1. [ANON.]. Gloriosos progressos, y felizes victorias que hanconseguido las armas Christianas, contra el podor Mahometano. Porlas armas del invicto el señor emperador de Alemania, y el señor rey dePolonia, y principes, y señores de la liga sagrada. Vá compuesto pordiarios de todo lo que vá sucediendo de dia à dia, desde el año de 1683hasta primeros de 1684 con los sermones que se han predicado en lassuntuosas fiestas que la muy noble, y muy mas leal ciudad de Sevilla leha hecho este año de 1683. Diario primero, y segundo [this second partwanting] [- Diario treze]. Seville, Tomàs Lopez de Haro, 1683-1684.

[bound with:]

ALCAZAR Y ZUNIGA, Juan Antonio. Panegyrico historial, yexhortacion gratulatoria, en la solemnissima festividad, que consagrò àdios sacramentado la santa iglesia metropolitana, y patriarcal de Seuillael dia diez de Nouiembre deste año, en accion de gracias por el felizsucesso de la milagrosa victoria, que contra las armas Otomanasobtuvieron las cesareas, y Catolicas, auxiliadas del señor rey de Polonia,y governadas por el señor duque de Lorena, sobre Viena restaurada ...Seville, Juan Vejarano, 1683.

[and:]PARDO, Francisco. Sermon predicado en el religiosissimo colegiodel angel, de la esclarecida familia de Carmelitas descalcos ... por ...Francisco Pardo, prior en su convento de Santa Maria de Monte-Sion... en la suntuosa festividad, que el dia Jueves 11 de Noviembre desteaño 1683 celebrò el real acuerdo de la real audiencia de esta ciudad ...en accion de gracias por la feliz victoria de la armas imperiales, Polacas,y Catolicas, contra las lunas Otomanas, en el sitio de Viena ... Seville,Juan Antonio Tarazona, [c. 1683].

[and:]CARMONA, Bartolomè de. Oracion panegyrica, y historial, en lasmas plausible fiesta, que consagro al verdadero dios de los exercitos,trino, y uno la siempre nobilissima, y piadosissima hermandad de lacaridad de Sevilla, en accion de gracias, por el mas milagroso triunfo,

SEVILLIAN CELEBRATIONS FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF VIENNA

que contra el arrogante poder Otomano, configuieron las armas catolicassobre el cerco de Viena ... Seville, Tomàs Lopez de Haro, 1683.

Four works in one vol., the first in nine parts, 4to, pp. 23, [1], ff. 6,pp. 11, [1 blank], 8, 16, 16, 16, 8, 16, 12; [viii], 30; 32; [vi], 18; the firstwork wanting the Diario segundo; titles within borders of type orna-ments, woodcut initials and tail-pieces, text of final work in twocolumns; occasional very light foxing, a few ink stains; very goodcopies in contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties, ink lettering tospine; cockled and stained, upper hinge detached from spine; a few oldmarginalia.

£1500

Extremely scarce collection of works published in Seville marking thevictory of the Habsburg Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,and the Holy Roman Empire against the Ottomans at the Battle ofVienna in September 1683, after the city had been besieged for twomonths, and recording the aftermath of the victory as the Christian alliespursued the Ottoman troops into Hungary. The first work comprisesnine Diarios providing ‘nuevas ordinarias del norte’ and details of the‘guerra sagrada contra Turcos’ up to the end of January 1684, includingdetails of troop numbers, copies of letters to and from John III Sobieski,king of Poland, and verses in honour of Sobieski, Charles V, Duke ofLorraine, and others. The following three works bear witness to thecelebrations which took place in Seville following the ‘mas milagrosotriunfo’ against the ‘arrogante poder Otomano’.

All the works collected here are rare. Of the Diarios we can find nocopies of the first part on OCLC, and only copies of part 3 at the BritishLibrary, and of parts 5, 11 and 12, and 13 at the Universidad de Sevilla.OCLC records only one US copy of the Panegyrico historial (atBinghamton) and no UK or US copies of the Sermon predicado andOracion panegyrica.

2. [BANK OF ENGLAND]. Copy of the Charter of the Corporationof the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. [27 July 1694].London, J. Bell, 1788.

8vo, pp. 84; a very good copy, bound with many quires of blank leavesin contemporary polished calf, rebacked.

£650

The Bank of England charter, the second oldest such charter in theworld, enjoyed a few reissues (all of which are now very scarce) in theeighteenth century, a momentous period in the life of this institution.It was then that the notion and reality of National Debt arose, the Bankof England being the entity called upon to manage it; and the 1781charter renewal had also sanctioned its role as the bankers’ bank –keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand.

This copy was bound with numerous blank quires at the end, evidentlyfor an owner who might have wanted to integrate the text withannotations of his own.

ESTC T34129.

3. BERTELLI, Francesco. Il carnevale italiano mascherato ove siveggono in figura varie invenzione di capritii. [Venice], Fra(nces)coBert(ell)i, 1642.

16 engraved plates including title page; plates 110 x 90 mm, mountedon sheets 145 x 105 mm; a few plates torn at margin with loss,sometimes affecting the engraved area.

£5800 + VAT in the E.U.

Second edition. The first series of engravings devoted exclusively tothe masquerades performed during the Venetian Carnival, firstpublished circa 1610. A wonderful set of prints depicting various Italiancharacters in carnival costumes and masks, and caricaturing figures ofeveryday life: Mattaccino; Pantalone; Coviello; Zanni; Burattino;Ferrarese; Bullo; Cingana, gypsies; Viloti, peasants; Maschera daVechia, the old woman; Maschera da Povereto, the beggar; Petegola thegossip; musicians; and a crude caricature of two Jews with long-nosedmasks, holding account books in their hands. A number of the platesare based on engravings from Pietro Bertelli’s Diversarum nationumhabitus, published between 1589 and 1597.

