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[ALMANACK.]
Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés de la Sainte Bible.
Paris, Janet, [1814].
A very rare biblical almanack for 1814 by Janet, attractively illustrated with engraved plates depicting episodes from the Old Testament.
£300
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[ALMANACK.]
Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга вторая [Al’manakh dlia vsekh. Kniga vtoraia; ‘Almanack...
St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”, 1911.
First edition, extremely rare, of the second literary annual published by the Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh (New Journal for Everyone) with poems by Blok, Gorodetsky, and Kuzmin, and short fiction by Chulkov, Gusev, Count Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, and Ivan Poroshin.
£200
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[ALMANACK.]
Velhagen & Klasings Almanach. Ein Biedermeier-Jahrbuch.
[Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, and Vienna, Velhagen & Klasing, [1927].
A literary almanack for 1927 with stories by several notable German, Austrian, and Swedish authors with a distinctly nineteenth-century flavour, illustrated with several handsome neo-Romantic coloured plates and illustrations.
£175
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[JUVENILE.]
Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni della prima infanzia.
Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp., [c. 1830].
Very rare Besançon-printed edition of these moral tales for children framed within the context of a parent–child dialogue, our copy presented by a father to his daughter.
£450
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[LOUIS XVI.]
Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs, suivi de détails peu connus sur son illustre famille.
Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].
A seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack, provincially printed at Lille in the wake of the Bourbon Restoration.
£475
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HIBBERD, James Shirley.
The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year Book … 24th annual issue.
London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.
Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890), one of the most successful Victorian gardening writers, founder of the Amateur Gardener and editor of the Gardener’s Magazine, the Vegetarian Advocate, and the Floral World and Garden Guide.
£100
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SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.
Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for MDCCCXXXI …
London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph] Ackermann, 1831.
The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s literary annual Forget-me-not for 1831, instrumental in introducing to English readers the concept of the German ‘gift book’, borrowing ‘from the French almanack and the German Taschenbüch to create the format of the first British-published...
£150
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SPENSER, Edmund.
The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930 [–1932].
Limited edition, numbered 123 of 375 copies, of the handsome Shakespeare Head Spenser, one of the most significant works of the press.
£875
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only collaboration with Mitchison but she arranged for the publication of his Left Wings over Europe the following year, and they remained friends until his death. 32 designs by Lewis served as the inspiration for Mitchison’s narrative.
£75
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ELLIOTT, Mary [née Belson].
Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …
London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton … and John Harris … [c. 1825].
‘Fourth edition, corrected and revised’. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).
£200
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UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.
The Tariff. A Bibliography. A select list of references.
Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1934.
First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive bibliography on tariffs, listing 6453 works in print relating to the rationale, theory, implementation, history, policies, administration, legislation, economic aspects, and controversies on tariffs. This extensive report was published in the year...
£200
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SIMMEL, Georg.
Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1908.
First edition. Simmel ‘had laid the foundations for the discipline of sociology long before Max Weber [who has essentially eclipsed him in the history of the discipline] turned to the problem of sociology as a special subject … The aim of sociology was to describe the forms of social interaction...
£150
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima a Francisco Irenico Ettelingiacensi exarata, eiusdem oratio protreptica,...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, August 1518.]
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century German antiquarian works in a contemporary binding by Konrad Kühneof Stuttgart from the library of the Elector of Bavaria.
£3500
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SCHUBERT, Franz, composer.
A fine contemporary volume of ten works containing eighteen Lieder including his most famous...
Vienna, 1821-1833.
A rare collection of Schubert Lieder in a contemporary binding, apparently as retailed by the Czech music publisher Berra, including three first editions.
£7500
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius.
De philosophia tomus primus.
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphe, 1546.
A small format Lyon edition of Cicero, in a contemporary calf gilt binding made in Lyon (or Paris), with later Bohemian ownership. This is one of numerous editions of classical texts printed by the prolific Sébastien Gryphe of Lyon, which were to be found in libraries across Europe, including...
£300
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[ALMANACKS.]
A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1816.
London, The Company of Stationers, 1816.
A standard collection of seven almanacks printed for the Company of Stationers.
£125
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[I CHING.]
WILHELM, Richard, and Cary F. BAYNES, translators; C. G. JUNG, foreword. The I Ching or Book of Changes.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.
Third edition, reprinted, in a striking moulded morocco binding by David Sellars, his first commission and most formative work.
£1950