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283.[BOOTH, alias BARLOW,
Edward]
Meteorological Essays, Concerning
the Origin of Springs, Generation of
Rain, and Production of Wind. With
A Rational and Historical Account
of the Causes and Course of the
Tide: Its Propagation thro’ the great
Ocean; and its Reception into the
Narrow Seas, and Channels: More
especially near the Coasts of Great-
Britain and Ireland. Explicating
all along its various Appearances,
and seeming Irregularities. In two
treatises. Illustrated with divers
Copper-Plates.
London: for John Hooke; and Thomas Caldecott, 1715 [39110]
£1750
8vo (192 × 113 mm), in two parts. Contemporary panelled
calf, neatly rebacked to style, red sprinkled edges. With 12
maps and charts, double-page and folding. With a divisional
fly-title: “The second treatise. Of the tide; or the ebbing and
flowing of the sea…”. A few trivial spots at fore edge, a very
good copy.
FIRST EDITION. The copperplate engraved illustrations
include detailed charts of trade-winds and tidal currents
around the world. The book is dedicated to Robert Harley,
after his elevation to the peerage as Earl of Oxford and
Mortimer. The author, the Roman Catholic priest and
clockmaker Edward Booth, alias Barlow (1639–1719) is
not to be confused with his near-contemporary, the able
seaman and maritime journal-keeper Edward Barlow
(1642–1706?). Booth was educated at the English College
at Lisbon, took the missionary oath in 1670, and was sent
to England, where he adopted the alias of Barlow and
lived with Lord Langdale in Yorkshire. In 1672 he moved
to Park Hall, a seat of the Houghton family, where he was
vicar-general of the Lancashire district. In his younger
days he had been an ingenious clockmaker.
284.BOTERO, Giovanni.
Relationi Universali… Arricchite
di cose rare, e memorabili, e con
l’ultima mano dell’Autore.
Venice, I. Giunti, 1640 [20446] £2750
4to (212 × 160 mm). Late eighteenth-century Italian mottled
sheep, smooth spine richly gilt in compartments, tan morocco
label, patterned endpapers, red edges. With publisher’s large
woodcut device on title and 4 folding engraved continental
maps (Europe, Asia, Africa, America); printed in italics. 18thcentury
inscription on title of the Carmelite monastery at Turin.
Front joint neatly restored, label chipped with small loss, some
headlines just shaved, still an attractive copy.
First published in 1592. Giovanni Botero (1533–1617)
was Secretary to the Duke of Savoy when he compiled
his Relationi Universali; “this political and geographical
description of the different countries of the world was very
successful and translated into a number of languages”
(Burden), including English (London 1603). Burden also
notes that “for this issue [of 1640] by I. Giunti, a new
set of copperplates was cut derived from those of earlier
editions. The most noticeable difference is the addition of
an unidentified line around the continent.”
Sabin 6807; Burden, The Mapping of America, 258.
285.BOURDE DE
VILLEHUET, Jacques.
Le Manoeuvrier, ou Essai sur
la Thoerie et la Pratique des
Mouvemens du Navire et des
Evolutions Navales. Par… Officier
des Vaisseaux de la Compagnie des
Indes.
Chez Desaint, Paris, 1769 [36941] £450
8vo. 8 folding plates. Some browning, particularly in the
prelims, but overall very good in contemporary mottled sheep,
spine gilt in compartments, some erosion and stripping from
the boards, corners worn, nonetheless a presentable copy.
Second edition, identical with the first of 1765. An
important influence on the development of English naval
thought. “Though less illuminating on fundamental
principles than Morogues its methods of handling a
fleet are more fully elaborated, and it ends by heralding
the final reform with an explanation of the system of
numerary signals devised and practised by that all too
little appreciated genius Mahe de la Bourdonnais, under
whom the author must have served in India” (Corbett,
Signals and Instructions, 1776–94, NRS vol. XXXV). Despite
Kempenfelt’s efforts (he produced a translation of the
signal portion of the book in 1781), a full translation into
English was not made until 1788.
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 7: Mapping, Navigation and Naval History
146 147
Scott 340.
286.CAMPBELL, John.
Lives of the British Admirals:
Containing an Accurate Naval
History, from the Earliest Periods …
Continued to the Year 1779 by Dr.
Berkenhout. A New Edition, revised
and corrected, and brought down to
the Present Time, by Henry Redhead
Yorke.
London, C. J. Barrington, 1812–17 [40293] £1500
8 volumes, 8vo (248 × 150 mm). Contemporary half calf on
marbled boards, smooth spines, title gilt direct to the spine,
black stained banding between rope twist gilt rules, gilt
devices to the compartments, a little rubbed, some joints
just starting, but remains sound and presents well. Engraved
portrait frontispiece to each. Contemporary ownership
inscriptions of Christopher Heath of Chippenham to all front
free endpapers and title pages. Frontispieces somewhat
foxed and browned with associated offsetting, light toning
to the text with sporadic foxing, but overall very good in an
attractive Regency binding.
Best Edition, down to the expedition against Algiers
in 1816. Campbell’s work, originally published
between 1742 and 1744, was subsequently revised,
expanded, and condensed in various editions issued
up to a hundred years after his death in 1775.
“A man of untiring industry and considerable
accomplishment, Campbell is described as gentle in
manner and of kindly disposition. There are several
interesting references to him in Boswell’s Life of Johnson,
to both of whom he was known personally, Johnson
being in the habit of going to the literary gatherings on
Sunday evenings at Campbell’s house in Queen’s Square,
Bloomsbury, until ‘I began,’ he said, ‘to consider that
the shoals of Scotchmen who flocked about him might
probably say, when anything of mine was well done, “Ay,
ay, he has learnt this of Cawmell.”‘ ‘Campbell is a good man,
a pious man,’ Johnson said of him on the same occasion:
‘I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church
for many years; but he never passes a church without
pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.’
Campbell told Boswell that he once drank thirteen bottles
of port at a sitting. According to Boswell, Johnson spoke of
Campbell to Joseph Warton as ‘the richest author that ever
grazed the common of literature’” (DNB).
287.CLARKE, Richard.
The Life of Horatio Lord Viscount
Nelson… Comprehending Authentic
and Circumstantial Details of his
Glorious Achievements, under the
British Flag… to which is added, a
Correct Narrative of the Ceremonies
attending his Funeral.
London, Printed by and For J. and J. Cundee, n.d. [1813] [39890]
£850
8vo (233 × 146 mm). Modern quarter calf on marbled
boards. Portrait frontispiece and engraved half-title, title page
vignette, 10 plates, four of them folding, a full-page facsimile,
facsimile signatures and diagrams to the text. Contemporary
ownership inscription verso of the frontis., a little bleed
through, some browning, particularly to one or two of the
folding plates, but overall a very good copy.
FIRST EDITION. The frontispiece is after the portrait by
Daniel Orme, other plates include three of Trafalgar and
an extensive folding plate of the funeral car and coffin.
“Includes biographical particulars of contemporary naval
officers” (Cowie).
Cowie 285.