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MAKERETI (Maggie PAPAKURA).
The old-time Maori … Collected and edited with a Biography by T.K. Penniman …
London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.
First edition, scarce, with a gift inscription: ‘To D.G. Bridson, In sincere appreciation of his kindness and trustfulness in lending me – a stranger – the script of his fascinating broadcast on the Maoris. W.S. Wrestier[?]’.
£125
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SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.
Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.
[London, Penguin, 1970.]
First edition.
£30
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MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.
A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis … With an introduction by Hugh...
Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.
First edition.
£75
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Letters … Edited by W.K. Rose.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963].
First edition. Letters to Bridson appear on pp. 540 and 545.
£50
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TREVLYN GRIEVE, Valda.
High Death.
Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.
1 of 100 copies, inscribed ‘with affection and some embarrassment Valda’.
£75
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POWYS, John Cowper.
Autobiography.
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1934].
First edition, signed on the half-title ‘John Cowper Powys, April 1935’. A very nice copy of a work not often found signed.
£250
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BUTLER, Samuel.
Hudibras, in three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars … with Annotations and an Index.
London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood [and others], 1802.
An illustrated pocket edition of Butler’s Hudibras, the most celebrated satire and one of the most influential poems of the seventeenth century, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.
£450
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BYRON, [George Gordon Noel], Lord, and Thomas MOORE, biographer.
The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters...
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] John Murray, 1832 [– 1833; – 1837].
A handsome set, attractively bound in Art Deco green morocco, of the collected works of Lord Byron, accompanied by Moore’s life of the poet.
£850
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DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].
A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru, containing the Operations of the Armies of the North,...
London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition in English, printed in the same year as the French original, of this account of General Pichegru’s campaigns during the early French Revolutionary Wars.
£185
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DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.
Master Humphrey’s Clock.
London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.
First edition in book form, of Charles Dickens’ weekly periodical, featuring a collection of short stories and his two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.
£175
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[DRESS HABITS.]
Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.
[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.
Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.
£350
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MOORE, Thomas.
Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh Edition.
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1822.
An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular orientalist poem Lalla Rookh, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.
£450
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MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.
‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung in Ir191’ [in: Die Naturwissenschaften … fünfundvierzigster...
Berlin, Springer, November 1958.
First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD work on the recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium, later named the Mössbauer effect, which involves the recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by an atomic nucleus bound in a solid. The effect was later used by Robert...
£200
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APPIAN of Alexandria.
Civili. Appiano Alessandrino delle guerre civili de Romani tradotto da M. Alessandro Braccio secretario...
Venice, [Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio for Federico Torresano, April] 1538.
A much-annotated copy of these late Aldine Press productions, the two complementary works on the history of Rome’s wars by Appianus in the Italian translation of Alessandro Braccio (or Braccesi), which had first appeared in 1519 – the first vernacular versions.
£3000
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CURTIUS RUFUS, Quintus.
De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni regis Macedonum opus … Accesserunt enim antehac nunquam visa … Omnia...
Basel, Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, March 1545.
Handsome folio edition of Curtius Rufus’ history of Alexander the Great, edited by the German humanist Christoph Bruno (fl. 1541–1566), with extensive sixteenth-century marginal annotations.
£2000
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ERASMUS, Desiderius.
Collectanea adagiorum.
[(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1519.]
Intensely annotated copy of a lifetime edition of Erasmus’ repository of Greek and Latin proverbs. The first version of the Adagia, containing about eight hundred maxims, had been published in 1500. Erasmus continued to add to his thesaurus for over thirty years, the success of this...
£5850
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EUSTRATIUS of Nicaea, et al.
Ευστρατιου και αλλων τινων επισημων υπομνηματα εις...
[(Colophon:) Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andrea Torresano, July 1536.]
Editio princeps of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Eustratius of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus, the Peripatetic philosopher Aspasius, and other anonymous scholiasts, published by the Aldine press, annotated by a contemporary scholar.
£5500
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[CHOISY, François Timoléon, Abbé de.]
Journal ou suite de voyage de Siam. En forme des lettres familieres fait en M.DC.LXXXV...
C. Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1687.
Amsterdam edition, issued the same year as the first Paris edition, recounting a voyage to Siam by the prolific French writer, former cross-dresser, and Jesuit priest, the Abbé de Choisy.
£300
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COCHRANE, John Dundas.
Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, from the frontiers of China to the...
London, John Murray, 1824.
First edition of this account by the Scottish naval officer Cochrane (1793–1825). Having unsuccessfully offered his services for the exploration of the Niger, Cochrane ‘left England with the intention of making a tour of the world by way of Russia, Siberia, and North America. He travelled by Dieppe,...
£350