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hünersdorff - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
H Ü NER SDOR FF HÜNER SDOR FF R A R E BOOK S 4 Alston Lodge, 23 Queens Road Cheltenham GL50 2LX England Telephone +44(0)1242 262322 [email protected] Business by appointment Images reproduced in this catalogue are not to scale Cover image adapted from item 195 Frontispiece image item 1; title image item 70 Image at back item 36 HÜNERSDORFF: CATALOGUE 24 CATALOGUE 24 a selection of Antiquarian Books, Manuscripts, Drawings & Photographs H Ü NER SDOR FF Cheltenham An African slave in colonial Peru 1 (Peru) Alarcón, Pedro de. Carta de Venta (sale contract) Manuscript in ink on paper. 2 pages of closely written text penned in brown ink in a fine chancery hand. Small folio. Los Reyes (Lima), 12 March 1550. Signed at end. In excellent original condition. £2500 An early Spanish colonial document legalizing the sale of a twenty year old negro slave, Pedro de Canova, to one Diego de Herrera, constable in the Royal Audiencia (alguacil menor) of Peru, for the price of 225 pesos de oro (gold pesos). Signed at the end by Martín de Alarcón, capitan conquistador, the owner and vendor of the slave. Alarcón hailed from Trujillo in Estremadura, a poor southwestern province of Spain, birthplace of many of the great conquistadores: the Pizarro brothers, Pedro de Almagro, Francisco de Orellana,Vasco Nuñes de Balboa and Hernan Cortès all sought fame and fortune in the ‘Indies’. Alarcón is known to have joined the armada sent to Panama by Gonzalo Pizarro in 1546 to intercept the imperial delegate Pedro de La Gasca; he later resided in Cuzco - cf: Vicente Navarro del Castillo, La epopeya de la raza Extremeña en India: conquistadores, evangelizadores y colonizadores (Mérida 1978). African slaves were increasingly imported during the early colonial period to replace the indigenous Indian labour force that had largely vanished as a result of disease brought in by the Spaniards and the harsh labour conditions imposed by them. Slaves served as construction workers, soldiers, body guards and personal retainers. A rare survival of a slave trade document of this period. Trade prohibited 2 Albert & Isabel Archdukes of the Spanish Netherlands (1600-1633). Ordinantie ende Placcaet Van De Eertshertogen, Inhoudende diversche poincten by hunne Hoocheden geordineert ende gheresolveert, tot meerder verclaringhe ende onderhoudinghe van hunne interdictie, ende verboden van alle coopmanshandel met hunne Vyanden ende Rebellen, ende de verclaringe daer naer gheuvolcht. Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1600. 4to. [8]p. Title in roman letter with crowned archiducal woodcut arms between female shield bearers upholding the chain of the order of the Golden Fleece. Text printed in fraktur type. Ornamental woodcut at end. Unbound as issued; margins untrimmed. £450 An early ordinance issued by the joint rulers of the Spanish Netherlands, Archduke Albert and his wife Archduchess Isabel, popularly known as ‘the Archdukes’, forbidding trade between the rebels in the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch United Provinces in the North. The main commodities mentioned are fish, butter and cheese. The civil unrest was in support of the war being waged by the Dutch against King Philip IV of Spain. Not listed in Goldsmith or Kress catalogues. 3 Alcedo, Antonio de. Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias occidentales ó America: es á saber: de los reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Con la descripción de sus provincias, naciones, ciudades, villas, pueblos, rios, montes... Madrid, Benito Cano, Manuel Gonzales & Blas Roman, 1786-1789. 5 volumes in 8vo. I: [2] + xiv + 791 + [1 blank]p; II: [2]f + 636p; III: [2]f + 496 + 7 + [1 blank]p; IV: [1]f + 609 + [1 blank]p; V: [2]f + 461 + [3] + 186p. Near-contemporary Spanish marbled sheep; backstrips gilt with title labels; lightly rubbed. £4850 First edition of this great encyclopaedia of the geography, history and culture of late colonial Spanish America. Volume I includes 2 subscribers’ lists totalling 10 pages; volume 3 contains at the end ‘Resumen de los reynos y provincias en que está dividida la América Española’ (7f ), a summary of the administrative structure of Spanish America’; the last part of volume 5, ‘Vocabulario de las voces provinciales de la America’ (186p), is a dictionary of words used in Spanish America including geographical terms and names of plants, birds and other animals peculiar to the region. The compiler was colonel of a Spanish regiment of guards and a royal academician. An English translation by G. A. Thompson was published 1812-1815. 2 early collectors’ stamps in blank margins of half-titles and titles, volume 4 without half-title; generally an attractive, fresh set from the collection of Enrique Fitte with bookplate inside front covers. Leclerc 22; Palau 6029; Sabin 682. 4 Alciati, Andrea. Duello dello eccellentissimo, e clarissimo giurisconsulto M.Andrea Alciato fatto di Latino Italiano a commune utilitˆ. Tre consigli appresso della materia medesima uno de’l detto Alciato, gl’altri de lo eccellentissimo e clarissimo giurisconsulto M.Mariano Socino. Con due tavole, l’una contenente i capi de’ duello de l’Alciato. L’altra copiosamente contenente tutte le materie de’il duello, e de li co[n]sigli. Venice, Comin de Trino di Monferrato, 1552. 8vo. 96 + [7] f. Without last blank. Italic letter. Vellum. £650 Learned treatise on the niceties of duelling by the Milanese lawyer Andrea Alciati (1492-1550) who was quick to exploit the wide interest created by Castiglione’s ‘Courtier’, publishing a number of books on related subjects. The book also treats military law and the ordinance of chivalry. Alciati is best known for his emblem books which became a great fashion. Early ownership signature partially erased by an old hand; inside front cover the manuscript presentation entry: ‘Ad uso d Giaco: Alfonso Ru: Institutore dell Accademica de gli sfortunati de Bergamo’. From the collection of the noted Italian-Argentine bibliophile Mario Pedro Arata with his signature and name stamp inside front cover. Cockle 871 (note); Index Aureliensis 102.983; Levi & Gelli 106; Thimm 5. 5 Aleman, Mateo. Vida y hechos del Picaro Guzman de Alfarache. Antwerp, widow of H. Verdussen, 1736. 2 volumes in 8vo. I: [8]f including engraved title+ 299p + [2]f; II: [8]f + 396p + [2]f. Half calf; rebacked. £550 The tale of Guzman, the ingenious rogue, is the prototype of the picaresque novel which is Aleman’s main claim to fame. The story enjoyed instant success when its first part appeared in 1599. The work was pirated and even spuriously continued because of the great demand for it. The genuine second part was first published in 1605. Translations into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, English, Dutch, and Latin followed, but Aleman was deprived of its financial benefits. Ironically he had paved the way for Cervantes’s Don Quijote, also published in 1605 which resulted in a sharp decline of the sale of Guzman. The present edition is a re-issue of the first Verdussen edition without the plates. Two margins strengthened, otherwise a good set. Palau 6709; Peeters-Fontainas 36. 6 André, Edouard. Traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins. Paris, G. Masson, 1879. 4to. viii + 888p. With 9 chromolithograph plates (1 double-page) from designs by the author and 520 wood-engravings in text. Original cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover; lightly worn. £450 The magnum opus of one of the great landscape architects of the latter half of the 19th century, and first professor of the faculty at the Ecole d’Horticulture de Versailles. From 1860 André had been instrumental as a horticulturist and garden designer under Baron Haussmann and Adolphe Alphand; the work is dedicated to the latter. He was one of the first in his profession to travel widely, and received commissions in Europe (including England - Sefton Park, Liverpool), North and South America and Russia. It was André who pioneered the culture of exotic plants for the Paris parks, that had so impressed William Robinson during his stay in 1867. The work is an extensive treatise on the art and practice of garden design illustrated by diagrams, and examples from all over the world. The attractive chromolithographs include the author’s plans for Sefton Park, Parc de la Chassagne on the Côte d’Or and Parc de la Motte-Farchat on the Loire. A well preserved copy, some very light marginal foxing. 8 Arata, Giulio U. L’architettura arabo-normano e il rinascimento in Sicilia. Milan, Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1914. Large folio. [2] + xii + 30 + [2]p. with photographic title page, red lettering, and 120 plates, most photographic, and including 3 chromolithographs of mosaic tiling, numerous photographic illustrations and plans in introductory text. Publisher’s cloth with ties, title on cover, the contents loose as issued. £450 A magnificent volume with fine contemporary photographs. The Arab legacy is paramount in the architecture of the great cathedrals, palaces and pavilions of Palermo and Monreale, though smaller towns are also represented. The photographs are particularly striking for the dimension of vista they embrace (the whole exterior arcaded apse of Monreale, close up; three sides of the cloister garden of S.Giovanni degli eremiti). Two plates illustrate La Ziza, the exquisite 12th century garden pavilion in the former royal park with fine mosaics, ‘chadar’ (water stair) and canals. The scenes evoke the unspoilt charm that enticed 19th and early 20th century travelers to Sicily. Corrado Ricci has supplied the preface. Generally well preserved, occasional toning in margin edges. Early travels to the River Plate region 7 Angelis, Pedro de (editor) Coleccion de obras y documentos relativos a la historia antigua y moderna de las provincias del Rio de la Plata, ilustrados con notas y disertaciones. Buenos Aires, Imprenta del Estado, 1836-1837. 6 volumes in folio. Quarter sheep, marbled boards. £4500 First edition of the most comprehensive collection of early travel accounts relating to the River Plate region, the principal work of Pedro de Angelis (1784-1859), Neapolitan scholar, educator, and journalist, who came to Argentina in 1827 at the invitation of the liberal reforming President Bernardino Rivadavia. (He founded the Colegio Argentino and edited three influential journals: La Gaceta Mercantil, Archivo Americano & Espiritu de la Prensa del Mundo). Angelis was able to draw on original source material from his unique collection of books and manuscripts on the subject, unequalled at the time, and his impressive edition was printed under the auspices and at the expense of the Buenos Aires government. His staunch support of the dictatorship of General Rosas is reflected in the long dedication at the beginning of volume I. All sections are separate entities with their own title-pages. A general index with details of the 68 parts is contained at the end of the last volume. Volumes 5 & 6 with traces of waterstaining, occasional slight imperfections in margins, but generally a well preserved, complete set with the contemporary ownership signatures ‘Manuel A. de Aguirre’ and ‘Manuel Hermengildo de Aguirre’ on front fly leaves: a distinguished provenance, as the lawyer, economist and successful entrepreneur Aguirre (1763-1843), played a pivotal role in the post-independence development of Argentina. He served as Minister of Finance to first president, Bernardino Rivadavia, and later to dictator Manuel de Rosas; as Chairman of the National Bank he concluded a controversial deal with Baring Brothers. This work was not seen by either Palau (12491: ‘Coleccion preciosa’) or Sabin (1537: ‘most important collection’) judging by their faulty and defective entries. (Collation available on request). Item 9 Tricks of a Roman Courtesan 9 Aretino, Pietro. Coloquio de las Damas; Agora nuevamente corregido y emendado, traduzido por el beneficiado Fernan Xuarez vezino y natural de Sevilla. [Seville]1607. 12mo. 141 +[1blank]p. Early 19th century green morocco with elaborate gilt borders (by F.Koehler); edges gilt; later gilt supralibros of Isidoro Fernandez in centre covers. £2250 A rare Spanish translation of the Ragionamenti, or Whores’ Dialogues, rendered from the Italian by the Seville theologian Fernan Xuarez, who selected the notorious third ‘day’ of the first part, where Lucrecia, a Roman courtesan, relates her experience and describes the tricks she used to become famous. As the Spanish Inquisition had immediately proscribed the 1547 and 1548 versions, the present impression was published anonymously to avoid prosecution. In his extensive prologue the translator points to the moral of the transitory nature of earthly pleasures, and explains that the purpose of his contribution to ‘profane’ literature is to reveal to blind youth the abyss which lies ahead of them if they choose the downward path. Three 22-line verses have been added at the end of this printing. A fine copy bound for Charles Nodier (1780-1844), French romantic writer and bibliophile, by F.Koehler, one of the best period craftsmen, and Nodier’s favourite binder. With bookplates of Charles Nodier, I.F. J.Charle de Tyberchamps, Isidore Fernandez, etc. Top edges lightly shaved. Palau 16000 (listing this copy); Salva 1708; Heredia 2702 (the great rarity of all Spanish editions is stressed. C.Ramsden, French bookbinders,p113; see also: P.Culot, Reliures et reliures décorées en France a l’époque romantique (Bruxelles 1995). 10 Argentina. Martir o Libre. Num. 1. Domingo 29 de Marzo de 1812. [Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1812] 8vo. 8 pages. Wrappers. £300 Number One of an early Argentine Independence weekly newspaper printed at the Foundlings’ Press, which terminated on 25th May 1812 with a total of nine numbers issued. The editor, Monteagudo, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Independence movement, calling for a complete break with Spain. This first issue contains references to a mediation attempt by the British government between Spain and her American colonies. A light waterstain in top margins, otherwise clean. Furlong IV, no 12867, pp421-22; Palau 156409 records a facsimile reprint. Brussels & Ghent botanic gardens 11 Baltet, Charles. L’horticulture en Belgique, son enseignement ses institutions, son organisation officielle. Paris, Victor Massin et fils, MDCCCLXX (1865). 4to. [2] + 184 p. With 7 partly coloured lithograph plates. Contemporary marbled boards, morocco spine with gilt title, a little rubbed at corners. £485 A survey of contemporary Belgian horticulture, amongst the most advanced in its methods at the time. There are detailed descriptions of the two important schools of Vilvorde and Gendbrugge with their curricula, information on horticultural societies and and their work both in Belgium and abroad, also notes on botanic gardens and horticultural journals. The fine lithographs show how the schools and botanic gardens are laid out. There is a view and plan of the botanic gardens at Brussels and Ghent and a delightful illustration of the huge Ambroise Verschaffelt nursery with gardeners at work and visitors selecting plants. The Ghent area saw a ‘spectacular expansion of horticulture’ during the nineteenth century, and it became a world centre for the cultivation of the camellia and the azalea’ (Oxford Companion to Gardens’, 1986, p49). Charles Baltet was a distinguished French horticulturist from Troyes. Contemporary brown ink signature on endpaper. A handsome volume with wide margins, scarcely visible small waterstain at edge of one or two early leaves. Author’s signed presentation copy 12 B[eroald]o B[ianchi[n]i, N[atal]is von. Auflösung des wichtigen Problems, die Percussions-Schlösser auch in der Armee einzuführen. Vienna: Carl Gerold, 1837. 8vo. [24] p + 1 partially hand-coloured lithographed folding plate with 7 illustrations by C. Paulizza, dated 1837. Original green publisher’s boards, edges gilt; lightly rubbed in places. £350 A memoir by the director of the Imperial handgun factory at Vienna explaining various technical problems with percussion locks which had to be solved before they could be adopted by the Austrian army. General von Beroaldo Bianchini (1779-1854) , inventor and designer, made numerous improvements in gunnery, and wrote a standard service manual on the subject for the Austrian army published in 1829. A fresh copy with author’s presentation to G. Fontana with his autograph inscription ‘G. Fontana Dono del Generale Beroaldo’ in top margin of inside front cover. Anthology on the female breast 13 (Curiosa) Blanco, Gerardo (pseudonym for Peratoner, Amancio). El seno de las mujeres. Obra rarísima y en estremo curiosa, única en su género, y que contiene … todo cuanto se ha dicho antaño y ogaño, en elogio de los pechos de la mujer … y finalmente, los medios mas seguros, para su completa conservacion; y mantenimiento de su hermosura. Barcelona, José Miret, 1878. 8vo. 227p + [5]f including index and publisher’s advertisements. Half cloth. £250 An anthology of mostly French and Spanish literary comments on the female breast. The author discusses moral aspects of allowing public exposure and the legitimacy of women permitting their lovers to touch their breasts. Chapter VI is a comparative study of the finest breasts among European nations with digressions on nunneries and negresses. Chapter VIII discusses false breasts, whereas chapter X describes the pleasures of lactation quoting a case history of a wet-nurse. The publisher’s advertisements are of similar works by the author, whom Palau identifies as Amancio Peratoner, a prolific writer on erotic aspects of social history, without listing the present work. Seminal artillery handbook 14 Blondel [François]. L’Art de jetter les bombes. Paris, François Le Cointe for the author & Nicolas Langlois, 1683. 4to. Engraved title + [4]f + 445p + [9]f including errata leaf. Title with vignette of a bomb about to explode with descriptive legend, over 130 diagrams and textual engravings (22 full-page), 10 tables (4 full-page), attractive vignette at each of the four chapter headings, ornamental floral tail-pieces throughout. Contemporary marbled calf; backstrip gilt; lightly restored. £1850 The rare first edition of this seminal artillery handbook based on Galilei’s doctrine of a trajectory as a parabola, and the earliest application of this theory to military science. Arranged in four parts, the book begins with a general discussion of the theories advocated by Galilei, Tartaglia, Ufano, Collado, Rivaut de Flurance, Siemienowski, Elrich and Cassini. The second part describes a number of instruments and sinus tables to facilitate the task of the bombardier. The third part is devoted to tra- jectory theory, and the final section addresses practical problems in the application of these theories. Blondel, an architect and military engineer, was quartermaster general, inspector of public works in Paris, and tutor to the Dauphin. He also taught mathematics at the French Academy of Sciences. His manuscript was presented to Louis XIV in 1675, but publication was delayed for eight years for fear it might profit the enemy. It served as the basic text for the newly formed French Bombardier Company, and was often re-printed and translated. The fine engraved illustrations are by Jean-Baptiste Broebes, engraver and architect, a pupil of Jean Marot (cf.Thieme-Becker V: 44); the frontispiece and 2 plates are signed by him. A tall, well preserved copy; edges of tailend blank margins of last quire with isolated light waterstain. An 18th century manuscript note in blank title margin states that this book was donated by brigadier Filippi to the Capuchin library at Racconiggi in 1775. Jähns 1240-1242; Riling 180; Spaulding & Karpinski 187; Goldsmith (1203) lists an 1685 imprint as the earliest edition held by the British Library; Kiely, Surveying Instruments, 113; Lipperheide (Ra3) lists 1699 edition giving date of first edition in error as 1689. Illustrated guide to Strassburg Minster 15 Boehm, François Joseph. Description nouvelle de la Cathedrale de Strasbourg et de sa fameuse Tour. Strasbourg, Simon Kürsner, 1743. 12mo. [8] + 133 + [7]p. Title in red & black. With 10 engraved illustrations (lettered A-K), of which 4 are folding by A. Dannegger and 2 tables in text, ornate decorative tail-pieces, printer’s ornaments and initial capitals throughout. Contemporary vellum boards. £485 An attractive early 18th century illustrated guide to the Strassburg Minster, one of the wonders of medieval gothic architecture, compiled from various German sources. The plates show the ground plan, an overall view, the ornate portal, treasures of the cathedral and its famous astronomical clock. There is a 5-page appreciation of Johann Mentelin (f.1458-78), the first Strassburg printer,buried in the minster. (Mentelin issued the 49-line Latin Bible in 1460, and the first Bible printed in German in 1466). Goethe first saw the Minster in 1770 as a university student and was so overwhelmed by its architectural splendour that he dedicated a monograph to the cathedral and its architect Erwin von Steinbach in 1773, which became a source of inspiration for Gothic revivalism.(Von deutscher Baukunst). The cathedral tower was the highest building in the world until the 2nd half of the 19th century. A very good copy. Early 18th century handbook on opthalmology 16 Boerhaave, Herman. Praelectiones publicae de morbis oculorum ... addita est Dissertatio anatomica de tunica oculi choroidea. Joannis Sigismundus Leincker. Venice, Antonio Bortoli, 1752. Small 8vo. 240 + xvi + 87p. With 2 folding plates at end. Contemporary mottled calf; backstrip gilt. £550 Boerhaave’s only work on ophthalmology, here in the second enlarged Venetian edition. This influential textbook, based on a series of public lectures given in 1708, includes information on the lacrymal ducts and glands, the retina and cornea, amaurosis, ophthalmia, conjunctivitis, night blindness, myopia, presbyopia and hallucinations. It was particularly important in disseminating the new ideas on the nature and location of cataracts as propounded by Brisseau (1631-1717) and Maître Jean (1650-1730), ideas which were supported by Boerhaave’s own observations. Two chapters describe the use of opthalmological instruments, and the 22 engraved figures show the workings of the eye in defective vision and in corrected sight. Also contained in this edition is an addional dissertation on the choroid membrane by Johann Siegmund Leincker (1724-1788). As well as a detailed description of the nature and function of the membrane, the dissertation includes much general information on the blood vessels, ducts, glands and nerves of the eyeball and on several eye conditions. Intermittant browning owing to poor paper quality, otherwise a sound copy. Blake, p55. Leincker only Wellcome III, p 483. This edition not in Osler, Waller. Author’s signed presentation copy to an Argentine novelist With 4 additional short stories 17 Borges, Jorge Luis. Historia universal de la infamia. Buenos Aires, Editorial Tor, 1935. Small 4to. 139 + [5]p. Publisher’s wrappers; front cover with author and title imprint in black and blue within blue line border; partly uncut. £4500 18 Borges, Jorge Luis. El Aleph (Segunda Edicion). Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, S.A., 1952. 8vo. 157 + [1 blank]p + [1]f index.Title in red and black. Publishers wrappers; frontcover with pictorial design and with title in red. £650 First edition of Borges’ first published work of fiction. It marks the beginning of his quest for a new genre to be known as ‘magic realism’. The distorted stories about known figures of notoriety were originally serialized in the coloured supplement of the weekly paper Critica. Borges falsified the tales of others, describing his stories as ‘pointedly picturesque narrative exercises’. With source and content indexes at end. Author’s presentation copy with signed autograph dedication in ink on recto of flyleaf: ‘Para Raquel Adler, cordialmente Georgie’. An interesting literary association copy: the Argentine poetess Mar’a Raquel Adler (born 1901), was an early friend of Borges who was known to intimates and family as ‘Georgie’, an anglicisation of ‘Jorge’. Adler’s published works include Revelación (1922), Místicas (1923), Cánticos de Raquel (1925), La Divina Tortura (1927), De Israel a Criollo (1933), Pan bajado del cielo (1934), Buenos Aires, ciudad y poesía (1936), Sonetas de Dios (1937), Canción del hombre y la ola (1938), Nuestra Señora de Luján (1938), El Libro de los siete sellos (1940), Llave del cielo (1943), and Veneración (1950). Wrappers with minimal traces of wear only, some light foxing at beginning and end, otherwise a very good copy, partially uncut and unopened. Becco 25; Helft pp42, 151, 156, 159, 163, 166, 176, 192. Enlarged second edition of this collection of inventive short stories about the author’s home city Buenos Aires, which represent the very best of Borges the writer. The four additional contributions are : ““Abenjacán el Bojarí”, “Muerto en laberinto”, “Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos”; “La espera”; and “El hombre en el umbral”. In very good condition; minimal signs of wear only. Becco 38. First Latin translations of two major works : (1) The Origine of Formes and Qualities, According to the Corpuscular Philosophy, Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, (first published Oxford 1666), a treatise on elemental comprehension which, according to Fulton, prepared the ground for Newton’s researches into white light. Some of Boyle’s ideas were later used for kinetic theories of gases; and: (2) Of the Reconcileableness of Specific Medicines to the Corpuscular Philosophy. To which is annexed a Discourse about the Advantages of the Use of Simple Medicines (first published London, 1685), the very popular medical remedies. Some light foxing owing to the quality of the paper, a light waterstain in right margin of latter part of volume, otherwise sound and clean. Cinti 147. Poggendorff I, 240. Riccardi I, 159. Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, pp39-40. 21 Brand, Cha[rle]s. Journal of a voyage to Peru: a passage across the cordillera of the Andes, in the winter of 1827, performed on foot in the snow; and a journey across the pampas. 8vo. xvii + [1 blank] + [2]f + 346p. With 4 uncoloured aquatint plates, one serving as frontispiece plate (included in pagination of preliminaries), engraved by C. Rosenberg after drawings by the author. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; joints restored. £585 Aragonese Naples 19 Borja, Francisco de. Napoles recuperada por el Rey Don Alonso; Poema Heroico. Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1658. 4to. xxiv + 398 + [2] p. Roman letter. Some ornamental woodcuts and vignettes in text. Printer’s device on title. Half calf, gilt. £500 An epic poem in twelve cantos. ‘Naples Recovered’ describes the mid15th century conquest of Naples by Alfonso V of Aragon, an ancestor of the author. The work was first published in Zaragossa in 1651. Francisco de Borja y Esquilache (1582-1658), a distinguished civil servant, enjoyed some reputation as a writer of lyrical poetry. During his term as Viceroy of Peru (1615-21), he founded the University of San Marcos and fostered trade and industries. Some light foxing in places, otherwise a well preserved crisp copy. Heredia 54444; Peeters-Fontainas 139. Salvá 596. 20 Boyle, Robert. Origo formarum et qualitatum iuxta philosophiam corpuscularem consderationibus & experimentis illustrata. Bound with: De specificorum remediorum cum corpusculari philosophia concordia. Cui accessit Dissertatio de varia simplicium medicamentorum utilitate et usu. Geneva, S. de Tournes, 1687. 2 works in one volume. Small 4to. I: [16] f + 147p. Printer’s device on title; II: [4]f + 64p. Printer’s mark on title. Contemporary vellum. £550 First edition. A British naval officer’s evocative account of a stormy winter crossing of the Andes he made by mule and on foot in 1827. Brand travelled to Peru via Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. His journal comments on the Rio’s slave market (pp12-15), the botanical gardens and social life (including a detailed description of the imperial family), Pampa Indians, ladies of Santiago de Chile and Lima, a bullfight at Mendoza, the black washerwomen of Buenos Aires, South American houses, etc. He also visited the Juan Fernández islands. The appendix comprises detailed climatic observations and critical reports of Andean posthouses. Two of the plates represent an ascent and a descent in the snow, the others show coach travellers with relays of horses racing through the pampas, and a lady of Lima in her walking dress. A German translation appeared in the same year. Occasional light traces of waterstaining in inner top edges of margins, otherwise internally a clean copy with a few signs of usage only. Abbey 724; Borba de Moraes 119; Hill 362; Palau 34445; Sabin 7388. A collection of medical doctoral theses presented at Buenos Aires University 22 Buenos Aires. Universidad Nacional. Facultad de Medicina. Tesis. Buenos Aires, 1854-1881. 5 volumes in 8vo. 851p; 965p; 911p; 1193p; 999p. With 26 plates (3 folding). Contemporary half-calf, gilt; lightly worn. £650 A collection of 62 doctoral theses presented in the Medical Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, many with autograph presentation inscription by the author to Dr Fernando Sotuyo, later a director of the National Hospital inaugurated in 1889. The period covered by the collection coincides with the devastating cholera and yellow fever epidemics of the late 1860ies and early 1870ies caused by massive immigration and the after effects of the Paraguayan War with Brazil. Subjects include: the diseases of Buenos Aires, clinical surgery, yellow fever (in 1871 Buenos Aires was swept by an epidemic which killed some twenty thousand people), external aneurism, ophthalmology, urology, hospital hygiene, puerperal fever, asthma, premature birth, indigestion, gangrene in foundlings, prison hygiene, venereal disease, cremation, homoeopathy, hiccup, and the climate of the northern province of Jujuy. A good set. Item 22 Signed hand-painted carved Gauchesco Binding Royal prizes for Art & Architecture 23 Campo, Estanislao del. Impresiones del gaucho Anastasio el Pollo en la representación de esta opera. Ilustraciones de Eleodoro F.Marenco. Buenos Aires, Peuser 1943. 4to. Lx + [6] + 111 + [1] + 29 + [1 blank] p + [16]f. Title in red and black with embossed vignette of gaucho; 6 coloured illustrations and 74 charming vignettes of gaucho scenes by Eleodoro E.Marenco. Preserved in a rustic binding of native woods with ornamental bamboo border, signed by R.E.Barbano; front cover decorated with large traced and hand-painted figure of a gaucho in centre, and with author’s name and title carved in top and tailend. £650 24 Carlos III (1759-1788) King of Spain. Distribucion de los Premios concedidos por el Rey nuestro Señor a los Discipulos de las Nobles Artes, hecha por la Real Academia de San Fernando en la Junta Pública de 5 de Julio de 1772. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra [1772]. 4to. [2]f + 88p. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf; backstrip gilt; edges gilt; hinges worn. £550 Limited de luxe edition of the main work by the gauchesco poet (first published in 1866) with a comparative commentary on previous editions by Amado Alonso and fine illustrations in previous editions by Marenco. This edition is based on the original manuscript held in the collection of Martiniano Legizamón which is reproduced in facsimile on on 27 pages followed by the facsimile of the 1866 edition on 14 pages at the end. Estanislao de Campo (1834-80), is considered one of the three poets that most profoundly expressed the spirit of the country and the people of Argentina (the others being Hilario Ascasubi and José Hernández). Tri-annual report of the proceedings of the Royal Academy of Arts of San Fernando as from 12th July 1769, beautifully printed by Joaquin Ibarra. The volume comprises an historical account of the Academy established in 1752 by King Fernando VI, recent appointments of honorary members, and details of the prize-giving to Academy pupils on 5th July 1772. Gold and silver medals were awarded to participants in a set competition for the execution of paintings, sculpture, architecture, and the engraving of prints and of medals. The tasks to be completed in the various disciplines are described, and the names, ages, and localities of the prize-winners are listed. The final section (pp65-88) consists of a catalogue of all existing members of the academy, which operates today as ‘Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando’. A fresh copy from the libraries of Domenico Marchese di Salsa and John William Ward 1st Earl of Dudley (1781-1833) with their respective engraved armorial bookplates on front pastedown. The Salsa library was sold by a descendant directly to Viscount Dudley. Free trade regulations for Spanish America 25 Carlos III, King of Spain (1759-88). Reglamento y aranceles reales para el comercio libre de España a Indias de 12. de octubre de 1778. Madrid, Pedro Marin [1778]. Folio. [2] + 19 + [1] + 262p. Engraved frontispiece with royal arms of Spain. Near-contemporary marbled sheep; gilt. £950 New Spanish trade concessions to the American colonies and the Philippines removing restrictions on commerce between them and the mother country. The trade was still to be exclusively confined to Spaniards and Spanish shipping however, and the tariff was based entirely on the principle of protection to native industry, and of furthering the sale of Spanish goods in preference to all others. Article 5 names the official trading ports in Spanish America; article 18 stipulates punishments for illegal importation of foreign goods; articles 48-50 grant especially favourable conditions to Louisiana in order to increase her population relating to imports of Spanish and foreign goods and to her export fur trade; article 51 rules the commerce with the Philippines; coffee tariffs are listed on pp85 and 185. The royal decree on lowering duties on the minting of gold in Spanish America and its importation into Spain is contained on pp257-262. Blank tail corners of first leaves lightly waterstained, an insignificant stain in last quire, otherwise a fresh, clean copy. Goldsmiths’ 11717; Hünersdorff, Coffee: a bibliography, p. 1400; Kress S.4922; Palau 255843; Sabin 68890. Maritime Insurance 27 Carlos IV King of Spain (1788-1808). Real Cedula de S.M. y Señores del Consejo, por la qual se manda llevar á efecto el establecimiento en la Ciudad de Cadiz de una Compañia de Seguros Marítimos con el nombre de la Reyna Maria Luisa, baxo las reglas y condiciones contenidas en el Plan inserto. Seville, Joseph Velez Bracho, 1800. Folio. [1]f + 11+ [1]p of printed text + 2 blank leaves with ink manuscript receipt, dated and signed by two officials. Royal arms with crown and insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece on title. Stamp with royal seal on first and last pages of text and at top of recto of last leaf preceding manuscript notes. £350 Royal decree establishing a company of maritime insurance in the City of Cadiz under the name of ‘Queen Maria Luisa’, given at Aranjuez, 21st February 1800. The company rules are set out in 21 printed articles. The text is followed by the Carta-Orden with official instruction for printing dated 18th March 1800. The last of the two otherwise blank leaves at the end contains a manuscript in ink dated 21st April 1800 drawn up by a notary public confirming receipt of the royal order with signatures of two officials. Palau 250525. Re-planting native American species in Spain 26 Carlos III, King of Spain (1759-88). Por Real orden de 14 de Marzo del corriente año me previene el Exmo. Señor D. José de Galvez Secretario de Estado, y del Despacho Universal de Indias, lo siguiente. ‘Con la idea de ir propaganda en estos reynos todos los arboles, y plantas utiles de nuestras Indias, há destinado el Rey varios parages de las Provincias de España en que se siembren, y trasplanten quantos vengan de esos dominios… como tambien las plantas medicinales…’ Lima, September 1783. Small folio. [2] leaves with 2 ½ pages of printed text (water-marked with bull in centre page). Wrappers. £550 Royal decree of 14th March 1783, re-issued in the viceroyalty of Peru, ordering that any plant native to the Indies which might be usefully re-planted in any of the Spanish provinces, including also medicinal plants, should be taken to Spain in the form of seeds, seedlings or small trees and should be transported in wooden boxes with good soil in warships, or trading vessels sailing to Spanish ports; the plants should be sent together with exact instructions as to their properties and conditions for growing, times of seeding and planting, and all care taken to prevent loss. Royal officials are to report on any special plants in their administrative district which might be suitable for this purpose. The decree was implemented by José de Gálves (1720-87), minister for the Indies, who introduced profound economic and political changes whilst Visitor General of New Spain (Mexico 1765-72). Medina, Lima 1552. Rules for the Spanish navy 28 Carlos IV King of Spain (1788-1808). Ordenanzas generales de la armada naval... Sobre la governacion militar y marinera de la armada en general, y uso de sus fuerzas en la mar. Madrid, widow of Joaquin Ibarra & Royal Press, 1793. 