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Country Contentments or The Husbandman`s Recreations ;- by G. M. (Markam Jervase). 1631.
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     Country Contentments or The Husbandman`s Recreations ;- by G. M. (Markam Jervase). 1631. Contayining the Wholesome Experiences, in which any man ought to Recreate himself after the toyle of more serious Business. As namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Grey-hounds and the lawes of the Leafe, Shooting in Long-bowe or Cros-bowe, Bowling, Tennis, Baloone. The whole Art of Angling, and the use of the Fighting Cocke;- Published by Nicholas Okes; 4th. Edition of 1631. Highly collectable book;- 118 pages complete;- Later Brown leather covers with gilt lettering, and gilt decoration to the front, back and spine. This is one of the first books to write about Tennis. Other topics covered are ;- Hawking;- Fishing;- Bowling;- Archery;- Grey-hound coursing, Cock Fighting;- and gilt decoration to the front, back and spine. Pages brown and stained with age, still a handsome copy of a very scarce and rare book.
    Though this is really a 1st. Edition, prior to this book which was printed in 1631 Markam Jervase didn’t publish this title before 1631 as can be seen from my list below;- 
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1593: A Discourse of Horsemanship was followed by other popular treatises on horsemanship and farriery;
   
1595: The most Honorable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grinvile (1595), reprinted (1871) by Professor E. Arber, a prolix and euphuistic poem in eight-lined stanzas on Sir Richard Grenville

1595: The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse, dedicated to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney;
   
1597: Devoreux, Virtue's Tears;
   
1600: The Teares of the Beloved and Mary Magdalene's Tears (1601), long and rather commonplace poems on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, both reprinted by Dr. A. B. Grosart in the Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library (1871);
   
1602: A translation of the satires of Lodovico Ariosto;
   
1607: Cavelarice, or The English horseman, featuring secrets of William Bankes, master of the performing horse Marocco;
   
1607: The English Arcadia, part 1. A sequel to Sidney's Arcadia. Part 2 appeared in 1613;
   
1608: The Dumb Knight, a comedy, with Lewis Machin;
   
1615: The English Huswife;
   
1622: Herod and Antipater, a Tragedy, written with William Sampson;
   
1624: Honor in his Perfection, in praise of the earls of Oxford, Southampton and Essex;
 
1625: Soldier's Accidence turns his military experiences to account;
   
1634:  The Art of Archerie, Shewing how it is most necessary in these times for this Kingdom, both in Peace and War, and how it may be done without Charge to the Country, Trouble to the People, or any Hindrance to Necessary Occasions. Also, of the Discipline, the Postures, and whatsoever else is necessary for the attaining to the Art (London, Ben Fisher, at the Signe of the Talbot without Alders Gate, 1634)


        Markam Jervase was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615.
Markham was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but repeated himself, and sometimes reprinted books under other titles. Markham edited the Book of Saint Albans sometimes attributed to Juliana Berners, under the title of The Gentleman's Academy (1595); and produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in William Thomas Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual. He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries, and later was a captain under the Earl of Essex's command in Ireland. He was acquainted with Latin and several modern languages, and had an exhaustive practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and agriculture. Markam Jervase was a noted horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arabian horse into England. Very little is known of the events of his life. The story of the murderous quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir John Holles related in the Biographia has been generally connected with him, but in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Clements R. Markham, a descendant from the same family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose monument is still to be seen in Laneham church. Gervase Markham was buried at St Giles's, Cripplegate, London.

A New and General System of Midwifery, in four parts. 
By Brudenell Exton, M.D

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A New and General System of Midwifery, in four parts. By Brudenell Exton, M.D;- Third Edition 1766;- Published in London by W. Heard 1766. Original three quarter tan leather binding, with a black label with gilt lettering to the spine. an inch of the top of the spine is missing. The margin notes are cut close and parts missing at the time of publishing in 1766; Still a scarce and rare collectable book on early Midwifery. Page 151 is missing a half of its page. An Errata before the Index to the back pages;- Early medical books are very rare on Midwifery. No copies to be found on the internet. 




