Recent Acquisitions
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only collaboration with Mitchison but she arranged for the publication of his Left Wings over Europe the following year, and they remained friends until his death. 32 designs by Lewis served as the inspiration for Mitchison’s narrative.
£75
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SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.
Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for MDCCCXXXI …
London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph] Ackermann, 1831.
The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s literary annual Forget-me-not for 1831, instrumental in introducing to English readers the concept of the German ‘gift book’, borrowing ‘from the French almanack and the German Taschenbüch to create the format of the first British-published...
£150
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HIBBERD, James Shirley.
The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year Book … 24th annual issue.
London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.
Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890), one of the most successful Victorian gardening writers, founder of the Amateur Gardener and editor of the Gardener’s Magazine, the Vegetarian Advocate, and the Floral World and Garden Guide.
£100
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[JUVENILE.]
Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni della prima infanzia.
Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp., [c. 1830].
Very rare Besançon-printed edition of these moral tales for children framed within the context of a parent–child dialogue, our copy presented by a father to his daughter.
£450
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[ALMANACK.]
Velhagen & Klasings Almanach. Ein Biedermeier-Jahrbuch.
[Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, and Vienna, Velhagen & Klasing, [1927].
A literary almanack for 1927 with stories by several notable German, Austrian, and Swedish authors with a distinctly nineteenth-century flavour, illustrated with several handsome neo-Romantic coloured plates and illustrations.
£175
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[ALMANACK.]
Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга вторая [Al’manakh dlia vsekh. Kniga vtoraia; ‘Almanack...
St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”, 1911.
First edition, extremely rare, of the second literary annual published by the Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh (New Journal for Everyone) with poems by Blok, Gorodetsky, and Kuzmin, and short fiction by Chulkov, Gusev, Count Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, and Ivan Poroshin.
£200
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[ALMANACKS.]
A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1816.
London, The Company of Stationers, 1816.
A standard collection of seven almanacks printed for the Company of Stationers.
£125
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[ALMANACK.]
Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés de la Sainte Bible.
Paris, Janet, [1814].
A very rare biblical almanack for 1814 by Janet, attractively illustrated with engraved plates depicting episodes from the Old Testament.
£300
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’, 1800.
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands,...
£1450
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[ALMANACK.]
étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, pour l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.
Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.
Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome contemporary binding of silk and sequins featuring lyres surmounted by hearts and torches, issued on the eve of the French Revolution with much material on the storming of the Bastille and revolts throughout France.
£1950
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[ALMANACK.]
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1785].
A very attractive miniature London Almanack in its elaborate original binding of gilt white calf and matching étui, with an engraving of the soon-to-be-finished Somerset House.
£950
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[ALMANACK.]
Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, avec plusieurs augmentations & corrections, pour l’année mil sept...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand] and Pierre-François Durand, 1775.
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775, our copy in a handsome binding embroidered in gold and silver threads and with emblematic mottoes and charming illustrations depicting putti fanning smoke from a burning candle and holding a flaming heart.
£1500
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[ALMANACK.]
The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's and Tradesman's complete annual Accompt-Book for the Pocket, or Desk. For the...
London, R. Baldwin, 1761.
An interesting and extremely rare account book for 1761 used by a series of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century carpenters, joiners, and a tallow chandler in Denbighshire, North Wales to record appointments, time spent on ongoing projects, and accounts.
£850
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[SAURIN, Bernard-Joseph, attributed.]
Le nouvel an, pöeme heroī-fou. ‘A Brochuro-manie, l’an du deluge des Almanachs’,...
[Paris?], 1751.
An extremely rare satirical tale of two lovers in nine canti, fictitiously printed in ‘Brochuromania’ during the ‘year of the deluge of almanacks’, satirising the craze for literary almanacks in eighteenth-century France.
£950
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MILL, John Stuart.
A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the...
London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1868.
Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph letter and printed presentation slip.
£1000
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LE PLAY, Frédéric.
Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].
Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879.
Second, greatly enlarged edition. This groundbreaking, comprehensive work of sociology, which examines the working condition, domestic life and psychological aspects of European workers, had appeared in its first form in 1855 a single volume. ‘Since public opinion was not yet ready to accept...
£750
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LAWRENCE, William Beach.
Two Lectures on Political Economy delivered at Clinton Hall, before the Mercantile Library Association...
New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832.
First edition, uncommon. The author, an American jurist and politician, was the son of Isaac Lawrence, President of the New York Branch of the Bank of the United States and a Presidential Elector. In his Lectures Lawrence deplored speculation as the mechanism which gives rise to boom-and-bust...
£450
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KEYNES, John Maynard.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First American edition (includes the Erratum printed on p. 403) of Keynes’ path-breaking work, perhaps the most pervasively influential twentieth-century contribution to the social sciences, responsible for instilling the notion that ‘national budgets are major instruments in a planned...
£300
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MURDOCH, Iris.
Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.
Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.
First edition, the first published book of Iris Murdoch, in her capacity as a fellow and tutor in philosophy at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
£200
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[BANK OF SCOTLAND.]
Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in Scotland. Edinburgh, July 17 1695.
Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1695.
Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament establishing Scotland’s first and oldest bank, founded just one year after the Bank of England.
£650