1822. 24mo, pp. [vi] blank, [iv] engraved frontispiece and title-page, 96, [6] blank; printed in red and black; faint dampstain affecting margins of engraved frontispiece and title-page, text lightly browned with some occasional minor soiling; a number of ink and pencil entries in the memorandum, seemingly in a single neat hand; in contemporary red morocco, with attractive silver clasp (still working), with front inner pocket, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with pencil holder (though pencil missing), covers a little scuffed and soiled, with light wear to extremities, but still an attractive copy. A most appealing pocket memorandum book in the original wallet binding with a silver clasp, issued by one of the leading pocket-book makers of the day, William Peacock, based in Salisbury Square London. There is increasing focus of study upon such pocket diary-cum-almanacs, which though at the time were widely purchased and used, became somewhat ‘invisible’ with the passing of time and neglected by academic study. Attractively printed, and with an elegantly engraved frontispiece depicting William IV landing at Torbay (E. F Burney. Del, S. Springsguth, sculp), the present example includes a blank diary section of pp. 52 corresponding to the weeks of the year, further divided into 7 boxes for each day. The inclusion of a finely executed frontispiece was a particular feature of the genre, and indeed between 1790-1809 Humphrey Repton supplied tiny watercolour views for Peacock’s other series, The Polite Repository. Though sadly anonymous, there are a number of entries in both pencil and ink, seemingly in more than one hand, and which includes a number of contact details and address (both in London and Paris), including for French and music teachers, a doctor, seamstresses, a hairdresser, laundress, upholsterer, restaurants, and hotels. Some of the notes date to the period 1826-1827.
A stationer and bookbinder, Peacock seems to have begun trading in 1779, later trading as William Peacock and Sons, and then as Peacock and Bampton between 1811-1827. ‘Peacock appears to have been one of the leading pocket-book makers. He published the untraced Historical Almanack, a cheaper pocket diary, advertised for the first time in November 1793 and 'ornamented with an elegant Frontispiece,' which appears to have run and been advertised up until at least 1837. [...] Apart from producing pocket books, Peacock was also active as a tanner, likely preparing some of the leather he would use in his bindings...’ (Sandro Jung, ‘Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 2013, 37(2), pp. 53-84.) ‘the eighteenth-century illustrated pocket diary-cum-almanac is a largely neglected ephemeral genre, partly because it has, in Margaret J. M. Ezell’s term, remained “invisible”. Even though annual publications such as Thomas Baker’s Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas and William Peacock’s Polite Repository were once widely known and familiar to those who could afford them, their absence from historical narratives of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century print culture, the history of the book, and publishing represents a significant gap in accounts of the consumption of printed ephemera. Too often, copies of these pocket books have been preserved largely because of who their owners were or because of the socio-cultural records they contain on day-to-day life in the period. In that regard, they have not been considered as important interventions in a sizeable market for illustrated pocket books the study of which will contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of processes of commodification, marketing, branding, and cultural production’ (ibid.)

1864.]. 8vo, 155 x 120mm, chromolithograph leporello, 147 x 107mm extending out to 2560 x 107mm, printed on one side only and comprising 24 panels (‘L’ and ‘J’ on one panel, ‘W’ omitted; ’N’ printed in reverse; with text below each image in French and English; lightly browned due to paper quality, a couple of small tears at folds, with a couple of small holes to inner gutter of final panel; mounted within embossed paper-covered boards, with pictorial label showing theatrical characters and a magic lantern, spine repaired, with some loss of the border around printed label, inner spine with loss of paper, extremities rubbed and light worn; still an appealing and striking copy. A scarce and extensive alphabet panorama in French and English, with a striking series of illustrations designed to imitate magic lantern slides, and featuring a host of ‘amusing’ and grotesque characters. The leporello is comprised of 24 panels, with the letters ‘L’ and ‘J’ on one panel, and ‘W’ omitted. The ’N’ has been printed in reverse. Each colourful character is placed within a solid black background, and includes a screaming baby carried off by devils, a devilish looking magician, a set of animated dentures, and a celebrity in the guise of the gymnast and acrobat Jules Léotard (1838-1870). Whilst intended to be amusing, it must be said that one or two of the images have racial and antisemitic overtones.
According to Lawrence Darton, the bibliographer of the Darton publishing houses, the foundering Darton and Hodge firm may have tried to liven up its offerings by issuing Cordier’s series of bilingual panoramic alphabets. The colophon of Plon in Paris at the end of the panorama suggests that French editions were imported and new English cover title labels added. ‘Mainly pictorial, with lively colour-printed illustrations and captions in English and French, each in the form of a long accordion-folded strip (’upwards of 11 feet in length’, as advertisements put it), contained in bright, attractive, embossed paper boards with gilt trimming, they were something quite new to most English children. Because of their fragility, few copies have survived’ (The Darton: an annotated checklist, p. XLVV, and see p. 367 for ‘Fantasmagoria’).

