[JOYCE.] ROTH, Samuel [Edits.].

Two Worlds – A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations.

New York: Sign of the Mockigrisball, 1925.

First edition. Unnumbered, one of 500, of which 450 numbered copies were designated for subscribers. Between September 1925 and September 1926 Two Worlds published installments of Joyce’s ‘Work in Progress’ (Finnegan’s Wake), reprinted from European publications (in this case from Criterion,...

£150

ZUCKERKANDL, Robert.

Die Währungsänderung in Britisch-Indien.

[Vienna and Prague, F. Tempski, and Leipzig, G, Freytag, c. 1894]

First edition of this rare paper, offprinted from Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft, Socialpolitik und Verwaltung, volume III, issue I, on the changes of the Indian currency against the silver and gold prices. From 1873 the value of the Rupee sank considerably, leading to the British government of India’s...

£120

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

BLANCHET, Joseph.

L’art, ou les principes philosophiques du chant. IIe edition, corrigée et augmentée.

Paris, Augustin-Martin Lottin, Michel Lambert and Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne, 1756.

First edition. The designation ‘IIe edition, corrigée et augmentée’ on the title arises from the publication in 1755 of L’art du chant, dedié a Madame de Pompadour by Jean-Antoine Bérard, whom Blanchet accuses of incorporating his material. The two works certainly include many passages which...

£750

BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de.

Aristippus, or, Monsieur de Balsac’s Masterpiece, being a Discourse concerning the Court … Englished...

London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Nat. Eakins … and Tho. Johnson … 1659.

First edition in English of Aristippe (1657), a treatise on wisdom in political administration dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden, who was an admirer. Balzac was particularly reputed for the quality of his prose, seen as raising it to the same perfection as Malherbe did for French verse. ...

£750

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

GOUNOD, Charles François.

A volume of ten songs bound together, all signed and inscribed by Gounod to Arthur Cecil Blunt (1832–96).

A specially bound volume containing ten of Gounod’s London-published songs, all signed and inscribed in pencil on the upper wrapper to the English actor Arthur Cecil Blunt (stage name Arthur Cecil, 1843–1896): ‘To my friend Arthur C. Blunt. Ch, Gounod’. The songs, of which eight are in English,...

£2000

[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

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

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

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

[THAMES ESTUARY.]

Coloured chart of the Thames Estuary extending to Harwich and Ramsgate with map of the river from London to Gravesend.

London, Edward Stanford, 16 May 1927.

Attractive maps with plenty of accompanying information.

£90

[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