literature. I do not believe that this symbol was so illustrious when itwas stamped on the imperial money and carried around to be rubbedby the fingers of merchants, than now when it has been printed on thetitle-pages of books of all sorts, in both languages, among all nations,even those beyond the borders of Christendom. It is known, loved, andpraised by all who cultivate the sacred studies of the liberal arts, andespecially by those who despise turgid and barbaric dogma and aspireto the true ancient learning (Erasmus, Adagia, II.i.1. Translation fromwww.philological.bham.ac.uk/speude/trans.html).

RIC 112; BMC 72.

1. [ALDUS MANUTIUS.] Silver Denarius of Titus. Rome, AD 80.

Silver denarius; obverse: IMP TITUS CAES VESPESIAN AUG P Mwith laurated head of Titus, facing right; reverse: TR P IX IMP XVCOS VIII P P with dolphin coiled round anchor; weight approximate-ly 3.37g, diameter 18 mm, struck on a broad flan, a few light fissuresin the surface, but in near extremely fine condition.

800

Silver denarius of the Emperor Titus (AD 79-81) featuring the dolphinand anchor which inspired Aldus Manutius to create his iconic printersdevice. This example is unusual, with a much wider and more elegantcurvature of the anchor arm than any of the examples in the BMcatalogue, and is in excellent condition.

From the ancient coins minted by Titus Vespasian we can easily gatherthat this same proverb [Festina lente] pleased him, too. AldusManutius showed me a specimen, a silver piece of old and clearlyRoman workmanship, which he said was sent to him as a gift by theVenetian nobleman Pietro Bembo, who honoured the youthful Aldusas an example of the foremost students and diligent investigators ofliterary antiquities in his time. The impression stamped on the coinwas like this. On the obverse was the portrait of Titus Vespasian withhis titles; on the reverse was a dolphin curving around and embracingthe shank of an anchor. This device means exactly the same thing asthesayingofAugustusCsar,,andtheevidenceisin the monuments written in hieroglyphic letters. Aldus has takenas his own this same device which once so pleased Titus Vespasian.He has multiplied it and made it not only famous, but also most belovedby everyone everywhere in the world who understands and loves

THE COIN WHICH INSPIRED THE ALDINE ANCHOR

From our copy of Ammonius,Porphyrii commentarius,Venice 1546.

Cumberland ballads The Hivverby House-warmin, The HivverbyHaurels and Dolly ov Dawston.

The Mrs Harrington to whom Anderson dedicates this volume ispresumably the wife of the calico printer James Harrington, ofWoodbank near Carlisle. In 1825 Harrington went into partnership inthe printworks at Woodbank with William Wilde and Robert Robley Anderson was perhaps seeking patronage from a successful local, orknew the Harringtons from his earlier years in the trade.

2. ANDERSON, Robert. Autograph manuscript volume of Poems,Songs &c. Wood Bank, July 13th, 1825.

8vo, pp. [22], a fair copy in a fine, neat hand; with an index at the end;old repair to tear in one leaf, else in very good condition in the originalstiff paper wrappers, bound into later cloth covers.

1200

An attractive manuscript by Robert Anderson (1770-1833), dedicatedTo Mrs Harrington, of Wood Bank; With the Authors sincere wish,she may long enjoy Peace, Plenty, Wealth, & Happiness. None ofthe fifteen poems included here appeared to have been published.

A textile-worker turned poet much inspired by Burns, Anderson(1770-1833) is best known for his Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect(1805), though he also wrote verse in standard English. He was muchfeared for his personal attacks; he had a keen eye for the ludicrous, andpictured with fidelity the ale-drinking, guzzling, and cock-fighting sideof the character of the Cumbrian farm labourer (ODNB). Havingbegun life as a pattern drawer in the calico industry, he moved toLondon for further training (his first songs were sung at VauxhallGardens), before taking up a post in Belfast. On his return to Carlislehe was given a civic welcome, but he later fell into poverty, which thepublication of his Poetical Works (1820), was an attempt to relieve.Subscribers to the latter included Southey and Wordsworth. He wasburied in Carlisle Cathedral and a monument erected to him.

The present collection post-dates Andersons Poetical Works andincludes a Sonnet on the death of David Garrick, Junr, Esq (who hadoverseen the publication of that collection). Among the songs(Wellington and Waterloo, Poor little Fanny) is one in Scots dialect(The Banks of Clyde), and the manuscript closes with three

A P R E S E N T A T I O N M A N U S C R I P T B Y T H E C U M B E R L A N D B A R D

3. ARWAKER, Edmund. A Pindaric ode upon our late soveraignlady of blessed memory, Queen Mary. By Edward [sic] Arwaker,author of The vision of the death of King Charles. London, for Rich.Parker, 1695.

Fol., pp. 12; title within black mourning border, price at end fourpence; a very good copy, disbound.

150

First edition of this ode on the death of Mary II (1662-1694) by theIrish poet and clergyman Arwaker (c.1655-1730), printed with a thickblack mourning border to the title. Mary, who had jointly ruledEngland, Scotland and Ireland with her husband William III since1689, died of smallpox at the age of 32. She was widely mourned inBritain.

Arwaker begins by calling upon Britannia to mourn and imaginativelypictures a tearful Belgic lion (Till from the Flood-gates of her Eyes,Her Land is more in danger to be drownd, Than by the Tides that ather Sluces rise). He refers to the fatal and ... loathd Disease towhich Mary succumbed, and imagines the kings fear at her approach-ing death he who had often faced death himself (Among loudCannon and their roaring Balls). The poem ends with a rallying cryTo scourge the haughty Insolence of France. A graduate of Kilken-ny College, chaplain to the Duke of Ormond, and archdeacon ofArmagh, Arwaker also penned poems on the death of Charles II andon the excellent and useful invention of making sea-water fresh, aswell as a selection of fables done into English verse.

ESTC R11733; Wing A3910.

SHES DEAD, ALAS!

4. CALVET, sieur de. L'arithmtique nouvelle, dans sa vritableperfection, o l'on peut en trs-peu de temps, facilement et mme seul,apprendre compter, chiffrer et calculer sans matre, toutes sortes desommes... et trait de la nouvelle orthographe, contenant la manired'crire correctement les mots ordinaires; modles de promesses, dequittances et autres actes sous seing priv; de modles de lettresmissives pour instruire la jeunesse. Sur la copie imprime Paris,chez P.D.R. ru de la Huchette, au Pillier verd, [ca. 1785].

12mo, pp. 31, [1]; light uniform toning, but a very good copy, stitchedas issued in the original printed wrappers with woodcut coat of armsof Louis XVI (1754-1793) on both covers.

380

Unrecorded edition, the earliest known, of a manual for merchantsrare in any version, which includes arithmetic instructions as well asspecimens for the correct styling of letters of exchange, promissorynotes, receipt notes etc., with a brief appendix on more generalletter-writing.