2 vols in folio. [3]f + pp3-518 + 50p; [2]f + pp3-574 + liv p. Each volume with 3 allegorical vignettes engraved by F[ernando] Selma after A[ntonio] Carnicero. Contemporary mottled sheep; morocco title labels on spines; rubbed; ends of spines and corners restored. £1850 The code of laws ruling the Spanish navy promulgated 8 March 1793, signed by the royal secretary Don Antonio Valdés for King Charles IV. Volume I deals with command structure, ranks and offices: ship surgeon (pp377-386), pilot, armourer, carpenter, shipwright, sailing master, signaller, diver, and master-gunner; there are sections on naval artillery, flags and signals, salutes and military honours on board; volume II treats marine infantry and discipline on board, quartering, military service, keeping the watch, battle drill, harbour policing, accounts, distribution of food, pay, and servants. Chapter 7 (pp518-73) is entirely devoted to the disciplines and economies governing voyages to the Spanish West and East Indies: warships are to protect commercial vessels; no private trading is permitted to sailors on pain of dismissal; officers are granted additional expense allowances (4 months for voyages to the River Plate, 3 months for those to North America); paragraphs 98 & 99 (pp554-55) refer to prevailing jurisdiction in the ports of Havana, Cartagena, Buenos Aires, Lima, Montevideo and El Callao. Each volume has an appendix containing a glossary of marginal references and a subject index. According to Navarrete, the editor is the distinguished naval commander, Josef de Mazarredo Salazar, a native of Bilbao, and author of Rudimen- tos de táctica naval (1776). A fine impression from the Ibarra press; each volume is adorned by three allegorical vignettes designed by Antonio Carnicero (1748-1814), one of the foremost contemporary Spanish artists: title composition with Neptune upholding the arms of Spain and naval tackle; head-piece of dedication showing Athena pointing to the Spanish fleet, and a cul-de-lampe with ancre motifs, flags and the royal standard. Volume I with one small neat repair in blank margins of first leaves; pp189-196 foxed, a few occasional light traces of usage, otherwise a well preserved, tall set; occasional contemporary notes in blank margins of volume I. Barcelona Maritime Museum: Exposición Nacional del Libro del Mar (Barcelona 1943), no 3146; Palau 170842 & 202627 (‘bella edición’). 29 Caro, Annibale. Apologia de gli academici di Bianchi di Roma, contra M. Lodovico Castelvetro da Modena. Parma, Seth Viotto, November 1558. Small 4to. 268p + [8]f. Roman & italic. Differing printer’s woodcut devices on title and at end. Initials and ornaments. Old vellum. £650 First edition. A treatise on the evolution of Italian literature during the 16th century and the main source for one of the famous literary quarrels of the Renaissance. It contains the author’s reply to Lodovico Castelvetro’s criticism of one of his poems, which is also printed here. Caro (150766) emerged victorious by denouncing Castelvetro as the translator of Melanchthon for which he was excommunicated and imprisoned. This is the first issue of the first edition distinguished by an unusual woodcut printer’s device on the title showing the wheel-lock of a gun with a key for winding it; the last leaf shows a unicorn device. Adams C-739; Index Aureliensis 132.465; Gamba 276; Weinberg p277; Tiraboschi VII, 1152ff. Model for Letter of Exchange for Frankfurt Easter Bookfair 30 Carpzov, August Benedict (praeses) & Conrad Lübben (respondent). B.C.D.Disputatio Juridica de Cambiis, Von Wechseln quam permissu magnifici jurisconsultorum Lipsiensium Collegii praeside Dn.Augusto Benedicto Carpzovio, J.U.D. & Panect. P.P. Facultatis Juridice Assessore ... ad diem XVIII. Januarii Anno MDCLXXVII. Hora locoque solito. Leipzig, Andreas Martin Schedius, 1717. 4to. [18]f. Ornamental head-piece at beginning of text. Wrappers. £250 An inaugural dissertation on the laws on letters of exchange presented at the legal faculty in Leipzig University on 18th January 1677. The presiding professor, August Benedict Carpzov (1644-1708) was a member of a distinguished family of Saxon lawyers. Paragraph 47 contains a model for drafting a letter of exchange in German for use at the Frankfurt Easter Book Fair. Leipzig had an old tradition as a trade city. Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges 31 (Colombo Press) Carriego, Evaristo. La canción del barrio. [Buenos Aires, Francisco A. Colombo, 1933]. Small portfolio containing a suite of 15 engraved plates in the dry point technique. Illustrated front wrapper serving as title-page. £950 One of 90 copies printed on soft paper. Edited by Viau and Zona. Enrique Fernández Chelo designed and engraved the dry point plates and made the impression from the hand-press of the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación. Evaristo Carriego reflects the colourful street life of the bohemian parts of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century. (pp669-699), of biographical detail (pp701-871), and a linguistic glossary (pp873-877). The maps at the end represent Australia, the Amazon River and its tributaries, the Antilles and Gulf of Mexico, and the Straits of Magellan. Occasional isolated toning, folds of maps neatly repaired in places without loss, otherwise in good condition. Leclerc 2688; Palau 46394 (‘sumptuous publication’; with faulty collation of plates). The teaching of gynaecology in the late Renaissance 33 Castro, Rodrigo de. De universa muliebrium morborum medicina, novo & antehac ... nemine tentato ordine opus absolutissimum; et Studiosis omnibus utile, Medicis vero pernecessarium... Quarta editio auctior et emendatior. Hamburg, Zacharias Hertel, 1662. 2 parts in 1 volume.4to. [8]f + 226p text + [22]f index; (2)f + 1 folding table + 524p + [22]f. First title in red & black with allegorical engraving. Contemporary vellum over boards. £950 Evaristo, a minor popular poet and a great conversationalist, had made a great impression on the young Jorge Luis Borges, whose family lived in the same part of Buenos Aires. Borges’ life of Carriego (published in 1930) in which he recalls his childhood memories, inspired the present series. Francisco A. Colombo (1868-1953) was a self-taught craftsman of great talent. He began as a modest printer who made his own paper in the rural town of San Antonio de Areco; by the late 1920s he was already the most accomplished printer in South America producing books of considerable quality. 32 (Historical autograph letters) Cartas de Indias. Publicadas la primera vez el Ministerio de Fomento. Madrid, Manuel G. Hernandez, 1877. Folio. [3]f including half-title, title & dedication leaf + 10 [numbered vii-xvi] + 877 + [1 blank]p + [1] + 67 leaves with facsimiles of 29 letters + [1]f + 22 numbered plates + [1] plate + [1 + 1 blank + 2]f + 4 maps (3 folding in colour) + [10]p. Contemporary calf, gilt, top edges gilt; worn; preserved in slipcase. £465 First publication of this selection of outstanding historical autograph letters relating to Spanish America held in the Spanish national archives. The contents are transliterated, followed by excellent facsimile reproductions of the originals, many showing the writer’s seal. The selection begins with letters by Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomé de las Casas (Apostle of the Indies), and Bernal Díaz del Castillo (Cortés’ chronicler). The remainder are by viceroys, Mexican Indian chiefs, and clerics and lawyers serving in the Americas (one in the Philippines), writing to Spanish royalty or high government officials. 22 numbered plates reproduce autograph signatures and seals in the same context; an unnumbered plate contains an illustration from a manuscript showing a Peruvian town and system of mineshafts for storing Inca treasure. The volume comprises sections with geographical notes Enlarged and corrected fourth edition of this influential work on gynaecology by the Portuguese Jewish physician Rodrigo de Castro (15461627) who fled from the Inquisition to become one of the earliest Jewish settlers in Hamburg. Friedenwald (Jewish Luminaries in Medical History, pp 54-56) calls him “one of the foremost physicians in establishing gynaecology in the Renaissance period”. The first part of this extensive work treats female anatomy, conception, obstetrics and breast-milk; the second part, describing female diseases, has a section on those of pregnant women. Lightly browned throughout owing to poor paper quality but a crisp, sound copy in its original state of preservation. Krivatsy 2289; Wellcome II, p 312; See Hirsch I, 681. Austro-Hungarian & Polish military triumphs over Turks 34 Caxa de Leruela, Miguel. Restauración de la abundancia de España, o prestantísimo, único, y fácil reparo de su carestía general. Madrid, 1732. 4to. [4]f + 247 + [1 blank]p + [4] f. Title within typographical border. Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards; worn. £485 Third edition of this classic work on Spanish economic history. Originally published in Naples in 1631, where the author was a tax official in the Spanish kingdom of the Two Sicilies, its relevance to 18th century Spain is nevertheless attested by two editions published in 1731 and 1732. The author examines the reasons for the economic decline of Spain, deploring in particular the decline of livestock and especially of sheep which had previously formed an important part of the national wealth, bringing immense revenues to the state. In the author’s opinion, renewed promotion of the raising of livestock would quickly restore Spain to her former wealth and abundance. The present copy is one of those mentioned by Palau as having 4 preliminary and 4 supplementary leaves, the latter dealing with the conservation of the so-called ‘Trasumantes’, flocks of sheep famous for their fine wool. Top margins lightly shaved, otherwise a good copy with a contemporary ownership entry on title. Kress 4003; see Palau 50650. 35 [Chiarello, Giovanni Battista]. Historia degl’avenimenti dell’armi imperiali contro a’ribelli, et Ottomani, confederationi, e trattati seguiti fràs le potenze di Cesare, Polonia, Venetia, e Moscovia, Negotiati, & Aleanze del Conte Tekely con la Porta Ottomana. Accampamenti, guerre, assedij, piazze, e conquiste di cittá, e provincie. battaglie, rotte, e vittorie variamente successe nelle quatrro campagne degl’anni 1683.1684.1685.1686. Venice, Steffano Curti, 1687. 4to. [12]f + 577 (misnumbered 575) pages of text + [6]f index. Title with engraved vignette with crowned initials, [1] engraved folding map of Hungary, [6] engraved folding plates depicting sieges. Ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Limp publisher’s boards. £950 First edition. A Venetian account of the imperial offensive against the Turks and their allies following the unsuccessful Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 which led to the reconquest of Hungary and the capture of Buda in 1686. Venice had joined the Austro-Polish coalition in 1684 as part of the ‘Holy League’ against the Turks subsidized by Pope Innocent XI. The four campaigns in Hungary are illustrated in a general map; the plates represent the sieges of Vienna, Strigau, Neuhaeussel, Cassau, Buda, and Essek. The dedication is to Maximilian Emmanuel Elector of Bavaria. The work was reprinted in 1688 at the same press - see Appóny 1345. Occasional light traces of toning, generally an excellent, fresh copy in its original state. Chinese Art Deco period carpet designs 36 Chinese Art Deco carpet designs. Workshop pattern book with twenty one original hand-painted gouache designs mounted on rectos of laid-paper album leaves representing a variety of samples with specifications for producing a range of qualities of woollen rug in 2 sizes; designs measuring from 220 x 192mm to 266 x 197mm; 220 x 220mm. Shanghai, c. 1920. £6500 Large 4to. Overall size : 450 x 350 mm. Contemporary olive green cloth over stiff boards; decorative floral endpapers; yellow printed binder’s ticket (Nanyang Printing Co, Book-Binder and Stationary, 435 Kiukiang Road, Shanghai) pasted inside top corner of frontcover. The blank margin of each design incorporates the colour palette used; top margin of each design page with a pasted contemporary paper slip giving a typed code-word to explain the knot, or line count of each individual sample,and the sizes of the rugs available for production : 9 x 12 feet & 8 x 10 feet; a typed note pasted inside frontcover provides a key for 7 of the code words and their quality specifications (the code words refer to qualities ranging from a ‘120 line Wool Rug’ to a ’60 line Wool Rug’ , each type decreasing in density of knots by 10 ‘lines’, the number of lines of knots per foot determining the line count); the blank margins of 5 designs (nos 4, 12, 14, 15, 20) have brief pencil (1 in pen) instructions in American-English with finishing details; blank margins of 3 pages (nos 3, 4, 7) bear a blind-stamp of the anonymous artist’s emblem with an elephant motif. Chinese wool industries responded to western demand during the economic boom of the 1920s by producing high quality carpets in the fashionable colours and patterns of the Art Deco period. Western entrepreneurs and designers, recognizing the advantage of cheap labour, combined traditional Chinese motifs with new and bolder colour combinations. The most successful foreigners involved in this process were two Americans, Helen Fette, a former Methodist missionary, who formed a partnership with the Chinese rug manufacturer Li Meng Shu in the Peking area in 1921, and Walter Nichols, a wool grader, who founded a carpet workshop in Tientsin in 1924, and was to establish factories all over China. Chinese Art Deco rugs represent the ‘Golden Age’ of Shanghai, then known as the ‘Paris of the East’. The patterns in the present album appear to have been painted by a commercial artist working in a Shanghai carpet factory under American direction catering for western consumer tastes. The carefully executed designs, based on the traditional medallion type, are richly ornamented with exquisite floral and chinoiserie motifs in vibrant colours evocative of the exuberance of Art Deco : traditional light blues have changed to darker shades, yellows and ivories are replaced by more dynamic purples, fuchsias, green, ochre and gold. Both designs and colouring are well preserved; blank corners of album leaves lightly waterstained, a few minor traces of usage, otherwise in remarkably good condition for a working manual of this kind. See illustrations on following pages and at back (Reduced) The lost gardens of the Villa di Marocco 37 Clarici, Paolo Bartolomeo. Istoria e coltura delle piante che sono pe’l fiore piú ragguardevoli, e piú distinte per ornare un giardino in tutto il tempo dell’anno; con un copioso trattato degli agrumi. Opera postuma consacrata ... sua Eccelenza il Sig. Gerardo Sagredo. Venice, Andrea Poletti, 1726. 4to. [34] + 761 + [2] + [1 blank]p. Title in red and black. Engraved vignette on title-page signed FZ, portrait frontispiece of the author signed F. Zucchi, and large engraved folding plan of the Villa Marocco and its garden (510 x 740mm) also by Zucchi (after Giovanni Filippini). Wood-engraved capitals, several large ornamental end-pieces (6 on otherwise blank pages). Original paste boards ‘a la rustica’. £2500 An important source for the documentation of flowers and the flower garden in the early 18th century. Clarici (1664-1725) was both scholar and practical horticulturist; his list of sources runs to 175 works, ranging from the classical authors to the most recent authorities, including botanists, pre-eminently, but also travellers, historians, architects, poets and writers on taste. His systematic work first provides an overall description of the garden of his patron, Gerardo Sagrado, Procurator of St Mark’s, at Villa Marocco, 10 miles from Venice, which he laid out.. The book is then divided into 4 parts, the first covering the garden layout and respon- sibilities of the gardener; the 2nd the various skills required in cultivating plants in sections of the ornamental garden; the 3rd, and major part (pp119- 152) subdivided into several chapters, describes individual plants (flowers, herbs, shrubs and spice trees) grouped according to their flower structure - there are numerous lists of contemporarily grown plants here with reference to their citation (if known) in earlier works. The 4th part is concerned with citrus fruits, and the cedar tree. The author’s observations and notes are specially valuable in that he was up-to-date on the latest experiments in botanic and private gardens in Italy, and he knew well the day to day progress of the gardens round Padua where enthusiasm had been generated due to its famous botanic garden (founded in 1545) which continued to receive exotic plants from around the world for acclimatisation. Thus Clarici’s work also provides a useful record of new species introduced; his perceptive knowledge additionally enabled him to clarify plants described by earlier authorities, such as Mattioli and Ferrari, with contemporarily listed ones, and establish the fact that many exotic species had existed in Europe long before they were assumed to have done so. The book was posthumously published a year after its author’s death by his nephew Domenico Clarici. Tailend blank margin of title finger-stained, a few minor repairs, otherwise a good copy. Pritzel 1728; not in Hunt. See Georgina Masson, Italian Gardens, 1966, pp238-241 & ‘Italian Flower Collectors’ Gardens in Seventeenth Century Italy’ in The Italian Garden (ed. David Coffin), Dumbarton Oaks, 1972, p64, where the above work is described as unexplored and invaluable ‘for the wealth of information about the flowers grown in Italy’; further that ‘Clarici’s book is remarkably scientific for the period, and his excellent bibliography a reminder of the fact that since the 16th century this world of flowers and gardens had been completely international’. See also Lionel Puppi, ‘The Villa Garden of the Veneto’, in the same volume; and Claudia Lazzaro, The Italian Renaissance Garden, 1990. The first anatomical atlas illustrated in lithography 38 Cloquet, Jules Germain. Manuel d’Anatomie Descriptive du Corps Humain, représentée en planches lithographiée. Paris, H. Fournier, 1825. 4 volumes in 4to. Vol.1 (text): 536p; vol.1 (plates): 6)p + 168 lithographed plates; vol. 2 (text) 567 + [1 blank)]p; vol. 2 (plates) with 172 lithographed plates (numbered 169-340). Contemporary quarter calf; red morocco title labels; worn. £1200 A manual of descriptive anatomy consisting of 340 lithographed illustrative plates described in detail in 2 separate volumes. The author was a much respected French physician specializing in anatomy and surgery whose works in general show insight and original observation. Inventor of numerous ingenious surgical Instruments, Cloquet was particularly skilled in the preparation of anatomical models in wax. This work first appeared in folio 1821-1831). The present corrected quarto edition has additional plates depicting the anatomy of the tissues, microscopic anatomy and the mechanics of muscle and bone. Some foxing, as usual, because of poor paper quality, otherwise a sound set. Cushing C269; Garrison Morton 409 (folio edition ); Weber, History of Lithography (1966), 51ff; Wellcome II, p 360 (another edition of the same year from the same press). 39 Cocchi, Antonio. Graecorum chirurgici libri. Sorani unus de fracturarum signis. Oribasii duo, de fractiset de luxatis, e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti, conversi atque editi ... Florence, Imperial Press, 1754. Folio. xix + 173p. Roman, Greek & italic letter. Title in red & black. With 1 full-page engraving. Near contemporary half sheep, gilt. £650 First editions of two Greek classics on fractures and dislocations. The treatise on skeletal anatomy by Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century AD) represents the only surviving work by him and appears here for the first time in a modern edition; the studies by the medical encyclopaedist Oribasios (4th century AD) were compiled from earlier sources. The editor, Antonio Cocchi, a distinguished Italian physician, philologist and antiquarian, professor of anatomy at Florence, worked from a Greek codex in the Medici Library. The engraved plate shows facsimiles of 3 specimens from the Greek codex used by the editor. With contemporary engraved heraldic bookplate of ‘Corn. Henr. A. Roy’ (Cornelius Hendrik de Roy), personal physician to Louis Napoleon King of Holland. Sarton I, p 283. Wellcome II, p 363. 40 Cock, Henrique. Relacion del viaje hecho por Felipe II, en 1585, Zaragoza, Barcelona y Valencia ... publicada de real órden por Alfredo Morel-Fatio y Antonio Rodriguez Villa. Madrid, Aribau & Co., 1876. 8vo. xvii + [1 blank] + 314p. Title in red & black with vignette of Spanish royal arms. Contemporary half calf. £350 First Edition. Published from a manuscript preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale, of this official record of Philip II’s journey to Aragon, Cataluña and Valencia to celebrate the wedding of his daughter Catalina to the Duke of Savoy. These annals, compiled by a Flemish archer serving in the royal horse guard, are remarkable for containing detailed observations of economic and social interest unusual for that time in addition to the accounts of festivities, tournaments, and lists of participants in these events. The author describes the production of moorish style ceramics with metallic reflexes, an ingenious procedure which was later all but forgotten, the exploitation of the saltmines near Zarago a, the customs of the different classes in contemporary Spain, and the character peculiar to the Aragonese, Catalans and Valencians. Heredia 7181. Palau 55885. Pre-Linnean work on useful plants 41 Colius, Jacob. Syntagma herbarum encomiasticum, earum utilitatem & dignitatem declarans... Abrahamo Ortelio ...quondam inscriptum. Editio Secunda. [Leiden] Plantin- Rapheleng, 1614. Small 4to. 61 + [1 blank + 1]p. Roman & italic letter. Small woodcut printer’s device on title and 3 woodcut initials. Boards. £450 A scholarly treatise in praise of useful plants by the Antwerp poet Jacob Cool (1563-1628), called Ortelianus, as the nephew of the Antwerp map maker Abraham Ortelius to whom this work is dedicated. Among the practical uses of plants discussed are the manufacture of clothing and of furniture, the construction of houses and ships, and the prevention and cure of disease with roots, seeds, fruits, leaves and flowers. Aesthetically, plants are a delight to all five senses through the beautiful colours of flowers, the smell of cinnamon, the taste of mustard, figs and wine, the sound of the wind in the reeds and the cool shade of the plane tree. Throughout the history of religion plants have been symbolic, including the palm, lily and fig in Christianity, and amongst the planets the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo is Spica, the ear of corn. The work was first published in 1606 (by Haestens, Leiden). BMC C-139; Pritzel 1788; not in Wellcome Library catalogue. Earliest Spanish treatise on chest diseases 42 Corbella y Fondebila,, Antonio. Tratado de las enfermedades mas principales, agudas y crónicas del pecho. Madrid, Widow of Hilario Santos, 1795. 8vo. [8])f+ 359 + [1]p. Contemporary sheep, gilt. £650 First edition of a pioneer Spanish treatise on chest complaints including chapters on hoarseness, coughing, catarrh, asthma and pneumonia. Also included are descriptions of the lungs, trachea, pleura, heart and other organs of the thoracic cavity. The dedication is to the royal physician Don Francisco Martinez Sobral. This work ante-dates R.T.H.Laennec’s discoveries on lung and heart diseases published in 1819. ‘Probably the first Spanish monograph on specifically thoracic diseases and one of the first in world medical literature’ ( J.Sauret Valet: Don Antonio Corbella y Fondebila’s Treatise on Chest Diseases (Barcelona 2003). The Catalan author studied at the Royal College of Naval Surgeons at Cadiz, and served as assistant royal physician in the viceroyalty of the River Plate. His dissertation on medicine and surgery was published in 1794. A very nice copy with contemporary manuscript entry of its first owner, Don Joseph Angel Gonzales, physician to the Spanish king at his palace of San Ildefonso, on verso of title. Blake, p99. Palau 61746. Not in Wellcome. Family histories of Aragonese Naples 43 Corona, Silvio. Successi tragici et amorosi occorsi in Napoli, — altro ve ... Napolitani, incominciando dalli R Aragonesi. Composti da Silvio Corona d’Alfonso I R di Napoli con la nuova aggiunta compossta del Dr G.T. ... dalli re Aragonesi [Southern Italy, first quarter of 19th century] 4to. Manuscript on paper written in a neat large italic hand, brown ink, generally 20 to 27 lines to a page, the headings of each chapter written in bold capitals. [12]f including 8 f blank, 1p inscription, 1p title, 2f index + 479p (numbered) + [1]p + [4]f blank. Contemporary vellum, gilt; neatly rebacked. £350 The manuscript relates over forty tales of adventure connected with the Aragon family. The kingdom of Aragon incorporated Naples after its conquest by Alfonso V the Magnanimous in 1442, until its division into three provinces in 1833; following the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) however it had lost its independent parliament and administrative institutions. The present manuscript elevates the lives of both male and female family members narrating the affairs and often violent intrigues which marked out their fortunes, often involving other leading families in Italy (Farnese, Sforza, Brancaccio etc). A note at the beginning signed by George Hornby reads ‘I bought this book at Naples in the year 1833. It came out of the Library of the late Cavaliere Leonardo Tocco, the brother of the Duchess Santo Teodoro’. The year coincides with the demise of the kingdom of Aragon. Inscription and shelf mark inside front cover, of the Tanner (?) Library, armorial bookplate with coronet, bird of prey perched over a swaddled baby, and motto ‘sans charger’. Generally well preserved, occasional light foxing, mostly marginal. 44 Crisp, Sir Frank. Mediaeval gardens. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924. 2 vol. 4to. xiv + [1] + [1 blank]p, 225 plates; xiv + [1] + [1 blank)p, 314 plates. Original decorative gilt publisher’s cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, top edge gilt. £500 First edition, limited to 1000 copies, of the classic reference work on the subject. The plates are taken from illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and engravings from early books; illustrations from the i6th and 17th centuries are included to show the development of features characteristic of the Middle Ages. A very well preserved copy. 45 Curbo Semmedo, João. Secretos Medicos, y Chirurgicos. Traducidos de lengua vulgar portuguesa en castellana por el Doct.D.Thomas Cortijo Herraiz. Con un breve diccionario Lusitanico Castellano. Madrid, Juan de Zuñiga, 1735. Small 4to. [8]f + 136p. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; worn. £650 First Spanish translation in its second edition (first 1731) of this collection of 573 medical remedies. Curvo Semmedo (1635-1719) was the first Portuguese physician to employ quinine in his cures. He was highly respected in medical circles and served as physician to the King of Portugal. Some of his remedies contain as active components medicinal plants of Mexican origin, suggesting he also consulted American sources - see F.Guerra, Historia de la Materia Medica Hispano-Americana y Filipina en la Epoca Colonial (Madrid, 1973), no 87 (note). With contemporary ownership entry inside front cover; ink scribbles on front flyleaf; tear neatly repaired in pp 81-82. Blake, p106. Heredia 4438. Palau 66386 (note). 46 Dalmedico, Angelo. Canti del popolo Veneziano per la prima volta raccolti ed illustrate opera che puo continuarsi & quella dei canti populari Toscani, Corsi, Illirici e Greci di N.Tommaseo. Seconda edizione. Venice, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1857. 8vo. 220p + [1]f errata. 19th century half vellum, marbled boards. £265 Collection of popular Venetian songs, enlarged in this second edition with traditional songs from Tuscany, Corsica, Istria and Greece.Occasional light traces of foxing. 47 Davila, Pelegrino. Avviso neceßario ad un Prencipe nel prepararsi a qualche impresa di Guerra. Manuscript in ink on paper. [Italy, 17th century]. 4to. Title + 35p + [2 blank] leaves. Old sprinkled boards. £2500 An apparently unpublished essay on 16th century warfare . We were not able to identify its author who may have used a pseudonym, and appears to have served under Henry of Lorraine, Duc de Guise (1550-88). A Prince is advised on how to wage war or engage in battle, either when attacking a foe or defending his own state, often illustrated by historical example. The Prince is encouraged to take into account how the land lies (on both sides), whether to join forces with his neighbours (if reliable) or not, the quality of the commanders and soldiers he recruits, as well as arms, ammunition, resources (funds) and friends (allies). Soldiers are divided into 4 categories: subjects, a mixture of these with mercenar- Martial advice for a Macchiavellian Prince: a manuscript from the Canonici library, Venice ies, mercenaries only, and auxiliaries. The Prince is advised to surround himself preferably with trustworthy subjects, or else he will never be safe. Alternately he should opt for a mixture of his own men and a small number of mercenaries in order not to be overcome by the latter. He lists his priorities: veterans are better than newcomers, own men better than mixed with mercenaries, mixed better than only mercenaries, and mercenaries better than auxiliaries. Other aspects to consider are: the quality of the soldiers, both cavalry and infantry, and their armaments. Comparisons should be drawn with enemy forces (types of weaponry, ammunition, supplies, funds etc). War should be fought on enemy soil, not on home ground. If the Prince is not in a position to attack, and has to defend, requisites are a good commander, fortifications in general, artillery, and provisions. If subjects are loyal but not warlike, foreigners should be recruited but led by wise, experienced captains who can keep one eye on their companions and the other on the enemy to make sure they are not making common cause. All possible efforts must be made to thwart the advancing enemy by laying waste to the land, destroying windmills, and poison the waters, but if defenders are few in numbers, it is wiser to retreat to a fortress, abandoning those areas difficult to guard. Suitable militia is of the utmost importance. The author compares the cavalry and infantry who may be of mixed nationalities, differently armed, and with diverse aptitudes. He examines the type of protective armour and the weapons they carry: lances, pistols, swords, pikes, halberds, muskets, arquebuses, as well as horses suitable to carry armed soldiers. He considers the type of cavalry which can rout enemy positions. Many believe that the lance may be a hindrance rather than a help, but the Duc de Guise praised it in most circumstances, as it does more harm to the enemy than a pistol shot; there follows an evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of lances and pistols. Union of hearts and minds is important and men must not be separated from their commanders. The infantry use pikes, muskets and arquebuses: of these three, the author thinks that the latter are best if the men are led by experienced captains who know how to handle the arms with dexterity. Military tactics of the experienced commander are all important. The Prince who wishes to wage war must carefully consider all the options suggested. If he has good men, led by good generals, and can provide his army with the necesssary supplies, then he has every chance of being victorious. A fresh copy with small circular engraved armorial bookplate of the Reverend Walter Sneyd (1809-88) of Denton House, Cuddleston, outstanding 19th century English collector of medieval manuscripts, who bought the remaining 829 manuscripts from the library of the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) in Italy in 1835 (the major part had been acquired by the Bodleian Library in 1817). Most of the Canonici manuscripts came from two 18th century Venetian libraries. The Sneyd collection was dispersed at a three day sale by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge in December 1903. For Canonici cf. A.N.L. Munby, Connoisseurs and Medieval Miniatures 1750 - 1850 (Oxford 1972) pp. 109112; Sommervogel II, Col. 688. 48 De Ricci, Seymour. French Signed Bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection. With: British and Miscellaneous Signed Bindings in the Mortimer L. Schiff Collection. New York (privately printed) 1935. 4 volumes. Large 4to. Over 300 fine reproductions of bindings. Original cloth, spines gilt. £1850 The most comprehensive collection of French 18th and 19th century signed bindings assembled by an individual collector. Each binding is described in detail pointing out the special characteristics of the binder, and all but a few of the larger volumes are illustrated full-size. Doublures and inner dentelles have also been reproduced, as have all binders’ tickets and stamps, these in facsimile. The section on British and Miscellaneous signed bindings is similarly meticulously treated, the British bookbindings are mainly from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The catalogue was published by Seymour De Ricci after the death of Mortimer Leo Schiff (1877-1932). ‘Schiff had entrusted the formation of his library’ to the ‘polymath’ De Ricci, and the work has since ‘become a standard reference work’ (Breslauer). A good set. How to maintain good health 49 Deodati, Alexandre. Valetudinarium seu observationum, curationum & consiliorum medicinalium satura. Leiden, Joh. Elzevier, 1660. 12mo. [16] + 402 + [2]p. Printer’s device on title. Typographical ornaments. Straight-grained blue morocco, gilt (by Thouvenin). £550 The only edition of these observations on the maintenance of good health based on clinical reports and case studies with details of cures and medicinal descriptions. Alexandre Deodati (1598-1676), physician to King Henri IV, and medical officer to the ‘Chambre de la SantŽ’ in Geneva, was descended from Italian protestants from Lucca. A fine, untrimmed copy elegantly bound by Joseph Thouvenin, one of the most innovative 19th century French binders, and favoured by Charles Nodier. Krivatsy 3108. Osler 2440. Wellcome II, 450; Willems, Les Elzevier (1880), 861. 50 (Rouen) Descamps, B. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux exposés au Musée de Rouen. Rouen, Fs. Marie, 1830. 8vo. (2) + (i)-iv + (5) + 163p. Contemporary morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine with title and coronet motifs in bands. £ 350 302 numbered paintings described in the Rouen museum. Brief biographies of the artists are given, the pictures are described in fuller detail, often with critical comments by the author, sometimes remarking that he has witnessed such a scene. History paintings, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, still lifes and interiors are included. The volume is dedicated to the Marquis de Martainville, Mayor of Rouen. The museum is housed in the Hotel de Ville, and was founded in 1801.The author was Curator of the museum from 1809 to 1832. Descamps’ father ( J.-B. Descamps) had founded a free school of design at Rouen. A classic on obstetrics 51 Deventer, Hendrik van. Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens. (Transl. Jacques-Jean Bruhier d’Ablaincourt). Paris, Guillaume Chevalier, 1739. 4to. xxxix + 429 (of 431) + (1)pp + errata leaf. With 40 numbered engraved figures on 37 plates (1 folding). Contemporary sheep, backstrip gilt; joints and ends of spine neatly restored. £550 Second French edition of this landmark in the history of obstetrics, first published in Dutch in 1701. The work contains many original observations amongst which the principle of obliquity of the uterus, the internal examination of the cervix and the distinction between real and false contractions are particularly important. Deventer stressed that the pelvis did not yield during parturition and noted the effects of pelvic or spinal abnormalities on labour. He also specifies the qualities required in a midwife, who should be neither too young nor too old, nor too fat, lazy or dull-witted. The figures show many natural and unnatural positions of presentation as well as a birthing stool and surgical instruments. The translator, a French physician, made minor adjustments to several of the plates in order to clarify them. Deventer (1651- 1724) greatly advanced contemporary knowledge of the pelvis and the mechanism of labour, laying the foundations of modern obstetrics. A good copy without the second title which was never bound in. Blake, p 118. Waller 2422.Wellcome II, p 460. Art guide to 18th century Paris Jokes and funny stories told by an Italian humanist 52 (Dezallier d’Argenville, A.N.) Voyage pittoresque de Paris, ou description de tout ce qu’il y a de plus beau dans cette grande ville, en peinture, sculpture & architecture. Paris chez de Bure père, 1770. 8vo. x + [2] + 483 + [4]. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece by J. Robert, 7 engraved plates (3 folding) by Tilliard, Coupeau and St. Fessard, after Moreau, Choffurt J. de Favanne and A. St. Aubin, 2 woodcut vignettes by Papillon, decorative head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary calf. £350 55 Domenico, Lodovico. Facetie motti et burle di diversi signori, con una nuova aggiunta di motti, raccolti de M. Tomaso Porcacchi. Venice, Paolo Ugolino, 1599. 