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William Pitt satirized

[WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708-59)] attributed to
The Unembarassed Countenace(sic), A New Ballad. To the Tune of a Cobler there was, &c. &c.

London : Printed for Henry Carpenter, in Fleet-street, 1746. Folio, 4 leaves, p.8 mis-numbered “7”, on the title-page is written in a contemporary hand “By this is understood Mr. William Pitt”, disbound, fine.
This satire on William Pitt was included in Hanbury Williams’ A Collection of Poems. 1763 but Horace Walpole annotated his copy, now in the British Library, “Not by Sr C.W.”
Reference: ESTC T50399 Foxon U2

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WITHERS, John (1669-1729)
The Whigs Vindicated, The Objections that are commonly brought against them Answer’d... In a Letter to a Friend... The Sixth Edition Corrected

London : Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in Cheapside... 1715. 8vo, 48 pp, disbound.
One of at least ten editions published the same year.

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B..., W. [sometimes atributed to John Brydall (b. 1635?)]
The White Rose: or A Word for the House of York, Vindicating the Right of Succession, in a Letter from Scotland to A Peer of this Realm.

London : Printed Anno Dom. 1680. Folio, [ii], 10 pp, uncut, disbound, foxed and dust-stained.
Reference: ESTC R2802 Wing B5268

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NICHOLSON, Timothy Robin ( b.1930 )
The Wild Roads. The Story of Transcontinental Motoring

[London] : Jarrolds. [1969]. First Edition
8vo, xviii, 302 pp, 29 photographic illustrations and 7 double-page maps in text, publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper protected in a mylatr sleeve, fine.
“ What is an epic drive? Today it is the yet-to-be-completed journey from the Arctic to the tip of South America... In 1888 an epic drive was one successfully completed between the town in which the car was built and the next town” [from the first paragraph of chatper 1.]

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GARRETT, Garet
The Wild Wheel. The World of Henry Ford.

London : The Cresset Press. 1952. 8vo, frontis. portrait, 220 pp, 12 plates, orig. cloth.

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The founding of the British Museum

SLOANE, Sir Hans, bt. (1660-1753)
The Will of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Deceased.

London : Printed for John Virtuoso, near Crane-Court, Fleet-street. 1753. 8vo, [2], 48 pp, disbound, lacks 1/2 title
At Sloane’s death, his executors were instructed to petition parliament to save his collections for the nation. Parliament, on hearing that they were being offered for £20,000 collections estimated at £80-1000,000 took up the offer, adding the Harleian and Cotton collections of manuscripts. By act of parliament dated 7. June 1753 they constituted the founding collections of the British Museum.

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FALKNER, Frank
The Wood Family of Burslem. A Brief Biography of Those of Its Members Who were Sculptors, Modellers and Potters.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1912. 4to, xx + 118pp + 58 plates + map + folding genealogical chart, orig. cl. bkplate of N. Gwynne.

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Finely printed by Bulmer

GRAY, Thomas (1716-71)
The Works of... with Memoirs of his Life and Writings by William Mason... [ed. T.J.Mathias]

London : Printed by Wm Bulmer & Co. for John Porter... 1814. 2 volumes, 4to, port., [4], 581 pp, 2 plates, + front., [2], vii, 634 pp, cont. russia, rebacked, old backs laid down.

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Very fine in contemporary red morocco

ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719)
The Works... with a Complete Index.

Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, At Shakespear’s Head in the Strand, London. 1761. 4 volumes 4to, portrait, xxviii, 525 (recte 537), (5) pp + (viii), 538, (12) pp, 4 plates + 579, (13) pp + 555, (11) pp, contemporary red morocco, single fillet borders, fully gilt spines with titling direct to leather, turn-ins gilt with a roll of stars, crescents, palmettes, etc., marbled endpapers, edges stained green, armorial bookplate of “Anthony Morris Storer” and leather book label of “C.A. and V. Baldwin” on front pastedown of each volume, very fine condition.
Reference: ESTC T89166 Gaskell 17
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Dedicated to the Governors and Directors of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company

