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A COLLECTION OF THE MOST FAVORITE COMIC SONGS, sung at the Theatres Royal and Public Meetings by Messrs Johnstone, Emery, Fawcett, Munden &c.

London. sung at the Theatres Royal and Public Meetings by Messrs Johnstone, Emery, Fawcett, Munden &c. London, published and sold by C. Wheatstone, no date, circa 1807. 8vo, 210 x 145 mm, 8¼ x 5¾ inches, pages (3), 2-60, originally bound in roan backed marbled boards. Now completely disbound, covers in 2 pieces and worn at corners, spine lacking, needs rebinding, first 4 pages and pages 41 to 56 loose, pages lightly browned, small red ink mark in 1 inner margin, tiny hole in 1 page with loss of 1 letter. A very scarce collection of comic songs, only 1 copy located in the major U.K. libraries, held by Oxford, no copy in the British Library which has a later 3 volume edition with different singers listed on the title page. Our collection consists of 29 songs for voice and piano, printed on 2 staves, with an index of titles. They are a very mixed bunch. At least 4 have an Irish flavour (Murphy Delany, Sprig of Shillelah, The Boys of Kilkenny, Paddy McShane's Seven Ages etc), some are patriotic (The Calender of British Victory, The Corsican Fairy - Napoleon), one is anti-semitic (The Doctrine of an Israelite - about a cheating pedlar), one is naval (Blue Peter at the Mast Head Flew). Some are comically amorous, one man sings of his mistress, the bottle, another steals a nun away from the convent. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 4055

A SHORT ACCOUNT OF LUCAN SPA.

Dublin, 1808. Pamphlet, 8vo, 190 x 115 mm, 7½ x 4½ inches, 12 pages including the title page, 8 leaves of blank paper at rear as padding, rebound in modern quarter dark brown calf, marbled boards, new black endpapers. Title page dusty and laid down to repair outer margin (30 mm) no loss of text, A2 has 3 old ink lines in box shape to top margin which have bled through to recto and some small traces of glue due to removal of label, outer margins of all pages slightly trimmed, no loss of text, 1 leaf has short diagonal closed tear neatly repaired at inner margin, not affecting text, last leaf dusty with neat old ink name in lower margin. Very rare item, we could not locate another copy at time of listing in any major library in UK. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5144

CHARTER AND BYE LAWS OF THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOCK MAKERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, incorporated 1631; 7th Charles 1st.

London,1825. First edition, printed by M. Couchman for The Company, 1825. 8vo, 235 x 140 mm, 9¼ x 5½ inches, armorial device of clockmakers as frontispiece, pages (2), 104, interleaved with blanks throughout, bound in full old morocco, double ruled gilt border to covers and gilt lettering to upper cover, decorative gilt bands and gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, dark green endpapers. Both covers damp stained at lower edge showing as a slightly darker brown than the leather, a few other minor marks to covers, spine slightly rubbed at head and tail, small light stains to lower edges of endpapers, contents otherwise bright and clean, binding tight and firm. A very good copy of a scarce book. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5294

COLLECTION ACADEMIQUE, composee des Memoires, Actes ou Journaux des plus celebres Academies & Societes Litteraires de l'Europe. Concernant l'histoire naturelle, la botanique, la physique, la chymie, la medecine, l'anatomie, la mechanique etc.

Paris, 1785. Tome huitieme, partie Francoise. Contenant la suite de l'Histoire & des Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, G. J. Cuchet; Liege, C. Plomteux, 1785. 4to, 255 x 185 mm, 10 x 7¼ inches, 28 engraved plates, some folding, French text, pages viii, 452, bound in full old cat's paw calf, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettered morocco labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers. Binding worn, head and tail of spine chipped, lower hinge cracked at head and tail, upper hinge just starting, covers holding firmly, unevenly faded and slightly marked, corners slightly worn, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, lacking rear free endpaper, large pale damp stain to prelims, persisting but very pale to page 64, a few pages lightly age-browned, contents otherwise clean and bright, a little pale damp staining to plates XV-XXVIII. Binding tight and firm. A good copy. The work is divided into the following sections: Physique; Botanique; Chymie; Anatomie; Mechanique; plus there are very brief sections headed Histoire Naturelle, Chirurgie, Medecine, and Observations Meteorologiques. Authors of the articles include M. de Buffon, M. de Reaumur, M. de la Condamine, M. Hellot, M. Geoffroy, M. Pitot, M. Grandjean de Fouchy. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5092

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSIA AND AFFGHANISTAN.