Pregnancy and birth were not highly regarded objects of study by anatomists in the centuries leading up to the 1700s. This was clearly due in part to the scarcity of pregnant corpses for dissection, but also to the fact that midwifery was largely excluded from medicine proper. In 18th-century Britain, when men began systematically practicing as midwives, they were challenging the accepted mores about what constituted women’s versus men’s work. Midwifery was often represented as being beneath the dignity of men and medical science. As late as 1827, Sir Anthony Carlisle, a prominent surgeon writing in the eminent medical journal, The Lancet, still felt compelled to describe midwifery as a “humiliating office”1 and therefore suitable only to women.2 In addition, it was not uncommon in the 18th century for people to denounce man midwifery in particular as amoral and lewd, leading to the corruption of women and an increase in divorce. In a 1779 pamphlet entitled Thoughts on the times : but chiefly on the profligacy of our women, and it's causes, Francis Foster condemned man midwifery because it places the “citadel” of female virtue “directly in the hands of the enemy” and leaves it “entirely at his discretion.”3




Thus, it was incumbent upon 18th-century man midwives to prove the legitimacy of their practice. One way they established legitimacy was to connect midwifery to the forms of 18th-century medical and scientific knowledge that carried the most prestige. Anatomical dissection had long been considered one of the most distinguished forms of medical investigation. Since the publication of Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica in 1543, anatomical dissection had been closely associated with beautifully illustrated, anatomical atlases that became among the most valued and illustrious of scientific publications in early modern Europe. It was perhaps for this reason that the two most distinguished men midwives of late 18th-century London, William Smellie and William Hunter, published illustrated atlases of the pregnant female body. By forging a link between midwifery and anatomical dissection and then publishing the results in expensive books with large, artistically sophisticated, copperplate engravings, Smellie and Hunter elevated a domestic practice to the status of medical science. 

Joh. Gerardi Vossii De Philosophia et Philosophorvm Sectis libri II.
by Joh Gerardus Vossius 1658

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Joh. Gerardi Vossii De Philosophia et Philosophorvm Sectis libri II. by Joh Gerardus Vossius  1658;- Published by Hagæ-Comitis : apud Adrianum Vlacq, 1657-1658. 1st. Edition, 2 books in one; part one dated 1658 and part two 1657;- both with title pages. in Original dark green leather binding with gilt decorations both along the spine and the front and back covers. Gilt to the edges of the book, Index to the back pages;- Published in Latin. In beautiful condition, and a very handsome binding, very scarce and rare. Highly collectable, no other copies to be found on the internet. Fine condition.

Gerrit Janszoon Vos (1577 – 19 March 1649), often known by his Latin name Gerardus Vossius, was a Dutch classical scholar and theologian. He was the son of Johannes (Jan) Vos, a Protestant from the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Electorate of the Palatinate and briefly became pastor in the village near Heidelberg where Gerardus (the Latinized form of Gerrit) was born, before friction with the strict Lutherans of the Palatinate caused him to settle the following year at the University of Leiden as student of theology, and finally became pastor at Dordrecht, where he died in 1585. Here in Dordrecht the son received his education, until in 1595 he entered the university of Leiden, where he became the lifelong friend of Hugo Grotius, and studied classics, Hebrew, church history and theology.

In 1600 he was made rector of the latin school in Dordrecht, and devoted himself to philology and historical theology. From 1614 to 1619 he was director of the theological college at Leiden University.

In the meantime, he was gaining a great reputation as a scholar, not only in the Netherlands, but also in France and England. But in spite of the moderation of his views and his abstention from controversy, he came under suspicion of heresy, and escaped expulsion from his office only by resignation (1619). The year before he had published his ‘Historia Pelagiana a history of the Pelagian controversies; at the time it was considered by some to favour the views of the Arminians or Remonstrants.