ca. 1920s?]. Small 18mo, pp. 66, [4], with two half tone illustrations and numerous line drawings; with advertisements on front and rear inside covers; a little browned; in the original green limp cloth, covers printed in black; a good copy. An appealing and uncommon manual of engineering, issued by the noted firm of C.H. Bailey, based in Newport in Wales. This small illustrated pocket guide, was one of a number of educational works published by the company in the early part of the 20th century, including C. H. Bailey’s Handy book of constants’(1906), and their more extensive Book of Useful Information’(1906). Some of the illustrations found in that work have been reprinted here.
Founded in the 1880s, the company was incorporated in May 1923 as C.H. Bailey, Graham and Co. Just prior to the start of World War II, it became C.H. Bailey Ltd. Almost 50 years later, the company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Until the early 1960s, the company was engaged primarily in owning and operating dry docks, ship repairing and heavy engineering. While the company’s first dry dock operations were in Newport, it also operated in Barry, Cardiff, Swansea, Port Talbot, on the Mersey, and in Bristol and Malta.

1907. 8vo, pp. xii, 214, [2]; with numerous evocative text illustrations, and a number of half-tone reproductions of x-rays; lightly foxed and browned throughout due to paper quality, gutter cracked at p. 192 but holding firm; in the original publisher’s full green roan, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, with blindstamped initials on rear cover, all edges gilt, head and tail of spine lightly worn, with further minor rubbing to extremities, spine a little sunned; an appealing copy. First edition of this early and most appealing guide for automobile drivers on health and hygiene, by Dr. R. Bommier (1874-), one of a number of 'indispensable' works for car enthusiasts covering all areas of care and maintenance, and published as part of the series Bibliothèque du Chauffeur.
The first part of the work introduces the driver to some basic tenets of health, through a comparison of the health and 'physiology' of both the human and combustion engine. Both humans and automobiles need oxygen, energy to drive them forward, and experience friction upon working parts. Part two examines in more details the hygiene of the human 'moteur', with the third part devoted to hygiene of the skin. A wonderfully evocative section highlights suitable items of clothing for both male and female automobile drivers and passengers, to ensure that they stay warm and dry, and thus avoid the dangers of over exposure. Considerable attention is devoted to the dangers of either too much sun, or of too much cold. Bommier also includes a section on suitable eye-wear, for both automobiles and motorcyclists. The effects of motoring upon conditions such as tuberculosis and asthma, as well as upon nervous diseases, are then discussed. Whilst Bommier warns that the 'sport' of motoring can lead to over-excitement in some cases, it has proved to be a very good remedy for insomnia! The final section is devoted to accidents associated with motoring, and includes a number of x-ray images of fractures resulting from motoring accidents.

1675. 12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. [xxii], 26, 187, [5]; with engraved title, engraved coat of arms on verso of title, 25 full-page engraved illustrations printed within the text, and with woodcut device on title and woodcut initials and headpieces; old paper repair at tail of engraved title, with some signs of wear along gutter and seeming repair to fore-edge of eiii, small tear at tail of p. 37 just touching margin of plate but with no loss, some light browning and foxing throughout, but generally clean and bright; in contemporary vellum, though possibly later binding, marbled edges, covers a little soiled and boards slightly sprung, contemporary ownership signature on rear paste-down; a good copy. First and only edition of this finely illustrated description of the ‘pantomètre’ invented by Pierre Bullet (1639?-1716), one of the foremost architect-engineers of his time. A student of François Blondel (1628-1686), ‘he undertook a wide range of civic works in Paris, including rebuilding the Quay le Peletier in 1673. With Blondel, Bullet was asked to draw up a general plan of Paris, for the benefit of the city and the nation. This was carried out with great skill and published in 1676. His ‘pantomètre’ was intended to speed up the surveying process, and was a combination of graduated rules, two pivoted together and a third able to slide along one of the other two’ (Gaskell, 18: 23). Bullet notes on p. 17 that his instrument can be obtained from the maker Lemaire ‘sur le quai des Morfondus au Cercle divisé’.
The 25 attractive illustrations are ‘well executed and are a combination of line-engraving and etching. They show the instrument and its parts, and its use by surveyors in fine landscape backgrounds. There is also an attractive engraved title, and full-page engraved arms of the dedicatee, Claude le Peletier’ (ibid).
‘The most famous of his works is the Porte Saint-Martin which he built in 1674. The church of Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, the sidewalk of the Quai Pelletier supported by a vault cut in its quarter-circle arch, the fountain of the Place Saint-Michel... led to his admission, in 1685, to the Academy of Architecture. He published several important works: Traité de l'usage du pantomètre (1675), Traité du nivellement, l'architecture pratique, etc.’ (translation of Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie Générale VII, p. 768)

