Printed for G. Sael.and sold by M. Poole and Son, London, 1798. viii, 136pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green calf-backed marbled boards, contrasting paper lettering-piece ('1s 6d'). A trifle rubbed, slight chipping to lettering-piece. Both free endpapers torn away, with later manuscript inscription to verso of frontispiece, leaves F3-F4 protruding from text block, occasional spotting. First published in 1797 for George Sael, antiquarian bookseller, circulating library keeper and publisher of moral tracts, Mental amusement is a collection of short juvenile pieces designed 'to form an additional series of lessons for the service of families and schools'. Aiming at 'moral instruction' and variety as a 'vehicle for the communication of it'. Only six of the 29 tales, verses and essays are attributed to specific authors: including three by Anna Seward and two by Sael's long-time collaborator Thomas Park. Of the anonymous pieces, Chapter XVIII, 'On Education and Book. A dialogue' is perhaps worth nothing; it recounts a fictional dialogue on religious works between two 'female friends' of Mrs Day, 'a widow lady' hosting a small party. All editions are scarce, with this second being no exception. ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (BL), and one further in North America (Toronto). ESTC T147383. Size: 12mo [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Paris, Richard, Caille & Ravier et Maradan, an VII (1798/99). Oblong 8vo. 2 vols. XII, XLVIII, 388 pp. (4), 482 pp. With an engraved calligraphic plate in the preliminaries of vol. 1. Contemporary full calf, spines gilt with labels. All edges red. First edition. The complete first volume and the first part of the second are dedictated to simple and double entry bookkeeping. The remainder of the second volume pertains to bills of exchange and to weights and measures, adapted to the new system introduced by the National Convention in the year II (1793/94). The preface provides a short review of earlier literature on the subject. This is followed by a dictionary of terms used in commerce, navigation and banking. - Bindings a little rubbed. Includes the final leaf in vol. 2 with printed labels to be cut out and pasted on the wrapper spines by the bookbinder. HAL p. 161. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Goldsmiths'-Kress. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

A Geneve, Biblioth. Britannique, 1798. 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards. Paperlabel with handwritten volume- title on spine. Boards rubbed. In: "Bibliotheque Britannique", Tome nieuvieme. Sciences et Arts. Lower right corner of title-page torn away, only loss of paper, no loss of letters. Entire volume offered. 400 pp., 4 folded tables. A brownspot on foot of p. 3, and a wormtract in margins of some of the first leaves, otherwise internally clean and fine, printed on good paper. Jenner's paper: pp. 258-284 and pp. 367-399. ¶ First French version, and the first translation at all of this important work in the history of medicine, being the foundation of all subsequent work in immunology and virology. Published the same year as the English original."On the basis of an old country tradition that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox were not susceptible to smallpox, Jenner, an English country physician, decided to experiment by injecting cowpox-infected lymph into a local boy. After inoculation the boy was found to be immune to smallpox and Jenner continued his experiments. In 1798 he published the present epochal work, the results of a long and successful series of case histories. By 1803 his work had been translated into numerous languages and his method of immunization was taken up with amazing speed, becoming almost universally adopted. Garrison has called Jenner's work "one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medicine" (Fielding H. Garrison, An introduction to the history of medicine).Heirs of Hippocrates: 1086. - Garrison & Morton 5423; Osler 1251; Waller 5136; Wellcome … [Click Below for Full Description]

London, G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798. 8vo. Bound in 4 contemporary half calf. Gilt title to spine. Ex libris to pasted down front free end-papers (H. Stanton Hill). Somewhat worn, but fine and tight. Rebacked preserving the contemporary spines. Ocassional minor brownspotting, but overall internally fine and clean, printed on good paper. (4), (L), (2), 315 pp. + two plates; (4), 389 pp. + five plates; (iv), 402 pp. + two plates; (iv), 394 pp. + two plates. ¶ First English edition of this highly important work - "Viaggi alle due Sicilie ed in alcune parti dell'Appenino" (1792-97) - on Vulcanology in Italy and Sicily, by the great Italian biologist and physiologist. Spallanzani was one of the first to reject spontaneous generation with arguments similar to those expressed by Pasteur nearly a century later. In 1788 Spallanzani travelled in the Two Sicilies, mainly in order to correct deficiencies in the vulcanic collection of the Museum of Natural History in Modena. Southern Italy had suffered for five years from intense eruptive and seismic activities. Messina was still in ruins and the countryside devastated. Vesuvius, near Naples, Stromboli and Vucano on the Eolian Isles, and Etna on the Island of Sicily, remained active. Spallanzani visited them all, undauntedly making several perilous ascents that involved great physical endurance. As such he became one of the founders of Vulcanology."Spallanzani (1729-1799), the illustrious professor of Pavia, Reggio, and Modena,...devoted his earlier life to animal and vegetable physiology, and was fifty years of age before he began to tur … [Click Below for Full Description]

P., Imprimerie de la République, An VI (1798). ---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- P. Imprimerie de la République, An VI (1798), 2 FORT VOLUMES in 8 reliés en pleine basane, dos ornés de fers et filets dorés, frises dorés sur les plats, tranches mouchetées (reliures de l'époque), (tout petit accroc à la partie inférieure du dos au tome 2), T.1 : (2), 80pp., 520pp., (3), 6 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, T.2 : (2), 564pp., (3), 2 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, ---- Importante introduction de 80pp. sur l'histoire du calcul différentiel et du calcul intégral ---- Les ouvrages de BOSSUT servirent à l'enseignement prodigué au Collège de France, aux Ecoles des mines, du Génie, des Ponts et Chaussées. Il édita les oeuvres de Pascal et participa à la rédaction de la partie mathématique de l'Encyclopédie méthodique ---- "BOSSUT's importance for the history of science lies in his role as a major contributor to European scientific education. His career began in 1752, when he was appointed as professor of mathematics at the Ecole du Génie at Mézières. His other teaching post was from 1775 to 1780, in the chair of hydrodynamics established by TURGOT at the Louvre. For a ime he was also examiner of students at the Ecole Polytechnique. BOSSUT wrote a series of textbooks that won wide acceptance from the 1770's until the early years of the Empire. He contributed to the Encyclopédie mthodique and aided d'ALEMBERT in editing contributions to DIDEROT's Encyclopédie". (DSB II pp. 334-335) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

