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Catalogue ~ General Antiquarian ANON. Condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia tratte da documenti autentici. Versione libera di G.A.G. Torino: Bazzarini e Savallo, 1855. 8vo. 169p. Frontis. port. of Alexander II. 19th-cent. paper boards, slightly worn. The text is divided into nine chapters: Despotism of the Czar, Character of the Russians, Religion and clergy, Administration, Law and justice and Siberian penal colonies, Serfdom, Army, Navy, Russian expansionist policies and foreign affairs. The text - anti-Russian throughout - ends just before the outbreak of the Crimean War (October 1853). The original author appears to have been French (cf. page 168: "Qui s'arresta lo scrittor francese che con quest'opera si propose di rivelare le condizioni intime e misteriose della Russia.") No copy found in BLC. NUC records 2 copies (under title) at Library of Congress and University of Illinois. Book # GA0050. £60 BECATTINI, Francesco. Storia della Crimea, piccola Tartaria ed altre provincie circonvicine soggetto delle recenti vertenze tra la Russia e la Porta Ottomana ... Illustrata con una recentissima carta geografica miniata ad uso di Olanda. Venezia: Leonardo Bassaglia, 1785. 8vo. 132p. Fold. map (40 x 31 cm), hand-coloured: La piccola Tartaria divisa ne' suoi territori di nuova projezione. Venezia 1783 presso Antonio Zatta. G. Zuliani inc. G. Pitteri scr. Title page spotted. Small clean tear in border of map. Original paper boards (a little worn). Becattini, historian and journalist, also wrote a history of the Inquisition and several biographies, including lives of the Empress Maria Theresa, Charles III of Spain, and Pope Pius VI. (See Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol.7, pp.394-400.) Book # GA0051. £90 COOKE, George. Views in London and its vicinity. Complete in forty-eight plates, engraved on copper, by George Cooke, from drawings by Callcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. After the original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke. London: published by Longman and Co.; J. & A. Arch; Hodgson, Boys, and Graves; and Mrs G. Cooke, Barnes, [1834]. Fol. [4], 7p. 48 plates, interleaved. Some slight spotting on interleaving and occasionally on margins outside plate area; a little slight discolouration on engraved area of plates 2, 11, 16-18, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 43, 45, 48; heavier discolouration on plates 41 and 44. Dark indigo sheep, gilt; scuffed at corners, edges and at joints; narrow surface tear (approx. 2" long) on front cover. Marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. George Cooke and his elder brother, William Bernard, were the sons of a German immigrant named Guch. After serving his apprenticeship with the line-engraver, James Basire senior, George assisted his brother on plates for The beauties of England and Wales. Between 1814 and 1826 he was engaged on 15 plates for his brother's Picturesque views on the southern coast of England, based largely on drawings by Turner. He also did engravings from Turner water colours for the Picturesque tour of Italy (1820) and produced illustrations for a number of travel books and English county histories. However, Cooke's cherished project was this series of 48 views of London and its environs and he persuaded a number of distinguished fellow artists to supplement the contributions of himself and his son, Edward. B. Adams, London illustrated, 1604-1851: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates, no. 149. Book # 13/020. £450 DAFYDD, ap Gwilym. Selected poems: translated by Nigel Hesletine, with a preface by Frank O'Connor. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1944. [8], 44, [3]p. Woodcut of unicorn printed in red on title page. Pale grey paper-covered boards, beige linen spine with printed paper title label. Bookplate. No. 86 of 280 copies. The Cuala Press was founded in 1902 by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Lily Yeats (sisters of the poet William Butler Yeats) and Evelyn Gleeson. Their object was to stimulate Irish industries and to give training and employment to Irish girls - the Press was worked entirely by women. The type used was Caslon Old Face in 14-point size only, and the Press used a hand-made paper produced at the Saggert Mills, County Dublin. This edition contains translations of 25 poems by the greatest Welsh poet of the medieval period - many of which will remind their readers of the poets of Provence and Italy. Book # 13/024. £150 DE LOLME, John Louis. The constitution of England; or, An account of the English government ... A new edition, corrected. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson; and J. Murray, 1790. 