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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis.
Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.
First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at the city’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances generally used in the preparation of medicines, with synonyms and notes to aid the user in distinguishing...
£1800
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii Ticinensis anno MDCCXC.
Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].
Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia for use at the Ospedale Grande di San Matteo, also known as the Pietà, in Pavia, one of the foremost medical schools in Europe at the time of this publication. Founded in 1449, the Ospedale remained the centre of healthcare in the city for almost...
£750
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[ANATOMY.]
‘Breve compendio anatomico’.
[Italy, c. 1720.]
A handsome set of apparently unpublished notes on orthopaedics by an anonymous medical student, compiled in Italy in the early eighteenth century, covering bones, cartilage, ligaments and muscles. The manuscript opens with a detailed analysis of the human skeleton, its bones and articulation,...
£1750
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[PORTUGAL.]
Centro dei Comunisti. Lotta di classe e potere politico in Portogallo (Quaderni Comunisti).
Rome, 26 September 1975.
An historical overview of the Portuguese ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 25 April 1974 and its aftermath, including a reproduction of João Abel Manta’s famous poster showing Vasco Gonçalves, Portugal’s prime minister, with his arms around a member of the MFA (Movimento das Forças Armadas)...£100
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‘THANET, Octave’, pseud. [i.e. Alice FRENCH], and A.B. ZHUROMSKAIA, translator.
Стачка [Stachka...
S. Feokritov, 1905.
Apparently first and only Russian edition of Alice French’s short story The Scab, a tale which portrays strikers as violent and offensive.
£200
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SCHUSTER, Claud.
Men, women and mountains. Days in the Alps and Pyrenees ... Foreword by Lord Sankey, G.B.E.
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1931.
First edition, presented by William Bellows (1873-1942) to the distinguished Italian Alpinist, writer and photographer, Guido Rey (1861-1935).
£100
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PERRY, William.
The Standard French and English pronouncing Dictionary; in two Parts …
London: Printed for Murray and Co. … J. Stockdale … and Scatcherd and Whitaker … 1795.
First and only edition of possibly the first French-English pronouncing dictionary.
£1350
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VIGNE, Godfrey Thomas.
A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost...
London, Whittaker & Co., 1840.
First edition, a handsome copy. Vigne (1801-63) left Southampton for India in 1832, ‘and, after passing through Persia, spent the next seven years travelling north-west of India. He visited Kashmir, Ladakh, and other parts of central Asia, besides travelling through Afghanistan, where he had several...
£3500
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[ACCADEMIA DELL’ARCADIA.]
Favola di due gatti e della scimia coll’ appello de’ medesimi gatti all’ orso, divisa in due...
Florence, Bernardo Paperini, 1730.
First complete edition. A rare fable in parallel Latin and Italian verse by members of the Accademia dell’Arcadia, comprising Due gatti ed una scimia (first published in 1728) and the first appearance of the second part, Appello de’ due gatti all’ orso. Both are published only pseudonymously under...
£550
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DUCAREL, Andrew & James Coltée, and Gerard DE LISLE & Robin MYERS, eds.
Two Huguenot Brothers: Letters of Andrew and James Coltée...
Leicester, The Garendon Press, 2019.
James Coltée Ducarel’s letters sent from France to his elder brother Andrew in London are a hitherto unknown resource for the study of the Enlightenment and the French Huguenots in the mid-eighteenth century.
£85
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[DEY, Robert.]
Foulsham and Themelthorpe inclosure award, dated 23rd June, 1813. Notice with extracts from award.
[Norfolk?] Parson, Printer, [1813].
Scarce printed award, completed in manuscript, granting a piece of land in Foulsham, Norfolk to one Robert Dey, following the 1811 ‘Act for inclosing lands in the parishes of Foulsham and Themelthorpe’. In addition to carrying the shaky signature of the recipient, the award is signed by the three...
£150
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VINCENS, Jean Alexandre.
Account book.
Nimes, France, 1783-1800.
A unique record of the financial transactions and business dealings of a leading Protestant family of bankers and merchants in Nîmes, in the south of France, prior to and during the French Revolution, covering the period between May 1783 and Fructidor year VIII i.e. 1800.
£4250
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[IRWIN, Eyles.]
Eastern eclogues; written during a tour through Arabia, Egypt, and other parts of Asia and Africa, in the year...
London, for J. Dodsley, 1780.
First edition of these travel-inspired poems by the Calcutta-born East India Company servant Eyles Irwin (1751-1817), composed during his journey from India to England in 1777, and containing several interesting references to the British presence in India.
£850
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BARKER, Nicolas, ed.
The Pirie Library. A Short-Title Catalogue of the Collection of Robert S Pirie.
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.
The library of Robert S Pirie, ‘one of the finest private libraries of English literature, not just of our time but of all time’ (James Stourton), was sold at Sotheby’s New York on 2-4 December 2015. This account is based on Sotheby’s catalogue of the sale, and augmented by Mr Pirie’s acquisition...
£25
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[TIPU SULTAN.]
Les Indiens, ou Tippoo-Saïb, fils d’Hyder-Ally, &c. Avec quelques particularités sur ce prince, sur ses ambassadeurs...
A Londres [i.e. Paris?] et se trouve à Paris, chez Le Jay, 1788.
The apparently unrecorded first issue of this work on Tipu Sultan (1750–1799), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore and implacable enemy of the British East India Company. The only copies recorded institutionally (on ESTC, COPAC, and OCLC) have the title Les indiens, ou Tipou-Sultan, fils D’Ayder-Aly...
£650
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ZOLA, Émile.
La Curée.
Paris, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1871.
First edition of the second novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, La Curée. The first six volumes of the series were printed on ordinary paper only (no grand papier issue) and are all very rare.
£2500
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MANN, Thomas.
Tristan. Sechs Novellen …
Berlin, Fischer, 1903.
First edition of Thomas Mann’s third book, a collection of stories including his two principal Novellen, ‘Tristan’ and ‘Tonio Kröger’.
£2000
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BARKER, Nicolas.
At First, All Went Well… & Other Brief Lives.
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2019.
This book brings together eighty obituaries written by Nicolas Barker. The first were published in 1966 and the last in 2018. Print links them all: they were printers, publishers, librarians, booksellers or book collectors, their lives joined by a common dedication to the printed word and all that goes...
£40
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GALLOP, Annabel.
Malay seals from the Islamic world of Southeast Asia.
Singapore, NUS Press in association with the British Library, 2019.
A new publication by Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator in Southeast Asia Collections at the British Library, published by NUS Press in Singapore. The British Library website describes Malay seals as ‘a catalogue of 2,168 seals sourced from more than 70 public institutions and 60 private collections...
£85
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ALAI, Beatrice.
Le miniature Italiane del Kupferstichkabinett di Berlino.
Florence, Edizioni Polistampa, 2019.
From the presentation leaf: ‘Bernard Quaritch Ltd is delighted to be a sponsor of this magnificent publication. We feel sure that our German founder, both as publisher of scholarly works and dealer in medieval manuscripts, would have been proud to support Beatrice Alai’s catalogue of the Italian...
£75