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THOMAS, Dylan.
Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices …
London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1954.
First edition, first impression, our copy from the library of BBC radio producer D.G. Bridson, with a loosely inserted stereotype letter from the poet John Berryman about the last days and the death of Dylan Thomas.
£1500
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[HOMILETIC.]
Meditations de la seconde annee.
[France, c. 1700.]
Apparently unpublished set of meditations for the Sundays in the liturgical year running from the seventh to the twenty-fourth week after Pentecost, shedding light on tools and practices in the homiletic art. Themes range from reflections on the Eucharist, to considerations on mortality, on...
£750
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POPE, Alexander.
Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown …
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott … 1713.
First edition of Pope’s second separately published poem, preceded by An Essay on Criticism in 1711. Written in the tradition that young poets begin with pastoral verse, Windsor-Forest, with its epigraph from Virgil’s Eclogues, was the poem that first won Swift’s regard and...
£2750
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Lion and the Fox. The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare …
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955.]
Reprint of the second edition of Lewis’s ‘first political book’, a collection of essays engaging with Shakespeare and Machiavelli first published in 1927 and then reissued by Methuen in 1951; inscribed in a very shaky hand ‘To Geoffrey Bridson from Wyndham / Oct 1956’.
£300
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ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger.
Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri septem. Sosthyrides. Peplum Palladis. Aeglogae...
Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528.
The definitive edition of the epigrams of Giorgio Anselmi, grandson of the astrologer and music theorist of the same name, with several epigrams on his grandfather’s lost works on magic and the occult.
£875
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RICHARDSON, James.
Narrative of a mission to central Africa performed in the years 1850-51, under the orders and at the expense...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1853.
First edition recounting the English explorer, missionary and abolitionist James Richardson’s 1850-1851 expedition through central Africa, including the first known crossing of the Libyan Hammada al-Hamra, or ‘Red Plateau’.
£300
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GOBAT, Samuel.
Journal of a three years’ residence in Abyssinia, in furtherance of the objects of the Church Missionary Society...
London, Hatchard & Son; and Seeley & Sons, 1834.
First edition of a journal written by the Swiss Calvinist missionary and later Bishop of Jerusalem Samuel Gobat during his residence in Abyssinia between early 1830 and late 1832.
£275
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BOYSON, Violet Fenton.
The Falkland Islands … With notes on the natural history by Rupert Vallentin.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
First edition of Violet Fenton Boyson’s history of the Falkland Islands, in what remains a standard work on the subject. Boyson was initially asked by the naturalist Rupert Vallentin to edit his notebooks on the natural history of the island. In response, Boyson suggested supplementing these notes...
£300
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CUNNINGHAM, Robert.
Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia made during the Voyage of...
Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1871.
First edition of the travel account of Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), a Scottish naturalist employed aboard the H.M.S. ‘Nassau’ during a surveying expedition of the Strait of Magellan between 1866 and 1869.
£400
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DUNCAN, John.
Travels in western Africa, in 1845 & 1846. Comprising a journey from Whydah, through the kingdom of Dahomey, to Adofoodia,...
London, Richard Bentley, 1849.
Third edition recounting the West African expeditions of the Scottish traveller John Duncan, including the first appearance of Duncan’s account of the Niger expedition.
£150
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READE, William Winwood.
Savage Africa: being the narrative of a tour in Equatorial, south-western, and north-western Africa; with...
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1863.
First edition recounting an expedition through west Africa and along the west African coast by the British historian, philosopher, and explorer William Winwood Reade.
£175
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SWAYNE, Harold George Carlos.
Seventeen trips through Somaliland. A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893. Being...
London, Rowland Ward and Co., 1895.
First edition recounting hunting and exploration trips to Somaliland by the British soldier, explorer, naturalist, and big-game hunter Harold George Carlos Swayne.
£175
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FILIPPI, Filippo de and Caroline de FILIPPI (translator).
Ruwenzori. An account of the expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo...
London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1908.
First English edition, with handsome illustrations, describing the 1906 expedition to the Rwenzori mountain range in present-day Uganda under the stewardship of Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, the Duke of Abruzzi.
£300
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POWELL-COTTON, Percy.
A sporting trip through Abyssinia. A narrative of a nine months’ journey from the plains of the Hawash...
London, Rowland Ward, 1902.
First edition, signed by the son of the author and bound for the Powell Cotton Museum, describing a nine-month exploration and hunting expedition through Abyssinia by the English hunter and animal collector Percy Powell-Cotton.
£300
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BEECHAM, John.
Ashantee and the Gold Coast: being a sketch of the history, social state, and superstitions of the inhabitants of...
London, sold by John Mason, 1841.
Uncommon first edition, a study of the west African region around modern-day Ghana by the Wesleyan Methodist John Beecham.
£300
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BRUCE, James.
Travels, between the years 1765 and 1773, through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to discover...
London, James Robins and Co. Albion Press, [1820?].
First edition thus, an abridged account of James Bruce’s famous travels through Ethiopia on a quest to discover the source of the Nile.
£150
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HUC, Évariste Régis and William HAZLITT (translator).
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6 … Second...
London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, [1852].
Second English edition recounting the famous journey of two Lazarist missionaries across China, Mongolia, and Tibet between 1844 and 1846.
£125
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WATTS, Isaac.
Psalms of David imitated in the Language of the New Testament …
Birmingham, Printed & sold by Knott and Lloyd. 1806.
Unrecorded Birmingham editions of Watts’s Hymns (first 1707) and Psalms (first 1719), both many times reprinted, especially in America. The portrait of Watts was printed especially for this edition and is dated 10 October 1806.
£300
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MOSZKOWSKI, Alexander [and H.J. STENNING (trans.).]
The Isles of Wisdom.
London, George Routledge & sons, 1924.
First English edition of Alexander Moszkowski’s dystopian satire. Moszkowski imagines a visit to a series of South-East Asian islands which each subscribe unreservedly to a philosophical school of thought. These utopias are absurd: people’s notions of philosophical purity prevent them...
£230
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JENNINGS, James Willes and Christopher ADDISON.
With the Abyssinians in Somaliland … With a preface by Colonel A.N. Rochfort...
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.
First edition recounting the author’s fact-finding mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating the ‘folk-lore, the characteristics, and customs of the Abyssinians’.
£275