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1729rif. 11Barnard Mandeville published a pamphlet on "the Grumbling Hive" in 1705. This was then included in "The Fable of the Bees" in 1714 which itself went through six editions and important additions A second volume was published in 1729 in the form of a dialogue between Horatio and Cleomenes and presents a proposed history of civil society based upon Mandeville's views of human nature. Mandeville was a leading public intellectual of the early 1700's. His influence continues as an a icon of Libertarianism Hayek himself a follower. In the eighteenth century his respondents and critics is a long list including Adam Smiith and Rousseau. His thesis that Vice was a productive force in the economic wellbeing of a comunnity seems harmless on its face but Mandeville presented his view while critiqueing his own society both in its moral hypocricy and the failure to produce results Vol. of this set isthe sixth and last edtion wih all the added essays etc from the precedin geds. Then in 1729 Maneville published Fable of the Bees Part II. These six dialogue were quickly reprinted. This is Vol ii of this set and completes Mandevilles authorized text. This set is the final definitive edition of Mandevilles unfolding editions of the Fable vol 1, Tonson; vol 2.Roberts hardcover
1729rif. 1016H31London: J. Tonson; J. Roberts 1729-1732. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A uniformly bound two-volume set of Mandeville"s controversial "Fable of the Bees" pairing the sixth edition with the first edition of Part II a provocative defence of private vice as a source of public prosperity. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf sympathetically rebacked with later calf. A complete two-volume set of Mandeville"s controversial masterpiece bringing together the sixth edition of the original work with first edition of the separately published second part. Volume I: ESTC No. N8073. Volume II: ESTC No. T78343. Mandeville"s notorious social and economic satire positing that self-interest and vice may unintentionally generate public prosperity. Mandeville"s notorious work opens with the satirical poem "The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves Turn"d Honest" in which a prosperous hive collapses after its inhabitants are made virtuous. The volume also includes "An Inquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue" "An Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools" and "A Search into the Nature of Society." Part II continues the argument in a series of six dialogues between Horatio and Cleomenes answering critics of the first part and further developing Mandeville"s views. Bernard Mandeville 1670-1733 was a Dutch-born physician philosopher and satirist who settled in England. The Fable of the Bees was condemned by moralists and presented by a grand jury as a public nuisance. This work became widely regarded as one of the 18th century"s most provocative attacks on moral idealism. Uniformly bound in contemporary full calf sympathetically rebacked with later calf. Externally smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth. Slight discolouration to perimeters of calf boards. Slight rubbing to boards with the odd mark. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. Slight discolouration from binder's glue to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Small 1 inch closed tear to fore edge of R8 not affecting the text. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot; light scattered spotting to first and last few leaves. One or two light marks to fore edge. Slight cockling to leaves. Very Good J. Tonson; J. Roberts hardcover
1537rif. 5104Venice: per Aluise Torti 1537. A rare Italian edition of John Mandeville's "Travels". The first Italian edition appeared in 1480 at Milan. Hardcover. Fine. An unsophisticated copy bound in its original carta rustica binding soiled surface wear small losses at head of spine and small defect at foot. Contents shaken title soiled mild damp-staining and soiling to the text very slim worm-trail in lower margin of some gatherings just entering the text in a few places. Title page with woodcut border. Small stains on lsv. 2-4 and B8. A wildly successful collection of medieval travelers' tales to the Holy Land China India and other exotic lands both real Ethiopia and imagined the land of the Amazons embellished with accounts of strange peoples and fantastic animals all narrated by a certain John Mandeville based so he claims on his own experiences and offered as a guide for would-be travelers. "The actual author of the tales remains as uncertain as the existence of the English knight Sir John Mandeville himself. The book originated in French about 1356-57 and was soon translated into many languages an English version appearing about 1375. The narrator Mandeville identifies himself as a knight of St. Albans. Incapacitated by arthritic gout he has undertaken to stave off boredom by writing of his travels which began on Michaelmas Day September 29 1322 and from which he returned in 1356."EB "The book was a contemporary bestseller providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks Muslims and Brahmins. The book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred and fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. One scholar even insists that "few literate men in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries could have avoided coming across the Travels at some time." Among others Chaucer borrowed from it; Christopher Columbus apparently consulted the work as did Sir Walter Ralegh. "The sources that lie behind the work are so many and varied that a better alternative title for the work than 'Mandeville's Travels' might have been 'Mandeville's Library'. The two most important works behind the book were written in the 1330s by authentic clerical travelers. The primary source for the first part of the Book travel to and around Jerusalem is the Liber de Quibusdam Ultramarinis Partibus a.k.a. the Itinerarius by the German Dominican William of Boldensele whereas that for the second part travel farther east is Friar Odoric of Pordenone's Itinerarius which tells of the Franciscan's missionary experiences in China and India. Portions of many other works also apparently known to the Mandeville-author primarily in French translation were also used to make up the Book: these include some of the most learned and influential reference works of the Middle Ages such as Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum Historiale and Speculum Naturale and Brunetto Latini's Li Livres dou Tresors as well as older authorities such as Macrobius and Isidore of Seville. Scholars have also identified material taken from other travel books and from writings as varied as saints' lives Jacobus of Voragine's Legenda Aurea historical romances those about Alexander and at least one scientific work John of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. The author's skill as a compiler is revealed in the deftness with which he melds these various sources into a convincing whole principally by means of the voice and personality of his narrator: the alert energetic and always eager to instruct Sir John Mandeville. "The Book begins with a preface that seems to present the work as a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem a well-known medieval genre. Sir John announces that in addition to the Holy Land he has journeyed to stranger non-biblical lands including Ethiopia and India and promises to tell