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BYRON LORD
        OEUVRES DE LORD BYRON, 8 TOMES (COMPLET)
      Chez Ladvocat, Libraire, Paris 1825 - RO40133451: 8 tomes d'env. 450-500 pages chacun. Gravures en noir et blanc en pages de titre. Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc sur planches hors texte. Pièces de titre vertes sur les dos. Titre, tomaison, fleurons, bandeaux et files dorés sur les dos. Dos frottés, avec quelques manques et parties se détachant. 4e édition entièrement revue et corrigée par A. P. T. Précédée d'une notice sur Lord Byron par M. Charles Nodier, ornée de vignettes. In-8 Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Coins frottés. Dos abîmé. Quelques rousseurs Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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La Motte-Fouqu, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de [1777 - 1843].
        The MAGIC RING; A Romance. From the German of Frederick, Baron de la Motte Fouqu. In Three Volumes.
      Oliver & Boyd,, Edinburgh: 1825 - "The Magic Ring (Der Zauberring, 1813). has as its central motif a magic ring that conveys worldly power. The ring is eventually destroyed by being cast into the flames. The story is complex, with a wealth of adventures, magical and otherwise, around the medieval world and many fine supernatural ideas, including a magic garden like Kundry's in Wagner's Parsifal as well as magic mirrors. The Magic Ring seems to be the ultimate source for the idea behind Wagner's RING Cycle and [perhaps] Tolkien's work." Quite uncommon; only one copy to come to auction in the last 25+ years [1993]. Sullivan, who we quote above from his discussion of the work in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, concludes with this edition is "impossible to find." Trifling bit of rubbing to extremities & boards. the usual light smattering of foxing. A VG+ copy. 19th C red half morocco-style sheep with marbled boards; spine with 5 raised bands and titled in gilt. TEG. Marbled eps. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". 1st edition in English. 3 volumes (xvi, 319; [4], 344; [4], 332 pp). Half titles present. Fore-edge & lower edge untrimmed. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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LA MOTTE-FOUQUÃ‰, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de
        The Magic Ring; a romance,
      Edinburgh: by Oliver & Boyd; and Geo. B. Whittaker,, 1825. from the German of Frederick, Baron de La Motte FouquÃ©. 3 volumes, 12mo (176 Ã— 104 mm). 19th-century half Japanese vellum, double morocco labels, gilt spines, red sides, endpapers and edges. With the half-titles. Bookplates of A. J. A. Symons. Rubbed, a little light foxing, chiefly to outer leaves, a good set. First edition in English of Der Zauberring (1813), translated by Scott's friend Robert Pearse Gillies. The novel blends medieval quest, epic fantasy and Gothic nightmare, inspired by Germanic folk tales and Icelandic sagas, Arthurian romance and Gothic horror. The book is a clear precursor to William Morris's medieval romances, George Macdonald's spiritual fantasies, and to Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. Macdonald and Morris are both acknowledged influences on Tolkien, and it has been argued that Tolkien's distaste for Wagner and what his work represented led him to write The Lord of the Rings as a cultural antidote to Wagner. The book is scarce in commerce, no copy having appeared at auction for 15 years. This copy from the library of the book collector and writer A. J. A. Symons, author of The Quest for Corvo.

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Kaiser Joseph Franz (Hrsg.)
        Lithographirte Ansichten der steyermärkischen Staedte, Maerkte und Schloesser und andere schöne interessante Gebirgsgegenden. (Graz, 1832). Quer gr. 8°. 8 (6 Bll. Pränumerantenverz.) Bll., mit lithogr. Widmungsbl. an Kaiserin Caroline Auguste u. 158 lithogr. Ansichten, Hlwd. d. Zt. mit Rtit.
      - Nebehay-W. 286 - Thieme-B. XXII, 145.- Kaiser verlegte zwischen 1825 u. 1835 insgesamt 356 Ansichten unter obigem Titel; daraus wurden Alben meist individuell zusammengestellt. "Vollständig ist das Album von allergrößter Seltenheit" (Nebehay-W.); so umfaßt das Exemplar der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek nur 108 Tafeln, auch im Grazer Joanneum existiert kein vollständiges Exemplar.- Lithographiert wurden die Tafeln v. Folwarczni.- Unser Album enth. u.a. Ansichten von Bruck a. d. Mur, Eisenerz, Fehring, Feldbach, Frohnleiten, Gleisdorf, Göss, Gratwein, Graz (mehrfach), Irdning, Judenburg, Lankowitz, Maria Zell, Mureck, Neuberg, Oberburg, Passail, Ramsau, Reifling, Riegersburg, Rottenmann, Schladming, Schwanberg, St. Lambrecht, Stainz, Weiz, Wildon, Zeyring.- Tls. etw. stockfleckig, wenige Tafeln gebräunt, insges. gutes, umfangreiches Album.

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SOUTH SEA WHALE FISHERY.
        Fine coloured Aquatint after W.H. Huggins and engraved by T. Sutherland,
      1825 1825 - entitled "South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the Ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Island Bouro - with their Boats & Crew, in the various process of Fishing, shewing the manner the Spermacetti Whales are caught, also the mode of cutting them into the Ship, & Boiling the Oil upon Deck .". In the foreground at left "The Head of a large Whale in the Agonies of Death" and at right "A Boat destroy'd by a Wounded Whale". Lond. published Jan. 1, 1825 by W.J. Huggins, Marine Painter. This plate is dedicated to Ph. Skelton, Andrew & Wm. Nichols, Esquires, Owners of the said Ships. Measurements 20 1/2 x 26 inches, including wide margins. Beautifully mounted & framed behind glass. A magnificent aquatint in absolute perfect condition.

