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[16], 358 pp.; [1] errata l.First edition of a rare Americanum. Jakob Baegert (1717-1772), a German Jesuit, wrote an interesting and by no means glowing account of the natives and the country "California" (the Baja Peninsula). Cowan comments in his note that, "according to his accounts the country was absolutely unfit for habitation; it was inhabited by wild and ferocious beasts; peopled by cruel and inhospitable savages; water was unfit to use; wood was scarce; the soil would not sustain life". It was written to disabuse the public mind as to the rumoured mineral riches and pearls from California, which had spread from Mexico to Madrid, and Germany. The book is nonetheless filled with valuable ethnographical and historical information. Chapter 20 is devoted to the Waicuri language of the California Indians. The map shows the location of the many Jesuit missions in the Baja, and shows Baegert's route along the west coast of Mexico in 1751 and his return route in 1768, after the expulsion of the… Read More

[2], XXII, 526 pp.First edition of a history of astronomy from prehistoric times to the Alexandrian school in the third century BC, by Jean-Sylvain Bailly. It covers not only European and biblical sources but also the cosmographical concepts of Chinese, Egyptian, Persian and Chaldean astronomers. Some of the surviving artefacts that provided a basis for his studies are illustrated in the plates, which are designed to fold out so that one can view them while paging through the text.This copy was originally owned by and bound for Bailly's most important contemporary biographer, his friend Simon-Pierre Mérard de Saint-Just, who published Eloge historique de Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1794). His arms appear on the binding. In very good condition, with only a few minor spots. The binding also very good, only slightly worn around the corners and hinges. An important work on ancient astronomy, beautifully bound for the author's biographer.l DSB I, pp. 400-402; Houzeau & Lancaster 22; Smith, "Jean-Sylvain Bailly;… Read More

64 pp.Rare explanatory booklet published on the occasion of an art exhibition with four large paintings and reliefs with city views on Constantinople by the Armenian painter Miguirditch Melconian.The booklet contains descriptions of the most pittoresque and important sites of Constantinople and along the Bosporus, written by Arthur Balignot de Beyne. The exhibition was held at The Galerie des Beaux-Arts (Galeries du Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle) at Paris in December 1845.Spine loosening; very faint water stain in top margin. Good copy, with a dedication by the author on the title.l Not in Atabey; Blackmer; Barbier; Querard.

[24], “573” [=604], [15], [1 blank] pp.First complete edition of an important study of emblems, combining theory with (illustrated) examples, by Scipione Bargagli (1540-1612), "one of the chief authorities on devices" (Praz). The first part was first published in 1578 and republished in 1589, while the second and third parts appear here for the first time. It is presented as a dialogue between Scipione himself, Belisario Bulgarini and Ippolito Agostino, who engage with other theorists such as Girolamo Ruscelli and Paolo Giovio. Of special interest is the lengthy treatment of emblems composed or commissioned by women.Preliminaries browned, a few leaves slightly foxed, a tiny whole in the foot margin of one leaf (affecting part of the catchword) and a smudge obscuring several letters in the main text, otherwise in very good condition. Binding also very good.l Chatelain 45; ICCU 016869; Landwehr, Romanic emblem books 142; Praz, p. 266, cf. p. 68; cf. G.W. McClure, Parlour games and the public life of… Read More

[14], 76, [2 blank] pp.First edition of a beautifully illustrated baroque Dutch Royal Entree book, with all of the plates in either early or first states, before numbers and letters. Published simultaneously in French and in Latin, it is the first official description of an entrance in the Northern Netherlands, a tradition which had flown over from the South. Maria de Medici, born at Florence in 1573, married the French King Henry IV and after his death she became Regent of Louis XIII. But when Louis XIII came of age and claimed his throne Maria de Medici was exiled and fled the court. The splendid ceremonial entrance of the queen-mother of France in 1638 was an important moment in the history of Amsterdam. She had already been in the Southern Netherlands, where she was received with great marks of honour as well. Her royal presence in the Netherlands though was of great political susceptibility, and actually the Dutch government tried to get rid of Maria as soon as possible. She died at Cologne in… Read More

