Vincenzo Maria de S. Caterina da Siena. Il Viaggio all'Indie Orientali. Con le osservationi, e successi net medesimo, …Venice, 1678.

Second edition of one of the most important 17th-century Italian travel reports of the Middle East and India. Vincenzo Maria (Murchio) was a Carmelite missionary with a keen eye and much interest to record manners, customs, and natural history. Travelling through Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Persia, Arabia before arriving in India, he returned to his homeland via Muscat. His book is far more then an intinerary of the Carmelite mission to India: book I recounts the journey to Malabar, also mentioning the Middle East, Mecca, Arabia, religion and other subjects. Book two is about the Christians of St. Thomas; book three is on political, religious and social life of Malabar. Book IV, probably prepared with the aid of Father Matthew, describes the plants of Malabar and the return trip to Europe. With a description of Goa. "Perhaps the most important of the 17th century Italian travellers" (Atabey).

A good copy with slight staining and soiling.

Hese, Johannes Witte de. Itinerarius Joannis de Hese presbyteri a Hierusalem describens dispositiones …Deventer, 1504.

A scarce and early edition of this important account of travels in the East. A medieval journey narrative comparable to the Travels of John Mandeville, the "Itinerarius" of Johannes Witte de Hese, a priest of Utrecht, is thought to date to c. 1389. The text circulated in manuscript in the fifteenth century, with the first printed edition being produced in Cologne ca 1490. This postincunabular edition was printed in 1504 in the Dutch city of Deventer by Jacques de Breda. During his eastward voyage Witte travels beyond Jerusalem, observing flying fish in the Red Sea en route to Egypt, then crosses the Sinai desert to visit St. Catherine's Monastery before returning to the Nile. Sailing from Damietta to the coast of Ethiopia, he is briefly taken captive by brigands before journeying onward to the kingdom of Prester John where he marvels at the extraordinary palace there. He also records a visit to the island housing the shrine of St. Thomas. Before returning to Jerusalem, Witte spends more than a year roaming the remotest parts of the seas. Unicorns, pygmies, Gog and Magog, and a whale the size of an island add to the exotic flavour of this seminal text in the development of European travel literature.

Nightingale, Florence, English social reformer and nurse (1820-1910). 11 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph letter, autograph correspondence …Claydon House and 10 South Street, Park Lane, W. London, 1883-1896.

Amicable correspondence with her good friend Jessie Lennox (1830-1933), one of the original "Nightingale Nurses" who trained at the Florence Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital in London in the 1860s. Written in the fondest terms and taking great interest in her work, Florence Nightingale rejoices at the progress already made in the nursing profession, asks for advice and discusses at length, over several letters, the ideal role of the matron she wishes to appoint to take over the care of some 500 poor boys in an "industrial boys home". The matron, she writes, should embody the practicalities of a trained nurse with a mother's care for her charges, with an emphasis on good diet, warm clothing and good shoes. She cites the story of Ella Pirrie, the Lady Superintendent of the Union Infirmary at Belfast, who persuaded a child struck dumb to speak by adopting this gentle approach when harsher means had failed. She asks Lennox's advice in drawing up a set of requirements to put forward as clearly as possible to the "man committee": "This [...] is a difficulty because the man-Committee does not seem to think a woman has any business in the Barrack huts at all [...] In fact I do not expect to get her at all [...]" (11 April 1887). Her frustration with such committees is evident, even for an influential person such as herself, but she recognizes the enormous progress that has already been made in changing the status of nursing into a highly trained respectable profession. She goes on to discuss the tasks of the district nurse and her ability to become a role model: "The work of the District Nurses is truly not only to nurse, but to teach the families how to nurse […] to know to what charity or authority to apply, to get flannels, sick comforts, food & stimulants, where ordered - sick appliances, bedding, warm clothing, where imperatively needed [...] do not you think that these things had better not be given by the District Nurse herself. For where alms-giving, clothes-giving [...] is practiced by the nurse, real nursing flies out of the window [...] if the nurse has really that influence which she ought to have in the Patient's family, do they not become ashamed of letting her see the man or the woman drunk again? And does not that exercise a reforming influence? [...]" (23 May 1889).

