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ADDAMS, Jane.
[Two autograph letters.] Twenty years at Hull House with autobiographical notes.
New York, Macmillan, 1910.
First edition, second printing (issued in the same month and year as the first). William Scarlett was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, and one of the founders of the Grace Hill Settlement House in St. Louis, based on Addams’s model for Hull House. The letters, addressed to Scarlett in New...
£650
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Writer and the Absolute …
London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1952].
First edition, inscribed ‘To my dear friend Geoffrey Bridson / Wyndham Lewis / 25 June 1952’. The work was published the following day.
£750
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BAKER, Valentine.
Clouds in the East: travels and adventures on the Perso-Turkoman frontier …
London, Chatto and Windus, 1876.
First edition of Baker Pasha’s account of his journey to Central Asia.
£550
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POLIZIANO, Angelo, and Giovanni ADIMARI, editor.
Angeli Politiani v. cl. conjurationis Pactianae anni MCCCCLXXVIII commentarium....
Naples, [s.n.], 1769.
The first historical account of the 1478 Pazzi conspiracy to depose the Medici, written by the poet Angelo Poliziano, eyewitness to Giuliano de’ Medici’s assassination in the Duomo in the midst of High Mass, this edition with handsome engraved views of Florence and portraits of members of the Medici...
£375
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DI FIORE, Fedele.
Il trionfo della verginità ossia breve elogio storico del Cristiano eroismo di Maria Regina Pedena vergine Modenese...
Naples, dalla tipografia dei fratelli Paci, 1828.
Very rare work prompted by the death of Maria Regina Pedena, a fourteen-year-old embroiderer who was found dead at her home in Modena in July 1827 with stab wounds to her throat and other wounds all over her body. A family friend, the thirty-five-year-old violin maker Eleutero Malagoli, was discovered...
£300
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DE CICON, Marguerite.
Manuscript regarding the seigneurial rights of Marguerite de Cicon.
Montureux-lès-Baulay, France, 1627.
A remarkably detailed manuscript, and a very attractive object, detailing the seigneurial rights of Marguerite de Cicon in the small town of Montureux-lès-Baulay, situated between Nancy and Dijon in the Burgundy region of eastern France.
£4750
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Childermass … Section 1.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1928.
First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of the special edition, signed by Lewis, additionally inscribed, in c. 1951, ‘To Geoffrey Bridson (through whom I am enabled to finish this book) – deepest thanks and friendliest greetings / Wyndham Lewis’.
£2500
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POUND, Ezra.
Selected Poems.
The New Classics Series. [New York, New Directions, 1949.]
First edition, inscribed in a characteristic mix of the formal and the faux-Cockney ‘Geoffrey Bridson certified + worthy owner hereof. / To which mi ’and [i.e. my hand]/ Ezra Pound / 9 A[ugust?] ’56’. The book was given to the BBC Broadcater D.G. Bridson on the occasion of his visit...
£2750
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WILLIAMS, William Carlos.
Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].
Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]
First collected edition of Books One to Four and first edition of Book Five; inscribed on the front free endpaper of One to Four (in Williams’s distinctive scrawl, in two different pens after the first ran out of ink) ‘D.J. [i.e. G.] Bridson with my compliments / William...
£1250
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[POUND.]
FROBENIUS, Leo. Il Liuto di Gassire. Legenda Africana con una nota di Ezra Pound.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1961].
First edition, translated into Italian from the German by Siegfried Walter di Rachewiltz, Pound’s grandson (b. 1947), and with a ten-page note by Pound. A presentation copy, inscribed ‘For Geoffrey Bridson with the compliments of Siegfried W. de Rachewiltz / Brunnenburg 30. 5. 61’.
£100
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POUND, Ezra, and Ernest FENELLOSA.
Introduzione ai Nô, con un drama in un atto di Motokiyo: Kagekiyo.
Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], [1958].
Third edition, translations of Pound’s ‘Introduction’ and one play from Certain Noble Plays of Japan by his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz. This third edition added ‘Un intervallo di 40 anni’ by Pound, dated November 1958.
