DECEMBER 2017 22 NEW ACQUISITIONS BERNARD QUARITCH

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DECEMBER 2017 22 NEW ACQUISITIONS

BERNARD QUARITCH

FACSIMILES OF BURMESE DOCUMENTS EDITED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS, WITH THE SCARCE SUPPLEMENT

. Burmese Petitions, Letters, and Other Papers Reproduced by Photolithography.

Folio (344 x 2l 6 mm), pp. [7], [l blank], [99 (facsimiles)], [2]; very occasional light spotting, title slightly creased; original buckram-backed maroon boards, spine lettered in brown, uncut, first quire partially unopened; upper board slightly faded, light offsetting on endpapers, otherwise a very good, fresh copy in the original boards. £l 00 A selection of documents reproduced in facsimile and numbered from l to l 00, which encompass a wide range of subjects; they include ‘Application to Carry Arms’, ‘Application for Appointment as a Clerk’, ‘Report of a Murder’, ‘Objections to Encroachments of a Fishery Lessee’, ‘Appeal in a Dacoity Case’, ‘Application of a Pongyi to cut Teak to Build a Monastery’, ‘Application to Float Salved Timber to Min-gon’, etc. The work was edited by Bridges, formerly of the Indian Civil Service and Lecturer in Burmese in the University of Oxford, and was for the use of students. The documents are grouped in sections, which are graded from ‘Elementary Standard’ upwards, and Bridges explains in his preface that they ‘are intended to provide students with specimens of the papers which they will have to deal with in the course of their work in Burma, and to accustom them to read the written character, which differs considerably from the printed form’. This copy includes a loosely-inserted, supplementary stitched quire of four leaves, which has a further series of facsimiles numbered from l 0 l to l 07.

. Saint Swithun’s School, Winchester. [

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Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper, with gilt borders, l 55 x 38 cm; inscription on the original passepartout, ‘Designed by Mitchell & Bridgwater. Chartered architects. Drawn by D. L. Bridgewater’; signed below on the right: ‘D. L. B.’; minor spotting, very good. £900 + VAT in the EU Fine architectural drawing of the facade of the Saint Swithun’s School in Winchester, including plans of the ground floor and layout. A nice example of the art deco and modernist styles, to be seen particularly in the detailing of the brick building. The school moved to its present location overlooking the Hampshire Downs in l 93l, the new buildings being formally opened in l 932. During World War II the school turned into a hospital and in l 942 became an American casualty clearing station. The building was designed by the architectural firm Mitchell & Bridgwater, based at that time at Berkeley Square in London. The drawing is by Derek Lawley Bridgwater (l 899-l 983), known for his housing, schools and hospitals, and as the author of (l 948), which he wrote with John Gloag. Cf.

, p. 704.

UNRECORDED RELIGIOUS BROADSIDE

On the crucifixion of our saviour and the two thieves. . Engraved broadside, 42 x 3l .5 cm; with decorative borders and vignettes, employing numerous different calligraphic fonts; small loss to lower right blank corner, a few short closed tears at edges, a few marks, some spotting to verso; a very good copy. £500 An attractive, unrecorded religious broadside, displaying an impressive range of calligraphic fonts. The sheet depicts the crosses of Christ and the two thieves bearing the words each spoke at the Crucifixion arranged vertically. Running across these are 26 lines of verses (beginning ‘Behold O God in rivers of my tears’) forming acrostics with the text on the crosses. The sheet was published by Richard Hickman (or Hinckesman) and engraved by Thomas Merrifield of l l Piccadilly. ESTC records a few similar broadsides published between c. l 765 and c. l 800 under the title – all extremely rare. We have been unable to trace a copy of this item on COPAC, ESTC or OCLC.

THE ‘AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION’ OF BYRD’S ACCOUNT OF FIRST AMERICAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION

Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole. 8vo (245 x l60 mm), pp. [2 blank], [2], xvi, 436, [4]; title printed in blue and black, and with vignette printed in blue; photogravure portrait frontispiece after Rebecca Lindon Taylor with tissue guard with caption printed in red, 55 half-tone plates, and 4 maps and plans, 2 folding and bound to throw clear, headpieces to foreword, contents, illustrations, and each chapter; very lightly browned; original half vellum gilt over sky-blue boards, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, a few quires unopened, sky-blue endpapers; a few light spots or marks on binding, otherwise a very good copy; : newspaper clipping dated ‘Wednesday Morning’ (presumably 22 April l93l) about the death of Byrd’s dog ‘Igloo’ tipped onto first blank. £400 printed on Ragleaf All Rag Paper. was the leader’s account of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition of l 928 to l 930, which was the first American Antarctic expedition. It was undertaken with three aeroplanes – a Ford trimotor, a Fokker Universal and a Fairchild, all modified for extreme conditions – and in the course of the expedition Byrd made his first Antarctic flight and became the first person to fly to the South Pole and back. As Conrad states, the ‘geographical accomplishments were extensive. The expedition made easterly flights to beyond Edward VII Land and discovered the Edsel Ford Ranges (later Ford Ranges), Marie Byrd Land and Rockefeller Mountains, examining the latter. [Lawrence McKinley] Gould made a geological reconnaissance of Queen Maud Mountains, l 75 miles of which were mapped from the ground and the air. Amundsen's Carmen Land was disproved and Byrd overflew the Pole’ (p. 25 l). The ‘Author’s Autograph Edition’ of l ,000 copies signed by Byrd was published at the same time as the first trade edition, but was produced to much higher

standards: it was bound in half vellum, the text was printed on rag paper on larger sheets in a different type-setting, which extended to 436 pages (rather than 422), and the illustrations were printed on the rectos only of the plates (rather than printed recto-and-verso on a smaller number of plates). Spence 227; Taurus ll 4; . Conrad p. 253 (l st trade ed.).

AN UNOPENED COPY OF THE RARE LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED ON THE LIMITATION LEAF AND BELOW THE PORTRAIT Discovery. The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. 8vo (25 l x l 62 mm), pp. [2 blank], [2], xxi, [3], 405, [3 blank]; photogravure portrait frontispiece with autograph signature below and retaining tissue guard, 23 plates with 93 photographic illustrations (5 full-page) and one map printed recto-and-verso, and one double-page map after James Darley; original half blue buckram over cream boards, spine divided into compartments by gilt rules and lettered in gilt on black field in one, boards ruled in gilt, sprinkled cream endpapers, unopened and uncut, slipcase covered with gilt star patterned paper; spine slightly faded and with a few spots of discoloration, extremities minimally rubbed, slipcase slightly worn and with old repairs, nonetheless ; : Henry Sotheran Ltd (bookseller’s ticket on upper pastedown and pencilled acquisition note on final blank). £450 and printed on Strathmore permanent rag paper (this copy unnumbered). details the events during Byrd’s second Antarctic expedition in l 934, a project not merely embarked upon only in the name of science but also, as he states in the book, for ‘the intangible attraction of the white continent itself, the pull of discovery, of seeing new lands and fitting into the jig-saw of geography the missing pieces beyond the horizon’ (p. l ). Important for its application of new technology to the problems of polar exploration, this expedition was the first in which ‘long-distance automotive land transport proved to be of practical use’ (Taurus) and it was also ‘the first to make seismic investigations, the first to provide quantitative evidence concerning the floating of the Ross Ice Shelf and the first to broadcast the human voice from Antarctica’ ( .). The limited edition of was produced in a similar (l 930), but the edition was style to the limited edition of Byrd’s only 500 copies – half the size of the earlier title – and is thus much rarer, particularly in such good condition as this example. l l 8; for the trade issue, cf. Conrad p. 29l ; Spence 229.

Capri. Disegni...con VIII ricercari di Gabriele D'Annunzio. . Folio; ll. [6], [l 0], [l 6]; 20 facsimile pages of the writings of Gabriele D’Annunzio, with Giorgio Nicodemi’s preface; 16 lithographic plates, each inserted into a passepartout folder with embossed Roman numeral; blue card folder with printed label to front cover and ties, some spotting to inside of folder; printed on Arches paper, this copy numbered 29 of 250 in ink and signed by the illustrator. £400 + VAT in EU A collection of l 6 lithographic plates reproducing drawings of Capri by the English painter and writer Alis Levi (l 884-l 982). Her works were exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia and the Quadrinennale di Roma, and were the subject of studies by Nino Barbantini and Rodolfo Pallucchini. Levi’s literary salons in Venice and Cortina d’Ampezzo were highly coveted in the 20th century. OCLC locates one copy, at the Berenson Library, I Tatti; OPAC lists two copies, at Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Biblioteca della Biennale.