-1908.]. Large 8vo, pp. [vi], 503, [1] blank; with frontispiece, double-page map of the North Pole, and 46 illustrations, several full-page; paper a little browned and foxed due to quality; in the original red publisher’s cloth, with bevelled edges, all edges gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, upper cover with mounted chromolithograph label of a polar bear on an ice flow, watching the arrival of an airship, blindstamped and lettered in gilt, with publisher’s monogram in blind on rear cover, head and tail of spine a little bumped, some soiling to spine, upper joint slightly cracked at head, lower joint with small split at tail, extremities lightly bumped; a good copy. First edition, handsomely published, of this romantic adventure story, and the work of the popular writer Emile-Augustin-Cyrpien Driant (1855-1916), writing under his pseudonym of Captain Danrit.
A French balloon, the ‘Patrie’ breaks free from its moorings, after an act of sabotage, setting adrift balloonist officer Lieutenant Georges Durtal, and Christiane de Soignes, whom Durtal had invited onboard. Driven by a storm the balloon reaches Norway, where it is picked up by an American billionaire aboard his yacht, who offers to hire the intrepid pair to help him win a bet to reach the North Pole. Durtel accepts and thus begins an exciting race to the Pole, against the backdrop of ensuring that the airship does not fall into German hands.
Driant drew inspiration from two unsolved mysteries of the day: the disappearance of the Swedish explorer Salomon Andrée’s 1897 expedition across the Arctic, and the 1906 disastrous flight of the French dirigible, the ‘Patrie’ which had disappeared at sea. In the present novel, the airship crash lands on the ice floe, the intrepid pair heading off on foot towards the North Pole. There they discover a Swedish flag, no doubt planted by members of the Andrée expedition, before discovering human remains in a nearby cave.
This tale of derring-do was also serialised in Le Journal des Voyages from October 18, 1908 to May 2, 1909.
Driant joined the military shortly after 1871, and went on to lead a distinguished career. He began writing and publishing in 1889, his military experiences very much forming a backdrop for most of his works. He attention turned fully to writing upon his retirement in 1905, when he began a career as a journalist, and continuing to publish fictional works. When war was declared in 1914, he asked to return to service, and was eventually killed during the battle of Bois des Caures in February 1916.

2015. The Swedish Dental Society, founded in 1860, accumulated an important historical collection of over 850 odontological books, the majority printed before 1920, and which today forms one of the major special collections deposited in the Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library in Stockholm. The catalogue comprises 208 pages and 161 illustrations with descriptions of 65 books including the earliest printed works from the sixteenth century entirely devoted to dentistry, as well as on how to cure toothache, on extraction, and on the replacement of false teeth. The collections includes first editions of several odontological classics, from Eustachi's Libellus de dentibus (1583) through to Jackson's Orthodontia of 1904 on the regulation of teeth, and including the most famous of them all, Pierre Fauchard's Chirurgien Déntiste, Paris, 1728. Each item is given a bibliographical description and at least one page with a historical commentary on the author and the importance of his work.

1862. 8vo, pp. 162, [iii] index, [3] blank; with 35 lithograph plates and one large folding frontispiece plan, plates interleaved with a blank leaf; general clean and fresh, paper a little more browned from p. 126 onward seemingly due to varying paper stock; with small Madras booksellers stamp at tail of title-page; one of two of the plates rather weak impressions with slightly faint text; in contemporary half black morocco over cloth boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little knocked and rubbed, covers a little faded, light rubbing to joints and extremities, corners a little worn; a good copy. Fifth edition (first 1852?), of this detailed and well illustrated manual of civil engineering, providing a fascinating insight into the organisation and maintenance of public infrastructure projects in British Colonial India.
According to the preface, the present work is a compilation drawn from a number of sources including ‘“Jackson’s surveying,” “Simms on Mathematical Instruments,” “Millington’s Civil Engineering,” “Mahan’s Civil Engineering,” and “Gillespie on Roads.” The accounts of brick making and tile making as practised at Mercara were kindly furnished to the compiler. The rules for the repairs of Tanks and Channels were drawn up some years ago by the late Captain Best, and a few copies distributed, but they were never printed till they appeared in the first edition of this book. Some memoranda of the same officer have been inserted in the chapters on bridges and roads. The tables of Indian weights and measures and the fall of rain at Madras have been taken from the Madras New Almanac... Though containing many extracts from other books, yet there will be found here much matter, relating to building processes peculiar to the country, which has not before been printed’ (preface). The number of plates included in the present edition has apparently also been increased.
The work is divided into eight chapters and an appendix, and deal in turn with surveying and levelling; materials used in building; masonry; foundations; roofs; bridges; roads; and works of irrigation. The appendix provides additional information on such matters as tables of rates of earth works; tables of cart hire; weights and measures; price list of labour, materials and work; and a glossary of Indian revenue and irrigation terms.

