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1611réf. 21770Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius 1611. Contemporary limp vellum sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints with the manuscript title and author on the spine. Folio. With an engraved title 7 engraved maps and plates 5 folding 2 double-page and 50 engraved maps and views in the text. First edition of the first objective description of Amsterdam and its history with extensive accounts of Dutch East India Company's VOC maritime trade exploration and navigation. It contains the report of Willem Barentsz' voyages to the Arctic region in search of a North-East passage to Asia 1594-1597 the accounts of the two first Dutch voyages to the East Indies including the voyage of Cornelis de Houtman 1595-1597 and the account of the Dutch exploration of Greenland 1594-1596. The work is also important as an Americanum as it gives the results of Henry Hudsons first two voyages to the Arctic 1607-1608 for the Muscovy Company of London. These reports are beautifully illustrated by large maps and views including a famous map of the North Pole region.Johannes Isaac Pontanus 1571-1639 was a physician and historian who was a professor at the University of Harderwijk for most of his life. He wrote several important historical works such as the history of Denmark of the Duchy of Gelre and of Amsterdam. His work on Amsterdam far exceeds the limits of the usual town descriptions elaborately incorporating the history of the voyages of exploration and commerce undertaken by the enterprising citizens of Amsterdam. Pontanus also describes in detail the activities on the Amsterdam stock and commodity markets which were among the earliest of the world and at the time the most important. The extent of the citys trading activities by this time is shown by illustrations of scenes from Indonesia and India to the Arctic.The binding is somewhat stained and soiled with a restoration at the foot of the spine and along the fore and foot edge of the back board. The work is lightly browned and foxed throughout a faint water stain in the margin of the last 11 leaves. Otherwise in good condition.l Alden & Landis II 611/91; V. Gestel-Van het Schip Maps in books of Russia and Poland 218; JCB II p. 78; JFB p. 369; Nijhoff & V. Hattum 252; Sabin 64002; STCN 850336392 19 copies; Tiele Bibl. 876. Jodocus Hondius, hardcover
1756réf. 46122London.: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton . &c. 1756. Contemporary mottled calf. 2 vols. Folio. 412 x 258 mm. Engraved frontispiece printed title in red and black with engraved vignette preface list of plates contents and Ware's text in ten books illustrated with 114 engraved plates 14 folding with irregular numbering in first state with the numbers within the platemark and plate 70 / 71 titled 'Warwick Shire' final eaves with index. PROVENANCE: Ownership signature of John Ingilby to title likely Sir John Ingilby 1705 - 1772 or his illegitimate son also SIr John Ingilby 1758 - 1815; ownership signature of W. B. Colthunt and date '27 Oct. 1919' to front free endpaper. The first edition of Isaac Ware's practical and comprehensive manual of architecture.Isaac Ware 1704 - 1766 the associate of Lord Burlington member of the St. Martin's Lane Academy and member of the 'Board of Works' was already associated with a number of important architecture books 'The Designs of Inigo Jones . &c.' of 1731 the 'Plans . of Houghton' of 1735 'The Four Books of Architecture of Andrea Palladio' of 1738 and the translation of Sirigatti of 1756 before he issued this his massive magnum opus. A follower but not a slavish one of Palladio and Vitruvius Ware offers the two as the pinnacles and authorities for all of architecture but cautions against blind acceptance. Of major importance to English Palladianism Ware's Georgian legacy is also relevant and his 'Complete Body' was of such interest to his contemporaries that a second edition was published a short time after his death in 1766.'Like Vitruvius and Alberti before him Ware arranged his treatise in ten books. Having defined the most commonly used architectural terms he devotes the rest of book one to a discussion of materials. Book two is divided into five sections: the first on location; the second on the functional parts of a building and the third fourth and fifth on the orders. Book three begins the practical advice on house construction. Books four five and six deal with doors windows and interior ornament book seven with exterior ornament and garden buildings book eight with bridges. Book nine consists of an interesting return to what Ware calls 'the construction of elevations upon the true principles of architecture' . It is in the nature of an appendix to the whole and allows Ware to write cuttingly of modern practices. Book ten is a brief introduction to mathematics and mensuration . '. Millard.'There was a copy of either the 1756 or 1767 edition in Jefferson's private library at the time of his death . The copy Jefferson ordered for the University in the section on 'Architecture' of the want list can be identified as either of these two editions from the title but there is no record of the library's ever having received it.' Jefferson's Fine Arts Library pg. 374.Park 84; Fowler 436; Millard 87; Jefferson's Fine Arts Library 126a. Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton ... &c. unknown
1771réf. 53117Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1771. First Edition. Very Good. Octavo. xvi 128 8: "Etat des Finances en Angleterre" 129-384 2: errata; blankpp. Woodcut ornaments; 4 half-titles. Collation: 8 A-H8 H4 I-Z8 Aa8 chi1 = 205 leaves. Contemporary marbled calf lightly rubbed at extremities gilt-tooled spine with raised bands gilt morocco lettering piece; edges stained red; marbled endleaves. Small patch of marginal damp staining to bottom corner of first 15 and final 10 leaves; signature Aa mildly embrowned else text crisp and clean throughout. Overall a very good copy. Rare complete first edition of "one of the great documents in the history of political economy" EJ. In addition to the brief discursus on English finances inserted between the second and third parts of the main treatise our copy includes the usually missing supplement pp. 369-384 "Addition au Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit. Mémoire pour la suppression du Belasting" along with the concluding errata leaf. The present Treatise is a refutation of the physiocrats who had advocated a primarily agricultural economy. Arguing against Hume de Pinto seeks to defend the economically productive role of the national debt which he sees exemplified in the current British system. While Marx notoriously described de Pinto as "the Pindar of the Amsterdam stock exchange" for his advocacy of speculation Werner Sombart regarded him as the "beginner of the modern age of economics and the first to understand the growth of credit" EJ. De Pinto's other works include Essai sur le luxe and Du jeu de cartes both reprinted in the present work and the later Precis de arguments contre les matérialistes The Hague 1774. The main treatise is divided into four parts followed by six brief works: 1. Lettre sur la jalousie du commerce Letter on the Jealousy of Commerce; 2. Tableau ou Exposé de ce qu'on appelle le Commerce ou plutôt le Jeu d'Actions en Hollande A Presentation of What is Called Commerce or the Game of Actions in Holland; 3. Methode dont on se sert en Hollande pour faire la perceptions des taxes & des impôts sur les biens fonds; & comment on en verse le provenu dans la Caisse de l'Etat The Method Used in Holland to Collect Duties and Real Estate Taxes and How the Proceeds Are Payed into the State Treasury; 4. Essai sur le luxe An Essay on Luxury first printed at Amsterdam 1762; 5. Lettre de l'autheur à Mr. D. sur le jeu des cartes The Author's Letter to Mr. Diderot on Card Playing first printed at London 1768; 6. Mémoire pour la suppression du Belasting ou Impôt sur les Actions de Compagnie des Indes Orientales A Memorandum for the Suppression of the "Belasting" or Tax on the East India Company Shares. The final opuscule which appears in relatively few copies of the Traité is published here for the first time. Isaac de Pinto 1717-1787 was the scion of a wealthy Sephardic family which traced their origins back to Portugal and had emigrated to the Dutch Republic. "He had a broad education and had mastered many languages in which he corresponded with famous philosophers and maintained contact with the European elite of his day including the court of the Dutch stadholder. In 1748 he helped to finance Stadholder William IV's war against France" Bernfeld & Wallet. "For his services in arranging favorable terms for English trade in India at the Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years' War 1756-63 Pinto was lavishly rewarded by the East India Company a few years later 1767" EJ. His correspondents included David Hume and Denis Diderot. De Pinto made a name for himself when he responded to Voltaire's mocking article on the Jews which appeared in the latter's Dictionnaire Philosophique with his Apologie pour la nation juive Amsterdam 1762. Presenting himself as a proud Portuguese he argued that "Voltaire had neglected to draw a distinction between the often wealthy Sephardim with their refined manners and the Ashkenazim whom he regarded as far poorer and sometimes unprincipled as a result of persecution and economic misery" Bernfeld & Wallet. Barbier 4: 752; T. L. Bernfeld & B. Wallet Jews in the Netherlands: A Short History Amsterdam Univ. Press 2023 p. 89; Enc. Jud. 13: 553-554; Goldsmiths' 10792; Kress 6812. Full title and Imprint: Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit. Contenant une Analyse raisonnée des Fonds d'Angleterre & de ce qu'on appelle Commerce ou Jeu d'Actions ; un Examen critique de plusieurs Traités sur les Impôts les Finances l'Agriculture la Population le Commerce &c. précédé de l'Extrait d'un Ouvrage intitulé Bilan général & raisonné de l'Angleterre depuis 1600 jusqu'en 1761 ; & Suivi d'une Lettre sur la Jalousie du Commerce où l'on prouve que l'intérêt des Puissances commerçantes ne se croise point &c. avec un Tableau de ce qu'on appelle Commerce ou plutôt Jeu d'Actions en Hollande. Par l'auteur de l'Essai sur le Luxe & de la Lettre sur le Jeu des Cartes qu'on a ajoutés à la fin. A Amsterdam chez Marc Michel Rey. MDCCLXXI. Marc Michel Rey unknown