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HERRING, John Frederick (1795-1865) aquatinted by Thomas SUTHERLAND (1785-1838)
        St. Patrick, the Winner of the Great St. Leger, at Doncaster, 1820
      W. Sheardown and Son, [London] 1825 - This magnificent portrait of St. Patrick, Sir E. Smith's celebrated racehorse who won the Great St. Leger Stakes in 1820, is considered one of Herring's most accomplished sporting portraits. Herring is an outstanding and imaginative artist who at an early age showed an aptitude for handling both riding whip and pencil. At a young age, fate took Herring to the Doncaster races where he saw the Duke of Hamilton's horse, William, win the St. Leger. The sight inspired him to attempt the art of animal-painting, in which he subsequently excelled. In addition to being a successful horse painter, Herring made his livelihood as a coachman, and for some time drove the Highflyer coach between London and York. When eventually he retired as a coachman he immediately obtained numerous commissions and was able to devote himself entirely to his art. Herring had no education in art until he definitely set up as an artist, when he worked for a short time in the studio of Abraham Cooper, R.A. He painted an immense number of racing, coaching, and other sporting subjects, many of which were published by the sporting printsellers and the sporting magazines. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists; he was elected a member of the latter society in 1841. While in later life he painted a number of subject-pictures, it was as a portrait-painter of racehorses that Herring earned his fame, and no great breeder or owner of racehorses is without some treasured production of Herring's brush. In 1825 The Doncaster Gazette commissioned Herring to paint a series of portraits of the winners of the St. Leger Stakes between 1815 and 1824. Aquatinted by the renowned engraver Thomas Sutherland, the series is considered to be Herring's most accomplished work. The suite, which was comprised of a set of 10 portraits of the winner's and their Jockeys, was first published by W. Sheardown and Sons. The prints proved so popular that they were later republished and expanded by S. & J. Fuller, who published a book including Herring's prints of the St. Leger stakes. This magnificent print of St. Patrick with his Jockey is a rare example of the early first state of this print published by Sheardown. It is a magnificent rich impression with fresh early colour and superb highlights. Lane, British Racing Prints p.121; Mellon, British Sporting and Animal Prints 96; Siltzer, The Story of British Sporting Prints , p.145; Muir, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of J. F. Herring, Senior (1795 to 1865), p. 84. Colour-printed aquatint by Thomas Sutherland, finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic. Printed on wove Whatman paper. State i, later republished by J. Fuller in a book. A stunning impression in fine condition. Expert repairs to the margins. Image size: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 inches.

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Maund, B.
        The Botanic Garden. Volumes 1 to 10
      Baldwin and Cradock, London 1825 - Volumes 1 to 10 bound in 20 parts. 240 tissue-guarded, hand coloured plates. Contemporary 1/2 calf, extremities rubbed, some loss of spine on parts 11 to 20. The calf on parts 17 to 20 is slightly darker. Heraldic bookplate of George Henry Arnold and pastedown of part 1 with owner's inscription on front free end paper of that part. Some foxing but mostly restricted to end papers and tissue guards, plates generally clean. The complete work comprised 13 volumes and 312 colour plates. [Note; copy of vols 1 to 4 (96 plates) also available, ask for details]. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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MAUND, B
        The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, cultivated in Great Britain... Vols I-VI
      London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1825-36. . Six volumes, first editions, square 8vo, with engraved titles, an engraved dedication leaf in volume II, and 144 hand coloured plates (24 per volume), each plate showing 4 plants, some foxing to text leaves only - the plates being clean and crisp, bound in contemporary green half calf, worn, lacking all but 3 of the 12 spine labels and pieces to the foot of 2 spines, upper hinge detached in volume I. Vivid and skilfully hand coloured flowers, with a description leaf for each of the 4 varieties shown per plate. In full this publication ran to 13 volumes, until 1851.

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Maund, B.
        The Botanic Garden (volume 1)
      Baldwin and Cradock Paternoster - Row, London 1825 - For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. This book availble at a REDUCED COST of 300 pounds plus postage if paid by cheque. Please contact us. Very good condition overall. New half leather binding in excellent condition. Spine bright with gold lettering on red leather. Fine marbled boards. There is some foxing to some of the text pages. The illustrations are clear, clean and bright. 24 fine plates. Volume 1 of a 12 volume set. The photo shows part of plate 14 - Lilium tigrinum. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Schiller (Friedrich)
        THE FIGHT WITH THE DRAGON.
      - A romance. With a translation by J. P. Collier. Illustrated with sixteen engravings in outline by Henry Moses, from the designs of Retsch. [Text in German and English]. Pp. 32(last colophon)+16 engraved plates with blank interleaves; med. 4to; nineteenth century dark green morocco, the boards featuring a hand-painted coloured floral border incorporating leafy sprays and dragons, all within single gilt rule, gilt edges, neatly rebacked, with the original gilt lettered and ruled backstrip laid on, the boards slightly marked and rubbed, corners a trifle bruised; a.e.g.; hinges strengthened, early inscription (partially removed) on upper free endpaper, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Septimus Prowett, London, 1825. *An unusual and attractive binding.

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[FAIRBURN, John, bookseller]
        [Chapbook]: Park's Edition of the Ten Commandments in Verse
      London: Printed and Published by John Fairburn, 110 Minories. [circa 1825]. First. First edition. A remarkable, scarce chapbook printed and published by John Fairburn, circa 1825, consisting of 8 folded leaves or 16 unnumbered pages, with the first folded leaf serving as the wrapper, and 8 engraved illustrations with vivid, contemporary hand-coloring. Overall soiling to the wraps, a thin strip of tape at the fold, and a small chip to the upper right corner of the front wrap and first leaf, good. Internally very good, the hand-colored illustrations are bright and clean, with moderate staining and thumbing to the corners. John Fairburn, "veteran scandalmonger," bookseller, and radical publisher of various penny dreadfuls, political tracts, etc., also published numerous chapbooks for children and young adults. The text used in this edition of Park's Ten Commandments is from the English Book of Common Prayer. Unlike most chapbooks, this was not printed letterpress with woodcut illustrations. Both the front wrap and text pages appear to have been printed lithographically, and the illustrations were most likely printed from etched and engraved plates. The illustrations are also notable for their innovative designs, and for the large number of colors used in the hand-coloring (we count up to twelve separate colors). Very scarce. OCLC locates only one copy at Claremont College. .