1802.]. 32mo, pp. vi, 7-32; with engraved frontispiece; pagination error with p. 3 in Arabic rather than Roman; some light soiling, but otherwise clean and bright; without endpapers (as issued?), textblock a little shaken; stitched as issued, in the original cream paper-covered boards, all edges yellow, with mounted shaped engraved labels on upper and lower board, each hand-coloured, spine slightly worn, covers a little soiled and darkened, but otherwise very good. A scarce and charming miniature introduction to basic arithmetic for children, issued by John Marshall as one of the series of little books that formed his boxed library ‘The Book-Case of Instruction and Delight’. The work begins with a brief potted history of mathematics: ‘From Asia it passed into Egypt... her it was greatly cultivated and improved. From Egypt it was transmitted to the Greeks, who handed it forward with great improvements, which is had received by the computation of their astronomers to the Romans from whom it came to us’ (p. iv). The young readers are then taken through the basic principles of numeration, addition, multiplication, subtraction and division, the work including a number of small tables and examples.
John Marshall (1783-1828) was a renowned publisher of miniature children’s books and series, including The Juvenile; or Child’s Library’; The Infant’s Library’; and The Doll’s Library. Printed in brightly coloured boards, often with numerous illustrations and frequently offered with the option of purchasing an accompanying specially designed ornamental doll-house-like bookcase, they became incredibly popular, offering as they did a practical system of learning through play. According to Brian Alderson the series comprised twelve volumes, though noted that a set had yet to be found complete. It is believed that all volumes could be purchased individually, and all are scarce.
The precise date of publication of the present work is uncertain, and a number of variants have been identified. Toronto (Osborne) and Princeton cite an addition to 1800 of pp. 61 with a variant imprint of ‘No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-lane Cheapside’. Princeton has three issues, two of which have watermarks dated 199 and 1800. The present issue is believed to date to around 1802. A further edition was published after Marshall had moved to 140 Fleet Street (1807-1828) according to Brown, ‘London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870’, p. 124. A copy with this imprint is located at the UCLA and which they date to 1812, but based upon an inscription.

1800. 12mo, pp. xii, 154; with folding engraved frontispiece map of the world, a folding plate of the spheres, and two further engraved plates of ‘Geographical terms and figures exemplified’; lacking the front free endpaper; some occasional light soiling, upper margin of frontispiece with faint stain, otherwise clean and bright; with a few neat pencil markings throughout; with the signature of ‘A. W. Wells’ on front pastedown, and of ‘Parker’ on rear pastedown; a most appealing unsophisticated copy in the original full sheep, ruled in blind, spine in compartments with raised bands, some loss of spine at head and tail, and upper joint cracked but holding firm, extremities a little rubbed; with the name ‘Parker’ stamped in black vertically on upper cover. A charming unsophisticated copy and a scarce provincial printing of this popular geographical work, first published in French by the noted historian Abbé Pierre Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy (1674-1755) as Géographie des enfans in 1736, with the first English edition appearing in the following year. One of the earliest geography text-books aimed specifically at young children, the work comprises a series of sixty-six lessons, organised by country and area, and adopts the question and answer format to help instil into young minds. Thus they are given the key facts about major cities, rivers, population and systems of government. The final lessons introduce the reader to the use of the terrestrial globe, and concluding with a table of longitude and latitude. By studying for an hour a day, ‘all this knowledge may be acquired in less time than three months’ (p. x).
Not only aimed at children, however, as the preface notes: ‘This outline may likewise be useful even to those of riper years, for there are many, who, though they have had a good general education, are ignorant even of the first rudiments of this science... the least propensity to learning by the help of this short treatise, will be sufficient to acquire a general idea of the science. Young ladies, in two months time, may be instructed in the rudiments of Geography, and be able to give a pertinent answer to a question, that they would blush if they were unable to resolve’ (p.iv-v). As the present Shrewsbury printed ‘Twenty-second edition’ attests, the work proved to be extremely popular and enduring.
The author of several works, Du Fresnoy published his more extensive Methode pour etudier la geographie in 1716, the 1736 presumably an abridgement based upon that work.

1821. 12mo, pp. xii, 276; with engraved frontispiece, a wood-engraving of a magic lantern, and a number of tables within text; some offsetting on title-page, some light foxing and soiling, otherwise clean and crisp; a couple of small later pencil marginal annotations; in contemporary full tree calf, covers ruled in blind, spine attractively tooled with black morocco label, small nick at head of spine and small crack to upper joint, some light wear to extremities, but otherwise very good; with signature of Alexander Philip on front free endpaper, and his signature and doodling dated 1877 on verso of final blank. First edition of this uncommon scientific work for young adults, intended to both educate and amuse, and one of a growing number of Regency works published at the time celebrating science as an instructive and moral discipline, presented as being a more entertaining ‘mental amusement’ in contrast to more traditional and overtly didactic works for children. As befitting a school room setting, the work is a little more serious in tone than the book of chemical feats, ‘Endless Amusements’, that was published at around the same time, but nevertheless contains a myriad of mathematical experiments, a section on magic squares, chemical feats, and card and magic tricks to while away the hours, with further sections on acoustics, electricity, magnetism, pneumatics and optics, including a discussion and illustration of a magic lantern. As the author notes in his preface, he has drawn inspiration from Jacques Ozanam’s famous and popular 17th century work on recreational mathematics, Récreations mathématiques et physiques (1694), which was to go through numerous editions well into the 19th century.
Enfield appears to have been the author of a number works for children and young adult, including ‘Natural Theology’ (1808?), and a ‘Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language’ (1808), but we believe is not to be confused with William Enfield (1741-1797), the Presbyterian divine, who is best known for his work of 1774, ‘The Speaker’.

