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FERRER, Ventura Pascual.
Historia de los Dictadores de la republica Romana …
Cartagena de Indias, Government Press for Gonzalez Pujòl, 1814.
First edition, very rare, of this Colombia-printed history of the Roman dictators by the Cuban lawyer and writer Ferrer y Feruz (1772–1851), written in Colombia during the civil strife of early independence.
£650
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HERNÁNDEZ, Miguel.
Viento del pueblo. Poesia en la guerra.
Valencia, Ediciones ‘Socorro Rojo’, 1937.
First edition of a scarce collection of Civil War poems by the ‘soldier-poet’ Miguel Hernández, our copy from the library of Stephen Spender, who met Hernández in Madrid in the summer of 1937 and would champion and translate his work.
£1750
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CARVALLO, Luciano.
La Iglesia y la soberanía del pueblo.
Bogotá, Enrique Zalamea, 1879.
First (?) edition, very rare, a presentation copy to the author’s friend, the writer Demetrio Viana, dated 27 December 1881.
£450
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BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
Iceland: its scenes and sagas ... With numerous illustrations and a map.
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.
First edition of this account of a visit to Iceland by the clergyman, collector of folk songs and hymn writer Baring-Gould (1834-1924), undertaken for ‘examining scenes famous in Saga, and filling a portfolio with water-colour sketches’ (Preface).
£350
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DIO CASSIUS.
Dione historico delle guerre et fatti de Romani. Tradotto di Greco in lingua vulgare per M. Nicolo Leoniceno. Con...
Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, March 1533.
First edition of Dio Cassius’s Roman History in any language, translated into Italian from the original Greek by Niccolò Leoniceno and preceding the Greek editio princeps, printed by Robert Estienne in 1548, by some fifteen years.
£2500
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HOSSCHIUS, Sidronius.
Sidronii Hosschii e Societate Iesu elegiarum libri sex. Praemittuntur illustrissimorum virorum poemata in...
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’, 1656.
First collected edition of the neo-Latin verse of the Flemish Jesuit and poet Sidronius Hosschius (Sidron de Hossche, 1596–1653), edited after his death by his fellow poet Jacques van de Walle (1599–1690), and prefaced with poems on Hosschius’ death commissioned by the future Pope Alexander...
£600
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BENNETT, Terry.
History of Photography in China.
London, Quaritch, 2009-2013.
First editions of the three-volume set of Bennett’s comprehensive History of Photography in China, together providing a study and survey of the development of Chinese photography from 1842 to 1879 both by Chinese and by Western photographers. The work examines photographs and photographers...
£175
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PETRINI, Giovanni.
Sixteen copper engravings depicting scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary.
[Rome, late eighteenth century.]
An attractive volume containing sixteen engravings by Giovanni Petrini of scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, including renderings of famous paintings by the likes of Correggio, Poussin, Titian, Raphael, and Rubens.
£1750
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[POEMS ON DRINKING.]
Raccolta di brindisi per tutte le occasioni; apostrofi al vino; inni in lode di Bacco, canzoni da tavola;...
Milan, Emilio Croci, 1875.
First edition of this compact font of inspiration for all partygoers, containing odes to Bacchus, endless praise of the merits of wine, drinking songs, and toasts for every occasion, including a party of printers.
£200
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ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]. ספר אני בלב ים ... חלק ראשון
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
First part of the first and only edition of this work on the Thirteen Principles of Faith and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy by German rabbi Boaz Rothschild, our copy presented to the Rothschild family in England.
£450
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[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.
An Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th,...
Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.
First edition of this eulogy on Washington, ‘the saviour of your country’ and ‘father of his people’. This is the issue with urn woodcut on the final verso. Thomas Paine (1773–1811, not to be confused with the author of Common Sense) later changed his name to that of his father,...
£250
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RAREY, John Solomon.
The modern Art of Taming wild Horses.
Columbus, Ohio State Journal Company, 1857.
Rare early edition of Rarey’s method of taming wild horses. The technique of John Solomon Rarey (1827 – 1866) was first published circa 1855 and immediately reappeared in Ohio towns, most often pirated and printed in short runs. His reputation for calming ferocious horses spread quickly, and...
£950
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GONZÁLES DE MENDOZA, Juan, and Robert PARKE, translator.
The Historie of the great and mightie Kingdome of China,...
London, Printed by J. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588 [or 1589].
First edition in English, rare, of the first significant European study of China, ‘one of the outstanding “best-sellers” of the sixteenth century’ (Boxer).
£50000
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‘MAWE, Thomas’ [but John ABERCROMBIE].
Every Man his own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete Gardener’s...
London: Printed for W. Griffith … 1767.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first, of an immensely popular work, which went through at least twenty-five editions; this copy with interesting horticultural provenance and an amateur-tooled binding.
£225
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DENNYS, Nicholas Belfield, editor.
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A complete guide to the open ports of those countries,...
Shortrede and Co., 1867.
First edition, complete with all twenty-nine maps and plans, of this remarkable guide to the open ports of China and Japan in the late 1860s, aimed at ‘travellers, merchants, and residents’, compiled by Nicholas Dennys (1839–1900), a noted scholar of Chinese folklore, with the sinologist...
£4750
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PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home.
The Cities and Towns of China. A geographical dictionary …
Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1879.
First edition of a dictionary of Chinese towns and cities by G.M.H. Playfair (1850–1917), based upon the French Sinologist Édouard Biot’s earlier Dictionnaire of 1842.
£600
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GERSTMANN, Roberto.
Bolivia 150 grabados en cobre. Introducción por Dr F. Ahlfeld.
Paris, Braun & Co., 1928.
First edition with 150 striking Bolivian photographs by the Vienna-born photographer Roberto Gerstmann, who travelled extensively in South America, with a preface in Spanish, German, and English by Dr F. Ahlfeld.
£200
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[ORAN.]
Diario distinto di tutto il seguito per la spedizione fatta d’ordine della maesta’ cattolica di Filippo V. re delle...
(Colophon:) Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1732.
A daily account in Italian from 20 June to 8 July 1732 of the Spanish capture of Oran. The Algerian city had been governed by Spain since 1509 but had fallen into Ottoman hands in 1708. This 1732 invasion brought Oran once more under Spanish control, under which it remained until 1792.
£175
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RENAN, Ernest (1823-1892), French philologist and philosopher.
A collection of 26 autograph letters and notes signed, with one...
Paris and Sèvres, 1853-1889 (and undated).
A fine collection of letters from Renan, providing an insight into the breadth of his academic pursuits, his publications, his contacts in France and abroad, and his personality.
£500
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MASTER B.F.
Three very large historiated initials cut from a set of choirbooks.
Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.
Three extremely fine initials by the enigmatic artist known as Master B.F., one of the most inventive and accomplished illuminators of the Italian High Renaissance. They come almost certainly from a magnificent set of about twenty choirbooks belonging to the Olivetan monastery of Santi Angelo...
£150000