http://www.justincroft.com These are the most recent additions to our catalogue. Bookmark this page and revisit it regularly to view our weekly updates. Last updated: 07/02/2012 03:18:33 First published in 1751, The tutor’s assistant became a best-selling mathematical books for over a century. ‘An incomplete listing comprises 276 editions, the last in 1885... The York editions, starting in 1797, were corrected by Thomas Crosby of that city’ (Wallis in ODNB).’ Crosby also published a popular Key to the book, which itself ran to many editions. ‘This book is by far the most used of all school-books, and deserves to stand high among them’ (De Morgan, Arithmetical Books, 1847, 80, c... £250.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/582/walkingame-francis-the-tutors-assistant-being-a-compendium-of-arithmetic-and-a-complete-question-book-containing-i-arithmetic-in-whole-numbers-being-a-brief-explanation-of-all-its-rules-in-a-new-and-more-concise-method-than-any-hitherto-published-with-an Britain was on the alert for imminent invasion by the French throughout 1797. While General Hoche’s fleet had been defeated by the weather in January 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte took up the cause later that year, writing to Talleyrand that France ‘must destroy the English monarchy, or expect itself to be destroyed by these intriguing and enterprising islanders... Let us concentrate all our efforts on the navy and annihilate England. That done, Europe is at our feet.’ Frightened gossip and hearsay ... £1200.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/581/a-new-machine-or-raft-to-cover-or-protect-the-landing-of-the-french-on-their-intended-invasion-of-england-engraved-after-an-original-drawing-made-by-a-french-prisoner-of-war Bowen’s map of Kent was first published in 1751 (Bibliotheca Cantiana 18) and formed part Bowen’s The large English atlas, or, A new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales. The maps were several times reprinted before 1800. This example, with the imprint naming Laurie, Whittle, Bowles and Carver with its own slipcase dates from after 1795. The large cartouche at the bottom left depicts Kentish trades and occupations (including hop growing), while the inset at the top left is a sur... £500.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/580/kent-bowen-emanuel-cartographer-an-accurate-map-of-the-county-of-kent-divided-into-its-lathes-and-subdivided-into-hundreds-drawn-from-survyes-amd-most-approved-modern-maps-with-various-additional-imporvements-ilustrated-with-historical-extracts-relative- A photographically-illustrated poetical rendering of the legend to St Etheldreda, Saxon princess and founder of the religious house at Ely. It is apparently otherwise unrecorded. It is based on the tale told in the sequence of medieval carvings carved on the capitals around the interior of the remarkable ‘Lantern Tower’ of Ely Cathedral These capitals are illustrated with original photographs of plates from James Bentham’s The history and antiquities of the conventual and cathedral church of El... £950.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/579/saint-etheldreda-cmp-the-legend-of-st-ethedreda-foundress-of-ely-cathedral Number 10 of 250 copies. Shakespeare’s metaphysical poem on the theme of idealised and mystical love was first published in the Supplement to Robert Chester’s Love’s Martyr (1601). In it, the phoenix and the turtle dove are joined in eternal love and burn themselves alive. A leading figure in the Nouvelle École de Paris, Léon Gischia continued to produce and exhibit avant-garde work throughout the German occupation, despite repeated denunciation for degeneracy. He also produced designs for the ... £200.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/578/shakespeare-william-leon-gischia-illustrator-the-phoenix-and-the-turtle A delightful and suprising pendant in book form containing a suite of photographic female nudes, all of the same sitter in a woodland setting. £600.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/576/miniature-book-erotic-photographs First published in 1759 with a second edition in 1764, a Dublin edition in 1766 prior to this ‘third’ edition, Wallis’s Dictionary was influential. A search of the Oxford English Dictionary finds 15 citations for words defined by Wallis (including acopon, brainlet, paralytic, rheumatic and withers). Wallis describes himself as ‘surgeon’ on the title-page of each edition and the Dictionary is an important source for the history of equine medicine. £280.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/575/wallis-thomas-the-farriers-and-horsemans-complete-dictionary-containing-the-art-of-farriery-in-all-its-branches-with-whatever-relates-to-the-manage-and-to-the-knowledge-breeding-feeding-and-dieting-of-horses-as-delivered-by-the-best-writers-upon-these-su This religious and artistic manifesto by the pioneering studio potter was privately printed and distributed; it is addressed ‘To my friends: At the close of 1953.’ Written from the perspective of the Baha’i faith, to which Leach had been introduced by American painter Mark Tobey at Dartington in 1940, this is a plea for integration of East and West and a powerful exposition of the necessity and social usefulness of handicraft in modern society. £160.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/574/leach-bernard-my-religious-faith The record of a Manchester cycling club from the heyday of British amateur cycling. The minute book covers six years and includes the record of the club’s foundation. After an initial section of club rules and procedures the entries alternate between monthly meetings and the records of club runs. The runs began at the club’s headquarters at the Rechabites Hall in the city centre and took members to local towns and beauty spots, including Prestbury, Latchford, Budworth, Knutsford and Buxton, mos... £850.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/573/cycling-walla-walla-cycling-club-formed-1897-minute-book First edition. Sefer Raziel ha-mal’akh is a fundamental Kabbalistic text in which is expounded the spiritual laws of birth, life, death and the universe according to Jewish tradition. It contains many pictorial amulets and incantations together with Kabbalistic diagrams of the structure of the cosmos. By Kabbalistic tradition and according to the text, the works which form the book are considered to have been revealed to Adam when driven from Paradise, thus making it the very first “book” of wr... £3500.