HEXHAM, Henry. 

A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene two English Souldiers in the Tilt-boat of Gravesend, the one going...

Printed at London [i.e. Holland].  1623. 

First edition, written in reply to a rare pamphlet with a near-identical title by Richard Verstegan [or Rowlands], an intelligence agent in the Netherlands for the English Jesuits.  Verstegan’s original Toung-Combat comprised a dialogue between the pro-Catholic Red Scarf and the Protestant...

£1650

[INDUSTRIOUS POOR, Charitable Corporation for the Relief of.]

The present state of the unhappy sufferers of the Charitable Corporation...

London, [n.p.], 1733.

First and only edition of an anonymous plea to Parliament for the rescue of the Charitable Corporation for the Relief of the Industrious Poor, a pawnbroker which granted credit at low interest to the ‘deserving poor’ who left a pledge. Founded in 1707, in the 1720s the Corporation came under scrutiny...

£250

[ISELIN, Isaak].

Träume eines Menschenfreundes. Erster Theil.

Basel, Johannes Schweighauser, 1776.

Uncommon first edition, part one only (very rarely to be found complete with both parts), of the most mature expression of Iselin’s anti-Rousseau republicanism, a social ‘dream’ of great articulation and – arguably – applicability, residing confidently on the borderline between utopia and...

£150

ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin, on paper, 30 lines in a small Italian notarial...

The petition explains that the parish of San Miniato in the Valle Rubbiana, in the diocese of Fiesole and in the lay patronage of the Buondelmonti family of Florence, is vacant following the death of the organist Mariotto di Michele Giovanni. The patrons, or the majority of them, or their duly appointed...

£250

JOHN OF SALISBURY. 

Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium, et vestigiis philosophorum, libri octo.  Accedit huic editioni eiusdem...

Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1639. 

Attractive Maire edition of the two principal works of the twelfth-century scholar, diplomat, and bishop of Chartres, John of Salisbury, both completed by 1159 and dedicated to Thomas Becket. 

£600

JONES, John Gale.

An Oration on the late General Washington, including a Retrospect of his Life, Character, and Conduct, from the...

Clark, William Dawson, and W. Limbird, 1825.

Scarce revised second edition, printed by subscription with a new preface, of this speech in praise of Washington by the English radical orator John Gale Jones (1769–1838).

£375

[JULY REVOLUTION.]

Habitans de Paris, les députés de la France, en ce moment réunis à Paris, m’ont exprimé le desir que...

[Paris], imprimerie de A. Guyot, [31 July 1830].

A seemingly unrecorded copy of Louis Philippe’s famous proclamation of 31 July 1830 accepting the position of Lieutenant-Général du Royaume in the wake of the July Revolution. Just days later Charles X would abdicate, and Louis Philippe would be proclaimed King of the French. Less than eighteen years...

£100

[JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.]

The Boke of Justices of Peas the Charge with all the Processe of the Cessions, Warrantes Supercedias &...

[Colophon: London, Richard Pynson], [1505–6?].

First edition(?), very rare, of the first printed guide for Justices of the Peace, issued with a short guide to land law.

£27500

KANT, Immanuel.

Kritika chistago razuma …

St Petersburg, M.V. Popov, 1902.

Third Russian edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in German in 1781, and in Russian in 1867, in the translation by N. Sokolov which had first appeared in 1897.

£450

KARG, Stanislaus, Celso EISENMAN, and Eccard HOCHENBAUM.

Fur theologicè examinatus, & in judicio sacramentali ad restitutionem...

Munich, Johann Lucas Straub, [1712].

Only edition, rare, of this dissertation on the theological and legal aspects of theft and restitution, presented to the distinguished canon lawyer, and author of the monumental Manuale theologico-canonico-legale practicum, Stanislaus Karg.

£275

KAUTSKY, Karl.

O istocie klasowości.

[Krakow, People’s Printers] for “Proletaryat”, no date [1903].

Rare first edition in Polish of Kautsky’s Klasseninteresse – Sonderinteresse – Gemeininteresse, first published in vol. XXI (numbers 34 and 35, 1902-03) of the leading German theoretical periodical Die Neue Zeit. The article, written as a refutation of Bernstein’s revisionism, discusses the antagonistic...

£125

KRUGER, (Paul) Stephanus Johannes Paulus.

Printed document signed, granting land in the town of Volksrust to Gideon Jacobus Johannes...

Pretoria, April 1897 and 5 May 1897.

A printed document signed by Paul Kruger as president of South Africa.

£500

KRUG, Leopold.

Abriss der Staatsökonomie oder Staatswirthschaftslehre ...

Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1808.

Rare first edition. Krug was a civil servant whose writings on political economy and statistics had to be carved out of ‘the odd spare hour’. From 1805 to 1834 he was heavily involved in the development and expansion of the Prussian Statistical Bureau, during which time he conducted numerous statistical...

£250

LAWRENCE, William Beach.

Two Lectures on Political Economy delivered at Clinton Hall, before the Mercantile Library Association...

New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832. 

First edition, uncommon. The author, an American jurist and politician, was the son of Isaac Lawrence, President of the New York Branch of the Bank of the United States and a Presidential Elector. In his Lectures Lawrence deplored speculation as the mechanism which gives rise to boom-and-bust...

£450

[LE MARCHE.]

Deed relating to the sale of property in Beltrovato (a district of Morrovalle in the Province of Macerata in the Marche...

[Rome, 1616.]

A curiously bound public instrument notarised by the Apostolic Camera in Rome detailing the sale of property belonging to two brothers from the influential de’ Mozzi family of Macerata.

£850

[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse de Louis 13.  Avec le Cardinal...

‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’ [France, early eighteenth century]. 

An early manuscript copy of a salacious – and treasonous – history arguing that Louis XIV was the illegitimate child of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu, bound with four engravings. 

£850

LEWIS, Wyndham. 

Doom of Youth …

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. 

First English edition, one of Lewis’s scarcest works (only 549 copies avoided destruction).  Doom of Youth began life as a series of seven articles on youth politics in Time and Tide in June–July 1931, rounded off with a pair by G.K. Chesterton; it was expanded and first published...

£2000

LEWIS, Wyndham.

The Old Gang and the New Gang.

London, Desmond Harmsworth, 1933.

First edition, binding variant (1), a work on ‘youth cults’ and the rise of European dictatorships. Bridson’s review was not especially complimentary, noting ‘that peculiar “kiddish” idiom which Mr. Lewis uses to advantage in his satiric novels and to little purpose elsewhere … We can excuse...

£250

LEWIS, Wyndham.

Left Wings Over Europe: or, how to make a War about Nothing.

London, Jonathan Cape, [1936].

First edition, first printing, a reiteration of the delusions about Hitler that Lewis had first presented in Hitler (1931), alongside a rejection of the Internationalism he had argued so firmly for in The Art of Being Ruled and would later espouse once more. Lewis afterwards dismissed the...

£500

LEWIS, Wyndham.

America and Cosmic Man.

London and Brussels, Nicholas and Watson Ltd., [1948].

First edition, second state binding as always (the first, in green cloth, was rejected by Lewis as ‘hideous’ and was used on only 3 trial copies). In hand by 1943, not finished until 1946 and then rejected by American publishers until it finally found a British home in 1948, America and Cosmic Man...

£200