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[WESTMINSTER ELECTION.]
A True and impartial Collection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, which have been written and published on...
London: Printed for W. Owen … 1749.
First edition of a compilation of open letters to the electorate of Westminster, written during the violent 1749 election campaign.
£750
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COBDEN-SANDERSON, Annie; Marianne TIDCOMBE, editor.
The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, with a Facsimile of the Original.
[Marlborough,] Libanus Press, 2017.
The imprisonment of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, daughter of the famous Victorian statesman Richard Cobden, prompted a wave of letters of protest to the newspapers, giving the women’s suffrage campaign the major boost she had hoped for. The ten women with whom Cobden-Sanderson was arrested (and of whom...
£25
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MEAD, Richard.
A Short Discourse concerning pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to be used to prevent it … The third Edition.
London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Sam. Buckley … and Ralph Smith … 1720.
‘Third edition’ of the most famous medical tract on the plague scare of 1720-1, written at the request of James Craggs, the secretary of State following the bubonic outbreak in Marseilles in late 1719. There were seven London editions within the year, those from the third on being re-impressions...
£375
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[FOPPA, Giuseppe.] Francesco PANORMO, translator.
Aci e Galatea, a pastoral Opera, as represented at the King’s Theatre...
London: Printed by C. Clarke … 1795.
First edition, very rare, of the dual-language libretto for Foppa’s Acis and Galatea (première Venice 1792) – in Italian verse and English prose. The translation was by Francesco Panormo, the eldest son of the instrument-maker Vincenzo Panormo.
£650
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MACAULEY, Auley.
A Sermon on the peculiar Advantages of Sunday Schools: preached in the Parish Church of St. Paul, Bedford, on...
London, Printed for C. Dilly … and sold by the Booksellers of Bedford, Northampton, and Leicester, for the Benefit of the Institution. [1792].
First edition of a rare sermon to promote Sunday Schools by the uncle of Thomas Babington Macaulay and brother of the abolitionist Zachary Macaulay.
£250
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[SANDYS, John].
The Salopian Zealot: or, the good Vicar in a bad Mood. By John the Dipper …
Sold by G. Keith, and J. Buckland, in London;— T. Evans, Bristol; and by the Booksellers in Salop, Liverpool, &c. [1778].
First edition of a lively verse contribution to an increasingly acrimonious pamphlet war between Baptists.
£575
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CADOGAN, William Bromley.
The Felicity of God’s Children, considered in a Sermon, preached upon the Death of a Lady, in the parish...
Reading: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by J. Rusher, Reading; Messrs. Robinsons, V. Griffiths ... & J. Matthews ... London;...
First edition, a funeral sermon by the popular preacher William Bromley Cadogan, a friend of John Newton, for the local widow Maria Littlehales, printed at the request of her children.
£75
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DE CASTRO, Alberto Osório.
Flores de Coral. Ultimos Poemas.
Dili, Ilha de Timor – Insulindia, Imprensa Nacional, 1908 [(colophon:) 31 December 1909; (wrapper:) 1910].
First edition of the first book printed on the island of Timor, no. 2 of 31 copies on a combination of song-kió-zu and tço-tzu paper from Guangzhou, a presentation copy, with a long dedicatory inscription in French from de Castro to the Romanian-French poet Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de...
£4750
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FALCONER, William.
Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Nature of Country, Population, Nature of Food, and Way of Life,...
London, C. Dilly, 1781.
First edition of Falconer’s pioneering contribution to the late Enlightenment’s study of environmental forces on society.
£1750
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ALEXANDER, William, attributed.
The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by a Series of seventy-three Engravings....
London, ‘printed for William Miller … by Howlett and Brimmer … 1803’, [c. 1823].
A later reprint of a handsome costume book devoted to the Russian empire, first printed by Samuel Gosnell for William Miller in 1803, illustrated with seventy-three coloured stipple engravings.
£950
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses pour Piano. / Magical Musical Cards or Thousand and one Dances for Piano.
Paris, Bass, c. 1830.
The complete Piquet deck of these rare and unusual musical playing cards including the English rules for the game, a delightful example of a nineteenth-century parlour game produced for the Anglo-French market.
£3000
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JESUS, Carlos Augusto Montalto de.
Historic Macao …
Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902.
First edition of an important history of Macao by the Macanese scholar Montalto de Jesus (1863–1927), a fellow of the Geographical Society of Lisbon and a member of the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
£950
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[GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]
Il Pastor Fido.
‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.
Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s immensely popular ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’, charmingly illustrated by Antonio Luciani.
£175
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DALLMEYER, Thomas.
Telephotography: An elementary Treatise on the Construction and Application of the telephotographic Lens …...
London, William Heinemann, 1899.
First edition of the authoritative treatise on telephotography by the inventor of the first practical telephotographic lens.
£200
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GURNEY, Edmund, Frederic W.H. MYERS, and Frank PODMORE.
Phantasms of the Living …
London, Society for Psychical Research, and Trübner & Co, 1886.
First edition, second issue as usual, with the note regarding corrections and additions on the verso of the title-page of vol. I and said Corrections included.
£800
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ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.
Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte da Bartolomeo Fontana ...
Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.
First edition of over 150 letters by the poet and scholar Ottavio Rossi (1570–1630), printed in his native city of Brescia and including a letter to the painter Palma Giovane, our copy with a contemporary manuscript note on the artist’s final moments written mere days after his death.
£1250
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CALMET, Antoine Augustin.
Commentaire litteral sur tous les livres de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Les deux livres d’Esdras,...
Paris, Pierre Emery, 1712.
First edition of the commentary on the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, and Esther by the French Benedictine Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672–1757), from the library of the last male descendant of the distinguished Colbert family.
£450
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‘TELL’, pseud. [i.e. Jacob EPSTEIN].
A rude Book.
Hartford, Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1926.
First edition, one of 500 copies printed in the United States, of these satirical sketches of Churchill, Shaw, Beerbohm &c. by the celebrated sculptor Jacob Epstein, our copy owned by the political cartoonist Robert Osborn and accompanied by a scathing review written during his undergraduate years...
£350
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[SPANISH FISHING.]
Artes, aparejos e instrumentos de pesca de España.
[Madrid, Artes Gráficas ‘Mateu’?, 1920?]
First and only edition, very rare, a striking illustrated guide to the traditional Spanish fishing industry, with thirty-five large and unusual illustrations of typical fishing villages and dress; net designs, and floats; boats; drag-nets; tangle-nets, purse seins; hooks; and various ‘objetos curiosos’....
£2000
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[ARISTOTLE.]
‘Quaestiones philosophicae ad mentem Aristotelis R.P. Iulii Caes. Corradi C.R.S. excepit Abb. Fabritius de Comitibus...
[Rome, 1670–1].
A late seventeenth-century manuscript containing lectures on Aristotle’s Physics given at the prestigious Collegio Clementino in Rome by Giulio Cesare Corradi of Cremona, Somascan priest and lecturer in philosophy, as recorded by Fabrizio Guidi di Bagno.
£850