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LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius.
[Opera:] Divinaru[m] institutionu[m] lib. VII. De ira dei liber I. De opificio dei liber I. Epitome...
Lyons, Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1561.
Uncommon edition of the works of Lactantius, the ‘Christian Cicero’, edited by the humanist Benedictine Onorato Fascitelli (1502–1564), comprising his Divine Institutes, On the Wrath of God, On the Works of God, the poem The Phoenix etc. ‘The Carmen de resurrectione...
£350
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COSTER, François.
Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri tres, in usum sodalitatis B. Mariae Virginis primum conscripti, nunc...
Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582.
Very rare Douai edition of this devotional work by the Belgian Jesuit François Coster (1532–1619), first published at Cologne in 1578, illustrated with woodcuts of the Crucifixion and Our Lady of Sorrows.
£675
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[MANNING,] Henry Edward, Archbishop of Westminster.
The good Soldier’s Death. Preached at the solemn requiem of Alexander, Bishop...
Liverpool, [Boys’ Refuge Printing Works for] The “Catholic Times” Office, [1872?].
First edition, very rare, of this sermon on 2 Timothy 2:3 (‘Labour as a good soldier of Jesus Christ’), printed at the Boys’ Refuge in Liverpool.
£175
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FOUQUET DE BELLE-ISLE, Marie-Magdeleine.
Mémoire pour Dame Marie-Magdeleine Fouquet de Belle-Isle, veuve du Marquis de la Vieuville;...
[Paris], Jacques Guérin, 1747.
A seemingly unrecorded legal brief prepared on behalf of Marie-Magdeleine Fouquet de Belle-Isle (1686–1749), granddaughter of the famous Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances to Louis XIV.
£275
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CASAL, Ugo Alfonso.
A small archive of letters, photographs, and typescript material on his collection of Japanese lacquers.
[Japan and California, 1930–1955.]
A fascinating archive relating to the extensive Japanese lacquer collection of the Swiss–Japanese banker Ugo Alfonso Casal, including photographs, a 5370-item inventory of his collection, and several lectures on the history and production techniques of Japanese lacquerware.
£975
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[FRENCH REVOLUTION.]
Liste générale des contre-révolutionnaires mis à mort à Commune-affranchie, d’après les jugements...
‘A Commune-affranchie’ [Lyon], chez le citoyen Destefanis, l’an IIe [1794].
An uncommon and quite remarkable list of ‘counterrevolutionaries’ executed in Lyon during a blood-soaked six-month repression between October 1793 and April 1794.
£550
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FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb.
Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien des Wissenschaftslehre.
Jena and Leipzig, Christian Ernest Gabler, 1796[–7].
First edition of Fichte’s ‘Foundation of Natural Right’, ‘thought by many to be his most important work of political philosophy’, in which he ‘applies his ideas to fundamental issues in political and legal philosophy, covering such topics as civic freedom, rights, private property, contracts,...
£450
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ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Handmaid’s Tale.
Boston, Hougton Mifflin, 1986.
First American edition of Atwood’s award-garnering theocratic dystopia, preceded by the Canadian edition.
£300
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STEELE, Richard.
The Romish Ecclesiastical History of late Years.
London, J. Roberts, 1714.
First and only edition of Steele’s anti-Popish account of the canonisation of Pius V. Prominent in the Whigs’ print campaign of the later years of Anne’s reign, Steele had earlier in 1714 published his incendiary ‘seasonable remarks on the danger of a Popish successor’ in The Crisis. The pamphlet...
£175
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BACON, Francis.
Sylva sylvarum, sive historia naturalis, in decem centurias distributa, Anglice olim conscripta ... nunc Latio...
Amsterdam, Louis Elzevir, 1648.
Elzevir edition of Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum and New Atlantis, translated into Latin by Jacobus Gruterus and William Rawley (Bacon’s chaplain and amanuensis), with numerous annotations.
£1250
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GARNIER, Robert.
Les tragedies de Robert Garnier conseiller du roy, lieutenant general criminel au siege presidial et seneschaussee...
Rouen, Jean Crevel, 1611.
Very uncommon Rouen printed edition of the tragedies of the great French Renaissance playwright Robert Garnier (1545–1590).
£550
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KOH, John.
Dogs in Early Photography.
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.
Throughout history, dogs have been a subject in art; dogs were featured in cave drawings, coins, funerary sculptures or medieval marginalia. Before smartphones allowed dog owners to capture and share every moment of their dogs’ lives, fine art documented this relationship and promoted the dog from...
£50
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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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[LONGANO, Francesco].
Logica, o sia arte del ben pensare.
Naples, Raimondi, 1773.
First edition, very rare (one other copy only traced, in Italy), of this early work on logic by the important Italian enlightenment philosopher Francesco Longano (1728–1796).
£850
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BUXTORF, Johannes.
Epitome grammaticae Hebraeae, breviter & methodice ad publicum Scholarum usum proposita. Adjecta succincta de...
London, Roger Daniel, 1653.
Second edition (first Cambridge, 1646) of Buxtorf’s Hebrew grammar to be printed in England, here preserving a fragment of a sixteenth-century English-French grammar as endpapers and with a student’s manuscript Hebrew transliterations.
£650
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ADDISON, Joseph, [and Giulio RUCELLAI, translator].
Il Tamburo parafrasi in versi sciolti della commedia tradotta...
Florence, Andrea Bonducci, 1750.
First edition in Italian of Joseph Addison’s 1715 The Drummer; or, the Haunted House, translated from Destouches’s French prose translation of 1737 into Italian hendecasyllabic blank verse.
£450
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BIZZARRI, Pietro.
Petri Bizzari varia opuscula, quorum indicem sequens pagina demonstrabit.
Venice, [Paolo Manuzio], 1565.
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£2500
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DICKENS, Charles.
The Personal History of David Copperfield … With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850.
First edition, an early issue, with both title-pages dated 1850, the corrected reading ‘screwed’ on p. 132, but otherwise first issue points as listed by Eckel and Smith.
£750
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GISSING, George.
The Unclassed, A Novel … in three Volumes.
London, Chapman and Hall, 1884.
First edition of Gissing’s second novel – and Bernard Shaw’s favourite of his novels – in the single-volume remaindered issue in red cloth.
£950
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[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.
An Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington, who died at Mount Vernon, December 14th,...
Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.
First edition of this eulogy on Washington, ‘the saviour of your country’ and ‘father of his people’. This is the issue with urn woodcut on the final verso. Thomas Paine (1773–1811, not to be confused with the author of Common Sense) later changed his name to that of his father,...
£250