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  1. NISSEN, Peter.

    ‘Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoologischer Circus’

    c. 1891.

    A rare portfolio of live animal scenes from Carl Hagenbeck’s famous ‘zoological circus’; a wonderful hybrid of the real and the surreal in zoological and photographic history.

    £12000

  2. POPE, William.

    Manuscript arithmetic schoolbook.

    [Tiverton?] ‘Sunday Octr 24.th 1804’.

    A manuscript arithmetic schoolbook belonging to one William Pope, very well preserved in its original stationery binding and wrapper, with provincially printed arithmetic tables as endpapers.

    £850

  3. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial Propertius, A. F. Scholfield’s copy, with three letters from the editor.

    £400

  4. RAWLET, John.

    Poetick Miscellanies …

    London, printed for Samuel Tidmarsh, 1687.

    First edition. Writing from the isolation of Newcastle, then a rural parish in fell country, Rawlet developed a mode of religious and descriptive poetry distinctly out of step with his own age, as is acknowledged by the editor in a verse preface: ‘Reader, expect not here, the filth of th’...

    £1100

  5. STANYHURST, William.

    Veteris hominis per expensa quatuor novissima metamorphosis, et novi genesis.

    Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1661.

    First edition, rare, of this work on death, the Last Judgement, Hell, and Heaven, by the Irish Jesuit William Stanyhurst (1601–1663), illustrated with five striking full-page emblematic engravings.

    £875

  6. [YOUNG, Edward.]

    The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality.

    London, R. Dodsley and [T. Cooper; –] M. Cooper, [1742; –] 1743.

    The first attempt at a collected edition of the Night-Thoughts, issued by Richard Dodsley and Mary Cooper, comprising the second (first quarto) edition of Night the First and first editions of Night the Second to Fourth with a general title and preface.

    £250

  7. [CHURCH OF ENGLAND.]

    The New Weeks Preparation for a worthy Receiving of the Lord’s Supper, as recommended and appointed by the...

    London, printed from the edition of the late Edwd. Wickstead, for T. Wilson and R. Spence, York, [c. 1780–1800?].

    An attractive copy of two later editions of these collections of prayers, hymns, meditations, and self-examinations, with a focus on Holy Communion.

    £250

  8. [FRASER, William Augustus, Sir.]

    Poems by the Knight of Morar.

    London, Whittingham and Wilkins, 1867. 

    First edition, privately printed, a presentation copy inscribed on the title-page ‘From the Author. Paris. 1867.’

    £350

  9. TRIMMER, [Sarah], Mrs.

    An Explanation of the Office for the public Baptism of Infants; and of the Order for the Confirmation of...

    Robinson … and J. Johnson, 1791.

    First edition, dedicated with the Queen’s permission to the royal princess, Princess Mary.

    £650

  10. [ZEPHYRUS IMAGE, Edward DORN].

    Three anti-President Nixon items, two calling for impeachment.

    [San Francisco, c. 1972–1973].

    A striking set of handbills urging the impeachment of President Nixon by the Zephyrus Image press.

    £200