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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Asif, Amna (illustrator). 32 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.08 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Asif, Amna (illustrator). 32 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.08 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Asif, Amna (illustrator). In.

Zustand: New. Asif, Amna (illustrator). In.

Zustand: New. Asif, Amna (illustrator). In.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Asif, Amna (illustrator). Neuware - The second book in the series adds a new elf named Palos the Proud to the story. When pride costs Palos his job and jealousy and bad choices make things worse, can Palos redeem himself in the end.

hardcover. Zustand: poor. Revis'd and Corrected by Mr. Hughes. Folio, pp xvi, 454, + 14 page alphabetical table. Contemporary paneled calf, hinges broken & worn). London J. D. for Daniel Brown and others, 1706. Internally very good.

Fifth Edition. Bound in early nineteenth-century gilt-blocked buckram, very good. Internally near fine with only very scattered, occasional even marginalised foxing. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 246 pages; Physical desc. : [8], 246, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) . Each part has an independent title page. Referenced by: ESTC (RLIN), N9313. Subject: Conduct of life - Early works to 1900. Ethics - Early works to 1800. Genre: Essays - England - 17th century 3 Kg.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, recent full-calf. 19.5cm x 12.5cm. [28], 280pp. 1st edition 1702. A little wear to extremities, more so to top of spine. Small section of top corners between 80-96 scuffed. Fore margin of contents page has 3 small marks. Generally clean. Scarce. (94000).

Hardcover. Fifth Edition. Octavo, 200 pages; VG; rebacked with new paneled leather spine, burgundy label with gilt lettering, previous period boards preserved; minimal shelf wear on boards; previous owner's name on title page; strong binding; paper wavy and clean; text clean; edges dusty; Collier was a British anti-theatrical critic and theologian; shelved in Case 10. 1256319. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xv, 344 p. + 8 p. index. 20 cm. Head and tail-pieces.Full leather with gilt border. Some suffs and rubbing, bumped corners. Small chip and spot on hand-written spine label. Title continues: "First Embassador from the States-General to his Most Catholick Majesty, Then Duke and Grandee of Spain; Afterwards Bashaw and Prime Minister to Muly Abdalla, Emperor of Fez and Morocco, &c. Containing A Succinct Account of the most Remarkable Events which happen'd between 1715 and 1736. Interspers'd throughout with Several Curious Particulars relating to the Cardinals Del Guidice, and Alberoni, the Princess of Ursins, Prince Cellamere, the Marquis Beretti Landi, M. de Santa Cruz, and other Persons of Distinction in the Spanish Court. As Also, A Distinct and Impartial Detail of the Differences between the Courts of London and Madrid; with many Authentick Memorials, and other valuable Papers. And an Alphabetical Index.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2 volumes (of 3). Both are bound in full leather, with raised cords on the spines, elaborate gold decoration in spine panels. Gold titles on spine clearly show that these are volumes 2 and 3 of the set. Minor edgewear and loss to crown of spine. Marbled endpapers. This is the 4th edition of Montaigne's essays (so says the title page). 676 and 464 pages, each also with a lengthy index. Text blocks tight, pages clean. Both volumes have ownership name 'Marianne Colston' on the top of the title page. The most notable person with that name was a well married British woman who wrote and illustrated several travelogues in the mid 1900s -- if these were her books, they were already 100 years old when she owned them. Unfortunately, we do not have volume 1. Text is in English. Montaigne wrote in the sixteenth century, but his essays have remained almost continually in print for the last 450 years (although in 30 years in the book business, we've yet to meet anyone who's read one). Please email with questions or to request photos of the signature or quite nice bindings.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A mixed edition set of the brilliant wide-ranging essays of Jeremy Collier, this set including a first, second, and sixth edition. Complete in three volumes.Jeremy Collier's 'Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects'.Volume I, containing Parts I and II, the sixth edition, published in 1709, by Daniel Brown. Part II has a separate title page, pagination, and register. ESTC citation number T106460. Bound without the publisher's adverts.Volume II, containing Part III, the second edition, published in 1707, by W. B. for H. Rhodes. ESTC citation number N9312.Volume III, containing Part IV, the first edition of this work published in 1709 by W. B. for S. Keeble. ESTC citation number T109903.Containing Collier's essays upon pride, duelling, fame, music, old age, pleasure, liberty, despair, poverty, whoredom, solitude, revenge, authors, honesty, theft, and more.Collier was a theatre critic and theologian. His essays were immensely popular when first published, but are now little read. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the head of the spine of Volume III. Torn labels to the spines. Faint surface cracks to the spines. Minor rubbing to the joints. A small amount of loss to the front board of Volume III. Light marks to the boards, including a faint tide mark to the head of the front board of Volume II and to the rear board of Volume III. Small crack to the tail of the front joint of Volume I and III, and to the the tail of tail of the joints of Volume II. Hinges of Volume I are starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional spot. Tide mark to the head of the first few pages of Volume II. Good. book.

