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TAYLOR, Jeremy [and Brian DUPPA].
A Choice Manual, containing what is to be believed, practised, and desired or praied for; the...
London, Printed for R. Royston … 1669.
Extremely rare later edition of Jeremy Taylor’s The Golden Grove (first 1655). The Golden Grove, named after the seat of the Earl of Carbery, Taylor’s patron, ‘was equal in popularity with Taylor’s other works during this century. It is also interesting because it eventually...
£600
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[BRIDGE, Stephen.]
Illuminated memorial manuscript on vellum presented ‘To the Rev. Stephen Bridge on his relinquishing the incumbency...
[Designed and executed by Witherby & Co., London, 1868.]
A beautiful memorial volume presented to Rev. Stephen Bridge (c. 1811–1895) along with a silver salver and a purse of £1000 in gratitude for his service as minister of St Matthew’s Denmark Hill since 1844, on the occasion of his transfer to the living of Droxford, Hampshire.
£850
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[HALE, Thomas, Sir William PETTY, and Samuel PEPYS?].
An Account of several new Inventions and Improvements now necessary for England,...
London, Printed for James Atwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson … 1691.
First edition of Hale’s Account with several rare broadsides on the same topic – the use of milled lead (rather than cast lead, or even wood) for the sheathing of ships as a defence against worm. Thomas Hale operated a lead mill in Deptford (his brother? Charles was a leadworker) and was a...
£2750
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TANS’UR, William.
The Royal Psalmodist compleat: or, the universal-Harmony …
[St Neots?,] Printed by the Author, 1750.
Unrecorded edition of Tans’ur’s Royal Psalmodist (first 1742), comprising seventy-three psalm tunes, a ‘Jubilate Deo’, a ‘Doxology’, ‘A New Magnificat’, and eleven anthems. It is based on the same selection (and plates) as he had issued in an edition of 1748 (BL only in ESTC),...
£850
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TANS’UR, William.
The Royal Psalmodist compleat: or, the universal Harmony. Containing all the very best Tunes both old and new,...
Rugby: Engraved, and printed by the Author, and published according to Act of Parliament: A. D. 1742. And sold by most Book[s]ellers in Town...
First edition, extremely rare, a collection of 150 psalm tunes (with settings in four parts) and one anthem, by the psalmodist and composer William Tans’ur (1700-1783).
£4250
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TAYLOR, John.
A Collection of Tunes in various Airs adapted to Psalms taken out of Dr Watts’s Imitation of David’s Psalms....
London, Printed by J. Waugh … [1750].
First edition, very rare, of a work of psalmody and music instruction by the dissenting minister John Taylor (1694–1761). Taylor had moved to Norwich in 1733, slowly diverting from orthodoxy under the influence of Samuel Clarke, before laying the foundation stone of the Octagon Chapel there...
£950
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FORD, Simon.
The Restoring of fallen Brethren: containing the Substance of two Sermons … preached on the Performance of public...
London, Printed for Henry Mortlock … 1697.
First edition, the last published work of the clergyman and poet Simon Ford (1618/9-1699), being two sermons preached on the occasion of the performance of penance ‘for the late Fornications, and filthy Uncleannesses. that have been committed in this Neighbourhood’.
£275
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[BROOKES, Joshua, Paul, or John?.]
Bous Potamous, or the River Cow of Egypt, from the Banks of the Nile, (A Species of the Hippopotamus)...
[London, dated in manuscript May 1799.]
Unique broadside advertising the exhibition, and subsequent sale, of a live hippopotamus – possibly the earliest record of a live hippo in England – they were notoriously difficult to transport and keep alive and the arrival of a baby at London Zoo in 1849 was touted as the first in Europe...
£1850
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BURNS, Robert.
Autograph verse ‘Epitaph’ to ‘Grizzel Grim’
c. 1792.
A charming bawdy ‘epitaph’ by Burns, written seemingly impromptu on the back of a scrap paper relating to his job as an exciseman.
