (187 × 110 mm). Uncut in original boards, white paper backstrip, manuscript title to spine. With the individual title pages and half-titles for each tract, the register continuous except for the appendix. Spine slightly rolled and chipped, a few small markings to covers. An excellent, entirely unsophisticated copy.

First and only edition. Sharp (1735–1813) is best remembered as one of the first abolitionists, through whose efforts “the anti-slavery movement gained public attention and sympathy and … transformed itself from a benign climate of opinion to a highly organized campaign” (ODNB); Thomas Clarkson identified him as the founder of the movement. He was also an esteemed amateur linguist and theologian, having taught himself Hebrew and Greek while apprenticed to a London linen-draper in order to debate with two of his fellow apprentices, one of whom was Jewish, the other a member of the Unitiarian Socinian sect, which denied the divinity of Christ. His Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament (1798; 3rd edn, 1803) “argued strongly for the divinity of Christ and struck a blow against the Socinian position” (idem). “Dr Henry Lloyd, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, lauded Sharp for his insights into the pronunciation of Hebrew, as did Bishop Horsley on Sharp’s new insights on Hebrew syntax … A refrain seen in many reviews … was that Sharp’s treatment was the finest in print, the ablest defence of a view, a great insight that would stand the test of time” (Wallace, Granville Sharp’s Canon and its Kin, p. 47).£750 [111956]

24.(WITTGENSTEIN.) MAYS, Wolfe, F. A. von Hayek, and others. Small archive relating to Ludwig Wittgenstein and his time in Manchester in the period 1908-1912, with a copy of Hayek’s unfinished draft of a sketch of a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Papers, correspondence and photographs from the library of the philosopher and phenomenologist Wolfe Mays, relating to the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, with reference to his time spent at Manchester. Manchester and elsewhere: 1950sA very interesting archive of biographical research material, as detailed below, housed in acid free folders in an archival box. In excellent condition.

An interesting archive of material from the library of Wolfe Mays (1912-2005), philosopher and phenomenologist, student of Wittgenstein at Cambridge in the 1940s, subsequently professor of Philosophy at Manchester, focussing on his investigation into Wittgenstein’s attendance at Manchester University in the period 1908-1912, including correspondence with Friedrich von Hayek, and with a copy of Hayek’s draft sketch of a biography of Wittgenstein, comprising: 1. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed Air Letter, Signed, Chicago, February 3, 1953, to The Registrar, University of Manchester, requesting help “to fill a gap in the account of the life of my kinsman, the late Professor Ludwig Wittgenstein of Cambridge, which I am trying to write. Both Lord Russell (Bertrand Russell) and Wittgenstein’s surviving brother remember that L. Wittgenstein came to Cambridge in 1912 from Manchester, where he had been studying engineering. He had been studying engineering before in Berlin, but for some unknown reason and at an unknown