London, Merigot & Edwards, 1798. 49 nn. Bll. Mit 32 kol. Aquatintaradierungen. Fol., HLeder im Stil der Zeit mit RVergolduing und Lederecken (Dietmar Klein), Texte englisch und franz. - Die Ansichten: 1. Titel. 2. The Pantheon. 3. Column of Trajan. 4. Ponte St. Angelo. 5. Temple of Venus. 6. Trophy of Marius. 7. Temple of Minerva Medica. 8. Temple of Venus and Cupido. 9. St. Agnese's Church. 10. Ponte Nomentano. 11. Ponte Salaro. 12. Temple of Hope. 13. Tower of Pignattara. 14. Ponte Lucano. 15. Temple of Tussis. 16. Staböes of Mecenas's Villa. 17. Temple of the Sibill at Tivoli. 18. Cascade of Tivoli. 19. Grotto of Neptune. 20. Grotto of the Sirens. 21. The Great Cascatella at Tivoli. 22. The Cascatella and Stables of Mecenas. 23. Bridge of Varus. 24. Bridge near Vicovaro. 25. Tomb of the Horatii. 26. Hermitage of Albano. 27. Lake of Albano. 28. Temple of Hercules at Cori. 29. Lake of Nemi. 30. Bridge of Civita Castellana. 31. Ruined Bridge at Narni. 32.Cascade of Terni. - Die Ansichten tragen das Druckdatum 1798. Als Buch mit den Texten erschienen sie in zwei Teilen unter dem Titel "A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity, recently executed from drawingsmade on the spot", London, ca. 1815. Die hier vorliegenden Ansichten sind der vollständige Teii II, zusammen mit dem gestochenen Frotnispiz. - Alle Tafeln sind sehr sorgfältig handkoloriert. Kolorierte Ausgaben sind sehr selten. - Nur gelegentlich etwas fingerfleckig. Versand D: 5,75 EUR Ansichtenwerk Rom Romantik

Amsterdam J.B. Elwe. 1798 Gebonden in half- lederen banden destijds met goudopdruk, versieringen en titel. Met 14 fraaie en uitslaande gegraveerde hand gekleurde platen door J. van Hiltrop. 2 volumes 654 pagina's, . Vertaald, en met aanmerkingen en afbeeldingen voorzien door P. Boddaert. **With 14 folding engraved plates by J. van Hiltrop; Versand D: 12,00 EUR Elenchus zoophytorum sistensbgenerum adumbrationes generaliores, flora corals sponges oude boeken books livres animals flowers fleur koraal wetenschap sciences corals, hydroids, bryozoans the "Charakteristik der Thierpflanzen

Ghent and Paris, 1812, 1799, 1798. Together 3 works in one volume, 8vo. [8], 320 pp. 5480 lots; 28 pp., 56 group lots, containing several thousand coins and medals; [2], 54 pp., 579 lots of books + 20 lots of antiquities. Contemporary French quarter sheep over decorated paper boards (lower joint and upper headcap chipped), vellum corner tips, marbled edges. Two tax-stamps on verso of Catalogue I. and passim., some unobtrusive traces of damp in margins; final leaf Catalogue III. a little soiled; occasional unimportant age-toning here and there. Good copy. Interesting Sammelband of sale catalogues of coins and medals, and also the library of Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) who amassed his own collection of antiquities, coins and medals. Ad 1: Goesin-Verhaeghe's huge numismatics catalogue is a monument to his incredible industry; thousands of coins and medals are here described according to the system proposed in Joseph Eckhel's 8-volume "Doctrina Mumorum Veterum" (Vienna, 1792-1798). Ad 2: The collection of coins and medals belonging to Pierre-Antoine de Milly was divided into 56 group lots, which betrays the fact that there were thousands, and that these took two days to disperse. Milly's library was sold in the same year Ad 3: French archeologist Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy (1720-1798) deserves some credit in the early excavations of the country villa of Horace. Easily the most important item in the sale was lot 467, a cosmographical manuscript of great beauty and curiosity from Thailand, written in "Baly, langue savante de Siam." As expected, most of the library contain … [Click Below for Full Description]

A Paris, chez la veuve Galletti, Lepetit, Desenne, an VI de la République (1798). 2 tomes en 1 volume in-8. 1f. 239pp. 2ff. chiffrés erronément 206, 561, 198 et 10. + 1f. 224pp. Demi-maroquin à coins, dos à nerfs orné (Reliure de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, un peu frottée). Edition Originale très rare, absente des collections de la Bibliothèque Nationale, de ce recueil de contes libres de François Felix Nogaret (1740-1831), auteur de plusieurs ouvrages érotiques. "Ses écrits se distinguent par une teinte philosophique assez accentuée et par une prétention à l'originalité qui dégènère souvent en bizarrerie" (Larousse). "Tous ces contes ne sont pas licencieux. Un des meilleurs qui est intitulé "Le Sabre", et qui contient une leçon hardie de justice et de générosité pour les rois, avait été goûté par Louis XVI" (Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains). Plusieurs fois réimprimés, ils furent mis à l'index à Vienne. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de l'auteur et datée du 7 avril 1829. Adressée à un "cher et ancien camarade", elle concerne une demande, vraisemblablement financière, faite par Nogaret en récompense de ses services. Correction de la main de l'auteur à un feuillet. Bel exemplaire, à grandes marges et soigneusement établi au 19e siècle. Manque au catalogue de la BNF. Gay, p. 146. Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains, p. 778. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

Dublin: J. Chambers, 1798. First Dublin Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, [8], 184 pages; VG; newly rebound in 1/4 brown leather, dark gray cloth, dark green label with gilt lettering to spine; previous endpapers preserved; title page has a piece torn off from the upper fore corner, no text impacted; slight waving to pages; scarce; shelved case 10. Originally published in London in 1797, followed by a Dublin and a Philadelphia edition in 1798;Darwin regretted that a good education had not been generally available to women in Britain in his time, and drew on the ideas of Locke, Rousseau, and Genlis in organizing his thoughts. Addressing the education of middle class girls, Darwin argued that amorous romance novels were inappropriate and that they should seek simplicity in dress. He contends that young women should be educated in schools, rather than privately at home, and learn appropriate subjects. These subjects include physiognomy, physical exercise, botany, chemistry, mineralogy, and experimental philosophy. They should familiarize themselves with arts and manufactures through visits to sites like Coalbrookdale, and Wedgwood's potteries; they should learn how to handle money, and study modern languages. Darwin's educational philosophy took the view that men and women should have different, capabilities, skills, spheres, and interests, where the woman's education was designed to support and serve male agency, accomplishment and financial reward and relieve him from daily responsibility for children and chores of life. In the context of the times, this program may be read as a mo … [Click Below for Full Description]

BASSANO: APPRESSO GIUSEPPE REMONDINI E FIGLI, 1798. BROSSURA. DISCRETO. 13,5 19,5. USATO

APPRESSO GIUSEPPE REMONDINI E FIGLI, BASSANO, 1798. ITALIANO Settecentina di fine '700. la copertina, muta, presenta segni di usura ai margini con piccola mancanza all'angolo inferiore destro del piatto anteriore ed alla cuffia superiore, sporadiche macchioline di fioritura su ambo i piatti ed occasionalmente sulle pagine leggermente ingiallite. Pagine lievemente umide, dai bordi a barbe leggermente logorate e con occasionali becche ai primi fogli. Volume intonso da pag 103. Numero di pagine: 228

kol., um 1798, 68 x 49 (H) Janson Hubbard, Japoniae Insvlae, S. 69: "Very late in the eighteenth century the maps . by La Perouse were published, they were the first to accurately show the relationship between Honshu ( an incomplete ) Hokkaida, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka". - Japan im Zentrum der Karte. Zeigt im Norden das Ochotskische Meer, Sachalin als Insel, im Süden bis zu den Philippinen.

um 1798, 68 x 49 (H) Janson Hubbard, Japoniae Insvlae, S. 69: "Very late in the eighteenth century the maps . by La Perouse were published, they were the first to accurately show the relationship between Honshu ( an incomplete ) Hokkaida, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka". - Japan im Zentrum der Karte. Zeigt im Norden das Ochotskische Meer, Sachalin als Insel, im Süden bis zu den Philippinen.

