Search Results: Titles starting with M from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

12mo, pp. 107, [1] advertisements, with folding handcoloured frontispiece; some browning and foxing throughout, due to paper quality, but never heavy; closely cropped at head with very slight loss to page number of penultimate page; in contemporary navy morocco-backed boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; some wear to extremities, and corners bumped and worn. First edition, very rare, of this satirical defence and exploration of cuckoldry in European and global culture, written by the Lille printer and bookseller Simon-François Blocquel (1780–1863) under one of his many pseudonyms.
Obviously not a translation from the English, the Manuel is designed to console the cuckold with the thought that his state is both agréable and utile; Blocquel attempts to prove this using several arguments. First, and far from least, the cuckold's errant wife will manifest her feelings of guilt in increased tenderness towards her husband; secondly, it could well result in financial gain, as the lover might be… Read More

Six volumes, 12mo, pp. pp. xvi, 501 [1]; viii, 476 [2]; [4] 383 [1]; viii, 460; [8] 399 [9] (including 4 pp. publisher's ads.); [4] 420; some browning in places, but otherwise clean and fresh; in contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered morocco labels; some wear, but still an attractive copy, with presentation inscription to front free endpaper of volume I: "Ce livre a été donné a Francoise Arnaud sourde et muette de naissance pour recompense d'un exercice qu'elle a faiten francois, en latin, en Italian et en Espagnol sur le sacrement de confirmation. à Paris ce 8e Juillet 1772. De L'Epée Prêtre". First edition of this extensive work of meditations by the Jansenist Nicolas Le Gros (1675–1751), who had been a canon of Rheims Cathedral but became an exile in Holland and a member of the schismatic Church of Utrecht. A set of meditations just on the epistles of St. Peter had been published in 1736. The set was given as a school prize, 8 July 1772, by the pioneer in deaf… Read More

A remarkably detailed manuscript, and a very attractive object, detailing the seigneurial rights of Marguerite de Cicon in the small town of Montureux-lès-Baulay, situated between Nancy and Dijon in the Burgundy region of eastern France.
As Seigneur de Montureux, Marguerite's husband François de Saint Martin shared various manorial privileges with Jean Claude du Houx and his wife Barbe de Charmoille. Upon François's death, these rights came to Marguerite as his widow and as the mother of their children Claude François and Jean Philibert. Fearing that they might be challenged or neglected, however – and fear is the word employed here in the phrase 'laditte Vefue suppliante crainct oppression' (f.4r) – Marguerite called upon the services of Guillaume Estiennet of nearby Jussey, notary general of Burgundy, to draw up this document laying out her rights.
The document opens by detailing ancient privileges enjoyed by the lords of Montureux, with accompanying remarks by the local inhabitants agreeing… Read More

Two vols, 8vo, pp. viii, 416, [2]; [iv], 464, vi, [2]; vol. 2 has two quires on light blue paper; occasional light foxing, a little light damp staining to the upper margins in vol. 2, small loss to blank margin at foot of final errata leaf in vol. 1; a good copy in near contemporary calf, gilt decoration and contrasting lettering-pieces to spines, marbled endpapers, joints a little worn but holding firm, abrasions and small losses to covers.
Uncommon first edition of La Salle's wide-ranging work in which he examines, inter alia, understanding, learning, reasoning, syllogism, the Baconian method, asking and answering questions, physiognomy, qualities of character, and eloquence. Having travelled widely in his youth – to Newfoundland, Africa, China, and India – La Salle (1754-1829) settled in Paris to devote himself to metaphysics, publishing Le désordre régulier (1786) and La balance naturelle (1788) before this work. After a period of exile in Italy writing against the French Revolution, he… Read More

First edition of this rare translation of the pseudo-Augustinian Meditationum Liber, an eleventh-century devotional text very popular in the Middle Ages.The translator, John Martin, was an Augustinian friar who became a fervent activist within the Society of United Irishmen. His political conversion (and this book) coincided with the outbreak of the rebellion of 1798, in which he took a number of increasingly dangerous commissions from the Dublin United Irish Committee, but he has been largely neglected in the historiography of the rebellion; his stance suited neither loyalists nor rebel apologists, and he remains an enigmatic figure.Daire Keogh, '"The most dangerous villain in society"; Fr. John Martin's Mission to the United Irishmen of Wicklow in 1798', Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 7, (1992), pp. 115-135.ESTC records copies at the British Library, National Library of Ireland, and Illinois only.

3 vols, folio, pp. xxvii, [1 blank], 364, with 14 plates, and 2 folding maps in rear pocket; xiii, 365-716; xi, [1 blank], plates XV-CLXIV; an excellent, crisp and clean copy in original light brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt embossed design to covers; small bumps to top edges of vols I and II, slightly marked; armorial bookplates of L. K. Elmhirst, ink stamps of Dartington Hall Library (including withdrawn stamp) to front flyleaves and titles.Scarce first edition, a handsome set, of Marshall's outstanding contribution to archaeology, documenting discoveries made in the Indus valley of the Punjab and Sind. 'His announcement in 1924 that he had there found a new civilization of the third millennium marked an epoch in modern discovery; the so-called Indus valley civilization is now recognized as the most extensive civilization of the preclassical world' (ODNB).Marshall's 'mass excavation of large areas at Mohenjo-daro ... published in 1931, showed a great city, dating from before and after… Read More

First edition, rare on the market, of this illustrated account of the Kabyle people of northern Algeria by the English artist Edgar Barclay (1842-1913). 'From the city of Algiers, looking eastwards across the bay, is seen a snow-covered mass towering above lower ranges of mountains. It is to the country lying immediately beneath those snow-clad peaks, inhabited by a people of entirely different race and speech to the Arabs, and known as Kabyles, that the following pages relate. Though Algiers has many English visitors, this district remains little known' (Introduction). Barclay studied at Dresden with Carolsfeld, and then in Rome, where he became friendly with Giovanni Costa.Small 4to, pp. xviii, 119, [1]; with 8 photo engravings and 7 wood engravings, engraved headpieces and initials; some foxing to title and occasionally to plates and tissue guards; overall very good in original blue cloth by Burn & Co., gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, silver vignette to upper cover, black endpapers;… Read More