FENNING, Daniel (of The Royal Exchange Assurance)
The Young Algebraist's Companion : or, a New and Easy Guide to Algebra; Introduced by the Doctrine of Vulgar Fractions: Designed for such Who, by their own Application only, would become acquainted with the Rudiments of this noble Science, but have hitherto been prevented and discouraged, by Reason of the many Difficulties and Obscurities attending most Authors upon the Subject. Illustrated with Variety of numerical and literal Examples, and attempted in natural and familiar Dialogues, in order to render the Work more easy and diverting to those that are quite unacquainted with Fractions and the Analytic Art.

London: Printed by T. Parker for the Author, and Sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country. 1750. First Edition
12mo, xxvi, 235 pp, tear in foremargin of K2 affecting a few letters on p.99, occasional neat calculations in the margins in an early hand, cont. sprinkled calf, 2-fillet borders in gilt, fully gilt spine, lacking label, rubbed but joints sound.

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A landmark of early American technology

EVANS, Oliver (1755-1819)
The Young Mill-Wright and Miller’s Guide. In Five Parts. Part 1. Mechanics and Hydraulics... Part 11. Rules for applying the Theories to practice... Part 111. Directions for constructing and using all the Author’s patented Improvements in Mills. Part 1V. The Art of manufacturing Mal and Flour... Part V. The Practical Mill-wright... Appendix - Containing Rules for discovering New Improvements... Embellished with Twenty-five Plates. Fourth Edition.

Philadelphia : M. Carey and Son, Chest-nut Street. 1821. 8vo, [-]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A4, 26 engraved plates (numbered 1 to XX1V, XXV11 & XXV1), heavily foxed throughout as usual, cont. sheep, neatly rebacked, old label, corner repaired. A sound copy.
The fourth edition (first published 1795) of the first book on power grain milling and a landmark of early American technology. Writing in 1935 Bathe says of it “There is to this day, at least one mill owner known to the writer, who has a copy of Oliver Evans’ Mill-wright in his office to which he says quite frankly he refers often, considering it is still in many repects the most practical work for millers ever published”. As…
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Philadelphia : M. Carey and Son, Chest-nut Street. 1821. 8vo, [-]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A4, 26 engraved plates (numbered 1 to XX1V, XXV11 & XXV1), heavily foxed throughout as usual, cont. sheep, neatly rebacked, old label, corner repaired. A sound copy.
The fourth edition (first published 1795) of the first book on power grain milling and a landmark of early American technology. Writing in 1935 Bathe says of it “There is to this day, at least one mill owner known to the writer, who has a copy of Oliver Evans’ Mill-wright in his office to which he says quite frankly he refers often, considering it is still in many repects the most practical work for millers ever published”. As a practical handbook it is hardly surprising that copies, where they have survived, are usually in poor condition.
Reference: Bathe, G. & D. : Oliver Evans. A Chronicle of Early American Engineering. 1935 p.47
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The most comprehensive herbal of the age

PARKINSON, John (1567-1650)
Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. or, An Herball of Large Extent: Containing therein a more ample and exact History and declaration of the Physicall Herbs and Plants that are in other Authours, encreased by the accesse of many hundreds of new, rare and strange Plants from all parts of the world.... Collected by the many yeares travaile, industry, and experience in this subject, by John Parkinson Apothecary of London, and the Kings Herbarist...