1843. 8vo, pp. 54; with lithograph frontispiece portrait and with 38 lithograph plates (numbered 1 - 37, including 10 bis); lightly foxed and toned throughout, but generally clean and bright; uncut in the original blue printed wrappers, head and tail of spine a little chipped and worn, covers a little soiled, with a number of small marginal tears and some furling, with signature of ‘Hri de Crouzet de Rayssac’? at head of front wrapper; a very good copy. Extremely scarce first edition of this self-published treatise on the art of fencing with a cane, including 38 striking lithograph plates, the work of Louis Armand Victorin Leboucher (1807-1866), a professional teacher in the arts of boxing, and fencing with canes and sticks.
Basing himself in Paris, Leboucher established a school of self defence at the rue de la Michodière, and became renown as a powerful and, by the sounds of it, a fearsome fencer. As he notes in his preface, man’s first means of defence, other than the fist, would have been a large stick or club. Whilst carrying a firearm may not be socially acceptable, carrying a walking cane was commonplace, so why not learn to employ it for self defence if required when travelling. His methods focused upon strength and speed. As he continues, far from being futile as some may think, fencing with a cane was an essential personal defence skill, providing ‘a means of repulsion useful in certain circumstances’ (p. 4). It should also be seen as an acceptable and suitable form of gymnastic exercise and relaxation. He believes that his 25 lessons will be sufficient for any student to ‘obtain a degree of perfection which would otherwise require six months of practice’ (p.4). It will develop muscular strength in the arms, chest and legs, expand the lungs, and he claims that as a result of the training, most ordinary students should be able to carry out 150 blows in a minute. His students, he states, will be able to defend themselves with poise and dexterity, and he concludes by inviting the heads of military institutions, ‘who have not yet accepted our method, to make their students aware of the advantages of his theories, uniquely established as a system of personal defence’.
In addition to the present work, Leboucher published Théorie de boxe française (1844) and Théorie de boxe française et anglaise pour apprendre à tirer en 25 leçons (1853).
Though the signature is slightly obscure, we believe the copy to have once belonged to the Henri de Crouzet de Rayssac (1853-1930).

1704. Small oblong 12mo, ff. [45], with instruction page and final explanatory page mounted as front and rear pastedowns; ff. 42v and ff. 43 neatly penned in manuscript, otherwise entirely etched/engraved throughout; lightly soiled and browned, with some offsetting to first and last pages from binding, a few leaves cropped a little close shaving a few letters but without significant loss; an attractive copy in contemporary full red morocco, all edges gilt, spine with raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt, with triple fillet border to covers and inner gilt dentelles; with the ownership signature of ‘P. L. Barville’ at tail of title-page. First edition, seemingly a reissue of the 1703 edition with date amended on title-page, of this rare and elegantly produced historical aide-memoire, a charming typographical curio entirely etched and engraved throughout providing a chronological and historical synopsis of the wars, significant battles and sieges fought by France up until the beginning of the 18th century.
Opening with ‘Instructions for use’ which have been laid down on the front paste down, ‘Squire’ Feuquerolles presents his synopsis through a series of 41 double-page tables, incorporating a number of small symbols to indicate related victories, losses, whether the battles involved the infantry, cavalry or navy, any resulting treaties or leagues, political assassinations, and other associated events. A chronological index table follows, together with a list of French Kings, and a final explanatory note mounted on the rear paste down. In the present copy, the previous owner has added in at Ff. 42v-43 a hand-written ‘Alphabetical Table of the Countries, Peoples and Nations with whom France had fought. The alphabetical index is not present in either the Napoli online version of the 1703 edition, nor the British Library 1704 digitised copy. The tables were originally engraved on a larger sheet and have been then cut down, and in this copy mounted back to back, arranged both chronologically and geographically, to form this pocket notebook. The order found here differs to the British Library copy, the leaves of which do not appear to have been laid back to back. The period spans from the battle of Catalan in 451 through to the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession at the end of 1701. Feuquerolles classifies the campaigns geographically and thematically, beginning with ‘Guerres Gauloises’, followed by France, Lorraine, Belgian, German, English, overseas, Italian, Alpine, Crusades and Holy Wars, Spanish, French civil wars, popular wars and unrest, etc. The columns in each table note the date, place of combat, battle commander, number of dead, wounded, prisoners, besieged cities, the date of the peace, associated treaties, and marriages etc.
Not much larger than the size of a deck of cards, Fequerolle’s work bears a close similarity to the earlier works of Guillaume Marcel (1647-1708), the noted lawyer and historian, and who wrote a number of popular engraved pocket chronological histories including Tablettes chronologiques contenant la suite des Papes, Empereurs et Roys qui ont regné depuis la naiss. de J. Chr. jusqu’à présent (1679) and Tablettes chronologiques contenant avec ordre l'état de l'Eglise en Orient et en Occident (1682). This appears to be the only work by Sieur de Feuquerolles, and he dedicates it to the Duke of Burgundy.

1854-1855.]. 8vo, ff. [25], [6] leaves of verse printed on both recto and verso; front free endpaper browned, and without rear endpaper, a little foxed throughout, with faint dampstain visible at lower corner; with a contemporary signature in pencil on free endpaper, and dated 1859; in the original decorative yellow boards, head and tail of spine a little bumped, spine with some creasing, covers a little soiled with light wear to corners; a very good copy. Uncommon third edition (first 1854) of this most attractive ABC for children by the master of the art of silhouettes, Karl Fröhlich (1821-1898). During the mid to late 19th century he used the technique to illustrate a number of children’s works with great skill and finesse, often featuring animals and pastoral scenes, as clearly displayed in the present work. The illustration for the letter ‘X’ appears to show the artist himself, with a pair of scissors hanging from a chain around his neck, and leading a group of tumbling children off on an adventure.