8vo. [16] f + 424p. Italic. Printer’s mark on title. Old vellum. £450 One of the most useful and definitive guides to Paris in the 18th century. The first edition was published in 1749 and the work was meticulously updated; the above is the fifth edition. Divided into 20 chapters according to quartier, the author describes the architecture, monuments, gardens, paintings and sculpture in each area. Two indexes list places mentioned, and the names of architects, painters and sculptors. A very good copy with only a few tiny spots. See also Michael Dennis, Court & Garden. From the French Hotel to the City of of Modern Architecture, 1986. Signed by the author 53 [Diaz, José Domingo]. Recuerdos sobre la rebelion de Caracas. Madrid, Leon Amarita, 1829. 8vo. 407 + [1 blank] p. Vignette on title. With author’s autograph signature at end of text. Contemporary sprinkled sheep; spine gilt with morocco title label. £1600 A day-to-day eye-witness account of the early stages of the Venezuelan revolution by a royalist officer who condemns the actions of his former colleagues and friends. He is especially critical of Simón Bolívar (17831830), hero of South American independence, and leading spirit of the rising which began at Caracas in 1810 and developed into a protracted merciless war of extermination. The book is valued for containing authentic documentation of the events described and for its observations of Bolívar. Díaz had been controller of statistics, and later inspector general of hostels for the province of Caracas under the Spanish colonial administration. Rare. Leclerc 1465; Palau 72159; Sabin 19967 (unseen). 54 D’Israeli, Isaac. Curiosities of Literature. London, J. Murray, 1792-93. 2 volumes. 8vo. I: xi + [1] + [4] + 531 + [13]p + [1p errata]. II: [2] + iii + [1p errata] + [2] + 557 + [1] + [14]p, with folding plate (facsimile of Pope’s handwriting). Later half vellum on marbled boards, gilt backstrip with title and volume labels. £350 Of the collections of literary and historical anecdotes written by D’Israeli (1766-1848), father of Benjamin Disraeli, the present is considered his best. It is the second edition published immediately following the first (1791-3). Contemporary signature of Thos. Castle on both titles. A crisp copy, a few early leaves lightly foxed. ESTC.n002979 (but apparently in error cites vol. I only). A collection of facetious stories and jokes by one of the few poligrafi who did not quarrel with Pietro Aretino. It contains an anecdote about him on page 236. This edition is greatly augmented by Tommaso Porcacchi, a fellow humorist. He describes Anton Francesco Doni in an amusing story to illustrate his wit on pp405-407. Domenico (1515-64) was a prolific translator and commentator of the classics. A wormhole running through first 5ff, otherwise a good copy with an old collector’s stamp on title. Brunet II, 800 (note). Not listed by Gamba. Adams lists no copies in Cambridge Libraries. Flora of Nepal 56 Don, David. Prodromus florae nepalensis, sive enumeratio vegetabilium, quae in itinere per Nepaliam proprie dictam et regiones conterminas, Ann. 1802-3. Detexit atque legit D.D. Franciscus Hamilton, (olim Buchanan) MD ... Accedunt plantae ... D. Wallich nuperius missae. Secundum methodi naturalis normam disposuit atque descripsit David Don. London, J. Gale, 1825. 8vo. xii + 256p. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. £450 Rare catalogue of plants based on collections made by the influential botanist directors of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, Francis Hamilton and Nathanial Wallich. The specimens were sent to the botanist collector, Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842) who employed David Don, librarian of the Linnaean Society (and brother of George Don), to catalogue and describe the plants. Lambert left an ‘important herbarium and library’ after his death, many of his accessions still preserved in the British Museum. Old ownership stamp of Aug. Baumann, ‘Horticulteur, Bollwiller (Haut-Rhin)’, neat inscription at title margin. Well preserved with occasional traces of toning. Desmond p211, noting that David Don ‘Edited and wrote much of both series of R. Sweet’s British Flower Garden from c.1830’. Pritzel 2364. Stafleu & Cowan 1497; see also vol II, p35 (Hamilton), p735 (Lambert) & vol VII, p38 (Wallich). A Cosenzan philosopher in Swiss exile 57 Doni, Agostino. De natura hominis libri duo. Basel, Froben, 1581. Small 4to. 121 [misnumb. 123] + 1 blank leaf. Initials. Printer’s device on title. Limp vellum. £1850 First edition of the only known work by the Calabrian Renaissance physician and philosopher Agostino Doni, in which he attacks the classic philosophy of nature and man to replace it with his own concept “in naturalibus agendum naturaliter”. The book was published in Basel, a city known for its supposed liberty of spirit, where the author had arrived in 1579 as a refugee, branded a heretic by the Italian Inquisition. Doni was a critic of Bernardino Telesio (1509-88), his celebrated fellow Calabrian, whose own De rerum natura was published in 1586; both authors were natives of Cosenza. Doni’s iatrochemical system was denigrated by Francis Bacon as ‘pastoral philosophy’. Bacon considered him a pupil of Telesio (cf De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum IV,3). The author later continued his travels to Geneva and Cracow to promote Italian naturalist thinking, dedicating his book to Stephen Bathory, King of Poland. See: Luigi de Franco, L’eretico Agostinio Doni medico e filosofo consentino del ’500 ( Cosenza 1973). A very good copy. Adams D-839. Durling 1196. 58 Donovan, Edward. The Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. London, printed for the author and for F. & C. Rivington, 17921795. 4 volumes (of 16). 8vo. I: 80 + 181p. II: 96 + [8] p. III: [2]+ 98 + [8] p. VI: 96 + [6]p. With 144 numbered engraved plates, mostly handcoloured. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt, rebacked in the style of the period. £950 The foremost entomological work of the time. Many of the species recorded are first described and illustrated here.The coloured plates show butterflies, moths, dragonflies, and beetles, the uncoloured plates microscopic organisms. Edward Donovan (1768-1837) collected natural history specimens; he wrote and illustrated his own works. A good set; some light toning and foxing ; one page repaired without loss. 59 Du Laurens, André. Opera Anatomica. In quibus historia singularum partium, primum accurate describitur. Editio altera, ab innumeris mendis ... Frankfurt, Peter Fischer, 1595. 8vo. [12]f + 736p + [20]f. Old vellum; repaired. £550 An influential anatomical handbook which was studied by Harvey. Several chapters deal with teeth and dental care, others with catarrh, gout, ophthalmology, prognosis, classical medicine, deformities, leprosy and venereal disease André du Laurens (1558-1609), physician to Henry IV of France, occupied the Chair of Medicine at Montpellier in 1586. His anatomical plates were based on Vesalius. He was an early writer to take an interest in the effects of agiing. Some light foxing but a good copy with an ownership signature on title. Cushing D321. Durling 1310. Adams D-1071 lists another edition of the same year. 60 Duchesne, A.N. Sur la formation des jardins. (and: ) Lalos, J. De la composition des parcs et jardins pittoresques. Ouvrage utile et instructif pour les propriétaires et les amateurs. Paris, Lottin de Saint-Germain, 1817. [4] + viii + 2l9p. With 4 engraved plates (3 folding) by Reville. 2 works bound into 1 volume 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, label on spine. £650 First editions of both works. The first by the botanist, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, was the last original theoretical work published before the picturesque garden was generally accepted in France. Published a year before J.-M. Morel’s classic Théorie des jardins, Duchesne ‘carefully and impartially balanced the merits and demerits of the regular and natural genres of gardening. He considered ‘uniformity and irregularity’ could both be combined in the garden (irregularity though being the style Chinois). He disapproved of too many ‘ruines artificielles’ as detracting from the appreciation of the ‘antique’; he took up the ferme orné and ‘his description ... marks a stage in the transition between the older traditional type and modern hamlet’; the change can be created by ‘the addition of some kind of ornamental planting ... and composition of interesting perspective views’ (see Dora Wiebenson, below). The second work by the architect Lalos, written after the Revolution and the disappearance of many fine estates, is particularly interesting for the renewed discussion on garden art and description of some 23 parks and gardens which the author laid out himself or participated in designing. Among these are La Motte (Savoie) and Liverdy (Seine et Marne). Both works are primary bibliographical sources in Dora Wiebenson’s study quoted above. Generally in very good crisp condition, slight wear to edge of half-title in first work. Wiebenson, pp78-9. See Susan B. Taylor-Leduc, ‘Louis XVI’s public gardens: the replantation of Versailles in the eighteenth century in Journal of Garden History, vol 14, no 2, pp67-91. Duchesne’s ideas are cited in the attempt to relieve the ‘boredom’ now felt for Versailles; though he preferred the ‘natural gardening style’ he was in favour of ‘retention of the formal style at royal palaces’. Drawing on 17th century aesthetic theory, he saw ‘orderliness’ and ‘human reason’ mirrored in the genre régulier; further, it was ‘utilitarian’ in that ‘straight allées were efficient and they allowed a circulation of air and the benefit of full sunshine’. Among Duchesne’s suggestions was a change of aspect for the allées and bosquets by replanting them with a variety of trees, and ‘the introduction of new species’ (pp84-5). Forty landscaped gardens laid out by a Belgian architect 61 Duvillers, François Joseph. Les parcs et jardins crées et executés par F. Duvillers. La première partie. Paris, privately printed for the author, 1871. Folio. [8] +80p. With 40 engraved plates. Publisher’s cloth-backed printed boards. £1500 An impressive record of forty private and public gardens laid out by the author, a Belgian architect and landscape designer. They date from 1838 to 1870, and are in the landscape or ‘paysagiste’ style prevalent in France in the mid-19th century. Formal elements continue to be evident in the lay out of ‘potagers’ and fruit gardens, and in the use of ’avenues’ and canals. Extensive notes on planting are provided in the text. Among institutional schemes are those for the Ecole de botanique, Paris, the botanical institution of M. Poiloup at Vaugirard and an innovative garden with pavilions for a ‘Maison de santé des deux sexes’ in the rue de Picpus, Paris; public gardens and parks include the Jardin de l’Etoile intended for ‘bals, concerts, fêtes publiques, de jour et de nuit’ at Passy, the main square and public gardens in the town of Koutaïs in the Caucasus (modern Kutaisi in Georgia) and gardens with a promenade for the town of Montélimart. Among private patrons are Salomon de Rothschild (park at Suresnes) and Baron d’Herlincourt (Château de Belan-sur-Ource). Noticeable during this period is the more functional organisation of land layout. A 2nd volume was published in 1878. The dedication is to Leopold II, king of the Belgians; some ten heads of state were subscribers. Covers with traces of staining; inside clean throughout; a small repair in margin of last leaves. Cf: Racine, Boursier-Mougenot & Binet, The Gardens of Provence andFrench Riviera 1987, p305 (refers to this volume only). Scientific expedition to Patagonia in photography 62 Encina, Carlos & Edgardo Moreno. 137 photographs by Pedro Morelli on original light paper mounts with Spanish text captions below images. The photographs were taken in Argentina 1882-3 and re-issued from the original plates in c1930. The sizes of the photographs are 16.4 x 22 cm; the sizes of the mounts are 30 x 37.5 cm (some of these have been cut down, but in no case affecting the image or printed legend). Images and mounts are in good condition. £3850 The photographs cover the scientific expedition to Patagonia carried out by Carlos Encina and Edgardo Moreno on the orders of President Julio Roca during his desert campaign against the Patagonian Indians (1882-3). Roca designated the area of the Rio Negro, Rio Limay, and Rio Neuquen, up into the foothill of the Andes, which is sometimes called the “Territorio del Triángulo”. The two engineers were accompanied by elements of the Argentine army, and a chemist/photographer, Pedro Morelli. Ten of the photographs treat exclusively Indian subjects; these include a group of Patagonian women, a baptism of Indians at Renque-curá in Codahue in May 1883, a Patagonian Indian cemetery, Indian prisoners of war, winter tents, and native settlements. 53 images depict military subjects: fortresses and encampments, army life, portraits of officers and engineers, groups of soldiers, white settlers and their houses. 16 images contain views of the town of Patagones on the Rio Negro including interiors of schools with groups of children and staff, and river steamers. The majority of the photographs represent grand scenic views and the vegetation of the Andean cordillera. On completion of the task, there was apparently no written report filed, or it has long since disappeared, so that the only surviving record of the expedition was a set of prints from Morelli’s glass negatives which were bound into 2 albums. As these were seen by very few people, the expedition was soon forgotten by historians, and whenever one the photographs surfaced, it was assumed to be from Roca’s earlier campaign. Only 2 sets of the original prints are known to have survived from the 1880’s, one in the Roca Museum in Buenos Aires, another in a private collection. Julio Vezub, the author of the only book published on the expedition (Indios y Soldados. Las fotografías de Carlos Encina y Edgardo Moreno durante la ‘Conquista del Desierto’ (B.A. 2002), states that in 1930, the historical service of the army became concerned that the original prints were very scarce and might be lost, and had them photographed from the albums. Vezub himself became acquainted with the expedition photographs from studying a group of 150 of the 1930s copies in the Argentine army archives. It is not known if only a selection of the original images were copied by the army in 1930 and how many of these have survived. 63 Felibien des Avaux, Jean François. Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus celebres architectes. (Bound with:) Les plans et les descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons campagne de Pline le consul, avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens. London, David Mortier, 1705 & Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706. 2 works in 8vo. I: [12] + 195 + [15]p, with engraved frontispiece by I. Goerée after I. de Later, title in red and black, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initial capitals. II: 112 + [8]p. With 6 engraved plates (of 7), 5 folding. Contemporary vellum, with gilt monogram of owner on cover. £350 Two works by the French classicist architect who was secretary to the Académie d’Architecture. At the time there was considerable interest in ideals of the ancient world, and in the second work above, Felibien presents his reconstruction of two villas (the Laurentine and Tuscan) that Pliny the Younger so affectionately details in his letters (2nd century AD). The text of the two letters in the original Latin with a French translation is given, with copious notes. Three labelled plates illustrate the layout of each, and Felibien also reproduces the great renaissance architect, Scamozzi’s interpretation of the Laurentine villa pointing out inaccuracies according to Pliny’s precise details. The work ends with a short dissertation promoting the classical style over the gothic, the former ‘founded on nature’s principles’, the latter ‘opposed to nature’. A good copy, small tear to one leaf of first work with slight loss. See Berlin Katalog 1869. The conquest of New Granada 64 (Colombia) Fernando VI. King of Spain (1746-59). Carta Executoria de Hidalgía confirming the arms and noble lineage of the Franco family hailing from Toledo and Valladolid. Manuscript in ink on 11 leaves of vellum, dated at end: Madrid, 13 October 1756. Folio. Text penned in a fine italic hand surrounded by 2 line borders in red; full-page heraldic painting in gold and colours serving as a frontispiece (protected by silk guard); top half of first page of text with circular royal arms within an elaborate painted multi-coloured cartouche of foliage and scrolls heightened in gold; opening word in gilt lettering; one coloured calligraphic initial. Paragraph opening letters in red. At end, signature of King of Arms with his seal, followed by confirmations, counter-signatures and another seal on final 4 pages. Contemporary sheep decorated in gilt; edges gilt. £3850 Confirmation of arms and noble status for the descendants of Francisco Franco who assisted in the conquest of New Granada (modern Colombia), where he landed in 1544. He was granted an encomienda at Velez in the province of Santander, Colombia. His son Benito spent forty years pursuing the conquest, and was one of the discoverers of the province of Poyon (?). His estate was left to Diego Franco de Velasco who had also distinguished himself in New Granada. This document was drawn up at the request of one of the descendants: Francisco Franco, Romero y Duran of the township of Valverde de Llerena. It lists his six direct antecedents and gives a brief account of the origins and history of the family, dating it back to the Moorish wars. The arms, representing two lions rampant facing one-another with 2 daggers pointing from below, are painted on a golden shield within a red border decorated with gilt crosses surrounded by an elaborate multi-coloured border of foliage, grotesque figures, fruit and flowers, crowned with a plumed heraldic helmet. A well preserved illuminated Spanish manuscript of the rococo period. 65 Fernel, Jean François. Opera medicinalia; nempe phisiologia, pathologia et terapeutica seu medendi ratio, quibus adiecimus de abditis rerum causis. Venice, Rutilio Borgominieri, 1565. 4to. [18]f + pp 13-655 (misnumb. 659) + [1 blank]p. Roman & italic letter with some Greek. Printer’s woodcut device on title. Historiated initials. Contemporary limp vellum. £950 One of the best editions of Fernel’s medical works with additional material. It contains the Pathologia which introduces the term “pathology” in its modern sense and which Garrison calls the “first explicit treatise on special pathology”. It also includes the Physiologiae libri septem, the first work to deal solely with physiology and the first to call it by name. Gonorrhoea is also described here as an independent infection of the bladder apart from the chapter on lues in which the various modes of contact transmission (syphilis insontium) are ennumerated. Fernel (1497-1558), physician to Henri II of France, was one of Vesalius’ teachers. He was the first to describe many diseases such as appendicitis and endocarditis. Durling 1462. Garrison & Morton 2271; this edition not in British Library; not in Adams, Wellcome. Austrian infantry drill manual based on Napoleonic model 67 Franz I Emperor of Austria (1806-1835). Auszug aus dem Exercier-Reglement für die K. K. Infanterie. Vienna, K.K.Hofund Staats-Druckerei, 1807. 2 parts in 1 volume, oblong 12mo. [6] + 155 + [1 blank]p; engraved title + 65 numbered engraved plates (6 folding) representing infantry drill formations. Imperial crowned double-eagle device on title. Contemporary half green morocco, gilt. £450 Infantry drill manual for the use of Austrian army officers reflecting changes in warfare made during the campaigns with revolutionary France. The second part illustrates the execution of detailed movements of troop formations indicating the precise duties of each commanding officer. The reforms were carried out by the new commander-in-chief, Archduke Karl(1771-1848), himself a military author, one of the most effective of Napoleon’s opponents whom he defeated at Aspern in 1809. With contemporary manuscript ownership entry of First Lieutenant Nov‡k (‘Nov‡k Oberlieut’) in top corner of front flyleaf. Tailend right blank title corners of first few text leaves with pale waterstain, otherwise an excellent, fresh copy. Danish trades and their guilds 68 Frederick V King of Denmark (1746-66). Kong Friderich den Femtes Laugs=Artickler Som udi Hans Regierings Tiid ere udgangne, med adskillige andre Forordninger, som til deels vedkomme Laugene. Copenhagen, N.C.Hopffner, 1766. Small 4to. 267 + [1 blank] pages. Fraktur type. Woodcut vignette of royal cypher on title; ornamental woodcut at end. Contemporary sheep. £450 Music for the French National Guard 66 (France – War songs). Chansonnier des Gardes Nationaux. Recueil de poesies, cantates et couplets, avec la musique; suivi des notices biographiques de Louis-Philippe 1er, Roi des Français, et du Général Lafayette. Paris, M.Duverger, 1831. 12mo. 156 + [4]p. With six lithographed plates by Engelmann including frontispiece. Musical notation in text. Engraved title vignette, head- and tailend pieces. Old mottled calf; spine gilt with morocco label; rebacked £485 First edition. Collection of poetry and musical compositions relating to the French National Guard, followed by lives of the citizen king Louis Philippe (1773-1850) and of General Lafayette (1757-1834), first commander of the Guard. Three plates show national guard soldiers, two depict Louis-Philippe and Lafayette respectively in National Guard uniform. Contemporary presentation inscription on title. From the collection of Henri Bachimont, French singer and composer (known as Henri Bresles 1864-1924) with his bookplate. Some light foxing. A summary of laws relating to the Danish trades and their guilds enacted during the reign of King Frederick V (1746-66) including confirmations of earlier statutes. Individual ordinances, here reprinted with their dates of issue, stipulate working conditions and wages, the obligations of employers and the duties of apprentices. The forty-one trades named include wig-makers (pp4-16, 89-90), chimney-sweeps (pp20-22), cobblers, merchants (pp33-52), tobacco manufacturers (pp52-68), stocking-makers, a variety of smiths, clock-makers (pp80-88, 135-139), carters (pp91-, painters, dockers, masons, factory workers, bakers, hatters, ship-builders (pp214-230), sugar-refiners and syrop-makers (pp231-242). Tables setting out guild regulations (pp192-193 & 250-251)are followed by specifications for each trade of Schleswig (the statutes are published both in Danish and in German for the benefit of the mixed population). The final section XXXIV (pp259-264) reproduces a royal ordinance concerning the establishment of a tobacco pipe factory. A good copy; some light foxing, a few isolated inkstains in edges of blank margins of last quire. Fête-book of royal funeral with literary contributions by outstanding Dutch poets 69 Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, Count of Nassau (1584-1647). Lyck-Redenen en Gedichten: Begrypende de Af komst, ‘t Leven, voorneemste Daden en ‘t Af-sterven van sijn Hoogheydt Fredryck Henryck, In sijn leven Vorst van Oranjen, ... Voor-gestelt door de beroemtste en geleertste Mannen en Dichters deser eeuw. En versiert met Af beeldsels van Haere Hoogheden, Vorst Frederijck ... Vorstin Amelia en Vorst Willem; seer konstigh naer’t leven in koper gesneden. t’Amsteldam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn op S. Anthonis Marckt, 1648. [Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, 1648] 8vo. [8] + 89 + [3] + [4] + 53(numbered 91-143) + [1] + [6] + 263 (numbered 145-407) pages. Engraved floral title vignette and tail-pieces. 3 copper-engraved portraits. Ornamental initials. Contemporary vellum. £850 A collection of funeral orations, poems of mourning and epitaphs in honour of Frederick Henry Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of the Netherlands, who was buried with great pomp and ceremony in Delft on 10th May 1647. The authors of the literary compositions contained in this volume include outstanding contemporary Dutch poets and playwrights such as Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), Caspar Barlaeus(1584-1648), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581-1647, the 3 epitaphs on p.400 are his last poems), and Hendrick Bruno (1617-69). Frederick Henry’s reign (1625-47) is regarded as the Dutch Golden Age because of his military triumphs, economic successes, and the flowering of art and literature. The prince proved an able commander in the Dutch wars against Spain, and was given shrewd political advice by his clever and ambitious wife, Amalia zu Solms-Braunfels who enhanced The Hague with magnificent art collections. The three finely engraved oval portraits respectively show Frederick Henry in armour, his wife Amalia (1602-75, later acting as regent for her grandson William III) , and their son, the young Stadtholder Willem II of Orange (1626-50) who married Mary of England. The printer’s 2-page preface to the reader is signed by Nicolaes van Ravesteyn. An attractive copy in fresh condition. A classic in the literature on South American voyages of exploration 70 Frezier [Amédée-François]. A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners, their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe... with a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley... and an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717. 4to. [14] + 335 + [9]p. Title in red and black. 22 maps and plans (16 folding), and 15 plates engraved by N. Guerard le fils. Typographical ornaments and initials. Some musical notation in the text. Antiqued mottled sheep. £2950 First edition in English, valued for the additional 3-page postscript by Halley correcting some geographical errors made by Frézier; it also contains an English translation of a critical report on the Jesuit missions in Paraguay (on pp323-335), first published anonymously in French in 1712. Frézier (1682-1737), a military engineer from Savoy, sailed to Chile and Peru in 1712 with a French commission to assess the strength of Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast. His account of the expedition was much valued as an early contribution to the hydrographical knowledge of the region, but is today of interest for its keen observations on the life, customs, commerce, and natural history of Chile, Peru, and Brazil. The author was the first Frenchman to accomplish an accurate chart of the Straits of Magellan and of the region round Cape Horn, and his work served as a guide to later navigators. The folding plans of the cities visited are often enhanced by inset panoramic views, as in the case of Callao, Concepción, Valparaíso, La Serena, Salvador de Bahía, and Angra (Azores). The chapters on Indian and creole life include descriptions of costume and architecture, music and dancing, food and drink, and pastimes, with plates showing male and female costume, the ritual of drinking maté (Paraguayan tea), Chilean Indians playing the ‘Sueca’, a game resembling hockey, flour-making, etc. The author describes the cruel and mean treatment of the Indians by the creoles, who were not permitted to have Indians as slaves, and therefore favoured their African slaves imported from Angola and Guinea via Portobello and Panama; these in turn were not allowed to mix with the Indians and adopted their masters’ condescension towards them. The Indians consequently nurtured an implacable hatred of both the creoles and their slaves, and hid away provisions and any mineral riches they might discover. The section on Brazil treats the island of Santa Catharina, and Bahia, then the country’s capital, where the author comments on the African slave trade and on the large population of Jews; a folding plate represents two negro slaves carrying a passenger in a sedan chair. Frézier’s studies of natural history are only remembered today for bringing back Chilean strawberry plants which were successfully propagated in France by Bernard de Jussieu, and here illustrated life-size. There are descriptions of the maté tea plant, of the coca plant , of guano, and plates representing the cotton plant, exotic fishes and llamas. The plates are the same as those used for the Paris original edition, mostly retaining the French captions. Two neat repairs in blank margins of first 2 leaves, some foxing, but generally a good copy; a few minor traces of usage. Borba de Moraes I, 329; Hill, p115; Palau 94965; Sabin 25926. Coffee Prohibition laws 71 Friedrich I King of Sweden (1720-1751). Kongl. Maj. Nådige Förhögning i Fullen på Snus, Caffée, Thée och Chocolade. Stockholm, Royal Press, 1735. Small 4to. 4p. Fraktur type. With woodcut vignette of royal crown on title.Untrimmed, as issued. £250 Swedish customs and excise ordinance increasing import duties on snuff, coffee, tea, and chocolate dated 9 December 1735. Signed with the imprint ‘Friedrich’. Luxury goods were intermittently prohibited, or heavily taxed in Sweden. Untrimmed, as issued. Hünersdorff, ‘Coffee: A Bibliography’, p1452. With commentaries by Erasmus and Thomas Linacre 72 Galen, Claudius. Opera, nunc demum a clarissimis juxta & eruditis viris latinitate donata, jam vero ordine justo, & studio exquisitiore in lucem recens edita. Basel, Andreas Cratander, March 1529. Folio. [32] + 553 + [1 blank]f. Roman letter interspersed with Greek words. First page of text within splendid grotesque woodcut border signed “I.F.” Numerous historiated woodcut initials. Printer’s device on title and at end. Contemporary German pigskin, richly decorated in blind with ornamental stamps and roll-tool borders showing biblical scenes and classical portraits. Brass catches; 1 clasp intact. £3950 An early unauthorized Latin edition of Galen’s medical works with critical commentaries by Erasmus, Thomas Linacre (1461-1524), Wilhelm Koch (Copus) of Basel (1471-1532), Nicolo Leoniceno of Vicenza (1428-1524) and other influential humanists. The 3 commentaries by Erasmus are Ad bonas artes exhortatio, De optimo docendi genere, and Quod optimus Medicus sit & philosophus. The collection also includes Latin versions of Hippocrates’ Aphorismi and Prognostica. The editor is Andreas Leennius. Some light traces of waterstaining in top margins, otherwise a tall, fresh copy with some contemporary underlinings and neat manuscript notes in Latin penned in red and black in the wide margins in neat humanist hands; preceding the text, a Greek-Latin index supplied in manuscript by a near-contemporary owner. Allen, Opus Epistolarum, 1698. Durling 1784. Van der Haeghen, Bibl. Erasmiana, 27. Pattern book for craftsmen and decorators 73 Galland, P(ierre) V(ictor). Photograph album containing 28 mounted albumen prints of allegorical paintings by the artist for the Galerie des Métiers in the Paris Town Hall (1888-1891). The prints executed by a commercial photographer of the period show 2 decorative portals (133 x 271mm), 18 paintings (182 x 271mm) representing the various arts and crafts, sciences, trade, industry, and agriculture (all are signed and dated ‘P. V. Galland 1891’), and 8 emblematic female figures (260 x 280) symbolizing these subjects. Contemporary half sheep; worn & rubbed. £650 The album in large oblong quarto consists of a total of 24 thick paper boards, edges gilt, 9 of which remain blank. Period documentation of the paintings in the Galerie des Métiers, considered the most important official commission by this influential decorative artist. The album appears to have been prepared as a pattern book for craftsmen and decorators. The paintings for the Paris Town Hall are rated among the most important works by this influential decorative artist. Galland (1822-1892) was also noted for his contributions to the Paris Pantheon, the Palais de l’Elysée, the Vanderbilt mansion in New York, and the Narishkin Palace in St Petersburg. He was a prolific and versatile artist, who mostly however carried out private commissions. Galland taught at the Ecole des Beaux Arts from 1873; he became artistic director of the Gobelin factory in 1877. The magnificent tapestries which he designed for the Elysée Palace (1854-8), as well as his paintings at St Cloud, were destroyed by the Commune. See Henry Havard, L’Oeuvre de P.-V. Galland, Paris, 1895; also, Vachon, L’Hotel de Ville de Paris (1905), p.183ff. 74 Gaye, Giovanni. Carteggio inedito d’artisti dei secoli XIV, XV, XVI. Pubblicato ed illustrato con documenti pure inediti ... con facsimile. Florence, Giuseppe Molini, 1839-40. 3 vols in large 8vo. [3]f + iv + 596p + [1]f errata; [1]f + xii + 528p + [1]f errata; [2]f + xi + 623 + [1]p including index and errata. 13 lithographed folding tables with 84 facsimiles of autographs. Contemporary quarter morocco; worn. £1250 The only edition of this invaluable source for the full texts of the original letters by noted Italian artists from the 14th to the 17th centuries arranged chronologically from 1326 to 1672. The lithographed plates by Salucci contain facsimiles of selected autographs. Johannes Wilhelm Gaye (1804-40), German art historian, compiled this collection of documents on the history of Italian art by researching all over Italy for ten years. With an index of documents contained at the end of each volume, and an alphabetical index of names at the end of final volume. Some foxing throughout because of poor paper quality. UCBA I, 65. Rare South German Coinage ordinance pre-dating Thirty Years’ War 75 Germany. Franconian, Bavarian & Swabian circuit. Wir der Hochlöblichsten im Müntzwesen Correspondirenden dreyer benandtlich deß Fränckischen, Bäyrischen und Schwäbischen Craissen Fürsten und Ständt, Thuen hiemit kunt … alle Müntzen nach dem werth der im heiligen Reich publicirten Müntz Ordnung zusetzen … und den Auffwechslern und Außführern der guten, und Einführern der geringen Müntzen ihre schädt : und betriegliche Finantzereyen durch ernstliche Mandata zuverbieten, auch solche durch scharpffe Aufsicht und Straffen … abzuwehren. Und … beschlossen, daß in disen dreyen Craissen … bey Straff der Confiscation und verlust deß … zu wider eingenommenen oder außgegebenen Gelts … nachfolgende Müntzen weder höher außgeben noch eingenommen werden sollen ... [Nuremberg, dated 11. March 1615] Broadside in large folio (Overall size: 101.5 x 42cm). 61 lines of text. Fraktur type with occasional Latin word in roman. One large ornamental initial in top left corner of blank margin. Printed below the text are 82 woodcuts of coins of varying sizes showing obverses and reverses with descriptive text above; the first 12 illustrations are in contemporary dark-orange hand-colouring to indicate they are gold coins. £950 Illustrated coin ordinance issued on behalf of the so-called ‘Three Circuits’ of Franconia, Bavaria, and Swabia, representing the princely states, free cities, and nobility, to regulate exchange rates to protect the gold and silver content standards set by the imperial mint. Described and illustrated are a number of debased, or counterfeit coins currently in circulation to warn the public of the danger of fraudulent traders passing these off as full-value coins and help them recognize the debased pieces. Trafficking and use of substandard coins is prohibited on pain of confiscation. The edict calls for stricter supervision to prevent illicit dealing: all customs posts in the region should search out smugglers, members of the public are asked to inform on offenders and promised one third of the confiscated goods as a reward, their names being kept secret; those who connive with the perpetrators are to be severely punished. The value of every standard coin is given by its equivalent in kreutzers; ie. the value of the imperial thaler (ancestor of the dollar) is stipulated as one guilder and 24 kreutzers. The substandard minted coins depicted have an explanatory caption above giving the equivalent value of each piece in imperial kreutzers; among the six gold coins represented are a double crown by the Bishop of Liege, a Spinola ducat, and guilders by the Duke of Bouillon, and the Duke and the Cardinal of Lorraine; the silver and lesser alloys shown include the currencies of the Duke of Bouillon, Friesland, Mantua, Metz, the duchies of Savoy, Jülich, Liegnitz, and Saxony, the counts of Solms, the abbess of Thorn, the United Dutch Provinces,Venice, Zürich, and others of unknown origin. Such broadsides were posted in markets, banks, and other public places to help traders authenticate the coins they received. Folding damage affecting 7 images in the second row, neat repairs to other folds, outer edges of top blank margins a little age-stained in places, small traces of wear and tear, but generally well preserved for a very large ephemeral imprint of this nature. A rare survival. Customs regulations broadside Spanish siege of Ostende 76 Germany. Bernard I Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (16811706). Zoll=Tafel, nach welcher der Zoll im Fürstl.Amt Maßfeld eingenommen wird. Meiningen, 5.February 1698. Broadside in oblong large 4to (32.5 x 42cm). Text printed on one side in 2 columns divided by typographical border. Fraktur letter. 8 ornamental initials heightened by hand in red and yellow. £450 77 Giustiniano, Pompeo. Delle guerre di Fiandra libri VI ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ... Antwerp, Joachim Trognesius, 1609. 4to. [4] + 329 + [18]p. Roman & Italic. With engraved architectural title and 29 engraved folding plates. Woodcut ornaments and initials. Contemporary limp vellum. £2500 Toll chart for the district of Massfeld near Meiningen, capital of the Thuringian Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. 