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BERLIOZ, Hector.
Mémoires . . . comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre 1803–1865. Avec un...
Paris, Michel Lévy, 1870.
First edition, a fine copy in entirely original condition in the original wrappers. Berlioz’s colourful autobiography reads like a work of literature and remains the principle source for his life. This posthumous first edition of the Mémoires was preceded by excerpts which were serialised in Le Monde...
£2750
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CARDONNEL, Adam de.
Picturesque Antiquities of Scotland [I–II] …
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edwards … also by Edwards’s, in Halifax. 1788.
First edition, the very rare issue with the plates in sepia, printed directly onto thick wove paper.
£975
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R., N.
Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. All Englished and alphabetically digested …
London, Printed for Simon Miller … 1659.
First and only edition of a scarce collection of idiomatic phrases and proverbs, many translated from other languages, with a selection of 114 ‘Golden sentences’ at the end.
£1750
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[BRUNEL, Antoine de.]
A journey into Spain.
London, printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.
First edition in English. A free and abridged translation of Voyage d’Espagne curieux, historique et politique, first published anonymously in 1665. Setting out from the Netherlands in 1651 in the company of François van Aerssen, Brunel toured France, Germany and Italy before travelling to...
£950
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MONETA, José Manuel, and Robert Keith HEADLAND, (ed.).
Four Antarctic Years in the South Orkney Islands: an Annotated...
London, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2017.
One man’s fascinating record of four winters in the Antarctic during the 1920s, the period of transition from the isolation of the Heroic Age to the beginnings of radio communication with the world outside.
£50
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SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Posthumous Works … Volume I [–III].
Edinburgh: Printed for John Balfour. 1766
Very rare, a reissue, with cancel title-pages, of the similarly rare vols. 9-11 of Balfour’s edition of Swift’s Works (also 1766, BL and NLS only). The first ‘Scotch’ edition of 1752 had been in ten volumes, reduced to eight in 1757 (Printed for Hamilton, Balfour and Hunter). Balfour alone published...
£450
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SCOTT, Sir Walter.
The Lady of the Lake … with all his Introductions and Notes, various Readings, and the Editor’s Notes.
Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1851.
An attractive Scottish 'Mauchline ware' tartan binding. Mauchline ware bindings – the name comes from Smith’s boxware factory at Mauchline in Ayrshire – were made from thin wooden boards (often sycamore) decorated with tartan or pictorial designs, heavily varnished, and attached to the text...
£750
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GRASSINEAU, James.
A Musical Dictionary; being a Collection of Terms and Characters, as well ancient as modern; including the historical,...
… London: Printed for J. Wilcox … 1740.
First edition, based largely on the Dictionnaire de Musique of Sébastien de Brossard and the musical articles in Chambers’s Cyclopaedia, with some original material. One of two variant issues, this has ‘A’ on the title-page above the ‘i’ in ‘Dictionary’.
£650
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ECCLES, Mary, Viscountess, and Gordon TURNBULL, eds..
James Boswell’s Book of Company at Auchinleck.
The Roxburghe Club, 1995.
The Book of Company is much more than a visitor’s book, since James Boswell comments on the men and women he met and entertained, and the occasions of his doing so, are all his own. It is therefore an important addition to his many-sided self-portrait. Beginning in 1782, two years before Samuel Johnson...
£260
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[SUEZ CANAL.]
Vade-mecum des porteurs de Suez. Extrait du numéro du 4 mars 1882 du Courrier des Tirages financiers. Propriété...
. Paris, [1882].
Scarce pamphlet, signed ‘J. R.’, advising investors in the Suez Canal – referred to as ‘capitalistes intelligents’ – on the likely return on their investments over the coming 10 years.
£50
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CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.
Bekanntmachung in Betreff der Asiatischen Cholera.
Stuttgart: [n.p.], 20 September 1831 [offprint from Schwäbischer Merkur, 26 September 1831].
As both advice and rumours about the so-called ‘Asian’ cholera epidemic circulated in Prussia in 1831, this pamphlet was issued to counteract harmful and erroneous information with sensible advice. It was issued and distributed by Königliches Medicinal Collegium on behalf of the state of Baden-Württemberg,...
