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124. FranKlin, Benjamin. la science du Bonhomme richard, ou le moyen facile facile de payer les impots dans les possessions de l’amerique angloise; contenant un discours de Mr. J. hancock, M. Francklin subit au mois de Fevrier 1766 devant le Parlament d’angleterre. la constitution de la republique de Pensylvanie ... ouvrage traduits de l’anglois par F. a. Quetant et J.-B. lecuy. a Philadelphie, et se trouve a lausanne, chez Francois grasset & comp. A Philadelphie, et se trouve à Lausanne, Chez François Grasset & comp [But Paris]. 1778.
£498
12mo., contemporary green half calf, spine gilt in compartments with attractive floral tools, tan morocco label, decorative paste-paper covered boards. p. 166, [2] (blank), complete with half title. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. slightly rubbed, label just chipped, a little browning, otherwise a very good copy.
one of four editions of Poor Richard’s almanac. The Way of Wealth printed in French in 1778. this edition, combining grasset’s lausanne imprint with the false Philadelphie, is scarce.
The Way to Wealth first appeared in French as a separate publication in 1777. the original english text was first published in Poor Richard’s almanac for 1758; separately issued in 1760 under title: Father Abrahams speech and frequently reprinted under the title: The way to wealth.
La science du bonhomme Richard was translated by a.F. Quétant; Interrogatoire de Mr. Franklin by P.s. Dupont de nemours and the Interrogatoire de M. Penn by a.F. Quétant and J.B. l’Écuy.
in December 1776, Franklin was dispatched to France as commissioner for the united states. he lived in a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, donated by Jacques-Donatien le ray de chaumont who supported the united states. Franklin remained in France until 1785. he conducted the affairs of his country towards the French nation with great success, which included securing a critical military alliance in 1778 and negotiating the treaty of Paris (1783).
125. Fraser, George macdonald. Flashman. Herbert Jenkins. 1969.
£498
8vo., original red cloth with price-clipped dustwrapper. a little rubbing to extremities of wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. the first outing of harry Flashman.
126. [FreUd, sigmund]. Jones, ernest. the life and Work of sigmund Freud. New York: Basic Books. 1957.
£200
8vo. 3 vols.; original blue cloth with dustjackets; pp. xvi + 428, xvi + 512, xvi + 537, illustrated with photographs; very good indeed.
second printing of Vol. 1, fifth printing of Vol. 2, first printing of Vol. 3. this biography,by a close friend of Freud and the first psychoanalyst to work outside the german-speaking world, remains a monumental achievement.
127. Fyson, Geoffrey F. the survivors and other Poems. Erskine MacDonald Ltd. 1919.
£148
8vo., original green buckram backed boards, lettered in gilt on upper board, paper spine label. spine slightly sunned and marked, ink stain on upper board otherwise a very good copy.
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First edition, with a King edward’s school Bath bookplate noting that this copy was presented by the author. two poems from this collection The Survivors and To a Pacifistwere included in Michael cropp’s Cambridge Poets of the Great War.
the FounDation oF the science oF FingerPrinting
128. Galton, sir Francis Fingerprints with Fingerprint Directories. Macmillan & Co. 1892, 1895.
£1,800
8vo.2 vols. original maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spines; pp. xvi + 216, 15 plates, tables in text; pp. [iv] + 127 + [1, ads.], 9 plates, text illustrations; previous owner’s bookplates to front pastedowns, repaired at head and foot of spines, otherwise very clean, very good indeed.
First editions. Francis galton, charles Darwin’s cousin, was not the first to propose the use of fingerprints as a means to identification - that was sir William James herschel, to whom the second of these volumes is dedicated - but he was responsible for the analysis and categorization of the different types of fingerprint and for making possible the now familiar use of them as forensic evidence. as a pioneer in the application of statistical methods to the study of human biology, he was uniquely qualified to do so; he was able to calculate the probabilities of two people sharing a fingerprint and was able to trace the hereditary and racial differences in print characteristics. this has proved to be a positive benefit of galton’s drive to categorise and rank mankind, a project which resulted in his invention of eugenics.
the first volume of his work in this field, Fingerprints, was published in 1892 to instant acclaim and contains his most important statements on the analysis of fingerprints. it was followed by The Decipherment of Blurred Fingerprints in 1893. Fingerprint Directories, which is included here, discusses the establishment of a card-based collection of data on individuals and their fingerprints - an early national identity database - as recommended by a home office committee in 1894, showing how quickly galton’s work had become accepted by the authorities.
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