Two copies of two later editions are held at the BNF and the Sorbonne.

U N R E C O R D E D

5. CANAYE, Jean (editor). Recueil de letres (sic) des plus sainctsetmeilleursespritsdelantiquite,touchantlavanitedumonde. Paris,Sebastien Cramoisy, 1628.

8vo, pp. 108, [4], 423 (i.e. 407), [1]; engraved title-page by Jean Picart;paper slightly toned, but a very good copy, bound in contemporaryFrench vellum, gilt, somewhat stained along the joints, small areas ofloss of vellum to foot of spine and lower board; gilt edges; nineteenth-century ownership stamp H. Tribout to front pastedown.

750

First and only edition, extremely rare, of a collection of letters of theFathers of the Church on the vanity of the world. It includes St.Cyprians letter to Donatus, St. Jeromes letters to Heliodorus andDemetrias, St. Augustines letter to Licentius and St. Eucherius lettersto his cousin Valerian and St. Hilarius, each preceded by anintroductory note by the editor and translator Jean Canaye (Jesuitscholar, 1594-1670).

The collection is dedicated with a long letter by Canaye to Philippe-Emmanuel de Gondi (1580-1662), count de Joigny who, following thedeath of his wife in 1625, joined the Congregation of the Oratory ofJesus.

COPAC records one copy only, at Lambeth Palace. OCLC records 3copies, all in France (Toulouse, Sainte-Genevive and BNF).

T H E F A T H E R S O F T H E C H U R C H O N T H E V A N I T Y O F T H E W O R L D

A N I T A L I A N P O P U L A R P R I N T I N G O F A M I D D L E E N G L I S H L E G E N D

6. [CHIVALRY.] Vita, e morte di Buovo dAntona, nella quale sitratta delle gran battaglie, e fatti dArme, che lui fece. Venetia, Padoa,et in Bassano, Per Gio: Antonio Remondini [c. 1700].

8vo, pp. 144; woodcut of jousting knights to title page and 22somewhat crude small woodcuts in the text, one at the beginning ofeach canto; a beautiful copy, entirely uncut, bound in slightly laterplain brown boards, slightly worn at edges.

850

Rare Italian popular printing of this chivalric poem recounting the trialsand triumphs of Bevis of Hampton, son of the Count of Hampton andhis young wife, the daughter of the King of Scotland.

The Remondini of Bassano had a large section in their cataloguedevoted to this sort of popular publication, described as libri da risma(literally ream books), not folded nor bound, cheaply printed tosatisfy the growing demand from less well-off classes and religiousand secular schools, often marketed by street vendors and bookpeddlers directly employed by the printers.

OPAC records only 2 copies in the USA, at Grinnell College andUniversity of Minnesota. COPAC lists 2 copies, at Cambridge and theBritish Library (giving c.1650 as date of publication). As usual withpopular prints, various issues exist, with the title page set in differentways or with spelling variations (Bvovo instead of Buovo, forexample).

Brunet, I, 1397-1398; Melzi-Tosi, p. 207; see also M. Infelise, Libripopolari e libri da risma, in Remondini: un editore del Settecento,pp. 304-9.

7. CONGREGATIO DE PROPAGANDA FIDE. AlphabetumAethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum cum oratione dominicalisalutatione angelica symbolo fidei praeceptis decalogi et initioevangelii S. Iohannis ... Rome, typis Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide,1789.

8vo, pp. 32; printed in Latin and Geez, woodcut device of theCongregatio de Propaganda Fide to title; a little light foxing; a verygood uncut copy in blue/grey wrappers.

350

The second edition (first 1631) of this attractive work from the pressof the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, giving the Lords Prayer, AveMaria, Apostles Creed, and opening of St Johns Gospel, among othertexts, in interlinear Latin and Ethiopic, prefaced with an interestingintroduction by Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (1740-1792), thedistinguished philologist and superintendent of the Congregatiospress. Founded by Gregory XV in 1622, the Congregatio beganprinting in 1626 and remained active until 1907. To propagate thefaith, the Propaganda printed sacred and other texts in non-Romanalphabets. At its peak it owned 50 alphabets, enabling it to print in allknown tongues ... Its output was primarily catechisms, grammars,liturgical books, apologetics, and ephemeral works in pamphlet form,distributed free of charge (Oxford Companion to the Book).

Smitskamp Philologia Orientalis 213.

E T H I O P I A N M I S S I O N A R I E S

I N P R A I S E O F O B N O X I O U S S H R E W S faithful, liberal, lean, and especially patient she is the greatest findin a mans life.

Barbier attributes this work to Louis Coquelet, author of numerouseulogies of. He was responsible for an earlier, shorter work witha similar title, La Mchante Femme, 1728. An alternative proposedattributionistoLeonorJeanChristineSoulasdAllainval.

Barbier II, 81; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 88; Cioranescu 21126; OCLClocates 4 copies, of which 2 in the US (Harvard, UCLA).

8. [COQUELET, Louis (attributed author)]. Eloge de la mchantefemme, Ddi Mademoiselle Honesta. Paris, Antoine deHeuqueville, 1731.

12mo, pp. [8], 49, [1]; woodcut title vignette, headpieces and initial;a very good copy in contemporary calf-backed red boards, flat spinefilleted in gilt, gilt red morocco lettering-piece; extremities a littlerubbed.

1450

First edition of a rare feminist tract, a hearty paean to strong-headedwomen written on an irresistible stylistic tightrope of parody and bluffmisogyny.

Bored with the sheepishness of female specimens populating thesalons and streets of contemporary Paris, the author celebrates theidiosyncratic, amoral virtues of a fictitious dedicatee, M.lle Honesta,an uncompromising force of nature who does not submit to themillennial paradigm of subdued womanhood, and strides through lifeas a bold, unfettered, often abusive and, as the title says, obnoxiousshrew.

Credulous and easily-led men have for centuries lapped up thesuperstitious fear of strong women just as they have embraced dozensof spurious little beliefs related to bad luck, reinforced by a plethoraof male authors literary version of the same myth (with a list ofcitations provided). The truth, the author says, is that Socrates wasright in crediting his nagging Xantippe as the person who turned himinto a philosopher: an obnoxious shrew for a wife will keep one sober,

Boutet (here depicted as Helios); several scenes offered in potentialexchange for the pastel (Adam and Eve being expelled from Paradiseetc.); and, having been unable to obtain the artwork, Courtrythreatening suicide en Japonais.

OCLC locates six copies (not specifying which limitation):Bibliothque nationale, Staats und Universittsbibliothek Hamburg,National Library of Scotland, Universit de Montreal, New YorkPublic Library, and Pepperdine University.