21 detailed entries list tariffs charged on commercial traffic crossing the territory from any direction, such as to and from Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lübeck, parts of Hesse. Toll charges varying between six pfennigs down to one Groschen apply to individual horses pulling carts carrying a great variety of goods (beer, bucklings, butter, cheese, chestnuts, fish, flax, fruit, grain, hemp, honey, hop, millet, oil, onions, rice, salt, tobacco, turnip seeds, wine, bricks, copper and iron ware, feather beds, harts-horn, lead, leather, linen, potash, roof-tiles, sheepskins, steel, wax, wooden planks, woolen cloth), or to carriage horses of residents of Meiningen driving to the market, or to individual persons (a Jew passing on horseback, or on foot), or to the passage of fattened animals (oxen, cows, pigs, suckling calves, goats), and to pushcarts. The chart would have been displayed at border customs points. A few minor repairs not affecting text, otherwise in very good condition. First edition of a professional soldier’s eyewitness account of the battles and sieges during the Dutch War of Independence in Flanders (16011609) celebrated for its historical accuracy and its literary merit. It is the only work on the military operations on the Spanish side. Giustiniano (1569-1616) was a Ligurian mercenary serving under Ambrosio Spinola, commander of the Spanish forces fighting for the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. The chief event of the Flemish campaign here described was the three-year siege of Ostend, which surrendered to Spinola in 1604. The excellent engraved folding plates include maps, town plans, pontoon bridges and dykes, sieges and troop movements. The author reached the rank of colonel, and was appointed war counsellor to the ‘Catholic King’; he lost an arm during the siege of Antwerp, replaced it with an artificial limb, and was nicknamed ‘Bras de Fer’. He was later captain-general in the service of Venice and had an equestrian statue built in his honour in San Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Nijhoff, Bibl. Hist.Neerl. III, 649; Palau 102835; STCV 6624785; Soprani, Li scrittori de la Liguria (Genoa 1667), p244. Therapeutic properties of herbs and the philosopher’s stone 78 Glauber, Johann Rudolf. Explicatio verborum salomonis: In Herbis, Verbis & Lapidibus Magna est Virtus. Una cum adjuncta tractatiuncula de Quinta Essentia Metallorum. Amsterdam, J.Jansson, 1664. Small 8vo. 88p. Initials. Old pictorial boards. £485 First Latin edition of this commentary on Solomon’s words ‘in herbis magna est virtus?’ by the great analytical chemist Glauber (1604-68), who discusses the therapeutic properties of herbs and the philosopher’s stone. Added from page 67 a little treatise on the origins and quintessence of metals. A stain on title, tailend corner of first leaves lightly watermarked, otherwise sound. Caillet 4567; Duveen p258; Krivatsy 4783; Roth-Scholz p137. 79 (Colombo Press) Gonzalez, Joaquin V. La Selva de los Reptiles. Punta Secas por Maria Carmen. Sociedad De Bibliofilos Argentinos, Buenos Aires - MCMLIII.(Buenos Aires, ‘Francisco A. Colombo’, 1953). Folio. 36p. Title in green & black. Four delicately etched plates by María Carmen Portela, one serving as frontispiece. Initials and pagination printed in green. Original illustrated wrappers; preserved in slip case. £550 One of 88 numbered copies of a total of 100 copies printed on Charter Eggshell paper for the Argentine Bibliophile Society; this copy is no 43 produced for Eduardo M. Bellocq. The edition was supervised by Dr Eduardo J. Bullrich, President of the Society, and corrected by Carlos Alberto González. The type chosen was Garamond; the initials were specially designed. The illustrations, prepared and engraved by María Carmen Portela, were printed by Raœl Veroni. Colombo Fine Printing 219. Deluxe edition printed for the Argentine Bibliophile Society The botanic garden at Montpellier 80 Goüan, Antoine. Hortus regius Monspeliensis, sistens plantas tum indigenas tum exoticas No. MMCC, ad genera relatas, cum nominibus specificis etc., secundum sexualem methodum digestas. Lyons, de Tournes, 1762. 8vo. [14] + 548 + [31] + [1] p. Engraved vignette of dedicatee’s arms within allegorical surround, 7 engraved plates on 6 leaves (1 folding). Contemporary mottled half calf. £425 Catalogue of plants in the botanic garden at Montpellier, and the first French book to use Linnaeus’ system of classification. The work is dedicated to J.E. de Guignard, prefect of the garden. It is the first publication of Antoine Goüan (1733-1821), the renowned French botanist who corresponded with Linnaeus. Over 650 genera are listed, with very many species, in 23 classes; the plants are botanically described with selected synonyms, common names and place of original habitat; an alphabetical index at end provides a useful key. In good condition, with only one or two leaves faintly toned. Plesch 297 (with illustration of title-page). Pritzel 3485 (but with date of 1768). Stafleu & Cowan 2099. 81 Grimaudet, François. Paraphrase des droicts des usures et contracts pignoratifs. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1577. 12mo. [16] + 471 + [41(last blank)]p including errata & royal privilege. Roman, italic & Greek letter. Printer’s device on title. Ornamental headpiece and some small initials. Limp vellum.£750 First edition of this treatise on the laws on usury, contracts of redemption, and the law of obligations. Monetary inflation was rampant during the French civil war and provoked a debate best known through Jean Bodin’s famous Reponse de Jean Bodin à M. de Malestroit (1568). Grimaudet (1520-80), royal lawyer appointed to the assembly at Angers, was respected for his erudition and integrity. A contemporary of Jean Bodin, he wrote several works on public and civil law, but was suspected of tendencies towards reform, accused of heresy, and forced to retire. Ink ownership entry on title, dated 1668, partially deleted. Good copy. Kress 119; no copies of this work recorded in British Library, or in Cambridge libraries. Cf. M.Greengrass: Money, Majesty and Virtue. The Rhetoric of Monetary Reform in later 16th century France; P.Moizart: Un contemporain de Jean Bodin, François Grimaudet, Avocat du Roi au Présidial d’Angers (1930). Author’s presentation copy to the English botanist Peter Collinson with his ownership inscription on title 82 Gronovius, Laurentius Theodorus. Bibliotheca regni animalis atque lapidei, seu de recensio auctorum et librorum, qui de regno animali et lapideo tractant. Leiden, for the Author, 1760. 4to. [4]f + 326p. Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled boards. £1950 First edition of this early influential bibliography of the animal (excluding man) and mineral kingdoms for the use of students of natural history. The catalogue was edited and published by the Dutch physician and naturalist Gronovius (1730-1777) and includes his own well-known works on fish. An interesting association copy, being a presentation from the editor to the English botanist and physician Peter Collinson (1693-1768), with his ownership inscription on title. Collinson devoted much of his life to the introduction of useful plants from Europe to America and from America to Europe. He corresponded with naturalists throughout Europe, many of whom dedicated works to him, and Linnaeus named the genus ‘collinsonia’ after him. Several of Collinson’s own works are included in the bibliography. Very well preserved. Blake 187 (miscollated). BMC Natural History 640. Cole 1652. Wellcome III, 169. Wood 370. Designed in special type by J.van Krimpen 83 Güiraldes, Ricardo. El Sendero. Maestricht, A. A. M. Stols, 1932. 8vo. 119p. Title in red & black, half-title in blue; numerous initials in red. Original wrappers, unopened; limp vellum jacket with a ‘double cross’ in red on front cover; slip case decorated with gilt ‘double cross’. £600 One of a few copies, not for public sale, marked ‘FC’ (Fuera de Comercio) of the author’s philosophical reflections and aphorisms posthumously published by his widow in a deluxe edition limited to 120 copies designed in a special type by J. van Krimpen, and printed on handmade England paper especially manufactured for the production of this work by J. Barcham Green & Son. The title was designed by Alphonse Stols. An introductory note by Adelina del Carril de Güiraldes, the author’s widow, states that the work was begun in Buenos Aires in 1926 and was only abandoned 2 days before Güiraldes’ death in Paris. Although not intended for publication by the author, Adelina del Carril feels justified in her enterprise, stating that it honours her late husband’s memory and reveals his singular spirit (‘con ello honro su memoria y doy a sus lectores como una llave para entrar libremente en aquel espíritu ejemplar’). An impeccable copy of an exceptional imprint of considerable rarity; from the library of Adelina del Carril de Güiraldes with the joint bookplate of Ricardo and Adelina Güiraldes on inside of slip. Description of Amazonas Flora and Fauna With four additional plates 84 Gumilla, Joseph (S.J.) Historia natural, civil y geografica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco… Nueva impresion: Mucho mas correcta que las anteriores, y adornada con ocho laminas finas, que manifiestan las costumbres y ritos de aquellos Americanos. Corregido por el P. Ignacio Obregón, de los Clérigos Menores. Barcelona, Carlos Gibert y Tutó, 1791. 2 volumes in 8vo. xvi + 360 p; [2]f + 352p. With engraved author’s portrait, 6 plates, 1 folding engraved map, and 2 engraved allegorical vignettes. Contemporary mottled sheep; morocco title-label on spines; backstrips and corners worn; rubbed. £2500 An early account of the geography, natural history, and ethnography of the Orinoco region in the province of Amazonas, Venezuela. Gumilla (1686-1750) came to South America in 1714 as a missionary and spent much time of his life evangelizing the Indian tribes living along the shores of the Orinoco River, where be became Superior of the Jesuit missions. In 1738, on his appointment as synodal examiner at Cartagena, he temporarily returned to Spain, and there compiled this book based on personal knowledge of the region and on historical material found in manuscripts left by Fathers Mercado and Ribera. Excellent redaction with corrections by the Jesuits Ignacio Obregón and Antonio Juglá y Font, augmented with an engraved portrait of the author, and 4 charming plates engraved by Mateo González & Capilla illustrating the customs of the Orinoco Indians: a dance of the Mapuyes, funeral rites of the Salivas, 2 doctors known as ‘Piaches’ blowing smoke on a female patient in a hammock, Indians grinding maize and making maize bread. With old collector’s stamp in blank tailend margins of both titles. De Backer-Sommervogel III, 1949; Leclerc 1472; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 5460; Palau 111193; Sabin 29276 (in error calls for 7 plates). Description of electrical machine with glass cylinder 85 Hauksbee [Francis]. Esperienze fisico meccaniche sopra varj soggetti contenenti un racconto di diversi stupendi fenomeni intorno la luce e l’elettricita producibile dallo strofinamento de’corpi con molte altre notabili apparenze non mai prima osservate. Colle spiegazioni di tutte le machine ... Tradotta dall’Idioma Inglese. Florence, J. Giuducci & S. Franchi, 1716. 4to. [8]f + 162p + 1 leaf errata. With 7 numbered engraved plates (3 folding) and a smaller unnumbered engraving bound with text. Ornamental head and tail-pieces. Vellum. £1600 First Italian edition of ‘one of the most important early works on electricity, containing a description of the electrical machine with a glass cylinder (invented by Hauksbee), descriptions and illustrations of an improved air-pump of his invention, founded on his discovery of the lateral communication of motion in air and important for first showing the optical effects produced by the passage of electricity through rarefied air, which formed the starting point of modern researches, X-rays and the constitution of the atom ...’ (Duveen). This translation, the first to be published on the Continent of Europe not long after the original edition of 1709, is now rare. The famous plates are very well engraved - see the 3 reproductions in Dibner, Early Electrical Machines (1957). A few isolated wormholes and signs of usage, otherwise a good copy with wide margins. Duveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica, pp281-282. Wheeler Gift Catalogue 232 mentions this edition without actually describing it. 86 [Haym, Nicola Francesco]. Notizia de’Libri Rari nelle lingua Italiana divisa in quattro parti principali, istoria, poesia, prose, arti e scienze. London, Tonson and Watts, 1726. 4to. [19]f + 302p + [26]f, last leaf blank. Ornamental chapter headings. Old vellum. £385 First edition of this celebrated bibliography of Italian books inspired by Giusto Fontanini’s Biblioteca dell’eloquenza (Rome 1706), catalogued according to subject matter. It remained the standard bibliography of Italian literature until the nineteenth century. Ottino and Fumagalli note that this first edition contained copious indexes which were omitted from subsequent editions. A good copy; light traces of waterstaining in first few leaves. Besterman 921. Ottino-Fumagalli 606. 87 Hecquet, Philippe. Le Brigandage de la Chirurgie, ou la Medicine opprimée par le Brigandage de la Chirurgie. Bound with: ]. Le Brigandage de la Pharmacie. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo. I:[2] + viii + 22 + 32 + 214p. Ornamental initials & head-pieces.II: [1] + 110p. Ornamental initials & headpieces. Contemporary mottled sheep, backstrip gilt; worn.£450 (1) An attack on the “pillaging” of the medical profession by upstart surgeons who have forgotten their inferior station as the servants of physicians. The surgeons, who had mostly been mere barbers, had begun to practise independently, and had even usurped the position of the experienced midwife. The author proposes a law forbidding a surgeon to operate without express orders from a physician. Added is an extract from a medical edict of 1713 subordinating surgeons to the authority of physicians in Prussia. (2) A treatise on abuses in pharmaceutical practice exposing the preparation and sale of drugs by monks, charlatans and women. The author claims that many of these drugs are ineffective, some actually harmful, and he laments the days when apothecaries alone compounded and dispensed drugs according to regulations laid down by societies of physicians. Hecquet (1661-1737) was physician to the nuns at Port Royal for five years. He strongly believed in the benefits of bloodletting and was probably the model for Le Sage’s Sangrado, the quack doctor in Gil Blas. Both works were published posthumously, forming the continuation of the author’s Brigandage de la Médicine (1723-33); they are, however, complete in themselves. Good copies; an early manuscript ownership entry on title of first work. (1) Blake, p 202. Waller 4178. See Wellcome III, p 232 for a variant edition. (2) Blake, p 202. See Wellcome III, p232 for a variant edition. Reforming Peruvian mining industries 88 Helms, Anton Zacharias. Travels from Buenos Ayres, by Potosi, to Lima. With notes by the translator, containing topographical descriptions of the Spanish possessions in South America, drawn from the last and best authorities. London, Richard Phillips, 1806. 12mo. xii + 251(misnumb.287) + [1p] With folding engraved map. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt; rejointed;with contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of Vice Admiral Lord Keith K.B.and book ticket of A.Santamarina. £385 First English translation of a journal kept by a German mineralogist and metallurgist who was engaged by the Spanish government in to introduce Born’s new method of amalgamation to the Peruvian mines. Helms attempted to reform the backward Peruvian mining industry by introducing new furnaces and teaching modern methods, but resigned totally frustrated by the constant lack of cooperation of corrupt and ignorant local officials. His diary, beginning in October 1788 with his overland journey to Peru from Buenos Aires, is mainly of interest for its factual comments on the state of the mines of Potosi, Guancavelica, Pasco and Jauricocha, on gold and silver production in South America in general, and the trade statistics given. First published in German in 1798. Map and title margin toned, otherwise a good copy from the collection of Vice-Admiral George Lord Keith Elphinstone (1746-1823). Sabin 31265. Innovative British Cavalry Manual With 14 additional plates and an extra chapter of text 89 Herbert, Henry. Military Equitation: Or, a method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride. Designed for the use of the army. The third edition with plates. Revised and corrected, with additions. Salisbury: E. Easton & London; J. Dodsley & J. Wilkie, 1778. 4to. [8] + 140 p + 17 engraved plates showing equestrian positions and equipment. Early 19th century half calf; marbled boards; spine repaired. £585 The most complete edition of this innovative manual by a British cavalry officer who was a follower of the French school, and a personal friend of Bourgelat. Based on ten years’ army experience, Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (1734-94) wrote this handbook aiming to improve current standards of horsemanship by developing a totally practical method of gradual and patient training. It contains a few general rules absolutely necessary for cavalry discipline. His precepts for shoeing are especially praised by Mennessier, who discusses them in detail. Horses are taught to jump and swim, and to obey oral commands in case reins are not available. The book had immediate success, and Herbert’s ideas were adopt- ed throughout the British cavalry. The present third edition, with the text revised by the author, contains the additional chapter on the trot. This edition is especially attractive for being illustrated with a total of 17 plates (the first edition (1761) contained 2 plates only, the second edition (1762) had 3 plates). The text was translated into French by Bergeret de Frouville, and the chapter on the trot was plagiarized in the English translation of Bourgelat’s Le Nouveau Newcastle. The author built an indoor riding school at his country seat at Wilton; he also commissioned 55 paintings of military riding exercises. Blank top corners of first leaves with light traces of waterstaining, a few traces of usage, otherwise a good copy with early ownership signature of Thomas D. Broad, 2 Henrietta Street, Bath, who has added a neat manuscript index of the plates on the otherwise blank page facing first page of text. Lewine 406; Mennessier de la Lance I,111; Wells 5695. ‘Review of main plant collections in the Netherlands’ 90 Hermann, Paul. Paradisus Batavus, continens plus centum plantas ... delineandas curaverat Paulus Hermannus ... Opus posthumum. Leiden, Abraham Elzevier, 1698. 4to. [20] + 247 + [1 blank] + 15 + [1 blank] p. With 111 copper-plate engravings, elaborate wood-engraved capitals and headand tail-pieces, the last half-page ornament depicting an eagle feeding her young within a design incorporating arabesques, hunting dogs, cornflowers, foliage and caterpillers is signed with an initial ‘C’ . Contemporary panelled calf; neatly rebacked. £2850 First edition. ‘A review of the main plant collections in the Netherlands’ (The Anglo-Dutch Garden), illustrated with fine engravings after the author’s own drawings. Paul Hermann, director of Leiden botanic garden from 1679 to 1695, collected specimens whilst travelling in Ceylon, India and Africa. The drawings made of these plants were acquired by Sir Joseph Banks for the British Museum, and have been the source for important research since; they also ‘inspired Linnaeus to write his Flora Zeylanica (1747), the description of a tropical flora he had never seen’ (Plesch). Johannes Burman’s Thesaurus zeylanicus (1737) was also based on a Hermann herbarium, housed at the Institut de France (Stafleu & Cowan). Following the author’s death in 1695 William Sherard edited the above book for his widow who paid the expenses for its publication. The dedication is to Henry Compton, Bishop of London, the great plant collector, and ‘patron of botanophiles’; the book was promoted in England by Hans Sloane. The engravings are exquisite as well as being of the utmost documentary value; they include the illustration of the Epidendron Curassavicum (now ‘Brassavola nodosa’), ‘the first record of a tropical orchid that flowered in cultivation ... in the glasshouse of Gaspar Fagel at the Leeuwenhorst’ (The Anglo-Dutch Garden). Recto of front fly leaf with contemporary signature: ‘Ex Libris. Johannis Eglingirj. Londin: 1706’. A good copy of this finely produced edition on large paper; very rare in this state. Kuiljen, Paradisus Batavus, 1983, no 115, p163; Stafleu & Cowan 2687, listing ‘110 plates [sometimes 111]’. The Anglo-Dutch Garden in the Age of William and Mary, (ed. John Dixon Hunt & Erik de Jong) Journal of Garden History, vol 8, nos 2 & 3, 1988, no 143, p291. Both Nissen BB (860) and Pritzel (3994) list this edition, though erroneously quote title-page of the 2nd, 1705, edition. Plesch 339, 2nd edition. Hesse produced this comprehensive horticultural work and invaluable source book as a result of his experience as head gardener to the Elector of Mainz for over 20 years. It was specially intended for German-speaking peoples, and with their soil and climate in mind; where possible Latin and foreign words have been translated into the vernacular, and a dictionary has also been appended. The four sections deal with the cultivation and choice of plants including citrus fruits and other tender and exotic species, flowers, shrubs, vegetables and pot-herbs, ornamental, nut and fruit trees, as well as some 4pp on varieties of tobacco plant. There are many plant lists, with fruit trees noticeably of French origin; reputable seed merchants; florists named include Hans Georg Krauß of Augsburg, whose carnation catalogue is supplied. The plates depict five garden designs attached to modest country villas, illustrations of specimen plants (the signed plate apparently a giant English artichoke), horticultural operations and two early examples of greenhouses (cf: K. Lemmon, The Covered Garden, 1962, p 41. The layouts reflect the Dutch taste for small country houses subordinate to a garden scheme and completely surrounded by canals. ‘Theodorus Phytologus’ who has contributed the preface as well as additional material, remarks on Hesse’s connections with Count John of Nassau (1604- 79), the renowned Dutch Stadtholder and innovative garden designer whose ideas had much influence in parts of northern Germany. Loudon in his selected catalogue of useful German reference works (Encyclopaedia of Gardening, 1827), lists an edition of 1713. In very good condition, apart from the centre pages which are uniformly toned. Not in Pritzel, or Hunt. The German baroque garden inspired by Dutch and French models 91 Hesse, Heinrich. Neue Garten-Lust: das ist gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen-und Baum-Garten unter unserm Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten; allerhand so wohl fremde als einheimische Blumen, Kräuter, Gewächse und Bäume darinnen zu erziehcn und zu warten... Damit es ein recht vollkommenes Garten-Buch seyn möge, mit sehr nützlichen Anmerckungen, und zweyen Anhängen, zu dem ersten und dritten Theile, wie auch mit dem gantzen vierdten Theile, als Beschreibung eines Artzney-Gartens. . . bey dieser letztern Aufflage mit einem neuen Anhange eines … Garten-Memorials, wie auch mit drey nützlichcn Registern versehen durch Theodorum Phytologum. Leipzig, Johann Ludwig Gleditsch, 1703. Sm. 4to. [6] + 392 + [47]p. Title in red and black. 10 engraved plates, 1 signed by A. C. Böcklin. Vellum boards, gilt title on spine. £2750 Calabria is attached to an inserted blank before the title, presumably a former owner of the book and possibly of the castle in the painting. John Hill (1714-75) was known to have had a botanic garden at Bayswater in London; he was an apothecary in Covent Garden, and according to J. Thornton was the ‘First superintendant of Royal Gardens at Kew’. First plate a little toned, most plates strengthened at inner margin, occasional light marginal spotting. Hunt 679. Jackson p111. Pritzel 4076. See Johnson pp207-9. Argentine avant-garde 93 Inicial. Revista de la Nueva Generacion. Buenos Aires, 1924-1925. 3 issues: no 4 ( January, February, March:) 75p + [2]f advertisements; no 7 (December:) 80p + [2]f advertisements; with 2 fullpage coloured plates of contemporary art; no 8 (August:) pp83-168 + [2]f advertisements. Ornamental publisher’s wrappers; foxed; inside clean. £250 Three issues of this adventurous Argentine avantgarde periodical specifically aimed at young intellectuals with contributions limited to young Argentine writers and artists. It first appeared in 1923, and ten numbers only were published, the last in 1926. One of the editors, Homero M.Guglielmini, announced it as “a serious periodical intended to express faithfully the new generation of intellectuals”. See Lafleur, Provenzano & Alonso, Las revistas literarias argentinas (18931960), pp85-88. American plants 92 Hill, John. Decade di alberi curiosi ed eleganti piante delle Indie Orientali, e dell’America ultimamente fatte gia’ note dall idioma Inglese, ridotta all’Italiana favella, col lasciare intatta la descrizione Latina, e corredata di alquante note. Rome, Salomoni, 1786. 4to. [8] + 31 + [1]p + [26] extra pages sewn in, of which 18pp have manuscript botanical notes in French and Italian (one dated 1873). 10 engraved plates of plants, by Giuseppe Bianchi after Cesare Maioli. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine. £750 Italian translation of Hill’s work, A Decade of curious and elegant trees and plants: drawn after specimens received from the East Indies, and America, in the year 1772 published in London in 1773. It has been suggested that Hill himself made the drawings for the original work (see Henrey vol II, p682); some of the plants are depicted here for the first time. This translation appears to have been part of a series introducing newly discovered foreign and exotic species to Italy. Each plant is named in English, Italian and Latin, with descriptions of habitat and characteristics. The translator (probably Gaspar Xúarez, a Jesuit priest) has supplied extensive footnotes in Italian. American plants include the ‘Upright Lima Lilly’ from Peru, the ‘Venus Fly Trap’ (swamps of Carolina and Pennsylvania), and ‘Yellow American Water-Lilly’ (North American Lakes). A 19th century watercolour inside the front cover shows a fortified castle above a group of farmhouses, a grove of trees and a vegetable plot. The printed name of Sig. Pignatori Dott. Filippo Iacopo of Monteleone, Impressions of a French commercial traveller in Southern Brazil & the River Plate 94 Isabelle, Arsène. Voyage a Buènos-Ayres et a Porto-Alègre, par la Banda-Oriental, les missions d’Uruguay et la province de Rio-Grande-do-Sul. (de 1830–1834.) Suivi de considerations sur l’état du commerce Français à l’extérieur, et principalement au Brésil et au Rio-de-la-Plata. Dédié au commerce du Havre. Havre, J. Morlent, 1835. Large 8vo. Half-title, title + 618p + [1 blank + 2]f. With 4 engraved plates, one serving as frontispiece and 1 folding map at end. Half morocco; gilt. £950 First edition. A French businessman’s informed travel account of Argentina, Uruguay, and Southern Brazil, where he spent several years with the intention of fomenting commercial enterprises. (He later published a guide for prospective immigrants to the area). The author toured large parts of Rio Grande do Sul, visiting Porto Alegre and the German colony at São Leopoldo. The lithographed folding map by Lavasseur showing Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and the River Plate area was prepared under the author’s direction. ‘One of few books of the time which describes Rio Grande do Sul’ (Borba). The plates include a view of Buenos Aires (frontispiece), portrayals of Argentine ladies dressed in the latest fashion, and a gaucho lassoing cattle in the pampa. Some intermittent foxing. Borba de Moraes 420; Sabin 35239. Pre- Aztec Mexico 95 Ixtlilxuchitl, Fernando de Alva. Histoire des Chichimèques ou des anciens rois de Tezcuco… traduite sur le manuscrit espagnol... Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1840. 8vo. xvi + 380p. Quarter morocco. £450 An account of pre-Aztec Mexican history compiled by Fernando de Alva (1569-1646), a direct descendant of the kings of Acolhuacán, translated into French by H. Ternaux-Compans from a Spanish manuscript first published by Lord Kingsborough. Tezcuco, the capital of the Acolhua kingdom, reached the height of its civilization under King Nezahualcoyotl and his son Nezahualpilli in the late 15th century. The French version is here published as the second and third parts of the editor’s second series: ‘Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux pour servir a l’histoire de la découverte de l’Amérique, publiés pour la première fois en Français. Leclerc 1166; Palau 330425. ‘First published account of Tibet by an Englishman’ 96 Jones, William, William Chambers, William Hastings (et aliae). Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces relating to the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia. Dublin, P. Byrne, and W. Jones, 1793. 8vo. [6] + 643 + [1 blank]p. Contemporary calf, gilt title on spine label; worn. £385 Early reports on the Far East including the first published account of Tibet by an Englishman, Captain Samuel Turner, who was sent there by Warren Hastings. It contains Turner’s letters to John Macpherson, the Governor-General of Bengal relating to his interview with Teeshoo Lama at the Monastery of Terpaling, and an account of a journey to Tibet made by Poorungeer, a Gosseyn, and his reception by the Lama. (Turner’s full narrative was not published until 1800.) The volume also includes studies of eastern arts, sciences and literature including chap- ters on the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India, the chronology of the Hindus, the Indian game of chess, the antiquity of the Indian Zodiac, the plants of India, an account of Nepal, and a discourse on the method of catching wild elephants at Tipura. Sir William Jones made his name with his Persian grammar (see item below), founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784), and edited its Journal of Asiatic Researches. PMM pp 141-142. ESTCN 8164. 97 Jones, William. A Grammar of the Persian Language. The Second Edition, with an index. [Title in Arabic] London, J.Richardson, 1775. 4to. [ii] + xix + [i] + 147 + [xliii]p. With one engraved plate of ‘Taleek’ and ‘Shekesteh’ scripts, signed Bayly. Contemporary calf; backstrip gilt; ends of spine and corners restored. £550 Revised edition by John Richardson who added an index. The orientalist and free-thinker, William Jones (1746-94), wrote his pioneering work at the age of twenty-five. It was first published in 1771. He co-founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal and initiated the journal Asiatick Researches. Jones is considered a pioneer of comparative linguistics and of Indo-European studies because of his attempts to discover analogies between Sanskrit and the western languages. A fresh copy. Forerunner of the totalitarian state 98 [Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (1780-90)]. Allgemeine Gerichtsordnung für Böheim, Mähren, Schlesien, Oesterreich … und die Vorlanden. Vienna, Johann Thomas von Trattner, 1781. [4] + 184p., including subject index at end. (Bound with:) [Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor). Allgemeine Konkursordnung für Böheim, Mähren, Schlesien, Oesterreich ob, und unter der Ennß, Görz, Gradiska, Triest, Tyrol, und die Vorlande. Vienna, Trattner, 1781. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo. 31p. Original publisher’s boards. £550 First printings of the revised codes of laws for the Austrian imperial dominions or ‘crown-lands’ including Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Tyrol and Slovenia. The second code deals exclusively with bankruptcy legislation. The new laws introduced by the Austrian Enlightenment Emperor on his accession to the throne were drafted to replace ethnic regional diversity with a centralized state ruled from Vienna to promote administrative unity and imperial power. The over-ambitious programme of sweeping reforms provoked universal opposition and was finally abandoned. Fresh copies. 99 Journal des Sçavans pour l’année MDCLXXXV. Tôme treisième. Amsterdam, G. P. & J. Blaeu, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1686., 1686. 12mo. 582 + (17 + 1)p. With 6 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary mottled calf, back strip gilt. £275 Influential French weekly arts and science journal for the year 1685, edited by Abbé Jean-Paul de la Roque. Among the topics discussed are coffee, the tides, earthquakes, the flying fish of Cape Verde, a method of weighing air, a remedy for gout, and the extraordinary gifts possessed by certain blind people. The illustrations include a beautifully carved gemstone, a mathematical instrument for measuring and plotting angles and a support for long telescopes. The Journal des Savants ran almost continuously from 1665-1792 and was edited by La Roque from 1675-86. The original was issued in Paris but was for many years reprinted in the same format in the Netherlands. A good copy. Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, II, 1022. Hünersdorff, Coffee: A Bibliography, p781. Lessons from Napoleonic warfare applied to Austrian tactics 100 [Karl Archduke of Austria]. Grundsätze zur höhern Kriegs=Kunst für die Generäle der österreichischen Armee. Vienna, Imperial & Royal Court and State Press, 1806. 12mo. [4] + 92p. Fraktur type. Woodcut of imperial arms on title. Publisher’s marbled boards. £450 First edition. Handbook on the principles of advanced warfare written for Austrian generals by their commander-in-chief, the Archduke Karl (1771-1848), who initiated far-reaching army reforms in line with the changes in warfare learnt from experiences during the early Napoleonic campaigns. The author, one of the best allied strategists, was to inflict the first defeat on Napoleon at Aspern-Esslingen (1809). His work is divided into three parts: 1) on offensive and defensive wars, fortresses and winter campaigns; 2) on the formation of arsenals, marching orders, tactical defensive positions, the defence and the crossing of rivers, and winter quarters; 3) on the protection of supply lines by convoys, skirmishing, the Turkish wars, and the changes in warfare pioneered by Napoleon. The author concludes that the first principle of war is an accurate assessment of available means to achieve the desired ends. The surest method of gaining victory is choosing the right moment to deploy the largest number of available forces to achieve the highest degree of effectiveness. The practical application of these principles based on experience in the field make a successful commander. Fine copy. 101 Kemp, Edward. How to lay out a garden; intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1864. 8vo. xxxi + (1) + 428p. 249 engraved illustrations and plans in text. Publisher’s cloth, gilt. £375 Third edition of the work, much enlarged, with illustrations from the author’s own designs. Kemp became an advocate of the formal garden in a period of changing attitudes to garden aesthetics. He was superintendant for over 40 years of Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, where he had himself assisted in the lay-out with Sir Joseph Paxton (1843-47); Birkenhead was the first consciously designed public park and its design was highly influential; in it were incorporated many innovatory schemes including an ingenious traffic’circulation system’ which was subsequently reproduced in Central Park by F.L. Olmstead (Oxford Companion to Gardens, p56). Kemp’s ideas were based on those of Sir Uvedale Price (d.1839) who was in favour of the ‘picturesque’ and strongly opposed to the’disfigurement of the English countryside at the hands of Lancelot Brown’ (Oxford Companion to Gardens, p455), and J.C. Loudon who sought the preservation and improvement of the village; Kemp regarded the present work as somewhat of a companion to Loudon’s Suburban Horticulturist (1845); he was particularly influential on the Continent and he is cited as a source by Alphand and Edouard André among others. A very good copy; occasional light marginal foxing. See Brent Elliott, Victorian Gardens, 1986, pp99-105. 102 Kolb, Peter. Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, où l’on trouve tout ce qui concerne l’histoire naturelle du pays, la religion, les moeurs & les usages des Hottentots; et l’établissement des Hollandois. Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1741. 3 volumes in 12mo. [10]f + 370 + [1]p; [7]f + 228p; [10]f + 280p. With engraved allegorical frontispiece to vol I, titles in red & black with vignette, 25 engraved plates (1 folding) and 5 folding maps. Original marbled publisher’s wrappers, untrimmed. £1850 First French edition of this classic description of South Africa with accounts of the native Hottentots, the Dutch settlements and their modes of existence; it contains the earliest description of the local fauna. Vol. I, chapter XVI (pp241 - 259) concerns the food of the Hottentots; chapter XVII (pp259 - 271) their childbirth practices; Vol. II, chapter IX (pp121 159) details the diseases of the Europeans in the Cape and their methods of cure. The attractive plates based on those of the Dutch edition of 1727, include a fine, folding view of the Cape of Good Hope, representations of the Hottentot natives and a variety of animals, and folding maps of the East Coast, the Cape and Cape Colony. ‘Exact and detailed description of the Cape of Good Hope, containing a very circumstantial account of . its settlements, harbour, fortress, form of government, extent, and the regions recently discovered in its vicinity; together with an erudite description of the climate and soil of the territory, of its animals, fishes, birds, plants and herbs .’ (Mendelssohn). A fresh copy in its original state, untrimmed. Ford Bell IV, 124. Landwehr, VOC, 585. Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, Catalogus, I, p207. Tiele 806 (notes). This edition not in Mendelssohn who lists the Dutch edition (I, 842). The only portraits of the Greek national heroes drawn during their life time 103 Krazeisen, Karl. Bildnisse ausgezeichneter Griechen und Philhelenen nebst einigen Ansichten und Trachten. Nach der Natur gezeichnet … Portraits des Grecs et des Philhellènes les plus célèbres suivis de quelques vues et costumes. Dessinés d’après nature … Munich, printed for the author, 1828 [– 1831]. 7 parts bound into 1 volume, folio. 28 lithographed plates and a lithograph plan of the battle of Athens. Including original publisher’s front wrappers to parts 2 – 7 and back cover of last part showing the map. With 14 pages of explanatory parallel text in German and French. Contemporary half calf; marbled boards, spine restored. £25,500 First edition of the celebrated contemporary portraits of Phihellenes drawn by a German participant in the Greek War of Independence. . An exceptional copy, complete, and containing an additional plan of the battle of Athens. Generally in excellent unrestored condition, apart from some light isolated marginal waterstains to parts 6 & 7. Karl August Krazeisen (1794- 1878). an accomplished amateur artist, was a member of a party of Bavarian philhellene officers sent by King Ludwig I in 1826 under the command of Colonel Karl von Heideck. It was the first public action to support the Greek Independence Struggle taken by a small European state. Krazeisen made many drawings of camps, costumes, uniforms and battle plans during his two year stay in Greece, the originals of which are now at the National Gallery in Athens. On his return to Munich, four outstanding German lithographers collaborated in the publication of his album to promote the Greek cause : Franz Hanfstaengl (1804-77) executed the portraits, Friedrich Hohe (1802-70) the landscapes, Peter von Hess (1792-1871) the battle scene, and Joseph Steingrübel (1804-38), the map. The twenty one portraits of the most notable figures in the struggle for Independence are among the best known of the period. The seven views include the image of the Greeks defending the ruins at Corinth : a captain stands tall firing his pistol at the enemy, having seized the flag from the standard bearer who lies dying at his feet; an additional view shows the frigate Hellas, which arrived from America in 1826, and the steamer Kareria, both involved in relief of the siege of the Acropolis. As Krazeisen had sketched all Greek leaders living at the time of his stay in Greece, his album constitutes a unique source and the most comprehensive collection of its kind; he remained the only artist to have portrayed the Greek national heroes during their lifetime. Krazeisen was present at the battles of the Acropolis, and the newly founded modern Greek state honoured him with the Order of the Redeemer.; Theodoros Vrysakis portrayed him in his famous painting “The camp of Georgios Karaiskakis”(1855) for which the Krazeisen portraits served as the historical source. The publisher’s wrappers bear the ownership stamp of the Bavarian general, Clemens Count von Raglovich (1766-1836). Blackmer / Navari 926; Droulia 1426-29; Lipperheide 1447; Nagler VII, p 168. Follies of life in under the reign of Louis XIV 104 La Bruyere, Jean de. Les caracteres de Theophraste traduit du Grec, avec les caracteres ou les moeurs de ce siecle et la clef, en marge & par ordre alphabetique. Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1697. 3 parts in small 8vo. [40] + 285 + [361]+ (2) + 336 + [4 + 2 blank] + [1] + 251 + [2 + 1 blank)p. Engraved allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt back; compartments of spine decorated in gilt; some light rubbing to corners. £450 Enlarged edition of the great moralist’s most famous work, translated into English in 1699, and thought to have influenced the English essayists during the reign of Queen Anne. La Bruyère (1645-96) used his translation of Theophrastus as an introduction to his ironic, spirited essays on the follies and social injustices of his age, as observed by him at the French court. He also comments on literary subjects and certain authors. His election to the French Academy in 1693 on the strength of this work was seen as a victory for the party of the ‘Ancients’ against the ‘Moderns’. In good overall condition; joints sturdy; only some rubbing to corners and a few isolated hardly noticeable traces of superficial worming on spine. Contents generally clean; 3 neat marginal repairs without loss; very occasional toning. Good copy; a corroded early ink erasure of a signature in blank lower margin of first title. See Brunet III, 720 (note). Venetian sovereignty questioned 105 [La Cueva, Alonso de ?]. Examen de la liberté originaire de Venise. Traduit de l’Italien. Avec une harangue de Louis Hélian Ambassadeur de France contre les Vénitiens, traduite du Latin. Et des remarques historiques. ‘Ratisbonne, Jean Aubry’ [Holland] 1677 & Suplément à l’histoire du gouvernement de Venise ‘Paris, Frederic Leonard [Holland] 1677. 2 parts in 1 volume. 16mo. [12] + 211 + [3]p; 237 + [3]p. Armillary sphere device on both titles. Contemporary vellum. £350 Dutch pirated edition published in 2 parts with different titles of Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye’s French translation of Squitinio della liberta Veneta, a seditious work first published at Mirandola in 1612, several times reprinted, and condemned to be burnt by the Venetian Senate. The book argues that Venice, as a former domain of the East Roman Empire, should rightfully be subject to the jurisdiction of its imperial successor state, the Germanic empire. Authorship has been variously attributed to Alfonso de la Cueva, the supposed leader of the Spanish conspiracy against Venice, to Marcus Welser, Augsburg banker and humanist, and to the Papal Court. The Venetian patriot, Paolo Sarpi, rejected the arguments put forward in the Squitinio when attacking ever increasing papal pretensions in his Historie of the Councel of Trent (1619). Good copy with early manuscript notes in Latin on front flyleaf; bookplate of Henri Schults. Barbier 344-5l; Willems 1907; see also Peignot, Livres condamnés au feu, Paris 1806, II, pp144-5. Proof impressions 106 [La Fontaine, Jean. Contes et nouvelles. Paris, Cazin, 1780] Oblong 12mo. Separate proof impressions of the illustrations. 24 engraved plates (plate impression 100 x 70mm) printed in pairs on separate sheets; 20 of the plates are engraved after C.L. Desrais, one after Goujet, 3 unsigned; the portrait of La Fontaine printed on a separate small sheet is unsigned. Bound in mottled sheep, gilt.£500 Rare suite of proof impressions for the illustrations of the 2 volume edition in 18mo of the bawdy tales which are partly based on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. The engravers are T.Maillet, Deny, F.A.Aveline, R.Delvaux, and Madame Lingée. Not listed by Cohen-De Ricci (col.572) who merely records the edition. Langley was at Twickenham before moving to Westminster, within the same period that he issued his New principles of gardening and Pomona (1728, 1729). The engraver of the frontispiece, Peter Toms (d.1777), contributed illustrations to the Pomona. A very good copy. Desmond, p413. Henrey 929, and vol II, pp470-1, 554, 647. Hunt 473. 109 Langlois, E[ustache] H[yacinthe]. Essai sur la calligraphie des manuscrits du Moyen-Age et sur les ornaments des premiers livres d’heures imprimés. Rouen, I.S.Lefevre, 1841. 8vo. [iv] + 180p. With 17 engraved plates (4 folding). Contemporary half calf. £485 First edition. An early art-historical study of the structure and making of Books of Hours illustrated with beautiful engravings reproducing figures, initials, scrolls, borders and calligraphic features of richly illuminated medieval manuscripts, largely from the Bibliothèque Royale and the Vatican Library. Langlois (1777-1838), Norman antiquary, was a Christian writer, and a gifted artist who defended national patrimony and denounced revolutionary vandalism. A pupil of Lemonnier and Jacques-Louis David ,he was known as the ‘Norman Callot’ for his imaginative drawings. He served as director of the Museum of Antiquities at Rouen, and published numerous articles of antiquarian interest relating to the region. A very good copy with wide margins. Iconography of Mary Queen of Scots 107 Labanov[-Rostovskii], Prince Alexandr [Yakovlevich]. Notice sur la collection des portraits de Marie Stuart appartenant au Prince Alexandre Labanoff. St Petersburg, Pratz, 1860. Large 8vo. Frontispiece, xxiii + 345p. Contemporary morocco, gilt; rejointed. £485 Enlarged and revised edition of the first serious study of the authentic portraits of Mary Queen of Scots, painted, or, engraved, based on the iconic collection of Prince Labanov-Rostovskii (1788-1866), a fervent admirer of the Scottish queen, who published a seven volume work on the manuscripts and printed books connected to her name in his possession in 1844. Some foxing of preliminaries, otherwise well preserved. Practical advice to estate owners 108 Langley, Batty. Sure Method of Improving Estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber trees, coppice woods etc. London, Francis Clay & Daniel Brown, 1728. 8vo. [x] + xxii (ie.xx) + 274p. With engraved frontispiece by Toms, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary speckled calf; spine neatly rebacked. £1500 One of the earliest works (by some 25 years) to set out in a professional manner the importance of ‘silviculture and arboriculture’, which was taken up with zeal in the second half of the 18th century (Henrey). Langley (1696-1751) was an architect, surveyor, hydraulics expert and landscape gardener; he gave advice to estate owners throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The present treatise gives ‘practical and informative material’, and details of the profits expected; it was published when Second Census of Buenos Aires 110 (Buenos Aires) Latzina, Francisco (compiler, with others). Censo general de población, edificación, comercio e indústrias de la ciudad de Buenos Aires ... Levantado en los días 17 de Agosto, 15 y 30 de Setiembre de 1887 bajo la administración del Dr Don Antonio F Crespo. Buenos Aires, Compañia Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, 1889.2 vols. 4to. I: vii + (I) + 544p. II: 620p. With engraved frontispiece portrait, large chromolithograph folding plan of Buenos Aires and 49 plates (of which 14 are coloured steel engravings (7 double-page), 24 photographs by Witcomb, the remaining are plans and charts (inc. 3 double- page, 2 folding). Original contemporary green (vol I), and red (vol 11) cloth bindings, gilt title and emblem (?arms of the city) on covers; slight wear to spine ends. £650 Topographical study of rhe city following rhe census of 1887, rhe second official demographic count afrer the suburbs of Belgrano and Flores had been annexed. The popularion was around 432,000 having more rhan doubled in 20 years. The work provides a detailed description of the city, its layout, engineering works, institutions, education, theatres, inhabitants, the climate and physical geography of rhe area. About one-fifth of the popularion of Argentina then lived in Buenos Aires; rate-payers, both foreign and native, had the right to vote in municipal elections. Warer and drainage works were eventually iniriated in 1873 by English engineers following serious cholera and yellow fever epidemics, and rhe plans for these are included here. Improvements to facilitate shipping were begun in the ‘Boca’ or port in 1872 with some £1,500,000 spent on dredging and creating landing areas, and this was subsrantially added to later in the century to enable the city to compete internationally. The illustrations throughout are excellent; the early photographs wirh use of wide angle lens give impressive panoramic views of landmarks, monuments, markets, warehouses, the port, plazas and gardens. An important document in good condition. Illustrated by Merian 111 Lauremberg, Peter. Horticultura, Iibris II compre hensa; huic coelo & solo accommodata; regulis, observationibus, experimentis, & figuris novis instructa. Frankfurt-am-Main, Mattheius Merian (1631). Small 4to. 196p. Engraved title- page, 23 engraved plates, 28 (numbered) engraved illustrations on 6p text, decorative foliate capitals and tail-pieces. Vellum boards, gilt title on spine. £1850 An innovative horticultural treatise with examples of garden design directly influenced by Vredeman de Vries. Lauremberg’s contribution lies principally in his proof by experiment of facts not yet accepted by botanists. Among these were the reproduction of plants by cuttings, stems and leaves as well as seeds (thus dispelling ideas about the ‘soul’ of a plant); he grew plants thought to be antipathetic side by side (ie the vine and the cabbage) and found they thrived; he confirmed that a seed’s roots would naturally develop downwards and the stem grow towards the light. The work deals firstly with the reproduction of plants, the compatibility of one to another, propagation by seed, stolon and cuttings, pruning, irrigation and cultural techniques. The second part focuses on the orchard, flower, and herb garden, with a final list of plants for medicinal use. The attractive plates by Merian illustrate contemporaty gardening implements, 13 examples of raised beds (called pulvillus, as were similar geometric plots in botanic gardens), 4 labyrinths in different shapes, and several examples of garden tablets inscribed with mottoes, a board for backgammon and a sundial. Textual illustrations show grafting and pruning techniques, and several curious topiary tableaux. The allegorical title-page combines emblematic figures and instruments of horticulture around an architectural frame. A crisp copy of this scarce work which combines both scientific progress with the mannerist fascination for inventive design; a few leaves skilfully repaired at edge. Hunt 219. Nissen 1147. Pritzel 5088. See also A.G. Morton, A History of Botanical Science, 1981, pp222-3. 112 Le Clerc, Daniel. Histoire de la Médecine où l’on voit l’Origine & les Progrès de cet Art. Amsterdam, ‘aux depenses de la Compagnie’, 1723. 4to. Frontispiece [9]f + 820p + [10 + 1 blank)f. Roman & italic letter with some Greek. Title in red & black. With fine engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved plates and 1 folding table. Ornamental vignette on title. Some decorative initials. Bound in 19th century mottled boards and has 2 old collector’s stamps in blank margin of title; worn. £650 Best edition of the first comprehensive history of medicine, here much revised and enlarged by the author who has brought it up to the middle of the 17th century. Le Clerc (1652-1728) studied medicine at Montpellier and Paris before qualifying at Valence in 1672. Paper lightly toned. Blake, p261. Cushing L112. Garrison & Morton 6379. Osler 6036. Wellcome III, p470. 113 Le Corbusier. La VilIe Radieuse. Elements d’une doctrine d’urbanisme pour l’equipement de la civilization machiniste. Boulogne (Seine), L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, [1933]. Oblong 4to. [345] + [2] pp. With numerous illustrations from photographs, plans and diagrams, many in colour. Original printed boards; worn. £685 First edition of one of the most important works in which Le Corbusier most fully developed his principles of planning. In this ideal city he advocates ‘centralized planning, which would cover not merely city building but every aspect of life.’ He envisaged a totally geometric town where all life would be regulated, and the inhabitants ‘live in giant collective apartments called ‘Unites” (one was in fact built in Marseilles in 1946; see Peter Hall, below). Among some 13 cities for which Le Corbusier devised plans are Algiers, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Rome and Barcelona. An influential work, with lively illustrations and measured plans. See Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, 1988, pp207-12. Early childrens book adapted and illustrated for German youth 114 Le Prince de Beaumont [Jeanne]-Marie. Der Frau Maria le Prince de Beaumont lehrreiches Magazin für Kinder zu richtiger Bildung ihres Verstandes und Herzens für die deutsche Jugend eingerichtet und mit den nöthigsten Kupfern versehen von Johann Joachim Schwaben. Dritte und verbesserte Auflage. Leipzig, in der Weidmannischen Handlung, 1761. 4 parts in 1 volume, 8vo. XLV + [1] + 192p; 184p; 190p; 192p. With 3 copper plates (1 folding) by P.L.Crusius, one serving as frontispiece. Typographical ornaments. Contemporary half sheep, gilt; worn. £450 Enlarged third edition of a complete German translation of Magazin des enfans containing 29 dialogues between a governess and seven young ladies combining instruction, entertainment and moral teaching. The subjects are the Bible, history, geography and the natural sciences. The frontispience shows the governess with two young girls; the folding plate illustrates the architectural wonders of the ancient world. The authoress (1711-80) wrote novels and juvenile literature. The translator, Schwabe (1714-84), a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, was renowned for German renderings of influential French and English texts including Swift. This early childrens book was inspired by ‘Le Magazin’ (first published in London in 1756) , a bestseller of juvenile literature in the manner of Sarah Fielding’s The Governess. Some faint age toning, otherwise in good condition. 115 Le Roux [Laurent-Charles-Pierre]. Disertación acerca de la Rabia Espontanea de causa interna, y de causa externa comunicada por la mordedura de animales rabiosos… Traducida al Castellano, Ilustrada con un Discurso en que se expone la descripcion de la Rabia del hombre y de los animales; y con varias Notas, en las que entre otras se propone un Reglamento político para precaver el origin de esta enfermedad, y observaciones hechas en este Hospital General de Madrid sobre ella; igualmente se le ha añadido un extrácto de las Indigaciones de Andry … Por el Doctor Don Bartholomé Piñera y Siles. Madrid, Josef Doblado, 1786. 8vo. [4]f + 288p. Contemporary marbled sheep; worn. £485 First Spanish language edition of this influential monograph on rabies by the distinguished French surgeon Le Roux (1730-92), who practised at the hospital at Dijon, where the original French text (Traitement local de la rage, et de la morsure de la vipere) was first published in 1780. The Spanish translator, a medical academician, provides an introductory commentary (pp1-30) with observations on the prevention of the disease made in the Madrid General Hospital, an extract from Recherches sur la rage (1777) by the noted French pathologist and fervent advocate of vaccination, Charles Andry (1741-1829), on pp 31-114, as well as a subject index to both these works. A very good copy. Blake p266; Palau 136098; Wellcome III, p495. Animal Motion 116 Lenoble du Teil, Jean Jules. Etude sur la locomotion du cheval et des quadrupèdes en général considérée dans ses rapports avec l’équitation et la représentation des quadrupèdes a toutes les allures et a toutes les variétés de ces allures. Paris, J. Dumaine, 1873. 2 parts bound into 1 volume, large 4to. 123p. With 23 plates (13 double-page & 1 folding, containing numerous illustrations. Original cloth-backed marbled boards, publisher’s wrappers bound in. £485 First edition of this early detailed study of the movement of the horse and other quadrupeds which anticipates Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic treatment of the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania (1884-87) by over a decade. The positions are illustrated in precise charts in the second part, or atlas. The author (1838-98), a pupil of Baucher and Raabe, taught horsemanship at the Ecole des Haras du Pin. The volume is well preserved; the original publisher’s wrapper to part 2 is age-stained and repaired. Menessier de la Lance II, 92; Wells 4519. Authoritative work on mercantile law 117 Leotardo, Onorato. Liber singularis de usuris, & contractibus usurariis coercendis. In quo omnes fere quaestiones ad tractatum ejus, quod interest, & annuorum reddituum pertinentes, non vulgari ratione definitae continentur... Editio secunda Veneta prae caeteris emendatissima ... cui nunc adiectae sunt pro foro conscientiae R.P.Francisci Zeche S.J. Dissertationes tres in quibus rigor moderatus doctrinae pontificiae circa usuras a sanctissimo D.N.Benedicto XIV per epistolam encyclicam episcopis Italiae traditus exhibetur. Venice, P.Savioni, 1761. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio. [4]f + 558p + [1 blank] + [2]f + 136p. Text in 2 columns. Main title in red & black; printer’s device on both titles. Contemporary vellum; front cover stained. £550 One of the most comprehensive and influential 17th century treatises on mercantile law, first published by a Nice lawyer in 1649, and long considered a standard work. Including a section on maritime risk (cf. Óscar Crúz Barney, El préstamo a la gruesa ventura o riesgo marítimo como mecanismo de financación del comercio Hispano-Indiano, p.6). The present corrected Venetian edition comprises an additional supplement : a dissertation by the noted Jesuit canon lawyer Franz Xaver Zech (1692-1772) on permissable lending at interest and its moral and ethical aspects as set out in an encyclical letter by Pope Benedict XIV (1740-58). Zech, who taught at Innsbruck and later at Ingolstadt, defined charitable pawnshops as “a certain fund of money (or of consumable goods) collected together for the assistance of the poor, to be lent to them on the security of pledges”. Both parts include extensive indexes. A good copy. Kress 9702.9. 118 Linden, Diederick Wessel. (fl. 1745-68). A treatise on the three medicinal mineral waters at Llandrindod, in Radnorshire, South Wales with some remarks on Mineral and Fossil Mixtures. London, printed by J. Everingham and T. Reynolds for the author, 1756. 8vo. (4) + xliv + 336p. Title in red & black. With engraved frontispiece by J S Miller, and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some signed JB. Contemporary calf; lightly worn. £475 First edition. The spa, thought to date back to Roman times (Pliny’s Balnea Siluria), was rediscovered in the 1ate 17th century; it was not however until a poem praising the waters appeared in The Gentleman’s Magazine (1748) that the spa received attention. William Grosvenor of Shrewsbury then moved in and developed houses and built the magnificent Grosvenor Hotel. The important cures effected by the saline and sulphur springs advocated by a Mrs Jenkins (c.1736) were promoted. The present treatise enhanced the town’s prestige immeasurably; the physician author, claims the ‘good effects’ of the waters ‘give place to none in Europe’. The environment, history of the waters and social amenities are described followed by 3 books on the Saline, Pump and Sulphur Waters, cures and remedies, and directions for drinking and bathing. An appendix contains short accounts of springs in other parts of Wales, several deemed to be efficacious on account of coal in the ground. There is a list of some 215 subscribers. In very good condition. Duveen 362-3. Wellcome III, p521. See William Thomson, Spas that Heal, London, 1978, pp122-32. 119 Linnaeus, Carl. Parte práctica de botánica del Caballero Cárlos Linneo, que comprende las clases, órdenes, géneros, especies y variedades de las plantas, con sus caracteres génericos y específicos, sinónimos mas selectos, nombres triviales, lugares donde nacen, y propiedades. Traducida del latin en castellano é ilustrada por Don Antonio Paláu y Verdéra. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1784-1788. 9 volumes in 8vo. I: [2]f + [4]f + lvi + 796p + 2 engraved plates (1 large folding); II: [2]f + 918p; III: [2]f + 809 (misnumb. 1 - 176, 173 - 685, 682 - 801); IV: [2] f + 914p; V: [2]f + 788p; VI: [2]f + 923 (misnumb. 1 - 687, 690 - 925)p; VII: [2]f + 927p; VIII: [1]f + 176 (numb. Iii-clxxviii)p + [2]f + 482 (misnumb. 782)p + engraved author’s portrait; IX: [2]f + 8 (numb. v - xii) + 713p. Contemporary mottled sheep, spines gilt with green morocco title labels. £2500 First Spanish language edition of the Philosophia Botanica. Translated from the Latin by Antonio Paláu y Verdera except for the 8th volume, entitled Explicación del sistema botánico, which is based on the French version of Antoine Gouan, professor of medicine at Montpellier, ‘the doyen of Linnaean taxonomy in France’ (Stafleu). This set comprises in addition, as a supplement or ninth volume, the editor’s Sistema de los vegetables ó resumen de la parte práctica de botánica which was separately published. Volumes 4 & 7 with marginal waterstaining at beginnings, in volume 4 also affecting the front cover which is slightly warped, otherwise a good, clean set. I: Hulth p151; Hunt 670 copied the error of Palau (138571, 138575) who lists this as a translation of the Species Plantarum. Pritzel 5426; Stafleu & Cowan 7202; II: Hulth p152; Palau 138572; Soulsby 595; Stafleu & Cowan 7203. The foremost garden designers of the period With contemporary seed catalogue 120 [London, George & Henry Wise]. The retir’d gardener. In six parts. The two first being dialogues between a gentleman and gardener. Containing the methods of making ... and improving a fruit and kitchen-garden ... The four last parts treat of the manner of ... adorning gardens; explaining the art of making and disposing of parterres, arbours or greens, wood-works, arches, columns and other compartments proper for the most beautiful gardens and plantations. London, J. Tonson, 1717. 8vo. [16] + 432 + 8p. Engraved frontispiece by M. van der Gucht after L. Laguerre, 20 engraved plates, woodcuts in text. Contemporary decorative panelled calf; lower spine strengthened. £2500 A rich source of information on contemporary horticultural practice, and garden design much influenced by French models. London and Wise owned the celebrated Brompton Park nursery from circa 1688 to 1714, and supplied most of the large estates with plants and trees; the nursery was highly recommended by John Evelyn. Wise was ‘master gardener’to Queen Anne, whilst London travelled the country giving advice on gardens including Chatsworth, Longleat and Castle Howard. The present work is advertised as a translation of two French works (those of FranÇois Gentil and Louis Liger) but with ‘several alterations and additions proper for our English culture’. This second edition revised by Joseph Carpenter who became a partner in the nursery in 1714, gives more details of English practice, tree-planting schemes and fruit preferences than the first published 1706 edition, and is considered of more use to the real gardener. There is a list of fruits and catalogue of seeds available at the Brompton nursery. Among the attractive plates are several of parterres, allées and garden layouts with topiary and fountains; arbours and covered walks are illustrated in an elm-entwined portico and a ‘gallery’of hornbeam (the text notes that the English would use lime). A handsome copy in contemporary binding, very faint toning only to one or two leaves. Henrey 990; see also David Green, Gardener to Queen Anne, 1958. 121 Loudon, J. C. An encyclopaedia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture; containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa - and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery; accompanied by analytical and critical remarks. A new edition edited by Mrs Loudon. London, Longman, Brown, 1846. xxiv + 1317 + [3]p + 32 p publisher’s adverts. 2342 wood engraved illustrations in text. 81 separately illustrated designs. Contemporary green pictorial stamped cloth, gilt title on spine. £750 This great work was devoted to the improvement of architectural taste in both labourer and employer. Divided into three books, there are 81 designs for cottages, 57 for farmhouses, public houses and schools, 23 for villas. The supplement first added in this edition contains a further 57 designs for ornamental cottages, villas, schools, workhouses and almshouses. To each section is added minute details of construction, suitability of space for intended inhabitants, suggested furniture, fittings and outbuildings (dog kennels, aviaries, conservatories, ornamental garden structures etc.) Styles include the Gothic, Italianate, Grecian and many variations. Loudon emphasizes harmony of style appropriate to materials used and a size in keeping with the purpose. The work was a great success at the time and its influence far reaching through the 19th century. Both gentleman and labourer expressed their gratitude to Loudon for his ideas in the third issue of the Gardeners’ Magazine. Jane Loudon, who edited this edition after her husband’s death, considered the book ‘the best and most useful’ of all his works. Many engravers, architects and designers assisted in the work. 79 contributors are listed, a further 32 for the supplement. John Robertson produced the majority of the diagrams and designs. Cabinet makers include V. F. Dalziel for ‘modern’ furniture, Edward Lamb for earlier period style furniture. In addition there are ironmongers, stove builders, fountain makers and even a picture hanger. With its numerous contemporary illustrations, extensive explanations, glossaries and references the work is one of the foremost documents of the period. An excellent clean copy. Archer, The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 184.8. 122 Lowell, Guy. Smaller Italian Villas & Farmhouses. New York, The Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1916. [6] + XIIf. With 125f plates, from photographs (many by the author) and plans, several illustrations from drawings in text. (And:) Lowell, Guy. More Small Italian Villas and Farmhouses. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1920. [10] + XIVp. With 140f plates, nearly all from photographs by the author, several illustrations from drawings in text. 2 vols. Folio. Publisher’s cloth, gilt title on cover, top edge gilt; very slightly frayed at top edges. £300 A stimulating survey. As well as the more famous examples, here accompanied by plans and described in their historic context (Villas Borghese and Medici in Rome; Mondragone, Falconieri at Frascati; Gamberaia near Settignano), the author has sought to explain the system of farming and rural life in Italy, illustrating the work with superb photographs of architectural and garden features which show the smaller houses and farms to be merely less sophisticated versions of the larger. Among features given prominence are the delightful loggias, elegantly trellised vegetable gardens, pools and fishponds, arcaded courtyards, hunting lodges and wrought-iron garden gates with sculpted posts. The second work is a sequel to the first and lays stress on the Palladian legacy. Many of the buildings described are in the north and include fine examples of villa, chapel and convent architecture; also illustrated are inns, stables, a lime kiln, and an elegant Venetian kitchen. Both works in very good condition, the title of 2nd work faintly tinted. 123 (Colombo Press) Lynch, Benito. Tres cuentos. Grabados de Adolfo Bellocq. Buenos Aires, Colombo Press for Sociedad de Bibliófilos Argentinos, 15 May 1972. Folio. 150 + [12 + 2 blank]p. Title in green & black; sectional titles in green. With 7 full-page etchings (including frontispiece) and 7 woodcuts by Adolfo Bellocq. Printed wrappers; preserved in case. £650 Deluxe edition of three poems by the author published by the Argentine Bibliophile Society as part of its series of illustrated stories by national authors. Limited to 100 copies on ‘Charter Eggshell’ paper; this particular copy is no 43 printed for Eduardo M. Bellocq. This edition was prepared by Juan Osvaldo Viviano, S. César Palui, and by Horacio Enrique Guillén under the direction of Osvaldo F. Colombo Trading laws in 18th century Germany 124 Ludovici, Jacob Friedrich. Einleitung zum Wechsel=Proceß, Darinnen Von denienigen Fällen, in welchen nach Wechsel=Recht geklaget werden kan, gehandelt. Auch wie der Wechsel-Proceß von dem sonst in anderen Sachen gebräuchlichen modo procedendi abweicht … Die dritte Auflage. Halle, in Verlegung des Wäsen=Hauses, MDCCXV [Halle, Orphanage Press, 1715. 4to. [8]f + 238p + 10f. Title in red & black with ornamental vignette in red. Decorative tail-piece at end. Half calf. £450 A comprehensive treatise on German laws ruling bills of exchange explaining how legal procedure differs in such cases from general legal practice. Appended are chapter and subject indexes. An interesting work for the legal history of 18th century capitalism demonstrating the interaction of economic practices and law. The third edition. The work was several times reprinted. Ludovici (1671-1723)was professor of law at Halle and vice-chanceller at Giessen University. First work in Spanish on military health and hygiene 125 Mallo, Pedro. Tratado de Higiene Militar ... Texto adoptado para el Colegio Militar de la Nación. Buenos Aires, Imprenta Europea, 1882-83. 2 vols in large 8vo. viii + 448p; 531 + v p. With woodcut vignette on title, numerous tables and engraved illustrations in text (some full-page). Half buckram; worn. £450 According to the author’s preface, this is the first work to be printed in Spanish on military health and hygiene. It was chosen as the official text book of the Argentine Military College. The author points out that the few other works on this subject existing in any language were intended for surgeons and physicians, whereas the present treatise is aimed specifically at military use. It forms the basis of Mallo’s two year lecture course at the National Military College, including sections on bathing and personal hygiene, gymnastic exercise, factors influencing soldiers’ health and morale during a campaign, and the Geneva Convention, as well as such non-medical topics as the equipment of French, German, British, Russian and Spanish troops. Mallo (1837-99) taught hygiene at Buenos Aires University and pioneered medicine in the Argentine army. He was appointed army surgeon general and director of naval health in 1880 Apart from light traces of foxing at beginning and end, a good, crisp set. Royal journey through Navarre & the Basque country 126 Mantuano, Pedro. Casamientos de España y Francia, y Viage del Duque de Lerma llevando la Reyna Christianissima Doña Ana de Austria al passo de Beobia, y trayendola Princesa de Asturias nuestra señora. Madrid, Tomas Iunti, 1618. Small 4to. [4]f + 256p. With engraved architectural title border by Juan Schorkens incorporating arms flanked by putti in top panel. Contemporary limp vellum. £2250 First edition. Fête-book on the double Franco-Spanish political and military match of 24th November 1615 which united the future Philip IV of Spain with Elizabeth of Bourbon, sister of Louis XIII of France, and the latter with the Infanta Anne of Austria, Philip’s sister. The couples were married by proxy on the same day at Burgos and at Bordeaux respectively. The Duke of Lerma, chief minister of Philip III of Spain, then conducted the Infanta to the mountain pass of Beobia, where he in turn collected the French princess Elisabeth to accompany her to Madrid. The author (d.1656) describes the bridal formalities and the royal party’s picturesque journey, part of which took them through Navarre and the province of Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa) in the Basque country (pp192-207). Palau comments on the rarity of the book and on its great interest to Basque collectors. Top blank corners of first and last leaves neatly restored affecting frontispiece; some occasional light worming repaired. Heredia 7280; Palau 149614; Salvá 3012; Vindel, Manual Gráfico-descriptivo del Bibliófilo Hispano-Americano (1475-1850) V, 1588. 127 Marat [Jean-Paul]. Recherches physiques sur le feu. Paris, Jombert, 1780. 8vo. Half title + title + 202 + [2]p. With 7 folding plates. Wrappers. £950 First edition of one of Marat’s rarest scientific works. The study, consisting of over 150 experiments, seeks to provide a mechanical interpretation of heat by means of Marat’s theory of “fluide igné”. It includes chapters on the nature of igneous fluid and its distribution throughout the universe, on the form and colour of fire, on fusion, evaporation and explosion, on the heat of the sun, and on the relative inflammability of combustible materials. The engraved plates illustrate a number of the experiments described in the text. For Lavoisier’s public statement of 10th June 1780 denying that the Academy of Sciences had approved of this work as had been incorrectly announced in the Journal de Paris, see McKie, Lavoisier (1952), p242. Duveen, p388; Blake 287; Cushing M 134; Waller 11396. Author’s presentation copy Regulations for the Portuguese artillery corps 128 Mardel [Luis]. Polvoras, Explosivos modernos e suas appliçõaces. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1893-1896. 