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1786161888London: J.F. and C. Rivington; G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1786. Original Edition Not a Reprint. Leather bound. A tight copy free of marks but with general shelf and age soiling to covers and page ends. An old damp stain to page bottoms through main text page 9. Front vellum cover and spine detached from text body but still attached to back cover. Upper part of vellum spine missing as is a bit from the tail of spine into the back cover. Text block tight. Vellum / leather / boards. xviii 196 16 pp. tables 4 33 pp. tables 7 1. .Shewing By plain and practical Rules to Survey Protract Cast up Reduce or Divide any Piece of Land whatsoever; with new Tables for the Ease of the Surveyor in Reducing the Measure of Land. Moreover A more Facile and Sure Way of Surveying by the Chain than has hitherto been taught. As Also To lay out New Lands in America or elsewhere : And how to make a perfect map of a river's mouth or harbour : with several other things never before published in our language. This copy belonged to D. Hughes dated 1821 on the ffep. J.F. and C. Rivington; G.G.J. and J. Robinson hardcover books
1731223283London: Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch . and W. Innys 1731. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf red leather spine label. Boards missing else clean. The Fourth Edition. Diagrams. xx 196 16 4 36 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed for A Bettesworth and C. Hitch ... and W. Innys unknown books
17012506"A Gringuenaude i.e. Paris: chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant rue du Gros Visage a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil attenant l'Hôtellerie de la Fleur" 1701. 12mo 129 x 76 mm. viii 64 pp. Half-title. Expressive woodcut vignette on title a chamber pot and its contents. Occasional very light spotting else fine. 19th-century citron morocco sides gilt panelled spine gilt lettered longitudinally turn-ins gilt gilt edges pair of vellum flyleaves by Koehler with his signature on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition of a silly scatological spoof. Farts excrement latrines and their Rabelaisian synonyms provide characters' and place names and an endless supply of windy jokes in this ultimately tragic love tale. The hero Prince Croqu'Etron Sht-eater son of the sneaky Roi de Vesse Silent-But-Deadly-Fart falls in love with the lovely Princess Foirette Diarrhea daughter of his father's enemy the open-hearted Roi Petaut Loud Fart. Abetted by King Vesse's minister Constipati whose secret liaison with one of Foirette's governesses Lady Clisterine Enema makes him take the Prince's side Croqu'Etron persuades his father to replace war with dynastic marriage a gentler path to territorial aggrandizement. Love vanquishes all King Petaud gives Prince Croqu'Etron a handsome commode chair and the Kingdom of Caca finds peace but the newly married lovers meet their demise at the hands of the evil Prince Gadouard Manure who drowns them in vats of perfume and is punished by the king with the opposite fate being buried alive in you know what. This clever extended dirty joke complete with satirical preface and facetious printing permission dated from Laval 1 Sept. 1701 and a final selection of verses sung at the royal marriage at some point became associated with the fairy tale author Mlle. de Lubert ca. 1702-ca. 1779 whose style it appears to parody. Either through a misunderstanding or as a joke the book was even sometimes attributed to her notwithstanding both its contents and the date of the permission d'imprimer. This is the only 18th-century edition but the book's publishing history was garbled by Gay who describes two 18th-century editions dating the supposed first ca. 1701 based on the facetious permission and a second edition from ca. 1790; according to Gay only the second edition contains the section titled Contes et devis. which appear in this edition on pp. 56-64. Confused library cataloguers have thus dated this edition to ca. 1790. Its typography however points to an earlier date. Stanford University holds a manuscript of the text from the Phillipps collection with textual variants dated 1716. Reprints appeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. OCLC lists 4 copies in N. American libraries. Jannet Bibliotheca scatologica 1850 28; Gay-Lemonnyer II:581-2; Barbier II:833; Quérard La France Littéraire V: 382; Cioranescu 18. s. 40961. Cf. note in the Bulletin du bibliophile et du bibliothécaire vol. 14 p. 645; D. Haase ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales 2008 I:590-91. chez Vincent d'Avalos & Fleurimont Mordant, rue du Gros Visage, a l'Enseigne du Privé Conseil, attenant l' hardcover books
1730047144London 1730. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary sheep rebacked new endpapers added while retaining the old pastedowns refreshed one with a small tear. Scattered foxing old signature to title. Tear to edge of A2 in the dedication touching a catchword. 7 v 4 237 3pp. With the three page bookseller catalog at rear.<br/><br/>The rare first English edition - a second edition was published in 1732. Both are rare this first less often seen in commerce. It is I'm pretty sure intended as satire but the misogyny of the time and the misogyny of the satire have over time blurred together so that it is difficult to separate the two. François Bruys condemned women for their taste for "prize-fighters" "hackney coach-men" and "rope-dancers". Damnable rope-dancers! Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Women & Feminism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 047144. hardcover books
