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‘Ouvrages historiques de Bevill Higgons Ecuyer traduit de l’Anglois par mad. D’arconville ... Vu abregé de l’histoire d’Angleterre’.

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UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT BY FAMOUS FEMALE TRANSLATOR HIGGONS, Bevil (Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus THIROUX D’ARCONVILLE, translator). ‘Ouvrages historiques de Bevill Higgons Ecuyer traduit de l’Anglois par mad. D’arconville ... Vu abregé de l’histoire d’Angleterre’.

France, 1790s.

A collection for improvement of husbandry and trade.

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PIONEERING TRADE PERIODICAL HOUGHTON, John. A collection for improvement of husbandry and trade.

London, Randal Taylor, John Whitlock, E. Whitlock, J. Nutt, 30 March 1692 – 20 October 1699.

or, the Lady’s two Questions resolved. Question the first; why Men have not much to boast of their Greatness, nor Women of their Beauty, in certain very interesting Parts? Resolved in the History, political, natural, and moral, of a primitive Commonwealth. Question the second. Wherefore is it that both Sexes are so eternally dear Lovers of that same? Resolved in a Story, intituled the Female Embassy. Taken from the Priapeian Collection of the Chevalier Marino. By Dr. B –––.

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EROTIC FABLES WHY AND THE WHEREFORE (The): or, the Lady’s two Questions resolved. Question the first; why Men have not much to boast of their Greatness, nor Women of their Beauty, in certain very interesting Parts? Resolved in the History, political, natural, and moral, of a primitive Commonwealth. Question the second. Wherefore is it that both Sexes are so eternally dear Lovers of that same? Resolved in a Story, intituled the Female Embassy. Taken from the Priapeian Collection of the Chevalier Marino. By Dr. B –––.

London: Printed for J. Lamb … 1765.

Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

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PRINTED ON VELLUM [CANONS REGULAR OF THE LATERAN.] Regula et constitutiones Canonicorum Regularium congregationis S. Salvatoris, Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Denuo reformatae, auctae, summis illustratae, indiceq. locupletissimo exornatae.

Rome, apud Paulum Bladum, 1592.

La pratica della perspettiva … opera molto utile a pittori, a scultori, & ad architetti.

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ARCHITECTURE AND PERSPECTIVE, LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BARBARO, Daniele. La pratica della perspettiva … opera molto utile a pittori, a scultori, & ad architetti.

Venice, Camillo & Rutilio Borgominieri, 1568 [-69].

Barlow’s Birds and Beasts in sixty-seven excellent and useful Prints, being a Collection of the chief Works of that eminent Master; and engraved by Himself, Hollar, Place, &c. All drawn from the Life, shewing in their natural and peculiar Attitudes a vast Variety of Birds, Fowls and Beasts. London, Printed for, and sold by, Carington Bowles. [Price half a Guinea sewed]. [1775].

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EXTREMELY RARE PATTERN BOOK WITH A SUITE OF EIGHT ETCHINGS BY HOLLAR BARLOW, Francis. Barlow’s Birds and Beasts in sixty-seven excellent and useful Prints, being a Collection of the chief Works of that eminent Master; and engraved by Himself, Hollar, Place, &c. All drawn from the Life, shewing in their natural and peculiar Attitudes a vast Variety of Birds, Fowls and Beasts. London, Printed for, and sold by, Carington Bowles. [Price half a Guinea sewed]. [1775].

St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H.

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CITY OF GOD AUGUSTINE, Saint. St. Augustine, of the Citie of God: with the learned Comments of Io. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H.

[London,] Printed by George Eld. 1610.

Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of Antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his Altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his Superiours, the Governours of our Church.

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SOUTHEY’S COPY, WITH A LONG NOTE POCKLINGTON, John. Altare Christianum: or, the dead Vicar’s Plea. Wherein the Vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of Antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his Altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his Superiours, the Governours of our Church.

London, Printed by Richard Badger. 1637.

Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

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CARDONNEL, Adam de. Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.

A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments …

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CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO, GILT SANDYS, George. A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David and upon the Hymnes dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments …

London … 1636.

Autograph poetical manuscript, apparently unpublished, comprising a preface dated 3 April 1825 and some forty long poems.

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‘CELESTIAL SCENERY, ELEGIES, TALES’ BY A BERMONDSEY RHYMESTER HOGG, John. Autograph poetical manuscript, apparently unpublished, comprising a preface dated 3 April 1825 and some forty long poems.

[London, 1825-7].

L’Histoire Palladienne, traitant des gestes & genereux faitz d’armes et d’amours de plusieurs grandz princes et seigneurs, specialement de Palladien filz du roy Milanor d’Angleterre, & de la belle Selerine sœur du roy du Portugal: nouvellement mise en nostre vulgaire Françoys …

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AN ‘ENGLISH’ ROMANCE, THE ROXBURGHE COPY COLET, Claude. L’Histoire Palladienne, traitant des gestes & genereux faitz d’armes et d’amours de plusieurs grandz princes et seigneurs, specialement de Palladien filz du roy Milanor d’Angleterre, & de la belle Selerine sœur du roy du Portugal: nouvellement mise en nostre vulgaire Françoys …

Paris, Estienne Groulleau, 1555.

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L’heureuse benediction des maisons.

[POPULAR DEVOTION].

L’heureuse benediction des maisons.

A wonderful devotional broadside printed in the Breton town of Vannes, comprising a crude woodcut depiction of the scene at Calvary, signed ‘Desloge’ at the base, with two cantiques spirituels. The image is identical to one that appeared in a similar publication, also undated, that appeared in Mourtain in Normandy, printed by Lebel; the surrounding border and the text, however, differ, and we are unable to establish priority. Similar images, appearing under the same title, were not uncommon in the mid nineteenth century in provincial France, but survivals are very rare. Lamarzelle was the publisher of numerous works, both religious and secular, throughout the nineteenth century. Nicolas de Lamarzelle, the present printer, was active between 1835 and 1849.

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WITH EXTENSIVE AND HIGHLY CRITICAL MARGINALIA SISMONDI, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de.

De la richesse commerciale, ou principes d’économie politique, appliqués à la legislation du commerce ... Tome premier [- second].

First edition of Sismondi’s original and important work, this copy filled with highly critical marginalia by a contemporary reader, who concludes his annotations with the cutting comment: ‘Voila bien le plus mauvais livre qui existe en France sur l’administration commerciale. Fasse le ciel qu'il soit le dernier.’ Occupying the margins of over 280 pages, these annotations represent an extraordinary engagement with Sismondi’s text, and certainly merit further research.

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IN MEMORY OF HIS DAUGHTERS LA SERRIE, François-Joseph de.

Dithyrambes, ou petites élégies; dédiées à Madame Le Pédour, Annette-Sergent Pain (de Rochefort); par M. de La Serrie (de la Vendée); avec cinq sujets dessinés et gravés soigneusement de sa main.

Very rare first edition of this collection of twenty-one elegies composed by the writer, artist and engraver François-Joseph de La Serrie (1770-1819), largely inspired by the deaths of his two daughters Marie Louise Aspasie, who died aged 15 in 1812, and Marie Rosalie-Cecile Virginie, who passed away three years later at the age of 23. The occasionally moving verse – in élégie XV the author struggles to explain his daughter’s death to his grandson – dwells on the themes of death, sorrow, hope, friendship, prayer and faith. The handsome accompanying plates, also by the author, depict Mary and the infant Jesus, his daughters’ tombs, St Cecilia, and St Similien of Nantes. The notes at the end include interesting passages on ancient libraries and on printers, including praise for the Didot family.

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