London, J. Harrison & Son, 1839. First edition in book form, 220 x 140 mm, 8¾" x 5", xi prelims, 524 pages, diced patterned cloth, crimson and green contrasting labels with gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded, slight wear to head and tail of spine and corners, very small crack to top of upper hinge, hinges rubbed, some occasional light foxing otherwise a very good copy. Originally published as Parliamentary Papers. First part has no number: Correspondence relating to Persia and Afghanistan 293 page including Appendix; followed by No.1, Indian Papers, Copy of the treaty with Runjeet Sing and Shah Shooja-Ool-Moolk, concluded at Lahore, 26 June 1838; No.2, Indian Papers. Treaties; No.3, Indian Papers. Expedition of Shah Shooja-Ool-Moolk into Afghanistan, and treaty between the Shah and Runjeet Sing; No.4, Indian Papers. Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.5, Indian Papers. Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.6, Correspondence relating to Afghanistan; No.7, Indian Papers, correspondence relating to the occupation of Karrak; Unnumbered: Court of Directors of the East India company to the Governor-General of India, in Council. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 2710

DOLLY'S HOME.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., (circa 1880). Victorian children's book, 340 x 250 mm, 13½ x 9¾ inches, 14 pages counting the inside covers all in colour, 1 double page, 6 with text, each page has caption text at the bottom, publisher's thin card colour pictorial covers. Spine worn and repaired, all inner margins have been repaired, many small marginal tears repaired plus 1 closed tear 2 inches long running into image but no damage, small amount of adhesion to center fold of double page plate with a tiny amount of colour restoration, some light browning to inner margins, margins a little dusty and an occasional small mark. A well loved book with restoration but still an acceptable copy of this scarce children's book. Story captions, Loo and Prue, A Dolls House Story; The Dolly's Breakfast Table; Loo and Prue in the Laundry; The Evening Party, Christmas Eve in the Doll's House; Great News in the Doll's House. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 4313

FLY-AWAY PICTURES, A BOOK OF REVOLVING SCENES.

London & New York, Ernest Nister & E. P. Dutton & Co., circa 1890. MOVABLE BOOK, ALL MOVABLES WORKING. Square slim 8vo, 230 x 230 mm, 9 x 9 inches, 6 very attractive revolving movable pictures with silk pulls, all depicting young children at play, title page and nine pages of verse by F.Gray Severne, original publisher's colour pictorial boards, brown cloth spine, decorated endpapers. Professionally recased and restitched, boards slightly dusty, two tiny lower corners missing, no loss to text or images, long closed tear neatly repaired to 1 inner margin, page edges brittle and very slightly chipped, a few have small repairs, closed tear to title page 40 mm, (1½ inch) neatly repaired just affecting text, pale age browning to margins and a little light foxing, bookseller's small ink stamp to bottom of first pastedown, otherwise a very good well preserved copy of this much loved children's book. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5159

HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL THE SPECIAL ORGAN OF THE BRITISH HOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE, VOLUMES XXXIX and XL

London, 1897-98. Small, 4to, 265 x 185 mm, 10½ x 7¼ inches, 2 years bound together, September 1896 to August 1897 and September 1897 to August 1898, both have text illustrations, 2 pages of index at beginning followed by 164 pages, bound in pebbled red cloth, gilt title to spine. Small pale round stain to first 5 pages of the first volume, small ink spot to title page and first free endpaper to same volume, corners very slightly worn, some marking and light stains to covers, neat old ink name to first pastedown, otherwise a very good copy. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5293

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, 1669.