£30
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MONTANUS, Arnoldus (attributed), John OGILBY (translator).
Atlas Chinensis: being a second part of a relation of...
London, Thomas Johnson for the author, 1671.
First English edition, copiously and handsomely illustrated, recounting Balthasar Bort and Pieter van Hoorn’s embassies to China on behalf of the Dutch East India Company and containing a full general description of China ‘unsurpassed in detail, illustration, influence and popularity’ (Bibliotheca...
£12000
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SCHÜBLER, Johann Jakob.
Amor, vehementer quidem flagrans; artificiose tamen celatus, de Pantalonis custodiaque triumphans, intentato...
Augsburg, Johann Michael Probst, [c. 1770?].
Rare series of twelve engravings inspired by the Italian commedia dell’arte, one of the most beautiful books of the German Rococo, engraved by Johann Balthasar Probst after original illustrations by the architectural painter, sculptor, and mathematician Johann Jakob Schübler.
£7500
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SANGIORGIO, Paolo.
La farmacia descritta secondo i moderni principi di Lavoisier ec. …
Milan, Stamperia e fonderia del genio [–G.G. Destefanis (vols III & IV); – dalla reale stamperia (vol. V)], 1804 [– 1806].
First edition, a superb copy of this rare and comprehensive guide to modern pharmacy, following the principles of Lavoisier, by the Milanese pharmacist and chemist Paolo Sangiorgio (1748–1816).
£1750
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[HAKEWILL, William].
The Manner of holding Parliaments in England, collected forth of our ancient Records … With the stately...
[London,] Printed in the Yeare, 1641.
First (and only lifetime) edition, signed on the title-page by the notorious forger of ‘Shakespeare’s Library’, William Henry Ireland (1775–1835).
£950
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[USTONSON, Onesimus.]
[SMITH, John?]. The True Art of Angling: being a clear and speedy Way of taking all Sorts of Fresh-water...
London: Printed for Onesimus Ustonson … 1770.
The last eighteenth-century edition of an angling classic first published in 1696 and much reprinted and updated by other authorities. Having ‘passed several editions’, the introduction claims, it has been revised to omit ‘superfluous’ oils and ointments, ‘carefully corrected’ throughout,...
£750
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MARKHAM, Gervase.
Cavalarice, or the English Horseman: Contayning all the Art of Horse-manship, asmuch as is necessary for any...
London, Edward Allde for Edward White, [1616–] 1617.
A beautiful copy of the second edition, ‘corrected and augmented’, of Markham’s Cavalarice, exceptionally well-preserved in a contemporary binding, from the library of the antiquary Sir John Marsham.
£12000
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WALKER, George.
Don Raphael, a Romance …
London: Printed for G. Walker; and T. Hurst; by Exton ... 1803.
First edition. ‘In order to satisfy the omnipresent needs of the Gothic industry, Walker apparently felt obliged to turn out a Gothic’s Gothic made up of fragments of Walpole, Beckford, Lewis, Radcliffe, and the cheap and tawdry Gothic chapbooks flooding the bookstalls. The dubious product...
£3250
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WALKER, George.
The three Spaniards, a Romance …
London: Printed by Sampson Low; for G. Walker ...; and Hurst ... 1800.
First edition, very rare; the very brief Preface sets the popular tone: ‘In compliance with the present taste in literary amusement, this work is presented to the Public.’
£4000
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HAYWARD, Thomas.
The British Muse, or, a Collection of Thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English Poets: who flourished...
London, Printed for F. Cogan … and J. Nourse … 1738.
First edition of this interesting antiquarian miscellany of literary extracts. The subjects, arranged alphabetically, range from ‘Abbeys’ to ‘Youth’ via ‘Abstinence’, ‘Hypocrite’ ‘Mediocrity’ ‘Rebellion’ ‘Self-Murder’, and ‘Travel’. The authors quoted include Beaumont,...
£575