of "many diverse folk of manners and diverse laws and shapes". The Book proper opens with a description of Constantinople and the routes by which to go there. Dramatic contrasts in subject matter such as the description of St. John the Evangelist's tomb at Ephesus followed by a story of a woman changed into a dragon who can return to human shape only with a knight's kiss enliven the Book. "Sir John then gives various routes to Jerusalem and outlines the sights along their ways. After a large section about Egypt the works tells about the Holy Land itself. Important surrounding sites are recorded such as Bethlehem but it is Jerusalem that is described in most detail especially those places associated with major Jewish figures such as David and with the life and death of Christ. At times the account reads very much like a guide for travelers: we are told of the spatial relationship of one building to another and specific points of their individual architecture. Sir John emphasizes that Jerusalem is now controlled by Muslims and he records a long conversation that he had with their Sultan who details the many moral failings of contemporary Christians that have caused God to deprive them of the Holy Land. "Although Jerusalem may be at the center of the world and the ultimate aim of religious pilgrims it cannot hold such an insatiable traveler as Sir John. He is soon away to more remote and exotic climes and cultures. After passing through Armenia he continues further east through the land of Job the country of the Amazons and Ethiopia some of whose people have only one foot which in addition to propelling them quickly serves to shade their bodies from the sun. Sir John eventually reaches the lands around India with their various and exotic religions - some worship snakes lines 1586-87 and others allow themselves to be crushed under the wheels of a chariot bearing their idol lines 1655-59. After a discussion of the roundness of the world lines 1687-1778 and mention of additional marvels such as men and women with heads like dogs lines 1854-68 or others with both male and female genitals lines 1892-95 Sir John arrives in China and describes the almost unimaginable wealth luxury and pomp at the court of the Great Khan with a full account of the realm's particular laws and customs lines 1968-2017 2100 ff. As he continues on Sir John encounters additional strange beings and practices and after a warning about the dangers that Jews will pose at the time of the Antichrist lines 2366-82 he describes Prester John an emperor and a priest who though allied with the Khan is a Christian but not a Catholic lines 2392 ff. Near the end of his Book Sir John describes a kind of ideal society: that of the Brahmins and Synoplians who even though they lack Christian revelation follow its essential precepts by natural law and whose faith simple life and love and charity toward one another make them beloved of God lines 2573-2637. After observing gold-digging ants in Ceylon passing by but not being able to visit the Earthly Paradise lines 2681-2706 and describing the Tibetan practice by which a son honors his dead father by offering his body to birds and the flesh of his head to special friends lines 2763-83 Sir John having circumnavigated the earth returns home to England to rest in his old age. "Debate about the identity of the author also continues. Some popular English opinion still holds out for Sir John Mandeville - there is a plaque in his honor in St. Albans Cathedral and a Fleet Street veteran has recently taken up his cause - but scholars have also suggested other candidates including Jean d'Outremeuse a notary of Liège and Brother Jean de Long of the Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Bertin. It seems unlikely that we shall ever be certain about the authorship of the Book. Indeed applying the term author to this work is imprecise and somewhat misleading. Obviously someone first assembled the materials we know as The Book of John Mandeville but as has been noted he borrowed rather than created most of those contents. Rather than a wholly original author Mandeville is best considered a compiler one who collects and rearranges the writings of others into a new form. Just as whoever first put together the Book combined and rewrote previous texts the work he produced proved equally malleable for it was itself in turn adapted abridged and supplemented by later redactors in a variety of ways including but not limited to the kinds of alterations to the narrative voice we have already discussed. What we call the Book resists precise definition because it differs from version to version as well as from text to text within a particular version. The Book of John Mandeville refers less to a single stable entity than to what Iain Higgins in the most illuminating current study of the work has called a "multi-text." The original composition of the Book did not fix the work because it was so quickly and variously transformed by those who received it." Kohanski and Benson The Book of John Mandeville: Introduction 2007. per Aluise Torti hardcover
1696rif. H2NF22FJOYPMLondon: Richard Chiswell Benjamin Walford Matthew Wotton George Conyers printing probably shared by 2 printers one possibly Samuel Roycroft 1696. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London ca. 1875/80 with 5 false bands on the spine each board with a double frame of double and triple fillets and 2 different sets of 4 corner pieces author and title in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments the others with gold-tooled decorations and the date and place of publication at the foot gold-tooled turn-ins gold fillets on board edges straight-combed endpapers gilt edges stamped on the back of the free marbled endleaf in sans-serif capitals: "Bound by Riviere". 4to 19.5 x 15.5 cm. With a woodcut ship on the title-page with a griffin on the sail and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm plus about 10 repeats each with a thick-thin border. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. A rare 17th-century English edition with about 60 different woodcut illustrations of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey Egypt Ethiopia Syria Persia Arabia India and the East Indies. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse 1338-1400 of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands: a man with only one enormous foot that he can use as a parasol a dog-headed man a man with his face in his chest a girl who turns into a dragon griffins nine-meter giants ants that gather gold diamonds that mate and give birth to baby diamonds and much more that spoke to the imagination. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East Middle East India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed.With early owner's inscription and bookplates along with a loosely inserted signed autograph letter ca. 1900. 8 leaves with their margins extended at the fore-edge and foot the title-page and last page somewhat worn and dirty but further in good condition with a few minor fedects. The spine is slightly faded but the binding is still very good.l Arber Term catalogues II p. 593 item 8; ESTC R217088 5 copies; J.O. Halliwell ed. Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile 1866 p. xvi item 2 from the Grenville library; Wing M417 same 5 copies; cf. for the story in general: Cambridge history of English literature 1976 pp. 78-87. Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, [printing probably shared by 2 printers, one possibly Samuel unknown
