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Bibliotheca Fageliana. A Catalogue of the valuable and extensive Library of the Greffier Fagel, of the Hague...which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Christie…on Monday, March 1, 1802, and the Twenty-nine following Days by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: FAGEL, Hendrik)

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Title: Bibliotheca Fageliana. A Catalogue of the valuable and extensive Library of the Greffier Fagel, of the Hague...which will be sold by Auction, by Mr. Christie…on Monday, March 1, 1802, and the Twenty-nine following Days
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: FAGEL, Hendrik)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: xii, 490 pp. 8vo, cont. calf (well-rebacked to match), gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, green morocco lettering piece on spine. London: Printed at Barker & Son, 1802. A rare auction catalogue; the collection was purchased before the sale en bloc by Trinity College, Dublin. The Fagel library, formed over the course of almost two centuries by a politically powerful Dutch family, today is one of the most important collections at Trinity College, Dublin. “The Fagel library was the product of a century of rich Amsterdam taste, remarkable fo its large collection of maps and of European topography and views, though its ten thousand political pamphlets may have been the principal attraction for the College. Traditional Dutch interest in gardens was represented by de luxe copies of botanical works with the plates illuminated and the titles lettered in gold, and by volumes of drawings of flowers by Nicolas Robert and of tulips by a native artist, the latter annotated with the prices paid for Semper Augustus and other varieties during the tulip mania.”–Hobson, Great Libraries, pp. 180-82. “While Henrik Fagel, Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, was in England on a diplomatic mission during the winter of 1794-95, his country was overrun by French revolutionary forces, preventing his return to his family and home in The Hague. Initially his property was sequestrated but it was released by mid 1798, and his art collections and library were shipped to London where Fagel, in straightened financial circumstances, had determined to sell them. Through the good offices of John Foster, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and later described as ‘the original proposer of the scheme’, money was made available in May 1798 by the Erasmus Smith Charity in Dublin for the purchase of the library for Trinity. There was a delay in putting this scheme into effect and Fagel determined to sell it by public auction, the sale to start on 1 March 1802. The catalogue of almost 10,000 lots…created a sensation and must have galvanized the Dublin party, for they made a successful bid for the entire library in February. On 6 March the Erasmus Smith Charity released enough funds to cover Fagel’s asking price of 8000 pounds sterling and the cost of transportation.”–Vincent Kinane, “The Fagel Collection” in Trinity College Dublin (ed. by Peter Fox), Dublin, [1986], p. 158–(& see the rest of the article). This catalogue documents the fact that London, along with Paris, was increasingly considered to be the principal book auction center (Amsterdam had fallen behind. The Dutch heirs of this vast library had it shipped to Christie’s, in spite of the cost. Very good copy from the library of Prof. T.A. Birrell.

Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (Volumes I and II); Histoire Naturelle des Serpens (Volumes III and IV) by la Cepede, Bernard Germain de

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Title: Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (Volumes I and II); Histoire Naturelle des Serpens (Volumes III and IV)
Author: la Cepede, Bernard Germain de
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1788-1790. First edition. FIRST EDITION 4 VOLUME MONOGRAPH ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS BY LA CEPEDE, EXPANDING THE WORK OF BUFFON, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVINGS. Four hardcover volumes, 6 1/2 inches tall, full leather binding, spines with raised bands, gilt compartments, all edges red stained, marbled endpapers, Vol. I, 60, 359, 12 plates; Vol. II, iv, 461, [ii], 15 plates; Vol. III, 432, 11 plates; Vol. IV, 408, 11 plates, "Eloge du Comte de Buffon". Illustrated with 49 copper plate engravings. Light wear to covers, surface insect damage to covers of Vol. II, browning to edges of first and last pages, abrasion across front endpapers of Vol. I, bindings tight, pages crisp and unmarked, very good minus. French language. BERNARD-GERMAIN DE LA CEPEDE (1756 - 1825) was a French naturalist whose early perusal of Buffon's Natural History (Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière) awakened his interest in natural history. He wrote two treatises, Essai sur l'électricité (1781) and Physique générale et particulaire (1782-1784), which gained him the friendship of Buffon, who in 1785 employed him in the Jardin du Roi, and proposed that he continue his Histoire naturelle. La Cepede responded with the publication of this continuation, published under the titles Histoire des quadrupèdes, ovipares et des serpens (offered here). After the French Revolution Lacépède became a member of the Legislative Assembly, but during the Reign of Terror he left Paris, his life having become endangered by his disapproval of the massacres. When the Jardin du Roi was reorganized as the Jardin des Plantes, Lacépède was appointed to the chair allocated to the study of reptiles and fishes. In 1798 he published the first volume of Histoire naturelle des poissons, the fifth volume appearing in 1803, and in 1804 appeared his Histoire des cétacés. In 1799 he became a senator, and in 1803 grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor. During the latter part of his life he wrote Histoire générale physique et civile de l'Europe, published posthumously in 18 volumes, 1826. He was elected a member of the Institute of France in 1796, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1806 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1812.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G.

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Title: Mr. Britling Sees It Through
Author: Wells, H. G.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1916. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, extremely clean and bright on account of the original dust jacket. Dust jacket Near Fine with only trivial signs of use and age. A work from Wells' middle career period, when his novels became "discussions of social or political themes that showed little concern for the novel as a literary form...Mr. Britling Sees it Through, though touched by the prejudice and short-sightedness of wartime, gives a brilliant picture of the English people in WWI. World War I shook Wells' faith in even short term human progress, and in subsequent works he modified his conception of social evolution, putting forward the view that man could only progress if he would adapt himself to changing circumstances through knowledge and education" (Britannica). In this sense, the novel marked a major shift in Wells' career. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

The American Minstrel: Being a Choice Collection of Original and Popular Songs, Glees, Duetts, Choruses, &c. New and Revised Edition. With Select Music.

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Title: The American Minstrel: Being a Choice Collection of Original and Popular Songs, Glees, Duetts, Choruses, &c. New and Revised Edition. With Select Music.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Philadephia: Henry F. Anners, 1844. Book. 12mo, orif. brown stamped cloth gilt. Pp. 318. Engraved frontis. A little wear at extremities, title browned otherwise a fine, bright copy. Second edition, enlarged. First published in 1836. An attractive copy of a substantial and scarce songster. A few of the songs have music in shape notation. Imprints 169, locating only the copy in the Harris Collection at Brown, and we know of another in the Goldstein Collection at MTSU.

Ontario and the First World War 1914-1918: A Collection of Documents by WILSON, Barbara M. (editor)

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Title: Ontario and the First World War 1914-1918: A Collection of Documents
Author: WILSON, Barbara M. (editor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy
Description: Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1977. A fine copy. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. One of 1250 copies of volume X of the Ontario Series from the Publications of The Champlain Society.

The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta by Wortman, Marc

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Title: The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
Author: Wortman, Marc
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781586488192
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, N.Y: Public Affairs, 2010. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. 2nd printing. Edges lightly rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2010 Trade Paperback. 361 pp. James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom--"Next to Richmond, Atlanta was the most important Confederate city by 1864. Its fall in September of that year signaled the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. Among the many books about General William T. Sherman's Atlanta campaign, The Bonfire stands out for its focus on the experience of Atlantans themselves. Marc Wortman's vivid narrative proves that war is indeed hell.

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