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[MICROSCOPY – RABIQUEAU, Charles.]
Manifeste littéraire, servant de supplément aux journaux sur le livre du Microscope Moderne,...
Geneva and Paris, the author and Demonville, 1781.
Only edition of this prospectus-cum-supplement to Le Microscope Moderne, an enthusiastic work promoting the use of microscopes by the popular scientist Charles Rabiqueau.
£250
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[TAIWAN.]
中華民國四十六年國慶閱兵大典集影 Album of the Grand Review of the National Day of the Republic of China...
[Taiwan, 1957.]
A fine commemorative album documenting the military alliance between the United States and the Kuomintang/Republic of China, apparently unrecorded and made for presentation to a high-ranking dignitary at a tense time for both Cross-Strait and US–Taiwan relations.
£1500
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[UDALL, John, attributed?]
A dialogue, concerning the strife of our Churche: wherein are aunswered divers of those uniust accusations,...
London, Robert Waldegrave, 1584.
First edition of a lively dialogue set in an inn, between four characters: Philedonos, the innkeeper, Orthodoxos, a puritan cleric, Philodoxos, a lawyer, and Philochrematos, a bishop’s chaplain. The preface ‘To the Reader’ makes clear the anti-clerical and anti-Catholic intent of the work, but...
£3500
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WAUCHOPE, George.
Georgii Vauchopii Scoti de veteri populo Romano tractatus.
Caen, ‘apud viduam Iacobi Bassi, typographi regii’, 1595.
First edition of a work on the people of ancient Rome by the Scottish scholar George Wauchope, published at Caen by Françoise Le Bas.
£400
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SUETONIUS.
Caii Suetonii Tranquilli quae extant; et in eum M. Zuerii Boxhorni, notae. Editio novissima, rerum nominumq[ue] propriorum...
Amsterdam, ex officina Henrici et viduae Theodori Boom, 1686.
Pocket Amsterdam edition of the works of Suetonius as edited by Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612–1653), who is best known for formulating the concept of an Indo-European language family.
£150
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[YOUNG, Edward].
The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality [Nights First to Fourth] …
London: Printed for R. Dodsley … and sold by M. Cooper … 1742 1743.
Second (first quarto) edition of Night the First, first editions of Night the Second to Fourth.
£250
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GLOVER, John.
The Hidden and happy Life of a Christian, amidst a Variety of Trials and Afflictions incident to the present State,...
London: Printed by R. Hawes … and sold by Mr. Buckland, Bookseller … and Mr. Keith … London; Mr. Booth, at Norwich; Mr. Punchard, at...
First edition, very scarce: the spiritual diary of the evangelical Calvinist John Glover from its commencement in 1764 until shortly before his death ten years later. The diary revolves around anxiety about temptations, spiritual withdrawal and silent prayer, and the solace Glover draws from religious...
£450
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[FITZ-PATRICK, Robertus, translator, probably pseud.]
The sacred History of the Holy Sheet. Collected from grave Authors, and translated...
London: Printed for M. Cooper … 1745
First edition of what appears to be the first book in English devoted to a description of the Turin Shroud and its history, curiously combining a sympathetic text with a heavily ironic, anti-Catholic preface, particularly anti-European Catholics. Can the preface have been influenced by the events of...
£750
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PIGHIUS, Albertus.
Controversiarum praecipuarum in comitiis Ratisponensibus tractataru[m], et quibus nunc potisimu[m] exagitatur...
Paris, apud Carolam Guillard, 1549.
Later edition (first 1542) of the proceedings of the Colloquy of Ratisbon, a significant conference of Catholic and Protestant theologians held at Regensburg in Bavaria in 1541, issued by the Parisian printer Charlotte Guillard (1485–1557), ‘an exceptional figure of the French Renaissance’ (Jimenes).
£375
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FRAISSINES, Doctor.
Thèse de chirurgie, sur l’opération de l’empyeme, dédiée à messieurs les capitouls. Soutenue sous...
Toulouse, de l’imprimerie de la veuve de J.F. Desclassan, [1780].
Very rare thesis on empyema thoracis (infection of the pleural cavity) by Dr Fraissines, first surgeon at Saint-Eloi hospital in Montpellier and a member of the city’s Société Royale des Sciences, printed by Bertrande Desclassan.
£575
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DOMINICUS DE FLANDRIA.
Dominici de Flandria ordinis predicator[um] artium et theologie doctoris in divi Thome de Aq[ui]no co[m]mentaria...
Venice, Giorgio Arrivabene for the heirs of Ottaviano Scoto, 25 January 1514.
Scarce early editions of two Aristotelian commentaries. The first, by the Dominican philosopher Dominic of Flanders (c. 1425–1479), analyses two works by Thomas Aquinas: his commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics (on the nature of scientific axioms), and his De fallaciis...
£3000
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[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Archibald Constable & Co., and London, Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820.
Stated second edition but in fact a third issue of the first, published on 15 January; the first issue, published on 20 December the previous year, is similarly dated 1820.
£375
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MILNE, A. A.; E. H. SHEPARD, illustrator.
The House at Pooh Corner.
London, Methuen & Co., 1928.
First edition, first impression, of A. A. Milne’s classic final collection of tales about Winnie the Pooh and friends, and the first introduction of Tigger.
£650
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KAVAN, Anna & K.T. BLUTH.
The Horse’s Tale.
London, Gaberbocchus Press, [1949].
First edition of the novel written jointly by Kavan and her psychiatrist and friend Karl Theodor Bluth. Anna Kavan (1901-1968), born Helen Emily Woods, began her writing career in 1929, publishing a series of novels under her married name of Helen Ferguson. After the breakdown of her second marriage...
£850
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OVID.
In hoc volumine h[a]ec co[n]tinentur. P. Ovidii Nasonis vita. Heroidum epistol[a]e. Amorum libri III. De arte amandi lib....
[(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Stagnino, 19 October 1530.]
Very rare pocket-sized edition of selected works by Ovid published at Venice by Bernardino Stagnino (1483–1538).
£1250
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SILIUS ITALICUS, C.; John CAREY, editor.
Punicorum libri XVII, sedulâ recensione accurati [cover: Recensuit et...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Co., T. Cadell,...
First and only ‘Regent’s Classics’ edition of Silius Italicus’s epic poem on the Second Punic War, an attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards.
£100
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STATIUS, P. Papinius; John CAREY, editor.
Opera, sedula recensione accurata [cover: Recensuit et accuravit Joannes...
London, T. Davison for Rodwell & Martin, J. Booker, Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, G. & W. B. Whittaker, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Browne,...
An attractive copy, uncut in the publisher’s printed boards, of the ‘Regent’s Classics’ pocket edition of Statius.
£120