CLIVE FARAHAR Catalogue 60

53. CONGO. STAPLETON (Rev. W.H. trans.) Kasa Ya Paulo, Yakobo, Petelo, Yoane, Yuda,
The Epistle to the Thessalonians, James, Peter, John and Jude in the Loekele Language, London
1907 68 pp. cr.8vo, original printed cloth covers, [12702] £40
54. CONGO. STAPLETON (Rev. Walter H.) Mboli Ilau Kwani Iyataka Matayo (Mathew in
Kele) Lokele Version, London, 1908 cr.8vo, original printed soft cloth, [11347] £40
55. CONGO. WHITEHEAD (John) Grammar and Dictionary of the Bobangi Language as
spoken over a part of the Upper Congo West Central Africa, 1899 cr.8vo, covers
discoloured, small nick in lower cover, [11334] £150
The first Dictionary of the Bobangi Language.
56. COOK. Elliot (Lt. John) & Lt. Richard Pickersgill. Captain Cook’s Second Voyage The
Journals of Lieutenants Elliot and Pickersgill,... edited and introduced by Christine Holmes,
Caliban Books, London 1984 3 maps, 25 plates, 8vo, dw, [11240] £30
This is the first printing of these Journals and include information not found in other published
accounts.
57. COSTIN (W.C.) Great Britain and China 1833-1860, Oxford, 1937 3 folding maps, 8vo,
original cloth, [CF4164] £50
58. CRONIN (Vincent) The Wise Man from the West 1955 map, coloured frontis, plates, 8vo,
original cloth, dw [CF4664] £30
The History of the First Christian Mission in China under Matteo Ricci.
AMERICAN HUMOUR
59. DE LA GUARD (Theodore) pseud. Nathaniel Ward. The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in
America. Willing To help mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-
Leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take. And as willing never to be paid for
his work, by Old English wonted pay. It is his Trade to patch all year long, gratis. Therefore I
pray Gentlemen keep your purses, London, J.D. & R.I. for Stephen Bowtell, at the figure of the
Bible in Popes Head-Alley, 1647 fourth edition, with some Amendments, lacking A1 blank,
iv + 89pp. 4 leaves supplied in excellent facsimile, title inner margin restored, affecting a few
letters but restored in fasimile and soiled, 3 margins of other pages restored, 1 with a page
number missing,1 with a letter touched, 8 x 6 ins. preserved in marble papered solander case,
[12543] £1,500
In Stedman and Hutchinson’s Library of American Literature cite this pamphlet to be the earliest
example of American humourous writing containing satirical sketches of character in the regular 17th
century style. According to Wing the so called “Fifth Edition” recorded in the BL Catalogue is a
“ghost”, so this is the author’s final edition.
Ward arrived in Ipswich Massachusetts, “Aggawam”, in 1634 and was the minister there until 1636.
He left England having been deprived of his living by Archbishop Laud for being a Nonconformist.
While in America he was the joint author of the New England Code of Laws, and later on his return to
England in 1646, was the author of religious tracts.
It is curious that a man with so humourless tastes should have used the vehicle of satire and doggerel
verse to air his ideas, in the meantime becoming the first recorded example of “American Humour”.
60. DIXON (Capt.C.M.) The Leaguer of Ladysmith London, 1900 18 coloured plates with
accompanying text, oblong 4to, pictorial boards slightly worn, [12536] £125
An amateur cartoonists view of the Boer War