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London: Henry S. King and Co., 1874. viii, 272pp, with an engraved frontispiece and 3 further engraved plates. Contemporary red half-morocco, red cloth boards, gilt. Marbled end-papers. Slight bumping on corners, mildly. scuffed spine edges with slight wear on boards. Moderate spotting from FEP through preface. Contemporary ink inscription 'Coleridge 1 Sussex Square 1874' to half-title, and further pencilled initials JDC to first leaf of the preface. A first edition of collected Slavonic fairy tales selected by John Theophilus Naake (1837-1906), folklorist and editor from the British Museum. Translated works include those by K. W. Wojcicki, M. Maksimovich, K.J. Erben and W.S Karajich, marking the first time any of these tales appeared in English. From the library of John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), great-nephew of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and ardent lover of literature. Coleridge died at 1 Sussex Place in 1894, by which time his home library in Ottery St Mary, Devon, contained over… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1911. In two volumes. xi, 384; [5], 416pp. With tipped-in colour frontispieces and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Without the rarely seen dustwrappers. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Endpapers browned. Bookplate of Antarctica explorer and member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to Brocklehurst to recto of FFEP. A crisp copy, with remarkable Polar provenance, of the first edition in English (published at the behest of the Royal Geographical Society and in the same year as the Norwegian original) of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's (1861-1930) historical survey of the exploration of the Arctic from classical antiquity to Cabot and the Portuguese discoveries in the north- west, and includes an account of the Viking discovery of America. Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975), Antarctica explorer and a… Read More

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, [1897]. viii, 424pp. With original white printed paper wrappers bound in. Finely bound in a twentieth-century designer binding; embossed and onlaid morocco designs to each board, the upper depicting a ship on frozen waters, two huskies, knotted rope and the title 'Vers le Pole', and the lower with two leaves on a stem with a sunset over the waters in the background, each board inset within navy morocco, marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed to extremities, joints, small scratch to lower board. A remarkable copy of an early French edition, bound - by person or persons frustratingly unknown - with elaborate embossed morocco designs, of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's (1861-1930) account of the Fram expedition of 1893-1896; an attempt to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. . 8vo.

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [1871]. 3pp, [1]. With an engraved folding plate illustrating the rain-gauge in question. Unbound. All leaves creased and foxed. Ink correction to text of p.[1], with ink-stamp of the Royal Meteorological Society and presentation inscription; 'from the author' to head of same. An offprint of a paper concerning the construction, and application of, an improved rain-gauge designed by nautical engineer James Robert Napier (1821-1879). A prototype of the gauge, which functioned via wind-power, was installed at Shandon, on the Gareloch and proved successful. This concise description of the apparatus is accompanied by a simple diagram of the instrument. . First offprint edition. 8vo.

[Edinburgh]: [s.n.], [1831]. 4pp. Contemporary half-calf, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Extremities rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of p[1]: 'To the Right Hon. Lord Napier / From W. Wallace'. An address delivered to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh William Wallace (1768-1843) on the potential burial site of John Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617), the inventor of logarithms. The present copy was inscribed to the author to Lord Napier, likely Francis Napier, tenth Lord Napier of Merchistoun and first Baron Ettrick (1819-1898), diplomatist and sometime administrator in India. . Quarto.

[Glasgow]: From the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow., 1872. 14pp, [2]. With illustrations throughout. Original publisher's pink wraps. Soiling to part of upper wrap, internally clean and tight. An offprint of James Napier's announcement of his pressure-based speed gauge for ships, an improvement of that announced in 1854, an 'application to ships of the principle which Pitor, a celebrated French Mathematician, had applied in the year 1732 to the measurement of the velocity of rivers.' . Offprint. 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1879. vii, [1], 469pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Handsome contemporary Hillbrow School, Rugby prize binding of gilt-tooled calf, gilt supralibros to upper board, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. A single-volume edition of Irish military historian and soldier of the British Army, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier's (1785-1860), account of the Peninsular campaign, of which he was a veteran. . New edition. 8vo.

[Edinburgh]: [s.n.], [1856]. 42pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary half-morocco, marbled paper boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate of the Barons Napier to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso of front blank fly-leaf: 'To the Lord Napier / from his affectionate cousin / the Author'. An address delivered before the Historical Archaeological Institute in Edinburgh demonstrating the 'remarkable coincidences between the genius, the studies, and the discoveries of Napier of Merchiston, and Sir Isaac Newton'. The present copy was inscribed by the author to Francis Napier, tenth Lord Napier of Merchistoun and first Baron Ettrick (1819-1898), diplomatist and administrator in India. .