Marsyas and Olympus. . Etching and engraving; sheet 22. l x l 2 cm; plate 2l .3 x ll .4 cm; in good condition. Etched to lower left: ‘Gio Bened.to Castiglione in P.’; to lower right: ‘Alla pace Io: Iac.mo Rossi form: Romae l 648. £ l 200 + VAT in EU Original etching, the rare third state published by Giacomo de Rossi in Rome. According to Percy, the subject is Marsyas, who taught Olympus to play the flute. Bartsch interprets the scene as showing Pan and Olympus. The figure of Olympus is possibly derived from Carraci’s painting of Marsyas and Olympus on an instrument panel, now at the National Gallery in London. There is a drawing of the same subject in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. There is one example of the third state of the etching in Rome, at the Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe. The British Museum has two examples, one of the second state and the other of the fourth state; another specimen of the fourth state is in the Suida Manning Collection in New York; the Uffizi and the Biblioteca Marucelliana in Florence have examples of the fifth state. Bellini n. l 7; Percy E ll .

THE DEATH OF MICAWBER

Etching and engraving of a bust of John Dickens, father of Charles Dickens, signed and titled on the left of the plate ‘Jno Dickens Ao l 85l ’, and titled again along the foot of the bust. Engraved surface l 6.2 x 9.5 cm, a fine, strong impression printed in dark brown ink on thick paper with very wide margins (paper size 38 x 27.5 cm); inscribed in pencil at the foot in the hand of the pre-eminent Dickens collector John Furber Dexter (l 848-l 927) ‘ / John Dickens, Father of Charles Dickens, taken from life.’ £750 + VAT in EU of a fine etching by the sculptor Samuel Haydon after his own portrait bust of John Dickens, which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy in l 843. The etching was produced as a memorial after John’s death in March l 85l . Haydon sent a copy to John’s widow Elizabeth, with whom he was a friend, and she replied to thank him for picture: ‘I think the likeness of my beloved Husband excellent though there is a saddened expression which was not usual with him – a look that I could imagine after death but I suppose its from the rigidity there would be in a Bust’ (transcription courtesy of Dickens House Museum). The present version of the print is substantially different from the completed work (itself extremely rare), in which the portrait is reduced to an oval vignette, omitting the shoulder of the bust entirely, and is without lettering (the plate size is the same). Here, the inking is very rich and dark, and letters in reverse are visible at the foot of the image – the plate was probably recycled. John Dickens, ‘the most mysterious figure in Dickens’s background’ (Tomalin), managed to secure a job at the Navy Pay Office despite his lowly background (his parents were servants), possibly through the patronage of George Canning. The job took him to Portsmouth, where Charles was born. John set a pattern for his son in his bouts of extravagance followed by debt, for which he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, like his famous literary portrait – William Micawber in (l 849). His wife Elizabeth seems to have been very loyal, despite the

booms and busts: ‘there never was a man more unselfish’ she wrote to Haydon after his death, praising him as ‘a most affectionate, kind Husband and Father’. Samuel James Bouverie Haydon (l 8l 6-l 89l ) trained as a lawyer before turning to sculpture in the l 830s, and was also an early photographer, recommended by Nicholas Condy to Fox Talbot as an experienced assistant in l 845. His bust of John Dickens was one of some forty pieces exhibited by him at the RA over his career. He does not appear to have produced many etchings. John Furber Dexter was the most important early collector of Dickens and Dickensiana – his library formed the basis of Hatton & Cleaver’s in l 933, and was acquired as a named collection by the British Library in l 969. In the l 880s he had correspondence with Haydon, and Haydon’s widow later gave him one of his busts of John Dickens.

Idea de un Principe politico christiano, representada en cien Empressas. Va enmendada en esta quarta Impression de todos los Yerros que avia en las Otras. Dedicada al Principe de las Españas nuestro Señor … . 4to in eights, pp. [l 6], 694; woodcut arms (of Matteo Regil) to title-page, l 03 woodcut emblems after designs by Johann Sadeler; washed and pressed, with repairs to lower edge of title-page; a few neat paper repairs throughout, generally not affecting text, still a good copy in modern vellum, spine preserved with titles in ink and later paper label; ownership inscriptions of ‘And. Grant’ to title page and recto of second page; contemporary annotation dated l 667 referring to the visit of Don Lorenzo Sanctos de San Pedro, a Castilian court official, to the judicial court in the Canary Islands, and another in the same hand: ‘canarias’; numerous marginal notations and underlinings in the same hand; numerous contemporary pen trials and inscriptions to final verso; long handwritten note in ink from the binder, signed ‘Ernest Riley … l 972’, laid in loose describing binding process. £950 Fourth corrected edition, rare, of this famous . The first appeared in l 640 at Munich (with engravings by Sadeler), where Fajardo (l 584-l 648) was serving as a diplomat. This edition was based on the l 642 Milan edition, according to Praz, who called this ‘the most remarkable treatise of political devices for the use of a prince’. The final emblem, ‘Ludibria mortis’, accompanies a poem directing the virtuous prince to prepare for death. The book was dedicated to Balthasar, only son of Philip IV, and evidently intended for his instruction; he died in l 646, aged l 6. OCLC records five copies, at NYPL, National Library Rome, Getty, Leiden and Seville; not in COPAC. Palau XVIII 283447; Campa SX l 7; Praz, p. 483; not in BM Spanish & Portuguese; not in Landwehr.

