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A STRIKING EXAMPLE OF THE FAR-FLUNG INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A PAMPHLET ON THE EDINBURGH TRADES MODELLED THEREON
[SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH]. [AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. The Manifesto of the Edinburgh Congress. Mary's Chapel, Edinburgh, 19th August 1777. 4to, disbound, pp. 10. [Edinburgh: 1777]. Only Edition. An interesting example displaying the widespread influence of the American Revolution. A rare Scottish pamphlet, being an attack on Edinburgh municipal politics as a burlesque dressed in Revolutionary garb. Signed at the end: "John Hancock, Preses," and dated 19th August 1777. The constitution of Edinburgh is known as the "Set" of the burgh, and dates from the 15th and 16th centuries. Our pamphlet has to do with "The campaign against the Set in 1777, in protest at the influence of Sir Laurence Dunbar over the council (and over the influence… Read More

EKKENSTEIN, Jean.
Guide de la ville de Dresden, ou tableau topographique de la capitale de Saxe et voyage pittoresque de ses environs. On y a joint un nouveau Plan de Dresde et une Carte des Environs.
16mo, original blue-green boards (rebacked with cloth; corners mildly rubbed), original printed paper label, folding engraved frontispiece, pp. xvi, 268, [4] + folding Plan & folding Map. Dresden and Leipzic: Arnold Libraire, 1832.
First Edition of a scarce tourist guidebook to a famous city. Of course, most of what is described here is no more as Dresden was virtually destroyed by Allied bombing in March, 1945. The author was a professor of French and English in Zittau and Dresden. Armorial bookplate of James Whatman, Jr., M.A., F. R. S., F. S. A, of Vintners, near Maidstone, graduated Eton, then Oxford, M. A., in 1838, liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons… Read More

ELIOT, George, pseud. [EVANS, Mary Ann]. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. 8vo, original crimson cloth (lightly soiled; spine extremities strengthened, corners little rubbed, a few slits at the joints & front end paper slightly cracked at fold), pp. 364, [4], 16 ads. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood ad Sons, 1861.

First Edition. Despite the binding faults noted above, this is quite a decent copy of a classic novel many of us read in school, nowhere near as bad as we have suggested. Eliot's opening sentence sets the tone: "In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oak-there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the country-folk, look like the remnants of a disinherited race." Carter, Binding Variants "D", with no… Read More

THE SHORT-LIVED ANGLO-CORSICA KINGDOM
[CORSICA IMPRINT, 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PRESS]. [ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, later first Earl of Minto.] Discorso di sua eccelenza il Vice-re pronunziano allo Scioglimento dedlla Sessone del Parlamento in Corte, li 22 Dicembre 1795.
4to, pp. [2] + integral blank leaf. In Corte [Corsica]: Nella Stamperia del Governo [1795].
One of what must be one of the few printed memorials of the short period when George III was King of Corsica. The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom came about during the French Revolutionary wars. It was short-lived, having been established in June 1794 after an invasion of the island, it reverting back to French control in October, 1796. "The Kingdom of Corsica was an ephemeral organization, a by-product of the wars of the French Revolution, lasting only two years, form 1794 to 1796, and then forgotten, even by history...Recently in the Rare Book Room of the… Read More

THREE 18th CENTURY ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON MECHANICS

[EMERSON, William]. Mechanics: or, the Doctrine of Motion. Comprehending, I. The general laws of motion. II. The descent of bodies perpendicularly, and down inclined planes, and also in curve and surfaces. The Motion of Pendulums. III. Centers of gravity. the Equilibrium of beams of timber...IV. The Mechanical powers. V. The Comparaive strength of timber, and its stress. The Powers of engines...VI. Hydrostatics and pneumatics. 8vo, 18th century calf backed marbled boards (old rebacking; marbled paper considerably rubbed, as are edges), leather label, pp. iv, 148 + 9 folding plates, uncut. London: J. Nourse, 1769.
First Edition of an abstract of Emerson's larger Principles of Mechanics (1754), which, according to the author's Preface,
is designed as an introduction to the earlier work, and which has added material not previously published. With sections on cranes, hand-mills, clocks and watches, etc.
BOUND WITH: [EMERSON, William].… Read More

ENDLICHER, Stephen.
Anfangsgründe der Chinesischen Grammatik. 8vo, contemporary cloth (original yellow printed wrappers bound in), pp. xxiv, 376. Vienna: Carl Gerold, 1845.
First Edition. "Foundations of Chinese Grammar" by a noted Austrian botanist. Born in Pressburg, Hungary, Endlicher formulated a major system of plant classification, was a noted linguist, a professor, and contributor to classical literarure. He died by suicide. According to the Catholic Ency. he turned his attention to languages in 1826. "Bound in the original wrappers: publication details in Chinese. Evidently Vienna had a Chinese font. Endlicher, a botanist thought that the scientific study of Chinese in Europe began when De Sacy got a chair in Paris. A grammar of Chinese."-Lust 1010. Endlicher (1804-1849) The rather grubby, rebacked protective cloth binding, which looks to be original as well, has done its job of protecting the original wrappers. Very good copy, despite… Read More

WARMLY PRESENTED TO CYRUS McCORMICK
ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, [Paul Henri Benjamin, baron d']. Les Etats-Unis d'Amerique. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 dark green morocco, marbled boards (original gift binding?), pp. xi, 536 + folding map, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Paris: Armand Colin, 1913.
First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed in French: "To Cyrus McCormick and to his dear and hospitable family, in grateful remembrance of the affectionate reception extended to the author in 1902 and 1911 at Chicago. d'Estournelles de Constant. May 4, 1913." With McCormick's small ownership label inside front cover. McCormick is acknowledged in the author's Avant-Propos on p. vi, and mentioned on pages 218 and 222. The author was a noted French politician and diplomat who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909. He worked ceaselessly for international cooperation and peace, especially through the Hague Court of Arbitration. He traveled the whole of the United States, and in the South visited… Read More