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SIMMONS, Owen.
The Book of Bread [Deluxe issue].
London, Maclaren & Sons, [1903].
Extremely rare ‘edition de luxe’ of The Book of Bread, with ten silver bromide prints and in the original morocco binding, along with the standard first editions of The Book of Bread and The Book of Cakes, in their original green cloth bindings; combining both issues of the...
£4500
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SPENCER, Eleanor P.
The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic Press, 1977.
Limited edition, dedicated and presented to the Roxburghe Club by Robin Mackworth-Young, a member’s copy presented to Adrian McLaughlin.
£475
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WALCOTT, John.
The Figures, Description, and History of exotic Animals, comprised under the Classes Amphibia and Pisces of Linnaeus.
London, W. Justins for the Author, and sold by White & son, Robson & Clarke, and J. Mathews, 1788.
First and only edition, very rare, published in parts. The engraved figures and their descriptions comprise a variety of turtles, snakes, frogs, and fish, including several notable species from America. Though Walcott writes in his preface of the prospect of ‘a Second Part, which will contain...
£3500
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[WHISTLER, Rex.] Brian North LEE.
The Bookplate Design of Rex Whistler.
[Pinner,] Private Libraries Association for the Bookplate Society, 1973.
First edition, one of 350 copies with a tipped-on rather than a printed frontispiece, a fully-illustrated catalogue of Whistler’s designs for the bookplates of Osbert Sitwell, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Victor Rothschild, Pamela Countess of Lytton etc.
£350
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[LUYNES, Honoré Théodore Paul Joseph d’Albert, duc de.] VIGNES, Louis, photographer; Charles NEGRES, printer.
Voyage d’exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes,...
Printed 1874–76.
A fine set of the photogravures for which Nègre was justly celebrated, from the collection of Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes. The titles and plate numbers are added in pencil, likely by the author or publisher (Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1874-76). The albumen prints, from the original negatives...
£25000
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BRULL, Mariano.
Canto Redondo.
Paris, Ediciones GLM, 1934.
First edition of Brull’s third book of poems, no. 8 of 12 copies on Normandy Vellum, from an edition of 212, inscribed one the front endpaper to the French poet and translator Mathilde Pomès, ‘amiga cordialisima, con el afecto y la admiración sincera de Mariano Brull / Paris, 1934’.
£500
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CARLI, Paolo Francesco da Montecarlo.
La Svinatura di Barbigi Mezzabarba (Paol Francesco Carli da Montecarlo) resa a miglior lezione...
Campobasso, Stab. Tip. Del Progresso, 1878.
Rare edition of a satire by poet and abbot Paolo Francesco Carli (1652–1725) ridiculing the work of his nemesis, the Tuscan priest and schoolmaster Giovan Paolo Lucardesi, who made a tremendous theological blunder in a sonnet in which he describes Christ as ‘crucified and triune’, thus undermining...
£150
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[CHAPBOOK.]
Narrow Escape from the Punishment of Death, or, The Case of John Taylor and John Burton, who were left for Execution...
Collins … and Evans and Sons … [c. 1820–1826].
An uncommon early chapbook from the press of Augustus Applegath (1788–1871), interpreting the real-life stay of execution for two sheep-stealers as an act of divine providence.
£225
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[DEZALLIER D’ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph.]
Conchyliologie nouvelle et portative, ou collection de coquilles propres à orner les...
Paris, ‘chez Regnard, Imprimeur de l’Académie Françoise’, 1767.
First edition, uncommon, of this pocket guide to the then relatively new craze for collecting shells.
£400
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[NUPTIALIA.]
Per le Faustissime Nozze del Nobile Signor Bartolomeo Grillenzoni di Carpi colla Nobile Signora Contessa Luigia Giacobazzi...
Guastalla, ‘Nella Regio-Ducale Stamperia di Salvatore Costa e Comp.’, 1791.
Seemingly unrecorded, provincially printed sonnets written to mark the marriage of Bartolomeo Grillenzoni and Luigia Gioacobazzi, dedicated to the father of the groom.
£250
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GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.
Romancero gitano.
[Barcelona], Editorial Nuestro Pueblo, 1937.
Published seven months after Lorca’s death, this ‘Edición de homenaje popular’ has an introduction by Rafael Alberti.
£200
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GUERRERO, Lila.
Mis devociones.
Buenos Aires, Ediciones Aconcagua, 1965.
First and only edition of this collection of thirty-two poems, inscribed on the half-title ‘para Elsa y Luís Aragón mi olvidado corazon a la intemperie, recordandolos con cariño fervoroso / Lila’.
£400
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GÜIRALDES, Ricardo.
Raucho. Momentos de una junventud contemporánea.
Buenos Aires, Imprenta de Jose Tragant … 1917.
First edition, scarce, Güiraldes’s first novel, a tale of gaucho life inspired by his experiences as a boy on the family ranch; inscribed ‘Para Mlle Matilda Pomès / Ricardo Güiraldes’.
£2000
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BULGAKOV, Mikhail Afanasievich.
Sbornik rasskazov [Collection of Stories.]
New York, Chekhov Publishing House, 1952.
First edition in book form of a collection of four short stories: Rokovye iaitsa (‘The fatal eggs’), D’iavoliada (‘Diaboliad’), Dom no. 13 (‘House No. 13’), and Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova (‘The Adventures of Chichikov’).
£200
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MESHCHERSKII, Elim Petrovich.
Les boréales par B. de G. et le prince Elim Mestscherski …
Paris, Bellizard, Dufour et Cie, 1839.
First edition of a rare French anthology of Russian poets, including early translations of six poems by Pushkin.
£800
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BIEBL, Konstantin.
Zloděj z Bagdadu [The thief of Baghdad].
Prague, Hyperion, 1925.
First edition, a collection of fourteen poems.
£200
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NEZVAL, Vítězslav.
Veliký Orloj [The Great Clock].
Prague, Fr. Borový, 1949.
First edition, a lengthy collection of poems inscribed by Nezval to his sisters and dated 11/4/1949.
£450
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TOLSTOY, Aleksei Nikolaevich.
Lirika.
St Petersburg, [S.M. Muller,] 1907.
First edition, very rare: ‘the first published work of the official novelist of the Soviet Union’ (Kilgour).
£1000
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AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.
Cahier de dessins.
[Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.
An album of fin-de-siècle sketches by fifteen-year-old Sara Thérèse d’Aurignac, comprising humorous vignettes, imaginative anthropomorphism, dancing devils, and scenes of leisure.
£875
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BRADLEY Gertrude M., illustrator.
An archive of drawings for Just Forty Winks.
[c. 1897].
Fifty-eight delightful preliminary pencil sketches by the illustrator Gertrude M. Bradley for Just Forty Winks, Hendry’s tale for children, offered with a copy of the first and only edition, rare in the dustjacket.
£850