E. Merriam`, Brookfield, 1798. Viii, [1], 10-139, [2] + About 100 Blank Pages Bound In At End, Of Which Have Manuscript Additions By The Author. Full Calf, Red Morocco Spine Label,5 Thin Gilt Bands On Spine. Original Text, With 100 Pages Bound In For The Author In His Personal Copy. The Book Is Not Signed By Ellis, But The Handwriting And In Particular The Elaborate Scrolling Decorations Compare Favorably With Asa Ellis's Ownership Signature In His Copy Of Jonathan Edwards' "The Salvation Of All Men, New Haven, 1790, At Harvard, Ac7.Ed969.790S, Hollis Number 005244896. The Additions Include Detailed Recipes For L. Brown, Black, Fancy Blue, Smoke Green, India Brown, Wine Colour, Ash Colour, Fawn Colour, Light Wellington Snuff, Indigo Or Blue Vat, Cotton And Linen Blue, Mauve (Woolen), Aquafortis (Woolen); The Last Page Has A Clipping About "Dr. Beebe's Remedy", A Short "Cure For Diphtheria, And A Formula For Restoring Grey. The Bottoms Of Pages 137-140 Were Torn Away, And Have Now Been Replaced With Facsimiles On Old Paper, Made From A High Resolution Scan Of The Harvard Copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Wien und Prag, Fritz Haas, 1798-99. Jeder Band mit einer Kupfertafel als Frontispiz u. gestochenem Titelblatt mit Titelkupfer. XXIV, 319 S.; 528 S.; 504 S.; 388 S.; 358 S.; 451 S., 1nn. S.; 5535 S., 1 nn. S.; 348 S., 3 nn. S. (weiß); 349 S., 3 nn. S. (weiß); 286 S., Titelblatt (Register), 72 Seiten. Das berühmte Hauptwerk des römischen Geschichtsschreibers Tius Livius in deutscher Übersetzung. Einbände teils leicht berieben, einige Ecken minimal bestoßen, alle Titelblätter unten mit hs. Besitzervermerk von alter Hand, Titel sowie die ersten u. letzten 4 Bll. von Bd. I leicht wasserrandig, in den restlichen Bänden nur auf wenigen Seiten das eine oder andere kleine Braunfleckchen. Insgesamt gut erhaltene, sehr schöne Reihe in prächtigen Einbänden. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3000 8° (ca. 19x12 cm), Ganzlederbände der Zeit mit besonders reicher, ornamentaler Rückenvergoldung und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie Bandnummer auf je einem roten und grünem Lederrückenschild. Buntpapiervorsätze, dreiseitiger Rotschnitt.

Paris, Baudouin, An 6 (1798). in-8. (1f.blanc). XVI. 14 planches paginées en chiffre romain. 706pp. Demi-basane, dos lisse orné (Reliure de l'époque). Edition Originale du premier livre de Cuvier. Hoeffer, en 1855, signalait déjà sa rareté. C'est dans ce livre que le célèbre naturaliste pose les bases de la célèbre classification qu'il developpera plus tard dans "Le Règne Animal". 14 planches hors texte. Très bon exemplaire. [Attributes: First Edition]

A SPESE DI ONORATO DEROSSI STAMPATORE E LIBRAJO IN PRINCIPIO DELLA CONTRADA DI PO OVE SI VENDE, 1798. BELLE LEGATURE DEL '900 IN MEZZA PELLE MARRONE CON NERVI E TASSELLI TITOLI IN PELLE. OGNI VOLUME HA IL TIMBRO AL FRONTESPIZIO ED EX LIBRIS DEL PRINCIPE D'ARAGONA. OPERA MOLTO RARA DISCRETO, PARTI CON FIORITURE, UNA PAGINA CON TAGLIETTO ED UN'ALTRA CON FORELLINI. MACCHIA AD ALCUNE PAGINE

" - Chez Dupuis, Paris 1798, In 8 (13x21cm), (6) V, 332 pp., relié. - Edition originale française, rare, dont une remarquable particularité est d'avoir été imprimée sur du papier vélin, fabriqué spécialement pour les assignats de 20 francs. Chaque feuillet se compose de trois assignats dont on voit la valeur indiquée au clair dans la pâte du papier. C'est le seul livre possédant cette singularité. Une carte dépliante en fin de volume. Demi Basane d'époque. Dos lisse orné de fleurons et filets. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Un manque au mors supérieur en tête, et un en queue au mors inférieur. Epidermures et frottements. Une mouillure en début d'ouvrage, au milieu (environ 3cm) allant s'estompant sur les feuillets suivants pour disparaître ensuite. C'est en 1778 que Sestini se rendit à Constantinople et fut invité à se joindre à une expédition vers Bassora par un agent de la Compagnie des Inde orientales ; le voyage se fit par terre et par eau. Voici comment l'auteur lui-même introduit son ouvrage : ""J'ai fait un journal exact des événemens de notre voyage, et j'y ai joint mes observations. On y trouvera aussi des détails sur l'histoire naturelle, la botanique, l'agriculture, la géographie ancienne et moderne, les antiquités, le genre de vie, les usages, les murs des peuples qui habitent cette partie de l'Asie..."" On notera les relations sur les rencontres avec les diverses tribus, très intéressantes, de ce rare voyage en Asie mineure. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com - [AUTOMATIC ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] " Chez Dupuis Paris _1798 In 8 (13x21cm) "(6) V, 332 … [Click Below for Full Description]

1798 MICROSCOPE Biology Botany Insects + Illustrated Plates Atlas George Adams George Adams was a late 18th-century English optician and expert on the microscope. His leading book on the study of the microscope was a collection of various works and research by scientists and physicians. This work covers the earliest invention of the microscope and improvements made over the years, methods and techniques for using them, a general view of the parts of insects, construction of wood, crystallization of salts, descriptions of shells and vegetable seeds, and much more. This example features the incredible 33 folio engravings bound in a separate atlas tome. These illustrations depict impressive findings under the microscope of botanical anomalies, parts of the microscope, flowers and seeds, eels, crystals, and various insects. Item number: #3472 Price: $1750 ADAMS, George Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes ; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and œconomy : an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydræ and vorticellæ: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula : with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope London : printed by Dillon and Keating, for the editor; and for W. and S. Jones, 1798. Details: • Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes o xvii, [7], 724, [14], [2] o 33 illustrated plates in supplementary atlas tome o Final 15 pages with … [Click Below for Full Description]

Milano, Pirotta e Maspero, Anno VI (1798). In - 8ø grande (13,5 x 20,3 cm); 20 pagine. Legatura successiva in tutto cartoncino antico con disegni floreali su fondo oro. Ottimo esemplare. Prima edizione assai rara. Si tratta del primo opuscolo del Foscolo pubblicato a Milano. La difesa controcorrente del poeta trova le sue radici nell'aspra campagna scatenatasi in ambito cittadino contro la "Bassvilliana", l'opera del Monti tacciata di spirito reazionario e antifrancese. Sulla vicenda si veda Gamberin, Edizione Nazionale delle opere di Ugo Foscolo, VI, pp. XLV e ss. Acchiappati 16. Acchiappati, Foscolo a Milano, pp. 22 - 23. Ottolini 48. Mazzol... 4.

