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Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, a remonstrance by way of apologie for the banished members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge was written by John Barwick and first published in 1646.
Micro-chronicon, or, A briefe chronology of the time and place of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majestie and the Parliament, from the beginning of these unhappy dissentions to the 25th of March 1647 : together, with a catalogue of the Lords, Knights, Commanders, and persons of quality slain on either side therein was written by George Wharton and first appeared in 1647. Wharton, a Royalist officer, was also a publisher of astrological almanacs, a pamphleteer and poet.
An attractively bound collection of pro-Royalist works from the library of the bibliophile and founder of the Ashendene Press, charles harry St John hornby with his bookplate. Also with the bookplate of book collector William Allen Potter.
69. CLARK, John Willis & Thomas McKENNY HUGHES. The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. Cambridge: University Press. 1890.
£400
8vo. 2 vols. original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spines; pp. x + 539, vii + 640, 2 frontispiece portraits, 1 folding map, numerous other plates and text illustrations; previous owner’s bookplates to front pastedowns; a lttiel rubbing to edges, otherwise very good.
First edition. Adam Sedgwick (1785 - 1873) was a towering figure in nineteenth century geology. he held the Woodwardian chair of Geology at cambridge from 1818 until his death, during which time he taught students including charles Darwin. Though the two remained correspondents, Sedgwick never accepted the theory of evolution, and while he abandoned his catastrophist theories when Lyell published his uniformitarian ideas he maintained that creation was a divine act and rejected any kind of materialist theory as immoral. his greatest achievement as a geologist was working (and subsequently falling out) with Sir Roderick murchison over the order of carboniferous and Devonian rocks in the 1830s.
T. mcKenny hughes was Sedgwick’s successor as Woodwardian Professor and founded the Sedgwick museum in his honour.
70. CLATER, YOUATT, SKINNER and MILLS. Farmers’ Barn- Book… containing the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen, sheep, and swine… Stable management; treatment of the diseases of horses…Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1866.
£150
8vo. original quarter black morocco, gilt lettering and tool to spine; pp.311, text illustrations; very good.
US reprint of ninth English edition. A comprehensive guide to veterinary medicine for farmers.
71. COCKTAILS. [CARROLL, Lewis]. Tweedledum cocktail napkins. [no date c. 1950’s].
£98
8 linen cocktail napkins, 150 x 200mm with fringes, housed in a card sleeve with a picture of Tweedledum. A crease to folder otherwise a very good set.
The set of eight napkins featuring characters from Alice in Wonderland as chess pieces include The White Rabbit, The Queen of hearts, and Tweedledum (but curiously not Tweedledee).
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