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DONALDSON, Florence.
Lepcha Land or six Weeks in the Sikhim Himalayas ... With a Map showing Route, and 106 Illustrations. Photographs...
London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.
First edition of Florence Donaldson’s account of the Lepcha (or Rong) people of the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India, our copy from the library of the botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, the first European permitted to trek through Sikkim.
£400
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KAVAN, Anna; Karl Theodor BLUTH.
The Horse’s Tale.
London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].
Uncommon first edition of this novel authored jointly by Kavan and her psychiatrist and friend Karl Theodor Bluth, written from the perspective of an ex-circus horse trying to find a place in postwar society and artistic circles, a criticism of prevailing trends in 1940s psychiatric treatment.
£850
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[1905 REVOLUTION.]
ЗРИТЕЛЬ [Zritel’; ‘The Observer’]. No. 24.
St Petersburg, “Sever”/A. M. Lesman, 24 December 1905.
Very rare penultimate number, confiscated by the authorities, of the very first of the satirical magazines to come out of the 1905 Revolution.
£750
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[CARTOUCHE.]
The Life and Actions of Lewis Dominique Cartouche: who was broke alive upon the Wheel at Paris, Nov. 28. 1721. N.S....
London, Printed for J. Roberts … 1722.
First edition in English, published in the same year as the French original, of this life of the French highwayman Louis Dominique Bourguignon, alias ‘Cartouche’, broken on the wheel in 1721.
£1750
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GOUNOD, Charles François.
A volume of ten songs bound together, all signed and inscribed by Gounod to Arthur Cecil Blunt.
London, 1870–3.
Ten of Gounod’s London-published songs, specially bound for presentation, all signed and inscribed in pencil on the upper wrapper to the English actor Arthur Cecil: ‘To my friend Arthur C. Blunt. Ch, Gounod’.
£2000
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MOORE, George.
Manuscript commonplace book of poems, songs, prayers, and letters.
1805–1855.
An appealing commonplace book of verses and songs, with occasional prayers and letters, mostly written by George Moore (1794–1854), a London soda water manufacturer and amateur poet who was murdered by the notorious French revolutionary Emmanuel Barthélemy (1823–1855).
£550
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MUSIL, Robert.
Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer. Posse in drei Akten.
Berlin, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1924.
Rare first edition of Musil’s early farce, featuring an abduction, extramarital affairs, and a staged murder, an important precursor to his most famous work, the unfinished modernist novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities).
£500
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OSTROVSKY, Aleksandr Nikolaevich.
Бѣдная Невѣста. Бѣдная невѣста, комедія въ пяти дѣйствіяхъ....
Moscow, Stepanov, 1852.
First separate edition, rare, of the second play by one of the leading Russian playwrights of the nineteenth century, drawing attention to the plight of young women who forced to marry for money rather than love, thought by Turgenev to be one of Ostrovsky’s finest works.
£4000
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[SHEPHEARD, James.]
The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who suffer’d Death at Tyburn, March the 17th, 1717/18. Deliver’d by...
[London, s.n., 1718.]
One of at least five printings of this ‘speech’ – allegedly written by the young Jacobite James Shepheard, hanged at Tyburn for planning the assassination of George I – some adding a hymn. Its inflammatory content makes it very unlikely that it was in fact delivered.
£750
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ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; Mary HOWITT, translator.
The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy. From the Danish … Translated by Mary...
London: Richard Bentley … 1845
First edition in English of Andersen’s autobiographical novel reflecting his travels in Italy. The poet and novelist Caroline Norton (1808-1877) obviously valued it highly, and there are pencilled marginal scorings and underlings throughout. She was a granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and...
£550
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[TAYLOR, John.]
The Column called the Monument, described, erected to perpetuate the dreadful Fire of London in the Year 1666;...
Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of the Monument. [1805?]
Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook to London’s Monument, with an account of the Great Fire of 1666 which it commemorates, authored by the Monument’s first keeper.
£350
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GARRIDO, Joam Antonio.
Taboada curiosa, novamente reformada, e augmentada, em que se trata de todas as regras geraes, e especies...
Lisbon, Ignacio Nogueira Xisto, 1759.
Sixth edition of a rare Portuguese merchant’s guide. ‘This all-purpose handbook includes rates of exchange for European currencies, rules for basic math, instructions on bookkeeping for companies, rules of spelling and pronunciation, and a number of odd lists: e.g. notable items for the numbers...
£250
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AELIANUS, Claudius, Conrad GESSNER (translator), and Pierre GILLES (editor).
Περι ζωων ιδιοτητος...
Cologny, Philippe Albert, 1616.
Uncommon Geneva edition of Aelianus’s De animalium natura, the Greek printed in parallel with Gessner’s Latin translation. A third-century work on natural history, Aelianus’s text offers accounts and anecdotes of animals, ‘an appealing collection of facts and fables about the animal...
£300
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ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.
Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di Gesù Cristo. Mappa e...
Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.
Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s sixteenth-century translation of this guide to Jerusalem for pilgrims by the Dutch cartographer Christian van Adrichem, instrumental in popularising the Stations of the Cross and the basis for maps of the Holy Land well into the eighteenth century.
£200
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VINCENT OF LÉRINS.
The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge from Antichrist and Errour, made and set furth in the Latine Tongue...
[London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].
First edition in English, very rare, of St Vincent’s Commonitorium pro catholicae fidei antiquitate, translated and with a long Prologue by John Proctor (1521–1558), and a dedication to Queen Mary, ‘a lady of heavenly simplicitie’ whom Proctor later praises as the restorer of the...
£9500
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TOLSTOY, Lev Nikolaevich.
Resurrection. A novel.
London, The Brotherhood Publishing Co., 1900.
Variant issue of the second edition in English in book form. This authorised translation of Tolstoy’s Resurrection by Louise Maude was first introduced to English readers in instalments in the journal The Clarion, starting in March 1899. The novel was then published during the...
£550
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[HUGMAN, John.]
Original Poems, in the moral, heroic, pathetic and other Styles. By a Traveller … Seventeenth Edition.
Halesworth, printed for the author by T. Tippell, 1835.
Seventeenth edition of a collection that first appeared in several editions in several locations in 1825 (Brighton, Clare, Colchester, Cambridge), initially comprising an assemblage of separately printed poems. The original title was Original Poems in the Amatory, Heroic, Pathetic and other...
£75
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BEAUMONT, Gustave-Auguste de la Bonninière de.
Autograph letter signed (‘Gustave de Beaumont’) to Sarah Austin.
Birmingham, 27 June [1835].
A warm and personal autograph documenting the relationship between Beaumont (1802–1866), prison reformer and travel companion to Alexis de Tocqueville, and one of the most accomplished contemporary catalysts of philosophical exchange, the translator Sarah Austin.
£350
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[BARBERS.]
Statuts des maitres barbiers-perruquiers, baigneurs-étuvistes, royaux et héréditaires de la ville de Marseille, confirmés...
Marseille, Antoine Favet, 1777.
Very rare collection of statutes, regulations, and decrees governing the community of master barbers, wigmakers, and bathhouse workers – both men and women – of Marseille, with annotations referencing female guild members.
£1250
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[BARNABITES.]
Vesperae quae cantantur solemniter a clericis regularibus S. Pauli, in ecclesia SS. Blasii et Caroli de urbe. D. Augustinus...
[Rome, 1693 and later.]
A finely executed manuscript comprising texts to be sung at Vespers by the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul – better known as the Barnabites – in the church of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari in Rome, bearing signs of adapted use over time.
£2750