Paris: Dufart, VII-XIII (1798-1805). ...nouvelle edition, accompagnée de notes et dans laquelle les supplémens sont insérés dans le premier texte, à la place qui leur convient. L'on y a ajouté l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes et des oiseaux découverts depuis la mort de Buffon, celle des reptiles, des poissons, des insectes et des vers; enfin, l'histoire des plantes, dont se grand naturaliste n'a pas eu le tems de s'occuper. Ouvrage formant un cours complet d'Histoire naturelle redigé par C.S. Sonnini. 127 volumi (12,5x20 cm) in bella legatura coeva in piena pelle marmorizzata, cornice dorata ai piatti, dorso liscio ornato e dorato con doppio tassello di titolo e tomagione. --Un volume con rilegatura rifatta a imitazione, alcune cuffie mancanti o altri segni d'uso e del tempo ai margini e agli angoli. Risguardie marmorizzate, testimoni. Set completo di questa famosa edizione, con 1113 tavole quasi tutte colorate a mano e carte geografiche, più circa 30 schemi di classificazione e tabelle. Qualche brunitura a macchia o fioriture, ma bell'insieme di questa monumentale riedizione e aggiornamento dell'opera di Buffon. L'opera è così divisa: Théorie de la terre, 3 tomes; Epoques de la Nature, 1 tome; Histoire des Minéraux, 12 tomes; Des Animaux, 1 tome; De l'Homme, 4 tomes; Quadrupèdes, 13 tomes; des Singes, 2 tomes;; des Oiseaux, 28 tomes; Crustacés et Insectes, 14 tomes; Mollusques, 6 tomes; Reptiles, 8 tomes; Plantes, 18 tomes; Poissons, 14 tomes; Tables analytiques, 3 tomes. Non tutte le tavole sono numerate, e a volte non sono in sequenza, ma corrispondono al testo.Oltr … [Click Below for Full Description]

Newburyport, MA.: Edmund M. Blunt, 1798. Rare Early Printing, the Second Edition, largely improved and published according to Act of Congress, with both the "Take Notice" and "Mariners Observe" leaves. 8vo, in contemporary full tree calf, the spine expertly and sympathetically restored to period style with gilt ruled bands and a single red morocco label lettered in gilt, with the 'Notice to the Reader' leaf at the front pastedown and the 'Half-Way-Rock Beacon notice' at the rear pastedown -172, [4],[173]-239, [1 ad], pp. [Paginates complete as per Howes]. Errata paste down to front inner board as correct, and WITH the "Mariners Observe" leaf pasted to the rear inner board. An excellent copy of this rare work, very scarce in original calf boards. The text-block well preserved, unpressed, sound and clean with pleasant age, the binding handsome and strong with light, unobtrusive evidence of age or use. RARE, THE DEFINITIVE EARLY AMERICAN NAVIGATIONAL GUIDE, ALL EARLY EDITIONS BEING QUITE RARE AND ESPECIALLY SO IN THIS STATE AND CONDITION. THIS COPY WITH BOTH THE "TAKE NOTICE" AND "MARINERS OBSERVE" LEAVES. The first edition is of very great rarity. This second, printed only two years later, is for all practical purposes the earliest available. ALL of the early Newburyport editions are of great scarcity. The work is primarily that of Edmund Blunt, who used Captain Furlong's name to bolster acceptance and import of the work. Furlong was a highly respected ship's captain from Massachusetts. AMERICAN COAST PILOT is one of the earliest works of its type - an … [Click Below for Full Description]

Finely engraved frontis. & engraved headpiece profile of Basan (both by Choffard). 2 p.l., xv, [1], 288 pp.; 16 pp. schedule of sale. 8vo, 19th cent. half-cloth & marbled boards (corners slightly worn), spine gilt, brown morocco lettering piece on spine, uncut. Paris: Regnault, An VI ["1798" supplied in manuscript].A special copy of this important sale catalogue, fully priced with buyers' names throughout, and containing a multitude of manuscript notes which reveal the inner workings of a late 18th-century French auction. Basan (1723-97), a leading Parisian dealer and publisher of prints, first trained as an engraver under Jean Daullé and Etienne Fessard, even contributing to Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. He is best known, however, for pioneering the publication and sale of prints not just in France but throughout Europe. He was adept at spotting talented engravers, among them Choffard and Le Mire, and hiring them for his workshop which managed more than 550 publications between 1761 and 1799. His sterling reputation earned him the lofty task of publishing a recueil of reproductions of paintings from the collections of Choiseul and Poullain. He also served as the expert for the Bouchardon, Aliamet, Vanloo, Mariette, Neyman, and Marquis de Ménars sales. One of his most important contributions to the history of art was his Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes (1767), an early work of its kind.This catalogue, which has been richly annotated, begins with a long account of Basan and his exploits in the print market. It then details drawings (lots … [Click Below for Full Description]

Finely engraved frontis. & engraved headpiece profile of Basan (both by Choffard). 2 p.l., xv, [1], 288 pp.; 16 pp. schedule of sale. 8vo, 19th cent. half-cloth & marbled boards (corners slightly worn), spine gilt, brown morocco lettering piece on spine, uncut. Paris: Regnault, An VI ["1798" supplied in manuscript]. A special copy of this important sale catalogue, fully priced with buyers' names throughout, and containing a multitude of manuscript notes which reveal the inner workings of a late 18th-century French auction. Basan (1723-97), a leading Parisian dealer and publisher of prints, first trained as an engraver under Jean Daullé and Etienne Fessard, even contributing to Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. He is best known, however, for pioneering the publication and sale of prints not just in France but throughout Europe. He was adept at spotting talented engravers, among them Choffard and Le Mire, and hiring them for his workshop which managed more than 550 publications between 1761 and 1799. His sterling reputation earned him the lofty task of publishing a recueil of reproductions of paintings from the collections of Choiseul and Poullain. He also served as the expert for the Bouchardon, Aliamet, Vanloo, Mariette, Neyman, and Marquis de Ménars sales. One of his most important contributions to the history of art was his Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes (1767), an early work of its kind. This catalogue, which has been richly annotated, begins with a long account of Basan and his exploits in the print market. It then details drawings (lots 1-161) … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: printed for J. Johnson: and G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798. 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece (a little browned and very slightly offset), (2) + 199 + (2)pp., including the errata leaf, but without the half-title and the advertisement leaves, in a fine post-1880 Riviere* binding of brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt and labelled, top edge gilt, others uncut. A choice copy. First edition. Written by Godwin himself following the marriage of Mary and William in March 1797, the birth of Mary Godwin that August and Mary Wollstonecraft's death in September. Godwin's frank account of his wife's life shocked contemporary readers. 'The modern reader is likely to be moved by the Life> and Godwin's spare, honest, account of it. But at the time of violent reaction against the French Revolution, its ideology and its British sympathisers, the frank record was a gift to conservative polemicists and it was lavishly exploited. Wollstonecraft became a whore whose books aimed, in the words of the Anti-Jacobin, at the propagation of whores.' [Todd & Butler, pp. 12-13]. Nonetheless, Godwin has, in the 20th century, received considerable, and frequently hostile, attention from feminists because of these Memoirs.> * 'Bound by Riviere & Son'. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Philadelphia: T. Dobson and W. Cobbet, 1798. First American Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A copy of the First American Edition of Robison's Illuminati, stated Third Edition,which includes a Postscript not found in the First British Edition. The inventor of the siren and a Scottish Professor at Glasgow and Edinburgh, John Robison became a conspiracy theorist near the end of his life. Following the French Revolution, he was convinced that the Illuminati had infiltrated the upper echelons of the Revolution and the Free Masonry. This is a classic work of conspiracy theory, and even provoked a response from the famous Free Mason, George Washington, who claimed that the doctrines of the Illuminati and Jacobinism had certainly been spread in the United States, but not willfully by the Free Masons as a whole. Textblock is toned and foxed, with writing on the front endpaper. Bound in mottled calf, with rules and a red morocco label on the spine. Some wear to the edges of the spine. The edges of the front and rear endpapers and flyleaves are toned. Very Good binding.