THE FIRST SUBMARINE FATALITY

A Philosophical Dissertation on the diving Vessel projected by Mr. Day, and sunk in Plymouth Sound … To which is added an Appendix shewing the various Methods of weighing Ships in general. The whole illustrated with two Copper Plates …

4to, pp. [iii]-vi, 58, [4], with two folding engraved plates by Macky after Falck, wanting the half-title and the errata slip; a very good copy, bound with two unrelated contemporary works (Langhorne, , l 774-7; and Blayney, etc., l 775), in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. £l 500 First edition, scarce, of an account of the tragic death by submarine of John Day, ‘a man very illiterate and indigent in his circumstances’ but with big ambitions, and the rescue and salvage attempts by the naval doctor Nikolai Falck. Day had no training beyond his work as a labourer for shipwrights in Yarmouth but was convinced that he had a sound idea for a submarine vessel. After a successful initial experiment he purchased a 50-ton sloop, the , and had it fitted with an air-tight chamber, offset with limestone ballast, the whole to be sunk by flooding. In the event, the latter proved difficult and 20 tons more ballast was added before the ship would descend, followed shortly after by an uprush of air. Spectators gathered all around the surrounding hills, waiting for Day’s planned communication using colour-coded buoys. At the time appointed nothing was forthcoming, and by the following morning, all attempts to lift the vessel had failed. More than a month later, Falck, who theorised that Day might be in a state of suspended animation from the cold, attempted another rescue/salvage mission; he was able to locate the vessel, but after a month of intermittent success followed by bitter failure he too was forced to concede defeat. ESTC shows only three copies in North America: Huntington, Society of the Cincinnati, and Chicago.

The Negro press and the issues of democracy.

8vo, ff. 4; plain pamphlet with a very little rust on staples, else very good, unbound as issued. £380 First separate edition of this speech advocating race equality in the press and indicting the ‘white press’ for overlooking the contribution of African-Americans to the war. It was read by the press magnate Marshall Field at the Capital Press Club in Washington, D.C. ‘It is right and proper that the story of these Negro combat units and of all other Negro units should be told to the Negro public by Negro correspondents through Negro newspapers. But that is not enough. These stories are and should be of interest to all Americans regardless of race or origin. It is highly important that these stories should be told to ALL Americans through ALL news channels’ (p. l ). OCLC lists only eight copies (NYPL, Yale, Congress, Harvard, Ohio State, Illinois State, Kansas, Berkeley).

CERTIFICATE FOR STORMING THE BASTILLE

Certificate for a ‘vainqueur’ of the Bastille (‘Assemblée Nationale. Séance du samedi dix neuf Juin l 790. Décret en faveur des citoyens qui se sont distingués à la prise de la Bastille’). Oblong vellum sheet, 30 x 34.5 cm, with engraved imagery and 25 lines of text, blank spaces completed in manuscript, manuscript signatures; red, blue and white ribbon to lower right bearing remains of red wax seal, remains of another red wax seal applied direct to parchment on left edge; creases where once folded, some light stains, some loss and cracking to wax seals; two small ink ownership stamps to verso; very well preserved. £4500 A magnificent and rare survival from the French Revolution: a handsome certificate, adorned with Revolutionary imagery, awarded to Jacques Domaget, one of the stormers of the Bastille. Domaget (b. l768), from the Ardennes, whose signature appears here in the left-hand margin, was 2 l when he participated in the most iconic event of the Revolution, on l 4 July l789. As one of the so-called ‘Vainqueurs de la Bastille’, the young Domaget was presented with this certificate in recognition of his ‘heroic bravery’ in ‘shaking off the yoke of slavery’ and freeing . As the text explains, Domaget and his fellow Bastille stormers were also provided, at public expense, with a uniform adorned with a mural crown, and a full set of arms, with their name engraved on the barrel of their rifle and on the blade of their sword. Domaget could henceforth use the title ‘Vainqueur de la Bastille’, and his status as such was recorded in the ‘Archives de la Nation’. The widows and children of Domaget’s fallen comrades also received such a certificate, ‘comme monument public de la reconnoissance et de l’honneur dû à tous ceux qui ont fait triompher la liberté sur le despotisme’. The document is signed by several important Revolutionary officials, most notably by the politician and general Charles de Lameth (l 757- l 832) as President of the National Constituent Assembly, a position he held in July l79l . Descended from an ancient noble family, Lameth distinguished himself in the American

