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ANNE, Queen.
Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham Howe as Paymaster General, to pay Major General James Mailand for the regiment...
27 January 1708/9.
An attractive document, bringing together the signatures of both Queen Anne and the future Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
£1750
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BARCLAY, Arthur Kett.
‘Journal of a Tour through Cornwall and Wales 1826 by Arthur Kett Barclay’.
18 July–13 October 1826.
A most interesting diary recording a tour of England and Wales undertaken by the twenty-year-old Arthur Kett Barclay in 1826, especially valuable for its descriptions of English and Welsh mining in the late Industrial Revolution.
£3500
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[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]
An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript. With Notes critical...
London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.
Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue comprising the remainder sheets of the first edition of 1786 with a cancel title-page (printed by S. Gosnell) – of Henley’s English translation of Beckford’s Gothic masterpiece, first published against the author’s wishes and predating publication...
£1500
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[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.]
AUCHER, Paschal. A Grammar Armenian and English ...
Venice, at the Press of the Armenian Academy, 1819.
First edition, scarce, of Byron’s Armenian Grammar, ‘the first English-language attempt to explain the structures of classical Armenian’, also containing ‘Byron’s only surviving verse translation of Armenian poetry’ (Rizzoli), but probably published without his knowledge.
£3250
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CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of.
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the Year 1641. With...
Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1702[–4].
First edition of Clarendon’s monumental History of the Civil War, with a presentation inscription by his son Henry Hyde, the second Earl (1638–1709).
£3250
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[COLVIL, Samuel.]
‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.
1670s?
A fine early manuscript of the second part of Colvil’s rollicking ‘Scottish Hudibras’, a satire on Scots Presbyterianism and sectarian wrangling between non-conformists in general. It circulated widely in manuscript before its first publication in 1681, when Colvil complained of ‘Transcribers,...
£1250
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HARRIS, James.
Three Treatises the first concerning Art the second concerning music painting and poetry the third concerning happiness...
London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.
Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From the Author’, of the revised second editions of these two works on art and language by the philosopher and latterly politician James Harris.
£600
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HIPPOCRATES.
The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes review’d and rendred into English: according to the Translation of...
London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.
First edition of this translation of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, a succinct summary of medical advice directed at the practitioner. The first English translation was published in 1610, and a second version, derived from it in 1655. Here the aphorisms are entirely re-arranged by topic...
£850
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IRWIN, Eyles.
The Triumph of Innocence; an Ode. Written on the Deliverance of Maria Theresa Charlotte, Princess Royal of France,...
London, W. Bulmer for G. Nicol, 1796.
First and only edition, very rare, of this anti-Jacobin poem celebrating the release of Marie Thérèse of France (1778–1851), eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, from the Temple prison, where she had been held since 1792 as the rest of her family were gradually removed and executed.
£800
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KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.
The most remarkable Year in the Life of Augustus von Kotzebue; containing an Account...
London, Richard Phillips, 1802.
First edition in English of Kotzebue’s Das merkwürdigste Jahr meines Lebens (1801), an account of his surprise arrest at the Russian border in 1800 on suspicions of being a Jacobin, and his transport to Tobolsk in Siberia. With some royal flattery, Kotzebue won his freedom back from...
£500
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KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.
The Constant Lover, or William and Jeanette: a Tale, from the German … To which is...
London, John Bell, 1799.
First edition in English, rare, of ‘Geprüfte Liebe’, a romance first published in Kotzebue’s Die jüngsten Kinder meiner Laune (1793–7), and then published separately in 1799, prefaced here by a summary translation of his literary autobiography.
£1600
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KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.
The Guardian Angel. From the German … A Story for Youth.
London, J. Wright for Vernor and Hood, and J. Harris, 1802.
First edition in English (and the first separate edition in any language?) of Kotzebue’s novella ‘Der Schutzgeist’, not his later play of that title, but a short story published in Gottlieb Wilhelm Becker’s Erholungen (Recreations) in 1797, where Kotzebue claimed it was a based...
£650
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KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.
Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland, to Paris, in the Year 1804 … Translated from...
London, Richard Phillips, 1804.
First edition in English, quickly translated from Kotzebue’s Erinnerungen aus Paris (September 1804). As the German title suggests, the Travels is in fact largely devoted to Paris, with lively observations on Napoleon, Madame Recamier, the Musée des monuments français and Musée...
£500
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[MAGRATH, Cornelius.]
‘Ein Irländer Riss …’
Nuremberg, 1756.
A delightful promotional image for the Continental tour of ‘The Irish Giant’ Cornelius Magrath (1736/7–1760), ‘To be seen in Nuremberg in the month of July 1756’.
£3000
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[PRAYERS.]
The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts. Composed of Meditations and Prayers for every Day in the Week: with Devotions...
London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.
Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection of prayers and meditations, complete in six parts, bound for the pocket.
£1200
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[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]
Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum serenissimi Regis Georgii II. et gratulatio in augustissimi Regis...
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.
First edition, one of fifty copies on large paper, an exceptional survival in the most luxurious (and fragile) of presentation bindings: full purple velvet with gold-fringed purple silk ties, typically reserved for a handful or fewer of royal copies.
£10000
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[POPE, Alexander.]
The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books. The second Edition.
‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed for A. Dodd. 1728.’
Second edition, rare, and of considerable interest, largely a reimpression of the first edition but with gathering B, most of C, and D4v reset.
£4500
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PORTER, [Jane].
Thaddeus of Warsaw … By Miss Porter.
London, A. Strahan for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
First edition of Porter’s first major work, ‘a super-rarity among Gothic Romantic novels’ (Sadleir), and very scarce in commerce.
£12500
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PORTER, [Jane].
Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks, by Miss Porter …
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
First edition, uncommon, of a collection of aphorisms and observations drawn from Sidney’s prose works, edited and with additional commentary by the novelist Jane Porter (1775–1850).
£600
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PORTER, [Jane].
Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes … by Miss Porter. The fifth Edition.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous first book. The book, which led to a friendship between Porter and General Kościuszko, quickly became a best-seller (a new edition every year to 1806, eleven by 1826). The ‘Advertisement to the Second Edition’, commented at her pleasure at ‘totally...
£500