MUKERJI, Nitya Gopal
xxv, [1], 894pp. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, orange cloth boards, marbled edges. Extremities heavily rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of half-title: 'Presented to the Honble. W. G. Macpherson / with the respectful compliments / of the author'. The sole edition of a monumental practical text-book on agriculture in India by Nitya Gpoal Mukerji (d. 1907), Professor of Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry at the Civil Engineering College, Sibpur, Bengal. The book commences with a detailed survey of soil types, the implements required to farm the land, and those crops best suited to cultivation in the country; the latter part concerns the management of livestock, the eradication of pests, and the effects of famine. Size: 8vo
BRADLEY-BIRT, F. B
xiv, 310pp, [2]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further 43 photographic plates, a sketch map, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Rubbed and marked, spine sunned. One plate detached. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP:' Offered to / Mr. Thos. Macpherson / by the writer / Gobindpur / Chota Nagpore / 28.6.3'. The first edition of Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt's (1874-1963) entertaining travelogue describing the manners and customs of the native populace of the Chota Nagpur Division of British India. A second, revised edition appeared in 1910. Size: 8vo
MONCKTON, C. A. W
x, 286, [4]. With 54 illustrations, two folding maps, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, blind stamped and lettered gilt. Fore- and bottom-edge untrimmed, top edge once gilt, some leaves uncut. Boards a little marked, lightly toned, nonetheless a sturdy copy. Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton (1873-1936), was a New Zealander magistrate, colonial officer, explorer, and writer who spent much of his early career in 'the furthest outpost of the Empire' - New Guinea. Monckton contributed to various scientific journals throughout his career across zoology, geography and sociology, though his several books on his time in New Guinea, serve as a racy narrative on his life and adventures, rather than 'possess any scientific value'. Size: 8vo
BARNARD, Mrs. Caroline
[4], 167, [1], 12pp. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece, and a terminal publisher's advertisement catalogue. Contemporary blind-ruled calf, recently rebacked, contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, spine sunned. Hinges exposed, recent bookplate of Francis Edwards of Northwood to FEP, offsetting to title, scattered spotting. The first edition of an uncommon, decidedly conservative provincial conduct-of-life novel for children, relating the life in Little Missenden of two teenage Fielding sisters, Rose and Sally, who are participants in an established lace-school and competition. Throughout the novel hard-work, localism and the approval of a philanthropic gentry are the victors over the wily incomers from 'Lonnon'. The conjecture by Emily Sunstein (Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality p.415) that this work and Barnard's Parent's offering (London, 1813) could have been pseudonymous works by Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein and step- daughter of the publisher, seems unlikely. However, it is nevertheless a great coincidence that Shelley had moved to Buckinghamshire in 1816, and that Claire Claremont - her step-sister - refers to reading a copy of The Parent's Offering, in her journal, whilst living with the couple in Pisa during the summer of 1820. Size: 12mo
MONCKTON, C. A. W
x, 337, [2]. With 37 illustrations and a fold out map. Publisher's list bound into rear. Original publisher's red cloth, blind stamped and lettered gilt. Fore- and bottom-edge untrimmed, top edge once gilt. A trifle cocked, lightly foxed, nonetheless a sturdy copy. Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton (1873-1936), was a New Zealander magistrate, colonial officer, explorer, and writer who spent much of his early career in 'the furthest outpost of the Empire' - New Guinea. Monckton contributed to various scientific journals throughout his career across zoology, geography and sociology, though his several books on his time in New Guinea, serve as a racy narrative on his life and adventures, rather than 'possess any scientific value'. Size: 8vo
MORELAND, W. H
[4], xiv, 203pp, [1]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked, numerous minute wormholes. Ink-stamp of Brajmohan Lal Dave to recto of FFEP, pencilled shelf-marks to head of title, worm-track to lower margin of initial six gatherings, scattered spotting. An authoritative review, by British Civil Servant William Harrison Moreland (1868-1938), of the administration of Uttar Pradesh, most particularly in relation to land tenure and real property tax, compiled for the use of junior officers of the Indian Civil Service. Size: 8vo
HOBSON, John A.
216pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Boards marked and bumped to edges and corners, with significant staining to the spine panel. Inner hinge cracking, first gather loosening. Presentation copy, inked inscription to FFEP: 'Gilbert Murray, with the writer's kind regards, 1916.' With a loosely inserted manuscript note to Gilbert Murray from an Oxford contemporary. John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940) was a social scientist, economist, and war correspondent. While Hobson's early work in economics was widely discredited and excluded him from the academic communities, he had a prolific career spanning nearly 50 years, with over 20 full-length works published alongside many other shorter works in various journals. His last work was his autobiography, titled Confessions of an Economic Heretic (1938). Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), public intellectual and noted classical scholar. Size: 8vo
SPRING, Francis J. E
[2], x, [2], 44, [2], 45-65, [3], xvii pp. With 18 plates (five folding). Original publisher's cloth-backed printed powder blue boards. Extremities rubbed and marked, ink-stamped shelf-mark to upper board. Internally clean and crisp. An apparently unrecorded report detailing the design, cost, and construction of a proposed railway bridge spanning the Lower Ganges at Sara in order to provide easier communication between Calcutta and Eastern Bengal and Assam. The first estimate for the total cost a single-track line was £930,000. In 1913, two years after construction had begun, this had risen to a colossal £3,300,000 for a double-track line. The bridge was opened to traffic in 1915 and was dubbed the Hardinge bridge after the then Viceroy, Lord Hardinge. The compiler of the report, Francis Joseph Edward Spring (1849- 1933), entered the Indian Imperial Civil Service's engineering section in 1870. He served as Consulting Engineer to the Government of India and played a pivotal role in the development of railways in East India. Size: Folio
[VIZAGAPATAM]. BARRY, Sir John Wolfe
20 leaves, printed on rectos only. Large partially coloured engraved folding map housed in rear pocket. Original publisher's cloth-backed printed buff paper boards. Extremities rubbed and marked, pencilled shelf-marks/labels and early inked ownership inscription of Rustat Blake to upper board, some surface loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of a proposal the potential improvements to the harbour facilities at Vizagapatam, directed by civil engineer, predominantly remembered for the construction of Tower Bridge, John Wolfe Barry (1836-1918). Initially built to facilitate the export of manganese ore from the Central Provinces, the Inner Harbour of Vizagapatam was constructed, partly in accordance Barry's recommendations, by the Bengal Nagpur Railway between 1927 and 1933. Size: Folio
HINGSTON, Major R. W. C.
xiii, [2], 384pp. With 16 plates and 150 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked spine sunned and a trifle cocked. Half-title lightly foxed, otherwise bright throughout. Major Richard William George Hingston (1887-1966) was an Irish physician, explorer and naturalist, who travelled and wrote extensively throughout his military career. As a naturalist, one of his discoveries (a species of jumping spider Euophrys omnisuperstes) remains a contender for 'animal with the highest permanent habitat on earth'. Hingston joined the Indian Medical Service on graduation from the National University of Ireland, remaining with them throughout much of his career, including both world wars. On one of many secondments, he served as the expedition doctor on the famed 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition. Size: 8vo
GORDON, John
vii, [1], 114pp. With half-title. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Worn, with loss to extremities and cracking to joints; upper board almost detached A rare work by John Gordon (fl.1807-1812), including verse on the death of Lord Nelson, the Duke of Beaufort and the Pretender 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' which appears to have somewhat justifiably sunk without trace following dreadful reviews. OCLC locates only three copies: BL, NLS, and Stanford. Jackson p.312. Size: 8vo
KELLER, Helen
x, 284pp. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Boards rubbed and marked, some wear/loss to cloth at top edge, some water-staining to endpapers and text block. The first edition of Hellen Keller's (1880-1968) eighth published work, a series of essays on socialism. A prolific author, activist, advocate, Keller is best remembered for being deafblind, and with the efforts of her governess and tutor Anne Sullivan, going on to graduate Radcliffe College. Keller had a prolific career across several disciplines including being a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, a suffragist, pacifist, radical socialist, and eugenicist. Size: 8vo
HOGG, James. The Ettrick Shepherd
xxxi, [1], 202pp. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, gilt. Rubbed, neatly rebacked, with much of the original spine laid down. A large paper copy, with generous margins. James Hogg (1770-1835), Scottish novelist, essayist and poet widely known as the Ettrick Shepherd, although interestingly he used the epithet 'The Mountain Bard' on the title page of most works subsequent to this. He was friend of Walter Scott, who prefaced this work as well as being it's dedicatee. Jackson p.311. Size: 8vo