In 1622, he was appointed professor of rhetoric and chronology, and subsequently of Greek, in the university. He had many contacts in England; he declined invitations from Cambridge, but accepted from Archbishop Laud a prebend in Canterbury Cathedral without residence, and went to England to be installed in 1629, when he was made LL.D. at Oxford. He was on intimate terms with Thomas Farnaby, and Farnaby's ‘Latin Grammar’ is based to a certain extent upon that which Vossius wrote for the Elzevir press in 1629. Among his other English correspondents were Brian Duppa, Dudley Carleton, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, the prelates James Ussher and Richard Sterne, and Christopher Wren.

He got permission from Charles I to return to the Low Countries. In 1632 he left Leiden to take the post of professor of history in the newly founded Athenaeum Illustre at Amsterdam, which he held till his death.

On the Operation for the removal of Cataract : 
as performed with a fine Sewing Needle through the Cornea.
by Arthur  Jacob

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On the Operation for the removal of Cataract : as performed with a fine sewing needle through the cornea. by Jacob, Arthur, 1790-1874. Published  in Dublin 1850 by The Medical Press Office;- Arthur Jacob was professor of anatomy and physiology in the royal college of surgeons in Ireland, and surgeon for diseases of the eye to the city of Dublin Hospital. Original purple cloth covers, with a white paper label with black lettering with to the front cover 36 pages. ex Library stamp of the R.C.P.I. In fine condition. No other copies to be found on the internet. Scarce and Rare ;- 

  Arthur Jacob (1790–1874) was an Irish ophthalmologist. Jacob, second son of John Jacob, M.D. (1754–1827), surgeon to the Queen's County (now Laois) infirmary, Maryborough (now Portlaoise), Ireland, by his wife Grace (1765–1835), only child of Jerome Alley of Donoughmore, was born at Knockfin, Maryborough, on 13 or 30 June 1790. He studied medicine with his father and at Steevens's Hospital, Dublin, under Abraham Colles. Having graduated M.D. at the University of Edinburgh in 1814, he set out on a walking tour through the United Kingdom, crossing the Channel at Dover, and continuing his walk from Calais to Paris.

He studied at Paris until Napoleon's return from Elba. He subsequently pursued his studies in London under Sir B. Brodie, Sir A. Cooper, and Sir W. Lawrence. In 1819 he returned to Dublin, and became demonstrator of anatomy under Dr. James Macartney at Trinity College. Here his anatomical researches gained for him a reputation, and he collected a museum, which Macartney afterwards sold to the university of Cambridge.

On leaving Macartney, Jacob joined with Graves and others in founding the Park Street School of Medicine. In 1826 he was elected professor of anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and held the chair until 1869. He was three times chosen president of the college. In 1832, in conjunction with Charles Benson and others, he established the City of Dublin Hospital. With Dr. Henry Maunsell in 1839 he started the Dublin Medical Press, a weekly journal of medical science, and edited forty-two volumes (1839 to 1859). He also contributed to the Dublin Journal of Medical Science. He took an active part in founding the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund Society of Ireland and the Irish Medical Association. At the age of seventy-five he retired from the active pursuit of his profession. His fame rests on his anatomical and ophthalmological discoveries.

In December 1860 a medal bearing Jacob's likeness was struck and presented to him, and his portrait, bust, and library were later placed in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He died at Newbarnes, Barrow-in-Furness, on September 21, 1874. In 1819 Jacob announced the discovery, which he had made in 1816, of a previously unknown membrane of the eye, in a paper in the Philosophical Transactions (pt. i. pp. 300–7). The membrane has been known since as membrana Jacobi and forms the retina.

Apart from his discovery of the membrana Jacobi, he described Jacob's ulcer, and revived cataract surgery through the cornea with a curved needle. To the Cyclopædia of Anatomy he contributed an article on the eye, and to the Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine treatises on Ophthalmia and Amaurosis. His major publications were:

  A Treatise on the Inflammation of the Eyeball, 1849.

  On Cataract and the Operation for its Removal by Absorption, 1851.

Select Cases In Midwifery: 
Extracted From The Records Of The 
Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital. 
With Remarks. By James Hamilton, Junior M.D.