This is an important and appealing documenting of the VenetianCarnival, among the most famous in Europe as much for the beauty ofits masks and its splendour as for its transgression and looseness. Theplates are also important for the history of costume and musicalinstruments, perfectly depicting the costumes and instruments used inBertelli’s time: a musician with a lute serenading two women on abalcony; a masked musician playing a Colascione and another playingthe guitar; Bragato playing a viol overarm.

Francesco Bertelli was active in Padua in the first half of the seventeenthcentury. His father was the publisher Pietro Bertelli.

Very rare. Only a few copies have appeared at auction in at least thirtyyears. It is difficult to determine with certainty the composition of thesuite. Numbers of plates vary from copy to copy: 24 plates in the Colas,Lipperheide and Metropolitan Museum of Art copies; 28 plates in theMuseo Correr in Venice, the most complete known set. The BritishMuseum locates one series of 14 loose impressions and a further nineplates inserted at the end of the parte prima of Francesco Scotti’sItinerario, published by Francesco Bolzetta in Vicenza in 1638-39.

Colas 317; Lipperheide, 3168; Metropitan Museum of art 2009.456;British Museum 1972, U.265.1-166 (book) and 1881,1008.80 (looseplates); cf. Lina Padoan, Il carnevale veneziano nelle maschere inciseda Francesco Bertelli (Polifilo, 1986).

two different hands, bound at the end of the volume. These concernrequests made by the parishioners of San Vittore that preaching duringEaster and Advent be restored to their church, both denied. Letter ‘A’details the Sub-prefect’s plans to take someone to court for their‘inadmissible’ and dishonourable behaviour: preaching against theruling of the Congregation and sowing quarrels amongst the populace.

A full list of contents is available on request.

4. [CATHOLIC CHURCH.] Sacra Congregatione Rituum Emo etRmo D. Cardinali Corsini ponente Civitatis Castellanaepraeeminentiarum … Rome, Typis Lazzarini, 1778-1783.

Folio, pp. XLIII, 594 (numbered in manuscript), comprising 38 printeditems (a few with contemporary annotations) and a few leaves ofcontemporary and early 19th-century manuscript (some slightly frayedat fore-edge), including a list of contents; woodcut vignettes to sometitles; very crisp and clean overall; in contemporary carta rustica, titlein manuscript to spine; inscription inside lower cover ‘San Andrea ...’.

£850

An extraordinary set of printed pamphlets, all apparently unrecordedon OCLC, recording the deliberations and decisions of the SacraRituum Congregatio (Sacred Congregation of Rites) in a long-runningdispute over rites and privileges, concerning processions and burials,between the church of Sant’ Andrea and the neighbouring churches ofSan Vittore and of the Madonna del Ruscello in Vallerano, in theprovince of Viterbo, northwest of Rome. The judicial wrangling wasoverseen by Cardinal Andrea Corsini (1735-1795) of Civita Castellana,prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, who hadsat on the committee for the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773. Createdin 1588, the Sacra Rituum Congregatio operated until 1969, and thissammelband provides a fascinating insight into its extraordinarilythorough deliberations in the late eighteenth century.

The inscription inside the lower cover suggests that this set belonged tothe church of Sant’ Andrea itself. The church was represented in thedispute by its head, Joannes Antonio Rossetti, acting against the curateof San Vittore, Victor Purchiaroni, and the sexton of the Chiesa dellaMadonna del Ruscello, Hieronymus Janni.

There are two letters marked ‘A’, dated 1809, and ‘B’, dated 1808, in

PUTTING RITES TO RIGHTS

printed, but the second to be issued) was printed shortly afterwards byGrismond ‘doubtless for the same publisher, Richard Royston […]evidently the production was hurried, in order to satisfy an urgentdemand. This edition […] must have appeared in or about the secondhalf of February 1648/9’ (Madan).

This copy survives in a contemporary semi-sombre binding of blackmorocco, and in this example the heading of the contents is misprinted‘Contens’, which Madan notes occurs ‘in some copies’.

Almack 4; Madan 2.

5. CHARLES I, King of England  –  Εικων  Βασιλιχη. ThePourtraicture of his Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings.[?London: John Grismond ?for Richard Royston], ‘1648’ [i.e. February1649].

8vo, pp. [8], 269, [1], [2]; woodcut title-ornament and initial, type-ornament headband, double-page engraved frontispiece by WilliamMarshall [Madan 1, second state]; some light browning, a few lightspots, some light wear on margins for first and last quires, frontispiececropped at head and with short tear on fold; contemporary full Englishblack morocco gilt, the boards with borders of double gilt rules withfloral cornerpieces, spine divided into compartments by double giltrules, gilt-ruled board-edges, all edges gilt; a little rubbed, lackingendpapers, otherwise a very good copy; provenance: scored-throughwords on front flyleaf – Trattle (late 18th-/early 19th-century name onp. 1, possibly a member of the Trattle family, Isle of Wight) – Roach,Redway (early-19th-century inscription on p. 1, presumably a memberof the Roach family of Redway, Isle of Wight) – loosely-inserted, late19th-/early 20th-century manuscript note on the work.