London : Printed by Tho. Cotes. 1640. Sole Edition
Folio, eng. title, title-page (1 leaf), To the Reader (1 leaf), Dedication (1 leaf, verso blank), laudatory epistles and poems (5 lls), Contents (1 leaf verso blank), Text, pps 1-1755 (with errors), Errata (1 leaf verso blank), complete. Engraved title and the occasional woodcut in the first half of the book coloured by an early hand, tear in last leaf of The Table repaired without loss, a little minor staining but generally a good clean copy with ample margins, 19th century half black morocco, marbled boards, a very sound copy.
Provenance. Signature of “Eliz Smyth of Hartfild(?) 1686” at head of eng. title and signature of “George Smyth”…
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London : Printed by Tho. Cotes. 1640. Sole Edition
Folio, eng. title, title-page (1 leaf), To the Reader (1 leaf), Dedication (1 leaf, verso blank), laudatory epistles and poems (5 lls), Contents (1 leaf verso blank), Text, pps 1-1755 (with errors), Errata (1 leaf verso blank), complete. Engraved title and the occasional woodcut in the first half of the book coloured by an early hand, tear in last leaf of The Table repaired without loss, a little minor staining but generally a good clean copy with ample margins, 19th century half black morocco, marbled boards, a very sound copy.
Provenance. Signature of “Eliz Smyth of Hartfild(?) 1686” at head of eng. title and signature of “George Smyth” on verso. Faint, small stamp of “Charles Lakin” of Leicester
on foremargin of eng. title. Bookplate of The Horticultural Society of New York on front pastedown.

The author, a London pharmacist, received the title of Royal Apothecary from James I. Later Charles I appointed him as his chief botanist (“Botanicus Regius Primarius”). He had a private garden in Long Acre (Theatrum p.609) in which he grew many rarities. Work on his herbal, which was delayed for a number of years by the success of Johnson’s edition of Gerarde, was greatly helped by the unpublished notes of the French botanist, Matthias L’Obel, who had lived in North London for the last years of his life. The result was an enormous folio work containing descriptions of nearly 4,000 plants (almost 1,000 more than the 1636 Gerarde) including some twenty-eight species not previously recorded in Britain. The most important of these were the strawberry tree from Ireland and the lady’s slipper orchid found in Lancashire.

Reference: STC 19302 Henrey 286 Hunt Bot. Cat. 235 Nissen 1490
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The dramatic moment in the best known legend in American literature

RACKHAM, Arthur (1867-1939) illustrator and Washington IRVING (1783-1859)
“They Crowded round him, eyeing him from Head to Foot with Great Curiosity”

1960. Original watercolour drawing (330 x 270 mm) of Rip Van Winkle, on his return from his twenty years asleep in the Catskills, surrounded by curious villagers outside the General Washington Inn (formerly the King George III Inn!), signed bottom left “Arthur Rackham ‘05” Framed and glazed in the original Leicester Galleries frame with their ticket on the back. (see below)
“But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle...This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period...” [Hudson p.57] An innovation which produced enormous advance publicity for the publishers was the exhibition of the original drawings at The…
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1960. Original watercolour drawing (330 x 270 mm) of Rip Van Winkle, on his return from his twenty years asleep in the Catskills, surrounded by curious villagers outside the General Washington Inn (formerly the King George III Inn!), signed bottom left “Arthur Rackham ‘05” Framed and glazed in the original Leicester Galleries frame with their ticket on the back. (see below)
“But the first work that greatly advanced his fame in the years immediately following his marriage was his edition of Rip Van Winkle...This lovely book decisively established Rackham as the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period...” [Hudson p.57] An innovation which produced enormous advance publicity for the publishers was the exhibition of the original drawings at The Leicester Galleries; the deluxe edition of the book was fully subscribed before the exhibition closed.
This is much more than just a very fine Rackham watercolour; it is an iconic moment in one of the great stories of world literature. Rip van Winkle is known throughout the English-speaking world and beyond as the man who slept for twenty years. One day, to escape his nagging wife he wanders off into his native Catskill mountains in New York State and falls asleep. He awakes to discover shocking changes. His musket is rotting and rusty, his beard is a foot long, and his dog is nowhere to be found. Van Winkle returns to his village where he recognizes no one. He discovers that his wife has died and that his close friends have fallen in a war or moved away. He gets into trouble when he proclaims himself a loyal subject of King George III, not aware that the American Revolution has taken place. King George's portrait in the inn has been replaced with one of George Washington. And here he is, a bewildered Rip, sleep still in his eyes, outside what is now the General Washington Inn surrounded by villagers he doesn’t recognise.
Reference: Hudson, Derek : Arthur Rackham His Life and Work. N.Y. 1960
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Thomas Bewick