Revolutionary War at the siege of Yorktown. He was one of the first aristocrats to renounce his privileges at the beginning of the French Revolution and his popularity was such that when he was wounded in a duel his opponent’s house was stormed by the mob. The other signatories include Jean-Armand Pannetier as ‘President des Vainqueurs de la Bastille’, a grocer from the Faubourg SaintAntoine, and Claude Fournier (l 745-l 825), known as ‘l’Americain’ from his unsuccessful sojourn in Haiti making rum, who participated in the March on Versailles in l 789, the Champ de Mars Massacre in l 79l , and the storming of the Tuileries Palace in l 792. The imagery employed on the certificate is rich in revolutionary symbolism. The two columns which flank the text are surmounted by Hercules, representing the power of the French people over its oppressors, and a winged spirit of freedom clutching the ‘Constitution’ and a lance topped with a . Most striking of all is the composition at the bottom: a vignette of the Bastille being stormed, surmounted by the Gallic rooster and flanked by arms, the broken chains of despotism, and flags of ‘liberté’ and ‘union’. The columns are decorated with pertinent text: ‘Vivre libre ou mourir’; a quote from the ‘Droits de l’homme’ on the equality of all citizens; and an oath of loyalty to the nation, the law, and the king, and a pledge to uphold the constitution. The latter is especially interesting: a reminder – amongst all the gushing praise – to those who had played such an iconic part in the overthrow of the old regime of their obligations under the new one. Only 2 copies traced on OCLC, at the BnF and the Lilly Library.

MONSTERS TAKE OVER THE WORLD

La guerra de mostri d’Antonfrancesco Grazini detto il Lasca. Al padre Stradino. 4to, pp. l 4, [2 blank], misnumbered; printed in italics, large historiated woodcut initial, woodcut Medici arms on the title; a little light foxing, but a very good copy in nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, panelled sides with gilt and blind fillets, small-tool corner-pieces and gilt lettering to the centre of the upper side, blind stamp to the centre of the lower side, flat spine filleted in gilt, dentelles gilt, marbled end-papers. £2000 The ‘War of the monsters’ is an allegorical burlesque poem which appears to be the nucleus of what would have been a larger work, which Grazzini never published. An army of monsters (some four-legged and exceptionally fast-running, some part-pig, part-bull, part-griffin, some serpent-like, in all about twenty ‘species’) and miniature peoples wages war against the gods, and eventually takes hold of the heavens and control of the earth. Fourty-four stanzas in ottava rima are here deployed not in their original earnestly heroic metric function, but to convey a half-burlesque, half-mocking tone: a choice that has been revived especially in modern English verse. ‘Exceedingly rare edition, which is often missing in the most celebrated and complete collections’ (transl. from Poggiali, 338). Razzolini 548 (‘rarissimo’); see Gamba 532; Parenti 277. 3 copies in the US (Harvard, Yale, Folger).

‘PROVIDED HE BE NOT HINDERED BY BLOWING UP’

Contract between the Board of Ordnance and Colonel Robert Lancashire to supply gunpowder. . Manuscript on paper, in English, folio (37.5 x 23.5 cm), pp. [2] + conjoint leaf (blank except for endorsement); two embossed 6 pence revenue stamps at head of p. [l ]; neatly written in brown ink, signature of Robert Lancashire with his red wax seal, also signed by William Phelps and William Musgrave; some light spotting, creases where once folded; reputedly from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (old catalogue description); very well preserved. £250 + VAT in the EU An interesting early l8th-century insight into the supply of gunpowder to the Board of Ordnance, which had been established in the l 400s in the Tower of London to supply munitions and equipment to the Army and Navy. Under the terms of this contract Colonel Robert Lancashire was to produce 504 barrels of gunpowder, from saltpetre supplied by the ‘New East India Company’, and deliver them in 8 or 9 weeks at 60 barrels a week – ‘provided he be not hindered by blowing up of mills or other unavoidable accidents’ – receiving in return l 6 shillings per barrel. A third of the powder was to be ‘fine’ (for small arms) and the remainder to be ‘cannon powder’, all ‘well condic[i]on’d [and] corn’d’, and supplied in barrels ‘of well seasond oake full hoopd close jointed and dryed’. Lancashire, and his ‘heirs, executors and administrators’, guaranteed the gunpowder for 7 years and undertook to make good any found to be ‘defective ... decayed or unserviceable’. Lancashire was a member of both the English East India Company and of the ill-fated Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, also known as the Scottish Darien Company.