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PARRY John Humffreys 1786-1825. ROBERTS Rev John 1775-1829.
        Three Essays, on the Subjects Proposed By the Cambrian Society.
      Dyfed Cambrian Society, Caermarthen 1825 - In contemporary cream printed paper boards, black ink title within chain border, adverts to lower cover. Spine taped together. Internally, ink number to fpd, pencil notes to verso fep, small lib stamp to verso of tp and ep, [7], 8-112 pp, watermarked 1810 to the 3 title pages, printed by Jonathan Harris, Dark Gate, Carmarthen. (NSTC 2C7901. 2WAL44). Uncommon, WorldCat only lists 3 UK copies, Bangor, U of Wales and BL. Title continues: Three Essays, on the Subjects Proposed By the Cambrian Society in Dyfed, Which Gained the Respective Prizes, at the Eisteddfod, Held at Caermarthen, in September 1823. The 3 essays are: 1. An Essay on the navigation of the Britons from the earliest dawn of their history to the close of the twelth century including the probability of Madog ab Owain Gwynedd, and his followers settling in any part of the Western Hemisphere. By John Humffreys Parry. 2. An Essay on the Ancient Manners and customs of the Britons now existing in the Principality. By John Humffreys Parry. 3. Reasons for rejecting the Welsh Orthography, that is proposed and attempted to be introduced, with a view of superseding the system that has been established since the publication of Dr Davies's Grammar and Dictionary and Bishop Parry's edition of the Welsh Bible, and that of 1630. By the Rev John Roberts. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Aldini, Giovanni
        Letter signed, with autograph postscript, to Cardinal Zurla
      Bologna, 1825. <p>Aldini, Giovanni (1762-1834). Letter signed with autograph postscript to Cardinal Zurla. 2pp. plus integral blank. Bologna, 28 [probably September] 1825. 297 x 210 mm. Slightly worn in the center crease, but fine. From the Thomas Philipps collection. </p><p>Aldini, the nephew of Galvani, was the premier apologist for his uncle's theories of animal electricity, publishing several papers (see Garrison-Morton 1989.1) as well as his Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (1803), a book-length treatise on the subject. In the present letter he praises Cardinal Zurla for the Cardinal's understanding support of his [Aldini's] scientific enterprises. Apart from his promotion of animal electricity, Aldini helped to found the National Institute of Italy, established a practical school of physics and chemistry at Bologna, and pursued a career as an inventor. In his letter to the Cardinal he presents copies of two of his latest publications-on a machine for cutting marble, and on lighthouse construction-and expresses his intention to interest the Pope in his work by presenting him with drawings and models. </p>

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Russland, Russia, Astrachan, Ural - Erdmann, Johann Friedrich:
        Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Innern von Russland. Zweiter Theil. Reisen im Innern Russlands. Erste und Zweite Hälfte in 2 Bänden..
      Leipzig, Kummer, 1825-26.. 8°. L, 366, 18 SS.; XII, 272 SS., 1 Bl., SS. 273-287, 3 Bll., mit 24 teils gefalt. lith. Taf., Plänen u. Karten sowie mehreren gefalt. Tab. Neue marmorierter Pappbände mit Leder-Rückenschild. Cat. Russica E 446; Hirsch-H. II, 425. Erste Ausgabe dieser seltenen und reich ausgestatteten Reisebeschreibung. Johann Friedrich Erdmann (1778 - 1846) war seit 1804 Professor der Pathologie und Therapie an der Universität Wittenberg. Wegen zunehmender finanzieller Schwierigkeiten der Universität verließ er die Stadt 1810 und folgte einem Ruf an die neugegründete Universität der tatarischen Gouvernements-Hauptstadt Kasan, "wo er von 1814 an, da die Universitat eröffnet worden war, das Dekanat der medicinischen Fakultät verwaltete und als Schulvisitator das saratowsche, simbirskische, astrachansche, permsche und tobolskische Gouvernement bereiste" (R.-N.). Ab 1817 hatte er eine Professur in Dorpat. Neben Reisebüchern verfasste Erdmann über 40 wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen, beispielsweise über die Klumpfüße bei Neugeborenen, über Wechselfieber und zu seinem Spezialgebiet, der Polarisationslehre. Die "Reisen im Innern von Russland" führen Erdmann unter anderem zu den Mineralquellen bei Sergijewsk, nach Simbirsk, Saratow und Astrachan, Wjatka, Perm oder Tobolsk; dazu gibt es zahlreiche Beilagen über das lokale Schulwesen, Industrie, Herstellung von Wodka, Linguistisches, Religion etc. Die Tafeln mit Ansichten, Plänen, Karten, Alphabeten etc. Am Schluss von II/1 Melodien mit Noten aus Astrachan, Kalmykische und Tartarische Gesänge etc. In sich abgeschlossener zweiter Teil der "Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Innern von Russland" mit allen Tafeln und Karten. Der erste Teil war 1822 separat erschienen unter dem Titel "Medicinische Topographie des Gouvernements und der Stadt Kasan". - Teilweise leicht fleckig. Schönes Exemplar in eleganten neuen Einbänden.