The collection includes a facsimile letter dated May 1900 addressed to all her nurses ("My dear children") in which she recognizes her role as the Mother of Nursing and speaks of advances in medicine and the professionalisation of nursing, ending however with a swipe at the suffragists: "You have called me your mother-chief, it is an honour to me & a great honour, to call you my children [...] Woman was the home drudge. Now she is the teacher. Let her not forfeit it by being the arrogant - the 'Equal with men' [...]".

Enclosed is an ALS by Jessie Lennox to Dr Lilias Maclay (b.1893), discussing a letter Lennox gave to Maclay seven years after the death of Florence Nightingale: "This one was written when Miss Florence Nightingale was quite an old lady, when her hand was not very steady. The writing in the early ones is much stronger [...] her body is at rest but her work is still very much with us [...]" (Edinburgh, 21 Dec. 1917). With autograph envelope. Maclay had enrolled at Glasgow University to study for a medical degree in 1912, passing the course with first class certificates in clinical surgery. During WWI she served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt and is one of the few females featured in the University's Roll of Honour. After her marriage to John Edmund Hamilton in 1926 she practised as a doctor in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Further includes a typescript solicitor's letter, confirming that a total of 16 letters by Florence Nightingale were bequeathed to Dr Maclay after Lennox's death in 1933.

An extraordinarily well-preserved set.

Bonald, Louis G. A. Vicomte de, French statesman and philosopher (1754-1840). Autograph letter signed (?).No place or date.

To the "bureaux du journal la France rue des filles St. Thomas, place de la bourse, Paris", about linguistic matters, with a reference to M. Ch. Nodier as a linguist and discussing the ancient origins of the grammatical cases: "C'est d'une question de grammaire que je voudrais demander le soutien à [...] mon honorable et spirituel confrère de l'institut M. Ch. Nodier qui s'est particulièrement occupé de Linquistique [...] Mais dans les declinaison des substantifes et leurs differents cas, appelés nominatif, genitif, datif, acusatif, vocatif, ablatif, quelle peut en etre la raison? [...] J'ay [...] y voir l'expression des deux traites qui comprennent toute l'economie des sociétés humaines, societé domestique et de producteur soiciété politique ou publique et de conservation. Le nominatif qui s'exprime ou se nomme lui [meme], ego ego tam qui tam dit le pouvoir supréme [...]".

Bonald took an important role in the Bourbon Restoration, implementing a law that in 1822 abolished the freedom of press. He is remembered for developing a set of social theories that went on to shape the ontological framework from which French sociology would emerge.

Small cuts and clips from opening.

San Román de Ribadeneyra, Antonio de. Historia general de ly Yndia Oriental. Los descobrimientos, y conquistas …Valladolid, 1603.

Rare first edition of this account of the Portuguese discoveries and conquests from the second quarter of the 15th to the third quarter of the 16th century, with extensive references to Brazil, but also to Angola, the Arabian Gulf, East Africa, India, Malacca, China, Japan and the New World.

San Román de Ribadeneyra, a Spanish Benedictine from Palencia, also published an important Spanish account of King Sebastião I of Portugal's ill-fated 1578 invasion of Morocco, the "Jornada y muerte del Rey D. Sebastian" (also Valladolid, 1603).

The present copy contains the frequently missing engraved architectural title-page with a portrait of the author and the coat of arms of the Constable of Castile, Juan Fernandez de Velasco, to whom the work is dedicated. The two engravings in the text, on pages 225 and 596, show a miraculous celestial cross as well as the cross of St Thomas, the Apostle of India. Samodães (2982) provides an extensive and detailed description, exactly matching the present copy as well as the BNP copy.

Rare, only two complete copies recorded in auction (last Bloomsbury NY, 12 March 2009). Trimmed a little short with slight browning; some light waterstains near the end. A fine, complete copy in its original binding.

[Album amicorum]. Friendship album of the theologian Matthias Harnwolf with more than 250 …Mostly Leipzig and Jena, but including Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder, Halle/Saale, Liegnitz, Magdeburg, Sopron, and Waldau, 1769-1773.

Exceptionally comprehensive friendship album assembled by the theologian Matthias Harnwolf(f), who served as preacher in his native Agendorf (Ágfalva in Hungary) from 1783 until his death in 1809.