9. COURTRY, Charles. Boutet embt par Courtry. Prface deLon Maillard. Paris, Bibliothque artistique et littraire, 1896.

4to, pp. [4], viii, 104, [4], with a half-title, two dry-point etchings byHenri Boutet, each in three states, and two engravings (including thecover) by Courtry (one after Boutet), each in two states; numerouscomic illustrations throughout by Courtry; a fine copy, uncut andlargely unopened; slightly shaken, in the original illustrative paperwrappers, slightly rubbed, spine neatly restored.

450

First edition, scarce, number 14 of 50 copies on Japon imperialand with the plates in multiple states, from a total edition of 400copies.

Boutet embt is a work of playful epistolary verse and comicillustration addressed to the fin-de-sicle Parisian artist Henri Boutet(1851-1919), by his fellow engraver Charles Courtry (1846-97), lundes meilleurs aquafortistes du XIXe sicle (Bnzit). Boutet, knownas le Petit Matre au corset, was best known for his candid drypointsof young Parisian women, of which several examples are includedhere.

In a knowing parody of a lovers complaint, Courtry reproves theabsent Boutet in the hope of finally being given a promised work inpastels, and thus being permitted to create an etching of his work thefinal result, a drawing of a young womans back dedicated mon amiCh. Courtry and etched by Courtry is found here.

The poetry moves through many different (often uniquelyfrancophone) forms, including rondeaux, ballades and Petrarchansonnets, accompanied by Courtrys many comic sketches, with somein strip format resembling the bande dessinne. These include tableauxof Boutet suffering from flu while trying to draw his models; Courtrysummoning the ghosts of Caesar and Napoleon to pay homage to

A R E D I S C O V E R E D S I X T E E N T H - C E N T U R Y I M P R I N T

10. DIONIGI, Francesco. Devota rappresentatione de i martirii disanta Christina vergine, e martire di Giesu Christo. Fano, Pietro Farri,1612 (but 1592).

8vo, ff. [viii], 92; woodcut arms of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci (thededicatee) on title page; worming to the inner gutter of a few pagestowards the middle of the book, not affecting text; some light scatteredfoxing, but a very good copy, recased in eighteenth-century vellum;early eighteenth-century bookplate of Francesco Martino Vespignani(d. 1717) to front pastedown.

1500

First edition, extremely rare, of a religious drama, in hendecasyllablesand heptameters, in five acts, by Francesco Dionigi, a clergyman activein the late sixteenth century in the town of Fano, near Urbino, on theAdriatic coast of Italy.

The work, a combination of hagiographic tragedy and pastoral dramawhich fits into a popular genre that flourished during the Counter-Reformation, tells the legend of the martyrdom of Saint Christina ofBolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre. Christina, a young virginborn from a wealthy family of Bolsena, following her conversion toChristianity is tortured first by her father Urbanus, the local governor(first three acts), then after his death by his successor Dion (fourth act)and finally, after Dions death, by the new governor Julian (fifth act).Christina survives various gruesome tortures, often graphicallydescribed in the text, such as flagellation, drowning, boiling oil, breastmutilation, having her tongue removed and assault by snakes, andfinally succumbs shot by arrows, while the people around her, amazedby the miracles, convert to Christianity.

Franco Longoni, in his study Una cinquecentina fanese misconosciuta,speculates on the book being actually printed in 1592 rather than 1612,a theory now accepted by various bibliographers and book historians.Longoni based his assumption on various pieces of evidence, such asthe dedicatory letter being dated 1592, the work being dedicated toCardinal Rusticucci who died in 1603, the personal histories of theprinter and the author, the type employed and, finally, the fact that onthe only known copy preserved in an Italian library the date has beencorrected to 1592 by a contemporary hand. 1612, therefore, wouldsimply be a typographical error where the X in MDXCII wasmistakenly shifted one place to the right, turning the date intoMDCXII. (See: Franco Longoni, Una cinquecentina fanesemisconosciuta, in Nuovi Studi Fanesi xxi (2007), pp. 219-25).

No copies listed on COPAC. OCLC records 2 copies, at theBibliothque nationale de France and Harvard (both giving 1612 aspublication date); EDIT16 records 1 copy only, at the Bibliotecacomunale Paroniana in Rieti (where the date 1612 has been correctedto 1592 by a contemporary hand).

Biblioteca Picena, IV, p. 6; see also: Franco Battistelli, FrancescoDionigi da Fano. Profilo di un letterato tra commedia pastorale etragedia agiografica, in Fano, Supplemento al notiziario 1972(1973), pp. 36-42.

11. [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge.] Curiosissima curatoria byRude Donatus. Printed for private circulation. Oxford, printed byG. Sheppard, 1892.

8vo, pp. [8], 47, [1 blank], with erratum slip tipped in at p. 1; somebrowning and a few marks to half-title, small closed tear at head of p.1, lower inner corners slightly bumped; overall a good copy withoriginal printed upper wrapper (detached, chipped at edges, and witha few marks); wanting lower wrapper and most of spine; faint inkstamp of Reginald W. Macan University College to foot of upperwrapper.

450

First edition, a rare Dodgson item, printed for private circulation inonly 75 copies on the occasion of his resignation as curator of the ChristChurch Common Room. Most of the Resolutions passed by CommonRoom and its Committees between 1859 and 1892 are recorded, anda great deal of interesting and solid information is given, some detailsreaching back to 1818 ... The humour is generally latent (LewisCarroll Handbook). Even in carrying out the humdrum tasks ofcurator of senior common room (which tedious job he held for almostten years), he introduced wit into his frequent memoranda and threereports (Twelve Months in a Curatorship, 1884: at once financial,carbonaceous, aesthetic, chalybeate, literary and alcoholic; ThreeYears in a Curatorship, 1886: Airs, glares and chairs; andCuriosissima curatoria, 1892: A curatorial parting gift) (ODNB).

Provenance: formerly in the possession of the classical scholarReginald Walter Macan (1848-1941), Fellow and later Master ofUniversity College, Oxford, and also a Fellow of Christ Church.

S C A R C E L E W I S C A R R O L L I T E M

DEATH OF A JACOBITE - AN ILLICIT PUBLICATION

12. DYING SPEECH (The) of James Shepheard: who sufferd Death atTyburn, March the 17th, 1717/18. Deliverd by him to the Sheriff, at thePlace of Execution. [London, n.p., 1718].

Folio broadside; worn and creased at edges, lower corner torn awaytouching two words at the foot (sense recoverable).

750

One of at least five printings of this speech, some adding a hymn. Itsinflammatory content makes it very unlikely that it was in fact delivered.

Not to be confused with his highwayman namesake and contemporary,James Shepheard was an eighteen-year-old apprentice coach-painter ofJacobitical tendency, who, having been influenced by certain pamphletspublished during the 1715 rebellion and being a great frequenter ofJacobite conventicles, planned the assassination of George I to coincidewith an invasion by the exiled James III (the Old Pretender). Shepheardrevealed his intentions to a non-juring minister, but said clergyman broughthim to the authorities, where he willingly (or naively) embracedmartyrdom by repeating his plans.