date, left the Technische Hochschule there to continue his studies in Manchester. Practically nothing is known both of the periods in Berlin and Manchester... What I wonder is whether there is any possibility to find out form the records of Manchester University whether between 1910 and 1912 Ludwig Wittgenstein was a student there”. One page, signed in ink, with pencil notes added.2. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, 10 February, 1953, from the Assistant Registrar of Manchester University, to F. A. von Hayek, acknowledging his letter and noting that “a student named Ludwig Wittgenstein came here in the autumn of 1908 and registered as a research student in Engineering... We have been unable to trace any reference to Professor Wittgenstein after 1910”, mentioning C. M. Mason, assistant Director of the Engineering Laboratories, and Emeritus Professor A. H. Gibson. One page.3. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed Letter Signed, Helsingfors, Finland. 14 November, 1953, to The Registrar of the University of Manchester, enquiring on behalf of Wittgenstein’s Literary executors about the dates of Wittgenstein’s registration at and departure from the University of Manchester. One page, signed in ink. 4. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, from the Assistant Registrar of Manchester University, to G. H. von Wright, dated 30 November, 1953, confirming Wittgenstein’s attendance at Manchester, with added information. One page.5. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed Letter Signed, Helsingfors, Finland, 7 December, 1953, to The Registrar of Manchester University, confirming receipt of his letter, with thanks. One page, signed in ink.6. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed Letter Signed, Helsingfors, Finland, 28 December 1953, to the Registrar of Manchester University, referring to correspondence between F. A. von Hayek and the Registrar, requesting a further check on the dates of Wittgenstein’s registration and attendance at the University of Manchester. One page, signed in ink.7. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, from the Assistant Registrar of Manchester University, to G. H. von Wright, January 22, 1954, apologising for previous confusion, and confirming the dates of Wittgenstein’s attendance at the University of Manchester. One page.l 8. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, 27 January, 1954, to The Editor of the Manchester Guardian, requesting publication of a letter appealing to readers for information regarding Wittgenstein’s time in Manchester. One page.9. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, to G. H. von Wright, 3 February, 1954, informing him that following the suggestion of Mr Walton, the assistant registrar of Manchester University, Mays is hoping to write a paper on Wittgenstein’s time in Manchester, and seeking permission for publication of it in the Manchester Guardian. One page.10. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed Air Letter, Signed, Chicago, April 28, 1954, to Wolfe Mays: “Somebody told me recently that he had seen a letter of yours concerning L. Wittgenstein’s early years in Manchester in the Manchester Guardian. I am interested in this partly because I wonder whether your inquiries are perhaps a result of Professor von Wright’s and mine inquiries to the Registrar of the University of Manchester, which in the first instance had brought up conflicting replies... and partly because I wonder whether you may be working on a biographical sketch of W. I had myself commenced such a sketch a little while ago and a first draft had been half finished for some time, when I put it aside on learning that I would not get permission to quote at length from W.’s letters to Br. Russell until W’s literary executors had themselves published them... I have failed to get any real information on the Manchester period... I wonder whether you have been more successful and what you propose to do with the information you have obtained. My original plan, which I still hope to carry out some day, is to have a fairly full factual sketch of W’s mimeographed for circulation among all his friends for comments and additions with the intention of later rewriting it in an appropriate form. But I have no idea now when I will actually do this.” 11. HAYEK, F. A. von. Typed Air Letter, Signed, Chicago, May 5, 1954, to Wolfe Mays, thanking Mays for his letter of May 1, and noting that he will be “most grateful for a copy of your article whenever it is completed since I am most anxious not to miss it when it appears.”12. HAYEK, F. A. von. Copy of a 58-page typescript by Hayek entitled “Unfinished Draft of a Sketch of a Biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein written in 1953 for private circulation by F. A. Hayek, with some later corrections and insertions”. A footnote, dated Chicago, November 1959, remarks: “At this point I broke off six years ago when Wittgenstein’s literary executors refused me permission to quote from Wittgenstein’s letters until they had themselves published them. They have still not done so, but I am not now likely to return to a task which I undertook largely to collect the available information while Wittgenstein’s friends were still alive. Some of them have since died and I can no longer submit to their approval what I have written. Beyond this point I have only disconnected notes which would be of little use to anybody else. Moreover, the greater part of the remaining year’s of Wittgenstein’s life are now fully