1920s?]. Offered together, three boxed reversible dissected wooden puzzles, each @ 125 x 175 x 4mm; each puzzle with chromolithograph sheet in landscape mounted on one side, and cut into 75 pieces; with image of camel in black on verso; puzzles a little dust-soiled; Series No. 4 and 6. contained in the original light blue paper card box with linen hinged lid, with mounted paper title printed in blue on upper lid, Series 10. in Navy blue hinged box lettered in gilt, all three with printed note adhered to inside lid, joints and extremities of boxes all a little rubbed and worn, most noticeably Series No. 4; most appealing examples. Three appealing and seemingly rare advertising solid wood reversible jigsaw puzzles, issued by the famous Birkenhead based shipbuilding company Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd. The company was formed in 1903 with the amalgamation of William and John Laird’s Birkenhead Iron Works and the Sheffield Steel firm of Charles Cammell & Co., Ltd. Known across the globe, the company built more than 1350 ships, playing a key role during both World Wars building both commercial and military vessels, being remembered in particular for the building of the Cunard White Star passenger liner Mauritania, and the first British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal - both in 1938.
Described as a "Cam-Bru-Mac" Reversible Puzzle, the present examples, all scarce, were part of a series of similar games, and show in turn ’Casting a Large Ingot’, a picture of "Rolling a Locomotive Tyre. Sheffield and Birkenhead", and a ‘12,000 Ton Armour Bending Press’. Each puzzle has on the reverse, the famous logo of the company, a large black Camel.

1814. 8vo, pp. [3]-17; with folding wood-engraved plate (as frontispiece), and small woodcut tail-piece; title-page within ornamental border; some light marginal browning and soiling, with small nick at tail of title, and a couple of other small marginal nicks to fore-edges; with the book-plate of Arthur Elton on front pastedown; uncut, retaining the original yellow printed wrappers, and bound in modern maroon half-cloth over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; a very good copy. Rare first edition of this Regency pamphlet celebrating the National Jubilee of August 1814, not only of social historical interest, but of importance in relation to the history of technology and of gas lighting in particular, and including the rare plate depicting the two centrepieces of the celebrations, the Temple of Concord and the Chinese Pagoda and Bridge.
The London and Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company was incorporated in 1810 and was granted a Royal Charter in 1812, ushering in a new era in both public and private lighting. It built the first gasworks along the banks of the Thames, gas distribution achieved through cast iron mains (some of them made from recycled musket barrels), with the pressure regulated by valves (referred to as ‘governors’). Public street lighting was expanded to Westminster Bridge on 31 December 1813, and by 1815, thirty miles of gas lines had been laid.
It received its first truly spectacular exhibition, however, at the visit in June 1814 of the Allied Sovereigns to celebrate peace and the abdication of Napoleon, and the centenary of the ascension of the House of Hanover to the British throne. The Grand Jubilee held on August 1st was a national day of celebration, the date also marking the 16th anniversary of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of the Nile.
Celebrations centred upon the Royal Parks in London. An 80 foot high, seven-story timber Chinese Bridge and octagonal Pagoda was erected in St. James’s Park, designed by John Nash (1752-1835). A ‘Temple of Discorde’ was also erected in Green Park, which, by means of a mechanism designed by Sir William Congreve (1772-1828), under the cover of a firework display transformed into a ‘Temple of Concorde’.
Supplied with gas by the GLCC, the Pagoda was lit by 10,000 gas burners, and was to form the centrepiece of the celebrations. At 10 pm, as the pamphlet reveals, ‘the Chinese Bridge and Pagoda were completely illuminated, and had the appearance of a blazing edifice of fire. Every part of the building was covered with lamps, the gas lights in proper places relieving the dazzling splendour with their silver lustre; the canopies of the temple throwing up sky-rockets in the forms of wheels and stars. The effect of these vivid lights on the calm water which flowed beneath, the verdant foliage of the surrounding trees, the scattered tents, and the numerous assemblage of spectators on the lawn, appeared like the magical and enchanting scenes represented in the romances of the East’ (p.15).
Unfortunately at some point during the evening, a rocket from the firework display is believed to have hit the structure which caught fire and burnt to the ground, resulting in two deaths and a number of injuries to the men who were supervising the display. This terrible accident is given scant attention in the pamphlet and makes no mention of the fatalities. No doubt a prudent decision by the publisher, is what is an unashamedly patriotic celebration of the Great Britain and the Monarchy, and who would not wish to cast a shadow on what should have been such a triumphant evening. The episode, however, entered the public imagination, revealing as it did both the wonders and dangers of gas-lighting, and the GLCC was to struggle financially as a result for a number of years before the gas industry finally took off.
Not all copies located retain the attractive folding wood-engraved plate (which in seemingly the Columbia copy may in fact form two individual plates). A ‘New and Improved Edition’ was published in the same year, which included a note at the foot of the printed wrapper suggesting that copies could be purchased with or without the plate.