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/571/kabbalah-sefer-raziel-ha-malakh-book-of-raziel-in-hebrew A dedication copy, with specially engraved title, of a sonata and rondo in B flat major for fortepiano and violin, with an optional bass part. L’Étendart was probably tutor to several fashionable amateur musicians in Paris: all the few compositions by him we have located contain personal engraved dedications, like the one here. This volume is an especially attractive Consulate-era artefact, in its striking red binding, bearing the ticket of the papetier Susse, whose shop was in the newly-opened... £600.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/562/letendart-a-sonate-composee-pour-le-forte-piano-avec-accompagnement-de-violon-oblige-et-de-basse-ad-libitum-dediee-a-madame-delphine-le-roux-oeuvre-3 A complete set of all 48 plates of Boucher fils’ Cahiers d’arabesques mostly in unfolded and uncut state. Son (and sometime student) of the Rococo master-painter François Boucher, Juste Nathan François travelled in Italy before devoting his career to the creation of architectural fantasies which perfectly exemplify the aesthetic transition from Rococo to neo-classicism apparent in all branches of the arts in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Having studied and sketched classical remains in ... £1800.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/561/boucher-juste-nathan-francois-premier--huitieme-cahier-darabesques First edition of a vicious little satire against Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, on the occasion of his marriage to Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba, a Spanish noblewoman of partial Scottish ancestry. After years in exile (partly in England) Louis-Napoléon became Emperor with the dissolution of the Second Republic in late 1852. Seeking a wife in order to secure his succession, he married the following year. His opponents (Magen included) took the opportunity to mock his choice and t... £200.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/559/stelli-l-pseudonym-of-hippolyte-magen-les-nuits-et-le-mariage-de-cesar First edition in French of Tractatus de globis (1594), an important navigational work originally dedicated to Sir Walter Raleigh. Hues had studied at Oxford where he became acquainted with Richard Hakluyt and later, Walter Raleigh and Thomas Harriot, before taking part in a voyage to Newfoundland. In five parts, the book describes the practical uses of the globes designed by Molyneux and, especially, how mariners could find the sun’s position, latitude, course and distance, amplitudes and azimu... £900.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/551/hues-robert-denis-henrion-translator-traicte-des-globes-et-de-leur-usage-traduict-du-latin-de-robert-hues-et-augmente-de-plusieurs-nottes-and-operations-du-compas-de-proportion-par-d-henrion-mathematicien First edition, number 133 of 150 copies on papier de Hollande, of the first serious attempt at a bibliographical survey of the works of de Sade. Critical studies of de Sade were understandably slow to emerge in nineteenth-century France, with the first essay on the entire oeuvre, by Jules Janin (‘Le Marquis de Sade’), appearing only in 1834. Our survey, with quite detailed bibliographical data was anonymously issued and was itself condemned (see Uzanne, preface to Idée sur les romans, 1878, p. ... £650.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/549/sade-donatien-alphonse-francois-marquis-de-brunet-pierre-gustave-le-marquis-de-sade-lhomme-et-ses-ecrits-etude-bio-bibliographique One of 100 copies, this example one of 65 on Whatman paper, of Uzanne’s influential edition of de Sade’s most important and enduring critical essay. It had first appeared as a preface to Les crimes de l’amour (1799) and sought to trace the origins and development of the modern or psychological novel from classical literature to the eighteenth-century works of Rousseau, Voltaire, De Graffigny, Marivaux and Crébillon fils and in de Sade’s own Aline et Valcourt. De Sade identifies Richardson and F... £400.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/548/sade-donatien-alphonse-francois-marquis-de-octave-uzanne-editor-idee-sur-les-romans-publiee-avec-preface-notes-et-documents-inedits Engraved throughout with text and images. A delightful miniature almanac, which is preceded by several popular songs (‘Aux Dames’, ‘le Portraits’, ‘le Banquet’,‘la Barque à Caron’ etc.) Though without imprint, this is characteristic of the popular miniatures produced by Marcilly. £700.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/545/miniature-book-le-tableau-de-la-vie-annee-1820 The unfortunate Michel Soulavie, a valet in the household of the Marquise de Brégançon appears to have fallen dangerously ill in May or June 1752. The nature of the illness is not clear from these medical bills, but a large number of prescriptions by one M. Lazesmes and an apothecary M. Chambon are listed in the first two: including tisanes of fern and violets, a syrup of poppy, cordial potions, laudanum, spermaceti and a variety of unguents and balms. The first surviving bill is dated 6th June... £250.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/542/soulavie-michel-valet-to-madame-la-marquise-de-bregancon-medical-bills-for-a-fatal-illness-and-subsequent-burial A pleasingly unsophisticated manuscript chansonnier, which bears occasional contemporary inscriptions of one Alexandre Guichard, of Stenay (Meuse, Alsace). It contains the lyrics to 188 popular songs, each giving the name of the tune to which it is sung, and with an alphabetical index. Many of these are drawn from contemporary operas and comedies: Ariette de Philippe et Georgette is perhaps from the comedy of the same name by Jacques-Marie Boutet de Monvel; Romance de L’amitié à l’épreuve is fr... £800.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/538/chansons-guichard-alexandre-chansonnier Nicolas Duval was an influential figure in the development of French calligraphy and worked at the heart of the French government as Secretaire Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy. He issued a number of fine engraved manuals with differing sequences of plates and letterpress explanations and our example is apparently otherwise unrecorded. We can find no other work with the same title or, indeed, the same composition of text and plates. Surviving examples of these manuals are rare, and it is clear th... £4400.00 http://www.justincroft.com/stock_item/537/duval-nicolas-nouvelles-ecritures-de-finance-and-italienne-batarde-en-usage-avec-un-traite-pour-apprendre-lortographe-par-n-duval-secretaire-ordinaire-de-la-chambre-du-roy-and-m-escrivain-jure-paris-pour-les-verifications-des-ecritures-et-signatures-dedi