ROGERS, Samuel.

Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers. To which is added Porsoniana.

London: Edward Moxon ... 1856.

First edition of this mine of contemporary literary gossip. Rogers is among that select group of poets to have declined the laureateship, and his poetry once had an ardent fan in Byron, who saw him as a much needed antidote to the Lake poets. His most durable achievement, however, has proved to be his...

£150

ROLAS DU ROSEY, Carl.

Die Kupferstiche, Handzeichnungen und Kunstbibliothek ... deren erste Hälfte Montag, den 13. Juni 1864 [-...

Leipzig, Rudolf Weigel, 1864.

Sale catalogue of the print and drawing collection assembled by the Prussian general Baron Rolas du Rosey (d. 1862). In all 7160 lots were sold. The prices achieved were moderate.

£250

[SALON DE 1850.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1850.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1850, the exhibition of contemporary French artists in Paris. The submissions of architectural drawings get the most detailed treatment although the first medal in the architecture section was not awarded.

£75

[SALON DE 1857.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1857.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1857.

£75

[SALON DE 1863.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, 1863.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1863.

£65

[SALON DE 1876.]

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artists vivants exposés...

Paris, Imprimerie National, 1876.

Catalogue for the Salon of 1876.

£75

TAYLOR, W. B. Sarsfield.

The origin, progress, and present condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland.

London: Whittaker & Co., 1841.

£75

SCHÖFFLER, Benedict.

Die Phototelegraphie und das Elektrische Fernsehen.

Wien und Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1898.

A treatise by a German artillery officer on the electrical transmission of images, occasioned by newspaper reports of Jan Szczepanik’s invention. ‘On February 24, 1897, Jan Szczepanik and Ludwig Kleinberg of Austria applied for a patent for a method and apparatus for reproducing pictures and the...

£750

SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhaylovich.

Fisiologia nervnoy sistemy [in Cyrillic].

St. Petersburg, 1866.

first edition, rare, of Sechenov’s influential lectures at the St. Petersburg Medico-Surgical Academy. Sechenov states in his preface that as soon as he began to lecture (St. Petersburg in 1860 was his first professorship) he discovered the deficiencies of the existing textbooks, which tended to be...

£2750

SELKIRK, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of.

Observations on the present state of the Highlands of Scotland, with a view of the causes...

London, Longman et al., 1805.

First edition. ‘In 1792 … Selkirk [1771–1820] undertook an extensive tour through the Scottish Highlands and became convinced that emigration thence was unavoidable. He also recognised the need of some controlling hand to direct it. He first conceived the idea of a settlement at the Red River (what...

£425

SIDGWICK, Henry.

The development of European polity.

London, Macmillan, 1903.

First edition, published posthumously and edited by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick. A collection of a series of lectures delivered by Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) on the development and evolution of European polity from the earliest known, i.e. Greek and Roman, through to the ‘constitution-making’ 19th century.

£100

STABLES, Gordon.

Hints about home and farm favourites for pleasure, prizes, and profit.

London and New York, Frederick Warne, 1889.

First edition of this charming work on the care of pets, with chapters on dogs, cats, poultry, rabbits, goats, ferrets, monkeys, guinea-pigs, ‘fancy rats’, and tortoises, as well as on ‘monkeys as pets’. The book is dedicated to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

£250

SWEEZY, Paul Malor.

The theory of capitalist development. Principles of Marxian political economy.

London, Dennis Dobson, 1946

First British edition (first issued in 1942), of Sweezy’s ‘seminal work’ (The New Palgrave). Based on lectures which he gave at Harvard on the economics of socialism, this work is a ‘comprehensive review of Marxian economics up until the time of World War II’ and ‘did much to determine the...

£40

THENOT, Jean Pierre.

Vollständige Anweisung zur Aquarellmalerei und zum Tuschen ... 1. Heft (all published).

Leipzig, Kirchner, 1837.

First German edition, originally published the preceding year in Paris. A charming watercolour manual.

£350

THOMSON, James.

Essays and Phantasies …

London: Reeves and Turner … 1881.

First edition of a volume of essays by the author of The City of Dreadful Night. Most are probably reprinted from the National Reformer, the Secularist, or Cope’s Tobacco Plant, to which ‘the laureate of pessimism’ was a regular contributor.

£150

TISSOT, Samuel August André David.

Traité de l'épilepsie ...

Paris, P.F. Didot, 1770.

The scarce first edition of Tissot’s important monograph on epilepsy, the “first book on this subject to show all the characteristics of Enlightenment in medicine. Written in the French vernacular, it is at once learned, scientific, and readable...” (Temkin, The Falling Sickness p. 229).

£800

[TWISS, Horace].

Posthumous Parodies and other Pieces, composed by several of our most celebrated Poets, but not published in any...

London: Printed for John Miller. 1814.

First edition. Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope and Johnson are among the poets parodied.

£150

WAAGEN, Gustav Friederich.

Verzeichnis der Gemälde-Sammlung des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin.

Berlin, 1837.

Sixth edition of Waagen’s catalogue of the Berlin picture gallery, with fifteen new paintings.

£150

WEYLAND, John.

Observations on Mr. Whitbread’s Poor Bill, and on the Population of England: intended as a supplement to A Short...

London, J. Hatchard, 1807.

First edition of each work. The barrister John Weyland (1774–1854) ‘was a well-to-do man whose landed possessions were extensive enough for him to be a magistrate in three counties, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Surrey’ (James, p. 372). In 1807, he wrote two works supporting the poor laws, entitled...

£2800

WICKSTEED, Charles.

The Land for the people: how to obtain it and how to manage it. Being an attempt to draw out the lines on which...

London, William Reeves, 1885.

First edition. Wicksteed (1810–1885), a Unitarian minister and father of the economist Phillip Wicksteed, was ‘an erudite and thoughtful man and a popular and important preacher’ (Oxford DNB). He is described on the title of the present work as ‘President of Kettering Liberal Association’....

£100