[SMITH, John William.] 

A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Prints, belonging to [John William Smith] … 

London, Letts, Son & Co, [1870s-90s]. 

A manuscript book catalogue employing a printed form.  John William Smith, of Clifton Terrace, Westbourne Terrace, and then Queens Gate, had a relatively predictable library of largely nineteenth-century material including history, classics, and literature (much Dickens and Tennyson), plus a smattering...

£300

SMITH, William.

An authentic account of the life and memoirs of Mr. William Smith, an unfortunate convict, executed at Tyburn,...

London, for J. Jefferies, 1750.

The last account of William Smith, son of an Irish vicar, containing the story of how he came to be executed for forgery, in addition to odes written by Smith shortly before his execution.

£40

[SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.]

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Sculptures, Models, Designs in Architecture, Drawings, Prints, &c. Exhibited...

Printed by Harriot Bunce, Printer to the Society. 1774.

First edition of the Catalogue for the selling exhibition of 1774. The Society of Artists emerged in 1760 as a loose association of artists, including Joshua Reynolds and Francis Hayman, who wanted greater control over exhibitions of their work than they experienced under William Shipley’s Society...

£1100

[SOCIETY OF JESUS.] 

Les découvertes d’un bibliophile réduites a leur juste valeur.  Avec quelques cas de conscience curieux. 

Strasbourg, L.F.  Le Roux, [1843]. 

First edition of this scathing response to Busch’s anti-Jesuit Les découvertes d’un bibliophile, central to the highly polemical ‘affaire du Bibliophile’ which divided Strasbourg in 1843. 

£375

[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

SPON, Jacob.

Voyage d’Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant, fait aux années 1675 et 1676 par Jacob Spon docteur medecin...

Lyons, Antoine Cellier, 1678.

Very rare first edition of ‘one of the most important accounts of travels in the Levant, and the first description of Athens which was systematic, detailed, and trustworthy’ (Blackmer).

£4750

STODDARD, Roger.

Jacques-Charles Brunet, Le Grand Bibliographe. A guide to the books he wrote, compiled, and edited and to the...

[London], Quaritch, 2007.

As an undergraduate in Brown University Roger Stoddard operated a second-hand bookshop from his dormitory room, issuing modest catalogues while working for Goodspeed’s Book Shop in the summer months. From 1958 until 1961 he assisted William Jackson, Librarian of the Houghton Library, and from 1961...

£60

STRABO.

Strabonis geographicorum lib. XVII ... iam denuo a Conrado Heresbachio … ad fidem Graeci exemplaris, authorumque …...

Basel, Johann Walder, 1539.

Second edition of Strabo’s masterful Geographica in the Latin translation of the German Humanist and friend of Erasmus, Konrad Heresbach (1496–1576), here found with the first Latin translation of an epitome of Strabo’s work by the Basel professor of physic and logic, Hieronymus Gemusaeus...

£2500

[STRASBOURG.]

Souscription patriotique de la part du beau-sexe de Strasbourg.

[S.l., s.n., 1789?.]

Rare first edition of this entertaining satirical piece on women's clothing, published in the aftermath of the French Revolution. After complaining that the recent craze for ‘gauze, muslin, linen and feathers’ had brought the country to its knees, the text describes how the patriotic women...

£165

TALBOT RICE, David.

Notice on some religious buildings in the city and vilayet of Trebizond. Extrait de Byzantion, tome...

Brussels, Secrétariat de la Revue, 1930.

An offprint from Byzantion. The distinguished Byzantine scholar David Talbot Rice was a lifelong friend of Robert Byron, one of his travelling companions during the visit to Mount Athos recorded in Byron’s The Station, and co-author with him of The birth of Western painting.

£65

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

[THE BOOK COLLECTOR.]

A special Number to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

The Book Collector, 1997.

A collection of essays together recounting the history of Bernard Quaritch Ltd, published by The Book Collector to commemorate the firm’s sesquicentenary in 1997.

£25

THENOT, Jean Pierre.

Vollständige Anweisung zur Aquarellmalerei und zum Tuschen ... 1. Heft (all published).

Leipzig, Kirchner, 1837.

First German edition, originally published the preceding year in Paris. A charming watercolour manual.

£350

THOMAS, Dylan, and Sir Peter Blake, illustrator.

Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices.

London: Apple Litho (Bristol) Ltd. for Enitharmon Editions and Queen Anne Press, 2013.

De Luxe edition, number 61 of 100 copies with a signed print by Blake. This finely-produced edition was published to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth and celebrates the culmination of over twenty-five years of work by Peter Blake, one of the founding fathers of British Pop Art. The...

£975

TOMS, William. 

Thirty-six new original and practical designs for chairs, adapted for the Drawing and Dining Room, Parlour and...

Bath, W. Evans, [c. 1830]. 

A fine and rare furniture pattern book by William Toms, ‘carver in general’ at Bath. 

£650

[UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]

Subscription list for repairs to the College Chapel.

[Oxford, c. 1860].

A printed appeal from University College, signed by the Master Frederick Charles Plumptre (1796–1870), for funds to improve the interior of the Chapel, with an admission that ‘the College has no funds whatever to devote to such a purpose’. The list of subscribers contains some ninety names.

£50

VERTOGRADOV.

За антиимпериалистическую солидарность, мир и прогресс! [For...

Moscow, Izdatelstvo Plakat, 1975.

A dramatic manifestation of the Soviet Union’s claim to be the foremost enemy of imperialism, and a vehement supporter of independence movements throughout the third world, as demonstrated here by the traditional dress of some of the figures in the background.

£250

VIAS, Balthasar de.

In clarissimum virum Nicolaum Claudium Fabricium de Peiresc ... Epicedion.

Marseille, Claude Garcin, 1642.

Uncommon first edition of Balthasar de Vias’s elegant neo-Latin elegy commemorating the life of his friend the scholar, antiquary, and collector Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) of Aix-en-Provence, the most learned man of his time; our copy contains the extremely rare ‘Encomiasticon’...

£3250

VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium et fluviatilium quae adservantur...

Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

First edition of this catalogue of molluscs and shellfish in the collection of Antonio and Giovanni Battista Villa. 

£275

[VILLAMENA, Francesco].

A street fight in Rome. A fan leaf drawing.

[Italy, late 18th century].

A fine fan leaf drawing, Italian school, late 18th century, copied from a print by Francesco Villamena of c. 1601. It depicts a street fight between Spanish and French factions in Rome with a view of the villa Mattei in the background. The original copper engraving by Villamena was dedicated to the patron...

£2200