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[FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe.]
The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses. In twenty-four books. With the...
London, M. Matthews; A. Bettesworth; T. Bickerton; W. and J. Innys; and J. Wilford, 1721.
First illustrated edition of the first English translation of Francois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fenelon’s speculum principis, with twenty-four engraved plates and a map of Telemachus’ journey through the Mediterranean.
£550
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GAMON, Christophe de.
La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur Christofle de Gamon, contre celle du Sieur du Bartas.
[Geneva], Gédéon Petit, 1609.
Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than the first, of this poem on the creation of the world by Christophe de Gamon, this copy containing an early example of the use of the formula ‘collated and perfect’ by the librarian to the eighth Earl of Kinnoull.
£950
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PEROTTO, Niccolò, and Benedetto BRUGNOLO, editor.
Cornucopi[a]e nuper emendatum a domino Benedicto Brugnolo: ac...
[Milan], Giovanni Giacomo and brothers da Legnano [for Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler, 28 October 1510 (colophon).]
Scarce Milanese edition of Perotto’s Cornucopiae, an encyclopaedic commentary to the first book of Martial’s epigrams, here with a curious combination of woodcut initials and capital spaces with guide letters.
£1750
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CESAROTTI, Melchiorre, librettist.
Adria consolata festa teatrale nel solenne giorno natalizio della sacra R.I. Maesta’...
Venice, Vincenzo Rizzi, [1803].
First edition, very rare, of this libretto of Adria consolata, performed at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice on 12 February 1803 in honour of the birthday of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (1768–1835).
£275
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KERBY, Joseph, editor.
Joseph and his Brethren, a poem, in four books. Originally written by a Lady. Abridged and corrected...
Lewes, Sussex Press, Printed for the Editor and Sold by J. Baxter, 1818.
First and only edition, very rare, of a poetic retelling of the life of Joseph from Genesis 37–50, ‘originally written by a Lady’, provincially printed in Lewes, and seemingly owned by a subscriber, Sarah Jenner.
£450
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[JOHNSON, Richard.]
The History of France, from the earliest Period, comprehending every interesting and remarkable Occurrence...
London, E. Newbery, 1792.
Second edition of this history of France for children, revised from the first edition of 1786 to include the events of the French Revolution.
£300
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GAZZERA, Enrico.
Les veilles de Saint-Augustin, évêque d’Hippone; ouvrage traduit de l’Italien. Première édition Françoise …
Avignon, Veuve Seguin, an. XI 1803.
Uncommon first edition of a spiritual novel by the Piedmontese abbot Enrico Gazzera (1772–1838), Commander of the Order of Malta and a member of the Academy of Vaucluse, presented as a series of fourteen ‘vigils’ supposedly composed by St Augustine on his journey from Italy to Carthage....
£375
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[MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley.]
To the Imitator of the Satire of the second Book of Horace.
London: Printed for J. Roberts … 1733.
First edition under this title, ‘the most famous of attacks on Pope and perhaps the only one where Pope has found a worthy adversary’ (Guerinot).
£250
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PITTER, Přemysl.
Domovu i exilu [Home and Exile].
London, Čechoslovák-FCI, [1956].
First editions, association copies, of a series of radio transcripts by the humanitarian Protestant lay preacher and educator Přemysl Pitter (1895–1976), often described as the ‘forgotten Czech Schindler’, owned by the Czech-Jewish poet, novelist, and Holocaust survivor H.G. Adler.
£850
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SAULCY, Louis Félicien, Caignart de.
Note sur une inscription punique découverte au Cap Carthage en 1841. Lue à l’Académie...
[Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1843.
Rare offprint from the Journal Asiatique on a stone found at Carthage inscribed with Phoenician text, and a contribution to the deciphering and study of the Phoenician-Punic language.
£250
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PONS, Blaise Morin de.
Dissertatio medica inauguralis de inflammatione. Quam, favente summo numine, ex auctoritate rectoris magnifici,...
Utrecht, Joannes Broedelet, ‘Academiae Typographi’, 1760.
First and only edition, rare, of this inaugural medical dissertation on the causes and manifestations of inflammation by Blaise Morin de Pons at the University of Utrecht, illustrated with a magnificent medical frontispiece.
£475
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ZANCHI, Basilio.
Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum poetarum … nunc secondo trans Alpes editum.
Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.
Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s classical onomasticon from A to Z, providing a comprehensive list of deities, notable figures, and locations from the works of Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Ovid, and Propertius.
£375
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SMITH, Arthur Henderson.
Chinese characteristics …
Shanghai, printed and published at the “North-China Herald” office, 1890.
First edition of this important and influential work on China by the American missionary Arthur Henderson Smith (1845–1932), for many decades the most widely read American book on the Chinese.
£550
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SPENCER, Eleanor P.
The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic Press, 1977.
Limited edition, dedicated and presented to the Roxburghe Club by Robin Mackworth-Young, a member’s copy presented to Adrian McLaughlin.
£475
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[RICHEOME, Louis].
La vérité defendue pour la religion catholique. En la cause des Iesuites, contre le Plaidoyé d’Antoine...
Toulouse, Veuve de Jacques Colomiez, 1595.
First edition of Richeome’s vindication of the Jesuits against the charges made by Antoine Arnaud in his famous defence of the University of Paris in 1594. Richeome (1544-1625), known as the ‘French Cicero’, was one of the leading French Catholic controversialists of his age and played a crucial...
£1200
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POPE, Alexander.
The first Satire of the second Book of Horace, imitated in a Dialogue between Alexander Pope, of Twickenham …...
London: Printed by L. G. and sold by A. Dodd … E. Nutt … and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1733.
First edition, second impression, of the first of Pope’s Horatian imitations, written from his sickbed in response to the controversy over his Epistle to Burlington.
£150
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APPIA, Béatrice.
A fine collection of manuscript and typescript correspondence and humorous drawings, sent to her lover Jean Carteret,...
Paris, 1934–6.
An extraordinary series of love letters, by turns passionate, mocking and lyrical, with copious illustration, sent by the Swiss-born French artist Béatrice Appia (1899–1998), best known for her illustrated children’s books, to the philosopher and astrologer Jean Carteret (1906–1980), here addressed...
£7500
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THICKNESSE, Philip.
A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs and Austrian Netherlands … Vol. I [all published].
London: Printed in the Year 1784.
First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed, of a typically idiosyncratic account of a ‘quarrel-ridden tour’ of the Netherlands and Belgium by ‘the most irascible individual within the arena of late eighteenth-century print culture’ (Oxford DNB).
£1850
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[PFORZHEIMER, Carl H.]
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature, 1475–1700.
New York, Privately Printed [at the Morrill Press], 1940.
First edition, limited, numbered 17 of 150 copies and signed by Pforzheimer on the frontispiece portrait, from the library of the pre-eminent collector of English literature Robert S. Pirie.
£3500
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[ABC.]
Petite géographie amusante abécédaire nouveau offrant pour chaque lettre de l’alphabet une carte coloriée avec l’explication...
Paris, P.-C. Lehuby, [1851].
A charming and very rare ABC intended to teach children European geography, from A for Allemagne to Z for Zara in Dalmatia, published just a few years after the upheavals of the revolutions of 1848.
£3750