Jacobites carefully stage-managed the affair for maximum impact anon-juring priest gave Shepheard absolution on the scaffold, and a dyingspeech purported to have been written by him was passed around at hisexecution scene but the government forbad its publication. In spite ofthis, they managed to circulate broadside copies of it throughout London(Manuel Schonhorn, Defoe and James Shepheards Assassination Plot of1718 in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 29:3, 1989). Defoepenned a number of pro-Government works on the matter including SomeReasons why it could not be expected the Government woud permit theSpeech or Paper of James Shepheard to be printed.

ESTC records Harvard only (cropped) of this printing.

13. [ECONOMICS. VALENCIA.] REAL SOCIEDADECONOMICA. Instituciones economicas de la Sociedad de Amigosdel Pais, de la ciudad, i reino de Valencia. Primera parte [allpublished]. Valencia, Benito Monfort for the Society, 1777.

8vo, pp. lxxiii, 208; with allegorical engraved vignette on the title; aclean, crisp, very attractive copy in contemporary vellum, flat spinewith ink titling.

950

Rare first and only edition of the prospectus, statutes and plans ofthe Valencia Royal Society of the friends of the Country. TheSociedades Econmicas de Amigos del Pas were private associationsestablished in various cities throughout Enlightenment Spain, and toa lesser degree in some of Spains overseas territories including thePhilippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico,and elsewhere to stimulate the economic and intellectual developmentof Spain.

The brainchild of a group of seven local promoters well aware of theEurope-wide movement for the improvement of economies from thepoint of view of agriculture, husbandry, industry, the professions andarts as advocated in the (here quoted) Ami des hommes and other worksby the French Economistes, the Society obtained permission toconstitute itself as quickly as the Madrid sister-group. This elegantpublication, dedicated to the King himself, reflects the lofty, yetpractical purposes and lively intellectual engagement of the members.

The allegorical vignette, featuring crops and a ship and the motto Fertomnia tellus is clearly more than a nod to the Economistes realm ofcommitment.

No copies recorded in the US. One in the UK (British library).

Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, 913-914 (Gonzaga edition). OCLC findscopies of this edition at Princeton and Cleveland only, outside Italy.

C A S U A L T Y O F C H I N E S E R I T E S C O N T R O V E R S Y

14. [FATINELLI, Giovanni Jacopo.] Relazione della preziosa mortedelleminentiss. e reverendiss. Carlo Tomaso Maillard di Tournonprete cardinale della s. r. chiesa commissario, e visitatore apostolicogenerale, con le facolt di legato a latere nellimpero della Cina, e regnidellIndie Orientali, seguita nella citt di Macao li 8. del mese diGiugno dellanno 1710 ... Rome and Bologna, Costantino Pisarri,1711.

3 parts in 1, small 4to, pp. 70, [2]; woodcut title ornament and initials;some spotting to title and first few quires; a very good copy in laterbrown wrappers.

400

Scarce edition of this account of the death of cardinal Carlo TommasoMaillard de Tournon (1668-1710), papal legate to the East Indies andChina whose attempts to abolish the so-called Chinese rites led to hisimprisonment and death at Macau. The first edition was printed atRome by Francesco Gonzaga in the same year. The text, attributed toTournons deputy in Rome, Fatinelli (1653-1736), is followed here byVerba per ... Clementem Papam XI habita ... 14 Octobris 1711 de obituCardinalis de Tournon (pp. 43-49) and by Oratio habita in sacellopontificio V. Kal. Decembris A.D. MDCCXI in funere ... CaroliThomae Maillard de Tournon ... a Carolo Majello (pp. 51-70).

Appointed by Clement XI as legate to the East Indies and Qing Empireof China, Tournon arrived in India in 1703 and promptly forbadeCatholic missionaries from permitting the practice of the Malabar rites.Arriving in China the following year, Tournon was initially welcomedby the Kangxi emperor, but his 1707 decree obliging missionariesunder pain of excommunication to abolish the Chinese rites among thenative Christians displeased the emperor and Tournon was imprisonedat Macau. Following his death, Clement XI praised him for his courageand loyalty to the Holy See.

Within days of the works first publication in 1845, Ford was beinglionized as the perceptive and articulate author of a mostcomprehensive and accurate account of that country, and one unlikelyto be ever superseded. Although opinionated and occasionally acerbic,his perennially fresh descriptions and observations appear here at theirmost spontaneous, and stimulating. As later affirmed by Sir WilliamStirling Maxwell, So great a literary achievement had never beforebeen performed under so unpretending an appellation, which tookits place among the best books of travel, humour, and history, social,literary, political, and artistic, in the English language (The Times,1858), and that judgement holds. The influence of this masterpiece,reprinted in 1966, has been profound (ibid.).

15. FORD, Richard (Ian ROBERTSON, editor). A hand-book fortravellers in Spain, and readers at home. Describing the country andcities, the natives and their manners; the antiquities, religion, legends,fine arts, literature, sports, and gastronomy: with notices on Spanishhistory. Foreword by Sir John Balfour. Edited and with anintroduction by Ian Robertson. [Arundel and London,] Centaur Press,[1966].

Three vols, 8vo, pp. xviii, [ii], 481; viii, 4831032; viii, [1033]1507,[1, errata]; with a frontispiece in each volume and two folding maps;occasional very pale foxing or light spotting along fore-edges, butessentially as new; original dark blue cloth, spines lettered in silver,top edges stained blue.

120

The Centaur Press reprint of Richard Fords classic Hand-book fortravellers in Spain, with an introduction by Ian Robertson and a revisedindex.

Fords knowledge of Spain was based on his experiences there fromOctober 1830, when he and his family moved to Seville for the sakeof his wifes health, to just before the outbreak of the First Carlist Warin 1833 when they returned to England. During his three years inSpain, Ford made numerous excursions throughout Andalusia, andthree longer expeditions: in spring 1831 to Madrid, Talavera, andBadajoz; in autumn 1831 via Valencia, Barcelona, and Saragossa toMadrid and back; and in summer 1832 on horseback via Mrida, Yuste,and Salamanca to Santiago de Compostela, Oviedo, Len, Burgos, andBilbao. While on these journeys, of which he remarked that a ridingexpedition for civilians in Spain was almost equivalent to serving acampaign referring to those of the Peninsular War, severalbattlefields of which he visited many notebooks were filled withdescriptions of the monuments and works of art he saw, and he alsomade over 500 drawings and watercolours, largely devoted to Sevilleand Granada (ODNB).

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE FRENCH ARMY

16. FRANCE, Ministre de la Guerre. Compte gnral deladministration de la justice militaire pour lanne 1843. Paris,Imprimerie Royale, Mai 1846.

