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HERMOGENES.
Τεχνη ρητορικη τελειοτατη. Hermogenis ars oratoria absolutissima, et libri omnes. Cum nova versione...
Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1614.
A parallel text edition of Hermogenes in a simple but fine contemporary binding.
£750
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[JUVENILE.]
The Weasel Family.
London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, [1860s?]
First edition, rare, of a rather charming Victorian picture-book, from ‘The Funny Animal Series’, later collected in Comical Creatures: a Picture Book for the Nursery (1868).
£375
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[MISSAL.]
Ordinaire de la Messe.
[Paris?, c. 1890–1900].
A lithographed and elegantly hand-coloured French Missal in the style of a medieval manuscript.
£350
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Complete deck of 52 playing cards with harlequin design.
London, Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing Co. Ltd., c. 1880.
A lovely and well-preserved complete deck of playing cards by Hunt’s Playing Card Manufacturing Company, with a sumptuous design featuring a double-ended harlequin on a gold background.
£175
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[RAGUENEAU DE LA CHAINAYE, Armand Henri.]
Ivrogniana, ou bons mots et aventures d’ivrognes, recueil de cabaret, suite de Grivoisiana,...
Paris, chez Madame Cavanagh, an. XII – 1804.
Scarce collection of comic anecdotes and verse on wine and drunkenness compiled by Armand Henri Ragueneau de La Chainaye (1777–1850) and published by Madame Cavanagh.
£550
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TACITUS, Publius Cornelius; N. S. SMITH, translator.
Dissertation on the Manners of the Germans, and the Life of Agricola … translated...
London, George and William Budd Whittaker, 1821.
First edition, a seemingly unrecorded issue of this bilingual edition of Tacitus’ Germania and Agricola, a subscription copy uncut in publisher’s boards.
£600
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THOMAS À KEMPIS; Johann Michael SAILER, translator.
Das Buch von der Nachfolgung Christi … Zweyte Ausgabe.
Munich, Ignaz Joseph Lentner, and Leipzig, Hartmann, 1820.
Uncommon ‘second edition’ of Thomas à Kempis’s Imitatio Christi as translated by Johann Michael Sailer, Bishop of Regensburg.
£250
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[GREECE and TURKEY.]
Sketchbook of a tour in Greece and Turkey.
May–August 1884.
An album of attractive pencil and watercolour sketches by one ‘C.A.E.’, an English traveller on a tour of Greece and Turkey in 1884.
£1500
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CARY, John.
A new map of Arabia, including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea &c. &c. from the latest authorities. By John Cary, engraver....
London, John Cary, 28 November 1804.
An attractive hand-coloured map of the Arabian Peninsula and northeast Africa by the English cartographer John Cary (1755–1835), later included in Cary’s New Universal Atlas of 1808.
£800
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[TACCONI, Gaetano.]
‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus de febribus’, and ‘Compendiosa nonulloru[m] m[or]boru[m] peculiariu[m]...
[Bologna, Italy,] 1739.
An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently unpublished medical texts compiled by a student at the Archiginnasio of Bologna who studied under Gaetano Tacconi (1689–1782), comprising notes on the prescription and preparation of medication, on fevers, and on a wide variety of illnesses. The...
£1250
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QUARLES, Francis.
The Shepheards Oracles: delivered in certain Eclogues …
London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot … 1646.
Third edition of this pastoral allegory, first published in 1644, which uses the genre as a thin veil for the discussion of autobiographical, political, and religious matters. The poem includes portraits of Quarles’s friend Phineas Fletcher and of Archbishop Laud, who is described as an Arminian ‘Master...
£300
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[REEVE, Gabriel].
Directions left by a Gentleman to his Sonns: for the Improvement of barren and heathy Land, in England and Wales.
London, Printed by E. T. and R. H. for R. Royston … 1670
Sole edition of one of the first books in English devoted to soil conservation. The dedication is signed Gabriel Reeve and dated from Hackney, 14 April 1670.
£650
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CLEVELAND, John.
Clievelandi Vindiciae: or, Clieveland’s Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c. purged from the many false and...
London, Printed for Nath. Brooke ... 1677
First edition, the issue with Nathaniel Brooke’s imprint. This ‘vindicatory’ text was prepared by Cleveland’s former students John Lake and Samuel Drake from authentic manuscripts to restore true readings to poems that had degenerated through six editions of The Character of a London-Diurnall...
£250
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[MAISTRE, Xavier de.]
Voyage autour de ma chambre par M. le Chev. X*** *** O. A. S. D. S. M. S. [Officier au service de Sa Majesté...
Turin, 1794 [Lausanne, Isaac Hignou, 1795].
First edition, rare, of the celebrated fantasy novel Voyage around my Room, a parody of the grand travel narrative tradition, written by Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852), a Savoyard officer in the army of the Kingdom of Piedmont–Sardinia, during the forty-two days he spent in solitary confinement...
£2800
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KERKHERDERE, Jan Gerard.
De situ Paradisi Terrestris ... Praecedit ... conatus novus de Cepha reprehenso ex Galatarum secundo capite.
Leuven, Martin van Overbeke, 1729.
First edition of this work attempting to identify the geographic location of the Garden of Eden, the earthly Paradise, accompanying his conjecture with a map engraved by P.E. Boultats of Antwerp.
£550
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[LOQUET, Marie-Françoise].
Voyage de Sophie et d’Eulalie, au Palais du vrai bonheur; ouvrage pour servir de guide dans les voies...
Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, 1781.
First edition of this rare utopian voyage to the Palace of True Happiness, written by a woman for a readership of women, our copy with the eighteenth-century ownership inscription of a female reader.
£1500
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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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[GREVENSTUK Brothers.]
Hand-coloured parchment key labels, with the original engraved copper plate.
Amsterdam, [c. 1875–1900].
A rare and curious survival: some seventy key labels, printed on fine vellum and hand-coloured by royal calligraphers for a fin-de-siècle Dutch gentleman, splendidly preserved with the engraved copper plate from which they were printed.
£1200