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1091
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MARTIN (Wm.),
ed.
Peter Parley’s Annual for 1888.
Ben.
George,
(1888)
With a chromolitho frontispiece, an additional coloured title-
page and 16 other plates, pages 296, (12, adverts), 8vo, original
red cloth, gilt, edges gilt: with just slight suggestion of wear on
the blue label portion of the spine, otherwise a nice, fresh copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: the same title for 1870, 1873, 1875,
1877, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1883, 1885, and 1887, mainly very
good. (12)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1092
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MASCARDI (Agostino).
An historical relation of the
conspiracy of John Lewis Count de Fieschi, against the city and
republick of Genoua, in the year 1547. Written in Italian...
Done into English by … Hugh Hare Esq.
Printed for John
Newton,
1693
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages (44), 178
and errata/advert leaf, small 8vo, contemporary unlettered calf:
the binding a little worn at headbands, but sound and strong: a
very good copy with ownership inscription “(8)” dated “Julii.
23. 1694” on title-page, and with the later armorial bookplate of
the Earl of Roden.
Wing M. 904. The first edition in English of Mascardi’s account of the
unsuccessful attempt by the Fieschi brothers to overthrow Andrea Doria
the de facto ruler of Genoa. The incident became a popular theme in
literature, the most famous being Schiller’s drama `Fiesco; or, The
Genoese Conspiracy’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[LE ROUGE (Georges L.)].
Nouveau Voyage de France. Geographique, historique, et
curieux... Derniere édition.
Paris, chez Saugrain pere,
1730. With
11 folding engr plates, pp 24, 444, (12),2mo, cont calf, rubbed:
very good.
Without the map. Variously ascribed to Le Rouge and Claude Marin
Saugrain.
(2)
WEST (Gilbert).
Observations on the History and Evidence
of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Printed for R. Dodsley,
1747.
FIRST LONDON EDITION, pages xvi, 192, 195 - 445, (1,
blank) and errata leaf, complete, in spite of pagination jump,
with the half-title, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt, recently and
neatly rebacked, with contrasting label, gilt: a very good copy.
The work which secured for him his Oxford D. C. L. degree. It was
reprinted to 1841 and also translated into German and French.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1093
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MATHEWS & LEIGH.
The Scripture Atlas; or, a series
of maps, to illustrate the Old and New Testament: drawn from
the best authorities, ancient and modern, by eminent artists.
Printed for Mathews and Leigh … by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh,
1812
FIRST EDITION, with a pleasing additional engraved title-page
after Henry Corbauld and 20 engraved maps and plates (8
double-page), in attractive contemporary hand-colour, engraved
by N. R. Hewitt after J. T. Assheton, pages 4, (2), bound without
the printed leaf of dedication to the queen called for in the list
of plates, large 4to, recent half calf, gilt spine, with label, gilt: an
attractive copy.
Phillips, Atlases, 87.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1094
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MATTHISSON (Friedrich von).
Letters written from
various parts of the continent, between the years 1785 and 1794:
containing a variety of anecdotes relative to the present state of
literature in Germany, and to celebrated German literati. With
an appendix. In which are included three letters of Gray’s never
before published in this country. Translated from the German …
by Anne Plumptre, translator of several of Kotzebue’s plays.
Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees,
1799
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages xvi,544, 8vo, contemporary
sprinkled calf, gilt ruled spine, with contrasting label, gilt: a very
good copy, in a pleasing contemporary binding.
Anne Plumptre, bluestocking and linguist, was considerably more than
a translator or novelist in a popular vein. Her own writings outnumber
her translations, and display independence of mind and personal
intrepidity. Her translation of the poet Matthisson’s popular letters and
travels in 1799 (first published Zurich 1795, they contain interesting
descriptions of travel, and many anecdotes of Klopstock, Wieland,
Herder, Burger, and other German writers) was accompanied by her
introduction, which shows her critical intervention in an important
literary instance. The poet Thomas Gray’s correspondence had been
bowdlerized by his first editor, Mason, and she translated three letters
which clearly showed his homosexual attachment to the young Victor
von Bonstetten, a close friend of Matthisson. The letters, and the
importance of this attachment, were acknowledged by later editors and
biographers of Gray (ODNB).
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1095
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MAYNARD (Henry N.).
The Viaduct Works’ Handbook;
being a collection of examples from actual practice of viaducts,
bridges, roofs, and other structures of iron; together with tables
of prices, weights, and other information useful to engineers in
designing and estimating wrought and cast-iron work.
E. and F.
N. Spon,
1868
With the attractive folding tinted lithographed frontispiece view
and 52 other illustrs (14 full-page), 108-pp, roy 8vo, a very good
to nice copy pleasantly bound in recent boards.
Inscribed “B. Brown Esq / with Authors Compts / 1870”. A scarce
volume compiled to provide reliable data upon which estimates for
bridges, buildings, railway machinery, etc., could be based. Maynard
collected the information from his own experience at the Viaduct Works,
Crumlin Viaduct, a fine view of which is shown in the frontispiece.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HYSLOP (Jonathan).
Colliery
Management. Plates.
W. M. Hutchings
1876. FIRST EDITION,
comprising title-leaf and 18 folding plates, 8vo, original blind-
stamped cloth, gilt: with the small book-label of A. D.
Nicholson: a very good copy.
Plates are numbered 1 to 17 and 12B: 12A and 12B are of workmens’
dwellings erected in Ayrshire by Messrs Gilmour, Wood & Anderson - in
both cases, a plan and a front elevation.
(2)
WALKER (Thomas A.).
The Severn Tunnel: its
construction and difficulties, 1872-1887.
Richard Bentley & Son,
1891. THIRD AND BEST EDITION, with 5 portraits,2 maps
(1 folding) and 37 plates (11 folding, some tinted), pages xxi,
195, roy 8vo, original cloth: a very good to nice copy.
The contractor’s own account of a remarkable achievement: still the best
source.
(3)
SLATER (Samuel): - White (George Savage).
Memoir of
Samuel Slater, the father of American manufactures. Connected
with a history of the rise and progress of the cotton
manufacture in England and America. With remarks on the
moral influence of manufactories in the United States.
Philadelphia: : Printed at No. 46, Carpenter Street,
1836. With 4
portraits and 18 plates (2 folding), pages (10), (9) - 448, 8vo,
original cloth, uncut, recently rebacked retaining the original
backstrip: with the usual light foxing in places, but still a very
good copy
Slater, born in Derbyshire in 1768, was apprenticed to the cotton-
manufacturing pioneers Richard Arkwright and Jedediah Strutt. In
1789 he left England secretely and smuggled the secrets of the
manufactury into the United States of America. He proved brilliant at
both technical design and business and became one of the great pioneers
of American commerce.
(4)
BURNHAM (T. H.) and HOSKINS (G. O.).
Iron and Steel
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