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MARKHAM, Sheila.
A Book of Booksellers: Conversations with the Antiquarian Book Trade, with an Introduction by Nicolas Barker.
London, 2007.
First paperback edition of the first collection of Markham’s interviews with antiquarian booksellers.
£20
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WINES, Enoch Cobb.
A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn’s Chinese Collection; with miscellaneous Notices relating to the Institutions...
Philadelphia, for Nathan Dunn, 1839.
Scarce first edition of a guide to the remarkable collection of Chinese artefacts accumulated by the American businessman Nathan Dunn (1782–1844).
£1250
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[WUHAN.]
武汉影集 [Wuhan yingji; ‘Wuhan Album’].
Wuhan, 国营长虹摄影图片社 [State Changhong Photographic Agency], [1950s].
Exceptionally rare promotional photobook depicting views of Wuhan with a striking cover and twelve gelatin silver prints tipped in.
£150
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YAMAZAKI Kane’ichirō 山崎 鋆一郎.
满洲の展望 [Manshū no tenbō, i.e. Views of Manchuria].
Dalian, Kane’ichirō Yamazaki for Kinjirō Hamai, 10 May Shōwa 7 [1932].
A highly illustrated photobook on Manchuria published soon after the Japanese invasion.
£650
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ARENA, Antoine.
Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima villa de Soleriis ad suos compagnones, qui sunt de persona friantes,...
London [i.e. Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou], 1758.
A fine copy of the 1758 edition of this popular macaronic poem by the Provençal poet Arena (c. 1508–63), first published in 1528, an early example of the genre and an important primary source for the basse-dance, a court dance performed in France and England between 1450 and 1550.
£1100
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ARNOLD, Edwin, Sir.
Enfin: A Poem, hitherto unpublished ...
New York, Thomas Perry Stricker for Julian Biddulph Arnold, February 1936.
First edition, one of only fifty copies hand-printed by the self-taught printer Thomas Perry Stricker, presented by the editor – the author’s son – and accompanied by his autograph note regarding the printing and planned circulation of the poem.
£350
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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, art editor; Henry HARLAND, literary editor.
The Yellow Book. An Illustrated Quarterly. Volume...
London [– & New York], Elkin Mathews & John Lane [– John Lane, The Bodley Head], and Boston, Copeland & Day, April 1894 [− April 1897].
An excellent set of the first edition of The Yellow Book, the decade-defining illustrated quarterly that captured the spirit of decadence and aestheticism and gave its name to ‘the Yellow Nineties’.
£1750
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BLANFORD, William Thomas.
Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia, made during the Progress of the British Expedition...
London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.
First edition of the geologist and naturalist William Thomas Blanford’s study of Abyssinian flora and fauna, undertaken during Britain’s military expedition through the country in 1868 and supplemented by hand-coloured lithographic plates, including those of bird species newly discovered by the...
£300
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BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.
Poems before Congress …
London, [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman and Hall, 1860.
First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s slender collection of seven poems on the cause of Italian independence, and one attacking slavery in the United States (‘A Curse for a Nation’), published a year before her death.
£200
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[CIRCUS.]
SCHREYER, Heinrich. Teatro del Corso.
Straordinario spettacolo di quadrupedi ammaestrati … Bologna, Tipi belle arti, [1846].
Seemingly unrecorded Bologna-printed broadside advertising a travelling show of ‘small Scottish horses’, monkeys, and dogs at the Teatro del Corso in Bologna on 30 November 1846, led by circus trainer Heinrich Schreyer, noted for his theatre of monkeys in Vienna.
£450
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CORNEILLE, Pierre.
Nicomède tragedie.
Rouen, Laurens Maurry, and Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1653.
Rare second edition (first 1651) of Corneille’s tragedy of sibling rivalry and the conflict of political and aristocratic ideals, set in Rome in the second century BC.
£750
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DVIGUBSKY, Ivan Alekseevich.
Опытъ естественной исторіи всѣхъ животныхъ Россійской...
Moscow, University Press, 1831.
First edition, rare, one of a series of six works on the flora and fauna of the Russian Empire, published 1829–1833 under the same general title. The present volume covers molluscs, including cephalopods and gastropods.
£2000
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FROST, Robert.
A collection of five Christmas Poems for 1953, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1963, all in the issues printed for distribution...
New York, Spiral Press, 1953–1963.
Five poetic Christmas cards by Robert Frost, one of which inscribed, sent by Frost to the poet and BBC broadcaster D.G. Bridson, the last of the Christmas cards arriving at Bridson’s home on the day Frost’s death was announced.
£1000
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FULBECKE, William.
An Historicall Collection of the continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians during...
London, Printed for William Ponsonby. 1601.
First edition of Fulbecke’s Historicall Collection, a ‘narrative history of the last years of the Roman republic’ (ODNB), one of very few such works by a Renaissance English writer, featuring much material on the rebellion of the nobleman Catiline, undoubtedly included as a reference...
£5250
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GAYOT DE PITAVAL, [François].
Question d’estat: fille reclamée par deux meres.
Paris, Nicolas le Gras, 1716.
Very rare first edition of this account by the famous advocate François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743) of a 1709 case in which a midwife had substituted a newborn girl who was then claimed both by the real mother and the woman to whom the baby had been given.
£350
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[CIRCUS.]
Programme of a show of acrobats and strongmen at the Teatro del Cocomero. [Incipit:] I. e R. Teatro del Cocomero per...
[Florence, 1833.]
Seemingly unrecorded advertisement and programme of a show of the two French strongmen, acrobats, and gymnasts Desiderio Manché and Desiderio Darras, together with one Vettorina Darras, likely the wife of the latter, arranged by the Accademia degli infuocati at Florence’s most famous theatre.
£375
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HARDY, Campbell.
Sporting Adventures in the New World; or, Days and Nights of Moose-Hunting in the Pine Forests of Acadia …
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.
First edition of this most interesting account of Nova Scotia, Canada, by the Royal Artillery officer Campbell Hardy (1831–1919).
£575
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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