Harnwolf was a well-travelled man, of which fact his album gives ample evidence. The first entry is also the most prominent: it is written by none other than Friedrich Nicolai, Berlin's figurehead of Enlightenment, who inscribed a quote from Horace ("Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem", dated "1763"). Further entries are mainly from Harnwolf's university years at Leipzig and Jena (1769-73), including by Johann Friedrich Bahrdt (professor and superintendent in Leipzig, 1713-75), Anton Friedrich Büsching (theologian and geographer, 1724-93), Joachim Georg Darjes (pastor, jurist, philosopher and economist, 1714-91), Johann August Ernesti (director of Leipzig's St. Thomas School, 1707-81), Johann Ernst Faber (professor of oriental languages, 1745-74), Justus Christian Hennings (moral philosopher and Enlightenment thinker, 1731-1815), Johann Friedrich Hirt (theologian and oriental scholar, 1719-83), Georg Friedrich Meier (philosopher, 1718-77), Johann August Nösselt (theologian, 1734-1807), August Friedrich Wilhelm Sack (philosopher, theologian and famed pulpit orator, 1703-86), Georg Christoph Silberschlag (scientist, 1731-90), Johann Joachim Spalding (theologian, hymnwriter and philosopher, 1714-1804), Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow (naturalist, 1722-1801), Wilhelm Abraham Teller (theologian, hymnwriter and professor, 1734-1804), Johann August Heinrich Ulrich (philosopher, 1746-1813), Karl Friedrich Walch (legal scholar, 1734-99), Johann Georg Walch (theologian and lexicographer, 1693-1775), Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (rhetorician, philologist and geologist, 1725-78), Johann Ernst Basilius Wiedeburg (physicist, astronomer and mathematician, 1733-89), and Friedrich Samuel Zickler (theologian, 1721-79).

While the bulk of contributors are theologians, jurists, and scientists, there is also an entry by a distant relative of Johann Sebastian Bach: young Johann Georg Bach (1751-97), who contributes a quotation from Shakespeare ("Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water", dated Jena, 1772), would become organist at St George's in Eisenach a few years later; also, there is a musical manuscript by Johann Adolf Leutholff based on Klopstock's poem "Die Auferstehung" ("Resurrection"), which song remained in German Protestant hymnals well into the 20th century and became recognizable worldwide when it was adapted by Gustav Mahler in his 2nd Symphony.

Wilkie, David, Maler (1785-1841). Eigenh. Mitteilung mit U.London, 21 Aug 1820.

An den Maler Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830): "This note was answered on the 21st August on returning from Norfolk, when I proposed to mail upon Sir Thomas Lawrence the day after (Tuesday) at 9 o'clock to receive his communications | David Wilkie".

Auf der Verso-Seite von Wilkies Hand der Name von Sir Thomas Lawrence samt Eingangsdatum von dessen Brief (12. August 1820), der auf dem hier fehlenden Gegenblatt gestanden hatte.

Mit kleinen Randläsuren.

Cramer, Carl Eduard, Swiss botanist (1831-1901). Autograph letter signed ("Prof. C. Cramer"), with a small drawing.Fluntern near Zurich, 11 Jun 1876.

In German, to the British botanist and publisher Alfred William Bennett (1833-1902), telling him that he has heard through "L. Hegnauer, who had the good fortune to stay with you some time, [...] that you are kindly going to identify for me some unusual tropical wood specimens that I have been researching anatomically [...]", apologising for not sending them sooner: "Now that at last I have a little more free time, I would first of all say how [...] grateful I am for your Memoirs. The wood will reach you soon, but I would like to draw your special attention here to nos. 1 and 2, then nos. 3 and 4, because most depends on the identification of these. All the specimens are transverse sections [...] The portions of no. 1 reveal a fairly tall trunk with a weakly spiralling and twisting longitudinal edge. No. 2 is, as its dark colour shows, steeped in Paraffin. Its trunk is like that of no. 3 (Tripteris?), with only weak grooves on the outside. Nos. 5 and 6 should rightly be distinguished. I wonder if 3 and 7 should also? All specimens are for you to keep [...]", wondering if Bennett can obtain for him "a piece of the stem of the Serjania with totally separate bodies of wood from 1 to 3 cm long and about 1 cm thick (I already possess a Serjania 2-3 mm thick)", with a sketch of the cross-section showing a cluster of stems within the main stem. "Equally welcome too would be specimens, not too thin, of other unusual stems, namely of Bignoniaceae, Dilleniaceae, Ampelidaceae (Cissus) Phytolaccaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Leguminosae (Rhynchosiascandens Bauhinia, Caulotretus)", sending in exchange a Spatolobuslittoralis Haukarl, promising his "paper on Podisomafuscum and Roesteliacancellata", and praying that "you will not take offence at my heavy demands, or be in a hurry to answer my questions, if anything is thereby likely to cause you trouble [...] My niece will have told you, that I am well able to read English, but, unfortunately, I write it badly".