Folio, pp. 42; with tables of statistics, woodcut device to title; lightoffsetting to inner margins of pp. 22-23 from blue silk bookmark; avery good, crisp copy in contemporary gilt- and blind-stamped redmorocco attributed in a pencil note to Thouvenin, gilt-lettered spine,gilt edges, patterned cream endpapers; faint abrasion to lower cover.

1100

A handsome copy, perhaps bound for presentation, of this statisticalreport on military justice in the French army in 1843, dedicated to kingLouis-Philippe by Alexandre Moline de Saint-Yon (1786-1870), aveteran of Waterloo who served as Frances Minister of War between1845 and 1847. The first such Compte appeared in the early 1830ssoon after Louis-Philippes accession, becoming an annual seriesthereafter.

Out of an army of 334,091 men, the report notes that 3488 wereprosecuted for crimes including desertion, insubordination, theft,selling army equipment, murder, and rape. While 90 men werecondemned to death, the majority of the offenders were imprisoned,other punishments including forced labour and the ball and chain.Among a wealth of statistical data, the malefactors are analysedaccording to how they joined the army, their rank, length of service,and by the branch of the army to which they belonged. Considerationis also given to the cost of criminal trials.

We have been unable to trace any copies in UK or US institutions.

German and English (in 1581), while Dialoghi piacevoli appears inthe list of works read by Florio for compiling his A Worlde of Wordes.

17. GUAZZO Stefano. Dialoghi piacevoli novamente da luicorretti, et in molti luoghi ampliati. Dalla cui famigliare lettionepotranno senza stanchezza, et satiet non solo gli huomini, ma ancorale donne raccogliere diversi frutti morali, et spirituali. Venice, AntonioPinelli, 1610.

8vo, pp. [xl], 608; a beautiful copy, clean and crisp, bound incontemporary limp vellum; contemporary ownership inscription ofMarcAntonio Virgilio Battiferri (see below) to front free endpaper,with his manuscript monogram at foot of title and annotation on p.193;later in the library of William Stirling-Maxwell, with his crestembossed to front board, monogram to lower board, bookplate to frontpastedown and label Proverbs - Keir to rear pastedown; spine coveredin nineteenth-century brown morocco lettered gilt and originalpastedown covered in nineteenth-century marbled paper, as often withthe books from Stirling-Maxwell; bibliographical annotation in thehand of Stirling-Maxwell to front free endpaper.

550

A beautiful copy, with compelling provenance, of the only Pinelliedition (first 1576) of an extremely popular conduct book for both menand women, in the form of twelve dialogues on various subjects, withparticular attention to the moral education of princes, which influencedMontaigne, Edmund Spenser and John Florio among many others.

Of particular interest is the fifth dialogue on emblems and impresas,especially considering that Stefano Guazzo (15301593) studied lawin Pavia under Andrea Alciati, the father of emblem books.

Guazzos works soon enjoyed great popularity in the whole of Europe;his Civil conversazione (1574) was translated into Latin, French,

FROM THE LIBRARY OF POLYDORE VERGILS GREAT-NEPHEW

MarcAntonio Virgilio Battiferri (canon and later archdeacon ofUrbino cathedral) was a great-nephew of Polydore Vergil who activelytried to rehabilitate and restore Vergils good name, especially in hisnative Urbino, after his De inventoribus rerum was condemned andincluded in the 1559 Index Librorum Prohibitorum (see: CatherineAtkinson, Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: PolydoreVergils De inventoribus rerum, p. 253).

Stirling-Maxwell, An essay towards a collection of books relating toproverbsat Keir, p. 43 (this copy).

The author probably undertook this manuscript as a spiritual andlearning exercise. Latin was essential, as was the discipline requiredto record a saint for every day of the year. The model would likelyhave been the Acta Sanctorum of the Jesuit Bollandistes, first publishedin 1643 in two volumes covering Januarys saints, and still largelyincomplete by the time of our authors century. The emphasis here ison suffering saints, hence the title Theatrum patientiae or Theatre ofendurance. What better example of this (besides Christ Himself) thanIgnatius Loyola? The author has noted the anagram for Loyolas nameand Francis Xaviers: gavisi sunt vexari; they rejoiced in suffering.

18. [HAGIOGRAPHY.] Theatrum patientiae humanae exhibensachis duodecim scenas in sengulis circiter triginta exemplis duorumpatientium et S.S. Patrum Sententiis illustratas. [Germany, 18thcentury].

4to, ll. [182]; manuscript in Latin in a clear italic hand; engravingspasted in collage to final quire; small ms illustrations; offsetting to firstand last leaves; slight worming especially to last two quires but a good,clean copy in contemporary sheep, fleurons to corners, clasps intact,rubbed, head of spine chipped; library stamp of the St. Andreas Churchin Rngsdorf to first leaf.

1750

A manuscript calendar year of short hagiographical lives, one for eachday of the year, with some days given over to important feast days.The author reveals their Germanic salt by repeated use of Thomas Kempis. Other exempla patientia include Jesuit figures of the previouscentury. The manuscripts fluency in Latin one might expect to readhagiography in the vernacular and the numerous references to Jesuitslikely indicate Jesuit membership or aspirations on the part of theauthor. Their wide frame of reference also includes classical authors(Epictetus, Seneca) and the early Church fathers.

The manuscript gives evidence of strong personal devotion, withCatholic imagery providing focal points for the authors thoughts:manuscript drawings of a palm tree, the sacred heart and the militesChristi. Even more exciting are the collages of engraved images: therose among thorns; Christs wounds; and the clock of the Passion.Rather imaginatively the points of the clock-face emanate in anexuberant fashion from the wound in Christs side (usefully added inink) like streams of blood.

G E R M A N J E S U I T ?

Hernandez refers to typhus, yellow fever and plague epidemics in,among other places, Europe and Russia (Toulon, London,Constantinople, Moldovia, Moscow), the Caribbean (West Indies,Guadeloupe), North America (including Halifax, Nova Scotia,Charlottetown, New York, and, notably, Philadelphia, with referencesto the College of Physicians, which had been founded in 1787 Benjamin Rush is mentioned); names a large number of contemporarydoctors and their predecessors, and assesses their approaches to thesediseases; and identifies ships and seamen (and thus implicitly wars,trade and exploration) as the cause of the international movement ofepidemics.

19. HERNANDEZ, Joseph Franois Didace. Essai sur le typhusou sur les fivres dites malignes, putrides, bilieuses, muqueuses, jaune;la peste; exposition analytique et exprimentale de la nature des fivresen general Paris, Cellot for Mquignon-Marvis, 1816.

8vo (213 x 132 mm), pp. xiv, 479, [1 blank]; very occasional lightspotting or creasing; half title; original marbled-brown paper wrap-pers, printed title label on spine, all edges uncut, partially unopened;extremities lightly rubbed and creased, upper joint with very shortsplit at the top, nonetheless a very fresh, crisp copy in the originalwrappers; provenance: Librarie de V[euv]e Bergeret, Bordeaux(contemporary printed booksellers label on upper wrapper).

