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blank), 8vo, recent wraps: nice copy.
Goldsmiths’ 31501.
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MALLESON (George B.).
History of the French in India,
from the founding of Pondichery in 1674 to the capture of that
place in 1761.
Edinburgh: John Grant,
1909. With 3 maps (1
folding), pages xi, (5), 614, 8vo, original cloth: a nice copy.
The best edition, being a reissue of the enlarged second edition.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1218. PRUDE. The Prude, a tale in two conto’s.
Printed at
Dublin; and re-printed in London, for J. Roberts, J. Harrison, A.
Dodd, S. Huddleston and E. Griffith,
1722
FIRST LONDON EDITION, pp 29, (3, blank), with the half-
title and final blank leaf, 12mo, recent paper boards: some
light browning, but still a very good, well-margined copy.
Foxon P1154. ESTC locates only as single copy of this edition:
OCU.
€1,000-€1,200 (£800-£960 approx.)
1219
.
PSALMANAZAR (George),
pseud.
Memors of ****.
Commonly known by the name of George Psalmanazar; a
reputed native of Formosa. Written by himself in order to be
published after his death. Containing an account of his
education, travels, adventures, connections, literary productions,
and pretended conversion from heathenism to christianity;
which last proved the occasion of his being brought over into
this kingdom, and passing for a proselyte, and a member of the
Church of England.
Dublin: printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, E.
Watts, S. Cotter, J. Potts, and J. Williams,
1765
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), ii,234, (2, blank), 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a fine, fresh copy, with
contemporary signature of Alexander [Fraser] Tytler on title.
Much scarcer than the London edition of the same year. Psalmanazar
(d. 1763) was probably originally French but came to London in the
early years of the 18C, pretending to be from Formosa – an island about
which almost nothing was known in England at the time. His
Description of Formosa (1704) had some success, but the fraud was
eventually exposed and he spent the last forty years of his life as a hack
writer, a capacity in which he became known to Johnson, who liked and
admired him
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1220
.
RACKHAM (Arthur), illustr.: - [Barham (Thomas.
The
Ingoldsby Legends. By Thomas Ingoldsby Esqr.
J. M. Dent &
Co.,
1907
FIRST EDITION THUS, with 24 attractive coloured mounted
plates, 12 other plates and 66 other illustrations, pages xix,549,
large 4to, original full vellum, gilt, top edges gilt, silk ties: with
light suggestion of foxing on the first few leaves, but still an
attractive copy.
Limited large-paper edition of 560 numbered copies, signed by
Rackham.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1221. RACKHAM: - Goldsmith (Oliver). The Vicar of
Wakefield. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
George G. Harrap
& Company,
1929
FIRST, LIMITED, DE LUXE EDITION, with 12 coloured
plates and 22 black and white illustrations,232-pages, 4to,
original full white vellum, gilt, top edges gilt, other edges
uncut, in the original publisher’s pale green card box with
printed title-label with the copy number, 12, entered in
manuscript, the wole box, both inside and out, excluding the
label, covered in a richly floral red and gold patterned paper,
all further preserved in a dark red folding fleece-lined quarter
red levant morocco, gilt, library case, the spine lettered in gilt,
signed on the inner edge “Bound by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey”:
in would be hard indeed to envisage a more attractive copy.
Limited Edition of 575 numbered copies for England and 200 copies
for the United States, this copy being number 12 of the English
Issue. A superb copy.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
1222
.
RADCLIFFE (Ann).
A journey made in the summer of
1794, through Holland and the western frontier of Germany,
with a return down the Rhine: to which are added observations
during a tour to the lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and
Cumberland.
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson,
1795
FIRST EDITION, pages x,500, with half-title, 4to,
contemporary half calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: recently
and neatly rebacked, retaining the original endpapers and
flyleaves, with the armorial bookplate of Richard Lovell
Edgeworth (d. 13. 6. 1817) and, lightly in pencil, a library shelf
number, also, at head of title, “Lovell Edgeworth. June 18th.
1817”, with marginal marks in light pencil strokes and the
occasional marginal note, the majority of which commence
with the words “Skip to page …”, suggesting the volume was
marked in such a fashion to guide a reader or for editorial
revision: a large and very good copy.
These travels were undertaken after she had written the novels whose
romantic settings so delighted her readers. Her account is rich in
pictorial description and also in political and economic observations,
probably contributed by her husband.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
1223
.
RADCLIFFE (John).
Pharmacopoeiae Radcliffeanae
Pars Altera: or, the second and last part of Dr. Radcliff ’s
prescriptions, with useful observations, &c. To which is annex’d,
an appendix, containing a body of prescriptions, answering the
intentions requir’d in all diseases internal and external, with
useful cautions subjoin’d to each head, and a complete index to
the whole …
Printed for C. Rivington …,
1716
FIRST EDITION, with an engraved portrait of Radcliffe by
Vander Gucht, pages (12),528,527 (bis) - 595, (14), (1, adverts),
large 12mo, original unletered blind-stamped sheep: some old
light internal staining, but paper firm and the binding, though
strong, worn at headbands and corners: a very good copy with
the signature of Thos Osmond, 1798, on the flyleaf.
Wellcome IV. 462. “In 2 pts, bound and issued separately, each with the
same portrait. The Observations are by Edward Strother. “ - Osler 3755.
Part I, comprising some 160pages, was published in 1716 and ran to a
second edtion in the same year. This scarce and much more substantial
second part, was not reprinted. “It is difficult, as Munk remarks, to
form a correct estimate of Radcliffe’s skill as a physician. He was
certainly no scholar, but he was ‘an acute observer of symptoms, and in
many cases was peculiarly happy in the treatment of disease. ’ He was
often at war with other doctors and with the authorities of the College of
Physicians. He was generally regarded as a clever empiric who had
attained some skill by means of his enormous practice; but Mead said
‘he was deservedly at the head of his profession, on account of his great
medical penetration and experience. ‘ - DNB. And, of course, one
should add, he did treat Swift for dizziness.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HOYLE (Edmond).
Mr. Hoyle’s
Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Bach-Gammon
complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and
betting at those games, upon equal, or advantageous terms.
Including the laws of the several games. The fourteenth edition
… (with) two new cases at whist, never before printed; also the
new laws of the game at Whist, as played at White’s and
Saunder’s Chocolate-Houses.
Printed for Thomas Osborne …
Henry Woodfall, and Richard Baldwin
[1765]. Pages xii,216, 12mo,
old polished calf, gilt, old neat rebacking, gilt ruled spine, with
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