WYLD, James.

Map of the islands of Japan, Kurile &c. and part of the Chinese dominions and a sketch of the river Amoor and the...

London, James Wyld, 1859–1860.

Rare four-sheet map of Japan, the Russian Far East, Mongolia and Southern Siberia, Korea, and China’s central coast, by James Wyld the younger (1812–1887), published just a few years after the end of Japan’s long isolationist period.

£2750

ASCHAM, Roger.

A Report and Discourse … of the Affaires and State of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court, during certaine...

London, Printed by John Daye … [1570?].

First edition. Ascham’s account of his time in Germany as secretary to Sir Richard Morison, ambassador to the court of Emperor Charles V, takes the form of a letter to the courtier John Astley.

£2000

CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of.

Letters written … to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq; late Envoy Extraordinary...

London: Printed for Dodsley … 1777.

Eighth edition, a very pretty set.

£250

[ALEXANDRIA, Battle of, 1801.]

Plan of the action of the 21st of March fought near Alexandria by the French under Gn. Menou and...

A detailed plan accurately illustrating the movements of the British and French armies at the battle of Alexandria. In it, Sir Ralph Abercrombie was fatally wounded but the action was considered a British victory as the French were forced out of Egypt soon after. This plan is signed ‘J. W. Hamilton’.

£650

[PSALMS.]

Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per Eobanum Hessum. Annotationes Viti Theodori Noribergensis, quae vice commentarii...

Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for] Jacques Dupuys ‘sub insigni Samaritanae’, [August] 1550.

Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms of David in Latin as edited by the Lutheran theologian Eoban of Hesse (1488–1540) with commentary by Luther’s housemate, associate, and sometime secretary Veit Dietrich (1506–1549).

£1250

BOOK OF HOURS,

in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin and including the beginning of Psalm 97. 

Flanders or northern France, early 14th century. 

An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally early Book of Hours.  The defective parent manuscript, which also contained a Vie de sainte Marguerite in French rhyming verse, was lot 76 in Sotheby’s sale ‘Western Manuscripts and Miniatures’ of 17 December 1991, subsequent to which the leaves...

£2250

BIBLE,

in Latin, Jeremiah 30, 6–32,19 and 44,21–48,24. 

Germany or perhaps Switzerland, mid-12th century.

From a folio Romanesque Bible, this fragment contains one of the most significant passages by the seventh/sixth-century BC Hebrew prophet Jeremiah. ‘Jeremiah’s most important prophecy concerning the future is one regarding the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31–34) … He prophesied of a time...

£3750

SARUM BREVIARY,

in Latin.

England, 1st quarter of 15th century.

A fragment of 21 leaves from a portable Sarum Breviary, with nineteenth-century Staffordshire provenance.

£4250

GROUCHY, Nicolas de. 

Praeceptiones dialecticae, Nicolao Gruchio Rotomagensi authore.  Disputatio eiusdem, quid de nomine dialectices...

Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1563. 

An apparently unrecorded edition of Grouchy’s abstract of his lectures on logic and Aristotelian dialectic.  The philologist Nicolas de Grouchy (1510–1572) spent twelve years in Bordeaux (1535-47) as professor of rhetoric at the Collège de Guyenne (the top class was called ‘Classe de Rhétorique’),...

£750

MÖSSBAUER, Rudolf Ludwig.

‘Kernresonanzabsorption von Gammstrahlung in Ir191’ [in: Die Naturwissenschaften … fünfundvierzigster...

Berlin, Springer, November 1958.

First appearance of Mössbauer’s PhD work on the recoilless nuclear fluorescence of gamma rays in 191 iridium, later named the Mössbauer effect, which involves the recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by an atomic nucleus bound in a solid. The effect was later used by Robert...

£200

RUSH, John; Jacob F. SHEEK, editor.

The Hand-Book to veterinary Homoeopathy, or the homoeopathic Treatment of the Horse,...

New York & San Francisco, Boericke & Tafel, 1876.

Later American edition of a rare hand-book to veterinary homoeopathy. The text, first published in 1853, offers homoeopathic remedies for a variety of ailments, prefaced by a defence of the principles of the practice.

£275

WUNDT, Wilhelm; James Edward CREIGHTON and Edward Bradford TITCHENER, translators.

Lectures on human and animal psychology....

London and New York, Sonnenschein and Macmillan, 1894.

First edition in English, first published 1863-1864. A significant appearance in English considering the establishment of Sully’s laboratory at University College London in 1898, Wundt’s lectures developed a scientific link between psychology and anatomy through experiments on sensation, by...

£100

SUETONIUS Tranquillus, Gaius, and HERODIAN OF ANTIOCH.

Vita di duodeci imperatori… nuovamente tradotta in volgare. Historia...

Venice, Venturino di Rossinelli [for Curzio Navò], 1539.

Annotated copy of a scarce edition of this early Italian translation of Suetonius and Herodianus, two works of ancient history which explore the lives and deeds of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian, and from Commodus to the Year of the Six Emperors in 238. The translator of this vernacular...

£1250

LEE, Edwin.

The Principal Baths of Germany [– The Baths of Nassau Baden and the adjacent Districts; – The Baths of central...

London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani & Cp., and Frankfurt & Wiesbaden, Charles Jugel 1840 [– 1841].

First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s two-volume survey of palliative bathing spots in Germany, including an appendix on the ‘Cold Water Cure’, a combination of induced sweating and cold-water therapy ‘of late very much in vogue’ (appendix).

£350

DICKENS, Charles; Hablot Knight BROWNE and George CATTERMOLE, illustrators.

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1840–41.

First edition in book form, of Charles Dickens’ weekly periodical, featuring a collection of short stories and his two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.

£175

DAVID, [Pierre Drapeyron de].

A History of the Campaigns of General Pichegru, containing the Operations of the Armies of the North,...

London, for G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1796.

First edition in English, printed in the same year as the French original, of this account of General Pichegru’s campaigns during the early French Revolutionary Wars.

£185

MOORE, Thomas.

Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance … eleventh Edition.

London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1822.

An early edition of Thomas Moore’s popular orientalist poem Lalla Rookh, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.

£450

SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.

The Speech … in the House of Commons, (8th December 1802) on the Motion for the Army Establ shment...

London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1802

First edition of Sheridan’s impressive speech on the army estimates, in support of funding precautions against Buonaparte’s aggression – ‘the crisis in which we are placed … so big with tremendous importance, so pregnant with mighty difficulties, so full of apprehensions and dangers ….’...

£75

BUTLER, Samuel.

Hudibras, in three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars … with Annotations and an Index.

London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood [and others], 1802.

An illustrated pocket edition of Butler’s Hudibras, the most celebrated satire and one of the most influential poems of the seventeenth century, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.

£450

[DRESS HABITS.]

Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.

[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.

Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.

£350