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GIOIA [or GIOJA], Melchiorre.
Indole, estensione, vantaggi della statistica. Confutazione dell’ opuscolo che ha per titolo:...
Risposta alle obbiezioni fatte alle Tavole statistiche. Milan, Pirotta and Maspero, March 1809.
First and only edition of this rare work on the nature and necessity of statistics by Melchiorre Gioia, presented by the author to the former Minister for the Interior, Daniele Felici.
£1250
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HICKES, George, Runólfur JÓNSSON, and Edward BERNARD.
Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae …...
Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano … typis Junianis’, 1689 [– 1688].
First edition of a foundational work in the modern study of ancient Germanic languages and in the field of comparative linguistics, comprising the first appearances of Hickes’s monumental grammar of Old English and Gothic and of Bernard’s etymological dictionary, accompanied by a survey of Old...
£1200
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[BUXTON, Thomas Fowell, Sir.] Charles BUXTON, editor.
Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections...
London, [Spottiswoode & Shaw for] John Murray, 1848.
First edition of this memoir of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, edited by his son, and owned by Buxton’s cousin-in-law and contemporary in Parliament, Charles Barclay.
£185
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[HONE, William, et al.]
Sammelband of satirical pamphlets.
London, mostly William Hone, 1818-1821, 1824, 1830.
A sammelband of political satire from the early ninteenth century, predominantly relating to the radical writer and bookseller William Hone, including his three trials for blasphemy.
£1250
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[SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.
Hunting Scenes from Surtees.
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.
Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes from Surtees, with pages left blank for the inclusion of his as-yet unwritten introduction.
£850
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CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer; F. RHODES, editor; Angus McNEILL, illustrator.
The River War: An Historical Account...
[London, Spottiswoode & Co. for] London, New York, & Bombay (Mumbai), Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899.
First edition of Churchill’s second book, a history of Lord Kitchener’s conquest of Sudan in 1896-99 informed by his own service as both a cavalry officer and a war correspondent on the campaign, profusely illustrated with drawings and maps.
£2500
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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume I: The Birth of Britain [– Volume II: The New World;...
London, Cassel & Company Ltd, [1956; – 1956; – 1957; – 1958].
First editions, with dust-jackets, of Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples, his last major historical work.
£200
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NEPOS, Cornelius; Andreas SCHOTT, editor.
Opera quae quidem extant … Nunc denuo doctorum hominum accessionibus locupletata.
Frankfurt, Claude de Marne & the heirs of Johann Aubry, [1608–] 1609.
First edition thus, edited by Andreas Schott (1552–1629), with his extensive commentary alongside that of previous editors including Denys Lambin, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun.
£850
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[VACCINATION.]
Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone proclama del Comitato Centrale di Vaccina sedente in Siena. Abitanti...
Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.
A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting smallpox vaccination, issued in the short-lived Italian department of Ombrone under the First French Empire by the Central Vaccination Committee in Siena.
£650
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BROUGHAM, Henry, first Baron Brougham and Vaux.
Albert Lunel. A Novel ... In three Volumes ... London, Charles H.
Clarke ... [1872].
First edition, Sadleir’s ‘really scarce’ fourth state, of a touching memorial to the author’s daughter, with the undated Charles H. Clarke cancel titles.
£450
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CIRIA Y ESCALANTE, José de.
[Poemas.]
Madrid, Artes de la illustración, 1924.
Scarce first edition, no. 172 of 200 copies, a collection of thirteen poems by Ciria y Escalante, who died from typhus at the age of twenty-one, brought posthumously to press by the author’s friends, among them Lorca and Buñuel.
£1500
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[CURLL, Edmund, et al.]
An impartial History of the Life, Character, Amours, Travels, and Transactions of Mr. John Barber,...
London, Printed for E. Curll …, 1741.
First edition of this obituary pamphlet on the printer John Barber (c. 1675–1741), a friend and correspondent of Swift for many years, and a friend of Pope (there are bequests to both in his will).
£650
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[CURLL, Edmund, editor.]
Impartial Memorials of the Life and Writings of Thomas Hearne, M.A. by several Hands.
London: Printed in the Year 1736.
First separate edition (based on John Bilstone’s hostile preface to Hearne’s Vindication of those who take the Oath of Allegiance, 1731, and first printed in this form as part of volume III of Curll’s edition of Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence, 1735).
£450
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DONNE, John.
Poems … with Elegies on the authors Death …
London, Printed by M.F. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his Shop … 1635.
Second edition, adding seventeen new poems by Donne (and eleven false attributions), and three more elegies on his death.
£4500
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DRYDEN, John.
Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated to the Memory of the late Countess of Abingdon …
London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.
First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for Eleanora, late Countess of Abingdon, commissioned by her husband, the first Earl of Abingdon.
£275
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[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel, and Konrad Engelbert OELSNER.]
Notice sur la vie et les écrits de M. Joël Barlow, Ministre...
[Paris,] Smith [for the authors], 1813.
First edition, one of 500 copies, of this eulogy to the poet and diplomat Joel Barlow – a friend of Jefferson, Madison, Blake, and Paine – an association copy gifted by his widow, Ruth Barlow (née Baldwin) to the physicist and inventor Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with her manuscript...
£500
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[GRADUAL.]
Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from a Gradual.
Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.
A spectacular initial on the scale of a small panel painting. The verso includes the text ‘[neque] irrideant me inimici mei […] [un]iversi qui te expectant’ and the versicle ‘Vias tuas domine de[monstras]’, indicating that the initial would have introduced the introit ‘Ad te levavi...
£20000
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[GREY, Jane, Lady.]
‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.
[c. 1870?].
A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete, on the trial of Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England from 10 to 19 July 1553.
£175
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MANCINI, Celso.
Il padrino Christiano … per formare i cavallieri di Christo nel duello della morte. Diviso in tre parti …
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1592.
Rare first edition of a meditational work on this world and the next by Celso Mancini (1542–1612), canon regular of the Lateran, philosopher, and bishop of Alessano.
£950
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MESHCHERSKY, Elim Petrovich, Prince.
Les roses noires …
Paris, Amyot, 1845.
Scarce first edition of this anthology of French verse by Meshchersky, posthumously brought to press by his mother and friends, publishing – for the first time – Victor Hugo’s letter of condolence to the prince's mother.
£400