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1769500044928London: Newbery & Carnan 1769. Second edition. . Hardcover. G. Volume 2 only of 10. 9 plates binding complete. Cheshire to Cumberland incl. Cornwall <br/> <br/> Newbery & Carnan, hardcover
17206073London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Map unknown
1769500044929London: Newbery & Carnan 1769. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fair. Volume 4 only of 10. Essex-Hertfordshire 30 plates boards detached. These are rare because they were broken up for the plates. <br/> <br/> Newbery & Carnan, hardcover
1769500044930London: Newbery & Carnan 1769. First Edition. . Hardcover. G-. Volume 7 only of 10. 34 plates. front board detached Norfolk-Pembrokeshire. includes Oxfordshire.These are rare because they were broken up for the plates. <br/> <br/> Newbery & Carnan, hardcover
17206072London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Map unknown
1796H40044London: E. and T. Williams 1796. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 9 x 5.75 inches bound in mid-19th century very dark gray cloth with label label good copy with wear along front outer joint scattered white small paint residue spots on front cover ex-library marks bookplate perforated blindstamp on title page ink stamps on title page stamp on following page no other marks -- and no stamp or indication that this has been withdrawn/deaccessioned; we contacted the library and it is not listed in their catalogue so we are assuming it's been properly let go but caveat emptor. Contents otherwise very good the folding colored map of Wales at rear has some brownish coffee colored stains. With hand colored frontispiece unmarked colored vignette on title page 468 pp two colored maps the full page one mainly free of stains or foxing. Text otherwise clean. A survey of Wales at that time focusing on biographies its resources agriculture and industries ancient laws statistics business prospects and much else. E. and T. Williams hardcover
17207863London c. 1720. Copper engraving 18 x 12 cms recent hand-colour b/w strip-maps on verso. Engraved by Emanuel Bowen for John Owens Britannia Depicta a pocket road book derived from Ogilbys innovative atlas of strip maps first published in 1675. Bowen & Owenss work first appeared in 1720 and proved extremely popular; there were numerous editions over the next forty years. Map unknown
17591309160003England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons 1759-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Large heavy folio. 42 cm x 27 cm. Covers King William & Queen Mary's reign. 880 p. Hardcover. Contemporary boards. Boards detached. Unmarked pages. Issued as a Parliamentary paper. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons hardcover
1796c3126London: Printed for F Wingrave et al. G : in Good condition. Rebound with four pages of prelims loosely inserted. Remainder tight with occasional foxing and off-setting. 1796. Sixth Edition with Additions. Paper covered hardback boards with green cloth spine. 240mm x 170mm 9" x 7". vi 131pp. Four of five fold out astronomical charts. Extracted from volume 1. The prelims presumably taken from the parent volume comprise the half-title dedications to Earl of Sandwich and Sir Robert Ladbroke corrigenda and the title page. The charts are numbered II to V: chart I is absent. . Printed for F Wingrave, et al hardcover
177957387The Modern Universal British Traveller c.1779. Copper engraving. Good condition. Remargined at the top; general age toning to the paper. Hand coloured. Size: 35 x 35.5 cm. 14 x 14 inches unknown
1774143636Paris: Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774. Very Good. Paris Chez Saillant et Nyon . chez Panckoucke 1774. A two-panel engraved map printed surface 138 × 332 mm sheet size 252 × 363 mm. Vertical centrefold crease as issued; slight indentations to both panels; very slightly tanned and marked at the edges; in excellent condition. The two panels of the map show the Endeavour River where Cook beached the 'Endeavour' for repairs after striking the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 and Botany Bay respectively. It comes from the first French edition of the official account of the voyage 'Relation des voyages entrepris . pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional' 'Tome III. Pl. 17'. <p>Tooley 343; see Beddie 659. Chez Saillant et Nyon ... chez Panckoucke unknown
1784342705Hartford 1784. Unbound. Very Good. Approximately 7" x 4½" Dated December 16 1784. Old folds and small nicks and tears very good. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by the notables above all Connecticut officials; Oliver Wolcott was a Major General and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington succeeding Alexander Hamilton and was later Governor of Connecticut. unknown