124, [12] pp.First and only edition of an account of the Battle of Bull Run by the chief-engineer of the Union Army of the Potomac, who was present at the battle. Written in an epistolary form as a "letter to an English friend", it aims to "vindicate the battle of Bull Run from the obloquy that had fallen upon it, and to establish a claim for it in the category of well planned and well fought battles". Barnard aimed for a broad overview, considering "the brief narrative of General McDowell, in his official report, was (unaccompanied by the reports of his subordinates) too general. The reports of the subordinate officers are too circumstantial" (pp. 3-4). The (first) Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle in the American Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory. Having expected an easy victory, the defeat combined with the poorly managed Union retreat led to great panic among the wealthy inhabitants of the nearby city of Washington, several of whom had come to watch the battle. The… Read More

[12], 240, [4] pp.First edition of these Avantures de Don Antonio de Buffalis, revamped as the “Italian Robinsonade”, on the education and travels of Antonio de Buffalis, a boy from an Italian family living in Milan, by the French writer Antoine de La Barre de Beaumarchais (died ca. 1757). Apart from travel accounts of journeys to Geneva and Venice, full of interesting details of the life in hotels including many more or less piquant stories of his encounters in these establishments, the book, like so many of the picaresque stories, includes also an excursion to Algiers. The book also provides us with information on the habits and traditions of the Moor people. From the library of the counts of Erbach (Germany) with four library stamps; manuscript dedications in pencil on rectos of first flyleaves; lower part of spine gone. Good copy of this adventure book on an Italian Robinson.l Barbier I, col. 334; Cohen-De Ricci, col. 531; Ullrich, Robinson und Robinsonaden, pp. 223-224, no. 2.

vi, 204 pp.A fascinating account by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) of his forty-day journey in October-December 1845 through the Egyptian desert. He followed in the footsteps of the Israelites, who were led out of Egypt by Moses, from Cairo, along the east side of the Gulf of Suez to Mount Serbal, then east to the Gulf of Aqaba, and north to Petra. The book was published in a number of similar editions, most of them by Arthur Hall in London. Binding a bid faded, head and foot of spine worn, hinges weak, frontispiece and engraved title half loose and stained, map and plates slightly foxed, the text is printed in ruled frames, with a handwritten, with decorated initials in red, dedication on the verso of the first flyleaf: "To our dear Mother, Jan. 22 1850". In this work, Bartlett gives a captivating account of his travels in Egypt.l Blackmer 1138; Hilmy I, p. 55. cf. DNB 3, p. 335; Hage Chahine 333-334 (other eds.).

218, (2) pp.Rare first edition of an important work on the Jesuit missionary activities in Goa by the Jesuit Daniello Bartoli (1608 - 1685). Bartoli was historian of the Jesuits. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1623 . He remained in Italy where he gained distinction as a preacher and a teacher of rhetoric. The story of the labors and sufferings of the members of the Society of Jesus in the Indies and Japan awakened in the youthful religious an ardent desire to emulate the zeal and devotion of the missionaries. The high quality of his writing became apparent to his superiors and he was called to Rome in 1650 where he was made historian of the order and published a variety of works on history, literature and science. From 1671-73 he was rector of the Collegio Romano (now the Gregoriana), the principal Jesuit university. His description of the Jesuit world was highly regarded at the time and later Italian writers such as Leopardi thought very highly of Bartoli's prose.This account of the Jesuit… Read More

[8], 240 pp.The second Wetstein edition (calling itself the fifth Latin edition) a page-for-page reprint of the first Wetstein edition of 1709, which called itself the fourth, of the famous Pharmacopoeia Bateana an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological recipes and prescriptions compiled posthumously by James Shipton from the papers of the British physician George Bate (1608-1668), first published in London in 1688. The Wetsteins were to publish what they called the sixth edition in 1731. They apparently did not count editions published in Frankfurt (1702), Venice (1703) and possibly others.Spine label gone, first and last leaves stained, but in good condition.l STCN (1 copy) ; not in Blake, not in Wellcome.