Edmund M. Blunt, 1798. Detached front board and free endpaper. ; One of 15 editions we are offering. 239 pages [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Wien, Alberti, 1798. 8°, 177 S., 3 Bl. Inhaltsverz., 5 gestochene Falttaf., Interims-Brosch. d. Zt., Einband m. Rückenverlusten, etw. fleckig, randrissig u. -knittrig, innen tadelloses, breitrandiges Ex. EA. Sehr seltenes Werk zur Landvermessung. Der Verfasser «ci-devant Directeur de l?Ecole militaire à Turin». 600 gr. Schlagworte: Naturwissenschaft [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Leipzig, Voß, 1798 - 1799. 15 nn. Bll. (Text). 34 Tafeln in Aquatinta-Radierung von F. Aubertin nach Carl [Karl] F. Schäffer und Johann G. Schwender (auf 44 Bll.). Erste Ausgabe dieser Präsentation der Werke des jungen Berliner Architekten Karl Friedrich Schäffer, selten. - Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin 3371. - Wilhelm Gottlieb Ernst Becker (1753 - 1813) war ab 1782 Professor für Moralphilosophie und Geschichte an der Ritterakademie in Dresden. "Außerdem trat Becker als Dichter und Erzähler hervor und gab zahlreiche Periodika heraus, wobei v. a. seine Landschaftsbeschreibungen und seine Arbeiten über die Gartenkunst Bedeutung erlangten. Er propagierte das neue Ideal der landschaftlichen Gartenkunst in einer Zeit, da das Fachgebiet noch kaum entwickelt war. In den von ihm herausgegebenen Werk `Neue Garten- und Landschafts-Gebäude` (1798/99) thematisierte Becker u. a. die Berechtigung von Architekturbauten in Gartenanlagen" (Sächsische Biografie). - "Ganz gezielt auf die Präsentation eines jungen Architekten angelegt war die von Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker herausgegebene Sammlung `Neue Garten- und Landschaftsgebäude`, die 1798 bis 1799 bei Voss in Leipzig als Konkurrenzunternehmen zu anderen sammlungen und Magazinen bei den Verlegern Leo und Baumgärtner erschien. Die ersten Lieferungen enthalten ausschließlich Entwürfe des damals gerade neunzehnjährigen Karl Friedrich Schäffer, an den Becker die Hoffnung knüpft, `dass er in seiner Kunst glückliche Fortschritte machen werde`. Beckers Hoffnung wurde nicht enttäuscht und bereits 1805 in seinem sechsundzwanzigsten Lebensjahr erhielt S … [Click Below for Full Description]

Gabrielis de Sancha, 1798. In-8º. (2), iv, 455, pp, One volume is all that was published, Very scarce taxonomical work on Peruvian and Chilean botanical species. Hipolito Ruiz Lopez (1754-1815) was appointed leader of a Spanish- French expedition to Peru, which included Chile at that time. He was accompanied by Jose Antonio Pavon and Joseph Dombey. The botanical discoveries of this expedition were published in three different works, Flora Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus.(Madrid 1794, Stafleu & Cowan 9769), Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, sive Descripciones, et Icones Plantarum.(3 volumenes, Madrid 1798-1802, Stafleu & Cowan 9771) and the present Systema Vegetabilium Florae Peruvianae et Chilensis published after volume 1 of the Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, sirve Descriptiones, et Icones Plantarum.but before volume 2, according to Stafleu & Cowan 9771. Sabin quotes Rich on the present work, it contains the new genera of the Prodromus, and the species contained in the firts volume of the Flora Peruvianae, which comprises the four first classes of the Linnaean system. Bound in original quarter brown calf, marbled papers on boards, spine with 6 gilt falsed- raised bands and one label, very attractive copy in good conditions. In Latin. Hardcover [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Zürich 1689-1798. Quer-Folio. Moderner Hldr. mit goldgepr. Rückenschild. Barth 9730. Lipperheide Qf 1 (nur 89 Tafeln). Rohr, Zürcher Neujahrsblätter S. 58 f. - Vollständige Sammlung aller bis zur Auflösung der Gesellschaft, die sich aus jungen lernbegierigen Artilleristen zusammensetzte, im Revolutionsjahr 1798 erschienenen Neujahrsblätter. -"1798 wurde die Gesellschaft aufgelöst, fand sich aber 1806 unter dem Namen "Feuerwerkergesellschaft" wieder zusammmen. Die Blätter in Großfolio, dienten der fachlichen artilleristischen Ausbildung. Die Themen sind also durchwegs militärischer Art. Zu den Kupfern finden sich lateinische oder deutsche Ueberschriften und unten sind jeweils gestochene Verse zum Inhalt eines Kupfers angebracht. Seitenbilder mit Detaildarstellungen ergänzen fast immer die Hauptbilder. Themen: Artilleriestisches Exerzieren, Manöver im Feld, Schanz- und Festungswesen, Schiesslehre, Geschütze, Mörser, Petarden, Geschützteile, Geschützherstellung und -Pflege, Zeughauswesen, Pulverherstellung, artilleristische Mathematik usw. - auf vielen Blättern in Verbindung mit interessanten, zumeist zürcherischen Veduten" - "Der einzigartige Brauch der Publikation von Neujahrsblättern für die Jugend Zürichs, viel später von verschiedenen anderen schweizerischen und einigen deutschen Orten übernommen, reicht in der Entstehungszeit bis zur Mitte des 17. Jh. zurück. Es war damals Sitte, dass die Kinder von Mitgliedern kultureller Gesellschaften und Institutionen am Berchtoldstag einen Geldbetrag zum Beheizen der gesellschaftseigenen Trinkstuben überbrachten. Bei dieser Gelegenh … [Click Below for Full Description]

