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ANONYMOUS.: NECROLOGY: BEING MEMOIRS OF THE LIVES OF EMINENT AND EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS (who died between the years 1756 and 1798).
London, Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1805. Among which are those of Theodore, King of Corsica. Lavoisier the Chemist. Bruce, the celebrated Traveller. Daniel Dancer, the Miser. L'Abbe Barthelemi. Dr. Kippis. Catharine II. Stanislaus, King of Poland. Dr. Richard Farmer. General Hoche. Thomas Pennant. John Wilkes. Mary Wollstoncraft. Rev. W. Mason. Sir John Dryden. Edmund Burke. Lord Amherst. &c. including also various articles of neglected biography. Second edition "with a copious index, and a chronological and alphabetical table", 8vo, 215 x 130 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, pages v, (3), 653, (11) - index, errata, and 1 page of adverts, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled sides, gilt rules and blind decoration to spine, gilt lettered title label. Spine and marbled paper a little rubbed, corners very slightly worn, 3 bookplates bearing the Oates family arms on the endpapers, small faint private library stamp and blind address stamp on title page, library stamp repeated once on an index page, slight foxing to title page and prelims, occasional very light foxing within. A very good clean tight copy of a scarce book. This collection contains early biographies of Edmund Burke (43 pp), Mary Wollstonecraft the feminist (49 pp), Lavoisier (12 pp), Dr Kippis author of an account of the voyages of Captain Cook (11 pp), Catharine the Great (40 pp) and others. The book is from the collection of Robert Washington Oates, with his bookplate and the Oates family's ("Bibliotheca Oatesiana") ownership marks. The family library was housed at the Oates' home, now a museum in Selbourne, England, dedicated to Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates, and to naturalist Gilbert White, a former owner of the house. It is that address which appears in blind at the top of the title page. Robert Washington Oates (1874-1958) was born in London and educated in Belgium and Germany. He served in the First World War as a private soldier, at the same time amassing a considerable fortune through his financial interest in a firm of industrial chemists which supplied materials for military purposes. After the war he became an antique dealer and gained an international reputation in the antiquarian book-trade.In 1954 Oates responded to an appeal to secure Gilbert White's home, The Wakes, as a permanent memorial to the naturalist and author who had lived there for most of his life. At The Wakes, he also established the Oates Memorial Museum and Library, which commemorated two members of the Oates family, his cousin, Captain Lawrence Oates (1880-1912), a member of the Scott's Antarctic Expedition and his uncle, Frank Oates (1840-1875), a naturalist and explorer who was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls. Images sent on request.
Offered for GBP 195.00 = appr. US$ 319.02 by: Roger Middleton - Book number: 5289