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printed paper labels (‘Waverley / Novels. / St. Ronan’s / Well. /
I [II-III]’: some very light staining in places and spines evenly
faded: a very good copy of the first edition in a late issue
binding with signature of Deborah Merriman, dated 1826, in
each volume.
This novel, one of only two set within Scott’s lifetime, is the only one in
which he attempts contemporary social satire.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HOOK (Theodore)].
Maxwell.
By the author of “Sayings and Doings”.
Henry Colburn and
Richard Bentley,
1830. FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 347, (1,
imprint): (4), 336: (4), 356, (4, ads), complete with half-titles in
vols 1 and 2 (none called for in vol 3), the errata leaf and the 2
advert leaves, 3 vols, 8vo, original boards, uncut, sympathetically
rebacked with new labels: a very good copy.
Sadleir 1207. Wolff 3256. The first issue of the errata leaf (with three
errata on five lines). Both Sadleir and Wolf have later issues. Hook’s
second work of fiction, an important novel of manners and high society,
with its hero based on Hook’s intimate friend, Cannon.
(2)
[HOOK (Theodore)].
The Parson’s Daughter. By the author
of “Sayings and Doings”, &c.
Richard Bentley,
1833. FIRST
EDITION, pp (2), 300: (2), 331: (2), 321, no half-titles called for,
3 vols, 8vo, orig-inal cloth-backed boards, uncut, with printed
labels: spines evenly faded, slight chipping of the labels, inside
joints cracked but stitching firm, otherwise a clean and very
good copy.
Sadleir 1208. Not in Wolff.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1267
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SCOTT (Sir Walter).
The Doom of Devorgoil, a melo-
drama. Auchindrane; or the Ayrshire tragedy.
Edinburgh: Printed
for Cadell and Company …,
1830
FIRST EDITION, second issue, pp (2), 337, (1), 4(adverts), with
half-title, 8vo, contemp-orary diced brown calf, the sides with a
deep blind decorative border, gilt spine, green edges, silk marker:
a fine, large copy, handsomely bound, with the Bloomfield book
label.
Todd 239A. State c. A rather attractive copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[SCOTT (Sir Walter)].
The
Abbot. By the author of “Waverley”.
Edinburgh: Printed for
Longman, Hurst …,
1820. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), iv, 348:
(4), 351: (4), 367, (1), with the half-titles but without the advert
leaf and its conjugate blank at the end of the third volume, 3
vols, large 12mo, contemporary half red calf, gilt ruled and
lettered spines: a very good to nice copy.
The first issue, with the five-line imprint in each volume.
(2)
[SCOTT (Sir Walter)].
The Fortunes of Nigel. By the
author of “Waverley, Kenilworth, “ &c.
Edinburgh: Printed for
Archibald Constable …,
1822. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), xlviii,
313: (4), 334 and leaf of imprint: (4), 349, with the half-titles but
without the advert leat at the end of the third volume, 3 vols,
large 12mo, contemporary half red calf, gilt ruled and lettered
spines: a very good to nice copy,
Tipped in is a binding instruction slip in a contemporary hand, signed
De Vesci.
(7)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1268
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SCOTT (Sir Walter).
The Poetical Works.
Edinburgh:
Adam and Charles Black,
1861
With additional engraved vignette view title-pages and engraved
frontispieces, all after Turner and in bright, fresh state, music to
some of the ballads, &c., 12 vols, 8vo, full contemporary
polished calf, gilt bordered sides, fully gilt spines, with
conntrasting double labels, gilt, all edges gilt: a bright, fresh and
rather attractive set.
Edited by Lockhart.
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€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
1269
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SELDEN (John).
Uxor Ebraica, seu De nuptiis et
divortiis ex jure civili, id est, divino & Talmudico, veterum
Ebraeorum libri tres. Ejusdem De successionibus ad leges
Ebraeorum in bona defunctorum liber singularis: in
pontificatum, libri duo.
Francofurti ad Oderam: Sumptibus Jeremiae
Schrey, excudit Andr. Becmanus,
1673
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED, pages (24), 136, leaves
137-144, pages 145-353, 353(bis) - 361, 364-365, 368-456, (12):
(2),248, (9), (1, blank), complete thus,2 parts in 1 vol, 4to,
sympathetically bound in full calf antique: a very good to nice
copy.
Second, enlarged edition, edited by Johann Christian Beckmann. A
work which provided the scholarly basis for many of the interpretations
in Milton’s controversial tract, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
Included in this edition are ‘De Successionibus in bona defunctorom ad
leges Ebraeorum’ and ‘De Successione in Pontificatum Ebraeorum’.
Selden (1584-1654), one of the foremost jurists and oriental scholars of
his day, acquired a considerable reputation for his knowledge of
rabbinical literature and his scholarly researches in oriental learning. He
remained unmarried, perhaps fortunately, as he is said to have
remarked “Tis reason, a man that will keep a wife should bee att the
charge of all her Trinketts, & pay all the scores she setts him on; hee that
will keep a Monkey tis fitt hee should pay for the glasses she breakes”.
His treatise exhaustively examines the nature of marriage and divorce
as discussed in the Torah, the Talmud, and commentaries of a host of
Jewish scholars. Book 1 opens by noting that while the ‘civil laws’ of
other societies came from natural law (the Noachide laws), the ‘civil
law’ of the Hebrews was ‘partly Sacred Law’ commanded in the Torah
‘and partly ancestral custom and sanctions added by those who were in
charge of such matters’. It then discusses unions forbidden on the
grounds of consanguinity and affinity, the Karaites, the marriages of
high priests and kings, and the practice of polygamy (including that of
Muslims). Book 2 deals largely with betrothal, dowry, and marriage
ceremonies among the Jews and gentiles, including the ancient Romans.
After showing how Jewish and pagan customs of betrothal and
marriage ‘passed into Christianity’, Selden turns to the practices of
Greek and Latin Christians, and then to those in England, including
the medieval ceremony of the Salisbury rite and the reformed one of the
Book of Common Prayer. This leads to the conclusion that Christian
and Jewish marriage customs, while ‘not often exactly the same’ were
‘analogous and similar’. Book 3 deals with the nature of marriage and
divorce. Jewish marriage involved mutual obligations between husband
and wife, including the ‘conjugal obligation’ of regular sexual
intercourse; these obligations provided a framework for judging its
failure. Through careful philological comparison of key texts in NT
Greek with the Aramaic of the rabbinic schools’ teachings on the
Deuteronomic grounds for divorce, Selden finally concludes that while
Jesus’s teachings initially seemed within the school of Shammai, which
permitted divorce only for fornication, they were actually not very far
from the permissiveness of the school of Hillel which allowed it for any
reasonable cause. Natural law allowed spouses to marry and divorce ‘by
mutual consent’, and this position shaped the interpretations of Jewish
rabbis, the early Christians, and Greek and Russian Christians. Only
the highly restrictive teachings and canon laws of western Christians
were portrayed as unusual and unprecedented. An open-minded reader,
Selden concludes, would know what changes to make to the English law
of divorce. Although less directly, this political advice advocated reforms
not unlike those already proclaimed by Milton (ODNB).
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1270
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SETON-KARR (Heywood W.), FRGS.
Ten years travel
& sport in foreign lands or, travels in the eighties.
Chapman and
Hall,
1890
SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, with a frontispiece,
pages xi, 445 and (2), 40 adverts, 8vo, original cloth: a nice copy.
Seton-Karr (1859-1938), soldier, explorer, game hunter, now best known
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