16 unn. Bll. (und zahlreiche weiße) mit insgesamt 18 Einträgen. Mit einer Deckfarbenminiatur und einer aquarellierten Federzeichnung. Goldgepr. Lederband der Zeit mit Supralibros "J. L.S." (Vorderdeckel) und "1798" (Hinterdeckel). Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. Quer-8vo. Zum Teil in (Rostocker?) studentischen Kreisen entstandenes Freundschaftsalbum mit Einträgen von Juristen und Medizinern, darunter Heinrich Gottfried Heinsius (1751-1808), Gerichtsaktuarius am Stadtgericht und vereidigter Notar in Waren, der spätere Pastor und Dichter Christoph Joachim Friedrich Theodor Hückstädt (1781-1823), sowie der durch Fritz Reuter verewigte August Friedrich Hersé (1773-1829), Apotheker und Notar in Stavenhagen. Erwähnt sei ferner der Pharmazeut O. C. Blandow (gest. 1810) aus Malchin, der als Student eine ganzseitige Deckfarbenminiatur beigetragen hat: Dargestellt sind zwei Botaniker beim Pflanzensammeln im Wald und auf der Wiese, darüber das Motto: "O botanicae reficientis!" - Leicht gebräunt und fleckig.

Boston: Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom, 1798. 35, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, light rubberstamp, light foxing and mild wear. One small margin hole just touches a couple of letters, but does not obscure them. Good+. Austin, to whom DAB attributes authorship, graduated from Harvard in 1798. Among his classmates were Joseph Story and William Ellery Channing. "Now forgotten, William Austin was a prominent literary figure of his time, and an acute critic of law and politics of the early nineteenth century. He... wrote 'Strictures on Harvard University' soon after graduation." His most famous work, 'Peter Rugg, the Missing Man', foreshadows themes later taken up by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. See, Joyce Carol Oates [editor], THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES [second edition] pages 31 et seq. Fullerton [page 16] says that, after Washington Irving, "he was the best of the early American short story writers." This pamphlet consists of six Numbers, each critically and humorously examining "the frigid zone of Harvard." Evans 33344. ESTC W3579.

Printed and Sold by John W. Folsom, Boston. 35, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, light rubberstamp, light foxing and mild wear. One small margin hole just touches a couple of letters, but does not obscure them. Good+. Austin, to whom DAB attributes authorship, graduated from Harvard in 1798. Among his classmates were Joseph Story and William Ellery Channing. "Now forgotten, William Austin was a prominent literary figure of his time, and an acute critic of law and politics of the early nineteenth century. He. wrote 'Strictures on Harvard University' soon after graduation." His most famous work, 'Peter Rugg, the Missing Man', foreshadows themes later taken up by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe. See, Joyce Carol Oates [editor], THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES [second edition] pages 31 et seq. Fullerton [page 16] says that, after Washington Irving, "he was the best of the early American short story writers." This pamphlet consists of six Numbers, each critically and humorously examining "the frigid zone of Harvard."Evans 33344. ESTC W3579.

G G & J Robinson and J Edwards, 1798. 4 volumes (including atlas Vol. of plates and maps), folio (22 x 17 inches). Text: 3 quarto vols. (10 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches) [xxix],[1],[viii],432;[viii],504;[viii],505,[iii]pp. 1 engraved chart, 17 engraved plates (4 double-page), after J. Sykes. Atlas:10 folding engraved charts, 6 engraved plates of coastal profiles. That is to say, eighteen engraved plates, one of which is a map, in the text volumes. Ten folding maps and six plates of profiles in the atlas volume. Volume I with 7 engraved plates, volume II with 4 plates and one sea chart, volume III with 6 plates after W. Alexander by J. Landseer, J. Fittler and others. Bound in recent tree calf bindings. The text vols. are in full period tree calf, and full gilt spines with traditional antique spot marble paper ends’. The atlas bound in half marbled calf with full gilt spine, marbled paper sides matching the marbled end papers in the text vols. The antique spot marble paper, originally a German marbled paper, became popular in England in the late 1700s and was associated with many calf and sheep bindings of this period. Tree calf was a new process and fashionable at the time. Tree calf bindings do not date back earlier than the 1770’s, as it would have been an expensive endeavour at the time. Tree calf binding was only practiced by two binders at this point, as the process takes time to perfect. Vancouver served on Cook's second and third voyages. On the present expedition, he was meant to examine the Northwest coast of North America in order to reclaim Britain's rights to land followi … [Click Below for Full Description]

Printed by M. Angus 1798-1799, Newcastle upon Tyne. , 1-220, 250-330, 30-60 pages, contains the editions for January- August 1798, October-December 1798, and February 1799, pagination continuous, bound with the original covers with woodcut by Charlton Nesbit, this magazine only published 24 editions of whi First Edition , rebound, corners rubbed slightly, some foxing throughout, previous owner's name to front covers of individual issues, nice, clean copy, very good condition , quarter calf with blue and orange marble paper, gilt title and 4 raised bands on the spine , 17 x 11 cm Hardback ISBN: [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

kol., um 1798, 68 x 49 (H) Janson Hubbard, Japoniae Insvlae, S. 69: "Very late in the eighteenth century the maps . by La Perouse were published, they were the first to accurately show the relationship between Honshu ( an incomplete ) Hokkaida, Sakhalin, the Kurils and Kamchatka". - Japan im Zentrum der Karte. Zeigt im Norden das Ochotskische Meer, Sachalin als Insel, im Süden bis zu den Philippinen.

Wien, T[ranquillo] Mollo, [nach, 1798. Gest., kol. Titel, 45 gest. Tafeln im Originalkolorit in getönten Rahmen. Halblederband der Zeit mit Marmorbezug, hübscher Rückenvergoldung, Resten eines goldgepr. Rückenschildchens und neuerem goldgepr. rotem Deckelschildchen. Folio (348:474 mm). Luxusexemplar der dritten, umfangreichsten Ausgabe der prächtigen Berufsdarstellungen; vorliegend eines jener von Schwarz (s. u.) beschriebenen "Vorzugsexemplare [mit den Kupfern] sehr sorgfältig in Aquarellfarben ausgemalt und einer lavierten Einfassung umgeben" (Schwarz, 13). - Dargestellt sind die damals im Volk verbreiteten Berufe und fliegenden Händler, wie man sie auf den Wiener Märkten antreffen konnte: Bretzenbäck, Hühnerkrämer, Wurstverkäufer, Perspektivhändler, Bierwirtsjung, Kupferstichhändler, Lorbeerblätterkrämer, Postbote, Seilerjunge, Teppichkrämer, Vogelhändler, Nachtwächter, Limonenverkäuferin, Wäscherin, Blumenstraußmädchen, Schneckenweib, Huthändlerin, Müllerin, Milchweib, Stubenmädchen und viele mehr. Die Vorlagen zeichnete der Wiener Maler und Kupferstecher Johann Christian Brand (1722-95), der als Kammermaler und später als Professor an der Kunstakademie in Wien wirkte. Das Werk war zuerst 1775-76 mit 40 Tafeln, als zweiter Druck der Erstausgabe 1780 ebenfalls mit 40 Tafeln und dann 1796 mit nur 38 Tafeln erschienen, zu denen dann in der dritten Auflage noch sieben neu entworfene Tafeln hinzukamen. Diese Ausgabe erschien in einer unkolorierten und einer kolorierten Version sowie in der vorliegenden Luxusausgabe, die zusätzlich farbig getönte, getuschte Umrahmungen und e … [Click Below for Full Description]