950

First edition. Hernandez (1769-1835) was a professor of physiologyand pathology, Chair of Hygiene and chief of the clinic at Toulon;marine medical doctor at Toulon, Rochefort and other French portcities; the first president of the Acadmie in the south-eastern Frenchprovince of Var (where he was also politically active); and a knight ofNapoleons Lgion dHonneur. In Essai sur le typhus he rejectstraditional book learning (especially humoral theories) and proposesan empirical approach long-term observations and studies forreproducible, reliable results for investigating the origin,epidemiology, contagion patterns and treatment of inflammatory andintermittent fevers, and typhus a disease with especially devastatingepidemics during the period of the Napoleonic Wars.

Hernandez references are both historical and firmly situated withinthe fabric of the Napoleonic Wars, often based on his own professionalexperience, and informed by his wide-spread interests in hygiene andepidemiology. In the historical and medical parts of his narrative,

T Y P H U S : A M E D I C A L - M A R I T I M E - N A P O L E O N I C A P P R O A C H

Hernandez was also a participant in the medical controversies of histime: a contemporary review (Journal de mdecine de Montpellier,1816, p. 150) comments on Hernandez affinities with the Brunoniansystem of medicine; this had been developed by John Brown, a studentof William Cullens at Edinburgh, whom Hernandez refers to on thehalf-title (Essai sur le Typhus de Cullen, ou Fivre Asthnique), andBrowns theories on typhus had been particularly acutely discussedduring the German typhus epidemic of 1813-14. Interestingly,Hernandez was attacked in Toulon for promoting Brownscontroversial theories of physiological irritability, excitability, anddisease, and attempts were made to remove him from his posts.

Wellcome III, p. 254.

J O U R N E Y T O J E R U S A L E M

20. JAN VAN DER LINDEN. Heerelycke ende geluckige reysenaer het heyligh landt ende stadt van Jerusalem ... in het jaer ons heeren1633 ... Den lesten druck, van nieuws oversien ende op vele plaetsenverbetert. Het eerste deel. Brussels, Weduwe G. Jacobs, 1744.

[Bound with:]

Het tweede deel ofte weder-keeren van de heerelycke ende geluckigereyse naer het heyligh landt ende de stadt van Jerusalem ... Den lestenDruck van nieuws oversien. Brussels, G. Jacobs, [n. d.].

Two parts in one vol., 4to, pp. 80; 64; text in roman, blackletter andcivilit, title to first part in red and black with woodcut Jerusalemcross, woodcut of comet to title of second part, headpieces; first andlast pages slightly dusty, short closed tear at title fore-edge, corners tofirst few leaves a little worn, cut a little close at head margins; overalla very good copy in later vellum boards, spine label; some wear to

spine and joints; book label Ex legato d. Zenonis de Viron (1856) tofront pastedown.

750

Scarce later edition (first 1634) of this popular account of Jan vander Lindens journey to Jerusalem in 1633, printed in roman,blackletter and civilit types. Prior of the Alexian convent inAntwerp and plague master of the city, van der Linden (d. 1638)travelled with Jacob Pussenius, the father confessor of his convent,through France to Genoa and thence to the Holy Land, where he visitedthe holy places in and around Jerusalem. His account, interspersedwith prayers and hymns, contains a number of interesting passagesrelating to Cyprus. The work served as a schoolbook to generationsof children well into the nineteenth century: the title pages bear theinstruction Leest, begrypt, ende onthout (Read, understand, andremember).

cf Rhricht p. 250-1; Tobler p. 101. Not on COPAC; only theHamilton College Library copy in the US on OCLC.

teaching aids before creating his logical piano. On this occasion, earlyin his career, Jevons (pp. 177-179) organized a practical demonstrationand set forth the purpose and functions of his newly devised calculatingand logical machine a comparatively simple device consisting of anumber of marked blocks of wood that could be manipulated on aseries of shelves to produce the solution to a logical problem. Heconsiders his work within the tradition of mechanical logic, fromAristotle to Babbage.

Inoue and White 66; not in Letters and journal.

21. JEVONS, William Stanley. Preliminary account of certainlogical inventions, communicated March 19th, 1866 [in: Proceedingsof the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. During thefifty-fifth session, 1865-66. No. XX]. London, Longman ,Liverpool, Marples, 1867.

8vo, pp. ii, 173-232; a clean copy, in recent wrappers; stamp of theGeologists Association, London.

350

First edition of the account of Jevons communication on thelogical abacus and the logical machine, a precursor of his laterlogical piano. Jevons had experimented with different forms of

M O D E L O F A C A L C U L A T I N G M A C H I N E

In his subsequent analysis of European, Asian, African and Americangeography, the author works down from the macro to the micro level,beginning with a general account of each continent (giving consider-ation to languages and the general characteristics of their inhabitants)before describing each country in turn (giving latitude, longitude andextent), its regions, cities and island possessions, physical features(e.g. rivers, mountains and lakes), natural resources, religions, andgovernment. There is much of historical interest references tonumerous treaties for example as well as details on agriculture,commerce, and European colonialism.

22. [MANUSCRIPT.] A treatise on world geography. Italy, c. 1760.

Manuscript on paper, in Italian, 4to (225 x 185 mm), pp. 320 (includingindex at end); neatly written in brown ink in two distinct hands, c. 33lines per page, French verses at end in different 18th-century hand, afew corrections and crossings-through, table headed tavola de climito p. 18; occasional small ink stains and marks; very well preserved incontemporary calf, gilt decoration and label to spine, red edges; somewear to extremities, a few marks to covers, upper joint repaired.

3500

A thorough, methodical, and highly interesting manuscript trea-tise on the physical, political and religious geography of Europe,Asia, Africa and the Americas, apparently unpublished, provid-ing an important insight into the mid-eighteenth-century westernEuropean conception of the world. The latest event referred towithin the text is the 1756 battle of Minorca, putting its composition by an anonymous Italian author to around 1760. The absence ofinformation on Australasia also indicates a date prior to Cooks voy-ages.

The treatise opens with an overview of cosmography and geographyin general, including an interesting glossary of terms employed innatural geography (e.g. desert), civil geography (e.g. state), and moralgeography (e.g. paganism). The author then discusses maps, includ-ing scale and representing natural and man-made features, as well asselecting the best maps. He then considers, for example, longitudeand latitude, calculating the distance and time difference between twoplaces, the rising, setting and declination of the sun, the constellations,stars and planets, and terrestrial and celestial globes (with reference toNicolas Bions Usage des globes).

