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[BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]
L’Andrometrie, ou examen philosophique de l’homme. Par Monsieur l’Abbé de Villemaire.
Paris, chez Brunet, 1753.
First editions of two scarce works by the philosopher, moralist, and Parisian avocat Boudier de Villemert (1716–1801), best known as the author of L’Ami des Femmes, Le monde joué involving visits from extra-terrestrials both in ancient times and in the eighteenth century.
£2500
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BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.
Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac’s Masterpiece, being a Discourse concerning the Court … Englished...
London, Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins and Tho. Johnson,1659.
First edition in English of Balzac’s Aristippe (first published posthumously in 1658), a treatise on wisdom in political administration and on the nature of life at court, dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, who was an admirer.
£750
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BENZI, Ugo; Giovanni Lodovico BERTALDI, commentator.
Regole della sanità et della natura de cibi … arricchita d’un trattato...
Turin, heirs of Giovanni Domenico Tarino, 1618.
Scarce first vernacular edition of the works of the medieval Sienese physician Ugo Benzi (c. 1360–1439); an extraordinary testament to their enduring popularity into the seventeenth century, expanded with commentary and a new appendix on the abuse of alcohol and tobacco by the Turinese doctor Giovanni...
£2500
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MARLIANI, Bartolomeo.
Urbis Romae topographia.
Rome, Valerio & Luigi Dorico, September 1544.
First illustrated edition (third overall), considerably expanded, providing a comprehensive visual record of ancient structures and sculptures in Rome as known in the sixteenth century.
£5500
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[SAVOY-CARIGNAN, Maria Vittoria Francesca, Princess of.]
Recueil de prières et de pratiques très utils pour se conduire à Dieu...
[Paris, Imprimerie Royale], 1735.
First and only edition of this rare prayerbook, compiled by the notorious gambling house hostess and spy Maria Vittoria Francesca of Savoy-Carignan (1690–1766), elegantly printed in a very limited number at the royal press set up at the Louvre.
£2750
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DALLAS, R[obert] C[harles.]
Sir Francis Darrell; or The Vortex: a Novel ... in four Volumes ...
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
First edition of this epistolary novel by a friend of Byron, the first letter of which was supposedly written by him and given to Dallas (1754–1824) ‘for the purpose of inducing me to continue it’.
£1600
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PACE, Giulio.
Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus docetur methodus, per quam magna terminorum generalium, attributorum,...
Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.
Rare third edition (first 1618) of this concise summary of Ramon Lull’s (c. 1232–1316) highly influential Ars Magna by the famous Protestant Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist Giulio Pace (1550–1635), whose edition of the Organon was for a long time the standard edition of Aristotle’s...
£750
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[COURTILZ DE SANDRAS, Gatien de.]
Les dames dans leur naturel, ou la galanterie sans façon. Sous le regne du Grand Alcandre.
‘A Cologne’ [but The Netherlands], ‘chez Pierre Marteau’, 1686.
First edition, uncommon, of this tale of the debauchery of the ladies at Louis XIV’s court, purportedly ‘found in a cabinet, long after it had been written’ by the author.
£685
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DAUDET, Alphonse.
Lettres de mon moulin. Impressions et souvenirs.
Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1869].
First edition, rare, the issue arbitrarily designated ‘deuxième édition’ but published alongside the first, of Letters from my Windmill, Daudet’s celebrated sketches of Provençal life.
£2500
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BLANCHET, Joseph.
L’art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant … IIe edition, corrigée et augmentée …
Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756.
First edition, though designated as the ‘second’, of this philosophical and anatomical singing manual authored by a priest, with an engraved illustration of the lungs.
£750
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[SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.]
The School for Scandal. A Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre, Smoke-Alley, Dublin.
[Dublin], Printed for the Booksellers, 1793.
First separate illustrated edition of Sheridan’s highly popular The School for Scandal, which has ‘amused audiences from [its] early, immensely successful performances up to the present day, for Sheridan is one of the great comic writers in English’ (ODNB).
£750
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DREYER, Georges, Lieutenant Colonel, R.A.M.C.
A Simple Procedure for Testing the Effects of ‘Oxygen Want’ on Flying Men.
[?London: Air Medical Research Committee], [1918].
First edition. Pathologist Georges Dreyer (1873–1934), born into a Danish Navy family, studied natural sciences in Denmark, Germany and England with a ‘passionate precision of technique and a loathing of slipshod thought [that] characterized all his work’; was appointed to the chair of pathology...
£150
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BROOKLYN ETHICAL ASSOCIATION.
[Cover title: Evolution]. Man and the State. Studies in applied sociology. Popular lectures...
[N.p., n.d., n.d.].
First edition of this broadly political collection of essays on economics, race relations, the Democratic and Republican parties, and suffrage, inter alia, likely from the library of a Californian senator.
£150
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BURGESS, Ernest W, editor.
The Urban Community.
Chicago, University Press, 1927.
Second edition, first published 1926.
£40
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STIEGLITZ, Alfred, editor.
James Craig ANNAN, after David Octavius HILL and Robert ADAMSON. Camera Work. A Photographic Quarterly....
New York, A. Stieglitz, 1912.
The 1909 issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s seminal quarterly journal of photography, Camera Work, intended to establish photography as a fine art and called ‘by far the most beautiful of all photographic magazines’ (Whelan).
£2200
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‘FLORENT DE SALES’, pseud.
Vrai systême du monde physique et moral.
[Switzerland,] 1797.
Only edition, rare, of this utopia, the identity of whose author, and even of whose printer, remains unknown.
£1500
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ADORNO, Theodor W., Else FRENKEL-BRUNSWIK, Daniel J. LEVINSON, and R. Nevitt SANFORD
The Authoritarian Personality.
New York, Harper Brothers, 1950.
First edition of this groundbreaking work of social psychology on the development of prejudice by Theodor Adorno and the psychologists Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson, and Nevitt Sanford, written in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
£225
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ABBEVILLE, Claude d’.
Histoire de la mission des peres Capucins en l’isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines ou est traicte...
Paris, François Huby, 1614.
Second edition, enlarged and revised from the first edition published earlier the same year, a handsome copy, of the first written account of the Capuchin mission to Maranhão, an island on the coast of Brazil, of which, Sabin notes, this is the earliest mention. In 1612 the mission, composed...
£30000
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D’URFEY, Thomas.
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and...
Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719 [– 1720].
The first complete edition, second issue of volumes I–V, and first issue of vol. VI, of the most famous songbook of its day, the first edition with titles altered to the familiar Wit and Mirth from Songs Compleat, 1719 (a change at the time of the publication in 1720 of volume VI,...
£2250
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HIRSCH, William.
Genius and Degeneration. A Psychological Study.
New York, Appleton, 1896.
First edition in English, translated from the second edition of the German original, Genie und Entartung (1895).
£150