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COLLIN DE BLAMONT, François.
Les festes grecques et romaines, ballet en musique … représenté pour la première fois, par l’Academie...
Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, 1723. [bound with:] [—.] La feste de Diane, nouvelle entrée, ajoutée aux festes grecques et romaines,...
First edition of the first ‘Ballet-héroïque’, together with the first edition of a fourth ‘entrée’, La feste de Diane, which was added to it for a 1734 revival, both signed by the composer and the publisher with a manuscript correction by the latter.
£3500
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[ABC.]
Alphabet mythologique.
[Paris,] lith. Durand, Ligny Jne. et Cie, [1840s?].
A delightful and extremely rare ABC depicting figures from Greek and Roman mythology, alongside the Hindu river goddess Yamuna for the letter Y.
£2500
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Cartes Magiques Musicales. 1001 Danses pour Piano. / Magical Musical Cards or Thousand and one Dances for Piano.
Paris, Bass, c. 1830.
The complete Piquet deck of these rare and unusual musical playing cards including the English rules for the game, a delightful example of a nineteenth-century parlour game produced for the Anglo-French market.
£3000
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‘SANTO DOMINGO’.
Tablettes Parisiennes, par M. Santo-Domingo. Deuxième edition.
Brussels, Aug. Wahlen for H. Tarlier, 1826.
Second edition, scarcer than the first edition of the previous year, of these risqué recollections of Parisian life, this copy printed on yellow paper, including a ‘Linnaean’ classification of Parisian women.
£475
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[MACARTNEY EMBASSY.]
Archive of letters and documents from the Macartney Embassy to China.
Britain and China, 1792–1833.
A remarkable and largely unpublished archive from Lord Macartney’s embassy to China of 1792–4 – a pivotal moment in relations between China and the West – including a diplomatic autograph letter signed by Macartney, autograph correspondence between him and other leading figures of the mission,...
£75000
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[HALE, Thomas, Sir William PETTY, and Samuel PEPYS?].
An Account of several new Inventions and Improvements now necessary for England,...
London, Printed for James Atwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson … 1691.
First edition of Hale’s Account with several rare broadsides on the same topic – the use of milled lead (rather than cast lead, or even wood) for the sheathing of ships as a defence against worm. Thomas Hale operated a lead mill in Deptford (his brother? Charles was a leadworker) and was a...
£2750
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[LEXICON.] [ALENIUS, Arnoldus, i.e. Arnout van EYNDHOUTS.]
Lexicon Graecolatinum post omnes hactenus editiones maxima iam...
Venice, Alessandro Brucioli and brothers [i.e. Antonio and Francesco Brucioli], 1546.
First edition of the Lexicon edited by the Dutch humanist and poet Arnout van Eyndhouts, or Arnoud de Lens, known as Arnoldus Alenius. Alenius’s formation took place in Paris, then Ferrara and Bologna. His proficiency as a Greek scholar earned him the post of librarian to the Spanish ambassador...
£2000
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[WALLOON CHURCH AMSTERDAM.]
Ordres et reglemens de la maison des orphelins, des vieillards, et des vielles femmes de l’eglise...
Amsterdam, David Pierre Humbert, 1772.
Very rare set of regulations governing the charitable house for orphans and the elderly founded by the Walloon Church in Amsterdam in 1631, with manuscript additions updating the lists of its male and female governors up to 1795.
£1450
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PLUTARCH.
Τα εθικα. Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua [edited by Daniel Wyttenbach].
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1795–1800; 1810; 1830.
Gaisford’s own copy of the Oxford Plutarch containing letters between him and the editor, Daniel Wyttenbach. Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855) was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford in 1812, and later became Dean of Christ Church in 1831. He had an active role at the University Press,...
£2500
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BREREWOOD, Edward.
Enquiries touching the Diversity of Languages, and Religions through the cheife Parts of the World …
London, Printed [by Eliot’s Court Press] for John Bill, 1614.
First edition. Brerewood, professor of astronomy at Gresham College, was a scholar in many fields who published nothing in his own lifetime (he died in 1613). Enquiries, seen through the press by a nephew, explores the spread of ancient, eastern, and modern languages, discusses the...
£3000
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[ZEPHYRUS IMAGE, Edward DORN].
Three anti-President Nixon items, two calling for impeachment.
[San Francisco, c. 1972–1973].
A striking set of handbills urging the impeachment of President Nixon by the Zephyrus Image press.
£200
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[LABOURS OF THE MONTHS &c.]
Januarius. Februarius. Merz. April …
Nuremberg, Joh. Andreae Endterische Handlung, [second half of eighteenth century].
A scarce popular print depicting the labours of the months and signs of the zodiac, four continents, the four classical elements, and the four seasons.
£475
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THEOCRITUS et al.
Theocriti aliorumque poetarum Idyllia. Eiusdem Epigrammata …
[Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1579. [bound with:] [PSALTER.] Psalmorum Davidis … [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1575.
An outstanding volume uniting the Estienne Greek bucolic poets (Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus) and the Estienne Greek Psalms in an Henri Estienne presentation binding.
£9000
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THEOCRITUS, BION, MOSCHUS, SIMMIAS of Rhodes.
Θεοκριτου … Ειδυλλια και Επιγραμματα. Μοσχου...
[Heidelberg], Commelin, 1596.
First edition of the Greek Idylls published by Commelin, and first edition of Joseph Justus Scaliger’s commentary and notes, complemented with Isaac Casaubon’s notes, a form of which had first appeared in Geneva in 1569.
£550
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[ALDERLEY EDGE.]
Alderley Edge and its Neighbourhood.
Macclesfield, J. Swinnerton, [1843].
First edition of this locally printed collection of legends, people, and sites of interest around Alderley Edge, Cheshire, with an inscription to the library of the (later Royal) Archaeological Institute from the Institute’s principal founder Albert Way.
£175
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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 of this philosophical and anatomical singing manual, with an engraved illustration of the lungs.
£750
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SMALL, Albion Woodbury.
General sociology, an exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.
Chicago and London, Chicago University Press and Fisher Unwin, 1905.
First edition. Small was one of the founders of academic sociology in the United States and was the first President of the new American Sociological Association. His study of Spencer and Ratzenhofer is a significant development on stage-based sociological theory, i.e. the development from savagery to...
£125
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HOMER.
Ομηρου Ιλιας και Οδυσσεια μετα της εξηγησιος. Homeri Ilias et Ulyssea cum interpretatione...
Basel, Johann Herwagen, 1535.
First Herwagen edition of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, with the scholia of Didymus, edited, according to Dibdin, by the great German classicist Joachim Camerarius (1500–1574), with interesting near-contemporary annotations by a student of Greek, likely drawn from Thomas Grynaeus’s...
£6000
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BURNE-JONES, Edward.
The Little Holland House Album … with an Introduction & Notes by John Christian.
The Roxburghe Club, 2024
The Little Holland House Album was compiled by Edward Burne-Jones in about 1858-9 for Sophia, Mrs Dalrymple, the youngest of the seven celebrated Pattle sisters who played such an important role in mid-Victorian cultural life. Their centre was Little Holland House in Kensington where another of the...
£75
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SOPHOCLES.
Σοφοκλεους τραγωδιαι επτα μετα σχολιων παλαιων και πανυ ωφελιμων....
[(Colophon:) Frankfurt am Main, Peter Braubach], 1544.
First of several Braubach editions of the seven extant Greek tragedies of Sophocles, this copy with annotations in two different hands, spanning two centuries. The text follows the first Giunta edition published at Florence in 1522 under the editorship of Antonio Francini, with the text of the...
£2000