£275
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[CHOLERA.]
Bitte wegen der Cholera, welche bei den Gottesdiensten in das Schluβ-Gebet aufzunehmen ist.
[Württemberg: s.n., 11 October 1831].
Cholera, the ‘plague’ of the nineteenth century, affected large parts of populations across Eurasia and can be counted as one of the most devastating types of epidemics until today. The second pandemic of c. 1826 to 1841 swept from Mecca via Egypt to Europe, and reached Central Europe, and thence...
£175
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DUNDAS, Charles Cecil Farquharson.
Kilimanjaro and Its People. A History of the Wachagga, Their Laws, Customs and Legends, Together...
London: Northumberland Press for H.F. & G. Witherby, 1924.
First edition. Charles Dundas (1884-1956), son of the 6th Viscount Melville of Melville, was an influential figure in the British East African territories in the early twentieth century: he held the office of District Commissioner of British East African Protectorate (1908-1915), was then Political Officer...
£350
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HERNANDEZ, Joseph François Didace.
Essai sur le typhus ou sur les fièvres dites malignes, putrides, bilieuses, muqueuses, jaune,...
Paris, Cellot for Méquignon-Marvis, 1816.
First edition by the physiologist and pathologist Hernandez (1769–1835). In Essai sur le typhus he rejects traditional book learning (especially humoral theories) and proposes an empirical approach for investigating the origin, epidemiology, contagion patterns and treatment of inflammatory...
£550
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[NORTH, Roger].
A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds ... Done by a Person of Honour.
London: E. Curll, 1713.
First edition. Written by the polymathematical lawyer, politician, and writer Roger North (1653-1734), A Discourse of Fish and Fish-Ponds was based on the author’s own experience, gained at his estate in Rougham, Norfolk. North had a very practical disposition, was a skilled mathematician and friend...
£500
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HEDIN, Sven Anders.
Öfver Land till Indien. Genom Persien, Seistan och Belutjistan.
Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1910.
First edition, first to fourth thousand copies. Hedin’s account of his 1905-1906 journey across the northern Persian deserts from Teheran to India; as he explains in the preface, ‘Den egentliga resan börjar först från Teheran, och utanför Teherans portar börjar också öknen. Sedan är det intet...
£575
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UNSWORTH, Walt.
Everest.
London: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd for Allen Lane, 1981.
First edition. ‘This is the story of Man’s attempts to climb a very special mountain’ begins Unsworth’s book, which was very well reviewed when first published in 1981, thanks to his depth of knowledge of his subject, and his original contributions to the historical retrospective of the adventures...
£500
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SMYTHE, Francis Sydney.
The Kangchenjunga Adventure.
London: The Camelot Press Ltd. for Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930.
First edition. Francis (‘Frank’) Smythe (1900-1949), was an English mountaineer, photographer, and botanist, and one of three British members of the Professor G. Dyrenfurth’s 1930 Kangchenjunga expedition. The expedition was unsuccessful, and tragically resulted in the deaths of three climbers;...
£750
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HUNT, John.
Typed letter signed (‘John Hunt’) to Paul J. Hill (‘Dear Mr. Hill’).
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Westminster, London, 2 November 1962.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award for Boys was established by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in 1956, and Sir John (later Baron) Hunt, the leader of the 1953 Everest expedition, was appointed Director. By 1959 the Award had become a charitable trust; by 1960, 35,000 boys and 7,000 girls were participating in...
£200
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CHOLERA – KÖNIGLICHES MEDICINAL COLLEGIUM.
Verhaltungs Maβregeln für das Publikum in Beziehung auf die Asiatische Brechruhr.
Stuttgart: Buckdruckerei des Schwabischen Merkurs, 10 November 1836 [offprint from Schwäbischer Merkur].
By 1836 the propagation of health advice concerning the ‘Asian’ cholera epidemic (which had spread to Prussia from Russia five years previously) had become a genre of medical publishing, and this text was prepared by the Königliches Medicinal Collegium, and then published both in the regional Stuttgart...
£300