1817. Small folio, together with partial set of original bone counters; Text: pp. 52; with engraved ‘Table of General Questions’ facing p. 23, and 14 engraved double-page maps mounted on stubs, (several designed by Gaultier’s pupil Wauthier) either fully hand-coloured or coloured in outline, comprised of seven ‘plain’ outline maps, 6 accompanying duplicate annotated maps, a final annotated map of the World showing Western and Eastern Hemisphere; paper a little browned throughout due to paper quality, with some further light foxing and soiling and some sporadic ink staining to outer margins, lower margins of pp. 7-14 with taped repairs to tears, with several of the plates also with taped repairs at both head and tail on blank verso, though sometimes a little crude (plate 1), with plate 4 and 14 with repairs along inner gutter of plate itself, which whilst not ideal, are less obtrusive than they could be; together with 66 (of 389?) of the original bone counters each with printed label giving question number and the answer, some soiling but otherwise very good; bound in half red roan contemporary grey boards, with oval engraved label on upper cover, spine in compartments ruled in gilt, label soiled with some ink staining, covers darkened and scuffed, extremities bumped and rubbed, and corners worn; with ownership signature of ‘Miss Hyder’ and ‘Sarah Hyder’ on front free endpaper both dated 1820; counters housed within the original marbled paper lidded box, with printed label ‘Descriptive Counters for the Geographical Game of Europe’, boxed quite dust-soiled and stained with wear to corners, but holding firm; a bright copy of a work that was no doubt subject to frequent rough handling and use. A bright copy of this new edition of Gaultier’s popular geographical question and answer game for children, first published in 1792, and offered together with an extremely rare and contemporary partial set of counters. This is the first copy we have handled to be accompanied by any counters, and indeed we have so far been unable to locate any other existing set. Contained within a box labelled ‘Descriptive Counters for the Geographical Game of Europe’, some 66 of the presumed 389 counters have survived, which as the note on the title-page notes have marked upon them, ‘the names of Kingdoms, Provinces, Islands, Seas, Rivers, etc.... that Pupils may themselves explain and point out their situation on the map’. A separate box of plain counters was to be used for rewards and forfeits. These descriptive counters related to Part I ‘The Game of Simple Geography’ (pp. 7-18), comprised of twenty-nine lessons and 389 questions, and were to be put into a bag by the instructor. The player to his right would then draw one out ‘and then to point out on the plain map, the place named... (If the pupil points it right, he gets a [plain] counter: if wrong, he forfeits one to the Instructor, who makes him perceive his faults clearly by means of the written map). The Instructor is then to put to his pupil the question which in the Game corresponds with the number’. (p. 6) The earliest numbered counter is 3, with the latest being 381, and whilst most do correspond with the numbered text question, there are a few variations in the questions, and numbers not quite matching up, suggesting that they may relate to a variant edition. Nevertheless, they are extremely scarce. An advertisement at the end of Harris’s Geographical Recreation of 1809 lists the game being offered at £1.1s., or with counters £1.11s. 6d’.
The work is dedicated to the Right Honourable Lady Amelia Spencer, youngest daughter of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough’ and is printed in French and English. A list of Harris’s ‘Valuable Works of Instruction’ is printed on the verso of the title-page. As was the case with a copy of the 1813 edition previously handled, the penultimate ‘Plain map of Asia, Africa, America’ (1792) is not accompanied by an annotated duplicate. Having cover each continent already, it was no doubt intended as the final test of memory. The final annotated map is ‘A new map of the World’ (1799) and showing the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. The previous twelve maps represent the British Isles (1797 and 1799); Europe (1797 and 1799); Central Europe (undated and 1799); Asia (1797 and 1799); Africa (1802 and 1799) and America (1797 and 1799).
The Abbé Gaultier (Aloisius Edouard Camille, 1746?-1818) was an influential French educator who fled to England during the French Revolution. He established a school for children and published books of games designed to teach a variety of subjects including geography. He believed that games could make learning amusing and keep children interested in a subject. He further encouraged children to think for themselves and to exercise their own judgement.
Gaultier’s methods found a ready market in England where map publishers in particular were quick to utilise
the many maps they published to produce a variety of games. This method of learning was very different from
the rote method of recitation of countries and cities, and map games quickly extended to both card games and jigsaws as well.
This new edition was first published in 1815, and Jehoshaphat Aspin re-issued the work (redrawing the maps and with a set of 348 counters) in 1821. The work continued to be republished over the next twenty years and remained an extremely successful instructional game for teaching geography. Indeed the Edinburgh Review of 1829 notes: ‘the numerous editions which have been published of this work, and the extensive favour with which it is still received, as well in private families as in schools, constitute no mean proof of its superior utility’ (p. 556).
As noted by Whitehouse, though not strictly speaking a board game, ‘each map in it does in fact constitute a game’ and thus he deemed it worthy for inclusion in his survey of Georgian and Victorian table games. The somewhat complicated rules of the game are on found on p. 6, opening with: ‘The Instructor, while he teaches, must lay aside all magisterial authority, menaces, and reprimands, as incompatible with the very idea of the Game; let him rather become the friend and companion of his pupils, and cheerfully associating with them.’ Despite this plea to make the game a cheerful one, it would nevertheless have been quite an intensive playing experience!