London, 1669-1670 12 monthly issues bound together (a complete year), NO TITLE PAGES, numbered 45-56, March 1669 - February 1670, printed for John Martyn, the printers details are at the foot of the last page of each part. Small 4to, 5 folding engraved plates and 1 folding map, pages, 893-1142 plus 4 pages of table and 4 pages of publisher"s catalogue, bound in contemporary blind paneled calf with ornaments at corners. Binding rubbed and the upper joint cracked but still holding on securley by cords, the cords have been replaced by an amateur, the lower hinge cracked but still holding by original cords, light cup ring to upper cover, corners worn, modern bookplate on first pastedown, neat ink name and date on first free endpaper, 3 small neat repairs to blank side of folding map, small neat repaire to folding plate of the woman with the swollen breasts, small neat repaire with archival tape to fold of Wrens engine and a few edges of outer margins of the plates are slightly ragged but not affecting the image, head of pages 1038 and 1039 have tears with slight loss of text, affecting the last words on the first 4-5 lines, though can mostly still be understood, top margins slightly trimmed which occasional affects the numbers, occasional light stainning to upper margins, some outer margins a little dusty with the occasional small pale stain or fox spot, otherwise a good copy of a scarce item WHICH INCLUDES 2 ARTICLES CONNECTED WITH SIR ISAAC NEWTON SEE THE BABSON REFERENCE BELOW. Some articles included in this volume are: A Summary Account of the Laws of Motion, communicated by Mr Christian Hugens in a letter to the R. Society, written in Latin; followed by, An Account Concerning the Resolution of Equations in Numbers imparted by Mr. John Collins; Tractatus de Corde, item de motu & Colore Sanguinis etc by Richard Lower; An Observation made at Paris , the 17th August 1668 at night by M. Hugen and Picart; Instructions Concerning the use of Pendulum -Watches for finding Longitude at Sea; Observations concerning Japan; Obsevations concerning Bath-Springs by Joseph Glandvill; Some inquiries concerning the Eruptions of Mount Aetna; A Description of Dr Christopher Wren"s Engin, designed for grinding Hyperbolical Glasses; The extracts of two letters, one written from Paris concerning some transactions there relating to the transfusion of Blood; A Learned Treatise concerning the Doctrine of Motion by J. Wallis; Some Observations Concerning the Baroscope and Thermoscope by Wallis and Beal; An Account of a small tract, entitled Thomas Hobbes Quadratura Circuli etc; and many other short articles. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, pages 54-55, [109], and also Printing and the Mind of Man, 148, A Voice for Science. "The Philosophical Transactions was the earliest scientific journal, they consisted at first of a small monthly pamphlet of about 20 pages. The contants included ectracts or paraphrases from letters written to Oldenburg or reports to the Society, and book reviews. It was about the middle of the eighteenth century that the responsiblity for the transactions was officially asumed by the Royal Society". Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5243

PYROTECHNY.

Edinburgh. The pages of the Pyrotechny entry are taken from the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and bound with the title page to Volume III. Edinburgh, A. Bell and C. MacFarquhar, 1797. 4to, 270 x 205 mm, 10½ x 8 inches, 5 splendid copper plate engravings, 4 showing fireworks, 33 pages, bound in modern quarter cloth over paper boards, gilt dividing lines, gilt rules and lettering to spine. Occasional small pale spot, otherwise condition excellent throughout. The article deals with recreational fireworks only "those made for amusement's sake, as rockets, stars, serpents, &c". Section I: Of Ingredients and Compositions; Section II: Of Moulds, Cases, Mixture, Instruments, &c.; Section III: To load air-balloons, with the number of stars, serpents, snakes, rain-falls, &c. in shells of each nature; Section IV: Different kinds of rockets, with their appendages and combinations; Section V: Of wheels and other works; Section VI: Aquatic fire-works. Not in Chris Philip, A Bibliography of Firework Books. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 4036

THE ANNUAL REGISTER, CONTAING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

London, 1777 or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the year 1776. London, 1777. Contains one of the earliest British printings in book form of THE AMERICANS' DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in Congress 4th July 1776, printed in full. J. Dodsley, 1777. 8vo, 200 x 130 mm, 8 x 5 inches, pages iv, 192, 113-270, 259, (9), the irregular pagination is the same in all copies, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt ruled border to covers, raised bands and gilt rules to spine, gilt lettered morocco label. Spine darkened and rubbed, slightly chipped at head, small crack at tail, some hair-line surface cracks, upper hinge cracked but still holding firmly, 3 minor scuffs to covers, contents bright and clean, binding tight and firm. A good copy. The Declaration of Independence is followed by the XVI Articles of Confederation between the thirteen colonies, resolved and signed at Philadelphia on 4 Oct. 1776 (pages 261-270). Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 4454

THE BIBLE. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance, as may appeare in the Epistle to