17811758Hartford: State of Connecticut Pay-Table Office 1781. Single sheet. Approximately 4" x 6 5/8. Sheet has an old fold crease horizontally lengthwise with short closed tears at each end and a few tiny chips to edges. Slight toning else fine. This partially printed pay order is accomplished by hand and dated October 11th 1781. It directs that 20 pounds sterling be paid to Deputy Quartermaster Pomeroy out of the "Tax of Two Shillings and Six Pence on the Pound granted by the General Assembly in May last and charge the State." It is signed by Eleazer Wales and Hezekiah Rogers as members of the Committee of the Pay-Table. Rogers has signed vertically across the signature of Wales as was his habit. Signed in type by Connecticut State Treasurer John Lawrence. <br /> <br /> Ralph Pomeroy 1737-1819 was responsible for paying soldiers and making other disbursements in his role as Deputy Quartermaster and paymaster. Pomeroy has endorsed the order on the reverse.<br /> <br /> This simple document served an important purpose in financing the Revolutionary War in Connecticut is signed by three influential citizens of that state and is a tangible relic of those momentous days. State of Connecticut Pay-Table Office unknown
1782601751Hartford 1782. Unbound. Near Fine. Approximately 6.75" x 6". Dated March 22 1782. Neat old folds and small nicks and tears else very near fine. Revolutionary War period payment order signed by Wolcott and Wales paying Shipman two Pounds ten shillings and endorsed by Shipman. Connecticut official Oliver Wolcott was a Major General and Secretary of the Treasury under Washington succeeding Alexander Hamilton and was later Governor of Connecticut. Shipman later attained the rank of Colonel in the First Battlation of the Connecticut State Militia. unknown
1786177999London: C. Nourse 1786. 5th. Hardcover. Fair case very worn pages at extremities worn markings at extremities pieces missing from first title page still readable. Brown full leather binding with 5 raised bands. Diagrams and charts throughout. Some diagrams and maps foldout. xxxii approx. 870 pp. Composed for the use of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital the Royal Academy at Portsmouth and the gentlemen of the Navy. Fifth edition. Two volumes in one book. Important textbook on navigation for the 18th century British navy. Edited by William Wales member of Captain Cook's second voyage. C. Nourse hardcover
17591409120003Boston in New-England : Printed by S. Kneeland 1759-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Colonial imprint. First 14 pages of the charter held in folio size clamshell case. Case bound in quarter morocco leather over marbled boards raised bands gilt spine title. Light rubbing. Soiling to title page margins. Marginal spotting. Contemporary signature of G.W. Tookes sp on title page. Evans 8400. Boston, in New-England : Printed by S. Kneeland hardcover
178541843Hartford: Printed by Barlow & Babcock 1785. 4to. 38pp but lacking the half title and final blank. Bound in attractive modern half brown morocco and marbled paper over boards gilt-lettered spine title. Light foxing Good plus. <br /> <br /> Wales Professor of Divinity at Yale discourses learnedly on the state of the nation and the difficulties which the Constitutional Convention would attempt to solve two years later in Philadelphia. <br /> "We have been often delivered in a most signal manner both from the secret stratagems and the open assaults of our enemies." Echoing an emerging theme he asserts that God has singularly blessed this country. But we have not sufficiently discharged our "obligations to those who have voluntarily taken an hazardous or an expensive part in effecting our late happy revolution." At very least the bondholders should be paid and not in depreciated currency which is destroying the country. Moreover we should become self-sufficient and not hanker "after British gew-gaws and foreign luxuries." <br /> He views with alarm the tendency toward factions and rivalries among the States. <br /> Evans 19359. Trumbull 1559. ESTC W37838. Printed by Barlow & Babcock unknown
1781168512London: Printed by G. Bigg for C. Nourse; Maidstone: Printed for the Author by J. Blake; and sold by T. Payne and Son London 1781. Two "outstanding" works in the 18th-century demographic controversy First editions of the authors's probing analyses of the national population in the late 18th century "the two most outstanding replies" Glass p. 12 to Dr Richard Price's Essay on the Population of England and Wales 1780 which contended that the population of England and Wales had steadily declined over the previous centuries. In contrast the works of William Wales 1734-1798 and John Howlett 1731-1804 challenge Price's methodology data and biases to argue that the population had in fact doubled since 1688. Howlett's work in particular challenges the wider biases that Price demonstrated in his discussions of the socio-cultural aspects of populations. William Wales is perhaps most notable as the mathematician and astronomer on Cook's second voyage: in 1781 he was serving as master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital. The Examination was the first publication by John Howlett who primarily worked as a minister in Essex. Two works bound in a single vol. octavo 211 x 128 mm. Tables in the text of both vols. Contemporary half calf rebacked with the original spine laid down smooth spine with six compartments ruled and with floral ornaments in gilt original red morocco labels to second and third marbled paper sides edges sprinkled red. Light rubbing and wear slight toning and foxing to endpapers and outer leaves: a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 12140 & 12139; Kress B. 434 & B. 372. D. V. Glass Numbering the people: the eighteenth-century population controversy and the development of census and vital statistics in Britain 1973. unknown
179927920Maidstone Kent: J. Blake at the King's Arms Office 1799. First printing. Ephemera. Very good overall. A list of 49 prisoners sentenced at Maidstone Kent spelled "Lent" in the title. Six prisoners were sentenced to transportation for 7 years; Joseph Pinniter Richard Reynolds William Howe Thomas Maloy Elizabeth Brown & Robert Marshall. <br /> <br /> William Howe Thomas Maloy and Robert Marshall were amongst 272 convicts transported on the Perseus and Coromandel sailed Jan 1802 arrived 14th August 1802 at New South Wales. Both Howe and Maloy were tried in 1798 yet they were not transported until 1802 spending the interim in prison or on a prison hulk. Elizabeth Brown alias Sarah Brown was transported on the Speedy a ship loaded with female convicts in October 1799. We were unable to locate records for Joseph Pinniter and Richard Reynolds. Source convict records australia dot com.<br /> <br /> Along with the charge each entry lists the prisoner's age the person who committed them and the date of arrest. For a range of crimes including theft murder counterfeiting and rape sentences included imprisonment usually of 6 or 12 months and death although most of the death sentences were reprieved. Not in the English Short-Title Catalogue. No copies listed on OCLC or Library Hub. The SLNSW holds one for March 11th 1776 but this issue not recorded there.<br /> <br /> 4pp 16-1/4" x 10" print docket to verso. Horizontal and vertical fold lines light soiling and edgewear light foxing in a few places portion of lower left margin excised brief annotation on one of the prisoners. J. Blake, at the King's Arms Office unknown
178379115N.p. 1783 - 1785. . old full sueded leather. Covers very slightly bowed and worn; very attractive original condition. Folio. Appended to the log is A List of Officers And Seamen belonging to the Ship Sulivan with columns for Name Station and notes regarding Dead Run and Discharged; a List of Passengers Outward Bound on Board the Sulivan; and three watercolor drawings: The Island of Bonavista bearing W ½ S about 9 Leagues of Distance and on one leaf The Lowland on the Malay Coast with Parcellor Hill and The Island of Mayotta. Also present is a laminated four-page ALS to John Beddoe in Manchester from his brother-in-law Charles Johnstone Dec. 16 1797 regarding Beddoes plans to improve his fortunes in America. The Sulivan sailed to Bombay Tellicherry Cochin Mangalore Tellicherry Bombay Malacca China St. Helena and home to England on East India Company business. Beddoe records weather navigational details incidents of the voyage including encounters with other shipping; a boy overboard and drowned; seamen placed in irons for abusive language mutinous insinuations and attacks; being boarded to search for deserters; storm damage and repairs; and the daily employments of the crew. A companion to this log Transactions in Port on board the Sullivan sic was donated to the Town of Jerusalem and is reported on by Jane P. Davis The Beddoe Tract: 7000 Acres in Central Western New York 2004. John Beddoe acquired 7000 along Keuka Lake on or about 1797 and remained there with his wife and children as a farmer. He served three terms as Town of Jerusalem Supervisor. hardcover
179451824Bombay 1794. <p>Wales James 1746/47 - 1795. Cowasjee a Mahratta of the cast of husbandmen . . . Engraving by Robert Mabon d. 1798 after Wales. Bombay March 1794. 394 x 298 mm.; plate mark measures 343 x 248 mm. Creased horizontally and vertically with a few minor marginal tears along folds left and bottom margins trimmed to the platemark light foxing and toning but very good.</p> <p> Extremely Rare Possibly Unique Legendary First Published Account of the Indian rhinoplasty operation best known from the famous "B.L." letter published in October 1794 in the Gentleman's Magazine see Garrison-Morton.com 5735.1. "The earliest version of this report was a copperplate print published in folio in Bombay on March 20 the same year 1794" Gnudi & Webster p. 310; it predates the "B.L." letter by seven months. </p> <p> The engraving is exceedingly rare-this is the first copy we have ever seen or handled in our six decades in the trade and we have found no other copies recorded in either North American or European libraries. The Wellcome Library has only W. Nutter's engraving of Wales's Cowasjee portrait also extremely rare published in London in 1795.