THE l928 TEXT OF THE MINT AND ITS CONTEXT: ONE OF FIFTY COPIES BOUND IN FULL GOATSKIN WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

‘The Mint’ and Later Writings about Service Life. Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson.

Folio (28l x l 98 mm), pp. xiii, [l blank], 340, [2 blank], VIII; pp. 3-l 34 printed on grey stock; mounted colourprinted portrait frontispiece after Augustus John; full crushed blue morocco by The Fine Book Bindery, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, lettered directly in 3 and with gilt date at the foot, grey pictorial endpapers, gilt edges, silk marker, blue cloth slipcase; slipcase lightly rubbed at edges, otherwise . £950

Lawrence made notes during the early years of his RAF service in l 922 and l 925, and then revised and enlarged them while serving in India in l 927-l 928. His l 928 manuscript was typed up and copies were distributed to a small circle of readers, including Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, whose concerns about the dangers of publication persuaded Lawrence to agree that would not be published before l 950 (however, an edition of 50 copies priced at $500,000 each was published in the United States in l 936 to secure copyright in the USA). In preparation for a projected l 950 edition, Jonathan Cape set up a revised version of the text in l 948, but this edition was delayed until l 955, to avoid the risk of a potential libel action – a risk which ended with the death of an officer whom Lawrence had described unfavourably.

The Castle Hill Press edition is based on Lawrence’s l 928 manuscript, which is composed of two sections based on his training at the RAF Depot at Uxbridge in l 922 (printed on grey stock in this edition) and a third section describing on his experiences at RAF Cranwell in l 925. Lawrence had intended to add a fourth section, but the surviving notes were too meagre to permit a confident reconstruction of the author’s intentions, so the editors formed a final section from a selection of Lawrence’s later writings about service life, drawn from letters and reports dating from l 927 to l 935, and arranged in diary form like the preceding sections: ‘in effect, this fourth section extends to the end of Lawrence’s RAF service. It also helps redress the negative impact of the Uxbridge chapters that make up almost 80% of the l 928 text’ (prospectus). The book concludes with extracts from Lawrence’s letters in which he discusses with Edward and David Garnett, Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, E.M. Forster, Trenchard, and Cape. The fifty copies bound in full goatskin also contain an additional section of eight pages, comprising ‘Some Uxbridge Notes’ (which had previously been on display at the base) and four notes about Cranwell, which Lawrence had sent to his mother in September l 925. Cf. O’Brien A l 66 (NY: 1936 ed.) and A l 72-l 73 (London: l 955 eds).

‘UTILITY CAN ONLY BE RELATIVE’

De l’intérêt social, par rapport à la valeur, à la circulation, à l’industrie, et au commerce intérieur et extérieur: ouvrage élémentaire, dans lequel on discute quelques principes de M. l’Abbé de Condillac.

8vo, pp. 239, [l ]; ornamental head- and tail-pieces; a few light stains; a very good copy in contemporary quarter sheep over blue marbled boards, vellum corners, gilt lettering-piece to spine, light blue endpapers; some loss at foot of spine, spine and boards rubbed. £l 500 Rare first edition of Le Trosne’s most specifically economic work, which also appeared as the second part of and was issued in conjunction modified to contain reference to this). with it (with the title-page of is, among Le Trosne’s publications, one bearing ‘major economic content, with its discussion of value, circulation, money, industry, and domestic, foreign and colonial trade […]. [It] is particularly noted for its theory of value, which distinguishes its various determinants such as usefulness, tastes, relative scarcity and competition but which identifies necessary expenses of production as the major influence on value, hence the name fundamental price. To analyze value effects on production and wealth Le Trosne distinguishes various value forms linking, for example, the excess of the price received for produce by the farmer over costs, to accumulation and the increase of wealth. Other roles for these complex value relationships are illustrated in Le Trosne’s perceptive discussion of exchange, money, circulation, the sterility of industry and the benefits of trade for an agricultural nation’ ( ). INED 287 l ; Mattioli l 965 (and see Mattioli l 966 for a sequencing of the issues of and ); see Goldsmiths’ l l 539. .