224; VIII, 214; [2 blank]; 48 pp.Ad. 1. Later Venetian edition of the Latin Pharmacopoeia Bateana, an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological recipes and prescriptions compiled posthumously by James Shipton from the papers of the British physician George Bate (1608-1668), originally published in 1688. Ad. 2. The title-page to ad 1 doesn’t mention the Conspectus formularum medicarum, first published in Halle in 1723, but it matches ads 1 and 3 in format and style and the Wellcome Library has the three bound together, so they were probably issued together. The work contains 16 “Tabulae" with a manual how to prepare and use some medicines.Ad. 3. The added work by Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734), noted on the ad 1 title-page, had been first published in Herrnstadt, Germany in 1721 and appeared in the Pharmacopoeia Bateana beginning with the 1741 edition (Venice, Jo. Gabriel Hertz). Here the Fundamenta are added under a separate title-page. However the three works in this book all have… Read More

6, [8], 242, [3], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a translation into Dutch of medical recipes collected by the British physician George Bate (1608-1668), originally published as the Pharmacopoeia Bateana in 1688. Bate had been personal physician to Charles I, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II and had been so highly regarded that his papers were collected and printed 19 years after his death. According to the foreword, the Dutch publisher had given the book to a number of Dutch physicians, including Steven Blankaart, who recommended it be translated. Among Bates's recipes are a number of peculiar medicines such as "Aqua omnium Florum", made from cow-dung gathered in the month May, and "Spiritus Sanguinis" made from the putrid blood of a young man distilled in the sand. A list of medical titles printed and sold by the publisher appears on the final two pages.With a 19th-century owner's inscription on the pastedown and a shelf mark on the front cover. Binding worn, but still a good copy. With a few small… Read More

[8], 337 pp.First edition published in Italy (apparently the second outside London), of the Latin Pharmacopoeia Bateana, an internationally authoritative collection of pharmacological recipes and prescriptions compiled posthumously from the papers of the British physician George Bate (1608-1668/69) by James Shipton, first published at London in 1688. Generally known as the Pharmacopoeia Bateana, it went through many editions in Latin, was translated into English and remained a standard reference until the end of the 18th century.The present edition appears to be the first to include Jacob Le Mort’s Chymia, though it had been published separately.With the bookplate of A.E. Pratt and the library stamp of the Wellcome Library. Spine slightly rubbed, but overall in good condition.l Wellcome II, p. 113.

[28], 468, [8 blank] pp.The third edition of this important history of the years 1608-1611, so crucial for the history of the Dutch Republic. In 1602 Baudius was appointed extraordinary professor of Rethoric at the University of Leiden In 1611 he became ordinary professor of history. In the same year he was appointed historian for the States-General together with Johannes Meursius, with the assignment to write on the events of 1608-1611: the negotiations leading to, and the first years of the Truce in 1609 (-1621). This resulted in the present Induciarum belli Belgici, libri tres (Three books about the Truce in the Dutch war), first published in Leiden in 1613. In Leiden he befriended amongst others Daniel Heinsius and Hugo Grotius. He must have had an attractive and cheerful personality as his classes were very popular.Good copy from the library of A.M. Ledeboer, one of the most famous Dutch bibliographers of the nineteenth century.l Rahir 276; Willems 307.

[1], [1 blank], [10], 192 pp.Rare first and only edition of the commentary on the most recent edition of the Ghent pharmacopoeia, which had been published a year before. The author, a pharmacist from Ghent, constantly critiques and ridicules the person responsible for the revisions in the pharmacopoeia's latest edition. Several unfortunate errors in the formulation of the recipes lead to ironic commentary. For instance, when the pharmacopoeia mentions that all types of water can be used, and that in the alembic it "rises up by itself", Van Baveghem (1758-1835) writes that he would very much like to own a distilling apparatus which has such amazing features, as fuel has become scarce and costly.Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities; a very good copy.l Anet (1 copy); Daems & Vandewiele, p. 108; WorldCat (5 copies); Vandewiele, "Nota's betreffende ‘Sr. Petrus van Baveghem. vrijen meester apothecaris’ te Gent", in: Kring voor de Geschiedenis van de Pharmacie in Benelux, Bulletin VI (1953), pp.… Read More