First Edition. Full Description: TYSON, Edward. Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To whichis added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended. London: Printed for Thomas Bennet.and Daniel Brown, 1699. First edition of this landmark of comparative anatomy. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 201 mm). [12], 108, [2], 58, [2, publisher's ads], [4, blank] pp. Complete with all eight folding engraved plates by M. Vander Gucht after William Cowper, and two pages of publisher's advertisements. Bound be Bayntum in newer speckled blind-paneled brown calf. Spine lettered and stamped with gilt. Red morocco spine label. Edges speckled brown. Blind dentelles. Colophon with small repair and crease, title-page with corner renewed, not affecting text. Title-page with old ink signature. Plates with some reinforcement along folds, and with a few small creases and chips. Plates 2, 3 and 5 are trimmed approximately one-eighth of an inch short on fore-edge margin, just barely affecting images. Overall a very good copy. "Comparative zoology was largely forgotten between the publication of the writings of Aristotle and the revival of the study of comparative anatomy at the end of the sixteenth and during the seventeenth century by writers such as Fabricius, Ruini, Perrault, Grew and Blasius. Edward Tyson, physician at Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals, was the first to publish monographs on the subject, the chief of which is the book on the orang-outang, with illustrations and a chapter on muscles supplied by the physician William Cowper. It is the earliest important study in comparative morphology. Up to this time little was known of the higher anthropoid apes and their anatomy. Tyson compared the anatomy of men and monkeys, and he placed between them what he thought was a typical pygmy-it was, in fact an African Chimpanzee, the skeleton of which survives to this day in the Natural History Museum in London. The chimpanzee first appeared in zoological literature in 1625 and was described by Dr. Tulp (of Rembrandt's 'Anatomy Lesson') while the orang-outang, mentioned in 1658, was first scientifically described by Camper in 1778 and 1782". Tyson's work is less important for its anatomical descriptions than for the fact that he established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man, and recognized that man was probably a close relative of certain lower animals. Popularized as the 'missing link', the theory that man shares some remote common ancestry with the apes was not clearly expounded until the publication of Huxley's 'Man's Place in Nature' in 1863 and Darwin's 'Descent of Man' in 1871. Tyson did not for see the theory of evolution; but his work contributed substantially to its formulation and in the sense that he was a forerunner of Blumenbach, Buffon, Huxley and Darwin. In literature Sir Oran Haut-Ton in Peacock's novel 'Melinncourt' 1817, and the orang-outang in Shelley's 'Queen Mab', derive from Tyson-even if at second hand. Norman Library 2120. Printing and the Mind of Man 169. Wing T3598. HBS 69441. $7,500.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A smartly bound copy of Nathaniel Bacon's exploration of the history of England through its legal and political institutions. An exploration of the history of the law and politics in England, from the earliest times to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. A constitutional history of the country, looking at the development of the civil and ecclesiastical institutions across the centuries.This work is of note in particular due to its discussion on the politics of Norman England, as it is considered to be the first work to do so.The work is anti-clerical and favours government by an elected council.By Nathaniel Bacon, from "some manuscript notes" by John Selden. Bacon was a Puritan lawyer, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons. He was also the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.Fourth edition stated to the title page.Collated, complete. In a modern calf binding, with renewed endpapers. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean, with the occasional scattered spot. Near Fine. book.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A interesting and important selection of poetry, this being a new and enlarged edition. Featuring the work of numerous important poets, and include several first printings of many notable works. First, thus. First published in 1693, this particular edition have been enlarged and largely revised. ESTC No. T116471. This particular edition is important and includes several first printings of important poems. Towards the rear of the copy is the first printed of "The Spleen, by Anne Finch, though in this printing the poem is attributed to "A Lady". This is made more significant with 'The Spleen' being Finch's seminal work. The copy also includes the first printing of John Philips poetical imitation of Milton"s work titled "Splendid Shilling". Allegedly this work was included in this volume without Phillips consent. Thirdly, the worl features the first printing of William Congreve's follow on from Aphra Behn's poem titiled, 'Epilogue to Oroonoko'. The other poets featured in this volume include: Charles Montague, Sir Robert Howard, The Earl of Roscommon, The Earl of Rochester, The Earl of Orrery, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, Mr. Granville, Mr. Stepney and Mr. Dryden, Mrs Wharton, among many others. This volume has been sympathetically rebacked, with attractive blindstamped calf boards. Previous owners ink inscription to the title of the first poem, that reads 'Griff Rue'. With three pages of published advertisements to the rear of the volume. Complete, with pagination matching the ESTC Record. This collection of poetry is an important edition made more so by the inclusion of numerous first printings of several notable works. Rebacked in a full calf binding, with blindstamp details to the boards. Externally smart. Light rubbing to the extremities and to the front and rear boards. Light offsetting to the front and rear pastedowns. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally clean with the odd spot. Repairs to a large tear towards the tail of page 95. Near Fine. book.