BORDEN, John W. and Janet S KRUEGER
Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop. Biographical Sketch by John W. Borden. History of the Fables by Janet S. Krueger. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The Fables of Aesop and a new impression of one of Bewick’s original wood engravings.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Limited Edition of 518 copies
4to, 58, [4] pp, with an original leaf tipped in on page 11, orig. brown paper bds, printed label on spine, plain cream d/wrapper with slight stain to rear, 4-page prospectus laid in loose.
Publication number 175 of The Book Club of California.

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BOWLES, William (1780-1869) Vice-Admiral
Thoughts on National Defence. By Rear-Admiral Bowles. Second Edition. Corrected and Enlarged.

London : James Ridgeway, Piccadilly. 1852. 8vo, xiv, [2], 80 pp, uncut, stab-stitched without wrappers as issued, a little dust-soiled
On the state of the British navy and its preparedness for war.

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Presented in Chelsea

PALAMAS, Kōstēs (1859-1943)
Three poems. Translated by Theodore Ph. Stephanides and George C. Katsimbalis.

London. 1969. Printed for private circulation?
Roy. 8vo, 38, [2] pp, printed paper wrappers, very small faint stain to front cover, inscribed on front free endpaper “With best wishes, Theodore Stephanides. Chelsea 1970”

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[ pseudo-EGAN] [MACFARREN, George 1788-1843]
Tom and Jerry in France; or Vive La Bagatelle. A Musical Entertainment in Three Acts, as Performed at The Royal Coburg Theatre.

London: Printed for J. Lowndes, 36, Bow Street, Covent-Garden. (1842?). 8vo, title-page, 44, [2]pp, stab-stitched in original printed wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened, wrappers somewhat ragged, the front one with an internal tear not affecting legibility, some dustsoiling at edges, preserved in a cloth folder and 1/4 morocco slip-case.
At the end is added “ Jemmy Green’s Tour, A Comic Song, (Written by D.W.Jerrold,) Sung by Mr. Wilkinson” on 2 pages. The attribution to Macfarren is taken from the microform copy at Cambridge; the suggested date from the BL catalogue.
Reference: COPAC locates BL only

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Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, BMC or Brunet

SOUCHET, [Etienne?]
Traité de l’Usure, servant de Réponse a une Lettre sur ce sujet, publiée en 1770, sous le nom de M. Prost de Royer, Procureur-General de la ville de Lyon; au Traité anonyme sur le même sujet, imprimé à Cologne en 1769...

Paris: Au Bureau de l’Abonnement Littéraire... Chez Durand... Chez Bastien... 1778. 12mo, a6, A-K12, L6, xii, 249, [3] pp, cont. mottled calf, sound.
The “Lettre” to which this is an answer seems to have been Antoine François Prost de Royer’s “Lettre à monsieur l’archevêque de Lyon.....” n.p. 1770, [Kress 6749], but we find no record of the present work in either, Kress, Goldsmiths’, BMC or Brunet.

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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82)
Travelling Sketches... [Reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette].

London: Chapman & Hall, 1866. First Edition in book form.
8vo., original scarlet cloth, title blocked in gold on front cover, gilt line at head and foot of spine, t.e. uncut, spine faded otherwise a fine copy. Bookseller’s ticket of Edward Baker of Birmingham.
As with the other two collections of Trollope’s Pall Mall articles, Travelling Sketches was bound up over a period of years. The publisher’s catalogue dated 1. February 1866, bound in the earliest copies, is not included in the present one.
Reference: Sadleir Trollope no23

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NIALL, Ian
Tunnicliffe’s Countryside

London: Clive Holloway Books. [1983]. First Edition
Large 4to, 216pp, profusely illustrated throughout the text in colour and black-and-white, original publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper.First Edition
Folio, 160pp, 16 coloured and numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text, original publisher’s cloth, dust wrapper, a fine copy.

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