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[10] drawings.A series of ten lovely coastal profiles drawn in watercolour by the English artist Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821), showing coasts and mountains in the East Indies, both coasts of the Indian Ocean, China and the South Atlantic. In the first drawing Mount Agung, an active volcano and the highest mountain on Bali, appears prominently, with its pointed peak sticking up above the clouds. Pocock, son of a Bristol merchant mariner, began a career in the merchant marine, but had been an amateur painter since childhood. As master mariner of the ship Lloyd, owned by the Quaker merchant Richard Champion, he illustrated his logbooks with fine ink and wash coastal profiles and other drawings (some now in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich). When Champion went bankrupt in 1778 (as a result of the American Revolution), Pocock devoted himself to painting. His first efforts as a professional drew praise from Joshua Reynolds and he exhibited at the Royal Academy beginning in 1782. Pocock soon became a… Read More

XXII, 218 pp.The present work is a copy of the first edition of East is West by traveller and writer Freya Stark, detailing her experiences in the Middle East during the Second World War. Stark (1893-1993) spent the duration of the Second World War travelling from Egypt to Iraq and from Syria to Southern Arabia. She had offered her services to the British Ministry of Information and was sent to the Middle East to persuade government officials, among others, to join, or keep on supporting, the allied cause. In order to spread allied propaganda The present work is recommended to readers for being multifaceted and having been written "with the freedom of the independent and adventurous traveller but also with the authority of an official of the Diplomatic Corps" (inside of the dustjacket). Stark's writings are accompanied by many images of her own photographs, taken during her travels of the landscapes and peoples she encountered.Dust jacket is slightly soiled, binding shows some minor signs of wear,… Read More

[6], 263, [1 blank], [12] pp.Second and most important edition, in the original Latin, of the greatest work by the father of English history, the Venerable Bede (672/73-735 AD), his Ecclesiastical history of the English people, completed ca. 731 AD. It begins with the Roman invasion of England in 55 BC and covers the introduction of Christianity to England and the entire history of England up to Bede's own day. Although nominally a religious history it remains the most important source for English history in general for its period. Few works have ever dominated a subject as much as Bede's history, which established the notion of English history, served as the most important source for his period for nearly every writer who followed, and remains today an essential primary source for any history of England before 735. This work even largely established today's practice of dating events from the birth of Christ and the use of the term 'anno domini' (AD). This edition is also an impressive example of… Read More

665 [= 656] pp.The third revised edition of William Lewis's authoritative The new dispensatory, first published in 1753. Lewis (1708-1781) was a British chemist and physician who first published his Dispensary in London in 1753. In all later editions, including the revisions his plan and arrangement has been adopted. The editor of the revised edition, Andrew Duncan (1744-1828), dedicated his revision, based on the Phamacopoea Londinensis of 1788 and other Pharmacopoea’s, to Sir George Baker, president of the Royal College of Physicians. The dedication in our edition is dated Edinburgh, 1 November 1788, for the second edition of the revision (Edinburgh, Charles Elliot, 1789). The first edition had been published in 1786. Beginning with our 3rd edition of 1791 the Dispensatory was printed for William Creech, as are the 4th edition of 1794, the 5th of 1797 and the 6th of 1801.In good condition.l Wellcome III, p. 511.

VIII, 206 pp.First and only edition of a cultural history of Japan, ending with a foreshadowing of the country's future imperial ambitions. Ownership marks on the paste-down, first flyleaf, half-title and title-page. Slightly foxed, with the binding slightly worn.l Wenckstern II, 13.