London: Published for the proprietor by Barthes & Lowell, 1876. In six volumes. With 55 engraved plates. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges, 'Ex munificentia alumnorum oratorii' in gilt to upper boards. Some rubbing to spines, cracking to joints, a little chipping to head and feet of spines.. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Prize plate to FEP of Vol. I, with inked inscription: 'George Pereira / Second Prize for English / John H. Card. Newman / July 1879'. A handsomely bound copy of the revised edition of British Army officer Sir William Francis Patrick Napier's (1785-1860) authoritative, and monumental, history of the Peninsular War, first published between 1828 and 1840, presented as a school prize and inscribed by Cardinal John Henry Newman. George Edward Pereira (1865-1923), British Army officer and explorer of China and Tibet, educated at the Oratory School, Edgbaston (1876-83) under… Read More

London: James Ridgway, 1847. viii, 138pp. [Bound with:] BRIGGS, Major General [John]. What are we to do with the punjab? London. James Madden, 1849. First edition. 30pp, [2]. With an engraved folding map and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. [And:] NAPIER, Major-General Sir William. Six letters, in vindication of the british army. exposing the calumnies of the liverpool financial reform association. London. Edward Moxon, 1849. Second edition. 29pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. [And:] NAPIER, Sir Charles James. A letter to the right hon. sir j. hobhouse, president of the board of control, on the baggage of the indian army. London. Edward Moxon, 1849, Second edition. 65pp, [1]. With a half-title. 8vo. Contemporary red cloth, later rebacked preserving contemporary spine panel and calf lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Occasional underlining in coloured pencil. A sammelband of four publications relating to the British Army, predominantly its presence in India,… Read More

[Naples]: [s.n.], 1850. vi, [2]pp, 72ff. The main body of the text with printed music to versos, and libretti to rectos. Contemporary (perhaps original) purple cloth, gilt, titled to spine and upper board. Marbled endpapers. Marked (with some remains of what is presumably candle wax to lower board), slightly faded and rubbed, small wormhole at the head of spine, bumping to corners. A rare survival of a Neapolitan-printed psalmody/hymnal produced for the use of the English Protestant congregation at Naples, 'revised by Daniel Holmes, organist to the chapel'. Traditionally a room in the house of the Consul-General was provided for the English of Naples to worship, but with the reduction in stature of the Consul during the early nineteenth-century pressure mounted for the construction of a permanent - and separate - home. Despite strong ties between the Bourbon monarchy and the English establishment, disputes between the congregation and the government of Naples ensued. Newly built premises… Read More

Oxford: Printed for Fletcher and Hanwell, 1795. vi, [2], 147pp, [1]. With half-title. Disbound. A clean and crisp copy, with only the slightest of dust-soiling to half-title. As a fellow to Oxford University, Church of England clergyman John Napleton (1738/9-1817) established his reputation first as an educational reformer, calling attention to the failings of his own college, Brasenose (at which he had matriculated in 1755), and the higher education establishment as a whole. Napleton's concerns regarding the curriculum would lead him to publish several critical pamphlets. Ever one to promote the support of students and the provision good intellectual training, Napleton would subsequently produce works, as here, with the aim of preparing students seeking a pastoral office, and on the duties and conduct expected of a member of the clergy. ESTC T62742.. First edition. 8vo.

[Paris]: [De l'Imprimerie de Hocquet], [s.d., c.1815] 20pp. Uncut, stitched, as issued. Horizontal tears to text of final two leaves, lightly spotted. An anonymous panegyric celebrating Napoleon as the 'man of the century', presumably written during the Hundred Days, and prior to the second restoration of Louis XVIII in July 1815. OCLC records a single copy (BnF). . First edition. 8vo.