8vo, pp. [viii], 453, [3 (advertisements)]; slightly foxed at extremities, but a very good, crisp copy; bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, edges speckled red; rebacked, hinges worn.Fourth edition of the important 'Temple of Death' miscellany of Restoration poetry, comprising some one hundred poems, retaining most of the poems from the third edition of 1693 and adding much new material, including the first appearances of works by Roscommon and Rochester. The newly included material comprises all the poems on pp.172282 with contributions from Stepney, Arwaker, and Congreve and the poems at the end (pp. 391453), among them 'The Spleen' by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Also notable is the first printing of John Philips's remarkably popular Miltonic imitation The Splendid Shilling. ESTC T116471; Case 151e. Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber trees, coppice woods etc. London, Francis Clay & Daniel Brown, 1728. 8vo. (x) + xxii (ie.xx) + 274pp. With engraved frontispiece by Toms, woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Title-page in red and black. Contemporary speckled calf; spine neatly rebacked. One of the earliest works (by some 25 years) to set out in a professional manner the importance of silviculture and arboriculture , which was taken up with zeal in the second half of the 18th century (Henrey). Langley (1696-1751) was an architect, surveyor, hydraulics expert and landscape gardener; he gave advice to estate owners throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The present treatise gives practical and informative material , and details of the profits expected; it was published when Langley was at Twickenham before moving to Westminster, within the same period that he issued his New principles of gardening and Pomona (1728, 1729). The engraver of the frontispiece, Peter Toms (d.1777), contributed illustrations to the Pomona. A very good copy. Desmond, p413. Henrey 929, and vol II, pp470-1, 554, 647. Hunt 473.