YELLOW FEVER ON THE NIGER: MCWILLIAM’S CLASSIC ACCOUNT

Medical History of the Expedition to the Niger during the Years l 84l -2. Comprising an Account of the Fever which Led to its Abrupt Termination. 8vo (225 x l 4l mm), pp. viii, 287, [l blank]; lithographic frontispiece with later guard and one lithographic plate by Day & Haghe after John Duncan, one hand-coloured lithographed geological cross-section by John Arrowsmith after William Stanger, one folding engraved map by Arrowsmith of the lower course of the river Niger and the route of Captain Trotter’s expedition, one full-page woodcut diagram showing the ventilation of ships based on the vacuum principle, and letterpress tables in the text; some light spotting affecting plates and map, map slightly creased at edges; original dark green publisher’s cloth, boards blocked in blind with central diamond-shaped arabesques enclosed within single rule panels with foliate cornerpieces, border of four rules, spine divided into 5 compartments by blind rolls, lettered in gilt in one, modern lemon-yellow endpapers, uncut; spine lightly faded and with short splits at head, extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped, otherwise ; : occasional pencil markings and annotations. £950 A classic treatise on the Niger region and the yellow fever written by the Scottish doctor James Ormiston McWilliam, the hero of a government expedition exploring the region and its commercial opportunities, and explicitly aimed at suppressing the slave trade. When the yellow fever broke out on all three of the expedition’s vessels, two were sent back to sea with their dying crews, but the third, the , was steered down the river to safety by McWilliam, aided by the expedition’s geologist William Stanger. Yellow fever was the American plague of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – one tenth of the population of Philadelphia fell victim to the disease in l 793 while its vicious outbreaks in New York City prompted the foundation of the New York Board of Health; but it also coincided with the peak of the international slave trade and was closely connected with modern developments in epidemiology,

hygiene and quarantine. Naval medical officers like McWilliam were instrumental in this history: their need to ensure the health of crews in a self-contained environment, combined with the opportunity to observe outbreaks of diseases in different regions and climates, accelerated the pace of their medical advances. McWilliam’s role within medical history would have been impressive even without the yellow fever outbreak: this voyage was the first to test the prophylactic use of quinine as an antimalarial measure. With his intelligent actions and composition of this book, McWilliam wrote medical history. The ‘supplies a history of the fever, description, morbid anatomy, sequences, causes, treatment, with cases; besides an account of the state of medicine among the blacks and of vaccination; a description of the ventilation of the ships, which was carried out on the plan adopted by Dr. Reid for the Houses of Parliament; an abstract of meteorological observations; and a brief account of the geology of the Niger, condensed from the notes of Dr. Stanger’ ( ). Later, McWilliam not only received the Blane Gold Medal in recognition of his exemplary ‘Journal of Practice’ (awarded l 843; established in l 829 by Sir Gilbert Blane ‘for the best journal kept by the surgeons of His Majesty’s Navy’), but was also made medical officer to the Custom House (from l 847), and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (l 848) and the Royal College of Physicians (l 859). McWilliam was also instrumental in the formation and development of the Epidemiological Society from l 850 onwards. Hogg 880; Hess and Coger 7l 02.

Dialecticae libri duo, scholiis G. Tempelli Cantabrigiensis illustrati. Quibus accessit, eodem authore, De Porphyrianis praedicabilibus disputatio. Item epistolae de P. Rami Dialectica contra Iohannis Piscatoris responsionem defensio, in capita viginti novem redacta. . Two parts in one, small 8vo, pp. [viii], 344; woodcut arms of Cambridge University to title, initials and head-pieces, the second part with its own title (p. 20l ); 3 small holes to blank lower margin of title, small stain to blank lower margins of a few quires; a very good copy in 20th-century half blue morocco over blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; spine somewhat faded; early price ‘viii d’ at head of title, a few near contemporary marginal corrections. £850

Educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, Temple (l 554/5l 627) ‘quickly made a name for himself as a follower of the logical teachings of Petrus Ramus’ ( ) arguing that Ramist dialectic, with its emphasis on persuasion, was of vital importance in all areas of political and social life. In this work, Temple advocates the Ramist single method (applicable to all subjects) in no uncertain terms, in opposition to the Aristotelian double method, targeting in particular the German Calvinist theologian and teacher Piscator, who took a moderate stance in the conflict between the two positions. Temple dedicated his work to Sir Philip Sidney thereby earning appointment as Sidney’s secretary in l 585 (Sidney died in Temple’s arms the following year), and he later served as secretary to Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, before becoming provost of Trinity College, Dublin. This was one of the first works printed at Cambridge by Thomas Thomas (l 553-88). Thomas was appointed university printer in l 583, establishing the first printing house in Cambridge since John Siberch in the l 520s, fending off opposition from the London Stationers’ Company with the backing of Lord Burghley.