Cramer succeeded Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817-91), whose life he wrote (1896). With Nägeli he researched the physiology of plants, including their irritability and movement. He also worked on the fossil Arctic flora and on bacteria during the Zurich typhoid epidemic of 1884. Cramer founded the Institute of Botanic Physiology at the Polytechnical College and was Director of the Zurich Botanical Gardens from 1882 to 1893.

Bennett was Lecturer in Botany at Bedford College, London, and at St Thomas' Hospital. He translated and edited Julius Sachs's "Lehrbuch der Botanik", 1875, and collaborated on the "Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany", 1889.

Traces of mounting on blank final page.

Funck-Brentano, Frantz, French historian and librarian (1862-1947). 4 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed.Paris and Montfermeil, 1907-1920.

Charming collection that bears testimony to Funck-Brentano's humanistic spirit and sense of collegiality. In the earliest letter to the historian Maurice Quatrelles l'Épine, Funck apologizes for having forgotten to communicate the address of the young Albert Mousset, historian and later director of two French press agencies: "En effet, j'avais oublié. C'est très mal. Je me roule à vos pieds. Voici l'adresse de mon jeune confrère de l'École des Chartes Albert Mousset, 3, rue Eugénie, Saint-Mandé, Seine. En lui vous pouvez avoir toute confiance. Mes respects sont aux pieds de Madame Quatrelles d'Épine [...]" (Montfermeil, 9 July 1907). In the postscript he mentions Charles Gailly de Taurines' latest publication "Aventuriers et Femmes de Qualité".

On 25 November 1912 he responds to the lawyer Baron Victor Riston, who had inquired about the so-called Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a court scandal involving Marie Antoinette that had occured in 1784/85. Funck apologizes for being unable to provide more information than what is to be found in his 1901 book on the subject, "as his memory is very confused": "Je suis désolé de ne pouvoir vous fournir des renseignements sur ce Bertrand qui vous intéresse. J'en ai dit dans mon livre le peu que je savais. Au reste les travaux sur l'Affaire du Collier sont déjà si loin de moi! - Je parle de la date où ils ont été écrits, que, en dehors de ce qui est écrit, mes souvenirs sont très confus [...]".

In a letter from 11 January 1916, probably to the director of the Paris Opera, Jacques Rouché, Funck requests two opera tickets for two Belgian war refugees, Arthur Ganshof van der Meersch and his wife Louise. The parents of the jurist and lawyer Walter Ganshof had to flee Bruges as their home was destroyed by the German troops occupying the city from 1914 to 1918. Frantz Funck-Brentano himself lost two of his three sons, Théophile and Léon, to the war in 1916.

A few months later Funck writes a postcard to Jacques Rouché, asking him for one or two tickets to "Une soirée chez La Popelinière" - a recreation of a salon of Jean-Phillippe Rameau's patron Alexandre Jean Joseph Le Riche de La Popelinière: "Je désirerais beaucoup voir Une soirée chez la Pouplinière, pour comparer avec mes scenarios et m'instruir. Pouvez-vous me faire envoyer une place pour Jeudi? - Si je pourrais en avoir deux, je viendrais avec ma fille. Mais je ne voudrais pas être indiscret [...]" (Paris, 22 May 1916).