1771réf. 53117Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey 1771. First Edition. Very Good. Octavo. xvi 128 8: "Etat des Finances en Angleterre" 129-384 2: errata; blankpp. Woodcut ornaments; 4 half-titles. Collation: 8 A-H8 H4 I-Z8 Aa8 chi1 = 205 leaves. Contemporary marbled calf lightly rubbed at extremities gilt-tooled spine with raised bands gilt morocco lettering piece; edges stained red; marbled endleaves. Small patch of marginal damp staining to bottom corner of first 15 and final 10 leaves; signature Aa mildly embrowned else text crisp and clean throughout. Overall a very good copy. Rare complete first edition of "one of the great documents in the history of political economy" EJ. In addition to the brief discursus on English finances inserted between the second and third parts of the main treatise our copy includes the usually missing supplement pp. 369-384 "Addition au Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit. Mémoire pour la suppression du Belasting" along with the concluding errata leaf. The present Treatise is a refutation of the physiocrats who had advocated a primarily agricultural economy. Arguing against Hume de Pinto seeks to defend the economically productive role of the national debt which he sees exemplified in the current British system. While Marx notoriously described de Pinto as "the Pindar of the Amsterdam stock exchange" for his advocacy of speculation Werner Sombart regarded him as the "beginner of the modern age of economics and the first to understand the growth of credit" EJ. De Pinto's other works include Essai sur le luxe and Du jeu de cartes both reprinted in the present work and the later Precis de arguments contre les matérialistes The Hague 1774. The main treatise is divided into four parts followed by six brief works: 1. Lettre sur la jalousie du commerce Letter on the Jealousy of Commerce; 2. Tableau ou Exposé de ce qu'on appelle le Commerce ou plutôt le Jeu d'Actions en Hollande A Presentation of What is Called Commerce or the Game of Actions in Holland; 3. Methode dont on se sert en Hollande pour faire la perceptions des taxes & des impôts sur les biens fonds; & comment on en verse le provenu dans la Caisse de l'Etat The Method Used in Holland to Collect Duties and Real Estate Taxes and How the Proceeds Are Payed into the State Treasury; 4. Essai sur le luxe An Essay on Luxury first printed at Amsterdam 1762; 5. Lettre de l'autheur à Mr. D. sur le jeu des cartes The Author's Letter to Mr. Diderot on Card Playing first printed at London 1768; 6. Mémoire pour la suppression du Belasting ou Impôt sur les Actions de Compagnie des Indes Orientales A Memorandum for the Suppression of the "Belasting" or Tax on the East India Company Shares. The final opuscule which appears in relatively few copies of the Traité is published here for the first time. Isaac de Pinto 1717-1787 was the scion of a wealthy Sephardic family which traced their origins back to Portugal and had emigrated to the Dutch Republic. "He had a broad education and had mastered many languages in which he corresponded with famous philosophers and maintained contact with the European elite of his day including the court of the Dutch stadholder. In 1748 he helped to finance Stadholder William IV's war against France" Bernfeld & Wallet. "For his services in arranging favorable terms for English trade in India at the Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years' War 1756-63 Pinto was lavishly rewarded by the East India Company a few years later 1767" EJ. His correspondents included David Hume and Denis Diderot. De Pinto made a name for himself when he responded to Voltaire's mocking article on the Jews which appeared in the latter's Dictionnaire Philosophique with his Apologie pour la nation juive Amsterdam 1762. Presenting himself as a proud Portuguese he argued that "Voltaire had neglected to draw a distinction between the often wealthy Sephardim with their refined manners and the Ashkenazim whom he regarded as far poorer and sometimes unprincipled as a result of persecution and economic misery" Bernfeld & Wallet. Barbier 4: 752; T. L. Bernfeld & B. Wallet Jews in the Netherlands: A Short History Amsterdam Univ. Press 2023 p. 89; Enc. Jud. 13: 553-554; Goldsmiths' 10792; Kress 6812. Full title and Imprint: Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit. Contenant une Analyse raisonnée des Fonds d'Angleterre & de ce qu'on appelle Commerce ou Jeu d'Actions ; un Examen critique de plusieurs Traités sur les Impôts les Finances l'Agriculture la Population le Commerce &c. précédé de l'Extrait d'un Ouvrage intitulé Bilan général & raisonné de l'Angleterre depuis 1600 jusqu'en 1761 ; & Suivi d'une Lettre sur la Jalousie du Commerce où l'on prouve que l'intérêt des Puissances commerçantes ne se croise point &c. avec un Tableau de ce qu'on appelle Commerce ou plutôt Jeu d'Actions en Hollande. Par l'auteur de l'Essai sur le Luxe & de la Lettre sur le Jeu des Cartes qu'on a ajoutés à la fin. A Amsterdam chez Marc Michel Rey. MDCCLXXI. Marc Michel Rey unknown books
1820réf. ST12078London: R. Ackermann 1820. First Edition in English First Issue. ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 422 x 324 mm. 16 5/8 x 12 3/4". sheets 407 x 318 mm. 16 x 12 1/2". xiv ii 178 pp.Translated from the German by John Black. Excellent contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards by Charles Hering stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper newly rebacked and recornered to style by Courtland Benson wide raised bands and panels attractively gilt in scrolling designs gilt titling all edges gilt. 24 HAND-COLORED PLATES OF THE RHINE plus one folding map taken from the drawings of Christian Georg Schütz and engraved by Sutherland Havell and Bartlett. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of "R G V"; front free endpaper with evidence of bookplate removal. Abbey "Travel" I 217; Tooley 234. ◆Offsetting onto tissue guards indicating that they have done their job one tissue guard missing but no offsetting onto text in this case isolated trivial thumbing foxing or rust spots but A FINE AND ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE COPY the beautifully restored binding unworn the text and plates with only the most minor imperfections and the margins of this special copy remarkably broad. This is one of Ackermann's major color plate books and apparently the first in his "Picturesque Tours" series others of which explore the Seine the Ganges and the Thames. The book describes a trip down the Rhine on that part of the river generally considered most romantic and charming. The account contains not only topographical descriptions but considerable historical information and details of popular traditions. The tone is frankly advocative the book being written "with a view chiefly to the information of travellers of cultivated minds who may be induced to visit this interesting portion of Germany." The main appeal of the book for us today of course resides in its spacious and richly colored plates. The irresistibly scenic views seem to justify the book's claim that the region depicted is "a portion of heaven fallen down to earth." Our plates are early impressions and as in other contexts size matters here: the sheets in our volume are 407 mm. tall appreciably larger than most of the copies seen in auction records which measure on average approximately 330 mm. Abbey's untrimmed copy measured 425 mm. and a Large Paper Copy sold at Sotheby's in 2007 had sheets 402 mm. tall. As the limitation would indicate copies on Large Paper are very uncommonly seen and our copy is beautiful with especially well-preserved text and plates and an exceedingly handsome replica spine. R. Ackermann unknown
1820réf. ST12078London: R. Ackermann 1820. First Edition in English First Issue. ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES. 422 x 324 mm. 16 5/8 x 12 3/4". sheets 407 x 318 mm. 16 x 12 1/2". xiv ii 178 pp.Translated from the German by John Black. Excellent contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards by Charles Hering stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper newly rebacked and recornered to style by Courtland Benson wide raised bands and panels attractively gilt in scrolling designs gilt titling all edges gilt. 24 HAND-COLORED PLATES OF THE RHINE plus one folding map taken from the drawings of Christian Georg Schütz and engraved by Sutherland Havell and Bartlett. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of "R G V"; front free endpaper with evidence of bookplate removal. Abbey "Travel" I 217; Tooley 234. ◆Offsetting onto tissue guards indicating that they have done their job one tissue guard missing but no offsetting onto text in this case isolated trivial thumbing foxing or rust spots but A FINE AND ESPECIALLY DESIRABLE COPY the beautifully restored binding unworn the text and plates with only the most minor imperfections and the margins of this special copy remarkably broad. This is one of Ackermann's major color plate books and apparently the first in his "Picturesque Tours" series others of which explore the Seine the Ganges and the Thames. The book describes a trip down the Rhine on that part of the river generally considered most romantic and charming. The account contains not only topographical descriptions but considerable historical information and details of popular traditions. The tone is frankly advocative the book being written "with a view chiefly to the information of travellers of cultivated minds who may be induced to visit this interesting portion of Germany." The main appeal of the book for us today of course resides in its spacious and richly colored plates. The irresistibly scenic views seem to justify the book's claim that the region depicted is "a portion of heaven fallen down to earth." Our plates are early impressions and as in other contexts size matters here: the sheets in our volume are 407 mm. tall appreciably larger than most of the copies seen in auction records which measure on average approximately 330 mm. Abbey's untrimmed copy measured 425 mm. and a Large Paper Copy sold at Sotheby's in 2007 had sheets 402 mm. tall. As the limitation would indicate copies on Large Paper are very uncommonly seen and our copy is beautiful with especially well-preserved text and plates and an exceedingly handsome replica spine. R. Ackermann unknown books
réf. 007Head and tail of spine bumped crease on mid spine cover edges show some wear and bumping. Pages generally white with tight square binding. Dust jacket has some edge wear corner creasing. Mid spine wrinkled with front edge rubbed. Gnome Press hardcover