28 pp. (and 8 pp. blank).The original, heavily revised, juridical documents of a case handled by the bailiff of Rhineland, Johan van den Bergh, at the supreme court of Holland, against Pieter Oostenrijk "Broodbakker tot Soeterwoude", who killed the town's blacksmith Cornelis Jansz. Schrier using a knife. Pieter Oostenrijk was banned from Holland and West-Friesland for the next 50 years. In the Leydse courant of 2 May 1725, we can find and advertisement of the sale of the blacksmith's workshop, so the actual murder must have happened before that date.Johan van den Bergh (1664-1755), from 1725 to 1755 bailiff of Rhineland and several years burgomaster of Leiden, was the man who in 1741 bestowed the Leiden University library with the famous Psautier de Saint Louis.In very good condition, spine of the wrappers tattered.l For Van den Bergh: NNBW IV, cols. 116-117.

[1], 93, [1]; 86, [1] ll.First Breugel edition of the "nieu geusen liet boeck", the most popular songbook of the Dutch Republic, with songs about the victories against Spain and satirical songs against the papists. The name "geuzen" (literally “beggars”) began as a derogatory term but was proudly adopted by the Dutch who opposed the Spanish rule in the Netherlands. Most of the songs probably originated from one-leaf prints and pamphlets with popular songs about military events, rhymed news reports and propaganda songs. The songbook also contains "Wilhelmus van Nassaue", the Dutch national anthem, and many other songs with a nationalistic or Calvinistic character. Most of the songs were written anonymously, but the book also includes songs by Coornhert, Lucas d'Heere, Arent Dircsz. Vos, Jan Fruytiers and Dirck Adriaensz. Valcoogh.Lacking the title-page to part 2 (A1). Browned throughout with some occasional foxing, edges frayed and frequent water stains, mostly marginal. Binding in very good… Read More

[1] leaf plus plates.Famous drawing book of Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), a very influential Dutch painter and art teacher. It contains 140 numbered engraved plates (with no text) providing models for drawing parts of the human body, including eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts, heads, hair styles and beards, some for men, women and children, as well as human figures and character types in various postures, kinds of movement, also including men, women and children. Four plates give models for drawing animals and animal's heads, including horses, cats, a dog, a fish, a lion and cattle. In good condition and with generous margins, with a small tear and minor smudges in the title-page, the first and last leaves slightly browned and a few unobtrusive restorations. A classic Dutch drawing book, providing a storehouse of human forms that influenced many artists for more than a century.l WorldCat (1 or 2 copies); cf. Bolten, Method & Practice. Dutch & Flemish drawing books, pp. 51-67;… Read More

X, 195, [1 blank] pp.Official document, presented to the British Houses of Parliament, regarding Assab (Eritrea) and its politics. It includes a wide variety of letters and reports written by British naval officers, generals, the India Office, tradesmen, etc., concerning the politics of the Sultan of Raheita, the Italian government in Eritrea, territorial shifts, the relations with Egypt and Ethiopia and more. Slightly browned around the margins, with manuscript page numbers on the upper outer corner (627-831), otherwise in very good condition.l Lockot, Bibliographia Aethiopica 8127.

First edition of an important early photobook on the Near East by one of the greatest pioneers of early photography. From 1856 to 1859, Frith (1822-1898) made three visits to Egypt and the Holy Land. He published this selection of his photographs, from wet-collodion 9 x 7 inch glass negatives taken with an 8-by-10 inch camera, in 25 fascicles of 3 prints each, a work hailed as "one of the most renowned nineteenth-century photobooks" (The Photobook). Most are dated 1857 either in the plate or the printed caption. They include a portrait of the artist in oriental costume and views of Abu Simbel, Aswan, Baalbek, Bethlehem, Damascus, Giza, Hebron, Jerusalem, Karnak, Luxor, Nazareth, Philae, Tiberias, Wadi Kardassy etc. The preliminaries of vol. 1 include title, introduction, table of contents and subscribers, those of vol. 2 include title and contents. Each plate is accompanied by a full-page letterpress description. "Francis Frith is undoubtedly one of the best-known photographers to work in the Near… Read More