1870. Large 8vo, pp. xxxii, [33] - 876; with 462 wood engravings; some occasional light foxing and spotting to early and later leaves but otherwise clean and bright, final endpaper somewhat creased; in contemporary sheep, spine in compartments with raised bands, with black morocco label lettered in gilt, label with slight loss of a couple of letters, spine darkened, covers a little stained and soiled with some scuffing, extremities bumped and lightly worn; a good copy. An appealing copy of an important classic in medical anatomy, first published in 1858, with the first American edition published in the following year. The present copy is the ‘New American from the fifth and enlarged English edition.’ The work remains as a standard work for the English-speaking world, and remains in print to this day.
‘The author's opening statement in the Preface reads: "This work is intended to furnish the Student and Practitioner with an accurate view of the Anatomy of the Human Body, and more especially the application of this science to Practical Surgery." The success of that intention for more than a century could be proclaimed by generations of medical students and doctors of medicine in the English-speaking world. Gray (1825-1861) was lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London, and this lasting and monumental work, produced by a young man who died young, must be compared to the Fabrica of Vesalius, who produced his great work before the age of thirty years’ (Heirs 1914).
‘Such was the success of this enterprise that the first edition, seven hundred and fifty copies was sold out within two years, and the book has continued to appear in revised editions up to the present...The first American edition was published in June 1859 by Blanchard and Lea in Philadelphia, utilizing a complete set of wood blocks imported for the illustrations’ (Grolier, Medicine, 68).
‘The work was superior to other treatises on anatomy in three areas—the lucid and logical arrangement of a mass of detailed description; clear new drawings based on dissections by the surgeon-author and the artist, a physician; and sections on the surgical anatomy of defined areas, such as the axilla, the elbow, the popliteal space, the perineum, and the laryngotracheal region’ (Lilly Library, Notable Medical Books, 211).
‘The success of the book was not due to an absence of rivals. There were already several texts on anatomy...Gray's Anatomy, however, eclipsed all others, partly for its meticulous detail, partly for its emphasis on surgical anatomy, but most of all perhaps for the excellence of the illustrations, based on drawings by H. V. Carter [1831-1897], who assisted Gray with the dissections, and engraved by Messrs Butterworth and Heath with remarkable skill. The design of the book, and the skill with which the illustrations were interpolated in the text, could hardly have been improved. For a man in his early thirties it was a remarkable achievement’ (ODNB).

1928. 8vo, pp. xvi, 202, [1] limitation statement; with one folding engraved plate (slight offsetting onto text); some occasional minor marginal browning; uncut and partially unopened in the original ochre goatskin, ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, spine a little darkened in places, covers with some light spotting and soiling, and small dink on lower cover, with usual browning of endpapers from turn-ins, and turn-ins themselves slightly soiled; with a number of contemporary and later newspaper and catalogue clippings relating to William Harvey and this edition, loosely inserted by a previous owner; a good copy. Number 1249 (of 1450 copies) of the finely printed Nonesuch Press edition, issued to celebrate the tercentenary of the printing of the first edition of the most famous book in the history of medicine. This is the only modern edition of the 1653 text of the De motu cordis - which had been the first English edition of Harvey's seminal work on the circulation of the blood. Printed on handmade Van Gelder paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen in Haarlem, the engraved folding plate is by Charles Sigrist after a drawing by Stephen Gooden.

1903]. Large 8vo, pp. [vii], 126, [ii, plates half-title]; with striking chromolithograph frontispiece, 21 folding double-page chromolithograph plates mounted on guards, with a number of half-tone images and text diagrams in the text; title-page a little foxed, with further light foxing and soiling throughout, though otherwise clean and crisp; in a contemporary presentation binding of full dark calf, all edges marbled and with marbled endpapers, spine in compartments with raised bands, with deep tan morocco label lettered in gilt, elaborately tooled in gilt, with gilt armorial lozenge on upper cover, ‘Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney’, head and tail of spine and joints somewhat rubbed and lightly worn, with further light rubbing to extremities, covers very lightly scuffed and stained, otherwise very good; with presentation book-plate on front pastedown from the College, ‘First Prize, the gift of the College Council, awarded to Marjorie Smythe for Latin Class I, Christmas 1905’. An attractive presentation copy of the uncommon first edition of this most attractively illustrated layman's guide to astronomy. The full gamut of 'heavenly knowledge' is covered by Heath, who was first assistant astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. Most of the plates, including the celestial maps, are on a blue background. They are all attractively executed and informatively annotated. The particularly striking chromolithograph frontispiece depicts 'the total eclipse of July 28th 1851, Bue Island, Norway', and is taken from a drawing by Piazzi Smyth. This charming atlas has been bound for presentation by the Presbyterian Ladies College in Sydney, (established in 1888 and still running today), and awarded in December 1905 to Marjorie Smythe for her achievements in Latin. The copy later was in the collection of Richard Green, and was sold by Christie's at the sale of his scientific collection in New York on June 17th 2008 (part of lot 314).