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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Paul Nash (1889–1946).
£175
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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue] poete ad magnificu[m] atq[ue] illustrem Maximilianu[m]...
[(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]
First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin poems by Sbruglio (c. 1480 – after 1525), whose work was esteemed by Erasmus and Pirckheimer, published in the year that Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor and addressed to his personal secretary.
£1800
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though short-lived, avant-garde periodical, with contributions by Yeats (poems, and the three-part essay on William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy), Shaw, Conrad, Dowson, Havelock Ellis (on Nietzsche and Hardy), Lionel Johnson, Beerbohm,...
£3000
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[WAX MODELS.] Gaetano PECCI.
Broadside advertising an itinerant show of wax models. [Incipit:] ‘L’Artista Gaetano Pecci,...
[Venice], Casali stampatore, [c. 1815].
A seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising the Venice dates of a touring show of life-sized wax models of the Nativity, notable politicians and philosophers, and anatomical figures by the Milanese wax sculptor Gaetano Pecci, as well as an (apparently living) two-headed boy.
£500
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WIELAND, Christoph Martin; William SOTHEBY, translator.
Oberon, a Poem ...
London, Cadell and Davies, Edwards, Faulder, and Hatchard, 1798.
First octavo edition of Sotheby’s (1757–1833) celebrated translation of Wieland’s (1733–1813) German epic, Oberon, in part based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, instrumental in popularising Wieland’s works in England.
£500
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[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.] Ludwig HÄNSEL.
Two autograph postcards to Hermann Hänsel.
Vienna, 31 December 1933 and July 1938.
Two autograph postcards from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s close friend, the educator Ludwig Hänsel (1886–1959) to his son, Hermann Hänsel, with a Christmas card from Wittgenstein’s sister, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, testament to the intimate and long-lasting connection between the two families....
£650
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ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.
Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.
Nice, Société typographique, 1781.
Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719).
£200
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[ALMANACK.]
Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake and Book of Christmas Amusements, for 1884. Contains:– Almanack for 1884,...
[London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].
An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly illustrated, printed for the Marylebone wine-merchant M. E. Revill at the Turner’s Arms.
£225
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[BOOKPLATE.]
Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt Field Bishop, by Boissy[?].
c. 1910?
The aviator, traveller, and book collector Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870–1935) bought America’s top auction house, American Art Association, in 1923, later merging it with Anderson Galleries – after his death it became Parke-Bernet, bought by Sotheby’s in 1964. Bishop was an avid collector, buying...
£600
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[CATECHISM.]
Catechismus, das ist Christliche Erklärung der Sechs haupt Stücke Christlicher Lehre, sampt der Hauss-Taffel, und...
[Strasbourg,] Johann Heinrich Heitz, 1751.
Seemingly unrecorded editions of two German catechistical works aimed at children in Strasbourg, in small format suited to the pocket, and in an attractive local contemporary binding.
£450
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CUJAS, Jacques.
Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes in II. et IV. libros Decretalium. Nunc primum in lucem editae.
Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.
First edition of these commentaries on the Decretals of Gregory IX by the famous French jurist Jacques Cujas (1522–1590), printed in Speyer and bound in doeskin.
£750
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres estampas.
Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.
First edition of Lorca’s first published play, Mariana Pineda, ‘about the Granadine heroine Mariana Pineda, who had been executed in 1831 at the age of twenty-seven by the repressive regime of Ferdinand VII, on the charge of having embroidered a flag for the town’s liberal conspirators.
£450
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[HIGHWAYMEN.]
Processo formato contro due famosissimi banditi Giacomo Legorino, e Battista Scorlino, con suoi seguaci, quali furono...
Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].
Seemingly unrecorded printing of the trials of two sixteenth-century Italian highwaymen and their gang, whose campaign of terror in Milan lasted eight years.
£500
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.
Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor & triginta...
Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].
A collection of abbreviated Roman histories, edited by Marcantonio Sabellico, with two different woodcuts depicting a scholar in a study with books and writing implements.
£1850
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[MOREAN WAR.]
Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under the Conduct of Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark,...
London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.
First edition of an important account of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, which had begun in 1684, in the form of diplomatic letters from the Venetian (and Hanoverian) forces under the command of Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice.
£2500
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‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.
An answer to an audacious letter from John Angelo Belloni, dated Rome the 4th of May, 1732. N.S....
London, [s.n.], 1732.
An extremely rare pamphlet of economic and political interest, relating to fraudulent activity in the Charitable Corporation and to one of the chief culprit’s rumoured links to the Old Pretender.
£450
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SHAKESPEARE, William.
The Works … in ten Volumes …
Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904[–1907].
The handsome ‘Stratford Town’ Shakespeare, no. 495 of 1000 copies on Bachelor hand-made paper, edited and with notes by Arthur Henry Bullen (1857–1920).
£1250
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[VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]
Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee” July 1, 1897’.
Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.
An attractive album memorialising a garden party in honour of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria held at Hampton Court Castle in Herefordshire under the sponsorship of John Hungerford Arkwright (1833–1905), later Lord Lieutenant of that county. The photographer, Francis Preece (1853–1928),...
£500
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WOOLF, Leonard.
Socialism and Co-Operation.
London, National Labour Press, 1921.
First edition. In the interwar period Woolf was ‘a patient and committed advocate for a cooperative model of participatory, rank-and-file democracy founded on the organization and practices of the Co-operative Movement, whose socialist, transformative aspirations Woolf found most fully realized...
£180
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WEBER, Max.
Der Sozialismus.
Vienna, Phobus, Pimmer, 1918.
First edition of Weber’s early and influential lecture articulating the author’s sceptical view on socialism.
£300