Wien, T[ranquillo] Mollo, [nach, 1798. Gest., kol. Titel, 45 gest. Tafeln im Originalkolorit in getönten Rahmen. Halblederband der Zeit mit Marmorbezug, hübscher Rückenvergoldung, Resten eines goldgepr. Rückenschildchens und neuerem goldgepr. rotem Deckelschildchen. Folio (348:474 mm). Luxusexemplar der dritten, umfangreichsten Ausgabe der prächtigen Berufsdarstellungen; vorliegend eines jener von Schwarz (s. u.) beschriebenen "Vorzugsexemplare [mit den Kupfern] sehr sorgfältig in Aquarellfarben ausgemalt und einer lavierten Einfassung umgeben" (Schwarz, 13). - Dargestellt sind die damals im Volk verbreiteten Berufe und fliegenden Händler, wie man sie auf den Wiener Märkten antreffen konnte: Bretzenbäck, Hühnerkrämer, Wurstverkäufer, Perspektivhändler, Bierwirtsjung, Kupferstichhändler, Lorbeerblätterkrämer, Postbote, Seilerjunge, Teppichkrämer, Vogelhändler, Nachtwächter, Limonenverkäuferin, Wäscherin, Blumenstraußmädchen, Schneckenweib, Huthändlerin, Müllerin, Milchweib, Stubenmädchen und viele mehr. Die Vorlagen zeichnete der Wiener Maler und Kupferstecher Johann Christian Brand (1722-95), der als Kammermaler und später als Professor an der Kunstakademie in Wien wirkte. Das Werk war zuerst 1775-76 mit 40 Tafeln, als zweiter Druck der Erstausgabe 1780 ebenfalls mit 40 Tafeln und dann 1796 mit nur 38 Tafeln erschienen, zu denen dann in der dritten Auflage noch sieben neu entworfene Tafeln hinzukamen. Diese Ausgabe erschien in einer unkolorierten und einer kolorierten Version sowie in der vorliegenden Luxusausgabe, die zusätzlich farbig getönte, getuschte Umrahmungen und e … [Click Below for Full Description]

Philadelphia, 1798. Two volumes. lxxx,437; xii,520pp. plus nine plates and three folding maps. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter calf, spines gilt. Minor edge wear. Tape repairs to one map, foxing. Very good. The rare first edition of this important source on 18th-century China, with a dedication to George Washington. Braam Houckgeest, a Dutch émigré to the United States, settled in South Carolina in 1783 and, in due course, acquired citizenship of the newly formed United States of America. Houckgeest was one of the first Americans to visit China, on a trading mission with the Dutch East India Company in 1795. He is often described as the first American to travel to Beijing and to be presented at the Imperial Court. [His] account of the embassy is of particular value for the detailed descriptions of many parts of China which had never before been visited by Europeans. The original manuscript was written in Dutch and translated and edited by Moreau de Saint-Méry, a French bookseller in Philadelphia. The present work includes a two-sheet folding map of China; a long description, with folding plan, of Macao; an explanation of the Chinese game of chess, with a board and several pieces pictured on a plate in the second volume; and a paraphrase of Chon-fon-kau, possibly only the third work of Chinese theatre in a European language. A number of piracies of Braam Houckgeest appeared soon after publication, but these, and their translations, are all limited to the text of the first volume of this edition, and reproduce none or very few of the illustrations … [Click Below for Full Description]

Alexandria, Imprimerie orientale et française, an VI. Small 4to. 16 pp. Modern brown half calf with red label to giltstamped spine, bound to style. The first book ever printed in Egypt, unquestionably the rarest and most important of the early books printed in the Middle East, published in the very year when modern printing was introduced to the Arab world. Only in October 1798 did J. J. Marcel arrive in Cairo with his employees and types to organize the Imprimerie Orientale. "The expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt from 1798 until 1801 was a prelude to modernity. It was to change permanently the traditional Arab world [...] The French brought Arabic typography to Egypt, where it was practised under the supervision [...] of Jean Joseph Marcel [...]. Only a few days after the French troops landed [...] they set up the Imprimerie Orientale et Française there. It was an extraordinarily important turning point. For, leaving aside the Hebrew printing presses in Egypt of the 16th to the 18th centuries, until this date announcements and news adressed to Arabs there, as well as in other parts of the Arab-Islamic world, had been spread only in hand-writing or orally, by criers, preachers or storytellers" (Glass/Roper). - Slightly spotty in places, but well preserved. No copy in auction records or in libraries within the Arab world. - Geiss, Imprimerie en Égypte, p. 146, no. 1. D. Glass/G. Roper, The Printing of Arabic Books in the Arab World, in: Middle Eastern Languages and the Print Revolution (Gutenberg Museum Mainz 2002), p. 177-225, at 182. Querard V, 506. Bigmore/Wyman, … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris, Plassan 1798.. Halblederbände der Zeit (Textbde., 20,5 : 13,5 cm) und moderner Pappband (Atlas, 47,5 : 32,5 cm). Mit gestochenem Titel, gestochenem Porträt und 69 tlw. gefalteten Kupferkarten und -tafeln.. - Im Atlas tlw. leichte Wurmspuren (nur vereinzelt deutl. und hinterlegt), 1 Ecke defekt (Mäusefraß). Insges. gutes Exemplar, der Atlas unbeschnitten und sauber. Einbde. leicht berieben, 2 Kapitale mit Wurmspuren.

London|Printed for J. & A. Arch|1798. with a Few Other Poems. [With] Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. First Edition of Volume One and Two and the First Appearance of the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' [WORDSWORTH, William]. [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor]. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798. First edition, second issue (first London issue, with the London imprint instead of Bristol; the first issue being virtually unobtainable) of Volume I. Small octavo. (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches; 160 x 96 mm). [2], [v, advertisements], [1, blank], [1, contents], [1, blank], 69, [2, blank], 70-210, [1, errata], [1, blank], [2, advertisements] pp. [With] WORDSWORTH, W[illiam, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. In Two Volumes. By. W. Wordsworth. London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Co. Bristol, 1800. First Edition, first issue of Volume II. With p. 210 and the final errata leaf, both in their earliest state (with only ten lines and three items, respectively); p. 64, line 1 reads “Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray” and line 6 reads “She dwelt on a wild Moor; ” p. 83, line 6, the “last days” are followed by a comma; p. 92, line 2 reads “the skill which he; ” and p. 129, line 11 has “when they please” spaced normally. Small octavo (6 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 155 x 92 mm). [4], 227, [1, errata] pp. Both volumes uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, rebacked to style. Each volume with two red morocco spine labels, lettered and ruled in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Dentelles in blind. Volume I with some min … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris (The Author), 1798.. xv, (1), 288, 16pp. Fine engraved allegorical frontispiece and headpiece portrait, both by Choffard. Sm. 4to. Nineteenth-century marbled boards, 1/2 straightgrain morocco. T.e.g. Priced in pencil throughout.

