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[ABC.]
Alphabet mythologique.
[Paris,] lith. Durand, Ligny Jne. et Cie, [1840s?].
A delightful and extremely rare ABC depicting figures from Greek and Roman mythology, alongside the Hindu river goddess Yamuna for the letter Y.
£2500
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[LA ROCHE, Sophie von.]
Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim. Von einer Freundin derselben aus Original-Papieren und andern...
Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1771.
First edition of Sophie von La Roche’s first novel, a best seller which brought her fame and recognition throughout Germany, and was translated into French, English, Russian and Dutch. It became a pattern for the genre of the epistolary novel in Germany, and has even been cited as a forerunner...
£950
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[ENGELBRECHT, Martin.]
[Vier Jahreszeiten. Serie 89.]
[Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, c. 1750.]
An attractive hand-coloured engraved peepshow showing the four seasons, with summer in the foreground retreating into winter behind, lined with printed waste from an illustrated Dutch religious broadside.
£1750
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STRINDBERG, August.
Tschandala. Berättelse fran 1600–talet.
Stockholm, C. & E. Gernandts Förlags, 1897.
First Swedish edition: a Gothic tale, set in Skane thirty years after the Swedes took the province from the Danes in 1658.
£250
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[GRAND TOUR.]
Sammelband of nine manuscript and four printed works for solo piano and for voice with piano accompaniment.
[Italy and Germany, c. 1815.]
An attractive compilation of solo piano music and popular songs, gathered partly in Italy circa 1815–16 (no doubt during a Grand Tour) and bound up in England shortly afterwards.
£2000
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UGARTE, Manuel, and Georges FOUCART, translator.
‘Contes de la Pampa’: a manuscript translation of Ugarte’s...
Paris, c. 1923-5.
A fine, largely unpublished manuscript, with translations of all fourteen stories from Miguel Ugarte’s Cuentos de la Pampa (1903, here translated from the 1920 edition).
£1750
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SALINAS, Pedro.
El Contemplado. Tema con variaciones.
Mexico, Nueva Fioresta en la Editorial Stylo, 1946.
First edition: a set of fifteen poems written in Puerto Rico between 1943 and 1945, in which the poet addresses the sea he is watching.
£350
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MILTON, John, and Manuel ALTOLAGUIRRE, translator.
Fragmento de El Paraíso perdido. Traducción y nota de Manuel...
Madrid, Cruz y Raya, 1935.
A rare off-print from Cruz y Raya, the periodical edited by José Bergamín. This is the first appearance in print of Altolaguirre’s translation from Book II of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
£150
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LAGERLÖF, Selma.
Bannlyst. En berättelse.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, [1918].
First edition: Lagerlöf’s pacifist novel, The Outcast, published towards the end of 1918, in which she argues for a re-examination of the state of modern Western society.
£100
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LANGE, Norah.
Antes que mueran.
Buenos Aires, Editoial Losada, [1944].
First edition, a lyrical novel in which Lange returns to the theme of childhood and lost days.
£80
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UNAMUNO, Miguel de.
Teresa. Rimas de un poeta desconocido.
Madrid, Renacimiento, [1924].
First edition: a collection of love poems, with a prologue by Rubén Darío.
£400
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BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.
L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique de l’homme. Par Monsieur l’Abbé de Villemaire.
Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.
First editions of two scarce works by the philosopher, moralist and Parisian avocat Boudier de Villemert (1716–1801), best known as the author of L’Ami des Femmes.
£2500
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[BICKERSTAFF, Isaac (attributed).]
The Life, strange Voyages, and uncommon Adventures, of Ambrose Gwinett, formerly known...
London, printed for J. Barker, [c. 1785-94].
Very rare edition of this enormously popular novella, a kind of ‘Campden Wonder’ narrative involving an illusory murder, survival after hanging, flight to Jamaica, reappearance of the abducted ‘victim’, and reabduction by pirates. The attractive frontispiece depicts Gwinett surrounded...
£850
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COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.
Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad uso dei missionari apostolici di Costantinopoli ...
Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop. Fide, 1794.
The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar published in Italian, compiled by the Catholic Armenian dragoman Cosimo Comidas de Carbognano (translator to Count de Ludolf, minister of the Two Sicilies to the Ottoman Porte in the late eighteenth century) and published by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda...
£1500
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WALLIS, William.
The Western Gentleman’s Farrier, containing Remedies for the different Diseases to which Horses are incident...
Troy (OH), John T. Tullis, 1838.
Second edition of an American work on farriery, with diseases found only in the Western States including ‘big head’ and ‘nasal polypi’. First published in 1832 on the observation that ‘most of the present works on Farriery, or more especially those adapted to our western climate, are...
£250
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[PSALMS.]
The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meter by Tho. Strenhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittingham, and others...
London, Printed by T. C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1637.
A very attractive pocket psalm-book with tunes, ruled in red throughout and in a handsome binding. Such diminutive psalm books began to appear at the end of the sixteenth-century, printed for the Company of Stationers, who had the monopoly. The printer here was Thomas Cotes, most famous as...
£2750
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[BLIXEN, Karen.] DINESEN, Isak, pseud.
Babettes Gaestebud [Babette’s Feast].
Copenhagen, Forlaget Fremad, [1952].
First edition in book form of Babette’s Feast by Danish author Karen Blixen (1885–1962), author of Out of Africa.
£950
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BEUTER, Pere Antoni (or Pedro Antonio); Alfonso de ULLOA, translator.
Cronica generale d’Hispagna, et del regno...
Venice, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1556.
First and only Italian edition of the first part of Beuter’s history of Spain and Valencia from the Great Flood to James I the Conqueror, handsomely bound for Don Pedro Antonio de Aragon.
£3200
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[BESLER, Georg, Hector PÖMER, and Wolfgang VOLPRECHT.]
Appellation unnd Beruffung der Pröbst unnd des Augustiner Priors...
[Nuremberg, Friedrich Peypus,] 1524.
First and only edition of this pamphlet by the Lutheran provosts and Augustinian prior of Nuremberg, appealing Bishop Weigand von Redwitz’s ruling to excommunicate them as heretics, with magnificent near-contemporary hand-painted and illuminated illustrations of the defendants’ arms.
£3750
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CLÜVER, Philipp.
Introductio in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam …
Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck for Conrad Buno, 1686.
The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important geographical textbook of the early modern period, an introduction to global geography by the German antiquarian and geographical pioneer Philipp Clüver, enlarged and supplemented by the German geographer Johann Buno.
£2500