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George Bell and Sons,
1880. FIRST EDITION, pages xxvii,
348,20 (adverts), 8vo, original cloth: a nice copy.
With a four-line signed inscription by the author. “Progress of trade,
increase of population and supplies of food investigated… valuable
chiefly for information as to methods of collection of the official data,
their reliability, and significance. “ - Williams I. 392. Bourne was a
magistrate in Jamaica.
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BAGEHOT (Walter).
Economic Studies. Edited by Richard
Holt Hutton.
Longmans, Green,
1880. FIRST EDITION, pages
vi, ii,215, (1), (2, advertisements) and errata slip, 8vo, original
cloth: with a small faint name stamp on the title-page, otherwise
a very good copy.
Posthumously published essays on Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, the
postulates of English political economy, the growth of capital, cost of
production, &c.
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[SEAMAN (Ezra Champion), 1805-80].
The Progress of
Nations, or the principles of national development in their
relation to statesmanship. A study in analytical history.
Longman, Green …,
1861. FIRST EDITION, pages x, 662, (2,
blank), 8vo, original cloth, uncut, neatly rebacked and repaired
retaining the original backstrip: a very good copy.
Attribution from NSTC. In the preface, dated from the Athenaeum, the
author confides that he is “a practising member of the English bar”.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1293
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SMITH (Adam).
Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To
which is prefixed, an account of the life and writings of the
author; by Dugald Stewart.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wogan,
Byrne, J. Moore, Colbert, Rice, W. Jones, Porter, and Folingsby,
1795
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages cxxiii, (1, blank), 332, 8vo,
contemporary mottled calf, with label: a little dusty and the
binding rubbed and worn at corners but sound and very strong,
internally in very good, unpressed state.
Edited by James Black and William Hutton. This Dublin edition of
Smith’s last work was published almost simultaneously with the
London first edition and is rarer than the latter. Stewart”s valuable
memoir was originally delivered as lectures at the Royal Society of
Edinburgh on 21 Jan. and 18 March, 1793 and printed in their
Transactions.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1294
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SMITH (Emily Genèvieve).
A panoramic view of the
City of Funchal, in the island of Madeira: sketched on the spot
by Mrs. Reginald Southwood Smith, of Stafford Rectory,
Dorset: executed in the tinted style of lithography, by L. Haghe,
Esq., lithographer to the Queen.
Weymouth: Published by B.
Benson.. D. Bogue … London, R. Innes, Funchal, Madeira,
1844
FIRST EDITION, comprising a title-leaf, a leaf of dedication, a
leaf of subscriber list, a leaf of letterpress (signed ‘E. G. S..
October 1843’) and the fine folding tinted litho view (117 by 32
cms approx.), oblong 4to, original roan-backed cloth, with an
attractive morocco title-label, gilt on the upper board: the single
cloth tie defective and with very light suggestion of foxing,
otherwise a nice copy in original state. the single cloth tie
defective and with very light suggestion of foxing, otherwise a
nice copy.
Abbey, Life,563. A second edition was published later in the same year.
Not found in COPAC and WorldCat locates only a single copy of each
edition. Though the subscriber list accounts for 292 copies this is a very
uncommon work in commerce: no copy is recorded at public auction
during the last forty years. Funchal, founded by João Gonçalves Zarco
in 1421, was elevated to city status by Manuel I of Portugal in 1508. In
the early 1400s, Álvaro Fernandes was its commander. In the 16C it
was important as a stopping place between the Indies and the New
World and was the port for Madeiran sugar and wine. It was once to
the Portuguese what Gibraltar, St. Helena, and Malta now are to the
English, Though naturally defended by rugged cliffs, the Portuguese
garrisoned the city and built four impregnable fortresses..
€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
1295
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SMITH (John).
The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is
included each particular circumstance relating to that art and
mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for
preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours. The whole
treatise being so full compleat, and so exactly fitted to the
meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by
these directions, to paint in oyl-colours all manner of timber-
work; such as posts, palls, palisadoes, gates, doors, or any thing
else that requires either use, beauty, or preservation, from the
violence or injury of the weather. In which is also particularly
laid down, all the several circumstances required in painting of
sun-dials, printed pictures, shash-windows, &c. in oily-colours.
The second impression with some alterations, and many useful
additions.
London: Printed for Samuel Crouch at the corner of Pope’s-
Head-Alley in Cornhill,
1687
SECOND EDITION, REVISED, pages (12), 100, 12mo,
contemporary unlettered calf, a little dusty and a little worn at
corners but the binding very strong, otherwise a very good,
unsophisticated copy inscrbed at end “Daniell [?]Flovisher / his
Book Anno Dom / 1691 cost 12”, and, in another
comtemporary hand, “Nic. Wallis” on title-page, repeated on
page 77.
Wing S 4100. ESTC has nine copies: L(2), O, Oc / CStmoGRI, CLU-
C, IU, CtY-BA and CtY. A practical decorating manual by an author
who also wrote several horological treatises, on gauging, on the
barometer, and on writing. Chapters on the preparation of colours, the
making and applying of gold leaf, “A discovery of the Mystery of Back
Painting Maps, or Prints in Oyl-Colours; so much now in use”. “The
manner of Painting Cloath, or Sarsnet Shash-Windows”etc., are
included. John Evelyn owned a copy of this revised second edition in
which he carefully noted some of the differences between the two
editions, concluding, it should be said, that this second edition was in
some respects inferior to the first.
€350-€500 (£280-£400 approx.)
1296
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SMITH (Lawrence).
The evidence of things not seen: or,
the immortality of the human soul, and the separate condition
thereof in the other world, asserted and made man-ifest: in
opposition to the spreading scepticism and infidelity of the age.
In two discourses: the first the second on 2 Epist. Tim. Chap. I.
ver. 10. on the parable of Dives and Lazarus, St. Luke XVI.
from the 19th Verse to the end of the chapter.
London, Printed for
Thomas Speed, over against Jonathan’s Coff-House, in Exchange Alley
in Cornhill,
1701
FIRST EDITION, pages (4),58, without the advert leaf at end,
4to, recent cloth: with a small, old ink-stain on the final two
leaves, otherwise a very good copy.
The uncommon first edition of a work greatly expanded in two further
editions (1703 and 1706): ESTC locates only 7 copies: BRI, L, C, Lmh,
Oo / NcD, CaQMM. Smith (1656-1728) rector of South-
Warmborough, Hampshie here replies to Wm Coward’s work Second
Thoughts concerning Human Soul (1702).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CARPENTER (Richard).
The
Conscionable Christian: or the indevour of Saint Paul, to have
and discharge a good conscience alwayes towards God, and
men: laid open and applyed in three sermons. Preached before
the Honourable Judges of the Circuit, at their severall assises,
holden in Chard and Taunton, for the County of Somerset,
1620.
Imprinted by F. K[ingston]. for John Bartlet,
1623. FIRST
(?ONLY) COLLECTED EDITION, pp (12), 119, 4to, recent
paper wrapper: with some very light staining, but still a very
good copy, complete with the initial blank leaf.
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