£650

Third (second published) edition, most probably published in thesame month as the first edition. Presented as the spiritualautobiography of King Charles I, Eikon Basilike is now generallybelieved to have been compiled by the bishop of Worcester, JohnGauden (1599/1600?-1662), from writings by the king. The first editionwas set up shortly before the king’s execution on 30 January 1649, butthe authorities became aware of it and raided the press, apparentlydestroying the entire edition. Royston then transported the printingoperation to a location outside London and printed another edition, thefirst published edition, which may have been available on the day of theking’s death, and was certainly in circulation during the first weeks ofFebruary. Such was its popularity that this edition (the third to be

IN A CONTEMPORARY SEMI-SOMBRE MOROCCO BINDING

sense of his personality: ‘Henry Kelsall Prescott [sic] (“KP”) was bornon October 5, 1898, the son of a solicitor with a practice in Bombay andwas appointed to the staff at Eton College in September 1930. A lifelongabstainer and nonsmoker, [KP] was an enthusiast of powerful vintagemotor cars including an open 50-hp Mercedes (known to the boys as“Goering” from its supposed provenance). For most of his life … [KP]tended to be alarmed by women, and might cross the road to avoidconfronting a colleague’s wife, especially if she were pushing a pram.It was not until his ninth decade that his manner became more relaxed’.In 1958 he retired but within a few months he was recalled for a further10 years after the sudden death of the college librarian. ‘Security wasthen uncomplicated: at the end of each half, acting on the provost’sinstructions, [KP] would trundle the Gutenberg Bible down to the bankin a wheelbarrow, and then back again for the following half’ (AndrewKelsall Pearson).

Pearson’s attitude to wives taken into consideration, the final commentin the manuscript note carries a note of melancholy: ‘I do hope that youwon’t forget me if you come down here to see your friends. MeantimeI wish you both all possible happiness, and look forward to seeing youat your greater leisure sometime in the fairly near future. Thine, Prescot’.

A full list of titles is available on request.

6. [ETON COLLEGE.] PRESCOT, Henry Kelsall, Assistant Masterand Librarian. Photographs of Eton College, a presentation albumwedding gift. 1933-36.

17 gelatin silver print photographs, ranging from 5 x 6 inches (12.6 x15.1 cm) to 7 ⅞ x 5 ⅞ inches (20.1 x 15 cm), each mounted within aneatly ruled border on rectos of thick, hand-made paper and captionedbeneath in pencil; untrimmed, occasional tarnishing to edges of prints;bound in the original pink cloth with Eton College arms embossed ingilt on upper board; cloth a little faded and marked, rubbed at cornerswith some loss at head and foot of spine, but overall impression good;dedication inscription ‘A. A. M. from P. K. H., February 8th 1936’ onfront free endpaper, manuscript letter dated 9th Feb loosely inserted. £700

A finely presented photograph album compiled by Henry KelsallPrescot, assistant master and later librarian at Eton 1930-67, as awedding gift.

The format of the album suggests that for Prescot, or a possible othercompiler, photography was a serious pursuit and they took as much careover the presentation of the photographs as those exhibiting atphotographic societies at that time. The Etonian subjects indicate arecipient who was a colleague or perhaps a student of Prescot. Severalimages depict a dance or ball at Eton in July 1933, which might haveheld some significance to ‘Anthony’, the recipient, or perhaps to hisnew wife. We have been so far unable to identify Anthony.

The Willowbrook address, the masters’ residence at Eton, is featured inthe letterhead of the illustrated manuscript note, which bemoanswedding presents that arrive before or at weddings as ‘more bother thanthey are worth’ (and so explains the discrepancy between the date onthe endpaper and the letter), and suggests that Anthony might insteadappreciate it on his return from honeymoon.

The information available to us on Prescot, though limited, does give a

The Gordons operated a careful business, with as little speculation aspossible; they did not sell wine on their own account, but rather exploitedtheir aristocratic social networks to solicit firm orders for large quantities– a pipe (110 gallons) minimum – paid for in advance. Customersincluded the Duke of Gordon and the Earl of Fife in Scotland, and inLondon the Duke of Portland, Metholds wine merchants, the St JamesCoffee House and the London Tavern. From the present archive we canadd Thomas Seward of Lichfield, the friend of Samuel Johnson andfather of the poet Anna Seward, whose receipt of a pipe of wine is signedFebruary 1777, ‘but as three Gentlemen join with me in the Purchase Ihave not yet pegged it’.

7. [GORDON OF LETTERFOURIE.] A substantial archive relatingto the trade network of the Scottish merchants James and AlexanderGordon, of Letterfourie, Banffshire, which was based around Madeiraand the West Indies. London, Madeira, New York etc. 1760-1780s.

c. 190 items, part-printed or manuscript, including 160+ accountspayable (London, Hamburg), 3 bills of lading (New York, 1769 andHamburg, 1770), 21 bills of exchange (mostly New York, but alsoNewfoundland and Virginia, 1765-1779), and a small amount of corre-spondence; the accounts payable mostly docketed on the verso with thevessel used for transport, and countersigned to acknowledge receipt ofpayment; folded, in fine condition.

£6500 + VAT in the E.U.

A fine and fascinating commercial archive.

The British dominated the trade in wine from Madeira in the eighteenthcentury, benefitting from the island’s use as a stopping point en routeto the Americas and India, and from long-standing alliances betweenBritain and Portugal. The Gordons were major players, operating acomplex trade bringing in dry goods from the Baltic, the British Isles,and North America, and shipping Madeira wine to the West Indies andBritain. Success was great enough for James Gordon to have a countryhouse designed by Robert Adam built at Letterfourie.

A major Jacobite Scottish family – Alexander fought as one of BonniePrince Charlie’s bodyguards at Culloden before going into exile inFrance – the Gordons entered the Madeira trade only in 1730, whenJames Gordon began operations with a Galway merchant WilliamHalloran (d. 1758). His brother Alexander (1715-1797) joined him fromFrance at some point, and was left to run the island business in 1760when James returned to build trade in London. Alexander himselfreturned to London in 1769, by which time he had been joined on theisland by his nephews James and Robert Duff, also of Banffshire.

THE MADEIRA TRADE – STAVES FROM HAMBURG,WHEAT FROM NEW YORK, MAPS, SILVER AND SOFAS FROM LONDON

the ship was sold for breaking up in this year. He was due £15/4/11 forthe affair, which comprised 13 dishes in the first course, including ‘Hama la Braize’, ‘Fricandaux’, and ‘Lamb Jardineer’; and a second courseof 11 dishes, including wild pigeon, teal and crayfish. His wife wasowed for tableware and crockery.