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PENNSYLVANIA. - [John S. WIESTLING & Francis Rawn SHUNK (1788-1848), compilers]
        The Proceedings relative to Calling the Convention of 1776 and 1790. The minutes of the convention that formed the present constitution of Pennsylvania, together with the charter to William Penn, the constitutions of 1776 and 1790, and a view of the proceedings of the convention of 1776, and the council of censors
      Printed by John S. Wiestling, Harrisburg 1825 - Original paper-covered boards, expert repairs to joints, extremities worn. Modern cloth box, morocco lettering-piece to spine Provenance: Walter Cresson, Philadelphia (19th-century book-label) 'The object of the compilers of this volume is to present to the people of Pennsylvania the constitutions of the province and the commonwealth, and the mode and manner in which the several changes in the frame of government were made' (Introduction). According to the copyright notice on the verso of the title page, this valuable historical survey was compiled by John S. Wiestling (who also printed it) and Francis Rawn Shunk hwo went on to serve as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1848. It is presented in five parts: the first part includes a reprint of the charter granted to William Penn, early government frames from 1682, 1683, 1696 and 1701 and laws agreed upon in England in 1682. The second part concerns the convention of 1776; the third part is on the later convention of 1789-1790 (the first and second sessions, and the constitution of 1790). The final part reprints the 'act of the 28th March, 1825, for ascertaining the opinion of the people of this commonwealth relative to the call of a [new constitutional] convention'. Shaw & Shoemaker 21819. (9 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches). (Browned). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Colden, Cadwallader D.
        Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York. With two Mayor Philip Hone ALS. Grand Canal fold-out profile. New York State Map. NYC Fire Companies' Individual Engravings. Erie Canal Engravings. Bakers Benefit Society.
      Corp. Of New York By W.A. Davis, New York 1825 - New York: W.A. Davis, Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York. 1825 [-1826] Colden, Cadwallader D. Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. Illustrated with hand-colored maps, portraits, engraved & lithographic plates, being 44 of 47 original plates [46 as listed in binder's directions; the 47th one, often not listed, being the Bakers Benefit Society engraving - scarce, but present here.] E-mail a request for the complete list of included "plates" (term includes maps), but here they do include the sought-after canal profile fold-out and the hand-colored New York State map (nearly identical to the Anthony Finley 1824 map, with three small modifications; here including, as well, a number of New York City Fire Company individual engravings and related text pages; Canal scenic engravings and Grand Celebration engravings, including the main 7-fold fold-out engraving; plus 9 facsimile manuscript letters bound at end from notables including Thomas Jefferson; includes at least 3 plates by George Catlin. Laid in are two circa-1960s auction results referring to the existence of 47 "plates". 10x7-3/4, original boards, contents loose within in the form of several integral signatures; rebacked. Peters, America., pp.228-232; Pearce, Early. 66; Howes C562 - One of the first recorded American books illustrated with lithographs, this one being produced from Anthony Imbert's company, following Grammar of Botany produced by Barnet & Doolittle in 1822 & a plate produced for the Analectic Magazine in 1819. A highly important book, commemorating the greatest feat in early American engineering history, the opening of the Erie Canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, among some 400 miles or more of canal-building. Also contains magnificent lithographic plates drawn by George Catlin, including the superbly illustrated Lockport plates. Additionally there is the hand-colored folding map, the one of the state of New York with a profile of the Grand Canal. Formerly (sea captain) H.P. Osborn's copy, with his engraved bookplate at front pastedown, also so stamped in ink to a front flyleaf and inscribed "To Osborn, Esq. Darling Master of his Brittanick Majestys Packer Swallow." Also, there is important manuscript material pasted within the book: An autograph letter signed from the Mayor of New York, Philip Hone, dated 4 October 1826, presenting this book and an award to Osborn to commemorate the canal celebration. Also, a second mounted ALS from Hone reports on the difficulty in finding a bound copy of the book for Mr. Osborn, and there is a mounted autograph presentation slip from the Mayor as well in a later part of the text. Mounted to the reverse of the "Fireworks" plate is a printed acknowledgement to the crew of the Swallow from the Mohawk Insurance Company for preventing fire destruction of the Schuylkill. Missing some plates, but with highly interesting provenance from a player in the canal project. Scuffed, spine defective; many quires and gatherings loose & sprung, expert repairs to versos of some plates, occasional foxing most notably at facsimile letters, else a good copy wanting restoration & rebinding, or perhaps individual re-sale or gifting of the plates and their associated text pages to interested parties. lg3 [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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POUQUEVILLE F. C. H. L.
        Storia della Rigenerazione della Grecia dal 1740 al 1824
      Italia 1825 - Opera completa in 9 Volumi in 8°; legatura artigianale in mezza pelle recente con conservazione delle brossure originali; pag. (2),252,(2), incisione all'antiporta, acquarellatura coeva; (2),562(2), NUMERAZIONE CHE CONTINUA DAL 1° VOLUME, incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva; (2),262, incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva + carta Geografica più volte ripiegata; (2),530,(2) NUMERAZIONE CHE CONTINUA DAL 3° VOLUME, incisione all'antiporta, acquarellatura coeva + carta Geografica più volte ripiegata; (2),266, incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva; (2),548, (2) NUMERAZIONE CHE CONTINUA DAL 5° VOLUME, incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva; (2),208, (2), incisione all'antiporta, acquarellatura coeva; (2),440,(2) NUMERAZIONE CHE CONTINUA DAL 7° VOLUME, Incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva; (2),288,(2) Incisione all'antiporta acquarellatura coeva. Qualche pagina con normale brunitura ma esemplare completissimo di questa Rara Opera sulla storia dell'indipendenza greca. Editore di comodo per evitare la censura

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Adams, John Quincy:
        PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. NATIONAL INTELLGENCER.EXTRA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1825.
      Washington: National Intelligencer, . 1825 - 23 x 19 inches. Several hundred lines of text printed in five- column format. Minor creasing, occasional foxing. Very good. An impressive copy of a rare piece. Expertly matted, and protected with a mylar sheet. Adams' first State of the Union address. Before becoming president, Adams was the chief architect of the Monroe Doctrine, and it is with joy that he states that a treaty of "Commerce and Navigation" has been entered into with the Colombian Republic. This treaty was the first between the United States and any Latin American government. Among other interesting topics discussed are compensation rates for War of Independence veterans, the contribution of West Point to the militia, and the establishment of a uniform system of weights and measures. Adams attempts to prod Congress into establishing a national university on land bequeathed by Washington for that purpose. Of particular note is Adams' summation of the progress being made on the construction of a marble monument within the capital, under which Washington's family had granted their consent to lay the first president's remains. This broadside printing was issued by the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, the newspaper of record in Washington. It would later be printed in the newspaper. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 23021 (only the Huntington copy).

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[Raisson, Horace]
        Nouvel Almanach des Gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Dédié au Ventre. Par A.B. de Périgord. Première année [Deuxième année] [Troisième année]
      Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1825-1827. (GASTRONOMY) First edition, all published. 3 vols., 18mo. Each volume with frontispiece and engraved Carte gastronomique de la France (folded). Prospectus bound in at front of vol. I. Pp. [iv], iv, xxiv, 234, [221]- 224; [xx], 264; [xx], 246. Modern boards. Occasional light foxing. Near Fine. Vicaire 673; Bitting p. 365; Cagle 366 (defective copy of a second printing), 367,368 . A dozen years after the final volume of the celebrated Almanach des Gourmands of Grimod de la Reynière, Horace Raisson and Léon Thiessé initiated a new annual dedicated to the pleasures of the table and the stomach. It ran three years and contains reviews of restaurants and hotels, provisioners and wine merchants, recipes. Raisson was a prolific author whose subsequent works on gastronomy and etiquette were translated into English, Spanish, and Swedish, and did much to spread the fame of French cookery. The third year was edited by Thiessé alone. The three frontispieces depict "L'inspiration du gourmand," "Le premier devoir du gourmand," and "Promenade du gourmand." The excellent gastronomical map shows the diversity of French agricultural and wine-making regions. The prospectus praises Grimod de la Reynière and calls for samples to be submitted for review: 'since conscientious gourmands can only speak of that which they have seen, felt, and tasted, news, documents, samples, and "légitimations," in short, everything relevant to the Almanach des Gourmands - will be subitted to the appreciation of the enlightened jury, and then scrupulously announced, described, and judged in future annuals.' Notable in the second volume is a somewhat scoffing notice of Brillat Savarin's Physiologie du gout, which is deemed to be somewhat over long. The tone changes dramatically, for in the third volume is a contemporary biographical notice and elegy of Brillat Savarin, who died in 1826, not long after publication of his celebrated work. An interesting work from a key period in French gastronomy. Copies of the first year of this annual are found in institutional collections; the later years are quite scarce: complete sets at NYPL; Lilly, with the first year in second edition, lacking the map. The Bibliothèque National does not locate the second year

