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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 'Webbe [17681843] followed in his father's footsteps as a Roman Catholic church musician, and by the time of his election to membership of the Royal Society of Musicians in 1791 he was already organist of the Bavarian Chapel. Like his father he was also a successful composer of glees and catches; his numerous published compositions also include piano and organ music, and church music for both the Roman Catholic and Anglican rites About 1798 Webbe moved to Liverpool, where he became organist of the Unitarian chapel, Paradise Street Little is known of Samuel Webbe's activities in Liverpool. In 1810 or 1811, for reasons perhaps connected with the advancing years and failing health of his father, he returned to London and resumed his musical career there' (Oxford DNB). Library Hub Discover locates a sole copy, at the National Library of Scotland. There is another at the British Library. Folio (338 × 251 mm), pp. [2], 27, [1]; a very nice, bright copy in recent wrappers.…

Zustand: Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled & foxed with the issue numbers handwritten in the top left corners of the front wraps. The spines are darkened & chipped with small pieces out. The Part 6 spine is torn & the lower third of each wrap is detached. Title, [1] leaf & pages [1]-60 plus index & ads; title, [1] leaf & pages [61]-120 plus ads; title, [ii] & pages [121]-180 plus ads; title, [ii] & pages [181]-240 plus ads; and title, [ii] & pages [301]-360 plus ads. Partially unopened. Illustrated with tables & with a folding diagram in Part I. There is some light foxing & the page edges are slightly darkened. Good. The Institute of Actuaries was founded in 1848 and contributed to the study of the theory of life contingencies, enabling an exchange of ideas between its members and bringing about a greater consistency in their methods. Its aims were advanced by the publication of its Journal, originally called The Assurance Magazine, which first appeared in September 1850. The magazine was founded by two well-known actuaries, Charles Jellicoe and Samuel Brown, and was adopted as the organ of the Institute of Actuaries in 1852. Jellicoe continued as its editor until 1867 when he was succeeded by T. B. Sprague.…

4to, pp. [ii], iv, [vi], 412; a very attractive copy in contemporary calf, gilt, spine gilt, red morocco label (just a trifle rubbed). First edition. A substantial collection of hymns and occasional verse by the elder brother of John Wesley, who is identified on the title-page as 'Master of Blundell's School at Tiverton, Devon; some time student at Christ-Church, Oxford; and near twenty years usher in Westminster-School'. Samuel Wesley (1690/91-1739) was a high-church Tory, and a friend and correspondent of Alexander Pope, who helped gather subscriptions for this volume. Among the satirical and facetious poems are 'The Pig, a Tale', 'On Mr. Hobbes', 'The Dog, a Miltonick fragment', 'Snuff, a satyr', and 'Neck or Nothing: a consolatory letter from Mr. Dunton to Mr. Curll, on his being toss'd in a blanket'. DNB comments: 'Besides humorous pieces, this contains several hymns of great beauty; five of them are included in the present Wesleyan hymn-book'. Foxon p. 885.…

8vo, pp. 16, including engraved frontispiece as the first leaf; in modern boards. First and only edition: a poem commemorating a humiliating occurrence in the life of the rogue bookseller Edmund Curll. On 26 August 1716, without the author's permission, Curll had published a Latin funeral eulogy for Dr Robert South by John Barber, a young gentleman at Westminster School. Receiving an invitation to visit the school, Curll went and was seized by the schoolboys, tossed in a blanket, paddled on his bare bottom, and made to beg forgiveness of young Barber, on his knees in Dean's Yard. These scenes are illustrated in a frontispiece, and the poem written as if from another colourful bookseller, John Dunton describes them: Oh! how th'unlucky Urchins laugh'd, To think they'd maul'd Thee fore and aft: 'Tis such a terrible Affront! Why Pope will write an Epick on't! Bernard will chuckle at thy Moan, And all the Booksellers in Town, From Tonson down to Boddington, Fleet-street and Temple-bar around, The Strand and Holborn, this shall sound. (p. 16) The poem is actually by Samuel Wesley (older brother of John and Charles), who was head usher at the school. Foxon W343: like other copies, this has the official duty stamp of one penny (charged for pamphlets of one sheet or less), on the frontispiece.…