covered by the recently published Memoir by Norman Malcolm.)”. Pages 7-11 of this version incorporate Mays and Eccles’s paper on the Manchester Years, quoting verbatim from it, but omitting part - see item 19. Hayek’s biography was never published, though typescript versions were distributed. Copy with tears and sellotape repairs to the first and last leaves. 13. ECCLES, William. Typed Letter Signed (with additional copy initialled), to Wolfe Mays, Altringcham, May 5, 1954, sending “all the information I have about Ludwig Wittgenstein which I understand you intend to deposit in the University. The information is in duplicate and I am retaining the originals at least for the time being, but will hand them over should this be considered desirable at some future date.” The enclosures, all present with the TLS are: a) 5-page typed document signed by Eccles; Ludwig Wittgenstein - Some memories of him. With ink corrections in Eccles’s hand.b) Typewritten transcripts of 8 letters and two postcards from Wittgenstein to Eccles, together with the typed transcript of a letter from Wittgenstein’s sister, Hermione, to Eccles, together 10 pages, July, 1912 to March, 1939.c) Oval portrait photograph in black and white of a youthful Wittgenstein, roughly 150 × 190 mm., somewhat worn and a little creased, annotated on reverse in pencil. Taken c. 1910.d) Black and white photograph of Eccles and Wittgenstein holding a large kite on Glossop Moor, roughly 180 × 140 mm., taken about 1908, annotated on the verso in ink by Eccles, with a key to the image, signed and dated April 1954.e) Typewritten copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Royal Aeronautical Society, written to Eccles’s son, H. H. Eccles, 4 February, 1954, enclosing a description of three pictures of early balloons, given to Eccles by Wittgenstein, and sent by his son to the Society. Two pages.f ) University of Manchester envelope, 150 × 90 mm., containing 9 black and white photographs of the exterior and interior of the house designed by Engelmann and Wittgenstein in Vienna for Wittgenstein’s sister. g) Four black and white photostat reproduction of architects’ drawings of the house designed by Engelmann and Wittgenstein, roughly 420 × 330 to 350 × 300 mm. in size.h) Three black and white photostats, roughly 420 × 330 mm. in size, of drawings of the variable volume experimental combustion chamber. 14. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, 10 May, 1954, to the Editor of the Manchester Guardian, advising that May’s earlier enquiry through the pages of the Manchester Guardian had resulted in his meeting with William Eccles, who was able to supply “a good deal of information not previously known”, announcing their decision to write an article (enclosed with the letter, but not present here), and enquiring whether the Manchester Guardian would be interested in publishing it. May further encloses copies of the two photographs (items c & d), offering them for illustration purposes and requesting their return. One page.15. MASON, C. M. Typed Letter (with carbon copy) to Wolfe Mays. Department of Engineering, University of Manchester, 6 May, 1954, enclosing copy of a note received from J. Bamber, Wittgenstein’s supervisor at Manchester, together with his own recollections of assisting Wittgenstein to “install and erect some heavy apparatus which he had removed from the Physics Department to the new research laboratory in the Engineering Department” and remarks on his character and personality. One page.16. BAMBER, J. Typed Copy of a note addressed to C.M. Mason offering recollections of Wittgenstein at Manchester, dated 8 March, 1954. Bamber was an assistant in the Engineering Department and Wittgenstein’s contemporary there, and according to Mason “it would be to Mr. Bamber that Wittgenstein would turn for any practical help and advice while he was working in the Department.” One page, with second copy.17. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, to Professor Gilbert Ryle, 11 May, 1954, recounting his recent research on Wittgenstein’s Manchester period, listing the various documents in his and Eccles’s possession, and offering a brief article on the subject for publication in the journal Mind. Two pages.18. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Article, Note on Wittgenstein’s Manchester Period. 3 pages, with manuscript additions in blue ink, stapled, together with a copy of the original offprint of the article, as published in Mind, vol. LXIV., N.S., No. 254, April, 1955.19. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter to G. H. von Wright, 24 May, 1954, thanking von Wright for his letter (not present here), informing him of his discoveries, enclosing a copy of his and Eccles’s article, “Wittgenstein in Manchester” (no longer present), advising von Wright that the Manchester Guardian “tells us that it is too long for them” and that he hopes to publish it elsewhere, and offering to send copies of all the documents in their

posession. One page.20. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, to G. H. von Wright, 1 June, 1954, thanking him for his letter (not present here), and offering to deal with points raised by von Wright one by one, with reference to Wittgenstein in Norway and in Manchester in 1911, Eccles’s retirement, and confirming that he will send copies of the documents to von Wright. Two pages.21. WRIGHT, G. H. von. Typed Letter Signed, Helsingfors, Finland, 3 June, 1954, to Wolfe Mays, thanking him for his letter of June 1, referring to various points of that letter, and mentioning Wittgenstein’s earlier time spent at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. One page.22. MAYS, Wolfe. Retained Carbon Typed Letter, to G. H. von Wright, 4 June, 1954, confirming the sending of the afore-mentioned documents. One page.23. MAYS, Wolfe. Working typescript draft of an article, “Wittgenstein in Manchester”. 18 pages plus one supplementary half page numbered 10, typed with double spacing, with numerous corrections in pencil and in ballpoint, correcting, deleting and adding to the typescript, held together with a rusty paperclip. Published as: ‘Wittgenstein in Manchester’, in Proceedings of the 4th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel [Austria], 28 August to 2 September 1979 (ed. Rudolf Heller and Wolfgang Grassl), pp. 171–177 (Hölder, Pilcher, Tempsky, Vienna, 1980).£5,500 [110032]

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