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[ROWE, Harry.] CROFT, John, editor?, [and Dr. Alexander HUNTER?].
Memoirs of Harry Rowe: constructed from Materials...
York, Printed by Wilson & Spence. Sold by all the Booksellers in the City and County of York, [1806].
First edition of this ‘biography’ of the puppet-showman and trumpeter Harry Rowe. It is perhaps loosely woven around facts. The long second portion of the text is one of Rowe’s skits, ‘The Sham Doctor, a musical Farce’, in which a quack treats a series of eighteen comic patients. It...
£1500
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BARLOW, [Francis].
Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven excellent and useful Prints, being a Collection of the chief Works...
London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles, and Robert Sayer], [1775].
An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book collecting several suites of plates by or after Francis Barlow, with a particularly fine suite of etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar.
£8500
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BURNET, Gilbert.
A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution, and Laws of the Church and State of Scotland. In four Conferences....
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.
One of three editions, all of the same year, of a ‘decidedly aggressive’ (Stewart, p. 40) tract in dialogue on the powers of the state in church affairs and on the subject’s right to resist.
£500
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‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].
La voie douloureuse.
[Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris, Calmann Levy, 1894.
First edition of Jean Dornis’ first novel, presented by the author to her brother-in-law, Edmond Raphael Beer, one of twenty-four copies on papier de Hollande.
£275
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GERHARD, Johann.
Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus emendatior.
Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne, 1633.
First English-printed Latin edition of Gerhard’s ‘devotional masterpiece’ (ODCC), Oxford-printed and in a contemporary Oxford binding with binder’s waste from an early edition of Melanchthon’s textbook on rhetoric.
£950
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GILES of Rome; [Bernardo GRANELLI and GILES of Viterbo, editors].
Comentaria in viii. libros physicorum Aristotelis.
[(Colophon:) Padua, Hieronymus de Durantibus, 15 October 1493.]
An uncommon Paduan imprint containing the first edition of Giles of Rome’s commentary on the physics of Aristotle.
£5000
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[LOUIS XVI.]
Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs, suivi de détails peu connus sur son illustre famille.
Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].
An seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack, provincially printed at Lille in the wake of the Bourbon Restoration.
£475
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MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.
Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi, confessoris atque martyris, varia...
[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].
First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation of this Byzantine compilation of extracts from the writings of Maximus the Confessor and others, our copy owned by a sixteenth-century monk at the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
£850
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PLINY the Elder; [Jean de LAET, editor].
Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII.
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham I] Elzevir, 1635.
An attractive set of the first and only Elzevir edition of Pliny the Elder, ‘rightly considered one of their masterpieces’ (Willems, trans.).
£650
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PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.
De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen, naar het Engelsch ...
Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.
First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville; or Irresolution’ from Pride and Irresolution (1850), translated by J. Oudijk van Putten; ‘Walter Lorimer’ is a much shorter sketch at the end of vol. II.
£250
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TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine.
Notes for lectures on heat.
[London,] c. 1844.
An extensive set of lecture notes, with numerous corrections and additions, on the subject of heat, by the eminent medical jurist and toxicologist Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880).
£3750
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[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
A short and plain Instruction for the better Understanding of the Lord’s Supper,...
London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch, J. Hodges, and J. & J. Rivington, 1755.
Scarce first posthumous edition of this liturgical manual by Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, with two early female owners.
£250
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient. Récompenses annuelles.
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this unusual cartonnage giftbook history of the Crimean War.
£375
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DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.
Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio Porto recens & post aliorum interpretationes Latine redditi.
Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.
A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the early history of Rome, in an armorial binding for Adrien Poërier.
£450
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture. … Quatriéme [sic] édition revûë,...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected, of this key work in aesthetic and sentimental theory, with Coleridge family provenance.
£250
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Queen Mab.
London, W. Clark, 1821.
First published edition, a piracy second only to the privately printed edition of 1813, of Shelley’s most provocative poem.
£950
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[BECKFORD, William.]
Vathek, conte arabe.
Paris, Poinçot; Chatellerault, P. J. B Guimbert, 1787.
Extremely rare, the only traced copy, of a reissue of the sheets of the first Paris edition with a provincially-printed cancel title adding to the imprint the imprimeur-libraire Pierre Jean Baptiste Guimbert, of Châtellerault. This is the rarest piece of Beckfordiana we have ever encountered,...
£3750
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[BIBLE.]
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments … diligently compared and revised …
Oxford, T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769.
First quarto edition of the Oxford ‘standard’ Bible, as revised by Benjamin Blayney of Hertford College, Oxford (1728–1801), later Regius Professor of Hebrew. The quarto and folio editions of 1769, of which this was the first to be finished, were printed from the same setting of type differently...
£5250
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APPIA, Béatrice.
A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret,...
Paris, 1934–6.
An extraordinary series of love letters, by turns passionate, mocking, and lyrical, with copious illustration, sent by the Swiss-born French artist Béatrice Appia (1899–1998), best known for her illustrated children’s books, to the philosopher and astrologer Jean Carteret (1906–1980), here...
£5000
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BACON, Francis.
Historia vitae et mortis.
Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1663.
Pocket-sized Amsterdam editions of three works by Francis Bacon (1561–1626), uncut and unopened and bound, exceptionally, in the original drab boards.
£975