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[ALMANACK.]
The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's and Tradesman's complete annual Accompt-Book for the Pocket, or Desk. For the...
London, R. Baldwin, 1761.
An interesting and extremely rare account book for 1761 used by a series of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century carpenters, joiners, and a tallow chandler in Denbighshire, North Wales to record appointments, time spent on ongoing projects, and accounts.
£850
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Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, avec plusieurs augmentations & corrections, pour l’année mil sept...
Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand] and Pierre-François Durand, 1775.
A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775, our copy in a handsome binding embroidered in gold and silver threads and with emblematic mottoes and charming illustrations depicting putti fanning smoke from a burning candle and holding a flaming heart.
£1500
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London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.
[London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1785].
A very attractive miniature London Almanack in its elaborate original binding of gilt white calf and matching étui, with an engraving of the soon-to-be-finished Somerset House.
£950
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étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et utiles, pour l’année mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.
Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.
Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome contemporary binding of silk and sequins featuring lyres surmounted by hearts and torches, issued on the eve of the French Revolution with much material on the storming of the Bastille and revolts throughout France.
£1950
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[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’, 1800.
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands,...
£1450
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[ALMANACK.]
Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés de la Sainte Bible.
Paris, Janet, [1814].
A very rare biblical almanack for 1814 by Janet, attractively illustrated with engraved plates depicting episodes from the Old Testament.
£300
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[ALMANACK.]
Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга вторая [Al’manakh dlia vsekh. Kniga vtoraia; ‘Almanack...
St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”, 1911.
First edition, extremely rare, of the second literary annual published by the Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh (New Journal for Everyone) with poems by Blok, Gorodetsky, and Kuzmin, and short fiction by Chulkov, Gusev, Count Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, and Ivan Poroshin.
£200
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[ALMANACK.]
Velhagen & Klasings Almanach. Ein Biedermeier-Jahrbuch.
[Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, and Vienna, Velhagen & Klasing, [1927].
A literary almanack for 1927 with stories by several notable German, Austrian, and Swedish authors with a distinctly nineteenth-century flavour, illustrated with several handsome neo-Romantic coloured plates and illustrations.
£175
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[JUVENILE.]
Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni della prima infanzia.
Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp., [c. 1830].
Very rare Besançon-printed edition of these moral tales for children framed within the context of a parent–child dialogue, our copy presented by a father to his daughter.
£450
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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].
A seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack, provincially printed at Lille in the wake of the Bourbon Restoration.
£475
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HIBBERD, James Shirley.
The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year Book … 24th annual issue.
London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.
Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890), one of the most successful Victorian gardening writers, founder of the Amateur Gardener and editor of the Gardener’s Magazine, the Vegetarian Advocate, and the Floral World and Garden Guide.
£100
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SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.
Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for MDCCCXXXI …
London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph] Ackermann, 1831.
The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s literary annual Forget-me-not for 1831, instrumental in introducing to English readers the concept of the German ‘gift book’, borrowing ‘from the French almanack and the German Taschenbüch to create the format of the first British-published...
£150
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SPENSER, Edmund.
The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930 [–1932].
Limited edition, numbered 123 of 375 copies, of the handsome Shakespeare Head Spenser, one of the most significant works of the press.
£875
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only collaboration with Mitchison but she arranged for the publication of his Left Wings over Europe the following year, and they remained friends until his death. 32 designs by Lewis served as the inspiration for Mitchison’s narrative.
£75
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ELLIOTT, Mary [née Belson].
Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …
London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton … and John Harris … [c. 1825].
‘Fourth edition, corrected and revised’. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).
£200
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UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.
The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list of references.
Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1934.
First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive bibliography on tariffs, listing 6453 works in print relating to the rationale, theory, implementation, history, policies, administration, legislation, economic aspects, and controversies on tariffs. This extensive report was published in the year...
£200
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1908.
First edition. Simmel ‘had laid the foundations for the discipline of sociology long before Max Weber [who has essentially eclipsed him in the history of the discipline] turned to the problem of sociology as a special subject … The aim of sociology was to describe the forms of social interaction...
£150
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima a Francisco Irenico Ettelingiacensi exarata, eiusdem oratio protreptica,...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, August 1518.]
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century German antiquarian works in a contemporary binding by Konrad Kühneof Stuttgart from the library of the Elector of Bavaria.
£3500
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SCHUBERT, Franz, composer.
A fine contemporary volume of ten works containing eighteen Lieder including his most famous...
Vienna, 1821-1833.
A rare collection of Schubert Lieder in a contemporary binding, apparently as retailed by the Czech music publisher Berra, including three first editions.
£7500
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[HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON, and John JAY].
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays written in Favor of the new Constitution,...
New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M’Lean … 1788.
First edition in book form of The Federalist Papers, the single most important work of American political philosophy, a normal paper copy, very rare in the original boards, uncut and largely unopened. Volume II is in a mixed state, with the error ‘Letter LXXX’ rather than ‘LXX’...
£220000