Paris, F. Buisson, An 6 de la République [1798]. 2 volumes in-8, plein veau raciné de l'époque, dos lisses richement ornés de compartiments entièrement garnis de filets, palettes, résilles et fers spéciaux, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin rouge et brun, tranches jaspées, viij, 466 p. et (4), 511 p. Première édition de la traduction de référence de Sophie Grouchy de Condorcet, faite sur la septième anglaise, suivie des huit "lettres sur la sympathie" en édition originale. Dans cet important essai adressé à Cabanis son beau-frère, Sophie de Condorcet traite des spécificités de la philosophie française des Lumières par rapport à la tradition écossaise et fait l'analyse philosophique et épistémologique du concept de "sympathie", en présentant sa propre philosophie morale. "C’est dans les plus douloureuses épreuves, au moment de l’arrestation de son mari en juillet 1793, qu’elle écrivit ses ‘Lettres sur la sympathie’ et ne les publia qu’en 1798 ( ). Au cœur des haines sociales et politiques, Sophie de Condorcet nous donne son diagnostic sur la Terreur tout en dissertant sur la compassion et sur l’amour comme si de rien n’était. Cela plaira à Mme de Staël et à Stendhal" (J.-C. Bonnet, Préface, Rivage, 2016). (Vanderblue collection of Smithiana, p. 41. Manque à Einaudi, Goldsmiths, et Kress). Quelques rousseurs et brunissures. Bel exemplaire, très bien relié à l'époque. [Attributes: First Edition]

Paris,: Deroy, Moller, Mongie, Belleville, Dupr�el, an VII (1798). Paris, Deroy, Moller, Mongie, Belleville, Dupréel, an VII (1798). In-16 gr. (mm. 185x115), 2 voll. in 1, bella legatura in p. pelle rossa, sottili cornici a secco ai piatti con fregi dorati, dorso a cordoni con decoraz. e tit. oro, tagli dorati, dentelles dorate ai risg., pp. (2),72 (“Avis de l'editeur” e “Extrait de la correspondance littéraire de M.***, année 1770”),157; 186. Pregevole edizione, ben illustrata f.t. da: 1 ritratto di Diderot disegnato da Aubry ed inc. in rame da Dupréel e da 4 tavv., su disegni di Le Barbier, inc. in rame da Dupréel e Giraud, qui in prima tiratura. Cfr. Cohen, p. 305: “Les memes figures ont été placées dans l'édition de l'an XIII (1804)” - Lewine, p. 146. Testo con lieviss. uniformi arross., altrim. ben conservato.

- De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, A Paris 1798 (An VI), In-8 (12x19,5cm), xxxij, 385pp. et (4) 403pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés. - Nuova edizione, illustrata con 20 tavole (animali, viste, campi, indigeni) contro le 12 dell'edizione originale del 1790, di cui 6 spiegate, tutte su carta dura, tra cui la famosa tavola del grembiule degli Ottentotti, che a volte manca. Reals in ghiaccio marmorizzato pieno di pelle di pecora. Dorso liscio decorato con 2 fiori e 2 urne in scatola, ruote. Monete titolo e volume in marocchino nero. Attrito. Estafilades sui piatti. Qualche volpe pallido. Strappare il margine esterno sull'asse di Narina. François Levaillant (1753-1824) è un esploratore e ornitologo francese. Nel 1781, il tesoriere della Compagnia olandese delle Indie orientali lo mandò a Cape Province, in Sudafrica. Ha raccolto numerosi esemplari nella regione, producendo oltre 2.000 pelli di uccelli in Francia. Tutti i suoi libri sono stati un grande successo in tutta Europa. La sua collezione ornitologica si unirà al museo di Leida, Francia non essendo acquirente. Alcuni nomi di uccelli che immagina sono ancora in uso. Qualche tempo dopo, le specie porteranno il suo nome, come il Cuckoo di Levaillant. Nella prefazione, l'autore racconta della sua infanzia in Suriname e le sue prime passioni come collezionista. Il libro contiene interessanti descrizioni degli Hotentots e dei Gonaquais, delle loro abitudini e abitudini. Il libro fu un grande successo, probabilmente dovuto alla narrativa colorata e avventurosa dell'autore. - [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Nouvelle édition, illustrée de 20 planche … [Click Below for Full Description]

Philadelphia, 1798. Two volumes. lxxx,437; xii,520pp. plus nine plates and three folding maps. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter calf, spines gilt. Minor edge wear. Tape repairs to one map, foxing. Very good. The rare first edition of this important source on 18th-century China, with a dedication to George Washington. Braam Houckgeest, a Dutch émigré to the United States, settled in South Carolina in 1783 and, in due course, acquired citizenship of the newly formed United States of America. Houckgeest was one of the first Americans to visit China, on a trading mission with the Dutch East India Company in 1795. He is often described as the first American to travel to Beijing and to be presented at the Imperial Court. [His] account of the embassy is of particular value for the detailed descriptions of many parts of China which had never before been visited by Europeans. The original manuscript was written in Dutch and translated and edited by Moreau de Saint-Méry, a French bookseller in Philadelphia. The present work includes a two-sheet folding map of China; a long description, with folding plan, of Macao; an explanation of the Chinese game of chess, with a board and several pieces pictured on a plate in the second volume; and a paraphrase of Chon-fon-kau, possibly only the third work of Chinese theatre in a European language. A number of piracies of Braam Houckgeest appeared soon after publication, but these, and their translations, are all limited to the text of the first volume of this edition, and reproduce none or very few of the illustrations … [Click Below for Full Description]

Siena, Giuseppe Pazzini, 1798. 8° (184x133 mm). x, 98 pp. One folding plate, depicting the town of Siena viewed from Mount Celso (Prospettiva dell?Atmosfera osservata sopra la Città di Siena nei giorni 26. 27 Maggio 1798 Veduta dalla Villa di Monte Celso). Contemporary hand-decorated wrappers, small floral pattern on striped ground, preserved in modern card. A fresh, uncut copy. Minor marginal paper flaws to few leaves. On recto of front endpaper a small cutting from sale catalogue, with a brief description of the copy, ?br. Cop. Varese orig? Raro? The most complete and authoritative source on Siena earthquake on 26 May 1798, and the first systematic overview of historical seismicity in this territory, by the abbé Soldani, professor of geometry at the University of Siena. Numerous buildings collapsed, including the vaults of the Cathedral, and the author estimates the damage at one million of piastre. The work is divided in six letters, written between 9 June and 17 July 1798. As appendix the printer added a letter send on 29. June 1798 to the Turin physicist Vassalli-Eandi by Giuseppe Gattesco Gatteschi. Baratta, p. 936; BSRI, p. 201, TC054; M. Gennari, L?orribile scossa alla vigilia di Pentecoste. Siena e il terremoto del 1798, Monteriggioni (Siena) 2005. [Attributes: Hard Cover]