There are three invoices of bibliophilic interest too: one from Cadell in1781 for ‘1 Gibbon vol 2nd & 3rd Boards £2 2’; one from Nourse in thesame year for a Spanish Dictionary [Barretti?] and a grammar; and onefrom Sayer and Bennett for 2 sets of world maps (4 sheets each) at £312, maps of Jamaica and the Leeward Islands, and a general atlas[Kitchin?].

See Alistair Mutch, ‘Europe, the British Empire and the Madeira Trade:Catholicism, Commerce and the Gordon of Letterfourie Networkc.1730-c.1800’, in Northern Scotland 7, 2016.

The bills payable here (some 160+ items) provide evidence of outgoingsin many fields of the family business. The Madeira trade required heavyinvestment in raw materials for barrels – the Gordons favoured stavesand iron hoops from Hamburg, but dealt with a wide range of providers(Trinder and Halford, Thomas Allen, Ingham and Foster, JohnChippindale, Christian Heineken …) as well as employing Londonworkers to refurbish old pipes. The pipes could either be sent as partsand assembled on the island, or shipped containing other commoditiesin demand there, such as flax, flour and wheat (all in evidence here inlarge quantities). If shipped as parts, there was room for other dry goods,most frequently cloth, but the Gordons also acted as agents for the importof goods as various as sofas (a bill from John Baillie in 1773 itemises4 large mahogany sofa trains, 168 pounds hair, 4500 nails,workmanship, 328 ft of packing case etc), silver plate (£45 worth forthe magistrate or coregedor Dr. Antonio Botelho Guedes), even greentea, as well as small parcels or trunks of sundries (e.g. a box of coloursfor drawing, bathing caps, 24 political magazines, and a gold-headedcane for Henry Ogilvie in 1781). The running of the business also hadits requirements, and there are half a dozen invoices for stationery,including quires of paper, ledgers, bills of lading, and pens, as well asWedgwood ink-stands.

A long invoice for clothing to be shipped on the Thames in 1772 (oneof several such) includes fine suits and waistcoats for the Duffs and foranother business partner, Daniel Henry Smith, as well as livery andepaulets ‘for Black Servt Francis’ and ‘for Black Boy’; another is for‘50 Blue Fearnothing Jackets [a sturdy wool for sailor’s clothing] wellmade & 44 inches long’.

Beyond physical commodities there are bills for brokerage, portage andshipping, provisions, and insurance premiums (on voyages betweenLondon, Madeira, Honduras, the Leeward Islands etc). A long statementon account tallies the disbursements due to Joseph English as captainof the Dreadnought, a privateer out of Bristol, as of 23 July 1760.Another fascinating invoice is from one Cartwright for an elaborate mealon board the Hastings at Blackwell in 1783 – a former East Indiaman,

8. GROSSI, Vincenzo. Fra i Pelli-Rosse d’America: curiositàetnografiche. Turin, La Letteratura, 1888.

8vo, pp. 25, [3]; some light foxing, but a very good copy in the originalprinted paper wrappers; old library shelfmark label across the foot ofthe spine.

£300

Very rare only edition of a pamphlet about native peoples of NorthAmerica by the ethnographer and geographer Grossi. His overviewconcentrates primarily on funeral rites and dances, on poetry, narrativeand songs, of which he cites several examples undoubtedly for the firsttime translating them into Italian.

OCLC lists 2 copies (Rice and Yale); not in COPAC. See EuropeanReview of Native American Studies (1990), vol. 4-6, p. 6.

RARE ON NATIVE AMERICANS

cover the care of books (bookworms, stains, treating leather etc.), theEstienne family, Aldines and Elzevirs, and milestones in printing.

ESTC T108276.

9. HARWOOD, Edward. A view of the various editions of the Greekand Roman classics, with remarks ... The fourth edition. To which isadded, a view of the prices of the early editions of the classics, at thesale of the Pinellian Library. London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790.

12mo, pp. [2], xxvii, [1], 340, [8]; a very good, crisp and clean copy;contemporary calf, recently rebacked with neat repairs to corners andedges, gilt spine, red morocco lettering-piece; numerous pencil and inkannotations to endpapers and text, newspaper cutting (‘Printers andprinting’) to rear pastedown; faint ownership inscription in pencil tofront flyleaf (‘J. E. Rose’?).

£450

The ‘greatly improved and enlarged’ fourth edition of Harwood’s classicwork, dedicated to his collaborator, the book collector Michael Wodhull,with annotations by an evidently knowledgeable bibliophile owner.Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar, Harwood (1729-1794) wasa prolific writer, but it was this work, first published in 1775, thatcontributed most to his scholarly reputation, being translated into bothGerman and Italian. In addition to the valuable bibliographical content,the preface is an enjoyable read: ‘The pleasure of collecting classics,like other pleasures, may be carried to ridiculous and criminalextravagance ... Of this species of intemperance, I frankly acknowledge,I have formerly been guilty ... It is agreeable to investigate the historyof a scarce book, and to follow it in its transmission from age to age,and behold the different value it acquires in migrating through a varietyof hands.’

This copy is considerably enhanced by annotations by a 19th-/early20th-century owner correcting and supplementing Harwood’s text andadding prices fetched at auction. Items in the annotator’s own collectionare occasionally given a shelfmark (e.g. ‘I6’) or location (‘Stairs’), andhe records his ownership of ‘Harwood’s own copy’ of the 1681 editionof Ammianus Marcellinus, for example. His annotations at the end

‘THE PLEASURE OF COLLECTING CLASSICS, LIKE OTHER PLEASURES,MAY BE CARRIED TO RIDICULOUS AND CRIMINAL EXTRAVAGANCE’

10. LAW, John. Oeuvres de J. Law, contrôleur – général des financesde France, sous le régent; contenant les principes sur le numéraire, lecommerce, le crédit et les banques. Avec des notes. Paris, Buisson,1790.