M I D - E I G H T E E N T H C E N T U R Y W O R L D V I E W

The author is understandably Eurocentric, devoting the greatest partof the manuscript (to p. 240) to the European continent. Beginningwith Spain, he works through western, central, and eastern Europe,including the European possessions of the Ottoman empire (with ashort passage on Islam), ending with Russia, Scandinavia, and theBritish Isles. Showing a not unnatural bias, he refers to Italy as no hache invidiare a qualunque altra parte dellEuropa, and also commentson the cold, humidity and absence of wine growing in England.

The author divides Asia into 6 parts, comprising Turkey, Russia,Tartary, Persia, India, and China (vastissima regione) and begins bystating that the Middle East was the first region to be populated bymankind and the birthplace of the arts and sciences. Discussion ofChina is followed by that of Asian islands including Japan. Thesection on Africa includes references to slavery and to Europeanpossessions on the continent.

Opening with mention of Vespucci and Columbus, the section on theAmericas covers significant rivers and mountains (describing theAndes as i piu alti di tutto il mondo) as well as commerce in cocoa,tobacco and precious metals, before examining North America (laNuova Francia, lAmerica Inglese, la Florida, il vechio e nuovoMessico e la California) in detail, and then South America, withreferences to European colonisation. A final brief section is devotedto the Arctic and Antarctic, una parte del mondo poco o nullaconosciuto, ending with reference to the 1739 discovery of CapeCirconcision.

The French verses at the end, Vers artificiels pour aprendre aisement,et retenir par coeur la geographie universelle, include the names ofcountries, regions, cities, and rivers across the globe with a particu-lar focus on France and are perhaps derived from the Jesuit authorClaude Buffier.

23. MANZONI, Alessandro, and M. G[OSSELIN] (transl.). LesFiancs, histoire milanaise du dix-septime sicle; par AlexandreManzoni. Traduit de litalien par M.G. Paris, Dauthereau, Im-primerie de Firmin Didot, 1828.

Five parts in three vols, 32mo; with the half titles and initial editorsnote; a very good copy in contemporary half-calf, marbled boardswith gilt-stamped flat spines and gilt lettering-pieces, speckled edges;extremities lightly worn.

650

First edition of the first or second French translation (two appeared inthe same year) of the most important and widely-read Italian novelsof the age. Inspired partly by Walter Scotts works, I Promessi sposiwas quickly established in Italy not just as the exemplary historicalfiction, capable, according to the authors poetic, of achievingcloseness to the historical truth better than history itself; it also became(in its definitive form) the template for modern Italian language prose.

Another French edition came out in the same year, by a differenttranslator, and not as rare as this. The translator of our edition has beenidentified as M. Gosselin, archivist at the depotdesfortifications.

No copy recorded in COPAC. OCLC locates three copies in the US(Oxford, Wellesley, Louisiana State).

A LOVELY SET OF A RARE EDITION

24. [NORFOLK, Commissioners of Sewers.] The great law ofmarsh land. [Kings Lynn?, c. 1714].

4to, pp. 22, [2 blank]; title from p. 1; first and last pages dusty with afew marks; a very good copy, stab-stitched; inscription C. S. Ives inred ink at head of p. 3.

200

Rare first edition of this work relating to the preservation of drainedNorfolk marshland. The first part comprises an order by theCommissioners of Sewers, following a meeting at Kings Lynn on 1June 1714, detailing urgent repairs to various local ditches (gooles),drains, and banks which had been very much broken and torn by thelate storms and violent rages of the tides, which had almost resultedin a fatal and general inundation from sea. The order also calls forthe printing and strict application of the ancient great Law ofMarshland, dating from the time of James I, and this appears here asthe second part (pp. 6-22), detailing the appointment and duties ofsurveyors and dike reeves, and penalties for negligence.

ESTC N70468; Goldsmiths 5101. We have only traced 3 copies(British Library, Trinity College Cambridge, and Senate HouseLibrary). No auction records.

P R E S E R V I N G T H E F E N S

25. [PLACE, Francis]. An essay on the state of the country, inrespect to the condition and conduct of the husbandry labourers, andto the consequences likely to result therefrom. [London], printed byInnes, [1831].

8vo, pp. 16; a very good copy in modern marbled boards.500

First edition. The author, who has been identified as the social reformerFrancis Place, concludes his analysis with observing that, with currentlow profit margins, squeezed by a large variety of duties, tithes andtaxes as well as rent, farmers were unable to increase labourers wages.A further increase to taxes levied on landlords would only generatethe inevitable and lethal consequence of reducing their capacity forinvestment.

In his youth, Place had moved through the essays of Hume and theworks of Locke and Adam Smith to the teachings of Paine, Godwinand others (from which he and other radicals had drawn theirinspiration for universal education). This finally delivered him to theutilitarianism of Bentham and Mill which provided the philosophicbridge between education and parliamentary reform.

Though slim, this pamphlet offers a coherent and exemplified view ofPlaces understanding of economic dynamics, including wages, prices,rent, as well as illustrating contemporary social conditions andlabour-related disputes.

Goldsmiths 26920; Kress C2910.

26. RINUCCINI, Ottavio. La Dafne. Livorno, (Gaetano Poggiali)co i tipi di Didot il Maggiore, 1802.

8vo, pp. [4], 24; a beautiful copy, printed on vellum, bound incontemporary blue silk over boards, spine worn.

1350

A unique copy of Rinuccinis Dafne, extracted from the Drammimusicali published in Leghorn in 1802 and printed on vellum speciallyfor Count Giulio Bernardino Tomitano (1761 1828), renownedbibliophile from Oderzo, as stated on the first leaf (Unico esemplareimpresso in cartapecora della sola Dafne per la raccolta de Libri diLingua del nobilissimo ed eruditissimo Signor Conte GiulioBernardino Tomitano di Oderzo).

Giulio Bernardino Tomitanos large collection of books andmanuscripts was dispersed after his death, and in 1840 some 100manuscripts were sold by his heirs in London, where many werepurchased by Guglielmo Libri. In 1884, 65 volumes of correspondenceof Tomitano returned to Italy when the Italian Government repurchasedsome 2000 manuscripts stolen in Italy by Libri and sold by him toBertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham; they are now in theBiblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.

Gamba 844 (Pubblicatasi dal Poggiali sin dallanno 1802 una raccoltade Drammi musicali di Ottavio Rinuccini [...] fece imprimere a partedella sola Dafne un unico esemplare in pergamena, posseduto da GiulioBernardino Tomitano di Oderzo).

AN UNICUM, P RINTED ON VELLUM

landowners their enthusiasm for enclosure, for instance, hostility tocommons, and readiness to experiment with new crops ... As withmost improvers many of his experiments were expensive failures(ODNB).

Goldsmiths 18635. COPAC records 5 copies (BL, NLS, Edinburgh,Senate House Library, Southampton). OCLC apparently records onlythe Yale copy in the US. Rare on the market (no auction records).

27. SINCLAIR, John, Sir, first baronet. A sketch of theimprovements, now carrying on by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. in thecounty of Caithness, North Britain. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1803.