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Select Cases In Midwifery: Extracted From The Records Of The Edinburgh General Lying-in Hospital. With Remarks. By James Hamilton, Junior M.D.;- Published in Edinburgh 1795, Printed for The Benefit of the Hospital;-  1st. Edition, original binding of orange and blue marble paper and three quarter tan leather to both spine and corners. Binding well worn, but original. No other copies to be found on the world wide web. 159 pages. Includes contents pages with a Errata page to the end of the contents page, which is the beginning of the book.  Early 18th. century medical Books on Midwifery are scare and rare. 

James Hamilton was born in Edinburgh in 1767. He was one of two sons of Alexander Hamilton (1739-1802), Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University. James Hamilton was given medical training by his father and became his assistant at the age of twenty-one. He and his father founded Edinburgh's Lying-in Hospital in Park Place in 1793, and later on this enterprise would become supported partly from his own funds. In 1800, Hamilton succeeded his father as Professor of Midwifery at the University. Their subject however had been slow to be accepted by the Senate as part of the medical curriculum and in 1815 Hamilton raised the matter of recognition for midwifery. He faced hostility however, particularly from Dr. James Gregory (1753-1821), and recognition would not be achieved until 1830. Although his classes were, for a long time, non-essential for graduation, they were well attended, and Hamilton's contribution to midwifery included advocacy of uterine suture after Caesarian operations and the introduction of the term 'eclampsia' for convulsions in labour or peurperium. Hamilton's publications included A collection of engravings designed to facilitate the study of midwifery (1796), Hints for the treatment of the principal diseases of infancy and childhood (1809), and Practical observations on various subjects relating to midwifery (1836-1837).Professor James Hamilton died in November 1839. 


Observations on the Symptoms and Specific Distinctions of 
Venereal Diseases;
 Interspersed with Hints for the More Effectual Prosecution of the Present Inquiry Into the Uses and Abuses of Mercury, in their Treatment. 
Richard Carmichael;-

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Richard Carmichael;-

Observations on the Symptoms and Specific Distinctions of Venereal Diseases; Interspersed with Hints for the More Effectual Prosecution of the Present Inquiry Into the Uses and Abuses of Mercury, in their Treatment. 

   Published in London:, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818. 1st. Edition, fine hand coloured frontispiece, in original binding original binding of orange and blue marble paper and three quarter tan leather to both spine and corners. Marbled edging , binding worn, but very clean an neat inside. Ex-Library of R.C.P.I… A fine copy of an early medical book.

Richard Carmichael (February 1779 - 8 June 1849) was an eminent Irish surgeon, medical writer and philanthropist. He was born in Bishop Street, Dublin, son of Hugh Carmichael, a solicitor, and Sarah Rogers from County Meath. He studied medicine at the nearby College of Surgeons. In 1816 he was appointed to the Richmond Hospital, Dublin, where he taught with Robert Adams, John Cheyne and Ephraim MacDowel. In 1826 they founded, at their own expense, the "School of Anatomy, Medicine and Surgery of the Richmond Hospital". This was renamed the Carmichael School of Medicine after his death, and to which he bequeathed £10,000. He founded the Irish Medical Association in 1840 and was president of it until his death. He drowned while riding his horse across the sands to his summer residence in Sutton, near Dublin, and was buried in St. George's Churchyard, Whitworth Road.

The foundation stone for the new school of medicine named after him was laid on 29 March 1864 in North Brunswick St. The building was next to the North Dublin Union and cost £6,000. Architect was J. E. Rogers of Dublin. The nineteenth century produced its medical giants. Amongst the galaxy of medical men in the Dublin School at the beginning of the century, no star shone more brightly than that of Richard Carmichael. As a reformer, philanthropist and teacher he was outstanding."His practical views established important improvements in the treatment of those [venereal] diseases, especially in regard to the administration of mercury. Carmichael was one of the most active physicians in Ireland, holding a number of posts at various hospitals and medical schools, including the Richmond Hospital School of Medicine which he helped found. A strong advocate of professional education for physicians, Carmichael sought rigorous standards for physicians and the separation of pharmacy from medicine and surgery. The present work is one of several which Carmichael wrote on venereal diseases. He made several improvements in treatment, most notably in the administration of mercury.”

