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92 HESSE, Hermann. Siddhartha. Berlin: S. Fischer, 1922 First edition, with “Erste bis Sechste Auflage” on the copyright page, a very good copy in the fragile trade issue boards. Hesse’s landmark novel of spiritual discovery, Siddharta’s presentation of Buddhism and the struggle for enlightenment would go on to have a significant impact on the hippy subculture. Octavo. Original orange boards, spine and front cover lettered in black. Chip to head of spine, some other superficial splitting and light wear to joints, tail, and fore corners, mild uneven sunning to boards and spine, but a fresh copy, clean within, very good overall. £2,250 [153080] 93 HIGGINS, W. H. The Names of the Stars and Constellations compiled from the Latin, Greek, and Arabic; with their Derivations and Meanings: together with the Twenty-eight Moonstations, of the Zodiac, known to the Arabs. Leicester: Samuel Clarke; Hamilton, Adams, & Co., London, 1882 First and sole edition of this pioneering monograph. William Henry Higgins (d. 1897) states that no English writer had traced the etymology of astronomical names. “Much information has been
until her death in 1730. The idea for this pocket-sized guide may have come to Lea following the publication by him in 1687 of a “magnificent map of England and Wales” that incorporated a border of “eighty-three coats of arms of the nobility and gentry, many of which were amended in a later edition” (Friar, p. 62). This edition is dateable to around 1716, as the latest arms illustrated are those of George Cholmondeley (1666–1733), created Baron Newburgh in that year. The arms on the title page and those for the Prince of Wales, the future George II, changed in 1714 with the accession of George I and incorporate, in the fourth quarter, the new king’s domain of the Electorate of Hanover. Small octavo (87 × 54 mm). Contemporary black goatskin, spine compartments panelled with paired gilt fillets, each with a flower-head tool at corners, central foliate lozenges, sides with a border of paired gilt fillets enclosing a panel with foliate corner-pieces, remains of silver teardrop clasps, gilt edges. Hand-coloured engraved title page and 83 leaves of coats of arms with contemporary hand-colouring. 20th- century ballpoint ownership signature of one E. Sawyer to front free endpaper. A little rubbed with slight wear to tips, colour skilfully retouched, catches of clasps only remaining, hole through preliminary blanks and title page (affecting a couple of letters in “Temporall”), closely cropped in places with a few words shaved, light red stain to a couple of arms, still overall a well-preserved copy. ¶ ESTC R509175. Stephen Friar, Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist , 1997; Will C. Van den Hoonaard, Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography , 2013. £3,250 [130642]
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91 HERALDRY. The Coats of Arms of the King And all the Lords Spirituall & Temporall of Great Britain. London: Sold by Philip Lea, Globe- Maker [actually his widow Ann Lea, c.1716] A delightful and highly elusive armorial pocket book An apparently unrecorded variant of this attractive little heraldic guide. An online search of institutional libraries cites one copy at Eton College, with the same title but comprising just 74 leaves, which, according to ESTC, was probably issued between the deaths of Queen Mary II and the publisher Philip Lea in 1700. The publisher, map and globe seller Philip Lea was an apprentice of the celebrated cartographer Robert Mordern. According to the British Library, “Lea served as Samuel Pepys’s map colourist and consultant in cartographical matters”. Following his death in 1700, his widow, Anne, ran the business
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