First Edition. Full dark red morocco, signed in gilt on the front inner dentelle by Sangorski. Title page foxed and bearing three former owners' signatures; folding plates with minor tears and small chips to the inner corners where they are commonly pulled when opened; else a near fine copy, with the two pages of advertisements at the end. Among the foundational books of science, and here in a notably attractive copy, a combination not often encountered. PMM 169. Tyson's treatise constitutes the first systematic work of post-Renaissance comparative morphology and the primary empirical ancestor of modern primatology and evolutionary biology. Through detailed dissection and methodical anatomical comparison of a specimen he termed a "pygmie"now understood to have been a juvenile chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)Tyson catalogued forty-eight structural features in which the animal more closely resembled Homo sapiens than any known monkey, and thirty-four in which it more closely resembled the monkeys than humans. This quantitative, feature-by-feature analysis of homologous anatomy was without precedent, transforming what had largely been anecdotal speculation about humanape resemblance into a rigorously documented anatomical argument. By formally positioning the anthropoid ape as intermediate between the cercopithecid monkeys and humans, Tyson destabilized the rigid Scala Naturae that had treated human beings as categorically separate from other animals. His demonstration of extensive shared osteological, muscular, and visceral structures posed a direct, if still implicit, challenge to prevailing doctrines of human exceptionalism grounded in theology and Aristotelian hierarchy. Although Tyson himself did not articulate an evolutionary mechanism, his careful description of graded anatomical continuity provided essential empirical support for later naturalists who did, from Buffon's comparative natural history and Cuvier's comparative anatomy to the emerging developmental and embryological perspectives of the nineteenth century. The morphological framework established in "OrangOutang" became a crucial point of reference in the nineteenth-century debates on human origins. Darwin drew upon Tyson's demonstration of close structural affinities between humans and African apes in "The Descent of Man" (1871), integrating those observations into an explicitly evolutionary account of human ancestry. Thomas Henry Huxley likewise mobilized Tyson's dissections in "Man's Place in Nature" (1863), where he situated humans and great apes within a single natural lineage, thereby breaking decisively with earlier attempts to isolate humanity outside the animal kingdom. Subsequent advances in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and, much later, molecular phylogenetics would repeatedly confirm the pattern of affinity that Tyson first documented. That Tyson's own conclusions remained within a pre-evolutionary framework does not diminish the work's significance: the anatomical architecture upon which later hypotheses of common descent were constructed was already present in his pages, awaiting the theoretical synthesis that Darwin and his successors would supply.

Vellum. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A vanishingly scarce late seventeenth century first edition discussing the history of the London Charter, from the reign of Henry III to the year 1682. The exceptionally scarce first edition of this discussion of the various points in English history in which England's monarchs and governments suspended parts of the Charter of London, from the year 1265 to 1682.ESTC Citation No. R18801. Wing F1557With the register A2-A4, B-E4. Collated, lacking initial blank.With the inscription of G.H. Mark to the head of the front pastedown, and of the University of Leicester to the tail.With a faint contemporary inscription to the head of the title page.A fantastically informative account of the various points in history in which the London Charter was suspended and restored. Loosely held in folded vellum wraps. Light discolouration to wrap perimeters. Ink inscriptions to front pastedown. Unbound, with each leaf laid down, with minor losses to perimeters and gutters. Faint contemporary ink inscription to head of title page. Pages significantly age toned. Good. book.