[OXFORD UNIVERSITY]. [BENTHAM, Edward]
32, 16pp. ESTC T167852. [Bound before:] BENTHAM, Edward. Reflexions upon the study of divinity. To which are subjoined Heads of a Course of Lectures. Oxford. Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1774. Second edition. [4], 68pp. [And:] RAWLINS, John. The Scripture Prophecies consider'd - and compar'd with the Oracles of the Heathens. A sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, At St. Mary's, On Sunday, Aug. 2. 1761. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre for James Fletcher, [1761]. First edition. [2], 35pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. ESTC T70227. [And:] [JONES, William]. A letter to the common people, In Answer to some Popular Arguments against the Trinity. Being an appendix to the third edition of the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity. London. Printed for Robinson and Roberts, 1767. First edition. 42pp, [2]. ESTC T181627. [And:] TOTTIE, John. Two charges Delivered to the clergy of the diocese of worcester, In the Years 1763 and 1766; Being designed as preservatives Against the Sophistical Arts of the Papists, and The Delusions of the Methodists. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre, 1766. First octavo edition. 28, [2], 27pp, [3]. With a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. ESTC N40310. [And:] MARKHAM, William. A sermon Preached In Lambeth-chapel, at the consecration of the Right Reverend Father in god James Lord Bishop of Gloucester, On Sunday, Dec. 10. 1752. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre for James Fletcher, 1753. First octavo edition. 27pp, [2]. ESTC T47854. [And:] [WINCHESTER, Thomas]. [A] Dissertation on the XVIIth article, of the Church of England. Oxford. Printed by W. Jackson and J. Lister, 1773. [4], 106pp. ESTC T131073. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, upper board held by cords only, lower joint split. Manuscript list of contents to FEP, very occasional early inked annotations/underlining to first mentioned work, occasional loss to corners of third mentioned work, title of seventh mentioned work trimmed at head (seemingly to remove manuscript inscription), worm-track to lower margins of same. A sammelband of predominantly devotional eighteenth-century publications, that is with the exception of a lesser known anti-Jacobite work by theologian and fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Edward Bentham (1707-1776), Advices to a young man of fortune and rank, upon his coming to the University. In this slim but intense pamphlet, Bentham recalled members of the university to abide by their oaths of allegiance and abjuration following the Jacobite rising and public disturbances in the city during 1748.
vi, 15pp, 8-554, 553-711pp. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, later rebacked in tan cloth. Rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. Early inked ownership inscription of 'Miss S. Newenham' to upper board - a Miss S. Newingham appears in the list of subscribers. The first edition of a biblical commentary and life of Christ, the only published work of educator Catherine D'Oyly. The august list of subscribers include; George III and Queen Charlotte, who received 24 copies each, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and numerous members of D'Oyly's family, including her brother Sir John D'Oyly (1754-1818), politician and prominent East India Company merchant. ESTC T129694. Size: 8vo
In four volumes. xxvi, [2], 374; vi, [2], 395, [1]; vi, [2], 386; v, [3], 373pp, [17]. Attractively bound in contemporary marbled calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting navy morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed, slight surface loss to upper board of Vol. III. Scattered spotting, printing flaw to lower corner of p. 85 of Vol. I, with slight loss of sense. The first octavo edition, initially published in a two-volume quarto edition the previous year, of the selected correspondence of three prominent members of the Bluestocking circle. The primary epistolist is poet and writer Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), chiefly known for her immensely critically and commercially successful translation of the complete works of Epictetus, the first into English. Her letters oscillate effortlessly between lofty discourse on philosophical theory, Christian devotion, and weighty remarks on cultural matters, to remarkably witty, frequently ironic observations on society, and wry remarks on the latest gossip. Her foremost correspondent represented in these volumes is prolific author and editor Catherine Talbot (1721-1770) who notably assisted Carter with her Epictetus. The second correspondent is the more elusive Elizabeth Vesey (c.1715-1791), an author with few extant publications who nevertheless proved influential to Bluestocking philosophy. The editor, Montagu Pennington (1762-1849), was Carter's nephew, executor, and biographer, to whom she bequeathed all her papers. Size: 8vo