£15000
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BYRON, George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Hebräische Gesänge. Aus dem Englischen … von Franz Theremin. Mit beigedrucktem englischen Text.
Berlin, Verlag von Duncker und Humblot. 1820.
First edition in German (and first dual-language edition) of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies (1815), translated by the theologian Franz Theremin. Omitted are ‘It is the hour’ and the ‘Lines on the Death of Sir Peter Parker’.
£450
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DONNE, John.
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall Steps in my Sicknes ...
London, Printed for Thomas Jones … 1627.
Third (and last lifetime) edition of Donne’s most familiar prose work, composed during his convalescence in 1623–4 from the ‘spotted Feaver’ which nearly killed him. It consists of twenty-three ‘Stationes, sive Periodi in Morbo’, each comprising a meditation, expostulation, and prayer.
£13500
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EURIPIDES.
Τραγωδιαι οκτωκαίδεκα … Tragœdiæ octodecim, Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnissæ, Medea, Hippolytus,...
Basel, apud Ioan. Hervagium ,1537.
Second edition of the complete extant tragedies of Euripides, following the Aldine editio princeps of 1503.
£3750
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MARKHAM, Gervase, and William SAMPSON.
The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater: with the Death of Fair Marriam ... as it hath...
London Printed by G. Eld, for Mathew Rhodes ... 1622.
First and only edition, first issue, of an uncommon play, first written by Markham before 1613 and later revised with Sampson’s help.
£4750
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[MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, Duke of.]
Tract volume of five rare works (three not in the British Library) relating...
London, 1695–1706.
Five works, 4to, bound together in nineteenth-century half calf with marbled sides; first and last pages of all works dusty; inscription of the sixth Duke of Marlborough dated 1847, bookplate with the Marlborough arms.
£3850
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RENOWNED HISTORY (The)
of Primrose Prettyface, who by her Sweetness of Temper, & Love of Learning, was raised from being the Daughter...
London, Printed & sold by J. Marshall & Co. … (Price 6d in Gilt Paper – 9d bound in Red.) [1788?]
One of three undated editions, probably the last (adding Marshall’s Cheapside premises at 17 Queen St to the imprint), but the only one with an engraved title-page and frontispiece.
£1000
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NEW RIDDLE BOOK (A)
or a Whetstone for dull Wits … Printed at Derby, for the benefit of the travelling Stationers.
[J. Drewry? 1790?]
An attractive illustrated riddle chapbook. The solutions include ‘a pipping pounded into Cyder’, a man fleeing his scolding wife, a hog fattened with acorns, a young virgin, a mermaid, and a paper kite, though how one would ever guess ‘a Taylor at Dinner with a Dish of Cucumbers, served up with...
£750
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ROBINSON, Mrs. Mary (Darby).
Lyrical Tales …
London, Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees … by Biggs and Co. Bristol, 1800.
First edition, a revisionary response to Lyrical Ballads (1798) by the actress turned royal mistress turned author, Mary ‘Perdita’ Robinson, published only eight days before her death.
£1250
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PINDAR.
Ολγμπια Νεμεα Πγθια Ισθμια … Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Una cum Latina omnium versione carmine...
Oxford, E Teatro Sheldoniano, 1698 … London, apud. Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford.
First edition thus, the variant with the title-page dated 1698 rather than 1697. The Greek text was edited by Richard West and Robert Welsted, and the chronology of the Olympiads provided by the Bishop of Lichfield.
£5250
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[MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de, and Gaspar GIL POLO.]
The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in Love. Lively setting forth, the Feavers, the...
London, Printed by B. Alsop ... 1652 [but 1651].
The rare second edition of a text of 1594 known in a single imperfect copy (STC 153.3).
£7500
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NAUNTON, Sir Robert.
Memoirs … with some of his posthumous Writings, from Manuscripts in his own Hand, never before printed.
London: Printed and sold by G. Smeeton … and J. Caulfield … 1814.
First edition, a large paper copy, imposed as a folio rather than a quarto (and fully 11 cm taller than usual).
£450