1733réf. 1095London: J. Darby and T. Browne 1733. First Edition. Fine Leather Binding. Near Fine. NEWTON Sir Isaac. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. In Two Parts. London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne and sold by J. Roberts J. Tonson W. Innys and R. Manby J. Osborn and T. Longman et al. 1733. First Edition. Quarto. 10.5"x8.5" The first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's monumental theological and prophetic study published posthumously six years after his death by his nephew and literary executor Benjamin Smith. Newton devoted decades to the meticulous study of biblical prophecy chronology and church history viewing these texts not merely as allegories but as precise historical frameworks governed by identifiable rules. In this work Newton applies the same rigorous analytical and chronological methodology that defined his scientific achievements Principia and Opticks to the biblical books of Daniel and Revelation the Apocalypse. He interprets prophetic language as a symbolic code representing the rise and fall of empires kingdoms and ecclesiastical powers famously attempting to calculate the timeline of biblical prophecy and future world events. Rebound in full crushed black morocco/leather. Spine with five raised bands outlined in gilt rules lettered in gilt in two compartments "The Apocalypse" and "Newton". Pagination & Contents: Complete in two parts: Part I: Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel. Part II: Observations upon the Apocalypse of St. John. Imprint: London Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne 1733 M.DCC.XXXIII. Condition: Internally bright clean and crisp with only a few faint spots of foxing ample margins. The binding is sound tight and in fine condition. Observations upon the Prophecies remains Newton's most important published religious text. It offers an indispensable window into the mind of one of history's greatest scientific geniuses illustrating how deeply interwoven theology ancient history and natural philosophy were in his intellectual worldview. J. Darby and T. Browne unknown
1729réf. 6375London: William Innys for the Royal Society 1729. First edition. First edition in the original Latin of Newton's Cambridge lectures on optics-his earliest systematic exposition of the mathematical theory of light and colour delivered as Lucasian Professor and published here for the first time from his manuscripts. These lectures form the foundation of Newton's later Opticks 1704 but include substantial mathematical content omitted from that more accessible English version. Notably they contain Newton's formulation of the compound nature of white light a cornerstone of modern optical theory. . EDITIO PRINCEPS OF NEWTON'S CAMBRIDGE LECTURES ON OPTICS . First edition of the complete text in the original Latin of Newton's inaugural lectures as the second Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge and the first publication of his lectures on his new mathematical science of colour including his discovery of the compound nature of white light. It was from this material that Newton composed his Opticks of 1704 although in the Opticks he left out the specifically mathematical parts of the lectures which are included here. Newton "was obliged by the statutes of the post to lecture and to deposit the lectures in the University Library. For the period 1670-72 Newton lectured on optics and deposited the lectures in the ULC in October 1674. At one time Newton seemed to be contemplating publishing the lectures together with the mathematical work De methodis but by May 1672 he had decided otherwise and wrote to Collins: 'I have now determined otherwise of them; finding already by the little use I have made of the Presse that I shall not enjoy my former serene liberty till I have done with it' Correspondence I p 161. Consequently . the lectures remained unpublished until after his death as did the De methodis" Gjertsen pp. 409-410. Following Newton's death in March 1727 his followers decided to publish the lectures both in the original Latin and in English. In fact only Part I on the mathematical theory of reflection and refraction was translated and published in English in 1728; part II on colours was omitted. The present Latin edition which includes both parts is thus the editio princeps of the complete series of Newton's lectures including the first publication of his lectures on colours. Based on a copy belonging to David Gregory it was discovered during the printing that there were discrepancies between Gregory's copy and the copy deposited by Newton in the ULC which necessitated the inclusion of a five-page 'Addenda and Corrigenda'. "Today we can appreciate the Lectiones as an invaluable document of Newton's investigations of optics that reveals his ideas in the midst of his most productive period of research. In the inevitable comparison with the Opticks 1704 which recounts research for the most part carried out twenty to thirty years earlier and since refined - sometimes overrefined - the lectures must be judged neither as carefully developed nor as polished. But whatever polish it may lack is more than compensated for by its vitality as Newton boldly attempts in the following pages to create a new mathematical science of color" Shapiro p. 25. Since the Lectiones "was his first and most comprehensive account of his theory of color he naturally drew upon it in his later writings. It served as the immediate source for his 'New theory of light and colors' 1672 in the Philosophical Transactions his first public statement of his theory outside the Cambridge lecture halls. And twenty years later it remained the foundation for the 'definitive' statement of his theory in Book I of the Opticks" ibid. p. 1. This was the only separate edition of Newton's complete lectures: the text was published six more times in the eighteenth century in various collections of Newton's works. Provenance: 'Ex-libris Dutour' on front free endpaper followed by a price; some marginal notes in Latin. "Upon his appointment as Isaac Barrow's successor to the Lucasian chair in the late autumn of 1669 Newton was confronted with developing a series of lectures to begin the following January. In a natural extension to Barrow's prior series of optical lectures published as Lectiones XVIII 1669 he took the opportunity to make the first formal presentation of his new mathematical science of color. The Lucasian Professor was required to give one lecture for about one hour each week during the term and to submit annually not fewer than ten of those lectures to the Vice-Chancellor for deposit in the University Library for public use. Newton complied with this regulation somewhat tardily in October 1674 when he delivered to the Vice-Chancellor his Optica divided into two parts with a total of thirty-one lectures. According to the marginal annotations the first lecture of Part I was delivered in January 1670 at the beginning of Lent term and Lecture 9 of Part I and Lectures 4 and 14 of Part II opened the Michaelmas terms beginning in October of 1670 1671 and 1672" Shapiro p. 16. As noted above by the winter of 1671-2 Newton had decided to publish the Optica together with his mathematical treatise De methodis serierum et fluxionum the latter was not actually published until 1736. However following the publication of his 'New theory of light and colours' in the Philosophical Transactions a few months later Newton changed his mind: his 'New theory' had resulted in controversy which he was loathe to encourage by further publications. "In September 1672 Newton had decided to recast his theory in a more formal structure 'in imitation of the Method by wch Mathematicians are wont to prove their doctrines.' The next year in outlining his restructured theory for Christiaan Huygens he recognized that it needed a more rigorous proof . Instead Newton was planning a work very much like the later Opticks . In this newly projected work the sections of the Optica on color were to be extensively rewritten and its mathematical part omitted. There is no evidence that Newton wrote such a discourse during this period but when in the early 1690s he eventually composed the Opticks he in essence followed the plan he had proposed in the mid-1670s . When after still another postponement the Opticks was finally published in 1704 Newton felt it necessary to warn that 'If any other Papers writ on this Subject are got out of my Hands they are imperfect and were perhaps written before I had tried all the Experiments here set down and fully satisfied my self about the Laws of Refractions and Composition of Colours I have here Published what I think proper to come abroad.' He is here inter alia surely referring to his Optica deposited thirty years earlier in the Cambridge University Library . During his lifetime Newton's disavowal was respected by eager members of the Newtonian circle but an English translation of Part I appeared in 1728 the year after his death followed in the next year by the editio princeps of the complete Latin text of the Optica . The editor of the Latin edition emphasized the significance of the geometrical demonstrations and philosophical arguments in Part I because in the Opticks Newton 'seems to have been as careful as possible not to mix geometrical demonstrations with philosophical arguments and when it was necessary to set forth a mathematical proposition its demonstration scarcely ever occurs' . He also perceptively recognized that with respect to color 'many things are found in each with the same meaning but are explained in a different manner'" ibid. pp. 21-23. "After briefly paying tribute to Barrow and deriding efforts to improve refracting telescopes by the use of nonspherical lenses Newton devotes the first two lectures of Part I to laying the foundations for the whole of the Lectures: a demonstration that direct sunlight consists of rays that differ in their degree of refrangibility. Virtually the entire burden of his demonstration is borne by an analysis of the elongated spectrum formed by passing a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism. Newton's major insight and the key to his demonstration was to recognize that when a prism is placed symmetrically with respect to the incident and emergent beams or at minimum deviation the sun's image would be circular rather than elongated if all rays were refracted equally. An exact solution for the shape of the sun's image with monochromatic rays is exceedingly difficult involving a finite source and aperture and rays incident out of the principal plane; but he is able to demonstrate that under particular conditions such as with a point aperture the image is nearly circular. This was sufficient for his purpose for he had found the spectrum's length to be five times its breadth thus making small deviations from the assumed condition inconsequential. "Newton begins Lecture 2 by describing the shape of the spectrum to be an oblong bounded by straight edges and semicircular ends and he argues formed by innumerable overlapping circular images of the sun each consisting of rays of a different refrangibility . The thrust of the remainder of the lecture describes how to decrease the effective size of the source and thus the circular images and to approach the ideal spectrum - a straight line with no breadth - formed by a point source. By this mode of demonstration culminating in the observation of Venus's spectrum he makes the actually observed shape of the sun's spectrum inessential to his proof that its elongation is caused by unequal refrangibility ibid. pp. 26-27. "Newton begins his 'dissertation on the measure of refractions' which constitutes the next three lectures with an explanation of Descartes's sine law of refraction which he extends - without experimental demonstration - to rays of each color . Next in two lemmas he derives the equations for his preferred method to measure the index of refraction that of minimum deviation in prisms one of his most important contributions to quantitative experimental optics . Newton opens Lecture 10 by extending the method of minimum deviation to fluids with the use of a hollow prism with glass sides and he illustrates this method by a measurement of the mean index of refraction of water . He then advances to the next phase of his investigation of refraction: to determine the indices of refraction of the extreme rays or the chromatic dispersion . When the prism is placed at minimum deviation for the mean refrangible rays he measure the length of the spectrum and thereby determines the angular dispersion. He presents a simple measurement and calculation for the dispersion of glass . "Newton concludes his 'dissertation on the measures of refraction' in Lecture 11 by setting forth a dispersion law which serves as the foundation for the rest of the Lectures. He freely admits that it is a purely theoretical construct that he has not yet experimentally tested. Though he presents his dispersion law solely in mathematical terms without any mechanical interpretation it is evidently a modification of Descartes's projectile model for a single sort of ray extended to apply to polychromatic rays. It represents the very ideal of a rational optics for the indices of refraction of rays of every color in any medium can be determined with only a single measurement as Newton illustrates with water . "In Lectures 12 and 13 on refraction at a single plane surface Newton attempts to uncover the physical implications of the laws of refraction the sine law and his dispersion law by a thorough mathematical analysis. Since that dispersion law was so tenuously founded and is the starting point for much of his analysis these lectures are now as notable for their mathematical analyses as for their contributions to optics. "Lecture 12 is . devoted to the single problem in Proposition 3 of determining the position of a luminous point viewed obliquely across a plane reflecting surface. Newton's recognition here that there are two image points effectively begins the study of astigmatism . Lecture 13 . studies a natural extension of Proposition 3: to determine the shape of the extended image of a point source due to the varying index of refraction when the point is viewed across a plane surface. He elegantly demonstrates that the images of the point lie on a Dioclean cissoid . "In the next two pairs of Lectures 14 15 and 16 17 Newton continues his attempt to create a rational science of color by investigating the variation of angular dispersion as the index of refractions and hence the chromatic dispersion of the refracting media vary . The brief Lecture 18 treats refraction in prisms . "Section 4 on refraction at curved surfaces the conclusion of the mathematical part of the Optica is its highpoint an intimate blend of mathematics and physics consistently yielding novel interesting results . He effectively begins this section in Proposition 29 by determining the image point in a form equivalent to the Gaussian formula for paraxial rays incident upon a single spherical surface; and then in Proposition 30 he extends this result to any curved surface by substituting the center of curvature determined in Lemma 9 in the immediate neighborhood of the incident rays for the center of the spherical surface. In Proposition 31 Newton applies many of the newly wrought mathematical methods such as series expansions and the determination of extrema to find the longitudinal spherical aberration for rays incident on the plane face of a plano-convex lens and then the circle of least confusion. Because of its algebraic formulation this proposition is particularly accessible to the modern reader and provides a fine example of Newton's application of mathematics to physics. In the next proposition he elegantly derives the location of the primary image point or caustic locus for rays obliquely incident upon a spherical surface while also noting the existence and location of the secondary image point. Proposition 33 extends this result to any curved refracting surface. In Proposition 34 he presents his own solution to a problem posed and solved by Descartes: to find the aplanatic surface a Cartesian oval that refracts rays perfectly from a given point to a given point. Pursuing the Cartesian theme in Propositions 35 and 36 he derives the radii of the primary and secondary rainbows and then moving beyond all his contemporaries he generalizes his solution to bows of any order. And to conclude Newton in Proposition 37 calculates the chromatic aberration to show that it is much more enormous - some 1500 times greater - than spherical aberration and once again stresses the significance of his discovery of unequal refrangibility for practical optics" ibid. pp. 36-41. In Part II Newton begins the 'dissertation on colors' by reiterating his inaugural remarks on the defects of contemporary telescopes and the impediment presented by chromatic aberration and in prelude to his own theory he vigorously attacks both Aristotelian and more recent modification theories of colour. He then presents his theory in five propositions. The first proposition that to differently refrangible rays there correspond different colors had already been established in Part I. Its converse states that different colors are unequally refracted. "To demonstrate this he introduces his crossed-prism experiments where spectra cast on a second transverse prism become inclined to their original orientation because the blue end is always refracted more than the red. Initially he places the second prism transverse to the first one to minimize the unequal incidence arising from the refraction of the first prism; but by passing the refracted rays through two holes far apart so that they fall on the second prism at very nearly the same angle of incidence he eliminated the requirement for any particular orientation of the second prism and arrives at an experimental arrangement virtually identical to the experimentum crucis of the 'New theory' . "Proposition 2 on the immutability of monochromatic colors is established by first separating the spectral colors from one another and then demonstrating that the more completely they are separated the smaller are their changes after additional refractions. He first separates the colors with two parallel prisms and observes some color change because the adjacent colors are still intermingled but when he adds two more prisms he is unable to detect any further sensible change . "In Lectures 4-7 Newton carries out the first part of his demonstration of Proposition 3 that white light in particular sunlight is composed of rays of every color by showing five different ways to make white from a mixture of spectral colors: i colors from three prisms are cast onto a screen where they are mixed; ii one face of a prism is covered with an opaque paper with six slits each functioning as one of the prisms in the preceding experiment and then the colors from the various slits mix on a screen; iii light scattered from a screen on which a spectrum has been projected is received on a second screen where the scattered rays mix; iv the colors dispersed by a prism are transmitted through a lens and brought together at its focus; v in a variant of the preceding way a mirror is substituted for the lens. He also illustrates the compound nature of white by a mixture of colored powders and by a froth of soap bubbles . "Newton now applies himself to the second and more difficult part of his demonstration of Proposition 3 namely to show that the sun's direct light is compounded of colors even before they are apparent. He bases his demonstration on the phenomenon of total reflection for as he discovered the critical angle of reflection varies for each color. In the first and simplest experiment a beam of sunlight is partially reflected and partially refracted at the base of a prism. As the prism is rotated the colors are totally reflected in sequence and the reflected and transmitted beams change color until when the red rays are at last totally reflected and the transmitted beam vanishes the reflective beam is restored to white. Newton argues implicitly appealing to the emission theory of light that this reveals that the colors are in the rays as they arrive from the sun since they preserve and exhibit the same color whether they are reflected refracted. Furthermore this shows that reflected light is compound since white is restored when the last color red is totally reflected. To make this interpretation still more certain he introduces three variants of this basic experiment one of which is an exact analog of the experimentum crucis but with total reflection replacing the second refraction . Newton concludes the proof of Proposition 3 by briefly explaining why the sun's light is yellowish rather than white and then by showing that black is compounded from all colors grey from white and black and all other compound colors from the painter's primaries red yellow and blue. Despite the need for some restrictions and the brevity of its demonstration Proposition 4 that spectral colors can be compounded from their neighbouring colors is an important contribution to the theory of compound colors and displays Newton's keen experimental skill. "Newton now turns to his fifth and final proposition that natural bodies derive their color from the sort of rays they reflect most. By the principle of color immutability the color of a ray cannot be changed my reflection so that bodies can appear only the color of the rays illuminating them. To explain why all bodies are not therefore the same color in daylight as this principle alone would demand he adds that bodies reflect more of their own daylight color than others. After demonstrating this by illuminating various bodies with monochromatic light he moves beyond this phenomenological account and attributes two distinct powers to bodies: to reflect rays and to transmit them. These rays are complementary for the rays that are not reflected pass through the body and he illustrates this with the colors of such substances as gold leaf which reflects yellow light and transmits blue. Newton did recognize that most bodies are not of this sort but are the same color all around and to explain this he introduces a third power - and a new concept in optics - selective absorption . "In the concluding section of the Optica Newton considers the colors generated by refractions at curved surfaces namely lenses the eye and raindrops or the rainbow. He first describes the chromatic aberration of a plano-convex lens and gives a simple physical derivation and numerical estimate of its magnitude. Observing that the eye is a lens of sorts which should likewise suffer from chromatic aberration he presents a simple experimental demonstration of its existence. In the last article of Lecture 14 and in all of Lecture 15 Newton indulges in the sort of speculative or hypothetical natural philosophy that he frequently and vigorously decried yet could not always resist. Exhibiting a firm command of Cartesian natural philosophy he explains the cause of the colored circles or coronas that Descartes saw around a candle after he had pressed his eye shut for a long time. While Newton recognizes that an infinity of causes may be devised to explain these colored circles he ascribes them to refractions in wrinkles impressed on the cornea and invoking the principles of hydrostatics rejects Descartes's own suggestion that they are impressed on the crystalline lens. He concludes the Optica in Lecture 16 with a far more notable achievement an explanation of the dimensions and colors of the rainbow based on the mathematical results derived in Part I" ibid. pp. 28-36. Babson 155; Wallis 191; ESTC t18664. Gjertsen The Newton Handbook 1986. Shapiro ed. The Optical Papers of Isaac Newton Vol. 1 The Optical Lectures 1670-1672 1984. 4to 221 x 165 mm pp xii 144 145-152 153-291 5 Addenda and corrigenda with 24 folding engraved plates some spotting scattered foxing. Contemporary marbled sheep spine gilt in compartments red morocco spine label marbled endpapers red edges a little rubbed minor abrasion to upper board. William Innys for the Royal Society unknown