Montpellier: l'Imprimerie de Mme. Picot, [1812]. Single leaf broadside. With the Imperial eagle vignette to head. Early vertical and horizontal folds, edges uncut. A trifle browned, single small hole touching text, without loss of sense. An original example, published in Montpelier, of the twentieth bulletin of the Grand Armée in Russia. These bulletins were issued by Napoleon in order to communicate progress of his most significant military campaign to date to the French public. Immensely significant propaganda tools, these bulletins explained the prevailing conditions; in this case, reporting on the French capture of Moscow in the preceding days. Although not the political capital of Russia, the city's fall represented a severe blow to defending army. As the bulletin notes, 'Moscou est l'entreport de l'Asie et de l'Europe; ses magasins etaient immenses; toutes les maisons etaient approvisionnees de tout pour huit mois'. Somewhat ominously, given the benefit… Read More

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1850] Single sheet, printed on one side only. A trifle creased. Small tear to beginning of first line of text (without loss of sense). An apparently unrecorded slip song lamenting the fate of Napoleon. The ballad casts the emperor as a flawed and tragic hero, betrayed by those whom he trusted and ultimately abandoned, yet ever gallant despite defeat. The final verse rejoices in the return of his remains from St. Helena to Paris in 1840: 'The bones of brave Napoleon that lay mouldering in the grave / In that great city of Paris a tomb has been erected / So splendidly, to contain his ashes and his heart, / Rich and poor who go that way, do joyfully tribute pay, / To the immortal memory of Napoleon Bonaparte'. The Bodleian Libraries Broadside Ballads Online records an entirely different setting of the song (Bod21485, Roud Number: V497). . Dimensions 110 x 260 mm.

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1850] Single sheet, printed on one side only. Edges uncut. Woodcut illustration to head. A trifle creased. The second known copy of a broadside printing of a popular ballad in which Marie Louise of Austria, widow of Napoleon Bonaparte, sings to their son of his father's heroic deeds and tragic end. OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy (NLS). . Dimensions 90 x 250 mm.

Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxxiii, [1], 298pp. With 104 plates of colour photographs. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, short closed tear to foot of dustwrapper spine panel. Ink library 'damaged' stamp to title page, else internally clean and crisp. The first edition of a profusely illustrated catalogue of over 650 selected wild flowering plants indigenous to Pakistan. . First edition. Quarto.

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Two volumes bound as one. xx, 300; [2], 305pp, [1]. Bound by J. Parkin's of Westminster in contemporary diced calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Extremities worn. Early inked ownership inscription (Mrs. Rowland, Abingdon St.) and later ink-stamp of Sir Walter John Trevelyan, Sheriff of Cornwall to recto of FFEP, Vol. I advertisement leaf (A2) detached with loss to gutter - recently naively reattached with tape, leaves browned and lightly spotted. A pencilled note to the FEP reads: 'This book once belonged to her Majesty Queen Charlotte & was bought at the sale of her books 1834', however there are no marks of ownership to corroborate this statement, nor could we locate this title in the 1819 sale catalogue of her library. The first edition in English, translated by Miss A. E. Booth, of Benedikte Naubert's (1756-1819) Alf von Dülmen (1791) an historical novel later praised by Sir Walter Scott as an 'excellent… Read More

London: T. Clerc Smith, 1827. First two volumes only. viii, 672pp. [3], 722pp. With an engraved frontispiece to volume one depicting 'The Duke of York, Commander in Chief' and an engraved plate to volume two showing 'His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral'. Later blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. Marginal tears to first volume at p.179-180, p.381-382, p.389-390 - in no instance touching text. Browning to titles and engravings of each, with slight dust soiling to title of volume two, occasional foxing, second contents leaf of volume one working loose. Articles within this periodical include; a memoir of the Duke of York, the campaigns in Flanders 1793 and 1794, the army of China, a regimental history of the 39th Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot, ships captured and destroyed in action during the war from 1793 to 1801 and from 1803 to 1815, reports of courts martial and naval trials, the Irish brigade, campaigns in India, and war-office circulars. . Second Edition. 8vo.

London: Printed for J. Hatchard, 1808. [iii]-xxiv, 448pp. Without half-title. Finely bound in contemporary marbled calf, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed, joints cracked, nevertheless a handsome copy. Monogram bookplate to FEP. An anonymous poetical account, composed by a naval officer during a recuperative period on shore, of the maiden or 'shakedown' cruise of a newly launched British Man of War in 1805. Commencing in September, the epic poem culminates in the following month in the wake of victory at Trafalgar, and the news of Admiral Lord Nelson's death in battle. The combination of lively patriotism and detailed explanatory notes led contemporary reviewers to recommend this title to those 'about to fit out a young Midshipman for the service' (British Critic). Rare, with COPAC recording copies at BL and Cambridge, OCLC adding UCLA. Jackson p.317.. First Edition. 8vo.