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HOLCROFT, Thomas.
The Family Picture; or, domestic Dialogues on amiable and interesting Subjects: illustrated by Histories, Allegories,...
London, printed for Lockyer Davis … printer to the Royal Society, 1783.
First edition of an early work by the radical playwright, translator, and novelist Thomas Holcroft, a series of dialogues by members of the fictional Egerton family, who gather in their library every evening to tell stories for their mutual instruction and amusement.
£950
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HUMBLOT, F.
Journal de voyage ...
France, June–September 1866.
A handsome manuscript on mining engineering, apparently unpublished, recording visits undertaken by the engineer F. Humblot to coal mines and iron works in eastern and southern France in 1866, containing well over one hundred beautifully executed technical drawings.
£3500
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JENKINS, Edward.
The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand. With twelve Illustrations by Barnard and Thomson.
[Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for] London and Belfast, William Mullan & Son, 1877.
A reissue of the illustrated edition, from a different publishing house, of this lively narrative tracing the ‘universally ruinous effect of drink on all classes of the English population’ (Sutherland) by Member of Parliament, anti-slavery campaigner, and ardent imperialist Edward Jenkins.
£100
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[JUVENILE.]
The Weasel Family.
London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson and Sons, [1860s?]
First edition, rare, of a rather charming Victorian picture-book, from ‘The Funny Animal Series’, later collected in Comical Creatures: a Picture Book for the Nursery (1867).
£375
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LAING, John.
An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen; containing a full description of that country, of the zoology of the north,...
[Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David Brown, Edinburgh, 1815.
First edition of Laing’s account of his voyage as a ship’s surgeon on a whaling vessel under Captain Scoresby to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago, in 1806 and 1807.
£850
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LE SAGE, Alain René.
The History of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the merry Batchelor. In two Volumes. From the French …
London, printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
First complete translation of Le Sage’s Histoire d’Estevanille Gonzalez, surnommé le garcon de bonne humeur (1734), itself a loose French adaptation of Vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzalez (1646), preserving only a few episodes of the Spanish original.
£1250
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LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.
Le Père Noël supplicié.
[Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]
Rare first separate appearance, a presentation copy, of Lèvi-Strauss’s article ‘Father Christmas tortured’, an ethnological analysis of French ecclesiastical authorities’ disapproval of the ‘paganisation’ of Father Christmas, describing the hanging and burning of an effigy at Dijon just...
£250
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LEIGHTON, J. Harold.
Collection of exhibition prints.
1920s–1940s.
An impressive portfolio of exhibition prints made using the innovative gum bichromate process by the renowned Pictorialist photographer J. Harold Leighton, an expert in the process, exhibited from England to continental Europe, United States, Canada, and India.
£7500
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MEGUSCHER, Francesco.
Memoria … in risposta al quesito additare la migliore e più facile maniera per rimittere i boschi nelle...
Milan, presso l’I.R. Istituto, 1847.
Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive report on the best means of reversing the deforestation of the mountains of Lombardy in a way that would be both environmentally sustainable and economically profitable.
£950
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PRIOR, Matthew.
Poems on several Occasions.
London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barber, 1718.
First edition, a subscriber’s copy on large paper, of one of the most imposing volumes of verse of the eighteenth century, in a strictly contemporary binding, with endleaves on the same paper stock as the text, our copy in a strictly contemporary binding and presented to the Scottish poet and songwriter...
£5000
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[RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé;] Johann Adam HILLER, translator.
Anecdoten zur Lebensgeschichte berühmter französischer,...
Leipzig, Lankisch, 1762.
First edition in German of this collection of amusing literary, philosophical and historical anecdotes on French men and women of letters from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, translated by the composer and conductor Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), one of Bach’s successors as Cantor in...
£250
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[ROYAL PRUSSIAN SOCIETY OF SCIENCES.]
Miscellanea berolinensia ad incrementum scientiarum, ex scriptis societati regiae scientiarum...
Berlin, Johann Christoph Papen, 1723.
First continuation of Leibniz’s Miscellanea berolinensia, the scientific periodical of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences, comprising articles on literature, mathematics, and mechanics.
£575
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SASSOON, Siegfried; Paul NASH, illustrator.
Nativity.
London, Faber & Gwyer, 1927.
First edition of this striking collaboration between Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Paul Nash (1889–1946).
£175
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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue] poete ad magnificu[m] atq[ue] illustrem Maximilianu[m]...
[(Colophon:) Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.]
First edition, very rare, of these neo-Latin poems by Sbruglio (c. 1480 – after 1525), whose work was esteemed by Erasmus and Pirckheimer, published in the year that Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor and addressed to his personal secretary.
£1800
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SYMONS, Arthur, editor.
The Savoy.
London, Leonard Smithers, 1896.
First edition of this outstanding, though short-lived, avant-garde periodical, with contributions by Yeats (poems, and the three-part essay on William Blake and his Illustrations to the Divine Comedy), Shaw, Conrad, Dowson, Havelock Ellis (on Nietzsche and Hardy), Lionel Johnson, Beerbohm,...
£3000
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[WAX MODELS.] Gaetano PECCI.
Broadside advertising an itinerant show of wax models. [Incipit:] ‘L’Artista Gaetano Pecci,...
[Venice], Casali stampatore, [c. 1815].
A seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising the Venice dates of a touring show of life-sized wax models of the Nativity, notable politicians and philosophers, and anatomical figures by the Milanese wax sculptor Gaetano Pecci, as well as an (apparently living) two-headed boy.
£500
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WIELAND, Christoph Martin; William SOTHEBY, translator.
Oberon, a Poem ...
London, Cadell and Davies, Edwards, Faulder, and Hatchard, 1798.
First octavo edition of Sotheby’s (1757–1833) celebrated translation of Wieland’s (1733–1813) German epic, Oberon, in part based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, instrumental in popularising Wieland’s works in England.
£500
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[WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig.] Ludwig HÄNSEL.
Two autograph postcards to Hermann Hänsel.
Vienna, 31 December 1933 and July 1938.
Two autograph postcards from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s close friend, the educator Ludwig Hänsel (1886–1959) to his son, Hermann Hänsel, with a Christmas card from Wittgenstein’s sister, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, testament to the intimate and long-lasting connection between the two families....
£650
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ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.
Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di Faustina Maratti sua consorte.
Nice, Société typographique, 1781.
Uncommon Nice printing of the collected poetry of one of the most prominent literary couples of early eighteenth-century Rome, Faustina Maratti (1679–1745) and her husband Giambattista Zappi (1667–1719).
£200
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[ALMANACK.]
Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake and Book of Christmas Amusements, for 1884. Contains:– Almanack for 1884,...
[London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].
An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly illustrated, printed for the Marylebone wine-merchant M. E. Revill at the Turner’s Arms.
£225