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Catalogue
72
Books
from the Past
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56.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. List Of the Scottish Noblemen and Gentlemen
Attainted of High Treason this Last Session of Parliament. [Edinburgh,
1716]. $500
Broadside; 1 leaf 32.5 cm x 20.5 cm; caption-title; printed on recto
only; verso (blank) heavily stained; edges browned and somewhat
frayed; untrimmed, with very large margins.
ESTC T41077; not in Crawford. We locate copies at the British Library
and the National Library of Scotland only. The work pertains to
the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715; the list of names includes that
of "Robert Campbel alias M'Grigor, commonly called Rob Roy".
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57.
[GREAT BRITAIN. George I]. By the King, A Proclamation, For
putting the Laws in Execution against Papists and Non-Jurors. London,
Printed by John Baskett...., And by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb,
and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1715. $500
Broadsheet, approx. 43 cm x 30 cm, printed on recto only; contemporary
notation at lower corner of verso; light browning and some creasing;
bottom edge quite frayed, touching several letters of imprint; overall
a very good copy, with woodcut coat-of-arms and large historiated
initial.
ESTC T19529; not in Crawford. One copy located in the BL; NLS appears
to have a similar work but with "Given at our Court at St.
James's the Sixth Day of December, 1714", whilst our copy reads
"....the Twenty fifth Day of July, 1715."
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A Very Scarce Work
Accompanied by Important Pamphlets and Ephemera
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58. GUERICKE, OTTO von. Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica
de Vacuo Spatio... 1672. Amsterdam, Apud Joannem Janssonium à
Waesberge, Anno 1672. First edition. $40,000
Small folio; extra engraved title, engraved frontispiece portrait;
pp, [6] (Title, Privilege and Dedication); pp. [3], (Preface); pp.
[3] (Contents), pp. 244, [5] (Index & Errata), [1] (Blank);
21 engraved copper-plates, (2 folding); contemporary quarter-sheep
and marbled paper over boards; binding little worn; contemporary
signature on first blank; old waterstain at lower inner corner of
several leaves and 2 plates; small black wax seal at margin of title;
small hole (repaired) on final leaf, not affecting text. A very
scarce work.
Horblitt 44; Dibner 55. Von Guericke studied at Leipzig, Helmstedt,
Jena and Leiden, and spent much of his life in politics and diplomacy
in Magdeburg. His leisure time was devoted to scientific experimentation.
"As a result of experiments to prove the existence of a vacuum,
he invented the air pump - discovering the pumping capacity and
the elasticity of air. His work stimulated Huygens and Boyle to
repeat and extend his experiments and work on an improved air pump.
To support his notion that the heavenly bodies interacted with each
other across empty space through magnetic force, he cast a sphere
composed of a variety of minerals with a large proportion of sulphur.
By rubbing the sphere he produced static electricity; but since
he did not recognize these electircal events as special phenomena,
but as demonstrations of the "virtutes" of a celestial
body, he cannot properly be credited with the invention of the first
electrical machine." (DSB, p. 301). This work is from the library
of a well-known German scientist, and is accompanied by a number
of interesting ephemera, signed by such important scientists as
Max Planck (winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1918), C.T.R.
Wilson (winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927), and Ernest
Rutherford (winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908).
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Large-Paper Copy, With Plates on India-Paper
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59. HAKEWILL, JAMES (1778-1843). A Picturesque Tour of Italy,
From Drawings Made in 1816-1817, by James Hakewill, Arch.t. London,
John Murray, 1820. First, and Large-Paper, edition. $2,950
Folio: ff. 5, extra engraved title, 63 engraved plates, and corresponding
letter-press; large-paper copy (37 cm x 27 cm), with all engravings
on india paper and mounted; contemporary full hard-grain morocco,
beautifully rebacked; panel design, tooled in gold, on front and
back; spine gilt in compartments; inner dentelles; marbled endpapers;
a.e.g.; edges of binding minimally rubbed; light foxing and little
offsetting; large armorial bookplate of George Prideaux. A very
good copy of a scarce work in Large-Paper format.
BL; Oxford; Harvard. As an architect, James Hakewill attracted controversy
over his proposal to redesign and relocate London's central abattoirs,
based on the Paris model. He was much more appreciated for his illustrated
publications, which were engravings made from views sketched during
his extensive travels. In the preface to this work, Hakewill states
that the plates are arranged "according to the line of route
traced out in Eustace's Tour." John Chetwode Eustace's A Tour
Through Italy (London, 1813), was the literary travelling companion
for anyone venturing a Grand Tour in the 19th century. Text from
Eustace's work is included with landscape paintings by J.M.W. Turner
(1775-1851) made from Hakewill's sketches, as well as drawings of
museum interiors by Harry Moses (1782-1870). Hakewill engaged notable
engravers to produce the plates, including: George Cooke (1781-1834),
Thomas Milton (1743-1827), John Landseer (1769-1852), Samuel Middiman
(1750-1831) and John Scott (1774-1828).
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60.
HARRIS, JOHN, ed. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:
Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of
above Six Hundred of the most Authentic Writers,... London, Printed
for T. Woodward et al, 1744-1748. Two volumes. Second, and best,
edition. $16,500
Folio; 6 ff, pp. xvi, (4), 984; 5ff, pp. 1056, 11 ff; complete with
61 engraved plates, maps, charts, etc. [1 engraved frontispiece
portrait and 1 frontispiece with a series of oval portraits; 22
engraved maps and charts (15 folding), 1 engraved plan, and 36 engraved
plates (many with 2 views)]; titles in red and black. Contemporary
full calf, somewhat worn; rebacked; text slightly age-browned; overall
a very good, complete copy of the most important compendium of travels
of the eighteenth century.
Vide TPL 140 (1st ed.); vide NMM Cat. I:34 (3rd ed.); vide Sabin
30482 and 30483 (1st and 3rd eds.); Cox I, p. 10; new Hill, 775;
Tooley, Australia, 241; Alden 744/116; Goldsmiths' 8040. "Second
edition, edited by Dr. John Campbell. This is a revised and enlarged
version of the 1705 first edition of John Harris' 'compleat collection
of voyages and travels'. The second edition, especially prized for
its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities.
Particularly valuable is the inclusion of a printing of Tasman's
original map and two short articles printed on the map. One discusses
Quirós' voyage, while the other speculates about the possibility
of the Australian continent being colonized.... To the original
extensive collection are added accounts of voyages completed since
the first publication: Christopher Middleton to Hudson's Bay, 1741-42;
Bering to the Northeast, 1725-6; Woodes Rogers' circumnavigation,
1708-11; Clapperton and Shelvocke's circumnavigation, 1719-22; Roggeveen
to the Pacific, 1721-33; and the various travels of Lord Anson,
1740-44."
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