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PEETERS, Jacob.
L’Atlas en abregé, ou nouvelle Description du monde, tirée du meilleurs auteurs de ce siècle …
Antwerp, chez l’auteur, 1692.
First edition of a charming atlas, the best-known production of Jacob Peeters (1637–1695), a Flemish engraver and publisher from an artistic family – his brothers Jan and Bonaventura were both artists. The map of the Americas shows California as an island; the allegorical engraved title features...
£2500
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[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475–1700.
New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill Press], 1940.
First edition, limited, numbered 17 of 150 copies and signed by Pforzheimer on the frontispiece portrait, from the library of the pre-eminent collector of English literature Robert S. Pirie.
£3500
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PLUTARCH.
The Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that grave learned Philosopher and Historiographer,...
Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Bonham Norton, 1595.
Second edition of North’s celebrated translation of Plutarch, first published in 1579, which has long been recognized as a major source for Shakespeare, providing not only the historical framework for Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, but ‘long...
£4500
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POUND, Ezra.
Quia Pauper amavi.
London, The Egoist Ltd, [1919].
First edition, one of 500 ordinary copies (there were also 100 signed copies on handmade paper’, inscribed ‘Bridson’s copy / 11 Ap ’59 / Ezra Pound’. This work contained the first English publication of Cantos I–III, not printed in that order.
£1750
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SAINT AULAIRE, Achille.
Voyage autour du monde par St. Aulaire.
[Clichy, Maurice Loignon for] Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [c. 1864].
A hand-coloured copy of this scarce and charming juvenile guide to twenty-four countries across the globe. The plates are adapted from those first published in Paris by Aubert circa 1845 under the title Récréations instructives: voyage pittoresque à travers le monde (Gumuchian 5037).
£2000
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SHARPHAM, Edward.
Cupids whirligig. As it hath bene Sundrie times acted, by the Children of his Majesties Revels.
London, Imprinted by Tho: Creede, and Ber: Alsop, and are to be solde by Arthur Johnson … 1616.
Third edition of an early Jacobean comedy based upon a tale in Boccaccio’s Decameron, with a contemporary London setting.
£6000
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SHELDRAKE, Timothy.
The Causes of Heat and Cold in the several Climates and Situations of this Globe, so far as they depend upon...
London, printed for and sold by the author … and by M. Cooper, 1756.
First edition, rare on the market, of this work on climate by the botanist Timothy Sheldrake (c. 1691–c. 1759) evidencing his interest in tropical plants.
£1275
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SIMONETTA, Bonifacio.
De Christiane Fidei et Romanorum Pontificum Persecutionibus.
(Colophon:) Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1509.
A beautiful copy of the second edition of Simonetta’s principal work, from the library of Christian VI (1699–1746), King of Denmark and Norway, and containing an early yet intriguing reference to the New World.
£4500
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[SOUTH AMERICA.]
Album of sketches made in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
1840s?
An attractive album of sketches by an anonymous Francophone artist made during a trip to South America.
£2750
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STRICKLAND, Hugh Edwin, and A.
G. MELVILLE. The Dodo and its Kindred; or, the History, Affinities and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire...
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve … 1848.
A fine family copy of the first scientific monograph on the dodo, and a related flightless bird, the Rodrigues solitaire.
£7500
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Factorum dictorumque memorabilium libri novem. Praeterea Caii Titii Probi, in decimum lib. huius operis,...
Mainz, Ivo Schoeffer, 1544.
An attractive copy, with an interesting provenance, of a scarce Mainz edition of Valerius Maximus accompanied by Probus’ Epitome.
£1500
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ZARLINO, Gioseffo.
Le Istitutioni harmoniche … nelle quali; oltra le materie appartenenti alla musica; si trovano dichiarati...
Venice, [Pietro da Fino], 1558.
First edition, rare, of ‘arguably the most important and influential book in the history of music theory … [It] opened the way for the new tonality which has governed music from the seventeenth century to the present day’ (PMM).
£15000
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DAVENANT, William, Sir.
Two excellent Plays: the Wits, a Comedie: the Platonick Lovers, a Tragi-Comedie. Both presented...
London, Printed for G. Bedel, and T. Collins … 1665
First collected edition of two plays first published in 1636, probably published to fill the revenue gap after the temporary closure of the theatres in 1665 because of the Plague.
£950
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SHEPHERD, Richard Herne.
Forgotten Books worth remembering … No. I. Studies of Sensation and Event by Ebenezer Jones …
London, Pickering & Co … 1878.
An interesting collection of ‘rare tracts’, from the library of the Scottish lawyer and journalist John Skelton, who wrote for Blackwood’s under the pseudonym ‘Shirley’.
£950
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BERARDI, Angelo.
Documenti armonici …
Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1687.
First edition, an exhaustive study of counterpoint by the composer and music theorist Angelo Berardi (c. 1636–1694), a pupil of Marco Scacchi and at this time canon at the college of S. Angelo, Viterbo.
£1750
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BLANKENBURG, Quirinus Gerbrandszoon van.
Elementa musica of niew licht tot het welverstaan van de musiec en de bas-continuo. Door...
The Hague, Laurens Berkoske, 1739.
First edition, very scarce.
£1500
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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score ‘VI Duetti Madrigaleschi’.
[Italian, late eighteenth century?]
A collection of six madrigals for two voices, comprising ‘La Moglie gelosa’, ‘Il Pellegrino’, ‘Il Vanegio’, ‘L’ambizio indigente’, ‘Il Pazzo inamorato’, ‘Il Maestro di Cappella che compone alla Mosaica’.
£850
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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score of a collection of six two-part madrigals: ‘N° VI Madrigali a due voci’.
Italy, mid-eighteenth century.
A collection of secular madrigals for two voices by Clari (1677–1754), written for soprano/bass, soprano/alto, and soprano/tenor, each with instrumental bass accompaniment. The madrigals included here are: Il Soldato poltrone, Il Musica ignorante, L’Amante disperato, Amante...
£1800
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ESSER, [Karl?] Michael, Ritter von.
Sei Quartetti per due violini viola, e basso composti espressamente per una Società...
[Venice, Marescalchi e Canobbio, 1774?]
First edition, very rare, of a complete set of quartet part books published in Venice by the composer–publishers Marescalchi and Canobbio.
£1750
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FABRIZI, Pietro.
Regole generali di canto fermo raccolte da diversi autori … in questa quarta impresione corrette, & ampliate.
Rome, Mascardi, 1708.
‘Fourth’ edition of a small practical manual of plain-chant, with examples, first published in 1651. Fabrizi, a Florentine about whom little is known, was maestro di capella at Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome. The treatise was referred to by Bononcini in his Musico pratico; a ‘third edition’...
£500