2 volumes in large 4to. I: [5]f including half-title, title in red & black with Portuguese arms + 254p of text + 54 numbered tinted plates (2 folding); II: [5]f including half-title, title in red & black with Portuguese arms + 334 p text + [2]p errata + 30 tinted plates (numbered 55-85). Contemporary half morocco, gilt; marbled boards. £650 129 Maria II Queen of Portugal (1836-53). Regulamento para os exercicios, manobras, e outras instrucçôes dos corpos de artilheria do exercito portuguez. Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1842. 4to. 3 parts in 1 volume. vii + [1 blank] + 36p; pp3788 + [1]; pp89-126 + [1]f errata. Portuguese arms on first title. 48 lithographed folding plates (24 in colour), some signed by A. S. Dias. Ornamental vignettes. Contemporary half morocco. £650 The most significant contemporary Portuguese monograph on explosives and their applications to munitions. Comprising a total of 85 plates containing 405 numbered tinted or coloured illustrations. Mardel (born 1846), a cavalry major, was elected corresponding member of the Portuguese Royal Academy of Sciences in recogniton of this work. He also wrote a history of small arms. Generally a good, clean set; margins of a few plates lightly foxed in places. Author’s presentation copy with manuscript dedication inscription in top blank margin of half-titles. The official code of regulations for the Portuguese army artillery corps relating to exercises, manoeuvres, and maintenance. Part I treats field artillery exercises: the plates demonstrate the loading of cannon, gun barrels, positionings of ordnance, mortars, tools and instruments, spare parts, munition carts, repairs of gun-carriages, all including relevant nomenclature. Part II is devoted to horse-artillery; the last text page contains music for clarion calls; the plates illustrate details of caparisons (harnesses, saddles, ropes, belts and attachments) and formation exercises. Part III deals with the practical maintenance and repairs of equipment; the plates show knot patterns, the assembly of individual parts of guns and carriages, hoists, pulleys, and winches. An old repair in one place in a few blank margins of text pages, otherwise in excellent clean condition. Martins de Carvalho 231. Innocencio XVI, 379-80, 1793. 130 Markham, Clements R[obert]. Travels in Peru and India, while superintending the collection of chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India. London, John Murray, 1862. 8vo.xviii + 572p. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 14 wood-engravings (4 full-page), 1 folding genealogical table, 2 folding maps (2 views of Arequipa). Publisher’s green cloth, gilt title lettering on spine; Peruvian arms gilt-stamped in centre of front cover; top of spine neatly restored. £450 First edition of this report on the successful introduction of the valuable Chinchona plant from Peru to Southern India over a period of three years. The Peru scholar Markham was commissioned to supervise this task by the Secretary of State for India in 1859. The first part describes the various species of the plant, commonly known as ‘Peruvian bark’, growing in the forests of the Peruvian province of Caravaya, the collection of plants and seeds from other regions of South America, and the author’s travels in Peru, including an historical digression on the rebellion of Túpac Amaru II, Inca revivalist, in 1780. The folding genealogical table traces the lineage of the Incas. The second part describes Markham’s travels in India, the sites selected for Chinchona plantations, and the progress of the experimental cultivation since the arrival of the seedlings in 1861. The frontispiece shows Chinchona plants at Ootacamund; two of the plates contain views of Arequipa, in Southern Peru. The book was published in German in 1865. A good copy with ownership signature ‘B. N. Haworth Booth, 7th June 1869’ in top blank title margin. Palau 152310; Sabin 44616; Stafleu & Cowan 5427. 129 Pre-Darwinian attempt at a materialistic explanation of species 131 [Maupertius, Pierre-Louis Moreau de]. Venus physique. [Secretly printed at unknown press] 1746. 12mo. 224p. Contemporary paper boards. £650 The first modern work on heredity, advancing the theory of bi-parental influence over inherited characteristics. The study consists of two dissertations, the first of which had been separately published two years earlier on the occasion of the appearance of an albino negro boy in Paris. The author’s aim here is to account not only for this particular curiosity but also for more complex phenomena such as the dark skin of the inhabitants of the torrid zones, and the apparent paradox of so many different races descending from a single set of white parents. The treatment of recessive and dominant traits in this work is particularly far-seeing. As an aid to his research on heredity, the author always kept a large number of animals for breeding to obtain special characteristics. Maupertuis (1698-1759), French mathematician and philosopher, was a member of the Académie des Sciences,the first Frenchman to be elected to the Royal Society of London, and the first president of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Following a visit to England in 1728, he became France’s foremost proponent of the Newtonian movement. He is considered a pioneer of genetics.His ‘Venus Physique’ is considered ‘an early attempt at a materialistic explanation of species, anticipating Darwin by a century’. The 2nd edition.(First published at The Hague in 1745). Some toning at beginning and end, otherwise a good, untrimmed copy with a short manuscript note in Spanish on front flyleaf, and the author’s name added on the title in a contemporary French hand. Waller 6354. Classic of occult literature 132 Menghi, Giralomo. Compendio dell’Arte Essorcistica, et Possibilità delle Mirabili, et Stupende Operationi delli Demoni, et de i Malefici. Con li rimedij opportuni alle infirmità maleficiali. Con una copiosissima gionta dell’istesso Autore. Bologna, Giovanni Rossi, 1584. [8] f. + 614p. + [30]f; title in red & black with episcopal arms surrounded by typographical border, woodcut initials. (And): Parte Seconda del Compendio Dell’Arte Essorcistica. Nellaqual si tratta della natura delli Angeli cosi buoni, come rei, & della possibilità delle mirabili. Venice, Zorzi Varisco for Giorgio Varisco, 1601. [64]f + 717 + [1]p. Printer’s woodcut devices on title and at end. 2 volumes in 12mo. Half vellum. £3500 Author’s augmented edition of this classic of occult literature. Girolamo Menghi (1529-1609), a Franciscan monk from Viadana, province of Mantua, was the leading exorcist of the Italian Renaissance. The Compendio, his best known work, is a summary of his experiences as official exorcist of the Bologna diocese over a period of thirty years, where he treats the nature of demons and witches and describes successfully tested methods of containing evil. First published in 1580, a supplement was added in 1601, offered here as a second volume. The dedication is to Cardinal Giulio Feltri della Rovere (1532-78), sponsor of sacred music and protector of the Franciscan Order. Menghi’s work precedes the codification of exorcism rites in Rituale Romanum (1614) during the pontificate of Pope Paul V. The book was finally placed on the Index in 1709. USTC 842029; Caillet III, 76: “Absolument rarissime”. Flood control in Tuscany Mineral wealth of the Atacama desert 133 Michelini, Famiano. Trattato della direzione dei fiumi nel quale si dimostrano da’suoi veri principi i modi piu’ sicuri, e meno dispendiosi di riparare a danni, che solgliono farsi dall’acque. Florence, Stella, 1664. 4to. [8]f + 151 + [1]p + 9 folding plates with 31 engraved diagrams. Title in red & black. Original publisher’s paper boards ‘a la rustica’; untrimmed. £585 135 Moesta, F.A. Ueber das Vorkommen der Chor-, Bromund Jodverbindungen des Silbers in der Natur. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der geologischen und bergbaulichen Verhältnisse von Nordchile zur Erlangung der venia docendi bei hochlöblicher philosophischer Facultät zu Marburg eingereicht. Marburg, 1869. Large 8vo. (4)f + 47pp + (2)f. With 4 lithographed plates (3 double-page) after drawings by the author. Contemporary half cloth with printed title cover. £650 First edition of an influential treatise on flood control which served as a source for Guglielmi’s fundamental Della natura de’fiumi (1697). Michelini (1592-1666), professor of mathematics at Pisa University, describes ways of regulating the flow of rivers to aid navigation and to prevent flooding. The plates illustrate such problems of hydraulic engineering as altering the course or flow of a river. Flood control was as much a problem in 17th century Italy as it is now. The author, considered an expert in hydraulics, was consulted on the control of the river Arno for the protection of Florence and Pisa from flooding, and on the problem of the silting up of the Venetian lagoon. He was involved in a controversy with Torricelli on a question of hydraulic engineering. The dedicatory preface is to Ferdinand Grand Duke of Tuscany, patron of the author, and of Galileo. A large paper copy with the wide margins untrimmed, preserved in its original publisher’s boards. NUC 381,677;Poggendorff II, 145, Riccardi 2, 112; 156; Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p224 (imperfect). Hero of Ayacucho and grand marshal of Peru 134 Miller, John. Memoirs of General [William] Miller in the Service of the Republic of Peru. London, Thomas Davison for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828. 2 volumes in 8vo. xxiii + [1] + 389 + [1]p; vii + [1] + 460p. Frontispiece portrait engraved by Ja[mes] Green, 4 folding engraved maps (1 outlined in colour), 5 engraved battle plans (4 with coloured detail). Buckram. £650 First edition. An account of the exploits of William Miller (1795-1861), one of the most dashing and successful commanders in the cause of South American independence, based on his notes and letters, and published with an historical introduction, glossary, and indexes by his brother John. William Miller had served in the Royal Artillery during the Pensinsular Wars and in North America. When peace came, the youthful veteran sought employment in Buenos Aires, where he joined an artillery regiment. In 1818 he distinguished himself in the Chilean campaign commanding the marines on Lord Cochrane’s flagship, the ‘O’Higgins’. In 1822, he came to the aid of General San Martín in Peru with reinforcements, and was promoted General of Brigade in the following year. Miller became a close friend of Simón Bolívar, who had been appointed by congress dictator of Peru in 1823. In recognition of his outstanding contribution as general of division and commander of the patriot cavalry at the battle of Jun’n in August 1824, Miller’s unit was honoured by Bolívar with the title of ‘Húsares de Junín’. In the most conspicuous of his gallant exploits, Miller led the charge of this regiment at the decisive battle of Ayacucho in December 1824 which finally freed Chile and Peru from Spanish rule. He later became a Grand Marshal of Peru. The work was reissued the following year both in English and in Spanish translation. Some light offsetting of maps, a few minor repairs without loss, occasional spotting in blank margins, otherwise a good set. Palau 169989; Sabin 49028. Professorial thesis on chemical geology submitted at Marburg University, investigating silver amalgams found in the mines in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile. The author spent some years doing pioneer geological analysis in the Atacama region. The plates include an attractive double-page view of the Mapocho Valley as seen from Santa Lucia Hill in Santiago. Margins of plates lightly foxed, otherwise a good copy. 136 Nobili, Leopoldo. Sopra l’identità dell’attrazione molecolare coll’astronomica opera. Modena, Società Tipografica, 1818. 4to. 84p. With 4 engraved folding plates with diagrams. Wrappers; untrimmed. £225 One of the earliest publications of the great Italian physicist, a study of attraction which originally appeared in the Giornale Fisica (vol X, Pavia 1817). The appendix or second part beginning on page 21, which takes up the larger part of the volume, is here printed for the first time. It expounds a new principle relating to the accelerative forces and a new doctrine concerning the phenomenon of capillary tubes. Nobili (17841835), professor of physics at Florence, conducted research on electricity. He opposed the Voltaic theory of the decomposition of water, and was ‘the discoverer of Nobili’s rings, the coloured transparent films of metal deposited by the electro-chemical processes. He also invented the thermo-multiplier’ (Zeitlinger). The Riccardi-Arata copy; bookplate ‘Biblioteca Riccardi in Modena’ and shelf-mark inside front cover; the Pedro Arata Collection stamp in title margin and on reverse with a bookplate. Lightly foxed. Zeitlinger, Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica I, 3342. Pavia botanic garden 137 Nocca, Domenico. Synopsis Plantarum Horti Botanici Ticinensis. Anno MDCCCIII (1803). 8vo. [6]p + pp3-45 + [3 blank] + 16p. Appendix ‘Ad Horti Botanici Ticinenesis Synopsim .’ 2 wood-engraved vignettes. Boards, label on spine. £295 Catalogue of the plants in the Pavia Botanic Garden, with appendix. Domenico Nocca (1758-1841) was a priest, also professor of botany at the University of Pavia and director of the Botanic Garden. He corresponded and exchanged seeds with contemporary botanists such as Antonio Bonato at Padua, André Thouin in Paris, K.L. Willdenow in Berlin (to whose plant lists he invariably refers), and Giovanni Baptista Balbi (Turin) with whom Domenico Nocca collaborated on the Flora ticinensis (1806). Several plants in the catalogue were first bred in the Pavia garden: Lavandula hybrida, Mesembrianthemum coespitosum, Mimosa lucida, Senecio bicolor, Taxus elongata, and others. Pritzel 6712. Stafleu & Cowan 6834. engraved ornamental title page shows the Emperor kneeling before the Pope with the Doge standing to his right in the presence of bishops; the descriptive text below ends with : [G.Romano prototype Ap.Vatican]. The upper border incorporates portraits of St Peter and St Mark. Venice was part of the anti-imperial Lombard league of cities that defeated Frederick Barbarossa at Legnano (1176). The Emperor thus had to recognize the supremacy of the Papacy. This imprint is the last recorded from the press of the celebrated Venetian typographer Evangelista Deuchino. A good copy; right blank margin of first 3 leaves strengthened. Early colonial documents on South America 140 Outes, Félix. Cartas y planos inéditos de los siglos XVII y XVIII y del primer decenio de XIX, conservados en el archivo de la dirección de geodesia, catastro y mapa de la provincia de Buenos Aires, con una regesta y observaciones críticas. Buenos Aires, Jacobo Peuser, 1930. Folio. 45 + [3]p. With 52 plates, several folding. Contemporary vellum boards, publisher’s printed wrappers bound in. £450 138 Nollet [Jean Antoine]. Leçons de Physique Expérimentale. Paris, Guérin, 1753-55. 6 vols in 12mo. Half title + frontispiece + title + lx + 379p; half title + title + 488p; 512p; 535p; vi + [1] + 592p; [4] + 524p. With 116 engraved folding plates. Contemporary mottled sheep, back strips gilt; worn. £750 A popular illustrated French work encapsulating 18th century knowledge of experimental physics. Individual volumes deal with mechanics, hydrostatics, the properties of air, water & fire, optics, astronomy, magnetism and electricity. The physician Nollet (1700-70) gave lectures with demonstrations. He was particularly interested in the study of electricity, and there are sections on the nature of electricity and on lightning and artificial light. ‘The presentations are lively, comprehensive, and up-to-date, with full directions for realizing the effects under study and excellent illustrations of apparatus (DSB X, 145-147); ‘His observations upon the electrical powers of different kinds of glass are given in the 6th volume’ (Mottelay, p182). An attractive set. Printed by Evangelista Deuchino 139 Olmo, Fortunato O.S.B. Historia della venuta à Venetia occultamente nel 1177 di Papa Alessandro III e dela vittoria ottenuta da Sebastiano Ziani Doge. [Venice, Evangelista Deuchino, 1629] 4to. [4]f including engraved title within elaborate ornamental border + 344p. Some ornamental woodcut initials. Boards. £950 First edition of the Venetian Benedictine monk’s vivid account of the historic secret peace meeting of Pope Alexander III and the Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa held at Venice on 24th July 1177 in the presence of the incumbent Doge Sebastiano Ziano (1172-78) and of the resulting military advantages secured for the Republic. The lower panel of the Unpublished manuscript maps and plans of the 17th to early 19th century giving maps and plans of coastal areas including ports and the layout of early towns (Córdoba, Tucumán, Salta, La Paz) and local property boundaries. Each is individually catalogued and described with measurements, state of preservation, and extensive bibliographical reference. 3 indexes provide names of persons, places and a 6-part classification of the maps - I. General regional maps; II. ’Hidrográficas’ - ports, rivers and coast lines; III. Specific areas considered important - the southern border of Buenos Aires, reconquered land in the department of S. Miguel; IV. Plans of cities and towns, see above; V. ’Colonia del Sacramento’; VI. ‘Parcelamiento de tierras’ - designated plots of land; included is a 1774 map of Buenos Aires with allotments of land ownership named, similarly 5 maps show properties along the River Plate, and there is a map of an extensive private estate. The work is published by the Instituto de Investigaciones Geográficas (Serie B, Documentos Cartográficos no 3); the author was a director of the Institute. Text lightly foxed, otherwise in good condition, on handmade paper. Palau 207379. Recruiting soldiers in Spain Tour guide to ancient Greece 141 Oya y Ozares, Francisco de. Tratado de Levas, Quintas, y Reclutas de Gente de Guerra, segun las reales ordenanzas, y cedulas modernas, con varias reflexiones legales y politicas ... Tomo Unico. Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1734. 8vo. [8] + 551 + [1 blank]p. including index. Title in red & black. Ornamental woodcut at beginning and end. Mottled sheep. £650 144 Pausanius. Descrittione della Grecia ... nella quale si contiene l’origine di essa, il sitio, le cittè, la religione antica, i costumi & le guerre fatte ... insieme co’monti, laghi, fiumi... tradotta dal Greco dal S. Alfonso Bonacciuoli. Mantua, Francesco Osanna, 1593. 4to. [26] + 476 (misnumbered 464)p. Italic letter. Title within woodcut ornamental border. Antiqued sheep in the style of the period. £950 A treatise on Spanish military law ruling the recruitment of soldiers based on recent royal edicts reprinted on pp443-466. The twenty-four chapters discuss the necessity of the draft, the best and fairest methods to be applied, the minimum age, height, physical strength, and standard of health required of recruits, the advantages and disadvantages of raising a foreign militia, the wisdom of exempting married men, only sons, and certain essential trades such as saltminers and powdermen, the pressing of tramps, and ways of replacing casualties and deserters. The author was a crown lawyer dealing with fiscal business in the war office. The second edition (first issued in 1732 from the same press). A good copy. Palau 207844. 142 Ozanam [Jacques]. Traité de fortification, contenant les methodes anciennes & modernes pour la construction & la deffense de places, et la manière de les attaquer, expliquée plus au long qu’elle n’a été jusques à present. Paris, Jean Jombert, 1694. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece + [22] + 256p. With title in red & black. 44 copper-plates. Mottled calf; worn. £650 First edition of this reference work on the science of fortification by the prolific French mathematician Jacques Ozanam (1640-1717), who taught at Lyons and Paris, and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1707. The beautifully engraved plates are extremely detailed. The author’s publications remained influential until the late 18th century. A nice copy with contemporary manuscript entry by a contemporary English owner on verso of frontfly leaf: ‘Heneage Finch, May 28th 1694. The Gift of my dear Lord Winchelsea’. The owner was probably the Solicitor General Heneage Finch (1649-1719), created 1st Earl of Aylesford, and the donor perhaps his cousin Daniel Finch (1647-1730), 7th Earl of Winchilsea. Jordan 2759; Spaulding & Karpinski 217. Tribal customs of the Somali and Galla 143 Paulitschke, Philip. Harar. Forschungsreise nach den Somâl- und Galla-Ländern. Leipzig, F.A.Brockhaus, 1888. 8vo. ix + 557 + [1 blank]p. With frontispiece, 10 plates (2 folding), 32 textual illustrations and 2 folding maps. Cloth; publisher’s wrappers bound in. £950 First edition of this report on Ethiopia by the noted Austrian explorer Philip Paulitschke (1854-99) based on his expedition to North East Africa undertaken in 1875 accompanied by Dominik Kammel and Dr. von Hardegger. The author is credited with pioneer explorations of the Harar region in Eastern Ethiopia, and his work provides excellent descriptions of the tribal customs of the Somali and Galla. Henze IV, 30-40; Hünersdorff, Coffee: a bibliography 1132-1133. First Italian edition of one of the fundamental sources for ancient Greek art, architecture and topography. Divided into 10 books, it takes the form of a tour starting in Attica. Pausanius describes each important city giving its history, ceremonial rites and customs; above all he is interested in art and architecture. He describes pictures, portraits and inscriptions at Athens, the great bronze statue of Athena on the Acropolis, monuments to famous men and Athenians fallen in battle outside the city and other sights. The work is considered an ‘invaluable guide to ancient ruins’ since the ‘accuracy of his descriptions has been proved by the remains of buildings in all parts of Greece . The topographical section shows the author’s interest in natural phenomena as well as physiological details. Pausanius (fl.143-176 AD), a Greek, was born in Lydia (in present day Turkey) and travelled widely in Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor and Italy. Some occasional light toning, but a good copy with wide margins. For the passages of gastronomic interest, see Westbury 383. Adams lists no copies in Cambridge libraries. Printed at Pueblo de los Angeles ? 145 Pawlowski, Daniel (S.J.). Locucion de dios al Corazon de el Religioso en el Retiro sagrado de los Exercicios Espirituales. Compuesta en Latin por el R.P.Daniel Pawlowski de la Compañia de Jesus, Doctor, y Cathedratico de Theologia en su Provincia de Polonia, y Traducida en Castellano por un Religioso de la misma Compañia. Impresso en el Colegio de la Compañia. Año de 1747. [Puebla de los Angeles ? ] Jesuit College Press, 1747. 16mo. 365 + [1 blank]p. Contemporary limp vellum. £750 A rare 18th century pocket edition of the Spanish translation of the Personal Vocation through Spiritual Exercises by the Polish Jesuit Daniel Pawlowski (1626-1643). As the title composition and the format of this edition is identical with two earlier imprints from the Jesuit Press at Puebla de los Angeles (1695 & 1697), this would appear to be a later impression from the same press, although Medina expressed doubts about it. Right title margin waterstained and soiled; last 2 text leaves torn in one place resulting in the loss of some letters. Palau 215424. Late Renaissance Tuscan infantry drill manual 146 Pellicciari, Bartolomeo. Parte prima delle rassegne, et modo per essercitare fanteria, con dichiarationi espedite, & figure rapresentanti li siti, il numero della soldatesca, & diversi atti, che giornalmente occorrono in guerra. Modena, Giulano Cassiani, 1613. 4to. [8] + 60 (misnumbered 72)p. With fullpage woodcut portrait of author bound after title, 12 tables (some folding), 9 woodcut folding plates of battle scenes. Medici arms on title; ornamental woodcut initials. Contemporary boards, rebacked. £2250 First edition of this Modenese infantry manual presented as twenty model exercises. 12 tables (included in the collation) show theoretical military formations and positions. The nine bird’s eye combat scenes depicted in the fine folding plates give details of gun emplacements and charging columns of pikemen and musketeers in fortified towns, villages, and along rivers. The author, shown in military dress in the fine woodcut portrait, was a colonel in the service of Cosmo II, Grand duke of Tuscany, to whom this work is dedicated. He had gained his experience whilst fighting in Flanders and France under Alessandro Farnese (1545-92), the outstanding commander of Philip II of Spain. French and German translations appeared in 1616. Although the title suggests that this is the first part of the work, no more was published. A small repair in blank margin of title, otherwise a fresh copy from the Horace de Landau collection with bookplate and small unobtrusive stamp in tailend corner of title. Cockle 618; Jähns 1035. 147 Perrot, Nicolas, Sieur d’Ablancourt (translator). Les Apothegmes des Anciens, tirez de Plutarque, de Diogene Laerce, d’Elien, d’Athénée, de Stobée, de Macrobe, & de quelques autres. Et Les Stratagesmes de Frontin, de la traduction de Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d’Ablancourt. Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1664. 4to. [24] + 512 + [19] + [1 errata]p. Preliminaries include dedication to king Louis XIV. Printer’s device on title, elaborate ornamental woodcut head-pieces incorporating medallion of the royal arms, large historiated initials. Contemporary calf, with royal arms in gilt on front and back cover. £550 Two works collected together. The second work, Les Stratagesmes de Frontin, (p347) has an additional short treatise De la Bataille des Romains (pp497-512). The books consist mainly of proverbs and sayings attributed to the Greeks, Romans and Spartans; philosophers notably are cited and various famous individuals; some short tales are included where a particularly apt or pithy comment has concluded a dialogue. Nicolas Perrot (1606-64) was a translator and man of letters, noted for the excellence of his style; his free method of translating was applauded for capturing the essence of the writer. Among authors he rendered were Lucian, Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus. Espasa, vol I, p486. Graesse, vol I, p167. 148 Perrault De Jotemps [Alexandre, Vicomte], Fabry fils & F[elix de l’Ain] Girod. Nouveau traité sur la laine et sur les moutons. Paris, Huzard, Treuttel & Wuertz, Paschoud, 1824. 8vo. [2]f + iv + xviii + 220p text + [1]f errata + 4p publisher’s advertisements. Contemporary marbled sheep; backstrip gilt with red morocco title label. £385 First edition. A comprehensive treatise with the latest analysis of the production of the finest possible sheep wool describing the best methods for shearing, sorting, and washing of wool, and the most advantageous ways of its commercialization.The book is entirely based on the experience of the authors who jointly owned the celebrated Naz-flocks. Merino sheep were imported to France before the Revolution, and the French wool trade became one of the most important branches of national industry. Presentation copy to Marshal Auguste de Marmont (1774-1852) with authors’ autograph inscription “A Monsieur le Maréchal Duc de Raguse hommages des editeurs” in top blank margin of half title. 2 old ownership stamps on title, some light foxing, otherwise an attractive copy. 149 Peru. Supreme Governing Junta ruling in the name of Ferdinand VII. Don Jose Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Caballero del habito de Santiago, Mariscal de Campo de los Reales Exércitos, Virey, Gobernador y Capitan General del Perú… Por quanto en carta acordada del Supremo Consejo de Indias se me previene lo que sigue… La Junta Central suprema Gubernativa de España é Indias, á nombre de nuestro Rey y Señor D. Fernando VII, se ha servido expedir el Real Decreto del tenor sigiente. ‘Entre los abusos introducidos en el gobierno anterior, no ha sido el menos funesto la inconsiderada precipitacion… con que… se han prodigado los empleos civiles y eclesiásticos…’ (dated:) Lima, Peru, 29th April 1809 (signed:) Jph Abascal & Simon Rávago. Broadside (imprint area: 36.5 x 26cm). £350 Royal proclamation of 26 October 1808 condemning the scandalous proliferation of offices and appointments without taking proper advice, whereby unworthy subjects were unjustly showered with honours and pensions, whereas persons of merit were overlooked and forgotten. The order is here re-issued by Don José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Viceroy of Peru (1806-1816), to the Governor of the Council of the Indies for general circulation in the colonial government. Abascal y Sousa (Souza), later created 1st Marques de Concordia, was an able administrator who effectively ruled as an independent authority during the Spanish wars of independence against Napoleon. He promoted educational reform and maintained royal control over Spanish America. A rare Lima imprint unknown to Medina. Centre folding marks, otherwise in good condition. Pioneers of modern chess 150 Philidor [François] A[ndré] D[anican] & Stamma, Philip. Die Kunst im Schachspiel ein Meister zu werden. Das ist : Ein neuer Unterricht, wie man in kurzem dieses so edle und beliebte Spiel nach seiner Vollkommenheit erlernen könne. Gewiesen nach den neuesten Mustern des berühmten großen Schachspiel-Meisters in England. (And): Stamma, Philip. Des Arabers Philipp Stamma, gebürtig von Aleppo in Syrien, entdeckte Schachspiel = Geheimnisse, nebst einigen Regeln, dieses Spiel wohl zu vollziehen, und den Sieg durch seine und subtile Züge davon zu tragen. Strassburg, Amand König, 1754. 8vo. Title + [20] + 351 + [1]p; 1 folding table. Contemporary sprinkled boards, worn. £1250 First German translations of two influential 18th century chess manuals. Philidor’s Analyse du jeu des Échecs (first published 1749) which advocated a strong defensive centre using pawns, became the standard handbook for a century. Philidor (1726-95) was a French composer and friend of Voltaire, who regularly played chess at the Café de la Regence in Paris. He became a formidable player, surpassed his mentors, and was eventually recognized as world champion after beating the Syrian master Philip Stamma (c1705-55) on a visit to London in 1747. Stamma was also regarded a pioneer of modern chess; his Middle Eastern concept of ‘endgame’ is set out in his Essai sur le jeu des echecs (first published 1737 and translated into English as The Noble Game of Chess in 1745); the German version is here contained on pp231-351. Presentation copy by the mathematician Louis Charles Karpinski (18781956) who played championship chess at Cornell University and took a doctorate at Strassburg University in 1903 with his autograph ink inscription ‘To J.A.Horowitz Greetings Louis CKarpinski’ on recto of front fly leaf. A fresh copy. Arms for an Aragonese family 151 Philip II King of Spain (1555-1598). Carta executoria de hidalguía granted to Diego Lopez de Valcarcel of the town of Hellin and his descendants. (Dated at end:) Granada, 6 October 1578. Calligraphic manuscript on 89 leaves of strong vellum in folio, excluding first and last blank leaves. 34 lines to a page finely written by professional scribes in a rounded gothic hand. Each page ruled in red with double-line border in margins and flourishes and initials of the notary, except for last two pages which are in a later hand. Numerous official signatures and appendices in a later hand at end. 3 full-page multi-coloured paintings heightened in gold on first 2 leaves. 16 gilt initials on a raspberry-red background decorated with white ornamental designs. Recto of penultimate leaf with opening initial of a royal miniature portrait (80 x 65 mm) of Philip II of Spain heightened in gold on a green background. Contemporary green velvet over boards, worn; edges gilt. £5500 Royal confirmation of arms and nobility for Diego Lopez de Valcarcel of the town of Hellin (modern province of Albacete in southeastern Spain) and his descendants. The full-page paintings representing respectively (1:) Diego de Valcarcel, his wife and their children kneeling to the Virgin on high; (2:) husband and wife kneeling before Christ on the Cross, and (3:) a heraldic composition – the top panel showing a mounted knight galloping over slain enemies with the caption ‘rei de castilla’ below; the bottom panel depicting the arms of the grantee (green branches on a gilt background quartered with a bull below a tree and a lion fighting a griffin). The first 2 paintings are within decorative floral and grotesque borders on gold; the heraldic painting is surrounded by a wide plain gilt leaf border. Very well preserved. Rare ‘book of secrets’ Prison life in Cayenne 152 Pignoccati, Francesco. Le Medicine che da tutti gl’Animali si può cavar à beneficio dell’Huomo; alter volte intitolato Il Zomista, e Secretario de gl’Animali di Alessandro Venturini. Hora accresciuto d’importanti Secreti. Venice, Turrini, 1654. 12mo. [14]f + 126p. Roman & italic letter. Printer’s device on title. Contemporary limp boards; rebacked. £450 153 Pitou, Louis-Ange. Voyage a Cayenne, dans les deux Ameriques, et chez les Anthrophages. Ouvrage... contenant le tableau general des déportés… sur les îles Seychelles... le commerce et les moeurs des sauvages, des noirs, des creoles et des quakers. Paris, printed for the author, 1805. 2 volumes in one. 8vo. xlvii + [48-60] + 312p; [1]f + 404p. With 2 folding engraved plates, each serving as a frontispiece. Late 19th century marbled half sheep; untrimmed. £485 A rare Italian book of ‘Secrets’, here in its fourth edition with considerable additions. The author provides a directory of drugs which can be obtained from man and a variety of animals, and the divers complaints against which these drugs are effective. Bed bugs are used to induce the passing of kidney stones, a drink made from powdered porcupine flesh prevents miscarriages, and one grain of the ground tailbone of an armadillo, placed in the ear, relieves the discomfort and rumbling of flatulence. The work has 3 indexes of: 1) 107 classical and contemporary authors cited; 2) nearly 200 animals; 3) the ‘secrets’ contained in the book. This copy shows fairly pronounced signs of usage throughout, as is normal for a chapbook of this kind; light traces of waterstaining in blank margins; some marginal worming in last quires; contemporary notes at end. Ferguson, Books of Secrets II, p38 listing a 1672 edition: ‘... brief summary of all the drugs obtainable from man and other animals ... strictly a book of medicines, rather than a book of medical secrets ...’ Krivatsy 12273. First edition of this colourful autobiographical account of the author’s deportation to the penal colony of Cayenne in 1797, his enforced stay there until 1801, and his return journey via New York described on pp356-365. Pitou writes about the products of Cayenne (sugar & indigo), and about conditions in the interior of the country inhabited by cannibal tribes. He movingly describes the sufferings of the convicts with anecdotal details, adding a list of casualties on pp115-131 (vol. II) in each case stating the cause of death. The evocative frontispiece folding plates by Binet represent a cross-section of the prison ship ‘La Decade’, and a lurid burial scene at the prison cemetery in the Konanama desert, where deportee corpses are part-buried by negroes, whilst prison officers dance with negresses. A tall, untrimmed copy; some light foxing, old stamp in tailend blank corner of both titles, blank corner of half-title repaired. Leclerc 3445; Palau 227540; Sabin 63058. Order of Papal Knighthood 154 Pius IV, Pope (Giovanni Angelo Medici 1559-65). Bulla Collegii Militum, qui pii, de numero participantium nuncupantur. Qua amplissimis & honorificetissimis privilegiis donantur. Per S.D.N.D. Pium Papam IIII in Alma Urbe nuperrímé erecti, & instituti, securisque proventíbus, & emolumentís dotatí. Rome, Antonio Blado, 1560. Small 4to. [24] leaves. Italic letter. With allegorical title woodcut showing a sainted pope riding towards kneeling knights in armour; Medici arms below;large circular diagram of papal seal (repeated), 4 historiated woodcut initials (1 large). Boards. £1450 First edition of the bull affirming the new pope’s ruling on the duties and privileges of the Collegium Militum Piorum, an Order of Papal Knights. The ends of both sections of the text are dated respectively 5th March 1559/1560 and 5th September 1560; each section is followed by a reproduction of the papal seal and the printed signatures of the pope as ‘bishop of the Catholic Church’, and of those of the cardinals (respectively forty and twentyone). Pius IV fortified Rome and made many architectural improvements to the City during his papacy.The building work was costly and the large financial contribution demanded on election to papal orders provided a ready source of income. A good copy containing a contemporary manuscript commentary in Latin on blank part of leaf f1. From the collection of the Oxford lawyer Walter Ashburner (1864-1936), co-founder of the British Institute in Florence, with his library stamp in blank title margin. Fumagalli-Belli 225. Unrecorded near-contemporary catalogue of Poussin engravings 155 Poussin, Nicolas. Catalogue. De ce qui a été gravé d’après Mr. Poussin, fameux Peintre de ce siécle. Drop-title with grotesque head-piece. s.l.s.n. [c1690). 24mo. 14 + [2 blank]p. (Bound with:) Graham, Maria. Mémoires sur la vie de Nicolas Poussin. Paris, Pierre Dufart, 1821. 