In the last letter, Funck-Brentano asks an unidentified recipient to contact his aunt Emilie Brentano, the second wife of the German philosopher Franz Brentano, as she seeks to acquire a French edition of the works of St Thomas Aquinas: "Ma tante Emilie Brentano 7a ou 70 Brellistrasse [?], Zurich, demande pour un de ses amis d'Italie si elle pourrait avoir une traduction française des œuvres de Saint-Thomas d'Aquin et à quel prix. Pouvez-vous avoir la complaisance de vous en occuper et de vous mettre à ce sujet en rapport avec elle [...]" (Paris, 13 July 1920).

Two letters on stationery with printed letterhead of the "Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal". The postcard with a photograph of the "Salon de musique de la Duchesse du Maine". Two letters slightly smudged; some traces of folds and one minor tear. All letters with traces of former mounting.

Hunt, Thomas. De usu dialectorum orientalium, ac praecipue Arabicae, in Hebraico codice …Oxford, 1748.

University oration on the usage of Arabic dialects, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747.

Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek and Hebrew. Slight browning near beginning and end. A good, wide-margined copy.

Hunt, Thomas. De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, …Oxford, 1739.

University oration on the Arabic language, its age, beauty, and usefulness, held by the noted Arabic scholar Thomas Hunt (1696-1774). Hunt studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and was chaplain to Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. In 1738, he became the fourth Laudian Professor of Arabic, additionally becoming Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in 1740 (the year in which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society) and Regius Professor of Hebrew in 1747.

Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Trimmed rather closely. Some foxing near beginning and end; t. p. shows punched library ownership ("Philadelphia Divinity School") and shelfmarks.

Hunt, Thomas. De antiquitate, elegantia, utilitate, linguae Arabicae, oratio habita Oxonii, …Oxford, 1739.

Many type specimens in Arabic, as well as some in Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Traces of old binding stitches; slight tear in final errata leaf restored with Japanese paper.

Smith, Adam, economist (1723-1790). Autograph letter signed.Glasgow, 12 Mar 1760.

To the 1st Earl of Shelburne, regarding the health of his son Thomas, at the time Smith's student and lodger: "My Lord / It gives me as much pleasure to write to your Lordship today as it gave me pain to write to you by last post. The Doctors Predictions have upon this occasion been literally and exactly fulfilled. Mr. Fitzmaurice had the night before last a very slight attack of his fever which he was relieved from by a gentle sweat; and last night he had a bleeding at the nose which Dr. Black regards as a perfect crisis. He has since been entirely free from all feverish ailments or symptoms [...]". Written in ink in a neat cursive hand, approximately 23 lines to the page, with a few corrections in the text, addressed on the verso of the second sheet, annotated: "Mr. Smith concerning my son Thomas’s health". Sometime folded for posting, some light soiling along the folds.

Adam Smith was appointed professor of logic, and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1751 and 1752 respectively. As a professor, Smith took students into his house, offering both supervision in studies and board and lodging. Of these students, the names of only two have come down to us: Henry Herbert, later Lord Porchester, and Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice. In 1758 Gilbert Elliot, later Lord Minto, recommended Glasgow University rather than Oxford for the education of the younger son of the 1st Earl of Shelburne (the maternal grandson of the economist William Petty). Petty-Fitzmaurice (1742-93) had earlier been educated at Eton. For two years from 1759, Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice lived with Adam Smith. After Glasgow he went to St Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1761, was called to the English Bar in 1768 and became a Member of Parliament in 1762. In 1779 he set up as a linen merchant and established a bleaching factory at Llewenny in Wales, as his Irish estates were unproductive. He was reported to have lived on “the most intimate terms with Johnson, Hawkesworth and Garrick”. The total number of recorded letters written by Adam Smith is surprisingly small - about 200, of which at least 24 are only known from published sources, which leaves about 176 letters surviving, virtually all in public collections. There are only 11 surviving letters of Adam Smith's predating his correspondence with Lord Shelburne.

Provenance: Bowood, home of the Earls of Shelburne.

Anne, Königin von Großbritannien (1665-1714). Schriftstück mit eigenh. U.Windsor, 6 Nov 1712.

Urkunde über die Ernennung von William Brooks zum Kornett im Königlichen Regiment der Dragoner: "To Our Trusty and Welbeloved William Brooks Gent. Greeting: We do by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Cornet of that Troop whereof the Colonel himself is Captain in Our own Royal Regiment of Dragoons. Commanded by Our Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councillor Thomas Earl of Strafford. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of Cornet [...]".