8vo, pp. [4], l [i.e. 50], [2], 431, [1 blank]; with half-title; a little lightspotting; a very good clean copy in contemporary tree patterned sheep,spine gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-piece, marbledendpapers, red edges; very slightly rubbed; a very nice copy.

£1750

First edition of the Oeuvres of the Scottish-born gambler, adventurer,creator of the Mississippi System, and French minister of finance, JohnLaw (1671-1729), the ‘latter-day Cardinal Mazarin and Nicolas Fouquetcombined’ (ODNB), credited with ‘splendid, but visionary ideas’ byAdam Smith, and described by Schumpeter as ‘in the front rank ofmonetary theorists of all times’.

‘The work of disinterring Law’s literary remains was begun by GeneralE. de Senovert with his first edition of the Oeuvres de Jean Law, Paris,1790’ (Hyde, John Law, p. 198). Apart from Money and TradeConsidered, here in its second French edition, all of the works in thiscollection, including two Mémoire sur les Banques and a number ofletters, were previously unpublished.

Goldsmiths’ 14361; Kress B.1919; Lande p. 70; Sabin 39314.

LUTHER’S ECONOMICS

11. LUTHER, Martin. Von Kauffshandlung und Wucher. Wittenberg,[Hans Lufft], 1524.

4to, ff. [36]; title printed within elaborate allegorical woodcut border;closed tear and marginal chip to the title-page effectively and discreetlyrepaired, title reinforced at gutter, minor worm-hole throughout (notimpairing legibility) light waterstain to the initial three leaves, else aclean, crisp copy in recent marbled wrappers.

£8000

First edition, very rare, of Luther’s Treatise on trade and usury: thefirst appearance of the part on trade published with a re-issue of his‘Long Sermon on Usury’ which had first been published in 1520.‘Luther’s “Treatise on Trade and Usury” is of considerable significancefor understanding Luther’s ethics, and of great interest to the economichistorian inasmuch as it includes keen observations on the businesspractices of the early sixteenth century. Luther’s frame of referencewas of course that of the Middle Ages. He held to the long scholastictradition, which, following Aristotle, taught that money does not producemoney. He agreed with the canonists, who for years had taught thatusury is something evil. In common with the vast majority of his learnedcontemporaries, he knew very little about economic laws. Of thefar-reaching economic revolution that was transforming Germany froma nation of peasant agriculturalists into a society with at least thebeginnings of a capitalistic economy, he had no conception whatsoever.Its obvious manifestations, high prices and growing disparity in wealth,were to him nothing more than the results of the greed and avarice ofsinful men, a judgment consistent with his own personal indifferenceto money and wealth, other than as means of subsistence and somethingto be shared with less fortunate brethren’ (W. Brandt in his edition ofLuther’s Works, 45, p. 233).

12. MAYALL, GHÉMAR FRÈRES, JABEZ HUGHES, W. & D.DOWNEY, VERNON HEATH, photographers. Carte de visiteportraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including Princess ofWales (Alexandra of Denmark) and daughter Princess Louise of Hesse(Princess Alice). 1861–circa 1870.

10 albumen print photographs, each approximately 3½ x 2¼ inches(9 x 6 cm), in carte de visite format, one signed and dated in negative(and one edited copy print of the same), 9 with photographer’s printedcredit below or on verso, 4 with publisher’s printed or embossed crediton verso; each mounted on thick card approximately 4 x 2½ inches(10 x 6.5 cm).

£750

A selection of portraits of both Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, severalby Mayall, who was the first photographer to publish carte de visiteimages of the Royal Family.

The photographs of Victoria show the Queen in mourning, one viewwith her daughter Alice and daughter-in-law Alexandra, and anotherwith a grandchild on her knee. Two poses have her sat gazing at aphotograph in her hand, presumably of Albert.

Sales of celebrity cartes de visite could provide a profitable business fora photographic studio and many wanted a share in the interest in the latePrince. One of the images of Albert is a copy print after another Mayalloffered here. It has been edited, most significantly covering the originalphotographer’s signature in the negative, and highlights the way inwhich the carte de visite was being disseminated and the lengths otherstudios might go to enter the market after Albert’s untimely death in1861 when presumably the demand for a souvenir of him had risen.The modification of the negative signature was necessary if indeed theseller was breaching the copyright of the original photographer Mayall.The other uncredited image of him published by Mason and Co seemsto have been priced on the verso as 1 penny and 6 shillings.

Luther shows particular acumen when, in the last section of the Usurypart, he identifies the Zinskauf (or Rentenkauf) practice (a ‘buying ofincome’ contract which presented what was effectively a loan as a sale,a predecessor of the mortgage loan) as an infringement of the secularlaw against usury, arguing that the generation of interest in the processclearly went against the principle whereby ‘nummus non paretnummum’ (‘money does not produce money’, and correspondingly,normatively, money should not produce money).

‘Luther’s work On Trading and Usury (“Von Kauffshandlung undWucher”) was published some time before the end of June, 1524. Inthe beginning of the treatise he says that he has been “urged and begged”to expose some of the financial doings of the time, and has yielded tothe request, though he knows that things have gone too far to be checkedby his writing. Concerning the source of the requests we are notinformed but it is not unlikely that they arose out of the discussion ofmonopolies and the best means for suppressing them, which occurredat the Diet of Nuremberg, January to April, 1524.

