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P. Ovidii Nasonis operum …
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham] Elzevir, 1629.
First Elzevir edition, newly edited by Daniel Heinsius based on the Plantin edition of 1578.
£500
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[PSALMS.]
The whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English Meter by Tho. Sternhold, Jo. Hopkins, W. Whittingaam [sic],...
London, printed by T. C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1637.
A very attractive pocket psalm book with printed music, ruled in red throughout and in a handsome binding.
£2750
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REFUGE, Eustace de; Girolamo CANINI, translator.
Trattato della corte del Signor di Refuge. Tradotto di Francese in questo...
Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1621.
First edition in Italian, rare, of this treatise on courtly behaviour attributed to the French statesman Eustache de Refuge (1564–1617), a seventeenth-century bestseller combining Machiavelli with Castiglione, with folding letterpress flowcharts by the translator, Giuseppe Canini, who had also produced...
£1850
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SAINT AULAIRE, Achille.
Voyage autour du monde par St. Aulaire.
[Clichy, Maurice Loignon for] Paris, Arnauld de Vresse, [c. 1864].
A hand-coloured copy of this scarce and charming juvenile guide to twenty-four countries across the globe. The plates are adapted from those first published in Paris by Aubert c. 1845 under the title Récréations instructives: voyage pittoresque à travers le monde (Gumuchian 5037).
£1250
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SULIVAN, Richard Joseph.
Philosophical Rhapsodies. Fragments of Akbur of Betlis. Containing Reflections on the Laws, Manners, Customs...
London, printed for T. Becket … Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and their Royal Highnesses the Princes, 1784–5.
First edition of this eccentric travel-inspired treatise drawing upon the author’s experience in India and his travels in Europe.
£750
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[COX], Michael, Bishop of Ossory.
A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the 20th Day of March, 1747,...
Dublin, George Grierson, 1748.
First and only edition of this sermon promoting Charter Schools in Ireland, with an appendix on the Society and its recently opened Schools.
£185
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FERRER, Vincent, Saint.
Sermones … de tempore pars hiemalis [– de tempore pars estivalis; – de sanctis].
Strasbourg, [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1493 [– 20 December 1493; – 31 January 1494].
A substantial volume of sermons by the prolific sermoniser St Vincent Ferrer (Vicente Ferrer, 1350–1419), a Dominican from Valencia who travelled widely across Europe to preach the word of God. In particular he preached to the Jews of Castile, in line with the anti-Jewish sentiment of the Antipope...
£4500
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NAVARRETE, Domingo Fernández.
Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos, y religiosos de la monarchia de China. Descripcion breve...
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon for Florian Anisson, 1676.
Scarce first edition, one of the most important early studies of Chinese history, religion, philosophy, and culture, by the Spanish Dominican Domingo Navarrete (d. 1689).
£4750
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PHILOPONUS, Joannes.
Υπομνημα εις τα περι ψυχης βιβλια του Αριστοτελους … Comentaria...
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bartolomeo Zanetti and Giovanni Francesco Trincavelli, November 1535.]
Editio princeps of the ancient commentator John Philoponus’ commentary to Aristotle’s On the intellect, edited by the Venetian Vettore Trincavelli (1496–1568), responsible for the publication of several Greek editiones principes. The authorship of Book 3 of the commentaries...
£4000
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HELVÉTIUS, Claude Adrien.
De l’homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles et de son éducation.
Londres, Société Typographique [recte The Hague], 1773.
A rare edition, published in the same year as the first, which appeared in mid-June 1773, eighteen months after the author’s death. ‘In this edition, there is no comma after “intellectuelles”, line 6 of title reads “et de son”and the titlepage ornament is a flower with leaves around...
£1200
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MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.
An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its past and present Effects on human Happiness;...
London, Johnson, 1803.
Second edition, first published 1798. Called the ‘Great Quarto’, it is the first to bear Malthus’s name and is so revised by Malthus as to be ‘regarded by [him] as a substantially new work’ (ODNB).
£5750
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MILLAR, John.
Observations concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society. Under the following Heads: I. Of the Ranks and Condition...
London, J. Murray, 1773.
Second London edition, ‘greatly enlarged’, first published 1771.
£1750
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MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat.
Miscellaneous Pieces … translated from the new Edition of his Works in Quarto printed...
London, Wilson and Durham, 1759.
Only edition thus, apparently the first appearance in English of these pieces.
£525
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FERGUSON, Adam.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society.
Edinburgh, A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1768.
Third edition, corrected: the edition owned by Thomas Jefferson.
£700
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CAREY, Henry Charles.
The Past, the Present and the Future.
Philadelphia, Carey & Hart, 1848.
First edition. Carey vigorously appeals for tariff protection and attacks the Ricardian theory of rent. He argues that ‘the historical sequence of cultivation at least in the United States was the exact reverse of the one proposed by Ricardo, namely, from inferior to superior land, apparently...
£375
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COMTE, Auguste.
Cours de philosophie positive.
Paris, Bachelier, 1830–1842.
First edition, an attractive set, of Comte’s principal work, the outline of positivism.
£1600
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GILBRETH, Frank B.
Motion Study. A Method for increasing the efficiency of the Workman.
New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1911.
First edition, rare, of this pioneering work in scientific management. The field of ‘motion study’ was developed by engineer Frank B. Gilbreth and his wife, psychologist Lillian M. Gilbreth, in order to increase the efficiency of work processes through methods that promoted the welfare of...
£550
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KÜLPE, Oswald.
Grundriss der Psychologie. Auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt.
Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893.
First edition of this important work in the development of experimental psychology.
£400
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[PRATT, Samuel].
The regulating Silver Coin [sic], made practicable and easie, to the Government and Subject. Humbly submitted...
London, Bonwick, 1696.
First and only edition. William Lowndes had the Treasury pay for this argument for the recoinage of the currency of 1696, and it was supportive of his policy of devaluation. Pratt calls for regulation of the mint and an end to clipping, hoarding and the exportation of coins. He develops the idea...
£575
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COMBE, George.
Phrenology applied to Painting and Sculpture.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1855.
First edition, scarce in commerce. George Combe (1788–1858) was a Scottish lawyer and a leading exponent of phrenology, co-founding in 1820 the Edinburgh Phrenological Society. This is an art historical retrospective using phrenology as the basis for an understanding of beauty and artistic ability,...
£350