An extensive collection of proof impressions of all 12 illustrations drawn by Émile Bayard (1837-1891) and engraved by Jules Massard (1848?-1891?) and Eugène Michel Joseph Abot (1836-1894) for the 1885 edition of Alphonse Daudet's Fromont jeune et Risler aîné. Moeurs parisiennes. This novel, first published in 1874 was a great critical and popular success, quickly making Daudet's name famous. As a result it went through many editions, some luxuriously illustrated. The definitive illustrations were published by Louis Conquet in Paris in 1885 in a limited edition (500 copies) of the novel with the present twelve masterly plates "gravées à l'eau-forte" after Bayard. The present set has 4 to 8 impressions of each plate, most or all in 4 or more states. All have the engraved signature of the artist in the image area, but only two have any further engraved text. The first proof of the first plate has "E. Abot aqua f d'après E. Bayard" and the last proof of the same plate has "Jules Massard. sc.",… Read More

Large and beautiful photographs by Bechard: excellent vintage prints, mostly in superior condition. They represent the popular Egyptian and Nubian types, frequently in close-ups. Nissan N. Perez states that this part of the work of a photographer specializing in views of sites and monuments "has escaped general attention" (cf. Focus East, p. 123, reproducing the photograph of water carriers resting). Includes: a scribe; a sheikh reading the Qur'an, merchants and grocers, a group of ulemas (religious scholars) reading the Qur'an, an Arab drawing water, whirling dervishes, Arab peasants (a fellah carrying water), a sheikh going to the mosque, a game of Mangala, water carriers, mat manufacturers, Sheikh Sadad, a descendant of Mohammed, a falconer, washerwomen, an Arabic singer, a young fellah, a Darabouka player, labourers, a public fountain, a beggar, Arabs at prayer, Arabic coffee, etc. Béchard was active between 1869 and ca. 1890. "His work is distinguished by the superb quality of his prints and the… Read More

23, [1 blank], [3 (numbered [175]-177)], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. and 150 plates.Grand collection of collotype photographic plates of monuments, views and other scenes in Egypt and Nubia by the French photographer Émile Béchard. Each of the 150 plates is accompanied by a short description, based on the works of renowned Egyptologists, Orientalists, and other scientists like the philologist Champollion who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.Notable plates in the present series include views of Cairo, the pyramids, the valley of the kings, the Karnac temple complex and many other monuments.The original photographs of the present collection by Béchard has won the "medailled d'or" at the "Exposition Universelle 1878", also known as the third Paris World's Fair, as proudly stated in the preface. A loose translation reads: "However, with regard to the photographs that we have had reproduced by the unalterable processes of collotype, let us recall here that the jury of the awards at the… Read More

Beautifully bound album with a magnificent collection of 32 original photographs of Tasmania, made by John Watt Beattie (1859-1930) at the end of the 19th century. Beattie arrived in Tasmania in 1879 as an amateur dry-plate photographer of scenic views. He began to work with the Anson Brothers in 1882. In 1892, Beattie bought out the Anson Brothers' very large collection of large format studio portraits and negatives. The photographs include 10 views of Hobart and surroundings (including a view from the bay, a photograph of an original sketch by an eye-witness: "The first days of Hobart, Collins Camp, Sullivan's Cove, Feb. 1804", Elizabeth Street, Cathedral, Bellerive), Mount Wellington with hunter, Mount Ida, Lake St. Clair (3), Mount Byron & Cuvier, giant eucalyptus giant, cedar trees on way to Great Lake, Mount King William, from track to Arrowsmith, Track to Fern Tree Bower, forest views, Mount Olympus from Laura Creek, King Williams Pines, Lake Marion, Garrs Tree Hill track, Hartz Mountains, etc.… Read More

[8], 496; [1], [1 blank], 272 pp.Ad 1: First edition of the memoires of Chevalier de Beaujeu, pseudonym of François Paulin Dalairac (died 1691), a French Roman Catholic Capuchin priest, writer and translator. After having travelled in Poland, Germany, and Hungary, the author rectifies many mistakes in the maps as to distances of places; he gives a particular account of these countries, and most especially of Poland, and all things relating to it. Ad 2: French translation printed in Amsterdam of a work on the troubles in the court of Portugal during the years 1667-1668.Title-page of the second work waterstained. Good copiesl Ad 1: V. Gestel - Van het Schip, Maps in Books of Russia and Poland 71; ad 2: Barbier IV, col. 223; Willems, Les Elzevier, 'Annexes' 1882.