[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

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

FERDOWSĪ.

Shāhnāmah.

Tehran, Amir Kabir, AH 1350 [AD 1971].

A lavishly-produced edition of the Shāhnāmah (or Shahnameh), rare in the dustjacket, one of a thousand copies printed to mark the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire.

£4750

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

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

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

[PRAYERBOOK.]

‘Gebetbuch’.

[Germany, early nineteenth century.]

An attractive early nineteenth-century Catholic prayerbook in German, containing prayers for both daily use and for use during Mass.

£185

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

[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

‘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

TENNYSON, Alfred, and Eleanor FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, illustrator.

The Idylls of the King … Illustrated in Colour...

London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1911].

Deluxe edition of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945), no. 124 of 250 copies signed by the artist.

£600

WETZELL, Madame.

Les Matinées de la poupée, ou récréations d’une petite fille.

Paris, J. Langlumé, [1844?].

First and only edition, very rare, of a delightful illustrated account of a girl’s doll. Brillantine, a doll, is given to Célénie for company while her elder sister Alméa is in Africa; the book recounts in detail their relationship over the course of a week, from Brillantine’s arrival with...

£275

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord.

Enoch Arden, etc. …

London, [Bradbury & Evans for] Edward Moxon & Co., 1864.

First edition, an association copy belonging to James Aubrey Garth Marshall and given by him to his daughter Julia Mary Garth Marshall (later O’Brien).

£175

VIGER, François.

De praecipuis graecae dictionis idiotismis … accessit praeterea huic editioni observationum non inutilium qualecunque...

London, G. Godbid for William Shrowsberey, 1678.

Second London edition of this treatise on Greek idiom by the French Jesuit François Viger (1590–1647).

£175

OVIDIUS Naso, Publius, and Pedro Sánchez de VIANA, translator and commentator. 

Las transformaciones. 

Valladolid, Diego Fernández de Córdoba, 1589.

First edition, a copy of notable provenance, of perhaps the most successful early Spanish translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by Pedro Sánchez de Viana (c. 1545–1619), a physician by training, published along with his substantial commentary. 

£6000