ESTC S l 08367 (listing l 0 copies, only one in the US); STC (2nd ed.) l 5243; rare on the market.

BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED BY THE GRABHORN BROTHERS. ‘ALLUSIVE PRINTING’ TAKES ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE

About investment.

Large 8vo, ff. [l 2]; printed on strong paper in black and orange ink, each chapter with a decorative initial in orange and grey; a fine copy, uncut in the original printed wrappers. £550 a set of reflections on the risks of the Stock Exchange issued by the printers E. F. Hutton & Co. Published to echo the President of the New York’s Stock Exchange’s fifteen-point program aimed to protect the investing public and restore investors’ confidence, the pamphlet deals with ‘Buying in Haste and Investigating at Leisure’, ‘Spreading too thin’, ‘Holding on for Sentiment’, and so on. The trademark imaginative and captivatingly simple aesthetics of the brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, spiritual heirs of William Morris’ ‘arts and crafts’ movement for the revival of fine printing, are beautifully exemplified in the chapter initials. The Grabhorns practiced what Bruce Rogers called ‘allusive printing’, in which the type, decoration, and page layout allude to aspects of a book’s contents: thus, the grey semi-geometrical patterns forming the background to the orange initials allude to ocean waves, the conduit to a merchant’s riches, but also the direst danger to his fortunes.

WILSON ON BIOGRAPHY AND EDITING LAWRENCE’S – A PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION

T. E. Lawrence’s

; An Editor’s

Postscript. 8vo (234 x l 54 mm), pp. 25, [l ], [2 blank]; original printed wrappers;

. £90

signed and dated on the title ‘Jeremy Wilson 20 xii 06’. Wilson, Lawrence’s official biographer, edited Lawrence’s for publication by Cape in l 97 l , and wrote this account of the editorial process in l 973, which ‘was lightly revised for this edition [...] during October and November 2006’ (p. [2]). ‘T. E. Lawrence’s private anthology of poetry was first published in November l 97 l . Many readers were surprised to find that the poems were accompanied by a long biographical introduction. My object here is to explain how the introductory essay developed from the original scheme for a preface by C. Day Lewis with brief editorial notes about individual poems’ (p. [3]). Wilson also explains his biographical methodology, commenting that, ‘long before I began historical research I was trained in the discipline of scientific experiment. The logic of its procedure seems to me to have as much value for the study of biography as it does for the study of physical events. Therefore, I would like to see biographical conclusions supported, first, by a full statement of the biographer’s objectives. That should be followed by an account of the scope of the research (indicating the material examined according to these objectives) and a record of the process should then permit logically argued conclusions. It is a fundamental requirement that a scientific experiment must be repeatable. Others following the same procedure should get the same result’ ( ). O’Brien sE555.

WOMEN’S LEAGUE WARNS: A ‘SPELLBINDER OF DRAMATIC POWER’ WILL UNITE FASCIST GROUPS

The menace of fascism.

8vo, single sheet forded to pp. [4]; printed on peach paper; an unblemished copy, unbound as issued. £390 First edition, very rare, of a remarkable warning against the perils of fascism issued by a women’s organization which is still active today. The document tackles such questions as ‘What is Fascism? How Does it Arise? Is it Successful? Where Does it lead? How Can We Check It?’. ‘Why Fascism Leads to War’. Among the salient passages: ‘A recent investigation has discovered ten organizations in the Middle West alone. None is large, but they are inter-related, with a common literature, a common aim against “Negroes, Communists, Jews, and Catholics”, a common belief in terrorism, force, and dictatorship. They are not formidable now, but can easily be united if a spellbinder of dramatic power uses them.’ Not in OCLC.

Reviewing. With a note by Leonard Woolf.

12mo, pp. 31; on upper wrapper, ‘Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets Number Four’; original blue wrappers printed in pink, some light fading, otherwise a very good copy. £210 A mitigating post-script by Leonard at the end injects practical remarks on the commercial usefulness of reviews, where Virginia’s uncompromising disdain would just describe reviewers as ‘a distracted tag on the tail of the political kite’, and express the artist’s yearning for the fertile obscurity of one’s workshop. Kirkpatrick, A24a; Woolmer, 463

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