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Vivian, W.:
        VIEWS OF THE GREAT FALLS OF NIAGARA.
      London: Published by R. Ackermann, Strand. Printed by C. Hullmandel, []. 1825 - Titlepage plus five lithographed plates. Oblong folio. Original printed gray wrappers. Spine perished, edges chipped. Margins a bit soiled, but images in clean, very good condition. In a clamshell cloth case. A rare set of five lithographic plates of the Falls of Niagara. Christopher Lane describes this as only the second portfolio published of views of Niagara. The first was a set of five views issued by Thomas H. Wentworth in Oswego, New York. Lane also states that an American edition of the present portfolio was issued, but neglects to say when. The plates are after drawings by W. Vivian. The images are captioned as follow: 1) "American Fall From a Ravine Opposite." 2) "Niagara. American Fall From the Bank Above." 3) "Side of the American Fall & Horse Shoe Fall In the Distances." 4) "Horse Shoe Fall From the Canada Bank." 5) "British or Horse Shoe Fall." LANE, IMPRESSIONS OF NIAGARA 62-66. DOW 892. SEIBEL I:87. EBERSTADT 156:50.

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MÉRIMÉE (Prosper)].
        THÉÂTRE DE CLARA GAZUL, comédienne espagnole.
      1825 - Paris, Sautelet et Cie, 1825. In-8 (142 x 214) maroquin vert lierre à grain long, dos lisse orné de caissons à décor de rocailles dorées et mosaïquées en maroquin rouge, chainettes dorées en queue et tête, auteur et titre dorés, large encadrement sur les plats constitué de caissons dorés ornés en long d'un quintuple filet doré bordé de deux roulettes à froid, dans les angles caissons dorés avec une fleurette mosaïquée en maroquin rouge, roulette dorée sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées, plats et dos (doublé) de la couverture conservés, étui bordé (SEMET & PLUMELLE) ; faux-titre, portrait, titre, IX ("Notice sur Clara Gazul par Joseph L'Estrange"), 337 pages, (1) page (Notes), (1) f. (Table). ÉDITION ORIGINALE RARE du premier livre de l'auteur, paru anonymement. UN DES RARISSIMES EXEMPLAIRES possédant en frontispice le PORTRAIT de « Clara Gazul », qui n'est autre que celui de Prosper Mérimée costumé en femme D'après Maurice Tourneux, CINQUANTES EPREUVES seulement de ce portrait auraient été brochés dans des exemplaires. Celui-ci possède la mention du dessinateur Delécluse [pour Delécluze], du lithographe Scheffer et la légende « Clara Gazul ». Le faux-titre porte la mention « Théâtre de Clara Gazul », et non « Collection des Théâtres étrangers » comme pour la plupart des exemplaires. Joseph L'Estrange, qui signe la « Notice sur Clara Gazul », est le pseudonyme de Prosper Mérimée. MAGNIFIQUE EXEMPLAIRE, complet de la couverture et du frontispice, dans une reliure luxueusement établie par SEMET & PLUMELLE. Ex-libris de Frederick Ricardo. (Talvart & Place, XIV, 217-218 ? Vicaire, V, 701-702 ? Carteret, Le Trésor du bibliophile, II, 132-134). FINE COPY. PICTURES AND MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
        Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from our Elder Divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton
      London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825. First edition. 8vo. 4045, [4, ads] pp. Bound in 19th Century black half morocco, t.e.g. Provenance: R.S. Jameson: William W. Gay (bookplate). Tinker 705; NCBEL 3:220 . One of Coleridge's notable philosophical works, with the following publisher's presentation inscription on first blank: "R.S. Jameson from the Author. Linc[oln's] Inn 1825" Robert Sympson Jameson (1798-1854) "... was the boyhood friend of Hartley Coleridge and had excellent literary connections, at one stage acting as legal agent for Charles Lamb ..." - Oxford DNB

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GAUSS, Carl Friedrich
        Allgemeine Auflösung der Aufgabe: die Theile einer gegebnen Fläche auf einer andern gegenen Fläche so abzubilden, dass die Abbildung dem Abgebildeten in den kleinsten Theilen ähnlich ist.
      Hammerich, Altona 1825 - In: Schumacher's Astronomische Abhandlungen, 1825, 3. Heft, pp. 1-30, Altona, Hammerich- und Heineking'sche Buchdruckerey. Whole volume: 3 parts (Heft 1 to 3), all published, 1823-25, 8vo. (228 x 178 mm), [4], 58, [2] pp.; [6], 112 pp.; [4], 100 pp., with 3 of 12 engraved plates only (lacks all 9 plates in part 2). Contemporary cloth (soiled, foot of spine damaged, head of spine heavily bumped), pages browned (titles stronger) and somewhat soiled, repair to lower margin of plate 3 of part 3, minor, mainly marginal dampstaining to vol. 2. The Gauss paper is complete in itself. --- Kirchner 3475. - Peschel, Gesch. der Erdkunde S. 669. ADB XXXIII 32. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of a prize essay by "The Prince of Mathematics" who also devoted much of his time to astronomy and magnetism. The problem solved here is the method of conformal mapping allowed surfaces to be bent onto another given surface without stretching or tearing.It is contained in a complete volume of Astronomische Abhandlungen herausg. von H. C. Schumacher, 3 parts. Altona, 1823-25, which also contains important contributions by Wilhelm Olbers (Verzeichnis aller bisher berechneten Cometenbahnen), Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Beitrag zur Kometentheorie) and Jos. Fraunhofer (Détermination du pouvoir réfringent et dispersif de différentes espèces de verre., Theorie der Höfe, Nebensonnen und verwandter Phänomene.) --- Schumacher, Freund Gauss' gründete das erste astronomische Fachjournal Deutschlands. Enthält Beiträge von Wilhelm Olbers (Verzeichnis aller bisher berechneten Cometenbahnen), Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Beitrag zur Kometentheorie) und Jos. Fraunhofer (Détermination du pouvoir réfringent et dispersif de différentes espèces de verre., Theorie der Höfe, Nebensonnen und verwandter Phänomene., Vergl. Darmstädter S. 359) u.a. Es fehlen die 9 Kupfertafeln in Heft 2. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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GUILDING, The Rev. Lansdown (1797-1831, artist)
        A series of three views of the Botanic Garden on the island of St. Vincent, West Indies
      printed for R.Griffin & Company, [Glasgow 1825 - A possibly unique series of three very early lithographic proofs of views of the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies. These fine views, after original drawings by the naturalist Lansdown Guilding, are uncoloured proofs of the three views that were published, hand-coloured, in Guilding's An Account of the Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent , published in Glasgow in 1825. The fourth plate, a plan of the gardens rather than a view, was also included in the published work according to Abbey. Only one of the present images is captioned but, according to Abbey, the images are as follows: 1. House of the Superintendent [of the Botanic Garden] 2. [View of the Botanic Garden St. Vincent. / Taken from the Superintendent's House] 3. [Botanic Garden, / from the bottom of the Central Walk] Abbey quotes from a contemporary prospectus concerning the distribution of the work on the island, which notes that `only a few copies have been sent out for sale, but Mr. Draper will receive at the Gazette Office the names of those who are disposed to encourage the Bookseller who printed it' BM (NH) II, p.750; Cf. Abbey Travel II, 691; not in Sabin. Set of three uncoloured lithographs, drawn on stone by J. Watson (?), from original drawings by L. Guilding, one cut to the edge of the image with loss to the artist's name, two cut to the edge of the image, all on early pink paper mounts within ink ruled borders.