1752réf. 1862Spain 1752. 18th-century manuscript. Text in Spanish. 24 handwritten pages in ink in three different hands. Later binding of blank paper using old material. Tiny wormholes at the lower edge of the pages on the first 7 leaves not affecting the legibility. Occasional foxing ink ghosting. Water stains on the last 2 leaves. Overall in fine condition. 18th-century manuscript. Text in Spanish. 24 handwritten pages in ink in three different hands. ff 12. 18th-Century Spanish manuscript about the Spanish involvement in the French Geodesic Mission of 1735 and the Ellipsoid Model of the Earth. The manuscript is an interesting collection of contemporary reports proving the importance of the Spanish role performed by Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa in the so-called French Geodesic Mission 1735 with a particular focus on the polemic over the shape of the Earth. The quotations are conjugated with connecting texts by an anonymous author. One of the important scientific disputes of the late 17th early 18th century was the debate on the shape of the Earth. The assumption of the spherical shape was dominating until the late 17th century when Sir Isaac Newton determined that the Earth was oblate a spheroid stretched over the Equator however at the same time Giovanni Domenico Cassini and his son Jacques supposed that the Earth was prolate stretched along the poles. Eventually in 1735 two expeditions were sent by Louis XV and the French Academy to the Arctic Circle Lapland and to the Equator Ecuador and Peru to gain certainty by measuring the meridian arcs at polar and equatorial latitudes. The equatorial mission was accompanied by two Spanish geographers Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa thus it became the first major international scientific expedition. The findings of the missions confirmed Newton’s hypothesis that the Earth was oblate a rotational ellipsoid. The first part of the manuscript is a lengthy citation of an early Spanish report on the equatorial mission published in the Mercurio histórico y político February 1745; pp. 99–107 which is followed by further references and quotations related to the geographer’s their work and the figure of the Earth such as Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro’s Theatro critico universal 1751 Bernardo’s de Ulloa’s Antonio’s father Restablecimento de las fabricas y comercio español 1749 and articles from the Journal de Trévoux or the Gaceta de Zaragoza. The second part is Diego de Torres Villarroel’s 1693–1770 study Prevenciones in: Libros en que estan reatados. Vol. IV.; 1752 in which de Torres the almanac writer and professor of mathematics of a dubious repute opposes the findings of the missions and Newton’s hypothesis of the oblate Earth. Antonio de Ulloa 1716–1795 was a Spanish scientist and explorer the first Spanish governor of Louisiana who is also credited as the discoverer of the element platinum. De Ulloa was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His associate Spanish scientist in the Geodesic Mission to Peru was Jorge Juan y Santacilia 1713–1773 who during the mission also measured the heights of the mountains of the Andes. Jorge Juan was the founder of the Real Observatorio de Madrid Royal Observatory of Madrid and he became a Fellow of the Royal Society too. Their co-written memoirs were published in Spanish from 1748 on and their books were very soon translated into French English and German. Literature: Lafuente A.; Mazuecos A.: Gentlemen of the Fixed Point: Science Politics and Adventure in the Geodesic Expedition to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the XVIII Century. pp. 171–203. Retrieved on July 8 2020 from Mayboudi L. S.: chapter 5.1 In: Geometry Creation and Import With COMSOL Multiphysics. Dulles VA USA: Mercury Learning & Information 2019.; Richardson D.; et al: The International Encyclopedia of Geography People the Earth Environment and Technology: Chichester UK; Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons 2017. . unknown
1820réf. 1045181820. First Edition. ACKERMANN Rudolph GERNING Baron Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne. London: R. Ackermann 1820. Folio 11-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches period-style full green straight-grain morocco gilt-decorated spine and boards. $8800.First edition first issue of one of AckermannÕs wonderful Picturesque Tours beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints and large folding map. A lovely copy beautifully bound to style.In the history of book production ""there is no more attractive figure than that of Rudolph Ackermann through whose extraordinary enterprise and spirit of adventure aquatint was successfully applied to the illustration of books"" Prideaux 120-23. One of Ackermann's most lucrative projects was his remarkable Picturesque Tours a series of seven books produced between 1820-28. This is his Tour Along the Rhine with beautifully hand-colored aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after paintings by Christian Georg Schutz depicting views of Mentz the Castle of Furstenberg the Church of Johannes Pfalz Castle and the town of Kaub the salmon fishery at Lurley Coblentz Bornhofen Cologne and other sites along the river. The plates were pulled and hand-colored in the Ackermann studio whose reputation for producing splendid illustrated publications and disseminating fine aquatint prints spanned over two centuries. The folding map shows the course of the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne. With accompanying text by Baron von Gerning describing the history and culture of the area first published in German in 1819 without illustrations. First issue without plate numbers in the top right corners. Tooley notes that plates 2 and 3 have variants dated either September or October; Abbey argues persuasively that to call either state an issue ""must remain doubtful"" particularly given that large-paper copies have also been seen with the two plates dated October. At any rate the quality of plates in either state are the same high standard; Abbey notes that ""there are definitely some later issues of the book and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these plates are poor and the coloring less good"" Abbey 217. This copy has plates 2 and 3 dated October but most importantly none of the plates bear numbers in the upper right. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818; plates watermarked 1818 and 1819. Abbey Travel 217. Prideaux 337. Tooley 234. Title page neatly rehinged plates fine and fresh hand-coloring vivid. An excellent attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated work. hardcover
1820réf. 1045181820. First Edition. ACKERMANN Rudolph GERNING Baron Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne. London: R. Ackermann 1820. Folio 11-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches period-style full green straight-grain morocco gilt-decorated spine and boards. $8800.First edition first issue of one of AckermannÕs wonderful Picturesque Tours beautifully illustrated with 24 hand-colored folio aquatints and large folding map. A lovely copy beautifully bound to style.In the history of book production ""there is no more attractive figure than that of Rudolph Ackermann through whose extraordinary enterprise and spirit of adventure aquatint was successfully applied to the illustration of books"" Prideaux 120-23. One of Ackermann's most lucrative projects was his remarkable Picturesque Tours a series of seven books produced between 1820-28. This is his Tour Along the Rhine with beautifully hand-colored aquatints by Daniel Havell and Thomas Sutherland after paintings by Christian Georg Schutz depicting views of Mentz the Castle of Furstenberg the Church of Johannes Pfalz Castle and the town of Kaub the salmon fishery at Lurley Coblentz Bornhofen Cologne and other sites along the river. The plates were pulled and hand-colored in the Ackermann studio whose reputation for producing splendid illustrated publications and disseminating fine aquatint prints spanned over two centuries. The folding map shows the course of the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne. With accompanying text by Baron von Gerning describing the history and culture of the area first published in German in 1819 without illustrations. First issue without plate numbers in the top right corners. Tooley notes that plates 2 and 3 have variants dated either September or October; Abbey argues persuasively that to call either state an issue ""must remain doubtful"" particularly given that large-paper copies have also been seen with the two plates dated October. At any rate the quality of plates in either state are the same high standard; Abbey notes that ""there are definitely some later issues of the book and these can be recognized by having plate numbers at the top right-hand corner. The impressions in these plates are poor and the coloring less good"" Abbey 217. This copy has plates 2 and 3 dated October but most importantly none of the plates bear numbers in the upper right. Text watermarked 1817 and 1818; plates watermarked 1818 and 1819. Abbey Travel 217. Prideaux 337. Tooley 234. Title page neatly rehinged plates fine and fresh hand-coloring vivid. An excellent attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated work. hardcover books
1769réf. 30161769. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Printed for W. Johnston; London 1769; translated by Mr. Ralphson and Revised and Corrected by Mr. Cunn; to which is added a Treatise upon the Measures of Ratios by James Maguire the whole Illustrated and Explained in a series of Notes by the Rev. Theak hardcover