A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery;
Edmund Chapman, Surgeon.

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Edmund Chapman, Surgeon.

A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery; Chiefly with Regard to the Operation to Which are Added Fifty seven cases, Selected from upwards of twenty seven years practice. Published in London: by John Brindley 1753. 3rd. Edition, enlarged additions, and embellished with (2) copper-plates. Original binding, marbled paper, three quarter tan leather both to spine and corners. A dark red label with gilt lettering within to the top of the spine and decorations. A fine clean copy of a rare, scarce medical book.  First published as 'An essay on the improvement of midwifery'. Edmund Chapman (1680-1756) the second public teacher (after Maubray), who wrote:

“ ... one of the most noble ... operations ... requires judgment for there is generally one and often two lives snatched from the jaws of death ...”.​ Edmund Chapman, Surgeon and man-midwife, developer of obstetric forceps, died 1738. On of the full page engravings is of his obstetric forceps. Rare, Scarce with the copper plates within.. In fine collectable condition. On complete copies to be found on the internet.

A History of British Birds. 
William Yarrell 

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William Yarrell 

A History of British Birds. 

    Published by John Van Voorst, 1843 in London . 3 volumes., 1st. Edition, with 520 splendid wood-engraved illustrations. Original three quarter green leather binding with red and green marbled paper covers. Gilt lettering and decorations to all three volumes. In very fine collectable condition. 

William Yarrell (3 June 1784 – 1 September 1856) was an English zoologist, prolific writer, bookseller and naturalist admired by his contemporaries for his precise scientific work. William Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes (2 vols., 1836) and A History of British Birds featuring 564 original engravings (in 3 vols., first ed. 1843, second ed. 1845, third ed. 1856). The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists. He described Bewick's swan in 1830, distinguishing it from the larger whooper swan. A milestone in ornithological literature which served as the standard work for field ornithologists for almost the rest of the century. First published in 37 parts between July 1837 and May 1843, it appears here in book form for the first time. Yarrell's major works were A History of British Fishes (1836), and A History of British Birds (1843), the latter having the same title as the popular book by Thomas Bewick published in 1797–1804 but with a different set of engravings.

British Birds was first published "in thirty-seven parts of three sheets each, at intervals of two months; the first Part was issued in July 1837, and the last in May 1843." The sheets were then collected into two volumes, with the addition of "many occurrences of rare birds, and of some that were even new to Britain". The additional birds were listed and briefly described in the Preface, and "the new subjects have been engraved on single leaves, so paged, that the bookbinder may insert these separate leaves among the birds of the genus to which each respectively belongs."British Birds was illustrated with drawings by Alexander Fussell. Yarrell thanks him for "nearly five hundred of the drawings on wood here employed". The pen for the remaining drawings (the title page asserts there are 520 in the book) is not stated. Yarrell also thanks John Thompson (1785–1866) and his sons for the "very long series of engravings" of the drawings, as well as his printers, Messrs. Bentley, Wilson and Fley. At the time of its release, Yarrell's British Birds was considered the best work on the subject both scientifically and artistically, as noted by Prof. Alfred Newton in his "Prospectus" to the 1871 edition, from which Yarrell's introduction was removed along with the names of contributing artists under Thompson's direction. Both Yarrell's books were so popular that their publisher John van Voorst stated that sales exceeded £4,000. Thomas R Forbes, in his biographical paper on Yarrell, writes that "All [editions of Birds] are outstanding because of the author's clear, narrative style, accuracy, careful scholarship, and unassuming charm. $500

Salices or an Essay Towards a General History 
of Sallows, Willows, & Osiers, 
their Uses and Best Methods of Propagating and Cultivating them.  1811
Walter Wade

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Salices or an Essay Towards a General History of Sallows, Willows, & Osiers, their Uses and Best Methods of Propagating and Cultivating them.  1811