8vo. [4] + xvi + 191 + [1 blank]p. including lithographed frontispiece portrait of Poussin by Vigneron (1821), and with folding lithographed view of Poussin’s house by G. Engelmann. (And:) Des Maretz. Éloge historique de Callot, Graveur Lorrain, Ouvrage couronné pour la Societé des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Nancy, le 22 Mai 1828. Nancy, C. J. Hissette, 1828. 8vo. 75 + [1 blank]p. (And:)A[tger], X[avier]. Considérations philosophiques, remarques, observations, anecdotes particulières sur la vie et les ouvrages de Sébastien Bourdon, Ancien Recteur de l’Académie Royale de Peinture. Paris, De Beausseaux & Pélicier, 1818. [4] + 82p. including engraved frontispiece portrait by G. Mattaire (1818). (And:) A[tger], X[avier]. Des Avantages de l’ésprit d’Observation dans les sciences et les arts. Avec quelques remarques relatives … la Physionomie. Paris, De Beausseaux, 1809. 8vo. 39 + [1 blank]p. 5 items bound in half calf. £2500 Collection of five monographs on art and artists. I: An apparently unrecorded 17th century print catalogue in pocket format (24mo) listing engravings after paintings by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) With a contemporary ink manuscript entry in blank margin of page 2 stating that the numerous items in the catalogue which are crossed out in ink are already in the owner’s collection. II: First edition in French (published in English in 1820) of a life of Poussin, followed by Fenelon’s two dialogues on death relating to two paintings by the artist, and a detailed catalogue of Poussin’s main work classified by genre. The travel writer, artist and translator, Maria Graham (1786-1844) became interested in Poussin after touring Italy in 1819. In 1827 she married the Royal Academician, Augustus Callcott. III: A classic in the literature on Jacques Callot; Thieme-Becker V,404. IV: A study of Sebastién Bourdon (1616-1671), French painter and engraver and first court painter to Queen Christina of Sweden, who was much influenced by Poussin and his circle during a visit to Rome in 1636. V: A study of distinguished men represented with large noses in engraved portraits who lived to the age of 70 and over (pp33-39) made in support of the author’s physiognomic theories. Atger based his observations on his own collection of drawings and prints formed in his home town of Montpellier, where it was later housed in a museum in his name. Intermittant foxing. 156 Puteo, Paris de (Paride del Pozzo). Duello. Libro de re imperatori, principi, signori, gentilhuomini, et de tutti armigeri, co[n]tinente disfide concordie, pace, casi accadenti, et iudicii con ragione essempli, et authoritate de poeti historiographi, philosophi, legisti, canonisti, et ecclesiastici. Venice [Comin de Trino] 1544. 12mo. 176 leaves. Italic letter. Title within historiated four piece woodcut border showing a battle scene, statues of Scipio and Hannibal, and the Roman fleet before Carthage. Some Lombard initials. Vellum. £650 An authoritative interpretation of chivalry and military law, here adapted from the original Latin, the best known work of the Piemontese lawyer Paride del Pozzo (1410-93)who served as inquisitor general to the Aragonese kingdom of Naples. See Cockle 865. ‘c’est un des ouvrages les plus importants de cette époque sur la science du point d’honneur et il jouit longtemps de la plus grande autorité’ (Garcia Donnell 716-8). Minor worming repaired in margins of title and last leaf, otherwise a sound copy with 2 signature and bookplates of former owners on blank verso of title. Adams P-2299; Levi & Gelli 165; Sander 5416 (note); Thimm 233 (note). Unpublished memoir on horse breeding in Spain with references to Arab stallions 157 Rault de Ramsault, Charles de, Count. Del Caballo. Unpublished manuscript in Spanish neatly written in ink on paper, Madrid, April (1845). Small 4to. Title leaf + 95p + (2 blank)f. Including a few corrections in the text. Offered together with the author’s autograph letter in French addressed to “Monsieur le Duc”, 3p, referring to this manuscript, dated: Madrid, 6th May 1845, signed: “le comte Charles de Ramsault, socio de la sociedad de fomento de la cria caballar de España”. Bound in contemporary patterned cloth boards, edges worn. £1600 Presentation copy of a Spanish translation of the author’s apparently unpublished memoir on the horse for the attention of Queen Isabel II of Spain who was committed to the improvement of breeding stock for light cavalry horses. The treatise discusses the domestication of the horse and breeding methods of various countries from ancient to modern times, dwelling on the vital contribution of Arab stallions which made Spain the “stud farm of Europe”. It comprises chapters on the improvement of horses for cavalry, the breeding of mares, purification of lineage, and special considerations for the breeding of mares in Spain (“Sobre los conocimientos necesarios a todo director de yeguadas, y consideraciones particulares referentes a España”). The author expresses his hope that his work will be a useful guide for young breeders to help them avoid certain errors. In the accompanying signed autograph letter addressed to “Monsieur le Duc”, identified as Francisco de Paula de Borbón (1794-1865), the Queen’s uncle, who used the title of “Duke of Cadiz”, patron of the arts, and of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del Pais, Ramsault offers this manuscript for submission to the Queen at the suggestion of (Agustín de) Armendaríz, Intendent of the Royal Palace. Stating his aim to be merely to contribute to the best of his ability to the improvement of horse breeding in Spain, and that his work will be submitted to the Sociedad de Fomento de la Cria Caballar, he explains that the manuscript was copied for the Duke’s private perusal and hopes that he will accept this practical manual based on 15 years research of observation and study of a subject which has been the author’s favourite pastime since his childhood, further offering to compile a detailed and comprehensive work if so desired. Ramsault adds that having married a Spaniard, he aimed to remain in Spain in order to contribute to the improvement of such an important branch of social economy; he refers to the Duke’s knowledge and experience of the subject and feels that his approbation would assure universal acceptance in Spain of this treatise. Explaining that he wrote this letter in French, as not yet entirely conversant with Spanish, although perfectly understanding the language, Ramsault points out several small translator errors in his manuscript. He describes himself as an agronomist and member of the Royal Linnean Society etc. In 1850 Ramsault became editor of El Agricultor Español, a prestigious periodical (later Revista Mensual de Agricultura) published with the intention of explaining the best way to improve land cultivation and cattle breeding. Queen Isabel II (1833-68) commissioned the purchase of Arab horses in the Middle East to improve the breeding stock for light cavalry horses in Europe. In 1847 the first Spanish studbook was started which remains the earliest established register of Arab horses. Both the manuscript and letter are well preserved. Order of the Golden Fleece 158 Reiffenberg, Fréderic-Auguste-Ferdinand de. Histoire de l’ordre de la Toison d’Or, depuis son institution jusqu’a la cessation des chapitres généraux; tirée des archives mémes de cet ordre et des écrivains qui en ont traité. Brussels, 1830. Large 4to. lxxxi + 588p. With 10 lithographed plates (3 folding, 6 coloured). Contemporary half calf, gilt; ends worn. £1250 A history of the Order of the Golden Fleece, one of the great knightly orders of Europe, founded in 1429 by Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy on the occasion of his marriage to Isabelle of Portugal at Bruges. Originally intended only for deserving Flemish Catholic nobles, or foreign sovereign princes, the character of the order was later adapted when it became the chief knightly order of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs. Baron Reiffenberg (1795-1850), curator of the Royal Library of Belgium, based his work on archival sources and on an inventory of the order published in 1760 by Count Cobenzl. The volume is here offered with separately bound extracts from Nouvelles Archives Historiques des Pays Bas, pt.IV, pp145-147, 350-368, 387-392, published Brussels, 1832, containing a critique of Reiffenberg’s book, a brief bibliography of earlier monographs on the subject, and stories and anecdotes relating to the history of the order. A good copy with wide margins; some insignificant traces of light foxing. Brunet IV, 1197. 159 [Rodriguez Campomanes y Sorriba, Pedro]. Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular. Madrid, Antonio de Sancha, 1774. [4]f + 198p. Bound with: [Rodriguez Campomanes y Sorriba, Pedro] Discurso sobre la educación popular de los artesanos y su fomento. Madrid, Antonio de Sancha, 1775. [12]f + 475p. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary half sheep; backstrip gilt; worn. £950 First editions of the two principal works by the outstanding Spanish economist and social reformer of the period: (1) a discourse on the fair division of labour amongst all classes, including chapters on the profitable use of time by the nobility, the duty of the clergy to distribute alms to stimulate industry, the production of silk, cotton and woollen cloth by the common people, and the use of prison labour. The equal importance of industry and agriculture is stressed and the study of natural history is recommended as a means of discovering new raw materials to boost the nation’s economy. (2) a treatise on technical education for the Spanish working class with chapters on apprenticeship, work for women, the founding of trade guilds, and the establishment of funds for the old, the sick and the widowed. The importance of foreign trade, particularly with the Indies, is strongly emphasised. Count Rodríguez de Campomanes (1723-1802), lawyer and statesman, sought to discover the true cause of wealth and believed that Spain would benefit from the removal of impediments to industry, the release of agriculture from heavy taxation and the setting of internal and foreign trade on a firm base. He foresaw the results of Spain’s overconfidence in the mines of Peru and Mexico, and aimed to show that the true wealth of the nation lay not in America but in Spain itself. Contemporary ownership presentation inscription on title of first work; small wormhole running through initial blank margins of first and second work. (1:) Einaudi I, 821; Goldsmiths’ Library 11127; Higgs 5957; Kress 6998; Palau 273681. (2:) Einaudi I, 822; Goldsmiths’ Library 11358; Higgs 6474; Kress 6998; Palau 273681. 160 Ruscelli, Girolamo. Precetti della militia moderna, tanto per mare, quanto per terra. Trattati da diversi nobilissimi ingegni. Ne’quali si contiene tutta l’arte del bombardiero, & si mostra l’ordine che ha da tenere il maestro di campo, quando vuole accampare il suo essercito. Opera molto necessaria à principi, & a tutti coloro, che desiderano di apprendere compitamente la disciplina militare. Venice, heirs of Marchio Sessa, 1568. Small 4to. [4] + 59 + [1 blank]f. Text in italic. Printer’s woodcut device on title. 28 woodcut illustrations (11 full-page). Historiated woodcut initials. Half vellum. £1150 First edition of this influential handbook on late Renaissance artillery in the widest sense, including fireworks, compiled from a number of contemporary sources. Book II treats the manufacture of mines and rockets and the latest technical inventions relating to siege warfare and munitions. The woodcuts illustrate a variety of fire-works, rockets, mines and mining, compasses, a spiked obstacle, a float and a life-jacket. ‘An important contribution to our knowledge of this subject at the end of the 16th century. Much reliance is still placed on the efficacy of fiery lances, trombe, or huge squibs, fastened to the end of poles, and fire-balls discharged by artillery. They are elaborately figured and their manufacture is minutely described.’ (Hodgkin). On pp57-58 is contained a chapter on military medicine, a discussion of medicaments successfully used both in the army and navy, and especially in Africa by LeonardoFioravanti, a physician from Bologna. Posthumously published two years after the author’s death, the dedication by Benedetto de’Bolis to Alessandro Farnese is dated: Venice, 15 May 1568. The book was reprinted in 1562 and 1583, and a German translation appeared in 1620 as part of Jacob Zetter’s Kriegs- und Archeley Kunst. Occasional very light marginal foxing, otherwise well preserved. Breman 245; Cockle 663; Hodgkin III, 2, 9; Jähns 656; Jordan 3245; Mortimer 450; Riccardi II, 402; Riling 25. 161 Sanson [Nicolas]. Theâtre de la Guerre sur le Rhin, Moessele, Mayn, le Necker, Meuse avec les pais voisins. Amsterdam, Jean Covens & Corn. Mortier, c1710. Engraved handcoloured folding map measuring 97.5 x 118mm, divided into 72 oblong segments mounted on contemporary cloth; allegorical title cartouches with imperial arms in top left and right panels. Preserved in original slipbox covered in blind-tooled sheep with manuscript label; traces of worming, worn. £1250 A fine military map engraved after Sanson for use in the French invasion of western and southern Germany during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) fought to prevent a union of Spain and France. The German provinces affected by the war are coloured in shades of pink, green, and yellow; cities and fortified places are marked in red. The outcome of the conflict was decided by the major battle at Blenheim (Blindheim, north of Augsburg ) on 13th August 1704,when the Franco-Bavarian armies under Tallard were decisively defeated by the Austro-British allies led by Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy. Well preserved with original cloth hangers intact. Geometrical principles and design of gun barrels 162 Sardi, Pietro. L’Artiglieria .. . divisa in tre libri. Venice, Giovanni Guerrigli for the author, 1621. Folio. [6]f including engraved frontispiece + 142p of text. Roman & italic letter. With 18 large textual engravings (4 full-page), and 9 folding engraved plates. Numerous ornamental woodcuts and initials. Half vellum. £4500 First edition of this influential Renaissance work on artillery arranged in 3 books. The first treats the history of ballistics; the second demonstrates the geometrical principles and design of gun barrels, and the casting and testing of bronze barrels of various sizes (chapters 19-24); the third book instructs on the design and manufacture of mounts, wheels, mortars, and loading instruments, the rules for bombardiers, and on the application of saltpetre and gunpowder (chapters 49-5 of which an English translation was included in Henry Stubbe’s Legends no histories in 1670); chapter 58 describes and illustrates a variety of naval cannon, suggesting the most effective armament to be used for the defence of ports against warships; chapter 64 relates to the defence of alpine passes with artillery. The engraved title features a gun barrel with loading instruments on either side of the text, and below a bust portrait of the author at the age of 50. Sardi, a Roman architect and engineer, dedicates his work to a Genovese patron, Giacomo Cattaneo. A reprint appeared at Bologna 68 years later. A good copy; small repair in margin of title and last leaf. Cockle 688; Jähns pp. 1098-199;Riccardi II, 423; Riling 90. Privately printed for the Berlin bibliophile Gotthard Laske 163 Schaeffer, Albrecht. Die Wand.Dramatische Phantasmorgie in einem Aufzug. Berlin, Otto von Holten, privately printed for Gotthard Laske, May 1922. 4to. 67 + [1] pages of text + colophon leaf with author’s autograph signature in ink. First word of the title and the name of the recipient on colophon leaf printed in blue letters. Original publisher’s half morocco binding with author’s name and title in gilt lettering on spine; lightly worn. £450 This dramatization of an interlude in Goethe’s Italian journey is the first book privately printed for the Berlin bibliophile Gotthard Laske (18821936), a wealthy outfitter, who acted as a generous patron to authors, and commissioned a number of publications. Unique edition, beautifully printed in the New Elzevir type on hand-made paper, limited to 100 copies only: the present copy, number 10, was printed for Lilli Wolff, a member of a Berlin music publishing family. The subject of the play, written in 1919 by the wellknown German writer Albrecht Schaeffer (1855-1950), is Goethe’s visit to his friend Heinrich Meyer at Stäfa on the Lake of Zürich in 1797 as part of his celebrated Italian journey. The action is set at the Alte Krone Inn, the main characters being Goethe, Meyer, and a young lady also lodging at the inn. Meyer, Privatdrucke von und für Gotthard Laske no 1; Katalog der Sammlung Kippenberg I,143; Wilpert & Gühring, Erstausgaben deutscher Dichtung 1600-1960, 36; for Laske, see Homeyer, Deutsche Juden als Bibliophilen und Antiquare, p.50. Hanover & the British during the Napoleonic wars A British provenance 164 [Schelver, L.H.]. Das Kurfürstenthum Hannover unter den Franzosen in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805, und dessen fernere Schicksale nebst einer genauen Karakteristik des Französischen Militärs. Von einem Augenzeugen. [Brunswick, Vieweg] 1806. xvi + 163p text + [4]p of bookseller’s list. (Bound with:) [Berg, Günther Heinrich Freiherr v.] Vergleichende Schilderung der Organisation der französischen Staatsverwaltung in Beziehung auf das Königreich Westphalen und andere deutsche Staaten. Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1808. iv + 250p. (And:) Berlepsch, F[riedrich]. L[udwig] [Freiherr] v. Die bey dem Berliner Executions- u. Protectionshofe in meiner Dienstentsetzungsu. Proscriptionssache erfolgten letzten Aktenstücke. [Göttingen, Dieterich] 1807. 150 + [2]p. (And:) [Anonymous] Noch ein Wort über das Säkularisationswesen. Von einem Freunde der Menschheit und der guten Sache. ‘Teutschland’ [Nuremberg?] 1801. 72p. 4 works in 1 volume, 8vo. Contemporary sheep with arms of Charles Stuart de Rothesay gilt-stamped on sides; joints cracked but firm; worn. £650 Four contemporary German anti-Napoleonic imprints, three anonymously published to escape censorship. (1) A lawyer’s perception of the French military occupation of Hanover under Marshal Mortier reflecting on French long term strategic and political plans in Germany and on the British Continental Blockade. Schelver saw Hanover as a victim of its British connection suffering for the sake of the English Nation (cf.: N.Harding: Hanover and the British Empire 1700-1837 (2007). The 2nd part of his essay is an analysis of the structure and general state of the French army. (2) A critique of French administration introduced to client states of the Confederation of the Rhine such as the new Kingdom of Westphalia created for Jerôme Napoleon, which was mostly made up of former Hanovarian territory. Berg (1765-1843), was an outstanding lawyer and politician. (3) A formal justification of his actions published by an eminent Hanovarian judge who was dismissed for supporting popular interests against the state. Berlepsch (1749-1818) had openly challenged the British monarch’s demand for troops from his Hanoverian dominions to combat revolutionary France, declaring it unconstitutional. (4) An anonymous condemnation of the mediatisation of German church lands to compensate those German princes who lost their lands on the left banks of the Rhine to French annexation. From the collection of Lord Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845), British ambassador at The Hague, Paris and St Petersburg. Costume of male religious orders 165 Schoonebeek, Adriaan. Courte & solide histoire de la fondation des ordres religieux. Avec les figures de leurs habits. Amsterdam, Adriaan Schoonebeek, 1688. 12mo. [4]f including engraved allegorical frontispiece + 73 + [1 blank + 4]f. 73 engraved plates included in collation. Vignettes on title and first page of text which also has a grotesque initial made up of 2 monks. Contemporary calf, re-hinged. £850 An historical guide to the principal male religious orders compiled and finely illustrated with costume plates by a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe. Each engraving is a portrait of a member of a different religious order whose habit is carefully shaded to indicate its various colours for the interest of the reader and as an aid for artists. In his preface the compiler points to the lack of literature with precise information on the religious orders and their dress, stating that he has added the arms of each order to his image of the individual member portrayed, where ever he was able to trace them. The last plate represents a specimen dress only marked with shades in order to distinguish between colours. Schoonebeek, a highly accomplished engraver, was a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe from 1676 to 1679. He gave lessons in etching to Peter the Great during his stay at Amsterdam in 1698, and later accompanied him to Moscow, where he spent his final years teaching a number of pupils. Colas 2680; Lipperheide Oe8 (note). Deciphering the Herculaneum scrolls 166 Sickler, Friedrich Karl Ludwig & Thomas Tyrwhitt. Herculaneum Rolls. Correspondence relative to a proposition made by Dr.Sickler of Hildburghausen, upon the subject of their development. London, J.Barfield ... printer to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, 1817. 4to. 27 + [1blank]p. With engraved frontispiece plate showing a facsimile of a roll fragment and transcription by T. Girtin. Half calf. £250 First edition. The letters exchanged between the noted German archeologist Friedrich Sickler (1773-1836) and Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (1762-1833), M.P., an enthusiast for antiquities, who had together with Rev.John Hayter unsuccessfully attempted to unravel one of the Herculanean scrolls held in Paris in January 1816. Hayter was considered an expert, as he had previously managed to decipher some 200 papyri at Naples for the Prince Regent. When Sickler learnt that Hayter had failed in Paris and intended to publish the contents of six papyri in the French Academy, he offered to assist with his own method of preserving and translating scrolls. Hayter’s precise copies of the columns of the texts deciphered by him are now held in the Bodleian Library. Critical analysis of church finances 167 [Simon, Richard]. Histoire de l’Origine & du Progrés des Revenus Ecclesiastiques. Où il est traité selon l’ancien & le nouveau droit, de tout ce qui regarde les materieres beneficiales, de la regale, des investitures, des nominations & des autres droits attribués aux princes, par Jerome à Costa, Docteur en Droit & Protonotaire Apostolique. A Francfort [Rotterdam], Frederic Arnaud [Elzevier] 1684. 12mo. [4] + 346 + [10]p. index. Contemporary calf; spine gilt; worn. £475 First edition of this historical account of ecclesiastical revenues, hostile to the religious orders, proscribed in 1692 (cf Hilgers, Der Index der verbotenen Bücher (Freiburg 1904), p435). An English translation (The History of the original and progress of ecclesiastical revenues) was published in 1685; the original text was reprinted in 1706. Simon (1638-1712), an erudite French Oratorian priest from Dieppe, who used the pseudonym Jerôme á Costa, had converted from Judaism to become the most outstanding and controversial biblical critic of his day. Accused of heresy by Bossuet for not retracting his scriptural analysis of the Old Testament, he was forced to leave his Order. ESTC R219629; Goldsmiths’- Kress 2558; Quérard, I, col.180 (note). Gazetteer of the Azores 168 [Soares De Albergaria De Sousa, Joâo (1796-1875)] Corographia Açorica, ou Descripçâo phizica, politica, e historica dos Açores, por um Cidadâo Açorense, M. da Sociedade Patriotica Phylantropya [n’os Açores] Lisbon, João Nunes Esteves, 1822. [4]f + pp7-133 + [1 blank]. Circular emblem of phoenix with stars on title. Contemporary marbled sheep; worn; worming damage in top front cover. £385 First edition of this early geographical dictionary of the Azores with extensive scholarly footnotes, and a five-page index at end. The book is divided into the four administrative departments. Also discussed are prevailing social conditions, the character and ethnic make-up of the population, education, commerce (mainly consisting of exports of oranges, white wines, and grain), and the strategic position of the volcanic islands; an historical summary is given on pp39-49. The author is identified as a native of São Jorge, the most central of the nine islands of the archipelago (cf :M.A. da Fonseca, Subsidios para um Diccionario de Pseudonymos Iniciaes e Obras Anonymas de Escriptores Portuguezes, Lisbon 1896, no 272, p188). 169 Souchu De Rennefort [Urbain]. Relation du premier voyage de la compagnie des Indes orientales ou l’isle de Madagascar ou Dauphine. Paris, Pierre Auboüin, 1668. 12mo. [8] + 340p. Contemporary calf; rebacked; edges gilt; tailend corners worn. £1950 First report on the official expedition of four ships sent by the French East Indies Company in 1665 to take possession of the island of Madagascar. Souchu de Rennefort (c1630-89), an ambitious adventurer, became secretary to the first major French East Indies Company formed by Colbert in 1664 and holding a monopoly of trade in the Indian Ocean with a special concession for Madagascar. The author’s mission was to restore order in the French trading post of Fort Dauphin in the southeast of the island; he took formal possession of Madagascar on 14th July 1665 in the name of the Company,but was unable to consolidate French control. He left in February 1666 only to be captured by an English ship. After his release in 1667, he wrote the present work which comprises observations of the natural history of Madagascar and on the customs of the native tribes. Twenty years later, in 1688, he was to publish a history of the French East Indies Company. Chadenat 1749 (‘Édition originale, très rare’); Goldsmith 842. ‘Oldest known recorded game’ 170 [Soumille de Villeneuve-les-Avignon, L’Abbé Bernard-Laurent]. Le Grand Trictrac, ou méthode facile pour apprendre sans maitre la marche, les termes, les regles, et une grande partie des finesses de ce jeu, enrichie de 288 plances ou figures, avec des décisions des cas particuliers. Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigée. Paris, De Hansy, An X, 1801. 8vo. xvi + 357 + [2] p. 288 woodcut illustrations in text showing the tric-trac board, dice throws and position of counters. Floral and foliar woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary calf, gilt spine, on marbled boards. £350 This second edition of the work (first published in 1738, see Barbier) provides many corrections which the author notes in the preface might have put the reader of the first edition in awkward situations. Backgammon, is said to be the ‘oldest known recorded game in man’s history ... In 1743 an Englishman called Edmond Hoyle documented and standardised the rules of the game. Backgammon then became popular in many European countries. “Tric-Trac” in France, “Puff ” Germany, mostly followed these rules ... These rules remained unchanged till 1931 when in America they were revised to what generally governs the game today’. (‘Salar’s Backgammon’, salnet.demon.co.uk). A well preserved crisp copy, one or two tiny foxing marks. Old inscription inside front cover dated ‘20 mars 1883’. First Portuguese transliteration from the Arabic First Dictionary Of Portuguese Words With Arabic Roots 171 Sousa, Joâo de. Documentos Arabicos para a Historia Portugueza copiados dos originaes da Torre do Tombo . e vertidos em portuguez. Lisbon, Royal Academy of Sciences, 1790. Small 4to. [4]f + 190 + [2]p. Arabic and Portuguese texts printed in parallel columns. Vignette on title. Calf. £850 172 Sousa, Joâo de. Vestigios da lingoa Arabica em Portugal, ou Lexicon Etymologico das palavras, e nomes portuguezes, que tem origem Arabica … Lisbon, Royal Academy of Sciences, 1789. Small 4to. xx + 160p. Portuguese text interspersed with Arabic letters. Title with ornamental vignette incorporating Portuguese arms. Original marbled wrappers preserved in quarter morocco slipbox. £950 The first attempt at transliterating into Portuguese the Arabic documents relating to Portuguese history preserved at the royal archives at Torre do Tombo. Sousa translated 58 letters exchanged between King Manuel and King Joâo III of Portugal and various Arab rulers during the first half of the 16th century. The subjects of the correspondence range from diplomatic and legal matters to trading regulations for Christians in Africa and India on the writers and recipients of the letters. Innocêncio 1324. Palau 320779. Palha 2777, ‘ouvrage peu commun et estimé’. Schnurrer, Bibliotheca Arabica, 186. First edition of the first etymological dictionary to record Portuguese words of Arabic origin. The entries are arranged alphabetically in Portuguese, followed by the equivalent Arabic word or source, a transliteration, and an explanation. Joâo de Sousa was born in Damascus, Syria, and became the first professor of Arabic at Lisbon University. He was a frequently published member of the Royal Academy of Sciences who commissioned this publication. The next work on the subject, by Francisco de S.Luiz, did not appear until 1837. An attractive copy in its original binding with a contemporary ownership signature on title deleted in ink. Innocencio IV, 41-42 & 437 (unseen, without collation); Palau 320777; Palha 673. 173 Sparrman, André. Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et autour du Monde, avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le Pays des Hottentots et des Caffres… Traduit par M.Le Tourneur Paris, Buisson, 1787. 3 volumes in 8vo. xxxvi + 389 + [1]p; [2] + 366p + [1]f errata; [4] + 366p+ [3]f. With one double-page engraved plate, one folding engraved map, and 12 folding engraved plates. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt, hinges cracked but firm, corners worn.£600 First French language edition of the author’s eye-witness account of Captain Cook’s second voyage to the Cape of Good Hope as part of his circumnavigation in 1772-5. Sparrman (1748-1820), an outstanding pupil of Linnaeus, accompanied the voyage as assistant to the naturalists Johann and Georg Forster which is related in the first volume. Most of the work comprises his observations on the flora, fauna and mixed population of the Cape Colony made during expeditions into the interior of the country when working as a doctor in Cape Town. The description of termites and their nests is especially noteworthy. First published in Swedish in 1783, and immediately translated into the major European languages, the book became a bestseller. It is thought to be the most accurate contemporary description of the Cape. The illustrations of the present French edition are considered the best. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 1223; Mendelsohn II, p361. Controversial verse tragedy on the theme of incest 174 Speroni, Sperone. Canace Tragedia. alla quale sono aggiunte al une altre sue compositioni. Venice, Giovanni Alberti, 1597. 4to. [4]f + 253p. Italic. Printer’s device on title. Initials. Contemporary limp vellum. £485 Speroni, a pupil of Pomponazzi, is a prominent Renaissance critic,best known for his innovative verse tragedy Canace, based on a Greek legend, which exploits the theme of incest. Composed for the Paduan Literary Academy, the controversial play was first published in 1546. It provoked instant disapproval and protracted literary debate.The Giuditio, an interesting piece of early literary criticism attributed to Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, was also received with hostility. The present edition comprises the text of the Canace together with the author’s reply to the Giuditio and other pieces in which he defends his work. Some traces of light waterstaining at beginning and end. Adams, Cambridge, S-1564. Allacci col 159. Soleinne IV, 4262. The Aldine Statius 175 Statius, Publius Papinius. Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri XII. Thebaidos libri II. Orthografia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium.... Venice, Aldus & Asulanus, January 1519. 8vo. 294 + [2]f. Italic & some Greek type. Aldine anchor device on title and on verso of last (otherwise blank) leaf. 19th century blindstamped calf; edges gilt; joints cracked but firm. £1550 Second edition, including the Orthographia, of the celebrated Aldine Statius, one of the most beautiful of the octavo classics. The essay on grammar and orthography is by Aldus himself. With preface by Fredericus Asulanus to the brothers Pasqual and Domitian Marini informing them of the superiority of the present edition over the preceding one. Leaf 3 contains a dedication by Aldus Senior to Pontanus. Statius (45-96 AD), court poet to the Emperor Domitian, was a favourite of the post Augustan age. Title lightly browned, otherwise a good copy with 19th century engraved armorial bookplate of William Charles Henry (17751836), noted English chemist. Adams S-1672; Isaac 12889. The lives of the early Caesars 177 Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius. Vitae XII Caesarum. Ed. Philippus Beroaldus. Bologna, Benedictus Hectoris, 5 April 1493. Folio. [4] + 326 + [14]f including index leaf. Roman letter. Commentary surrounding text. Printer’s device on verso of penultimate leaf. 18th century calf; backstrip gilt; morocco title label; joints restored. £5500 Suetonius’ Lives of the first twelve Roman emperors redacted by the Italian humanist Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505). The biographies from Caesar to Domitian, composed in the early 2nd century contain revealing descriptions of Roman social life, especially the eating and drinking habits. Tiberius prefered the wines of Chios; Domitian dared to uproot Transalpine vineyards which rivalled those of Italy; Augustus preferred the wines of Falerno and Switzerland. The author gives details of remarkable imperial banquets. Nero had a constantly revolving circular banquet hall; Vitellus invented a dish of enormous size containing the livers of pike, the brains of pheasants and peacocks, and the tongues of flamingoes. The ‘Lives’ are a favourite source for writers on ancient Rome, and provided the basis of the plot for Robert Graves’ historical novel I Claudius. Good copy with contemporary Latin manuscript notes in blank margins. BMC VI,840; Goff S-825; HC 15126*; Proctor 6623. A primary source on 16th century Italian duelling code Illustrated by Jacques Callot 176 [Stephen I, Saint, Pope, Order of]. Statuti dell’ordine de’cavalieri di Sto.Stefano ristampati con l’addizioni ordinate in tempo de seren[issi]mo Cosimo II e Ferdinan[d]o II. Granduchi di Tosc[an]a e gran maestri. Florence, Francesco Onofri, 1665. 4to. 316p including engraved allegorical title by Jacques Callot. 5 fine historiated woodcut initials with martial themes and numerous decorative initials. Contemporary vellum; neatly rebacked. £1850 The statutes of the knightly order of St Stephen founded in 1562 by Cosimo de Medici, first grand duke of Tuscany, and including the amendments made under his successors Cosimo II, and Ferdinand II. As Cosimo I had conquered both Florence and later Siena on the eve of St Stephen’s day (2nd August), he established a military order in honour of the Saint to employ the new aristocracy of his aggrandized state to defend it against the marauding Barbary pirates. Pope Pius IV willingly agreed to declare the duke grand master of the new order which obliged the knights to protect the Christian faith against the infidel on land and by sea. Its device was a variant of the Maltese Cross worn on a gilt chain. The order won fame under Cosimo II, when its war-galleys captured Bona, the chief port of the Barbary pirates in 1607, and for its defeat of the Turkish fleet in the following year. These victories enhanced the prestige of the duke as grand master, and the rules of the order were printed with great care, and including 24 pages of chapter and subject indexes at the end. The fine engraved title by Jacques Callot shows 4 Turkish prisoners (2 in chains) with trophies of arms and flags; on high 3 allegorical figures representing Justice, Religion, and Force, the figure of Religion carries a shield and flag emblazoned with the arms of the Order - see Lieure 372 (2) & Meaume 428 (2). Edges of right blank title margin a little foxed with traces of wear in tailend corner, otherwise a fresh copy with occasional neat marginal notes in ink in an early hand. 178 Susio, Giovanni Battista. Tre libri ... della ingiustitia del duello, et di coloro, che lo permettono. Venice, Gabriele Giolito, 1558. Small 4to. 198 p. + last leaf blank except for printer’s mark on recto. Text in italic, title and dedication in roman letter. Historiated woodcut initials of various sizes, ornamental woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Elaborate large version of printer’s device on title. Contemporary limp vellum. £950 Al polemic questioning the morality of the fashionable 16th century Italian concept of upholding a gentleman’s code of honour by means of challenging or accepting to fight a duel as a proper method of settling disputes. Susio (1519-83), a physician from Mirandola, strongly opposed the practice as unjust and condemned all forms of duelling, whereas Possevino and Muzio had staunchly defended the principle. In his preface to Count Fulvio Rangoni, dated 19 January 1555, the author states that he had first debated the subject in Venice ten years earlier and then in Rome; he also mentions Antonio Massa’s Contra l’uso del duello’ (Venice 1555) in support of his arguments. Here in its second edition, the book was first published by Giolito in 1555. The first of the three parts is dedicated to Henri II of France. An attractive copy with wide margins; minimal traces of usage; author’s name and title inked on top foredge as customary at the time. Bongi I, 469-471 & II, 61; Cockle 886; Garcia Donnell 849; Levi & Gelli 171; Thimm 280 (note). ‘The first printed treatise on ballistics’ 179 Tartaglia, Nicolò. La Nova Scientia ... con una gionta al terzo libro. Venice, Camillo Castelli, 1583. [4] + 30 (misnumbered 34)f. Roman letter. With full-page allegorical woodcut on title and 31 textual woodcuts and diagrams (1 full-page). (bound with:) Tartaglia, Nicolò. Delle Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Venice, Camillo Castelli, 1583. ff5 - 94. With 66 woodcuts and diagrams in the text. