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Autograph draft of two passages from his autobiographical essay ‘Oxford’, first published in Tait’s Magazine in February to August 1835 and reprinted by David Masson as Autobiography in Collected Writings (Edinburgh, 1889), II, pp. 9–78.

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ON OXFORD, FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY DE QUINCEY, Thomas. Autograph draft of two passages from his autobiographical essay ‘Oxford’, first published in Tait’s Magazine in February to August 1835 and reprinted by David Masson as Autobiography in Collected Writings (Edinburgh, 1889), II, pp. 9–78.

Undated, c. 1835.

Nature and Art.

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WHO JUDGES THE JUDGE? INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth.] Nature and Art.

London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.

The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors, adapted to the Service of the Church of England … the third Edition.

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CONCEALED FORE-EDGE PAINTING
FOR HORATIO WALPOLE [PSALMS; Basil WOODD, editor.] The Psalms of David, and other Portions of the Sacred Scriptures, selected from various Authors, adapted to the Service of the Church of England … the third Edition.

London, Watts & Bridgewaters, Rivingtons, and Matthews, 1800.

The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books. The second Edition.

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THE 1728 DUNCIAD IN A TRACT VOLUME [POPE, Alexander.] The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books. The second Edition.

‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed for A. Dodd. 1728.’

Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum serenissimi Regis Georgii II. et gratulatio in augustissimi Regis Georgii III. inaugurationem.

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IN CONTEMPORARY PURPLE VELVET – A BINDING FIT FOR A KING [OXFORD UNIVERSITY.] Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum serenissimi Regis Georgii II. et gratulatio in augustissimi Regis Georgii III. inaugurationem.

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret, many signed ‘Biche’.

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LOVE LETTERS FROM ARTIST TO ASTROLOGER APPIA, Béatrice. A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret, many signed ‘Biche’.

Paris, 1934–6.

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …

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ROCOCO RED MOROCCO [BIBLE.] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …

Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.

Vathek, conte arabe.

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THE CHATELLERAULT VATHEK – PERHAPS THE RAREST PIECE OF BECKFORDIANA [BECKFORD, William.] Vathek, conte arabe.

Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J. B Guimbert, 1787.

Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.

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MASTERPIECES OF HIGH RENAISSANCE LOMBARD ILLUMINATION MASTER B.F. Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

Ψαλτηριον.

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THE ALDINE GREEK PSALTER [PSALTER.] Justinus DECADYUS, editor. Ψαλτηριον.

Venice, Aldus Manutius, [not after 1 October 1498].

Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et voyage de Napples. Auquel est compris commant le roy Charles huitiesme de ce nom a banyere desployee passa et rapassa de iournee en iournee depuis Lyon iusques a napples et de napples iusques a Lyon. E[n]semble plusieurs aultres choses faictes et composees par reverend pere en dieu monsigneur octovie[n] de sainct Gelais evesque da[n]golesme et par Maistre Andry de la vigne secretaire de monsieur le duc de Savoye avec aultres.

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CHIVALRY ILLUMINATED: A ROYAL COMMISSION? [LA VIGNE, André de, and Octavien de SAINT-GELAIS.] Le vergier dhonneur nouvellement imprime a Paris. De lentreprise et voyage de Napples. Auquel est compris commant le roy Charles huitiesme de ce nom a banyere desployee passa et rapassa de iournee en iournee depuis Lyon iusques a napples et de napples iusques a Lyon. E[n]semble plusieurs aultres choses faictes et composees par reverend pere en dieu monsigneur octovie[n] de sainct Gelais evesque da[n]golesme et par Maistre Andry de la vigne secretaire de monsieur le duc de Savoye avec aultres.

[Paris, Pierre le Dru and Jean Petit, 1503.]

The Workes …

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A PLAYWRIGHT’S JONSON JONSON, Benjamin. The Workes …

London, Will Stansby, 1616.

Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau …

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THE FIRST WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO MARANHAO, BRAZIL ABBEVILLE, Claude d’. Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte des singularitez admirables & des meurs merveilleuses des Indiens habitans de ce pais avec les missives et advis qui ont este envoyez de nouveau …

Paris, François Huby, 1614.

Margarita poetica.

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A POETICAL PEARL IN ENGLAND EYB, Albertus de. Margarita poetica.

Paris, Ulrich Gering, 29 November 1478.

Qur’an.

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SAFAVID QUR’AN HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY A QAJAR SCHOLAR QUR’AN.  Qur’an.

Persia (probably Shiraz), sixteenth century, c. AD 1600 and c. AD 1850.

Catholicon.

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‘THE GREATEST OF THE MEDIEVAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARIES’ BALBUS, Johannes. Catholicon.

[Strasbourg, The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), not after 1475.]

Sammelband of ten works.

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MARRIAGE, THE MOON, A MANUAL FOR CONFESSORS, AND MORE [INCUNABLE SAMMELBAND.] Sammelband of ten works.

Rome, Stephan Plannck and Eucharius Silber, c. 1481–1491.

156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

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BEAUTIFUL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOURS [LOO, Pieter van, attributed.] 156 watercolours of flowers, plants, and fruits.

[Holland, c. 1760–80].

Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.

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IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME GAZA, Theodorus. Grammatica introductiva; De mensibus; Apollonius Dyscolus: De constructione; Herodianus: De numeris.

[(Colophon:) Venice, Aldus Manutius, 25 December 1495.]

Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].

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ANNOTATED BY THE AUTHOR’S PUPIL ALLIONI, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii [– Florae Pedemontanae icones accedit explanatio nomenclaturae botanicae] … Tomus primus [– tertius].

Turin, Giovanni Michele Briolo, 1785.

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A View of the elementary Principles of Education, founded on the Study of the Nature of Man.

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A View of the elementary Principles of Education, founded on the Study of the Nature of Man.

First American edition (first Edinburgh, 1821) of this eccentric work on education by the German phrenologist Johann Caspar Spurzheim, including observations on the development of the brain, drawn in part from the study of ancient cultures.

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A TRAVEL OF THE MIND DURING FORCED ISOLATION IN A ROOM [MAISTRE, Xavier de.]

Voyage autour de ma chambre par M. le Chev. X*** *** O. A. S. D. S. M. S. [Officier au service de Sa Majesté Sarde].

First edition, rare, of the celebrated fantasy novel Voyage around my Room, a parody of the grand travel narrative tradition, written by Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852), a Savoyard officer in the army of the Kingdom of Piedmont–Sardinia, during the forty-two days he spent in solitary confinement in his room in the fortress of Turin, to which he was sentenced for engaging in a duel.

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EXTRA-MARITAL RELATIONS, AND MURDER IN HISPANIOLA … TRUE CRIME FOR YOUTH? KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The Guardian Angel. From the German … A Story for Youth.

First edition in English (and the first separate edition in any language?) of Kotzebue’s novella ‘Der Schutzgeist’, not his later play of that title, but a short story published in Gottlieb Wilhelm Becker’s Erholungen (Recreations) in 1797, where Kotzebue claimed it was a based on real events from the 1760s.

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