1771réf. 66800Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. The very scarce first edition. xvi 368 with additional 8 pp. sheet H inserted before gathering I: entitled Etat des Finances en Angleterre a la fin de la session du Parlement en 1770. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards spine ruled in gilt with green label and gilt lettering: at foot of spine in gilt lettering 'Bibliothèque de Michel Chevalier' spine head slightly frayed. Occasional spotting and staining but a very good copy and with the bookplate of Michel Chevalier 1806-1879 follower of Saint-Simon author of the Cours d'Économie Politique and co-architect of the Anglo-French 'Cobden-Chevalier' commercial treaty of 1860. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell. "Economique. Sur le commerce l'agriculture les finances; passages pp. 70-72 sur la populatin anglaise; pp. 183-196 et 216-335 sur la population en France et en Angleterre. En particulier nécessité d'augmenter également la population dans les villes et danse les campagnes pout éviter les déséquilibres sociaux et économiques. Analyse de plusieurs ouvrages dont un livre qualifié de rare: 'Le détail de la France' part Boisguilbert" INED. Pinto admired the Physiocrats but disagreed with them. "Pinto's Traité is written from a national as well as an international perspective. Pinto's experience as a merchant and financier in the Republic along with his knowledge of French and English economic thought laid the foundations for his European economic model. Pinto wanted above all to convince his readers of hte soundness of the British system of public debt. With the adoption of improvements in the redemption policy proposed in his book the system would achieve a high degree of perfection. In France the physiocratic opinions of the elder Mirabeau in particular required Pinto to respond and in England the otherwise admiring Hume was in disagreement. By means of a critical discussion of the work of these and other authors Pinto propagated a financial policy that he thought would benefit both the State and the individual" I.J.A. Nijenhuis Een Joodse Philosophe. Isaac de Pinto 1717-1787 Amsterdam NEHA 1992. Goldsmiths' 10791. Higgs 5282. Kress 6811. Palgrave III pp. 109-110. HBS 66800. $8500. Chez Marc Michel Rey unknown
1771réf. 66800Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey 1771. The very scarce first edition. xvi 368 with additional 8 pp. sheet H inserted before gathering I: entitled Etat des Finances en Angleterre a la fin de la session du Parlement en 1770. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards spine ruled in gilt with green label and gilt lettering: at foot of spine in gilt lettering 'Bibliothèque de Michel Chevalier' spine head slightly frayed. Occasional spotting and staining but a very good copy and with the bookplate of Michel Chevalier 1806-1879 follower of Saint-Simon author of the Cours d'Économie Politique and co-architect of the Anglo-French 'Cobden-Chevalier' commercial treaty of 1860. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell. "Economique. Sur le commerce l'agriculture les finances; passages pp. 70-72 sur la populatin anglaise; pp. 183-196 et 216-335 sur la population en France et en Angleterre. En particulier nécessité d'augmenter également la population dans les villes et danse les campagnes pout éviter les déséquilibres sociaux et économiques. Analyse de plusieurs ouvrages dont un livre qualifié de rare: 'Le détail de la France' part Boisguilbert" INED. Pinto admired the Physiocrats but disagreed with them. "Pinto's Traité is written from a national as well as an international perspective. Pinto's experience as a merchant and financier in the Republic along with his knowledge of French and English economic thought laid the foundations for his European economic model. Pinto wanted above all to convince his readers of hte soundness of the British system of public debt. With the adoption of improvements in the redemption policy proposed in his book the system would achieve a high degree of perfection. In France the physiocratic opinions of the elder Mirabeau in particular required Pinto to respond and in England the otherwise admiring Hume was in disagreement. By means of a critical discussion of the work of these and other authors Pinto propagated a financial policy that he thought would benefit both the State and the individual" I.J.A. Nijenhuis Een Joodse Philosophe. Isaac de Pinto 1717-1787 Amsterdam NEHA 1992. Goldsmiths' 10791. Higgs 5282. Kress 6811. Palgrave III pp. 109-110. HBS 66800. $8500. Chez Marc Michel Rey unknown books
1808réf. 6230London: Samuel Bagster 1808. First Bagster edition. Octavo 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm. iv vi vii-512 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and nineteen engraved plates and two sheets of music. Ten of the plates are engraved by Audinet eight after Wale two after Samuel; two music plate; two plates of fishing tackle and flies. There are seventeen fine engravings of fish and two large woodcuts in the text. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of fifty-five engraved plates of which ten are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun stamp-signed in gilt "Bayntun. Binder. Bath. Eng." on front turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco over beveled boards covers with elaborate gilt frames spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt decorated board edges wide gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. Front doublure of brown morocco surrounded by a frame of inlaid maroon morocco. Set into the front doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Isaac Walton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Set into the rear doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Charles Cotton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Both miniatures measure 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm. Green watered silk end-leaves. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down spine very slightly sunned otherwise a fine example housed in its original felt-lined green cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. Walton's famous pastoral work on fishing The Compleat Angler is combined here with additions by Robert Venables and Charles Cotton on the art of fly fishing in particular. Walton the son of innkeepers moved to London to become an ironmonger but would spend the last forty years of his life collecting information and writing on fishing. The book was first published in 1653 but re-released in numerous editions both due to its popularity and Walton's propensity to revise and contribute more chapters to it. It has stayed in print since it was first published and is noted for its well observed descriptions of English country life. "The Compleat Angler has something in common with 'Lady Chatterley's Lover:' while many know the title few have actually read it. Yet it's the most frequently reprinted book in the English language after the Bible" The Guardian. George Bayntun 1873-1940 was the founder of Bayntun Bindery 1894 dedicated to using traditional hand-crafted techniques and high-quality materials. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Although named after the English miniaturist Richard Cosway 1742-1821 the desirable "Cosway Binding" with its jewel-like portrait miniature set into a fine binding was first developed at the turn of the century by J.H. Stonehouse director of London's Henry Sotheran Booksellers. Their miniatures were painstakingly crafted by the talented painter Miss C. B. Currie 1849-1940. As the style grew in popularity other publishing houses quickly began to reproduce this technique-each developing their own desirable take on the aesthetic-referred to as "Cosway style." Coigney 18. Samuel Bagster unknown
1808réf. 6230London: Samuel Bagster 1808. First Bagster edition. Octavo 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm. iv vi vii-512 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece and nineteen engraved plates and two sheets of music. Ten of the plates are engraved by Audinet eight after Wale two after Samuel; two music plate; two plates of fishing tackle and flies. There are seventeen fine engravings of fish and two large woodcuts in the text. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of fifty-five engraved plates of which ten are hand-colored. Bound ca. 1925 by Bayntun stamp-signed in gilt "Bayntun. Binder. Bath. Eng." on front turn-in. Full green crushed levant morocco over beveled boards covers with elaborate gilt frames spine with five raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt decorated board edges wide gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. Front doublure of brown morocco surrounded by a frame of inlaid maroon morocco. Set into the front doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Isaac Walton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Set into the rear doublure is a fine oval miniature painting of Charles Cotton under beveled glass within a double gilt frame. Both miniatures measure 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 63 mm. Green watered silk end-leaves. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down spine very slightly sunned otherwise a fine example housed in its original felt-lined green cloth clamshell case spine lettered in gilt. Walton's famous pastoral work on fishing The Compleat Angler is combined here with additions by Robert Venables and Charles Cotton on the art of fly fishing in particular. Walton the son of innkeepers moved to London to become an ironmonger but would spend the last forty years of his life collecting information and writing on fishing. The book was first published in 1653 but re-released in numerous editions both due to its popularity and Walton's propensity to revise and contribute more chapters to it. It has stayed in print since it was first published and is noted for its well observed descriptions of English country life. "The Compleat Angler has something in common with 'Lady Chatterley's Lover:' while many know the title few have actually read it. Yet it's the most frequently reprinted book in the English language after the Bible" The Guardian. George Bayntun 1873-1940 was the founder of Bayntun Bindery 1894 dedicated to using traditional hand-crafted techniques and high-quality materials. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. Although named after the English miniaturist Richard Cosway 1742-1821 the desirable "Cosway Binding" with its jewel-like portrait miniature set into a fine binding was first developed at the turn of the century by J.H. Stonehouse director of London's Henry Sotheran Booksellers. Their miniatures were painstakingly crafted by the talented painter Miss C. B. Currie 1849-1940. As the style grew in popularity other publishing houses quickly began to reproduce this technique-each developing their own desirable take on the aesthetic-referred to as "Cosway style." Coigney 18. Samuel Bagster unknown books