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. 19th century speckled boards. £950 The two most influential works on military science by Nicolò Tartaglia (1506-1557) of Brescia, one of the best mathematicians of his day. I: The 3 books of La Nova Scientia are the first attempt to enquire into the nature of the curve described by projectiles. It is considered the first printed treatise on ballistics. This work inaugurated the scientific treatment of the theory and practice of gunnery, correcting the angle of fire with regard to the force of gravity. (See A. R. Hale, Ballistics in the 17th Century). The dedication is to Francisco Maria de la Rovere, Duke of Urbino. II: The Quesiti, or answers to various problems written in dialogue form, are an enlargement of La Nova Scientia. The first 3 books treat gunnery and artillery; other mathematical and physical problems, such as the construction and use of the compass are described in the fifth book on land surveying in letters addressed to Richard Wentworth. Book VI deals with the fortification of cities planned to withstand artillery fire by strength of outline. In the present copy 4 leaves of preliminaries and the 9th book of text (on algebra) are omitted from the volume; this is also the case with the copies held by the Wellcome Institute, the Edinburgh University Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, an anomaly confirmed by an entry in Graesse (VI, 30 (note) relating to this edition which is not held by the British Library, nor by any of the Cambridge libraries. Edges of tailend blank margins stained in one place in first quires, occasional light marginal water-staining, otherwise a clean copy with some of the illustrations lightly hand-coloured by an early owner. I: Breman 297; Cockle 658 (note); II: Jähns 602. 180 Teijsmann, J[ohannes] E[lias] & S[imon] Binnendijk. Catalogus plantarum quae in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi coluntur. Batavia ( Jakarta), ter Lands-Drukkerij, 1866. 8vo.[8] + 398p. Cloth-backed boards. £550 First edition. The Java botanical gardens were of immense importance to the Dutch, who founded them for research and acclimatization purposes in 1817. The beautiful site, Buitenzorg (now Bogor), some 55km south of Jakarta, was also the residence of the Dutch governor until 1942. The present catalogue lists the many species found there with useful indexes of genera and common and Latin name and the island of origin. Teijsmann (1808-82), outstanding botanist and plant collector, came to Java with Governor General Johannes van den Bosch. He was curator of the gardens from 1831 to 1869, and is best known for introducing the chinchona plant from Peru for the production of quinine to treat malaria (c1852), Binnendijk (1821-83), a Leiden botanist, acted as assistant curator; two plant species are named after him. A clean copy, margin of title-page neatly restored. Jackson, p452. Stafleu & Cowan 13.872. See also Edward Hyams, Great Botanical Gardens of the World, 1969, pp194-199. Bilingual primer for teaching Latin to young French children 181 Terentius Afer, Publius. Les Six Comedies … Avec les Fleurs, Phrases, Sentences, & Manières de parler tres-excellentes dudict autheur, mise a la fine de chacune scene. La tout Latin et François correspondant l’un à l’autre, en faveur des jeunes enfans desiereux de la pureté & intelligence de la langue Latine. Paris, Claude Micard, 1574. 16mo. [7] + [1 blank] + 365 + [2 blank]f. French & Latin texts in parallel columns printed respectively in roman and italic type. Title within ornamental border in the style of Jean Cousin. Ornamental initials. Blue calf decorated in blind. £1250 A finely printed pocket-edition of Terence’s Comedies published as an aid for young children learning Latin in French schools. The translator, Jean Bourlier, has selected phrases to demonstrate the purity of the Latin tongue which are preceded by a lengthy introduction with his comments on the plays. Near contemporary ink signature ‘Chavin’ on recto of last leaf. Adams T-376; Brunet V, 721. 182 Tessier [Henri-Alexandre]. Instruction sur les bêtes à laine, et particulierement sur la race des merinos, contenant la maniere de former de bons troupeaux, de les multiplier et soigner convenablement en santé et en maladie … Seconde edition, augmentée. Paris, Huzard, 1811. 8vo. Xvi + 382p of text + 4 p publisher’s advertisements. 1 large folding table & 6 folding numbered engraved plates. Contemporary half sheep, spine gilt with morocco title label. £385 Enlarged second edition (first: 1810). Comprehensive treatise on the improvement of sheep breeding in France, in particular of the Merino flocks, imported from Spain before the Revolution. The author discusses the processing, carding and washing of wool, and the training of sheep dogs. Tessier (1741-1832), a physician and agronomist, was director-general of the national Merino farm at Rambouillet. Wool production had become one of the most important French industries and its methods were to influence Australian sheep farming. 2 old ownership stamps on title and a few stamps in margins, occasional very light foxing, otherwise a good copy. Quérard, France Litteraire, IX, p382. Instructions on how to form a Wunderkammer 183 Thon, Dr Theodor. Handbuch für Naturaliensammler oder Gründliche Anweisung die Naturkörper aller drei Reiche zu sammeln, in Naturalienkabinet auzustellen und aufzubewahren. Frei nach dem Französischen bearbeitet und vervollständigt. Ilmenau, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1827. 8vo. xvi + 486 + [2]p. With 4 folding lithograph plates by Uckermann in Erfurt after the author’s own drawings. Contemporary half calf; slightly worn at spine edge. £400 First edition. Handbook on the preparation, preservation and mounting of plants and animals for display in the glass cabinet. The three sections deal at length with suitable times for collecting plants, fish, reptiles, insects and birds for taxidermy or pressing. The plates give 38 illustrations of the processes involved. The work, as noted in the preface, was inspired by Boitard’s Manuel du Naturaliste Préparateur (1825). With bookplate of Hermann v. Nathusius (1809-79), innovative German cattle breeder and collector of domesticated animal skeletons; early library inscription, and faint stamp of former Berlin Royal Agricultural College. Good copy. ‘Most extensive art guide of Rome until mid-18th century’ (Schlosser) 184 Titi, Filippo. Ammaestramento Utile, e curioso di pittura scoltura et architettura nelle chiese di Roma, Palazzi Vaticano, di Monte Cavallo, & altri, che s’incontrano nel cammino facile, che si fà per ritrovarle …. Con l’Indice delle Chiese, e de’ Virtuosi, che si nominano… Rome,Giuseppe Vannacci, 1686. 16mo. Engraved frontispiece + [60] + 456p. With portrait of author by Vincenzo Mariotti. Contemporary vellum; back neatly restored. £850 The first guide to Roman churches, their architecture, sculptures and paintings. The book remains a valuable source for listing the art treasures found at this period. This is the much augmented third edition containing almost twice the text volume of the two preceding editions (Rome 1674 & Macarata 1675). The author, a cleric from Città di Castello, has here also added a chapter describing the cathedral of his home town. The engraved portait of the author is by Vincenzo Mariotto, a pupil of Andrea Pozzo to whose ‘Prospettiva’ he contributed. Schlosser states that this was the most extensive art guide of Rome until the mid18th century (Kunstliteratur, pp482, 525). A good clean copy. 185 [Torre, Alfonso de la]. Sommario di tutte le scienze dal magnifico M.Domenico Delfino. Venice, Giolito, 1585. Venice, Giolito, 1585. Small 8vo. [28]f (several misbound) + 360p. Italic letter. With woodcut printer’s device on title and a number of woodcut historiated initials and other typographical ornaments in text. Antiqued sheep. £875 Early edition of this encyclopaedia of science, philosophy and the liberal arts. although published as an original work by the Italian Domenico Delfino (Fl. 1550), it was in fact a translation of Alfonso de la Torre’s Vision deleitable (first published c.1480-3). Condemned by Graesse as a shameful plagiary, the work is judged more generously by Palau who states that the manuscript was discovered by Delfino’s son who, believing it to be his father’s own work, edited it as such. What is extraordinary is that the plagiary appears to have passed largely unnoticed and was even translated into Spanish a century later. Conceived as a compendium of the knowledge of the time, the book includes remarks on astronomy and astrology, arithmentic and geometry, medicine and the medical properties of plants, natural history, the magic arts, and linguistics. There is an interesting section on animal behaviour which comments on the partiality of dolphins to human company, and a discussion of the point of articulation in Oriental, Western and Mediterranean speech as respectively guttural, dental and palatal. The first Italian edition was published in 1556. From the Arata Collection with stamps and signature in title margin; a small wormhole in title. This edition not in Adams, British Library, Durling, Wellcome Library. See Bongi, Giolito I, pp503-5 Brunet V, 887, Graesse 6, II, 174 & Palau 335327. 186 Triggs, H. Inigo. Formal gardens in England and Scotland, their planning and arrangement, architectural and ornamental features. London, Batsford, 1902. Large folio. xxiv + 63 + (1) p, 125 plates (numbered to 122 but including 37*,58*, and 93*),72 are from drawings and plans by the author, 53 from photographs by Charles Latham. Half green morocco, olive cloth, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. £500 who made himself a name as co-author with Jorge Juan of the great work on the French expedition to establish a degree on the Meridian in Peru in 1748. In the present work he also discusses the customs, religion and language of the Indians and their antiquities. It was later translated into French and German. Medina 4600; Palau 343417; Sabin 97687. Triggs’ large format work serves to endorse the turn of the century revival of interest in the formal garden. Latham’s photographs combined with Triggs’ designs document existing gardens, some recently laid out, and illustrate schemes of gardens as they might have been (the latter reconstructed from old plans). Architectural garden features separately illustrated include columbaria, sundials, lead cisterns and summerhouses. A fine publication with 6-page list of subscribers. 188 Vaenius, Otto. Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum. Antwerp, Philip Lisaert, 1612. Oblong 4to. 36 numbered engraved plates by Antonio Tempesta after Vaenius. 18th century mottled calf, gilt; spine neatly restored. £3500 Natural history of Peru and Ecuador 187 Ulloa, Antonio de. Noticias Americanas: entretenimientos phisico-historicos, sobre la América Meridional, y la Septentrianal Oriental. Comparicion general. de los territorios, climas, y produciones en las tres especies, vegetales, animales, y minerales… Discurso sobre la lengua, y sobre el modo en que pasaron los primeros pobladores. Madrid, Francisco Manuel de Mena, 1772. 4to. [12]f + 407 + [1 blank]p + [1]f errata. Ornamental tail-pieces. Contemporary limp vellum. £750 First edition of a scientific investigation of the geography, geology, climate and the fauna and flora of Peru and Ecuador by Alfonso de Ulloa (1716-95). Spanish naval officer and fellow of many learned societies, Engraved by Antonio Tempesta A series of allegorical engravings illustrating the armed struggle between the ancient Dutch tribes and their Roman oppressors inspired by Tacitus’s history. Each plate bears an engraved legend below in Flemish and and in Latin; a detailed explanation is printed on the otherwise blank verso. This historicist work, very popular in its time, was achieved by two great artists: the designer, Otto Vaenius (Otto van Veen 1556-1629), court painter to Alessandro Farnese, was influenced by the Italian mannerists but had developed his own style anticipating the Flemish baroque of his pupil Peter Paul Rubens; the engraver, Antonio Tempesta (15551630), specialized in battle scenes. Plate I, signed ‘Ant.Tempesta f. Anno 1611’, shows ‘Roma’ and ‘Batavia’ in battle dress with respective scenic backgrounds, symbolizing the two nations; 15 other plates bear Tempesta’s monogramme. The plates depict heroic events, sieges, and battle scenes. A good copy with an English 18th century provenance in top blank margin of title with manuscript entries ‘Given by J[oh]n Greenwood’ and ‘J[oh]n Williams 1742’; English armorial bookplate with crested crown and motto ‘In domino confido’. Funck 404; for the artists see Thieme-Becker XXXIV, 176 & XXXII, 516-17. Four medical treatises by Peruvian physician First Argentine Commercial Code 189 Valdes, José. Disertaciones medico-quirurgicas sobre varios puntos importantes. Madrid, Sancha, 1815. 12mo. 179 + [1 blank]p. Contemporary mottled sheep; worn. £385 192 Vélez Sársfield, Dalmacio & Eduardo Acevedo. Código de Comercio para el Estado de Buenos Aires, presentado a las honorables camaras por el poder ejecutivo, el 1. de Mayo de 1857. Large 4to. vi p +[1 blank]f + 407 + [1 blank]p + [1 blank]f. Contemporary half-calf; worn. £650 Four dissertations by a professor of medicine and surgery at St Marcos University at Lima, Peru, of which the 2nd and 4th are here first published: 1) on the effectiveness of balsam of Copayero (a medicinal resin extracted from the South American Copayero tree); 2) on the Lima catarrh epidemic of 1808; 3) on uterine cancer as found in Lima women; 4) the best method of curing mumps and carbuncles. The author also discusses infantile meningitis and dysentery. A good copy with the contemporary ownership entry of a Buenos Aires chemist whose shop was facing the convent of St Francis: ‘Santiago Torres, Quimico y Droguista, Frente a San Francisco, Buenos Ayres’; in blank margins of title and recto of last leaf. Palau 347510. ‘First published glossary of the Venetian dialect’ 190 Varotari, Diario. Il vespaio stuzzicato satire veneziane di Dario Varotari altre volte Ardio Rivarota, & Oratio Varardi. Venice, Pietr’Antonio Zamboni, 1671. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece signed I.P.F + [12] + 183 + [19]p. including a Venetian-Italian vocabulary and an index. Woodcut ornaments in the text. 18th century vellum. £450 The only edition of these twelve prose satires in the Veneto dialect, each accompanied by a sonnet in Italian. Appended is ‘I modi figurati e frasi dilucidate’, which is considered the first published glossary of the Venetian dialect. The engraved frontispiece represents a satyr disturbing a wasps’ nest. Dario Varotari the Younger, poet, physician and dilettante artist at Padua, was the son of Alessandro Varotari (1588-1648), a noted painter, known as ‘il Padovanino’. Well preserved. With engraved bookplate of Martin Aldao. Vinciana Catalogue 3071.Not listed in British Library Catalogue of 17th Century Italian Books. Animals and medicine 191 Velez de Arciniega, Francisco. Historia de los animales mas recebidos en el uso de Medicina: donde se trata para lo que cada uno entero, o parte del aprovecha, y de la manera de su preparación. Madrid, Royal Press, 1613. 4to. [8]f + 454p + [1]f. Roman, Greek & italic letter. Printer’s device on title; some ornamental initials. Contemporary limp vellum. £1500 An interesting study of the use of animals in medicine, containing remedies for various illnesses and diseases, and compiled for the benefit of surgeons, physicians and apothecaries. The present edition is considered superior to the first edition of 1597 (entitled Historia de los Quadrupedes y Serpientes terrestres) for its inclusion of additional material on birds, fish and shellfish. Among the animals discussed are eagles and sparrows, eels and dolphins, hedgehogs, hares, wolves, snails and ants. Isolated staining in lower margins, otherwise a clean, crisp copy with an early ownership entry on title, and child’s doodles on blank verso of last leaf. Heredia 4471. Krivatsy 12245. Palau 357764. Salvá 2754. The first Argentine mercantile code, commissioned by the government of the state of Buenos Aires in June 1856. Buenos Aires had seceded from the Confederation in 1852, and assumed independent sovereignty. The code became valid for the entire country in 1862 under the presidency of Bartolomé Mitre. It was drafted by Vélez Sarsfield (1800-75), an eminent lawyer, politician and physician from Cordoba, who supported the predominance of Buenos Aires, in collaboration with the Uruguayan lawyer Eduardo Acevedo Maturana (1815-63). Vélez Sársfield also drew up the Argentine Civil Code in 1869. He was married to the daughter of the Liberator- General San Martin, his patient during the cholera epidemic. A fine large copy with Véles Sársfield’s autograph presentation inscription in top right title to the influential fellow politician and diplomat, Dr. Mariano Balcarce (1807-85). 193 Verona. Capitoli et Ordini del Santo Monte di Pietà di Verona. Verona, Fratelli Merli, 1709. 8vo. Engraved title showing a risen Christ surrounded by 7 angels with symbols of the stations of the Cross + 214 (misnumb.213). With typographical ornaments and initials (And:) Nuovi Regolacioni per li Massari, et Ufficiali del Santo Monte di Pietà di Verona. Verona, Frattelli Merlo, 1751. 11 + [1 blank] + 11+ [1 blank] (numbered 201-11) p. Large oval woodcut on title showing Christ rising from a chalice surrounded by 4 angels. Near-contemporary paper boards. £450 I: The Statutes of the Montes Pietatis at Verona, a charitable lending establishment and precursor of the modern pawnshop, which initially collected the necessary capital by preaching and donations, charging only a modest interest. II: Updated rules for the employees of the lending society. Neither imprint is listed in Kress, or in Goldsmiths’ Catalogue. Excellent copies from the collection of Federico Caproni with bookplate inside front cover. Voltaire’s Prayer conceived in Dutch verse 195 Voltaire (Arouet, François-Marie 1694-1778). Gebed van Voltaire. (Voltaire’s prayer) Calligraphic manuscript on paper. broadside in folio (62.5 x 49cm); eight lines of calligraphic text penned in brown ink interspersed with ornamental flourishes and small devices within triple line border; decorative corner pieces. The Netherlands, late 18th century. some neat repairs without loss. Neatly mounted on tissue. £1250 An anonymous satirical Dutch verse composition of an imaginary prayer attributed to the famous French freethinker (see illustration on the front cover of this catalogue) here in free English rendering: ‘Lord, too often disowned, Although proclaimed throughout the Universe Hear from my uncouth mouth the latest supplication My heart has loved You, but I, a human being, have sinned Have, Father, denied You yet searched for Your law I see Eternity approaching, yet see it without fear Think not that the Lord, who called me into being Who has blessed me in this dark vale of tears When I have died, will punish me eternally.’ Ironically, the concept of ‘Voltaire’s Prayer’ is one of his celebrated aphorisms contained as part of a letter of 16th May 1767 to a close friend and trusted collaborator, Étienne Noël Damilaville (1723-68) : “J’ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte. La voici. Mon Dieu, rendez nos enemies bien ridicules ! Dieu m’a exaucé.’ (I always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: ‘O Lord, make our enemies quite ridiculous ! God granted it.’) First description of the Aegina Marbles A classic in Provençal cultural studies 194 Vincens, Jean-César & M. Baumes. Topographie de la ville de Nismes et de sa banlieue ... publié avec des notes, par le Cn. Vincens-St-Laurent. Nîmes, de l’imprimerie de la Veuve Belle, An X - 1802. 4to. [2] + xxiv + 588p. With 1 engraved plate by J.C. Savin, and folding meteorological table. Half calf, richly gilt. £750 Topographical study of the Roman city of Nîmes with comprehensive account of the town and surrounding area, containing an important ‘flora’ in the plant list included on pp322 to 415, in 3 parts with appendices. Part I details the architecture, institutions, customs, language, commerce and demographic statistics of the town. Part II is concerned with geographical and agricultural aspects including the fauna and flora of the area. Part III gives descriptions of the inhabitants, their character, occupations and temperament. The appendices deal with the Nîmes of classical importance. Generally in very good condition with wide margins. A classic in Provençal cultural studies and archaeology cf: Michel Naudin, ‘Culture et histoire - Les signes de la romanité nîmoise a l’epoque de la Revolution Française’ in Annales historiques de la Revolution Française, 1993, vol 292, no 292, pp237-258. Pritzel 9786 (for flora list). 196 Wagner, Johann Martin von. Bericht über die Aeginetischen Bildwerke im Besitz Seiner Königl.Hoheit des Kronprinzen von Baiern. Mit kunstgeschichtlichen Anmerkungen von Fr.W. J. Schlegel. Stuttgart & Tübingen, J. W. Cotta, 1817. 12mo. xii+ 246p. + [1]f errata + 1 lithographed folding table. Contemporary red half calf; backstrip ornamented in gilt including author and title. £950 First edition of the author’s detailed description of the famous Aegina Marbles discovered in 1811, purchased by him for Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria’s Munich Glyptothek against strong British competition. It was the most significant acquisition of classical Greek art for a European museum, comparable to the Elgin Marbles which ended up in the British Museum. The Aegina Marbles had decorated the pediments of the temple of Athena Aphaia on the small island of Aegina close to Athens. In 1811 a group of young architects and antiquarians visited the island to study the remains of a temple then identified with the cult of Zeus Panhellenius. After sketching the fallen fragmentary pedimental scuptures, they were removed to Zante to be viewed and catalogued by the painter and royal art advisor, Johann Martin von Wagner (1777-1858). Ludwig had the Marbles shipped to Rome for restoration under the direction of Bertel Thorwaldsen, the foremost neoclassical sculptor of the day. On display at the Munich Glyptothek by 1828, they are thought to have influenced the neoclassical rebuilding of the city by Leo von Klenze. The editor, classicist and literary critic F.W. Schlegel (1772-1829) added scholarly notes, an introduction, an index, and an epilogue. The folding plate illustrates the lettering on the ruins of the temple described on p 77. An attractive copy; occasional very light foxing. See: Stephan L. Dyson, ‘In pursuit of ancient pasts’, (chapter 5, The Emergence of the Great Museums in Europe and America, p133). Museum catalogue of an Argentine patrician house Preparation of healthy food and dietetics 197 Witcomb [Alejandro] (photographers). Museo Mitre. Fundado el año 1907. Album containing 12 original mounted photographs (164 x 214mm) showing the exterior and interior of the newly established Museo Mitre. [Buenos Aires, 1907]. Oblong 4to (325 x 470mm). Original morocco binding with title and ornament gilt-stamped on front cover; spine repaired, corners scuffed; inside in fine, clean condition. £1650 198 Zückert, Johann Friedrich. Medizinisches Tischbuch oder Cur und Präservation der Krankheiten durch diatische Mittel. Berlin, A. Mylius, 1771. 8vo. xxiv + 354 + [6]p. Ornamental vignettes. Contemporary half vellum with gilt-tooled title label on spine. £450 The first illustrated guide to the Mitre Museum in Calle San Martín 366, Buenos Aires, inaugurated 3rd June 1907. The charming 18th century colonial house, formerly the private residence of President Bartolomé Mitre from 1860 to 1906, was acquired by the nation after his death with the object of converting it into a national museum; its contents, including his large library, collections and archives, were donated by the family to conserve the superb 19th century interior in its original state. The photographs represent: a front view of the building, the large drawing room, the reception hall with statue of Mitre, a room with the military collection, a portrait gallery with showcases, the ‘sala del jubileo’, Mitre’s private office, Mitre’s bedroom, the archive and office of the museum director, the vast library of the Americas, the reading room, and a model of a projected mausoleum. The mounts bear the embossed signature of Alejandro Witcomb, the most successful Argentine photographer of the period (the studio was founded by his father Alexander Whitcomb (1835-1905). Bartolomé Mitre (1821-1906), soldier, journalist, and first legitimate Argentine president (1862-68), founded the leading broadsheet “La Nación”. He is today considered one of the greatest Argentine historical figures. First edition of this popular German health manual. The first part deals with the cooking and preparation of healthy foods, the second with the treatment and prevention of disease by dietetic means. Coffee is extensively discussed on pp65-68. Züclert (1737-78) was a chemist by profession who later read medicine and practiced as a physician. He demonstrated a subtle understanding of stress factors of certain conditions well ahead for his time and is considered a precursor of psychology. A good copy in an attractive period binding. Blake p500; Hünersdorff, Coffee : a Bibliography, p1657. 199 Zúñiga, Diego de (S.J.) L’Éta’ dell’Huomo. Libri due. Rome, I.de Lazari, 1661. 16mo. [10] + 248 pages. With engraved allegorical frontispiece showing a shipwreck. Old vellum; repaired. £350 First edition of this study on transcendental philosophy with reflections on life and after-life by a Jesuit author. The book is devided into two parts: “L’Eta’ dell’Huomo mortale” and “L’Eta’ dell’Huomo immortale”. Isolated marginal worming running through pp79-131 affecting some letters. From the collection of Professor Pedro N.Arata (18491922), distinguished scientist at Buenos Aires University with his 2 library stamps on title. Palau 381575. No copy listed in World Catalogue. INDEX Based on catalogue numbers Abascal y Sousa, José Fernando, marqués de Concordia 149 Africa 90, 102,143,173 African slaves 1, 70 Agriculture 73, 153, 159, 194 Alarcón, Martín de, conquistador 1 Aldine press 175 Alexander III, pope 139 American Indians 21, 62, 70, 84 American plants 25,92 Anatomy 33, 38, 59 Anecdotes 54, 55, 158 Angra, Azores 70 Animal motion 116 Apprenticeship 159 Arab authors 150, 171,172 Arab stallions 157 Arab-Norman architecture 8 Arabic language 171, 172 Aragón 19, 40, 43 Arboriculture 91, 92, 108, 120 Archeology 8, 144, 166, 194, 196 Architecture 8, 15, 24, 52, 63, 70, 110, 121, 122, 144, 184, 194 Arequipa, Peru 130 Argentina 7, 10, 17, 18, 21, 23, 28, 31, 62, 79, 93, 94, 110, 140, 192, 197 Argentine Bibliophile Society 79, 123 Arithmetic 185 Art 24, 40, 50, 52, 73, 74, 93, 103, 106, 144, 155, 184, 196 Art academies 24 Art collections 48, 50, 52, 73, 107, 155, 196 Art & city guides 15, 52, 144, 184 Art Deco 36, 93 Artillery 14, 47, 129, 160, 162, 179 Ashburner, Walter, Oxford lawyer & collector 154 Asian art 96 Asian plants 56, 90, 92, 96 Astronomy 185 Australia 32 Austria 35, 67, 98, 100 Autographs & autograph letters 32, 74, 150, 157 Azores 70, 168 Balcarce, Mariano Severo, Argentine diplomat & physician 192 Ballistics 14, 160, 162, 179 Banking 30, 81, 117, 124, 193 Bankruptcy 98 Banned books 105, 132, 167 Barbary pirates 176 Barcelona 40 Basque country 126 Belgium 2, 11, 77, 158 Benedict XIV, pope 117 Bibliography 37, 82, 86, 158 Bindings 9, 23, 48, 49, 72 Biography 32, 63, 66, 134, 155, 177 Blado, Antonio, Roman printer 154 Bólívar, Simon, South American Liberator-general 53 Book art 31, 79, 103, 106, 109, 123, 176, 188 Book collecting 9 Books of Hours 109 Books of secrets 152 Borbón, Francisco de Paula de, Duque de Cádiz 157 Botanic gardens 11, 21, 80, 137, 180 Botany 26, 37, 41, 56, 70, 78, 80, 111, 119, 130, 137, 194 Bourdon, Sébastien, French painter & art critic 155 Brazil 21, 70, 94 Broadsides 75, 76, 149, 195 Buenos Aires 18, 21, 22, 28, 31, 83, 88, 94, 110, 140, 189, 192 Cádiz, Spain 27 Callao, Peru 28, 70 Calligraphy 64, 109, 151, 195 Callot, Jacques, French printmaker 155, 176 Canonici, Matteo Luigi, Jesuit collector 47 Cape Horn 70 Carácas 53 Carpet designs 36 Cartagena de las Indias, Colombia 28 Cartography 32, 35, 70, 77, 94, 102, 140, 161 Catalan authors 42 Cataluña 40 Catarrh 59, 189 Cavalry 47, 89, 157 Cayenne, French Guiyana 153 Cemeteries 62 Ceylon 90 Chemistry 78 Chess 96, 150 Chile 3, 21, 70, 135 China 36 Chinchona plant (Peruvian bark) 130, 180 Chivalry 4, 156, 176 Chivalry, Orders of 154, 158, 176 Chocolate 71 Church revenues 167 Citrus fruits 37, 91 Clocks 15 Coffee 99, 198 Coffee prohibition 71 Coffee tariffs 25 Coins 75 Collecting 47, 48, 183 Colombia (New Granada) 3, 28, 64 Colombo press, Buenos Aires 31, 79, 123 Colonial produce 153 Columbus (Colombo), Christopher, Genoese explorer 32 Concepción, Chile 70 Cook, James, British explorer 173 Costume 70, 94, 103, 165 Cremation 22 Cuba 28 Dancing 70, 84 Demonology 132 Denmark 68 Dentistry 59 Deuchino, Evangelista, Venice printer 139 Díaz del Castillo, Bernál, conquistador 32 Dictionaries 3, 45, 91, 168, 172, 190 Diplomatics 109 Duelling 4, 156, 178 Dutch literature 69, 195 Grammars 97, 175 Greece 103, 144, 196 Greek literature 39 Greek medicine 72 Greek songs 46 Greenhouses 91 Guides 15, 52, 144, 184 Guipúzcoa, Basque country 126 Gunnery 12, 28, 29, 47, 129, 162, 179 Gyneaology 33 Economic history 34, 40 Economics 159 Ecuador 187 Electricity 85, 138 Elzevier press 49, 90, 167 Encyclopaedias 3, 121, 185 Engineering 62, 77, 110, 133, 160, 162 England 186 Entimology 58 Epidemics 22,189 Erasmus, Desiderius, Dutch humanist 72 Erotica 9, 13 Estate management 108 Ethiopia 143 Ethnography 21, 62, 70, 84,102, 143, 153, 169, 173, 187 Exorcism 132 Explosives 14, 128, 160 Halley, Edmund, English scientist 70 Handguns 12, 47 Hannover, Germany 164 Havana, Cuba 28 Health care 49, 118, 125, 198 Health funding 159 Heraldry 64, 151, 158 Herculaneum scrolls 166 Heredity 131 Hispanic literature 5, 17, 18, 19, 23, 31, 83 Hispano-american medicine 45, 189 Homeopathy 22 Horse breeding 157 Horsemanship 89, 116 Horticulture 6, 11, 37, 60, 91, 101, 111, 120 Humanism 72, 104, 147, 175, 177, 181 Hungary 35 Ferdinand VII, king of Spain 149 Fête-books 40, 69, 126 Fioravanti, Leonardo, Bolognese physician 160 Fire-works 160 Flemish illustrated books 188 Flood control 133 Florence 133, 176 Floriculture 37, 91 Food & drink 70, 76, 102, 144, 177, 198 Forgeries 75 Fortification 142, 179 Frankfurt Easter Bookfair 30 Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor 139 French East Indies Company 169 French literature 104, 106, 147 Funerals 69 Ibarra, Joaquín, Madrid printer 24, 28 Illuminated documents 64 Incunabula 177 India 90, 96, 130 Industry 73, 110, 159 Infantry manual 146 Instruments 14, 16, 85, 99, 160, 162, 179 Italian gardens 37 Italian literature 9, 29, 55, 86, 174 Italian Renaissance artists 74 Italian songs 46 Games & pastimes 70, 170 Garden art & architecture 6, 37, 60, 61, 91, 101, 108, 111, 120, 121, 122, 186 Garden implements 111 Gems 99 Geneaology 43, 64, 130, 151 Genetics 131 Geography 3, 32, 70, 84, 102, 140, 144, 168, 187, 194 Geology 135, 187 Geometry 185 Germany 75, 76, 91, 124, 161, 164 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, German poet 163 Golden Fleece, Order of 2, 27, 158 Java 180 Jesuit College Press 145 Jesuits 47, 70, 84, 117, 145, 199 Jews 33, 48, 70, 76, 163, 167 Juan Fernández islands, Chile 21 Juvenile literature 114, 181 Karpinski, Louis Charles, chess champion 150 Koch, Wilhelm, German humanist 72 La Serena, Chile 70 Labour laws 69 Labyrints 111 Lafayette, Marie-Joseph, marquis de, French general 66 Las Casas, Bartolomé de, protector of Indians 32 Laske, Gotthard, Berlin bibliophile 163 Law & government 2, 3, 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 68, 71, 75, 81, 98, 117, 124, 129, 141, 149, 176, 192, 193 Leoniceno, Nicoló, Italian humanist 72 Leprosy 59 Lima, Peru 21, 28, Lima imprint 149 Linacre, Thomas, English humanist 72 Linguistics 3, 32, 97, 185, 187,190, 194 Literary anecdotes 54, 55 Lithograph 38, 103, 129 Louis Philippe, King of the French 66 Louisiana 25 Madagascar 169 Magellan, Straits of 32, 70 Magic 185 Manuscript commentary 154 Manuscripts 1, 43, 47, 64, 140, 151, 157, 195 Marine infantry 28 Maritime insurance 27, 117 Marmont, Auguste de, Duc de Raguse, French Marshal 148 Mary Queen of Scots 107 Mediaeval gardens 44 Mediaeval manuscripts 109 Medici, Cosimo de, Grandduke of Tuscany 146, 176 Medicine 20, 22, 33, 39, 42, 45, 49, 51, 59, 65, 72, 84, 87, 102, 112, 115, 125, 185, 189, 191, 198 Mendoza, Argentina 21 Mentelin, Johann, first Strassburg printer 15 Mercantile law 117, 124, 192 Merian, Mattheius, Frankfurt publisher 111 Metallurgy 78, 88 Metereology 194 Mexican medicine 45 Mexico 3, 32, 95 Military equitation 89, 129 Military health & medicine 125, 160 Military law 141 Military map 161 Military Orders – see Chivalry, Orders of Military science 4, 12, 14, 28, 47, 62, 66, 67, 77, 100, 103, 142, 146, 147, 160, 188 Mineral springs 118 Mines & Mining 32, 40, 70, 88, 135, 160 Minting ordinance 17, 25 Mitre, Bartolomé, Argentine president 197 Monetary reform 75, 81 Montevideo, Uruguay 21, 28 Montpellier 80 Mortier, Adolphe, Duc de Trévise, French Marshal 164 Munich Glyptothek 196 Museum catalogues 50, 197 Music 46, 66, 70 Naples 19, 43 Natural history 3, 26, 56, 58, 62, 70, 82, 84, 169, 173, 185, 187, 194 Naval administration 28 Naval cannon 28, 162 Navarra 126 Nepal 56 Netherlands 69, 75, 188 New York 153 Newspapers & periodicals 10, 93, 99 Nîmes, France 194 Niños Expósitos, Argentine Foundlings’ Press 10 Obstetrics 33, 51, 102 Occult 132, 185 Ophthalmology 16, 22, 59 Optics 138 Orchids 90 Ostend, siege of 77 Padua 37 Paintings 36, 64, 151 Papal bull 154 Papal knighthood, Order of 154 Paraguay 7, 70 Paris, France 52, 73 Patagonia 62 Pathology 65 Pattern books 23, 36, 73 Pavia, Italy 137 Pawnshops 117, 193 Persia 97 Peru 1, 3, 21, 26, 28, 32, 70, 88, 130, 134, 149, 187, Pharmacology 26, 41, 45, 49, 78, 87, 111, 152, 185, 189 Philhellenism 103 Philippines 25, 32 Philosophy 57, 83, 185, 199 Photography 8, 62, 73, 110, 186, 197 Physics 85, 136, 138 Physiognomy 155 Physiology 65 Pius IV, pope 154, 176 Plant catalogues 56, 80, 91, 137, 180, 194 Plant collections 90 Plant transportation 26 Plantin, Antwerp printer 19, 41 Poland 35 Porto-Alegre 94 Portraits 69, 103, 107, 144, 146, 151, 162, 184 Portugal 128, 129, 171, 172 Portuguese language 171, 172 Portuguese medicine 45 Potosí , Peru 88 Poussin, Nicolas, French painter 155 Presentation copies 4, 12, 14, 17, 22, 82, 128, 142, 148, 150, 157, 188, 192 Print catalogues 155 Prison labour 159 Prison life 153 Prison ship 153 Privately printed 48, 82, 83, 103, 131,163 Provence 194 Rabies 115 Raglovich, Clemens Wenzel, Graf von, Bavarian general & book collector 103 Religious orders 165, 167 Rio de Janeiro 21 Rockets 160 Rome 184 Turks 35, 176 Tuscany 133, 176 Saint Stephen, Order of 176 Salvador de Bahia, Brazil 70 Santa Catharina, Brazilian island 70 Santiago de Chile 21 Schlegel, Friedrich Wilhelm von, German classicist & literary critic 196 School books 181 Schools 62 Science 20, 73, 85, 99, 127, 185 Scotland 186 Seed catalogue 120 Seychelles islands 153 Shanghai 36 Sheep farming 34, 148, 182 Ship building & shipping 28, 68, 110 Sicily 8 Signalling 28 Slave trade 1, 70 Slavery 21 Sneyd, Rev.Walter, English manuscript collector 47 Social history 1, 9,13, 40, 68, 69, 104, 159, 177 Social welfare 159 Songs 46, 66 South Africa 102, 173 Spain 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 34, 40, 126, 141, 151, 157 Spanish America 3, 7, 10, 21, 25, 28, 32, 53, 70, 84, 88, 130, 134, 187 Spanish medicine 42 Spanish Netherlands 2, 77 Spanish navy 28 Spanish translations 9, 13 Spanish voyages 28 Strategy 47, 100 Strawberry plant 70 Stuart de Rothesay, Charles, British diplomat & collector 164 Surgery 22, 39, 87, 189 Sweden 71 Valencia 40 Valparaiso, Chile 70 Venereal disease 22, 59, 65 Venezuela 53, 84 Venice 46, 47, 105, 139, 190 Verona 193 Vespucci, Amerigo, Italian navigator 32 Vienna, siege of 35 Voyages of exploration 70, 94, 169, 173 Taxation 76 Taxidermy 183 Tea 70, 71 Tempesta, Antonio, Italian painter & engraver 188 Thouvenin, Joseph, French binder 49 Tibet 96 Tobacco 68, 71, 91 Topography 52, 62, 110, 140, 144, 184, 194 Town planning 113 Trade 1, 2, 25, 30, 70, 73, 75, 76, 94, 110, 159, 168, 169, 171, Trade guilds 68, 159 Trading laws 124 Transportation to the Spanish East and West Indies 28 Travel & exploration 7, 62, 96, 102, 143 Tropical medicine 102, 189 Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel & Inca revivalist 130 Uruguay 21, 28, 94 Wales 118 War of the Spanish Succession 161 Women, employment of 159 Wunderkammer 183 Ziano, Sebastiano, Doge of Venice 139 Zoology 82, 102, 191 Zürich 163