8vo. [8], xv, [1], 540, [19]p. Frontis. portrait of De Lolme. Modern black cloth boards, red leather title label, all edges marbled. First published in French in Amsterdam in 1771, this work is one of a number of commendations of the English constitution which emanated from the pens of non-Englishmen (Voltaire and Montesquieu being more illustrious examples). The success of De Lolme's book (it went into numerous editions) lay not so much in its insight but in the gross flattery with which it bombarded the English reader. The author, however, showed little interest in the practical working of the constitution - no references to rotten and pocket boroughs, or to the fact that most of the industrial cities were unrepresented in Parliament. ESTC n003555. Book # 13/026. £48 DIAKONOW, Petr Ivanovich. Guide médical de Moscou. Traduit du russe par A. Tastevin. Moscou: Imprimerie de la Société I.D. Sytine, 1897. [4], iv, 84p. 1 folding plan of Moscow. Cloth covers. At head of cover title: XII Congrès International de Médecine. The text is divided into six sections: 1. General medical statistics for Moscow - births and deaths. 2. Institutions for the teaching of medicine - Faculty of Medicine at the University of Moscow and other teaching bodies - with details of personnel and courses. 3. Medical administration and public health. 4. List of hospitals with details of their foundation, staff, number of patients treated in 1896. 5. Medical journals published in Moscow. 6. Other related institutions. Rare. No copy in BL or in BN Paris. NUC records just two copies: John Crerar Library and Yale Medical School. Book # GA0054. £60 FIELDING, Henry. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752 [1751]. 12mo. 4 vols. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt; slightly rubbed at joints and at top and bottom of spine. Some boards slightly loose and joints strengthened. Bookplate of Henry Francis Redhead Yorke. First edition of Amelia, Fielding's "favourite child", a novel of social protest and an experiment in new techniques, especially in irony and in subtle characterisation. Robert Alter argues that the novel pioneers "the masterful interlocking of separate lives through shared experience that gives Middlemarch such remarkable coherence. - "Fielding's problem novel" in his Fielding and the nature of the novel, pp.141-178. The Rothschild Library: a catalogue, 853. H. Fielding, Amelia, edited by M.C. Battestin (Appendix VII: Bibliographical descriptions, pp.583-4). ESTC t089846. Book # 13/042. £400 GAGARIN, Jean Xavier. La Russie sera-t-elle catholique? Paris: Douniol, 1856. 8vo. viii, 169p. Original printed wrappers mounted on new boards. New end-papers. Very small worm hole in top margin, not affecting text. A plea, by a Jesuit of Russian birth, for reconciliation between the Russian Orthodox Church and Rome. Printed as appendices are: the Decree of Eugenius IV (6 July 1439) on union with the Eastern Church, the Bull of Clement VIII (23 December 1595) concerning reunion with the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Brief of Benedict XIV (26 March 1755) on Eastern rites. De Backer Sommervogel, vol.3, col.1090, no.4. Book # GA0055. £20 GALLENGA, Antonio. Un viaggio estivo in Russia. Parma: Battei, 1883. 8vo. xvii, 431p. Paper-covered boards. Original illustrated wrappers bound in. Half title discoloured. The author was born in Parma in 1812 and died at Chepstow in England in 1895. Because of his support for revolutionary movements, Gallenga spent much of his life outside his native Italy. In his later years he acted as correspondent for the London Times and reported on Garibaldi's campaign of 1860, on the American Civil War, and on the Franco-Prussian War. Gallenga toured Russia in the summer of 1881 visiting St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Volga region, the Caucasus and the Crimea. In 1882 he published, in English, A summer tour in Russia, recording his observations particularly of the economic and social life of the country. Cf. Nerhood, 344. No Italian edition in NUC or BL. Book # GA0056. £50 GATTESCHI, Domenico. Manuale di diritto pubblico e privato ottomano contenente le principali capitolazioni e trattati di commercio della Porta colle potenze cristiane e relativi regolamenti ... Compilato dal dottor Domenico Gatteschi, edito per cura dei sigg. Castelnuovo e Leoncavallo. Alessandria in Egitto: Tipografia della posta europea di V. Minasi e C., 1865. lxxxii, 570p. Occasional very slight spotting; Cloth boards, leather-backed. An uncommon work (only two copies are reported in NUC) dealing with commercial relations between the Ottoman Empire on the one hand and the major European powers (England, France, Italy, Austria, Russia and Prussia) and the United States of America on the other. A large section of the text consists of official documents and treaties and these are in French. Book # GA0001. £200 [GODFREY, J.] The poor man's friend; or a few plain words from a plain man, who desires to see the poor happy and contented in that situation of life in which it has pleased God to place them ... Fourth edition. Lynn: Wade, Printer, 1835. 