[37] ll. including title-leaf and 7 blanks, plus 16 loosely inserted ll.An album of drawings (and squeezes of bas reliefs) made by William Robertson on a journey from Cairo in December 1838 down the Nile into Nubia, reaching as far south as the present-day Egyptian-Sudanese border region, including the temples of Abu Simbel, in January 1839, then returning via Philae, Karnak and other sites to Thebes in February 1839. They give very detailed views of numerous buildings, sculptures, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, as well as more distant views of landscapes with buildings and three botanical drawings. Since many of the ancient Egyptian sites have been looted and damaged over the years, these early drawings and squeezes provide an important record of what was there in 1838/39 and how it was situated, before the first photographs were made.While Robertson made most of his drawings on site, he drew the Temple at Luxor after a drawing by Achille Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) who began… Read More

46, [2 blank] pp.Only copy located of a charming Egyptian primer which includes the Arabic alphabet (accompanied by black and white illustrations, mostly of animals), the basics of calligraphy, and shorter texts. This educational pamphlet was printed for the education of children in Egypt around 1925, shorty after the country’s independence in 1922. The margins are decorated with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and images, and a portrait of King Fuad I of Egypt (1868-1936), who reigned from 1922 to 1936.Inscribed in Croatian from René Balley to Donio Tala, dated 1926, on the inside of the front wrapper. With a few small stains and minor wear to the corners. A very good copy of a rare and innately fragile item.l Not in KVK; WorldCat.

[12], 68, 191 [1 blank], [38] pp.First German edition of an important treatise on solid geometry by the Frankfurt physician and mathematician Johann Hartmann Beyer (1563-1625). It includes calculations of exact or approximate volumes of solid figures such as glasses, buckets and barrels (which Beyer treated as 2 truncated cones put together). The author published a work on decimals, Logistica decimalis, and is sometimes (wrongly) credited with the invention of the decimal fraction. He corresponded with Ludolf van Ceulen and Johannes Kepler: the latter refers to Beyer in his Nova stereometria (1615).Owner's inscription on title-page, dated "1625" and partly erased, browned throughout, otherwise in very good condition.l Honeyman 321; Poggendorff I, p. 183; VD 17, 547:658949Q; for the author: NDB II, p. 204.

[8], VI, [2], 446 pp.Rare first edition of a richly illustrated account of Yemen, without doubt "one of the fullest descriptions of life in San'a' and Turkish-occupied North Yemen" (Auchterlonie) ever published. The Italian explorer Manzoni (1852-1918) spent three years travelling in Yemen, including an entire year in Sana'a, his "citta bellissima". He "investigated the city more thoroughly and described it more vividly than any of his predecessors ... also, he was the first to draw a map of the city" (cf. Henze). The illustrations include pretty views of Sana'a and Aden, as well as portraits of the local population.Library stamp of the Paris École des Langues Orientales Vivantes on the title-page, somewhat rubbed. Marked as a duplicate in red pencil on the blank recto of the frontispiece. Extremities very slightly rubbed; some remnants of ink stains on the frontispiece; minor browning to margins throughout; last folding map with small tears (repaired).l Auchterlonie 138; Henze III, 366.

[8], 335, [19] ll.First (and only early) edition, in the original Spanish, of an eyewitness account of the future King Philip II of Spain's travels from Spain through Italy and the German states to the Low Countries from 1548 to 1550 or 1551, intended as preparation for the duties he would face when he succeeded to (in the event only some of) the titles of his father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who was also King Charles I of Spain. The Aragon humanist scholar Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella (ca. 1510/20?-1593) served in the Spanish court of Charles V, who appointed him tutor to Prince Philip (1527-1598) in 1541. He accompanied Philip on these travels, so that his book forms an essential primary source for both the life and personality of the future King Philip II, who was to bring Spain its golden age and its greatest power and wealth, and for the early beginnings of his relations with the Netherlands, which was to revolt against the King, bring about Spain's fall from power and develop its… Read More