      Published by Graisberry & Campbell, in Dublin 1811;-Dublin: Printers to the Right Hon. and Hon. the Dublin Society.  1st. Edition, foldout  hand coloured frontispiece, 235x145mm;-  Original dark blue paper-backed binding. Worn but in fine collectable condition. A Latin Index to the back pages, unopened and uncut copy in its original issued state.This is the fold-out frontispiece to Dr Walter Wade’s most substantial work, Salices, or an essay towards a general history of sallows, willows, and osiers, their uses, and best methods of propagating and cultivating them, published in Dublin in 1811. This lovely, hand tinted engraving shows Salix acutifolia, the Caspian osier.

Dr. Walter Wade (1740-1825) was a medical doctor practicing in Dublin. A professor of botany at the Dublin Society, he was a prime mover behind the founding of the Botanic Garden at Glasnevin. This book is his most substantial work.  Dr Walter Wade was a physician and botanist in Dublin, he was a licentiate of the College of Physicians from 1788, and professor of botany at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was professor and lecturer on botany to the Dublin Society and superintendent of the society’s Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin. Wade’s outstanding contributions to Irish botany are twofold: the first was his successful campaign to set up a botanic garden under the patronage of the Dublin Society, his design, planting and steering of the garden in its early years, and the establishment of the library of botanical and agricultural books; the second was his popularising of botany by a series of free public lectures given from 1802 to 1823, accompanied by practical sessions in the garden. In 1804 his Plantae rariores in Hibernia inventae, or habitats of some plants, rather scarce and valuable, found in Ireland, gave a detailed description of the properties and uses of the plants. He dedicated it to the “Dublin Society, the encouragers of agriculture, the arts, and sciences”.



Des Principes de l'Architecture, 
de la Sculptur, de la Peinture et des autres 
arts here en dependent. 
Avec a Dictionnaire des Termes propres 
à chacun de ces Arts.
 M. Félibien  (Andre)

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 M. Félibien  (Andre)

Des Principes de l'Architecture, de la Sculptur, de la Peinture et des autres arts here en dependent. Avec a Dictionnaire des Termes propres à chacun de ces Arts.

Published by Coignard  A , in Paris, 1697 - Cm. 24, pp. (24) 542. Bell'antiporta allegorical title page in red and black with cartoon central, 65 full-page plates, all copper engraved plates. Original brown swede binding, worn. A fine collectable book. 

Félibien was born at Chartres. At the age of fourteen he went to Paris to continue his studies; and in May 1647 he was sent to Rome in the capacity of secretary in the embassy of the marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil. His residence at Rome he turned to good account by diligent study of its ancient monuments, by examination of the literary treasures of its libraries, and by cultivating the acquaintance of men eminent in literature and in art, with whom he was brought into contact through his translation of Francesco Cardinal Barberini's Life of Pius V. Among his friends was Nicolas Poussin, whose counsels were of great value to him, and under whose guidance he even attempted to paint and whose biography Félibien wrote, which remains "the most persuasive guide to the work, as to the life" of Poussin, as the biography's modern editor Claire Pace observed.

He was one of the first members (1663) of the Academy of Inscriptions. Three years later Colbert procured him the appointment of court historian to the king, in which one of his commissions was the minute descriptions of court fêtes, an essential element of the king's cultural propaganda. In 1671 he was named secretary to the newly founded Académie d'architecture, where he gave lectures, and in 1673 he was appointed keeper of the cabinet of antiquities in the Palais Brion. His Description sommaire (1674) was the official guide to Versailles. To these offices was afterwards added by Louvois that of deputy controller-general of roads and bridges. Félibien found time in the midst of his official duties for study and research, and produced many literary works. Among these the best and the most generally known is the Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes, which set the nascent discipline of art criticism on sound logical footings, which Félibien set forth most coherently in his Principes de l'architecture, de la sculpture, de la peinture, &c. (1676-1690). He died in Paris in 1695.



