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HALL, Trevor H.
The Winder sale of old conjuring books.
Leeds, W. S. Maney & Son Ltd., 1975.
First edition, number 52 of 250 copies, numbered and signed by the author, of this study of the public dispersal of the Leeds-based collector Roland Winder’s library of conjuring books.
£35
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TAULER, Johannes, attributed.
Exercitia D. Ioannis Thauleri piissima, super vita et passione salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi,...
Antwerp, Philippus Nutius, 1565.
Uncommon Antwerp edition of Laurentius Surius’s Latin translation of a devotional work on the life and passion of Christ attributed to the medieval German mystic Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361), in an attractive contemporary binding and with interesting manuscript notes.
£1500
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CASAUBON, Meric.
A Treatise concerning Enthusiasme, as it is an effect of nature but is mistaken by many for either divine inspiration,...
London, R.D. for Thomas Johnson, 1655 [i.e. 1654].
First edition of the first separate treatise on ‘enthusiasm’, a pioneering work of psychiatry avant la lettre and one of the most ground-breaking publications in a very public controversy. Of all Casaubon’s books, this has been shown as the most directly linked to the publication of John...
£1750
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BACON, Francis.
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica, nunc primum edita. Cura & fide Guilielmi Rawley...
London, R. Daniel, impensis Octaviani Pulleyn, 1658.
First edition, second issue of this collection of the philosophical, political, and theological writings of Bacon, including numerous essays previously unpublished, and the first appearance in Latin of a biographical sketch of the philosopher by William Rawley (c. 1588–1667), Bacon’s literary...
£1250
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AKHTARĪ, Mustafā bin Shams al-Dīn al-Qarahisārī.
Akhtarī Kabīr.
[Margus, Ottoman Balkans, early nineteenth century.]
A handsome copy of the important Arabic-Turkish dictionary known as Akhtarī Kabīr.
£3750
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BROOKE, Arthur de Capell, Sir.
Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to the North Cape ... Second edition.
London, printed for J. Rodwell, 1831.
Second edition (first 1823) of this account of the Scandinavian travels undertaken by Brooke (1791–1858) in 1820, illustrated with attractive lithographs, several after drawings by the author.
£400
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[ARISTOTLE – ELIAS.]
Biblioteca Armeno-Georgica. I. Commentarii in Aristotelis Categorias Eliae commentatori adscripti versio...
St Petersburg, Academiae Imperialis Scientarum, 1911.
Uncommon edition, published by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, of the Armenian translation of the commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories by the sixth-century Christian philosopher and commentator Elias.
£250
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ANNAN, James Craig, photographer.
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, the Property of...
[London,] Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods … 1882.
First edition of the sale catalogue for the Hamilton Palace Collection, notable for its early and lavish use of photographic illustrations; here including seventy-seven carbon prints, the catalogue was also available without illustrations (at 5s – the illustrated set cost 21s), a copy of which...
£600
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CLARI, Giovanni Carlo Maria.
Manuscript score of a collection of six two-part madrigals: ‘N° VI Madrigali a due voci’.
Italy, mid-eighteenth century.
A collection of secular madrigals for two voices by the composer Clari (1677–1754), written for soprano/bass, soprano/alto, and soprano/tenor, each with instrumental bass accompaniment.
£1800
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GRUBBE, Margaret Julia Maria.
Archive of drawings, watercolours, and photographs.
England and Scotland, c. 1900 – 1960s.
A charming archive of the Suffolk artist Margaret Grubbe (1911–97), granddaughter of the painter John Seymour Lucas, comprising dozens of family photographs and over 150 of her drawings and watercolours, tracing her development as an artist from her childhood into middle age.
£1500
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[NAPOLEONIC ITALY.]
Alla società delle gentilissime signore di Moncalieri dilettanti del giuoco del tavolazzo. Sonetto bernesco-morale...
Turin, Giacomo Fea, 1799.
An unrecorded sonnet addressed to the to the female players of tavolazzo – a Piedmontese sport along the lines of target shooting – at the Society of the Gentlewomen of Moncalieri; the rules of the sport would be formally laid out in 1780.
£375
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MILHAUD, Darius, and Stéphane MALLARMÉ.
Deux petits airs …
[Paris, Éditions de la nouvelle revue française, 1921.]
First edition of Milhaud’s polytonal musical setting of two poems by Mallarmé, published as a New Year supplement for La revue musicale.
£750
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RAM RAZ.
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús … with forty-eight Plates.
London, John William Parker for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1834.
First edition, scarce on the market, of this pioneering and handsomely illustrated essay on Indian architecture by the linguist and lawyer Ram Raz (c. 1790–c. 1833).
£975
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THOMPSON, George.
Travels and adventures in Southern Africa ... Comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony. With...
London, Henry Colburn, 1827.
Second edition of Thompson’s account of his travels in South Africa following the first single-volume quarto edition of the same year.
£600
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HOLLAR, Wenceslaus, attributed.
[Portraits of celebrated Courtezans.]
Nineteenth century?
A famous series of portraits depicting Restoration-era London courtesans, long attributed to Hollar, but that attribution rejected by Pennington and New Hollstein.
£1200
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[‘FULIGNATI, Giuntino’ (pseud. Tommaso BUONI?)].
Della famosissima compagnia della lesina.
Dialogo, capitoli, e ragionamenti … Vicenza, Giorgio Greco, 1601.
Scarce humorous dystopia of indigence, first edition thus: the first to include a section specifically directed at women.
£650
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[USTONSON, Onesimus.]
The Anglers Assistant being an Epitomy of ye whole Art of Angling wherein is shewn at one View ye Harbours,...
Ustonson [c. 1815?]
A fine and very rare broadside angling guide, the text probably written by Onesimus Ustonson (b. 1736), fishing tackle manufacturer and inventor of the multiplying reel, who had supplied equipment to Joseph Banks for Cook’s second voyage in 1772.
£1000
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ROTHERY, Charles William.
Notes on a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler. With numerous...
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Keswick, James Ivison, [1855].
First edition, second issue (with the mounted lithographs coloured) of this handsomely illustrated account of Rothery’s yachting cruise to the fjords of Norway, ‘charming and sublime scenery, which the sketches are intended, though slightly, to pourtray’ (Preface).
£250
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TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).
Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.
First Italian edition of William of Tyre’s (1130–1186) important account of the first two crusades and of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the addition of a seventeenth-century manuscript detailing a uniquely Italian rendition of the tale of the Wandering Jew.
£2800
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QUETELET, M. A.
Letters Addressed to H. R. H. the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities, as Applied...
London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849.
First edition in English. ‘This book is really an original, if elementary, treatise on probability and social statistics, written in the form of a series of letters to the Belgian king’s two nephews, Ernest (the duke to whom the book was dedicated) and Albert (who by 1846 was husband to Queen...
£550