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Westmacott, Charles Malloy
        The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous, Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society . . . Drawn from Life By Bernard Blackmantle (2 volumes)
      Sherwood, Jones And Co., London 1825 - Book. 72 handcolored aquatint plates by Robert Cruikshank, except 2 by Thomas Rowlandson and 1 other by Wageman and Brightly). Also many woodcut textual illustrations and one full page woodcut at beginning of tale. Text: xxiii + 416 + xv + 399 pp. Text and plates are remarkably clean, with only some of the usual offsetting opposite plate pages. Full morocco binding tight and robust, with intricate gilded decoration on spine bright. Spine with raised bands. Only qualification is wear along edges of spine, which can benefit from touch up. Photos availalbe if serious interest. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Blackmore, Richard:
        A treatise of the spleen and vapours: or, hypochondriacal and hysterical affections. With three discourses on the nature and cure of the cholick, melancholy, and palsies. Never before published
      London, Pemberton, 1825.. 20 x 13cm, Leder d.Zt., Deckelblindprägung, Rückenschild (mit Fehlstellen), XXXIV, 1 Bl., 284 S.. sehr seltene EA von einem der ersten Werke über Befindlichkeitsstörungen, die mit körperlichen und affektiven Symptomen auftreten und immer schon Ärzte und später Psychiater herausforderten, weil keine richtigen Ursachen faßbar waren. Blackmore (1653-1729) definierte hier erstmals den "English Spleen", sieht Zusammenhänge zum Klima, zur Luft, zum übermäßigen Fleischkonsum u.a.m., und dieser "Spleen" wird zum Unterscheidungsmerkmal zwischen Briten und anderen Nationen (vgl. DÖRNER 43f. in "Bürger und Irre", HUNTER/MACALPINE 319ff.).

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B Maund [Benjamin Maund]
        The Botanic Garden; consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations. Volumes I-VII
      Simpkin & Marshall, London 1825 - Volumes I - VII of the 1st edition of Maund's Botanic Garden ranging in date from 1825 to 1836 (Vol VII is undated) with 167 of 168 fine hand coloured plates. It was originally issued in parts and these volumes are in what looks like an original publisher's cloth binding which is worn and disintegrating with some poor stitching, so this set has been priced to take account of rebinding costs. The book is in a square octavo format and text pages are printed on one side only. The contents are clean and bright with beautiful colouring on the plates (faults are listed in the detailed description below). There is some offsetting where particularly strong colour has been applied and shows through to the back of the plates. All have a decorative title page and an additional title page. Vol IV has a third title page part way through the book. All are unpaginated. Vol I has a dedication 'to the lovers of Botany', preface and index - the 9th plate has some browning at the edges and there are some loose pages. Vol II has a preface and index pages. Some initial leaves are detached and the decorative title is browned. One plate lacks a tissue guard and one plate is slightly spotty as are around 5 of the surrounding text pages. Vol III has an index. The 18th plate has a slight crease at the bottom. Vol IV has a preface, index and dedication page to the Queen. The preliminaries, and title page are spotted; there is a small ink signature to the top of the second title page; and 2 plates have slight marking. Vol V has a preface and index and one plate is placed as a frontispiece. The frontispiece, and 2 title pages are spotted and 2 plates have light spotting. Vol VI has a preface and index and one plate is a frontispiece. There is some offsetting from the decorative title page onto the frontispiece and the decorative title page has browning. One plate has half a tissue guard and one plate has a small mark. Vol VII has 23 of 24 plates and one plate is a frontispiece. It has a preface, index to Part XIV and index to volume. The decorative title page is browned and there is a small hole in the second title page. 2 plates have slight marking. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Raccolta per ordine di materie delle Leggi, Provvidenze, Editti, Manifesti, ecc. pubblicati dal principio dell'anno 1681 sino agli 8 di dicembre 1798 sotto il. dominio della Real Casa di Savoia per servire di continuazione a quella del Senatore Borelli.
      Davico e Picco,, Torino, 1825 - In-folio antico (322x200mm), pp. XVI, 742, (2) di errata, legatura coeva m. pergamena con titolo calligrafato all'epoca su tassello cartaceo al dorso. Stemma sabaudo inciso al frontespizio. Bell'esemplare. Il secondo volume, in sé del tutto autonomo, di questa monumentale raccolta giuridica pubblicata in 30 volumi tra il 1818 e il 1846, con cambiamenti di editore nel corso della pubblicazione; il corpus fu concepito come continuazione e integrazione della raccolta del Borelli. Numerosi, in questo volume, i riferimenti alla situazione degli Ebrei e dei Valdesi del Piemonte. Hugon & Gonnet, 3048.