Histoire de la Revolution D'Irlande, 
arrivee sous Guillaume III;- 1692
by Jean de Labrune; François La Brune;- 

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Histoire de la Revolution D'Irlande, arrivee sous Guillaume III;- by Jean de Labrune; François La Brune;- Published in Amsterdam, Mortier 1692. 1st. Edition. Original brown leather binding, with gilt decorations along the spine, red leather label with gilt lettering within to the top of the spine.  Gilt line decorations to from and back covers. A stunning copy of a very scarce book on Ireland written in French. Two hundred pages. 

By 1689, William of Orange and his wife Mary were proclaimed joint sovereigns in England, Scotland, and Ireland. James II, the pro-Catholic king, had escaped to France. They would meet again in Ireland, at the battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda. On the 1st July 1690, the Jacobite forces, including 6,000 French soldiers, retreated after repeated bombardment by William's troops. Fighting with William were Dutch guards, Englishmen, Danes, French Huguenots, and Ulster Protestants. James fled back to France.

Lands of the Slave and the Free: 
or Cuba, the United States, and Canada
Henry A. Murray.

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Henry A. Murray.

 Lands of the Slave and the Free: or Cuba, the United States, and Canada, Two Volumes. 

       Published by John W. Parker, in LONDON 1855 - 1st. Edition. Two volume set,  4pages of publishers catalogue. 2 vignette title pages to each volume, 10 plates, 2 maps, one foldout map in fine condition of the U.S.A. before 1855 so many of the States didn’t exist. Also the same fold-out map of the United States;- The Tint on the fold-out map indicates The Slave States, New Mexico is undecided. Original cloth bindings to both volumes. Gilt Malta Cross with gilt lettering within to the front and back of both volumes. Gilt lettering also to both spines. Complete with all the plates and Maps. This rare early American travel book covers, America, Canada, and Cuba, covers the early history of the Mormons and their church, and first hand knowledge of the shooting of its founder Joseph Smith and the huge trip across country to the great Salt Lake in Utah and the building of its Church. The ongoing Slave trade in Havana, Cuba an the Southern States. Fine collectable early travel books;- 

The History Of The Rebellion and Civil Wars
Begun in the Year 1641
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Edward Earl of Clarendon;-

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641. With the precedent passages, and actions, that contributed therunto, and the happy end, and conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration, and return upon the 29th of May, in the year 1660. 

   Published in Oxford: Printed at the Theatre 1702 - 1707;- 3 Volume Set. Folio 1st. Edition of this crucial account of the tumultuous 1640s and 50s in England, written by an author whom Allibone lauds as "one of the most illustrious characters of English history"; Allibone also quotes the Edinburgh Review's description of the present work as "one of the noblest historical works of the English nation." Each volume commences with a copper-engraved frontispiece and title-full page engraving, the former done by Robert White after a painting by Lely, the latter signed Michael Burghers. Burghers also engraved a substantial number of head- and tailpieces for the work, as well as decorative capitals. Original brown leather binding  with gilt lettering and decorations along all three spines. Covers slightly loose, other very good copy of a rare set of a highly collectable work of the English Civil War. $2,000

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 1609 – 9 December 1674) was an English statesman, historian, and maternal grandfather of two English, Scottish and Irish monarchs, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne.

Despite his own previous opposition to the King he found it hard to forgive anyone, even a close friend, who fought for Parliament, and severed many personal ties as a result. With the possible exception of John Pym, he detested the Parliamentary leaders, describing Oliver Cromwell as "a brave bad man" and John Hampden as a hypocrite, while the "foxes and wolves" speech by Oliver St. John, in favour of the attainder of Strafford, he considered the depth of barbarism. His view of the conflict was undoubtedly coloured by the death of his best friend Falkland at the First Battle of Newbury.

