ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD

The Authoritarian Personality.

New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.

First edition of this groundbreaking work of social psychology on the development of prejudice by Theodor Adorno and the psychologists Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

£225

[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee” July 1, 1897’.

Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

An attractive album memorialising a garden party in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria held at Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire under the sponsorship of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833–1905), later Lord Lieutenant of that county. The photographer, Francis Preece (1853–1928), was...

£500

[JACOBUS de Gruytrode, attributed.]

Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].

[(Colophon:) Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.]

Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise, ‘The Bath of Conscience’, widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk and prior of Liège, Jacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400–1475).

£750

TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

Travels of a consular Officer in eastern Tibet. Together with a History of the Relations between China,...

Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

First edition, by the diplomat and orientalist Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), ‘one of British diplomacy’s dashing characters, [a] flamboyantly enigmatic explorer-cum-special agent’ (Winchester, The Man who loved China, 2008, p. 73).

£250

VISCARDI, Giovanni Andrea.

Precetti morali e civili, con molti, & varii essempi … opera utilissima a qualunque sorte persone.

Venice, Sebastiano Combi, 1600.

Second, expanded edition of Viscardi’s moral precepts and examples, in a binding for Jacques-Auguste de Thou and Marie Barbançon.

£1250

VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.

Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla. Adiecto indice propriorum nominum, rerumque memoria dignarum...

Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1607.

Rare edition of Valerius Maximus, provincially printed at Carmagnola in Piedmont, then part of the Duchy of Savoy.

£450

TEICHMAN, Eric, Sir.

Travels of a consular Officer in North-West China . . . With original Maps of Shensi and Kansu and...

Cambridge, University Press, 1921.

First edition. ‘The following chapters give some account of a series of journeys through the North-Western Provinces of China, undertaken in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty and other matters requiring investigation on the spot in conjunction with Chinese officials … Shensi and Kansu...

£250

[SYRIAC.]

ܟܘܪܣܬܐ ܕܥܢܝܕܵܐ ܒܢܵܝ ܥܠܡܐ … [Kurasta d-ʻanide bnay ʻalma … ; ‘The Burial Service for...

Urmia, Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission, 1900.

Extremely rare edition of the Syriac liturgy for the burial of the dead, printed by Anglo-Catholic missionaries at Urmia in present-day Iran.

£1850

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love.]

Gryll Grange. By the Author of ‘Headlong Hall’ …

London, [Savill & Edwards for] Parker, Son, & Bourn, 1861.

First edition in book form, following serialisation in Fraser’s, of Peacock’s final novel, perhaps his most witty and urbane.

£200

LAKITS, György Zsigmond.

Juris publici ecclesiastici pars generalis, de ecclesia christiana.

Venice, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1790.

Second Venice editions of two pro-Habsburg works on ecclesiastical law by a notable Hungarian jurist, in matching decorative block-printed wrappers.

£375

[FABLES.]

Petit fabuliste.

Paris, [(colophon:) Firmin-Didot], [c. 1840].

A charming miniature collection of illustrated fables published in nineteenth-century Paris.

£200

EUTROPIUS; Sextus AURELIUS VICTOR; Sextus Rufus [FESTUS]. 

Historiae romanae breviarium, ad codices manuscriptos & optimas editiones...

Paris, brothers Barbou, 1793.

First edition by Capperonnier of this collection of three Roman histories of the fourth century, printed in small format and handsomely bound in contemporary straight-grained morocco.

£275

ELIOT, T. S.

Four Quartets.

New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1943].

First edition, first impression, with the edition note in the colophon, one of only 788 copies not destroyed before publication.

£850

ELIOT, T. S.

The Waste Land.

New York, Boni and Liveright, [1923].

First edition, second impression, numbered 930 of 1000 copies.

£1250

DUNMORE, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of.

The Pamirs; being a Narrative of a Year’s Expedition on Horseback and on Foot...

London, John Murray, ‘1893’ [1894]. 

Second edition (first 1893) recounting the major 1892–3 expedition through the Himalayas and central Asia by the Earl of Dunmore.

£275

DONNOLI, Francesco Alfonso.

De iis, qui semel in die cibum capiunt. Liber in quo demonstratur quibus corporibus, talis vivendi...

Venice, Benedetto Miloco, 1674.

First edition, an uncut copy of Donnoli’s work on the restricted eating of only one meal a day, discussing its suitability for different people and its effects on physiology.

£1450

[DICKENS, Charles.]

Children’s Stories from Dickens re-told by his Grand-Daughter Mary Angela Dickens and Others with an Introduction...

London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1911.

First limited edition, numbered 224 of 500 copies, signed on the limitation leaf by five of Dickens’s granddaughters, to benefit whom the work was sold. The stories had been first published c. 1893 with different illustrations. Of this printing there was also a trade edition; the work can be...

£200

CICERO, Marcus Tullius.

Rheticorum ad Herennium libri IIII. Et M. T. Ciceronis de inventione libri duo.

Venice, heirs of Giovanni Griffio, 1576.

An attractive copy of the two earliest Latin rhetorical treatises, in a wrapper of a medieval manuscript leaf incorporating printed waste, with early Orvieto provenance.

£600

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-[René] de.

Atala; ou Les amours de deux sauvages dans le désert: suivie de René.

London, Colburn, 1809.

First London edition in the original French, rare, of Chateaubriand’s first two published novellas, set in North America and supposedly written during his travels there while staying with Native Americans.

£350

CAREL DE SAINTE-GARDE, Jacques.

Les Sarrazins chassez de France. Poëme heroïque. Premiere partie.

Paris, Claude Barbin, 1667.

First edition, very rare, of this poetic account of the expulsion of the Saracens from France by Childebrand I and Charles Martel, written by Jacques Carel de Sainte Garde, almoner and counsellor to Louis XIV.

£850