FREEMAN, Arthur.

Bibliotheca Fictiva: A Collection of Books & Manuscripts Relating to Literary Forgery 400 BC – AD 2000.

London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2024.

The fully revised and enlarged edition of Bibliotheca Fictiva, offered with three in-depth essays on individual forgeries as a complement to the original volume.

£120

WIEST, Stephan.

De iustitia dei punitiva contra quaedam adserta cl. Eberhardi et Steinbartii aliorumque disserit P. Stephanus Wiest...

Ingolstadt, Johann Wilhelm Krüll, [1787].

Rare dissertation under the supervision of the Cistercian theologian and philosopher Stephan Wiest (1748–1797), at the time rector of the University of Ingolstadt, on the subject of whether divine justice is to be seen as punitive or restorative.

£175

MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò.

Opere inedite di Niccolò Machiavelli.

‘Londra’ [Lucca, Jacopo Giusti], 1760.

First edition of previously unpublished writings by the great Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), edited by Giovanni Maria Lampredi (1732–1793).

£500

[GUARINI, Giovanni Battista.]

Il Pastor Fido.

‘In Parigi, appresso Tomaso Iolly, 1706’.

Scarce Parisian edition of Guarini’s immensely popular ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’, charmingly illustrated by Antonio Luciani.

£175

SPENCE, James.

The Light of Heaven, on the Path of Youth: A Sermon tot the Young, preached in Cannon Street Chapel, Preston, on...

Preston, John Walker, and London, John Snow, [1849].

First edition, apparently unrecorded, of this sermon on Psalm 119, ‘Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to Thy Word’.

£175

TULL, H., Rev.

A Sermon preached in St. Mary’s Church Oldham on Sunday Evening December 22 1850 … being the first of six sermons...

Oldham, D. Evans, 1851.

First edition, very rare, of an anti-Catholic sermon by Henry Tull (1791–1859), graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and vicar of St John’s Chadderton, preached and printed in Oldham.

£150

[FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

Poems by the Knight of Morar.

London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867.

First edition, privately printed, a presentation copy inscribed on the title-page ‘From the Author . Paris. 1867.’

£350

MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.

Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution …

Printed for private Circulation. 1881.

First editions of two privately-printed pamphlets by the poet, translator and biographer Theodore Martin (1816–1909) – presentation copies, to the Scottish journalist John Skelton, a frequent contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine (as was Martin).

£400

SPOTISWOOD, John.

An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Stile of Writs, Simple and Compound, made Use of in Scotland ... The...

Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman, and sold by William Brown, 1727.

Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall (1750–1843), factor to the Balfour family at Balbirnie, Fife.

£500

[WALKER, Patrick.]

Some remarkable Passages of the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden, late Minister of the Gospel at Glenluce...

Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.

Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter Alexander Peden (1626–1686), first published 1724 and much reprinted; the ‘second part’ first appeared in an edition of 1778.

£225

ANNAN, Thomas.

Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow.

Glasgow, T. Annan Photographer; J. Maclehose, Publisher and Bookseller to the University, 1871

A very good copy illustrated with albumen rather than carbon prints.

£3450

DAVIDSON, John.

Smith: a Tragedy.

Glasgow, Frederick W. Wilson and Brother, 1888.

First edition of a rare foray into drama by a Scottish poet who influenced T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. John Davidson (1857-1909) was highly regarded during his lifetime by writers like W.B. Yeats, and later by Eliot, Stevens, and Aldous Huxley. Along with Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and others,...

£300

SMOLLETT, Tobias.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker … The second Edition …

London, Printed for W. Johnston … and B. Collins … 1771.

Second edition of Smollett’s acknowledged masterpiece, printed in the same year as the first. The story describes, in epistolary form, the journey of the Matthew Bramble, a hypochondriac Scot, and his family round Britain in search of a cure for his various ailments. The titular Humphry Clinker...

£275

HOGG, James.

The Pilgrims of the Sun; a Poem …

London, Printed for John Murray … and William Blackwood … Edinburgh, 1815.

First edition, first issue, of a long poem dedicated to Byron ‘Not for thy crabbed state-creed, wayward wight, / Thy noble lineage, nor they virtues high’, but for ‘thy bold and native energy’. The titular poem is the narrative of a young local woman Mary Lee, and her journey to a heavenly...

£200

[JOHNSON, Samuel].

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell … 1775.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell … 1775

Unacknowledged second edition. Two thousand copies of the first edition were printed as far as sheet R when Strahan, sensing the demand, decided to increase the press run to four thousand. The 2000 overrun sheets, T-Z and 2A-2B, and a reprint of the earlier sheets A-D and F-R, may be identified...

£350

KELLY, James.

Poems.

Glasgow, Printed by Aird & Coghill, and sold by John Menzies & Co, 1888.

First edition, a presentation copy, of a collection of poems many of which were written ‘before the age of nineteen’. There are a number of sonnets, as well as devotional and nature poetry, some folksongs, and topographical works on e.g. the Isle of Arran.

£100