1867réf. 4614261867. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 11 long letters written by a young paymaster's clerk and officer in the U.S. Navy in which he gives detailed accounts of voyages to Central America China and South Africa in 1867-68. Also included is a gripping account of a terrific storm while crossing the Atlantic and of a dramatic rescue of sailors cast off their capsized ship off the coast of France. All 11 letters are densely written in Merrill's neat small hand and are addressed to his parents at Bangor Maine. One letter has three or four small tears with partial loss to three or four words else near fine overall. Also included are six of the original mailing envelopes and four cabinet card portraits of Merrill: one of Merrill in uniform taken by "Pun-Lun" at Hong Kong and three duplicate portraits taken at Bangor Maine. Here is an excerpt from Merrill's first seven-page letter written on board the storeship Brig Executive in January 1867 in which he describes his first voyage from Bangor to Cette France: ". Wednesday night - a gale commenced - and it was a screamer . day and night did every soul labor for dear life . we felt that our doom - by sinking - was sure . Buzzell and Chase and I worked with the rest - and by our aid the exhausted men were enabled to get a little sleep - until the forecastle was flooded and the galley stove in . we lived on raw meat for three days . Such mountainous waves! . they were as high as the upper-topsail yard - and often higher still - and when they would board us - and sweep over the decks - we all clinging to the main rigging . it seemed to us . that we should drown before it all passed over us . so long were we in the wave . During the whole gale . we sped onward in our course ." They ran into another terrific storm off the coast of France near Montpelier where they encountered several ships in peril and participated along with soldiers on the shore in a dramatic rescue of two sailors and a pilot from their capsized boat one of whom later died. They went on to Paris and London where Merrill wrote his next two letters and returned home from Liverpool at the end of January. Merrill next writes at length about his voyage on board two Steamships Henry Chauncey and Sacramento and the storeship USS Supply. Setting off in November he sailed first to Aspinwall Colón on the Atlantic coast of Panama went across the isthmus by rail road to the City of Panama and then on to Acapulco and San Francisco. In two letters from November he gives descriptive accounts of Aspinwall including several disparaging remarks about the crowds of "natives and negroes along the plaza . the street was thronged with dusky vendors of fruit claret cakes &c. jabbering the virtues of their merchandise in the most conglomerate mixture of English Spanish and Samboish ." He also describes the structure of the "many isolated negro huts" along the 48-mile railroad trip to Panama City where they transfer their baggage etc. onto the Sacramento: "The sea has been as smooth as a pan of milk ever since we left Panama . Among the more noted of our passengers is Gen. Beuham of So. Carolina late of C.S. Army . Bishop Williams of the Episcopal Mission in China . and other missionaries of China . Spanish gentlemen and their families merchants of China & Japan . This morning early a poor fellow died in the Steerage of Panama fever. Another one is sick and will not live till evening . The sharks have followed our ship all the time from Panama . the surgeon said privately that there are other cases also ." In a letter from December Merrill gives a long description of Acapulco: its harbor streets and street vendors the military fort and evidence of the French bombardment etc. In San Francisco his time in the city itself which he loves is curtailed by preparations on board Supply for the voyage to Japan and China. In a long six-page letter from February 1868 he describes various excursions in Canton and Hong Kong: "All of us officers went to Canton . and saw all the Elephants including the Temple of 500 Gods . Hong Kong has all the business that was formerly done in Canton . In some places where we went - but few Europeans had ever been and we were curious objects of interest to the population . One walled town we entered - contrary to the permission of the natives and there we met a 'Sing-Song' procession - marching about in fantastic costumes celebrating the advent of the Chinese New Year - and when they saw us you may believe there was a scattering and scampering! They perhaps thought that the 'Fan-Kwei' foreign devils as they call foreigners had come to kill and destroy . At one town which I entered alone the natives were much pleased to see a Fan-Kwei and they pressed me to take oranges paper cigarettes &c. ad libitum . We saw the forts ruins of at the Bocca Tigris and the Barrier Forts near Canton which were reduced by . the American & English fleet in the China Squabble of 1858-9 . Last Tuesday W. & Thursday were the Annual Races here in Hong Kong. All the fashionable of the Colony were there . We were invited to the whole course 3 days and had quarters in the booths of Russell & Co. and Oliphant & Co. . People and costumes of all nations mingled to make a dashing looking concourse ." He concludes the letter with news about the Satsuma Samurai Rebellion of 1868: "You will probably hear about the outbreak and warfare in Japan . the Hartford and Aroostook are preparing to go there . the Prince of Satsuma . has landed ten thousand men below Osaka under the nose of one of the Tycoon's frigates without molestation and marched them inland toward . the City of the Mikado or Spiritual ruler and had conflict with the Jap. national troops . the life of Sir Harry Parkes . has been attempted and one or two of our U.S. sailors . killed and it is reported that the Tycoon has taken refuge on the U.S.S. Iroquois ." On the voyage back from China Merrill writes one letter in March from Java and two letters in April from South Africa in which he gives descriptions of Good Hope Cape Agulhas whaling grounds at Algoa Bay and of his excursion to Cape Town. He concludes his account of the voyage with a final letter written at Charlestown Massachusetts. A remarkable and historically important cache of letters all rich in content and deserving of further research. A list of the letters with a few quoted extracts is available. unknown
1867réf. 4614261867. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 11 long letters written by a young paymaster's clerk and officer in the U.S. Navy in which he gives detailed accounts of voyages to Central America China and South Africa in 1867-68. Also included is a gripping account of a terrific storm while crossing the Atlantic and of a dramatic rescue of sailors cast off their capsized ship off the coast of France. All 11 letters are densely written in Merrill's neat small hand and are addressed to his parents at Bangor Maine. One letter has three or four small tears with partial loss to three or four words else near fine overall. Also included are six of the original mailing envelopes and four cabinet card portraits of Merrill: one of Merrill in uniform taken by "Pun-Lun" at Hong Kong and three duplicate portraits taken at Bangor Maine. Here is an excerpt from Merrill's first seven-page letter written on board the storeship Brig Executive in January 1867 in which he describes his first voyage from Bangor to Cette France: ". Wednesday night - a gale commenced - and it was a screamer . day and night did every soul labor for dear life . we felt that our doom - by sinking - was sure . Buzzell and Chase and I worked with the rest - and by our aid the exhausted men were enabled to get a little sleep - until the forecastle was flooded and the galley stove in . we lived on raw meat for three days . Such mountainous waves! . they were as high as the upper-topsail yard - and often higher still - and when they would board us - and sweep over the decks - we all clinging to the main rigging . it seemed to us . that we should drown before it all passed over us . so long were we in the wave . During the whole gale . we sped onward in our course ." They ran into another terrific storm off the coast of France near Montpelier where they encountered several ships in peril and participated along with soldiers on the shore in a dramatic rescue of two sailors and a pilot from their capsized boat one of whom later died. They went on to Paris and London where Merrill wrote his next two letters and returned home from Liverpool at the end of January. Merrill next writes at length about his voyage on board two Steamships Henry Chauncey and Sacramento and the storeship USS Supply. Setting off in November he sailed first to Aspinwall Colón on the Atlantic coast of Panama went across the isthmus by rail road to the City of Panama and then on to Acapulco and San Francisco. In two letters from November he gives descriptive accounts of Aspinwall including several disparaging remarks about the crowds of "natives and negroes along the plaza . the street was thronged with dusky vendors of fruit claret cakes &c. jabbering the virtues of their merchandise in the most conglomerate mixture of English Spanish and Samboish ." He also describes the structure of the "many isolated negro huts" along the 48-mile railroad trip to Panama City where they transfer their baggage etc. onto the Sacramento: "The sea has been as smooth as a pan of milk ever since we left Panama . Among the more noted of our passengers is Gen. Beuham of So. Carolina late of C.S. Army . Bishop Williams of the Episcopal Mission in China . and other missionaries of China . Spanish gentlemen and their families merchants of China & Japan . This morning early a poor fellow died in the Steerage of Panama fever. Another one is sick and will not live till evening . The sharks have followed our ship all the time from Panama . the surgeon said privately that there are other cases also ." In a letter from December Merrill gives a long description of Acapulco: its harbor streets and street vendors the military fort and evidence of the French bombardment etc. In San Francisco his time in the city itself which he loves is curtailed by preparations on board Supply for the voyage to Japan and China. In a long six-page letter from February 1868 he describes various excursions in Canton and Hong Kong: "All of us officers went to Canton . and saw all the Elephants including the Temple of 500 Gods . Hong Kong has all the business that was formerly done in Canton . In some places where we went - but few Europeans had ever been and we were curious objects of interest to the population . One walled town we entered - contrary to the permission of the natives and there we met a 'Sing-Song' procession - marching about in fantastic costumes celebrating the advent of the