[SAINTE-HILAIRE, Émile Marco de.]

Réclamation addressée à S. Ece. Mgr. Delavau, préfet de police, par Modeste Agnès, patentée...

Paris, chez les marchands de nouveautés, 1821.

Rare first edition of this work on Parisian prostitution, attributed to the writer and journalist Émile Marco de Sainte-Hilaire (1796–1887). The Réclamation is presented as a letter from the prostitute Modeste Agnès to the newly-appointed Paris chief of police, Guy Delavau (1787–1874),...

£850

SALLUST.

Caii Sallustii Crispi quae extant.

London, James Tonson and John Watts, 1713.

First Maittaire edition. The French-born classical scholar Michel Maittaire (1668–1741) studied at Westminster, and then under Robert South at Christ Church, Oxford. He is best known for his Annales Typographici and the series of duodecimo classics that he published with Tonson and Watts...

£300

SALLUST.

C. Crispi Sallustii de conjuratione Catilinae historia. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino ...

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544.

Estienne’s edition of the works of Sallust, annotated by an early English reader.

£1500

[SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’. 

Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro Soave Polano.  Seconda...

Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629. 

Second edition, the first to omit the extraneous additions of the 1619 edition introduced by Marco Antonio de Dominis, of the influential and groundbreaking history of the Council of Trent by Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), described by Milton as ‘the great unmasker’. 

£450

SARRATT, Jacob Henry. 

The works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez and Salvio, on the game of chess; translated and arranged: with remarks,...

London, T. Boosey, 1813. 

First edition.  ‘It was not the least of [Sarratt’s] services to English chess that he introduced his generation to the work of the older masters, Damiano, Lopez, and Salvio, in a series of translations.  That, as we now know to be the case, these translations were careless, inaccurate,...

£300

SAY, Léon.

Les solutions démocratiques de la question des impots. Conférences faites à l’École des science politiques …...

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1886.

First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896), grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say, ‘became one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Third Republic. He served as Finance Minister from 1872 to 1879, and again in 1882, overseeing the largest financial operation of the century – payment of war reparations...

£125

SAY, Léon.

[cover title: ] La Société coopérative est la meilleure des caisses d’épargne.

Lille, L. Danel, [1866?].

First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896), grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say, ‘became one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Third Republic. He served as Finance Minister from 1872 to 1879, and again in 1882, overseeing the largest financial operation of the century – payment of war reparations...

£75

SCHILLER, Friedrich.

Wallenstein ein dramatisches Gedicht …

Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1800.

First edition of Schiller’s dramatic Wallenstein trilogy, tracing the rise and fall of the Bohemian general Albrecht von Wallenstein during the Thirty Years’ War, from the von Carlowitz library and perhaps associated with the play’s French translator, Baroness Aloïse-Christine de Carlowitz....

£800

SCHREBER, Daniel Gottfried.

Sammlung verschiedener Schriften, welche in die öconomischen, Policey- und cameral- auch andere Wissenschaften...

Halle, im Verlag Johann Jacob Curts, 1755-65.

First edition, a complete set of this collection of agro-economical articles and essays. Schreber was the first professor of economics at Leipzig. His Abhandlung von Kammergütern appeared in 1743. In these collected essays he assembled his own treatises and those of other authors to provide a systematic...

£1250

SCHREBER, Johann Christian.

Botanisch-Oeconomische Abhandlung vom Grasbaue. Preisschrift, welche die, in den öconomischen Nachrichten,...

Leipzig, Johann Wendler, 1763.

First separate edition of this prize-winning treatise on grass and hay, first published in the Ökonomische Nachrichten.

£75

SCHUMACHER, H., Professor.

Autograph letter signed (‘H. Schumacher’) to a colleague.

Bonn, den Coblenzerstrasse 83, 10 February 1915.

Schumacher’s spirited response to a colleague who had asked for Schumacher’s opinion on a letter he intended to publish in an American newspaper. Schumacher charges him with completely misunderstanding both the political situation and public opinion in the USA. He criticises the German attitude towards...

£150

SCIALOJA, Antonio.

I Principî della economia sociale esposti in ordine ideologico … II. edizione riveduta, corretta ed aumentata.

Turin, Giuseppe Pomba, 1846.

Second edition, enlarged. Antonio Scialoja (1817–1877) studied at Naples, publishing the Principi della economia sociale (1840) there when he was only 22. It proved a great success in Italy and elsewhere, receiving many editions in Italian and a translation into French in 1843. In 1846, the year of...

£75

SCOTT, Sir Walter.

Copy of a letter to Colin Mackenzie.

Abbotsford, 26 July [1827].

Scott here discusses Scottishness with his long-term correspondent Colin Mackenzie. He discusses the gradual loss of the Scottish accent amongst the educated classes of Scotland, who are sent to England for their education, remarking, ‘It is repugnant to my feelings to destroy what seems one of [the]...

£100

[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]

Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.

Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Archibald Constable & Co., and London, Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820.

Stated second edition but in fact a third issue of the first, published on 15 January; the first issue, published on 20 December the previous year, is similarly dated 1820.

£375

SELKIRK, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of.

Observations on the present state of the Highlands of Scotland, with a view of the causes...

London, Longman et al., 1805.

First edition. ‘In 1792 … Selkirk [1771–1820] undertook an extensive tour through the Scottish Highlands and became convinced that emigration thence was unavoidable. He also recognised the need of some controlling hand to direct it. He first conceived the idea of a settlement at the Red River (what...

£425

SENECA the Younger, and SENECA the Rhetorician.

L. Annaei Senecae philosophi opera omnia; ex ult. I. Lipsii emendatio: et M. Annaei...

Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, [1639–]1640.
[With:] 
GRONOVIUS, Joannes Fredericus. Ad L. & M. Annaeos Senecas notae....

First Elzevir edition of the moral works and letters of the philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and the surviving Suasoriae and Controversiae of his father, known as Seneca the Rhetorician, along with the Amsterdam reprint of the extensive scholia of Johann Friedrich...

£500

[SERRÉ, Jean-Baptiste-Adrien-Joseph.]

Livre utile aux négocians de l’Europe, contenant les réductions des argents dont ils...

Paris, chez Valade; Brussels, chez Emmanuel Flon, 1774.

£100

[SEVILLE.]

Mercantile contract between Sebastián de Baeza of Seville and Hernán López de Segovia, almost certainly relating...

Seville, 25 July 1576.

A commercial document from the heyday of Seville’s trade with the Indies. Drawn up for Sebastián de Baeza, a resident of the barrio of San Bartolomé in Seville, the document recapitulates a previous agreement of 25 June 1576 between, on the one hand, Hernán López de Segovia and, on...

£1200

[SEX-WORK.] 

Arrêtés des 3 et 4 Juin 1833, concernant les femmes et filles livrées à la prostitution publique. 

Toulon, ‘de l’imprimerie d’Aug. Aurel’, 1833. 

An apparently unrecorded set of decrees intended to regulate sex-work in the French port of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, ‘for the maintenance of good morals and public health’. 

£475

SHAGINYAN, Marietta Sergeevna.

O blazhenstve imushchago: poeziia Z.N. Gippius [On the bliss of the propertied: the poetry of...

Moscow, “Al’tsiona”, [1912].

First edition, a critical essay by Shaginian published in the same year as Orientalia (advertised here), the collection of poetry that brought her fame.

£350