8vo. 28p. Signed at end: J.G. Top and bottom margins of title repaired. Modern cloth, new end-papers. Reflections on the effects of the distressed state of agriculture in Norfolk in the 1820s. A continuation of the poor man's friend was printed at Lynn in 1836. The British Library has a copy of the Continuation but apparently not of the earlier publication. The National Union Catalog reports only one copy of each - at Yale. Book # 13/046. £50 KOCH, Karl Heinrich Emil. The Crimea and Odessa: journal of a tour, with an account of the climate and vegetation ... Translated by Joanna B. Horner. With a map of the Crimea. London: John Murray, 1855. 8vo. xii, 323p. Fold. map. Title page a little soiled. Modern dark blue morocco. A translation of Der Krim und Odessa (1854). Koch's journey to the Crimea in the autumn of 1844 was part of a more extensive tour in the Caucasus which was undertaken for scientific reasons with assistance from the Russian government and the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. He had also visited southern Russia in 1836-38 - described in his Reise durch Russland nach dem kaukasischen Isthmus. Koch was a botanist - he taught at the universities of Jena and Berlin - and his interests are evident in his description of the grounds of the castle at Aloupka "the Alhambra of Prince Woronzoff in the Crimea", and in the detailed inventory of foreign trees and shrubs introduced into the Crimea (pp.278-92). Book # GA0058. £55 KOERBER, Karl von. Epistel an die Freunde des Feldbaues besonders an jene, die einen nasskalten Lehmboden haben. Wien: Johann Georg Ritter v. Mösle, 1805. 8vo. 53, [2]p. 19th-century marbled boards, a little worn. As owner of estates in the mountainous region of Silesia, the author had experience of the management of wet clay soils. He argues that fell farmers mistakenly concentrate on grain production to the neglect of cattle rearing, which should be the true basis of sound agriculture (the availability of manure being essential for the improvement of poor clay soils). He advocates the abandonment of the three-field system and the substitution of a system of crop rotation which will keep all arable land in use all of the time - the crops to include vegetables as well as cereals. Milk yields will increase from a greater variety of fodder, and thereby incomes will also rise. The benefits of crop rotation will become evident after five or six years. Book # GA0002. £45 LABAUME, Eugène. A circumstantial narrative of the campaign in Russia, embellished with plans of the battles of the Moskwa and Malo-Jaroslavitz. Containing a faithful description of the affecting and interesting scenes, of which the author was an eye-witness. Translated from the French. Second edition, considerably improved. London: printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1815. 8vo. viii, 416p. 2 folding battle plans. "Large map to face title" called for in the Directions to the binder on p.412, is not present in this copy (NUC entry for this ed. calls for 1 map, 1 plan). Modern cloth, leather title-label. A translation of Relation circonstanciée de la campagne de Russie. In his preface the author writes: "It was by the light of the burning of Mosow, that I described the sack of that unfortunate city ... I retraced, each night, the events of the day, sitting beside a wretched fire, under a temperature of ten or twelve degrees, and surrounded by the dying and the dead. The knife with which I had carved my scanty morsel of horse-flesh, was employed in cutting a raven's quill, and a little gunpowder, mixed with some melted snow, in the hollow of my hand, served me for ink and inkstand." Book # GA0059. £65 MILNER, Thomas. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Crimson calf, gilt, marbled edges. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Herbert C. Tower on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. Book # GA0061. £100 MILNER, Thomas. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. 