Large 4to, pp. [2], 16, with 4 engraved plates (2 folding); a littlecreasing at corners, some loss at fore-edge of first plate affectingengraved text; a very good copy stab-stitched in contemporary mar-bled paper wrappers; From the author at head of title.

850

First edition, presentation copy, with attractive engravings showing aPlan of the new town of Thurso, an Improved elevation and plansof Janet Street in the new town of Thurso, a Plan of certain farms onthe river Thurso ... intended partly to be let in small lots on improvingleases to new settlers, and Sketch of the fishing village ofBrodiestown intended to be created at Sarilet.

Agricultural improver, politician, and president of the Board ofAgriculture, Sinclair (1754-1835) was educated at Edinburgh,Glasgow, and Oxford, inheriting his fathers Caithness estates inScotland. A sketch details Sinclairs various schemes for improvement,including sheep farming at Langwell, the adoption of a fen system ofhusbandry, the creation of new small arable farms, and theestablishment of two new villages of Halkirk and Brodiestown and ofa new town of Thurso, an attractive Georgian suburb. But as Sinclairhere notes, his improving zeal was checked by the prospect of renewedhostilities with Napoleonic France and the financial uncertainty thisbrought. He held to most of the standard views of improving

AGRICULTURAL IMPROVER

28. TOUZELLI, Bnoit (also Benedetto TOSELLI). Apologie desfemmes, ou, Vrits qui font triompher le beau-sexe. Turin, printedby Soffietti and sold by Morano, 1798.

12mo, pp. 107, [1]; a very good copy in contemporary paste-paperwrappers; edges rubbed.

1000

First edition of a very rare tract on the dignity of women.

One of the most original eighteenth-century voices keen to establishthe foundations for the recognition of womens dignity, the authorwrote that, while his predecessors rightly stressed the importance ofthe physical and moral reinstatement and education of women, it wasnow time to take a step forward and show that women have theattributes and qualities that are necessary to cooperate with men, andcontribute to carry the burdens of social life; they are fully equipped,he states, to bring the most palpable advantages to humanity in allkinds of virtue and literature. Women therefore ought ultimately notto be the object of mens condescending homage or earnest patronage,but rather to be mens partners in the running of a modern society.

Little is known about the author; his name, as would have been quitecommon in the literary milieu of Turin at the time, is the French versionof the original Italian Benedetto Toselli, under which a nineteenth-century translation of this work was eventually published.

Gay I, 246; OCLC lists four institutional copies in North America:Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA.

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Both Garhwali and Kumaoni are now listed in UNESCOs Atlas of theWorlds Languages in Danger as languages in the unsafe category,requiring consistent conservation efforts.

OPAC records one copy only, at Harvard. COPAC adds SOAS, BritishMuseum, British Library, Royal Asiatic Society, National Library ofScotland and Oxford.

29. UPRETI, Ganga Datt. Proverbs & folklore of Kumaun andGarhwal. Lodiana (Ludhiana), Lodiana Mission Press, 1894.

8vo, pp. iv, iv, ix, [i], viii, 413 (i.e. 415), [1]; a beautiful copy,exceptionally well preserved, bound in the publishers black cloth, titlegilt to spine, red edges; bookplate of Victor de Guinzbourg to frontfree endpaper.

850

First edition, rare, of a large collection of proverbs and idiomaticexpressions, thematically arranged in over 200 categories, in thedialects of Kumaon and Garhwal, two regions in the Sub-Himalayanstate of Uttarakhand in northern India.

Each proverb is recorded in the original Devanagari script,accompanied by the Romanised transliteration, the English translationand an explanation, sometimes lengthy, of the meaning in relation tosocial context and folklore, as well as the customs and manners out ofwhich each proverb arises.

The author was induced to collect and translate the proverbs, maxims,sayings, and phrases and to illustrate the folklore of these hills, duringa course of years in the service of Government as a Deputy Collectorin Garhwal and Kumaun, where [he] sought and obtained [his]information from old men of respectability and knowledge. [Theauthor] hastened to collect them as [he] was told that a good deal hadalready been lost These proverbs give an insight into the character,habits, customs and traditions of the people who inhabit the districtsof Kumaun and Garhwal (Preface, pp. i,iii).

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30. VILLIERS DE LISLE-ADAM, Auguste, Comte de.Akdyssril. Paris, M. de Brunhoff, 1886.

8vo, pp. [6], 67, [5]; with a half-title, a frontispiece photogravureportrait of the author, a striking aquatint plate by the symbolist artistFlicien Rops (in three states blue, sanguine and bistre), engravedinitials (one printed in red) and two head- and tail-pieces by GeorgesRochegrosse, with the latter in a second state (in red) on two plates atthe end; a fine copy, bound retaining the original waxed paper frontcover (title printed in red) in half silver morocco and blue decoratedboards.

950

First edition in book form, no. 190 of 250 copies, of an oriental fableby the French symbolist writer Villiers de lIsle-Adam (1838-1899).It is a work dune majest de marbre monumental (Verhaeren),printed on velin, with a fine illustration by the Belgian artist FlicienRops.

Originally published in La Revue contemporaine in 1885, Akdyssriltakes inspiration from Indian culture, and specifically Vedic literature,as T.S. Eliot would do almost four decades later. Although lesserknown than the authors seminal Axl, which Edmund Wilson wouldlater champion as the definitive text of the symbolist movement,Akdyssril is one of the earliest texts to perform the modernistunion of symbolism and orientalism. Villiers de lIsle-Adam bringstogether these twin threads in the works eponymous principal,Akdyssril, Queen of Benares, une nigme inaccessible [anunknowable mystery] used to absolute obedience. Returning from warat the head of her army she confronts the guardian of the temple ofShiva, a man whose memory reaches into the depths of Indianmythology.

I L L U S T R A T E D B Y F L I C I E N R O P S ,T H E P L A T E I N T H R E E S T A T E S

In Villiers de lIsle-Adams hands one sees late-nineteenth centuryorientalism become a vehicle for the occult mystery of literarysymbolism, making the text a fascinating document of nascentmodernisms heavy and often unacknowledged debt to visions ofthe colonial East. The works dream-like prose (avec son aspect desonge) gave it a Wagnerian cast that was noted at the time by Dujardin,though according to him it was less simple, less precise, less grandthan the art of Wagner (quoted in Hertz, The Tuning of the Word,p. 53).

Akedysseril est un sujet parnassien, mais tandis que les plus clbresde ses mules sattachaient realiser les gestes, physionomie, lesmilieux fabuleux seulement, Villiers de lIsle-Adam pntre jusqulme des pays et peuples sculaires. Dans Akedysseril, cest la pensede lInde quil nois dvoile (Emile Verhaeren in LArt moderne, 7November 1886).

Carteret, II, 472; Vicaire, VII, 1091.

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