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[Wallace, Robert Grenville.]
        FORTY YEARS IN THE WORLD; OR, SKETCHES AND TALES OF A SOLDIER'S LIFE. By the Author of "Fifteen Years in India," "Memoirs of India," &c. &c. &c
      Paris: Printed for A. and W. Galignani,. 1825. 12mo, three volumes: pp. [i-iv] [vii] viii-x [xi-xiv] [1] 2-318; [i-vi] [1] 2-326; [i-vi] [1] 2-319 [320: printer's imprint] [note: signature (A) of volume 1 is a gathering of six leaves and is complete despite mispagination; preliminaries of all three volumes are cancels, first two tipped in on stubs; half-title leaves present in all volumes],. early nineteenth-century marbled boards with green leather shelf backs, spines lettered and tooled in gold, blue speckled edges, green ribbon markers.. Bindings rubbed, mostly at spine ends and corner tips, small chip to. fore-edge margin of leaf M11 of volume three, a very good set.. (#115303). First edition, continental issue. The UK domestic issue has the 1825 imprint of London publisher George B. Whittaker. There is, apparently, a first printing of the London edition at University of Illinois, Champagne- Urbana. OCLC records five copies, all marked second or third edition; COPAC gives two holdings, a second edition at Oxford and a third edition at Cambridge. Volumes one and two of the Galignanis' Paris edition were printed in London by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street; volume three has the Cox and Baylis imprint on half-title recto, but a different printer's imprint on page [320]: "London / Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars." No copies of this Paris edition are recorded in COPAC or OCLC. Robert Grenville Wallace (1786-1851) went out to India in 1805. During his military service he traveled widely throughout the country. His experiences and observations are recorded in two nonfiction books, FIFTEEN YEARS IN INDIA (1822) and MEMOIRS OF INDIA (1824), the latter a primer on East India intended for young men heading out there. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 247. Garside, Raven and Schowerling, The English Novel 1770-1829 1825: 84. No copies of any editions are recorded by NSTC. Not in Gupta, India in English Fiction, 1800-1970.

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Teonge, Henry.
        The Diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679.
      London, Charles Knight, 1825. - 8vo. XVIII, (2), 327, (1) pp. With engr. t. p. and lithogr. folding facsimile. Modern half calf (by Bayntun's, Bath) with giltstamped red spine label and marbled boards. Edges sprinkled in red. First edition. - The fame of the English clergyman Teonge (1621-90) rests on his present work. Due to financial difficulties, he enlisted in the Navy and became a chaplain on the ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak, completing three voyages to the Mediterranean, where he searched for pirates, landed in Syria and visited Malta, Zante, Cephalonia, and Aleppo. - "The interest of Teonge's life is concentrated in the diary of the few years he spent at sea, which gives an amusing and precious picture of life in the navy at that time. This journal, from 20 May 1675 to 28 June 1679, having lain in manuscript for over a century, was purchased from a Warwickshire family by Charles Knight, who edited it in 1825 as The Diary of Henry Teonge, with a facsimile of the first folio of the manuscript (London, 8vo). The narrative reveals the diarist as a pleasant, lively, easy-going man, not so strict as to prevent his falling in with the humours of his surroundings" (DNB). The diary contains accounts of cruises in the Channel, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, leavened with occasional songs, sonnets, acrostics, etc. "The nature of Teonge's diary, and the disappearance of the manuscript for almost a century after its first publication in 1825, led to persistent suggestions that it might have been a forgery. Confirmation both of Teonge's existence and of the sequence of events which he recorded came from the Admiralty records in the Public Record Office, and the re-emergence of the manuscript itself at a Sothebys sale in 1918 put the matter conclusively to rest" (ODNB). - Occasional insignificant brownstaining; altogether a well-preserved copy. Allibone 2375. DNB 56, 76. Lowndes 2605. Weber II, 412. OCLC 2438435. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich - Friedrich Roth (Hg.)
        Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi?s auserlesener Briefwechsel. In zwei Bänden.
      Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, 1825, 27 - 8°, XXX, 1 Bl., 516 S.; IV, 1 Bl., 494 S., Kart. d. Zeit m Rückenschild, Etwas berieben, Namenszug u. Stempelchen a. Titelblatt, wenig stockfleckig, schönes exemplar. EA. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819), deutscher Philosoph, Jurist, Kaufmann und Schriftsteller. Seit 1765 war er Freimaurer und gleichzeitig Schatzmeister der Loge ?La Parfaite Amitié? in Düsseldorf. 1772 wurde er zum Mitglied der jülisch-bergischen Hofkammer ernannt und gab ein Jahr später den Handelsberuf auf, um sich ausschließlich Literatur und Philosophie zu widmen. In Genf hatte er bereits Werke im Sinne der Aufklärung von Charles Bonnet und Rousseaus Emile und die Glaubensbekenntnisse eines savoyardischen Vikars kennengelernt. Zeitlebens Kontakte mit Aufklärern wie Frans Hemsterhuis, Georg Forster, Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Jean Paul und mit Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1200 gr. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Gargiulo, Raffaele.
        Raccolta de monumenti più interessanti del Re. Museo Borbonico e di varie collezioni private.
      Naples, Museo Reale, 1825. - Large 4to (235 x 282 mm). Engr. t. p., 160 (1 folding) outline engravings. Contemp. green boards with giltstamped title to spine. First edition. - The plates depict classical busts, sculptures, vases, candelabra, armours, pitchers, murals, etc. For the ceramist R. Gargiulo (d. 1858) cf. Minghetti, Ceramisti (Milan, 1939). - Some insignificant foxing. Includes a ms. list of plates (8 pp.) at the end. Binding slightly rubbed. From the library of Duke Max in Bavaria (1808-88), father of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, with his shelfmark label. Brunet II, 1485. Borroni 1856 (both mentioning 80 plates only). Murray III, 45 (citing two vols. with 200 plates). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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BOUILLAUD (Jean-Baptiste)
        Traité clinique et physiologique de l'encéphalite, ou inflammation du cerveau et de ses suites, telles que le ramolissement, la suppuration, les abcès, les tubercules, le squirrhe, le cancer, etc.
      J.B. Baillière, Paris 1825 - In-8, XXIV, 350 pp., demi-chagrin vert de l¿époque, dos un peu passé, tranches marbrées, coins usés, cachet de bibliothèque au titre (Dr. L.M.), très bon état intérieur hormis de légères rousseurs. Jean Baptiste Bouillaud (1796-1881) fut professeur de clinique médicale à la Charité, où il fut l¿un des plus grands cliniciens après Corvisart. Il devint doyen de la faculté de médecine de Paris, membre de l¿Académie de médecine (et président de cette Académie en 1862), membre de l¿Académie des sciences. Balzac s¿inspira de Bouillaud pour son personnage du Docteur Bianchon. Bouillaud avait déjà fait paraître, quelques mois auparavant, dans Archives Générales de Médecine, un article préliminaire intitulé « Recherches cliniques propres à démontrer que la perte de la parole correspond à la lésion des lobules antérieurs du cerveau, et à confirmer l¿opinion de Gall, sur le siège du langage articulé ». (Garrison & Morton, 4618) Bouillaud distingue deux types d¿aphasie (expressive et amnésique). Il est le premier à assigner aux lobes frontaux le siège du langage articulé, et sera malheureusement le seul à défendre cette idée jusqu¿à la publication de Broca en 1861. Sur la base de plusieurs observations anatomo-cliniques, Bouillaud formule clairement ce que l¿on appellera la « double dissociation », principe qui sera à la base de la neuropsychologie. Ces conclusions suscitèrent l¿opposition d¿Andral et de Flourens. Les contemporains de Bouillaud étaient dans l¿ensemble réticents à accepter cette théorie, gardant sans doute en souvenir les concepts de la phrénologie (d¿autant plus que Bouillaud était membre fondateur de la Société phrénologique). S. Finger, Origins of neuroscience, p. 37 ; Heirs of Hippocrates, 1561 ; cf. Garrison & Morton, 1395 (citant cet ouvrage dans le commentaire) et 4618 (article préliminaire) ; X. Seron et al., Neuropsychologie humaine, pp. 23-24. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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PEPYS. SAMUEL.; Braybrooke. Richard, Lord. Edits
        MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the original short hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, And a selection from his Private Correspondence
      Henry Colburn. London.,1825. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. 4to. (11.9 x 9.4 inches). Volume 1; Half title, frontispiece portrait of Samuel Pepys, xlii; 498pp, xlixpp (index for both volumes). Publishers advert leaf. ---- Volume 2 contains 2 sections; The remains of the Diary and the Correspondence. Diary; Half title, frontispiece engraving of Pepys' Library in York Buildings, title-page, 348pp. + correspondence; title, vii,311pp. Illustrated with 13 full page plates (2 pedigrees, Facsimile of Pepys handwriting, 7 portraits, 1 map, and 2 views. Aside from some minor foxing, mostly the margins, to the plates (which also show offsetting to the opposite leaves), this is a very bright, clean, tight set. Finely bound in contemporary bindings, by J. Taylor Seton of Edinburgh, of full brown calf. Rebacked with the original spines laid down. Raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt. Twin red labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Boards with double gilt ruled and blind decorative borders. Original endpapers with small green bookbinders ticket in top corner of front paste-downs. Edges and corners a bit bumped and rubbed but still a very attractive pair of early bindings on this very bright copy.:

