Recent Acquisitions
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LALEMANT, [Pierre].
Les saints desirs de la mort, ou recüeil de quelques pensées des peres de l’Eglise, pour montrer comment...
Paris, Josse, 1710.
A very rare later edition, in a contemporary binding of onlaid morocco, of Lalement’s French paraphrases of the Church Fathers’ thoughts on death.
£850
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PETIOT, Étienne.
Panegyricus Ludovico XIII. vindici rebellionis, domitori Elementorum, æterno triumphatori: Pro fracta Britannia,...
Ferrara, Giuseppe Gironi, 1639.
An extremely rare Ferrarese edition of the hugely popular panegyric to Louis XIII by the Jesuit Étienne Petiot (1602–1675), professor of rhetoric, encomiastic writer, and theologian from Limoges, written on the occasion of the defeat of the Huguenots at the end of the siege of La Rochelle and...
£975
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[MONS.]
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Mons, J. B. Varret, 1748.
First and only edition, very rare, of this history of the Sunday school in Mons, established for the Christian education of the boys and girls of the city and supported by the Canonesses of St Waltrude among other benefactors.
£975
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BLANCHET, Joseph.
L’art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant … IIe edition, corrigée et augmentée …
Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert, and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756.
First edition of this philosophical and anatomical singing manual, with an engraved illustration of the lungs.
£750
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CICERO.
Epistolarum selectarum libri tres.
London, Jane Ilive for the Stationers’ Company, 1727.
Rare edition of this Cicero schoolbook, printed for the Stationers’ Company by the London bookseller Jane Ilive.
£450
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[MAGDALEN CHAPEL.]
The Hymns Anthems and Tunes with the Ode used at the Magdalen Chapel set for the Organ Harpsichord, Voice German-Flute...
London, Printed for Longman and Broderip … [1780?].
Two rare later editions of the Magdalen Chapel hymnbook.
£2000
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‘SANTO DOMINGO’.
Tablettes Parisiennes, par M. Santo-Domingo. Deuxième edition.
Brussels, Aug. Wahlen for H. Tarlier, 1826.
Second edition, scarcer than the first edition of the previous year, of these risqué recollections of Parisian life, this copy printed on yellow paper, including a ‘Linnaean’ classification of Parisian women.
£475
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FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.
[Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome historiae...
Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.
The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’ Roman history, containing the editio princeps of Ampelius’ history, in a handsome English Restoration binding with highly unusual edge decoration.
£650
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[HYMNAL.]
Neu-vermehrt- und vollständiges Gesang-Buch, worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids, nach D. Ambrosii Lobwassers, Uebersetzung...
[Likely Swabia, for] Philadelphia, Ernst Ludwig Baisch, 1774.
First and only edition thus of this German hymnal, issued in Philadelphia by Ernst Ludwig Baisch under his own imprint but printed in Germany, bound by an itinerant German Pennsylvanian binder with printed waste from Charles Cist’s Americanische Stadt und Land Calender for 1797, with inscriptions...
£3500
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[NEW YORK.]
Notarial instrument attesting to the residence of two French immigrants in New York.
New York, 27 July 1797.
An interesting notarial document recording the immigration of two members of the French minor nobility to America during the French Revolution and Directory.
£850
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HAMILTON, ‘Eliza’ [Elizabeth].
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the Period of...
London, J. Crowder for G. & J. Robinson, 1801.
Second edition of Hamilton’s first separately published work, a pseudo-Oriental satire on British society, in a very well-preserved gilt paper binding imitating calf.
£575
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[HAMBURG.]
A sammelband of material relating to the Great Fire of Hamburg.
[Germany, 1842.]
A fine and unusual volume of materials relating to the Great Fire of Hamburg of May 1842, comprising a long article by Joseph Mendelssohn published over five issues of Der Komet, special issues of several periodicals devoted to the disaster, a rare poem by Margarethe Hedwig Hülle, and...
£850
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GOLDONI, Carlo.
Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’ dilettanti della lingua italiana. Prima edizione italiana.
Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.
First edition printed in Italy of a collection of ten comedies by Goldoni, selected for their lack of complicated syntax and lack of Venetian dialect and idioms, published in Livorno for the benefit of the English community.
£175
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GONZAGA, Curzio.
Il Fido amante, poema eroico.
Mantua, [(colophon:) Giacomo Ruffinello, 1582].
First edition of an Italian Renaissance heroic poem in thirty-six cantos, much appreciated by Tasso and published the year after the first authorized edition of the Gerusalemme liberata.
£600
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ERNST, Max.
Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Roman. Premier [– Dernier] cahier …
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.
First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816, of the most famous of Max Ernst’s Surrealist ‘collage novels’, composed entirely of recomposed images drawn from illustrations to nineteenth-century novels, encyclopaedias, scientific journals, and engravings...
£4500
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DUFF, Alan Colquhoun.
‘J. D. Duff of Trinity 1860–1940 by Major-General A. C. Duff, C.B., O.B.E., M.C.’
July 1970.
Unpublished biography of the Scottish classical scholar and Cambridge Apostle James Duff Duff (1860–1940) written by his eldest son.
£225
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OVID.
In hoc volumine h[a]ec co[n]tinentur. P. Ovidii Nasonis vita. Heroidum epistol[a]e. Amorum libri III. De arte amandi lib....
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino, 19 October 1530.]
Very rare pocket-sized edition of selected works by Ovid published at Venice by Bernardino Stagnino (1483–1538).
£1250
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BEAUMONT, Joseph.
Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s: displaying the Intercourse betwixt Christ and the Soule …
London, Printed by John Dawson for George Boddington … 1648.
First edition of this lengthy religious epic representing the journey of the personified Soul from England to the Holy Land and back, written by Beaumont, one of the royalist fellows ejected from Cambridge in 1644.
£1250
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[LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]
Account of the Charity of Leicester’s Hospital. Its Foundation & Endowment, Government, Former...
Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.
A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century statues of the Lord Leycester Hospital, an almshouse founded by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, for impoverished or ageing former soldiers wounded in service.
£350
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MILLER, Philip.
The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and...
The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington, H. Woodfall, A. Millar, J. Whiston and B. White, G. Hawkins, J. Hinton, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes...
A very attractive copy of the most popular work of Philip Miller (1691−1771), the foremost British gardener of the eighteenth century, with five folding plates of botanical illustrations.
£165