396 pp.Rare edition, in the original Latin, of a famous erotic prose dialogue by Nicolas Chorier (1612-1692), recounting the sexual initiation of Ottavia, an innocent but intensely motivated young girl. Chorier first published it in Latin in the 1660s under the pseudonym "Aloisia Sigea" and claimed it was translated by Johannes Meursius from a Spanish manuscript. It went through numerous editions and was translated into several European languages, including Dutch, English, French and German. This "vastly dilated and wholly libidinous parody of women's educational aspirations" (Turner) had a profound influence on European erotic literature. The title-page, which looks more like a half-title, was probably intended to hide the true nature of the book, making it appear to be a collection of sermons by Meursius. This title is found already on editions thought to date from ca. 1680. The part-title for the second part gives the pseudonym and title used for the earliest and many later editions.With library… Read More

[8], 92 pp.First and only edition of the German translation by Lucas Brunn of the most important work of the Greek mathematician Euclid (ca. 300 BC). Elements, divided into 13 "books" (title-page of the present book mentions 15 books), is a comprehensive treatise on mathematics and geometry. "Euclid's fame rests preeminently upon the Elements ... which exercised an influence upon the human mind greater than that of any other work except the Bible. ... Each book of the Elements is divided into propositions, which may be theorems, in which it is sought to prove something, or problems, in which it is sought to do something" (DSB).The two blank flyleaves damaged, title-page slightly foxed, and occasionally some minor foxing or faint water stains. Overall in good condition.l Poggendorff I, col. 320; Neue Deutsche Biogr. II, p. 681; for Euclid see: DSB IV, pp. 414-459; not in Smith, Rara arithmetica.

VIII, 279, [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of an extensive and well-illustrated pioneering work on ophthalmology and eye surgery, the first ever published in Portugal, with illustrations showing both the instruments and the surgeon and assistant removing a cataract from a patient's eye, half a century before surgeons began using ether as an anaesthetic. Santa Anna notes that parts are largely translated from Louis Florent Deshais-Gendron's Traité des maladies des yeux and Joseph Jacob Plenck's Doctrina de morbis oculorum, but he made additions and corrections based on his own experience. In 1783, Joaquim José de Santa Anna (ca. 1735?-1814) was appointed as the first ocular surgeon in Portugal, at the Hospital de S. José in Lisbon.Santa Anna proved well-versed in the theories of the most distinguished ophthalmologists of Germany, England and France, as well as in the auxiliary sciences that formed an essential background.With an owner's inscription struck through in the foot margin of the… Read More

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], XVI, VII, [1 blank], 2, 566, 56 pp.The first edition of the Elements of Chinese grammar by the English Baptist missionary Joshua Marshman (1768-1837), an outstanding work in the history of Chinese linguistics and the first extensive book printed by Europeans using cast metal movable Chinese type (preceded only by Marshman’s Gospel of the Apostle John in 1813). It is also the first English-language grammar of any Chinese language. His present book, published in 1814, is one of the most extensive grammars of colloquial Chinese. It provides an extensive description of the characters and colloquial medium of the Chinese, their origin and development. Marshman illustrated his grammar with numerous examples and explains each grammatical concept in detail, including case, agreement, pronouns, verbs, mood, tense, prosody, parts of speech and dialect variation. Although Marshman refers to the language simply as “Chinese”, there were several completely different Chinese… Read More

LXXVII, 338, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an introduction to mineralogy by the American surgeon John Lee Comstock (1789-1858), who wrote textbooks on chemistry, natural history, geography and physiography for American schools. "Elements is a volume that was designed as a less expensive and weighty alternative to Parker Cleaveland's landmark Treatise. It was intended to be used as a textbook in the schools and higher seminars in America, which were instructing students in mineralogy. Therefore, Comstock begins the volume with the basics, including preliminary definitions of mineralogy and geology and the characters of minerals, and continues into slightly expanded definitions of external characters, color, luster, cleavage, transparancy, etc. The greater majority of the volume is then given over to the describing of specific mineral species" (Schuh). Slightly foxed. Binding somewhat worn and stained. Otherwise in good condition, some of the bolts unopened.l Schuh I, 1184; not in Ward.