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VINCENT OF LÉRINS.
The Waie home to Christ and Truth leadinge from Antichrist and Errour, made and set furth in the Latine Tongue...
[London, Robert Caly, 22 October 1554].
First edition in English, very rare, of St Vincent’s Commonitorium pro catholicae fidei antiquitate, translated and with a long Prologue by John Proctor (1521–1558), and a dedication to Queen Mary, ‘a lady of heavenly simplicitie’ whom Proctor later praises as the restorer of the...
£9500
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[TOMKIS, Thomas.]
Lingua: or, the Combat of the Tongue, and the five Senses for Superiority. A pleasant Comoedie.
London, Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1617.
Third edition, rare, of this allegorical Cambridge play, perhaps the earliest academic drama to achieve popular success.
£3000
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[WYNNE, John Huddlestone.]
The Child of Chance; or, the Adventures of Harry Hazard.
London, T. Hookham, ‘1796’ [recte 1786].
First edition of a very rare picaresque novel in the manner of Tom Jones. Though largely London-based, there are interludes in India (where Wynne had served two years) and the West Indies. Many of the tropes of Wynne’s earlier novel The Man of Honour are present – orphans, female duplicity,...
£3500
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INCHBALD, Mrs. [Elizabeth.]
Nature and Art.
London, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796.
First edition of a powerful and tragic Jacobin novel, ‘remarkable for its dramatic rendering of the feminist point that men destroy women’s chastity and then mete out punishment for its loss’ (Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist, 1986). It is a fearless interrogation of hypocrisy,...
£3250
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DE QUINCEY, Thomas.
Autograph draft of two passages from his autobiographical essay ‘Oxford’, first published in Tait’s Magazine...
Undated, c. 1835.
An interesting autograph fragment with numerous authorial revisions. The essay as a whole is an ‘account of the system of Oxford life and education during the five years of De Quincey’s connexion with the University, with glimpses of himself’ (Masson, II, p. 2). The passages here form the...
£1750
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MATURIN, Charles.
Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale … Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Company
London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.
First edition, with excellent provenance, of what is often considered alongside Frankenstein as the supreme masterpiece of the Gothic genre.
£7500
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ANGELL, Norman, Sir.
The Money Game.
London, J.M. Dent, [c. 1930].
Early edition of this ‘new instrument in economic education’, an unusual educational game combining strategy and economics to provide a little-known but rewarding alternative to Monopoly.
£100
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[ATLAS.]
[Cover title:] School Atlas; or, Key to Goldsmith’s geographical Copy-Books …
London, Richard Phillips, [1810–11].
Likely first edition, very rare, of this school atlas including world maps in globe and on Mercator’s projection (in which Australia features as New Holland), showing Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the West Indies, ‘Hindoostan’, Ancient Greece,...
£475
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BERNIER DE MALIGNY, Aristippe-Félix.
Art du comédien. Principes généraux. Recueillis et mis en ordre par Aristippe, 1819.
Paris, Louis Raymond, [1819].
Very rare broadside encapsulating the ‘art of the actor’, by the thespian and theoretician Aristippe-Félix Bernier de Maligny, who would later develop his ideas further in his 1826 book Théorie de l’art du comédien.
£875
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CHEVALIER, André-Joseph, professor; A.J. BERENTS, compiler.
‘Tractatus De Fide, Spe et Charitate Dictatus ab...
[Douai, 9 March–4 August] 1787.
A manuscript treatise concerning the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity as expounded in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, compiled by a student at the University of Douai from lectures by André-Joseph Chevalier.
£375
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[DELAMARCHE, Alexandre, cartographer; Bernard COUDERT, lithographer.]
‘Atlas’.
Paris, Legay, [c. 1889].
An attractive set of large educational jigsaw maps showing the world, Europe, and France, preserved in its original allegorical box.
£875
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FATHERS LEGACY (The):
or Counsels to his children. In three Parts. Containing the Whole Duty of Man, I. To God. II. To himself....
London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1678.
First and only edition, very scarce, of a fine courtesy book written by an anonymous former soldier, framed as a father's guidance to his children, this copy owned by the wife of the English Ambassador to France.
£1850
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GIGLI, Mariano.
Esperimento del nobile giovinetto Francesco Piazzi d’anni dieci non compiuti sulle sette lingue italiana, francese,...
Milan, Società tipografica de’ classici italiani, 1818.
First and only edition, rare, of a series of 450 translation exercises in French, Spanish, English, German, Latin, Greek, and Italian, posed to the ten-year-old linguistic prodigy Francesco Piazzi by his tutor as the culmination of his highly experimental method of linguistic instruction.
£1250
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GOODWIN, Thomas.
Romanae Historiae Anthologia … An English exposition of the Roman Antiquities, wherein many Roman & English...
Oxford, Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1638.
Early editions of these two popular schoolbooks on antiquities, often found bound together – a compendium of Roman antiquities and a study of the customs and religious rites of the ancient Jews, originally published in 1614 and 1625 respectively – by the headmaster and scholar Thomas Goodwin (1587–1642)....
£1600
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[JUVENILE.]
A Token of Remembrance from a Mother to her absent Children, comprising simple Tales, Dialogues, and easy Poetry, adapted...
London, William Darton, 1822.
First edition of this collection of moral tales and poetry for children, compiled by a mother for her young daughter, from the lending library of the newly established Coast Guard.
£350
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LAUTERBACH, Barbara, and Georg Christoph LAUTERBACH.
A group of five school exercise books comprising geographical dictations.
Lenk, 1834–1849.
A charming group of school exercise books from the Swiss village of Lenk im Simmental, unusually bound in decorated printed wrappers.
£1250
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MAXIMUS OF TYRE.
Μαξιμου Τυριου φιλοσοφου Πλατωνικου λογοι μα. Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici...
[Geneva,] Henri II Estienne, 1557.
Editio princeps of the forty-one theological and ethical dissertations of Maximus of Tyre, a sophist who was reputedly the tutor of Marcus Aurelius; it is sometimes found bound with the Latin translation of Cosimo Pacci, revised and reprinted by Estienne.
£1500
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[MONS.]
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Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.
First and only edition, very rare, of this history of the Sunday school in Mons, established for the Christian education of the boys and girls of the city and supported by the Canonesses of St Waltrude among other benefactors.
£975
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[ORDE, John Powlett.]
A collection of 111 original compositions in Latin (and occasionally Greek) verse and prose.
Eton, 1818–1820.
A delightful insight into classical education at Eton, where until the mid-nineteenth century Greek and Latin were the only official classroom subjects, and Latin composition was considered a key accomplishment.
£1750
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PARR, Samuel.
A Discourse on Education and on the Plans pursued in Charity-Schools.
[Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell and T. Evans, and Norwich, J. & C. Berry, [1785?].
First and only edition of this treatise on education, first delivered as a sermon, by the noted schoolmaster and writer Samuel Parr (1747–1825).
£175