‘Complaints were made in many quarters about the operations of thetrading companies, which were taking a commanding position in certainlines of trade, and seeking to create monopolies. Similar complaintswere made about the steady advance in commodity prices, which wasgeneral throughout Germany and which worked great hardship on someclasses. The rise of the companies and the phenomenal profits that theywere making were, not unnaturally, connected in many minds with theadvance in prices. […]

‘In the autumn of 1519 [Luther] had published a brief tract On Usury.A month or so later (December, 1519) he completed a revision andexpansion of it, which was published early in 1520 […] He nowrepublished the longer treatise On Usury, furnishing it with a newconclusion, and prefaced it with a new treatise On Trading’ (C.M.Jacobs, On Trading and Usury, 1524, introduction, online).

Benzing 1940. Not in Goldsmiths’ or Kress.

Jabez Meal adopted the name John Jabez Edwin Mayall when he leftYorkshire for America in 1842, having worked in the linen trade. Heopened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia known for high qualityand on his return to London in 1846 he worked with Antoine Claudetbefore setting up his own studio, the Daguerreotype Institution, on theStrand. As well as being a highly proficient daguerreotypist who wascommercially successful, he was a believer in photography as an artform and was passionate in using it to illustrate emotion and drama.

Having opened a second premises on Regent Street, Mayall was one ofthe first in the UK to promote the carte de visite format. As a result ofan 1860 commission from Queen Victoria, he was the first to publishcarte de visite portraits of the Royal Family in 1860 and 1861. Thesuccess of these small portraits, which the British public startedcollecting, encouraged other leading figures to sit for him and the crazefor assembling collections of celebrity portraits took off. Otherphotographers were quick to follow but only the most professional weregranted permission to photograph the Queen and members of her family.

Full list of credits available on request.

plus amusantes de la Fronde’ (Moreau), of which we can trace no copiesoutside France.

Provenance: from the library of Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damasde Cormaillon, baron de Damas (1785-1862), the French general andMinister of War and Foreign Affairs who accompanied Charles X intoexile following the July Revolution of 1830.

A full list of contents is available on request.

13. [MAZARINADES.] ‘La Mazarinade ou collection d’un grandnombre de satyres de différents auteurs, contre le Cardinal Mazarin etce qui s’est passé sous son ministère. Le tout en vers burlesques’. Paris,1648-1649.

75 items in one vol., 4to (the last item 8vo), pp. [724] in total; contem-porary manuscript title to flyleaf and three-page manuscript index atend; woodcut vignettes to titles, some woodcut initials and head-pieces;occasional light browning and foxing, a few light damp stains tocorners, else very good in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt incompartments with red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, marbledendpapers; extremities a little rubbed, a few small worm holes tocovers; oval armorial ink stamp ‘Bibliothèque de Monr. Le Baron deDamas’ to title of first work.

£2500

An impressive collection of Mazarinades published in Paris in the years1648 and 1649 during the Fronde Parlementaire, including several itemsnot found on COPAC or in US libraries. Key figures of the Frondecovered by the contents, besides Cardinal Mazarin, queen Anne ofAustria and Louis XIV, include Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé,Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, François de Vendôme, Duc deBeaufort, and Pierre Broussel, while the subject matter spans Condé’svictory at the battle of Lens, the Peace of Rueil, and the execution ofCharles I of England.

The collection opens with La gloire familiere ou la descriptionpopulaire de la bataille de Lens (1648), described by Moreau as ‘trèsrare’ and of which we can find no copy in UK libraries and only one inthe US. Likewise for La plainte du palais royal sur l’absence du roy,avec un dialogue du grand Hercule de bronze, & des douze statuesd’albastre, qui sont à l’entour de l’estang du jardin (1649), ‘vers raresmais détestables’ according to Moreau. The final item is an apparentlyvery rare edition of the Agreable recit de ce qui s’est passé aux dernieresbarricades de Paris (1649), ‘l’une des pièces les plus spirituelles et les

14. [ORDER OF CUIRASSIERS]. Patente de cuirassiers.[Tanopolis], [n.p.], [?early 1800s].

4to, bifolium, 23 x 18.5 cm; last three pages blank; charming woodcutvignette; decorative border; print stamp; disbound, in excellent condition.

£300

A very scarce and rather inexplicable handbill, supposedly a declarationby the grand master of the order of cuirassiers and of cuir fort, issuedfrom the fictional city of Tanopolis and in the name of ‘l’EmpereurPataqu’est-ce’. The bill is presented to an estimable gentleman, whosename is blank, contracting him to convert ‘everything that comes outof his mouth’ into leather, i.e. all his expressions, and then in the futureto employ two further cuirassiers of his stature. The curious stamp atthe bottom left promises guerre a mort aux puristes; who the ‘purists’are, and what the cuirassiers might have against them, is unclear.Possibly this is a satirical attack on producers of leather who wereprofiting from supplying the war effort while diminishing the qualityof their goods. Everything about the handbill speaks of deliberateobscurity: the emperor’s name (‘who-is-it?’), the stamp, the withheldname, and the curious numerical reference to room 1234.

OCLC lists only one copy worldwide, at the BnF; not in COPAC.

IMAGINARY SOCIETY FOR STRONG LEATHER

15. PICASSO, Pablo. Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud. Paris, 1960.

Original lithograph, 300 x 230 mm, sheet 490 x 370 mm; artist’s proofsigned once in the plate and again in pencil in lower right corner. Archespaper. Nice condition.

£4500 + VAT in the E.U.

Very rare artist’s proof before the edition of 104 examples.

A great tribute by Picasso to the poet, and his contribution to ArthurRimbaud vu par les peintres contemporains, printed in 1962 by Mourlot.The portrait appears to be based on a photograph of the 17 year-oldRimbaud by Étienne Carjat in 1871.

Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker,one of the founders of the Cubist movement and one of the mostinfluential artists of the 20th Century.

Bloch, 1007; Mourlot, 342.

16. ROSLING, Alfred. ‘The Penrhyn Slate Quarries, North Wales’.1860s.

Albumen print, 6½ x 8¼ inches (16.6 x 21 cm), mounted on originalalbum page, 11⅛ x 13¾ inches (28.3 x 35 cm), photographer’s printedcredit and title and publisher’s printed credit below image ‘Printed andpublished by F. Frith, Reigate’, small tear, approx. one square cm, toupper left corner, filled with light pencil shading.