Mit eh. Gegenzeichnung durch Staatssekretär Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, und zwei weiteren Beamten. Mit zwei Stempelmarken zu "II Shillings VI Pence", Dorsalvermerk, Spuren alter Faltung und kl. monogr. Sammlermarke verso.

[National Liberal Club]. Correspondence archive.Various places, 1879-1937 and undated, the bulk between 1906 and the 1920s.

A collection of letters by writers, politicians and other figures, the majority responding to invitations from John Henderson (1862-1938) as secretary of the National Liberal Club, a few others addressed to secretaries Samuel James and Charles Geake. The correspondents form a veritable Who Is Who of Liberal society in Edwardian and wartime Britain, including the writers Lewis S. Benjamin (Lewis Melville, 1874-1932) [2], Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), Alexander Ireland (1810-1894), W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943), A. P. Herbert (1890-1971), and Andrew Lang (1844-1912); the poet and government adviser Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) [2]; the Liberal politicians Sir Arthur Dyke Acland (1847-1926), Christopher (1st Viscount) Addison (1869-1951), Sir Cecil Beck (1876-1932), Norman (1st Baron) Birkett (1883-1962), Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), Thomas (1st Earl) Brassey (1836-1918), James (1st Viscount) Bryce (1838-1922), Sydney (1st Earl) Buxton (1853-1934), George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), John Clifford (1836-1923), Bernard (2nd Baron) Coleridge (1851-1927), Richard (1st Viscount) Haldane (1856-1928), John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen (1847-1934), Leonard Henry, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (1832-1918), Percy Illingworth (1869-1915), David Lloyd George (1863-1945) [a small quantity of autographs], William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (1872-1938), Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn (1846-1923), John (1st Viscount) Simon (1873-1954) [2], Samuel Smith (1836-1906), Charles Robert (6th Earl) Spencer, Viscount Althorp (1857-1922), Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde (1853-1928), Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire (1843-1928); the Labour politicians George Nicoll Barnes (1859-1940) [2], William (1st Baron) Beveridge (1879-1963), Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), and Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1850-1947); the classicists Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) and W. H. D. Rouse (1863-1950; not signed); the civil servant Edward Marsh (1872-1953); the shipbroker John Foster Howe; the actress Dorothea Baird Irving (1875-1933); the clergyman Reginald John Campbell (1867-1956); the General Sir Francis Lloyd (1853-1926); the illustrator Will Owen (1869-1957); the costume designer Alice Comyns Carr (1850-1927); as well as the industrialists William Lever (1st Viscount) Leverhulme (1851-1925) and Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, writing jointly with Margaret Lauder of Inverkeithing). Also, the typescript of an address given by Lord Bryce at the NLC, 29 March 1917.

A few items showing the odd edge flaw, but altogether a well-preserved ensemble.

Muratori, Ludovico Antonio. De paradiso regnique caelestis gloria non exspectata corporum resurrectione …Verona, 1738.

Erste Ausgabe. Gerichtet gegen Thomas Burnets 1720 posthum erschienene Abhandlung "De statu mortuorum et resurgentium" (Vom Zustand der Toten und von der Auferstehung), deren eigentliche Aussage unter Theologen in Streit stand.

Der katholische Geistliche, Jurist, Philosoph und Historiker Muratori (1672-1750), "eine der größten Persönlichkeiten im Italien des 18. Jahrhunderts" (Historikerlexikon) und seit 1695 Bibliothekar in Mailand, von 1700 bis zu seinem Tod Archivar in Modena, gilt als "Vater der modernen italienischen Geschichtsforschung" (Brockhaus, 17. A.). Er stand in regem Gedankenaustausch mit Leibniz und hatte großen Einfluß auf den österreichischen Josephinismus.

Vordergelenk angeplatzt; etwas stockfleckig. Am vorderen Vorsatz hs. Kaufvermerk von 1868 ("riscattato da ne Fr. Agostino Ma. Melani il 16 Luglio 1868 sotto gli uffici al prezzo di centesimi 90") und vom Käufer der Bibliothek der Hl. Annunziata geschenkt (Stempel am Titel); später in der Minoritenbibliothek St. Mary's Priory, Fulham Rd., London (Bibliotheksstempel am Vortitel und Titel).