During the Civil War, Hyde served in the King's council beginning 22 February 1645, and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 3 March, and was one of the more moderate figures in the royalist camp. By 1645 his moderation, and the enmity of Henrietta Maria of France, had alienated him from the King, and he was made guardian to the Prince of Wales, with whom he fled to Jersey in 1646. Despite their differences, he was horrified by the execution of the King, whom he always remembered with reverence. In his opinion the fatal flaw of Charles I, as with all the Stuart monarchs, was to let their own judgement, which was usually sound, become corrupted by the advice of their favourites, which was always disastrous. Hyde was not closely involved with Charles II's attempts to regain the throne between 1649 to 1651. It was during this period that Hyde began to write his great history of the Civil War. Hyde rejoined the exiled king in 1651 and was sent by him on an unsuccessful diplomatic mission to the Court of Spain and soon became his chief advisor. Charles appointed him Lord Chancellor on 13 January 1658.

The Illustrated London News, 
Volume 30 : Jan. to June 1857.

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The Illustrated London News, Volume 30 : Jan. to June 1857. 

     Published in London, by William Little Strand 1857. Large Folio,

 Black and white illustrations, decorative gilt purple cloth binding, gilt lettering and decoration to both front cover and spine. The covers are loose and worn, the spine is loose and patched. Overall good condition. Volume 30;- Features: Early Map of central London. Extensive coverage of international news including the Second Opium War, both in articles and illustrations, the war with China, and articles on Western Australia, the Great Eastern, and The Desert Route: Cairo to Gaza. Coverage of the War With China including: Text: Resumption of the Adjourned Debate: The War in China 224/227. Numerous Illustrated Articles including views of Hong Kong and Canton, Bombardment of Canton: two images each page, including city views 4/5, Bombardment of Canton: front page includes Plan of the City of Canton 31, The War With China: two images each page, including Chinese Soldiers 38/39, 74/75, 86, 134, 170/171, Chinese Pirate Boat at Canton: front page 79, Chinese Mandarin and Soldiers: front page 151, Sketches in China: two images including silk culture 179, Merchant Lorchas on the Canton River (front page) 231, Hong Kong: Central Portion of the Town of Victoria 239, Canton & Part of the Suburbs 250, Victoria, Hong Kong: Queen's Road West 262, Hong Kong, etc: four images 347, Singapore (city view) and Tombs at Ningpo (two images) 402, Two Images: Fleet of Chinese Pirates and View of Shanghai 283, Conflagration in Canton 250/251, Two Images: Chinese Modern Junk of War and Chinese Rebels 259, Destruction of Piratical Junks: two images 426, Chinese Tortures: three images 306, Gun Boats for China 359. Articles on Australia with Emphasis on Western Australia: Fremantle, Western Australia with Rottnest Island in distance (proposed new convict establishment) 147, York, in Western Australia (front page) 175, Western Australia: Bunbury and Aborigines: two images 178, Western Australia: Culam, in Upper Valley of Swan and Kangaroo Hunt Sketches in Australia: two images 71. Scenes in the Desert: (An illustrated narrative of the Desert Route: Cairo to Gaza) two or more images each page 58, 82, 115, 143, 155, 194. The Great Eastern Steam-ship Building on the Stocks (double page) 518-519, The Great Eastern Steam-Ship (double page) drawn by Weedon 582/3 and sectional diagram 590, Construction of the Great Eastern Steam-Ship (front page) 558. Map Showing the Toll-Gates and Principal Bars Within Six Miles of Charing-Cross 554/555. FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE: Sketches of Irish Life: two images including The Irish Schoolmaster 66, En Route to China: two images: becalmed on the Red Sea 538, Skating in Hyde Park drawn by John Leech 146, Manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable 242/243. ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES INCLUDE: Singapore: short article with half page illustration 402; Sketches in Persia: two images each page, including Grand Mosque at Ispahan 20/21; Master Walter, The Physician: A Tale of Old London (An Attack on the Jewry) 96; French Occupation of Algeria 131; Screw Engines of the Great Eastern Steam-ship; The War in Persia; the United States Steam Corvette Niagara; New Reading Room: British Museum 430; Sketches in Borneo two half page illustrations including view of Bruni, the Capital of Borneo Proper 642.. Important Folio, to what was read in Imperial London at the time.  Heavy book to post so please contact up 1st.