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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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86.
SALMON, THOMAS (1679-1767) Hedendaagsche Historie, of Tegenwoordige
Staat van Alle Volkeren; IX. Deel. Behelzende 't Vervolg van den
Tegenwoordigen Staat des Duitschen Keizerryks: En wel in byzonder
van de Opper-Rhynsche, Frankische, Zwabische, Beyersche en Oostenryksche
Kreitzen. Als mede van het Koninkryk Bohemen, Moravien, Silesien,
Hungaryen, Zevenbergen en de Frontierlanden des Keizerryks. Eerst
in 't Engelsch beschreven door Th. Salmon. Nu-vertaald en merkalyk
vermeerderd door M. van Goch ... Te Amsterdam, By Isaak Tirion,
Boekverkooper op den Nieuwendyk by den Dam, in Hugo Grotius, 1737.
First edition in Dutch. $900
8vo; pp. [6] (including extra engraved title), 673, [15]; five engraved
maps and three engraved plates, all folding; leaves erratically
signed. Full vellum, little dusty; manuscript title on spine; title
vignette; tail-pieces; small tear in gutters of two maps, not affecting
images; small spots on two leaves affecting two letters; staining
on lower margin of one plate and two leaves; foxing on three leaves.
Otherwise, a clean copy with maps in very good condition.
BL; Harvard; Sabin 75826 (London ed.). The original London edition
of Thomas Salmon's Modern History, or The Present State of All Nations
was published from 1725-39 in 32 volumes (Sabin). This is volume
nine of the Dutch edition, translated by Matthias van Goch, and
eventually published in 44 parts from 1729 to 1820. It includes
descriptions of Germany, Bavaria, Austria, Moravia, Bohemia, Silesie,
Hungary and the Brabant States. Thomas was a prolific author of
geographical and historical works, and he travelled a great deal
throughout Europe. In 1739-40, he accompanied Anson on his voyage
around the world (DNB).
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87.
SANDEMAN, ARCHIBALD (1822-1893). A Treatise on the Motion
of a Single Particle, and of Two Particles Acting on One Another.
Cambridge, John Deighton; London, John W. Parker, M.DCCC.L (1850).
$450
8vo; pp. xvi, 190. Half cloth over paper boards, little scuffed,
corners worn; ownership signature on title; bookplate removed; small
blind stamp on one leaf; notation in lower margin of a preliminary
leaf. Three publishers' lists bound in: Mathematical Works Published
by John Deighton, Cambridge (2 p.); List of Books Published by Bell
and Daldy, London (32 p.); List of Books Published by Deighton,
Bell & Co., Cambridge, 1855 (16 p.).
OCLC 29559519; relatively scarce, with seven copies located in COPAC;
two in Canada (McGill; U of Toronto), and four in the U.S. Archibald
Sandeman was among the elite Cambridge mathematics graduates of
the 19th century, and he became professor of mathematics and natural
philosophy at Owen's College, Manchester. A member of a well-known
textile manufacturing family, Professor Sandeman left a large bequest
to endow a public library in Perth, Australia.
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Suppressed by Royal Authority
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88. [SCOTT, THOMAS]. Vox Populi. Or Newes from Spayne, translated
according to the Spanish coppie. Which may serve to forewarn both
England and the United Provinces how farre to trust to Spanish pretences.
N.p., 1620. First edition, first issue.
[bound with]:
[SCOTT, THOMAS]. The Second Part of Vox Populi. or Gondomar
appearing in the likeness of Matchiavell in a Spanish Parliament,
wherein are discovered his treacherous & subtile Practices to
the ruine as well of England, as the Netherlandes. Faithfully Transtated
[sic] out of the Spanish Coppie by a well-willer to England and
Holland. Printed at Goricum by Ashuerus Janss., 1624. First edition,
second issue. $6,000
Small 4to; pp. (28); pp. (6), 60, f, engraved title (imprint cropped,
as STC claims is the case in most copies), two engraved plates within
the text (margin shaved to plate-mark). Bound together in later
full panelled calf, with Boies Penrose's bookplate.
Sabin 78376 & 78377; STC 22098 & 22103.3; Alden 620/145
& 624/139; Church 380A (1st title only). Alden claims the actual
printing to have been done in London by Okes and Dawson, but there
is no entry in the Stationers' Register to support that claim; besides,
the author, a political writer, was living in Utrecht at the time
and the work was no doubt published in the Netherlands. The dedication
to the first part is to the King and Queen of Bohemia, &c. and
to Maurice, Prince of Orange, and is signed "T.S. of V"
(i.e. of Utrecht). When Count Gondomar arrived in England from Spain
to arrange the preliminaries for the marriage of Prince Charles
with the Infanta, Scott published this impudent work to protest
the match. It is a facetious tract about the Count's imagined reception
back in Spain where, Scott states, Gondomar promises to bring England
into subjugation to Spain and avers that he has promises from prominent
Recusants that they will help stay the English settlements in America
and the West Indies. The work was widely received by the general
public as the truth, and was suppressed by royal authority. The
engraved title to the Second Part shows Gondomar's "chair of
ease" and the "donkey litter"; on A4v is the well-known
reference to Drake and Howard playing at bowls as the appearance
of the Spanish Armada is announced.
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89.
SHAW, HENRY. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages.
London, William Pickering, 1843. Two volumes. First edition. $2,250
4to; foliated; 94 plates (two double-page) which are hand-coloured,
colour-printed, or tinted; numerous coloured cuts, initials and
decorations within the text; contemporary half-morocco; marbled
boards and endpapers; t.e.g.; spines ornately gilt; binding somewhat
worn at edges; text and plates very clean; a very good set, inter-leaved
with protective blanks for the plates.
Lipperheide 275. The work covers the dress, armour, and decorations
as shown in works from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries.
One of the most beautiful of nineteenth-century English books.
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90.
SIEBERT, FRANK T. The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North
American Indian and the American Frontier. New York, Sotheby's,
1999. Two volumes. $150
4to; pp. 370; pp. 393; voluminously illustrated in colour and in
black and white; original cloth, each volume with coloured illustration
on front cover; this set complete with lists of prices realised
for both sales. Mint condition.
The sale of Dr. Siebert's collection, in two sessions in May and
October, 1999, consisted of over one thousand indexed items, and
was without question the most interesting and important sale of
Americana since the Thomas Streeter Sale of the 1960s.
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