8vo. xv, 500p. Frontispiece portrait of Vassali V. Fly leaves spotted. Light brown calf, gilt, marbled edges. Fly leaves spotted. Inscription on front free end-paper: "Frank Cecil with the best wishes of Lewis Cochran on his leaving Eton Xmas 1864". A history of Russia beginning with the legend that St. Andrew had introduced Christianity to the Slavs, and ending with the accession of Nicholas I in 1825. The author is critical of Catherine the Great - "an infidel to all forms of faith" who "publicly squandered ... no less a sum than 88,820,000 roubles" and who in her Code of Laws committed literary larceny by pillaging the writings of Montesquieu and Beccaria. "To have submitted to the rule of a foreign woman, like Catherine, without the shadow of a title to the throne, stamps Russia at the time as the most debased of nations." Milner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, also wrote works on the Baltic, the Crimea, and the Ottoman Empire. Book # GA0062. £100 ROBERTSON, William. The situation of the world at the time of Christ's appearance, and its connexion with the success of his religion, considered. A sermon preached before the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge, at their anniversary meeting in the High Church of Edinburgh, on Monday, January 6. 1755. Published at their desire. To which is subjoined, a short account of the present state of the Society. Edinburgh: Printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 1755. 8vo. 70p. Lower margin unevenly trimmed (but without any loss of text). Margins of a few leave slightly damp-stained. Modern marbled paper wrappers. Robertson's only published sermon, in which he presents his historical vision of the role of divine providence in the affairs of man and of Christianity as a progressive force in human history. Pages 65-70 contain a list of 155 schools maintained by the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge in 1755 with the number of scholars at each school (5831 in all). The sermon also contains occasional references to the Indians of North America: "There are indeed many obstacles, which retard the propagation of Christianity in that corner of the world. Among the Indians in the neighbourhood of our colonies, society is still in its simplest form: they lead the unsettled life of savages, who support themselves by hunting, and wander from one place to another in quest of game: they are divided into many small tribes, differing from each other in language and manners: attached to their own superstitious rites, they discover great aversion for the Christian religion, which is but ill-recommended to them by the example of those who profess it." Sabin 72005. Book # GA0028. £75 WALISZEWSKI, Kazimierz. Le roman d'une impératrice: Catherine II de Russie d'après ses mémoires, sa correspondance, et les documents inédits des archives d'état ... Quatrième édition. Paris: Plon, 1893. xi, 618p. Pr. wr. (worn). Contents sound. Lacks frontispiece portrait of Catherine II. At Catherine's death in 1796, Russia had expanded westward and southward over an area of more than 200,000 square miles and the Russian dream of access to the Bosphorus and to the Aegean had become an attainable goal. Twenty-nine provinces were reorganized and more than a 100 new towns built. Trade and commerce greatly expanded. These achievements, together with her military victories and the fame of her court (she was a friend of Voltaire and Diderot and corresponded with many of the literati of her day) have generally won her a distinguished place in Russian history. Book # GA0064. £28 WILLIAMS, Robert. A biographical sketch of some of the most eminent individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation ... With an addenda ... London: H. Hughes, 1836. 12mo. [4], 115p. Paper boards (soiled), cloth-backed. "The object of this little work, is, to show to the English reader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented and distinguished individuals." - Preface. Williams also wrote an historical account of Conway Castle. Not in University of Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, A bibliography of the history of Wales, 2nd ed. Book # 13/101. £25 WOILLEZ, Catherine Thérèse. L'orfana di Mosca ossia La giovane educatrice racconto della Sig. Woillez. Prima versione italiana di Ant. M. Izunnia sulla terza edizione francese. Firenze: Presso Batellici [c.1850]. 8vo. 229p. Engraved title page. Frontispiece. Dark green calf, gilt. A children's tale which opens with the entry into Moscow of Napoleon's troops, the burning of the city and the subsequent retreat of the French. The original French version, L'orpheline de Moscou, was immensely popular and ran to over 50 editions (earliest in the Bibliothèque Nationale is dated 1835). An English translation came out in New York in 1849. No Italian translation in NUC, BLC or BN Paris. Not in the Osborne or McKell collections of children's books. Book # GA0065. £28 | ||
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