£300

Alfred Rosling (1802–1882) was an early and significant Britishphotographer, whose work is little-known today outside of a series oflandscapes he published through his brother-in-law, Francis Frith, inthe 1860s. By this time he had already been active as a photographerfor two decades, having worked with the calotype process andmicrophotography. He was the first Honorary Treasurer of thePhotographic Society and exhibited regularly between 1852 (at the firstphotographic exhibition of the Society of Arts) and 1860.

This northern Welsh quarry was the largest in the world by the end ofthe nineteenth century. As well as providing slate on a massive scale itbecame a popular tourist attraction, ‘regarded as an example of aspectacular process of the Industrial Revolution and a new wonder ofNature developed by man’. With its dramatic craters and sharp rockfaces it also provided a wealth of inspiration for artists.

to a marriage of convenience although tempted to engage in a dashingadultery; and she endures the onset of both love and jealousy withoutmelodramatic or sentimental posturings’ (Robert Adams Day).

Olinda has been interpreted by most modern critics as semi-autobiographical, an argument supported at least by the contemporaryresponse from Trotter’s rival, Delarivière Manley, who accused Trotterin The New Atalantis of ‘an air of virtue pretended’, and employed inher own fictionalised autobiography, The Adventures of Rivella (1714),the name Cleander (Olinda’s platonic interlocutor here) for Trotter’s(and later Manley’s) supposed lover, Mr Tilly.

The French translation is surprisingly faithful, though it adds to the endof each chapter a verse extract from Fontenelle, Perrault, des Preaux,Madame des Houlières and others, along with brief passages explainingtheir presence, or, for example, comparing the humours of the variousnations of Europe. The final section of Letters of Love Gallantry isalso translated here (pp. 243-326), and comprises similar short worksby other hands.

The precocious Catherine Trotter (possibly born 1674 rather than 1679as once assumed) wrote in the same year as her Olinda some competent‘Verses written at the age of fourteen, and sent to Beville Higgins onhis sickness and recovery from the small-pox’. Higgins is thought tohave introduced her to Congreve and Dryden, and her first play, Agnesde Castro, based on a story by Aphra Behn, was staged in 1695. She isperhaps best known for her Defence of Mr. Lock’s Essay of humanUnderstanding (1702), which was warmly welcomed by the philosopherwho sent her a gift of books.

OCLC records copies at Harvard, Yale, and Getty only in the US;and British Library only in the UK.

17. [TROTTER (later COCKBURN), Catherine.] Les Amours d’unebelle Angloise ou la vie et les Avantures de la jeune Olinde escrites parelle mesme en forme de Lettres à un Chevalier de ses amis. A CologneChez *****. [i.e The Netherlands?] 1695.

12mo, pp. [8], 326, with an engraved frontispiece; title-page printed inred and black; a very good copy in late nineteenth-century quarter clothand boards; booklabel of Dr. Antoine Compin, two early auctiondescriptions on front pastedown.

£950

First edition in French of the writer and philosopher Catherine Trotter’svery rare first publication, ‘Olinda’s Adventures’, an innovativeepistolary novel with a female narrator written while Trotter was still ateenager. It was among the earliest works of English popular fictionto be translated into French, marketed as a ‘nouvelle galante’, andpublished under a fictitious imprint. It was popular enough to be furthertranslated from the French into Italian.

‘Olinda’s Adventures’ first appeared anonymously as the nucleus of acollection of Letters of Love and Gallantry … Vol I (1693, Bodley onlyin ESTC). Anticipating the rise of the modern domestic and realisticnovel by several decades, it was arranged into eight chapters or letters,dealing with Olinda’s relations with eight suitors from the age ofthirteen. ‘Perhaps the most salient qualities of Olinda … are restraintand control … Inclinations develop slowly and believably; the springsof action, barring a few not very fantastic coincidences and accidents,are anti-romantic – … Most important, the situation and behavior of theheroine, her values, and the world in which she lives are (but for theirsketchy development) what a reader of Jane Austen might take forgranted, yet are all but unique before 1740. Here is a middle-classheroine who is fully as moral as Pamela, but with a wry sense of humor;she defers to her mother as a matter of course when marriage is inquestion, yet would willingly evade parental decrees; she is capable ofMoll Flanders’s examinations of motive, yet sees through her ownhypocrisies; she lives in London in reduced circumstances and agrees

18. [UNKNOWN.] [Set of 60 playing cards featuring Africanethnographic subjects.] 1910.

60 playing cards, measuring 4⅜ x 2 ⅞ inches (10.9 x 7.3 cm), each withphotogravure  image  ranging  from  approximately  2  x  2⅜  inches(5.1 x 6.1 cm) to 2⅜ x 2⅜ inches (6.1 x 6.1 cm), five of which are afterdrawings, titled and captioned in French, titles printed in red; intermit-tent staining to extremities and versos (not affecting images), veryoccasional light creasing; overall a very good set.

£350

The fifteen ‘groups’ of four cards each represent various topics, frombuildings and schools to activities such as fishing and music, plusportraits. As well as its own caption, each card lists the captions of theother three cards in their ‘group’, suggesting the aim of the game is tocollect as many full topics as possible and win the game.

The captions to the images cover a range of countries, including Gabon,Cameroon, Madagascar and Togo. Bringing to life a far off world inminiature, such cards provided players with a chance to ‘travel’ to exoticdestinations and learn about them from their own drawing room table.

The groups are titled: Animaux; Arts ménagers; Cases indigènes; Chasseet pêche; Cultes; Des pierres; Ecoles; La vie indigene; Métiers; Musique;Paganisme; Paysages; Rois et chefs; Stations missionaires; and Typesindigènes.