London, 1608. the Reader. And also a most profitable Concordance for the ready finding out of any thing in the same contained. Geneva Bible with Apocrypha, Robert Barker, 1608. 8vo, 220 x 160 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, engraved pictorial general title page and New Testament title page with title in heart shaped central panel surrounded by woodcut border representing the tents and shields of the 12 tribes, the 12 apostles, and the 4 evangelists, "Cum Privilegio" in lower panel, printed in two columns, black letter, collation [2], 435 [i.e. 434], [4], 441-554 leaves, plus 82 unnumbered leaves of Concordances, pages numbered on recto only, as in other copies the second leaf following general title (To the Christian Reader) is signed (par.) 3 instead of ( par.) 2 and nothing is missing where numbering jumps between O. T. and N. T., bound in early full leather, gilt border to covers, rebacked long ago with raised bands, gilt rules and gilt lettered morocco label, all edges red. Covers very worn with a few scrapes to leather, label slightly chipped not affecting lettering, corners worn, spine slightly worn at head and tail, 1 pinhole at tail, front inner paper hinge partly split, armorial bookplate and small catalogue cutting on front pastedown, name in lower margin of title page, tiny closed tear in lower margin, upper margins cropped close with loss in places of headings and page numbers, fore-edges also slightly trimmed, very occasionally shaving the side notes, occasional small stains, mostly light, no loss of text, occasional slight damp staining to upper margins, small margin corner missing from 2 pages, 1 with slight loss of heading and of side note, 2 small closed tears, 1 to inner margin, 1 to text, both neatly repaired, no loss of legibility, text slightly damaged on 2 facing pages caused by adhesion and resulting in the loss of about 8 words altogether, small hole in 1 page with loss of a few letters, mostly still legible, date of 1608 crossed out on N. T. title page and replaced with 1607, correct date still visible, some writing (1748) below the tailpiece at the end of the O. T., on the blank at the end of the Apocrypha (1683), mentioning the "greatest frost", and on the verso N.T. title page (1644-1655 - notes on the Pepper family). Binding tight and firm. A good complete copy. Collates exactly as ESTC S469143. Herbert 293 and 294 are very similar to our edition but in the general title we have "in the | Epistle to the Reader (as 294) and in Genesis i, 3 we have "Then God sayd" (as 293). In the manuscript notes there is mention of the Great Frost of 1683-1684. This was the worst ever recorded in England, the Thames was completely frozen for about two months and the ice was reported to be 11 inches (about 28 cm) thick at London. Sea ice was reported along the coasts of southeast England, and ice prevented the use of many harbours; according to some sources, the sea froze so that ice formed for a time between Dover and Calais, with the two sides joined. Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 5215

THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.

London. London, printed by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1605. Large 8vo, 290 x 190 mm, 11¼ x 7¼ inches, numerous large pictorial and decorated initial letters, title page printed red and black within wide decorative border, text printed mainly in black letter, separate title page to the Psalter, sig. a12-B8, A8-B10, C8-Q6 (Q6v is a blank), A8-K8, bound in full polished calf, decoratively panelled in blind to covers, raised bands and blind stamped decoration to spine, 2 gilt lettered morocco labels, all edges red, marbled endpapers. The volume has benefitted from the care of an expert restorer. Both title pages and P7 are very good facsimiles, the two title pages mounted on a narrow tab at the inner edge, the Psalter title repaired at top edge. Tail of spine and hinges rubbed, small repairs to 3 corners of covers, few light scuffs to covers, large corner torn off a1 and expertly repaired with a facsimile piece, no loss of text, some small rusty stains in margin of a3, neat name at top of a4 which is dusty, 4 ink digits at top of a5, some pages lightly browned, some ink writing on blank after calendar, hole 20 mm (¾ inch) in B2 with loss of 2 words, small pale damp-stain in 3 top margins and in 4 lower margins, large pale damp stain affects 7 leaves, expert paper repairs to 3 worn fore-edges, 2 top edges and 1 lower corner, no loss of text, occasional small light brown stain to margins. In first half of the book the initials have been water-coloured neatly at some time, slight paint smudge in 1 margin. Binding tight and firm. Overall a very good copy of an early King James Common Prayer Book. See David N. Griffiths, The Bibliography of Common Prayer 1549-1999, page 83, 1605 No.2 ('your afflictions' last line of A1). Images sent on request.

Bookseller reference : 3862