Chinese New Year - and when they saw us you may believe there was a scattering and scampering! They perhaps thought that the 'Fan-Kwei' foreign devils as they call foreigners had come to kill and destroy . At one town which I entered alone the natives were much pleased to see a Fan-Kwei and they pressed me to take oranges paper cigarettes &c. ad libitum . We saw the forts ruins of at the Bocca Tigris and the Barrier Forts near Canton which were reduced by . the American & English fleet in the China Squabble of 1858-9 . Last Tuesday W. & Thursday were the Annual Races here in Hong Kong. All the fashionable of the Colony were there . We were invited to the whole course 3 days and had quarters in the booths of Russell & Co. and Oliphant & Co. . People and costumes of all nations mingled to make a dashing looking concourse ." He concludes the letter with news about the Satsuma Samurai Rebellion of 1868: "You will probably hear about the outbreak and warfare in Japan . the Hartford and Aroostook are preparing to go there . the Prince of Satsuma . has landed ten thousand men below Osaka under the nose of one of the Tycoon's frigates without molestation and marched them inland toward . the City of the Mikado or Spiritual ruler and had conflict with the Jap. national troops . the life of Sir Harry Parkes . has been attempted and one or two of our U.S. sailors . killed and it is reported that the Tycoon has taken refuge on the U.S.S. Iroquois ." On the voyage back from China Merrill writes one letter in March from Java and two letters in April from South Africa in which he gives descriptions of Good Hope Cape Agulhas whaling grounds at Algoa Bay and of his excursion to Cape Town. He concludes his account of the voyage with a final letter written at Charlestown Massachusetts. A remarkable and historically important cache of letters all rich in content and deserving of further research. A list of the letters with a few quoted extracts is available. unknown books
1928réf. 7168New York: Robert H. Dodd 1928. First Edition. Hardcovers in slipcases with chemises. Fine/Very Good; Slipcases With Occasional Wear. Title continues: Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps Plans Views and Documents in Public and Private Collections. Complete in six thick 4to volumes. Varying pagination. With maps documents photographs engravings and facsimiles of charters ordinances proclamations handbills broadsides surveys plans portraits and more. Many printed in color. The second volume is mostly concerned with Manhattan Island cartography including 96 plates some of which are double-page. The final volume contains an addendum an extensive bibliography by Victor H. Paltsits and an index to the entire work. Top edges gilt others uncut. Publisher's half-vellum gilt lettering on spine over blue cloth boards with gilt device on front board. Housed in original dark blue chemises within slipcases. Chemises Good to Near Fine with slight darkening to spines; Vol. V chemise with a quarter-inch perforation on spine. Please see photo. Some slipcases with only occasional minor wear; the most egregious shown in photo with split starting and a slit at top edge. One of 360 copies printed on English handmade paper. Withal a superb set. With hundreds of maps views and architectural illustrations assembled from countless original sources Stokes' sweeping survey presents detailed chronologies and summaries of events and the personages involved up to 1909. A splendid set exceptional in the bright condition at-hand. HOWES S1026 "the most elaborate and comprehensive history of Manhattan". Robert H. Dodd hardcover
1665réf. 3806A Paris: Par Robert Ballard seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique 1665. First edition. Later green half morocco over marbled paper boards spine lettered in gilt. Italian provenance: early manuscript ownership inscription on the first leaf dated 30 Genn.o 1665 30 January 1665 partly torn and restored; later engraved armorial bookplate on the inner front panel. Paper tanned as usual; early folds and handling marks; otherwise clean and well preserved. First edition. Later green half morocco over marbled paper boards spine lettered in gilt. 52 2 p. Scarce first edition of the libretto of Lully's Naissance de Vénus a key work in the development of the French court-ballet tradition in a copy preserving a contemporary inscription dated only days after the premiere. First edition printed for the premiere of the libretto for the court ballet performed on 26 January 1665 at the Palais-Royal. The text was written by Isaac de Benserade and the music composed principally by Jean-Baptiste Lully at the request of Louis XIV and in honour of the king's sister-in-law Henrietta of England who appeared in the performance as Venus. The copy preserves an early Italian inscription dated 30 January 1665 only four days after the premiere suggesting that it may have been received in connection with the performance possibly by someone present at the court spectacle. The ballet belongs to the tradition of the French ballet de cour one of the principal ceremonial theatrical forms cultivated at the court of Louis XIV. The libretto presents a large mythological spectacle in two parts comprising twelve entrées. Conceived on an exceptional scale the production involved 96 performers representing 106 roles accompanied by 20 musicians and 14 singers with Louis XIV himself appearing in the final scene as Alexander the Great. Printed libretti of this type formed part of the broader genre of festival books ephemeral publications describing royal festivities and spectacles staged for political and ceremonial display. The present libretto is accordingly included in the Oxford "Early Modern Festival Books" collection which documents printed accounts of court celebrations and theatrical spectacles across Europe. A rare printed witness preserving a contemporary inscription to one of the most elaborate court ballets of Louis XIV's reign and an important document of early French operatic culture marking the culmination of the ballet tradition from which Lully would soon develop the tragédie en musique. LWV 27 . Par Robert Ballard, seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique unknown
1824réf. 18968The Hague 1824. 8vo. the widow of J. Allart Contemporary marbled boards with a paper title label on the spine. With 4 hand-coloured folding aquatint plates and a hand-coloured engraved vignette on the title page of each volume. 2 volumes. XVI 250; 1 1 blank 264 pp. First Dutch edition of a beautifully illustrated work on the Japanese festive ceremonies and customs. The work was written by Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 then Head of the Dutch Factory at Decima the only place in Japan from where connections with the rest of the world were maintained until far into the 19th century. Titsingh was allowed to visit the Japanese court several times and is therefore one of the very few European observers and eye-witnesses of Japanese culture and customs in the 18th century.The first volume consists of essays on Japanese marriage and funeral ceremonies an account of "dosia" powder and some notes on the works of Confucius. It is concluded by a catalogue of books manuscript plans and artefacts collected by Titsingh. The second volume includes a series of anecdotes about the shoguns followed by several short essay amongst others on seppuku ritual suicide and Japanese poetry ending with explanations of the plans of the Dutch and Chinese factories at Nagasaki. The plates show a wedding ceremony a volcanic eruption of Mount Asama and the Dutch Factory at Decima.Titsingh was a diplomat historian and merchant who had a great interest in Japan. He moved to the East Indies in 1766 and stayed for most of his life. He spent a total of three years and eight months in Japan between 1778-1788 and amassed a large collection of authentic source materials on Japan during this time including printed books manuscripts prints maps city plans and coins. He came back to Holland in 1809 but quickly moved to Paris on account of the political situation. In Paris he began preparations for a monumental work on Japan based on the artefacts in his collection as well as his own notes but he died suddenly in 1812. When his son Willem went bankrupt he sold his father's collection which was then scattered all over Europe. Both a French and English publisher must have acquired some of the material as selections of it were printed in both countries. They were published in two volumes in Paris as Cérémonies usitées en Japon pour les mariages et les funérailles 1819 and Mémoires et anecdotes de la dynastie regnante des Djogouns 1820. The London edition Illustrations of Japan 1822 which was only printed in one volume was not a direct translation of the French works but clearly used the same source material. The present Dutch version is a translation of the English edition. Due to the impact of his collection and scholarly activities Titsingh can be seen as the founder of European Japanology.The boards of both volumes are somewhat scratched the spine of both volumes has cracked but the structural integrity of the binding is still intact. The first and last two leaves of each volume have browned around the edges likely from a past protective wrapper the work is slightly browned and foxed throughout the final quire and the two plates in volume 2 have detached but are still present annotations in pencil in the margins on some of the leaves. Otherwise in good condition.l Alt Japan Kat. 1520; Cordier Japonica col. 451; Landwehr Coloured plates 456; Tiele 1096. ABE CAT Anthropology & Ethnography hardcover
1991réf. USINMYF00acmfNoonday Press 1991. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. In my Father's Court. NY: Noonday Press 1991. 307pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with general rubbing and minor bumping. Panels smudged a bit. Former owner's name on last blank page. Noonday Press paperback
1991réf. USINMYF00acmfNoonday Press 1991. Very Good. Singer Isaac Bashevis. In my Father's Court. NY: Noonday Press 1991. 307pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with general rubbing and minor bumping. Panels smudged a bit. Former owner's name on last blank page. Noonday Press paperback books
1950réf. 140946655New York: Gnome Press 1950. First Edition or Armed Services Edition. Near Fine. Though the publishing history is murky this is assumed to be either an example from the publisher's short foray into paperback publishing or an Armed Services edition. First edition wrappered issue according to Currey; though according to Chalker Gnome printed 5000 hardbound copies in 1950 and an additional 2500 were printed in 1951 as the trade paperback "Armed Forces Edition." Near Fine with light creases to wraps and light chipping at edges light foxing to textblock edge and contents heavily tanned. Exceedingly scarce in this format much more uncommon than the hardcover edition. Gnome Press unknown