</p> <p> Zeis writing in the 1860s cited only one copy of the Bombay print which he found at the Bibliothek des Herzoglichen Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum in Braunschweig. A catalogue of the library published in 1865 lists the print on page 180 under no. 1633; the catalogue's preface includes the following note on p. vi:</p> <p> "Ferner wird hier der sehr seltene 1794 in Bombay erschienene Kupferstich aufbewahrt welcher den kunstlichen Wiederersatz einer vorstümmelt gewesen Nase an dem Gesichte des Ochsentreibers Cowasjee darstellt. Derselben hat der Oberwundarzt Zeis in seinem Werke gebührend gewüdigt und davon etliche photographische Copien anfertigen lassen welche einegen Bibliotheken zum Geschenke gemacht sind."</p> <p> Also kept here is the very rare copperplate engraving published in Bombay in 1794 which shows the artificial replacement of a mutilated nose on the face of the bullock driver Cowasjee. The chief surgeon Zeis has paid due tribute to it in his work and had several photographic copies made of it which have been donated to certain libraries.</p> <p> Whether the original print that Zeis saw or the photographic copies he had made still exist is uncertain. We have found no reference to the Bibliothek des Herzoglichen Collegium Anatomico-Chirurgicum dating beyond the first decades of the 20th century nor have we found any record of Zeis's "photographic copies" of the engraving. During World War II Braunschweig was attacked by Allied aircraft in 42 bombing raids and it is entirely possible that portions or all of the collections at the Bibliothek were destroyed.</p> <p> Zeis quotes an imprint line at the foot of the engraving: "Bombay. Published by J. Wales as the Act directs 20. March 1794." Our copy in which the entire platemark is visible does not include this imprint even though there is ample room for it below the text. Zeis may have been in error or our version of the plate may have been printed before the addition of the imprint.</p> <p> Cowasjee who worked for the British Army had his nose and one of his hands cut off while a prisoner of Tipu Sultan during the third Anglo-Mysore War 1790-92. In 1793 his nose was successfully reconstructed by an Indian surgeon using the so-called Indian or Hindu method in which the surgeon builds a new nose from a live graft of skin cut from the patient's forehead but left attached at the end nearest the nose. This method of rhinoplasty was then unknown in the West. </p> <p> Two British surgeons stationed in Bombay Thomas Cruso and James Findlay observed Cowasjee's operation and publicized the event in a local newspaper. Ten months later James Wales a Scots artist living in India documented Cowasjee's post-surgical appearance in a portrait which was then engraved by Robert Mabon and published in the present print.</p> <p> Exactly why this operation was first published in England in a popular magazine rather than a surgical journal is unclear. However that is what happened. News of Cowasjee's rhinoplasty operation was first published in England via the "B.L." letter to the Gentleman's Magazine whose author has been identified as British engraver Barak Longmate 1768-1836. Longmate undoubtedly had access to the Mabon engraving printed in Bombay as the print's descriptive text beneath Cowasjee's portrait is virtually identical to that in the "B.L." letter; the only difference barring minor variations in punctuation and spelling is the abbreviation "H.E.I. Company" in the engraving for the letter's "Honorable East India Company" and the name "Dr. James Findlay" instead of "Dr. James Trindlay." The engraving's text is unsigned but was likely written by one of the British surgeons observing the operation. Catalog der Bibliothek des herzogl. Collegium anatomico-chirurgicum zu Braunschweig 1865 p. vi; no. 1633. Gnudi & Webster The Life and Times of Gaspare Tagliacozzi pp. 309-310. E. Zeis The Zeis Index and History of Plastic Surgery tr. Thomas Patterson no. 463. </p> . unknown
