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ALABASTER, William.
Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta in Col. Trin. Nunc primum in lucem edita.
London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.
The pirated first edition (the first authorised text followed later in the same year) of a neo-Latin verse drama in the manner of Seneca, by one of the foremost Latinists of his day.
£1500
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s: displaying the Intercourse betwixt Christ and the Soule …
London, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington … 1648.
First edition of this lengthy religious epic representing the journey of the personified Soul from England to the Holy Land and back, written by Beaumont, one of the royalist fellows ejected from Cambridge in 1644.
£1250
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BLANCHON, Jacques.
Iacobi Blanchoni Ucessiensis adversus Ludovicum Beneventanum abbatem Selestensem defensionum liber.
Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1550.
First edition of a very rare work of sixteenth-century Lyonnese Neoplatonism, an elegantly printed de Tournes edition.
£950
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[BOUCHET, Jean.]
Les triu[m]phes de la noble et amoureuse dame, et l’art de honnestement aymer, compose par le Traverseur des...
Paris, Estienne Caveiller for Pierre Sergent, 6 June 1539.
Unrecorded issue of Jean Bouchet’s contemplative vernacular work of moral theology in prose and verse explicitly intended for a female readership, following the personified Soul in dialogue with several virtues as she attempts to combat the forces of earthly temptation with the power of divine grace....
£4500
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[ALMANACK.]
The royal Kalendar; or complete and correct annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year...
London, John Debrett et al., [1792].
An attractive volume containing these two contrasting English almanacks from the time of the French Revolution, bound one within the other with splendid gilt brocade pocket-endpapers by the renowned Nuremberg papermaker Paul Reimund (d. 1815).
£1200
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[BARBERS.]
Statuts des maitres barbiers-perruquiers, baigneurs-étuvistes, royaux et héréditaires de la ville de Marseille, confirmés...
Marseille, Antoine Favet, 1777.
Very rare collection of statutes, regulations, and decrees governing the community of master barbers, wigmakers, and bathhouse workers, both men and women, of Marseille, with annotations referencing female guild members.
£1250
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[CHINA.]
A collection of 46 Chinese watercolour miniatures on pith.
[Canton?, c. 1870].
A series of delicate portraits – the colours beautifully preserved – of a wide range of figures from late-Qing China. The persons portrayed include tradesmen and -women, labourers, dignitaries, scholars, actors, soldiers, figures in ceremonial dress, monks, musicians, and gentlefolk attended by servants...
£1850
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[DEFOE, Daniel.]
A Letter to Dissenters.
London, Printed for John Morphew … 1713.
First edition, the state with the final page misnumbered. This tract is an admonition to Defoe’s fellow Dissenters, ‘saying that they enjoy great privileges at present, the Queen having undertaken to maintain the Toleration Act and even having for long resisted the Act against Occasional Conformity....
£600
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[EMPRESS DOWAGER and DALAI LAMA.]
Photographs of religious traditions in Peking.
Beijing, c. 1908.
A record of religious cultures and traditions with rare images of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Beijing and the preparation for the Empress Dowager Cixi’s funeral procession, in 1908.
£4500
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PHAEDRUS et al.
Phaedri fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac Publii Syri sententiae.
Orléans, Couret de Villeneuve, 1773.
An attractive edition of Phaedrus’ fables with the sententiae of Publilius Syrus and Seneca the Younger, printed in small type, in an attractive contemporary binding.
£250
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[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]
Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément aux journaux sur le livre du Microscope Moderne,...
Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville, 1781.
Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement to Le Microscope Moderne, an enthusiastic work promoting the use of microscopes by the popular scientist Charles Rabiqueau.
£250
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[TAIWAN.]
中華民國四十六年國慶閱兵大典集影 Album of the Grand Review of the National Day of the Republic of China...
[Taiwan, 1957.]
A fine commemorative album documenting the military alliance between the United States and the Kuomintang/Republic of China, apparently unrecorded and made for presentation to a high-ranking dignitary at a tense time for both Cross-Strait and US–Taiwan relations.
£1500
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[UDALL, John, attributed?]
A dialogue, concerning the strife of our Churche: wherein are aunswered divers of those uniust accusations,...
London, Robert Waldegrave, 1584.
First edition of a lively dialogue set in an inn, between four characters: Philedonos, the innkeeper, Orthodoxos, a puritan cleric, Philodoxos, a lawyer, and Philochrematos, a bishop’s chaplain. The preface ‘To the Reader’ makes clear the anti-clerical and anti-Catholic intent of the work, but...
£3500
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WAUCHOPE, George.
Georgii Vauchopii Scoti de veteri populo Romano tractatus.
Caen, ‘apud viduam Iacobi Bassi, typographi regii’, 1595.
First edition of a work on the people of ancient Rome by the Scottish scholar George Wauchope, published at Caen by Françoise Le Bas.
£400
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SUETONIUS.
Caii Suetonii Tranquilli quae extant; et in eum M. Zuerii Boxhorni, notae. Editio novissima, rerum nominumq[ue] propriorum...
Amsterdam, ex officina Henrici et viduae Theodori Boom, 1686.
Pocket Amsterdam edition of the works of Suetonius as edited by Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612–1653), who is best known for formulating the concept of an Indo-European language family.
£150
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[YOUNG, Edward].
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality [Nights First to Fourth] …
London: Printed for R. Dodsley … and sold by M. Cooper … 1742 1743.
Second (first quarto) edition of Night the First, first editions of Night the Second to Fourth.
£250
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GLOVER, John.
The Hidden and happy Life of a Christian, amidst a Variety of Trials and Afflictions incident to the present State,...
London: Printed by R. Hawes … and sold by Mr. Buckland, Bookseller … and Mr. Keith … London; Mr. Booth, at Norwich; Mr. Punchard, at...
First edition, very scarce: the spiritual diary of the evangelical Calvinist John Glover from its commencement in 1764 until shortly before his death ten years later. The diary revolves around anxiety about temptations, spiritual withdrawal and silent prayer, and the solace Glover draws from religious...
£450
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[FITZ-PATRICK, Robertus, translator, probably pseud.]
The sacred History of the Holy Sheet. Collected from grave Authors, and translated...
London: Printed for M. Cooper … 1745
First edition of what appears to be the first book in English devoted to a description of the Turin Shroud and its history, curiously combining a sympathetic text with a heavily ironic, anti-Catholic preface, particularly anti-European Catholics. Can the preface have been influenced by the events of...
£750
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PIGHIUS, Albertus.
Controversiarum praecipuarum in comitiis Ratisponensibus tractataru[m], et quibus nunc potisimu[m] exagitatur...
Paris, apud Carolam Guillard, 1549.
Later edition (first 1542) of the proceedings of the Colloquy of Ratisbon, a significant conference of Catholic and Protestant theologians held at Regensburg in Bavaria in 1541, issued by the Parisian printer Charlotte Guillard (1485–1557), ‘an exceptional figure of the French Renaissance’ (Jimenes).
£375
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FRAISSINES, Doctor.
Thèse de chirurgie, sur l’opération de l’empyeme, dédiée à messieurs les capitouls. Soutenue sous...
Toulouse, de l’imprimerie de la veuve de J.F. Desclassan, [1780].
Very rare thesis on empyema thoracis (infection of the pleural cavity) by Dr Fraissines, first surgeon at Saint-Eloi hospital in Montpellier and a member of the city’s Société Royale des Sciences, printed by Bertrande Desclassan.
£575