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DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall
        Library Companion. 2nd ed. 2 vols. large paper copy
      Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, London, 1825, - DIBDIN, T[homas] F[rognall]. The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide, and The Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library. Second Edition.[In Two Volumes]. London : Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-Square; and J. Major, Fleet-Street, MDCCCXXV [1825]. Pp (10),[i]-l,[1]-412,(2); (6),413-899,(1,ad),(2). 8vo, full brown calf, gilt decoration to covers, gilt borders and dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. LARGE PAPER COPY. Vol.1 has been respined with original spine laid on (and loss of most of the corresponding gilt), light foxing to half-title and preliminary and final blanks, else a very good solid volume. Outer hinges of Vol.2 cracked and one-inch tear to spine repaired (with some loss of gilt at that area), front hinge tender, some edgewear, light foxing to half-title and preliminary and final few leaves, else very good. Both volumes have a bookplate to front pastedown. A nice set of the Large paper Edition. 2,500.00 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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BOMTEMPO, José Maria.
        Trabalhos medicos offerecidos a Magestade do Senhor D. Pedro I, Imperador do Brasil?.
      Rio de Janeiro, Typographia Nacional, (1825). - Small woodcut vignettes on title-page and divisional titles. (4 ll.), 74, (1 blank l.), 122 pp., (1 l. errata). 4°, disbound, text block edges sprinkled blue-green. In very good condition. ---- FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this interesting collection of works by one of Brazil's foremost physicians. The first work, with divisional title and separate pagination, is @Memoria sobre algumas enfermidades do Rio de Janeiro, e mui particularmente sobre o abuso geral, e pernicioso effeito da applicação da preciosa casca peruviana, ou quina. In it Bomtempo draws upon his seven years' experience treating tropical fevers in Angola to propose new treatments for a summer fever (complicated by hepatitis) and a winter fever then endemic in Brazil, and criticizes the excessive use of quinine. The other works, each with a divisional title but paginated continuously, are @Plano ou regulamento interino, para os exercicios da Academia Medico-Cirurugica do Rio de Janeiro, feito, e dirigido a Secretaria d'Estado dos Negocios do Reino, por officio de 14 de Agosto de 1820 (proposals for improving the Academy's medical school); @Regulamento interino para a fisicatura mor do Imperio do Brasil (proposals for improving government oversight of the medical and pharmaceutical professions, and public health); and @Esboço de hum systema de medicina pratica, pelo qual em qualquer parte do globo se podem curar todas as molestias irritativas, com hum só, e simples remedio; applicação e formação d'este . . . . These works sometimes appear on the market separately, but were meant to be bound together. Despite a statement by Innocêncio to the contrary, we are virtually certain there was only one printing.A native of Lisbon, Bomtempo (1774-1843) received his medical training at the University of Coimbra. In 1798 he was appointed @physico-mór of Angola, and in 1808 left for Brazil, where he became senior physician to D. Pedro I. Later he served as director of the Academia Médico-Cirúrgica in Rio de Janeiro. His writings include @Compendios de materia medica (Rio de Janeiro, 1814), the first materia medica printed in Brazil, and @Compendios de medicina pratica (Rio de Janeiro, 1815), which Guerra termed "the most important medical book of colonial Brazil."---- Sacramento Blake V, 39: calling for 204 pp., and noting that it is a reprint of the @Memoria, Plano and @Esboço. Innocêncio V, 23. Not in Valle Cabral, together or separately. Mindlin, @Highlights 486. JCB, @Portuguese and Brazilian Books 825/1. Pires de Lima, @Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto 588. Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, @Catálogo da Colecção Portuguesa I, 47. Rodrigues 417-9: calling for 2 ll. (general title and dedication), then (2 ll.), 74 pp. with the @Memoria, then 122 pp., (1 l.) with the @Plano, etc.; see also 420, the @Plano separately listed with 40, (1) pp. Ferreira de Mira, @História da medicina portuguesa pp. 306-7. Maggs, @Bibliotheca brasiliensis 296. Wellcome II, 197. NUC: CtY-M (calling for 74, 122 pp. only), PPULC, PPC, DCU-IA, DNLM, DLC. [Attributes: First Edition]

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