‘HAPPY FAMILIES’ CARD GAME – WITH AFRICAN SUBJECTS

following the great catastrophe’ (p. [ii]). The end of the book showsother districts: Viña del Mar (5), Limache (8), Quillota (1), Llay-Llay(4).

A full list of captions and any information visible in the negatives isavailable on request. Library catalogues do not suggest that a title-page,plates or even final page is lacking in this copy.

Not in COPAC. OCLC lists only 4 copies in the US and 3 in Europe.

19. [1906 VALPARAISO EARTHQUAKE.] VALCK Y ALLAN,and other unidentified photographer(s). Views of Valparaiso anddistrict after The Great Earthquake of August 16th 1906 [Cover title].Valparaiso; Santiago, Soc. Imp. y Lit. Universo, Sold by J. W. Hardyand by the principal booksellers throughout Chile, [1906].

Oblong 4to, pp. [iv], 97 (final page pasted to lower wrapper), contain-ing 104 halftone photographic reproductions, each captioned in type-script below, some numbered or titled in the negative; a little browningand small tears to margins due to paper stock; bound in original darkgrey printed wrappers; creasing to wrappers, lower wrapper previouslyloose until pasted to final leaf, losses to head and foot of spine, yet stillfirm.

£450

An extensive photographic survey of the destruction wreaked by the1906 earthquake, including photographs by Studios Valck and Allan,and possibly images from other studios.

At least two images are by Jorge Allan and Fernando Valck inValparaiso (see p. 11 and p. 62), silver prints of which are held by theBnF. Another possible source would be Félix Leblanc. As Leblanc hadpreviously worked in partnership with Valck under the name Garreaud(the studio’s previous owner and Leblanc’s brother-in-law who heinherited the business from), it seems possible his work could beincluded here, however we have not yet been able to confirm images byhim. Leblanc had sold the photographic studio in 1890 but went on topublish lithographs and photogravures. It is known that he madephotographs of the earthquake of 1906.

The photographs mainly focus on the buildings and streets, several withfigures among the rubble and one with dead horses lining a street.Portraits of Don Enrique Larrain Alcalde (Governor of Valparaiso) andCaptain Luis Gomez Carreño (of the Navy, appointed MilitaryGovernor) introduce the book, with a note beneath explaining that they‘displayed valour and presence of mind during the panic and confusion

20. [VICTORIAN WOMEN.] Home sweet home … A daughter’slife in the home … Woman’s life at home … A son’s life in the home.?Late 19th century.

Six loose leaves of manuscript on unused commercial notepaper, severalsheets with printed logo on verso; some staining and folding at edges,handwriting faded at edges with some loss, else in good condition.

£350

A manuscript of reflections by a pious young nineteenth-century womanon the home; as an ideal and as a vocation. There are several sections,the majority comprising sentimental descriptions of life at home, or theexperience of returning home from a journey by train. There are twosections on domestic roles, one for ‘daughters’ and one for ‘sons’,expressing views very much of the author’s time: she writes of the‘higher work’ of the woman, i.e. providing succour for her family andmanaging everything without complaint; conversely the author verysensitively imagines the plight of the man at his work, under pressurefrom everyone around him and dealing with many unpleasant characters,before he is able to return to a welcoming home. This delightfully andimaginatively written account is alleviated from its solemn Victorianspirituality, and equally Victorian attitude towards women, by the farmore innocent concerns of its author, namely her fear of burning therice pudding.

‘THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN WHAT ARE THEY’

The binding on this copy is most interesting and unusual.  What remains(e.g. comb linings of unused parchment, linked sewing front to back onthe double sewing supports) suggests a French binding of the 1540s ofsome quality.  The original covers, most likely of alum-tawed skin, haveleft very little trace on what remains.  (We are very grateful to ProfessorNicholas Pickwoad for his advice on this binding).

USTC 667550; VD16 V1803. Three copies on COPAC (Manchester,NLS, Warburg). Only two copies in the US on OCLC (Michigan,Stanford).

21. VIVES, Juan Luis. De anima et vita libri tres, opus insigne,nuncq[ue] denuo quam diligentissime excusum. Accesserunt eiusdemargumenti de anima, Philippi Melanchthonis commentarius, et magniAurelii Cassiodori senatoris liber unus ... Basel, Robert Winter, 1543.

8vo, pp. 768, [32, index]; occasional Greek, woodcut initials; a littlelight water staining to first quire and very occasionally to lower mar-gins elsewhere; a very good, crisp copy; binding removed, contempo-rary vellum endpapers preserved (overlapping in spine compartments),five sewing supports visible on spine, evidence of head- and tail-bands(removed), gilt edges; early ownership inscription ‘Adam ...’ to frontcover, quotation in Greek from Theognis at head of title (hotti kalonphilon esti to d’ ou kalon ou philon esti); an attractive copy.

£1500

Second edition (first 1538) of Vives’ great work on the human soul. Afriend of Erasmus and Thomas More, Vives (1492-1540) ‘has beenjustly hailed as a major figure in the history of psychology. He heldthat the essence of the soul – mind – was indescribable. It could beknown only by its actions, as observed by the internal and externalsenses. Before Descartes and Francis Bacon, Vives developed anempirical psychology in which he advocated the study of mental activityintrospectively and in others. He formulated a theory of association ofideas from an elaborate analysis of memory. If two ideas are implantedin the mind simultaneously, or within a short interval of time, theoccurrence of one would cause the recall of the other’ (DSB). ‘He wasalso the first to describe the physiological effects of fear’ (Garrison-Morton).

Also included in this edition are Melanchthon’s Commentarius de anima(first 1540), one of the most read books at Wittenberg University, whichcontains much on human anatomy in its discussion of the soul, and theDe anima of the 6th-century Roman statesman Cassiodorus, whichexplores the independence of the soul.

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