First edition. PMM169 - THE FIRST WORK TO DEMONSTRATE THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN AND APE. First edition, and a fine, tall copy, of ?Tyson?s anatomy of the ?Orang-outang? (actually a young chimpanzee), which was the first work to demonstrate scientifically the structural relationships between man and anthropoid ape? (). It was ?the earliest important study in comparative morphology ? [Tyson] established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man ? [he] did not foresee the theory of evolution, but his work contributed substantially to its formulation and in that sense he was a forerunner of Blumenbach, Buffon, Huxley and Darwin? (PMM). ?For Tyson the term Orang-Outang meant ?man of the woods.? In 1641 the Dutch surgeon and anatomist Nicholas (or Nicolaes) Tulp had used the same words to describe a chimpanzee, which he illustrated in his Observationum medicarum.?This book included the first, limited description by a scientist of an African anthropoid ape.?Regarding Tulp?s description Tyson said that ?I confess that I do mistrust the whole representation.? The ape which Tulp described seems to have come from Angola, and Tulp had the opportunity to observe it in the private menagerie of the Prince of Orange. Tulp seems to have learned the name orang-outang from Samuel Blomartio, a friend who had lived in Borneo and was familiar with the Javanese word for ?man of the woods.? Tulp seems to have been under the impression that orangutans were widely distributed throughout the tropics rather than limited to Asia, and thus confused the two species. The classification of the orangutan in the Ponginae (Pongo) subfamily of the family hominidae,?outside of the subfamily homininae from which humans descend, and to which the chimpanzee belongs, had not yet occurred. Perhaps with some humor, but also to confirm the anatomical similarities, Tyson had Cowper draw the standing dissected figures of chimpanzees in the style of the famous Vesalian musclemen. A believer in the ?Great Chain of Being? or scala naturae, Tyson identified the chimpanzee as the link directly below mankind, stating in his ?Epistle Dedicatory? that it ?seems the Nexus of the Animal and Rational.? Tyson's anatomical study ? the first conducted of a great ape ? had a powerful influence on all subsequent thought on man?s place in nature. Thomas Huxley referred to it extensively in his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. Tyson?s last section of Orang-Outang is devoted to ?A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients,? an early contribution to the study of primate-oriented folklore? (). This copy is a centimetre taller than the Norman copy. Provenance: Signature of John Cuthbert (d. 1782) on the front free endpaper, with five lines from Milton's Paradise Lost (slightly misquoted) in his hand below. Cuthbert was a governor of the Inner Temple (one of London?s four Inns of Court, or professional associations for lawyers), and a member of the Royal Society; 19th century armorial bookplate of George Thackeray (1777-1850), Provost of King?s College, Cambridge, and great-uncle to the author of Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray. ?By almost universal consent Tyson?s greatest and most important work was published in 1699 with the title Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man. Tyson did not use the term Orang-Outang in its modern sense as applied to a member of the Pongo family, but literally in the sense of ?man of the woods?, for it was a chimpanzee that he described. He was copying Nicholas Tulp who used the same words to describe the chimpanzee which he illustrated in his Observationum Medicarum (1641) ? ?In this description of a young male chimpanzee, Tyson was at pains to point out that his ?pygmie? was not a monkey but was in fact a creature very near to man in many details of his anatomy. It was Tyson with this book who ?initiated the anatomical study of the man-like apes, and who was virtually responsible for instituting a new family of hominoid apes intermediate between man and monkeys? (Cole, p. 219). ?Tyson added to the purely anatomical description of his chimpanzee a philological essay in which he pointed out that the ?Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the Ancients? were in fact apes or monkeys and not men. ?The book was well received by his contemporaries but, as we shall see, a most important point raised by Tyson was not appreciated; it was, in fact, made too far in advance of its time. ?The Philosophical Transactions published a review which cleverly abstracted the main feature of the book, which said: ?The Ingenious Author of this Treatise, having often obliged the World with his Anatomical Discoveries and Observations on several curious Subjects, ? has here given us a very Ample, as well as Accurate Account of this strange, and indeed surprising Animal, a creature rarely, if ever seen by our World.? ?The review ends by calling the book ?this Learned and Ingenious Treatise? It stresses the various anatomical features by which the chimpanzee most closely resembles man. ?The account of the muscles was written by William Cowper who also drew the illustrations which were engraved by Michael van der Gucht: ?I am obliged to my good Friend Mr. Cowper, not only for designing all my figures; but obtained of him likewise to draw up this ensuing account of the Muscles; whose great Skill and Knowledge herein, is sufficiently made evident by his Myotomia Reformata, or, New Administration of all the Muscles in Humane Bodies, published some time since: To which I refer my Reader, for a fuller account of them, whenever ?tis said, that such and such Muscles in the Pygmie resembled those in Humane Bodies? ? ?However, by far the greatest tribute came from Albrecht von Haller in his Bibliotheca Anatomica (1774-77), when he said ?Nihil habemus in comparata anatome huic opera comparabile? [?We have no works t. Signed.

