BOARETTO, Ange.

Twenty-two large prints with paint and ink additions, five large photographs of Boaretto in his studio by Jean-Yves...

France, 1960s–1980s.

A fascinating archive relating to the work of the master shoemaker and naïve artist Ange Boaretto (b. 1920), known as ‘Ange’ and ‘Le Bottier’, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse of his unusual artistic technique – which utilised his shoemaking equipment – and of his important 1979 exhibition...

£3750

PEARSON, David.

Bookbindings: an illustrated History.

Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026.

Richly illustrated throughout, this book provides a fascinating history of the development of bookbindings from Roman times to the present day.

£50

LOCKE, John.

Letters concerning Toleration.

London, A. Millar, H. Woodfall, I. Whiston and B. White, I. Rivington [and sixteen others], 1765.

First collection edition, edited and with a preface by Thomas Hollis, printing Locke’s Epistola de Tolerantia (1689), its English translation by Popple, the Second and Third Letter that Locke wrote in response to the animadversions of Jonas Proast, and the unfinished Fourth...

£2000

KOH, John.

Dogs in Early Photography.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

Throughout history, dogs have been a subject in art; dogs were featured in cave drawings, coins, funerary sculptures or medieval marginalia. Before smartphones allowed dog owners to capture and share every moment of their dogs’ lives, fine art documented this relationship and promoted the dog from...

£50

FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC – AD 2000.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

This fully revised and enlarged edition of Bibliotheca Fictiva – the descriptive inventory of a collection of books and manuscripts relating to literary forgery in the Western world over the last twenty-four centuries, now housed in the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University – adds more than...

£80

VALERIANI MOLINARI, Luigi.

Discorsi concernenti la pubblica economia il gius pubblico e l’antico gius romano.

Bologna, Masi, 1809.

First edition of Valeriani’s (1758–1828) rare work of political economy presented as a science which stands as an organic complement to a nation’s set of legislation.

£750

[CAROLS.]

Noels et cantiques nouveaux, où l’on voit l’histoire de ce qui a précedé, accompagné et suivi la naissance de...

Metz, Jean Antoine, 1732.

Very rare collection of carols and canticles celebrating Christ’s nativity, printed at Metz in northeast France.

£575

[WEST, Jane.]

The Refusal …

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.

First edition. Though better known for her more conservative early novels such as A Gossip’s Story (1796), a source for Jane Austen, West’s mature work is in many ways more interesting. Here she treads ground that would soon become familiar to Austen’s readers, exploring the conflicts of...

£1200

RANDOLPH, Thomas.

Poems with the Muses Looking-Glasse: and Amyntas …

Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Francis Bowman, 1638.

First edition of the major collection – pastoral, erotic, and festive verse, followed by two plays – of one of the more illustrious of the ‘sons of Ben’, published two years after his death some three months short of his thirtieth birthday.

£3750

COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

Poems on various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College Cambridge [and Charles Lamb and...

London, G. G. and J. Robinsons [sic], and Bristol, J. Cottle, 1796.

First edition of Coleridge’s first collection of verse, published in April 1796. In the Preface, Coleridge explains that ‘the Effusions signed C. L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House’ and that ‘the first half of Effusion XV. was written by the Author of “Joan of Arc” [i.e....

£3000

BEISNER, Monika.

Dante Alighieri: La Commedia in 100 tavole.

Turin, Attini, 2021.

Limited edition, one of 500 numbered sets, of Monika Beisner’s one hundred illustrations of the Divine Comedy, each accompanying one canto, conveying with remarkable fidelity the vivacity of Dante’s verse.

£50

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The Guardian Angel. From the German … A Story for Youth.

London, J. Wright for Vernor and Hood, and J. Harris, 1802.

First edition in English (and the first separate edition in any language?) of Kotzebue’s novella ‘Der Schutzgeist’.

£800

[HUGHES, Langston.]

American Mission Association Race Relations Department Christmas card, featuring the poem ‘For my People’...

[n.d. but 1950s?].

£100

[POUND.] 

Ezra Pound at Seventy.

[New York, New Directions, 1955.] 

A small celebratory booklet printing tributes by Auden, Cummings, Eliot, Hemingway (‘Will gladly pay tribute to Ezra but what I would like to do is get him the hell out of St. Elizabeth’s’), Archibald Macleish, Jose de Pina Martins, Marianne Moore, Norman Pearson, Spender, and Edith Sitwell.

£30

[POUND.]

FROBENIUS, Leo. Il Liuto di Gassire. Legenda Africana con una nota di Ezra Pound.

Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1961].

First edition, translated into Italian from the German by Siegfried Walter di Rachewiltz, Pound’s grandson (b. 1947), and with a ten-page note by Pound. A presentation copy, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey Bridson with the compliments of Siegfried W. de Rachewiltz / Brunnenburg 30. 5. 61’.

£100

POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.

Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un atto di Motokiyo: Kagekiyo.

Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1958].

Third edition, translations of Pound’s ‘Introduction’ and one play from Certain Noble Plays of Japan by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. This third edition added ‘Un intervallo di 40 anni’ by Pound, dated November 1958.

£30

[I CHING.]

WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES, translators; C. G. JUNG, foreword. The I Ching or Book of Changes.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

Third edition, reprinted, in a striking moulded morocco binding by David Sellars, his first commission and most formative work.

£1950

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Materials: A Theatre of Machine Books, 1472–1800.

Toronto, AE Publications, 2023.

An extraordinary survey of four centuries of machine books, tracing the evolution of printing techniques and draughtsmanship alongside the development of the machines themselves. In this catalogue of eighty-six works from his collection of books on civil engineering, Mark Andrews situates a series of...

£75

ANDREWS, Mark E.

The Science and Engineering of Water: An illustrated catalogue of books and manuscripts on Italian hydraulics,...

Toronto, A.E. Publications, 2022.

A lavishly illustrated catalogue, tracing the development of science and engineering through the early modern period. Some 367 printed books, manuscripts, and maps are presented in chronological order, highlighting the relationship between the evolution of ideas and the authors who documented those ideas....

£75

TRAVERS, John.

A Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper, in Reply to an Article inserted in that Journal of the 22d August,...

London, Effingham Wilson, 1834.

Second, expanded edition of this tract on reforming the duties on tea imported from China to Britain, this copy presented to the Sinologist Sir George T. Staunton, member of the Select Committee on Tea Duties and author of the letter appended here, likely with his annotations and corrections; bound...

£850