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AIKEN, Conrad.
The Collected Novels … Introduction by R.P. Blackmur.
New York, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, [1964].
First edition, inscribed: ‘For Geoffrey and Joyce [Bridson] con amore but o at what a distance from Conrad 1964’.
£150
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[PLAYING CARDS.]
Complete Deck of 52 Playing Cards.
London, Bancks Brothers, successors to Hunt & Sons, c. 1849.
An extremely well-preserved complete deck of playing cards by Bancks Brothers.
£200
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MITCHEL, William.
A tract volume of fifteen works, including five very rare broadsides.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1711-1720.
A fabulous tract volume of works by the ‘odd half-crazy varlet of a tinsmith' and pamphleteer William Mitchel (1670-1740?), author of some fifty ‘books’ sold from his shop in Edinburgh (and briefly, in 1719, Glasgow). Of the fifteen works here, ten are are known in three copies or fewer in ESTC....
£8500
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[ROWE, Harry.] CROFT, John, editor[?], [and Dr. Alexander HUNTER?].
Memoirs of Harry Rowe: constructed from Materials found in...
York, Printed by Wilson & Spence. Sold by all the Booksellers in the City and County of York, [1806].
First edition of this ‘biography’ of the puppet-showman and trumpeter Harry Rowe. It is perhaps loosely woven around facts. The long second portion of the text is one of Rowe’s skits, ‘The Sham Doctor, a musical Farce’, in which a quack treats a series of eighteen comic patients. It...
£1500
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DEVOTO, Daniel J.
Las Elegias de Empalme.
[Buenos Aires], 1940.
First edition, limited to 170 copies, of this small group of poems from early in the career of the Argentinian poet and music historian Daniel J. Devoto (1916–2001).
£300
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[SKETCHBOOK.]
Album of pencil sketches.
Bristol and South-West of England, c. 1892–1904.
A charming turn-of-the-century album of pencil sketches of the South West of England, seemingly by an accomplished Bristol amateur artist.
£300
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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, Felix.
Symphonie No. 3, componirt und Ihrer Majestät der Königin Victoria von England zugeeignet …...
Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, [1843].
First edition of Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony. It was first conceived when Mendelssohn visited Scotland during 1829, but the composer only began work in earnest ten years later.
£1500
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CASTRO, Manuel de.
Lámpara (Vigilias de la cruz y la flauta) Poemas.
[Montevideo], Fernandez y Gonzales, 1938.
First edition, a presentation copy with an inscription and sketches by the Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet Manuel de Castro (1896–1970).
£850
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CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Thaddaeus UGOLETUS, editor.
Opera.
Venice, Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 6 June 1495.
A collection of late Roman poetry composed at the court of the Emperor Honorius, with notable provenance.
£3500
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BRACCIOLINI, Francesco.
Della croce racquistata, poema heroico libri XV.
Paris, René Ruelle, 1605.
First edition of Francesco Bracciolini’s epic poem modelled on Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1591), narrating the recovery of the True Cross by the seventh-century Byzantine Emperor Heraclius from the Persian Emperor Khosrow II, and its return to Jerusalem in 629–630 AD. It is possible...
£1500
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TERENCE.
Comediae sex. A M. Anto. Mureto locis prope innumeris suo nitore restitutae …
Carmagnola, Marcantonio Bellone, 1590.
A rare provincial printing of a school edition the plays of Terence, printed in the small town of Carmagnola in Piedmont, which had become part of the Duchy of Savoy only two years earlier, after almost half a century under French domination. The text is taken from earlier printings of Marc Antoine...
£375
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SALLUST.
C. Sallustius Crispus cum veterum Historicorum fragmentis.
Leiden, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634.
The first small format Elzevir printing of Sallust with a contemporary ink sketch of a Peeping Tom at the rear of the volume. The volume contains the two major works of Sallust, the Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline, along with the surviving fragments of his annalistic history of his...
£950
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[HIGHLANDS.]
Fifth Report of the Commissioners for Roads and Bridges in the Highlands of Scotland.
[London, Hansard, 1811.]
A rare Parliamentary report on the construction of roads and bridges in Scotland, with a fine map by Aaron Arrowsmith showing the roads already constructed or under contract (in red) and the roads under consideration (in green).
£300
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[HALKERSTON, Helenus.]
Considerations on Man, in his natural as well as moral State. Being an humble attempt towards a plain, simple,...
Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and J. Reid, 1764.
First edition, a presentation copy ‘from the E[arl] of Mortoun’, the dedicatee.
£600
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[BOEMUS, Johann. William WATERMAN, trans.]
The Fardle of Facions. London. 1555. In three Volumes …
Edinburgh, E. &. G. Goldsmid, 1888.
Limited edition, apparently one of two copies printed on vellum, though this copy is unnumbered. The limitation leaf specifies an edition of 97 copies on paper and two on vellum.
£1500
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[AGONIZANTS.]
Règles et indulgences de la confrérie des agonisans, erigée dans l’eglise abbatiale de RR. PP. Bénédictins...
Besançon, Jean-Mathieu Couché, [1769].
Very rare set of rules for male and female members of a confraternity of Agonizants established at the Benedictine abbey in Besançon, in the east of France.
£450
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AUGUSTINE, Saint.
Regula beatissimi patris Aurelii Augustini Hiponensis episcopi de communi vita clericorum cum expositione D. Ugonis...
Venice, Bernardino Fasani for the Canons Regular of the Lateran, April 1561.
Very rare Venetian edition of the famous monastic Rule of St Augustine, with commentary attributed to Hugh of Saint Victor, in the original Latin with interspersed Italian translation.
£550
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[AVRANCHES.]
Manuale Abrincense, autoritate illustrissimi ac reverendissimi D.D. Josephi-Francisci de Malide, Abrincensis episcopi,...
Avranches, François le Court, 1769.
Rare provincially printed liturgical manual issued by Bishop Joseph-François de Malide (1730–1812) for priests serving in the diocese of Avranches in Normandy.
£350
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BELLARMINE, Robert.
De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis liber unus. Cum adiunctis indicibus undecim, et brevi chronologia ab orbe condito...
Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1613.
First edition of a remarkable biobibliography of ‘ecclesiastical writers’ by the great Jesuit theologian and controversialist, Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621), one of the most important figures of the Counter-Reformation.
£350
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BESSE, Pierre de.
Conceptions theologiques sur tous les dimanches de l’année, preschées en divers lieux par Me Pierre de Besse...
Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1610.
Very rare first editions of two works by the noted French priest and preacher Pierre de Besse (1567–1639), in a contemporary devotional binding.
£1500