First edition in English to be "revis'd and corrected" by the busy and versatile Augustan writer John Hughes (1678?-1720) - "the most qualified librettist of his day" (ODNB), contributing notably to Handel's Acis and Galatea (1718), working alongside Pope and Gay - who supplied translations of Latin and French classics, particularly to Jacob Tonson, the leading publisher of the period. He also wrote for The Tatler and The Spectator. In his "Advertisement" he states that "The persons concern'd in the Translation having thought that my reviewing the Stile might be useful to 'em, I was prevail'd with to do something of this kind". "Traiano Boccalini (1556-1613), prose satirist and anti-Spanish political writer, influential in the Europe of his time for a widely circulated satire, Ragguagli di Parnaso (1612-13; 'Reports from Parnassus'). The son of an architect, Boccalini was educated for the law and spent many years in Rome in the papal service (1584-1612), becoming acquainted with many eminent men of his day. After 1612 he lived in Venice, where, in contact with the papal nuncio, he was probably occupied with diplomatic activities. Boccalini's political experience is mirrored particularly in Ragguagli di Parnaso, a light and fantastic satire on the actions and writings of his contemporaries, written in the form of 201 ironical newsletters in which the wise men of all centuries, presided over by Apollo, discuss art, literature, and politics. Another series appeared in Pietra del paragone politico (posthumously published, 1614; 'Political Touchstones'), a vigorous denunciation of the Spanish domination of Europe. They were widely translated, the first English version being by Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, and called Advertisements from Parnassus; in Two Centuries with the Politick Touch-stone (1656). This and other European translations influenced Miguel de Cervantes, Joseph Addison, and Jonathan Swift" (Encyclopaedia Britannica online). English versions of Boccalini's "Parnassus" had first appeared in the 1620s. Provenance: bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, who inherited and improved a successful group of retail pharmacies, John Hayhurst & Son, based in Nelson, Lancashire, and became an avid collector of naval history and of eighteenth-century literature in contemporary bindings; "Mr. R. J. Hayhurst believes that most pharmacists neglect one of their most valuable assets - the tradition and dignity of the pharmacy. His historical sense, indeed, is no narrow one, for his feeling for the past reveals itself also in his hobbies. A collector of books, in a delightful room at his home, white-painted bookshelves stacked high on all the available wall space show to advantage the hand-tooled leather bindings of a collection that has been acquired slowly and with discrimination over the years" (The Chemist and Druggist, 7 September, 1957). Lowndes I p. 225. Folio (322 x 195 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, decorative gilt spine, red morocco label, speckled edges. Head of spine chipped, slight wear to corners a few light scratches to binding. A very good copy, crisp and tall.

4 volumes. 8vo., (7 5/8 x 4 4/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece and 16 plates of portraits (some browning and spotting). Contemporary speckled panelled calf (hinges split, spines worn). Provenance: With the modern ink library stamp of A.W.K. Billings, Jr on the front paste-down of each volume. First and only edition. Often attributed to David Jones, an English spy and historian spy. In his most important work "The Secret History of White-hall" (1697), Jones states that he went to France in 1675 "with instruction from a certain 'Noble Person' to transmit information about the French court. About 1676 the secretary-interpreter to the marquis de Louvois, a Scot called Kilpatrick, died. He was replaced by a favourite of Louvois called Belou, who could speak no English and hired Jones to assist him. If Jones's account is true, this was an ideal position for a spy to hold. According to this account Jones stayed in France until the 1688 revolution in Britain, when he returned briefly to England. He was then sent back to France, again by the unnamed nobleman, to continue his espionage. He was certainly back in England by 1696, as the preface to his "Secret History" is dated 'from my House in Clerkenwell, Nov. 9 1696'" (Du Toit). Jones was the author of a number of books including the annual publication from 1705 to 1720 of "A Compleat History of Europe" which eventually extended to eighteen volumes. "He also wrote a number of other histories, dealing with Anglo-French wars, Turkey, James II, William III, and the house of Brunswick. He translated Paul Pezron's Antiquité de la nation as The Antiquities of Nations (1706), and claimed to have revised and made additions to the second edition of Roger Coke's The Detection of Court and State of England, published in London in 1696. He may also (Williams, 122) have written biographies of Sir Stephen Fox, Dr South, the earl of Halifax, and Dr Radcliffe. Nothing is known about Jones after 1720" (Alexander Du Toit for DNB). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.