Folio, 2 pp. On first leaf of bifolium, with the verso of the second leaf docketed, under the heading 'King's Warrant'. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Headed '(Copy)', and with 'George R' in a bold hand in the top left-hand corner. Although the signature is almost certainly not in the hand of the king, the document is docketed in pencil: 'Signature of his late beloved Majesty King George III on Copy of a Warrant retained by General Saml. Townsend'. Begins (in another hand): 'Whereas We are given to understand that our Trusty and Well beloved Major General Samuel Townsend Inspector General of the Recruiting Service is set insuper in the Account of Our Right Trusty and Well beloved Counseller Richard Rigby late Paymaster General of Our Forces for the Sum of Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Four Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eight Pence being Money Imprested to him for carrying on the above Service from the end of the year 1778, to the 24th. day of June 1786 [.]'. The document records that the original was signed by Pitt, Eliot and Aubrey, as 'Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts', 'the Commissioners having recommended unto Us to discharge Major General Samuel Townsend from rendering any further Account of the same'.…

8vo in fours, pp. viii, 21, [2] advertisements; disbound. 'Third edition'. In resurrecting this poem the Dublin bookseller George Faulkner used the text of the London first edition of 1723; presumably he was unaware of the revised version published the following year, which had also appeared in the collected edition of Wesley's poems printed in 1736. Faulkner did, however, remove 'Hesiod' Cooke's name at the end of the preface, and he silently introduced a number of alterations in the text, from an unnamed source. Foxon W338; ESTC locates just eight copies.…

8vo in fours, pp. xiii, [i], 32; piece torn from one blank margin (just touching text), and one other leaf repaired without loss; in recent half calf, black morocco label. Second edition, with additions and alterations: first printed the year before. Wesley had a certain facility for light verse, and this poem on a well-travelled theme proved popular. A newspaper advertisement for this second edition, in July, 1724, describes it as 'just publish'd. To which is added two stanza's, and the whole corrected by the author; with a preface of his own writing'. In fact the poem has been expanded from 46 to 50 stanzas, and three other stanzas have been substantially rewritten. The preface in the first edition was signed by Thomas Cooke, to whom the poem itself was therefore often ascribed; in this edition a quite different preface is not signed, and there are commendatory poems by both Cooke and Christopher Pitt. Bound in at the back is the half-title of an unrelated neo-Latin poem by Nicholas Rowe. Foxon W334. Provenance. Early signature on the title-page of P. Carter. …

4to, pp. 20; pale waterstain in the lower half, else a good copy, disbound. First edition: a heartfelt poem written by the younger Samuel Wesley (1691-1739), elder brother of John, to honour his late father-in-law John Berry, the vicar of Walton, in Norfolk, whose daughter Ursula he had married in about 1715. Berry is not named in the poem, but his identity is confirmed by a note in a copy belonging to the antiquary Maurice Johnson (1688-1755), sold at Sotheby's in 1970 Maurice Johnson had been a close friend of Wesley's father. Foxon W345. These verses were printed by William Bowyer, whose ledgers reveal that the print run was only 300 copies, which perhaps explains why it is so rare today. ESTC records five copies only (Cambridge UL, Sion College and Leeds in the UK; and Toronto and New-York Historical Society in North America).…

First edition of one of the rare early anatomical works of one of the most important German anatomists, later also known for his introduction of vaccinations against smallpox soon after Jenner's 1798 publications on the subject, his work on fossils and sunspots, and his 1809 invention of an electrical telegraph. The present work discusses the anatomy of the human brain and spinal cord, carrying on from the author's doctoral thesis a decade earlier on the neural organization of the brain. It is dedicated to the Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, who had called Soemmerring to Mainz as a professor four years before. A second edition appeared in 1792.Soemmerring (1755-1830), son of a doctor of the same name, was an anatomist, doctor and wide-ranging researcher. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1778 and was named professor of anatomy and physiology at Mainz in 1784. He was knighted in 1808.The pomegranate stamped on the title-page could easily be mistaken a printed ornament, but one can see it has been separately stamped and that the impression carried through to the following leaf (though not now aligned, suggesting it was made when the sheets had already been folded and gathered but not yet bound). It may be an owner's mark or simply a decoration. In very good condition. The backstrip is slightly damaged, but the binding remains good.l August Hirsch, Biogr. Lexikon . Aerzte (1887), pp. 453-455; cf. VD18 (1792 ed.). Near contemporary boards covered with orange paste-paper, sewn on 3 cords with a hollow back, gold-tooled spine label, orange and brown sprinkled edges. With a decorated rule on the title page and a few decorations built up from cast fleurons. Set in frasktur types with Latin words in italic and non-German book titles in roman. The present copy has a pomegranate stamped on the title-page after printing and folding but before binding. Pages: "XIV" [= XVI], 115, [1] pp.…