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nation. This was a serious matter in the troubled economic climate of 1619, andthe Attorney General, Sir Henry Yelverton was very aggressive in pursuing theDutch case. This probably explains why he was prepared to ride roughshod over‘the auncient priviledges & customes’ of the Cinque Ports where he did not have thejurisdiction to issue subpoenas. As the barrister William Hudson observeddisapprovingly in his ‘Treatise of the Court of Star Chamber’ written about 1621,‘the Dutch cause … was a Case of State, wherein the Commonwealth was muchinterested, and I hope will be no precedent for future times’ (page 209), and, again,there were ‘many precedents tending to the overthrow of the antient courses’, i.e.procedures, of the Star Chamber (page 201).THE MOST DISTINGUISHED MINERVA PRESS NOVELIST9. [BAGE, Robert.] Hermsprong; or, Man as he is not. A Novel … By the Authorof Man as he is. London, Printed for William Lane, at the Minerva Press, 1796.Three vols, 12mo, lacking half-titles but with four pages of advertisements at rearof vol. I (including a long review of Man as he is), and single leaf of advertisementsat rear of vol. II; small hole in L6, vol. III, loss of one letter; contemporary tree calf,morocco lettering and numbering-pieces; slight crease to back cover of vol. III,slight cracks to joints but not weak, a very good copy. £2400First edition of Bage’s last and finest novel. In Hermsprong, Bage contrasts thedeficiencies of English society with the beauties of the utopian community amongthe ‘aborigines’ of North America. ‘There is occasionally a little tincture of the newphilosophy, as it is called, and a shade of gloom is thrown upon human life’(Critical Review); but his philosophical tendencies never obscure his powerfulcharacterisation and style. The plot turns on the wooing of a peer’s only daughterby an American ‘incognito’ who settles in Cornwall.10. BALTZ, Lewis. Lewis Baltz. Paris, Éditions de la Différence, 1993.4to, pp. 151, [5] blank; black & white and colour plates; black cloth with a whitepictorial dustjacket; dustjacket lightly worn; a fine copy in a very good dustjacket.£125First edition of a publication accompanying the exhibition ‘Rule without exception’,a showcase of the work of Lewis Baltz at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville deParis (March–May 1993). Includes photographs from his famous books The NewIndustrial Parks near Irvine, California (1974), Nevada (1977), Park City (1980), andSan Quentin (1986), as well as images of exhibitions of his work.