178828294London: C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly 1788. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE. This example appears to be an unrecorded early issue as pages 93 & 96 are printed back-to-back and pages 94 & 95 are omitted. It is sold with a corrected issue of the complete text 1788 with pages 94 & 95 printed. <br /> <br /> This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook’s first voyage on HMS Endeavour 1768-1771 to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for the mythical Southern Continent. In the process Cook became the first European to set foot on New Zealand and the east coast of New Holland or Australia. Of all the works associated with the First Voyage this is one of the rarest. Only two examples of this work are recorded at auction on Rare Book Hub since 1985. It was not in the Parks collection arguably one of the finest in living memory on the works of Cook. It was also not in the libraries of Davidson or Parson’s. It includes two large charts representing the east coast of Australia and New Zealand much improved from those published in John Hawkesworth’s official account of the first voyage.<br /> <br /> William Wales bap.1734-96 was an English mathematician and astronomer. In 1768 the Royal Society sent him to Hudson Bay to observe a transit of Venus in June 1769. His observation were the first scientific measurements to be made in Canada and were taken at the Prince of Wales Fort. Whilst there he computed a series of tables for calculating longitude using chronometers. In 1772 he was appointed to the second voyage 1772-75 of Captain James Cook. He replaced his brother-in-law the astronomer Charles Green 1735-71 who had died on the return leg of the first voyage. His meticulous attention to detail is noted in his frustration ‘I begin to despair …of doing any thing to the Purpose here and yet I am such a slave to it that I have scarce time to eat’. Suarez noted that in Malekula he took 32 sets of observations and at Tanna 45! He was able to correct the longitude of the South Island of New Zealand placing it 40 minutes further west an error at Cook Strait of about 34 miles. Cook himself wrote in his journal that ‘Mr Wales whose abilities is equal to his assiduity lost no one observation that could possibly be obtained’ ODNB.<br /> <br /> This resulted in the more often found ‘The Original Astronomical Observations’ 1777 publishing the findings. Of that book Davidson wrote in 1970 that it was ‘as important as it is rare … I have not noted a copy for sale in recent years and should a copy become available it would certainly arouse great competition between collectors …’. He then became responsible for publishing the same from the results of Cook’s first voyage based on the observations of Cook Clerke and Green. Wales would become Master of Mathematics at Christ’s Hospital in 1775 and served on the Board of Longitude until his death in 1798.<br /> <br /> This example appears to be an unrecorded early issue as pages 94-95 are omitted 93 and 96 are printed back-to-back. The signature of this leaf is Bb and there is no Bb2. The next leaf paginated 97 bears the signature Cc as expected. The title page of the second copy is identical to the first as are all the other text pages with some slight variation in the darkness of the impression. In the second copy Bb is complete with the pages numbered 93-96 and CC begins on page 97. Pages 94 to 95 are continuations of the discussions about longitude begun on page 93. At this point Captain Cook's log was near the entrance of the harbour of Rio Janiero sic. The entire work is a detailed analysis of what the longitudinal readings are and should be referencing Capt. Cook's and Mr. Green's observations. <br /> <br /> The two charts are engraved by James Basire 1730-1802 who was the son of Isaac Basire 1704-68 also an engraver. He was clearly regarded in some standing as he was named engraver to the Society of Antiquaries in 1759 and to the Royal Society in 1770. That of the east coast of New Holland extends from Point Hicks in the south to the tip of Cape York with accompanying track of the ‘Endeavour’. The book records the observation not only of Cook but his predecessors in the Pacific; John Byron on the Dolphin 1764-66 Samuel Wallis on the Dolphin 1766-68 and Philip Carteret on the Swallow 1766-69. The final third of the book is on ‘Deductions from the Observations’. An extremely rare work of great significance. Beaglehole 1955-67 I p. cclxiv; Beddie 1970 719; Davidson 1970; ESTC T141525; not in Ferguson 1975; not in Hill 1974; Holmes 1952 71; Howgego 2003 W3; ODNB; Sabin 1868-1936 101029; Suarez 2004 pp. 133-5; not in Tooley Australia 1979; Worms & Baynton-Williams 2004. <br /> <br /> The printer's error volume - Small folio 285 x 235 mm. in nineteenth century half calf marbled paper boards spine with ornate gilt bands with ornate gilded green leather title label small area of professional restoration to upper and lower portions of spine yellow edged. With typographic title Contents Errata Introduction pp. 4 xii 4 146 text block 286 x 232 mm with two large folding engraved maps unrecorded early issue printers’ error of pp. 94-95 omitted some foxing on pp. ix-xii tear without loss to p. 59 otherwise in very good condition. <br /> <br /> The complete text volume lacking the two maps - Small folio 305 x 242mm with typographic title Contents Errata Introduction pp. 4 xii 4 146. Text block 297 x 233 mm. Lacking the two folding maps. Rebound in full brown morocco gilt title untrimmed. Library stamp of the Royal Observatory on the title page only. C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly unknown
